Chapter 420 Admiral Nimitz's Decision
After being startled by MacArthur's angry expression, the combat staff officer Hulls immediately told the other party all the things that the Japanese and German troops had to exchange weapons and equipment in a tactful manner.
"Damn the German army! Hitler dared to intervene in the war in the Pacific. This war maniac is really impatient!"
"By the way, how are the war on the Western Front going now? And how is the Sicily Battle, which Eisenhower commands the war, progress? Have you taken Sicily down?"
After hearing this, MacArthur cursed in a very upset mood.
"I heard that the Battle of Sicily has failed, and there are heavy casualties. I am now evacuating! I also heard that Malta, where Commander Eisenhower is located, is being subjected to a large-scale air strike by German air forces. The situation is not optimistic!"
Operational Staff Hulls reported in cold sweat.
"What! Are you kidding me! Do you know that the Allied troops under Eisenhower have more than 400,000 elite troops? And there are thousands of aircraft and thousands of ships. The most important thing is that President Roosevelt has dispatched a large number of aircraft carrier fleets to support them in the battle? How could he be defeated like a mountain of defeat!"
"What is Eisenhower's food? Is there any water in his mind?"
Upon hearing this, MacAther's eyes suddenly became round and he shouted in disbelief.
"I am not very clear about this issue, but these situations were sent back from the front line, and all our high-level staff have been received, and this time President Roosevelt summoned you and General Marshall to the White House, it should be for this matter!"
After being scolded by MacArthur, the combat staff officer Hulls shivered and quickly explained in a cold sweat.
"Eisenhower! What stupid behavior did you, a fool who has always been cautious, have you done! You were defeated with superior military strength and equipment. Could it be that Hitler's war maniac has three heads and six arms? Bastard!"
As soon as he finished speaking, MacAther suddenly started to rush and curse.
His insults were so deafening that he frightened the soldiers on the light cruiser to the point of being silent, and no one dared to say a word.
"When I see President Roosevelt, I must scold Marshall well. I really want to know what kind of stupid guy he recommended to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Allied Forces! He is really not enough to defeat things. Now he is still making the German forces together with Japan. Doing so will make our Pacific War worse?"
But at this moment, MacArthur was still angry and yelling in anger.
In this situation, he was scolded until he had no strength; and the combat staff officer Hulls, who had been standing beside him, was already sweating profusely, and was wet with sweat.
"Why should I be dispatched to such a difficult superior? I don't want any promotion and wealth now. I just need a boss with a better temper and a more at ease in my heart!"
At the same time, the combat staff officer Hulls was also very crazy in his heart and said in tears.
However, after MacArthur vented all his anger, he was no longer worried about Eisenhower's defeat, but continued to focus on the Pacific War and wanted to fighter staff Hulls to report clearly to him about what weapons and equipment the Japanese army had exchanged from the German army. He also sent personnel to investigate.
Because for MacArthur, the battlefield that he focused most now was not the distant European battlefield, but the Pacific Battle in front of the country. This battle not only concerns whether he can regain the Philippines and restore the glory he lost, but also concerns the safety of the United States of America in the Pacific and the hegemony of the hegemony.
So now for him, he should first find a way to kill the Japanese devils as soon as possible, and then find a way to deal with Hitler.
Of course, his ideas are different from President Roosevelt's, because the latter's thinking is to first Europe and then the Pacific, defeat Hitler first, and then Japan.
So for this time; President Roosevelt's summons and hearing about Eisenhower's defeat, MacArthur decided to try to change President Roosevelt's mentality, so that he could first dispatch a large army to destroy all the Japanese forces in the Pacific, then land on the Japanese mainland to fight, conquer Japan, and force Japan to surrender in full.
Then we concentrate all our energy against Germany and Hitler.
Of course, MacArthur didn't care whether President Roosevelt would accept his advice; because he had made up his mind that whether he would accept it or not, he would use Eisenhower's defeat to gain more troops for him, and deploy his weapons and equipment to the Pacific Battle to fight against Japan's invasion. He would recover all the overseas territories occupied by Japan as soon as possible, including the Philippines he had been thinking about day and night, so that his honor would be brilliant again.
When MacArthur made up his mind, General Chester William Nimitz also returned to Washington White House on the cruiser under the order of President Roosevelt.
At this time, he not only received Eisenhower's defeat information, but also learned that the Japanese army had received exchanges from the German army and had obtained a lot of heavy firepower weapons and equipment.
As well as the current situation of the Battle of Monta Island, the US military does not seem very optimistic.
But for him, the combat plan he is thinking about is still thinking about how to attack the Japanese army along the two routes of the Central Pacific and the Southwest Pacific, with island-by-island attack as the basic strategy.
And how to launch the Battle of the Gilbert Islands in November.
Of course, at this moment, he knew that when he launched the island-to-island offensive tactic in November, the Japanese fortifications were extremely strong, which caused many American soldiers to be killed and injured.
However, it was also because of this that he changed his island-to-island combat policy to crossing the island-to-island combat policy, that is, he surrounded some islands without attacking (trapped them to death), and crossed these islands and attacked key islands.
This is the famous frog jumping tactic in later generations, that is, abandoning the traditional practice of flat pushing on the front line, jumping forward, and attacking across the island.
Take advantage of the naval advantages, avoid the key points of the Japanese army's front-line defense, capture islands with weaker defenses in its strategic depth, and use this as a support to continue the attack, thereby speeding up the victory of the war.
Of course, this "frog jump" tactic was used to parachutes in the later 1983 war of the US invasion of Grenada.
That is, relying on airborne troops to cross the enemy's defensive positions to seize important enemy airports by surprise, thereby dismantling the enemy's air force combat capabilities.
As for such an airborne frog jumping tactic, in the future war, Chen Yanlong moved it to the east and west battlefields, even the African battlefield.
Of course, Nimitz and MacArthur have not had such ideas and enlightenment yet.
"It seems that the Pacific War began to change unexpectedly, but no matter how the German army intervened, I would not let them succeed! I want to end this war of death change as soon as possible, because there are too many people who die in our country and should not continue to fight with these fascists, so we must defeat them as quickly as possible!"
After listening to the rewards from his subordinates, Nimitz stood in the command room of the cruiser, thinking to himself with a bright look.
Chapter completed!