Chapter Seventy-Six: The Fall of Melbourne (II)

White House, Washington, USA

President Truman, who had been tormented by a series of bad news, was unsurprisingly reported the fall of Melbourne. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although he had expected this in advance, when the news actually came, he still felt an uncontrollable anger and sadness.

-- The Australian continent, which belongs to the Caucasian race, is about to disappear! This land is about to be completely taken away by those inferior yellow-skinned monkeys!

This is the first time since the discovery of the Americas by Europeans that there has been such a reversal of the earth—in the past, only noble white Westerners have colonized the world, exterminating the stupid and inferior colored people one by one, and then choosing the best of them to turn them into a new home for whites.

In the eyes of white racists, this is the arrangement of God Almighty, their manifest destiny, and the blessing that fate has bestowed upon them.

Because these noble and white-skinned creatures are destined to become the rulers of the earth and the center of human civilization.

But now those rebellious Japanese are desperately trying to resist God's arrangement, and they insist on using one brutal massacre after another to re-"dye" Australia, which has been occupied by whites...... How unreasonable! But the United States is helpless about it for the time being!!

Fortunately, when the Blue Flag of the Southern Cross of the Commonwealth of Australia, which was burning and falling in the head of Melbourne, the Stars and Stripes of the United States of America, representing the glory of white people, were successfully raised again in front of the Maracañan Palace (Philippine Presidential Palace) in Manila...... Thinking of this, President Truman couldn't help but look up from behind his desk and looked at General MacArthur sitting across from him with an extremely complicated look, the chief graduate of the West Point Military Academy with a distinguished background and a deep background, and the "star commander" whom even President Roosevelt was so jealous of.

“…… Dear Douglas, what do you think about the fall of Melbourne and the retreat of the Australians to Cape Shank? After all, from the map, the situation of Australians today seems very similar to the defense of Bataan that you commanded after you withdrew from Manila. Melbourne is equivalent to Manila in those years, Phillip Bay corresponds to Manila Bay, and Cape Shanke Peninsula is the Bataan Peninsula in Australia......"

President Truman pointed to a map of Australia on his desk and said, "...... So I'd love to hear your insights. ”

“…… It's a bit like that, but it's just a bit like it on the map, and the Australians are in a much worse position now than they were when I was on the Bataan Peninsula. Don't forget, I've been fighting the Japs in Australia for several years, and I'm not much less familiar with Melbourne and Shank's Point than Manila, so I'm very unoptimistic about the future prospects of the Australians – it's a miracle that they were able to hold out for two months! ”

Marshal of the Republic of the Philippines, "Rescuer of Manila", Douglas. Five-Star Admiral MacArthur held his beloved corncob pipe in his mouth and said with a smoke ring in his mouth -- after a lapse of half a year, today's MacArthur Marshal is no longer the frustration and despair of being captured by the Japanese last winter and forced to parade in an iron cage like a rare bird and beast, but has once again successfully worn the laurels of the victors, and is as high-spirited as ever.

Although his so-called victory was nothing more than a few small-scale urban security battles in the Philippines, he repelled several "Hook" guerrillas of the CPP, which were basically armed with light weapons, and recaptured the capital Manila and several other seaport cities...... At the same time, there are more than 50,000 "Hook" red militants who continue to entrench themselves in the Baguio Mountains in northern Luzon. There are also more than 30,000 religious extremists who have seized Mindanao, making it a country of its own.

But no matter how much water is in MacArthur's "famous general" record, he is still one of the most experienced generals in the US Army.

“…… Many years before the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor attack and the start of the Philippine Defense War, our troops stationed in the Philippines drew up an 'Orange No. 3 Operation Plan (WPO-3)'. That is, when the right to control the sea is lost and the enemy's landing operation cannot be stopped, it can withdraw to the Bataan Peninsula within the Manila horizon. Then it continued for six months while the Navy brought in reinforcements from the mainland. The Battle of Bataan, which I commanded, was actually carried out according to plan.

Because such a plan was made very early on, our army had already carried out a lot of construction on the Bataan Peninsula and built a large number of military facilities as early as before the war. In particular, Corregidor Island, located at the tip of the Bataan Peninsula and guarding the exit of Manila Bay, has been fortified as a whole of Gibraltar. The shore anti-aircraft guns, mortars, and anti-aircraft guns along the beach head are strong, and the labyrinthine tunnels dug into the high ground on the island are the best bomb shelters to accommodate hospitals, headquarters and warehouses...... Without these things, I would not have been able to stay in Bataan for half a year.

