Tu Mei Chapter 100 Farewell, America
Chentian's prophecy has once again come true.
Although the fierce naval battle in Cuban waters had been decided at noon, the battle did not end until the evening, and under the German naval and air attacks, the US Navy finally chose to give up, and the masts of the heavily damaged capital ships "Oklahoma", "Washington", and "California" were raised with white flags, and the commander of the fleet, Admiral Edward Eberly, was also killed in the battle, and only one light patrol detachment in the whole fleet was able to escape. It was midnight in Berlin. From the royal government to the officers and civilians, countless people were woken up in their sleep, and although they lost a good dream, they found that victory had come.
Although he stayed up all night, Chentian was in a good mood, because he knew that such an outcome would be enough for the war to end in a very favorable situation, and that Germany's greatest potential enemy for the next twenty years would finally lose its ability to change hands.
The next day, in his capacity as the supreme commander of the three German armies, Chen Tian announced to the whole country the news of the victory in the Cuban naval battle, and encouraged the army and the people to unite and work hard under the banner of German, and strive to completely defeat the recalcitrant enemy as soon as possible.
On September 5, under the powerful offensive of the German-Mexican forces, the Cuban armed police force and their American officers finally laid down their arms and surrendered, and the whole of Cuba fell.
After rendezvous with the aircraft carrier group led by Prince Heinrich, Schell did not bother to rest and recuperate, leaving only the more seriously damaged battleships, two battle cruisers, and some light ships in Cuba, and then led the main force of the German Atlantic Fleet north. On September 9, the fleet arrived off the coast of Chesapeake Bay.
It was from here 110 years ago that the British fleet sailed in and landed in Maryland, not far from Washington, D.C., and staged a show of burning Washington. At this time, the strength of the German fleet was much stronger than that of the British fleet that came to the Americas during the Anglo-American War, but it was a pity that at this time, the German and American mines all over the Chesapeake Bay blocked the way for the German fleet to continue to advance, but the German fleet continued to carry out artillery bombardment and large-scale air raids on the Norfolk military port and surrounding targets in the following week, and Washington, 200 kilometers away, could also deeply appreciate the great power of the German fleet.
By this time, Washington, albeit reluctantly, conveyed to Berlin its willingness to end the war through peace talks through the neutral Portuguese government.
The German government is noncommittal.
Within the next week. The iron heel of German armored forces swept through Louisiana in the southeast of the United States, and the important towns of New Orleans and Baton Rouge fell, and at this time the oil industry in the southeast of the United States had all fallen into the hands of the German-Mexican forces.
On September 14, the German-Mexican forces launched the Battle of San Francisco with the cooperation of the combined fleets of Germany, Japan, and Mexico, and two days later, the most important port city on the West Coast of the United States was captured by the allied forces, and the entire state of California fell three days later.
By this time, the states of California, Texas, and New Mexico, which the United States had forced Mexico to cede during the 1925 Mexican-American War, had returned to Mexican control. The Mexican government immediately announced the return of the three states to Mexico, a decision that the U.S. government refused to recognize the Mexicans, but the subsequent counterattack by the U.S. Army was once again crushed by the German-Mexican coalition.
On September 17, under the escort of the German Navy, more than 2,000 German Army soldiers landed in Nassau, the Bahamas, an archipelago that was managed by the United States after the defeat of Britain and soon became a new German colony, although there were more than 3,000 islands and reefs, but only 30 could be inhabited, mainly by marine resources and crops, and the local population was less than 300,000. There is only one large port in Nassau. It is less than 200 kilometers from the Florida Peninsula in the United States.
Subsequently, Goodry mounted armor to approach the Florida Peninsula by land, and the Navy and Marine Corps were actively preparing for an attack on the geographically important peninsula from the sea. On the other hand.
Germany stationed in the U.S.-Mexico border area, Cuba, Newfoundland and Guadeloupe strategic bombers have reached 5 wings with a total of more than 2,100 aircraft, day after day bombing makes reserve pilots and novices grow up rapidly, in Germany, school-age young people enthusiastically sign up for bomber pilot training, 4 new Dornier DD long-range bomber wings are being formed, and major domestic aircraft factories are also producing this air giant at full capacity, with a monthly output of more than 1,000 aircraft!
Although the US military has strengthened its air defense capabilities against major industrial areas and cities, in the first half of September, nearly twice as many bombs fell on the US mainland every day as in August, with more than 20,000 tons of high-explosive, incendiary, and even chemical bombs per week. The material and morale losses of Americans are increasing by the day.
Washington finally lost his breath, and they sent people directly to the German government to ask for a formal armistice negotiations.
Seeing that the time had come for peace talks, the German government accepted the Americans' request for armistice negotiations. On 22 September, the warring sides declared a three-day truce and began one of the most important negotiations of the century with their U.S. representatives in Atlanta, where the two armies met.
The US government, which has lost the initiative in land, sea, and air, appears extremely passive at the negotiating table, but it still hopes to withdraw from the war in a "dignified way", otherwise the United States will "fight to the last man."
There were also some differences between Germany and Mexico on the terms of the negotiations, with the Mexicans in addition to land claims. Germany does not want to see any country dominate North America, whether it is British Canada, the United States, or Mexico, so it only intends to let Mexico get some land in the south of the United States, and Germany will obtain the five northeastern states of the United States and Washington and Montana in the northwest in the name of Lend-Lease as bases for attacking Canada, while the Panama Canal will become a free canal, which is neither subject to the constraints and jurisdiction of any country, nor is it allowed to send a single soldier to any country.
