I don't know if you have ever had a winter vacation, playing games, setting off firecrackers, watching movies, going to parties, and it was cool until the end of the holiday, when I suddenly remembered that there were still dozens of winter vacation homework that had not been completed. If anything, then you now understand the mood of the United States at this moment.

The United States, which has been sitting in a big dream, hoping to see the war on the European continent until the end of the world, now finds that the result it wants has not appeared, but another very unpleasant ending is rapidly becoming clear.

Germany did not have the stalemate with France in the First World War as imagined, but it became a brilliant show of German armored forces, and the troops came to the city of Paris in one breath and fought an easy victory. All of a sudden, Americans dropped their glasses and began to think about their own development as if they had just woken up from a dream.

Every time the officers of the army read a report on the bravailing of the German armored forces in France, they would write to various departments like chickens, hoping to build their own armored corps to cope with the future war model.

The United States was also unambiguous and began to vigorously develop its own armored tank forces, developing two tanks, M3 and M3LEE, in one go, to deal with the future "German tank threat". Among them, the M3 tank was developed under the influence of the German blitzkrieg against Poland. It is considered a relatively advanced main tank in the hands of the US Army.

However, this tank is only equipped with a 37 mm caliber main gun, and the armor is more than a little behind, compared to the German Leopard tank, it is obviously outdated, compared with the latest German Tiger tank, it seems to be even less on the same level.

For this reason, and also stimulated by the French campaign, the United States ordered the development of a firepower-enhanced tank also equipped with a 75 mm caliber gun, and the result was the Super M3 tank, which was equipped with a 75 mm tank gun on the front side of the hull like the French B1 tank.

As soon as these two tanks came out, they were widely criticized, and it seems that the US Army was not satisfied with this kind of broken copper and iron that was almost a generation behind the German tank in terms of overall strength. However, the U.S. Army has not yet been threatened by strong tanks, so even if the Army is dissatisfied, it still pinched its nose and equipped a full 3,000 of this "broken copper and iron".

Compared with the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force is more urgent. The United States' own P-36 fighter is not even comparable to the ME-109C fighter, an export fighter of the Third Reich, and it is even more different from the German FW-190D fighter, so the reason why the US military is desperate to get a new fighter.

However, compared to the conservative slowness of the Army, the designers of the United States Air Force were much more daring, and they immediately came up with a design plan, which had two high-power engines and looked very strange, which was the famous American P-38 twin-engine fighter in history, and in another time and space, it was famous for shooting down Yamamoto Isoroku, a Japanese general.

It's a pity that it's one thing to come up with a design plan, but it's another thing to mass-produce after a demonstration test flight, so now the US Air Force is still a pitiful P-36 fighter.

At the very moment when the United States was catching up, an even more shocking news suddenly came: hundreds of thousands of troops in the Dunkirk area had surrendered to Germany, and the British Navy had been beaten into a sieve by the German High Seas Fleet overnight or in the morning -- the war situation in Europe had become so bad that the Americans could not have predicted it within two hours, and there was even information that France would surrender to Germany within a few days.

Roosevelt immediately summoned the British ambassador to the United States, and obtained even more shocking information from the ambassador: Britain had lost control of the North Atlantic, hundreds of thousands of troops had been wiped out in France, and it was now unable to cope with any imminent war.

"Is it really that strict?" asked US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, frowning as he stared at the British ambassador in front of him.

The British ambassador looked extremely bastard, and there was no clue on his face, but he coughed twice before replying: "The sinking of the Hood and the Prestige is the heaviest loss of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and the loss of the fleet, including the aircraft carrier, is almost a third, and Britain is in fact unable to continue the war." ”

"The situation has reached such an irreparable point?" Roosevelt sighed and muttered, he suddenly had a delusion at this time: did the Yuan Xiansheng in Berlin on the distant European continent always suppress the strength in his hands, and then suddenly use force to kill Britain and France, so as to block the possibility of American trouble?

Shaking his head and dispelling such pessimistic thoughts in his mind, Roosevelt once again took on a strongman posture and said: "If the United States can muster together some resources to aid Britain, can Britain continue to deal with Germany?"

