Chapter 153: The Final Solution to the United States (Part II)

Perth Harbour, Western Australia, a modified version of the battleship Yamato after being eroded by the ship's mother

The warm sunshine of autumn in the southern hemisphere spills down from the clear blue sky of the clouds, bringing everyone a touch of lazy warmth. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The chirping of seagulls can be heard from time to time in the distance, making this port farthest from war in the world seem extremely peaceful, peaceful and quiet.

Since the end of the last sweeping operation in the southern Indian Ocean, the "Blue Mermaid" Japanese Navy women's fleet, with the Yamato as its flagship, has been anchored here for more than a year because it has not been given a new mission and has nothing to do for a long time. Since they have not been able to hear the sound of artillery and explosions, and have no smoke or blood, they have enough food and clothing every day, and they have nothing to do, whether it is the female soldiers on the ship or a few passengers with special status, if they do not have access to the latest war news through some channels, they have simply forgotten that the world is still in the midst of an unprecedented and cruel war.

“…… Above the foggy, choppy Skagerrak Strait (the outlet of the Baltic Sea), fires burned, artillery reverberates, and ships are burned into bright fireballs in the sound of explosions. Commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, nicknamed 'The Bull' William Jr. Frederick. Admiral Halsey, after his last long journey across the Atlantic, finally found a burial place for his long-suffering fleet, which was dying from radiation sickness, and was worthy of a soldier's sense of honor...... And the glorious journey belonging to the US Navy seems to be coming to an end from here......"

Bathed in the warm autumn sunshine of the southern hemisphere, Wang Qiu sat on a small sofa in the captain's room of the Yamato, leisurely reading a German newspaper that had been sent by a postal plane halfway around the world and had been translated by a professional.

-- At this time, almost two months had passed since the Battle of the Skagerrak Strait, where the Halsey fleet was destroyed and the entire army was destroyed.

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In fact, as early as when the Halsey fleet had just fled from the nuclear-bombed Guantanamo Naval Base with its back to the rising mushroom cloud, the traces of this fleet had already been noticed by the reconnaissance satellites in orbit (the Doraemon World black technology prop launched by Wang Qiu). The problem was that everyone thought it was just a group of remnants of the army who fled for their lives, so they didn't pay much attention to the Halsey fleet at first.

Later, through satellite surveillance, it was discovered that the US fleet at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, did not go north to the ports on the east coast of the US mainland, nor to the US occupation zone in South America, but crossed the Atlantic Ocean eastward. But most people at the time thought that the reason why this tattered little fleet crossed the Atlantic was that it was intended to go into exile in South Africa—at Guantanamo, Admiral Halsey assembled one battleship, one light cruiser, two regular aircraft carriers, one light aircraft carrier, fourteen destroyers, five ocean-going supply ships, twelve coastal defense ships, and eight fast oil tankers. But by the time he escaped from Guantanamo, which had been bombed, the entire fleet was reduced to only one battleship, a light cruiser, eight destroyers, an ocean-going supply ship, two fast tankers, and his flagship aircraft carrier, the USS Valley Forge.

It is clear that with such a pitifully small fleet, even if it can reach the other side of the Atlantic, there is nothing that can be done in the face of the powerful Soviet Red Navy. Moreover, after all, these ships escaped from under the mushroom cloud of nuclear explosions, and no one can say how much damage they suffered.

As a matter of fact, according to the assessment of Soviet and Japanese naval professionals, it is still unknown whether this "dying fleet," which "has only half a breath left," will be able to survive the stormy Atlantic Ocean in winter, let alone engage in a naval battle with the Soviets. Many difficulties, including the outbreak of radiation sickness, led his fleet to the last leg of the expedition.

-- After leaving Guantanamo, which had been destroyed by the atomic bomb, Halsey's fleet did not cross the Atlantic Ocean directly eastward, but headed northeastward, reaching deep into the ice-covered Arctic seas, while successfully concealing its tracks with the help of the dense fog and snow of the North Atlantic. Then, almost reaching Icelandic waters, the Halsey fleet turned south, bypassing the island of Great Britain from the north, and then clinging to the east coast of England, plunged into the Norwegian Sea in one fell swoop, and slaughtered the Soviets outside their homes. It was only at this time that the Soviets, who had once again captured the traces of the Halsey fleet, suddenly realized that this small American fleet, which had escaped the death of the Guantanamo Mover nuclear bombing, had really gone to the other side of the Atlantic to find its own life!

