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Volume 2 Growth Chapter 753 The Breaking Fleet Attacks

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    "Blocking the opponent's Atlantic shipping line is currently the only way to save the United States from collapse!" In the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Army Chief of Staff Marshall spoke with a heavy tone. After not seeing each other for more than a month, his mental state was unexpectedly  He seems to have aged ten years.  ¡ÓEven in the room that represents the highest power in the United States, he still looks depressed and has a gloomy look; his movements and gestures have completely lost the high spirits and expectations of being ready to show off his talents when he was promoted to this high position a year ago.  feeling.  Just in the past five weeks, the U.S. Army suffered the most disastrous defeat in history, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as destruction; nearly 600,000 troops were systematically wiped out on the island of Cuba, and not many of them were able to escape.  To a fraction of it, this incredible thing actually happened!  In the past few days, Marshall tried his best to conceal the disaster that occurred on the island of Cuba from the country, and as always fabricated a large number of lies about annihilating the enemy to stabilize the hearts of the people in the country. However, due to too many deaths and prisoners, the U.S. military did not withdraw from the island of Cuba.  The withdrawal still aroused strong doubts from all walks of life in the country.  In order to deal with these people one by one, Marshall worked hard and was exhausted both physically and mentally.  What made him feel even more headache and pessimistic and desperate was the tragic combat effectiveness of his own army that was completely unable to compete with the Germans.  To be fair, the early training of U.S. Army officers is not bad.  As early as the beginning of the 20th century, West Point, New York, was a world-famous military academy. During the four-year study, reserve officers had become deeply familiar with Western combat concepts.  However, the U.S. Army is the most unpopular group in the country.  It has played a semi-transparent and tragic role in the Union Army for many years.  If the navy is still his biological son.  So much so that even though the Congress, the main source of food and clothing, is dissatisfied with his misdeeds, it still wants to allocate him enough living expenses to prevent him from starving.  Then the Army is a complete handicapped imbecile picked up from the roadside; Congress will only throw in a few pieces of black bread when the mood is good to keep it from starving to death, and never care about his life!  Protected by the blue ocean, successive U.S. governments, members of Congress, and the people all believe that they have an unshakable golden city. Coupled with the long-prevailing isolationist trend, the U.S. Army has completely degenerated into an army.  A force that is no different from the police.  Not only do they have no funds to conduct combat exercises under various circumstances, but even the most basic daily training has been in a state of laxity for a long time: the artillery's live ammunition shooting is considered a meaningless behavior, and its only use is to absorb.  The blood of taxpayers.  Troops stationed in overseas areas such as Cuba are in a slightly better situation because they are tasked with suppressing local resistance.  But they are still only suitable for colonial battles, and there is still a huge difference between them and the major European powers.  Since Roosevelt became president, the lack of training and backward equipment of the U.S. Army has been improved to a certain extent with the gradual removal of isolationism. However, before this process has achieved decisive results, the United States has been involved in  In this war.  The battle on the island of Cuba fully demonstrated that the US military is not only completely incomparable with the opponent in terms of personnel quality, but also has an intolerable gap in equipment performance; Tiger phobia has appeared among them, and this heavy tank has been destroyed so far.  The quantity can still be counted on one hand!  Currently, the U.S. Army is still facing an extremely severe situation.  That is, all troops with certain combat experience have become prisoners of the Germans on the island of Cuba.  Although for the United States, a highly industrialized country with a population of 100 million,  It is not difficult to reorganize and arm 40 divisions, but experienced personnel are more than any country can make up for in a short time.  Due to the freeze and depletion of the army in the previous decades, a reserve system similar to that in Germany was never established until the outbreak of the war. At present, the newly recruited soldiers in the country have only experienced a few months of basic training. In the battle-experienced German army  In front of him were a group of novices who were completely unfamiliar with war, and Marshall himself did not expect these troops to be able to block the German attack.  In this case, cutting off the opponent's rear supplies is the only hope for the US military to make a comeback.  As long as the Germans run out of fuel and ammunition, their terrifying land army will be forced to stop advancing, and with its steel superiority, the US military can even pursue victory over the enemy.  In the early battle on the island of Cuba, the US 3rd Armored Division gained a clear advantage in the confrontation with German paratroopers. As long as the enemy's ammunition is exhausted, are they afraid that victory will not be in their hands?  Faced with Marshall¡¯s proposed strategy, Johnson, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, also understood that the Army had reached its limit.  Although he extremely despised the Army's poor combat effectiveness in previous battles, he had to admit that the Navy had indeed received much higher financial allocations, officer corps and grassroots personnel than the Army in the previous decades.  