Chapter 153, The Final Solution to the United States (Part 2)
Western Australia, Perth Port, the modified version of the battleship Yamato after being eroded by the shipgirl
The warm autumn sunshine in the southern hemisphere falls from the cloudless clear blue sky, bringing everyone a touch of lazy warmth.
Seagulls chirp in the distance from time to time, making this port farthest away from war in the world seem extraordinarily peaceful, peaceful and quiet.
Since the end of the last mopping up operation in the southern Indian Ocean, the "Blue Mermaid" Japanese Navy women's fleet with Yamato as its flagship has been parked here to rest for more than a year because it has not received a new mission and has been idle for a long time. . Since we have been unable to hear the sound of gunfire and explosions, and cannot see gunpowder smoke and blood, we have enough food and clothing every day, and have nothing to do. Whether it is the female soldiers on the ship or a few passengers with special status, if not they can still get the latest information through some channels. If you talk about war news, you simply forget that the world is still in the midst of an unprecedentedly cruel war.
"...Above the densely fogged and choppy Skagerrak (the outlet of the Baltic Sea), fires burned, guns echoed, and ships were burned into bright fireballs amidst the explosions. Commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr., nicknamed "The Bull", after finishing his walk After the last long journey across the Atlantic, he finally found a burial place in line with the sense of military honor for his fleet that had suffered so much and was tortured by radiation sickness... and it was a glorious journey that belonged to the U.S. Navy. , seems to be coming to an end from now on..."
Bathed in the warm sunshine of autumn in the southern hemisphere, Wang Qiu was sitting on the small sofa in the captain's cabin of the Yamato, leisurely reading a German newspaper that was sent halfway across the world by postal plane and specially translated by professionals. ——In the war news published in this newspaper, a certain German reporter used a rather literary style to describe in detail the final battle of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet under the command of Admiral Halsey.
——At this time, almost two months had passed since the Battle of Skagerrak, in which Halsey's fleet collapsed and the entire army was wiped out.
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In fact, as early as when the Halsey fleet had just turned its back on the rising mushroom cloud and hurriedly escaped from the nuclear-blasted Guantanamo Naval Base, the traces of this fleet had already been detected by the orbiting reconnaissance satellite (launched by Wang Qiu). The black technology props in the world of Doraemon) were noticed. But the problem was that everyone at the time thought it was just a group of defeated soldiers who spontaneously fled for their lives, so they didn't pay much attention to Halsey's fleet at first.
Later, through satellite surveillance, it was discovered that the U.S. fleet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after leaving the Caribbean, did not go north to ports on the east coast of the United States, nor to the U.S. military-occupied areas in South America. Instead, it headed east across the Atlantic Ocean. , which attracted some attention. But most people at the time believed that the reason why this shabby little fleet crossed the Atlantic was to go into exile in South Africa - while in Guantanamo, Admiral Halsey assembled a battleship, a light cruiser, two There are 14 regular aircraft carriers, 1 light aircraft carrier, 14 destroyers, 5 ocean-going supply ships, 12 coastal defense ships and 8 fast tankers. But after he escaped from the nuclear-bombed Guantánamo, the entire fleet was reduced to one battleship, one light cruiser, eight destroyers, one ocean-going supply ship, two fast tankers and his flagship "Valley Forge" No. 1 aircraft carrier, the other ships were either destroyed in the nuclear explosion, or were seriously damaged and unable to carry out long-distance voyages, and could only be abandoned on the spot after withdrawing the manpower.
Obviously, with such a pitifully small fleet, even if it could reach the other side of the Atlantic, it would not be able to do much against the powerful Soviet Red Navy. Moreover, after all, these ships escaped from under the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosion. I am afraid no one can tell how much damage they suffered.
In fact, according to the assessment of Soviet and Japanese naval professionals, whether this "dying fleet" with "only half a breath left", let alone a naval battle with the Soviets, can survive the stormy Atlantic Ocean in winter. , I’m afraid it’s still unknown—but, I have to say, the U.S. Navy Admiral Halsey, who was born in a noble family, is quite capable. He managed to overcome the shortage of supplies and the outbreak of radiation sickness with incredible perseverance in such a situation with few troops and panic. Despite many difficulties, he led his fleet through the last part of the expedition.
