The Americans are also in earnest.

When they were close to the Solomon Islands, such as Kuah Island, the Americans were constantly mobilizing troops to support. Especially as the war progressed, the number of support personnel of the US Army increased rapidly.

In '41, the U.S. Army numbered just over 1.6 million. Even with the outbreak of war and the rapid expansion of the army, the lack of equipment and well-trained personnel made the US Army in a state of soy sauce for the first two years.

Of course, this does not rule out the factor that Americans continue to wait and see the best time. However, it is undeniable that the US Army, which has not been tempered by war for a long time, does not have the ability to send troops to fight on a large scale, and the army, which has a large number of new recruits, can easily afford heavy losses that the Americans cannot afford, and is likely to retreat from this world-class gladiatorial arena early.

However, after more than two years of training and the availability of many advanced weapons and equipment, the US Army's combat effectiveness has become stronger and stronger, and its ability to project operations abroad has also become even greater. The U.S. has sent more than 600,000 troops to the European and North African theaters, but that's only one-tenth of the U.S. Army, which has grown to 6 million.

In the European land war, Germany and Soviet Russia were engaged in a great competition of military attrition, and the disappearance of millions of soldiers made the Americans dare not show their heads rashly. But they definitely have the strength to throw another million troops, whether it's Europe or Asia.

Although the Americans were not very well prepared for this attack, the number of US troops in Asia and Australia has exceeded 400,000, and the total strength of the navy and air force has reached 540,000.

This is still based on the fact that the Hawaii base has not yet been completely renovated, relying on the many small islands along the way to provide simple supplies of ocean transportation.

It was Meng Xiang who had detailed information about the US military in his hands, so he was extra cautious.

However, the combat effectiveness of the US Army is really not very good.

More than 500,000 troops launched an attack on the 21st. Played for two weeks. The Chinese army, which had rested for three days for the Spring Festival, had captured most of Sulawesi, and the Americans were still only lingering on the coastline of Irian Island.

The Japanese had already learned the Americans' superiority in firepower on the islands of Kuah and Fiji, and they had decisively abandoned the unrealistic strategic deployment of holding the coastline.

There are many places to land on Irian Island. And there are less than 200,000 Japanese troops deployed here, and it is impossible to defend everything. The Japanese navy, on the other hand, suffered heavy losses in a series of naval battles on Kuah Island and the Coral Sea, and its vitality was greatly damaged. It is also impossible to withstand the strong attack of the US Navy.

With the exception of some of the warships that were repaired on the mainland under the leadership of Isoroku Yamamoto, some of the remaining warships remained in Rabaul on the island of New Britain.

After the Chinese occupation of Australia, Port Moresby, which was often bombed, was not safe, and the Japanese navy focused its base on Rabaul, which was in better condition.

Compared with the two sides, the Japanese need Rabaul as a node more, and the defense of Irian Island, which has limited development resources, is naturally weaker.

But Rao was so, and the Americans also left more than six thousand corpses on the beaches of Irian Island, and the number of wounded doubled.

Landing warfare has always been brutal, and the Japanese will not just give up this opportunity.

And that's just the beginning. The focus of the Japanese defense was inland, and they took advantage of the vast rainforest to lay out their defenses. When the Americans, having gained a foothold on part of the beaches southwest of Irian Island, began to attack inland. The casualties of the U.S. Army, detached from the support of naval guns, continued to rise.

In the casualties exceeded 50 thousand. Having not captured even a quarter of Irian Island, the Americans began to hesitate.

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"That's a big loss!" Vice President Wallace said to Roosevelt. He was going to talk about the Japanese again, "We ......"

"At least we have good news, the main naval force of the Japanese has retreated from Rabaul!" Roosevelt laughed and cut him off first.

In contrast to the difficulties of the US Army, the US Navy fought well in Rabaul.

Two large-scale naval battles took place around Rabaul in two weeks, and in the end, the Japanese navy was again defeated by the American aircraft carriers, losing two cruisers, seriously damaging one Taiho-class aircraft carrier, and even Rabaul was defeated by the Americans in an air raid on January 31.

Under the joint attack of five aircraft carriers and the formation of B-17 bombers transiting from Kuah, the port facilities in Rabaul were blown up. As a result, the main warships of the Japanese Navy withdrew from Rabaul and retreated to the headquarters of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Truk.

Although there were still more than 70,000 Japanese troops stationed on New Britain Island with Rabaul as the core, the Americans lost nearly 10,000 and never landed successfully, but at least the Americans controlled the waters around it.

"And we're planting our flag on the island of New Guinea." Roosevelt said again.

Although the Americans paid a lot of money, with the assistance of powerful naval and air forces, they still gained a certain amount.

