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Chapter 84, Summer in the Equatorial Ocean (End)

Finally, in the spring of [-], under the coercion and lure of the United States, the latest South American countries other than Brazil to join the war also successively organized several batches of expeditionary forces to go to the Pacific battlefield to replace the American boys to shed blood... Among them, about The [-] South American regiment jointly formed by Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay was transported to the Samoa Islands to prepare to participate in the counter-offensive operations on the South Pacific battlefield.

In the early days of the war, the rich and powerful United States might still be able to fully afford the logistical supplies of these South American allies, providing them with standard food supplies for the US military.But in [-], because the front line was spread too wide, the US military's logistics system was already tight everywhere, and its attitude towards some minor allies and miscellaneous troops began to be stingy. The government is responsible for its own logistics and shares the cost of operations.And because of the persistent corruption in these countries, even the small amount of material assistance provided sporadically by the United States has been deducted by the corrupt officials in their own countries.So in the end, these South American soldiers walked onto the battlefield almost all the way wrapped in old blankets and eating dry bread. The weapons in their hands were generally an era behind that of the US military. Most of them were old guns from the First World War. He was ridiculed by American officers and soldiers as a beggar.

If so, on the Pacific battlefield, the Americans fought for their homeland, and the Brazilians were wage earners, then the Spanish-speaking South American regiments were unlucky people who were forced to do voluntary labor. And the badness of enthusiasm is naturally conceivable.

To make matters worse, the South American corps stationed in Samoa is not only outdated in equipment and poor in logistics, but also has a lot of internal problems-because South American countries except Brazil are generally full of resistance to sending troops to participate in the war, it is completely forced by the United States Under the circumstances, they managed to recruit some of the worst miscellaneous troops and threw them out to make up the numbers. Not only were their morale and combat effectiveness unreliable, but even the mobilization of troops was delayed. By the spring of 2, Argentina, Chile, Peru, The troops sent by the five countries of Bolivia and Paraguay to participate in the war totaled only [-] people, which is only enough for a division.

Since the first batch of participating troops of the South American allies was too small and scattered, it was inconvenient to mobilize and use, so the "genius" Pentagon came up with a mixed-up idea, drawing on the experience of the United States in forming the "Rainbow Division" during World War I. The participating troops of the five South American countries kneaded into a South American regiment.

——The so-called Rainbow Division is the advance team of the United States to participate in World War I.At that time, in order to demonstrate the unity of the people of all states in the United States, the Department of the Army combined the National Guards of 26 states and formally organized them into one division, the 42nd "Rainbow" Division.It means that this division is composed of people from all over the country, like a rainbow across the sky. According to the propaganda in American newspapers at the time, in this way, every state will be sent overseas because of the first batch of personnel. proud to have their son.And Rainbow Division's performance in the European battlefield has indeed lived up to the high expectations placed by the elders of the states.

According to the Pentagon's thinking, since the "Rainbow Division" of the World War I era can fully embody the "national unity" spirit of the United States at that time and inspire the morale of [-] million citizens, then today's South American Corps should also be able to embody the various allies in South America "The whole continent is unanimous" is right.

The problem is that although the "Rainbow Division" of the United States in World War I came from 26 states in the United States, they were still compatriots from the same country, and they were all selected elites. The logistics supply was also sufficient, and their performance and combat effectiveness in all aspects would naturally not be bad. .Although the soldiers of the South American Corps all speak Spanish and can finally communicate with each other, they are from five different countries in the organization. How to coordinate the command system is enough to make people dizzy.

What's more terrible is that these troops of the South American Army are all miscellaneous troops that have been thrown out as cannon fodder in their own country. Their discipline and quality can only be described as desperate.Now they have to be squeezed together. In the end, if they didn't fight all day and kill the corpses all over the field, it would make people laugh.

To make matters worse, the so-called unforeseen circumstances, these resentful and at a loss South American soldiers just arrived in the Samoa Islands for a short time, the United States had to shrink its defense line because the Halsey fleet was destroyed by the typhoon, and completely abandoned the South Pacific Counterattack plan on the battlefield.

