Chapter 124: Forbearance

readx; Over the past year, China's huge naval and air force has been under tremendous pressure from the United States, and this pressure has expanded rapidly after the emergence of China's nuclear bombs, which has led to the fact that the United States must take into account China's response when making any choice, and this situation is extremely unfavorable for the United States. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

The same is true now, if the originally safe and sound European battle can be killed by the four countries of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and China together according to the predetermined plan, and then carve up the European continent together, but now there is a sudden change, the German coup d'état destroyed all the previous plans, the German coup itself is nothing, and the more important thing is that Germany after the coup d'état completely threw itself into the arms of China and was willing to recognize China's chess pieces.

And China went crazy and did not hesitate to fight Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union for the sake of Germany, which disrupted almost all the previous arrangements of President Truman.

Is it really necessary to succumb to Chinese pressure and negotiate peace with Germany?

It's impossible, it's absolutely impossible, not to mention that Truman is unwilling, and the conglomerates on Wall Street will not agree. The United States and China have a very common goal in Europe, and that is to gain access to the European market. On the contrary, China wanted Germany to remain in existence and to help China share some of the pressure from Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. On the contrary, the United States hopes to completely destroy Germany and make China lose its largest potential ally in Europe, so as to achieve the goal of strategically encircling China with Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

Therefore, from the perspective of economy and national strategy, neither China nor the United States has any common interests in dealing with the German problem.

Officially, because of the existence of this almost irreconcilable contradiction, China and the United States are almost-for-tat in dealing with European issues, and if they can really coexist, then in March and April, China will reach a real military alliance with Britain and the United States to attack Germany, but form an alliance on its own, and become a third power to declare war on Germany.

Because the most fundamental reason for China's declaration of war on Germany was not to destroy Germany, but only to put more pressure on Germany and force the anti-war forces in Germany to kill Hitler.

China is fighting for itself, not for the so-called anti-fascist World War II, if it weren't for China's need for the European market, if it weren't for China's need to have an ally in the European region in the future, Chen Jingyun would care about the life and death of the Germans.

In this war, everyone considers the problem from the perspective of their own interests, and no one does anything that benefits others and is not beneficial to themselves.

The same is true of the United States, they sent troops to Europe for their own interests, but now when they are competing for European interests, they are once again in serious conflict with China, and this conflict is almost irreconcilable, forcing President Truman to make a choice, whether to sit back and watch China support Germany, and finally continue to confront Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union on a global scale, or to suppress China by force now and force China to abandon Germany.

And before making this choice, Truman needs to know one thing, that is, what are the chances of the United States winning in the event of a war with China?

After a minute of collective silence, Marshall said: "If we go to war with China, it will be a full-scale war with global repercussions, not just our conflict with China in Europe." So when you think about winning or losing, you have to think about it holistically! ”

Truman nodded and motioned for Marshall to continue.

Marshall continued: "In the European direction, we will not be under much pressure for the time being, our army units and the troops of the British Commonwealth far exceed the coalition forces in strength and heavy weaponry, and as far as we know, the coalition forces are currently sending about 600,000 troops to the Balkans, the main force is the two army groups of the Chinese, in addition to the two army groups of Turkey also occupy a considerable part. The rest are the armies of China's client states such as Thailand and North Korea. Even with the remnants of the Germans, it is impossible for them to stop the flanking attack of our Allied and Soviet forces! ”

As with all speeches, after saying the previous optimistic situation, there will always be a but, and Marshall is the same today: "However, we must take into account that once a war breaks out, the Chinese will inevitably urgently reinforce Europe from Iran and Central Asia in a short period of time, and at the same time the Chinese will definitely launch a full-scale attack on Soviet Russia from the direction of Siberia, and with the quality and strength gap between the Chinese army and the Soviet army, I personally maintain a cautious attitude towards whether the Soviet army can hold the Ural Mountains, even if it is an optimistic estimate." , the Soviet army could not withstand the Chinese heavy mechanized corps for more than three months, and the Chinese estimated that they would almost arrive in Moscow after three months. At this time, the Soviet army will inevitably withdraw troops from the Western Front to help, coupled with the containment of China's military ally Finland, once the war breaks out, the situation in Soviet Russia will be much worse than we imagined. It was even worse than when Germany attacked Soviet Russia!

