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March 3, Washington, White House.

The morning sun poured in through the window, but there was no way to dispel the gloomy atmosphere that permeated the Oval Office, on the contrary, the scene of the rising sun outside the window reminded everyone of the flag of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

A huge fleet of naval flags flying the Rising Sun is now cruising the eastern Pacific Ocean west of the Isthmus of Central America. If the U.S. Navy can't eliminate them as soon as possible, the entire west coast of Latin America will become the domain of the Japanese! However, Admiral Leahy, the chief of naval operations of the United States, was not as crisp as MacArthur at today's meeting, believing that Nimitz and Halsey should not interfere with the command, and that these two generals could win victory for the United States.

Roosevelt glanced at the admiral sitting next to him with a calm face, and just as he wanted to continue urging the Pacific Fleet to eliminate it as soon as possible, or at least to expel the Japanese fleet, the door to the office was pushed open, and Colonel Caton walked in with a grim face.

"Mr. President, Panama City is in an emergency, the lock at the western entrance to the Panama Canal has just been damaged by a Japanese suicide submarine!"

"What !!"

Hearing this, everyone in the office, except Roosevelt, jumped up, causing a ping-pong noise of tables and chairs.

If we say that Japan's landing in Costa Rica only attacked the prestige of the United States, it would not pose much of a threat to US national security, because the Japanese mainland is too far away from the United States, and with Japan's national strength, it is impossible to invest too many troops to attack the countries on the west coast of the Americas. As long as the newly expanded US Army completes its training, the United States will certainly be able to get rid of these bandits from the East.

Of course, the premise is that the United States must obtain sea supremacy on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, and this is only a matter of time before President Roosevelt and his top aides see this, after all, the United States is too far ahead of Japan in shipbuilding and aircraft industry, and even China and Germany, which are behind Japan, are at least inferior to the United States in terms of output. The huge gap in strength between the United States and Japan can never be reversed by relying on some so-called "kamikaze special attackers" who are not in their right minds.

But these madmen bent on death have once again dealt an unexpected blow to the United States! The Panama Canal was destroyed by them, and the transportation between the east and west coasts of the United States went into serious trouble. You must know that the powerful shipbuilding industry in the United States is mainly concentrated on the East Coast!

Without the Panama Canal, the newly launched aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers would have to circumnavigate all of South America to reach the West Coast of the United States. And if Japan acquires a few bases on the west coast of South America and deploys planes and fleets there to sit for work, the United States will really be in big trouble.

Roosevelt took the telegram from Colonel Caton, looked at it twice, and sighed heavily. Fredendor said on Telegram that the lock was damaged by a self-detonation at close range by a medium-sized submarine filled with TNT explosives. The Canal Authority estimates that it will take 6 months at the earliest, and the Panama Canal will not be able to use until then! ”

"Oh God! Are these Japanese all crazy? With a whole submarine and all the crew on it...... How could these people carry out such a mortal command? ”

Admiral Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, nodded: "Yes, we are fighting 70 million madmen!" However, they did not carry enough supplies, so the navy could deal with the ......"

"Order Nimitz to get rid of these madmen! Right away! President Roosevelt interrupted Raisi, knowing that the destruction of the Panama Canal and the fall of Costa Rica would greatly damage the prestige of the United States in Latin America, and that if several small Central American countries near Costa Rica were also occupied by Japan, and even Panama, the United States might lose all of South America!

If this happens, how will the United States defeat Japan?

Roosevelt looked at Army Chief of Staff MacArthur and Secretary of the Army Stimson, who had just arrived after hearing the news, and asked in a deep voice, "I want to know, where is the Manhattan Project?" When will we be able to use that superweapon? ”

MacArthur glanced at Stimson, who was stunned by Roosevelt's decision, gritted his teeth and said: "Mr. President, the Manhattan Project is currently going all out to advance, and the isotope separation plant has been basically completed, and it will be put into production by the middle of this year at the latest, and at the same time, the design of the atomic bomb has also begun, and it is estimated that the United States will have an atomic bomb that can be put into actual combat by the end of June 1940 at the latest!" But......" MacArthur hesitated, adding, "But we don't have air bases on the Japanese mainland, and we don't have long-range bombers with a large enough range and bomb load." ”

"It's okay...... Roosevelt looked at the military and political dignitaries in front of him, and a trace of fierceness flashed on his face, "We can't bomb Tokyo, but we can bomb Pearl Harbor!" ”

"President!"

The high-ranking American officials in the conference room stood up at the same time, because Pearl Harbor is US territory no matter how it is said! And there were also many American citizens who were enslaved by Japan.

