On March 12, the long train left Washington under the scorching midday sun and rumbled across the Tomac River.
During this period, Roosevelt was physically and mentally exhausted. After the Tehran Conference, he took a large team of staff to the British Isles to negotiate with Churchill about opening a second battlefield. He spent half a month in a villa outside Glasgow, Scotland.
We have just finalized the Normandy landing plan. The Normandy landing battle plan?
Just after returning to the United States, news came that An Jiajun had used missiles to grow mushrooms on the Japanese archipelago. Although he had been mentally prepared for it, Roosevelt was still very shocked when he heard and confirmed it in person. Feeling that the United States was lagging behind in atomic bomb research, Roosevelt
The military leaders of the joint nuclear project, Major General John Raybold and Army Brigadier General James Marshall, as well as the new "Manhattan" project director Edward Teller, required them to develop an atomic bomb within at least two years.
The most elite nuclear research talents in the United States have died, and most of the remaining ones are substitutes who have been eliminated due to one or other problems.
Edward Teller, who was more enthusiastic about nuclear fusion than nuclear fission, said that due to the loss of many experts and scholars, including former military chief Brigadier General Groves and director Robert Oppenheimer, coupled with the losses in Canada and the American Midwest,
Uranium ore mining sites were destroyed by the Japanese army. Among uranium ore supplies from outside the United States, pitchblende ore in South Africa and Congo had long been predatoryly mined by the Anyi Group, and Australia and Latin America were placed under Japanese control.
There has been a serious problem with the supply of uranium ore in the United States. Taylor believes that the top priority is to resume uranium ore production in Canada and domestically and seize the time to explore for new uranium ore deposits.
In addition, because refining and enriching uranium requires a large amount of electricity, the Japanese army destroyed all the hydropower stations in the Midwestern United States when they retreated. Even small thermal power plants were dismantled and packed away. It will take some time for the power supply to return to normal. Therefore, even if
If we go all out, it is expected that it will take 48 years at the earliest to produce the first atomic bomb.
Roosevelt did not question the judgment of professionals. Disappointed, he could only ask for "special priority above all actions" to develop the atomic bomb. Then he could only look at the other side of the ocean with envy, and then seek conventional methods.
Completely eliminate the local Japanese army.
After working in Washington for more than twenty days, Roosevelt, who had been in a weak state after returning home, finally fell ill. On the advice of his health physician, Vice Admiral Ross McIntyre, Roosevelt decided to go to Warm Springs, Georgia.
Recuperate in hot springs for some time.
Although it is only March, the weather on the east coast of the United States is already very hot. After getting on the train, Roosevelt was sweating profusely. He did nothing but got into bed and got under the quilt. He felt happy and cool because there was air conditioning in the carriage.
When he woke up, Roosevelt felt refreshed. It was already dinner time, so he changed his clothes and prepared to eat. His niece Laura Delano mixed cocktails with the fine strong whiskey she brought. During dinner, Roosevelt felt relaxed and happy.
, he was still chatting and laughing with the women accompanying him until 11 o'clock in the evening.
Before leaving Washington, Roosevelt had ordered that the trip to the hot springs should be kept strictly confidential. On the eve of departure, everything in the White House continued as usual. The president's wife, Anna Eleanor, continued to live in the White House and conduct routine social activities.
Before Roosevelt fell asleep, he ordered him to be woken up at 8:30 the next morning, but his attendants had to wake him up at 3 in the morning. The reason was that news came from Southeast Asia that the Anjia Army launched at 7:00 in the morning on the 12th, Chang'an time.
The landing operation on Luzon Island, after nine hours of fierce fighting, successfully landed on the coast of Lingayen Gulf in the northwest of Luzon Island. The war is currently developing in depth.
Looking at the dark night outside the train, Roosevelt's mood suddenly became heavier than ever before. Not only did the Anjia army possess cutting-edge weapons such as atomic bombs and missiles, but even the soldiers were unstoppable and victorious in every battle. If this trend continues, the Western world's
Decline is almost inevitable, and An Yi and the country he leads may stand at the pinnacle of this era. But he is powerless against all this.…
Thinking of An Yi, Roosevelt also thought of his political adviser, Deputy Secretary of State Hopkins. Hopkins once visited the Kremlin and met Stalin. After that, wealthy businessmen with strong anti-Soviet sentiments called him
"Gray Bishop" said that he had an important influence on the president's pro-Soviet attitude. When the most reactionary people in the United States slandered Roosevelt, they would definitely scold Hopkins.
At this time, Roosevelt did not know that he would never see his confidant again. Hopkins was already ill and hospitalized, and lived less than a year longer than Roosevelt.
One day later, Roosevelt moved into the presidential residence in Warm Springs Hot Springs, only ten meters away from the "Little White House". It was a wooden bungalow painted white with a porch in the middle and a triangular roof.
