"So......" Stilwell set up Erlang's legs and asked Zhang Chi, "What do you think?" How do we fix it? ”

"My idea is simple!" Zhang Chi replied: "Now is the time to take a break, what should I do...... To use a Chinese idiom, it is 'besiege but not attack'! ”

"Siege without attacking?" Stilwell was a China expert, of course he knew the meaning of this idiom, and after thinking about it, Stilwell asked rhetorically: "However, will the siege without attack give the Japanese time to rest and recuperate?" Instead, give them a chance to make a comeback? ”

Stilwell had just arrived in the Pacific Theater and did not know much about the situation in Japan and the war situation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Geiger reminded beside him: "General, Japan is a country with a serious shortage of resources...... They need to plunder resources from China or other Southeast Asian countries, and we only need to occupy Okinawa and Northeast China to cut off their transportation routes from land and sea! ”

"Oh!" Stilwell nodded in realization.

Zhang Chi added to the map: "In detail, the situation is that the Japanese industry is concentrated in Northeast China and Japan proper, and our occupation of Northeast China is equivalent to cutting off one of its arms. Of course, most of Japan's more important industries, such as warships, aircraft, and tanks, are located in Japan, but ...... How much can they produce without raw materials? You must know that the Japanese sacrificed the thickness of tank armor already before the war in order to build a navy. What's more, even if the Japanese can still produce warships and fighters...... What threat can it pose to the US military? ”

Stilwell bowed slightly in agreement.

Of course, what Zhang Chi said is reasonable, because according to the information obtained by the United States, the steel output of Japan at this time was only about 6 million tons, and this was still the output of the whole people mobilized during the war, compared with the United States...... The annual output is more than 60 million tons, which is ten times higher.

But the important thing is not this, the important thing is that what can the Japanese do with these steel productions?

Japan is an island country, and it will be very embarrassing to be surrounded by the US military:

Production of rifles, tanks, ...... As long as the Chinese and American coalition forces do not attack, these things are completely useless!

The production of warships, in the absence of air supremacy, is nothing more than adding an extra piece of iron to the bottom of the sea.

Production of fighter ...... Fighter planes have to burn fuel and have pilots, and more importantly, they also need to have technology, and Japan, which does not know how to produce machine tools, is destined to be unable to make a big breakthrough in aero engines, so fighters will only be passively beaten, and this gap will be widened and widened.

Therefore, there is actually no great need to attack the Japanese mainland...... After occupying Northeast China and Okinawa, Japan was actually surrounded and had no room for development.

"What's more!" Zhang Chi added some coffee to Stilwell's cup and said: "We can also weaken Japan's industrial capacity by bombing it, so that Japan will only get weaker and weaker, while the United States has resources in all directions of the Pacific Ocean and is getting better and better, which means that the gap will continue to widen in the future...... I can't think of any reason to attack the Japanese mainland! ”

"You're right!" Stilwell said, "It's just ...... I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to convince our president, you know, that he wants an early end to this war so that the U.S. military can get out, not only to get him votes, but also to allow the U.S. to devote all its resources and energy to the African and European theaters! ”

Zhang Chi spread his hands and asked with a smile: "Why can't the American army get out?" ”

"You mean ......"

"Yes, General!" Zhang Chi replied: "I think it is enough to do this by the Chinese army, do you say?" We have a navy, we have an air force, and we even have Hellcat fighters...... The problem is only that our numbers are not enough to block the sea and air of Okinawa. So, just a little bit of assistance from the U.S. side is needed......"

"That's right!" Stilwell's eyes couldn't help but light up: "We can train more Chinese troops in Okinawa, but unlike usual, now the focus of our training is no longer the army, but the navy and air force, so that we can not only blockade the Japanese mainland for a long time but also free the United States from this quagmire!" Great, I'll report the idea to Washington right away......"

Looking at Stilwell's impatient back, Zhang Chi couldn't help but secretly calculate.

In fact, all these suggestions of Zhang Chi are mainly planning for the Chinese Expeditionary Force...... Of course, these proposals are also of considerable benefit to the US military, and as I said before, in the current situation, only the idea of being in the interests of both the United States and China makes sense.

The reason why it is said that the biggest beneficiary of these recommendations is China......

Let's start with Japan.

Historically, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, killing more than 100,000 people, and hundreds of thousands more people were affected, which frightened the Japanese and made the vast majority of Japanese people realize that if this continues, there will be only one end for the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, and only then did they form a consensus and choose to surrender.

But......

What if the atomic bomb had not been dropped? Didn't you scare the Japanese?

The Japanese, who were deeply influenced by militarism, would obviously continue to hold on, so a situation of boiling frogs in warm water was formed.

Therefore, some people say that the two atomic bombs actually saved Japan, which is not unreasonable...... Taking the Battle of Okinawa as an example, not to mention the dead and wounded Japanese soldiers, about one-third of the Japanese people died, and if Japan were defeated at this rate, the Japanese people would have died 20 million, at least.

Therefore, in modern times, there are also Japanese people who demand an apology from the American pilots who dropped the atomic bomb as victims of the atomic bomb...... This is really a great muse in the world, without those two bullets, Japan is only afraid that they are still eating tree bark, not to mention, they only think about themselves being bombed, but they don't think about why they were bombed at all, and then they take it for granted to stand on the moral high ground to condemn others.

It is this that Zhang Chi wants to change now, or at least temporarily.

The benefits of doing so for the Chinese forces are clear...... The U.S. military needed to train the Navy and Air Force of the Expeditionary Force to enable it to blockade Japan in the sea and airspace over Okinawa.

Zhang Chi's suggestions can be regarded as a good place to be thrown into Stilwell's position, because he is in the state of being "ousted", from a general who has real power to command and train thousands of troops to a commander of the 10th Army, which can almost be said to be idle.

But if Zhang's suggestion is accepted, then Stilwell will obviously return to an important position...... The simple reason is that the job of training Chinese troops will obviously fall to Stilwell again.