"I'll take this responsibility!" Roosevelt glanced at the crowd and said, "If that day were true, I would not be seeking a third term as president." Well, that's all for today's session, I'm a little tired. As if he had suddenly remembered something, he turned to Secretary of State Hull and said, "Go to Mexico City, go to President Cárdenas, and tell him that Mexico must be on the side of the United States in return...... The United States can support the creation of a unified Central American federation with Mexico at its core! ”

"But Mr. President!" Shocked by this, Hull just wanted to remind the president that a unified Central America was not in the interest of the United States. Roosevelt shook his hand and said with a bitter smile: "If we don't open this condition, the Chinese and Germans will also open it." Besides, the US Army is now weak and really needs an army of Mexicans. ”

"Also, Harry (Hopkins), you go to Brazil and Colombia and see what President Vargas (President of Brazil, dictator) and President Premajo want. By the way, Argentina is also going to send someone to contact ...... These South American powers must not be allowed to fall to Germany! ”

In this era, most of the major powers in South America have pro-German sentiments, especially the "fascist" forces in Brazil and Argentina, and if the prestige of the United States declines, Nazi Germany will naturally reach in! That's why Roosevelt is now in a hurry to send people to South America to try to stabilize the backyard of the United States, which has already broken out.

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Costa Rica, Coronado Bay.

More than a dozen large ocean-going convoys had sailed less than a few kilometers from the coast, and assault boats shuttled back and forth between the coast and the fleet, transporting boatloads of Japanese soldiers armed to the teeth to the ground in North America.

The Japanese soldiers who went ashore first formed a long march, carrying Type 38 rifles on their backs, striding along the road to San Jose or Panama. The Japanese Army's tradition of self-management seems to have been well maintained in this landing operation in the Americas, and after Yamashita and Ishihara Wanji obtained the Navy's consent to send two ships of soldiers to land in Costa Rica, it was only natural that they expanded their military operations again, transporting two entire divisions of Japanese troops to Coronado Bay.

In this way, 50,000 Japanese soldiers landed on the coastline of an American country with a swagger on more than a dozen transport ships and escorted by two destroyers!

And resistance, of course, is not.

On the map, two large red arrows are stretching from Coronado Bay to the north and south. The Japanese soldiers who landed in two directions pounced on San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, and Panama, the capital of North and South America!

Costa Rica!

This little-known small Latin American country seems to be the beginning of the collapse of American hegemony in the Americas! For a time, the attention of the whole of America and the whole world was drawn to the Isthmus of Central America and to the Gulf of Coronado.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!"

An old 18th-century church in the small town of Dominica is now home to the headquarters of the Japanese Army's 102nd Division, and Lieutenant General Ishihara is studying the battle situation in front of a tourist map of Costa Rica with his hands behind his back. Due to the haste of the incident, the Japanese troops on the expedition to Central America did not prepare a military map of Costa Rica at all, and of course, there was no military map of such a small American country in the building of the General Staff of the Japanese Army. Therefore, Ishihara had to order the Japanese devils led by him to rob the map door to door in the small city of Dominica! Eventually, they managed to find a lot of tourist maps (still in Spanish), or they would have become the only army in modern military history to get lost on the battlefield.

"The telegram from the Imperial Embassy in Costa Rica was forwarded by the Ministry of War." The staff officer strode up to Ishihara and handed over the telegram he had just received: "Ambassador Obuchi reports: Costa Rican President Castro (with the same surname as Uncle Fidel) has declared the capital, San José, an undefended city. At present, senior Costa Rican government officials in San Jose are fleeing one after another, and it is reported that President Castro will also flee to the United States to establish a government-in-exile within today. ”

"Fleeing to the United States?" Ishihara sighed softly, it seems that the prestige of the United States among Latin American countries is still there, otherwise this President Castro should stay in San Jose to cooperate with the Japanese occupation forces, or at least submit a request for peace talks through the German embassy in Costa Rica.

The chief of staff of the 102nd Division, Kiyozaburo Okazaki, did not care about Castro's whereabouts, but kept an eye on the direction of Panama. According to the plan, the 16th Division under the command of Lieutenant General Keisuke Fujie would be in charge of the Panama direction, but in the event that the 16th Division was at a disadvantage in a contest with the U.S. 2nd Army, Ishihara's 102nd Division would immediately send reinforcements.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, since San Jose is already an undefended city, we might as well leave the 102nd and 104th Wings that have not yet landed in Coronado Bay, ready to reinforce the 16th Division at any time."

Of course, Ishihara understood what Okazaki meant, and the Panama Canal was the most important thing in this "Central American Campaign"! The United States deployed a 2nd Army Corps in Panama, although most of the troops suffered casualties in place, but it was also a real American army, and in the early Oahu Raiders, the American army was much more tenacious than imagined.

"Shout," Ishihara nodded noncommittally, staring at the tourist map of Costa Rica in front of him, and after a while, he said: "Order the 102nd Wing and the 104th Wing to have at least 3,000 people land before tonight, and then under the unified command of the 102nd Wing Commander Tsuda Narisa, go south to reinforce the 16th Division." ”

"Order the 150th Wing to occupy San Jose and leave the Wing and one Brigade to maintain law and order, and the other two Wings to be assigned to the 158th Wing."

"Order the 158th Wing to be completely lightly armed and advance towards Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and must seize the capital of the country before American reinforcements arrive in Nicaragua!"

