Washington, USA

The summer sun is always so scorching that everyone can't escape the sultry irritability, even the coolness of science and the gloom of death cannot diminish the annoyance and melancholy of everyone present, and the anger that pervades the chest of the chief of staff of the United States Army with a corncob pipe in his mouth.

In a conference room at the U.S. Department of the Army, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Douglas ? General MacArthur, holding a few thin pages of the report, looked at the silent soldiers, experts and staff, only to feel the fire burning in his heart, calling him to smash the waste in front of him!

In the end, he couldn't contain his anger, but slammed the papers on the table and spoke to the jury with the same fierceness as a lawyer: "...... In this way, the opinion of the General Staff of the Army is to stop this intervention, quickly withdraw troops from the battlefield in Chinese mainland, or the Zhoushan Islands, and at the same time let the troops that have been transported to the Philippines stay in Manila and other places for a long time, and continue the endless confrontation with these red elements in China? Damn it! What about your pride and courage?! Do you have to wait until the smell of these Chinese Yankees has smoked to Washington before you have the courage to fight!? ”

Douglas? General MacArthur is now feeling angry, since the end of the Shijie War and the intervention in the Russian Revolution, the United States of America has been peaceful for so many years, and the army naturally has no place to win cheers and applause. The only sorties during this period were the suppression of veterans and unemployed workers during the Great Depression, and not only did they not have the slightest glory to speak of, but they were also scolded by the media in the backbone.

Especially on the streets of Washington. The desperate cries of the retired veterans who failed to ask for pensions but were crushed by tanks commanded by Major Patton "Our today is your tomorrow" made every Union soldier feel relatable...... At present, there is finally a stage on which the soldiers can show their skills -- to go to the East to suppress the unruly Bolsheviks. Who knows, but it was interrupted halfway!

What's worse is that MacArthur has fallen out with President Roosevelt in many things, so much so that the president and his staff are more and more unpleasant to him, and recently there is even gossip that President Roosevelt Jihua wants Major General MacArthur to forcibly retire with dishonor!

This bleak prospect made MacArthur's chief of staff feel unusually anxious, anxious to prove himself with a resounding victory, despite the Far East intervention. It is dominated by the naval fleet, and the marines are responsible for ground combat. But MacArthur managed to get a division, a task force and several National Guard units to the Philippines. One of the regiments had already arrived on Zhoushan Island, which served as a base for advance...... But he was so frightened by a broadcast by those yellow-skinned monkeys that he suddenly stopped, how could Uncle MacArthur not be angry?

One of the staff officers who felt ashamed before seeing the Chief of the General Staff lose his demeanor and start scolding the street like a shrew. Still stood up and reminded him: "...... Your Excellency Chief of the General Staff. I have to remind you that this time the Chinese are not using ordinary conventional weapons. According to the international broadcast content in Shanghai, they discovered the wonderful liliang inside the atom and created a powerful atomic weapon; And they seem to have more than one such atomic weapon. Moreover, their merciless destruction of Japanese cities showed their determination to use such weapons on the battlefield - it was not wise to let the boys of the army take such a big risk for the sake of the little profit lost in the Shanghai Concession.

And at the same time. Their conventional military liliang is still not enough to reach beyond Chinese mainland, and we still have an advantage in Southeast Asia. So now is the best time to negotiate, and we can at least have enough leverage to have some initiative in the negotiations.

At present, the Federal Navy is already unlucky because of its participation in China's intervention operations -- it has lost tens of thousands of sailors and marines, and a large number of expensive warships are lying on Guam and cannot move, and the Admiralty is now regretting it! Weishenme is still going to let the army step into this quagmire as well? ”

-- Since there are already people who have begun to share the anger, it is only natural that there will be bold successors who will follow.

“…… Your Excellency Chief of Staff, we are basically helpless against the current Chinese mainland, unless someone can take out this group of red elements entrenched in Shanghai - obviously, that is impossible. Neither the Japanese nor several local warlords in China were capable of this...... Moreover, the United States of America does not have very considerable interests in China at present, and the trade volume between China and the United States has always been only one-third or even one-fifth of the trade volume between Japan and the United States, but the British have almost monopolized the economic interests of China's southern coast and the Yangtze River valley.

