Chapter 114: Bald Eagle's Nuclear Counterattack Plan (Part II)

Compared with the great retreat in North Africa, the tragedy, the casualties, and the endless troubles in the future. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 InfoThe great retreat of the US military in East Asia seems to be uneventful.

-- With the surrender of the Queen of England and the complete end of the European theater, even with the strength of the United States of America, it is no longer possible to maintain a long front around the earth.

For this reason, the Philippine colonies, which are already difficult to maintain, and the Taiwan authorities, whose prospects are desperate, have become abandoned children in desperation.

After receiving the Pentagon's withdrawal order, Marshal MacArthur did not make any more awkward noises like the last time he was forced to leave the Philippines, nor did he make any more bold statements such as "I will come back again", but calmly packed his bags, left Manila on a cruiser, crossed the South China Sea, and retreated to Bangkok, Thailand. Next, MacArthur will take in the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Philippines in Bangkok, and then take them all the way home via Singapore, Ceylon, and South Africa, or go straight to a new battlefield along the way.

As for the areas controlled by the US military in the Philippines and the heavy task of resisting the invasion of the "Hook" guerrillas of the CPP, it can only be left to the pro-American bourgeois government of the Philippines that he has fostered, and the more than 100,000 government troops hastily organized during this period...... According to the Pentagon's most optimistic projections, they are estimated to be able to hold out in the Philippines for six to nine months, relying on the supplies, ammunition and ordnance left behind by the US troops when they retreated......

Chairman Chiang, who had just withdrawn from the mainland and moved to Taiwan, received two sad pieces of news: First, US aid supplies were about to be completely cut off, and no US fleet would ever send him even a single gun, a can, or a bullet; Second, Taiwan, the only country that his Nationalist government can still rule, has become a white island surrounded by global red forces, and is about to face the siege of China, Japan, and the Soviet Union at the same time.

For Chairman Chiang, who is unable to produce even a rifle on his own, the cut off of US aid supplies alone is enough to kill him.

So, after a hysterical complaining about the air, breaking an unknown number of cups and plates, and venting like crazy, the famous bald man still ...... Or rather, he resigned himself to the establishment of the government-in-exile of the Republic of China......

As China's civil war drew to a close and the U.S. military withdrew from East Asia on a large scale, the strategic task of defending against the "Red Peril" in the Eastern world was almost entirely on Thailand's head. As for whether this feudal monarchy can afford such a heavy responsibility, no one cares. Anyway, the dominoes placed on the table in East Asia by the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union have almost fallen. At present, Thailand, which is the only remaining fruit in the US camp, will not have much impact on the overall situation of the global game between the two sides.

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What made President Truman even more distraught was that not only was the situation of the American military in various overseas theaters so tragic, but the situation inside the United States was also rapidly deteriorating -- with the long war with no end in sight, the rising number of casualties, the dwindling wartime rations, and the wave after wave of large-scale wartime conscription, the frenzy of the American people in the early days of the war had long since subsided, but the war-weariness was growing day by day. The big conglomerates are also overwhelmed by all kinds of compulsory apportionment of national debts, but they have no other way out and have to stick to the end.

On the eve of World War III, when the United States successively dropped atomic bombs on overseas battlefields, some people actually pulled banners on the South Lawn of the White House to protest. When the Third World War officially began, when the defeat of millions of American troops lost their armor and collapsed, the people in the country did not break out with the same hatred of the Bolsheviks, but instead of various anti-war demonstrations and peaceful rallies one after another, and the newspapers also sang all kinds of anti-war tunes against the government...... No way, since Pearl Harbor, the United States of America has suffered a staggering 9 million casualties during the five years of the war, which is equivalent to fifteen times the total number of casualties in the Civil War! And the dawn of victory is still far away, and the Americans can no longer bear it.

Fortunately, due to the extreme fear and bitter hostility towards the Bolsheviks, all the big business groups in the United States resolutely stood on the side of the White House on the major issue of right and wrong of opposing the Bolsheviks and resisting the red wave, and did not take the opportunity to make trouble or make trouble...... Relying on the full support of Wall Street, as well as certain shady means, President Truman succeeded in suppressing all opposition in Congress and finally did not face an impeachment crisis.

However, under the pressure of the consortium, the Supreme Court and the members of the National Assembly were easily reconciled, but the war-weariness of the people was really difficult to eliminate. In New Orleans, the capital of Louisiana, where the situation was most serious, there was even a black conscription riot in early January -- after the outbreak of World War III, because considering that too many young white people died on the battlefield and that the racial population ratio in American society might be out of balance in the future, in order to ensure the dominance of whites, the current US government is deliberately tilting toward blacks in terms of conscription. Hopefully, we will consume more of the black youths who are likely to be troublesome in the future in order to weaken the potential risk.

In particular, several states in the south with serious racial discrimination problems have gone too far, treating blacks in their states as "sweeping the floor as soldiers", and even many black women have been pulled into strong men and forced to join all kinds of auxiliary service teams...... As a result, there was an unfortunate black widow in New Orleans, whose husband was abandoned on the island of Great Britain and whose fate was unknown, and she herself received a notice of compulsory conscription, leaving a pair of minor children uncared for, and after several complaints, no one heeded, but was dragged from her home by the gendarmes, and the little daughter who tried to prevent her mother from being dragged away was also injured on the spot.

When the incident came to light, it sparked public outrage among the local black community in New Orleans, which immediately turned into a march against conscription, and then into a riot, along with arson and looting, because of the authorities' policy of repression by force......

In the end, the Louisiana government had to mobilize the National Guard into the city to clear the city, and fought intermittently for a week of urban shootouts, killing more than 5,000 people and imprisoning more than 50,000 people, so that the situation in New Orleans could finally be stabilized.

