"What do you think of George's suggestions?" Nimitz was a little unhappy when he received a telegram from Patton who wanted to hit Victoria, but did not make a statement quickly, but asked his chief of staff Smith first.

"Although his reason is simple, I think it makes sense from the perspective of the army." Smith walked to the front of the map and said, "Aerial reconnaissance showed that the enemy did not advance after seizing Liniaris. He only sent a small force to estimate the scale of an armored search battalion to investigate. Instead, the main force returned to the army to set up defense, which shows that the enemy believed that its use of troops had reached its limit, and Victoria happened to be in the center of the two north and south defense lines of the German army. I can understand George's intention. He hoped that after Victoria landed, he would cooperate with the main force of the Fifth Army that advanced from the front and ate the German army on the first line of defense in the north in one bite."

"Do you think the Army can do it?"

"able!"

"So, do you agree with his advice?"

"No, I don't agree! I said just now that his opinion makes sense from the perspective of the army, but from the perspective of the navy and the global situation, it makes no sense."

Smith explained his point: "Although the South American battle requires ground troops to fight one by one, it ultimately depends on sea control. If we cannot control the sea control in the coastal areas of Brazil, no matter how far we advance on the ground, we will inevitably be landed on the enemy's flanks and eventually waste all our efforts. The key to obtain sea control is to annihilate or defeat the current German fleet, and our time is very tight. I expect the German reinforcement fleet to arrive in 2-3 weeks. There is not much time left for us, and 2-3 weeks is not enough for George to solve the problem. The main force of the Fifth Army gathers and advances, and it is impossible to get 7-10 days from El Salvador to Liniaris. In the end, it is very likely that he had just fought halfway, and the enemy reinforcements came, and the troops landing in Victoria would be completely destroyed."

Nimitz nodded: "I have a closer idea to you. The key to the situation in Brazil is at sea. As long as we can win in naval battles, the army can win no matter how we fight. On the contrary, no matter how the army fights, they will lose. Please tell George clearly this meaning, I am willing to cooperate with him to win, provided that the army must first cooperate with the navy to stabilize the situation."

"You can't just say that." Smith shook his head. "You know George's temper. He is more stubborn than a cow. He should make the situation worse."

“How to say it?”

"If the Germans were decisive enough, they could completely abandon all the northernmost forces and let the Fifth Army eat them? Within three weeks, if the navy cannot destroy or repel the German fleet currently operating in the South Atlantic, we will lose!" Smith spread his hands, "It is not a problem to eliminate this part or that part of the German army. The most urgent task now is to eat the other side's squadron before the German reinforcement fleet arrives!"

"Sir, General Nimitz called us back, and he disagreed with us going to Victoria to log in." Roosevelt Jr. handed the telegram to Patton, "He still asked to log in to Santos, or to log in to Rio!"

After reading Nimitz's telegram, Patton's mind was overwhelmed and speechless for a long time.

The telegram reveals a cruel reality: the Army is likely to win a landing battle but it will waste a few time.

Patton originally planned to launch the Victorian Landing Campaign on July 30, and cut off the German retreat in 3-4 days, and then let the main force of the Fifth Army solve the problem. But if the German army did not care about this loss, the US military could at most eat 8,000-9,000 German troops, and then it would have to prepare for the next offensive plan. At that time, the Santos or Rio landing battle would have to be carried out. In short, the German army set up a long snake formation winding from Leniaris to Port Alegre on the east coast of Brazil. It seemed that there were loopholes everywhere, but the real fatal point was that Santos or Rio in the middle, and other places could only take the lead or the tail, and could not play a role in responding to the call. The German army fought for some of the losses and could completely delay time.

Seeing that he was still very hesitant, Roosevelt Jr. advised again: "If General Nimitz is unwilling to land in Victoria, you cannot just carry out the login mission alone. Don't forget that General Hewitt controls the landing fleet. Without Nimitz's consent, how dare he change the target of attack at will? We can't hijack the naval ship again, right?"

Patton smiled bitterly and shook his head: The army had hijacked the naval ship once in the last Cape Verde battle, but Kennedy went to Congress to testify and finally crushed Wallace to death. Everyone knows that this guy died unjustly, but everyone died. What's the point of saying too much? Although Patton sometimes doesn't adjust, it doesn't mean he has no IQ. A fool cannot be a lieutenant general in the army.

He stared at the map and looked again and again, and finally sighed helplessly: "Forget it, let's go to Santos to land, I hope I can pull out the damn German fleet."

Although Rio and Santos have the same strategic significance, Patton believes that Santos is easier to fight than Rio. After all, the latter is the capital of Brazil. Not only does it have German heavy defenses, but there are also a large number of German aircraft to support nearby, so the landing losses will be huge. He only has 20,000 people per division, so he dare not make trouble.

