Chapter 86: The Devil Cries (26)
Two aircraft carriers were sunk, and in the face of such losses, the US military went crazy and wanted to fight back, not to mention that after the aircraft carrier sank, nearly 100 attack planes and experienced pilots on the planes that had already risen into the air became kites that could not land, and the remaining ships of the mixed Third Fleet immediately called for support and directed the attack planes in front to fly in the direction of the support forces, in order to meet the fleet that came to meet them before the fuel ran out. According to later statistics, nearly half of the carrier-based aircraft crashed into the sea due to various problems such as fuel.
After arranging the fighters, the commander of the Third Fleet who took over the command left two destroyers to salvage the officers and men who had fallen overboard, and the remaining ships rushed to the predetermined location at full speed, and soon met the frigates of the Yamato, and the two sides immediately began to fight.
The result was naturally one-sided, the morale of the island army was already low in the later stage of the Pacific War, and this trip to sea was originally to send the head of the US military, so the ammunition equipped in advance was extremely limited, but the officers and men of the fleet were kept in the dark, and in this case, even if the island fleet wanted to fight well, it would quickly run out of ammunition.
Although the four frigates of the Yamato were completely annihilated, as a result, the US forces still suffered huge losses, and the temporary commander of the Third Fleet immediately passed the news to the US military base camp.
Although the damage of the two aircraft carriers was not an unacceptable result for the dumpling-like shipbuilding speed of the US military at that time, it caused a huge earthquake for the US government.
First of all, the occurrence of this incident undoubtedly shows that the island countries have no sincerity in surrendering, and the previous negotiations are either false or delaying time, and the stubborn military elements are even trying in vain to regain their disadvantage on the battlefield by sneak attacks again. This undoubtedly tore a wound in the hearts of the US military that had not yet healed, and was reminiscent of Pearl Harbor, where many US soldiers and officers who were killed by their comrades-in-arms and their families in the Pearl Harbor attack were immediately indignant and eager to take revenge by devouring alive the military and the people of the island nation.
Of course, as mature adults, we all know that although what the top level of the state wants to do will be influenced by domestic public opinion, it will never be swayed, and as long as the top level of the US government is still willing to continue to negotiate with the island countries, relying on negotiations to solve the problem is still a win-win situation for both sides from a rational point of view.
This brings us to the second problem, the sunken Enterprise and the Hornet, there are many children of officials and eunuchs who want to grab people's qualifications.
Don't be surprised, this kind of thing of mixing qualifications and military merits by annihilating the enemy given for nothing on the battlefield is common in the world, and it is by no means the characteristic culture of a country on the mainland, and even more so in the United States, so to speak, the American Air Force generals during World War II were all nobles without exception, and they never personally participated in the battle except for the task of picking up heads (Jimmy Doolittle and other pilots who dared to play with their lives were not in the Air Force, but in the Naval Aviation), but received more medals after the war than anyone else.
But the battlefield is always a battlefield, as the saying goes, the sword has no eyes, no matter how small the probability is, there will always be a time to overturn when you go to the battlefield to speculate, there is absolutely no such thing as a steady profit and no loss in the world, don't you see that the crude oil market will also lose money to the point that your mother doesn't know?
Good guys, many children of military and political leaders who went to make military merits overturned at the same time, and now neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party in the United States can withstand it, and the possibility of peace talks with the island countries has been completely shattered.
Politics is the same as opening a museum, either you don't do it, you have to do it to the point that the visitors can't find a thorn, and since you want to continue the war, then it's better to follow through to the end.
The U.S. government immediately began to publicize and mobilize the offensive, using the image of the victims of the war after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to make a big fuss in the country, and the major media and radio stations were full of firepower to build a campaign for patriotism, and celebrities and aristocrats from all walks of life also joined the army one after another (most of them were only temporary posts, but there were also a small number of sincere patriots who were willing to go to war), and for a time the atmosphere in the United States was quite Soviet.
As for Yu Zecheng, a member of the main peace faction from the mainland, he was treated as a diplomat, but he arranged for many agents to monitor him, and basically had no right to speak.
But it doesn't matter anymore, Yu Zecheng's plan has been successful.
Yu Zecheng's task was not to make the island country surrender at the beginning, but to exterminate the island country.
The matter has come to this point, and Yu Zecheng's plan has come to the fore.
The appearance of the atomic bomb is inevitable on this timeline, and what Yu Zecheng did before was just to prevent the Soviet Union or the United States from reaching a nuclear monopoly in advance at the time point when the atomic bomb appeared.
As long as the United States and the Soviet Union possess atomic bombs in the same period of time, and the strength of the two sides is equal, there is no reason for the Soviet Union to send troops only to the northeast of the mainland, and not to commit any offense on the land and sea areas of the island country, you must know that having ice-free ports in the Far East is a great cause that all leaders in the history of the Soviet Union and even Russia want to achieve, not to mention that the cause of proletarianism in this era is in full swing in the rising period, as long as the United States does not have a nuclear monopoly, the Soviet Union has the ambition and ability to engage in a bipolar struggle with the United States.
Then, as an important strategic fulcrum of the Far East, the ownership of the island nation became the curtain call ceremony of the end of World War II in this script universe.
Since everyone has the atomic bomb and is an anti-fascist country, how should we deal with the island nation after it is defeated in World War II? Whoever can lay down more territory will also have more territory to divide in the future, and the island country will have the same fate as North Korea, South Korea, East Germany, and West Germany.
You can look through the history and take a look at the cultural history of North Korea and Germany before and after World War II, which has completely changed a country, and the previous national soul and spirit will not come back.
Spiritual destruction is only one thing, and when the day comes when the U.S. and Soviet troops land on the island country's mainland, it will only be a matter of time before the physical destruction is complete.
The United States and the Soviet Union, one already had a feud with the island country, and the other had just passed the tragic war with the island country in the Pacific theater, and at the same time experienced the baptism of war The Soviet and American veterans are all like wolves and tigers.
This is total destruction.
But there are loopholes in Yu Zecheng's seemingly reasonable plan.
That was the mysterious white young man who manipulated the Yamato to sink the two aircraft carriers of Enterprise and Bumblebee.
Although Yu Zecheng did not witness that scene, everyone should be able to guess that this white young man is "another oracle" in Oppenheimer's mouth.
Oppenheimer watched Yu Zecheng's miracle and offered to assist him, and at the same time asked another envoy to participate in the plan, and this envoy would start to act after Yu Zecheng passed information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet side, and the purpose of the operation was to make the negotiation plan between the island nation and the United States fail and the United States to solve the problem by force.
In other words, the completion of Yu Zecheng's plan needs to be facilitated by an uncertain external force, and it is a very strong unknown external force, which is difficult to imagine for a very cautious and meticulous person like Yu Zecheng.
Yu Zecheng still has a follow-up move?