"Damn, damn it, why surrender so soon? What about the effect of resisting and delaying the opponent? ”

Listening to Dewey's madness at the joint staff meeting, everyone felt very embarrassed and speechless, and now the situation on the battlefield in the United States can be said to be unfavorable to the top: in the Pacific, the Japanese army occupied Vanuatu and directly advanced the offensive line to the line of New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, Eisenhower's daily reports on the battle situation were very unsatisfactory, Australia and New Zealand were in danger, and a state of emergency had been declared; In the Caribbean, it was even more of a mess, the German army first captured Trinidad and Tobago with lightning speed, and then went north to swallow most of the European island chain, forcing the American army to pull out the Atlantic Fleet that had not yet been reorganized in a hurry, but before everyone could get their attention, the German army launched an attack to the west, and by February 10, several important islands in the Netherlands Antilles near Venezuela, including Curaçao and Aruba, all fell into the hands of the German army, forming an absolute suppression of Venezuela.

Although the United States has also deployed a lot of troops on these islands, it cannot withstand the comprehensive superiority of Germany's sea, land and air forces, and no matter how tough the shore defense fortifications are, it is still a pile of scum in the face of 380mm artillery, not to mention that the German aviation force in South America is not weak, although the overall land-based combat aircraft are 1500vs7000 in absolute inferiority, but the United States has 7000 deployments are too scattered: there are more than 1,000 in Recife, more than 2,500 in the four major islands of the Caribbean, and nearly 2,000 in Central America, including Panama. Venezuela and Colombia also have more than 1,000 planes, and it is difficult to support each other because of the isolation of the battlefield, not that the range will never be reached, but there are not so many old birds who can fly such a long distance to fight, and even if they can reach it, who knows what the next offensive goal of the Germans will be.

After the Germans took Trinidad and Tobago, the U.S. military thought that the Germans would fight westward, and the air force was focused on Central America and Venezuela, but the Germans fought on the northern front; Just as they moved their forces to the north to prepare for the next German attack, the Germans fought westward, each time exhausted and scarred.

On the other hand, the German army, every operation concentrates superior forces to surprise the attack, and can also fully get the help of the aircraft carrier battle group, Garland commands the aircraft group to often attack with a scale of 600,700 aircraft, plus the aircraft carrier can also make 300,400 sorties, in the local area is always the German army to fight more and less. The most desperate thing is that the elite level of the German pilots is not at all comparable to that of the US military, and the gap in the field of fighter pilots is even greater, and a large number of veterans who have been fighting on the Eastern Front for many years are eager to try and wait to add glory to their achievements, and the pilots who shot down less than 10 planes are nicknamed "novices" within the South American Air Force, but in fact, this standard is enough to be a double ace of the United States.

The old friend of the Russian Red Army was still very conscientious, and he did not deceive the Americans at all: as long as the novice pilots participated in this kind of war, as long as they could carry it three times unharmed, they would definitely grow into old birds immediately, but in the second half of the sentence, they forgot to tell the Americans that "the proportion of pilots who can carry it three times unharmed is less than 25%, and more than 95% of the Red Army pilots cannot survive the first 20 hours of combat." ”

The life of the new pilots of the Red Army who went to the battlefield was not measured in years and months at all, but in days or even hours, so the logic of the Russians was very reliable: "Anyway, the plane will be shot down soon, why make it so durable?" ”

Originally, the basic skills of the novice pilots of the US military far exceeded that of the Red Army's fast pilots, and the scene would not be so ugly as usual, but the problem was that the Red Army faced a large number of German novices, out of the importance of the novice pilots of the US military, Germany sent all veterans from South America, and a total of 15,002,000 German planes could be supported, so the Air Force was the kind that sent elites to play, and the German newcomers in the real sense did not have any results, and they were rarer than first-class aces under Garland. Finding a pilot with 100 shot down records Garland can find you a handful, and finding a pilot with no record will have to scratch his head!

Even if there were such German pilots, they would definitely be strictly protected in battle, and it would not be difficult to survive the first few times under the care of the aces.

As a result, the Caribbean air war of "sluggishness and resistance" expected by the Joint Chiefs of Staff finally turned into a Caribbean turkey game, and the German aces seized every opportunity to brush up their achievements to the fullest, and everyone knew that the war would end soon, maybe next month, maybe in another three months, and every point would be a heavy oil fund in the future.

