Chapter 114, Bald Eagle’s Nuclear Counterattack Plan (Part 2)
Compared to the North African retreat, which was brutal, with numerous casualties and endless consequences. The U.S. military's retreat in East Asia appears to be uneventful.
——With the surrender of the Queen of England and the complete end of the European battlefield, even with the strength of the United States of America, it can no longer maintain a long front that circles the earth. Under such circumstances, the US military has significantly reduced its forces and completely withdrawn from the Far East. , becomes an inevitable choice.
For this reason, the Philippine colony, which was already unsustainable, and the Taiwan authorities, whose prospects were despairing, became helpless abandoners.
After receiving the Pentagon's order to withdraw troops, General MacArthur did not make any fuss like the last time he was forced to leave the Philippines, nor did he make any bold statements such as "I will come back again." He was just very calm. He packed up his luggage, left Manila on a cruiser, crossed the South China Sea, and retreated to Bangkok, Thailand. Next, MacArthur will successively receive the American troops withdrawn from the Philippines in Bangkok, and then take them back to the country via Singapore, Ceylon and South Africa, or directly go to a new battlefield somewhere in the middle.
As for the areas controlled by the US military in the Philippines and the important task of resisting the invasion of the "Hook" guerrillas of the Communist Party of the Philippines, it can only be left to the pro-US bourgeois government of the Philippines that he supported and the more than 100,000 people who were hastily organized during this period. Government troops...According to the Pentagon's most optimistic estimates, relying on the supplies, ammunition and ordnance left behind by the US military's retreat, they are estimated to be able to persist in the Philippines for six to nine months...
And Chairman Chiang, who had just quit the mainland and moved to Taiwan, received two sad news: First, the US aid supplies were about to be completely cut off, and there would no longer be a US fleet to send him even a gun or a gun. Listen to the can and a bullet; secondly, the only Taiwan that his National Government can still rule has become an isolated white island surrounded by red forces around the world, and will soon face the siege of the red forces of China, Japan and the Soviet Union at the same time.
For Chairman Chiang, who is currently unable to produce even a rifle on his own, the cutoff of U.S. aid supplies alone is enough to kill him.
Therefore, after hysterically complaining about the sky and the air, breaking countless cups and dishes, and venting like crazy, this famous bald man still seriously... or resignedly prepared for the Republic of China. The establishment of a government-in-exile...
As China's civil war draws to a close and the U.S. military withdraws from East Asia, the strategic task of resisting the "red disaster" in the Eastern world almost entirely falls on Thailand. As for whether this feudal monarchy of the Buddhist country can shoulder such an important task, no one cares. Anyway, the dominoes that the two major camps of the United States and the Soviet Union placed on the gambling table in East Asia have almost fallen. Whether Thailand, the only remaining member of the US camp, will struggle to persevere or be swallowed up by the red wave will not have much impact on the overall situation of the global game between the two sides.
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What made President Truman feel even more exhausted was that not only was the situation of the U.S. military on various overseas battlefields so tragic, but the situation within the United States was also rapidly deteriorating - with the long war in sight, the situation was getting worse day by day. With the rising death toll, ever-dwindling wartime rations, and waves of large-scale wartime conscription, the enthusiasm of the American people in the early days of the war has long faded, but war weariness is growing day by day. Large conglomerates are also complaining endlessly under the pressure of various forced allocations of national debts, but they have no way out and have to bite the bullet and persevere to the end.
On the eve of World War III, when the United States continuously dropped atomic bombs on overseas battlefields, there were people holding banners on the South Lawn of the White House to protest. When the Third World War officially started, millions of American troops abandoned their armor and the news of the collapse of the entire front came. Instead of the people in the country bursting out with the same hatred against the Bolsheviks, various anti-war demonstrations and peaceful rallies continued one after another, and newspapers Also following the government The government has been singing different tunes... There is no way. Since the Pearl Harbor incident, the number of casualties in the United States of America during the five years of war has reached an astonishing nine million, which is equivalent to 15% of the total casualties in the Civil War. Times as much! But the dawn of victory is still far away, and Americans can no longer bear it.
