In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the only thing the Japanese could do seemed to be to rush at the US warship with the suicide fighters of the "kamikaze" and sink the escort aircraft carrier "San Lo". Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The news soon reached Roosevelt, who couldn't help frowning and asked Ernest a little strangely: "Why haven't the Japanese surrendered yet?" Does it make sense for them to continue to fight like this? ”

Ernest replied: "Mr. President, the Easterners do not think the same as we do. When we feel that the outcome of a war is certain, we feel that there is no point in sacrificing human life. But the Orientals, they tend to hold out until the last moment, just like the Japanese often launch 'jade crushing attacks' on the battlefield! ”

"You mean ......" Roosevelt looked at Ernest with some shock: "Will they resist until the last moment at the cost of the lives of the whole country?" ”

"Quite possibly!" Ernest replied: "According to our intelligence, the Japanese have carried out the propaganda of 'national jade crushing' in the country!" ”

"These madmen!" Roosevelt scolded.

Roosevelt then asked, "Their suicide attacks...... Is there a big threat to us? ”

Ernest nodded: "The ordinary fighters of the Japanese army, even if they drop bombs on our warships, they have the problem of hit rate and lethality, and it is difficult to destroy the warship when one or two bombs hit it, but our air defense forces can have more time to shoot them down." However, for this kind of suicide fighter, because it directly crashed into our warship, it has a high hit rate and great destructive power, and what is more serious is that the time for us to shoot it down is very short, and it often only has a few seconds to stop it after being discovered, otherwise it will crash into our warship...... 'Saint Lo' was hit and sunk by a suicide fighter! ”

"Only one?"

"There's only one!"

Roosevelt couldn't help but be silent, just a suicide attack plane could sink a light aircraft carrier.

"But we don't need to worry too much!" Ernest comforted Roosevelt: "The Japanese don't have many planes in the Philippines anymore, and our ground forces are advancing synchronously, and they will soon be able to occupy the Japanese airfield......"

"I'm not worried about the Philippines!" Roosevelt interrupted Ernest.

"That's ......"

"One day we will attack the Japanese mainland!" Roosevelt replied: "I heard that in Okinawa...... The Japanese are already actively organizing suicide fighters, the number of which may be tens or even hundreds of times that of the Philippines! ”

Ernest nodded: "Listen to General Halsey, they even organized all the civilian planes!" ”

Roosevelt was silent for a while, then said: "Perhaps, that Chinese is right!" ”

"Mr. President, is that ...... That Chinese major general? ”

"Yes!" Roosevelt said, "Do you remember that he was always opposed to attacking the Philippines and was in favor of a naval attack from the sea? ”

"Of course!"

"Now it seems ......" Roosevelt sighed, "It really doesn't make much sense to attack the Philippines, I seem to have been misled by that MacArthur guy!" ”

Ernest didn't speak.

"Occupy the Philippines and cut off the supply lines of the Japanese?" Roosevelt pointed to the map and said: "Actually, we can do it by occupying Okinawa, and Okinawa and Northeast China can echo each other from afar, and even cut off the connection between the Japanese mainland and Taiwan!" But now, we are allowing the Japanese to prepare for suicide attacks on Okinawa! ”

"Mr. President!" Ernest interjected, "Our intelligence shows ...... The Japanese are more than suicide fighters! ”

"And what else?" Roosevelt looked at Ernest suspiciously, he couldn't think of anything crazier.

But that's the Japanese, so what else can't the Japanese do?

"And ...... Something called a 'Sakura Special Attack Machine'! Ernest replied: "We found that the Japanese were experimenting." ”

"Is it any different from a suicide fighter?" Roosevelt asked.

"Suicide fighters, it's planes!" Ernest replied: "But the Sakura Attack Aircraft is more like a bomb, or a small glider, which is also operated by personnel...... Carried by the mother aircraft and thrown, it can glide and then crash into the target......"

"God!" Roosevelt was speechless.

After thinking about it, Roosevelt said: "Kim, I don't think we can give the Japanese enough time to prepare, this will only add more trouble to us in the future, and we must attack Okinawa immediately!" ”

"But Mr. President...... We're still attacking the Philippines! ”

"The Japanese navy is basically gone!" Roosevelt said, "Our Navy can free up its hands from the Philippine Sea...... In other words, we only need to support MacArthur with a small number of navies, and the main naval force is used to attack Okinawa. On the other hand, we can also use Iwo Jima as a forward base for attacking Okinawa, and once we seize Okinawa, we will establish an island chain of the Mariana Islands, Iwo Jima, Okinawa Island, and even northeastern China, so that we can completely cut off the Japanese mainland from its overseas forces. On the one hand, this will hit the morale and confidence of the Japanese, and on the other hand, ...... Another fatal blow to Japanese industry! ”

Roosevelt understood what Ernest said, Ernest had a relatively detailed grasp of Japan's intelligence, and he knew that Japan was a country with a serious shortage of resources, and a considerable part of its local industry was based on foreign resources, such as rubber from Taiwan, coal and iron ore from Northeast China, and oil from Southeast Asia.

If the United States can cut off its shipping routes, that is, cut off the source of raw materials for Japan's domestic industry, then even if Japan has many military industries, such as shipyards, aircraft factories, tank factories, etc., it will face the problem of "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice."

"But ......," Ernest replied, "Mr. President, even if we could devote the main force of the Navy to attacking Okinawa, which force would we use to occupy it?" Most of our amphibious forces are attacking the Philippines, and Chinese troops are ...... in northeast China."

"Send the Army up!" Roosevelt said.

"Army?!"

"Yes!" Roosevelt nodded: "The enemy definitely never thought that we would attack Okinawa Island while attacking the Philippines, and Okinawa Island is not a small island, and after penetrating into the island, we need an army that is good at land warfare!" ”

"More importantly......," Roosevelt added, "the Japanese had been preparing suicide planes to attack our warships, and they certainly did not expect that we would be biased towards land occupation this time, which would make it difficult for their suicide attacks to work!" ”