Chapter 677: MacArthur's Worries

"I dare say that Huaxia will become our worst enemy!" MacArthur affirmed.

The United States is also rapidly expanding its military, and MacArthur became a lieutenant general just last month. Because of the US government's control over the military, as the former chief of staff of the army, his status as a lieutenant general at this time was already extremely prominent. You must know that he was already a major general in 25 years, and he also became the principal of West Point Military Academy in the previous year, and later generations were known as the father of modern military school education.

This also means that many of the generals who emerged in World War II have a relationship with him. You only need to look at Lao Jiang to know this effect. This is also one of the reasons why he did not have any after fleeing from the Philippines in the future, if he had not become the emperor of Japan in the future, some war interests were divided and contradictory, and the defeat in Korea, maybe he could have been better than Eisenhower.

You must know that 1 Xiao Ai had just been appreciated by Marshall, who was also a lieutenant general, and was only an officer under MacArthur before. But then his main battlefield was Europe, which was far richer than Asia, and the land of world wealth that the American greats focused on. Therefore, Xiao Ai, who is also a representative of the army, has risen, and Lao Mai has collapsed.

However, at this time, Lao Mai was still in high spirits, although he had not jumped to the general again that year, but at this time, his voice was already very weighty in the American ** team.

"But now our biggest threat is the Germans." Marshall, who is now the chief of staff of the Army, spread his hands.

"Maybe the Japanese Navy!" Henry Lewis and Stimson, who served as Secretary of War again, had served as Secretary of War before World War I, and he was an old fox. At this time, his joke eased the atmosphere of the conference room brought up by McArlou a lot.

"Gentlemen, I'm serious." MacArthur did not take this opportunity to return to the original topic of the conference, but continued: "In the East, China has begun to rise, they have a population, they have a vast land, and now they are annexing the vast expanse of Siberia, and even the Far East.

If they are allowed to go on like this, so many lands will breed yellow sรจ people, then maybe the word yellow peril is not far away from us! โ€

At this time, he was already in the Philippines as the commander of the US Army in the Far East, and he was very concerned about the moves in Asia. Compared with the [Japanese] information collected before, there is now more and more information about the Huaxia Pioneer Army, and the content of the intelligence makes him more and more surprised. He vaguely felt that a behemoth was rising around him, and he may not feel it deeply in the United States across the ocean, but in the Philippines, in Southeast Asia, the influence of China is increasing. It made him feel that it even exceeded the influence of the day himself.

"A tree without roots cannot be a towering tree!" Marshall crossed his hands and said seriously: "Although there are more than five million troops in Huaxia now, the factories they are erecting cannot supply enough weapons to make them hold out to the end. Not to mention, they're going to fight across the ocean. They will threaten us later, but only later, maybe ten years from now, maybe longer. โ€

At this time, Marshall was involved in the logistics organization of the army, and his understanding of logistics was very profound. Although he was surprised by the rapid development of China's industry, the overall scale of China's level was far from that of the United States, and in the near future, it was at most compared with the Japanese himself.

War is such a reality, without sufficient economic support, without industrial support, there can be no talk of victory in modern warfare. Americans know this best.

"But they have copycat companies behind them, otherwise they wouldn't have made a large-scale airborne landing thousands of miles!" MacArthur shouted. The airborne operations of the Vanguard Army in the Urals and Siberia shocked the whole world at once.

Compared with the German blitzkrieg that the world's armies were staring at before, the discussion of the world's armies is now focused on a more rapid thousand-mile airborne attack. Even the Americans are now expanding the size of the Airborne Forces.

"How long can a copycat company support them? There is also a large-scale airborne cost that is absolutely astronomical, and I am afraid that the victory of the Chinese people this time will be difficult to relieve for a long time. Even if the copycat company is one with them, so much expense consumption will make them also lose their vitality. Marshall disagreed.

As the chief of staff of the army, he had already calculated the airborne tactics of the vanguard army through various intelligence.

He was surprised by the conclusion that the huge cost was unacceptable to even Americans. The Americans can also do it by running thousands of miles and landing in the air, and they can dispatch thousands of transport planes at a time, and the scale can be even larger. But Congress absolutely did not approve it.

War relies not only on advanced weapons, but on a reasonable cost-effectiveness ratio. Although the airborne tactics of the Vanguard Army were successful, in Marshall's calculations, the Huaxia government had long been bankrupt.