Later generations of Irian Island were very poorly developed, let alone this era. Nowadays, people simply cannot compete with the difficulties of overcoming tropical rainforests, and except for a few limited resources such as timber, there is no trace of copper, oil, and gold mining.

This is also the main reason why the Japanese are willing to give up. Even if it is the second largest island in the world, it cannot bring profits, it is difficult for immigrants to settle down, and it costs a lot of manpower and material resources to protect it, so it will not be taken seriously by the Japanese.

Moreover, it will also directly face the Chinese army of Australia. Japan's top leaders also considered that they would not be able to hold it, so they threw Irian Island to the Americans, so that there would be some friction between the United States and China in close contact.

The Americans, who have a vast territory, also do not attach much importance to Irian Island, and the land on their homeland has not been developed, not to mention that there is a Latin American backyard with better development conditions than Irian Island. They don't need the resources and land of Irian Island, but just a springboard that can press on Java.

After a fierce street battle, the Americans had taken control of most of Port Moresby. As long as they step up a little more, the Americans will have an advance base set up on Irian Island, which can directly pass through the Torres Strait and officially send troops to Southeast Asia.

It took so long for the U.S. military to touch the borders of Southeast Asia and announce to China that they were back.

"Huaxia people are not in a hurry, and we should not be too flustered!" Roosevelt waved his hand lightly, meaningfully.

He understood what Wallace was saying, and there were many voices in the United States about peace talks with Japan, but he did not suggest that he should hold peace talks with the Japanese now.

As a big country that wants to dominate the world, if the United States wants to gain the recognition of the world, it is not possible to rely on peace talks, and only by relying on the prestige of the United States can it reduce the pressure in the future. Although the losses may be large now, this can be spread over a long-term cost in the future, which is far more cost-effective than the cost of constantly sending troops to suppress it.

Moreover, Roosevelt, who had been president for three consecutive terms, also had the same ambition to conquer the world step by step in the footsteps of Caesar and Napoleon. He didn't want his name to be recorded in the history books, with compromises to the small country of Douding again and again.

As long as there is enough time, he will play the prestige of the Americans at any cost, and at this time, Huaxia gave him time.

The fierce offensive before the Chinese made the Americans panic, but after successively capturing Kalimantan, Sumatra and Sulawesi, the Chinese army stopped again, and did not even capture Java, which was close at hand and had a strong numerical advantage of the Chinese.

"What's wrong with the Huaxia people?" The world is suspicious.

Roosevelt's think tank gave a number of reasons.

They speculated that the speed of the rout of the Japanese army was too fast, and the Japanese fortresses in many places had not yet been conquered, and even some remnants of the Japanese army fled into the jungles in various places, and the total number of people in various places was estimated to exceed 100,000, which was extremely harmful and needed to be cleaned up by the army.

Moreover, many Japanese overseas Chinese are worried about the retaliation of the Chinese, and they have also fled into the jungle, and this part of the people also needs to be solved.

The Americans also speculated that the Chinese needed to clean up the indigenous people in preparation for the next step of Chinese immigration.

Of course, the Americans speculated that the most important reason why the Chinese army stopped its offensive was the logistical supply.

Although the warships of the Chinese are now also appearing in the South China Sea, the naval power of the Japanese is also not weak.

At the same time that Huaxia blocked the Japanese sea supply line, the Japanese navy also blocked the passage of Huaxia supply from the sea.

In a series of offensives on the Indochina Peninsula, the logistics supply of the Chinese army mainly relied on land.

With no railways, lack of roads, and the face of harsh weather and environment, in the jungle trails, logistical transportation can be imagined, especially for the supply of more than a million troops.

The rhythm of the previous Chinese attack, the Americans have long deduced that in addition to the range of artillery support, the pressure of logistics is also one aspect.

The Americans, who roughly understood the firepower superiority of the Huaxia army, had long calculated that the transportation of ammunition alone would be enough to keep the Huaxia, which had few means of transportation, busy.

With the elongation of the battle line, Huaxia's logistics are even more unsustainable, and it is normal for them to stagnate.

As for the three large islands of Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Sulawesi, I am afraid that the Chinese have already made arrangements in sparsely populated places, so that they can completely occupy them with the supply of their savings, and on the densely populated island of Java, there are many indigenous people, and the Japanese have strict monitoring and cleanup, so that the Chinese people do not have such an opportunity. Even if it is separated by a narrow strait, I am afraid that the price to pay is not small.

The Americans, who didn't know that Meng Xiang had a sharp weapon in his hand, found various reasons by themselves, but they never guessed that this was Meng Xiang's intention.