Chapter 974: The Poison of War
Marshall's speech continued, and Marshal Charles had to interrupt him again and ask:
"Chief of Staff Marshall, how to define this numerical superiority, you must know that when we were in Turkey, the air force had a numerical advantage, but we still failed quickly;
The Russian air force was wiped out in the Eastern and Southern Fronts without lasting until half an hour, and what if we destroyed the Japanese army and turned our advantage into a disadvantage this time?
Once the air force that destroyed the Japanese army has the upper hand, their massive bombardment will be enough to stop our army from attacking, and they may even defeat us with their superior firepower. ”
Michelle smiled and nodded:
"In the early days, the opinion of the battlefield command was the same as mine, that is, to let the troops of the Egyptian 1st Theater of Operations led by Marshal Alexander attack on all fronts, and this time we prepared a defense in advance, and at eight o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, we will attack the sea, land and air in an all-round way;
The Air Force took off from hundreds of temporary airfields, and the surrounding air defense forces closely monitored the enemy's rocket strikes;
As long as our air force can enter the enemy's defensive range, then we can use the number to encircle the Japanese air force, and the bomber group will have a chance to destroy the heavy weapons of their ground forces, so that our ground forces can drive straight in.
However, this requires speed, and once the annihilated Japanese army reacts to launch a counterattack against us, and is stirred into our massive forces by their troops, our bombing will lose its effect;
In addition, the air force must be strict with them, even at the cost of losing a few planes, they must drag or destroy one of the opponent's fighters, and we will use the battle damage to drag down the Japanese army in Egypt.
As long as we are not afraid of sacrifice. Defeat their air force in numbers, and we don't have to worry about their so-called massive air raids and firepower coverage bombing;
But we are also prepared for the first phase of defeat, and after the war our troops will continue to enter North Africa. All subsequent air forces will be assembled in the area of Benghazi, Libya, and the army units will also be deployed along the area of Bayda and Derna as our second North African front;
As long as the Japanese army dares to continue to attack and pursue, we will take advantage of the lack of flight distance of their air force fighters to intercept them again on the second front;
And to form an air countermeasure against them, the ground forces surrounded them, hundreds of thousands of them, and then sent troops to land from Egypt to attack their rear airfields.
In this way, our losses will be even greater. However, in order to win, we can get back the losses from the Middle East and Southern Africa, and we can also restore the stability of the country. The sacrifice of a qiē is worth it. ”
Once upon a time, the soldiers of the United States would think of fighting with the enemy with numbers, which was what Soviet Russia, which they had always looked down on, should do, and now in the face of the destruction of the Japanese army with far more advanced equipment than them, the preparations of the allies are already to sacrifice in exchange for victory.
Churchill listened quietly. He did not know as much about the campaign as the generals below. However, what he needs to calculate is different from these generals who just want to win the war, what the war will bring to the British Empire, whether it will be a gain or a loss, and how many things will be are what a head of state needs to calculate.
"President Truman, you and I may both step down because of the end of the war, and we should all have a clear consensus on this point, we are responsible for the collapse of the country's economy, and we are also responsible for the huge losses in the war;
But. Now that you and I, as the supreme heads of the two countries, we have to consider the distribution of benefits to the occupied territories at the end of the war. In the same way, we must consider the responsibility that we will have to bear in the event of defeat;
The destruction of the Japanese army will not negotiate with the Soviet Russia and Japan who dare to fight them, and I believe that for the Allies, once they gain the upper hand, the war will continue;
Have you considered whether we will continue the war or raise the flag and surrender, and how much we will pay? Churchill's meaty face shook twice, then he looked at Truman and asked.
Since the war situation in Europe was out of the control of heaven, these bosses of the allies have begun to face the reality, they did not continue to maintain the previous mentality that they had to defeat the Germans, but turned their attention to the destruction of the Japanese army, which occupied a huge point of interest;
The successive failures also warned them that the strength of the Japanese army was incomparable, but as a great power in the West, the mentality in their bones that they were unwilling to look down on the yellow race still existed;
In addition, the interests in the Middle East are too large, and they are in panic and chaos at home, and this war must be fought;
Even if this is their life-saving straw, it may be a deadly poison, and winning or losing is related to the change of their national fortunes.
The British Empire, which has been strong for hundreds of years, has such an idea, and the United States has a hegemonic heart after increasing its troops and equipment, and now the financial capital that manipulated the world war has fallen into bad luck because of the financial tsunami, but they still want to maintain the idea of establishing their own rules of behavior in the world.
Churchill's political concept is free trade, but to be honest, this politician who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been nominated for the Peace Prize in the future, what kind of ghost does he know in his heart, if he really loves peace and advocates freedom, then he will not follow the rice guys in the future to muddy the waters in the world;
What's more, the fact that the stinky port was not returned to Huaxia was a decision made by him when he was in power, and evil politicians, no matter how glamorous they looked on, as long as they were still in power, they were dark manipulators.
Truman was secretly upset by these two sharp questions, one involving great interests, and the other involving the future of Mi Ying and even all allies, which was difficult for him to answer for a while;
Originally, the idea of the United States was to wait until the war was won, and it could occupy as many points of interest as possible with the advantage of sending troops and equipment this time, but Churchill didn't want to wait until the end to need an answer, and Truman avoided it after a little consideration and said:
"As for the distribution of benefits after the war, we still have to look at the final results to know, we can wait for the destruction of the Japanese army to be driven out of the Middle East, and then we can discuss the distribution while arranging defenses, which is related to the more than 20 allies who sent troops this time, we have divided the interests here, and they will be dissatisfied when the time comes;
As for the probability of defeat in the war in Egypt, the results of the study of our staff and the staff generals of the high command are extremely small, but since there is victory, there must be a plan for defeat;
The Japanese army relayed to them from the Huaxia government that we could not afford to pay so much compensation, and once we agreed, it would leave the allies in debt for decades or even hundreds of years;
If there is such a result, we might as well continue to increase domestic equipment production, Your Excellency Prime Minister, all the arms enterprises in the United States have been fully started with the support of the government;
Our Comet II high-speed fighters are ready to complete 30,000 in three months and 100,000 in five months, and we are urgently recruiting people who can fly planes in various flying clubs, and we will deploy more than 100,000 giant coastal defense guns along the coast;
I believe that even if we lose around the Mediterranean, the Japanese army will not be able to break through our shores to fight, and the continuous war will not only drag us down, I believe that even if they continue to wear down so uncontrollably, it will be them who will lose in the end. (To be continued......)