While war rages in the Pacific, North Africa has suddenly turned to peace. Patton's forces came to a halt halfway through, seemingly ignoring the raging battle in Tobruk. He had waited here for a whole day before he began to move slowly again, but not in a hurry, but at a normal pace.

At his current pace of advancement, he might not be able to reach the war zone in 20 days, and Montgomery seemed to have forgotten about this force and did not rush Patton forward at all. In fact, Montgomery had already decided to abandon Tobruk, because he really did not have the right to interfere with the actions of the American volunteers in North Africa.

It is very easy to carry out such a thing as giving up friendly troops or sending them to death once you and I want everyone to know it. However, if one party is unwilling to go up to die, then it will embarrass everyone after it is revealed, and everyone will choose to forget this unpleasant experience and continue to cooperate in the future.

To be honest, Montgomery's command level is indeed inferior to Barton, and the gap between the two is in character and talent, which cannot be made up from acquired learning and experience. Montgomery was an old man and liked by politicians, and the general reassured the British royal family that he never made dangerous choices.

Patton, on the other hand, was an American general who was brave and fierce all his life, even open-mouthed, impulsive and irritable, but familiar with the armored combat mode, and was a not very honest general. He often finds all kinds of troubles for his bosses, but he can save the war and win the war at critical moments.

For grassroots soldiers, it is a blessing to have a commander like Patton, because following such a general will survive the murderous war, and can even become the main force, elite, and ace admired by future generations. They will be able to achieve great success under the leadership of such commanders, and even receive a pension more than their peers.

But for high-level decision-makers, they prefer commanders like Montgomery and Bradley, who are cautious and rarely make mistakes, whose clumsy command keeps them out of a beautiful classic battle in their lifetime, and who often like to do more than gather 200,000 men to attack a 3,000-strong enemy high ground. Unfortunately, for rulers and decision-makers, they would rather have a sparrow in their hands than an eagle soaring in the sky.

So in another time and space, the inactive Montgomery became the god of war admired by the British, and Patton, who led the American army to invincibility with a cigar in his mouth, died in a car accident. I don't know if Patton saw Yue Fei after his death, whether the two of them would drink together, and sighed that the rulers of ancient and modern China and foreign countries were all the way.

Patton began to hold his troops in the middle of the road, and the incident eventually reached the office of US President Roosevelt, and the British diplomatic representative pressed for Patton's punishment and held Patton responsible for the loss of Tobruk and the deterioration of the war situation in North Africa.

Roosevelt, of course, was not an idiot, he just smiled, and then stopped paying attention to the gushing British envoys, so the atmosphere became even more awkward, and the punishment of Patton had to be finally a matter of course. One thing is very simple: Britain relies on American aid to survive, and now the Americans are the bosses, and it is not the turn of the British to dictate and make irresponsible remarks.

In the end, Roosevelt said lightly: "Mr. Special Envoy, General Patton is responsible for tens of thousands of American soldiers in North Africa, I don't think there is anything wrong with his decision, I will increase some supplies as appropriate in next month's aid plan, and the bottom line of the US military in North Africa is Cairo rather than Tobruk." ”

There are many meanings in this passage: first, there is no problem with General Patton's decision, second, I support his decision, third, you British still have to rely on our supplies, and fourth, it is important to defend Egypt, and if Tobruk loses it, he will lose it.

The British envoy had to return to Canada with the result in Roosevelt's office, and the matter was really settled in the end, and the English king decided to shut up the sensible Montgomery and forget about the unpleasantness, and it was clear that Montgomery did forget about Tobruck as he was told.

It was a wise decision, because it was far easier to shut up Montgomery than it was to silence Barton. That's why Montgomery ended up being a field marshal, while Patton was only a four-star general until his death. Facts have proved that sometimes the mouth is cheap, the temper is bad, and the stubbornness affects the income, position and even life, if you don't believe it, continue to refer to Yue Fei and Barton.

However, it turned out that it was not only Accardo who was tolerant and gave Rommel trust and room to play. Roosevelt was also supporting Patton, supporting his generals in their quest for American victory.

Another piece of bad news for Japan came at the end of June 1938, and the cause of this bad news turned out to be great news. Of course, at this time, the whole country of Japan was celebrating, and only Accardo, who got the information, almost sprayed Anna in the face with a mouthful of water.