"What? Capture the capital of a country with the strength of two brigades of one wing!? This is also too ......" Hearing Ishihara's order, even the Japanese army Osa of Kiyozaburo Okazaki secretly spoke. In order to gain time, the troops that landed in Coronado Bay this time were all infantry, except for a small number of mountain artillery and infantry guns, they had no heavy weapons, and now they had to be completely lightly armed, that is, a half-company of "riflemen". Ishihara also wanted to use these forces to seize the capital of Nicaragua...... That's too underestimated, isn't it?

"That's all! Soldiers, Okazaki-kun, hurry up and arrange it! Ishihara ignored Okazaki's doubts at all, but waved his hand and gave the battle order. Because he knows very well that the most powerful weapon in his hands at the moment is the fear of his opponent, and he must achieve the greatest results before this fear is resolved!

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March 3, 2:30 p.m.

In the eastern Pacific Ocean, 120 nautical miles off the coast of Coronado Bay, the Japanese aircraft carrier USS Akagi.

Kengoro Hetofu looked up at the Japanese Navy's sunburst flag fluttering on the top of the island, took a deep breath, and strode towards the command center of the First Air Fleet on the second floor of the island. During this time, Kengoro Hetofu felt that he was about to get schizophrenia, and it may be that his long-term spy career really made him mentally problematic! He is now theoretically an American spy, although this identity was imposed on him by the Korean Independence Army, but the United States is indeed the only country that can help North Korea become independent at present! It is also natural for Liver Pay to serve her. I don't know if there is something wrong with that nerve, as long as I think of the United States and the chairman of the provisional government of the Republic of Korea, Syngman Rhee, an indescribable disgust and hatred gush out of my heart, and this hatred even exceeds my hatred for Japanese militarism!

It was under the control of this strange mentality, which he could not explain, that Kengoro Heto, on the one hand, revealed the movements of the Japanese Combined Fleet to the United States through the intelligence network of the Korean Independence Army. At the same time, he threw himself into the war against US imperialism with the greatest enthusiasm. Whether it was training kamikaze members or formulating battle plans, he did his best to truly show a Japanese-style "workaholic" style, so much so that the upper echelons of the Combined Fleet now regarded him as the future Minister of the Navy...... Like him, who was born in a famous Satsuma family (the Liverpay family and the Yamamoto family), and is a top student of the Etajima Maritime School and an elite of the University, now he is working day and night, and he has a pure kung fu, if he can't be a minister in the future, it is really unreasonable.

"Oh, it's Liver Fu-kun who is back." Seeing the future Minister of the Navy walking into the command center, the Chief of Staff of the First Air Fleet, Kuroshima Kameto, immediately cast an admiring and even slightly flattering gaze. "Is the Akagi's kamikaze squadron ready to attack?"

"Hay." Liver Fu still respectfully saluted at Heijima. "The kamikaze squadron is ready to attack at any time!" Saying that, he asked rhetorically: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, have you found an American aircraft carrier?" ”

Kuroshima frowned: "Seaplanes have already discovered an aircraft carrier formation 50 nautical miles off the coast of Costa Rica, there are three

Mothership, but it is not known whether it is French or American. ”

"It should be an aircraft carrier for the French, right? The Americans must be using the French as bait, and their aircraft carriers are hiding nearby! "When we cooperated with Britain and France before, I visited France and saw their aircraft carriers. Those motherships could carry few aircraft, but they were extremely strong. And the anti-aircraft fire is also very strong, and it will be difficult for our kamikaze aircraft to crash into them. ”

"Well, the French man-made warships have no other advantages, that is, they are strong, and their 'Richelieu' class caused a lot of problems for the Germans in the North Sea War." The commander of the First Air Fleet, Inoue Narumi, interjected at this time

"So, we can't be fooled. But sooner or later, the reconnaissance planes they sent will also discover us......" Kengoro Hefu hesitated for a moment when he said this, walked to the chart, looked at it for a while, and said to Inoue: "Your Excellency, Commander, I have a suggestion. ”

"Say it."

"It is proposed to use the four aircraft carriers of the United Fleet as a bet and gamble with the United States on national fortunes!"

"What's the gambling method?" Inoue asked, raising an eyebrow.

"It's 2:30 p.m., it won't be long before it gets dark, and a big battle between aircraft carriers is unlikely to start at night. Therefore, it is recommended to avoid today's decisive battle and retreat the whole fleet to the north. It is estimated that the six motherships of the United States and France will definitely advance north to search for the fleet. We will turn back to the south after dark tonight, and risk sending seaplanes to search for American and French aircraft carriers before dawn tomorrow, and if we find anything, no matter who the other side is, we will launch a kamikaze attack! ”

"That is, there is a 50 percent probability that the American aircraft carrier will be spotted first." Inoue Narumi nodded slightly, "But what if we encounter the American and French aircraft carrier formations at night?" We only have 2 heavy cruisers, and although the Tone-class, which has just been commissioned, is already equipped with radars imported from China, it is ...... The current radar can only detect and cannot guide the shelling. ”

"Then fight at night! Please believe in the power of the Imperial Navy's artillery and mine attacks! ”

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