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The Central Asian Military Region Headquarters is located in the center of Huo Quzhi, covering an area of more than 500 acres. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The main building is six floors high, with a construction area of 50,000 square meters, and the main building is divided into the political department on the first floor, the logistics department on the second floor, the headquarters on the third floor, and the office of the staff department above the fourth floor.

A four-story house in the backyard of the military region is the office of the Central Military Commission and the branch departments of the three general departments.

In the conference room on the third floor, An Yi was speechless after reading the information summary from the Intelligence Department of the General Staff Department from all aspects.

The Americans are still too arrogant, believing that Japan will not attack the mainland thanklessly, and that such an important place in Colombia will allow the Japanese special forces to easily penetrate, and they are even more ignorant of the large-scale military build-up of the Japanese Navy.

The U.S. Army also made mistakes in arranging its troops, and it scattered its troops at both ends of the Panama Canal, giving the Japanese a chance to break through one by one, and the 92nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army stationed in the Panama area is one of the few divisions in the U.S. Army that has a sè race, and its division commander, Major General Edward Alméng, happens to be a racist and discriminator, despising his soldiers, firmly believing that they cannot be a qualified fighter, and the training is so-so, and most of the officers in the division are white, under Alméngde's hints, Ignoring many of their basic responsibilities, the combat effectiveness of this division was very poor.

At the same time as the Battle of Panama City began, a partial division of the Japanese army had advanced to the port of Colon on the Caribbean side, and after more than two hours of fighting, it was easy to take this northern port city.

Subsequently, the unforgiving Japanese army blew up the six ships on the Panama Canal, causing the water on the suspension channel to rush wildly, and the ships in the channel ran aground, and all of them became prisoners of the Japanese army.

"Are there any countermeasures from the U.S. side?"

An Yi thought for a moment and asked.

Shen Fengdao shook his head: "Until now, not yet. The U.S. government was shocked that the media were unable to express their opinions on the Wartime Act, but that didn't mean they didn't add fuel to their reporting. Nervous conglomerates with vast interests in Central America, Congressmen have made accusations in Congress calling for the military to be held accountable, and the military believes that the top priority is to recapture Panama and eliminate all the Japanese troops who have landed in order to kill the chickens and monkeys, but because the government is in session, nothing can be done. An Yi thought about it for a while and asked Zhao Rui, commander of the Central Asian Front: "Old Zhao, what do you think about this?" ”

Zhao Rui smiled and said, "The strategic intention of the Japanese army is not as simple as destroying the Panama Canal. Now that the Japanese army is in a tight position in South Africa, it will not be enough to improve Japan's relatively unfavorable strategic posture if it adopts the method of treating headaches and feet. If Japan wants to force peace with the United States, the only way out is to make decisions on the United States itself, and cutting off the supply of supplies to the United States is an important way.

"Although the United States is strong, it urgently needs various strategic materials, including oil, copper ore,

Almost all of the pot earth, crow ore, antimony ore, tin ore, natural rubber, and so on came from other countries in the Americas, and landing in Central America would certainly greatly shake American production and reduce the threat of multiple battlefields in one fell swoop. From this point of view, the Japanese have a sharp eye, and I think this must be the work of Ishihara Waner, right? ”

An Yi nodded approvingly: "Except for him, no one has such a strategic vision, I still underestimate the wisdom of this person, I have received information that Ishihara Wan'er is brewing to move the capital, and Emperor Hirohito's attitude has been loosened, and he is ready to move the capital from Tokyo, which has frequent earthquakes, to the city of Iris Springs, a city in central Australia with a relatively stable geological structure, in the second half of this year or the beginning of next year, and is ready to build a land fortress there that will never fall!"

"I originally thought that before the end of this year, the Japanese army would continue to take a defensive position in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, digest the land that had been recovered, wait for an opportunity to seize Tasmania and New Zealand near the Australian mainland, and at the same time take an offensive in the Central Pacific region, relying on a strong navy, drive the US troops out of the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides, and set up a forward base in New Caledonia, so as to completely consolidate the security of the Great Asia!

"I didn't expect Ishihara to go one step further and go thousands of miles to Central America, this determination and courage are really amazing!" Lieutenant General Xiao Wu, deputy commander of the Central Asian Military Region, stood in front of the large Central American map hung out by the staff officer and looked at it for a long time, and then said with a solemn face: "The problem is very likely to become very serious!" Almost all of these Central American countries are grass on the wall, and if it is really the Japanese aircraft carrier task force that is dispatched, how can the countries on the Pacific coast resist it? I believe that it will not be long before the avalanche effect will appear! The Americans are in trouble! ”

An Yi was also in a heavy mood: "I originally wanted to have a two-year development time, and then talk about our industry and agriculture first." Now the Japanese are attacking, and everything is disrupted"

While everyone was discussing, Colonel Yu Xi, chief of the intelligence department of the military region, walked into the door of the conference room and reported again an astonishing news: the governments of Ecuador and Costa Rica had officially surrendered to the Japanese army.

