Things are not so complicated. After German bombers visited the British Iceland Air Force Base, the United States was trying its best to think about what they could do in this war. It is obviously not a big question to defeat Japan. After all, the various victories that have been coming from the front line do not require fraud.

However, the attacks on the Axis powers became very troublesome. The Germans were unable to operate the Atlantic barriers, which really made the American senior management feel that dogs could not bite hedgehogs. Of course, the bombing of Iceland also made operations against Norway difficult.

So an important question was placed before the Americans: Where can we fight against the Germans to achieve the greatest victory? After some thought, almost everyone's conclusion pointed to an answer: Impossible!

Yes, it is impossible! The United States has no way to break the Atlantic barrier run by Germany for a while, and the German and Italian coalition forces in North Africa also defeated the British and American coalition forces. The situation on the Soviet-German battlefield made the US senior management even more worried. The Iceland bombing plan was an action planned to alleviate the pressure on the Eastern Front...

Facts that have already happened have proved that the plan to bomb Norway did not fundamentally solve the pressure on Germany to the Eastern Front. The United States must find a new way to completely help the Soviet Union stabilize its defense.

So everyone searched and found that only by fighting head-on with the Axis powers in the Middle East can we truly attract the attention of the German army. In this battle, we must get rid of the possibility of head-on battle with the German army as much as possible. After all, it is not easy to defeat the German army that crossed the Suez Canal.

"This is really embarrassing... We have to attack the Axis Team and avoid the most elite Germans... How do we fight this kind of battle?" At the meeting studying this matter, an American general sighed and shook his head and complained.

Sitting next to him was General Bradley, a famous American general. This genius had just returned from the African side. He glanced at his fat colleague beside him, and looked at his colleague Marshall on the other side with some disapproval.

"The plan to reinforce the Middle East for 100,000 infantry has been going on for so long, and the troops we deployed near Saudi oil fields are still pitifully small. At least it is too difficult to expect these troops to resist Rommel's attack." An officer in charge of the replenishment of American troops in the Middle East sighed and said with some confidence: "Although we know that Rommel has not many troops, they are all elite soldiers of a hundred battles, and the supplies are better than us..."

"It is better to study how to stop the German attack here and at least protect the Middle East oil fields there." Another general also agreed with most people. He believed that sending the US soldiers who had finally been armed to a distant battlefield to die was a very unworthy thing.

Roosevelt sat in his wheelchair and tapped the armrest of the wheelchair with his hands. He knew that many officers here did not belong to his camp. In this kind of routine discussion, many people were using objections to try to pull people who supported President Roosevelt into the water.

Roosevelt also knew that it was very unrealistic to expect the Allied troops to defeat Rommel's African regiment in the Middle East. If there was a slight chance, Patton and Montgomery would not lose badly on the North African battlefield. Now the German army's supply line is shorter and the troops are stronger, so there is no reason to lose to the weak Allied troops in the Middle East.

Although the United States relied on Britain and its own huge transport fleet to deliver more than 70,000 US troops and various equipment to the Middle East, it still had no way to stop the German army from moving forward. At this time, it was necessary to formulate a more reasonable combat plan to delay the collapse of the Middle East. This was the content of this meeting.

"I communicated with General Bradley. He also met General Patton and General Mountbatten in the Middle East. He knew better than me about the situation." Marshall looked at the white-faced President Roosevelt and whispered to interrupt everyone's endless arguments: "I have a fairly feasible plan here, so let's discuss this."

If the entire United States is compared to the Shu Kingdom among the Three Kingdoms, then General Marshall is undoubtedly the embodiment of the character Zhuge Liang. This man who is known as a think tank in the top American leaders is Eisenhower and even Roosevelt's military adviser and assistant. Half of the American plan came from his work, and it would be no exaggeration to say that he helped the United States in another time and space win World War II.

Now that he said that he had a new plan, everyone naturally shut up their mouths. Talking big and being able to do things is completely different. Most of the generals sitting around the conference table can only fight verbal battles on behalf of the interests of all parties. If you speak again at this time, you will expose your ignorance when dealing with difficult problems. Such stupid things will not be done by anyone.

"General Bradley and I agreed that it would be more than worth the effort to counterattack Rommel's African Legion directly. It would disrupt General Mountbatten's retreat defense deployment, increase our losses, and speed up our failure." Marshall repeated the original words discussed by those people just now and said it as an opening remark.

Then he continued to speak and said to Roosevelt, who was in charge, "But what if we change our opponents? Is it possible for our American army to defeat the armies of other countries except Germany?"

While asking this question, he looked at the generals representing the Army to attend the meeting. These people immediately patted their chests and promised: "Of course! If they were not fighting with the German army, then the army's combat effectiveness was still trustworthy! For example, the results of attacking Japan in the Pacific Ocean are the best proof!"

"After occupying Alexandria, Germany broke through the Suez Canal defense line. Their combat effectiveness cannot be evaluated, but it is indeed over!" He pointed to the map on the table and explained the problem to Roosevelt: "Rommeel did not cross the desert of Saudi Arabia, which proves that he still lacks fuel and lacks the support of his own power!"

Then he smiled and stared at Roosevelt: "But, not long ago, the Axis powers themselves brought their weaknesses to our noses! Now we know what to do to use a whole chain reaction to severely hit the axis powers' arrogance!"

"Weakness? What weakness?" Roosevelt was stunned, and then looked at Marshall in confusion. Roosevelt was very satisfied with his subordinate. At least on the Pacific battlefield, the US team's successive victory was inseparable from Marshall's centralized dispatch, and the strategic policy of adhering to the Pacific first and then the Atlantic Ocean.

"Not long ago, Turkey crossed the border and attempted to attack Syria and other areas controlled by the French exile government. As a result, their attack was easily repelled. Our losses were so small that there was no need to report it..." Bradley smiled and took Roosevelt's words and introduced: "If I hadn't been to Africa in person, this matter wouldn't have even alarmed anyone here."

Marshall nodded and continued: "Originally, we thought it was just a small-scale incident of shooting fire in the border area. After all, both sides have no plans to start further... But after some investigation, we found that it was an attack launched by Turkey!"

An attack? It was a scale of a border conflict? Roosevelt's eyes lit up, and then immediately grasped the key to the problem. He looked at General Marshall and asked, "So, how much force does it need to be invested if we launch a counterattack against the Axis powers on the Turkish border?"

Marshall smiled slightly, then looked at Turkey with a complex terrain and finally chose a relatively stable number: "The Germans once deployed some troops there, and I think if they defeated them together, we would need at least 7 divisions of troops... about 180,000."

"Do we have so many troops in the Middle East? Generals." Roosevelt did not say anything to Marshall, but adjusted his eyes and pointed at all the generals present: "Can we mobilize nearly 200,000 troops in the Middle East?"

"There are about 50,000 people who can cooperate with our operations. The British and Indian forces can support between 100,000 and 120,000. If all the troops there are included, there will be more than 100,000... However, Mr. President, these troops cannot be allocated. They must have a certain amount of troops on the front to deal with the German attacks, so there are only more than 100,000 troops." A general asked his colleagues on both sides before answering Roosevelt's question.

"General Bradley, if General Barton arrives from India to Baghdad and commands an attack on Turkey... try to avoid the German army and only annihilate the Turkish troops... Is 100,000 troops enough?" Roosevelt asked another question, but this time, he asked General Bradley alone, not everyone.
Chapter completed!