They are far more prosperous than the Army, which is almost starting from scratch.  And now, the navy has arrived againThere is a critical time point when dispatch is necessary: ??According to the news returned by our own intelligence personnel in Mexico, a large number of German troops have landed in its southeastern port of Cancun and even the central port of Veracruz.  If decisive action is not taken, the mainland of the United States will soon be invaded by foreign enemies. Judging from the Army's previous performance in Cuba, they cannot have any hope of fighting on the mainland: you know, the mainland of the United States is also based on  The plains are the main ones, which is really advantageous for the German armored forces!  "The Navy will send a fleet with heavy cruisers as the core to the Atlantic to break diplomatic relations." After a long silence, Johnson finally gritted his teeth and said.  After all, it is too dangerous to send the main fleet into the Atlantic Ocean. German submarines and destroyers in the escort fleet will pose a threat to it. In the current situation of a large and inferior lineup, the best choice for these precious ships is still to stay in relatively safe offshore waters.  In comparison, the value of cruisers is much lower, and even the loss of a few is within an acceptable range.  According to intelligence obtained by the U.S. Navy, in order to reduce the daily consumption of main ships and increase their attendance in key areas, the Allied fleets do not have battleships and aircraft carriers to escort the fleet, which also gives them the conditions for success in sending cruisers.  Facing Marshall's slightly unkind look, Johnson quickly explained: "Although the cruisers we built during the treaty era may be different from the German heavy cruisers, we still have a good chance of victory against the Italian and Austro-Hungarian ships. In addition,  The Navy will also dispatch the latest Baltimore-class heavy cruiser to participate in the operation. This battleship is specially designed to destroy ordinary heavy cruisers and will not be under any pressure when fighting against the German non-capital ships. "On the night of April 16, in Xixi.  Amidst the falling spring rain, a large fleet slowly pulled anchor and set sail from the east coast of the United States.  At first glance, the huge hull is long, tall and wide, and the bridge is strong and majestic. It seems to be the main battleship of the United States; in fact, these ships are all light and heavy cruisers with tonnage several times smaller.  During the Navy holiday, the United States had a total of 18 light and heavy cruisers each. Its total tonnage exceeded 90% of Germany's. Its number even exceeded the German fleet, which focused on heavy cruises, 36 to 33.  After the treaty ended, the United States started construction of 36 new cruisers within four years, driven by stimulating domestic demand and getting rid of the economic crisis.  In this dimension, stimulated by the heavy firepower of the German heavy cruisers, the Americans equipped their new Baltimore-class with nine 254mm L50 naval guns, and also had the power module immunity routine at normal combat distances.  The heavy patrol main gun, and the ammunition depot is immune to the powerful protection of its own main gun.  Of course, the standard displacement of this all-around warship with a speed of 32 knots and a range of 10,000 nautical miles has suddenly soared from the early 10,000 tons of its predecessors to 18,500 tons, and the length of the ship is due to the high-speed requirements, which is two times larger than the tonnage.  The South Dakota-class battleship that is twice as large as our own is even more exaggerated.  Looking from the night, it is a majestic scene.  However, this is the biggest waste of the U.S. Navy in the new round of shipbuilding.  Even if cost-dilution mass construction is carried out, the single-ship cost of this class of ships is more than 41 million U.S. dollars; for comparison, the price of a South Dakota-class battleship is only 77 million U.S. dollars, and the price of an Essex-class aircraft carrier  It¡¯s only $38 million!  Even if an aircraft carrier still needs to be equipped with aircraft and has much more daily maintenance and personnel expenses than a heavy cruiser, it is enough to prove the poor performance-price ratio of this "cruiser killer" that is neither good nor bad.  If all this production capacity is invested in the aircraft carrier field, the size of the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet can almost double, which would allow the U.S. Navy to have at least as many aircraft carriers as Germany.  In comparison, the German Navy¡¯s shipbuilding plan is not much higher than that of the United States.  After the construction of the two Wilhelm der Grosse-class battleships, which mainly had symbolic meaning and smoke bomb attributes, started, there was only one new type of new ship with a capacity of over 10,000 tons, which was the Hindenburg-class armored aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of 35,000 tons.  Under this, the cruiser also evolved into the only 7,000-ton anti-aircraft cruiser, followed by a 2,600-ton large armored destroyer.  A single model has significantly reduced the price and construction period of these warships, which has greatly promoted and benefited the German Navy's overall strategy.  In 1935 alone, Germany laid down the keels of 12 heavy aircraft carriers and 18 anti-aircraft cruisers, giving it an overwhelming advantage over the United States' five fleet aircraft carriers.  But this time, the attacking American fleet ran into another gun of German aviation power.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster! ps: Thanks to book friends such as Zhouyi Tianxia, ??Gege Kuan, Angel Reading, Xiaolu 111, Kong Shenwu, etc. for their monthly ticket support, and Golden Crab, zhouyu1976, Yuanyh1234567 for their monthly ticket support  Reward~~~~ I would like to express my sincere thanks to Ranky for the 10,000 reward. 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