Shi Tingsheng frowned and asked, "How much strength does the Navy still have now?"

"The British have two aircraft carriers, namely the Unicorn and the Hornet, and two George V-class battleships; we have four aircraft carriers, namely the Bunker Hill, the Hornet, the San Jacinto and the Franklin (except San Jacinto is the Independence Class, the rest are Essex Class). Among them, the Franklin just completed the sea trial in January and joined the fleet, but there were only two battleships, and there were not one heavy cruiser, and there were only a few air defense light cruisers..."

"Hiss..." Shi Tingsheng took a breath and screamed in dismay, "Why are there only such a small amount of troops?"

"That's why Turner wants to let the fleet retreat first with a bad reputation. Sometimes it's more difficult to survive than die." Nimitz said. "The situation will improve in March, and the USS Ticonderoga (Essex class) and Wisconsin (Iowa class) will be in service. In May, the USS Hancock and the USS Bennington aircraft carriers (Essex class), and the USS Missouri (Iowa class) will be in service. However, other problems are also available. When we calculated the power comparison between enemy and us, we included two battleships and two armored aircraft carriers in Great Britain. Now that this is the case, I guess the British may not be willing."

Although Shi Tingsen did not understand the navy, he could still do simple arithmetic. The Atlantic Fleet is not very strong now, and the situation will not completely change until June. However, if the Royal Navy is neutral or joins the axis, the US Navy will still be suppressed and beaten even if it gets a batch of new warships in June, not to mention that there are still aggressive Japan in the Pacific?

"As long as this is not the case, General Cunningham's response is appropriate. We only need to draw a part of the fleet to South Africa." Mitchell said with a wry smile. "According to my opinion, we can draw 2 Essex class, 1 Independent class, 1 Unicorn and 1 battleship to deal with it. Even if we follow the 1:1 battle loss exchange, we should be able to leave 2 aircraft carriers, and then let the remaining fleet go to the Far East."

According to Nimitz's idea: even if you have to take care of the British's emotions, you can't give the Ticonderoga, which was in service in March, to the other side, so there will be three aircraft carriers in the North Atlantic direction, and the attack is insufficient and the defense is still very stable. The fleet heading south will eat the enemy and then rush to the Far East to reinforce, but now you dare not move. If the Royal Navy does not move, the troops going south will not be able to raise the south, and the North Atlantic direction will be stretched out; if there are fewer draws, the South Atlantic will be stretched out.

Not only the South African direction, but the African battle Nimitz is planning will also be implicated. Considering that West Africa has its original British colonies, the troops that were ready to be used during the landing battle, and the British Army, how can we cooperate now? In the past, Britain and the United States were loyal friends who fought to death. One tried his best to deliver supplies and equipment to the United Kingdom, and the other tried his best to send warships, troops, technology and workers to the United States. Now everyone said they had lost money. What should we do in the future?

No one said stupid words like "The President did not communicate well with Prime Minister Churchill." If it were Wallace alone and Dewey's later events, maybe they would have been dealt with in this way. Now, the independent investigation committee will be established, and the British and British ships have been implemented. It will be difficult to restore it to the past...

After discussing for a long time, everyone finally decided not to take risks, and send a few submarines and shore-based air force to intercept the attack.

Originally, the discussion on this topic came to an end. Mitchell muttered and added: "Sign up the minutes, saying that it was decided by the Joint Conference. You must write clearly what reasons, what considerations and what judgments are used to make the decision. If there is a mad dog in Congress in the future, we say that we can only insist on the enemy, even if we suspend our posts, we will have an explanation. Keep more minutes..."

Everyone smiled bitterly, and the school-level officers who attended the meeting were so sad that tears were about to fall out. The commanders were forced to do this. Only if they could win would there be a ghost.

On February 7, Congress approved the establishment of an independent investigation committee chaired by Truman. In the first hour after the resolution was passed, not only did the recent archives and information of the Joint Conference be seized, but all the middle and low-level officers who attended the Joint Conference meeting in the early stage, and even the guards on duty outside received a summons notice. The originally full of people in the Pentagon felt that someone had gone empty.

Truman, who was on duty, was very motivated to work. Despite his fatigue, he began to interrogate these suspects overnight and issued strict instructions to write out what they did during this period, his views on protection fees and their contact with the three generals, and let them recall whether there was an abnormal decision-making process within the Joint Conference...

