Chapter 627 Revenge (1)
After declaring war on the Chinese Empire in Washington, Roosevelt asked the secretary's office to call the chief officer of the three armies for a meeting, while he himself sat in his office dejectedly, his eyes stutteringly.
Although Roosevelt had made the worst plans, the sneak attack on San Juan did not achieve the expected results. Although the US military had severely damaged the second squadron of the Chinese Empire's Atlantic Fleet, the Caribbean Fleet, and destroyed the largest comprehensive military base of the Chinese Empire in the Americas. It can be said that the US military achieved a brilliant victory, paving the way for its subsequent upcoming combat plan to attack the Caribbean and Central and South America.
But Roosevelt and the entire US military did not expect that it would be a result of hurting the enemy for 1,000 and self-damaging 800. The Nimitz fleet lost a super battleship, 21 aircraft carriers and more than 2,000 carrier-based aircraft, while Ella's strategic aviation team lost more than 2,000 long-range bombers. This result was absolutely devastating. Although the sneak attack successfully destroyed the main force of the Chinese Empire's air force at the San Juan base and destroyed more than 2,000 aircraft of the Chinese Empire's Air Force, it caused two large aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire to escape, which posed a great threat to the US Navy's subsequent military operations in the Caribbean Sea.
The huge economic and industrial capacity of the Chinese Empire, as well as its huge war potential, made Roosevelt extremely worried, but fortunately, Hitler and the entire allies did not abandon the United States, which was a little comforting.
Soon, the chief officers of the three armies rushed to meet, including Marshall, MacArthur and Eisenhower of the Army, Henry Arnold, Ella Eke and Carl Spatz of the Air Force, Ernst Jinn, Nimitz and William Halesay of the Navy.
“I wonder if our plan will still be on schedule?”
Everyone sat down, and Roosevelt asked his questions straight to the point.
Everyone looked at each other, and finally Marshall sighed and explained: "The price we planned to attack San Juan was to lose about 400 combat aircraft, but the result was really ashamed. We lost more than 4,000 combat aircraft, ten times what we expected."
Roosevelt asked: "I just want to know if the plan to attack Hawaii and Bermuda can still be carried out as scheduled?"
Marshall smiled bitterly: "We planned to successfully attack San Juan, the Chinese Empire would have to retaliate. They would take off a large number of bombers from the bases of Hawaii and Bermuda to carry out large-scale bombing. Our original plan was to use 5,000 long-range bombers to attack these two bases when the Chinese Empire gathered heavy troops in Hawaii and Bermuda, and destroy the Chinese Empire's offensive power in the Americas in one fell swoop. But now we only have less than 900 long-range bombers left, and we can no longer carry out long-range bombers on Hawaii. However, we still have more than 4,000 medium- and short-range bombers, which can still launch large-scale air strikes on Bermuda."
Roosevelt asked: "Why is it just an air strike? Didn't the previous plan capture Bermuda?"
Marshall looked at Nimitz, and the latter said embarrassedly: "It was all my poor command and ruined our aircraft carrier battle group. At present, our navy is probably trying not to stay away from the local area, because a fleet lacking aircraft carrier protection is easily attacked by the Chinese Empire."
Although Roosevelt looked at Nimitz very unhappy, he also understood that Nimitz had tried his best.
At this moment, an alarm suddenly sounded over Washington, and Roosevelt's secretary rushed in.
"Not good, Mr. President. Air Defense Command discovered that a large number of aircraft groups from the Chinese Empire were heading towards us!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!