"Is this true?" Roosevelt looked at the report on his desk and couldn't help but be moved.

"Yes. I guess if you're referring to that sinking number, it's true! Leahy next to him saw Roosevelt's rare surprise and couldn't help but smile beside him.

"This, the Japanese are too bad!" Roosevelt continued to glance at the report below, then smiled.

"It's bad enough." Leahy said beside him, "The Japanese naval forces were not able to stop the landing of the Chinese army in their hinterland this time, and they also caught up with their entire fleet in the naval battle in the Sea of Japan. ”

"The whole fleet?" Roosevelt narrowed his eyes when he heard Lech's special emphasis on these words.

"It's the whole fleet. The Chinese have taken control of the entire Sea of Japan, as well as the entire line of the Sea of Japan. The main battleships of the Japanese rout had nowhere to escape, and even if they hid in the harbor, they would be chased and sunk by the Huaxia fighters who controlled the entire sky. Leahy said as he pointed to the place on the globe that Huaxia called the Whale Sea, "Of course, their main fleet is not much, 2 old battleships, 2 old aircraft carriers, and 4 old cruisers. Oh, by the way, one of the top heavy cruisers is a bit newer. But one of them turned out to be from the Russo-Japanese War, and compared to me, it was a real antique! ”

Compared with the battleships that the Americans only began to build in large numbers after World War II, the Japanese warships with traces of World War I before the war are indeed a bit old. However, the combat effectiveness is also passable, and Leahy just borrowed the gossip of someone in the upper echelons to laugh at himself.

With the expansion of the war, the military exploits of many people in the US ** team continued to rise. Especially after the landing in Europe, recovering a third of the French territory. Some of the young generals have already earned enough to rise to the rank of general.

But as the highest military rank in the United States, the general shines under the stars such as Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and Pershing, representing not only military merit, but also supreme glory. In the entire U.S. ** team, only one out of hundreds of thousands of miles was selected so many people. Each award is made with the utmost care.

The most important thing is what to do with those young generals who have been promoted to generals, and those superiors who are also strategizing in the war. What about the veteran generals who have not yet retired from military service?

Behind this is a series of complicated issues, such as the distribution of the interests of the military's forces, which are often a turnip and a pit. More is worthless.

In the military, it is extremely necessary to establish the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and they are all a group of superiors with the same treatment. Who the hell are you listening to?

But if you really don't want to be promoted, it's also taboo to not reward your merits.

Not to mention that the emerging forces below need to be appeased with higher honor and status after they have made military achievements, even those bigwigs in the army are also ready to move and need some appeasement after they have more power with the rapid expansion of the army. It's just that they are facing the embarrassment of being sealed to the end.

The ranks of the army are also a pyramid of management systems.

It's almost certain that there will be a superior under him, and it doesn't matter if there are more or fewer of them.

Especially in World War II, with the popularization of radio and vehicles, the timeliness of command is also accelerating. The management of each layer is also more accommodating, and there is no need to transmit information with flags and golden drums as before, and more officers need to be distributed in the army, so as to raise the height of the pyramid of the army, and a series of marshals and generalissimos emerge.

This is just like the development of science and technology in later generations, which led many people to propose to reduce the size of the army and adopt a flat army pyramid command system.

But there's no denying it. The background behind this is the end of the Cold War, local friction has increased, and tens of millions of troops are no longer needed to fight for the whole country. Military salaries such as generals and marshals are in addition to the self-proclaimed needs of some narcissists. There is generally no market.

However, the current U.S. ** team has expanded from less than one million before the war to nearly 10 million at this time, which has far exceeded the impact of scientific and technological development on the implementation of management, and it is urgent to add another layer of management.

As a result, the title of five-star admiral has been proposed, and it has been submitted to the National Assembly for deliberation.

But in this part of the United States, it is impossible for no one to jump out and oppose it.

Among them, Pershing's wartime chief of staff, Hubbard, a retired lieutenant general, was the most fiercely opposed.

Marshall, who was the same as the word marshal, was not able to express much because of Pershing's right-hand man. But Leahy, who presided over the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Roosevelt's personal chief of staff, needed to be at the forefront. So some people's remarks naturally affected him.

"Are there only so many main battleships of the Japanese?" Roosevelt looked at his calm old friend, smiled slightly, and diverted the topic and asked.

There is no need to talk about any comfort, the matter of the five-star general is already a foregone conclusion. Giving an old friend a spot is the greatest consolation.