The momentum, strength, serious tone, and fierce attitude made everyone stunned. At first, the Republicans were excited to think that Roosevelt had misunderstood again. Why did he nominated him? Shouldn't he push left and right and hide it and get away with it? In this situation, according to the Soviet faction of the State Council, it can catch up with the pomp of the Ministry of Internal Affairs when Stalin's father was conducting a major purge, except for no torture.

But slowly they realized something was wrong. Truman was definitely intentional. He deliberately aroused the soldiers' disgust and dissatisfaction with this investigation committee. Everyone knew that Truman had always been in charge of military audits. His style of work had been known to be long ago, and it was definitely abnormal to suddenly become like this. Moreover, Truman's position at the meeting that day was very clear about attacking Wallace to shake the morale of the army, which was treason, and he had to impeach him. Suddenly, the style changed drastically and there was only one explanation for him that someone forced him. Who was it? Republicans and Dewey!

Then the shocking scenes appeared one after another: the officers they asked, regardless of the military rank, did not know the protection fee, and they had never heard of it, "Will the officers discuss this? Are you crazy?", "It's so troublesome for the officers to sell their country? Just tell the Japanese about the position of the fleet and the deployment of the troops?" and other remarks are endless.

The funny thing is that the adjutant of General Kim interrogated General Kim and asked him what General Kim usually did, when he got up, when he went out, when he saw a doctor, and when he ate, he could make it clear, and he was almost answered that General Kim would shit a few times a day, but when he asked the key content, he said, "I don't know."

"How could you not know?"

"How could I know?" asked the adjutant, "He is my chief. What meetings he holds, what decisions he makes, and what content he discusses? I am not the president of the United States, why should he report to me?"

"What about the documents you asked him to sign?"

"No, haven't you all checked the files? I can't remember them anymore, they are all in the files."

"I always say a few words when chatting, right?"

"Don't say it! Don't say a word!" The adjutant said, "How can someone as strong as the chief's confidentiality awareness say this? Instead, I want to exercise more and learn more other skills, so that I will not be an officer in the future, so as not to be angry with the congressmen in the future!"

"You!" This clearly pointed to the monk and scolded the bald donkey. The congressmen were so angry that they had no choice but to do so.

Time passed day by day, and the personnel checked it all, and in unison, they said to the protection fee: "I don't know!", "I don't believe it!", "Impossible!" Finally, a little bit of relevant clues were found. A logistics officer reported: "The chief asked to prepare 30 ships, load the cargo as even as possible, and each material should be available on each ship."

The investigation committee was ashamed to find a treasure and decided to dig deeper, but they couldn't dig it out in a while.

"The reason for doing this is easy to guess. The Soviets must have broken it into pieces and used a single transport ship to rush the blockade line. No one knows that something will happen to the ship. This arrangement is the most appropriate. Occasionally, a few are sunk and will not lead to the complete loss of one or two materials."

On February 10, exhausted members approached the Soviet ambassador to the United States and military officers and asked them to talk about the protection fees.

The ambassador said he was not very clear, and the military officers were usually responsible for contacting each other, while the military officers said: "I am probably clear about the 40% figure."

"Can you please talk in detail, we will keep it completely confidential."

"Of course, after the materials were intercepted in December, we proposed an alternative, suggesting that you change the delivery site to the Aleutian Islands, and then we send crew members to transport the materials back to China. If the return is not organized according to the fleet, a single ship will use the night and weather to cover the rushing..." The military officer said slowly, "At that time, the 40% ratio was mentioned. We made a comprehensive assessment of the losses on the British-Canadian route. We believed that there would be a loss of this number, but no one had tried it if it was high or low."

"Then why should we set it in Aleutian? Isn't it enough to just transport it directly from our side and disband the formation?"

"Isn't this your always worried?"

"What are you worried about?"

"It is very likely that this will be sunk by Japanese warships or submarines. Isn't your country losing a large number of people? Your country attaches the most importance to citizens' lives, but I am afraid that this will make excuses to cut off the transportation line. In order to dispel your country's concerns, of course, they can only send the Soviet people who are not afraid of death to carry out the last most dangerous voyage..." The military officer of course said lies with his eyes open, but he had received the highest instructions. Even if he died, he could not reveal a word of the truth of this matter, so how could he tell the investigation committee?

Now the investigation committee is completely blind: I can't find any evidence here, and the Soviet side completely denies it. Is it impossible to prove it to the Japanese side, right?

Roosevelt was very happy when he heard the news: "Harry really has a way!"
Chapter completed!