"Sir, I received a telegram from General Clark, which showed that the German army deployed two Brazilian puppet masters in Sao Paulo and Santos, with only one regiment of its own troops, with about 4,000-5,000 people, while there was only one Brazilian puppet master in Rio, but the German army had nearly two divisions."

"This shows that the German defense center is in Rio, so let's go and fight Santos and Sao Paulo." Patton complained, "It's fine if the army can't beat the Germans, but why can't even the navy can't beat the Germans now?"

Roosevelt shrugged, fortunately Hewitt didn't hear this, but he didn't know that Nimitz also sent a telegram to Hewitt: If Patton dares to make trouble, he will detain it directly!

Why did Patton stay on the New Jersey and Hewitt be with him? At the best, it is called protection, and at the worst, it is called strict supervision. Who knows what Patton will do when his head is hot. At that time, the Commander Tower, with a armor thickness of up to 445mm, will be Patton's best prison.

Now that Patton cooperates so well, Hewitt of course greeted him with a smile. Not only did he lead him into every corner of the New Jersey, but he also deviated from the scheduled route in the middle, allowing the New Jersey to break into Victoria Harbor with other warships. He launched violent artillery bombardment on the other side of the shore, misleading the German and Brazilian troops to judge. Looking at the huge power of the 406mm naval gun, Patton sighed to Hewitt: "Why didn't there be such a powerful warship in the Horn of Africa? Otherwise, it would have turned into a rooster and climbed ashore in shame. I have been considering revenge all the time for the past year and a half!"

Hueyte nodded, agreeing with this statement.

With a "boom", the entire warship fired even more fiercely. Patton was startled. Hewitt told him that this was a volley after the test fire just now. The power of the volley was obviously much greater than that of the test fire.

He said in a pun: "It seems that the tubes in the world have something in common, whether they are gun barrels or anything else. As expected, they must be thicker to be powerful!"

Hewitt rolled his eyes, pretending not to understand the implicit meaning inside, and laughed and hugged and passed.

Seeing that Hewitt did not resonate with Hewitt, Patton turned around and began to incite the naval officers and soldiers: "Young men, come on! This time I will give the Germans some color first. In two years, I will fight to Tokyo with you and use these thick tubes to blow the Japanese palace into scum!"

The soldiers all cheered.

Hewitt asked Roosevelt Jr.: "I think he is very popular with the soldiers, but why do you always feel that he is not serious enough?"

"This is his style." Roosevelt Jr. smiled bitterly. "No American general is as popular as him and is disliked by other generals. He is a freak. If he had been born a hundred years earlier, he would have been the best cowboy in the West. Unfortunately, he was born a century later!"

At this moment, Crank, who was determined to play hide-and-seek with Nimitz, is currently hiding 550 kilometers southeast of Sao Paulo with his main fleet, which is just beyond the coverage of the US Army's army's fleet reconnaissance aircraft and beyond the vision of Nimitz's fleet reconnaissance aircraft. However, for the German reconnaissance aircraft based on Rio, the enemy's movements are clear.

"Sir, we found that the US fleet is heading south in an all-round way... not only its main fleet, but also its transportation and landing fleets. In addition, the US military also shelled Victoria Harbor this afternoon, and the Brazilian army and port facilities suffered varying degrees of losses. The Air Force tried to launch an attack, but the effect was average." Xinz reported to Krank, "I think the enemy was coming for us."

"The enemy doesn't seem to care about exposing the target, otherwise they wouldn't pour fire into Victoria without landing, but only shelling out the value of it." Crank murmured, "Nimitz should have come to us."

"Where is that landing force?"

"Maybe this is the bait for us... If I really swallow the hook, I'll be fooled. Do you know if there is anyone inside?" He stared at the chart and studied for 3 minutes. "Continue to move south, keep a distance from the US military, and let the submarines fight the Americans and give them some color!"

Since the first discovery of the US fleet, German submarines have not shown their faces for many days, which gives the US military an illusion: either they really didn't meet a submarine that day, or they only met German submarines that occasionally passed by. They never expected that Crank had already mobilized a force of more than 30 submarines to deploy on the coast of Brazil during this period, intending to concentrate them to give Americans a cruel time.

"The reinforcements have been organized in China, including an armored division, two armored grenade divisions, an infantry division and a heavy armored battalion. Now we are waiting for the two British aircraft carriers to complete the final sea test. Marshal Marshal expects that the transportation troops will depart around August 15 to join the main fleet through the Strait of Gibraltar earlier. In addition, news from the Japanese side has also been reported that the joint fleet is undergoing final preparations and is expected to set off in mid-August..."
Chapter completed!