——After leaving Guantánamo, which was destroyed by the atomic bomb, Halsey’s fleet did not go directly east across the Atlantic Ocean, but took a northeasterly route, all the way into the ice-covered Arctic waters, while taking advantage of the thick fog and snow in the North Atlantic. , successfully covering his tracks. Then, the Halsey fleet, which had almost reached the waters of Iceland, turned south, bypassed the island of Great Britain from the north, then followed the east coast of Britain, inserted into the Norwegian Sea, and reached the doorstep of the Soviets. It was not until this time that the Soviets, who once again captured the traces of Halsey's fleet, suddenly realized that this small American fleet, which had narrowly escaped death in the Guantánamo nuclear explosion, had really gone to the other side of the Atlantic to risk its life!
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So, the next thing was naturally for the Soviets to angrily mobilize their troops and generals, preparing to kill these daring Americans with ruthless tactics.
Helplessly, the Soviet Union, which was originally prepared to slap Halsey's fleet to death, soon found out very embarrassingly that it was temporarily in a state of extremely empty available troops in the Norwegian Sea - due to the large eruption of the Icelandic volcano. The catastrophic impact on the global climate environment, the severe devastation caused by large-scale nuclear wars to European countries, and the horrific catastrophe of long-term famine. Today, most of Europe is in a tragic world of chaos and death. , therefore, in view of the severe difficulties in logistical supply, the overall collapse of European social order, and in order to avoid too many troubles that cannot be shaken off, the Soviet Red Army currently deploys very weak forces in Western Europe, Central Europe, and Northern Europe. Ground forces are currently deployed on the battlefield in the Middle East, fighting the Turks, Iranians, and Arabs day and night, while also placing various terrorists and "suspected terrorists" into labor camps.
The Soviet strategic air force bombed forward bases in America, located in southern Spain and Morocco in North Africa, very far away from the Norwegian Sea. Then, around the Norwegian Sea, Britain was in the Dark Ages of anarchy and cannibalism, and France, Belgium and the Netherlands had basically regressed back to the Middle Ages. The Soviet Union had no troops stationed in France and Belgium, and only had symbolic garrisons in Germany and the Netherlands. It did have a squadron each in Denmark and Norway. After discovering that Halsey's fleet had entered the Norwegian Sea, it immediately took off to meet the enemy. However, Since they were not naval aviation, they had not received training in attacking ships, and they did not dare to dive at low altitudes, but only dropped bombs at high altitudes. Therefore, their bombing effect was very poor, and not even a single bomb hit the enemy ship.
Moreover, it is now winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Norwegian Sea is a high-latitude sea. The days are very short and the nights are very long. There are generally only a few hours of daylight every day. By the time the Soviet planes in the first attack wave dropped their bombs and returned, the battlefield would have been almost dark. Most of the military aircraft these days lacked the ability to fight at night - bombing immobile cities at night would be fine, but bombing warships would be fine. It's really impossible to do it, so we can only sit and wait for the next day.
In addition, the genuine Soviet naval aviation, which specializes in dealing with warships, has just received orders at this time to make an emergency transfer to the Norwegian Sea frontline from other places. It will take some time before they actually arrive at the frontline base. In addition to the insufficient number of aircraft and mismatched professionalism, naval ships cannot catch up in a short period of time. Today, the Baltic Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy is basically an empty frame, because the main ships are not in the Baltic Sea: Leningrad, Tallinn and Stockholm both suffered nuclear explosions before and have not fully recovered yet. Looking around the entire Baltic Sea, there is almost no military port with complete facilities. As a result, most of the remaining ships of the Soviet Red Navy's Baltic Fleet had to be moved to Murmansk, an ice-free port in the Arctic Circle, to spend the winter until the military ports in Leningrad and Kronshtak were repaired. Even the fleet headquarters has been moved there, and it will not be moved back to Leningrad for at least a few years.
Although after learning about the incoming Halsey fleet, two Soviet aircraft carriers, one Soviet battleship and five cruisers stationed in Murmansk, plus a large number of destroyers, all urgently weighed anchor and went to snipe Halsey. Erxi Fleet, but it will take a lot of time to reach the sea area.
In short, the use of the Soviet Red Army to control most European countries is relatively weak, and the governments and armies of these countries themselves are also shaky, the border security has huge loopholes in name only, and God knows how to get it, maybe it is a blessing from God. With good luck, the Halsey fleet, which was on a desperate expedition from Cuba, finally staggered to the Skagerrak Strait at the exit of the Baltic Sea, barely touching the gate of the Soviet Union.
——However, the good luck of Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr., "The Bull", only ended here.
In the Skagerrak, Admiral Halsey and his fleet finally reached the end of their rope and came to their burial place.
At the same time, they also used their heroic sacrifice to bring a successful conclusion to the journey of the Federal Navy of the United States of America.
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When the Halsey fleet arrived at the Skagerrak, the urgently dispatched Soviet naval and air forces were already waiting.