However, the Australians had never carried out such large-scale civil engineering operations at Cape Shank, at least when I left the Australian battlefield. The Allied military facilities at Cape Shank were only a few coastal defense batteries, radar stations, and an anti-aircraft gun position. Although the large-caliber shore guns at Cape Shank were indeed good and the forts were strong, like the forts built by the British in Singapore, they could not be turned to deal with the enemy coming from the land side. And there are no ready-made bunkers underground, and there are not even many houses on the ground.

If Prime Minister Katyn had organized the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops, they would probably not even have a place to live at Cape Shank, so they would have to pitch tents and camp. And the materials rushed from Melbourne have no place to store them, so they can only be stacked in the open air, or at most hidden in the woods...... And now the Australian sky belongs to the Japanese, and it only takes a few carpet bombs to burn down the Australians' supplies, soldiers and the forests of Cape Shank.

To make matters worse, on the Bataan Peninsula, not only did I have ready-made fortifications to rely on, but the Japanese Army on the opposite side had only about two divisions; At Shank Point, the Australians had to face at least 200,000 Japanese troops in the wilderness...... So, if they were able to hold out for two months at Cape Shank, it would be a miracle from God. In fact, I guess they could barely ...... for two weeks at Shank Point."

Marshal MacArthur spoke so eloquently about President Truman, "...... Unless the United States can provide sufficient support to the Commonwealth of Australia as soon as possible, we must be prepared for the worst possible of losing Australia and New Zealand forever, or even being driven out of Samoa......"

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With regard to the gloomy outlook for the Southwest Pacific Front, predicted by Marshal MacArthur, President Truman also intellectually agreed.

However, the United States is really not in a position to provide any support to the Australian Federal Government at this time...... President Truman rubbed his hands together and smiled bitterly -- since the beginning of the summer of 1946, all sorts of disheartening bad news had been pouring into the White House like a frenzy.

General Patton's army suffered an unprecedented rout on the Japanese battlefield, losing more than 300,000 troops in one go, retreating nearly 1,000 kilometers on the entire front, and now being bombed every day.

General Halsey's fleet was destroyed by a major typhoon, and he left his post in disgrace. In order to withdraw the fleet back to Hawaii, the Pentagon had to retreat from the southwest Pacific in a big way, abandoning the Fiji Islands and New Caledonia, which had been hard to conquer, and the route between the mainland and New Zealand became dangerous again. New Zealand had already lost nearly a fifth of its population in the brutal war and had destroyed almost all of the country's industrial facilities, and without the help of the American army, New Zealanders would no longer be able to resist the Japanese invasion.

In addition, the American Samoa Islands further east are also in danger of ...... So, not long ago, O'Brey, who had been ordered to Pearl Harbor to replace Admiral Halsey. Vice Admiral Fitch has just sent a telegram lamenting that the Pacific Fleet is now not only drastically weakened, but also full of pessimism, morale is "unbearably low," the hair of many senior generals has turned gray, and many people are still taking sedatives as prescribed by doctors. Although Lieutenant General Fitch was still trying to cheer up his subordinates, he said, "Although we were beaten again, I have no doubt about the final victory." But no one listened.

In the recent Pacific theater, the only victory that the United States could promote was MacArthur's victory in the Philippines...... But this does not reverse the decline of the United States in the overall strategic situation, nor is it enough to reinvigorate the morale of the people of the United States to the point of incomparably low morale.

On the other hand, the United States of America's own navy and army are certainly fighting a mess, and the allies of the White House are generally unable to support the wall.

In Europe, the British and their cobbled anti-Soviet allies fought for a long time with the Soviet Bear and the Red elements of various European countries, and almost all tricks were exhausted, but they still could not stop the torrent of iron armor of the Soviet Red Army, and at best only slightly hindered the pace of the other side - after crossing the Pyrenees, the Soviet Red Army took less than two months to easily crush the weak resistance of General Franco and successfully enter the capital Madrid in the midst of the revolt of the Spanish Red elements. It is now approaching the eastern border of Portugal. Lisbon is already in turmoil, and President Salazar has announced the relocation of the government to the Azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. General Franco, who had lost the capital, led the remnants of the government army to retreat to Andalusia, the southernmost point of Spain, with the British Expeditionary Force, ready to put up a final resistance against the fortress of Gibraltar......

