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"You fell out with Dewey?" In the hospital room, Admiral Kim put down the newspaper and asked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"No falling out! I'm not a fellow traveler with him, so I can't talk about falling out, at most it's just public. In front of Dewey, Turner blew his beard and glared and slapped the table, but in front of Admiral King, he was honest like a schoolboy, handing the latter the peeled fruit, and said, "Besides, isn't this also a scene that President Truman wants to see?" He didn't want all these generals to be pulled away by Dewey in a few months, and he was still thinking about making an ambitious move four years later. ”

"Do you think he has a chance?"

"I don't dare say that, but Dewey didn't stand a chance." Turner explained Dewey's thoughts to Admiral King, "He is still dreaming, hoping that without paying anything and losing nothing, he can easily make peace with Germany and win with Japan, is this possible?" ”

"But he has a lot of popularity now, especially after Mr. Truman dropped out of the election, and he is almost certain to be the next president."

"The popularity of the people is that the people are overwhelmed by the unfavorable situation of war and civil unrest, and at the same time have illusions about Dewey and Hitler." Turner laughed, "Whoever thinks Hitler is easy to deal with is very wrong!" Will Germany easily offer conditions that make us comfortable with an armistice? Just one stop to help Japan can extort a lot of things from us, you say, do you agree or not? ”

"What's your opinion?"

"Either keep fighting until you can't fight anymore, or you can stop fighting, get through the hardest years, and then counterattack. Germany has been dormant for 20 years after its defeat in the last World War, and the United States will not need 20 years, but 5-6 years to recover. "So I don't understand why the president turned down the olive branch from Japan, and it stands to reason that there is a step for us to return the Philippines, apologize, and punish those responsible for Pearl Harbor." ”

"Punish those responsible?" Admiral Kim grinned, "Are you going to punish the emperor or are you going to punish Yamamoto Isoroku?" ”

"Of course it can't be, you're not so naïve, are you? Is there an essential difference between punishing these two and directly announcing the rejection of the intention to hold peace talks? Turner smiled, "I think it would be nice to punish the diplomatic ambassador who submitted the declaration of war, but he messed things up and turned what was originally a sneak attack in the military sense into a sneak attack in the political sense." ”

Although Turner's words are awkward, Admiral Kim understands the truth, the so-called sneak attack in the military sense refers to Japan first submitting a declaration of war, and then starting a war before the United States has time to react, although this is also shameless, but at least "de jure" meets the conditions; In the end, because Japan did not have time to submit diplomatic documents, it became a military attack first, and a declaration of war came later, and even "de jure" became untenable.

"In the past 5-6 years, we will build dozens of aircraft carriers, train the army and army aviation well, build a batch of super weapons for that big project, and then upgrade new weapons such as rockets, heavy tanks, jets, and ultra-quiet submarines. Moreover, in the past few years, Japan and Germany may have turned their faces without us provoking them, and after the last war, the contradictions between us and Britain and France have quickly intensified. ”

"So the president's actions are better than yours! Can't make peace, no matter Japan and Germany, they can't make peace in his hands, and let Dewey make peace! Admiral King summed it up by saying, "The president is a resolute pro-belliger, and as long as this is made clear, his popularity and approval rating will not decline, and after the signing of a number of treaties that have lost power and humiliated the country, the United States will soon have Hindenburg ......."

"No wonder I'm wondering why the president called Dewey over at a meeting two days ago, and not long after I left, Arnold also left, and it was said that he was also very upset." Turner's eyes suddenly lit up, "The strange thing is that the president didn't react at all, and after I handed in my resignation, he asked the chief of staff to call me and ask him to accept it, just hoping that I would rest well and not think nonsense." ”

"The president is already planning for the next general election, but ......," Admiral King said, "you still have to change your fiery temper, otherwise there will be big trouble in the future, and with Dewey's character, he will definitely find you trouble." ”

"Don't be afraid, he can't kill me, it's a big deal for me to go to prison, what's there to be afraid of!"

While the two were communicating in the hospital, another exchange was also taking place in the Oval Office of the White House, with only three parties, Truman, Dewey and Spruance.

"Is there a situation on the West Coast?"

"Nope!" Spruance whispered, "Until the sun goes down today, there is no trace of the Japanese fleet within 1,500 kilometers of the west coast, and it cannot be ruled out that they are hidden, but for a large fleet, I think the probability is less than 5%, and my conclusion is that they have not come or do not plan to come at all." ”

"If they don't come, where will they be now? What will be done? ”

"I personally have 3 judgments:

First, the fleet went to South America, preparing to return to the division bypassing Cape Horn and the Germans;

Second, this fleet may attack Pearl Harbor with a false shot, but the latter is unlikely, because Nimitz's fleet is about to return to Hong Kong, and our army is not weak

Third, there is the possibility that the fleet will attack Panama - I think this is the most likely move. ”

The first two judgments are okay, at least not the top priority, but his third judgment made both Truman and Dewey a little discolored, the Panama Canal restoration work is in full swing, it was originally expected to be completed in June next year, if it is bombed by the Japanese again, it will be too bad.