"To know what Siberia can bring them, even if they gain the whole of Siberia? In that harsh environment, it may be better to exploit resources than to mine them in China itself. Huaxia is not a Japanese capital, they are more in need of industry, rather than all kinds of natural resources! At most, they get Siberia with a lot of resource-rich land to those who give them weapons. In Marshall's view, if China's war against the Soviet Union at this time did not coincide with the Soviet-German war, I am afraid that it would have suffered a great loss.

At this time, China's economy was too fragile to meet its own basic domestic needs, and it was not like the United States, which needed to use war to consume industrial power. Siberia's resources may be beneficial to the rise of China in the long run, but in a short period of time, China's weak industry will not be able to consume the war dividends, and will even fall into the quagmire of economic collapse because of this war. The empire that was dragged down by the war and collapsed overnight has been greatly attended by people from ancient times to the present.

"We should be more vigilant in Asia, because we have the resources of Southeast Asia, and their industrial explosion is enough to trouble us for a while." Compared with the later enemy Huaxia, Marshall was more wary of the Japanese himself at that time.

"There are Chinese people, and I don't dare to act rashly!" MacArthur smiled disdainfully. MacArthur could not help but feel some contempt for the defeated Japanese army at the hands of Huaxia.

"You should pay more attention to the navy of the Japanese himself! They also set up a new naval base in French Indochina, and if you are not careful, the Philippines will have a numb nose! Stimson said slowly.

Stimson is still overseeing the development of the atomic bomb, and compared to the superbomb described by the group of scientists, it seems that no enemy is a threat. What's more, he also had a general understanding of Roosevelt's plan for the "Day" himself, everything was under control, and at most it was just "trouble"

Nothing more.

"Our real big trouble is in Europe, and if Hitler integrates Europe, even if half of Europe's machines are turned, it will pose a mortal threat to us!" Marshall replied that his promoter, General Pershing, had received the highest honors in Europe, and that he was also paying special attention to the center of Western civilization at this time.

"The Germans threatened more than we had anticipated, and they were able to continue to lock up the dying British with their warships while they had routed the Russians for hundreds of miles along the entire Eastern Front.

I think it's time for us to make a final decision. Marshall continued, but his eyes were fixed on William Daniel Leahy, who had been listening silently, Roosevelt's sฤซ nose chief.

The chief of staff of the Supreme Commander of the United States, who would soon become the chief of staff of the Supreme Commander of the United States and the first to receive a five-star general, was like a recorder at this time, sitting there without saying a word, constantly writing pictures.

"It was the intervention of the Chinese that made the Soviet Russians fight on two fronts, unable to deal with Germany with all their might. We all know that Huaxia is the invisible ally of the Germans, although there is no common oath, but how cleverly their sortie is timed, and now they are about to occupy all of Siberia, and our war sanctions cannot fall on their heads. MacArthur couldn't help but shout again.

He felt a little breathless, and now that sensitive strategic materials such as steel and oil are still flowing to China, the US government has not directly cut off this line like Japan itself. Huaxia did not declare war with Japan itself, which made it impossible for the Americans to implement the excuse of interrupting the exchange of strategic materials between the two sides of the war, and when Huaxia declared war on the Red Soviet Union in advance, it also received the support of those capital bigwigs in the Western world, and the war economic sanctions became a dead letter.

"I always feel that the Chinese army makes me uneasy! As soon as that young leader of Huaxia is hot-headed, he may gamble the whole of Huaxia and disrupt all our plans! They may be worse than they can't get any worse, and what do they have to lose by the constant wars? I've heard that the Chinese people can live by eating soil, and I also read the history of wars in China, and they can sacrifice hundreds of millions of people for the war! It's hundreds of millions of people! There are as many of them as ants, and so many ants can bite a lion when they go berserk! MacArthur had long been deeply concerned about the large population base of the Chinese.

"Ten people eat five loaves of bread, and maybe everyone will starve, but if the robbers follow the logic of killing five of them, the rest of them will probably be better off with one loaf of bread. Now I've heard of an even more interesting distribution, where maybe five people disappear by themselves, and the preconditions change, and everything is much more harmonious. Leahy, who had been silent, finally spoke, and as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone was a little baffled, "This interesting news comes from Huaxia!" โ€๏ผใ€‚