"So..." Stilwell raised his legs and asked Zhang Chi: "What do you think? How should we solve it?"

"My idea is very simple!" Zhang Chi replied: "It's time to slow down. How to do it... In a Chinese idiom, it's 'encirclement without attacking'!"

"Siege without attacking?" Stilwell is a Chinese master. Of course he knew the meaning of this idiom. After thinking about it, Stilwell asked back: "But will the Japanese beggar without attacking give them time to rest? Instead, it will give them a chance to make a comeback?"

Stilwell just arrived at the Pacific battlefield and didn't know much about the battle situation and the situation in Japan.

Geiger reminded next to him: "General, Japan is a country with very little resources... They need to plunder resources from China or other Southeast Asian countries, and we only need to occupy Okinawa and Northeast China, and cut off their transportation channels from land and ocean!"

"Oh!" Stilwell nodded suddenly.

Zhang Chi added to the map: "To be honest, the situation is that the Japanese industry is concentrated in Northeast China and Japan. Our occupation of Northeast China is equivalent to cutting off one arm. Of course, Japan's more important industries, such as warships, aircrafts, and tank manufacturing industries, are mostly in Japan. However... without raw materials, how much can they produce? You must know that the Japanese sacrificed the thickness of tank armor before the war to establish a navy. What's more, even if the Japanese can still produce warships, fighter jets... what threat can they pose to the US military?"

Stilwell nodded slightly to agree.

What Zhang Chi said is of course reasonable, because according to information obtained by the United States, the steel production in Japan at this time was only more than 6 million tons, which was the output mobilized by the whole nation during the war. Compared with the United States... the annual output is more than 60 million tons, which is ten times higher.

But this is not the most important thing, what is important is what the Japanese steel output is useful?

Japan is an island country, and it will be very embarrassing if it is surrounded by the US military:

Production of rifles, tanks... As long as the Sino-US coalition forces do not attack, these things will be useless at all!

When producing warships without air supremacy, they just add an extra piece of iron to the seabed.

To produce fighter jets... Fighters need to burn oil and have pilots, and more importantly, they need technology. Japan, which cannot produce machine tools, is destined to be unable to make major breakthroughs in aircraft engines, so fighter jets will only be passively beaten, and the gap will be wider and wider.

Therefore, there is actually no need to attack the Japanese mainland... After occupying Northeast China and Okinawa, Japan has actually been surrounded and has no room for development.

"What's more!" Zhang Chi said while adding some coffee to Stilwell's cup: "We can also weaken its industrial capacity by bombing Japan. If this continues, Japan will only become weaker and weaker, while the United States has resources from all directions of the Pacific and becomes better and better, which means that the gap will continue to widen in the future... I can't think of any reason to attack Japan's mainland!"

"Your idea is right!" Stilwell said: "But... I'm worried that I can't convince our president, you know, that he hopes to end the war soon so that the American army can escape, which will not only bring him votes, but also enable the United States to bring all its resources and energy to the battlefields of Africa and Europe!"

Zhang Chi spread her hands and asked with a smile: "Why can't the US military get out?"

"You mean..."

"Yes, general!" Zhang Chi replied: "I think the Chinese army is enough to do this, do you think so? We have a navy, an air force, and even a 'Hellcat' fighter jet... The problem is that our number is not enough to block Okinawa's sea and air. So, only a little assistance from the United States..."

"That's right!" Stilwell's eyes lit up: "We can train more Chinese troops in Okinawa, but unlike usual, the focus of our training is no longer the army, but the navy and air force. This will not only block the Japanese mainland for a long time and also enable the United States to break free from this quagmire! That's great, I will report this idea to Washington immediately..."

Looking at Stilwell's impatient back, Zhang Chi couldn't help but think of a plan.

Zhang Chi's suggestions are actually more important than planning for the Chinese Expeditionary Force... Of course, these suggestions also have considerable benefits to the US military. As mentioned before, in this situation, only the idea that both the interests of the United States and China will be meaningful.

The reason why these suggestions are the biggest beneficiary of China...

First of all, let’s talk about Japan.

In history, two atomic bombs in the United States dropped on Japan, killing more than 100,000 people, and hundreds of thousands of people were affected. This scared the Japanese and made the vast majority of Japanese people realize that if this continues, the country will be destroyed and the seed will be destroyed. This is why consensus is formed to choose to surrender.

but……

What if the atomic bomb was not dropped? What if the Japanese were not scared?

The Japanese, who were deeply influenced by militarism, obviously continued to hold on, so a situation of boiling frogs in warm water was formed.

Therefore, some people say that two atomic bombs actually saved Japan, and this statement is actually not unreasonable... Taking the Okinawa Battle as an example, if the Japanese army was killed or injured, about one-third of the people died. If the Japanese people were killed and killed by this ratio, they would die at least 20 million.

So in modern times, there are Japanese people who ask the US pilot who throws the atomic bomb as a victim of the atomic bomb to apologize... This is really a great mistake in the world. Without those two bombs, Japan is afraid that they are still eating tree bark. What's more, they only consider themselves being bombed, but they don't think about why they were bombed at all, and then they naturally stand on the moral high ground to condemn others.

This is what Zhang Chi wants to change now, or at least temporarily.

The benefits of doing so are obvious to the Chinese forces... The U.S. military needs to train the expeditionary force's naval and air force to enable it to block Japan in the sea and airspace of Okinawa.

Zhang Chi's suggestions were considered a matter of being voted for Stilwell, because he was in a state of being "ousted from power", from a general who had real power command and training thousands of troops to a commander of the 10th Army who could almost be said to be idle.

But if Zhang Chi's suggestion could be accepted, Stilwell would obviously return to an important position... The reason is very simple, the work of training the Chinese troops would obviously fall on Stilwell again.
Chapter completed!