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So, the next thing is, naturally, the Soviets angrily dispatched troops and prepared to besiege and kill these daring Yankees.

Helplessly, the Soviet side, which was originally about to slap the Halsey fleet to death, soon found itself in a state of extreme emptiness of available forces in the Norwegian Sea for the time being -- due to the catastrophic impact of the Icelandic volcanic eruption on the global climate and environment, the serious destruction of European countries by a large-scale nuclear war, and the terrible catastrophe of a long-term famine, most of Europe is now in a miserable world of chaos and deathIn addition, in order to avoid getting involved in too many troubles that cannot be shaken off, the forces deployed by the Soviet Red Army in Western, Central and Northern Europe are very weak, and the main ground forces are currently being deployed on the Middle East battlefield, fighting the Turks, Iranians, and Arabs day and night, and by the way, all kinds of terrorists and "suspected terrorists" are stuffed into labor camps.

The forward base for the bombing of the Americas by the Soviet Strategic Air Force was located in southern Spain and Morocco in North Africa, very far from the Norwegian Sea. Then, around the Norwegian Sea, England was in the dark ages of cannibalistic anarchy, and France, Belgium, and the Netherlands were largely regressed to the Middle Ages. The Soviet Union had no garrisons in France and Belgium, only symbolic garrisons in Germany and the Netherlands, and one flying squadron in Denmark and Norway, and as soon as they discovered that the Halsey fleet had entered the Norwegian Sea, they immediately took off to meet the enemy -- however, because they were not naval aviation, had not been trained in attack ships, and did not dare to dive at low altitudes, but only dropped bombs at high altitudes, their bombing effect was very poor, and not even a single bomb hit the enemy ships.

Moreover, the Northern Hemisphere is now in winter, and the Norwegian Sea is a high-latitude sea, with short days and long nights, usually only a few hours a day. By the time the Soviet planes of the first attack wave had dropped their bombs and returned home, the battlefield was basically dark, and most of the military planes in those years lacked the ability to fight at night -- it was okay to bomb a city that would not move at night, and it was really impossible to bomb a warship, so we had to sit back and wait for the next day.

In addition, the regular Soviet naval aviation, which specializes in dealing with warships, has just been ordered to make an emergency transfer from other places to the front line in the Norwegian Sea, and it will take some more time before they actually reach the forward base. In addition to the insufficient number of planes and the wrong specialization, the naval ships could not catch up for a time - today, the Baltic Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy is basically an empty shelf, because the main ships are not in the Baltic Sea: Leningrad, Tallinn and Stockholm have all been bombed before and have not yet fully recovered, and looking around the entire Baltic Sea, there is hardly a well-equipped military port. As a result, most of the remnants of the Baltic Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy had to be moved to Murmansk, an ice-free port in the Arctic Circle, for the winter until the military ports of Leningrad and Kronstak were repaired.

Although two Soviet aircraft carriers, one Soviet battleship and five cruisers stationed in Murmansk, plus a large number of destroyers, urgently anchored and sniped at the Halsey fleet after learning of the invasion of the Halsey fleet, it would take a long time to reach the area.

In short, taking advantage of the Soviet Red Army's relatively weak control over most of Europe, the governments and armies of these countries themselves were crumbling, the border guards were notoriously flawed, and God knows how, perhaps a little bit of good luck from God, the Halsey fleet, which had gone on an outlaw expedition from Cuba, finally staggered to the Skagerrak Strait, the exit of the Baltic Sea, and barely touched the gates of Soviet territory.

-- But, "Brute Bull" William Jr. Frederick. Admiral Halsey's good fortune ended there.

In the Skagrak Strait, Admiral Halsey and his fleet finally came to their final point of burial.

At the same time, with their heroic sacrifices, the journey of the Union Navy of the United States of America has come to a successful end.

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By the time the Halsey fleet arrived in the Skagerrak Strait, the Soviet naval and air forces had already been deployed in an emergency.

The first was a massive air raid by the Soviet naval aviation, which, unlike the symbolic harassment of the army aviation in the previous time, this time there were more than 100 dive bombers and torpedo planes of the Soviet naval aviation, which were slaughtered in a big way under the cover of fighter planes. On the other hand, although Admiral Halsey still had a "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier in his hands, he had only 14 F9F "Panther" carrier-based fighters - most of the planes tethered to the deck were overturned into the sea by the shock wave during the nuclear explosion, or at least they were severely damaged, and the pilots were also generally suffering from radiation sickness, and few were now healthy enough to fly the planes into the sky. Even among the fourteen people right now, there are several crumbling sick men.

