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Whether Hopkins's guess is accurate or not is known only to Yang Qiu and the General Staff in Beijing. But Roosevelt was already in deep trouble. While there is no law that says a president cannot serve more than three consecutive terms, two terms from Washington seem to be the default for American presidents, and voters do not want to break old habits. Electoral disadvantage is not his biggest headache, but the chaos on both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans is the most intractable. France withdrew from the competition for world supremacy, Hitler's interest seemed to have shifted from the conquest of Eurasia to the annexation of the Mediterranean, classified information that the Soviet Union was preparing to sell its fleet to Germany appeared on the desks of various countries, Italy also took the opportunity to make a move in North Africa, and the British Empire, one of the two giants of Europe, had also touched the sunset.

The old world was collapsing at an accelerated rate as planned, but on the eve of him and the United States of America waiting for the harvest, there was a man in the East who was even faster! There is a crisis in the Pacific strategy, but it is not Nazi Day that is trying to challenge! In fact, from the current point of view, his strategy is not wrong, and the promotion of Philippine independence during the Hoover presidency is not only in line with the wishes of American citizens at that time, but also in line with the idea that Congress wants to abandon the big burden of the Philippines. So he did it, and as a result, he gained great fame and laid the foundation for election success. Selfishness aside, a deliberate retreat from the Southwest Pacific was also a clever move, not only attracting domestic isolationist votes and helping him easily win two re-elections, but also making Japan more greedy and arrogant, destroying the power of Britain and France in the southwest, and finally pitting China and Japan against each other until war broke out. It is impossible for one side of the war between the two world powers to go unharmed, especially as a young naval country, there will be many, many more such heavy losses as the 23rd fleet of the Chinese Navy. His real mistake was to underestimate Beijing's outstanding capabilities in technology, especially in its use! This is like a team that uses the latest technology of American laboratories but has the most advanced means of warfare, such as blitzkrieg tactics comparable to those of Germany.

As mentioned earlier, all the technologies of the current Republic of China. The United States has it all, and can even do better, and equip it on a larger scale! The problem is that the United States has not yet entered the war, and no matter how powerful he is, he can't make an uproar and allocate unlimited funds to produce equipment. And Yang Qiu's advantage is that his prestige in the country is higher than his own, as long as he is not too out of line, the parliament will not oppose him. For example, according to the assessment of the US Army, taking the B17 and H-7 bombers of the same level in China and the United States as an example, if the United States grits its its teeth, it can produce 10,000 or more bombers a year. And even if China stops the manufacture of other large aircraft, the maximum annual output will only reach 5,000. So what's really powerful is that even if the current US Army is given 10,000 planes, they can't play their full role, but China has already experienced several local wars and a year of war against the Soviet Union. Finding ways and tactics to bring out the best and most sophisticated weapon performance, coupled with unfettered strategic thinking, has achieved a goal that can only be achieved by 10,000 or even tens of thousands of aircraft with 5,000 aircraft. This is like Guam, where the United States currently has as many seaplanes of various types as China, but no one has ever imagined that the seaplanes they thought could only be used for reconnaissance and liaison could be used for long-distance island landing warfare, even if they had the advantage of a sneak attack. It's beyond your imagination.

Americans have always believed that they sat in the Colosseum stands, leisurely making a cup of coffee and holding the girl in their arms. Look at the beasts fighting each other in the cage, until they are defeated, they are fully armoured, and with the most powerful weapons, they open the iron fence thicker than their arms. Get into a cage and become a knight who slays dragons. But from the point of view of the beast, why aren't the American knights locked out by iron fences? I didn't find out until the knights went in. The beast inside was actually wearing the same heavy armor, using the same powerful weapons as you, and sharpening its teeth with fighting, standing there cruelly cold and covered in blood, burping, cutting off the flesh with blood-stained claws, and glaring at the knight: "It's none of your business here, while playing." ”

Roosevelt didn't want to play, and Hopkins didn't want to be seen like a hairless child! So that afternoon, the first lady of the United States, an outstanding female politician, social activist, and Roosevelt's most important campaign staff, Mrs. Anna-Eleanor Roosevelt, while attending a women's rights event, said that she would visit Britain to bring "American warmth" to British women and children in suffering.

At the important moment when there were two months left before the opening of the presidential campaign, this statement instantly aroused the concern of American voters, and the Republican Party directly called Roosevelt "Wilson second".

Guam, a small island at the crossroads of the Southwest Pacific Ocean, quietly blows the dominance of the Pacific. The battle for the distribution of interests in the new world has begun! From now on, leaders need to think not only about winning the war, but also about the post-war period and the next 100 years.

Of course, all this has nothing to do with the day anymore.