As one of the belligerent countries, the Japanese Government became active again at this time, and they not only brazenly sent representatives to sit down at the negotiating table, but also made unreasonable demands to the US Government for the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and the lease of ports on the West Coast.
Under these circumstances, the German government commissioned a negotiating delegation to hold private talks with the Americans, who were also very interested in the proposal for a privately negotiated armistice between Germany and the United States. After a night of secret talks between the plenipotentiaries of the two countries, the two sides basically agreed on the terms of the armistice, that is, the United States recognized California, Texas, and New Mexico as reassigned to Mexico; occupation of Cuba and the Bahamas by Germany; Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Washington, Montana, and the northeastern coastal states of Massachusetts and Connecticut bordering Canada were to be occupied by Germany by way of Lend-Lease, and these places were to be used as a stepping stone for Germany to attack British Canada, regardless of whether the war was going on or not, and returned to the United States immediately after the expiration of the 10-year lease period; The United States abandoned the National Defense Act and the Elective Recruitment Act. The size of the army shall be kept below 200,000, the National Guard shall not exceed 300,000, and the navy shall not have battleships of more than 30,000 tons, aircraft carriers and submarines of more than 1,000 tons.
With the Kaiser's approval, the German delegation and the U.S. government secretly reached a verbal armistice on 25 September.
As the three-day deadline was approaching but the negotiations were still quite divisive, with the consent of Mexico and Japan, Germany announced that it would extend the armistice, and the United States agreed.
With the private commitment of the Germans, the tone of the American representative at the negotiating table was much tougher. Naturally, Mexico's decision to make the six southern states of the United States owned by Mexico and the rest of the states to be autonomous was rejected, and the Japanese hit the nail on the head in their claims to the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. The change in attitude on the part of the United States and the silence of the German representatives, as well as some rumors from previous quarters, also showed some clues from the representatives of Mexico and Japan.
Without the support of Germany, Mexico knew that it could not fight alone, and the Japanese were doing speculative business this time, and they were helpless in this situation. As a result, on September 29, the last day of the armistice, the Mexican government finally withdrew its demand to divide the United States, but added a demand for the U.S. government to pay $5 billion in war reparations, after bargaining. The United States agreed to pay $3.2 billion. Japan was granted permission to lease several ports on the West Coast of the United States, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement and signed the Treaty of Atlanta in the afternoon.
The Treaty of Atlanta, signed by the two warring parties, ended the 75-day war. After losing 90 percent of its navy and air forces and 40 percent of its land forces, the United States once again lost nearly half of its coastline and the most important ports of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, and Boston because of this treaty.
The 75-day war and the Luftwaffe bombardment threw the U.S. economy into disarray, the southern industrial zone no longer existed, the northeastern industrial zone lost more than 60 percent of its plant and equipment, and only the Great Lakes industrial zone could still provide the country with essential industrial goods. The loss of the port had an immeasurable impact on a once trading powerhouse like the United States, and Washington remained intact, but the defeat in the war had caused national confidence in the government to slip to its lowest point in history. The good business environment of the past is gone, and the government is calling on people to actively rebuild their homes, but investors are now more willing to invest their money in a stable Europe or in a resource-rich Africa.
The ten-year lease period led to the rapid Germanization of the northeast and northwest of the United States, and a large amount of German goods and capital entered the heart of the United States from here. With the encouragement and participation of the German government, German capital gradually controlled many American factories and shipyards, but any pro-German German-American or purely American politicians could receive large German subsidies, which had a self-evident impact on the political situation in the United States, and the United States was no longer the United States of Americans.
Warren Harding died in depression shortly after his dismal resignation, and the race for the new presidency was between former Vice President Carl Coolidge and former Commerce Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover. But whoever takes over the White House is powerless to change the impending post-war economic crisis and the ongoing Great Depression, and the United States has been completely replaced by Germany in the world economy and trade.
In the south, Germany still maintains good economic and military cooperation with Mexico, although the German ** team has been withdrawn from Mexico, but the German instructors, weapons, technology and even tactical ideas have a far-reaching impact on the Mexican army, within three years after the end of the war, Germany has successively transferred two Kai-class, King-class battleships and some escort aircraft carriers to Mexico at a low price, and tailored a strength of the air force for Mexico that cannot be underestimated. This allows a strong Mexico to threaten the southern states of the United States at all times.
Without a strong economy and industry as its backbone, the United States is no longer the American it once was, and although it still has 8 million square kilometers of land and a population of more than 100 million, it is no longer able to defeat even Mexico alone!
In October 1924, the first German soldiers on the expedition to North America returned home, they were welcomed at the level of national and national heroes, the navy received the highest praise, but more medals were awarded to the fighters of the air, whose bravery changed history, and they took credit for the fact that a war that was thought to have lasted at least a year ended in just two and a half months.
With the end of the war, more than 1,000 pilots who had been captured by the U.S. military for the downing of their planes were able to return to Germany, and instead of being regarded as losers, they were praised by the Kaiser and the High Command and continued to serve in the front line of the Air Force.
The mission of the Luftwaffe strategic bomber force did not end with the end of the German-American war, and the Dornier DD bombers stationed in Newfoundland soon began bombing Canada, while in the northeastern and northwestern states of the United States, the German occupation forces quickly established a series of air bases, from which bombers could fly directly to the Canadian hinterland for bombing.
On October 15, the commander of the German Expeditionary Force, Admiral Ollie, specially flew back to Germany to attend the Kaiser's own award ceremony, the rank of field marshal made Ollie the youngest field marshal of the German Empire to be born in a non-aristocratic birth, after which he would continue to lead the German Royal Army and the African colonial army to prepare for war against the British government-in-exile and Canada.