The final decision of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was to fight a naval guerrilla war with the Germans: Even if Germany sent troops to land in northern Brazil, it would still need to maintain a sea supply line, which was a longer route than the American supply line, and Germany could not have the main fleet to escort it all the time, and once the escort force was weak, the US military would invest in submarines, land aviation, and the Atlantic fleet to weaken together.

This strategy is of course correct, but there is a problem that the members of the Joint Coalition have ignored intentionally or unintentionally: Germany's demand for material supplies is not as high as that of the United States, so it will not adopt the method of regular supply, and Germany's strength cannot support it, so it will only be implemented by one-time supply at intervals, so the German army's supply line is actually broken every day, but it cannot be cut off when there is a real supply.

On the afternoon of 5 November, Dewey went to the polling station to vote for himself in mixed moods, and although he appeared confident in the face of media interviews, his face quickly turned gloomy as soon as he left the polling station and got into the car.

Early this morning, army reconnaissance showed that the German fleet was less than 500 kilometers from northern Brazil, and it was expected to launch a landing attack tonight or tomorrow. But what's the use of judging correctly? St. Louis had only one division that was not fully manned, there was a great lack of heavy equipment, and there were almost no shore fortifications, and when the Germans landed on a large scale, it would be finished with a single bombardment of naval artillery.

In other words, no matter where Germany wants to fight, it is doomed, and the only thing that can be counted on is whether it can lose a little German strength. This made Dewey feel very dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to arbitrarily order that the Joint Staff Committee had just buried the Pacific Fleet, and then the Atlantic Fleet would also be destroyed, what should the Germans do next time they come to land on the East Coast? The East Coast isn't always impregnable

At the beginning, the United States ridiculed the Germans for doing useless work in building the Atlantic defense line, but now, looking at it, the United States does not even have such useless work. At the meeting, Clark had urgently proposed the construction of a U.S. Atlantic defense line, which amounted to $20 billion.

Dewey was furious at the time: Even if money wasn't an issue, was there still time? With $20 billion, can't we develop some offensive weapons? To build futile fortifications, and not to know whether they are useful or useless?

But no one dared to disagree with Clark's opinion, behind the Atlantic defense line were only France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, which were not Germany itself, even if the Allies fought at that time, they could not hurt Germany at all, and the east coast was full of the United States, with a population of tens of millions, if there were really German landings, the people would not bomb it? was reminded by them like this, Dewey was not in a rut, he could lose his temper and scold Washington when he was mayor of New York, really wait for him to get to Washington, in case he was beaten and scolded somewhere, who did he complain to? Or, as Turner said, "this is a damn system problem", but as a presidential candidate who has not yet taken office, where can he dare to take such a risk, he can only do good!

The second conclusion reached at the meeting was that no matter what, the Atlantic Fleet must be kept now, and it must not go out at will and wave it at will.

So the burden was on Lu Hang's body again, Arnold was not there, and Sparts, who was in charge of business, was about to explode when he heard this order, but if he wanted to explode again, he could only bite the bullet.

So the army aviation began at noon, trying to attack the German fleet, of course, the results were there, but at once it lost more than 100 bombers and more than 40 fighters, which made Spartz feel very distressed. Once the planes of this side are shot down, the crew will be completely lost, and the German planes themselves will be shot down less, and they can still be fished up after falling into the water, but it is a big deal to lose some warships, but where is this mighty fleet that can be fought by the army aviation stationed at that point in Brazil?

He didn't dare to transfer the ground air stationed in other parts of the Caribbean, what if this was the place where the Germans were taken away?

Ridgway also objected to this, these bombers that are being spelled now are all the aviation forces that will be used to cover the Recife cluster in the future, and now that they are so briskly completed, what if the Rommel cluster in the south is pushed over? Is Recife still holding on?

So in the evening, the third conclusion was drawn: don't care about the Germans, they like to fight wherever they like, just don't come to beat Ciphi, it can drag on for a day!

The next morning, the results of the first day of voting have come out, in the early count of votes, Dewey won more than 75% of the votes, the other three independent candidates less than 10%, but there are still 15% of the invalid votes that make Dewey very uncomfortable: some people did not vote for any of them, all of them were crossed, this emotion Dewey can understand, this is to vent his dissatisfaction with all the candidates and even the entire government;

But he couldn't sit still on the other ballots:

Some wrote the name of George Washington on the ballot (led the United States to win the Revolutionary War), some wrote Lincoln (won the Civil War), and some wrote the name of Thomas Woodrow Wilson (won the First World War), although the number was not large, but Dewey knew that the emotions contained here were very fierce, and only middle-class voters with a certain culture could accurately write the names of these presidents in history, which shows that there are some little bourgeois who are very dissatisfied, don't look at the voting they are a minority, But they are the mainstay of the real public opinion survey.

