Although General Arnold's words sounded helpless, they were highly concentrated and summarized, and Truman had heard similar words.

Marshall summed up painfully some time ago: "Although Germany has always been a ban on guns, the United States cannot ban guns and has hundreds of thousands of members of the Rifle Association, the level of the six wars is obviously not on the same level; by the same token, although Detroit is the world's largest automobile industry center, the world's largest automobile production, and the world's largest automobile driver scale, it does not mean that the United States' armored soldiers are the world's first in armored vehicles. This is not the same thing. From the perspective of the quality of armored soldiers and the performance of tanks, let alone Germany, even Russia is a little stronger than us."

Before the war, there were hundreds of thousands of people with flight licenses in the United States, but most of them were slow-moving pesticide aircraft and biplane aircraft. Flying was a means of making a living rather than a fighting instinct. Passing professional aircraft tests can only be said to be easier, but it does not mean that they are born soldiers. The latter needs to withstand pressure and swing their level in the test of life and death. For example, the escort-free formation air strike of US Air 6 in the last battle of Iceland, not everyone can withstand the interception of German fighter jets armed to the teeth. With a slight deviation, they will collapse.

"So, what about HNA?"

Turner didn't say anything, but just shook his head slightly.

Truman is more clear about HNA's situation. HNA's difficulties are greater than those of Air 6! A few days ago, in order to draw a few carrier-based aircraft units to deal with the Essex-class that are about to form a military force, Turner ran to him to ask the president to put pressure on Fatty Qiu to take the crew. It can be seen how embarrassed the Navy is. Listening to Turner's tone, all the seedlings with slightly better quality and potential in HNA, even though they were trained as 6-based pilots, are now robbed by carrier-based aircraft. However, the Pacific Fleet, which has been resting, has also trained a group of units, otherwise they would not even be able to draw out these 12o units!

However, Li Hai still spoke with the overall situation: "HNA is preparing to transfer 5oo aircraft to Pearl Harbor, which is what we can squeeze out at the moment."

"Ship 6 will reinforce 1ooo frames, no matter how many there are, there will be no more for the time being."

Truman breathed a little relieved. In this way, there were at least 35oo aircraft in Hawaii. It is expected that the entire Japanese carrier-based aircraft unit would have only 7oo aircraft. Our side has an advantage of 5:1. Even if the Japanese can fight, this advantage will be enough to consume.

"Do you have any consideration for the next stage of war? How to properly deal with the attacks on both the east and west battlefields?"

"After discussing the Joint Conference, two ideas of emergency countermeasures and long-term countermeasures have been formed. Please allow me to report to you."

There are 3 emergency measures, mainly including:

1. Strengthen the construction of aviation forces and emphasize the use of air to control the sea. Faced with the situation of insufficient naval forces, we will temporarily respond to the situation of improving the level of aviation combat. On the battlefield of South America, each 6th Army station will vigorously build airports and other aviation combat facilities to increase the density of troops. We will build, expand and incorporate air force teams in all ports on the southern coast of the Caribbean Sea, so that transport ships and the 6th Army can obtain multi-level and wide-cover air cover, and use relatively easy-to-train 6-base aviation troops to fight against the enemy's carrier-based aircraft pilots; on the battlefield of the Pacific, with the Pearl Harbor base as the core, it will continue to raid the Japanese fleet and Midway Island, so that it cannot march without scruples.

2. Strengthen the construction of breaking and transportation capabilities and improve the efficiency of submarines. Originally, in order to focus on surface ship construction, we reduced our investment and construction of submarines. As the enemy attacked the front line of our army (South America, Central Pacific), cutting off the enemy's transportation and supply lines was a good way. At present, the main force of US submarines are still the Little Shark Class and White Fish Class. They surpass the Vii Class submarines, slightly relative to the IV Class, but far less than the I Class. The US military was deeply stimulated by the I Class and has issued an emergency bidding requirement, hoping to build a new US mysterious submarine.

Another progress that cannot be ignored is that the torpedo problem that has been plagued by the US military for a long time was basically resolved in early 1944. The United States eventually abandoned the MK131418 series torpedoes that were repeatedly complained and had a lot of faults, and took out the MK24 sound-guided torpedoes and MK22 aviation torpedoes. At the same time, it honestly introduced the MKV-class traditional torpedoes from the British Empire. Although it was not as good as the torpedoes from Japan and Germany, it was at least greatly improved compared to before. The hit rate and attack power of the Nimitz fleet air strikes improved a lot, which was to pay attention to the improvement of the new aircraft and the new torpedoes. Unfortunately, after these last skilled pilots were consumed, the new carrier-based pilots performed terrible. Li Hai and Turner could only shake their heads after seeing it.

The 3 and 6th Army moved into defense, mainly using positional warfare and attrition warfare to delay the pace of the enemy. The top leaders of the 6th Army saw clearly that with the tactical level of the US 6th Army and the pitiful road system in South America, there is no way out to play armored duels. It is better to build permanent and semi-permanent fortifications honestly, arrange minefields, rely on the higher firepower of the side, and replenish the logistics capabilities nearby to fight against Germany and foolishly. Use defense to weaken the enemy's army no matter how you move, I will remain unmoved.