Intelligence shows that Japan has finally taken a different step, and the Japanese Combined Fleet appeared on Wake Island and launched the Battle of Wake Island with the remaining main force of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet. Both sides dispatched carrier-based aircraft to attack the opposing fleet from a long distance, and the result was a massive naval battle that ended in a complete victory for the Japanese navy.

This naval battle of unprecedented scale caused the United States to lose three battleships that had just been repaired and the only aircraft carrier at once. The entire U.S. Pacific Fleet was almost completely wiped out, Japanese soldiers successfully landed on Wake Island, and the American defenders surrendered, taking more than 1,700 prisoners.

Such an unprecedented victory did not even surprise Japan's Yamamoto Isoroku. He originally thought that the U.S. Navy would retreat to Midway Island or retreat to Hawaii, but he did not expect to lose the remnants of the entire Pacific Fleet at tiny Wake Island. Now that the U.S. military has nothing left to stop the Japanese attack, and with the Japanese Combined Fleet, Hawaii and Australia are already in the pockets of the Japanese army.

So in the content of this great piece of good news, where does the bad news come from? With this article in his hand, Accardo knew that the good days of the Japanese Navy were coming to an end. The reason is nothing else, precisely because this time the US Navy has lost too much.

In this battle, several high-ranking generals of the US Navy were almost killed and wounded, and the remaining few had to be used to carry the blame, and as a result, the huge US Navy could not find a decent commander to command the Pacific Fleet, which had suffered a great loss in strength. Counting them, the Americans chose a young general who was not very famous, Admiral Nimitz, who was only 51 years old.

You must know that 50 years old is not young in the command class of the German army, after all, Führer Accardo himself once became a senior general of the Wehrmacht with a record of 26 years old. His famous generals Guderian, Rommel, and Manstein were all about 50 years old, and the German commanders became the youngest and most energetic general team in the world.

And the U.S. Navy originally paid attention to seniority, and Nimitz, who was still very young and did not have a high military rank, was not in the turn of seniority. However, the Battle of Wake Island had lost almost all of the older generation of U.S. Admirals, and it gave the young Nimitztron a perfect opportunity.

Accardo knew that Nimitz was the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Midway, and he was also the main admiral of the later Battle of Leyte Gulf and the counterattack against Japan, but if you want to know the real horror of this Nimitz, you can clearly know it by looking at this person's resume.

After graduating from military school, Nimitz served as a gunboat captain, then became a destroyer commander, then went to Germany to study engineering technology, then served as a tanker captain, then served in the submarine force, and later became a destroyer commander from scratch. After the end of World War I, he was ordered to participate in the construction of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, then enrolled in advanced studies, served as a naval instructor, then successively served as a submarine fleet commander, destroyer captain, heavy cruiser captain, and then returned to civilian work as assistant director of the navigation bureau, and later was promoted to commander of the squadron because of Pearl Harbor, commanding battleship operations.

Looking at it this way, everyone understands why he became a famous admiral in the US Navy - this guy has done everything from gunboats to battleships, from engineering technology to logistics and supplies. He had worked as an instructor and an assistant, so he was able to handle interpersonal relationships properly; he had been a commander and a technical manager, so he could naturally understand all aspects of a fleet -- remember that Accardo had deliberately sent Guderian to the logistics unit for a few years? You can guess Nimitz's knowledge of the U.S. Navy by comparing Guderian's position in the armored forces, who was proficient in everything.

So this news of Nimitz's appointment to the US Pacific Fleet, Accardo, of course, knew that for Japan, bad news came. However, the current Japanese Navy does not even have such an awareness in its base camp, and they are celebrating the great achievements of the total annihilation of the US Pacific Fleet.

At various shrines, monks carry banners and sing about the exploits of the soldiers on the front lines, and the emperor of Japan even attends the ceremonies in the imperial palace. The commander of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, Isoroku Yamamoto, had not yet returned to his homeland when he received a congratulatory telegram of promotion, and he became another marshal of the Japanese Navy after Togo Heihachi.

The Japanese Navy won a resounding victory off the coast of Wake Island, and the Army captured several islands in succession in the Philippines and Malaysia, getting closer and closer to Australia. For the Japanese Army, whether it can overpower the Navy in the limelight depends on this battle for Australia. In order to prepare for the battle of Australia, Japan expanded its army by 500,000, and the Ministry of War ordered: "Men over 18 years old and under 40 years old must fight for the country without delay." ”——

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