Chapter 484 The five gods gathered together to dig a hole, and the American emperor gave away his head for thousands of miles.
For media people from all over the world, March 1945 was a painful but happy day, because in this month, major world-shaking events happened in three different corners of the earth, so they had no worries about having no news. Report. The only thing that makes me feel painful is that these major events happened in such a tight timeframe and the locations were too far apart that I couldn't report them all on the spot.
Also in March, another major event that shocked the world was that at the beginning of this month, the U.S. Navy, which had been training in the Pacific Ocean, finally announced to the world in a high-profile manner this month that they would use the built II Dozens of main warships, including ten Essex-class aircraft carriers, all moved westward through the Panama Canal and entered the Pacific Ocean.
After receiving official notification and permission from the United States, well-prepared reporters from various countries gathered in the Panama Canal and photographed four battleships, 26 combat aircraft carriers including partial-class light aircraft carriers, 30 cruisers, and 240 destroyers passing through Panama. A spectacular scene on the canal.
The U.S-Japanese Pacific War has been going on for nearly three years now. With the U.S. war machine operating at full speed, by 1945, the U.S. Navy had received a total of twenty-three Essesk-class aircraft carriers and ten Esses-class light aircraft carriers, plus Hundreds of auxiliary frigates, cruisers, and nearly two hundred escort carriers have been added like dumplings. The total tonnage of the U.S. Navy this month has exceeded the combined tonnage of the world's second to fourth largest naval powers.
The United States named this action "Horn", which means "horn of counterattack".
In the UK, when The Times reported this, the red-letter headline was:
"American warships filled the Pacific Ocean"
Counting the fleet that has already entered the Pacific Ocean in advance, the U.S. Navy is in the Pacific. The number of combat aircraft carriers alone exceeds thirty, and this number is still increasing rapidly at the rate of "one or two more combat aircraft carriers every month."
"Terrible Americans"
The entire British Isles were filled with such frightened exclamations.
There is no need for an official pen to deliberately guide public opinion. After reading the newspapers, many British people spontaneously exclaimed: "It's terrible. When we are still counting the numbers of aircraft carriers one by one, the United States is building them one by one." The size of a fleet is expanding their navy, and the U.S. Navy is really too dangerous."
More than ten days later, on March 15th, Tokyo Bay in Japan was crowded with people, including the emperor, and senior government officials gathered here to welcome the visiting "foreign friends" with the highest standards and the most solemn ceremony. ". To be precise, it should be a "foreign divine envoy".
"British envoy Arturia visits Japan", this is the second major event in March 1945.
In this era, having a "god envoy" is equivalent to having a "nuclear bomb" in future generations. The significance of a country with a divine envoy sending a divine envoy to another country with a divine envoy on a "friendly" visit is naturally extraordinary.
The whole world¡¯s attention was instantly focused on Japan¡¯s Tokyo Bay.
Arturia visited Japan on the Lancelot, a 35,000-ton aircraft carrier that was just launched this year. Due to the use of "keel integration" technology, its performance is equivalent to that of a 40,000-ton aircraft carrier. After the Holy Impact of 1943 began. The United Kingdom did a very "terrible" thing. They renamed all active aircraft carriers after King Arthur's Twelve Knights of the Round Table.
On that day, the aircraft carrier Lancelot and the battleship Yamato sailed parallel to each other into Tokyo Bay, and then docked together on the shore. Then under the eyes of everyone, the "patron saints" of Britain and Japan demonstrated their "virtual teleportation" technology in public. They materialized out of thin air on the red carpet that had been laid out at the pier, and then walked hand in hand across the red carpet filled with petals, putting on a show.
On the surface, the whole world thought that Arturia was visiting Japan for the first time, but in fact she had secretly come to Japan a year ago. And stayed here for two full months, now it is the second time to come to Japan.
The last time Artoli went to Japan, in addition to representing the British government and Japan to discuss the issue of the Pacific War, his other purpose was to manufacture nine 18-inch main guns for the last British battleship HMS Britannia, which was under construction. question.
With the level of British technology, as long as they are willing to spend money, it is not a problem to make a 20-inch main gun, let alone an 18-inch main gun. Although a large amount of public donations were received, which partially solved the problem of insufficient naval funding, the British Empire fell after all, and it would be good to save a penny.
In the end, the British decided to hand over the manufacturing of the gun barrel to the Japanese who had ready-made equipment and experience in manufacturing 18-inch main guns. In January last year, the British provided gun embryo materials for making gun barrels, and nine guns and ten guns were produced.The 3-inch main gun barrels were all manufactured by the Japanese. As for the manufacturing costs, the British will provide Japan with thousands of advanced 2,500-horsepower air-cooled aviation engines and other military aid.
