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    When the air raid siren sounded, most of the sailors in the fleet were still asleep.  The alarm from the outer patrol destroyer gave the combined fleet nearly fifteen minutes of warning time.

    Fifteen minutes are not enough time to notify aircraft from nearby island-based airports to come for support, nor is it enough time for the accompanying escort aircraft carrier to release carrier-based aircraft to intercept. Everything can only rely on the fleet's own air defense capabilities.

    When the ships in the marching state were frantically trying to form an air defense formation, a group of "flies" appeared in the distance under the moonlight of the full moon.

    The three high-speed aircraft carriers launched a total of 120 Swordfish II torpedo attack aircraft.  With the cooperation of six "unscientific beings", they successfully located the U.S. fleet group hundreds of kilometers away in the dark night and launched a fatal blow.

    On the sea about 120 kilometers away from the Maine, the submarine No. 153 that Katyusha entrusted with his spirit has surfaced. The high-power radio station on the submarine broadcasts directly in plain language, guiding the sword to use the darkness to approach.  The fish planes corrected their course, and the first targets they locked were the two strongest Montana-class battleships, the USS Maine and the USS Ohio.

    The sixty Swordfish IIs that first arrived on the battlefield were divided into two teams and launched lightning strikes against the Maine and Ohio respectively.

    With the battleships Maine and Ohio as the center, and the surrounding destroyers and cruisers escorting them, they kept firing flares into the sky.  Being accurately locked by enemy torpedo attack aircraft at night is the most painful thing for fleet air defense.  Without lighting up the flares, effective air defense operations cannot be carried out, but lighting up the flares is tantamount to providing light for the opponent to launch lightning strikes.

    In the past few years, the United States has also used all means to study the impact of the unscientific existence of "God's Envoy" on naval battle bonuses in naval battles. The objects they referred to were the Norwegian Naval Battle and the Guam Naval Battle.  However, regardless of the Battle of Norway or the Battle of Guam, neither Germany nor Japan realized the huge advantages of carrier-based biplanes in low-altitude night raids.  Really "come back".  It was after the surprise attack on San Francisco that the Japanese and British made great efforts to develop biplane attack aircraft that were obviously outdated.

    American research believes that when there are divine messengers (ship spirits) searching for enemies and providing calibration data, the night does not become a cover for one's side at all, but is more beneficial to the opponent.  Therefore, when encountering enemy attacks, you must use a large number of flares no matter what.  Weaken the cover of darkness for your opponent.

    By 1946, the U.S. Navy's air defense system was mature.  The flares fired by dozens of warships, including transport ships, illuminated the dozens of square kilometers of sea area like daylight, and then opened fire from the five-inch high-level dual-purpose guns installed on each ship.

    However, like what the U.S. Navy encountered during the Battle of San Francisco, anti-aircraft shells equipped with VT radio proximity fuses are extremely efficient against all-metal fighter jets.  But when faced with the Swordfish II, which intentionally uses wood and canvas as the main body materials, the efficiency is so low that it is shockingly low.  Whether it is a 5-inch or 3-inch high-level dual-purpose gun.  Almost all the shells fired fired violently in the distance behind the low-flying Swordfish group, and they did not have the expected effect at all.

    Only the barrage composed of the 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun and the 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun was the biggest enemy of the approaching Swordfish group.  But at this time the target was within five kilometers of them.

    In the sky, approaching swordfish are constantly being shot down by Bofors and Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, but there are still a large number of swordfish that penetrate the anti-aircraft guns and approach the target, and then drop deadly torpedoes.

    On the sea, the Maine and Ohio were focused like clumsy fin whales.  On the sea, while spitting tongues of fire into the air, he twisted his waist crazily and danced water ballet.  Avoid dangerous torpedoes in the water.  The lookouts on the ship were all staring at the sea with their eyes widened, looking for the tracks of dangerous torpedoes in the water.

    "Oh my god, this is a torpedo that can follow corners!"

