American Strategic Deception Bureau

　While the call to overthrow the bastard Trujillo was indeed a common one issued by Latin American countries last year, at the time they simply wanted to force regime change in the Dominican Republic through blockade and pressure, and at most, to force the United States to abandon its asylum for the Dominican Republic.

　But he never expected that the Americans, who had always been wicked and immoral, would become eager for justice and actually send troops to attack Trujillo!

　Seeing that the usually arrogant American leader actually behaved like a human being, which was a rare occurrence, really made them feel a little uncomfortable.

　Therefore, Latin American countries generally expressed cautious welcome and support for the US military's "Crusade Operation" in the Dominican Republic.

　Even Cuba's Castro remained silent after learning about this, because it would be embarrassing no matter how he expressed himself.

　--The Trujillo regime hasn't fallen yet. If we speak out against it too soon, wouldn't we be slapping ourselves in the face?

　Not to mention, if the Trujillo regime really escaped disaster because of the active opposition of Latin American countries to US military intervention...

　Then the OAS will become a self-deprecating joke group.

　Next, the Vatican, which had just excommunicated Marshal Trujillo last year, causing catastrophe to the Dominican Catholic Church, was also overjoyed about the "crusade" launched by the US military.

　Since the beginning of the 20th century, the power and influence of the Catholic Church has been declining. It can no longer issue orders from the Vatican, and attacking and mocking the Church has become a common trend among intellectuals. And fewer and fewer people are willing to go to church every week.

　Popes of all generations have been deeply concerned about this downward trend and have always wanted to create a big news to attract attention.

　Obviously, President Kennedy's invasion of the Dominican Republic could, in name only, be described as a crusade to punish apostates in response to the Pope's call! If this were the case, it would clearly be extremely beneficial in enhancing the Church's influence.

　Therefore, the Vatican representatives immediately applauded and cheered at the United Nations General Assembly, expressing their warm support for the US military's crusade against the Dominican "apostates", and gave extremely enthusiastic praise and commendation to Kennedy, the first Catholic president in American history.

　Then, regarding the military invasion launched by the United States on its doorstep, it is absolutely impossible to say that the Soviets had no intention of stirring up trouble. However, unlike the previous British and French invasion of Egypt and suppression of colonial uprisings, this

　There is really no pain point in the Dominican War.

　After all, according to the joint statement issued in Costa Rica last year, overthrowing the Trujillo regime has become the collective will of the Organization of American States. And Marshal Trujillo's series of crazy, suicidal actions last year have truly infuriated the public, making it impossible to whitewash him.

　Besides, what position does the Soviet Union have to speak for this extremely reactionary dictator?

　Just because Trujillo, when he was at the end of his rope, once said a few words about surrendering to the Communist Party and being pro-Soviet?

　Moreover, when it comes to interfering in neighboring countries, the Soviet Union itself is not clean - the bloodstains of its military intervention in Hungary in 1956 have not yet dried!

　At that time, the Warsaw Pact countries did not collectively sever ties with Hungary, and the United Nations did not impose any sanctions on Hungary. However, the Soviet army still rushed towards Budapest and interfered in Hungarian politics.

　Although Hungary, like Japan and Germany, was a defeated nation in World War II and was listed under the UN's "enemy nation clause," an "international pariah" that the five permanent members of the Security Council could find excuses to trample upon, the Soviet Union's military intervention in Hungary was legally justifiable.

　However, the US military intervention in the Dominican Republic this time also has the endorsement of the Organization of American States and the Roman Catholic Church, and is preceded by the UN sanctions order and the invitation of the current president of the Dominican Republic. In terms of legal basis, it is only more sufficient and solid than the Soviet Union's military intervention in Hungary.

　In the end, the Soviet Union could only say blandly that even if the United States sent troops to interfere in its neighboring country, it should respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Dominican Republic. At the same time, it also secretly stated that Trujillo was able to come to power thirty years ago with the strong support of the United States.

　US Representative Adlai Stevens responded that people change, and a once-good person could one day become a criminal. Furthermore, the Soviet Union had once signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany.

　At the same time, President Kennedy also delivered a speech, solemnly guaranteeing that the United States had no ambitions towards the territory of the Dominican Republic, and that this military deployment was only to respond to the call of the Organization of American States to urge the Dominican Republic to end the strongman dictatorship, achieve democracy, and protect the legitimate rights of citizens.

　In short, apart from some anti-American countries that have become crazy and continued to criticize the United States for "invading weak countries" in newspapers as usual, completely disregarding the cause and effect, the "Crusade" launched by President Kennedy has received widespread support to varying degrees both internationally and domestically.

　Even those countries that do not support it have not explicitly expressed their opposition, which is tantamount to tacit approval.

　Thus, President Kennedy's first overseas military operation since taking office got off to an excellent start.

　Just like that, with the green light from Capitol Hill, the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, which had been ready for action for a long time, immediately rushed towards the Dominican Republic with great momentum.

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　Obviously, at this moment, good news for President Kennedy is bad news for Marshal Trujillo.

　Through radio stations and television, we learned that international public opinion generally supported the US military sending troops to the Dominican Republic. The last hope of being able to contain the US military's actions was also shattered. The several people in charge of Marshal Trujillo's government all looked pale, as if they had lost their parents.