After that, in the face of the menacing combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, the U.S. military, which had lost control of the sea and the air, even withdrew directly from the Samoa Islands, but left these South Americans to top the tank... Anyway, after receiving from the U.S. military When the order of "I retreat, you cover, fight to the death until the last person shoots", all the officers and soldiers of the entire South American regiment, including Second Lieutenant Isaac, had [-] alpacas rushing past fiercely... …

However, the situation is stronger than people. At this time, the South American Corps is already on the verge of riding a tiger. Even if they want to escape, the Samoa Islands in the vast ocean are separated from their hometown by the Pacific Ocean, and there is no ocean-going ship to go home. , In the end, I can only close my eyes and resign myself to fate.

Therefore, on the Samoa Islands abandoned by the US military, the newly arrived South American regiment had no choice but to bite the bullet and start to deploy defenses. The contradictions and hatreds between countries are definitely not much worse than the various hatreds among European powers. Among them, Bolivia and Paraguay had just fought a bloody and brutal Chaco War in the 30s, and there are still various border conflicts. The difficulty of leading such a broken team with deep internal contradictions is about the same as the difficulty factor of commanding a Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Korean coalition in East Asia in later generations... and the commander of the South American Army obviously does not have such a heaven-defying united front ability.

As a result, during the entire preparation process, the South American Corps was in a mess. In order to compete for the food, drinks and daily necessities left by the US troops on the island, there were sporadic fires and conflicts. Clapping pistols and boxing at various meetings, while the regimental commander from Chile was paralyzed by a stroke of rage... until the end, everyone seemed to give up completely in frustration.

Anyway, according to what Second Lieutenant Isaac saw with his own eyes in recent days, the high-level legion first gave up all the small islands outside the Samoa Islands, and withdrew all the people to Savai'i Island and Ubulu Island these two main islands.Then, no matter which country's troops it was, they all retreated into the strongest underground air-raid shelters, like ostriches with their heads buried in the sand, turning a blind eye to the approaching Japanese troops.

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In short, after confirming that they were abandoned by the Yankees in the Samoa Islands, the [-] South American Army Corps made a commotion at first, and then they seemed to have become clay puppets, each hiding in the permanent strong fortifications left by the American army, sitting on the ground. Watching the Japanese planes bombing overhead with impunity, watching the minesweepers of the Japanese navy clean up the minefields laid by the US military around the island, watching the Japanese battleships and cruisers blocking the door and pouring shells on the island, watching the Japanese navy The frogman underwater explosion team swept away the underwater explosives and beachhead obstacles left by the US military...but there was no positive response, and they didn't even fire on the enemy ships with those shore artillery hidden under the hidden cliffs, and they didn't know that the Legion What are the top generals thinking? According to Lieutenant Isaac, even if his artillery skills are poor, he is not very good at dealing with these big guys left over from the American Coast Artillery, but as long as he can shoot the shells according to the instructions Call it out, even if it makes a loud noise to strengthen the courage of your own people!At least it's better than the current lifeless way of doing things.

But the Legion Command didn't do this, to be precise, they didn't do anything, except to waste time pretending to be an ostrich, just sit and wait to die.

Of course, pretending to be an ostrich is still an ostrich, and the reconnaissance work cannot be left behind, otherwise, if a Japanese samurai touches the bedside one day without knowing it, it would be too tragic.Therefore, after the radar station left by the U.S. military was blown up by Japanese planes, some soldiers and low-level officers who unfortunately got bad lottery were forced to assume the duties of lookouts and were sent to various observation posts to use binoculars to scout the Japanese fleet and The movement of the aircraft.

Second Lieutenant Isaac from Argentina was one of the unlucky ones who unfortunately got a bad lottery and was sent out to spy on the enemy.As a privilege to the officers, he was assigned to an observation post on the top of the mountain.Although it is relatively desolate and remote, the advantage is that the altitude is high, and the naval guns on the sea cannot hit it.Moreover, it is far away from artificial buildings, and the outpost itself is well camouflaged, so it cannot be recognized from a high altitude, and Japanese planes will not come to drop bombs.

Compared with the observers who were praying to God while being shelled in the beach bunker, Lieutenant Isaac considered himself lucky.