    A total of twenty-four Swordfish successfully approached the Maine and dropped torpedoes on the Maine's lookout.  Lookout Tom let out a scream, and more than ten seconds later, the hull of the Maine was shaken violently, then again, and three times.  The earthquake continued for two minutes, and it lasted eleven times before it stopped.

    In this wave of attacks, a total of eleven torpedoes hit the right side of the Maine.

    Another battleship, the USS Ohio, was in even worse condition than the USS Maine, with as many as twelve torpedoes on one side of its body.

    No matter how good the U.S. Navy's damage control is, no matter how good the design of the Montana-class TDS is, they can swallow so many torpedoes in one go, and sea water rushes into the fleet crazily. These two warships quickly come to the end of "ship life".

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    When the second wave of sixty Swordfish arrived on the battlefield five minutes later, Katyusha, who was responsible for "correction", left these twenty Swordfish to "replenish mines" on the two severely damaged ships, while the rest ordered  They turned to attack the remaining escort carriers and transports.

    The two waves of one hundred and twenty Swordfish lasted only thirty-one minutes from the time they launched their attack to the time they finally withdrew.  The US ship's fierce anti-aircraft guns sank a total of sixteen Swordfish before and after.

    However, the Maine and the Ohio, which had swallowed a total of fifteen rounds and seventeen aerial torpedoes, were unable to save their fate at this time.  The other four escort carriers also did not escape this attack. In addition, two destroyers and several transport ships were hit by torpedoes dropped by Swordfish.

    All coalition torpedoes are so powerful because they use acoustic torpedoes.  .  What distinguishes this torpedo from ordinary torpedoes at that time is that it can guide itself to the target - the engine of the enemy ship, so as to destroy the enemy ship's power system.

    This torpedo was first developed by Germany after the end of the European War in 1941 (Note: Historically, Germany also had similar products during World War II), and the United Kingdom also had similar products under development in secret.  After Arturia appeared, Britain and Germany began to unite. In order to fight against the terrifying U.S. Navy, the two sides shared each other's achievements in the development of new audio-guided torpedoes.  Tonight's sneak attack on the US fleet was the first time that audio torpedoes were used.

    Early acoustic torpedoes were actually easy to deal with, as long as a machine that made a lot of noise was towed behind the ship.  This will cause the torpedo to deviate from its course.  However, because it was used for the first time, the U.S. Navy had no experience in dealing with the meeting and easily allowed it to get off to a good start.

    Ten minutes after the Swordfish fleet retreated, the third round of attacks from three aircraft carriers arrived again, this time with traditional dive fighter bombers.  They dropped a large number of heavy aerial bombs on the collapsed US fleet, and sank more than ten transport ships before leaving with satisfaction.

    Although the attack is at night.  But the coalition navy with the support of ship spirits can feel confident and bold, turn on the headlights arrogantly when receiving aircraft at night, and have no fear of the threat of submarines - in fact, there are not many American submarines in the Pacific now. After the Holy Impact,  After understanding that submarines are completely destined to die in the face of the all-round perception of the "God Envoy", the U.S. Navy has expanded its submarine force to the smallest number in the past three years.  The number of them was even lower than before the war, and the submarine force was also the last branch that the young American sailors who participated in the war wanted to join.  The war has been going on for four years, and the submarine force in the U.S. Navy has suffered huge losses. In the past two years, its presence in the Pacific has been almost zero, and its sortie rate and attendance rate are also extremely low.

    The naval battle on November 9 lasted less than an hour and ended.  Eurasia dispatched about 200 aircraft and sank two U.S. Navy Montana-class battleships and three destroyers.  It escorted four aircraft carriers and sunk more than 20 transport ships.  In addition, three destroyers were sunk and two cruisers were severely damaged.

    "The losses incurred by the Eurasian coalition forces were only twenty-two planes that did not return.

    The Montana-class battleship is a super battleship built by the Americans at a huge cost to deal with the Yamato-class battleship. A total of six ships were built before and after.  However, the three Montana-class battleships that sank in the battle had no chance to fire even one main gun shell at their opponents until they sank.