The first was a massive air raid by the Soviet Naval Aviation. Different from the previous symbolic harassment by the Army Aviation, this time there were more than a hundred dive bombers and torpedo planes of the Soviet Naval Aviation, under the cover of fighter jets. Come to kill. On the other side, although Admiral Halsey still has the USS Valley Forge aircraft carrier, he can only get fourteen F9F "Panther" carrier-based fighter jets-most of them are tethered to the deck. They were all thrown into the sea by the shock wave in the nuclear explosion, or at least were severely damaged. Moreover, pilots generally suffered from radiation sickness. Now there are not many left who are healthy enough to fly airplanes into the sky. Even among the fourteen people now, there are still several sick people who are on the verge of collapse.
To be fair, the F9F Panther fighter with its straight wings and blue fuselage is indeed a good carrier-based aircraft. Unfortunately, with such a disparity in quantity comparison, this performance advantage is really not worth mentioning. The physical inferiority of the pilots further widened the gap between the offensive and defensive sides. After only a few minutes of fighting, all fourteen F9F "Panther" carrier-based fighter jets of the USS Valley Forge were defeated. After being shot down and subsequently losing its aircraft cover, the USS Valley Forge became the prey of wanton massacre by Soviet naval aviation.
Although these prey are not lambs and fat pigs that are easy to slaughter, but hedgehogs that are difficult to eat - facing the incoming Soviet aircraft, the battleship "Vermont", the aircraft carrier "Valley Forge", and the light cruiser "Phoenix" US destroyers, as well as transport ships equipped with anti-aircraft guns, dragged their long white sterns and launched large-scale air defense and evasive maneuvers on the sea surface of the battlefield. The 40MM anti-aircraft guns, 20MM anti-aircraft guns, and 127MM naval guns on each ship also fired fiercely into the air. The shells and colored tracer bullets equipped with radio proximity fuses dragged out long rains of fire. Soviet dive bombers flew from behind, left and right, and the blazing anti-aircraft fire filled the sky with smoke from shells.
However, the pilots of the Soviet naval aviation were already veterans of many battles. They quickly activated the radio jammer skillfully, causing the radio proximity fuses that the US military was proud of to self-destruct in sheets at low altitudes. Then, they continued to skillfully fly through the exploding anti-aircraft gun smoke and dense rain-like ballistic trajectories, although from time to time, unlucky Soviet planes slowly fell from the sky dragging black smoke, or even more unlucky volleyed. It exploded into countless tiny pieces of aluminum, but more aircraft successfully broke through the U.S. fleet's anti-aircraft firepower network and successfully dropped aerial bombs or torpedoes...
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling white light suddenly flashed on the deck of the USS Valley Forge. A 500-kilogram aerial bomb directly hit the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. It instantly penetrated the top armor plate, then continued to penetrate the layers of compartments below the deck, and cut through the layers of the hull. The last one got into the pilot's cabin in the middle and lower part of the aircraft carrier, and suddenly there was an earth-shaking loud noise inside the "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier.
At the same time, another Soviet naval aviation dive bomber luckily rushed within a hundred meters of the aircraft carrier "Valley Forge" and successfully dropped its bomb before pulling away and taking off. The dropped aerial bomb continued to fly forward based on inertia, landed on the water, and bounced off the sea like a floating stone, hitting the hull of the "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier from the side. I got into the belly of the ship...
In the blink of an eye, a series of deafening and huge explosions came from the interior of the "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier. Thick smoke and flames rushed out from the interior of the aircraft carrier, quickly triggering a fire in the aviation fuel depot inside the hull, and the aviation Fuel depot fire , and then quickly affected the ammunition depot of the USS Valley Forge - with a flash of dazzling red light, several anti-aircraft turrets of the aircraft carrier were lifted into the air more than a hundred meters high together with the radar commander. Like a light matchbox. Hot steel fragments and charred human flesh limbs fell into the sea, causing large splashes.
Next, a huge fuel tank in the cabin of the USS Valley Forge seemed to have been directly penetrated by the explosive steel fragments. A large amount of fuel leaked out and quickly filled all the decks below, wherever it flowed. Wherever the fire came, it was filled with black smoke and scorching flames.
Finally, on the flight deck of the "Valley Forge", a dazzling flame rose with a "boom". The aircraft carrier damage control team members who were busy on the deck were suddenly submerged in the fire that was like a tsunami. The spreading fire The fire also detonated the ammunition piled on the deck, and a series of explosions suddenly sounded like firecrackers at a festival, but there was no pleasant joy at all. Instead, it only made people feel extremely depressing terror.