Then, he noticed that the enemy ships that appeared on the sea today seemed a little different from usual—behind those battleships that kept raining bullets on the shore with thick pipes, there seemed to be many shadowy figures of ships.Those boats look like...

"...that's...the landing ship of the Japanese! Damn it! They're going to go ashore soon!"

Second Lieutenant Isaac cursed, turned around and picked up the phone, but it didn't work.He picked up the second one, but it still didn't work—it wasn't until this time that he vaguely remembered that the two telephone lines from his post to the mountain had already been cut off, and they couldn't get through at all.

In fact, the current military and civilian telephone networks in the entire Samoa Islands, except for a few lines buried deep in the ground, were all disconnected after the Japanese warships fired guns, or were washed away by heavy rains and torrents due to lack of maintenance. The line was lost-the Americans took the post office personnel and telephone soldiers of the Samoan Islands with them when they retreated.And the black-eyed South American regiment only knows how to use the telephone lines on the island, but can't repair them... well, to be precise, they are too lazy to repair them, and they don't want to risk their lives to repair them under the overwhelming Japanese artillery fire.

Second Lieutenant Isaac sighed helplessly, and took out a Motorola radio walkie-talkie as a last resort from the corner, and after fiddling with it, he found out even more frustratingly that it seemed to be due to the damage of the roof and water seepage. , even this thing is not working right now.

He looked up at the dark and rainy sky, curled his lips, it seemed that he had to go to the army headquarters by himself.

The road down the mountain from the outpost is quite difficult. The original bumpy mountain road turned into a mud pond when it rained.Under the annoying rain, the entire tropical island seemed to be covered in a big steaming steamer. Lieutenant Isaac walked more and more difficult in the mud, but this was not the worst part of the road.

The real danger is that after going down the mountain, as the altitude decreases, the safety protection brought by the altitude disappears without a trace, and there is a section of the road that must pass through the coastal plains that the Japanese warships are bombarding!Soon, the artillery shells of the Japanese warship began to explode around Lieutenant Isaac, which made him tremble with fear - as long as such large-caliber shells get a little closer, they will definitely end up in pieces.

Second Lieutenant Isaac carefully walked through the humid and hot bushes. There was not a complete house in the field of vision along the way, only various unrecognizable ruins and shocking super giant pits remained. After the rain, it turned into a A muddy pond.Even the dense tropical vegetation has been severely destroyed, and the beautiful and charming forests behind the beach have almost turned into hideous, ugly and devastated "bald mountains".

Suddenly, there was a long howling sound like a train whistle, which frightened him so much that his expression changed drastically, and he quickly threw himself into the mud...

The next moment, I saw a magnificent and magnificent fireball slowly rising from the jungle hundreds of meters away, like a gorgeous fireworks feast, the huge impact showed a hot wave visible to the naked eye in the air, burning with green trees and blades of grass.All the creatures near the crater were instantly turned into charcoal, and the damp trees farther away were also forcibly ignited, emitting a large cloud of choking smoke.The smell of burning damp wood made Second Lieutenant Isaac cough violently, and hurriedly fled away.On the way, another burning palm tree fell against his shoulder, and the scorched black bark fell into his neck. He shook his shoulders, shook off the tree debris, and continued on his way to the headquarters.

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About half an hour later, Second Lieutenant Isaac, who was out of breath, covered in mud, looked like a mud monkey, and had a color on his forehead, finally ran to the entrance of the underground bunker where the South American Army Headquarters was located, and exchanged passwords. After that, he was led in by the guard.First let him freshen up a bit, change into clean clothes, and then ask a military doctor to bandage his wounds, tidy up until he can barely see people, and then send him to see his boss.

——The headquarters of the South American Army, currently located in the underground shelter left by the US Southwest Pacific Squadron.This is a huge bunker made of reinforced concrete. Most of the building structure is deep below 15 meters from the ground. There are several layers of cross logs on the top of the concrete to buffer the explosion. According to the design, it can withstand the direct impact of a one-ton heavy bomb. hit.The interior is equipped with its own power generation equipment and tap water system, which forms a system of its own and does not depend on the outside.In addition, there are kitchens, telephone switchboard rooms, cold storage, conference rooms, information rooms, bars and a well-equipped field hospital.

