Chapter 130: The Shocking Changes in South America (II)

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The crowded Oval Office was filled with smoke, and since the two worst news of South Africa's renegade and the South American incident, all kinds of emergency meetings have been held from the Pentagon to the White House to Capitol Hill, but there is still no effective response, so everyone can only gather together to smoke cigarettes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

President Truman had a cigar in his hand, a smoke ring in his mouth, a bloodshot look in his eyes, and a head full of worry.

The current war situation is really terrible for the United States! It's already going to be described as a nightmare or a level of purgatory!

Last week, the "Southern African Community" (SADC), led by the Federation of South Africa, was formally inaugurated, and an ultimatum was given to Eisenhower, who was trapped in the port of Mombasa in East Africa, to leave the Indian Ocean coast -- an important prerequisite for the conclusion of a peace treaty between South Africa and the Soviet Union.

Given that the logistical supply lines and material hoarding points of 300,000 American and British Allied troops were all under the control of the South African authorities, and since a few months ago, the South African side had consciously limited the amount of supplies to Eisenhower, so that the Allied forces in Mombasa could not accumulate much supplies.

As a result, when the Pentagon generals tried to ask Eisenhower whether he was sure of returning to South Africa and forcing the South African authorities to "get back on the right track" by force, Eisenhower replied with a wry smile: First, he did not have a transport ship for 300,000 troops to turn around from Mombasa to South Africa, and if he took the land route, the distance in a straight line would be 2,000 kilometers, and his troops would definitely collapse halfway through the wild and backward African continent; Second, the artillery and tanks and other heavy equipment of the East African Allied forces have long been lost in repeated defeats, and have not been replenished since then, and the current firepower level is similar to that of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in the Long March era, and in the head-to-head competition, it is not the opponent of any modern army; Thirdly, there was only enough ammunition to fight a campaign, enough food for a month, enough gasoline for two weeks, trucks, mules and horses were scarce, and if South Africa defected, his troops would be cut off from supply lines, and there would be nowhere to loot in Africa.

What's worse is that even within the 300,000 East African Allied forces under Eisenhower, there are many different voices. Many British troops were demoralized by successive defeats, and no longer had the heart to fight for the queen and Churchill, but took the olive branch from the South African authorities, intending to take advantage of the special relationship between the Anglo-Saxon peoples to become South African citizens, and to say goodbye to the misery of war and flight - in order to suppress the large number of disobedient black South Africans, the South African authorities were desperate for white immigrants from all over the world, and were willing to give them very high treatment. In order to pry the corner of the United States, the Soviet Union generously promised that after the armistice and peace talks, it would completely open up the immigration channels for white Europeans to South Africa......

Now, more than 80,000 British troops have openly refused to obey General Eisenhower's orders, and have even looted arsenals, collected ammunition, and built fortifications in the camp to confront the American troops. If the situation continues to develop, even General Eisenhower has a lot in mind about what will happen next -- that is to say, if the Pentagon insists on solving the South African rebellion by force and cannot send a large number of reinforcements to Eisenhower, who is trapped in the port of Mombasa, then the 300,000 American and British allies stationed in the port of Mombasa will have to break out into an internal strife first...... Whether it is for Eisenhower, who has run out of ammunition and food and hangs behind the enemy, or for the Pentagon, which is desperately short of veterans, this is an unbearable burden of life.

Therefore, in previous meetings, the White House and the Pentagon, after repeated deliberations, had reached a preliminary consensus to agree to abandon Africa -- when the US military was forced to withdraw from East Africa and southern Africa turned its face to the enemy, Eisenhower was certainly untenable in West Africa: the Soviets were still sending strategic long-range bombers from bases in North Africa across the Sahara Desert, destroying West African ports and cities in an orderly manner with an average rate of two to three atomic bombs per week. In the past few months, the port cities built during the colonial era have now been almost destroyed. The remnants of the white diaspora were forced to move to the forest, take off their pants, and hunt with the blacks as savages carrying spears! Where should Eisenhower's U.S. forces in East Africa be stationed after they were withdrawn? You can't just stay in the ruins of a nuclear bomb and wait for radiation sickness!