In the first phase of the two-week Caribbean campaign, the US military lost a large number of islands, more than 10,000 troops, and more than 1,000 planes in exchange for the "weakening" results were insignificant: the Germans lost only 131 aircraft, 1 escort aircraft carrier and 1 cargo ship were sunk, 1 destroyer was sunk, 1 escort aircraft carrier, 1 cargo ship and 1 oil tanker were slightly damaged, and other battleships were sporadically damaged, and the overall losses were insignificant.

However, among the results reported by the American pilots, the German losses were at least 5 times more than that, which looks very pleasing to the eye:

sinking 2 German aircraft carriers;

It is suspected of sinking 1 escort aircraft carrier and heavy cruiser;

sinking 2 light cruisers and 2 destroyers;

damaged 1 aircraft carrier and 1 battleship of the fleet;

damaged 34 light cruisers and destroyers;

sank 45 transport ships of various types and damaged another 34;

In addition, nearly 500 German aircraft of various types were shot down.

Therefore, Dewey could not be angry at the "results", but could only accuse himself of surrendering too quickly, believing that the surrender and loss were too fast and did not achieve the effect of delay at all.

A cadre of people was arguing with the president about the specific battle situation, only Ingram, who had "operated" the Hawaii war report, did not interject, he knew too well what these war reports were about, even if the grassroots commander had narrowed down the results as much as possible, in his eyes, these battle results reports were a puddle of water that would take at least 3 times to be dry, but how could he bear to say such cruel words? Said that the morale and the people's morale have been lost? In the face of the situation of defeat and retreat on the two fronts of the Pacific and Atlantic, domestic public opinion is completely supported by the "war results", so why bother to puncture this beautiful soap bubble?

Therefore, the overwhelming "victory" in the Caribbean by the newspapers and public opinion, and then the reality that the Axis forces are getting closer and closer

Even if he didn't understand military affairs, Dewey knew that the situation was not good, so what he was thinking about was not the results of the battle, but the time according to the original plan, the fall of these areas was not until the end of February, and now it is only early February, and there is still more than half a month, is it possible to order the Atlantic Fleet to appear in advance?

This is the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, Mitchell, who resolutely opposed, he already thought that the end of February and the beginning of March was too hasty, and he also had a deep distrust of the results sent from the front, but Nimitz set this point in time to coordinate land and sea relations, due to the tense situation on the northern front, he had to pull the main force of the fleet to the Florida line, and he didn't want to fight without being fully prepared He and Halsey are two styles, and now he thinks that he can't play at all. Not to mention anything else, the two newly commissioned aircraft carriers have not yet completed sea trials, and the pilots' adaptability and ability to board the ship have been questioned; in the past two days, because they are in a hurry to strengthen training, some people have repeatedly thrown the plane on the deck, and Mitchell is so angry that he has no choice.

After a lot of people quarreled repeatedly, they finally came to an agreement: in any case, since the Germans were no longer attacking north, they should wait for another half a month according to the original plan, and wait for the fleet to be fully prepared before intercepting it, and the demand for the Venezuelan defenders would become that they would have to carry it for a month

On the night of February 11, the same moment that part of the main forces of the Rìběn Combined Fleet set sail from Truk, two submarines of the Skorzne Commando Force unwittingly crossed the most dangerous Yucaya Strait, preparing to land on the designated front line in Tampico, Mexico.

What surprised Skorzny and the others was that although the submarine captain kept reminding him that he was sailing in the backyard of the United States, he didn't find many patrolling ships and warships, let alone being attacked.

"What's going on?"

The other party is also very puzzled, this route is also the first time: generally U boats will not go deep to this point, in the case of the outer island chain is blocked, going deep into the Caribbean inland sea is completely looking for death, he has the idea that he may encounter a crisis, but he didn't expect it to be so easy.

"Maybe the Americans are taking care of themselves now, right?"

This is really not wrong, the German army occupied the line of the Dutch Antilles north of Venezuela, all the US light warships have shrunk, as for Mexico, there are not many ships, the past two days have frequently swept by the fleet reconnaissance planes, the Americans are in a lot of noise, how can they care about going to blockade the strait again and being bombed by carrier-based aircraft?

"Good!" Skorzny smiled, "This shows that we have a good start. ”

"A good start is half the battle." The captain laughed too, "Good luck, gentlemen!" ”

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