Song Yuhang put down the report on the battle situation, and he had expected the German counteroffensive for a long time, but he didn't expect Rommel's counteroffensive to be so sharp, Montgomery is also a soldier to block, water to the earth, it seems that these famous generals of World War II are not fuel-efficient lamps, all of them are the masters who can shine with a ray of sunshine.
Roosevelt wanted to convene the second Cairo Conference, but Cairo was threatened by the Germans, although the Germans were still far from Termi at the moment, but Song Yuhang had a feeling that the British would absolutely not be able to stop the German tanks from crushing the port of Tobruk this time, and the British and German armies would once again have a desperate contest at El Alamein.
Song Yuhang remembered that in history, Rommel and his Afrika Korps at this moment should have long been history, the German army had been driven into the sea in Tunisia, the war was a life-and-death struggle between the best personnel and technology on both sides, the slightest mistake could trigger earth-shattering changes, the U.S. military lost the Battle of Midway because the Japanese reconnaissance plane discovered the location of its task force before the crucial "black five minutes", and it seemed that it was just a battle defeat of the U.S.
Navy.
However, on closer examination, it was precisely because of the defeat in the Battle of Midway that the Japanese Navy blocked the eastern Pacific route where the allies sent supplies to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union, which lacked the support of tens of billions of U.S. aid weapons and strategic materials in history, could only seek to continuously shrink the strategic defense front, adopt the practice of using space for time, and use quantity to consume the quality of the German army.
The sudden decrease in the pressure of the German army in the Soviet-German battlefield reminded Hitler of the fact that North Africa was still commanding 35 broken tanks and thousands of remnants, and Rommel was desperately fighting with the British army, so there were a large number of armored forces and air forces drawn from the Eastern Front to Africa, and Rommel, whose strength had skyrocketed, was bound to be disgraced, even if he received reinforcements, the number of German tanks still failed to exceed that of the British, but good maintenance and support often resurrected the German killed tanks, The bad weather in the desert reduced the intact rate of the British armoured units to a dangerous level of about 60, and in between, the balance of superiority tipped in Rommel's favor.
And all this is so natural in Song Yuhang's view, natural to the point of seamlessness, as if the trajectory of history was originally like this.
Roosevelt wanted to have a meeting, Cairo was no longer safe, but Churchill wanted to save face and claim that Cairo was the safest place in the world, which Churchill was indeed a little ashamed, this time Roosevelt did not let Churchill go as usual from the perspective of his own security, and Chiang Kai-shek finally found an opportunity to counterattack the British, claiming in a telegram in reply to Roosevelt that India was attacked by the Japanese, Egypt was attacked by the Germans, and even London, the capital of the British Empire, was bombed by the Germans and was in ruins.
Is there any safe place under the direct jurisdiction of the British Empire?
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the pro-British faction in the US military is far beyond the pro-Chinese, so Jiang Gong's remarks were learned by Churchill before the afternoon, and the angry Churchill twisted his fat body and panted and vowed to stand against the "bald head", of course, as a mature politician, private affairs will never conflict with politics, which is also the significant difference between Western and Eastern cultures.
At Song Yuhang's suggestion, the four-nation summit was turned into a telegraph conference, and the United States came up with a set of emergency backup secret telegraph systems and sent personnel to the Soviet Union, Britain, and China, and the four parties exchanged ideas with Washington as the center through encrypted messages.
As a result, the second high-level summit of the Allies of great historical significance was held in 1943 in 1220 in an unprecedented new way, saying that it was a meeting, but in fact, Britain, as an old empire, was forced to accept China as one of the four powers under the auspices of the new hegemon, and Britain was never willing to give up its vested interests, even if the sun never set on Great Britain's empire, Britain's stubbornness, more precisely, Churchill's stubbornness gave Roosevelt a headache.
In the eyes of such an excellent politician as Roosevelt, the significance of supporting Britain was to prevent all Europe from falling, and it was a very effective containment of Nazi Germany, because the English Channel separated by Britain and France was nearly 1,000 kilometers long, and there were as many as a dozen suitable landing sites, and out of commitment to the historical allies of the Allies in World War I, and in order to effectively counterattack France in the future, the United States could not give up the British Isles.
But Churchill's ambitions and the combat effectiveness of the British army have just become inversely proportional, Britain needs to maintain many colonies, but also need to defend the British Isles, for which the United States is desperately paying all kinds of resources, at this moment Britain does not say any industrial production capacity, even the bread eaten, the coffee drunk and all kinds of non-staple food are shipped from the United States.
The burden on Britain is quite heavy for the United States.
Even so, Britain was trying to hold the command of the Anglo-American coalition in its hands, as it did in World War I.
Roosevelt decided to pass this face-to-face meeting.
Ringing the side bell for Churchill as well.
He was reminded that the United States was not just an ally of the United Kingdom.
And for China.
Although President Chiang Kai-shek often asked for supplies, weapons, and loans from him.
But there is no doubt that the Chinese need far more land than the British need.
The Saxons are almost greedy To make Roosevelt a little depressed. before yourself.
Including the Congress, it has a cautious goal of leasing Chinese capital.
After all, China's role and influence in the Central Powers of the Allies is too weak.
Now it's different.
Roosevelt was shocked by the fact that China's huge population base could arm troops on the ground.
Especially when these units are armed with American-made weapons.
The outburst is astonishingly combat-ready and has surpassed that of the U.S. military.
If the supplies to Britain are adjusted, some of them will be given to China.
Then China may well independently launch several land campaigns against the Japanese army.
Attract and eliminate more Japanese troops.
At the same time as reducing the pressure on the ground combat ground of the US military in the Pacific theater.
From the huge number of major political decisions, according to the words of later generations, there is the right to participate in the proposal, but where the final decision lies with Chiang Kai-shek, just this right to participate in the proposal is already the envy of others.
The olive branch handed out by the Americans had long been expected by Song Yuhang, and the battles of Longling and Songshan could be said to have played the courage of the Chinese, and the Japanese army was forced to retreat, which rarely happened in the War of Resistance for many years.
The Americans pay attention to practical interests, and unlike the British who stick to the old rules, as the prototype of a new type of hegemonist, they dare to break all the inherent systems and distribution patterns; Song Yuhang believes that if Germany can secretly promise to give the United States enough attractive benefits in the early stage of the war, then the United States is likely to maintain a neutral posture in the war, and accept and laugh at it without bloodshed.
December 20, 1943, can be said to be a holiday for the Chinese, Chiang Kai-shek did not get everything at the Cairo Conference in this telegraph conference, as a foil Churchill and Stalin also understood Roosevelt's intentions, this is a real prelude to the inclusion of China in the four-power system, the world is likely to witness the glorious rise of an ancient country with 5,000 years of splendid civilization after the war.
Of course, China may have to pay an unimaginable price for this, looking at Chiang Kai-shek, who was immersed in joy, Song Yuhang surprisingly kept calm, opened the Indo-Burmese and Burma highways, and received a large amount of U.S. aid equipment seems to be a very attractive prospect, but the more than 200,000 Japanese troops in Burma are not fake With the strategic depth of Burma, there were not a few large-scale battles, and there were no 100,000 casualties, it was a pipe dream to destroy the Japanese army entrenched in Burma, and the Japanese army in Burma far had several divisions and brigades more than in history, and their goal was India, and it would undoubtedly be an earth-shattering battle to eliminate them
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