Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

No matter what kind of bomb the Germans used, since they attacked the dam, they were sure to destroy it.

President Wilkie immediately ordered the rapid evacuation of people downstream of these dams.

Unfortunately, before he could leave the conference room with this order, a German attack plane flying over the Kennebec River in Maine had already dropped a specially designed ricochet bomb. More than a dozen ricochet bombs jumped forward on the water. Some of them were stopped by the mine protection net. The remaining ricochet bombs successfully escaped the mine protection net, hit the dam, and began to sink slowly. .

boom! boom! boom!

Hairline cracks began to appear on the Edwards Dam, which is more than 100 years old, and tiny jets of water shot out along the cracks. With the successive explosions, the tiny cracks gradually expanded and thickened, the trickle also became turbulent, and large chunks of cement began to fall from the dam.

"Boom...boom..."

Finally, the dam failed to hold on, and a gap was opened, and the surging flood made the gap larger and wider.

Seeing the turbulent flood below sweeping downstream with an unstoppable momentum, the German pilots in the sky couldn't help but gasp. "It's really spectacular. I don't know why these Americans built so many dams."

"It would be great if I could blow up the Hoover Dam. It would be much more spectacular than here."

However, the location of the Hoover Dam is beyond the combat radius of the fighter jets, and it is impossible for them to conduct deep bombing alone.

"It's a matter of time. If these stupid Americans don't surrender, then we will flatten every inch of their land!"

Soon, word of the destruction of Edwards Dam reached Washington, and a moment of silence fell in the conference room. This is not the only dam the Germans attacked. I am afraid that all the dams targeted by them will not be spared. Thinking about the losses and casualties caused is a headache.

"Fortunately it's not winter now." Marshall sighed happily. If he was swept away by floods in the cold winter, there would be many casualties.

"These damn Germans!" President Wilkie cursed angrily. Now that the Germans have the cover of aircraft carrier-based aircraft, their bombers can bomb any target within the combat radius of the carrier-based aircraft. "Is there no way to destroy their fleet?" Even if it can be severely damaged, it would be too cowardly to be beaten unilaterally.

After hesitating for a moment, Commander Arnold slowly spoke. "According to last experience, if we risk losing 1,000 fighter planes, we should be able to get close to the German fleet, and then our bomber group can launch an attack. But it is hard to say whether we can severely damage the German fleet."

"!!" It takes losing 1,000 fighter planes to get close to the German fleet?

The price is too high!

In fact, anyone familiar with the history of World War II knows that 1,000 fighter planes are just a drop in the bucket for the US military in the original time and space. As the country with the highest industrial production capacity during World War II, the United States' aircraft production was very impressive. If we start counting from 1939, the total aircraft production of the United States in World War II exceeded an astonishing 300,000 aircraft. Among them, from 1942 to the end of 1945, the United States had manufactured more than 275,000 combat aircraft.

But now it is "not what it used to be", and the U.S. economy has become extremely difficult. The piles of European foreign exchange in the national treasury have turned into piles of waste paper. What is ridiculous is that Europe's euro has long been a foregone conclusion, but the Americans dare not dispose of this pile of waste paper. After all, if the counterattack on Europe is successful one day, these foreign exchanges can still be exchanged, right? Although the possibility of this is quite slim.

Coupled with the thousands of tons of gold "robbed" by the Germans, the U.S. economy fell into unprecedented difficulties.

I wish I could break a penny in half and say that I have to lose at least 1,000 fighter planes to get close to the German fleet? And it’s not guaranteed to destroy the fleet?

Then just continue to be a coward.

President Wilkie brought up another incident. "What happened to the 'Atlantic Defense Line' plan?" The last "Pacific Defense Line" plan proposed by Pacific Fleet Commander-in-Chief Nimitz; based on this plan, they customized the "Atlantic Defense Line" plan.

Marshall replied. "It's more or less the same. However, the funds required to build these defense lines are not a small amount. The infrastructure construction alone requires about 50 billion."

"50 billion?!" President Wilkie's mouth twitched slightly. What's even more frightening is that this is only the cost of infrastructure construction. If all the construction is completed, how much will it cost? ! For the first time, he complained that the coastline of the United States was too long. The long coastline originally provided the United States with many excellent bays and ports, but now this long coastline has become a disadvantage, even a burden!

Marshall said very worriedly. "Mr. President, we don't have much time. I'm afraid the Soviet-German war will come to an end next year at the latest, and the Germans will turn around and deal with us by then." In his estimation, even if the Soviets grit their teeth and persist, they will at most Can last until the end of next year.

After the Soviet-German War is over, the Germans will rest for at most half a year before deploying their troops to deal with the United States.

In other words, they only have two years to build the "Pacific Defense Line" and "Atlantic Defense Line".

Of course, if the war ends during this period, there will be no need to build these fortifications.

But the conditions proposed by the Germans were really unacceptable.

The first of these is that a group of war criminals headed by former President Roosevelt are to be tried by the European Military Tribunal.

In the war liquidation, there is a definition of war criminals to determine who is a war criminal and who is not. The first is the judgment of politicians. For politicians, it depends on whether the politician supports launching wars, crazy inciting the people, etc. The second is for soldiers. Soldiers are generally not treated as war criminals because soldiers obey orders and there is no right or wrong. But if they kill and massacre civilians on the battlefield, use illegal weapons, issue orders to massacre surrendered soldiers or people, and other violations of humanity, they can be regarded as war criminals. The last step is the judgment of civilians. Generally speaking, civilians will not be treated as war criminals on average, regardless of which side of the war they are on. However, there are also civilians who advocate war, publicize war, carry out ideological infiltration, etc. Such people can be treated as war criminals.

But the Germans did not follow common sense at all. The last time the European Military Tribunal was held, war criminals from most of the defeated countries in Europe were tried. Among them were politicians and soldiers. In their view, many of them did not constitute war criminals, but they still Convicted as a war criminal by the Germans. If the Germans compiled a list of American war criminals, Marshall felt that everyone in this conference room would be on the list. In this case, who would agree to an armistice.