"So," Charlotte stared at Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Earnest? Joseph? King, "It is impossible for the Navy to act in conjunction with the British fleet to wipe out the remnants of the Ming Fleet in the Persian Gulf, right?" ”

"Although our army's new fighter has been put into service, the pilots are still very unfamiliar with the new aircraft, and I am afraid that they will not be able to compete with the ...... with rich flight experience," Admiral Jin hesitated for a moment, as if he was considering what to call the Chinese air team stationed in Africa, "It cannot match the air force of Vale." Moreover, Vale is theoretically not a country and has not participated in the war, and they have also announced their agreement with the government of the Republic to provide supplies and repairs for the fleet of the government of the Republic for a fee......"

Charlotte stared at Ernest.

The navy has many projects that are inextricably linked with Vale, and the capitalists who mainly build ships and steel also cooperate a lot with Vale, and the navy is a big steel swallower, so it is understandable that the admirals are not willing to make trouble with Vale.

Although the whole world is now in the same pot, the gray area is still widespread, and no country can take care of every corner of the world at the same time, and the result is that it is the way it is now.

Just as Lin Youde had planned, the Australian and British governors took the "silver bullet" and turned a blind eye to the "labor introduction" of Vale, and now suddenly found that they had nothing to do with Vale, which had a huge population in Western Australia. In the years since Lin Youde was established in Vale, he has quietly completed the most rapid and large-scale population migration in this time and space, forcibly cutting a piece of territory in sparsely populated Western Australia.

What he is doing in the Middle East is just another copy of his actions in Australia.

Similar to the Australians, Charlotte also had a headache when she thought of Vale, which had a large population, but now Vale has no navy and is very weak at sea, and the U.S. Navy and the British Navy can detain whichever ship they want to go on for inspection, and they can detain whichever one they want to go down for inspection. Therefore, Vale could not transfuse blood to Lin Youde in Europe, so everyone was fine.

The British were worried that Vale had ordered its troops in the Middle East to begin to advance northward, and that British influence in Turkey had been waning with the blockade of the British mainland, and now that even the pro-humanist factions had a majority in the Turkish government, British diplomats and spies had worked hard to keep Turkey from joining the Alliance for Human Renewal—but Charlotte felt that it was only a matter of time before Turkey fell into the red camp. If the African armies in the Middle East were to advance northward and cut off Persia and Turkey, Britain would lose control of Turkey, and British power on the Iranian plateau would be in jeopardy.

Now that a Ming fleet has run over, directly leading to a reversal of the balance of maritime power in the Persian Gulf and even the Arabian Sea, it will not be so easy for the British fleet to intercept Vale's fleet.

The four fast battleships of the Ming Imperial fleet were all built after the Yingzhou War of Independence, and the oldest Taishan ship was only in service for five years, although the Yingzhou agents tried to destroy the hull of the Taishan ship on the slipway during the War of Independence, but the place where the explosives were placed was not right, and the keel was not injured, so it survived; At the same time, the attack on the keel of the Huangshan ship was blocked by the security forces of the Ming Empire. The Huashan ship, which had just been in service for just over a year, was part of the Ming Empire's additional shipbuilding plan for the rebuilding of the navy after the Yingzhou War of Independence.

Compared with these four ships, the R-class battleships of the British Navy ran slowly and had weak firepower, so their protection could be compared.

In addition, among the fleets that escaped, there were two heavy cruisers, which were sold to the Ming Empire by Charlotte's predecessor during the Yingzhou War of Independence, and their performance was also better than that of the British Royal Navy's Asian Fleet.

Charlotte glared at Admiral King, and he really wanted to question the admiral how the navy could allow a fleet of such quality to escape from under his nose.

If this republic's fleet carries a goddess, that's a different matter, but this fleet doesn't carry a goddess!

As if guessing Charlotte's thoughts, Admiral King said: "The enemy did not intend to fight us from the beginning, but fought and walked with the speed of the ship. Our army has only one fast battleship, and if only the cruiser follows, I am afraid that we will suffer. If the second Vincennes Act had been passed earlier, we would have had enough fleet to deal with them......"

Charlotte pursed her lips, and she remembered the faces of the congressmen again, her uncle Roosevelt Sr. used to say that when you become president, you want to beat up those congressmen, no matter what party they belong to. Now she finally understood the words of the elder Roosevelt.

Republican lawmakers are not to be cooperative, but the Democrats are not monolithic, although Democratic lawmakers will not vote against Charlotte's proposal, they can abstain, and if Charlotte's ideas conflict with a congressman and the interest group he represents, he will abstain in a flashy manner.

Of course, having a capable "party whip" can effectively reduce this situation, but it is a pity that Charlotte finds that the current "party whip" of the Democratic Party is not so competent. Now Charlotte's "party whip" can ostensibly unify the views of Democratic lawmakers, but it cannot prevent lawmakers from abstaining.

Although Charlotte was elected president by a landslide, the gap between the Democrats and Republicans in Congress is not large, and the abstention of some lawmakers is enough for Republicans to block Charlotte's bill.