Fortunately, due to their extreme fear and deep-seated hostility towards the Bolsheviks, on the major issue of opposing the Bolsheviks and boycotting the Red Wave, all the major financial groups in the United States stood firmly on the side of the White House and did not take the opportunity to cause trouble or cause trouble... Rely on With the full support of Wall Street and some shady methods, President Truman successfully suppressed all opposition voices in Congress and finally did not encounter an impeachment crisis.
However, under the pressure of financial groups, it is easy for the Supreme Court and members of Congress to reconcile, but the war-weariness among the people is really difficult to eliminate. With the successive reports of defeats on the front line and the snowfall of death notices, domestic resistance to the draft became increasingly serious. In New Orleans, the capital of Louisiana, where the situation was most severe, a black draft riot even broke out in early January— —After the outbreak of the Third World War, due to the consideration that young white men were fighting If there are too many deaths on the field, the racial population ratio in American society may become imbalanced in the future. Therefore, in order to ensure the dominance of white people, the current U.S. government is deliberately tilting toward black people in recruiting soldiers, hoping to consume more of them, which may be a problem in the future. Become troublesome black youth to weaken potential risks.
In particular, several southern states with serious racial discrimination problems have gone too far and treated the black people in their states as if they were "sweeping them into soldiers". Even many black women have been expropriated and forced to join various industries. of the Auxiliary Services Corps...and it turns out there was one unlucky black man in New Orleans A widow, her husband was abandoned on the island of Great Britain and her life and death are unknown. However, she herself received a notice of compulsory conscription, leaving a pair of underage children without anyone to take care of her. Her repeated complaints were ignored and she was dragged away from her home by the military police. , the little daughter who tried to stop her mother from being dragged away was injured on the spot.
Once this incident was exposed, it caused public outrage in the local black community in New Orleans, and then turned into a large demonstration to resist the draft. Then, because of the authorities' policy of violent suppression, the demonstration turned into a riot, plus various arson and looting. ……
In the end, the Louisiana government had no choice but to mobilize the National Guard into the city to clear the city, and they fought intermittent gun battles in the city for a week. More than 5,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were arrested and imprisoned. The situation stabilized.
The black riots in Louisiana certainly made the White House feel disgraced, but they were nothing compared to the sky-breaking chaos in Canada - among the world wars in recent years, only one Canada, with a population of 11 million, has successively contributed 1.5 million troops to the British Empire, and more than one million people have died in the battlefield or are missing, which can be said to have almost wiped out a generation.
When it comes to loyalty to the British Empire, Canadians are extremely loyal to the extreme. Throughout the various territories of the British Empire spread across the world, except for the Australians, who have already been "broken", and the New Zealanders, who are about to be "broken", no one can compare with them.
However, no matter how loyal you are, there are limits - after the Churchill cabinet led the fleet to flee to Canada and installed Queen Margaret on the throne, in order to restore military strength as soon as possible and continue the war, relying on the support and solidarity of the US government, Churchill They actually decided to continue recruiting 1.2 million soldiers in Canada, which has a population of less than 10 million! It even went so far as to prepare for large-scale conscription of Canadian women into the battlefield!
At this time, the Canadians could no longer bear it - if they were defending their country, they might still be willing to shoot until the last person alive, but now they have to go overseas and sacrifice their lives for a queen they have never seen before. ...The Canadian boys are almost exhausted, but that damn fat Churchill still refuses to give up and wants the Canadian girls to die for the Queen too! ! !
Faced with this kind of militaristic move that was going to destroy Canada, the French residents of Quebec first jumped out to resist, smashing up the local police station and city hall, beating and expelling government officials who came to recruit soldiers, and some politicians even wanted to They wanted to take the opportunity to declare Quebec's independence... but were brutally suppressed by a group of vicious British troops, resulting in the "Montreal Massacre" in which more than 500 people were shot, killed or injured.