Moreover, with the defection of South Africa and South America, and the complete change of hands in the Atlantic, it will be extremely difficult and unbearable to maintain a sea supply line from the continental United States to the ports of West Africa, under the joint strangulation of the Soviet and Japanese navies.

And more importantly, what good is it to maintain such an army in West Africa? Judging from the current situation, the Soviet Red Army has no intention of crossing the Sahara Desert to the south, and obviously intends to solve the problem by indiscriminately bombing atomic bombs. Eisenhower could only suffer a nuclear explosion if he stayed there. Rather than this, it is better to withdraw the fist for the time being and keep this tried-and-true strategic mobile corps for other uses.

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However, the United States of America can still pinch its nose and make a big concession in Africa, but in South America there is no way to retreat!

-- Since the outbreak of the changes in South America, the Pentagon has been madly massing its forces and preparing to use force to overthrow these thorns.

It is a pity that the steps are slow, and while the United States of America is hurriedly deploying troops everywhere, Peru, Chile, and Argentina have quietly cleaned up the pro-American forces at home and stabilized their respective regimes -- because they advocate that the whole people tighten their belts and sell their kidneys to aid the United States, and that millions of soldiers are conscripted overseas to be used as cannon fodder by nuclear bombs, the pro-American forces are now extremely unpopular among the people of South America, and they are almost as opposed to everyone shouting and fighting. Even the military is generally hostile to the pro-American main war regime: they are more willing to open up territory for the motherland than to bury their bones abroad and die for the Americans without honor. In the past, it was all supported by the ruling position, but now once it is knocked to the dust, there are almost no supporters in the country, so it can only choose to stop fighting.

Half a month after the outbreak of the incident, not only Peru, Chile, and Argentina have irretrievably changed color, but even the two small countries of Paraguay and Uruguay to the north of Argentina have been co-opted by anti-war and anti-American sentiments -- in order to expel the forces infiltrated by the United States into South America and establish Argentina's supremacy in South America, the famous Argentine rose, Evita. President Peron's wife threaded the needle everywhere, formed gangs, and appealed to the people of various countries, and achieved great success in public opinion, and finally with President Perón of Argentina as the leader of the alliance, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru formally formed an alliance, announced the establishment of an "armed neutrality alliance," and openly raised the banner of opposing the United States.

The Bolivian authorities, who have taken a hardline pro-American stance, are in the midst of various civil unrest, besieged by the armies of Peru, Paraguay, and Chile at the same time, and bombed by the air forces of the three countries, as well as the Japanese naval aviation.

As for Brazil, the hardcore brother and number one thug of the United States in South America, it also has its own troubles now -- revolutions, no matter what color revolutions, are usually contagious, as the so-called "spark can start a prairie fire", from the Great Revolution of 1848 in Europe, to the upheavals in Eastern Europe in the 20th century, to the Arab Spring in the ♂ 21st century. The same is true of the current changes in South America.

As the most active ally of South American countries in following the United States into the war, Brazil is also the country that sacrificed the most in the world war among South American countries. Especially in the early stage of the rout of World War III, the Pentagon simply used the Brazilian army as a substitute for the dead, and was left in a desperate situation every time to be responsible for the rear. As a result, in the battlefields of Japan, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Australia, about three million Brazilian troops were wiped out before and after, for Brazil, which currently has a population of only 45 million, including a large number of Indians and blacks, this is close to the proportion of French casualties in World War I.

The consequence of this is, of course, the boiling of public resentment and the rising revolutionary atmosphere. When Argentina, Chile and Peru withdrew from the war, anti-war movements erupted in major cities in Brazil, and soon political figures joined in. When the Brazilian government ordered the military and police to suppress it, even a major mutiny broke out within the army. If it weren't for the U.S. military coming to the rescue, I'm afraid everything would really be over.

Even so, in order to suppress the chaos in Brazil, the American troops on the front line fought very bloody and hard: in Rio de Janeiro, the United States dispatched two battleships to bombard the port, destroying the rebellious Brazilian navy and the rebel-entrenched coastal defense batteries; In São Paulo, U.S. and government forces flew planes to bomb neighborhoods held by "thugs" and used tanks and heavy artillery to destroy barricades...... After half a month of continuous killings, killing the two major cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, this riot that almost overthrew the Brazilian government was finally quelled as quickly as possible.