, supporting the roof are two thin wooden piles, under the roof is a blue skylight, and on both sides of the porch are two rows of large windows, which almost cover the entire wall.
On the fourth day after staying in the hot springs, Roosevelt received exciting news - at 5 p.m. on the 17th, after continuous fierce battles, the Allied forces successfully landed in Normandy on the northwest coast of France. Afterwards, two million Allied troops came one after another.
Continuously came ashore and successfully opened up the Western Front battlefield. From then on, until the last moment of his life, all Roosevelt got were battle reports about the Allied forces' successive victories. The battery of his mobile phone was dead. I don't know if I can finish the Western European battlefield. Eisenhower
The Allied troops under his command marched forward bravely, and the Vichy government in southern France surrendered without a fight and announced that it would transfer power to the "Free France" movement.
The Army Group and the Seventh Army, under the command of Marshal Rundstedt, resisted bravely, but were helplessly outnumbered and retreated step by step. The Nazi rule in Zhong was already on the verge of collapse?
In North Africa, on February 27, Rommel, who was out of ammunition and food, led his troops to surrender to the Anjia Army troops stationed from Bugebug to Matruh Port in Egypt. The "Free French" army and the expeditionary force sent by the Communist Party of China
Tunisia and Algeria moved east, taking over Libya's defenses for a while.
On the Soviet-German battlefield, the Soviet army on the northern route successively captured Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, approaching Germany's East Prussia and the northern Polish defense line. The central Red Army attacked Kmolensk and Minsk in Belarus, threatening the eastern Polish defense line. Only in Ukraine
As well as in the lower Don River area, the German army resisted fiercely. To this day, Rostov, as a railway transportation hub between South China and Germany, is still firmly in the hands of the German army.
In the Southeast Asian battlefield, Gu Changfeng's troops swept through the entire Luzon Island in just twenty days. Although the Philippine Front Army of the Japanese Southern Army had seven divisions and six independent infantry brigades, it was not known whether
The explosion of the atomic bomb had a huge psychological deterrent on the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese army was at a loss during the battle. More and more troops surrendered voluntarily. By April 2, the Japanese army in the Philippines was led by General Masaharu Honma and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Maeda Masami.
Down, surrendered to Anjiajun.
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This was the highest-ranking general the Japanese army surrendered after the war. Both the Allies and the Axis Powers were extremely shocked. Japan's defeat seemed to be getting closer.
Australian battlefield. The Anjia Army, which landed at Darwin Port on the northwest coast of Australia in early March, under the leadership of Xia Jian, took one month to capture the Arnhem Land and Barkley Plateaus, the northern part of Australia that the Japanese had worked so hard to manage.
Is the defense full of holes?
Under the shadow of nuclear bombs, the Japanese army collapsed at the slightest touch during the battle. It did not show the strength that a first-class army should have, which disappointed Roosevelt, who was looking forward to a fight between the two tigers.
On the battlefield in the United States, the Japanese army was firmly compressed on the front lines of Seattle and Vancouver. Although the Japanese continued to transport supplies and troops day and night via ships and used hundreds of anti-aircraft guns using VT communication technology for air defense, the US military still gained victory
Quite a lot, each round of bombing will take away a large number of Japanese lives...
In Roosevelt's view, it was just around the corner to completely drive the Japanese army out of the United States. Then he only needed to send his troops north to completely recover the Alaski area before the arrival of autumn.
At noon on April 12, 1945, Roosevelt was chatting with three ladies: his cousin Gerrit Sukli, his niece Laura Delano, and the other was his mistress Lucy. Suddenly, Roosevelt raised his left hand.
He pressed his temples and moved his hand to his forehead, as if he wanted to pinch it there, but his hand quickly dropped and his fingers twitched.
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Seeing this, Su Keli hurried forward and asked: "Franklin, did you drop something?"
Roosevelt closed his eyes tightly and replied in a weak voice: "I...I have a headache!" As soon as he finished speaking, his head drooped to the left. At this time, the time was 1:15 in the afternoon.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, despite the doctors' efforts to rescue him, all signs of Roosevelt's life disappeared.
At 4:56 p.m., Vice President Truman received a call from the White House. When he arrived at the White House, the president's wife Eleanor gently put her hand on his shoulder and said sadly: "Harry, the president has passed away.
Got it!"
Truman was at a loss, and after a while he asked: "Is there anything I can do for you?"
Eleanor shook her head and asked, "Is there anything I can do for you? Harry, now that you are the President of the United States, in the face of South China's aggressive expansion, you will be responsible for bringing the dilapidated United States back to the
The important task of the world’s largest country!”
