Chapter 1463 The blunt knife cuts slowly
"Yes, Mr. President, aren't you really kidding us?"
"This is really incredible!"
"When did China become so powerful?"
Marshall, Stark and others were also full of doubts, all looking at the President with wide eyes, hoping that this was just a joke.
However, to everyone's disappointment, the President nodded with certainty in response to the questioning eyes of the crowd and said, "No, gentlemen, I am not kidding you, all this is true!"
"I'm Mai Ka! How is this possible! Did they steal our military secrets?"
"But, this seems wrong. We just made a prototype of the p-61 night fighter, and we are not mature at all?"
"And their night fighter is much more advanced than our current prototype! Do they really have that ability?"
Hearing this, Arnold was almost crazy, and hundreds of thousands of whys kept popping up in his mind.
Even with the extremely detailed production process materials he saw with his own eyes, he could not believe that the poor and backward Chinese country could mass-produce fighter jets that were much more advanced than their latest fighter jets.
The President waved his hand and said, "Okay, we won't discuss how they did it for the time being.
Our focus is now on discussing the information they provide. What kind of help will it help us? Can we make corresponding strategic adjustments?"
Then, the President recounted Liu Qiang's full efforts to develop aircraft carrier battle groups and island jumping tactics.
After thinking carefully for a while, Marshall said in a deep voice: "I have to admit that the island-hopping tactic proposed by General Yang Fan is very practical. If we make good use of it, it can indeed greatly improve efficiency."
Arnold nodded and said, "If these two fighter jets can be mass-produced as soon as possible, the American Air Force will soon gain absolute air supremacy!"
Knox said: "The naval battle with battleships as the core is indeed lagging behind, and naval battles with aircraft carriers as the core force will surely become the mainstream of the times.
And it is obvious that the US Air Force is already stronger than the Japanese Air Force. If we have a huge aircraft carrier battle group that crushes the advantages, the Japanese Navy will have no chance of winning."
"So, the American Pacific Fleet will not take long to take the initiative on the Pacific battlefield?"
Hearing this, the President laughed happily.
Although the current focus of the United States is on the North African battlefield and the European battlefield, it is impossible to change this basic strategy in a short period of time.
In the past year or so, due to the severe damage to the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, the transition from civilian production to military production in the United States has not been completed.
Although the troops can be mobilized quickly, they must take a period of training before they can be put into the battlefield.
Although the US Navy's total tonnage now exceeds that of the Japanese Combined Fleet, its overall military strength does not exceed that of the Japanese Navy, and it is always dragged by Britain to fight against Germany, and at the same time it has to free up a lot of resources to help the Soviet Union.
It has been almost two years since the US attack on the Pacific Ocean is still at a standstill, mainly because the European battlefield is too busy.
After all, Europe is significantly more important to the United States than the Pacific.
But it would be a pleasant thing to start the two-line battles easily now, take back the Hawaiian Islands as soon as possible, and find the venue from the Japanese invaders as soon as possible.
It is also important to say that during the Pacific War, the United States cannot directly attack Japan's mainland, because the United States must first ensure that its country is not threatened by war.
The United States' attack on Japan's mainland is not only a long journey and difficult logistics, but also a high possibility of leading the war to the mainland of the United States, posing a greater threat to the United States.
Therefore, the United States must consider first destroying all the Japanese troops at its doorstep and finally attacking the Japanese mainland.
During the Pacific War of World War II, Japan poses a great threat to the United States.
In order to curb this ultimate strong enemy, Japan dispatched almost the vast majority of the navy and air force to join the war to invade the United States, which posed a great threat to the United States.
The United States is very clear that to eliminate Japan, it must first attack the troops that have advanced. Only in this way can most of Japan's armed forces be defeated.
In order to implement such a goal, the United States has long formulated strategies and tactics to strike each invading island in Japan one by one.
Because only such a blow can prompt Japan to retreat and eliminate all harassment in the future when the United States attacks Japan.
If the United States does not clear and crack down on these islands, even if the United States has the ability to attack Japan, then the logistics issues will be very fearful of the United States.
These Japanese troops in the rear will cause serious harassment to the US supply line and will seriously undermine the continuity of the US strategic offensive.
The intelligence information and strategies provided by Yang Fan largely resolved these contradictions, giving the US Navy the possibility of gaining initiative in the Pacific battlefield at a relatively small cost in a short period of time.
In fact, the US military has also formulated another short-term and fast plan to attack Japan's mainland.
That is to start from Alaska, pass through the Aleutian Islands, and then use the Soviet Kamchatka Peninsula as a springboard to directly attack Japan's mainland.
However, the North Pacific climate is relatively harsh, which is inconvenient for the troops' supply and transportation, and is not convenient for the strategic air force to raid Japan.
There are few islands in the North Pacific, and the distance between the islands is too far, so it is difficult to organize absolutely superior forces to carry out landing operations. Even if the landing is successful, it is difficult to quickly replenish subsequent troops and combat materials.
At the same time, Alaska is also a sparsely populated and bitter cold place, which is not conducive to the US military's supply work.
Moreover, Japan's supply line entered the South Pacific from Southeast Asia to reach its mainland. The strategic consideration of the US military is to cut off the supply line of the Japanese army. Facing the siege from the south is equivalent to making dumplings in Japan, so as to trap Japan to death.
When Japan's national strength is exhausted, it will launch a final fatal blow to Japan. If the US military attacks Japan from the North Pacific, it will not touch the Japanese artery, and Japan's national strength will not have much impact.
Japan is an island country, and almost all military resources are transported to the sea.
This is also the direct reason why Japan panicked to occupy Southeast Asia without completely occupying China, because it urgently needed rubber, oil and steel there.
Therefore, in general, if the US military wants to regain the situation on the Pacific battlefield, it can only continue to develop for a period of time, and then use the absolute advantage of the air force to cripple the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet and initially obtain the sea control power.
Then we began to implement the island-hopping tactic from the Hawaiian Islands in the South Pacific, and gradually strangled Japan's economic lifeline.
Just like playing Go, you can cut the blunt knife slowly, slowly tighten the anger of others, and finally kill one blow.
Chapter completed!