But even at this point, the turmoil in Brazil was not over - since the outbreak of the Pacific War, more than 400,000 Japanese immigrants in Brazil have been imprisoned in concentration camps, considered a factor of instability. Next, there were many more German immigrants, Russian immigrants, anti-war elements, Nazi supporters, Bolshevik sympathizers, politicians who had lost power and their families...... They were all arrested one after another, and the total number of detainees finally reached 1.5 million! Most of these camps were set up in southern Brazil, near the border between Argentina and Uruguay.

As a result, in the midst of the chaos, the rebellious Brazilian army unleashed all the bitter and unfortunate men in the camps in order to win supporters. Immediately afterwards, the Argentine army, which had crossed the border, armed them again and became the leading party and vanguard of the invasion of Brazil......

At present, the allied forces of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay have invaded hundreds of kilometers southeast of Brazil and captured the important towns of Rio Grande and Porto Alegre. The political situation in Brazil is still in disarray, with only a small number of government troops still in control of the capital and a few major cities, and a small number of American troops supporting the border defense, or pretending, -- and the militias and regular armies throughout Brazil are still in rebellion, and even those who have not yet raised the anti-flag are generally inclined to defend themselves, unwilling to obey the central government, and have no intention of defending themselves against the coalition forces with the same hatred of the enemy.

To add insult to injury, according to the latest information, the Soviet Union's long-range strategic bomber force is rapidly moving towards Argentina and Chile through the two springboards of South Africa and the Polynesian islands. The Soviet Red Army and the Japanese Army also seem to have the intention of landing in South America on a large scale -- although the long distance across half the world makes it impossible for them to put too much force into South America, but in the face of the general anti-US public opinion in South American countries, it will probably be difficult for the US military to conduct a long-term war here, and there will be no home advantage. What's more, once they gain a foothold in South America, the Hawaiian Islands' outpost fort value is lost! The enemy could have dropped atomic bombs on the U.S. mainland from bases in South America!!

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons repeatedly, President Truman finally came to the conclusion that he must devote all his forces to Latin America at all costs, clean up his own backyard, and drive the demons of the red camp out of the New World! Otherwise, the United States will lose not only the future, but also the present!

“…… As a last resort, we can give up Africa for the time being, but we must never give up South America again in any case - if we lose Africa, we will only lose the future, if we lose South America, then we will lose even the present...... The American continent is our absolute defense circle! ”

President Truman claimed so categorically and then turned to Ernest. Commander-in-Chief of the Admiralty King, "...... Let Hawaii's Pacific Fleet withdraw! They are needed even more in the South American theater! It's also worth taking some risks for that. Losing South America is more dangerous for us than the Hawaiian Islands! Whatever the sacrifice and price, we must expel the evil Bolsheviks from the New World! ”

“…… Got it, I'll get the main forces of the Pacific Fleet in Hawaii back from Pearl Harbor as soon as possible, but it's going to take some time to prepare. ”

Ernest. Commander Jin lowered his head and pondered for a moment, as if he was silently calculating the gains and losses, and finally nodded lightly, "...... Prior to this, I was going to collect ships from various ports on the east and west coasts and temporarily urgently organize an expeditionary fleet to Peru to confront the Japanese fleet. About the choice of commander of this fleet...... I would recommend it to William Jr. again. General Halsey a chance. ”

Sure enough, as soon as he heard the name, Truman frowned, "...... Let this typhoon god of war go to sea again"

“…… Mr. Commander-in-Chief, it's hurricane season in the Caribbean. Secretary of State Hull echoed the casual quip.

“…… But William Jr. is currently the most familiar with the Japanese Navy and the most experienced general in China, Mr. President, His Excellency the Secretary of State. ”

Ernest. Commander Jin replied without humility or arrogance, "...... And, according to the meteorological service, the Caribbean Sea is very calm today. ”

Seeing that Admiral King was so insistent and that the others didn't seem to have any intention of objecting, President Truman hesitated slightly, but finally nodded, "...... Well, now is indeed the time to employ people! It needs to be eclectic, and it shouldn't be taboo too much, and I agree with Halsey's candidate! Let's hope he will sweep across the coastlines of Peru and Chile like a real typhoon, bringing us a clean South American ......" (To be continued. )