Overall, the three urgent countermeasures are one goal, to gain time, exchange space for time, and consume for consumption.

The long-term countermeasures are quite complicated. Li Hai thought about it for a while and said slowly:

1. We must get rid of the unfavorable situation of being attacked on both sides of the east and west, that is, we must consider having conditions for peace with one of the parties and concentrate on dealing with the other party's participation in the Joint Conference and recommending negotiations with Germany, even if it is a temporary ceasefire.

2. Further optimize domestic arms production, reduce models, and simplify logistics. At present, the 6 naval equipment models are messy, and even the rich and powerful American imperial begins to be unable to bear it. The unfavorable politics and military situation make them have no time to worry about the feelings of capitalists. Some invalid orders are prepared to be cut in large numbers, especially in the aviation field.

After discussion at the Joint Conference, it was decided to stop the production of six models including p-38394o436163 from September 1, and expand the production of p-51, but only produce p-51 (p-51d is still being improved), the p-47 series only produces p-47d, and increase the production of p-8oa (i.e. the official code of the Meteor Jet). The order volume soared from 5oo frames to 35oo frames (the unit price is US$93,000, which is 20,000 US dollars cheaper than p-61, which is about one-seventh of the b-29).

It is not ruthless to use the bomber. The 4 bomber only retains the b-29, cuts off the b-17b-24, keeps the b-36 project unchanged, and the twin bombers only retains the b-25, and the b-26 (widow maker) is cut off. In fact, the b-26 can obtain better performance after improvement, but the 6 Aviation's senior management has no intention of waiting anymore. The light attack aircraft only retains the a-26, cuts off the a-2oa-24, and emphasizes the use of the p-51 to carry bombs to undertake some ground attack tasks. Now the most urgent need for the 6 Aviation is to refer to the German ar-234 jet bomber to create the US's own lightning bomber.

After the successful BTD, the order volume of HNA attack aircraft soared to 4Ooo aircraft, and then all SBDTBFsb2 were laid off. Others, including 6Air General B-29, A-26 and B-25, expanded the production volume of F4u, slightly reduced the production of F6F, and urged Grumman to complete the opening of the F8F fighter as soon as possible.

After the model was integrated, the Joint Conference required all manufacturers to authorize each other's technical skills to achieve large-scale unified production. The Joint Conference hoped that the production of aircraft in 1945 would reach 90,000, of which 4 heavy bomber transport aircraft would reach 20,000, and the jets would need to exceed 8 ooo. It was not that they would not want to build more jets, but that they could fly only 1 ooo more people, and one third of them were British. Moreover, the jets were improved very quickly, and it was a waste to build too many aircraft.

There is also a similar process for the improvement of armored vehicles, but the integration has not been completed yet and it is expected that it will not be reported to Truman until September.

3. It is necessary to increase investment in the Manhattan project. Since Germany quickly controlled Africa, the source of uranium mines in the Belgium Congo was cut off. Later, it obtained uranium mines from Canada and added mining and refining. Although the intelligence system under Donovan could not know the progress of the German atomic bomb, it was judged from multiple signs that Germany was also adding nuclear weapons to build. However, the previous destruction of Norway's heavy water factory was fruitless. Now the entire European 6 is controlled by Germany again. The United States is no longer able to destroy the German progress and can only hope to seize the time. The Joint Conference has obtained guarantees from scientists that if all effective measures are taken to protect the escort, the United States is expected to conduct field tests in June 1945.

4. Before the spring of 1945, it mainly focused on strategic defense and training teams, and did not attack any time. In particular, the Navy no longer took the initiative to attack before obtaining enough warships and cultivating enough carrier-based pilots.

"We expect the counterattack to gradually begin in July 1945. At that time, the Navy fleet will take shape, atomic weapons are available, the aviation force is extraordinary, and the 6th Army will also have practical experience... Our strategic situation will be more ideal." Li Haidun said, "If you lead us to fight back at that time..."

Truman nodded at first: "I have approved these two levels of countermeasures and can let go."

Before everyone could come back to their senses, he waved his hand again: "The plan should not be so big, you can do it until the end of this year. You will welcome Dewey in January next year. He may have different ideas."

"Your Excellency, although you are at a disadvantage at the moment, as long as we survive this..."

"There is no chance. Dewey has threatened to put all the financial losses, personnel losses and military losses over the past three years in the next debate. This is all facts. I don't want to deny it, and I don't want to put the blame on Mr. Roosevelt or General. I am the commander-in-chief of the American Armed Forces. I will frankly admit my fault and take all the responsibility. I will withdraw from the election..." Truman took off his glasses and tried his best not to let tears flow out. "The Democrats have agreed to my request and decided not to send new candidates."

With a "clang", Turner, who was drinking water, couldn't hold the cup and fell to the ground and broke...8
Chapter completed!