"What can we do to repel it and keep the Panama Canal?"

"Not yet." Spruance smiled bitterly, "I asked General Arnold, not long ago, in order to support the Brazilian battlefield, the army aviation has transferred a large number of crews from various bases in the Caribbean, and now it is necessary to strengthen the defense of the west coast, the defense of the Caribbean Sea is very empty, although there are currently more than 600 aircraft and more than 30,000 army forces in Panama, but less than 20% of them have experienced troops, and they cannot stop the Japanese army at all." If nothing else, let's just say that the more than 30,000 army troops, looking at the number of people, when the Japanese smashed 18-inch shells on their heads with super battleship guns, how much courage do you think they will have to continue to hold their positions? ”

"So, according to your tone, is the canal lost?"

"You can't lose it......" Spruance sighed, "no matter how powerful the warship is, it will not be able to get ashore, but the canal repair project will definitely be greatly damaged, so I don't have to expect it to be completed in June next year, and my only hope now is to use this offensive to weaken Japan a little more." Last time, Horikichi used 2 battleships to block the Panama Canal, so do you want to come again with 2 this time? See how many battleships are still available in Japan? ”

Dewey and Truman looked at each other after hearing this, not knowing how to take this sentence, and the scene fell silent for a while.

After Turner's resignation and retirement, Spruance, who had not fully recovered from his injuries but was largely able to perform shore duty, took over his position as Assistant Chief of Naval Operations and Chief of the Operations Planning Division, and Hewitt was promoted to Vice Admiral and went to the Atlantic Fleet as Chief of Staff and assisted Mitchell.

Speaking of Hewitt, he was also unlucky, at this point in history he was already a general and took charge of his own affairs, but this time and space first suffered a crushing defeat in the Horn of Africa, and recently another defeat in Brazil - fortunately, the president was still a torch, knowing that the two defeats had little to do with him, and also promoted him to lieutenant general - although it hurts, he was finally promoted.

In Dewey's view, the recent series of personnel changes are full of strangeness: Admiral King's official position is Chief of Naval Operations, but after his resignation due to illness, he did not let Deputy Secretary General Frederick Joseph Honey take over, nor did he let President Roosevelt's Navy representative, former Chief of Naval Operations Harold Rainsford Stark, return to his post, but directly transferred the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz, who was not in Washington at that time, so Turner became Admiral King's representative.

It is equivalent to saying that in fact, Admiral Kim is still in control of the overall situation behind the scenes! It's nothing more than Admiral King is smarter than Marshall, taking advantage of the fact that he had already had the experience of fainting and hospitalization, and when Marshall was still worried about what reason to retreat, he directly announced his retirement!

Nominating Spruance, Dewey did not have the intention of testing the military, to see if the transformation of the Joint Staff Committee would be smoother in the future, he thought that Truman would get in the way, but he didn't expect Truman to readily agree, but he hit a nail in other aspects, and what made Dewey even more embarrassed was what Spruance said later:

"While I feel honoured to take over the post of General Turner, I still feel compelled to say a few words of justice to him." Spruance said slowly, "First, Turner's temper and life are consistent, always the cannon's temper, I don't agree with or appreciate this attitude, but I don't think he did it deliberately, he just revealed his true feelings too real and unskillful; Second, there is nothing wrong with his thinking, the American people should adapt to the fact that the bomb falls, and the United States is now fighting a war with an enemy armed to the teeth, and the overall war situation is at a disadvantage, how can it be that not a single bomb or shell will be eaten, and it will completely stay out of the matter?

I think that as long as I can give the enemy a strong counterattack, it is impossible to expect the American mainland to be safe and sound, without any gaps like a paradise, when German Field Marshal Goering bragged, saying that as long as a bomb fell on Berlin, he would change his name to Meier, and how many times was Berlin bombed later? Didn't you get through it like this? It's scary to drop a bomb for the first time, and that's what it's like when there's more. Of course, the recruits are very scared when they go into battle for the first time, and they may pee their pants, but the veterans can still be safe and sound in the rain of bullets, and they just adapt to it without him.

Judging the success or failure of this West Coast campaign is not to see whether the Japanese army succeeded in dropping bombs in the end, but to see how many losses we can inflict on the Japanese fleet, and how many more losses we can inflict, the enemy will not dare to come next time! ”

On the surface, Truman and Dewey nodded their heads again and again to show understanding, but Dewey smiled bitterly in his heart: it was clear that Spruance was sitting as close to him as he was to Truman, but in terms of mental distance, Spruance was very close to Truman, but far away from him.