The Canadian Parliament immediately received the news and angrily voted to pass a protest and ultimatum. Churchill's reply was to cancel all of Canada's autonomy, dispatched troops from the British mainland to dissolve the Canadian Parliament, and arrested more than half of the members!
——Referring to the precedents of the British Civil War and the American War of Independence, according to the political traditions of the United States and Britain, this approach is basically the prelude to the civil war... As a result, the whole of Canada soon became chaotic, with the sound of rebel gunshots everywhere, one after another. One army mutinied. Even the remaining Royal Navy ships had many ships raising counter-flags. Both sides used tanks and heavy artillery in the exchange of fire, which turned into an American version of the Spanish Civil War.
As of early February, the barricade battles in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto were still not over, and militia guerrillas in the Canadian countryside also swarmed in, saping and ambushing people everywhere. The rebellious Canadian fleet also entrenched Newfoundland, cutting off the communication line between the American mainland and the front line in Iceland. Despite the massive U.S. military intervention, the Canadian rebels were doomed from the start. But what is certain is that even if Churchill's cabinet can re-stabilize the situation in Canada, it has become almost impossible to continue recruiting troops from Canada.
——Unless he doesn't mind that many Canadian soldiers defected to the enemy as soon as they got guns...
Moreover, even in the United States, where the situation is relatively better, various production departments have issued early warnings of a shortage of human resources. In order to maintain basic social production, at least military production, any modern country has a limit to conscription. It is possible to send every young and middle-aged male to the battlefield, because if this is done, there will be no one in the rear to cultivate food, produce guns and ammunition, and transport these things to the front line.
Therefore, in order to increase the number of troops as quickly as possible, the furious Pentagon no longer cared about the sense of military honor, let alone the domestic security situation, and forced Truman to sign a presidential decree to remove all prisoners in prison, regardless of their previous crimes. All were released and incorporated into the army. By the way, many prison guards also lost their jobs. They were recruited into the army and went to the front line. Many prison guards even had to fight side by side with the prisoners they had previously detained. The scene was really too beautiful to watch... But even so, Minato The number of soldiers is still far from filling the gap.
Seeing that the human resources in North America are almost being squeezed to the limit, the Pentagon can only turn its attention to South America. It plans to recruit three million soldiers from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and other countries and send them to the front lines in Africa and West Asia to serve as frontline personnel. Cannon fodder, while guarding Hawaii with their own elite troops. The White House and Capitol Hill are also in favor of this move - so many people have died in the United States, and if millions of mixed-race people in South America do not follow suit, how can we let the "red-neck" farmers in the southern United States and the Wall Street people? Are banking industry bosses feeling reassured?
As for whether those Spanish-speaking Latin Americans are willing to die for the United States... this is not within the scope of the big bosses' considerations.
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Of course, in addition to the above-mentioned bad news, there is also some corresponding good news.
First of all, after more than half a year of rush work, the Navy's reconstruction plan has finally taken shape. According to the report of the House of Representatives Navy Committee, with the priority given to various strategic resources and human resources, the Navy's ship production capacity has once again doubled, and the construction of an aircraft carrier requires The time required was further reduced to nine months. At present, two armored aircraft carriers, 12 regular aircraft carriers and 32 escort aircraft carriers have been launched into service one after another. The accompanying HNA fighter jets, reconnaissance aircraft, bombers and torpedo aircraft are also in place. Only pilots who can take off and land on the aircraft carriers It still needs to be trained, and it will take some time to develop combat effectiveness. At the same time, two Montana-class battleships and a Hawaii-class super battleship were completed and commissioned. This shows that it has been a long time before the U.S. Navy ends its current passive and dormant state and resumes its active offensive capabilities. Not too far away. Then, in addition to naval ships, the production of other munitions has also been further improved. American labor leaders say they have made every sacrifice and exploited every potential to produce 80,000 aircraft, 40,000 tanks, 500,000 machine guns, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and 16 million a year. tons of commercial ship production quota. At the same time, the United States' agriculture has also enjoyed a bumper harvest this year, which is in sharp contrast to the famine in Europe.