In the presidential office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Roosevelt coughed and did not speak, and his aides were reporting on the ongoing naval battles in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

"In the Pacific theater, Japan committed suicide attack aircraft and engaged in fierce battles with our fleet in the waters near the Bismarck Islands. As of two hours ago, our army had damaged 7 warships, and the Japanese warships had also suffered heavy losses, and the specific battle situation was still developing. The aide placed the telegram on President Roosevelt's desk.

Recently, President Roosevelt has been questioned more and more, and many politicians have begun to speak out against Roosevelt's war policies. These people proposed a new plan that was more in line with the interests of the United States: a peace agreement with the European Axis bloc, abandoning a collapsed Britain, and making every effort to make up for its lost interests in the Pacific theater.

Some Jews began to support this view, because a truly neutral Jewish state had been born in the Middle East. The country, which was founded with the support of Germany, did not turn to the Axis powers, but chose an independent development path for the outside world.

This choice made a very good impression on the Jews of the United States and other parts of the world, and the number of people supporting Enrique, who is now the first president of the State of Israel, is increasing, while Baulman, who is a well-known among American Jews, is under increasing pressure.

"Is there any news from General Nimitz, is there any certainty that our fleet will completely annihilate the Japanese fleet in the waters near the Bismarck Islands?" Roosevelt was not in good health lately, he coughed violently twice before asking his assistant, who had just stopped.

"After all, it is on the vast sea, and it seems impossible to completely annihilate the cunning Japanese fleet. If nothing else, this time we can inflict heavy damage on the enemy and create a very good environment for the next attack on the island of New Guinea. The aide gave his president exactly what a Navy liaison officer had just told him, and now that the fighting was going on, the most optimistic promises could only go so far.

Sure enough, Roosevelt nodded, no longer interested in asking about it, he looked at the huge Pacific Ocean on the map, and didn't know what he was thinking. Silence spreads through the president's office, and there is a suffocating sense of oppression. In the end, Roosevelt himself broke the silence and continued to ask: "So, how is the battle on the Atlantic battlefield?"

Speaking of this, the assistant was obviously a little embarrassed. Because within the framework of Anglo-American cooperation, the defense of the Atlantic has always been entrusted to the British Royal Navy. The main force of the U.S. Navy has always been in the Pacific, which is the fundamental reason why it has been able to crush the Japanese Navy in numbers.

However, with regard to the recent actions of the Italian side, the United States coerced and induced the British to come up with their own coffin books, and the fleets of the two sides jointly dispatched to escort the landing force in an attempt to stab the Germans in Italy by means of a sneak attack. However, this huge plan was destined to be difficult to succeed, so the huge Anglo-American Combined Fleet was forced by the equally powerful German High Seas Fleet to travel around the South Atlantic.

The most immediate consequence of this trip was the emptiness of Iceland's maritime defenses, which a German detachment took advantage of. The German battleship Marshal Raeder, under the cover of several cruisers, shelled the empty coastal facilities of Iceland, which directly drew the old face of the British king.

The bombardment of Iceland sent too many messages to the United States and Britain to the top brass of the United States, so much that Roosevelt was a little desperate. First of all, the German heavy warships were once again intensively dispatched, indicating that the German Navy had solved its practical problem of lack of fuel. Solving the problem of fuel shortage means that the five aircraft carriers in hand of Germany can be dispatched at any time to threaten the east coast of the United States.

At the same time, the arrival of the battleships to bombard Iceland also showed that the German Navy had psychologically got rid of the original curse of weakening its feet when it encountered the British, and that the German Navy had all the conditions to take the initiative to attack, which was also not good news for the Allied forces scattered across the two oceans.

These signals were dangerous and terrible, because the Allies lacked a fleet in the Atlantic to confront the German navy, and if Germany began to take the initiative and seek to engage at sea, the American fleet in the Atlantic would be wiped out.

"Mr. President, four hours ago, the German battleships that shelled Iceland had left, and the British were only mobilizing their main fleet for the operational deployment of defending Iceland. The aide whispered a reply to President Roosevelt's question, and it was evident that even he saw that the British Royal Navy was not confident enough.

