Li Hai asked tentatively: "Can I understand your words as..."

He was still considering what tactful words to express appropriate meanings indirectly. Roosevelt nodded readily: "That's the meaning, it's all his own people, I'll be frank."

All of us are all human beings. At this point, how could we hear Roosevelt meant to be prepared to give up on Britain? Marshall, General King and others nodded to each other. To be honest, they were already tired of it and even desperate about it. The endless aid to Britain not only dragged down the financial and national defense forces of the United States, but also caused unnecessary internal disputes, which they thought were unnecessary. Of course, this is not the most critical determinant, and the most critical determinant is that this matter has no much value.

Now, the United States has basically controlled the four major autonomous corps of Britain. In addition to several islands and India, which is in turmoil, there is no territory worth mentioning. In addition, the United States has also obtained core technologies such as jets, high-performance liquid-cooled engines, radars, and materials under the pretext of concentrating its strength during wartime development. It has also brought the outstanding scientists, skilled shipbuilders and related technicians and engineers of Great Britain to the United States, which is still half tempting and half threatening to allow the rich and capitalists on the Island of Great Britain to transfer their assets to North America, even if they transfer to Canada, it is still equivalent to being under the control of the United States.

In other words, in addition to attracting some firepower for the United States and restraining some axial forces, the British Empire also has several warships and millions of defense forces with unknown levels, which is no longer attractive to the United States. In order to protect the British Isles, the United States has continuously sent warships, materials and planes into the sea, and the cumulative spending has exceeded 100 billion US dollars. In the expected future, it may have to pay tens of billions of dollars, which is becoming increasingly a heavy burden.

In addition to money, the United States of America also brought in hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the army that really lost to the Americans in the country or interests only accounted for a small proportion of casualties.

Based on this process, neither the United Kingdom nor the United States think they owe each other: the British Empire betrayed the position of global hegemony, sold its best technology, engineers, scientists and skilled workers, sold its most elite dominant, and resisted the millions of enemy troops for the Americans. It was completely natural for the Americans to help them; the United States believed that it had paid hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of casualties to rescue the British Empire, and the things obtained from Britain were not enough to make up for its own losses, not to mention that if the United States did not take over those colonies and dominants, the British would not be able to save them.

"In the future, you can tell Harry that the power of the British Emperor should be calculated as double, but not including his political strength. He is instinctively sensitive to numbers and will understand!"

Everyone immediately understood what "double" means in Roosevelt's words. The military strength of the British Empire is doubled on the Allies. On the other hand, if you imitate France to join the axis, you need to calculate it twice. Roosevelt obviously considered the process of one rise and the other, but he refused to easily amplify Britain to join the axis, and added without any trace: "We should give great understanding, support and help to some officers and soldiers and other people who are willing to continue to resist to the end and continue to defend the free world on the American continent. They should be arranged in Canada together with His Majesty the King, whom they respected."

Of course, Roosevelt was a cruel and ruthless person, otherwise he would not have been able to call the United States for 12 years. On the one hand, he did not mention the establishment of the British government in exile in Canada, and only allowed George VI to continue to serve as the head of Canada as the king (this is one of his official identities); on the other hand, he wanted to win over the most valuable part of the British armed forces in the name of continuing to resist for the United States, such as those major ships that were about to form an army, skilled pilots and technical troops with combat experience.

As for Churchill's own arrangement, he didn't say anything. Everyone just thought about it and guessed that such a tough and cunning politician must not be placed on the North American continent. It would be a big and small resistance to the United States' continued control of Canada in the future.

Although Roosevelt had made up his mind to sell Britain at the right time, and even the price was not necessarily related to the loss-making assets. Obviously, the sooner the divestiture, the better, he was obviously unwilling to be this evil person. Everyone thought that the first suitable opportunity was the day when the new president was sworn in in January 1945. It is not possible for everyone to predict whether Mr. Harry Truman could become the new president as he wished. Perhaps, in Roosevelt's mind, the possibility of losing the election was not ruled out, so he explained this sentence to the members of the Joint Conference in public, and the implication was that Dewey would be the same.

Only the kind Eisenhower said sadly: "If it weren't for us, the British Empire would probably not be able to hold on for a month. This would be too difficult..."

"We have done our best." Roosevelt said calmly, "I have tried my best, and it depends on you next. I am just going to plan ahead and tell you about the future situation. I am afraid I can't decide whether to do it or not, how to do it, and when to do it."