    After getting this result, even the senior naval officers of Eurasian countries who have ship spirits almost unanimously expressed similar sighs:

    "The era of big ships and big guns is completely over!"

    Before the war.  Even Lin Han's family did not expect such a result.  Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, their idea was to use darkness to approach the U.S. Navy, and then use the "correction" ability of the ship's spirit to annihilate the opponent through night battles, just like during the Battle of Norway.

    This tactic achieved great success in the Battle of the Norwegian Sea, and also achieved brilliant results in the Battle of Guam in the early days of the Pacific War.  But after that, the U.S. Navy developed targeted tactics, relying on a large number of long-range reconnaissance to carry out reconnaissance. At the same time, it took advantage of the dense characteristics of the Aleutian island chain and relied on its strong national power to frantically build island-based airports.  , forced the battleship to be "half a day's voyage" away, and simply did not give the enemy a chance to use the darkness to approach and launch an artillery battle.

    As a result, Lin Han and others could only use the long attack radius of the aircraft carrier, coupled with the advantages of the "backward" biplane with good low-altitude maneuverability, to let the aircraft carrier play the leading role.

    The expected scene of the 460mm cannons on the Yamato, Shinano, and Britannia bombarding each other with the same-class cannons on the Mongolia-class battleships has never been able to find a chance to be staged.

    Even until the end of the war, this scene never happened.  When future generations look back on this war, it is also the memory of those "great"The biggest regret of the Big Cannon Party members".

    On the evening of November 9, the Eurasian Allied Forces announced the results of the war to the world.

    In the era of aircraft carriers, the sinking of two "outdated" Mongolia-class battleships did not cause much loss to the U.S. Navy.  But there are two things that really shocked the Americans. One was the emergence of audio-guided torpedoes, and the second was that in this naval battle, the coalition forces once again shamelessly used the "God Envoy" to launch a surprise attack with the map fully illuminated.  .

    In 1946, when radar technology was still immature, this was still an unsolvable problem.

    After the war, Lieutenant General Spreans, who succeeded Halsey as supreme commander of the Pacific Theater, sent a telegram to President Dewey, claiming that the morale of the navy on the front line was extremely low and that front line hospitals were "overcrowded" - most of whom were pretending to be ill.  Yes, the U.S. Navy can no longer fight this "unfair" war.

    As if to cooperate with Lieutenant General Spreans' complaint, on October 15th, fierce anti-war demonstrations broke out in major cities in the United States. The gates of the White House in Washington were also crowded with people. Countless people poured into the streets and shouted "Stop."  War¡± and ¡°Send the children home¡± slogans.

    Not only did people take to the streets to protest against the war, but workers at major shipyards also spontaneously organized and launched strikes.  Ask President Dewey to stop this "god-killing war without hope."

    Within the U.S. government, some congressmen also put forward the proposal of "truce and peace talks", which quickly gained majority support in Congress.

    At this time, no matter how tough President Dewey was, the war could no longer be fought.

    On December 1, 1946, the U.S. government issued a declaration of invention.  Agreeing to start peace talks with the Eurasian Allied Forces on the armistice, and quickly received a response from the other party.  Prior to this, the two parties had actually colluded secretly in private.

    On December 3, the two warring parties issued a joint statement announcing that the two sides would enter a state of comprehensive ceasefire from 00:00 GMT on the 14th.

    On December 5, the two sides announced that they would conduct peace negotiations in Switzerland, a neutral country in Europe.

    After Christmas, on January 3, 1947, preparations were made.  U.S. representatives flew across the Atlantic, entered Europe, and then transferred to Geneva, Switzerland, to begin lengthy "peace negotiations."

    Negotiations began in January and lasted until April of that year.

    The focus of the dispute is nothing more than two local issues: one is the issue of the Philippines, the "protectorate" of the United States, and the other is the issue of Hawaii, and the latter is the main reason why the negotiations continued until April.

    The Hawaiian Islands are the bridgehead for the United States to expand its power into Asia and Oceania.  Whether it¡¯s Japan or the UK.  Even China does not want to see the United States extending its "hand" to the Western Pacific again.