Despite this, the sailors on the aircraft carrier deck continued to desperately fight the fire. Due to the extremely high temperature of the fire caused by gasoline, the water sprayed by the fire hose immediately atomized, just like adding fuel to the fire. Several surrounding destroyers also tried to surround the ship to put out the fire, but to no avail - the raging fire was burning in the bottom compartment of the aircraft carrier, and the steel plates of the compartments were burned red. Just watering from the outside was of no use. Moreover, these U.S. Navy destroyers that sprayed water to put out fires were also facing indiscriminate bombing by Soviet naval aviation at this moment. It was hard to say how much attention they could devote to putting out fires.
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While General Halsey's flagship "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier was struggling amidst thick smoke, explosions and flames, the ocean-going supply ship and two fast tankers in his fleet, which had weaker anti-aircraft firepower, had already been attacked. They turned into bright giant torches, with flames reaching into the sky and thick smoke covering the sun. Some people on the deck could escape by jumping into the water, but the people in the countless compartments below the deck could only be burned to death in the fire, smoked to death, or even suffocated to death after their own people directly closed the watertight hatches. ...In addition, two destroyers were also sunk in this wave of air strikes.
After the first wave of air strikes, the USS Valley Forge struggled for a while, but ultimately failed to control the fire. The spreading internal fire and successive ammunition explosions directly burned the power compartment, causing the aircraft carrier to lose power. Will spin in circles. Slowly, the stopped ship began to tilt to one side, and all the vehicles and people on the deck were dumped into the sea like toys. Even on the light cruiser "Phoenix" which was quite far away from the "Forge Forge" aircraft carrier, they could hear the continuous explosions coming from the interior of the "Forge Forge" aircraft carrier. One hundred pounds, one thousand pounds of aerial bombs were making terrible noises while biting into the broken body of the USS Valley Forge aircraft carrier.
At the same time, the bridge near the central elevator of the "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier was burned red by the fire. Everyone inside who had not had time to escape was trapped in the fire. Due to the power outage of the entire ship, the lighting system basically collapsed, leaving a place of darkness. , it is already very difficult to find another way to evacuate. Then, the fire pumps also lost pressure and the sprinkler systems failed. After a while, all the flammable materials on the outside of the island-shaped bridge of the USS Valley Forge, including cables and signal flags, were burned to the ground, leaving only a lone blackened flagpole, like a Bare ugly dead trees. When the distressed Admiral Halsey was dragged into a small boat by the sailors and escaped from the Valley Forge, the aircraft carrier's antenna had been twisted and bent, the chimney was torn, and there were flames everywhere on the huge hull. Emerging from the breach, the soldiers in the engine room seemed to have been burned to death.
The next moment, as if to see off General Halsey, as if to confirm the determination of the pilots, suddenly, a shocking loud noise erupted from inside the "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier, and a plume shot into the sky from the deck behind the ship. A pillar of fire hundreds of meters high. The hull shook violently, and the shock wave of the explosion instantly blew away the sailors waiting to release the lifeboats on the deck. With the huge explosion, the huge aircraft carrier first pushed its bow upwards, rushed suddenly, and then began to sink rapidly from the bow. The stern tilted upwards, and the huge all-copper propeller rushed into the sky. Finally, it was submerged forever. Under the sea...
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When the USS Valley Forge sank amid explosions and flames, the battleship USS Vermont, which had thick skin, strong armor, fierce anti-aircraft firepower, and strong survivability, was caught in the first wave of air attacks by the Soviet naval aviation. Without becoming the main target, the damage was relatively minor.
But the problem is that when almost all the U.S. naval officers and soldiers on the Skagerrak Strait battlefield were attracted most of their attention by the burning "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier, the "C- Two Soviet submarines, No. 13" and "C-11", took the opportunity to launch a lightning strike on the battleship "Vermont"! The white marks of eight torpedoes suddenly appeared on the sea, giving the Americans no time to react!
In an instant, the battleship "Vermont" had no time to evade and was hit by three mines on its port side, and the bone-cold water poured into the cabin like a waterfall. Although the US military damage control team tried their best to rescue, the pumping speed was far unable to match the speed of seawater pouring in, and the tilt angle continued to increase.
Seeing the huge battleship tilting to one side, the USS Vermont's captain had no choice but to open the watertight hatch and fill a part of the starboard engine room with water to balance the entire hull. More seawater surged into the cabins in the blink of an eye. A considerable number of the US military crew members in these cabins had no time to evacuate, and their superiors had no time or were unable to notify them. In the blink of an eye, these people were submerged in the cold seawater - —The hatches they returned to other cabins had been tightly closed and sealed. There was no way out. They could only drown and suffocate to death bit by bit in the sea water.
