Chapter 106: A Christmas Story in the Three World Wars (2)

On the afternoon of December 25, 1946, White House, Washington, USA

Despite the Christmas holidays, White House staff had to work overtime in the midst of the world war, carrying bags of documents or suitcases. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and for some reason, it seems that everyone has a gloomy face, a hurry, and rarely smiles.

Except for the Christmas trees that have been erected in the corners and courtyards at some point, there is hardly a hint of festive spirit in the entire White House.

In the Oval Office, President Truman, who has been getting more and more emaciated lately, is hunching his head over to review documents. Although the Christmas tree in the corner of the room was already full of all kinds of beautifully wrapped gifts, he still didn't have any desire to open them.

-- There is no way, all fronts are losing one after another, and the mood is so bad that naturally I can't lift up these Christmas gifts.

According to the latest statistics compiled by President Truman, just over two months after the start of World War III, the US military has already lost more than a million soldiers. At the western end of the Eurasian continent, the American army retreated all the way from Spain and Italy to Iraq and Iran, completely losing the entire Mediterranean Sea in one go! At the eastern end of the Eurasian continent, the U.S. military was also forced to abandon the occupied zone of the Japanese archipelago and almost return to the state it was after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The astronomical amount of materials, personnel, and funds lost during this period, even with the deep pockets of the United States, felt a sharp pain that cut through the heart and bones.

The only battlefield in the Philippines, where MacArthur was in the limelight, was causing great pain to the Pentagon's logistics department -- with the abandonment of the Japanese occupation zone and the fall of all the islands in the South Pacific, the route from the west coast of the United States across the Pacific Ocean to the Philippines has now been completely cut off. Every piece of artillery and every bullet that Admiral MacArthur asked for now had to be shipped from New York Harbor on the East Coast, then across the Atlantic, around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, then across the Indian Ocean, to Singapore, and finally from Singapore across the South China Sea to the Philippines, so that it could reach MacArthur's hands. Due to the twists and turns of the route, the whole journey is 40,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to circling the earth.

In the Atlantic, Soviet submarines have taken over the squad of German U-boat "Sea Wolves" and hunted American convoys that dared to go to sea, and every ambush and pursuit was astonishingly accurate, making people wonder if there were Soviet spies in the Pentagon (Doraemon's black-tech reconnaissance satellites were closely monitored 24 hours a day); In the Indian Ocean, there is the threat of Japanese submarines based in Western Australia; In the South China Sea, Soviet and Japanese submarines were active at the same time, as well as camouflaged assault ships. According to the latest statistics, the loss rate of such a whole route is about 50%, that is, on average, one out of every two ships full of supplies will not reach the final destination.

Not to mention that at the end of this long and dangerous supply line, not only did they have to supply MacArthur's four US Army infantry divisions and six indigenous Filipino divisions, but they also had to send US aid supplies to His Excellency Chairman Chiang, who had millions of troops in Taiwan, and the transportation volume had to be more than one million tons every month, which made the Pentagon complain endlessly. In the end, in order to reduce losses, MacArthur and his subordinates were ordered to "collect on the spot" by learning from the experience of the Japanese Empire, transporting only guns and ammunition to the front line, and ordering MacArthur and his subordinates to "collect on the spot" for the rest of the food and clothing...... As a result, due to inexperience and the encouragement of indigenous puppet armies, the "local recruitment" quickly turned into inhumane mass murder and looting......

Of course, compared to the Third World War, which is now in full swing, this little unrest in the Philippine Islands is not worth mentioning at all.

At present, there are only two key issues that President Truman really has a headache for:

First, how many atomic bombs did the Soviets have? Second, when will the next batch of U.S. nuclear bombs be produced?

-- Ever since the Soviet Union dropped the first atomic bomb of World War III on Gibraltar, the Pentagon has been speculating about when the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal will be exhausted. But with Great Britain and Asia Minor reduced to radioactive wasteland, and mushroom clouds blooming on the lands of North Africa, the Soviets had dropped at least fifty atomic bombs on the battlefield with no sign of running out of stockpiles.

This made the US side really shudder -- if there were not enough nuclear bombs in World War III, it would be no different from waiting to die.

Just as firearms put an end to cold weapons and machine guns put an end to cavalry, as the atomic bomb was widely used on the battlefield, the original mode of warfare has also undergone earth-shaking changes, leaving traditional military strategists around the world stunned and at a loss.

-- No matter how the troops are arranged, no matter how they defend to the death, as long as an atomic bomb is dropped, it will all be reduced to dust and dust!

Truth be told, Admiral Dwight D. Eisenhower, who buried millions of Allied troops in two months, was not clumsy, if not spectacular, at least decent...... But under the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb, all this planning was in vain!

Alas! Atomic bomb! Atomic bomb! The Soviets littered the atomic bomb everywhere like fireworks! And we don't even have an atomic bomb in our hands!

Not long ago, Truman visited the Oak Ridge factory and learned that no matter how much the workers and technicians there worked overtime, the next batch of atomic bombs would not be finished until early February next year. And before that, the United States could only continue to put up with the Soviets "planting the sun" everywhere......