In all fairness, the F9F Black Panther fighter with straight wings and a blue fuselage is indeed a good carrier-based aircraft. Unfortunately, in the case of such a huge disparity in quantity, this performance advantage is really not worth mentioning. The physical disadvantage of the pilots further widened the gap between the offensive and defensive sides -- after only a few minutes of dogfighting, all 14 F9F "Panther" carrier-based fighters of the US aircraft carrier "Valley Forge" were shot down, and then the "Valley Fuge" aircraft carrier, which had lost its aircraft cover, became the prey of wanton slaughter by the Soviet naval aviation.

Although these prey were not lambs and fat pigs that were easy to slaughter, but hedgehogs that were difficult to bite -- in the face of the incoming Soviet planes, the battleship "Vermont," the aircraft carrier "Valley Forge," the light cruiser "Phoenix," and various American destroyers, as well as transport ships armed with anti-aircraft guns, all dragged the long white stern waves and launched a wide range of anti-aircraft evasion maneuvers on the sea surface of the battlefield. The 40mm anti-aircraft guns, 20mm anti-aircraft guns, and 127mm naval guns on the ships also fired violently into the air together, and one after another the shells equipped with radio proximity fuses and colored tracer shells dragged out a long rain of fire, flying from the front and rear of the Soviet dive bombers, left and right, and the blazing anti-aircraft fire was full of smoke from the shells.

However, the pilots of the Soviet naval aviation were already veterans of a hundred battles, and they quickly skillfully activated the radio jamming plane, so that the radio proximity fuse, which the US military was proud of, exploded itself at low altitude. They then continued to skillfully weave their way through the smoke screens of anti-aircraft guns and the dense ballistics that had exploded in the sky, and although from time to time hapless Soviet planes slowly fell from the sky dragging black smoke or even more unfortunate volleys exploding into countless pieces of fine pieces of aluminum, many more planes managed to break through the anti-aircraft fire network of the American fleet and successfully dropped aerial bombs or torpedoes......

Immediately afterward, a dazzling white light suddenly flashed on the deck of the aircraft carrier "Valley Forge". A 500-kilogram aerial bomb directly hit the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, instantly penetrated the armor plate on the top floor, continued to penetrate the compartments below the deck, chiseled through the layers of decks of the ship's hull, and finally drilled into the pilot's rest cabin in the middle and lower part of the aircraft carrier, and suddenly exploded with an earth-shattering bang inside the "Valley Forge Ford" aircraft carrier.

At the same time, another dive bomber of the Soviet Naval Aviation, fortunately rushed to a distance of less than a hundred meters from the aircraft carrier "Valley Forge", and after successfully dropping the bomb, it pulled off and took off. The dropped aerial bombs continued to fly forward by inertia, landed on the water, and bounced off the sea like pebbles in the water, hitting the hull of the "Valley Fuge" aircraft carrier from the side, and burrowing into the belly of the ship at once......

In the blink of an eye, a series of deafening huge explosions came from the inside of the "Valley Fuge" aircraft carrier, and thick smoke and flames rushed out from the inside of the aircraft carrier's hull, which soon triggered a fire in the aviation fuel depot inside the ship's hull, and the fire in the aviation fuel depot quickly spread to the ammunition depot of the "Valley Fuge" aircraft carrier -- with a dazzling flash of red light, several antiaircraft turrets of the aircraft carrier were lifted into the air more than 100 meters high together with the radar commander, like light matchboxes. Scorching shards of steel and charred human flesh fell into the sea in a daze, making a splash.

Next, a huge fuel tank in the cabin of the "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier seemed to have been directly pierced by the steel fragments of the explosion, and a large amount of fuel oil leaked quickly filled the decks below, and the fire was carried wherever it flowed, and for a time it was filled with black smoke and scorching flames.

Finally, on the flight deck of the "Valley Fuge", a dazzling fire rose with a "boom", and the crew members of the aircraft carrier who were busy on the deck were suddenly drowned in the fire that swept like a tsunami, and the spreading fire also detonated the ammunition piled up on the deck, and suddenly the sound of explosions one after another sounded, like firecrackers in a festival, but there was no pleasant joy, but only made people feel extremely depressed horror.