The black riots in Louisiana certainly made the White House feel disgraced, but compared to the chaos that broke through the sky on the Canadian side, it is nothing -- in the world wars of recent years, Canada, with a population of only 11 million, has successively contributed 1.5 million troops to the British Empire, and more than 1 million people have died on the battlefield or are missing, which can be said to have almost wiped out a generation.

When it comes to loyalty to the British Empire, Canadians can be said to be fiercely loyal. In all the territories of the British Empire scattered around the world, there is no one who can compare with it except for the Australians who have already been "broken" by the whole people, and the New Zealanders who are about to be "broken by the whole people".

However, no matter how loyal he is, there is a limit to it -- after Churchill's cabinet led the fleet to flee to Canada and supported Queen Margaret to ascend the throne, in order to restore the military strength as soon as possible and continue the war, relying on the support and solidarity of the US government, Churchill actually decided to continue to recruit 1.2 million troops in Canada, which already has a population of less than 10 million! Even to the point of preparing for the mass conscription of Canadian women to the battlefield!

At this point, the Canadians couldn't bear it anymore - if they were defending their country, they might still be willing to fight to the last shot, but now they were going overseas to die for a queen they had never met...... The boys in Canada are almost finished, but that damn fat man Churchill still refuses to give up, and wants the girls of Canada to die for the queen with him!!

In the face of this wanton military tactic, which was almost aimed at destroying Canada, the French residents of Quebec were the first to jump out and resist, smashing the local police station and city hall, beating and expelling government officials who came to conscript, and even politicians who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to declare Quebec's independence...... As a result, it was bloodily suppressed by a group of angry British troops, resulting in a "Montreal tragedy" in which more than 500 people were shot and wounded.

The Canadian Parliament, which immediately received the news, angrily voted to pass a protest and ultimatum, and Churchill's reply was to revoke all of Canada's autonomy, dispatch troops from the British mainland to dissolve the Canadian Parliament, and arrest more than half of the parliamentarians!

-- Referring to the precedents of the British Civil War and the American Revolutionary War, according to the political tradition of the United States and Britain, this practice was basically the prelude to the Civil War...... As a result, the whole of Canada was soon in chaos, with the guns of rebellion everywhere, and one army after another mutinied. Even the remnants of the Royal Navy have quite a few ships raising anti-flags. Both sides used tanks and heavy artillery in the exchange of fire, turning into an American version of the Spanish Civil War.

By early February, barricade battles in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto were still unfinished, and militia guerrillas in rural Canada were also swarming and ambushing everywhere. The rebellious Canadian fleet also entrenched itself in Newfoundland, cutting off the lines of communication between the continental United States and the Icelandic front. Although with the massive involvement of the US military, the rebels in Canada were doomed from the start. What is certain, however, is that even if Churchill's cabinet were able to re-stabilize the situation in Canada, it would be almost impossible to continue recruiting troops from Canada.

- Unless he doesn't mind that many Canadian soldiers defect to the enemy as soon as they get their guns......

Moreover, even in the United States, where the situation is relatively better, the various branches of production have issued an early warning of the urgency of human resources -- in order to maintain basic social production, at least military production, there is a limit to the conscription of any modern country, and it is impossible to send every young man to the battlefield, because if this is done, there will be no one in the rear to cultivate food, produce guns and ammunition, and transport these things to the front.

As a result, in order to increase its troop strength as soon as possible, the red-eyed Pentagon could no longer care about the sense of honor of its soldiers, let alone the domestic security situation, and forced Truman to sign a presidential decree to release all prison inmates, regardless of what crimes they had committed in the past, and integrate them into the army. By the way, many prison guards also lost their jobs, and they were conscripted into the army to go to the front line, and many prison guards even had to fight side by side with the prisoners they had been guarding before, and the scene was really too beautiful to watch...... But even so, the number of soldiers put together is still far from filling the gap.

Seeing that North America's human resources were about to be squeezed to the limit, the Pentagon could only set its sights on South America, planning to recruit 3 million troops from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay and send them to the front lines in Africa and West Asia to serve as cannon fodder, while guarding Hawaii with its own elite troops. The White House and Capitol Hill are also in favor of this move - how can the "redneck" farmers in the south of the United States and the banking tycoons on Wall Street feel at ease if so many people have died in the United States, and millions of mixed-race people in South America have died if they do not follow?

As for whether the Spanish-speaking Latinos are willing to die for the United States...... This is not in the scope of the big bosses.

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Of course, in addition to the above bad news, there is also some good news.

According to the report of the House Committee on the Navy, the production capacity of naval ships has been doubled again, and the time required to build an aircraft carrier has been further reduced to nine months, according to the report of the House Naval Committee. At present, two armored aircraft carriers, 12 regular aircraft carriers, and 32 escort aircraft carriers have been launched into service one after another, and the naval aviation fighters, reconnaissance planes, bombers, and torpedo planes attached to them are also in place. At the same time, two Montana-class battleships and one Hawaii-class super battleship were completed and put into service -- it can be seen that it is not far from the US Navy to end its current state of dormant resignation under passive beatings and once again resume its active offensive capability.

Then, in addition to the ships of the Navy, the production of other munitions was further increased. U.S. labor leaders say they have made every sacrifice and tapped into all their potential to meet their annual production quota of 80,000 aircraft, 40,000 tanks, 500,000 machine guns, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and 16 million tons of merchant ships. At the same time, the United States has also enjoyed a bumper agricultural harvest this year, in stark contrast to the famine in Europe. (To be continued.) )