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Thinking of this, President Truman could only sigh, turn around and pick up a letter from his desk -- the "Proposal on Limiting the Use of Nuclear Weapons in War," drafted by Albert Einstein, a master of quantum science and signed by more than 20 experts from Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Because so many scholars were involved, this letter was written just yesterday and appeared on President Truman's desk today, and the lines of words of compassion and compassion made Truman feel the same with him -- but unfortunately it was too late, and it was useless to say anything

Although Truman agreed to publish the proposal publicly, he agreed that it was clear that it would certainly be of little use. What if Einstein was the creator of the atomic bomb theory? Even if he regrets the quantum science he was engaged in in the first place, what if he said, "I would rather be a watch repairer if I knew this was the case"? It is true that science has no borders, but scientists do, and the agreement to limit the use of nuclear weapons proposed in the name of American scientists is impossible for the Soviets to abandon their martial arts and easily agree to in wartime, even in peacetime.

Indeed, after the devil of nuclear weapons jumped out of Pandora's box, it brought a great threat to the survival of all mankind. Both the United States and the Soviet Union have been horribly traumatized by this nuclear war. However, as the inferior side in a nuclear war, no one will listen to the United States in announcing such a thing, and it is even more like a fool's babble to Stalin, the general secretary of steel, -- instead of stupidly throwing away the sharpest weapon in his hand for the sake of the future and destiny of all mankind, it is better to hasten the destruction of the United States and end the war once and for all!

What's more, even if this nuclear war continues, what damage will it do to the two superpowers themselves, the United States and the Soviet Union?

-- The current situation is very obvious that American bombers cannot pass through the layers of obstacles and drop atomic bombs directly into the heart of Eastern Europe of the Soviet Union. It was also difficult for Soviet bombers to cross the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean and drop atomic bombs on the continental United States.

In this way, no matter how many nuclear bombs the two sides come up with, they will only be dropped on each other's allies, occupied territories, and colonies...... If the US military really has a way to bomb European countries into uninhabitable human habitation, then it can just drive fish for the abyss and force these arrogant Europeans to leave their homeland and immigrate to Russia, so as to contribute their youth and energy to the great development of Siberia.

And the United States, though not so gloating, will at best squeeze out a few crocodile tears - Britain has been bombed into a radioactive wasteland, and in the United States there are almost as many people crying and celebrating the bombing. North Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, which are planted with mushrooms at the same time, except for the Philippines, turned out to be either British or French territory.

-- In addition to the great regret that I had to send so many good boys from my country to be bombed under a mushroom cloud in the distance......

Still, in the midst of an increasingly bitter nuclear war, President Truman felt a little overwhelmed.

If we count from the beginning of the Pearl Harbor incident, the United States has killed and wounded about 8 million people in the past five years of war, and there are still 7 million troops going overseas. More than 25 million tons of ships and ships have been sunk in the war, and the loss of wealth is incalculable, but the gains in the war are very small, and the strength of the entire country is showing signs of serious overdraft. Although everyone from the White House to Wall Street is still gritting their teeth and looking forward to turning the book one day, they have already begun to try secret peace talks behind their backs.

However, Moscow's demand for an armistice was so harsh that it was modeled on the terms of the Treaty of Versailles against Germany at the end of World War I. Even the most anti-war members of Congress said they couldn't accept it at all.

-- With regard to the olive branch thrown by the United States, the Kremlin has initially put forward the following six basic opinions:

First, the United States will give up all overseas military bases and special overseas rights and interests, and abolish unequal treaties with all countries.

Second, the United States ceded Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and handed over the Panama Canal to the Comintern trusteeship free of charge.

Third, the United States must punish domestic war criminals, compensate governments and civilians for their losses, and bear part of the costs of postwar reconstruction.

Fourth, after the war, the US military is only allowed to maintain a minimum of self-defense force, must unconditionally discard all nuclear weapons, reduce the army to 100,000 men, and must not possess tanks and heavy artillery of more than 120 mm caliber, and the navy must not possess ships with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, and must not possess aircraft carriers and submarines.

Fifth, during the disarmament period, the Soviet Union and the countries of the socialist camp will station troops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and other cities to supervise them.

Sixth, the Soviet Union was allowed to establish concessions in Washington, Florida, and Texas with a certain number of troops.

-- In the view of Stalin, the loving father of steel, these six opinions are already very tolerant, after all, he did not demand that the United States accept socialist transformation, put up street lamps for bankers and capitalists, nor did he divide the United States into dozens of small countries......

But for the arrogant Yankees, the mere fact that they accept the status of a defeated country is already a shame that cannot be tolerated.

Therefore, after reading Einstein's "Proposal on the Limitation of the Use of Nuclear Weapons in War" several times, President Truman threw it away and put it on the shelf -- in the current situation, whether it is an armistice or a restriction on the use of nuclear weapons, it is too naïve for scientists to talk about it. In the face of a nuclear strike by the Soviets, the only thing the United States could do was to quickly build more and bigger nuclear bombs and retaliate fiercely!

Only by really hurting the Soviets and letting them know that the majesty of the United States of America is not to be humiliated will this war have a decent end.

“…… So, in order to really blow the arrogance of the Kremlin, no matter how difficult and dangerous it is, we must try to nuclear the Soviet Union itself and slap Uncle Joseph in the face, just as we bombed Tokyo before......" Truman wrote in his Christmas diary.

-- Obviously, this mutually destructive nuclear war will continue, and more mushroom clouds will stand on the ground...... (To be continued.) )