Chapter 59: Between the Peace and War (5)
In the presidential ward, looking at Dewey, whose face was haggard and depressed, Dulles could not do anything useful except shaking his head and sighing.
Before the visit, he had studied the condition with the doctors in detail, and came to the conclusion that Dewey's body as a whole was fine, and there was no organ disease, and the key was the mental blow, which caused a severe nervous breakdown. Dewey's symptoms such as dizziness, headache, and fainting were caused by excessive stimuli. It is also very simple to solve these problems, or do not expose the patient to the news of joy and sorrow, and just stay in the hospital for a few days to relax the nerves; Or the patient's own nerves quickly harden and are able to adapt to more news stimuli.
The doctor's usual preference must be the former, but this patient is currently the leader of a country, and he must not simply think about medical issues, but also political issues, and can be sent to see the president, which is not tried?
Arnold's problem was much more serious than Dewey's, and the doctor thought that his heart attack was no longer suitable to stay on the front line, and if something happened again, the first commander of the Air Force would have to die on the job. Dulles nodded to show that he understood, but he also knew that Arnold's position could not be shaken in a short period of time, because Spatz, in terms of prestige and skill, was not as good as Arnold, who could barely be on an equal footing with the top leaders of the army and navy.
But he didn't dare to let Arnold return to the front line for a while, the heavy losses of the air force Arnold actually didn't know very well, Spatz lied in good faith, on the one hand, exaggerating the battle record and basically annihilating the main German fleet, on the other hand, reducing his own losses, if he told the former the news that there were less than 2,000 groups of experienced air force crews left, he was afraid that Arnold would be able to kick his legs directly.
After several days of fierce debate, the Joint Chiefs of Staff finally decided that the report on the Caribbean Campaign published to the outside world was to sink 18 German aircraft carriers of various types, 9 warships above the German heavy cruiser, and nearly 60 other light warships of various types.
Vice Admiral Mitchell, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet, led the fleet to charge bravely, fought a series of bloody battles with the enemy, and finally unfortunately died, and was posthumously promoted to admiral, awarded congressional medals and presidential medals, and prepared to rename a road near Capitol Hill in Washington to Mitchell Road, and the national flag was lowered at half-mast for three days, and the rest of the dead officers were basically posthumously promoted to the first rank.
For example, the aircraft carrier said that it had sunk six regular aircraft carriers, four warships of the heavy cruiser and above, nearly 40 other warships of various types, and the navy had lost more than 600 aircraft.
In this way, it seems that the United States fought well, and it seemed natural that Mitchell was given a super-standard courtesy by basically a 1:2 loss, and then the media recalled with deep affection Mitchell's feat of leading the fleet to launch a counterattack against Japan and an air raid on Tokyo, and regarded him as a rare general in the navy who had won victories against both Japan and Germany.
Of course, this is the record announced to the outside world, at the internal briefing, after Ingram and the party Hewitt compressed, the results shrank more, and the losses were all restored, basically determining that the losses of both sides were 1:1, but this is the internal situation, and the outside world cannot see it, otherwise it will cause more suspicion.
As for the results of the battle, the spokesman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff summed it up as "effectively curbing the German invasion of the allies in northern Central America and the Caribbean, greatly weakening the Axis naval forces, forcing them to abandon their offensive attempts and turn to the defensive." ”
This sounds good, Germany is indeed powerless to attack, and the naval force has indeed suffered great losses, but the German attack on Oak Ridge directly skips the terrifying missiles, the infiltrating commandos, and the cruise missiles that have entered no man's land, as if Oak Ridge is really a place that does not exist.
At the same time, the spokesman also lightly portrayed the so-called "Mexican refugee" crisis, saying that "this is purely unconscious blind movement, and three National Guard divisions will be strengthened to strengthen border management", which is obviously a remedial move taken by the Joint Staff Council to prevent more similar incidents from happening. Although more than 20,000 troops were mobilized to search, and some information was learned from the captain of the Emperor, and the commando infiltration method was already understood, it still failed to capture the fugitive Skolzny and Alfred, but took the opportunity to capture the former wanted criminals and Mexican strands, which made Washington cry and laugh.
Dulles reported the decision of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Dewey, who sighed and fell into an embarrassing silence: he himself found it difficult to talk about this kind of report that was obviously whitewashed, but if he didn't say so, he would directly face a collapse, and between lying and confessing to collapse, Dewey had only one way to go dark.
Regarding the other decisions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dewey asked hesitantly: "Do you think it can be maintained militarily at present?" ”
"There is no doubt that the German army will not be able to attack in the short term, but we are now worried about the new German weapons, judging from the current situation, not only is it very powerful but also unable to defend against such a thing as an aircraft hitting a rocket, which shows that the problem is very great, and the expert group led by Professor Carmen has determined that the range of the rocket that falls on Oak Ridge is at least more than 1,200 kilometers, and the range of the cruise rocket similar to an aircraft is at least 600 kilometers."
The range of the cruise rocket Dewey is easy to understand, because the radar room tracks the whole process, and the ins and outs are clear as soon as they are analyzed, but the range of the ballistic rocket makes him very puzzled: "It's more than 2,000 kilometers from Bermuda to Oak Ridge, right?" How did the 1200 km rocket hit? ”
"Judging from the reconnaissance situation and combined with previous combat examples, the experts believe that this was caused by the use of ships to launch close to each other, and they can basically determine the range of the location of the German launch."
"This is a very dangerous signal, which means that the east coast urban belt is under the threat of German rockets, not only the door is wide open, but it is impossible to defend, this is the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads!"
Dewey understood what Dulles meant, up to now, the east and west coasts of the United States can no longer be called safe, and the west coast will also face a major threat after the fall of Pearl Harbor, and for the US government, the real crisis is still beginning: not to look at the US military on other fronts, it has basically not been affected at home, except for the bombs that have fallen on New York and Seattle.
"We are in an extremely disadvantageous position to continue fighting, and the American people are not ready for this kind of brutal war." Dewey could understand Dulles's implication: it was a euphemism for peace as soon as possible.
In fact, as soon as Dewey came to power, he also asked for peace, but the problem was that the peace he asked for and the price he was willing to bear were more different from the current status quo, and he was getting deeper and deeper, just like a gambler, he always thought that I would not gamble, but I didn't expect to fall deeper and deeper, and the cost became less and less, not to mention Ben, it was impossible to reduce losses.
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