In the eyes of soldiers from South American countries, it is simply a giant safe that cannot be destroyed by any shells.

Therefore, after moving into this safe and sound safe, the top generals of the South American Army Corps seemed to have become squirrels for the winter, and immediately began to greedily pull all kinds of good things into it.Fresh beef, bananas, and butter from New Zealand in the cold storage, cigarettes and sugar from Hawaii, chocolate candies, milk candies, and cans produced in the United States, as well as all kinds of spirits that soldiers like... Those The young women left on the island by the US military, whether white or indigenous, were also forcibly recruited as "maids" by these passionate and romantic South American officers.

As a result, people were stunned that while the Japanese naval fleet was bombarding the Samoan Islands day after day, the headquarters of the South American Corps held receptions and dances of various names almost every day.Hundreds of military officers of all ranks wore beautiful military uniforms, each with one or two or three Samoan girls sitting together, feasting on steaks, fried fish, roast chicken, canned fruits, sausages, cakes and Italian macaroni, and drinking a lot of wine. Limited champagne, rum, gin, beer and red wine, playing a few games of poker or billiards from time to time, or singing love songs drunkenly in Spanish while playing the guitar, as if these guys came to the South Pacific for tourism and vacation , not fighting the Japanese...

Of course, the above-mentioned enjoyment was limited to middle and senior officers. The ordinary soldiers of the legion could only hide in the wet trenches and tents and munch on dry bread, and they often couldn't get enough to eat.And low-level officers like Second Lieutenant Isaac can only get a few more cans.

Therefore, when Second Lieutenant Isaac walked through the rooms filled with alcohol and groaning, he watched the waiters holding wine bottles and dishes back and forth, and occasionally a drunk woman walked through a certain wooden door. When he fell out from behind, his mood was really broken.

"...It's unbelievable, now they still have the appetite to eat? Still have the energy to have sex with girls?! A bunch of bastards!"

Second Lieutenant Isaac muttered in a low voice, but he didn't dare to show any resentment on his face - anyone with a bit of status in this headquarters could easily crush him to death.Then he turned all the way, and finally found the intelligence room, where he met his immediate superior, Major Antonio.

Compared with those other officials who were drunk and dreaming all day long, Major Antonio's state seemed to be very conscientious.At least he didn't drink alcohol in the office, and he didn't have a woman around.In short, Major Antonio patiently listened to Lieutenant Isaac's report on the impending landing of the Japanese army.At the same time, he forked the last small piece of beef from the plate in front of him, dipped it in the sauce on the plate, stuffed it into his mouth and began to chew.

"...Well, you don't have to worry at all, Second Lieutenant, the matter will be dealt with, and everything is under our control."

Major Antonio said this vaguely. After swallowing the last bite of beef, he picked up the napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth, then took a sip of cool ice water from the water glass in front of him, and then made a slow phone call with unknown people. The general babbled for a while, and finally took out a document bag wrapped in oiled paper and a brand new and eye-catching white flag from the desk, and handed them to Second Lieutenant Isaac who was still dazed.

"...Okay, now follow me to the beach where the Japanese landed! This war that does not belong to us should also end..."

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On the afternoon of September 26, [-], relying on the fire cover of our own naval guns, about [-] Japanese troops made a tentative landing on the eastern beach of Savai Island in Samoa. At the beach, I met a small group of negotiating envoys holding white flags to negotiate...

On the same day, after reaching an agreement with Japan, the South American Army in Samoa suddenly launched an attack, disarmed and detained the few American pilots, sailors, and ground crews remaining on the island, and then energized the world with clear codes, declaring that it was in Samoa. After bitter battles, countless enemies were killed. However, the Japanese army continued to flow, with huge troops and fierce firepower, while our own side ran out of ammunition and food, had no strength to continue fighting, and had no choice but to surrender in order to preserve their usefulness.

So far, the Samoa Islands, the most important relay supply station and fleet advance base of the US Navy in the South Pacific, have been completely lost to the enemy.And the entire South Pacific front of the United States of America collapsed across the board, collapsed thousands of miles away, and was out of control... When the bad news reached Washington, in the Oval Office of the White House, Truman rang out again. The angry roar of the big president...