This only shows one thing, the self-esteem of the people and the great power feelings of the United States do not allow to lose! But how easy is it to win?

After reading it, he and his campaign team shook their heads, and some people tactfully reminded him that although there is no suspense about being elected with a high vote, if the conditions for peace with Germany and Japan are too bad, we must beware of the backlash of domestic public opinion!

In the middle of his distraught, someone reported that Lehi had called him, and Dewey was a little strange, not knowing why there was such a play, but he still had someone politely pick him up.

"Your Excellency, first of all, congratulations on your successful election with a high percentage of votes"

"No, no, this is still the first day's statistical results, and there are still a few days to come." Although more than 40 percent of the votes were counted on the first day, Dewey didn't want to put on such a show before the moment when it was certain.

"But you're already the next president in our minds." Lehi pondered for a moment, then added, "I just came from the hospital to visit President Truman, and he has two words for me to convey to you, I wonder if you are free to come to the United Nations?" ”

Dewey was a little strange, what could he not say on the phone now instead of going to the Joint Chiefs of Staff? He subconsciously muttered: "My phone line is classified as confidential."

"Your Excellency, this matter involves the fundamental interests of the United States and should have been discussed for some time, but Mr. Truman thinks"

Come right away. Dewey listened to his repeated insistence, so he stopped talking nonsense, turned his head and explained to his running mate, "I'll go to the Pentagon, and the reporter will interview you later to help deal with it." ”

"What shall I say?"

"Let's just say that we are happy with the results of the first day of voting, and we will do our best to contribute our strength and wisdom to the American people and live up to their expectations!"

At 3 p.m. on November 6, 1944, Dewey's vehicle arrived at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and today he felt the atmosphere of solemnity: guards and sentry posts were arranged on the inner and outer three floors. Originally, his car would have been allowed to enter after a symbolic inspection, but this time it was completely different, not only was the entire car strictly searched, but his secretary and driver were also severely searched.

In the end, this was not the end, and the lieutenant colonel of the gendarme, who led the team, told the driver with an expressionless face: "As soon as you go in, you will park the car in that designated position, and then don't move anything, just take it obediently in the car!" ”

Dewey expressed his surprise, and even suspected for a moment that someone was going to carry out a coup d'état, and then he laughed dumbly, in the current situation in the United States, too many leading figures avoided it, and Truman even did not hesitate to resign and hand over power in advance, who still wants to play a coup d'état?

When he arrived at the conference room, he found that several of the most important people in the army and navy were sitting in the conference room, and then there were several people in the conference hall who were obviously not military personnel and looked like scholars.

Dewey knew that the atmosphere was not right today, so he wisely did not bring the secretary with him, but in the end, the security guards actually took his purse away, and only said that they would return it to him after the meeting. He sneaked a peek around, and there were guards on the third floor and the outer three floors of the conference room, but everyone was a little close.

Dewey suppressed his anger and asked Lehi, who was presiding over the meeting, "I don't know"

"Your Excellency, please allow me to introduce you to Mr. Robert Oppenheimer, an authoritative figure in the American physics community!"

Dewey warmly shook Oppenheimer's hand, then asked, "Are you an expert in studying rockets and the like?" ”

"Nope! That's Professor Carmen's field, and I'm working on something much more powerful."

"More powerful?"

"Mr. Dewey, according to the regulations of secrecy, we should not have disclosed this information to you until you have officially assumed the presidency, but," Lehi said very seriously, "in view of the current political and military situation in the country, President Truman, after careful consideration, and Mr. Oppenheimer today is going to report on a weapons development program that shocks the world, with his authorization, I inform you to participate!" There are only 15 people who know about the full development plan, including the late President Roosevelt, and you are currently the 16th! ”

Dewey gasped, and he understood why Lehi was talking to him on the phone in such a serious tone, and why the security guards below were like enemies.

"General MacArthur, General Clark, General Nimitz, and General Ingram are also aware of this plan for the first time, so I hope you will keep it strictly confidential, because it is a matter of life and death for the United States!" After emphasizing a sentence, Lehi personally turned off the lights, turned on the projection, and instructed Oppenheimer to explain.

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