As for the new types of aircraft and tanks, their performance is indeed very advanced, and if they are used to deal with the most advanced foreign weapons of the same kind, the exchange ratio can reach 1:5 or even 1:10, but the number of these two new weapons in the PLA is less than 100, and the monthly output is less than 30, and they simply cannot withstand the astonishing consumption of a world war. What's more, it is difficult to train China's technical arms, and it will compete for talents with industry, infrastructure, education, and even administrative and even organizational construction, which has always caused Hu Weidong a headache.

Therefore, Hu Weidong believes that China still needs to continue to maintain its obscurity, and in addition to repeatedly emphasizing this viewpoint and even pouring cold water on the central government, he also deliberately controlled the progress of the atomic bomb research. Originally, if he wanted to explode the atomic bomb as soon as possible, the conditions were already in place at the end of 1944, but Hu Weidong still postponed the time of the first nuclear explosion again and again for various reasons such as "it must meet the requirements of actual combat."

Although he was appointed to lead the "911" project, he and his wife got together less and left more, but Li Mingzhi still gave birth to a lovely daughter to Hu Weidong in 1944, which made him very happy, and it was from this that Hu Weidong completely forgot his identity as a time-traveler and fully integrated into this era. Although he has always loved his stepdaughter as his own daughter, it is mainly because of his love for the house and his sense of responsibility, and in terms of closeness, his stepdaughter is not as good as his own child after all.

Speaking of the stepdaughter Hu Ying who dragged the oil bottle, her personality has finally become more cheerful, it seems that Hu Weidong found a relationship to help her constantly change schools really had some effect, and it takes time for new classmates to understand Hu Ying's basic situation. Naturally, it is impossible to laugh at her biological father for being a traitor like those classmates at the beginning

After a decisive victory in the North Atlantic, the U.S. Navy quickly shifted its focus back to the Pacific, and after a successful South American strategy, the U.S. Pacific Fleet, with 10 aircraft carriers and 4 battleships, reappeared in the Pacific. However, in the grim situation of almost all the Pacific islands, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz, had a big disagreement with President Roosevelt on which direction to make a breakthrough first

Nimitz's idea was mainly from a military point of view, because there were many islands in the South Pacific, and the Japanese army was relatively under-armed and had many weak links, and with the current strength of the Pacific Fleet, it could easily open up the situation. And to enter from this direction could have threatened New Zealand and Australia much earlier. The liberation of Australia will not only allow Japan to seize its main source of iron ore and foreign exchange. Moreover, it can directly threaten the Japanese oil base in Indonesia, as long as they capture or even just blow up the oil field facilities in Indonesia, the Japanese will definitely not be able to hold on, until that time. Many of the Central Pacific islands, including the Hawaiian Islands, are at your fingertips. Far better than storming a fortress.

Roosevelt, on the other hand, considered the problem from a different angle than Nimitz's general. Although he achieved the feat of a record-breaking fourth term as president of the United States, his domestic approval ratings were far less than before, and the longer the war lasted. The less optimistic his approval rating is, the more those financial oligarchs will take the opportunity to force the palace, and if this war is not successful, it will not be able to continue.

In this case, Roosevelt was even more eager for the good news of victory than the generals on the front line, but because of the deep isolationist tradition of the United States, if the recovered land is all other countries', even the strategically important Australia, the American people may not take it seriously, and if the Hawaiian Islands, which can ensure the security of the homeland and are also the United States' own land, Roosevelt's approval rating will surely skyrocket, and then he can use public opinion to temporarily suppress the financial oligarchs and make them endure for a while

Since the military has always served politics, and more importantly, the president of the United States is the supreme commander of the army, Nimitz, although he still disagrees with it, has no choice but to march to Midway again, taking the first step to recover the Hawaiian Islands.

Since the Japanese army failed to foresee the direction of the US attack in advance, the US Pacific Fleet only needed to deal with the land-based planes on Midway, which exceeded the enemy's number by more than seven times, and there was no strong fortress on Midway, so it was naturally not too difficult to take it down.

In the end, the U.S. Pacific Fleet recaptured Midway, which had left them with painful memories, at a small cost of losing dozens of aircraft and three auxiliary ships. With the rapid arrival of 150 land-based aircraft, the Nimitz fleet did not have to worry about the attack of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and even could not ask for it

However, if the Pacific Fleet were to attack Oahu, which was strong, had multiple regular military airfields, and had more than 1,000 land-based aircraft, it would still be unable to attack Oahu, or those islands near it, because Midway was still far away from Oahu, and even long-range aircraft such as P51D fighters would be difficult to support the U.S. fleet attacking Oahu from Midway, so for the time being, it could only gradually advance towards the main island of Hawaii.

Liszonsky Island, which is closer to Midway, was first occupied by the U.S. military, the largest of the Hawaiian Islands in the northwest, more than 300 times the size of Midway, and the ground is relatively flat, allowing for the construction of several large military airfields. More importantly, it is closer to Oahu than Midway, and as long as the military base can be successfully established, even if the US land-based aircraft group cannot fly to Pearl Harbor to show off its military might, it can completely control the vast airspace west of Kauai and suppress the Japanese land-based planes on Oahu and its nearby islands.

Naturally, the Japanese base camp could not sit idly by and watch the US forces approach Pearl Harbor step by step, but with the current strength of the Japanese Combined Fleet, if it were to deal with the 10 aircraft carriers of the US Pacific Fleet and the US land-based aircraft on Midway Island at the same time, the chances of victory were really not very great. Therefore, Yamaguchi Tawen's chosen strategy was to lead the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet to penetrate the waters between the Aleutian Islands and Midway Island to cut off the supply of the American army, and he did not believe that the American military could still build a military base if the supply was cut off.

However, the sea area in which the Japanese fleet operates is more than 2,000 kilometers away from Midway Island, and it is much farther away from the Aleutian Islands, so not only are the land-based planes at the Midway airfield far enough, but even the strategic bombers that may be stationed in the Aleutian Islands are also beyond the reach of the whip, so the US military can only send an aircraft carrier formation over to destroy or drive away the Japanese fleet and restore the smooth flow of supply lines. (To be continued......)