While the United States was arguing over whether to break the cage or tie up the fence, the Japanese naval battalion in Yokosuka had no need to even guess the strategic intentions of the other side. Yama Fifty-six and Nagano Shushen sat in the center and muttered quietly, and the officers and staff officers gathered around the naval sand table to play wargames, and every time a model of a warship was taken away, they would be noisy and red-faced. The black island turtle people were chattering and stinking, Minoru Genda was studying how to travel through space, and the chief of staff of the combined fleet, Ugaki, who should stand up and lead everyone's collective efforts, hid on the side, drawing on the chart with a compass.

The news of the landing of the Chinese marines on Guam hit the heads of Yama Isoroku and Hideki Tojo, who had just come to power. Only the War Department did not care, but gloated. The navy was also divided into two factions, one faction believed that Guam was insignificant, and as long as Truk's Longxiang and Xiangfeng were sent to cooperate with the Fifth Fleet on Saipan, it would be enough, even if it lost, it would not be a big problem. The other faction, on the other hand, thought that it was necessary to do its best to fight the Chinese navy here, with Akagi and Kaga and Shozuru and Zuizuru on the way back as the main force, and two Nagato ships. The two factions have their own reasons, with the former believing that the Ryukyus are more important than Guam, so the six capital carriers should ensure the safety of the Ryukyus until the strength of the ground aviation is restored. They believe that Guam is only a minor problem, and as long as there is the Philippines and Saipan, it is nothing more than a difficult point, and the shipping route will not be interrupted. On the other hand, Guam is considered very important, and on the other hand, there are a large number of troops defending the island on the Ryukyu side, and even if China conducts a landing operation, it can hold it for at least a year. Therefore, we should take advantage of the opportunity of three deaths and one wound of the four capital ships of the 23 Fleet, and make every effort to rush directly to Guam to eliminate the Chinese fleet that is reinforcing Guam. As long as it wins, the Chinese Navy will not be able to threaten Japan's maritime security for at least a year, and if the Indian Ocean Fleet opens up the Andaman and Singapore, it will not be able to do so. The day of internal and external attacks is over.

"So who will deal with three, not four, Beijing-class battleships?" The deputy chief of staff of the fleet, Fu Liufan, glared at the Kuroshima Kameto who proposed the decisive battle on Guam, and remembered that yesterday the fourth modified Beijing-class battleship had already been launched for sea trials, and at this critical time, it was not ruled out that the Chinese Navy would learn from the aircraft carrier Anton and cancel the sea trials and directly serve the aircraft, so he changed his words and pointed out the key issue.

The Chinese Navy currently has ten battleships, two Anhai are in the Indian Ocean, two are injured in dock, two are in the French Dunkirk for refit, and only four are of the Beijing class. It looks like there are four more King Kongs. There is a gap between the two Nagato's days. But that's not how it works! The Beijing class is a pure battleship, not a halfway monk like the King Kong class. What's more, this modification also replaced the 380 mm naval gun with a 45 times body barrel with a 55 times body barrel, except for Nagato, who can be pressed with a caliber, King Kong can only escape when encountered. Fukuru Shigeru was the most determined warship faction, and when he heard that Kuroshima was going to pull Nagato away. There is no hurry.

Even Yama Fifty-six couldn't accept the transfer of the two Nagato, turned his head to look at Ugaki, who was speechless, and looked unhappy: "Ugaki-kun, what are you drawing?" "Everyone in the navy knows that Yama doesn't like Ugaki, because Ugaki always doesn't have to look at people squarely, especially when he treats officers and subordinates with diametrically opposite attitudes. I want to live with a mask every day, so everyone calls him "Golden Mask" in private. Why gold? Because he is indeed a man of trouble. At this critical juncture, even Nagano Xiu was very anxious, and also asked, "Ugaki-kun." What is your opinion on sending troops? ”

Ugaki was very direct, and immediately held up the chart he had drawn. On the chart, there are five strange circles centered on Guam, the largest of which even covers Rabaul, the Philippines, and Japan and Turkey. Because there is no explanation. So Nagano couldn't understand it, and asked, "Ugaki-kun." What is it? ”

"This is the Guam Fleet Activity Circle I made." Ugaki was introduced. In fact, the meaning of five circles is very simple, the radius of the first circle is two hundred kilometers, which is the range of activity of the torpedo boat. The second circle is six hundred kilometers, the patrol radius of destroyers and fighters. The third thousand-kilometer circle, the radius of the bomber. The fourth, two thousand kilometers, is the cruising radius of cruisers and submarines. The last two thousand five hundred kilometers is the maximum combat radius that the fleet can radiate.

Five laps will bring most of the southwest Pacific Ocean closer.

If the combat radius of Taiwan's aircraft and warships is also drawn, that is, if China gains a firm foothold in Guam, all the merits of the southward strategy will be wiped out in an instant! Including Rabaul, the Philippines, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Rabaul, the Ogasawara Islands and even the Nichito Coast, all of them will be under the attack of the Chinese Navy!

This is Guam, the crossroads of the Pacific Southwest!

Ugaki didn't say a word of fighting, so he told everyone in five circles. If you don't fight, the backbone of the empire will be broken!

Then let's fight.

It's not so easy to fight, and the ships still have some family background, but where do the island combat units come from? The Marines were all deployed on the Ryukyu front line because of the "Z Operation Plan", and now the transfer will definitely expose the target. The Shuang Hor aircraft carrier is also on its way back, and must first return to Yokosuka to refuel. "Involve the Army." Yongye cultivated himself for a long time, and made a decision with the corners of his eyes twitching.

It's a shame to ask horse manure for help!

Nagano Xiu scolded himself in his heart, and he still asked Shan to come up with a plan as soon as possible. The mountain lived up to expectations and immediately came up with a plan. The Nagato-class battleships will definitely not be able to move, this is the treasure of the town before the service of Yamato. The Shuanghe aircraft carrier had to come back to refuel first, so he transferred four heavy cruisers, the battleship Haruna, the battleship Kirishima, the aircraft carrier Akagi, the aircraft carrier Kaga, Mogami, the Mikuma, the Suzuya, and the Kumano, and also brought in Truk's aircraft carrier Ryuchampa and Xiangfeng, and organized them into the Fourth Fleet, which, together with the Fifth Fleet on Saipan and the Third Fleet of the Philippines, were collectively referred to as the Southern Special Fleet, under the jurisdiction of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Fleets, and at the same time the warships in Singapore and the Indian Ocean were organized into the Seventh Fleet, which was also controlled by the Southern Special Fleet.

After the special fleet was organized, the 6th Fleet and the aviation units in Saipan and other places were dispatched first to protect the main forces of the Marine Corps and the 55th Division of the Army to support Guam first, at least to hold back the Chinese Marines on the island. He also asked Ugaki to come forward to the army, and transferred four or five divisions from Turkey, the Philippines, and Guinea to strengthen the security of Marinaya and Micronesia, and recapture Guam in one fell swoop. In the end, Jizaburo Ozawa of the Fifth Sentai of the First Air Fleet (Ryuchampi and Shoho) was appointed commander-in-chief of the Special Fleet of the Southern Fleet, Ryunosuke Kusaka, former chief of staff of the First Air Fleet, was appointed chief of staff of the fleet, Hideyoshi Katagiri was the commander of the Fourth Fleet, Nobutake Kondo was the commander of the Fifth Fleet, and Inoue Narumi was the commander of the Third Fleet.

In the end, in view of the serious shortage of aircraft carriers, Shan 56 also personally ordered several seaplane carriers such as Chitose and more than a dozen merchant ships to be converted into aircraft carriers, and finally asked for 10 Yunlong-class aircraft carriers that had been brewed immediately. Such a big emergency shipbuilding plan scared Hideki Tojo and scolded his mother, but he suffered a big defeat as soon as he came to power, and he always had to give the navy some face, as for whether it could be built, that was another matter.

Chen Shaokuan did not show weakness on this side of the mountain, sending more than 300 seaplane sorties in two consecutive days, and also asked the air force to throw 500 tons of supplies into the lagoon with Yunjiu, the largest range. He also transferred the 3rd Marine Division of Borneo and the 4th Marine Division of Hainan to Keelung, dispatched 70 10,000-ton ships and more than 100 warships from the coast to be on standby in Penghu, and then mobilized 50 transport ships and landing ships in Guangdong to stand by in Cam Ranh Bay in Annam. The army also dispatched the 24th, 26th, and 40th armies from the garrison army and the reserve army in the southeast to Shanghai and Hangzhou Bay overnight to prepare for an attack on the Ryukyus.

On 30 August, the 23rd Fleet Heavy Patrol Formation was the first to arrive on Guam, and 11,000 soldiers of the 1st Marine Division were brought to the island by 11 fast freighters. In the afternoon of the same day, the first encounter between the heavy patrol formation and the Japanese Navy's Sixth Fleet broke out, sinking a Japanese destroyer and a troop transport, forcing the Japanese reinforcement to fail. In the early morning of the next day, the Japanese Sixth Fleet made a comeback. In the fierce battle, the heavy patrol group lost one destroyer, four destroyers of the Japanese Sixth Fleet were destroyed, and two troop carriers were sunk by submarines, killing more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers. However, the more than 100 warplanes that arrived from Saipan after dawn forced the 23rd Heavy Patrol Formation to temporarily avoid the front, and took the opportunity for the Sixth Fleet to send more than 3,000 Japanese troops to the island from the northeast corner