In a previous era, any enemy warship that dared to challenge the authority of the British Royal Navy would have been encircled and hunted down by the huge fleets deployed by the British Royal Navy around the world - this is what happened to the Earl of Spee and the Bismarck in another time and space.

However, now, the German High Seas Fleet has surpassed the main fleet of the British Royal Navy in overall strength, and the huge aircraft carrier fleet can rely on more advanced carrier-based aircraft and better electronic equipment to sink the battleships that the British Empire is proud of. I don't know when it began, the glorious tradition of the British Royal Navy of "fighting the enemy" has become the "passive avoidance of war" that is now extremely criticized, and it can be said that in the so-called state of mind, the British Navy has been defeated.

Although the aging Admiral Dudley Pound still maintained the last vestiges of the dignity of the British Royal Navy, despite the large British Royal Navy, in terms of numbers and training, and still had the capital to fight the German Navy, although the homeland of the former empire had been occupied, there were countless diehards who believed that it could be reborn...... But it does have little money left for its decision-makers to splurge again.

"If we can't come up with something to strengthen the British base in Iceland, Britain may be squeezed out of the war......" Roosevelt frowned and muttered his own thoughts, knowing that the last bargaining chip that held Britain's resistance alive was the relatively good strength of the British Royal Navy. If the Royal Navy loses, then Britain is likely to really collapse completely.

The United States, having lost Britain, was likely to be forced to make peace with the Third Reich, and the bargaining chips for peace were the already defeated Middle East and Atlantic interests. The United States will be forced to withdraw from the arena of world hegemony and cede to Germany the alliance it has built.

And in that state of forced peace, it was not just the British government in exile in Iceland that collapsed, but also the French government-in-exile of Charles de Gaulle, and if the United States lost the Atlantic, these European government-in-exiles would be wiped out, and not even a piece of waste paper would be left.

"While we still have overwhelming dominance in Congress, give Britain a few preferential policies, and then find a way to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Atlantic Fleet. Roosevelt thought for a moment, then said, "Call the arms dealers who support us and ask them to offer a support package to support the rebuilding of the Icelandic air base." ”

After saying this, he fixed his eyes on the location of Iceland on the map, and finally did not know whether to convince his assistant, or his own, and said: "Strengthening this base, using bombers to destroy Norwegian iron ore at any cost, this is our only chance." ”

While the President of the United States was worried in his office, on the bridge of the British Royal Navy's aircraft carrier Ark Royal, Dudley Pound and his officers were carefully studying the route of the German Navy's battleship detachment.

"There are so many routes at the enemy's disposal that we simply have no way of tracking down their battleship Marshal Raeder. A naval aviation officer with his hands behind his back said to his immediate superior: "They can go east directly back to Norwegian ports and walk half the way into the protection of Norwegian land-based aviation." ”

As he spoke, he pulled his hand from behind his back and pointed to the relevant location on the map: "If they go southeast, they can enter the air defense range of the British Isles...... There was Zhang Bolin's North British Air Force, which was regularly patrolled by ME-109C fighters. Of course, if they have enough fuel, they can go straight back to Wilhelmshaven, and we can't catch up. ”

"The distance is too delicate, their aircraft carrier fleet is within the cover of the combat radius of land-based aircraft, and they can take off aircraft to cover this battlefleet, and if we make a reckless sortie, we will suffer losses. Dudley Pound's current situation is that of a typical clever woman, most of the nearby sea area is within the combat radius of German land-based aircraft, and it is really difficult for his navy to make a difference.

"We must find a way to lure the German naval fleet off the east coast of the United States, so that it is possible to encircle and annihilate this fleet on the vast ocean. The captain of the Ark Royal stood beside Dudley Pound and said, "The odds are too small, and the Germans will not be fooled unless they are stupid." ”

The officer in charge of the Navy's submarine forces shook his head and dismissed the plan to lure the German fleet: "Even if we put out enough bait, it will only be the damned submarines of Dönitz's men who will take the bait." The surface ships of the German Navy were much more cautious than their submarine forces, and they had not yet entered the middle of the North Atlantic. ”

"Everything has to be considered in the long run. Dudley Pound sighed and said, "All we need to do now is to prevent the German navy from continuing to threaten Iceland." Something else, wait for news from the Americans. ”