"Today, the Chinese launched an air raid on Halifax. This is not an April Fool's Day joke! Where will their next target be? New York, Boston or Portland. Anyway, the enemy is doing whatever they want near our coastline.
We have no way to deal with them. The war is so close to us, and this air strike reminds us that the enemy may drop bombs above our heads at any time, and the ocean will no longer be a barrier to our safety!"
On April 1, 1941, the New York Times headlined "The Chinese are coming!"
"This is not a bad thing. Although this air strike did not happen in the United States, it warned all Americans that they have the ability to drop bombs on our heads. I believe Congress will pass the new Navy tomorrow
Appropriation budget. Not long ago, they just rejected our appropriation plan for the construction of six additional aviation warships in fiscal year 1941." In the Oval Presidential Office of the White House, Navy Secretary Admiral Stark was persuading the president.
"Americans have not felt the threat of external war for a long time, which can easily make us slack off. Since 1937, we have not made full preparations for war. It's good that fear can make us stop chattering and become more cautious.
Unite and be united to the outside world!
"Army Chief of Staff Marshall also said, "We are first ensuring the production of aircraft to ensure the security of our homeland. The Russians have obtained detailed performance data of Chinese fighter jets through the Italian Communist Party. We need to develop aircraft with better performance as soon as possible based on this information.
aircraft."
"Yes, we must first ensure the equipment of the Air Force and Navy. You must formulate a detailed plan as soon as possible. I believe that after this incident, Congress will give the green light to our appropriation plan!" Roosevelt also quickly recovered from his shock.
Calm down, "The most important thing is that we must ensure the absolute safety of the United States!"
"The Chinese have left the coast of North America. The new 'Essex-class' aviation warships will begin to enter service next month. These warships will be deployed on the homeland as a priority to protect the security of the homeland." Chief of Naval Operations Si
General Tucker assured the president.
"The problem now is that we are currently unable to guarantee the security of the Philippines, but MacArthur has been requesting reinforcements." General Marshall said: "Should the troops stationed in the Philippines be withdrawn?"
"No, George, we cannot give up voluntarily. We will try our best to meet MacArthur's equipment requirements, but we will never send reinforcements there. The Chinese hope to turn it into a bait, and we cannot be fooled!" Roosevelt said, the Philippines is already insignificant.
Abandonment, but giving up voluntarily has a considerable impact on the confidence of the people.
"I understand, the primary goal is to ensure that Australia does not fall completely!" Marshall said, "How should Europe deal with it? Maybe Churchill will send someone to the door at dawn."
"I know how to deal with it. The European side can only let the British support it alone, and it may take several months of very difficult days." Roosevelt said that Americans cannot risk their own country to rescue their British cousins.
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At the same time, the capital of the Republic.
"Sa Shijun is so capable that he even made a scene in someone's backyard. This time he must make the Americans anxious!" President Lindo was listening to the Navy Department's report and was noncommittal about it.
"The Americans have transferred two aircraft ships, the Hornet and the Hornet, from Australia to return to their homeland to strengthen the defense force in the Atlantic. At least they have completed their set tasks! The pressure on our military in Australia has been reduced a lot.
"Navy Commander-in-Chief Chen Shaokuan said.
"What's going on in Luzon?" Lin Shuo suddenly changed the subject.
"In addition to strengthening their air force, they have not done anything about what we expected them to do in terms of sending reinforcements and strengthening the naval fleet. On the contrary, they have transferred the Asian fleet to southeast Luzon." Lin Rong, chief of general staff, said.
, “Americans are very clever and won’t be fooled!”
"It seems that they are ready to give up the entire Luzon. If they don't want it, we will take it first, and recently started the Luzon Campaign!" Lin Shuo paused for a moment, "In addition, Japan's actions must also be accelerated to get ahead of Germany.
Before taking action against Russia, we must complete the occupation of the entire territory of Japan's Honshu!"
The General Staff actually formulated a detailed operational plan to attack Luzon very early, but the General Staff always wanted to use this to lure and annihilate part of the US fleet, so it has not taken action. Now it seems that this plan was too successful.
, the Americans were not fooled at all. They assessed the strength of both sides quite accurately and had long been prepared to abandon the entire Luzon.
"We have noticed a problem. The Japanese army has been withdrawing troops from the United States along the Kuril Islands. It is estimated that more than one million Japanese troops have withdrawn to the United States along this route, plus more than 500,000 troops who retreated from Taiwan.
People, there are now about 1.5 million Japanese troops being re-equipped and trained in the United States, and some of them have already appeared on the Australian battlefield." said Chen Qi, director of the Security Bureau.
"If they want to run, let them run without interception, so we can save some effort. The Americans want to use the Japanese as cannon fodder. If an army loses its motherland, its combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. Now they run
Now, it’s not that easy to come back!” Lin Shuo didn’t take it seriously. In this era, the Japanese were different from the other world. With the support of the United States and Britain, they actually had a place to escape. According to intelligence, the Emperor and
All major cabinet members have fled to the United States.
If the Americans want to cross the ocean and send these rearmed Japanese troops back to East Asia, it will not be an easy task unless they can completely eliminate the Republican Navy.
"As the areas we occupy become larger and larger, we need more troops to maintain local security and stability. According to the plan, we need at least 3.5 million troops in Africa and the Middle East, and the Army needs to expand its total troops to 12 million
." Deputy Chief of General Staff Zhang Ceyuan said.
"How much impact will this have on domestic production?" Lin Shuo asked.
"It should be within an acceptable range. Now more and more trained women are joining industrial and agricultural production. As the level of automation and mechanization continues to improve, the impact on domestic industrial and agricultural production will not be great.
"Liang Wenlie, Director of General Training and Training, replied.
"To maintain local security, we can recruit more local personnel. We will not be able to occupy those areas for a long time in the future. Training more local personnel who can speak Chinese will be of great help to us in building a pro-China regime in the future.
." Lin Shuo said, "Don't just think about swallowing
It is most important to cultivate a sense of language and cultural identity when merging with other people. If people identify with your language and culture, they will naturally have a sense of identity. Even the Japanese have proposed that Greater East Asia has the same language and species and can coexist.
The perspective of co-prosperity. We should learn from others on this point.”
"Yes, we are stepping up the implementation of these things in the occupied areas. Currently, more than 600,000 people have joined the Republican Army. However, the expenses are indeed a bit high. Quite a few indigenous people demand to be paid according to the military pay during the British colonial period.
This is equivalent to about twice the salary of our army." Liang Wenlie replied.
"You want people to become mercenaries, and you also want them to get less money. How can such a good thing happen? Agree to their conditions. By the end of the year, the number of mercenaries will reach about 2 million. We will also pay hundreds of millions in wages every year.
We can afford it. These mercenaries will develop our language and culture habits.
Habits will be of great help to our future control!" Lin Shuo smiled and said, if you pay a little now, you will be rewarded ten times in the future, "Monk Luo has been uncomfortable in Nanyang recently, so he will be responsible for Luzon.
Battle, let him move around." He finally added. (To be continued.