When the air raid sirens sounded, most of the sailors of the fleet were still asleep. The alarm of the destroyers on the perimeter gave the fleet close to fifteen minutes of warning time.

Fifteen minutes was not enough time to notify the planes from the nearby island-based airfield to come to support, nor was it enough for the accompanying escort aircraft carrier to release carrier-based aircraft to intercept them, and everything could only be relied on by the fleet's own air defense capability.

When the ships on the march frantically wanted to form an air defense formation, a swarm of "flies" appeared in the distance under the moonlight of the full moon.

Three high-speed aircraft carriers flew 120 Swordfish II torpedo attack aircraft. With the joint efforts of six "unscientific beings," they successfully loamed the US fleet group hundreds of kilometers away in the dark of night and unleashed a fatal blow.

About 120 kilometers away from the Maine, Katyusha's I-153 submarine had surfaced, and the high-power radio station on the submarine broadcast directly in plain language, guiding the Swordfish group to correct its course by approaching the Swordfish group in the night, and the first target was the two strongest Montana-class battleships -- the Maine and the Ohio.

The sixty Swordfish IIs that rushed to the battlefield were divided into two teams and launched lightning strikes against the USS Maine and HMS Ohio respectively.

Centered on the battleships Maine and Ohio, along with the destroyers and cruisers escorting the surrounding ships, they all fired flares into the sky. Being pinned at night by enemy torpedo attack aircraft was the most painful thing for the air defense of the fleet. If you don't light the flares, you can't conduct effective air defense operations, but if you light the flares, you will be able to provide light for the opponent to launch lightning strikes.

Over the past few years, the United States has also tried all its means to study the impact of the unscientific existence of the "divine envoy" on the bonus of naval warfare in naval warfare, and their reference objects are the naval battles of Norway and the naval battles of Guam. However, in both the Norwegian and Guam naval battles, neither Germany nor Japan realized the huge advantage of carrier-based biplanes in a low-altitude raid at night. Really "aftertaste". It was after the success of the surprise attack on San Francisco that the Japanese and British sides made great efforts to develop biplane attack aircraft, which were obviously outdated.

According to the US research, when there is a divine envoy (ship spirit) to seek the enemy and provide calibration data, the dark night will not be the cover of its own side at all, but will be more beneficial to the opponent. Therefore, in the event of an enemy attack, it is necessary to use a lot of flares in any case. Weakens the cover of the night against opponents.

By 1946, the US Navy's air defense system was well established. Dozens of warships, including flares fired by transport ships, lit up the dozens of square kilometers of sea as if it were daylight, and then fired at the five-inch high-level dual-purpose guns installed on each ship.

However, as in the case of the U.S. Navy during the Battle of San Francisco, anti-aircraft shells with VT radio proximity fuses were installed to strike all-metal fighters with great efficiency. However, when it comes to the Swordfish II, which deliberately uses wood and canvas as the main body materials, the efficiency is outrageously low. Whether it is a 5-inch or a 3-inch high-level dual-purpose gun. Almost all of the shells fired were in the distance behind the low-flying Swordfish group, and they did not play their intended role at all.

Only the barrage composed of 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns and 20 mm Erlikon anti-aircraft guns was the biggest enemy of the approaching Swordfish group. But by this time the target was within five kilometers of them.

In the sky, there were constantly approaching Swordfish being shot down by Bofors and Erlikon guns, but there were still a large number of Swordfish that penetrated the interception of the anti-aircraft guns to approach the target, and then dropped deadly torpedoes.

On the sea, the Maine and Ohio, which are locked on, are like clumsy fin whales. In the sea, he spewed tongues of fire into the air, and at the same time twisted his waist wildly and danced the water ballet. Dodging dangerous torpedoes in the water. And the lookouts on the ship, at this time, were also staring at the surface of the sea with round eyes, looking for the trajectory of the dangerous torpedoes in the water.

"Oh my God, this is a torpedo that tracks in a corner!"

