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Chapter 132, Galapagos Islands Naval Battle
Eastern Pacific Ocean, Equatorial Seas, Republic of Ecuador, Galapagos Islands

Above the turbulent and turbulent waves, there are mixed with blood-stained droplets, echoing the roar of steel and gunpowder.

Athletes from both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and millions of tons of steel giant ships, here burst out the passionate collision of life and death!
A short but fierce naval battle has just come to an end slowly in this famous volcanic islands where exotic flowers and plants gather, rare birds and animals gather - the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, which has been in the Pacific for many years, finally landed in Galapagos. In the waters of the Sri Lanka Islands, it has tasted the bitter fruit of a defeat for a long time.

Compared with General "Bull" Halsey, who has always been bold and reckless and keen to fight and charge, Lieutenant General Aubrey Fitch, who took over as the commander of the US Pacific Fleet after him, appears to be much more cautious.Even when the situation in South America was rotten and the Pentagon ordered three reminders a day, he still laid out a complete and meticulous combat plan in a leisurely manner, instead of ordering the fleet to anchor and cross the Pacific Ocean as soon as his brain got hot.

On the other hand, Lieutenant Admiral Aubrey Fitch's opponent, Admiral Kondo Nobutake of the Japanese Navy who commanded the South American expedition fleet, was quite arrogant and careless because of his consecutive victories, thinking that his fleet had fought all the way from Australia to South America is invincible, and the size of the ships on paper is also spectacular, and they must be invincible in the world.But he forgot that after several expansions in a short period of time, the "sea country athletes" under his command were also heavily flooded with a large number of recruits with insufficient quality.Although by the time of the American expedition, even these newcomers had already accumulated a lot of voyage and combat experience, but the previous battles were actually killing dogs and ravaging all kinds of weak chickens-those majestic Yamato-class Battleships have basically been used for long-distance escort and shore bombardment in the past year. They have never fought a decent sea battle at all, and they don't even have enough daily training.

In addition, because it was fighting in the waters of South America, the Japanese Navy's expeditionary fleet, which came all the way across the Pacific Ocean, was after all a long-distance and exhausted division.Moreover, the U.S. military has already fought its last battle, and its morale and fighting spirit are close to the peak.

As a result, in the battle in the waters of the Galapagos Islands, the US and Japanese navies, which seemed to have a well-matched lineup, quickly became the one-sided abuse of the US Pacific Fleet.Or the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy is dancing the dance of death in the spider web woven by Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch.

Under Admiral Aubrey Fitch's ingenious planning and Admiral Kondo's reckless actions, first the battleship formation of the US Pacific Fleet deliberately showed weakness in the nighttime firefight as an outpost, luring the Japanese battleship formation to pursue She is out of touch with the Japanese aircraft carrier mobile fleet that cannot fight at night in the rear.Immediately afterwards, Lieutenant General Aubrey Fitch ordered all fifteen US aircraft carriers participating in the battle to "attack with full deck" in the morning light, before the Japanese aircraft carrier naval aviation fighter jets rushed to provide cover over the battleship formation. , launched an indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese battleship formation led by Admiral Kondo Nobutake.In just half an hour of confrontation, the American dive bomber fleet and torpedo fleet successfully sank the sixth ship "Ezo", the seventh ship "Tsushima" and the tenth Japanese Navy's newly built Yamato-class battleships. The ship "Satsuma" severely damaged the No.11 ship "Wakasa" and slightly damaged the remaining four Yamato-class battleships.In addition, the Japanese side also had five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, fifteen destroyers and nine auxiliary ships, which were sunk in this round of air strikes and the previous night artillery battle... What's more terrible is that Kondo Shin General Take was also killed in the air strike and failed to hand over the command in time, which led to the 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 Kanna, a group of rookie sailors who lack experience in naval warfare and damage control, and can't even close the watertight door, plus an arrogant, self-willed and unlucky The famous Admiral Kondo Nobutake eventually led to such a tragedy.

At the same time, the U.S. military also learned from the wolf pack tactics of German U-boats, and successfully lured the five Japanese aircraft carriers eager to catch up with their own battleship formation into their pre-arranged submarine ambush circle, and then fired a torpedo, sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier on the spot. Three ships, severely damaged one Japanese aircraft carrier.Immediately afterwards, the U.S. shore-based air force stationed in Central America and Venezuela was also ordered to launch a large-scale attack, destroying the counterattack of the remaining Japanese aircraft carriers, and successfully fired a second shot, sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier "Amagi" that had been severely damaged by submarines. In addition, the Japanese destroyers who were responsible for covering the aircraft carrier and trying to organize anti-submarine operations were dispersed, so that the US Pacific Fleet and most of the submarines that had completed the hunting mission were able to withdraw from the battlefield calmly.
Moreover, even so, Lieutenant General Aubrey Fitch was not dazzled by the victory.After the disastrous defeat of the Japanese South American Expeditionary Fleet, Aubrey won a new victory in the face of the follow-up and intact Soviet Red Flag Pacific Fleet, as well as his own naval fleet that was also scarred and had little ammunition and fuel left. Lieutenant Admiral Fitch did not recklessly fight another battle, but immediately chose to accept it as soon as it was good, retreated, and led the US Pacific Fleet to voluntarily withdraw from the South American waters before contacting the Soviet fleet, and returned with triumphant songs the West Coast of the United States.

