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Volume 3: Snowfield Lion Chapter 930: Chaos

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    When the United States was in complete chaos, their fleet didn't know it. They still followed the original plan, attacked Gibraltar, and successfully entered the Mediterranean Sea.  Italy and Germany already knew that the British and American fleets had entered Gibraltar. They were also very nervous and urgently deployed forces to meet the sea attack.  They thought that the United States and Britain were preparing to open a third battlefield.  Faced with a huge fleet, four aircraft carriers, and more than a dozen battleships, what they did most was to use submarines and fleets to meet the enemy.  As for the coastal cities, they have already built strong enough coastal defenses.  Originally, Italy¡¯s artillery manufacturing technology was ahead of the United States and Britain. After acquiring the weapons company¡¯s self-tensioning artillery technology, Italy¡¯s artillery is now far ahead of other countries.  If nothing else, the modification of all warships in the past few months has made this navy without aircraft carriers the fleet with the longest bombardment range, the sharpest air defense, and the fastest speed in the world.  The reason why we let the British and American combined fleets enter the Mediterranean is to show them how powerful they are, and strive to defeat the British and American fleets in one fell swoop.  The battle was as expected by Lao Mo. The week-long battleship battle caused heavy losses to the U.S. and British forces. Only one American aircraft carrier was left among the four aircraft carriers. The rest were all hit and sunk by submarines in the chaos.  The brutal naval battle shocked the world. In the continuous battles, the U.S. military was attacked by German submarines and all its supply ships were attacked. The aircraft carrier's aircraft were useless and vulnerable to Italy's powerful air defense. Very few aircraft escaped from each attack.  Under constant attacks from long-range artillery, fast battleships were sunk one after another, eventually causing the fleet's defense to be torn apart.  It was frightened away by fierce shelling near the coast, and was eventually bitten by a group of Italian battleships.  After having to fight head-on, the British and American combined fleets fought very hard.  Italy used long-range bombardment, close-range torpedo destroyers and submarines to launch torpedoes. Dozens of torpedoes were required to impact the formation at a time, at the expense of more than a dozen destroyers.  At the cost of more than a dozen submarines, the submarines got close to the aircraft carriers and destroyed them all at close range, sinking three aircraft carriers and causing the British and American combined fleet to collapse immediately, with only twelve battleships escaping.  Everyone was injured.  In the entire battle, six battleships, 12 heavy cruisers, 31 destroyers, and 20 frigates were sunk.  Italy paid a similar price, but all its main battleships were there.  It's just that they also paid a price when they broke through the battleship group. If there were not enough submarines and attacked the supply fleet of the British and American fleets, it is not certain who would lose and who would win.  The most critical thing about the battle was that the aircraft carrier's aircraft were of little use, and they were chased by Italian warships due to their speed. As a result, the fast warships were eventually lost in succession and were driven into a submarine ambush area.  was hit hard.  This naval battle caused an immediate change in the world's camp, which tended to favor the Axis powers. Countries that originally remained neutral but secretly supported the Allies changed their direction and began to truly remain neutral and wait and see again.  The victory of the naval battle severely damaged the superior naval power of Britain and the United States. Although it was not defeated, the power of maritime defense immediately weakened, and even the German fleet felt the pressure suddenly lighten.  And Italy suffered a thousand casualties.  They suffered eight hundred losses and gained no benefit. The loss of nearly forty battleships and submarines left them without the strength to leave the Mediterranean for a short period of time. It was not possible to rely only on those battleships.  The reason why the British and American combined fleets suffered losses is very simple.  They miscalculated the speed and anti-aircraft power of the Italian battleships.  Coupled with artillery, not only can they seize the T-position, the range is still far, far greater than the range of their artillery.  If a fast battleship comes out, it will be covered by the opponent's superior firepower. If it doesn't come out, it will have to endure the torment of the bombardment. If it is accidentally hit by an armor-piercing projectile, it will be sunk even 20,000 meters away.  The fiasco of the warships forced the United States to shrink its defenses and speed up the production of warships in order to fight again.  But the domestic economic crisis was getting out of hand. Countless consortiums were attacked, their headquarters were ransacked, and their personnel were massacred. Roosevelt had to give up everything and stabilize the situation first.  