And once Soviet Russia is defeated, we will need to face the joint impact of the coalition and the German army, and the fall of the Western European continent may only be a matter of time. ”

"According to my many deductions in the first half of the year, once we lose the European continent and Germany and China unite to occupy the entire Eurasian continent, the main land theaters in the future will be concentrated in North Africa, India and Australia, and around the above three land theaters, our naval forces will engage in a series of battles with the Chinese naval forces." Therefore, in the middle of the war, the center of gravity of the two sides was on the surface forces. Once we can win at sea, even if we can win overall!

However, it is not easy for us to achieve victory at sea, and as of today, we have obtained information that the Chinese currently have a total of 29 fleet aircraft carriers, of which eighteen are Aoyama-class aircraft carriers equivalent to our Essex class, five are old aircraft carriers that served in the twenties and thirties before the war, two converted light aircraft carriers, and two super aircraft carriers equivalent to our Midway-class, in addition, according to the latest information, The two newest super aircraft carriers of the Chinese, Jiulianshan, have also been outfitted and put into service.

Although the Chinese have fewer aircraft carriers than ours in general, and there are a certain number of old aircraft carriers, it is worth noting that many of the early models of their eighteen Qingshan-class aircraft carriers have been upgraded and converted to beveled deck models, and according to accurate intelligence, their four super aircraft carriers have begun to serve jet carrier-based aircraft. So judging from the strength of naval aviation alone, we do not have an advantage, on the contrary, we are still at a disadvantage to some extent! And this disadvantage is more due to jet carrier-based aircraft! ”

Marshall's estimate of the strength of the Chinese Navy is still relatively accurate, compared to the size of an aircraft carrier, even if the shipyard is secret, the naval base is secret, but more or less will leak secrets, people can't know your specific surname, but you don't even know that your supercarrier is in service, and the Jiulianshan-class super aircraft carrier of more than 80,000 tons is placed on the dock, and everyone will notice. However, the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier type demarcation of the Chinese Navy is not different from the Chinese Navy itself, such as the Qingshan class and the Wutaishan class, which are clearly divided into two different aircraft carriers in the Chinese Navy, but the U.S. Navy counts Wutaishan as the Qingshan class, of course, in order to distinguish them, they also came up with the so-called Qingshan-class A-type, Qing-Qingshan-class B-type, and Qingshan-class C-type, which correspond to the basic type of the Qingshan-class direct deck, as well as the Qingshan-class beveled deck type and the Wutaishan class.

In fact, if we simply compete with aircraft carriers, the Americans have a greater advantage, and the current US Navy is now all newly-built aircraft carriers, and there are as many as 26 Essex-class aircraft carriers alone. The United States placed orders for a total of 38 ships in World War II, completed a total of 30 ships, and canceled the order of 8 ships after the surrender in 1944, and increased the number of Midway class ships. Of the 30 ships completed, three were sunk one after another, and one was abandoned by the U.S. military because it was heavily damaged, although it was not sunk in battle, but the repair cost was too great. By July 1945, there were 26 Essex-class aircraft carriers in active service in the United States, half of which were beveled-deck models.

In addition, there are many light aircraft carriers, the United States has converted a total of 11 light aircraft carriers, including nine Reading class and two Cypriot class, of which two are sunk in battle, and one was sunk in Pearl Harbor by mistake into the minefield of the U.S. military's own minefield, so now there are six Read-class and two Cypriot classes.

In addition, two of the Americans' Midway-class aircraft carriers are in service, and four more are under intense construction.

After China's super aircraft carrier program surfaced, the United States urgently used Midway as a blueprint to enlarge the design of the American class, which is not a historical version of a nuclear weapons throwing platform, but a super aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of 55,000 tons, aiming at China's Jiulianshan-class aircraft carrier, which is a standard large-scale carrier-based aircraft tactical platform like China's Jiulianshan class.

There are also two old pre-war aircraft carriers, but both have been relegated to the second line as training ships.

Therefore, when it comes to the existing aircraft carriers in the United States, the number of aircraft carriers is much larger than that of China, and there are as many as 38 large and small, old and new.

However, the strength of naval aviation does not depend only on aircraft carriers, and in the past few years, the aircraft carriers of this navy are not small, and in some periods they are much more than those of the US Navy, but they have not been beaten like dogs by the US Navy, and in the end, the Chinese Navy has completely wiped out all of them in a naval battle of the United States. The naval aviation is a force that pays more attention to technology and skill than the air force, and the strength of its combat power lies in the carrier-based aircraft and pilots, while the aircraft carrier is just a platform.