Everyone nodded. Now Britain and the United States are still inseparable allies, with unbreakable friendship. The British occupy half of the British and American joint fleet. If they turn against each other now, the advantage at the axis seas would be too great.

Reminding Roosevelt's promise to send two British local masters to India, everyone sighed, which is probably part of the future strategic arrangements.

"We still have hope for a decent victory." Roosevelt cheered them up when they saw that everyone was not interested. "Scientists told me that some inventions are likely to make breakthroughs within one year. In addition, the rockets displayed by the Germans are not mysterious things. The Rockets Agency said that they are preparing to launch similar devices by the end of this year. Perhaps the accuracy and range will be worse, but the principle and direction are consistent, and they can be accelerated after paying attention."

The first half is obviously a report on the progress of the Manhattan project, while the second half is basically bragging, because Roosevelt forced the other half of the original words to cut off: "...If we want to reach the German Rocket level, it may take us 2 years."

The US Army Rockets Agency can now master the rockets at a height of only 15 kilometers and the range is only 60-70 kilometers, which is only equivalent to the level that Germany reached in 1937. It has been a super leap forward to be able to create a V2-level rocket in two years. However, no one came forward to correct the president's mistake. The endless new weapons of the Germans put a lot of pressure on the US side. Everyone held their breath and wanted to show the Germans the real ultimate weapon after the completion of the Manhattan project. This is also the source of confidence for Roosevelt and the Joint Conference.

Everyone spent a sleepless night in a heavy mood and submitted their response strategies around the possible situations the next day. Roosevelt was very calm and went back to rest after the meeting. At this critical moment, he must have confidence in his heart.

Early in the morning of April 24, hundreds of reconnaissance aircraft were dispatched from all directions to fly in suspicious directions. The observers asked to carefully search every area they passed by. But the result was obviously nothing. By noon, the reconnaissance range had been expanded to 1,500 kilometers east of Bermuda and Newfoundland, and there was no discovery either. As for the relevant searches of the German army, the fleet was also used to rest and supplement the Canary Islands. How could it be found? After tonight, they were heading towards Cape Verde, and the British and American reconnaissance was completely different.

Now everyone is waiting for the reconnaissance results of the Nimitz fleet. Theoretically, the sea area within 1,000 kilometers east of Azores is the black hole currently being investigated by the Allied forces. If the TF46 fleet that took the risk deeper could not find the Germans, it would basically end the farce.

Now TF46 is still about 2,000 kilometers west of Ireland, Nimitz decided to continue to march southeast to further check the situation.

On April 25, land-based reconnaissance aircraft of the two countries still found no results. Now everyone began to suspect that the news about the German landing fleet was false information that was false alarm. The Luftwaffe continued to use hail to attack southern radar stations. The British had no good methods except for passively closing the radar station to reduce losses. The experts tried to deploy mobile radars at a distance as bait to lure these bombs, but they did not expect that the bombs would still be blown up for the bait.

In the evening of that day, the TF46 fleet arrived at a relatively subtle position away from Azores, Spain's La Coruna and France's port of Brest were both around 1,600-1,800 kilometers. Nimitz was determined to continue to advance to the southeast and continue a new round of reconnaissance early tomorrow morning. He cautiously asked the fleet to avoid the 1,200 kilometers of Azores aviation reconnaissance circle if there is no more discovery before noon tomorrow, he would return immediately!

That night, TF46 continued to move closer to the southeast, but an unexpected change occurred. The fleet commanded by Ozawa also took advantage of the night to leave the port. After the crow was arrested by the SS a year ago for inadvertent actions, Britain and the United States completely lost the source of intelligence for Azores. Now this place is a black hole for them.

On the morning of April 26, the Nimitz fleet was slightly westward of Azore, and the Ozawa fleet was 400 kilometers north of Azore, and the two sides were more than 1,000 kilometers away from each other. The two commanders released reconnaissance planes at the same time, but they did not know that the fleets of both sides were approaching each other.

At 11 noon, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to less than 800 kilometers. Just as Nimitz was considering turning back to the east coast and Ozawa was considering putting pressure on the UK in Ireland-Iceland, the reconnaissance planes of both sides sent reconnaissance information to the two commanders almost at the same time:
Chapter completed!