"It is useless to discuss these matters now," Charlotte finally decided to change the subject, "and let the English worry about the fleet that has run to the Persian Gulf." Now that we have controlled the sea control and the navy is doing a good job, what you have to do now is to completely block the shipping between Taiwan and the mainland. When will the army be able to completely take Taiwan? ”

"The Taiwanese are putting up stubborn resistance in the mountains," the Army Commander frowned, "but General MacArthur said......

"I don't care about the time he gives unless he actually does it." Charlotte sighed, "We didn't face such great resistance when we occupied Japan. ”

One of the reasons Charlotte was determined to occupy Japan was that Japan had just become independent, and although the independence faction had been operating on the Yingzhou Islands for many years, the general Japanese population, especially the illiterate people, still had little feeling for Japan. Yingzhou's independence into Japan actually led to many residents' perception of the country's belonging, so that the United States could occupy it so comfortably -- but even so, the people of Yingzhou still played cat and mouse with the Americans in Date Masamune's hometown, and some Fuguo bomb attacks occurred from time to time in Tokyo.

But Taiwan is different, Taiwan is the territory of the Ming Empire, and the previous Yingzhou War of Independence also stimulated the national consciousness of the whole people of the Ming Empire.

Therefore, as soon as MacArthur's Philippine regiment landed, it encountered resolute resistance, and just like in the history of another time and space, fishermen along the coast of Fujian sailed in groups across the strait to transport supplies to the sea, even if the US Navy entered the strait to blockade, the fishermen would still take advantage of the high waves at night to cross the blockade line.

Charlotte finally knew that her Minister of War was right, and that it was irrational to go to war with an awakened nation-state with a population of 400 million and enough industry to build fast battleships. Even the empire that never sets on the sun could not eat this bone in the peak era, so it could only change its strategy and secretly support the independence of Yingzhou and Korea.

Originally, Charlotte thought that after the loss of Yingzhou, the steel output of the Ming Empire was only a fraction of that of the United States, and the industry was concentrated on the coast, and the inland was still in a rather backward state.

At this time, Charlotte was somewhat grateful to the British, if it hadn't taken them seventy years to split Yingzhou, it is hard to imagine how much trouble a unified Ming Empire would have caused to the United States.

Thinking of this, Charlotte still somewhat wanted to increase the aid to the British stranded on the island, but the problem for the British now was not that the American imperialists did not have enough aid, but that they could only transport the aid through the German compound minefield in small boats at a slow pace.

Charlotte decided not to discuss the Taiwan issue for the time being, but everything else seemed unpleasant.

As long as the politicians in Congress who have donated money from Vale's other Lin-related businesses continue to prevent the United States from mobilizing for the war in full, Charlotte will always have a lot of problems in front of her.

It was at this time that the first report of the new aircraft of the Luftwaffe and the Russian Air Force was brought into the conference room.

The report went around in a circle among the generals of the joint meeting, and the admirals were smiling, and the army generals were all like ashes.

After all, it was the fighter developed under the auspices of the Army that handed over to the Russians.

The contradictions between the Navy and the Army of the United States are not as terrible as those of the Japanese army in another time and space, but in fact they are also deep-rooted. In terms of equipment development and manufacturing, the US Navy and Army certainly did not build submarines and navy tanks like Japan in another time and space, but they were also clearly distinguished.

The U.S. Army and Navy both develop their own aircraft, and the bidding has its own companies.

The new type of aircraft that was given to Russia was the Type 1 that the Army began to develop after military observers reported on the activity of the international column air force during the Turkish War. The U.S. Navy didn't wake up until the British suffered a loss at the hands of the Luftwaffe and began to study a fighter that could compete with the Germans, so while the Russians were kneeling for a new fighter, the U.S. Navy's Wildcat was still flying test, and the Army's P39 Flying Snake was aided.

Now that the flying snake is deflated, of course the Navy is happy, and the aid to Russia is a big order, which can greatly increase the production scale of new aircraft, and the cost will drop if the scale goes up, and the Navy certainly hopes that its wildcats can be on the aid order, and their wildcats have also begun to be installed, and they need to reduce costs, so they were still selling to Britain and Australia a few days ago.

Charlotte looked at the obvious expression on the face of the Navy and Army general, and pursed her lips.

"How are the Navy's wildcats producing now?"

"Although it is only a small batch of trial production, it is still in the stage of trial in the front-line troops, but mass production can start immediately."

"Then let's start mass production, we still follow the established plan to let the troops change their equipment little by little, what to do, what to do, all the more produced and thrown to the Russians, we will send people to collect information when they use it, so that we can also speed up our equipment. As for which one the Russians want, let the Russians choose for themselves. ”

Charlotte finished speaking, and closed the file in front of her with a snap.

"That's all for today."

As a result, the joint meeting of the US Navy and Army once again did not resolve any substantive issues at all, and the meeting was dismissed.

After Charlotte left the Pentagon and returned to the White House, she sat at the desk presented by the Queen of England and pondered for a long time.

"Looks like," Charlotte muttered to herself, "we need another Maine." ”