"I don't think there are any regular large warships left, except for another 8 destroyers and a few submarines." Leahy continued, he has been paying attention to the Americans' own intelligence sources here, but the Japanese are also very careful about the number of submarines that are kept secret, and the Americans are still unsure of the specific number, so they can only name the specific surface capital ships.

"There are a lot of patrol boats, torpedo boats, naval guns and the like left, and more of them are a series of civilian ships represented behind the exaggerated sinking figures!" Leahy twitched the corners of his mouth in disdain.

……

The most powerful thing for a country is inevitably the machine of violence. After all, the survival of the state and the regime comes first.

In all respects, civilian ships and warships are simply incomparable. Moreover, the Chinese army also has fighters that occupy the dominant position in the sky.

The battleships and heavy cruisers of China were too lazy to bombard with naval guns. The 127-mm guns of more than two dozen Kidd-class destroyers were not fired, and just 40-mm Bofors and 20-mm Erlikon anti-aircraft guns were enough to sweep through those civilian ships.

Hundreds of civilian boats rushed up and were quickly blown up.

The iron-clad ones sank directly to the bottom, but the wrecks of the wooden boats floated on the surface of the water for a longer time, and from time to time there were a few people who were still screaming and howling. But these self-rescuers were easily "mistakenly injured" one after another in the following battles, and finally sank to the bottom of the sea silently, leaving only pieces of broken wood scattered to float on the surface of the sea.

And more civilian ships could not get close to the Huaxia warships at all, and were sunk by the Huaxia fighters in the air.

Large ship bombs, small boat cannons. The carrier-based aircraft on the two aircraft carriers continued to take off and land, replenishing ammunition to hit such a rare dead target.

Even the fighters of the Army Aviation and Air Force who escorted them couldn't help but join in such a relaxed actual combat target shooting exercise. Fighters, attack planes, bombers, and even torpedo planes relied on cannons and bombs, and wasted a dozen torpedoes, preemptively sinking at least seven large merchant ships of more than 3,000 tons.

In the face of the overwhelming attack of the Chinese people, the aura of fanaticism was shattered, and the irregular troops began to flee, but the Chinese army, which was still unsatisfied with the old main battleships that had devoured the Japanese, immediately pursued.

However, the Japanese are brainless, rarely raising the white flag, and the Chinese army also unceremoniously continues to blow up those targets that still carry the name of warships, even if night comes, the surrounding sea still has the sound of artillery explosions, and the flames are soaring.

"These little bunnies, don't you know what a waste this is?" Shen Honglie, who was dancing in the rear after hearing the front-line battle report, suddenly reacted, "How many ships is that?" Thousands of ships have been sunk, right? It would be nice if they were all captured! Even if you can't be a battleship, it's not bad to be incorporated into a transport brigade and provide supplies. Even if it is auctioned to domestic civilians! ”

The civilian ships were not so exquisite, and the quality of the Japanese merchant ships was acceptable, and those captured in the country and in the South Seas were the most sought-after goods in the domestic loot auction halls. This can bring more benefits to the Navy.

With the words from above, the offensive of the Chinese army was somewhat restrained.

The remnants of the Japanese merchant ships had already shouted that "Jamay had stopped" and had stopped all resistance, either surrendered to save their lives, or fled back to the shore, and exaggerated the "rage" in China several times and spread it widely.

The consequence of this was that it would be more convenient to receive some Japanese ships and property in the future.

It also made the end of the three-day Battle of the Whale Sea, which was recorded as sinking 2,100 ships, and a record of capturing more than 5,300 ships.

The Americans, although they did not record the latter, were taken aback by the numbers in front of them.

It was only when they saw the sinking list that they breathed a sigh of relief.

They are all civilian ships with little power to fight back, and even if they want to launch a suicide attack, they are difficult to approach, so they can only let the Chinese destroy the decaying slaughter.

……

"So, the situation in Japan is already terrible?" After closing his eyes and thinking for a long time, Roosevelt suddenly opened his eyes and asked.

"The Chinese army has occupied almost all of Hokkaido. Moreover, they already control the Tsugaru Strait, from here they may land on the main island of Japan at any time. Leahy continued to point to the globe and said, "The Japanese resistance on Kyushu Island was quite fierce, but most of Kyushu Island, including many factories and ports above, fell into the hands of the Chinese, and even the Chinese army cleared the obstacles on the opposite side with huge cannons, crossed the Guanmen Strait, and directly landed on the main island of Japan from this direction."

In addition, the Huaxia are expanding outward from Wakasa Bay. The situation in Japan is terrible! ”

"Then, it's our turn!" Roosevelt sat up straight and said in a deep voice. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )