Chapter 422: Turn
While the Americans were enjoying the taste of Daiki and quickly falling into Daiki, after repelling the American B17 bomber group, the Japanese fleet, after traveling hundreds of kilometers in the direction of Hawaii, met the supply fleet that came to meet them.
After filling the fleet with fuel, the fleet did not go west, but turned around and headed southeast.
It was a waste to finally come to the West Coast of the United States once, just "touch" it in San Francisco and leave. The Eastbound destination of the Combined Fleet was Los Angeles.
At 12 o'clock in the evening of 28 April, the Japanese fleet, which had gone and returned, appeared 30 kilometers off the coast of Los Angeles. Eighteen 460-millimeter cannons raised high on the Yamato and Shinano ships violently bombarded the port of Los Angeles. Destroyed a number of merchant ships and caused some damage to the facilities in the port.
Although the Americans had coastal batteries in Los Angeles, it was extremely difficult to hit enemy ships 30 kilometers away in the dark. The Japanese ships themselves were not in love with the war, and the shelling of the port of Los Angeles by the two ships did not last long, firing only 30 rounds in total, firing 540 rounds of fever bombs and explosive shells, and then they turned around and withdrew, and the whole shelling lasted only 17 minutes, and they retreated shortly after the shore defense batteries returned fire. In the dark, the local shore defense artillery could not accurately observe and correct, so the shells fired back were not threatening.
In addition, the cruisers that followed the fleet also used their main guns to stick to the coastal cities around Los Angeles and shelled the port facilities there. Those small towns and small harbors were not covered by large batteries, and the cruisers could safely and boldly get closer and shoot at them.
For the Americans, who had a big family, this loss was insignificant, but the psychological panic caused by the shelling of the Japanese ships on the mainland was still enormous. With the help of this shelling, Li Huamei forced the Americans to devote more resources to the construction of coastal defense on their own territory. And the American residents of coastal towns in the Western Ocean. As a result, there was also a panicked escape. The resulting intangible losses are much greater than the direct losses from shelling.
When it finally left the west coast of the United States, the Japanese fleet also dispatched cruisers to capture several American fishing boats encountered along the way, which can be regarded as the end of this operation.
And at this time, President Dewey, who was punched with a swollen pig's head by a series of combinations of Dongying dwarfs. The outgoing month of April was a terrible month for President Dewey, who was cheekily putting on a show of "condolences" in the shelled Los Angeles Rock.
It has been 10 months since the start of the war between the United States and Japan, and the US Navy, which was once the world's first, has reaped only endless defeats. In the two months before he became president, Dewey, who was still vice president, visited all the countries in the world that could help the United States, promised countless benefits, and tried to pull them into his chariot, but none of his ideas succeeded. Even grasp the largest China. The reply given was also unsatisfactory.
After 10 months of mobilization, the total strength of the US Army has now exceeded 200, the huge US military machine has also been fully rolled out for production, and the number of tanks in the United States has risen from a few hundred before the war to 4,000 now.
However, the current opponent of the United States is Japan, which is separated from the United States by a large ocean, and the Japanese Combined Fleet is pressing the US Navy to fight fiercely. There is no sea dominance, and no matter how many land forces are recruited in the country. No amount of tanks can be built – unless you do it to Canada next to you.
President Dewey did not fail to move the idea of doing something to Canada, and the Pacific Fleet was destroyed. The British were secretly pushing the water behind their backs, and it is very likely that they even participated in the attack on the US Pacific Fleet, and Dewey could find a bunch of excuses to attack Canada, and it was not difficult to take Canada. It's just, what about after taking Canada? The current U.S. Navy can't even beat the Japanese Navy. Messing with another British, Dewey was not crazy enough to want to challenge the British and Japanese navies at the same time, at least until he killed the Japanese, he didn't want to fight on two fronts, east and west.
After a condolence show in Los Angeles, President Dewey returned to Washington with experts. As soon as he got off the plane, he convened a meeting of his staff to discuss what the next step of the US Navy's US national policy should be after the San Francisco fiasco. Joseph. Donovan walked into the president's office and personally placed a top-secret bag on it to President Dewey.