In fact, Chiang Kai-shek, the previously overthrown Chinese ruler, had a certain American background, but his policies were more influenced by the British...... To put it mildly, he is an Englishman's dog, not ours, and is not worth the effort to maintain. ”

Another senior analyst of international issues put it this way, "...... The trouble of the British should be solved by the British! The United States has already been tricked by these British gentlemen at the Paris Peace Conference, and this time we can no longer be cannon fodder for Whitehall! ”

It is a pity that His Excellency Chief of Staff MacArthur did not fully listen to these bitter persuasions, he just lowered his head, suppressed his sour mood, and laughed: "...... Yes, in the hearts of the guys in the White House, the red elements are what they say! Atomic bomb? How could that group of Chinese yellow-skinned monkeys, that group of Chinese monkeys who had just cut off their braids, make it? It's just a few natural disasters and fabricated so-called scientific laws, boasting about them on the radio, and our politicians actually believe it......" He jerked his head up, and there was even a hint of madness in his eyes...... There is a limit to flouting the laws of physics! What bullshit atomic bomb, are you insulting my IQ! ”

“…… Unfortunately, as hard as it may be, this is the brutal truth, General MacArthur. ”

Just as MacArthur's chief of staff was in a hysterical flare-up, Secretary of War George? Mr. Deen suddenly pushed the door open and burst into the conference room, "...... According to the latest information received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swiss and German envoys to China, as well as one of our journalists, have already observed the whole process of the Bolsheviks launching the atomic bomb against the Japanese Empire with a giant rocket in Shanghai, and have received preliminary confirmation -- these yellow-skinned monkeys who painted themselves red have indeed mastered some kind of incredible liliang, which can wipe out a city or even a country in an instant! ”

Listening to the words of the Secretary of War, MacArthur suddenly relaxed for a moment, as if all the anger and militant rhetoric of the previous were gone.

“…… Well, Mr. Minister, if this is the case, then I agree to withdraw the troops sent to the Far East and let the lads go home......"

“…… No, no, no, General, you seem to have misunderstood the President's intentions. Minister Deen shook his head and said, "...... Those troops stranded in the Zhoushan Islands do need to be withdrawn, but the Philippine defenses cannot be weakened, only strengthened...... General MacArthur, as I think you should know, last year Congress passed the Tydings-McDouffy Act, which laid out in detail the steps for Philippine independence -- and those steps are almost complete, and the Republic of the Philippines is about to be born. But this does not mean that the United States can loosen its grip on this bridgehead in the Far East......"

-- The Secretary of War seemed to have brought up a new topic, but MacArthur could only frown and listen patiently.

Then, General MacArthur, who had been pampered in the United States for many years, heard a terrible thunderbolt from the blue.

“…… General MacArthur, you previously served in the Philippines for eight years and are the most knowledgeable of the East and Asia in the entire Federal War Department. Mr. President, I hope that you will step down from your post as Chief of Army Staff and move to a place where you can better use your talents, specifically, as the Supreme Military Advisor and Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Republic of the Philippines and the Commander of the Far East Corps of the United States. You will be able to command the entire land forces of the United States and the Republic of the Philippines in the Philippine Islands, and be responsible for the confrontation with the Red Elements on the Asian front, so that the freedom-loving Filipinos will not be polluted by the Red Ideology...... Of course, if possible, it would be better to share some of the excess assets that the Japanese have no control over......"

“…… Japanese...... Excess assets? Sorry, I don't seem to understand, what does this mean exactly? ”

MacArthur, who was already preparing to be "exiled" back to his "second hometown" in the Philippines, was stunned when he heard this, "...... Can you be clear? ”

“…… Saipan, Tinian, and the Caroline Islands, the assets that the Japanese Empire had seized from Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany during the Shijie War twenty years earlier, might once again have a different owner—especially when Japan was no longer equipped with a navy...... The Federal Navy has always been interested in the Truk anchorage, which the Japanese Navy secretly built near the equator......"

The Minister of War said lightly, "...... Of course, this is only a preliminary intention, and whether it can be realized depends on the situation......"

-- If the Americans, who do not have many entanglements of interests in China at the moment, can still put up a bench and sit on the side to watch the play, or even ponder whether they can take advantage of the fire to rob them, then the British and French, who are now directly facing the front of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, are not so easy. (To be continued......)