"Dear Mr. President, the British Empire certainly does not want to lose its position and influence in Europe. But I really can't think of any resources to keep us fighting, after all...... Germany's current lockdown has made us very powerless. ”

"The United States does not want to see Germany unify Europe. Roosevelt thought for a moment and said, "I would rather deal with an English gentleman like you than with a German." ”

He thought for a moment, looked at the trees outside the window, and seemed to have made a lot of determination before he spoke: "I try, if I can, I will provide a large amount of support for the British war against aggression, including weapons and equipment, food and fuel." ”

"I need to get a rough idea of the scale, and then I can give feedback to the country, and then the country will decide whether to accept the good intentions of the United States. The ambassador secretly changed his face, of course he wanted to fight for the greatest interests of Britain, even if it was the benefit of defeat, it must be that Britain can get the most.

"In terms of the army, we in the United States are not very strong, so I am willing to come up with 300 M3 tanks and 2,000 cars. Roosevelt said, "This is the greatest sincerity I can show." ”

"In addition, we will provide 2,000 fighter jets, including the P-36 and later more advanced models, to help Britain stabilize its domestic air supremacy, although the P-36 cannot cope with the various German aircraft forces, but it is better than nothing, right?" he continued to speak his chips without waiting for the British ambassador to speak.

"We also need 2 million grenades. Mr. President, if Germany invades England, we will fight to the death against the invaders. The British ambassador replied.

"Yes! Then there is the navy, we will help Britain produce four aircraft carriers, as well as the corresponding escort fleet, these warships I will try to hand over to Britain within a year, but whether these warships can catch up with the British mainland to fight, can only depend on the will of the Germans. ”

"I believe that if these promises could have been fulfilled, the Germans would not have been able to end the Anglo-German war before 1940. The ambassador smiled and said: "With this, we will resist to the end! Let the Germans know that their contempt for Britain is a completely wrong act!"

Roosevelt's answer was very satisfying, the United States just wanted to buy about two years, and once the powerful industry of the United States was producing at full capacity, arming millions of troops and possessing more advanced weapons and equipment, it would be a simple matter.

Let's hope that the progress of the war will slow down quickly...... Looking at the back of the departing British ambassador, Roosevelt thought to himself.

In a port in New York, boxes of grenades were loaded onto a freighter, and on board the ship there were already mountains of such grenades. The ship was flying the American flag, and the United States naturally hoped that such important munitions could be safely delivered to its destination, Britain, because there was already a dangerous situation where every bullet and shell had to be used sparingly.

"Be careful!" one of the crew members reminded the clumsy stevedores, "these are flammable and explosive things, and if you are not careful, the whole ship will turn into a big firework!"

"Understood! sir. The man who looked like he was carrying the ammunition on board nodded and said. As he spoke, he placed a box of bullets in his hand on another hill, a transport ship filled with 100 million rounds of ammunition and hundreds of thousands of grenades, and was one of the most important aid transport fleets.

The other ships included 30 ships carrying steel and grain, 15 ships transporting crude oil, and the remaining nine, which is exactly 10 merchant ships carrying munitions.

This includes 50 tanks and 400 trucks drawn directly from the U.S. military, all of which are filled with fuel and the cockpit is full of bandages, medicines, and other supplies for ease and optimal transportation.

However, before these ships could leave the American ports, the news of another air raid on the British capital London reached the United States, because the statistics had not yet been completed, so the exact damage was incalculable. But just preliminary estimates suggest that almost 200,000 people have been left homeless, and more than 3,000 have died as a direct result of the crash.

What made the United States even more depressed and the British could not raise their heads was that the Hurricane fighter unit, the most powerful British Royal Fighter stationed near London, was completely wiped out, and all 20 fighters that had been painstakingly managed and accumulated were shot down, and 16 pilots were killed. If you count the P-36 fighters supported by the United States, this interception operation alone cost the British 44 pilots killed and 72 aircraft shot down.

The British ambassador again urgently asked for an appointment, and when he saw Roosevelt, he wept bitterly and made a new request to the United States of the British government: "Mr. President Roosevelt, the British pilot unit is about to be exhausted, and we ask you to recruit volunteers to go to England, the price is not a problem, and we are willing to pay a pilot 5,000 pounds." ”