So far, the Pacific Fleet of the U.S. Navy under the command of Lieutenant General Aubrey Fitch, at a small cost of losing a heavy cruiser, three destroyers, a submarine and more than 120 aircraft, destroyed the The Japanese army had three battleships, four aircraft carriers, five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, fifteen destroyers, nine auxiliary ships and 220 aircraft, and killed the supreme commander of the Japanese fleet, Admiral Kondo Nobutake. In the bleak atmosphere of the war, a force suddenly emerged, and won an overwhelming victory that was no less than the Japanese-Russian Tsushima naval battle! !

More importantly, a total of 1 Japanese naval officers and soldiers died in the sea battle of the Galapagos Islands. Although most of them were rookies, more than [-] of them had been on the ship since the beginning of the battle at Pearl Harbor. serving veterans.For the Japanese navy, which was already in a constant shortage of human resources, the above-mentioned losses are absolutely heartbreaking and traumatic. If there is no at least one year, it will not be able to breathe at all.
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However, despite this, a brilliant tactical victory like this cannot offset the overall strategic failure of the United States.

——The overwhelming and brilliant victory of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet in the naval battle of the Galapagos Islands, from a strategic point of view, only temporarily curbed the collapse of the US military on the southern front. There is still a long way to go from defense to offense.

Three days after the naval battle in the Galapagos Islands ended, Wang Qiu boarded the nuclear-powered battleship "Lenin", the new flagship of the Soviet Red Flag Pacific Fleet, and sailed into the Galapagos Islands where the smoke cleared and the buildings were empty. In the sea area, while searching and rescuing those who fell into the water on the sea, Ecuador's political power struggle has also come to an end.Under the deterrence of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy and the Soviet Union's nuclear bombs, the pro-American government was overthrown by force.

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

"...It's really unimaginable! In just over two months, from Ecuador to Argentina, most of South America has been out of the control of the United States. If Colombia and Brazil, which are caught in civil war and overwhelmed by themselves, are deducted, the Bolivia, which is under siege from three sides and is about to perish, the United States has only a hard-core brother like Venezuela in South America, so how much more can it share the worries of the boss of the United States..."

He shook his head, and muttered to Commissar Guo who was scribbling beside him, "...the whole thing collapsed too fast, right?"

"...This is one of the characteristics of the collapse of a big country! Xiao Wang, the more majestic the superpower, the faster it will collapse."

Political Commissar Guo raised his head from his desk, and replied calmly, "... When facing a crisis and finally collapsing, the situation of a big country is different from that of a small country. Generally speaking, a small country is weak, but internally The interests involved are also relatively simple, the structure itself is relatively simple, and the resilience and resistance to pressure are strong. Unless you face a devastating catastrophe from the very beginning, it usually declines bit by bit.

On the contrary, a big country, especially a superpower, involves huge and complex interests, and the beginning of its decline is also very hidden. If there is a problem in one place, it can be made up for in other places, even if the most critical lifeline is out. The problem is that there will also be clever paper craftsmen who continue to prolong the life of the country through various methods of tearing down the east wall and making up for the west wall.

It has to wait until its decline and decay have accumulated to a certain extent, and all the forces that maintain the country's continued operation are all broken, breaking through the critical point it can bear. The Son is revealed to all.

To give a specific example, in our daily life, we often see certain "successful people" in the society who live in luxury houses, ride in luxury cars, go in and out of luxury hotels with beautiful women in their arms, dress well, domineering, let The neighbors are envious.But then suddenly one day, a large group of policemen broke into the door and took him away from the house naked. It turned out that this guy had already gone bankrupt and owed hundreds of millions in loans to the bank. He tried to piece together his personal connections, and he still had to pay the interest from the bank. When he was at the end of his life and couldn't even pay the interest, the bank finally stopped protecting him and let the court arrest him directly.And the neighbors didn't realize it until this time, and then spread everywhere, saying that the boss of such and such had collapsed yesterday!In fact, this boss has already collapsed financially, and it was only yesterday that everyone found out.
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 background through endless failures again and again. The influence and deterrence accumulated over the centuries have finally come to a desperate situation where all sides are besieged. The current South American countries have rebounded and the American front has collapsed.In fact, as early as the outbreak of the Third World War, the United States and its allies were almost dragged to the point of collapse..."

—Having said that, there is still a big difference between the two concepts "someone is broken" and "someone is dead."

If it is said that the goal of the Third World War is only to bring down the United States, then the red camp has already won the victory right now.Even if the armistice and peace talks are held now, the United States will definitely recognize the status of the defeated country, and hold its nose and agree to a series of unequal terms that humiliate the country, just like Germany when the First World War was declared defeated.However, if the goal is to completely kill the United States, this... can only be said that comrades still need to work hard...

In fact, although the collapse of South America is so obvious, the White House still has not given up trying to turn the tide and retake the New World.

And President Truman, who seemed to be in a state of utter desperation and vomited blood due to loss, did indeed have the capital to continue wrestling with Stalin.

——Because, the latest batch of big killers produced by the Oak Ridge factory has been completed not long ago and left the factory...