In South Asia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill won an unworthy diplomatic victory by using the British Empire's best-stirring sticks, recovering most of India on the map and de jure...... But its value did not stop there, and under the banner of common opposition to the Bolsheviks, the princes and indigenous powers of India effectively held all power, leaving only polite submission to the British. The British Empire, whose authority had been lost, would no longer be able to squeeze much wealth out of the Indian subcontinent to fill its coffers. Unless Whitehall in London can recommit hundreds of thousands of troops to an expedition halfway around the world for another war of conquest against India, which is obviously impossible. India will continue to be turbulent in the future, but whoever emerges victorious will have nothing to do with the glory of the British Empire.

In Southeast Asia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was still enthusiastically trying all sorts of military adventures and diplomatic games, trying to repeat the paper victories won in the Indian subcontinent with a very small expeditionary force and the century-old prestige of the British Empire, only to be unable to achieve even a literal victory like India's - after a period of intimidation and blackmail without the backing of force, the nationalist leaders of Vietnam, Burma, Malaya, and Indonesia all made it clear that the British were insulting their intelligence and sternly refused to submit to the British Empire. The only response Churchill could have was to engage in gunboat diplomacy and let his small fleet deployed in the East bombard ports everywhere, or make the occasional landing attack. But they didn't have the forces to expand their landing grounds, or to hold a port for long, let alone deep into the damp and wild interior of the rainforest to wipe out the outnumbered indigenous rebels.

After all, it was not the beginning of the Age of Discovery, when Pizarro and Colster were able to easily conquer a large empire of colored people with only a white expedition of a few hundred men...... And the various indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia are not barbarians who know nothing about modern warfare.

In the end, the British's gunboat diplomacy in Southeast Asia had completely turned into a free thug for the Thais to expand their territory. With the support of American reinforcements and the assistance of the British fleet, the Thai forces launched a full-scale attack on the Malay Peninsula, Laos and Cambodia, and have so far seized more than 100,000 square kilometers of land...... But even according to the most self-deluded point of view, it is difficult to say what such a record means for the United States and Britain.

In Northeast Asia, the United States' own allies are equally desperate – on the Korean Peninsula, the barely cobbled together "Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea" has been overwhelmed by the Red elements who have received massive amounts of Soviet aid after months of struggle in the capital, Seoul.

In the more critical Chinese battlefield, although the White House and No. 10 Downing Street had done their utmost to not only risk being ambushed by Japanese submarines, they not only organized escort fleets to cross the Pacific Ocean again and again, sent as many munitions and materials as possible to Chairman Chiang, and even did not hesitate to personally go into battle, allowing Stilwell to lead an allied army into the Yangtze River Delta, let the British troops in Hong Kong assist in the defense of Guangzhou, and organized an expeditionary fleet to go deep into China's inland rivers to help Chairman Chiang defend the Yangtze River defense line...... But in the end, it failed to prevent the Nationalist government from continuing to lose its capital Nanjing......

-- Long before the US troops came to Chinese mainland, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army had already crossed the Yangtze River from Wuhan and Chongqing upstream, and was like a bamboo on the battlefields of Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong, forcing Chairman Chiang's forces to the coastal line, and the so-called Yangtze River defense line had long lost its meaning.

When the first batch of U.S. aid materials arrived at Ningbo Port, there were only a few troops left in his hands that had just been reskinned from the puppet army to the National Revolutionary Army, and their loyalty, obedience, and combat effectiveness were extremely suspicious.

Therefore, despite all kinds of shameless and stubborn struggles, Chairman Chiang finally could not escape the fate of being trampled on the ground and rubbed on the ground by the Red Army, and was driven out of the city of Nanjing two months ago, and now he has moved the government to Zhoushan Island, and even plans to move further to Taiwan, leaving behind a bunch of miscellaneous troops and Stilwell's allies who did not intend to take away, and continue to fight street battles with the Red Army in Shanghai...... At the same time, Guangzhou, which was defended by the British, had been breached by the Chinese Red Army a month earlier, and Churchill had to consider whether to defend Hong Kong for a second time.

