The United States has not recovered from the great grief of Roosevelt's death, and was suddenly hit again. Fortunately, Hoover's effective controls were effective, and the relevant content in "I Complaints" was not reported in the American public opinion circle. However, "Voice of Europe" seized this point and criticized it. On the one hand, domestic media refuted the rumors, and on the other hand, German radio was exaggerating, causing ideological confusion among the American people.

Most of them blame this on the propaganda of the enemy, but only a few people at the top know that the news is true. Although there are other reasons, it is an indisputable fact that the United States' image in Sao Paulo, Rio and other regions has plummeted. Fortunately, there are Patton's troops in northern Brazil, and the largest population of Brazil (Northeast) has the US Army Air and Army, so the situation has not deteriorated.

It's a coincidence that Lieutenant General Clark, the highest commander of the US Brazilian garrison, happened to take a large number of staff to Recife to inspect defense, so he was not involved. However, because Clark was not present, the US military that assisted in the defense of Rio did not know how to deal with the coup. It was too late to intervene after he reacted.

President Truman, who had been officially sworn in, looked gloomy at the plenary meeting of the Joint Conference. The first sentence he said after sitting down was: "How do you plan to deal with the Brazilian issue?"

Regarding the political situation in Brazil, an emergency cabinet meeting has just been held. Because Vagas was imprisoned and his life and death were unknown, Montero seized power through a coup, so the US authorities directly announced that he would not recognize it. Now Montero has introduced the former Secretary of the Army, General Dutera, who is also pro-Germany, to act as the head of state, and he serves as the Secretary of the Army and tries to manipulate it behind the scenes. Therefore, the United States must also support its own Brazilian political leader as soon as possible. At Hull's suggestion, he accompanied Clark to Recife for inspection. At the same time, Brazilian Foreign Minister Osvaldo Alanya, who has always been pro-American, was selected.

But the Americans' actions were obviously much more concealed, and Alanya was just taking into account the "emergency of the situation" to act as a president.

Under this situation, the Brazilian army also began to split. Originally, the Brazilian troops were pro-Germany and pro-US. When the navy was almost beaten by Germany, the army gained unprecedented momentum. However, in areas controlled by the US military, this part of the Brazilian army even wanted to support Dutera and Montero, so it was reluctant to make a public appearance, and some announced their cooperation with the US military.

This is definitely not the situation Truman wants. He has a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Brazilian army and believes that they can only do some logistics at best and face-to-face combat is never available. His expectations for the US Army have been reduced to a very low level, believing that he must have a scale advantage of at least 2:1, which is completely impossible to defeat under 1:1. I heard that the German army is increasing its troops and is worried about the situation in Brazil.

"At present, the second batch of six divisions are being reorganized. After all, we will have about 14 divisions of troops... uh... at least 13 divisions."

Originally, the US military had 4 divisions in South America, and later it was reorganized and reorganized. The overall layout was 1 division in Colombia, 2 divisions in Venezuela, 1 division in Guyana, 2 divisions in Recife, Brazil, 1 division in El Salvador, the capital of Bahia State in the eastern region, and 1 division near Rio. The overall strength was exactly the same as the long snake formation along the South American coastline. According to the plan of the Joint Conference, South America would have to reach at least 500,000 troops, and all the border lines of La Plata Group countries should have US troops in order to deter them. But in fact, due to the repeated transfer of the Navy and the Gerbert army, this task was far from completed.

The current distribution of troops is of course very unsatisfactory, but the terrain of South America determines that the troops can only be distributed in this way - because the traffic conditions in the hinterland of South America cannot support the passage of large troops and heavy equipment, and the US military's logistics needs are particularly heavy, so it is impossible to survive without ports and fleets.

As for Eisenhower's sudden change of words and saying 13 divisions, it is because the infantry division system near Rio has now collapsed, and the actual losses of personnel may not be much, but it has no longer become a force that can undertake combat missions.

"We hope to increase the strength to 20 divisions and be equipped with 2-3 armored divisions." Eisenhower explained to the map. "Due to the special terrain of Brazil, our army cannot march through the hinterland, and can only launch an attack using amphibious landing operations. We have two directions of attack, one is to go directly to Rio; the second is to bypass Rio and go to the rebellious states, but no matter which strategy, the navy must first clear the German fleet along the Brazilian coast."

Truman couldn't help frowning. The Navy had said it could not act before early July, and the Army said it would wait for the Navy. Wouldn't this be delayed one by one?

While silence, a new battle report suddenly came from Clark: "After bloody battles, my 442nd Regiment blocked the enemy's pursuit, and repelled the enemy's attacks three times... covered the retreat of the 7th Division. It is initially estimated that more than 8,000 officers and soldiers have been collected. I have led the staff and other powerful troops to operate south..."