Troops were stationed in various cities and martial law was imposed across the country.  People who have lost everything in private equity and the real estate market have been committing suicide these days.  They can't survive.  Those who survived were reduced to beggars, selling their belongings to eat.  As Dong Ku expected, the Eurasian Development Bank, which was the only one to survive but was seriously injured and hospitalized, became Roosevelt's only life-saving straw. After three consecutive days of consultations in the hospital, the Eurasian Development Bank once again provided another two billion US dollars to rescue the market.  , and together with Shengtong, who still had the energy to spend one billion, took control of the U.S. Dollar Management Committee and the Federal Reserve.  Old Morgan also still had the strength. At the last moment, he also joined the ranks and took out the US$500 million that had not been looted to join the ranks of the rescue.  As for their own losses, they have nowhere to claim them for the time being.  Can only hope??It can revitalize the US economy and make money again.  But depression cannot be stopped. So many industries that went bankrupt due to the property market are like so many dominoes, quickly spreading to other industries. Driven by the turmoil and countless investors leaving, it is even more out of control.  No one cares about the goods in the shops, and the finished goods in the factory are piled up in the warehouses, and no one buys them.  Mines have also stopped production, smelting, processing, and all the enterprises in the chain have stopped production one after another. Countless people have gone bankrupt due to debt. Unemployed people are everywhere, looking for jobs, but they can't find any to start.  's factory.  Even hotels have been affected. The number of guests staying there has dropped sharply, and consumption has plummeted. The owners have sighed as they look at the desolation of empty rooms.  After being devastated, Roosevelt finally learned that two scourges had plagued the United States.  One is a previously popular private investment company that defrauded billions of dollars and bankrupted countless people.  The other is the real estate market, which not only defrauded hundreds of millions of dollars by using the prepayment situation, but also defrauded material suppliers, causing them to lose all their money and go completely bankrupt.  Under the chain reaction, more debt-related companies were affected, and all capital chains were completely broken, resulting in an economic storm more severe than that in 30 years.  But so what if you know?  We can only maintain public order while starting to implement new policies and stimulate the market, hoping to recover from the market downturn and get out of the depression as soon as possible.  The United States is in an economic crisis.  When it spread across the world, tens of billions of U.S. dollars evaporated out of thin air. The U.S. dollar repeatedly devalued and was difficult to recover in a short period of time.  By this time, the war between Soviet Russia and Germany had reached a stalemate.  The bearded man also got angry. With sufficient supplies of fuel and materials, new recruits who had not even been trained continued to enter the battlefield, filling up troops in Moscow, Stalingrad and other places, and fighting with the German army room by room in the city.  Tragic and bloody, these places have become real meat grinders, with thousands of people dying every day.  Because of this, countless artillery and weapons were captured by Germany, making up for the heavy consumption of the German army.  The German offensive was unable to break the deadlock in the constant exchange of death, and their vigor was being worn away.  It was difficult to take advantage of a quick assault and fell into a stalemate of refueling tactics.  Compared with the Soviet-German War, the victorious British and French coalition forces in North Africa began to open up a third battlefield after losing their battleships, planning to open a new battlefield in Spain.  Franco had been wavering after the war, and finally saw Germany invade Soviet Russia, with victory in sight.  He sent troops to attack Tangier in an attempt to regain Gibraltar, which had been controlled by Britain for more than two centuries.  After that, he mobilized the Phalangists and formed the Blue Army. Wearing German uniforms, he went to fight in Soviet Russia, but he also left a way out, saying that he did not mean to join the war on the German side.  This made Churchill very angry. He had previously provided strong support to Spain, both economically and materially, in order to prevent Spain from falling to Germany and Italy.  All of them are quite powerful, so that they still remain neutral.  But now he secretly sent troops into the Soviet-German battlefield to help Germany fight against Soviet Russia. Therefore, he wanted to place the battlefield in Spain.  Let Spain make a choice between the Allies or the Germans.  Although Spain dispatched volunteers, it did not dare to let Gibraltar become an area controlled by Germany and Italy. It was the only way to enter the Mediterranean. Once controlled, Italy and other countries would have an additional natural barrier for the Allies.  , is a big obstacle.  Even if he understood the reason why Spain fought against the Soviet Union, which was the backstage that supported their domestic left-wing forces, he would not allow Spain to fall to Germany and Italy. That would be too dangerous.  Whether this plan can be implemented or whether Germany will send troops from France into Spain, he can't say yet. While he continues to block the sea route, he begins to make preparations to see Spain's reaction.  At this time, the only clear situation in the war was India. Two-thirds of India had fallen into the hands of the advance army. The Japanese army, driven by the advance army, successfully broke into Pakistan and in just one month  occupied the entire territory of Pakistan.  The advance army still maintained a steady pace, pressing in while building and transporting civilians into the territory.  War broke out in the country, and more and more people were fleeing. They had no place to go, so they followed the road and the mountains and forests, entering Siberia, Vladivostok, North Korea, Yunnan, or simply entered from Guangzhou.  Hongkong.  There is only one place for these people to go, and that is to be transported continuously by advance military aircraft and trucks to Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and other places. The same is true for India. Thousands of refugees are transported to areas controlled by these advance forces every day.  area.  Of course, there are a large number of Jews inside. Except for those who escaped from the Volga River and were willing to stay in the Central Asian industrial zones and oil refineries, the others were airlifted to these places. They tookThere will be flights that have not yet appeared, passenger planes modified from large bombers of the advance army, and large transport aircraft.  The reason why the airship was not used was that the news of the airship could not be leaked. Dong Ku wanted to keep the secret of the airship until the belligerents' pockets were emptied, and then it would not matter.  At this time, the Japanese troops entering Pakistan still did not have enough strength to avoid the pursuit of the advance army. While plundering Pakistan's wealth, they were approaching Iran, trying to get the Germans to come forward and let Zasa Khan make way for them to reach Persia.  Bay of Bandar Abbas.  This is the route Tojo Hideki negotiated with the base camp, the route to leave the land.  They were pursued by the advance army all the way. As long as they captured the coastal towns, Bibao was captured by the advance army within a few hours. Obviously, the advance army would not allow them to get close to the coastline.  After the Japanese warships occupied Malacca, they attacked Australia while dispatching warships to rescue Tojo Hideki's large forces.  However, when they approached Tuticorin in India, they were sunk by long-range artillery from the advance army and sank a frigate. After severely damaging a battleship, they never dared to approach the coast again.  When Tojo Hideki was expelled from the peninsula and fled to Pakistan.  They decided to leave the country in Iran, which has German influence, which is the Bandar Abbas Port mentioned before.  As for Karachi in Pakistan, which has been occupied by the advance army and has built shore and air defenses, there is no need to worry about leaving there.  Sun Tao was very nourishing during this period. Once the Japanese army gained a foothold, he would attack.  The Japanese army also cooperated very well. As soon as Sun Tao attacked, they retreated and quickly marched to the rear area to widen the distance from the advance army. They used the young and strong puppet troops gathered along the way to resist the attack of the advance army.  They led the puppet army elite along the way with overwhelming momentum, quickly attacking the obstacles in the direction of progress, just as smoothly as when they entered India from Tibet, and captured the opponent's position with almost no effort.  Of course, they still don¡¯t know.  Tens of thousands of Huya warriors and members of the Flying Tigers were already lurking in the direction of their advance, using heavy snipers to kill the enemy's firepower, sneaking inside to plant remote-controlled bombs, destroying artillery positions, blowing open bunkers, and clearing the way for the Japanese army.  The Japanese army¡¯s request was rejected by Lao Xi.  His answer was simple, Iran is neutral.  They are not allies, so they cannot get the Iraqi army to get out of the way, and they do not participate in Iran's handling of the incident with Japan.  This reply made Tojo Hideki furious. After negotiating with the base camp, he brazenly launched a raid on Iran and went straight to Bandar Abbas Port.  As soon as the Japanese army moved, Sun Tao pressed in across the board, following the Japanese army and quickly captured Pakistan, but did not go deep into Afghanistan.  And the Japanese army also used all its strength.  Advancing all the way to Bandar Abbas Port, leaving behind most of the looted things, trying to get there as quickly as possible.  At the same time, after several days of attacks in Australia, the British army and the local puppet troops were completely defeated.  