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All in all, from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Red Camp led by the Soviet Union has been in a state of great progress, which has plunged the general backstage of the liberal camp of the United States of America into a desperate predicament of going from one defeat to another, and has also put the analysts of the American and British intelligence agencies in a state of madness that is almost sent to an insane asylum -- according to their calculations, the Soviets will not be able to come up with so many arms and supplies in any case. To maintain such a long period of high-intensity expeditionary warfare, even if you break your belt, you can't do it.

And the military production and logistics capacity of the Japanese has also increased incredibly with the gradual fall of the homeland. By the time the Japanese Red Regime was established, it had grown to the point where it could crush the United States of America head-on -- the total number of Japanese planes shot down by the Allies on all fronts in the past few months had reached a frenzied 400,000, far exceeding the total production of all military planes in the United States since the beginning of the war!!

Therefore, in recent months, American intelligence officers have been hysterically shouting "This is not scientific!" every day. "It's not logical!" …… But it's useless, the harsh reality is that you can't deny it. At least the shells fired by the enemy will not disappear because of your denial.

In the end, this group of intelligence officers, who were already on the verge of insanity, could only submit to President Truman's conclusion that all the intelligence data collected against the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire before the war was not full of huge errors, but basically none of them were right, and that Washington and London had been waging the most absurd war in history with a group of imaginary enemies on the basis of a complete set of completely false intelligence materials in recent years......

As you can imagine, this is a street scene that makes the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and Wall Street want to vomit blood.

-- Although the United States claims to be the arsenal of a democratic country, it has full confidence in its own industrial strength. However, the United States of America is not like the sun, with its near-infinite power. Underpinning millions of U.S. troops on battlefields around the globe, and thousands of fleets of Liberty and Victory ships across the four oceans, are the resources, wealth, and morale that the United States of America has built up over generations.

If these astronomical investments cannot be exchanged for brilliant victories and the collapse of the enemy, they can only get all kinds of humiliation of defeat and a needless waste of troops and materials. Then the seemingly formidable war machine of the United States of America will wear out irreversibly and quickly.

In fact, after so many years of setbacks and sacrifices several times greater than those of the Civil War, American morale has now fallen to its lowest point, with 130 million Americans tired of endless death lists, dwindling rations, and always empty store shelves -- even in wartime martial law, anti-war demonstrations have begun to appear sporadically in major cities in the East and West, and the number of participants is increasing every time...... Although the Truman administration cracked down on the news and ordered the press and radio to block information, the situation was getting worse and worse.

And the upper strata of the United States, and even within the ruling class, are gradually beginning to complain about the current war in which the costs are huge, the losses are not worth the gains, and the gains outweigh the losses -- the White House, Capitol Hill, and the Pentagon are not fools, and they do not want to continue to gamble when the spinning dice slowly stop again and again, and what is shown is never the number needed to win the gamble.

However, in this era of high social complexity, rulers can no longer behave as recklessly as the belligerent kings of medieval Europe. It will definitely be more difficult for the United States of America to end a war with dignity than it is to start a war...... For the sake of this large-scale war, Wall Street has staked too much capital, and even overdrawn everything of its own, and it is simply impossible to accept a bloody end. Since the plutocratic bigwigs would rather drag the whole United States to the funeral than cut the meat and stop the loss and make their own industry unlucky, then Truman can only close his eyes and fight the war to the end.

But despite this determination and awareness, he still has nothing to do about the imminent fall of Australia...... After all, manpower is sometimes poor.

For those Allied warriors who are still desperately defending the last piece of land on the Australian continent, President Truman has no way to send them any reinforcements or how many supplies to send them, and can only give them a little spiritual encouragement.

“…… Well, it seems that we can only accept reality. Help me draft a message of condolence to the Commonwealth of Australia as soon as possible! Let's just say that the people of the entire civilized world will thank them for their heroic struggle and will always remember their great sacrifice......"

After a moment of silence, President Truman sighed, turned to his private secretary, and then turned his face back to Senior Marshal MacArthur, "...... And, Douglas, what do you think about the next round of nuclear strikes prepared by the United States? Well, you should know that the three atomic bombs we produced in the second batch are all in place, and the third batch of atomic bombs is almost finished from the Oak Ridge plant...... Will we be able to deter these stubborn enemies and even shake and destroy their will to fight through a larger-scale nuclear bombardment? ……”