Despite this, the sailors on the deck of the aircraft carrier continued to fight desperately against the fire, and due to the extremely high temperature of the fire caused by gasoline, the water sprayed by the fire hose immediately atomized, as if adding fuel to the fire. Several destroyers around also tried to surround the fire and put out the fire, but to no avail - the fire was burning in the bilge of the aircraft carrier, and the steel plates of the bulkhead were burned red, and it was useless to just pour water from the outside. Moreover, these destroyers of the US Navy spraying water to fight fires themselves are also facing indiscriminate bombardment by Soviet naval aviation at this moment, and it is difficult to say how much attention can be devoted to fighting fires.

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While General Halsey's flagship aircraft carrier, the USS Valley Fuge, was struggling with smoke, explosions, and firelight, the ocean-going supply ship and two fast oil tankers in his fleet, which had weaker anti-aircraft firepower, had already turned into bright giant torches, with flames and smoke, and some people on deck could still jump into the water to escape, while the people in the countless compartments below deck could only be burned alive in the fire, smoked to death, and even suffocated to death after the watertight hatch was directly closed by their own people...... In addition, two destroyers were also sunk during this wave of air strikes.

After the first wave of air strikes, the "Valley Fuge" aircraft carrier struggled for a while, but in the end it was unable to control the fire, and the power compartment was directly burned by the spread of internal fires and successive ammunition explosions, causing the aircraft carrier to lose power and only spin in place. Slowly, the hull of the ship, which had stopped moving, began to tilt to one side, and all kinds of vehicles and people on the deck were dumped into the sea like toys. Even on the light cruiser "Phoenix," which was quite a distance away from the "Valley Fuge" aircraft carrier, the sound of continuous explosions was heard inside the "Valley Fuge" ship, which were all kinds of 500-pound and 1,000-pound aerial bombs that had been burned to the point of explosion, and were biting the broken body of the "Valley Fuge" aircraft carrier while making terrible noises.

At the same time, the bridge near the central elevator of the "Valley Fuge" aircraft carrier was burned red by the fire, and all the people who did not have time to escape were sealed by the fire. Then, the extinguishing pumps also lost their pressure and the sprinkler systems failed. After a while, all the flammable materials on the outside of the island-shaped bridge of the "Valley Fuge", including cables and signal flags, were burned to the ground, and only a lone charred flagpole remained, like a bare, ugly dead tree. By the time the frustrated Admiral Halsey dragged the sailors into the dinghy and escaped from the Valley Forge Valley, the carrier's antennas were twisted and bent, the chimneys were torn, flames were pouring out of the breaches everywhere on the massive hull, and the soldiers in the engine room seemed to have all burned to death.

The next moment, as if to see off General Halsey, as if to confirm the determination of the pilots, suddenly, an earth-shattering noise broke out inside the aircraft carrier "Valley Forge", and a pillar of fire hundreds of meters high rose into the sky on the deck behind the ship. The hull of the ship shook violently, and the shock wave of the explosion instantly blew away the sailors on the deck waiting to release the lifeboats. With a huge explosion, the huge aircraft carrier first slammed its bow upwards, then began to sink rapidly from the bow, and the stern was raised high, and the huge all-copper spiral slurry rushed into the sky, and finally submerged to the bottom of the sea forever......

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When the "Valley Forge" aircraft carrier sank in the midst of explosions and fires, the battleship "Vermont," with its thick skin, solid armor, fierce anti-aircraft firepower, and strong survivability, did not become the main target in the first wave of air raids by the Soviet naval aviation, and the losses were relatively minor.

But the problem is that when almost all the officers and men of the US Navy on the battlefield of the Skagerrak Strait were attracted most of their attention by the burning aircraft carrier "Valley Forge", the two Soviet submarines "C-13" and "C-11", which had been in ambush in this sea area for a long time, took the opportunity to launch a lightning strike on the battleship "Vermont"! The white traces of eight torpedoes, which appeared abruptly on the surface of the sea, did not give the Americans time to react at all!

In an instant, the port side of the battleship "Vermont", which had no time to dodge, hit three thunders in succession, and the bone-chilling sea water poured into the cabin like a waterfall. Although the U.S. military damage management team tried their best to rescue the water, the pumping speed of the pumping machine was far less than the speed at which seawater was poured in, and the inclination angle was still intensifying.

Seeing that the huge battleship was constantly tilting to one side, the American captain of the Vermont, in desperation, ordered the watertight hatch to be opened and a part of the engine room on the starboard side was filled with water to balance the entire hull. More sea water rushed into the cabins in the blink of an eye, and a considerable part of the American crew members who were in these cabins did not have time to withdraw, and their superiors did not have time or could not inform them, and in the blink of an eye these people were drowned in the icy waters—the doors of their return to the other cabins had been tightly closed and sealed, and there was no way back, and they could only drown and suffocate in the sea little by little.

