Standing on the bridge of the aircraft carrier, General Halsey watched with his hands behind his back as the Marines carrying his ship were flocking like ants to the small island in the sea in the distance. He is familiar with this kind of battle, and along the way, the United States has accumulated a great deal of experience in landing across the sea in the Solomon Islands, and at least the US military is very familiar with the landing operations on such small islands.

"Send a telegram to the 1st Marine Division and tell them not to rush in. Halsey gave his order to the adjutant who was following him: "Let the bomb-laden attack planes on the carrier take off and bomb the two hills on the island." What can be solved with bombs, there is no need to sacrifice the lives of our soldiers. ”

"Yes, sir!" said the lieutenant, who walked to the rear of the bridge, with Halsey flanking the captain of the aircraft carrier. He also stood there with his hands behind his back, watching the cruiser fleet in the distance organize a new round of artillery attacks, bombarding the small island in the distance, which was already full of smoke.

"I heard that on the Middle East side, Mountbatten is about to be driven to the oil field production area on the Red Sea coast?" Halsey suddenly turned around and asked the captain of the aircraft carrier standing beside him, who was stunned by Halsey's questioning, and then immediately straightened up and replied: "Sir! I don't know much about the war situation in the Middle East!"

Within the United States, the successive failures in the Middle East are also listed as confidential matters. Although everyone talks about it in private, they don't talk about it in official settings. Halsey was Nimitz's fierce general, and he liked to be straightforward, so he casually asked this question because he thought of it.

"I'm not one of those old stubborns...... If you've heard something, say it. After all, this situation ......," Halsey pointed to the small island where the Japanese army had no power to fight back in the distance, and teased, "It's a little boring, isn't it? ”

"I heard...... Sir, I just heard ......" The colonel had his hands behind his back, and seemed to have something to say, but he didn't know what to say. He considered the words for a moment before replying: "I heard that the Germans are better than the Japanese, they have very advanced fighters and tanks, and the quality of the soldiers is much higher than that of the Japanese army. Many soldiers were worried that if we defeated the Japanese, we would be transferred to the Indian Ocean and compete with the Germans for sea supremacy......"

Halsey is an admiral who has been commanding the U.S. Navy's battleship forces, but he has recently been appointed commander of the carrier fleet because of the new aircraft carriers that have been launched and the U.S. Navy's battleships have suffered heavy losses in the last Battle of the Solomon Islands.

When he took office, he heard most about the "miracle of naval warfare" in which the German aircraft carrier fleet ate the British home fleet in the North Sea. Several of Lütjans's battles for fame were mentioned repeatedly as textbooks, which made him yearn for a real opponent.

The Japanese Navy does not seem to have any intention of coming out to compete with the U.S. Navy lately, so the Japanese Navy, which has lost the commander Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku, has lost even its flexible tactics. The Combined Fleet's passive avoidance of war has allowed the US Navy to approach Southeast Asia with great momentum. After taking this island, the last trace of the Japanese threat to Australia disappeared, and the United States was able to calmly deploy materials and troops in Australia to carry out a faster counterattack against Japan.

"Send these dwarves to hell as soon as possible!" Halsey murmured coldly, "I heard that we don't even have the strength to fight back in the Atlantic, and I really want to go there and fight the German devils." ”

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In the remote Wilhelm military port, near the huge military separation zone inland, a new oil storage depot was successfully completed. Marshal Raeder looked at the heavy oil reserve base that had just been built, talked proudly with Admiral Dönitz beside him, and pointed at the anti-aircraft artillery anti-aircraft facilities in the distance from time to time.

Obviously, the naval marshal was very satisfied with this high-standard naval oil depot, and the perfect air defense facilities and convenient transportation made the strategic value of this place to the maximum. Trains carrying fuel could travel all the way from Italian ports to deliver the smelted fuel oil to the German Navy.

"I heard that the third oil field in Libya has started to produce oil?" Raeder lowered his head and asked Admiral Dönitz beside him, who nodded and said to his boss with a smile: "Marshal, what you have heard is true, the Führer promised that we can raise our fuel reserves to the pre-war level within the next month. ”

"The Führer has always been wise and wise, hasn't he?" said Raeder, smiling even more happily as he pinched his marshal's scepter. His fleet had long been plagued by a lack of fuel, and now that problem was gone, a cause for celebration for the growing German Navy.