    During the negotiations in Geneva.  The three families were determined not to return Hawaii and repeatedly demanded that Hawaii be made "permanently neutral."  Germany and the Soviet Union also supported China, Britain and Japan on this issue.  The five companies claim that Hawaii was occupied by the United States through illegal means and should be given up now.

    President Dewey was determined not to become the first U.S. president to sign a "loss of territory" treaty in U.S. history, and would not relent on this issue.

    The negotiations stalled and were on the verge of breakdown.

    But in April of that year.  An unexpected incident in the United States changed the course of negotiations.

    On April 13, the aircraft carrier USS Midway, which had completed maintenance in the Port of San Francisco, was being ordered to leave port with the Fourth Fleet and go to the Aleutian Islands to execute the order to replace frontline warships.  Somehow a rumor started to spread among the sailors in the fleet, claiming that the replacement order was fake.  The real order was that President Dewey ordered the navy to attack, requiring the navy to engage in a "decisive battle" with the Eurasian coalition forces in the Pacific in exchange for concessions from the opponent in Geneva.

    The U.S. Navy, which had been emboldened by extremely exaggerated casualty ratios in several naval battles, refused to carry out this "death order" - although it was actually an out-and-out rumor, the frightened U.S. Navy had already  Lost the courage to "slay the gods and prove the truth".

    ¡°Then they mutinied.

    Throughout the fleet, first the sailors on the USS Midway refused to sail to execute the order. After the news spread, sailors on other surrounding aircraft carriers and frigates also followed up and responded.

    The situation got worse and worse, and finally the entire Fourth Fleet was completely paralyzed in San Francisco Harbor.  Although the Military Justice Department of the Navy sent out military police and marines to suppress the situation and prevented the situation from escalating further, it was officially recognized that the entire Fourth Fleet had lost its will to fight.

    "The "Fourth Fleet Incident" not only reminds Americans of Germany at the end of World War I, when it was the Kaiser who forced the navy to attack, which led to the uprising of the Kiel sailors.  There are many Americans who associate this action with Soviet Russia.?Think of the October Revolution.

    At this time, President Dewey had already been tortured mentally and physically by internal and external pressure. The "Fourth Fleet" incident was the last straw that broke the American official's back.

    On May 9, after lengthy negotiations, U.S. representatives signed the Geneva Armistice Agreement with trembling hands in Geneva.

    According to the requirements of the agreement, the United States completely gives up all its interests in Asia and Oceania.

    Atura Island was ceded to the Soviet Union.

    ??And Hawaii separated from the United States and became a permanent neutral island, which was "co-managed" by the Eurasian Union.  As a "response" to ensure U.S. security.  The Eurasian Alliance promised to permanently demilitarize the region, and its "neutrality" and "demilitarization" were jointly endorsed by the five countries of Germany, Britain, Japan, China, and the Soviet Union.

    The Stars and Stripes of the United States has fifty stars, representing the fifty continents of the United States. After the signing of the Geneva Armistice Agreement, the Stars and Stripes will lose one star.

    After the agreement was signed, President Dewey announced his resignation. Before resigning, in his speech to the people, he claimed that May 9th was not only a day of national humiliation for the United States, but also a day of shame for the entire American people.  He claimed that the United States was defeated in this war because all Americans had lost the spirit of the United States and the spirit of continuous progress inherited from their ancestors, the pioneers of the Mayflower, to fight against heaven, earth, and evil spirits.  Fighting spirit.

    Some Americans understood what he said and cried bitterly while listening to his speech.  But more Americans are shouting excitedly: "Go to hell, warmongers, lackeys of the military-industrial complex." They cheer for the fact that "this damn war" is finally over.

    After President Dewey resigned early and ended his presidential duties, he gave up the position of president to his deputy, and then the United States began a new round of presidential announcements in advance.  As expected, in this round of publicity, the Republican candidates were defeated miserably, and the Democratic candidate Truman easily became the next president of the United States with an absolute majority.  (To be continued)

    PS: There is also a final volume as the final volume
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