For the British who are no longer rich, this greatly saves the cost of manufacturing warships, while for the Japanese, they also get extra income from building cannons, and both parties are happy.
At that time, the British and Japanese had already obtained information that the United States was building the same level of Mongolia-class battleships, so neither Lin Han nor Li Huamei made things difficult for the British in this matter. Lin Han also specially sneaked into Japan with Artoria. Then he merged with the four "Yamato Nadeshiko" and directly participated in the manufacturing of artillery barrels.
After a new gun was developed, many barrels had to be scrapped in order to compile a range table. In order to save money, the British used the main gun design prepared by the Japanese for the Yamato. When formulating the range table, they referred to the data provided by Japan. .
For this batch of eighteen-inch gun barrels, the British manufactured eighteen at a time through Japan, and the extra nine were for spare use.
Another major event that shocked the world that month was the German dispatch of a fleet of four battleships led by the Bismarck, the battleship Tirpitz, the aircraft carrier Gabriel, and the aircraft carrier Sephiroth, with a total of eighteen ships. A huge fleet of warships arrived in Southeast Asia in early March of that year, and then the fleet anchored in the Japanese new colony of Manila Port. After resting for a few days, the Germans sent a squadron, consisting of the battleship Bismarck and the aircraft carrier Sephiroth, plus several escorts, to continue northward, and docked at Tianjin Port in China on the same day that Arturia visited Japan. Pay a "goodwill visit" to China.
For New China, many of the country¡¯s top leaders have seen the true face of such a huge warship for the first time.
Unlike the high-profile appearances of the British and Japanese angels, the German angel Hannah Gabriel appeared very "low-key" and ordinary. Although Lin Han came to greet her as a Chinese representative, there was no ambassador at the time. Mysterious means.
This is also the first time that Lin Han, who has been missing for a year and a half, appears in front of the Chinese public after the Holy Impact. In fact, Lin Han came back with the German fleet.
The battleship Bismarck and the aircraft carrier Sephiroth were both cutting-edge warships that entered service one after another before and after the end of the European War.
The battleship Bismarck in this dimension has a standard tonnage of over 45,000 tons and is equipped with nine 16-inch 406mm cannons. Lin Han's spiritual ship Sephiroth is an improved version of the Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier, with a standard tonnage of 38,000 tons.
During the days when the ship docked for a goodwill visit at Tianjin Port, the ship was open to ordinary Chinese people. During the seven days of docking, it received tens of thousands of tourists and also took the opportunity to absorb a lot of power of faith.
With the exception of the Soviet heroes who were "not yet fully born", among the five heroes known to the public, they all gathered in East Asia in March. This was a global sensation, and the whole world's attention was focused here.
During a sensitive period when the U.S. Navy is about to blow the clarion call for counterattack in the Pacific, the envoys of Britain and Germany led powerful fleets into the Western Pacific and suddenly appeared in China and Japan. This cannot arouse anyone's imagination.
But the big news that made the media around the world even more excited was that after concluding a ten-day "goodwill visit" to China, the German navy anchored in Tianjin set sail on the 26th of that month and arrived in Japan on the 28th. Tokyo Bay.
With great excitement and enthusiasm, the Japanese ushered in another "god envoy" general. To the outside world, the envoys of Britain, Germany and Japan gathered in Tokyo, Japan on this day, and the political implications contained therein are self-evident.
Media from various countries called this event the "Gathering of Three Gods", but some people suspected that the Chinese god Lin Han might also be involved, and they called it the "Gathering of Four Gods" ingeniously.
But the real situation at that time was that China's "God Envoy" Lin Han was already lurking on his new spiritual ship Sephiroth. If you include Katyu who was in the body of "Yamato Nadeshiko" Shah, it's actually the "Gathering of the Five Gods" here in Tokyo.
Except for little Hannah, who continues to play Hitler in Germany, the "Lin-Han family" now has a happy "family fun" in Japan.
When the news reached the United States, the entire United States was trembling with the news.
"What do the British want to do, what do the Germans want to do?"
This was the first thought of all Americans after hearing the news, and President Dewey roared even more furiously after receiving intelligence that the main force of the German navy also entered the Pacific during this period.
During a sensitive period when the U.S. Navy is about to sound the clarion call for counterattack, the British Navy and the German Navy transferred half of their battleships to the Western Pacific and visited the "theater" during this sensitive period. The implications of pulling and pulling have become very obvious.
The U.S. government protested to Britain and Germany for this. The British responded that this was Britain's internal affairs, while the Germans responded with an unceremonious slap in the face: This is what you did in the Atlantic in 1940. A replica of something. To be continued.