Relying on this method of self-mutilation, after some efforts, the tilt of the battleship "Vermont" was stopped, but the speed was also reduced by nearly half. The shocked U.S. military was just about to launch anti-submarine operations, but the ships of the Soviet Red Navy had already broken through the fog and appeared from the sea level.
——Although, what is arriving at this moment is only a small reconnaissance formation composed of four Soviet destroyers that set sail from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Since the light cruiser "Phoenix" is busy rescuing its own crew members who fell into the water - in the bitterly cold Skagerrak Strait in winter, the crew members who fell into the water can only survive for half an hour at most before freezing to death. Therefore, next, a A naval battle between six American destroyers and four Soviet destroyers rumbled in the Skagerrak Strait. After a fierce chase and fight, although a considerable number of sailors suffered from radiation sickness, and the observation facilities on the ship were seriously damaged by the nuclear explosion in Guantánamo, with more troops and richer experience, , the ships are also more cutting-edge, and there is also a battleship The battleships provided long-range fire support, and the U.S. destroyer fleet finally managed to win a dismal victory. At the cost of two of its own destroyers being sunk and two destroyers severely damaged, it sank three incoming Soviet destroyers, forcing The remaining Soviet destroyer was wounded and escaped.
However, at the same time, the battleship "Vermont", which was an eye-catching target, was unlucky to be hit by a torpedo again in the melee due to its greatly reduced speed and difficulty in evasion. The entire ship took in more than 4,000 tons of water and was completely It lost its power and turned into an iron shell floating on the sea.
For this reason, Admiral Halsey, who had just escaped from the sunken original flagship "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier and was still sitting in the lifeboat, had to give up his plan to transfer to the battleship "Vermont" and instead sailed on the "Vermont" Phoenix" light cruiser hoisted his Atlantic Fleet commander's flag.
Then, to make matters worse, the U.S. Navy officers and soldiers who had just beaten away the Soviet destroyer and were themselves scarred and exhausted had not had time to take a breath. A larger second wave of Soviet naval aviation offensive also followed - enough More than two hundred dive bombers and torpedo planes flew viciously at the remaining ships of Halsey's fleet, which had been severely reduced in number and was in a hurry from various directions...
At this point, the end of Halsey's fleet has finally arrived...
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More than ten hours later, when the main fleet of the Soviet Red Navy’s Baltic Fleet set off from the wintering anchorage of Murmansk and rushed slowly all the way to the Skagerrak Strait, the foggy sea was already filled with There were no U.S. Navy ships in sight that could compete with them.
Looking around, in the turbulent cold waves of the Norwegian Sea, only large areas of oil are left, as well as many floating objects such as pieces of clothing, table and chair parts, lifebuoys and charred corpses, indicating that this area of water was just recently There was a fierce naval battle. In addition, there were a few scattered American sailors huddled on more than thirty lifeboats, shivering while waving to them for help.
——"The last American admiral" William Frederick Halsey Jr. was killed in the second wave of air raids by the Soviet naval aviation. All his ships were in the southeastern Norwegian Sea outside the Skagerrak Strait. The waters sank and no one survived. Because the Skagerrak battlefield is located at a high latitude and it is a cold winter season, the sea water with floating ice is close to zero, and the drowned sailors can only survive for a short time before freezing to death. The number of lifeboats that the US military had time to put down was seriously insufficient. Therefore, among the fleet officers and soldiers led by Admiral Halsey, only 955 sailors were rescued by the Soviet navy. However, more than 200 sailors were rescued within a year. One after another, they died of frostbite, burns, bacterial infections, and radiation sickness that they had suffered in Guantánamo.
At this point, the tragic Battle of the Skagerrak came to an end. Admiral Halsey, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, died on the battlefield, and the U.S. Navy’s last large-scale tactical counterattack in World War III, It also ended with the entire attack fleet being annihilated...
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PS: At this point in the magically modified version of Kanji World War, there is only one end left, waiting for the unconditional surrender of the United States. All the battles that should be fought are almost all fought, and all the damn people are almost dead. If I continue writing this , the earth in this dimension is about to be depleted by my writing (laughs). In short, this volume is about to end in a few days, and the different world scene traveled in the next volume is scheduled to be "Fantasy Self-Defense Forces": When the war on the South China Sea Islands is about to break out, a magical door to another world suddenly appears On the South China Sea of the motherland, the story immediately triggered a global commotion. Regarding the new lost reincarnations who have wandered into that world and are waiting for rescue, we have not yet decided on the number and character settings. Do any readers want to sign up?