Marshall was very annoyed by this situation. The German army fought a complete division and retreated in a hurry, but was rescued by a regiment of 442. In contrast, the contrast between the two was a bit amazing.

Truman was very happy: "This regiment is good, good! Everyone from the commander to the soldiers should be rewarded. Where is the troops?"

"This..." Everyone was silent in embarrassment.

"What's wrong?" Truman asked in confusion when he saw that everyone looked wrong.

The 442nd Regiment was originally formed by the 100th Battalion of Hawaiian Infantry. These officers and soldiers originally served the 298th and 299th National Guard Infantry Battalions of Hawaii, and were almost all Japanese-Americans. After the Pearl Harbor Incident, the situation was very awkward. The US military was disbanded or retained. Finally, they sent them to form the 100th Battalion, which originally did some logistics support, but they all strongly expressed their desire to go to the front line. In addition to the other troops excluding Japanese officers and soldiers, the army system finally had no choice but to concentrate all Japanese officers and soldiers and form a separate regiment, with the number of Army 442nd Regiment. 85% of the soldiers and middle and low-level officers in it were Japanese, and only the captain-level and some technical troops had more other ethnic groups.

After this regiment was organized, no division was willing to accept it, so it has always existed. The army did not dare to send them to the Pacific battlefield to fight against Japan, nor could it be put in Europe for fear of causing trouble. Clark, who was the top diplomatic rank, was willing to ask them, so they became the direct troops of the Fifth Army. Unlike ordinary senior American officers, Clark liked them very much, thought they were hard-working and tenacious, and was a rare and excellent force. He even proposed to let them serve as headquarters guards. Although this matter was not achieved in the end by others' dissuasion, it was obvious that Clark gave them great confidence and encouragement.

After hearing the whole story, Truman slapped the table: "What Japanese, German, who have joined the nationality of the United States of America, and have sworn allegiance to the country and the constitution. Now, those who are willing to contribute to the country and the people on the battlefield are our compatriots. In the face of war, I hope the army will not have racist prejudice and do not tie up their own hands and feet. After verifying the military achievements of this army, we will be commended by the presidential army."

"yes!"

Truman explained why the president was awarded the commendation: "Now Germans are very arrogant. The American division of the SS team dares to use it to fight Stalin, in the name of "defending social justice and freedom". Although we do not have many axis captives, isn't it a huge political victory to let German troops fight Japan and use Japanese troops to fight Germany?"

"I suggest that you adopt more positive strategies. When the navy cannot occupy the sea area and control the sea power for the time being, the army advances step by step and moves steadily. Even if it cannot recover Sao Paulo and Rio, at least it must contain the destructive power in these two areas without continuing to spread." Truman Road, "I know there are still German reinforcements coming, but our reinforcements are also continuously on the road, every day and every hour, extremely precious. I don't want to see the kind of war report that a division is easily defeated by a enemy with far fewer than theirs. Why can't others do what the 442nd Regiment can do? If you can't fight the level of the 442nd Regiment, why do we say that once Germany and the United States cease to fight, we can easily wipe out Japan - Japan has thousands of 442nd Regiment waiting for us on the west coast of the Pacific!"

Just when Truman was upset in the situation in Brazil, Count Ziano was also paced back and forth in his room. In history, after the complete failure of the North African campaign, Ziano tried to contact the Allies, and anti-German sentiment grew, and Mussolini was finally removed from his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs and changed to the nameless ambassador of the Holy See. But now, with the victory of the Axis, Italy is in good condition, and Ziano stayed firmly in his position. The entire cabinet was his supporters or subordinates.

As Hoffman said, Mussolini only took 1-2 hours a day to deal with national issues, and pushed the rest of the matters big and small to Ziano, which made Ziano have a special relationship.

On the one hand, Mussolini promoted him and used him, not only clarified his heir status, but also married his daughter Ada to Ziano. The two separated a few years ago, but they just made up a year ago. The reason was that Ziano was having sex outside, but Ziano was just a show-off. Compared to the long-term support of his father-in-law, he was simply a saint. Besides, in such a romantic place in Italy, everyone laughed at the romantic affairs of the upper class and did not take it seriously.

On the other hand, Ziano saw the problem of Mussolini very thoroughly: vanity, exaggeration, arrogant and unrealistic, and his personal life was corrupt. If it was normal, everyone would smile at his father-in-law and get over it. Anyway, Ziano would often stand up to wipe his butt in the end. But today's mess and the butt are not easy to wipe.

"Earl, from your words, I think the head of state has reached the point where he can't bear it. If this continues, Italy will be devastated."

"I knew, I knew..." Ziano sighed, "What can I do? I promised the head of state, but they couldn't listen..."

"That's because your location is invalid, you have to use another location..."
Chapter completed!