The conference room was shocked, and no one expected that things would change so quickly.

Soon further news came.

It turned out that after the Japanese 5th Division and the 1st O9th Division captured Panama City and the port of Colón, they blasted the canal gate on the one hand, and actively crossed the canal on the other hand, preparing to go to Costa. Canada attacked, through Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, reached the Mexican border, and actively forced the Mexican government to make a choice.

Vice Admiral Yamamotoji, commander of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, who had his headquarters in Panama City, saw the 26 captured B-17 bombers and immediately appealed to the task force for help.

With the combat radius of the B-17 bomber, it could only pose a threat to some American cities in the Gulf of Mexico and the southern Atlantic, but the purpose of the Japanese was to demoralize the United States and did not care how many people were killed or destroyed, so the bombing target was Miami. 、

Located in the southeast corner of Florida between Biscayne Bay, the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean, Miami has a population of about 400,000 people who work mainly in finance, business, media, entertainment, arts and international trade. Stretching south from the American continent between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, Miami is greatly influenced by the large Latin American community and the inhabitants of Caribbean island countries, integrating the cultures and languages of various parts of the Americas, and is known as the "capital of the Americas".

After the outbreak of war, the U.S. government took advantage of Miami's strategic position to build many bases, supply stations, and communications facilities around Miami.

One can imagine how much of an impact it would have on the Americans once Miami was attacked.

The US troops stationed in Panama failed too quickly, and there were ready-made charts at the Panama airport, which the Japanese pilots could use, and they flew to Miami without much effort.

At 6 p.m. yesterday morning American time, 26 B-17 bombers bombed Miami indiscriminately, causing tremendous damage to Miami's US military port terminals, oil depots, and military airfields.

In the process of bombing, although the ground air defense artillery fire made a counterattack, but because there were very few artillery on the air defense positions during the shift change, there was no intensive strike firepower, and the B-17 has always been known for its thick skin, the Japanese bombing was almost unhindered, and one B-17 bomber after another was still looking for new targets.

When the bombing came to an end, the US fighters who had arrived from other places to reinforce them appeared in the field of vision of the Japanese pilots, but unfortunately, almost all of the most elite pilots in the US military were transferred to Britain, South Africa, and the Pacific theater, and the rest of the people who defended the country were rookies.

The Japanese naval aviation maneuvers the B-17 bombers formed a dense strike formation, causing the US fighters to suffer a great deal and four of them were shot down on the spot.

The Japanese pilots quickly flew toward the southern airspace and successfully landed at the Panama airport before nightfall.

Just when the army organized forces to bomb Miami, the task force dispatched more than 100 carrier-based planes to intensively sweep away the allied ships in the Caribbean Sea, and under the torpedo attack of the Japanese carrier-based bombers, two US destroyers were sunk and eight merchant cargo ships were sunk, triggering a panic in the Caribbean countries.

With the announcement by the U.S. government that Panama had been attacked and fallen by the Japanese army, and that Miami had also suffered heavy losses from air raids, government officials and people in Central American and Caribbean countries were even more panicked and did not know what to do next.

Important members of the Panamanian government were captured by the Japanese army, and with a gun on one side and a dollar reward on the other, they issued a telegram in the early hours of this morning, announcing that they would join the camp of the "Axis powers" and fight against the "evil"

of the US imperialist countries declared war.

The second to announce its membership in the "Axis" camp was the Colombian rebel junta, which was resisting the entry of American troops, and the rebel leader, Suquaroval, enumerated the criminal acts of US imperialism in the Americas and called on the people of the whole of America to unite and unanimously expel the forces of "US imperialism".

The two military bases and one military airfield deployed by the US military in Ecuador were attacked by more than 200 Japanese carrier-based planes as early as the moment the war broke out in Panama.

When did Ecuadorian government officials see so many warplanes?

Shocked by the destruction of the U.S. military base in Ecuador by carrier-based aircraft, and the fact that the more than 30 planes deployed by the Americans in Ecuador were wiped out with little resistance, these government dignitaries quickly reached an agreement: surrender to the Japanese army.

Since Ecuador had previously declared war on Japan, it expelled Japan's diplomatic service and deported all ethnic Japanese to Peru and Colombia. Under these circumstances, the Ecuadorian government had no choice but to issue a telegram announcing "surrender and change of flag" and welcoming the powerful Japanese army into Ecuador to protect the lives and property of the people here.

Costa Rica also has US military bases and military airfields, but like Ecuador, these US military facilities were destroyed by Japanese carrier-based aircraft at the beginning of the war, and the Costa Rican government was also greatly shaken. For a country with only more than 2,000 troops, the Japanese army was almost invincible, and under such circumstances, the Costa Rican government took the initiative to send people to Panama to contact the Japanese soldiers and quickly reach a surrender agreement.

In a short period of time, the Japanese army became the protector of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, seriously shaking the foundation of the United States in Central America. (To be continued...)