After saying that, Eleanor ignored Truman, left the White House, and took a special plane to fly to Warm Springs Hot Springs.
The moment before Roosevelt died, it was two o'clock in the morning Chang'an time, which was also five o'clock in the morning in the port of Rabaul, New Britain Island, located in the northern part of the Coral Sea in the tenth time zone.
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After land-based reconnaissance aircraft and submarines confirmed that the main task force of the Anjia Army had returned south to New Zealand, the Japanese Navy's Fifth Fleet breathed a long sigh of relief.
On April 3, Vice Admiral Kiichi Hasegawa, commander of the fleet, ordered the lifting of combat readiness. Half of the ships entered the port of Rabaul to berth for rest, while the other half were cruising in the outer seas on alert, rotating every three days.
The twelfth day was the time for the third rotation. There was still silence in the Rabaul military port. However, outside the port area in the Bismarck Bay Blanche Bay, the already exhausted guard fleet headed towards the port area early.
Come and wait for the changing of the guard at nine o'clock in the morning.
At this time, at the Mount Sawt missile base in Johor, the Malay Peninsula, more than 6,000 kilometers away from Rabaul Port, an F-5 missile carrying a 25,000-ton nuclear warhead soared into the sky and pierced the sky!
The Japanese fleet did not know that it had become a target. In the morning mist, the officers and soldiers on duty in the fleet couldn't help but relax slightly when they saw the active volcano standing at the mouth of the bay, emitting flames, far behind them, and the docks in the port area clearly visible.
tone.
"Look, what is that?" Suddenly someone pointed at a bright spot falling at high speed in the gray sky and asked.
"Meteor!" the person next to him replied uncertainly.
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That bright spot is getting bigger and brighter, and the distance is getting closer and closer!
"Woo-"
The fleet sounded the air defense siren, and the combatants climbed out of bed and quickly rushed to their combat posts.
The sound of anti-aircraft guns crackled, and the Rabaul Port in the distance was also alarmed by this change. The pier was full of people running around.
The F-5 missile came too fast and plunged directly into the seawater in the harbor. A loud "bang" sound was heard. The seawater was quickly gathered together by the explosion, rising high from the sea. The sea was flashing with dazzling white light.
The bright light of a hundred thousand suns penetrates the sea water and reaches into the sky, illuminating the entire Bismerhei Blanch Bay and Rabaul port area as if it were daytime!
After crashing into the Japanese ship at the rear of the entering fleet, the Japanese sailors could only see a sudden flash of lightning on the sea surface, and the night turned into day in an instant. Boom—"
The huge sound was like tens of thousands of steam locomotives roaring in unison. The seawater, squeezed by the strong pressure, quickly rose from the surface of the water into a huge water column with a diameter of about two kilometers. The water column rushed up to an altitude of several thousand meters, a scarlet mass.
The colored fireball broke through the sea water, broke out from the middle of the mushroom cap-like water column, and soared into the sky.
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The huge fireball broke through the shackles of the seawater, soared straight into the sky, absorbed the high-temperature and hot seawater, and threw it from the mushroom cap to the surrounding areas.
The Japanese warships located within two kilometers of the center of the explosion, including four aircraft carriers including the two main aircraft carriers "Nasu" and "Minobu", as well as one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers and five destroyers, were suddenly destroyed.
He was swallowed by the water column rising into the sky, submerged by the boiling seawater in the blink of an eye, and was sent to the bottom of the sea within a minute.
Those unlucky Japanese sailors didn't even have time to react before they were scalded to death by the scalding sea water.
The twelve warships closest to the center of the explosion were suddenly swallowed up by the huge waves. The warships docked in the Rabaul port area and other ships that crashed behind were not spared. They were all swallowed up by the rapid inrush of high-pressure water.
Cut it off at the waist.
The huge waves generated after the explosion of the atomic bomb cut the remaining ships into two pieces with a devastating force. At the same time, the huge waves tens of meters high were mixed with broken steel, and the entire Rabaul port area was completely submerged.
The Fifth Fleet's eight aircraft carriers, two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, and 28 destroyers, as well as more than one hundred auxiliary ships, were all destroyed.
Wherever the giant waves hit, they were overwhelming and unstoppable. Vice Admiral Kiichi Hasegawa, the commander of the Fifth Air Fleet, who had no idea what was happening, and the entire command staff were confused and perished in the tsunami.
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At nine o'clock in the morning, as the waves receded, the Japanese sailors who were lucky enough to survive quickly reported their losses to the Combined Fleet Headquarters.
At this time, the Japanese government and military leaders had just received the news of Roosevelt's death and were preparing to celebrate. Suddenly they received the news that the entire Fifth Fleet had been annihilated. They suddenly thought that the opponent they were directly facing was not the Americans but the Anjia Army.