"Yes, Marshal!" Dönitz had just awarded his proud 14 submarine captains the Order of the Knights of the Iron Cross, and his new U-boats were also in service in batches, so he was in a very good mood: "I have approved the expansion of the blockade of Iceland from 24 to 33 submarines. ”

"Do you know why General Catherine canceled the fourth large-scale bombing of Iceland?" Marshal Raeder lowered his voice and asked Dönitz, "I heard that his air force has replenished a lot of fuel, and it is obvious that he did not cancel the bombing mission because of a lack of fuel." ”

"I heard that the Air Force is moving frequently, but the specific situation is still in the stage of secrecy. "Dönitz didn't know much about Catherine's plan, after all, it was impossible for the Air Force to inform the Navy of his unilateral actions. Recently, however, the pressure on fuel has been greatly eased, and the Air Force has dispatched Butcher long-range reconnaissance aircraft to provide long-range reconnaissance for Dönitz's submarine forces more frequently, which has benefited Dönitz's wolf pack.

"How did I hear that you and Lutyens are still pushing for this?" Raeder suddenly opened his mouth and knocked Dönitz: "We are all Imperial soldiers, don't take credit for yourself and ruin the Führer's affairs." Got it?"

Dönitz smiled, and then did not hide anything: "It was me and General Lütjans who felt that we could suppress the Allies in Iceland by relying on the navy. Of course, on the premise that the fuel is replenished in time, I think the navy can shoulder the heavy responsibility of blockading Iceland alone......"

"You're right! "Raeder was very satisfied with his navy, at least his fleet had crushed the main force of the Royal Navy and made the southern part of the British mainland the territory of the Empire. In terms of merit, he felt that his navy had already achieved fame by now, and what he was fighting for now was the position of the navy in the three German armed forces.

Rommel's forces were advancing in the Middle East, and had even begun to encircle the Allied forces that had invaded Turkey from the rear. This reduced the pressure on Turkey, and made the country, which had wavered when Italy had withdrawn from the Axis powers, now firmly on the side of Germany - not firmly, because the country was almost surrounded by the armies of the Third Reich.

To the northwest of the country was Army Group J under General Hoult, to the northeast was Army Group M under the command of Field Marshal Manstein, who had just captured the Baku oil fields, and to the southwest of the country was the German Afrika Korps, which was getting closer...... If Italy's decision to withdraw from the Axis powers was due to the fact that there was only one German Army Group J on the border, and it dared to give it a go, then Turkey would be crazy to make trouble in the current situation.

Therefore, after Israel established itself in the Middle East, Turkey's diplomatic envoys went to Germany again and again, desperately trying to repair the relationship between the two countries, which had already cracked. In order to win Germany's forgiveness, Turkey even went so far as to lease the strait connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea to the Third Reich in perpetuity.

"We just have to wait, wait for the fuel to be stored enough, and the aircraft carrier fleet can be dispatched at will, in order to compete for sea supremacy in the Atlantic, and the Allied fleet can really fight. Raeder patted Dönitz's arm with his hand and said with a smile.

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While the German navy was rejoicing in the replenishment of fuel, a soldier named Taro Takemoto was trying to climb a low dirt hill on the island among the Japanese defenders in the Pacific theater. U.S. fighter jets circled back and forth in the sky, patrolling more frequently since several Japanese planes crashed into U.S. ships.

From time to time, these fighters swooped down from high altitudes and fired indiscriminately at places they felt suspicious. Sometimes, these pilots were able to actually find their targets and make the Japanese wagons and trucks that transported supplies into parts. The U.S. naval aviation, which had the advantage in the sky, was unreasonable and used all the weapons in their hands to recklessly ravage the Japanese soldiers who were resisting on the ground.

"Aren't these American bastards going back to rest and rest? Why do you always fly back and forth over our heads?" Takemoto complained, looking at the American planes that were constantly circling in the sky.

"They patrol alternately, and probably these planes are already in the second batch. The officer beside Takemoto looked up and sighed: "The artillery on the defensive line on that side is more dense, and I am really worried about the situation on the front line, whether the attack of the Americans was blocked by us ...... or not."

It won't be finished until 0:00 a.m., so you can read it again tomorrow morning...... The dragon spirit did not break his promise!