A total of twenty-four Swordfish managed to approach the Maine, dropped torpedoes, and the Maine was on the lookout. Lookout Tom let out a scream, and more than ten seconds later, there was a violent earthquake on the hull of the Maine, then again, three shocks. Within two minutes, there were continuous earthquakes, and the violent earthquakes continued to occur eleven times before they stopped.

In total, eleven torpedoes hit the right side of the Maine during this wave of attacks.

The other battleship, the USS Ohio, was in worse condition than the Maine, swallowing as many as a dozen torpedoes on one side of its body.

No matter how good the damage management of the US Navy is, no matter how good the Montana-class TDS design is, swallowing so many torpedoes in one go, the sea water frantically pours into the fleet, and these two warships are quickly moving towards the end of "ship life".

So far, the Eurasian coalition forces know very well how to sink the opponent's battleship with airborne torpedoes in the most efficient way, that is, when firing torpedoes, they should attack a single side of their body as much as possible, causing one side to be flooded with too much water and it will be difficult to fill water and rebalance and capsize.

When the second wave of another 60 Swordfish arrived on the battlefield five minutes later, Katyusha, who was in charge of "correction", left these 20 Swordfish to "replenish mines" for the two heavily damaged ships, and the rest ordered them to turn to attack the rest of the escort carriers and transports.

The two waves of one hundred and twenty swordfish only lasted thirty-one minutes from the time they launched the attack to the time they finally withdrew. The American warship was heavily armed with anti-aircraft guns, and a total of 16 Swordfish were sunk in front and behind.

But the Maine and Ohio, which swallowed a total of fifteen rounds and seventeen aviation torpedoes, were powerless to save their fate by this time. Four other escort carriers did not escape the attack, in addition to two destroyers and several transports that were hit by torpedoes dropped by the Swordfish.

All the Allied torpedoes were so powerful because they were using acoustic torpedoes...... This torpedo differed from ordinary torpedoes at that time in that it could direct itself to the target - the engine of the enemy ship in order to destroy the power system of the enemy ship.

The torpedo was first developed by Germany after the end of the war in Europe in 1941 (note: Germany also had similar products during World War II in history), and the United Kingdom also had similar products under secret development. After the appearance of Artoria, Britain and Germany began to unite, and the two sides shared each other's achievements in the development of new acoustic self-guided torpedoes in order to fight the terrifying US Navy. Tonight's sneak attack on the U.S. fleet was the first time that the acoustic torpedo was used.

Early acoustic torpedoes, in fact, were easy to deal with, as long as they were towed behind the ship a machine that could make a lot of noise. It is possible to deflect the torpedo from the course. But because of the first use, the U.S. Navy had no experience in dealing with the meeting, and it was easy to get it off to a good start.

Ten minutes after the Swordfish group retreated, a third attack from the three carriers arrived, this time with traditional dive fighter-bombers. They dropped a large number of heavy bombs on the collapsed U.S. fleet, and sank more than a dozen transport ships before leaving satisfied.

Although it was a night sortie. However, the allied navy, which has the blessing of the ship's spirit, can rest assured, bold, and arrogantly turn on its headlights when receiving planes at night, and is not afraid of the threat of submarines at all -- in fact, there are not many US submarines in the Pacific Ocean at present, and after the divine impact and understanding that submarines are completely destined to die in the face of the all-round perception of the "divine messenger," the US Navy, which has been greatly expanding its forces in the past three years, has expanded its submarine force the least. It has even fewer than it did before the war, and the submarine force is the last thing the young sailors of the United States want to join. After four years of war, the submarine forces of the US Navy have suffered huge losses, and their presence in the Pacific Ocean has been almost zero in the past two years, and the rate of sorties and attendance is also outrageously low.

The naval battle on 9 November lasted less than an hour. About 200 planes from Eurasia sank two Montana-class battleships and three destroyers of the US Navy. Four aircraft carriers were escorted, and more than 20 transport ships were sunk. In addition, three destroyers were sunk and two cruisers were heavily damaged.

And the losses paid by the Eurasian coalition forces were only 22 planes that did not return.

