Chapter 132: The Battle of the Galapagos Islands

Eastern Pacific Ocean, Equatorial Sea, Republic of Ecuador, Galapagos Islands

Above the surging waves, mixed with blood-stained droplets, the roar of steel and gunpowder reverberates. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Athletes from both sides of the Pacific Ocean, millions of tons of steel giants, burst out here with the passion of life and death!

A short but fierce naval battle has just come to an end between this famous volcanic archipelago where strange flowers and plants are gathered, and rare birds and animals are gathered -- the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, which has been rampaging in the Pacific Ocean for many years, has finally tasted the bitter fruit of a defeat in the waters of the Galapagos Islands for the first time in a long time.

Compared with Admiral Halsey, who has always been bold and eager to punch and rush, O'Brey Brown, who took over as commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet after him. Lieutenant General Fitch was much more cautious. Even when the situation in South America was in dire straits and the Pentagon telegraphed three times a day, he still unhurriedly laid out a perfect and meticulous combat plan, instead of ordering the fleet to anchor and cross the Pacific Ocean as soon as his mind was hot.

On the other side, Aubrey. Vice Admiral Fitch's opponent, Admiral Nobutake Kondo of the Japanese Navy, who commanded the South American Expeditionary Fleet, was quite arrogant and careless because of his successive victories, believing that his fleet was fighting all the way from Australia to South America, and the scale of the ships on paper was also magnificent, and it must have been invincible in the world. But he forgot that after several expansions in a short period of time, the "Haiguo Athletes" under his command at this time were also seriously flooded, mixed with a large number of recruits with insufficient quality. Although by the time of the expedition to the Americas, even these newcomers had accumulated a lot of experience in long-distance voyages and operations, the previous battles were actually killing dogs and ravaging all kinds of weak chickens -- those majestic Yamato-class battleships had basically been used for long-distance escort and shore bombardment in the past year, and they had never fought a decent naval battle, and even their daily training was not sufficient.

In addition, because it was fighting in South American waters, the Japanese Navy's expeditionary fleet, which had come all the way across the Pacific Ocean, was after all a division that had traveled long distances and was tired from a long battle, and it was not as convenient as the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, which had its back to the mainland and was convenient for supply. Moreover, the U.S. military is already fighting on its back, and its morale and fighting spirit are close to their peak.

As a result, in the battle off the Alapagos Islands, the navies of the United States and Japan, which seemed to be evenly matched, soon became a one-sided abusive dish for the US Pacific Fleet. Or say that the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy is in Aubrey . Lieutenant General Fitch dances a death dance in a spider web.

In Aubrey. In the midst of Vice Admiral Fitch's ingenious planning and Admiral Kondo's reckless actions, the battleship formation of the US Pacific Fleet first deliberately showed weakness in the night exchange of fire as a sentinel battle, luring the Japanese battleship formation into relentless pursuit, and there was a disconnect between it and the Japanese aircraft carrier mobile fleet that could not fight at night in the rear. Immediately, Aubrey. In the early light of dawn, Vice Admiral Fitch ordered all 15 US aircraft carriers participating in the battle to "attack from all decks" and launch wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese battleship formation led by Admiral Nobutake Kondo before the Japanese aircraft carrier naval air force fighters rushed over his battleship formation to provide cover. In just half an hour of confrontation, the group of American dive bombers and torpedo planes that poured out of the nest successfully sank the No. 6 ship "Ezo," the No. 7 ship "Tsushima," and the No. 10 ship "Satsuma," newly built by the Japanese Navy, severely damaged the No. 11 ship "Wakasa," and lightly damaged the remaining four Yamato-class battleships. In addition, the Japanese side had five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, fifteen destroyers and nine auxiliary ships, which were sunk in this round of air raids and previous night artillery battles...... What's more, Admiral Kondo Nobutake was also killed in the air raid and failed to transfer command in time, which led to the subsequent disorder and paralysis of the command system of the Japanese fleet in a short period of time......

-- The original version of the Yamato-class battleship that has not been eroded and modified by Miss Ship's mother, a group of rookie sailors who lack experience in naval warfare and damage management, and can't even close the watertight door, plus an arrogant, self-serving, and unlucky Admiral Kondo Nobutake, eventually led to such a tragedy.

At the same time, the US military also borrowed the wolf pack tactics of German U-boats to successfully lure five Japanese aircraft carriers, which were eager to catch up with their own battleship formation, into a submarine ambush circle arranged in advance by their own side, and then fired a round of torpedoes, sinking three Japanese aircraft carriers on the spot and severely damaging one Japanese aircraft carrier. Immediately afterwards, the US shore-based air force stationed in Central America and Venezuela was also ordered to make a large-scale sortie to destroy the counterattack of the remaining Japanese aircraft carriers, and successfully replenished the Japanese aircraft carrier "Amagi," which had been heavily damaged by submarines, and dispersed the Japanese destroyers that were responsible for covering the aircraft carriers and were trying to organize anti-submarine warfare, so that the US Pacific Fleet and most of the submarines that had completed the hunting mission were able to calmly withdraw from the battlefield.

And, even so, Aubrey . . Lieutenant General Fitch was not carried away by the victory. After the disastrous defeat of the Japanese South American Expeditionary Fleet, facing the follow-up and intact Soviet Red Banner Pacific Fleet, as well as the same scarred and depleted naval fleet, Obrey won a new victory. Vice Admiral Fitch did not recklessly fight again, but immediately chose to accept the good news, retreated, and led the US Pacific Fleet to withdraw from South American waters on its own initiative before making contact with the Soviet fleet, and returned to the west coast of the United States with a triumphant song.