Donovan said with a stern face: "Mr. President, before the meeting, please be sure to read this document in detail." ”
Then he added.
"The content of this article is very likely to be the truth about the bizarre defeat and destruction of the British Grand Fleet and the defeat of our Pacific Fleet."
Dewey opened the bag with a puzzled look on his face and began to look at the intelligence information inside, but after the first glance, the expression on his face immediately became strange.
Donovan continued: "On this matter, at the end of the war in Europe, when Mr. Ghana was still president, we began to investigate this matter, and it did not stop until President Wilkie. ”
Dewey ignored Donovan's introduction, and he quickly flipped through the materials in his bag. His predecessor, President Wilkie, liked to start with the first page and read it slowly in his hand. Dewey, on the other hand, had a habit of skimming through it and then reading it carefully, a habit he had developed when he was a justice of the nation.
President Dewey exclaimed, "This information is so ridiculous, do you want me to question the existence of God?" ”
Donovan replied: "No, Mr. President, God He is everywhere. ”
"But according to the content of your information, do I mean to say that the current God is now on the side of the Germans, the Chinese, and even the Japanese?"
Dewey read it quickly, and in ten minutes he hastily flipped through hundreds of pages of information, and then slammed it on the table as if venting his sullenness.
Donovan explained: "And one of these information is also provided by the British. Mr. Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who had always believed that there was something non-human, got involved in the world and directly intervened in the war. ”
Dewey closed his eyes, rubbed his temples vigorously with his hands, and rested his head on the leather chair with a tired expression.
"You're trying to believe that we're at war with non-human things."
In addition to this, there are also photos of the "Guardian Goddess of the Navy" and "Yamato Nadeshiko" made by the Japanese in the first two years of the "superstitious" country of "nervous" and "superstitious" countries.
The information in the text was not unusual to Dewey, most of whom he had heard of before, but at that time, like most people, he only listened to it as a story about the "Martian invasion of the earth", and never told it to be true. (Note: In the thirties, the National Radio Outbreak in the United States deliberately described the "live report" of the Martians landing on Earth and then launching an attack on the United States in the form of a live broadcast, which was actually a "storytelling" to the Americans by the advertising station, and only at the end of the story did the announcer in front of the radio explain to the audience that it was just a story and not a real story.) But before that, the report had already caused panic throughout the United States, causing great unrest. )
Donovan said: "If this qiē is true and not a story, then I can now find the answer to the unexplained things that cannot be explained during the war in Europe, the destruction of the British Navy, and the encounter of our fleet during the Battle of the Island." And in the recent past"
As he spoke, Donovan took out another paper bag and handed it to the president, watched him open it, and continued: "And lately, the British side has become as nervous as Germany and Japan, and last month the British Navy also retrospectively reloaded the bow statue on the warship." I have reason to suspect that the British, on the other hand, may well have given birth to this non-human being. ”
Dewey looked at the second document he handed over, and then picked up the photo information about Lin Han in the first document on the table and looked at it. Dewey met Lin Han, and the last time he met Lin Han was during his trip to China earlier this year, when Lin Han was on a "goodwill visit" to China as the leader of the "Lanfang" Republic. Lan Fang and the Japanese-controlled Kalimantan Island were close together, and Dewey took advantage of the opportunity to contact and collude with Lin Han there to discuss the topic of jointly attacking Japan.
The result of the discussion was that Lin Hanbiao was very interested at that time, but it was only a great interest. In the process of communicating with him, Dewey did not feel that this Chinese was very "non-human", but only that he was essentially a nationalist.
President Dewey picked up the photos on the table and flipped through them, some of them were taken at the Olympics, and more of them were taken at indiscriminate fighting matches. Dewey began to look at the materials slowly, while Donovan stood quietly on the sidelines. In the meantime, the secretary tried to come in to remind the president that the staff meeting was about to begin, but he waved him out.
However, when the secretary was being ousted, Dewey ordered: "Bring Mr. Marshall and General Nimitz." ”
Soon, the two men also entered the room, and then followed Mr. President, looking at this intelligence material related to the "gods" together. (To be continued......)
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