The Montana-class battleship is a super battleship built by the Americans at great expense to deal with the Yamato-class battleships, and a total of six were built before and after. However, the three Montana-class battleships that sank in the battle did not have a chance to fire even a single main gun shell at the opponent until they sank.

After obtaining this result, even the senior naval officers of the Eurasian countries with the spirit of the ship almost unanimously made a similar exclamation:

"The era of big ships and huge cannons is completely over!"

War. Even Lin Han's family didn't expect such a result. Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, their idea was to use the darkness to approach the U.S. Navy, and then, as in the Battle of Norway, use the "correction" ability of the ship spirit to annihilate the opponent through night fighting.

This tactic was a great success in the Battle of the Norwegian Sea, as well as in the Battle of Guam at the beginning of the Pacific War. However, after that, the US Navy adopted the tactics of targeting, relying on a large number of long-range reconnaissance dragnet reconnaissance and reconnaissance, and at the same time taking advantage of the dense characteristics of the Aleutian island chain of islands, relying on its strong national strength to frantically build island-based airfields, and forcefully forcing the battleships outside the "half-day voyage," and not giving the enemy a chance to take advantage of the darkness of night to launch an artillery battle.

As a result, Lin Han and others could only take advantage of the aircraft carrier's long attack radius, coupled with the advantages of the "backward" biplane with good low-altitude maneuverability, to let the aircraft carrier play the leading role.

The expected scene of the 460-mm guns on the Yamato, Shinano, and Brittania and the giant guns of the same class on the Monta-class battleships bombarded each other never had a chance to be staged.

Even at the end of the war, this scene did not happen. When future generations look back on this war, this is also the biggest regret of those "big ships and giant artillery parties".

On the evening of 9 November, the Eurasian coalition announced the results to the whole world.

In the era of aircraft carriers, the sinking of two "outdated" Monta-class battleships did not cause much damage to the US Navy. However, there were two things that really shocked the Americans, one was the appearance of the acoustic self-guided torpedo, and the second was that in this naval battle, the coalition forces once again shamelessly used the "divine messenger" to open the map and launch a surprise war.

In 1946, when radar technology was still not mature enough, this was still an unsolvable problem.

After the war, Vice Admiral Spreans, who succeeded Halsey as Supreme Commander of the Pacific Theater, sent a telegram to President Dewey, claiming that the morale of the Navy at the front was extremely low, that the hospitals at the front were "overcrowded" -- most of them were feigning illness -- and that the US Navy could no longer fight this "unfair" war.

As if to cooperate with Lieutenant General Spreans's revenge, fierce anti-war demonstrations broke out in major cities in the United States on 15 October, and the gates of the White House in Washington were also crowded with people, and countless people poured into the streets chanting slogans such as "stop the war" and "let the children go home."

Not only did people take to the streets to oppose the war, but even workers in major shipyards spontaneously organized to launch strike actions. Ask President Dewey to stop this "war of the gods without hope."

Within the U.S. government, some lawmakers also put forward a proposal for an "armistice and peace talks," which quickly won the majority of support in Congress.

At this time, no matter how tough President Dewey is, this war can no longer be fought.

On December 1, 1946, the U.S. government invented the Declaration. They agreed to start peace talks with the Eurasian coalition on an armistice, and received a quick response from the other side. Prior to this, the two sides had actually secretly colluded in private.

On December 3, the two warring sides issued a mutual understanding, announcing that the two sides would enter a state of total ceasefire from 0:00 a.m. GMT on the 14th.

On 5 December, the two sides announced that they would hold peace talks in Switzerland, a neutral country in Europe.

After Christmas, on January 3, 1947, preparations were made. The U.S. delegates flew across the Atlantic, into Europe, and then transited to Geneva, Switzerland, where lengthy "peace talks" began.

Negotiations began in January and lasted until April of that year.

The main point of contention is none other than two local issues: the Philippines, a US "protectorate," and Hawaii, the main reason why the negotiations continued until April.

The Hawaiian Islands were the bridgehead for the United States to expand its influence into Asia and Oceania. Whether it's Japan, the United Kingdom. Even China does not want to see the "hand" of the United States stretched out into the western Pacific again.