At this point, Aubrey. The U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Fitch, destroyed three Japanese battleships, four aircraft carriers, five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, fifteen destroyers, nine auxiliary ships, and two hundred and twenty aircraft in the waters off the Galapagos Islands, and killed the Supreme Commander of the Japanese Fleet, Admiral Kondo Nobutake. Won an exchange that was no less than an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Tsushima between Japan and Russia!!

More importantly, 30,000 Japanese naval officers and sailors died in the Battle of the Galapagos Islands, and although most of them were rookies, more than 10,000 veterans had been serving on the ship since the beginning of the Pearl Harbor war. For the Japanese Navy, which was already in a state of frequent shortage of human resources, the above-mentioned losses were absolutely heart-wrenching and painful, and if it did not take at least one year, it would not be able to ease up at all

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Yet, despite this, such a brilliant tactical victory cannot offset the total strategic defeat of the United States.

-- The overwhelming victory won by the US Navy's Pacific Fleet in the Battle of the Galapagos Islands was only a temporary halt to the collapse and decline of the US military on the southern front from a strategic point of view, and it was still far from truly turning the tide and turning defense into offense.

Three days after the end of the Battle of the Galapagos Islands, when Wang Qiu took the nuclear-powered battleship "Lenin," the new flagship of the Soviet Union's Red Banner Pacific Fleet, sailed into the waters of the Galapagos Islands, where the smoke of gunpowder had cleared and the buildings were empty, and he was bored searching for and rescuing the drifters on the sea, the infighting among political forces in Ecuador also came to an end. Under the deterrence of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy and the Soviet nuclear bombs, the pro-American government was overthrown by force, and the main peace faction came to power, announced its withdrawal from the war, restored neutrality, and joined the "Armed Neutrality Alliance" led by the Peron government in Argentina

Seeing that another piece of land on the map of South America had changed color, and most of the entire South America had changed camps, Wang Qiu couldn't help but sigh in amazement.

“…… It's unimaginable! In just over two months, most of South America, from Ecuador to Argentina, has been out of the control of the United States. If you deduct Colombia and Brazil, which are mired in civil war and are too busy to take care of themselves, and Bolivia, which is under siege on three sides and is about to die, the United States is now left with only a hardcore little brother like Venezuela in South America, and how much can the United States worry about the boss......

He shook his head and muttered to Political Commissar Guo, who was struggling to write beside him, "...... The whole thing is collapsing and collapsing too fast, isn't it? ”

“…… This is one of the characteristics of the collapse of a great power! Xiao Wang, the more majestic the super power, the faster it will collapse. ”

Political Commissar Guo raised his head from the desk and replied indifferently, "...... In the face of crisis and eventual collapse, the situation of large and small countries is not the same. Generally speaking, the strength of small countries is weak, but the internal interests involved are relatively simple, the structure itself is relatively simple, and the resilience and resistance to pressure are strong, unless they are faced with a devastating catastrophe from the beginning, they usually decline little by little.

On the contrary, a big country, especially a superpower, involves a very large and complex range of interests, and the beginning of its decline is also very hidden, and problems in one place can be made up for from other places, even if there is a problem with the most critical lifeline foundation, there will be clever pasters, through various methods of tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall, to continue to prolong the life of the country, the vast majority of outsiders who are overlooking the flowers, and they can't even see it at all.

It is not until its decline and decay have accumulated to a certain extent, when all the forces that keep the state running are broken, and the critical point that it can bear is broken, and no matter how clever the paster can hide it, its defeat will be revealed to everyone at once.

To give a specific example, in life, we often see certain 'successful people' in society, living in luxury houses, riding luxury cars, carrying beautiful women in and out of luxury hotels every day, dressed brightly and domineeringly, making the neighbors envious. But then suddenly one day, a large group of policemen broke into the door and took him away from his home with his bare butt - it turned out that this guy had actually gone bankrupt a long time ago, and he still owed hundreds of millions of loans to the bank. And the neighbors didn't suddenly realize it until this time, and then spread it everywhere that boss so-and-so collapsed yesterday! In fact, this boss has long been financially collapsed, and it was only until yesterday that everyone knew about it

In the same way, in the current world war, the United States of America, which has the strength of a superpower, has slowly worn away its once rich family foundation and the influence and deterrence accumulated over the past century in the midst of endless defeats one after another, and finally moved towards a desperate situation in all directions -- the current revolt of the South American countries and the general collapse of the American front are just the appearance of the explosion after all kinds of defeats have accumulated to a certain extent. In fact, as early as the outbreak of World War III, the United States and its allies were already on the verge of collapse......"

- That said, there is a big difference between the concepts of "someone is down" and "someone is dead."

If the goal of World War III is only to bring down the United States, then the red camp is now a sure winner. Even if the armistice peace talks were to be held now, the United States would certainly recognize the status of a defeated country and pinch its nose and agree to a series of unequal terms that would be humiliating and humiliating, just as Germany did when World War I was defeated. But if the goal is to completely kill the United States, this ...... It can only be said that comrades still need to work hard......

In fact, despite the obvious collapse of South America, the White House has not given up trying to turn the tide and regain the New World.

And President Truman, who seems to be so anxious that he vomits blood, does still have the capital to continue to wrestle with Stalin.

-- Because, the latest batch of mass killers produced by the Oak Ridge factory has been completed and shipped not long ago...... (To be continued.) )