When the warships were unable to rush to rescue, the entire territory of Australia was occupied by the Japanese army.  At this point, the Japanese army only had some unoccupied islands in the Pacific, and all the large ones were occupied.  At this moment, the Japanese army began to shift its attention. While sending troops to capture those small islands and garrison troops, it also dispatched a large number of warships to Bandar Abbas Port to prepare to meet Tojo Hideki.  Iran's resistance was very weak. It only took less than a month for the British army and the Soviet Union to attack Iran. The Japanese army of more than 300,000 and the puppet army of 400,000 to 500,000 were no less powerful than at that time.  , because they were eager to escape, and with the assistance of Huya warriors and members of the Flying Tigers, their attack was sharp and fast, and they reached Bandar Abbas Port in just one week.  The craziness of the Japanese made the British, French and German forces very afraid.  They have already seen that Japan is like a mad dog and does not care about anything else. The German army does not dare to get too close to Japan because it does not want to offend the advance army. Although they already know that the advance army sells weapons to the Soviet Union, the assistance given to them by the weapons company is even more  big.  Therefore, it is better to have one less powerful enemy than one more, so we simply do not get involved in this Iranian incident.  Of course Zasa Khan will not give in. He could withstand the oppression of Britain and Soviet Russia in the past time, let alone Japan.  But his combat effectiveness was no longer at the same level, and he could not stop the Japanese attack at all, and suffered heavy losses.  Needless to say, Sun Tao's attack speed is very simple. The Japanese army can occupy a place in front for no more than five hours. As long as the Japanese warship group is not close to the coast, it will be plundered by the Japanese army in five hours.  Finally, he captured it.  The Japanese army had just captured Bandar Abbas Port a week later. They already knew that the Japanese fleet had entered the Strait of Hormuz. Sun Tao's army suddenly accelerated its march and rushed close to the coast. It was not even two seconds before the Japanese army had just stormed into Bandar Abbas Port.  Hours later, the troops approached the city and launched a rapid and violent attack, forcing the Japanese army to abandon Bandar Abbas Port, join the army inland, and continue to flee westward.    Zasa Khan found during the blockade that he was unable to fight against the Japanese army, and the trailing advance army only targeted the Japanese army, not even touching their broken defense line, so he felt relieved.  Later, I met the representative sent by Sun Tao and learned that the advance army had no intention of occupying their land. They just wanted to hunt down the Japanese army, but they requested that the supply line be preserved and be fifty kilometers wide.  At the same time, some conditions that Zasa Khan could not refuse were offered, such as oil and grain, etc. as conditions for borrowing money, and they were traded to Iran at a fair price.  And return the weapons plundered by the Japanese army for free.  Of course Zhasa Khan would not refuse. Although it was very dangerous, he knew that Japan, which he could not defeat, would be beaten by the advance army, let alone confront him. As long as the other party really followed the agreement, he would not target the county.  What actions does the forward supply line make?  Just when the Japanese troops were being chased by thousands of troops and running around like mad dogs, the chaotic situation changed again.  The Independence War broke out in Bermuda. In just two days, all the British people were slaughtered. The local indigenous leader Buck declared independence from the British colony.  This news just came out, and an armed group in the Bahamas also formed a political ax and declared the founding of the country.  Before these news were digested by the world, a violent war of independence broke out in Hawaii.  The original Native Hawaiians launched a war against the U.S. army that had seized their land. Several Hawaiian islands broke out at the same time, and the attack was so fast that even those in the port had no time to leave.  By the end of the day, the Hawaiian War of Independence was complete.  Some of the warships stationed by the US military were also captured by sneaking onto the warships. As for Pearl Harbor, it had been burned to ashes, and the few remaining US troops had evacuated there.  The moment the power was supplied to the Kingdom of Hawaii, Roosevelt was furious and suddenly felt that this was not an accident.  The domestic economy has completely entered a depression, and although the bailout cannot prevent the outbreak of the depression, the outbreak of these events at this moment was obviously premeditated.  ¡°Take back Hawaii at all costs!!¡± He ordered boldly.  When the economic crisis breaks out, war is the best way to divert people's attention. Since Italy cannot be wiped out in a short time, then turn your attention to Hawaii.  Not to mention that the country has been invaded, it is more likely that the promoters of a certain force are unknown.
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