At the time of negotiations in Geneva. The three companies resolutely refused to return Hawaii and repeatedly demanded that Hawaii be "permanently neutralized." Germany and the Soviet Union also supported China, Britain, and Japan on this issue. The five claimed that Hawaii had been forcibly occupied by the United States by illegal means in the past, and that it should now be abandoned.

President Dewey resolutely did not want to be the first US president in US history to sign a treaty on the "loss of homeland" and would not let up on this issue.

Negotiations were deadlocked, and at one point they were on the verge of rupture.

But in April of that year. An unexpected incident in the United States changed the course of negotiations.

On 13 April, the USS Midway, which had been put under maintenance in the port of San Francisco, was ordered to leave port with the Fourth Fleet and go to the Aleutian Islands to carry out an order to replace the warships on the front line. Somehow a rumor spread among the sailors in the fleet that the order for this replacement was fake. The real order was that President Dewey ordered the Navy to attack, demanding a "decisive battle" with the Eurasian coalition forces in the Pacific in exchange for concessions from the adversary in Geneva.

The US Navy, which had already been emboldened by extremely exaggerated casualties in several naval battles, refused to carry out this "order to send to death" -- although it was actually an out-and-out rumor, the US Navy, which was terrified, had lost the courage to "preach to the gods" at this time.

Then, they mutinied.

The entire fleet, first the sailors on the USS Midway refused to sail to carry out the order, and after the news spread, the sailors on the other aircraft carriers and frigates around followed suit.

The situation grew bigger and bigger, and finally the entire Fourth Fleet was completely paralyzed in the harbor of San Francisco. Although the Naval Judge Advocate General's Office dispatched military police and marines to suppress the situation and prevent the situation from further escalating, the loss of the will to fight of the entire Fourth Fleet was a matter that the authorities had to admit.

The "Fourth Fleet Incident" reminded Americans not only of Germany at the end of World War I, when the Kaiser forced the Navy to attack, which led to the uprising of Kiel's sailors. There are Americans who have a lot of associations, and even associate this action with the October Revolution in Soviet Russia.

At this time, President Dewey had long been tormented by internal and external pressures, and the "Fourth Fleet" incident was the last straw that crushed the US authorities.

On 9 May, after lengthy negotiations, the United States representatives signed the Geneva Armistice Agreement in Geneva with trembling hands.

According to the requirements of the agreement, the American side completely renounces all its interests in Asia and Oceania.

The island of Artura was ceded to the Soviet Union.

Hawaii, on the other hand, seceded from the United States and became a permanently neutral island, under the "condominium" of the Eurasian Union. As a "response" to the guarantee of American security. The Eurasian Union has committed to the permanent demilitarization of the region, with Germany, Britain, Japan, China, and the Soviet Union jointly endorsing its "neutrality" and "demilitarization".

The Stars and Stripes of the United States have 50 stars on it, representing the 50 continents of the United States, and after the signing of the Geneva Armistice, the Stars and Stripes will be reduced by one star.

After the agreement was signed, President Dewey announced his resignation, and before his resignation, in his speech to the people, he claimed that May 9 was not only a day of shame for the United States, but also a day of shame for all the American people. He claimed that the reason why the United States lost this war was because all Americans had lost the American spirit and the fighting spirit inherited from the pioneers of the Mayflower, who kept forging ahead, fighting against the sky, the earth, and the evil gods.

Some Americans understood what he said, and while listening to his speech, they wept bitterly. But many more Americans, excitedly shouting: "Die, warmongers, lackeys of the military-industrial complex," cheering that "this damn war" is finally over.

After President Dewey resigned early and ended his presidential duties, he relinquished the presidency to his deputy, and then the United States began a new round of presidential proclamation ahead of schedule. Unsurprisingly, in this round of propaganda, the Republican candidate was defeated, and the Democratic candidate Truman easily became the next president of the United States with an absolute majority. (To be continued......)

PS: There is also the last volume as the finishing volume