Relying on this method of nearing self-harm, after some effort, the tilt of the battleship "Vermont" was stopped, but the speed of the ship was reduced by nearly half. The frightened US military was just about to launch anti-submarine warfare, but the ships of the Soviet Red Navy had already broken through the fog and appeared from the sea level.

-- Although, at this moment, only a small reconnaissance formation consisting of four Soviet destroyers set off from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Since the light cruiser "Phoenix" was busy salvaging its own drowning personnel -- in the freezing cold of the winter in the Skagerrak Strait, the drowning seamen could only survive for half an hour at most before freezing to death, so a naval battle between six American destroyers and four Soviet destroyers rumbled in the Skagerrak Strait. After a fierce chase and struggle, although a considerable part of the sailors were plagued by radiation sickness, and the ship's observation facilities were also seriously damaged in the nuclear explosion at Guantanamo, the American destroyer formation finally managed to win a dismal victory, sinking three incoming Soviet destroyers at the cost of sinking two of its own destroyers and two destroyers being heavily damaged. Forcing the remaining Soviet destroyer to flee wounded.

However, at the same time, the battleship "Vermont", which was a striking target, was unlucky enough to hit a torpedo again in the midst of the melee due to the greatly reduced speed and difficulty in evading, and the whole ship entered more than 4,000 tons of water, and completely lost power and became an iron shell floating on the sea.

For this reason, Admiral Halsey, who had just escaped from the sinking aircraft carrier "Valley Forge" and was still sitting in a lifeboat at this time, had no choice but to give up his plan to transfer to the battleship "Vermont" and instead hoisted his Atlantic Fleet command flag on the light cruiser "Phoenix."

Then, to add insult to injury, the officers and men of the US Navy, who had just shot off the Soviet destroyers and were themselves scarred and exhausted, had not had time to breathe a sigh of relief, when a second wave of the Soviet naval aviation's larger-scale offensive also followed--more than 200 dive bombers and torpedo planes swooped down viciously in the air from all different directions on the remnants of the Halsey fleet, which had been severely depleted and in a hurry......

At this point, the end of the Halsey fleet finally landed......

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More than ten hours later, when the main fleet of the Baltic Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy set off from the wintering anchorage of Murmansk and hurried all the way to the Skagerrak Strait, there were no more US Navy warships capable of fighting on the foggy sea.

As far as the eye can see, in the cold waves of the Norwegian Sea, there are only large areas of oil stains, as well as many scraps of clothes, table and chair parts, lifebuoys and charred corpses, indicating that this area of water has recently been the scene of a fierce naval battle. In addition, there were a number of scattered American sailors, huddled on more than 30 lifeboats, shivering and waving to them for help.

- "The Last American Admiral" William Jr. Frederick. Halsey was killed in a second wave of air raids by Soviet naval aviation, and all his ships sank in the southeastern waters of the Norwegian Sea off the Skagerrak Strait. Due to the high latitudes of the Skagerrak Strait battlefield and the cold winter season, the sea water floating with drift ice was close to freezing, and the seafarers who fell into the water could only survive for a short time before freezing to death. The number of lifeboats that the American army had time to lay down was seriously insufficient, so only 955 sailors of the fleet led by Admiral Halsey were rescued by the Soviet Navy, but more than 200 died of frostbite, burns, germs, and radiation sickness at Guantanamo within a year.

At this point, the tragic Battle of the Skagerrak Strait came to an end, the commander of the US Atlantic Fleet, Admiral Halsey, was killed in battle, and the last large-scale tactical counterattack of the US Navy in World War III ended with the complete destruction of the strike fleet......

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ps:The magic version of the ship girl world war is written here.,There's only one left waiting for the end of the unconditional surrender of the United States.,The battles that should be fought are almost finished.,The damned people are almost dead.,If you continue to write.,The earth of this plane is about to be written by me (laughs)。

In short, this volume is about to end in a few days, and the next volume of the other world scene is scheduled to be "Fantasy Self-Defense Force": when the South China Sea islands and reefs are on the verge of breaking out, a magical gate to the other world suddenly appears on the South China Sea of the motherland, and then causes a global commotion. Regarding the newcomers of the lost reincarnation who have been displaced to that world and are waiting for rescue, I haven't thought about the number and character settings yet, do you readers want to sign up? (To be continued.) )