　——If the enemy was just a domestic anti-Qing rebel group supported by the CIA, they might still dare to gather troops and fight the anti-Qing army.

　But now the main force of the anti-Qing Dynasty that was about to sweep the Dominican Republic has turned into the American imperialists' heavenly soldiers who are rampant on the earth... How can they be defeated?

　As early as when the mercenaries of the 2506th Brigade landed in Puerto Plata, the Northern Military District Command had cut off contact with the capital. After Kennedy officially announced the dispatch of troops to the Dominican Republic, even the Southern Military District Command took the initiative to cut off communication with the headquarters of Marshal Trujillo in the capital.

　At this point, the only land the shogunate could still control was the isolated capital city.

　To make matters worse, after learning that the United States had launched a "crusade" against the Dominican Republic, the excited Vatican immediately issued a new papal decree, calling on all Dominican believers to "turn from darkness to light" and stop doing evil for apostates, so as to avoid going to hell after death.

　After the CIA and the Dominican opposition learned of this, they immediately broadcast the news via radio and airdropped leaflets to the capital, Trujillo (Santo Domingo), the only city still under the control of the Trujillo shogunate. This immediately triggered a new wave of riots within the shogunate camp.

　Throughout Latin America, apart from the most primitive Indian tribes and Haitians who believe in voodoo, there are few non-Catholics. And in the Dominican Republic, next door to Haiti, Catholics make up at least 95% of the population.

　So, what virtue and ability did Marshal Trujillo have to dare to be an enemy of the United States and God at the same time?

　Oh, by the way, Marshal Trujillo is already dead, so there is no way we can fight!

　As a result, people in the capital became increasingly panicked, while the 2506th Brigade's fast column, which was on the road, found that their journey was smoother. There were even some country priests and nuns, accompanied by hundreds of thugs armed with various strange weapons, driving cars behind the mercenaries' convoy, saying that they wanted to go to the capital with their "Crusaders" to fight against the "enemies of the Lord"!

　However, it would take some time for the mercenary convoy to reach the capital. Before that, something even more terrifying had already happened:

　An American fleet entered the harbor of Trujillo with great fanfare.

　Mouth, openly pointing the muzzle of the gun at the city!

　Author's Note: PS: I recently watched a few videos of Odebora Bananas and some Nigerian films, and suddenly I had an idea: how about setting the main stage of my next book in modern Africa? It's definitely a very magical place.

　A very weak alien god landed in Africa and had a hilarious story with a group of black uncles and black girls in the tropical rainforest.

　Chapter 65: The Shogunate Opens the City Without Bloodshed

　Long before the start of Operation Crusade, the invasion of the Dominican Republic, a number of ships of the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet had been dispatched to the Caribbean region near the Dominican Republic in the name of "exercises."

　But at that time, almost everyone was misled by the various false information constantly created and released by the CIA, thinking that the possible target of the attack was Cuba.

　Therefore, almost everyone in the Dominican Republic's Marshal Trujillo's court was unprepared for this and didn't even pay much attention to it.

　At this time, at the order of the White House, the "Shangri-La" aircraft carrier, the "Northampton" cruiser and two escorting destroyers, plus two submarines of the 81.8 Task Force deployed in the waters of the Cayman Islands in advance, immediately rushed towards Trujillo City (Port of Santo Domingo) with great momentum.

　The USS Essex, which had just covered the landing in Puerto Plata, also sailed southwest under the command of Rear Admiral John E. Clark, crossed the Windward Channel again, and headed towards Trujillo to join the main force of the 81.8th Task Force.

　Due to its consistent contempt for a tiny country like the Dominican Republic, the U.S. Navy did not carry out any long-range blockade at all. Instead, it brazenly drove the cruiser "Northampton" and two destroyers directly into the port of the Dominican capital, blocking the waterway tightly.

　The terrifying 203mm and 127mm gun muzzles were pointed directly at the city and the docks!

　Although no firing was done immediately from the other side, the intimidating threats and arrogant contempt were absolutely self-evident.

　——If it weren't for the fact that the U.S. Marines following the 81.8th Task Force had all landed in Puerto Plata, and the U.S. Navy currently blocking the capital's port did not bring the Marines, it would probably not just be a sea blockade, but a direct landing and assault on the Dominican capital.

　For a time, the city's residents no longer cared about the shogunate's martial law. Especially in the coastal neighborhoods, everyone poured into the streets, carrying the elderly and children, carrying luggage, and driving cars, forcing their way through various checkpoints, anxiously fleeing to the suburbs and the countryside for refuge.

　The military, police and military police who were supposed to block the refugees abandoned their duties in the face of the overwhelming tide of refugees, dropping their guns or running away with them.

　Under this silent intimidation, the young commander of the Trujillo shogunate, Longface, was shocked and angry, and even had a mental breakdown.

　After smashing the vases and teacups in a rage, Marshal Langfuss, who was still furious, called the chief of staff of the Dominican Navy and yelled hysterically, ordering him to lead the entire Dominican Navy out of the port and attack with all his strength to kill the American Navy blocking the door!

　——There is no other way. The air force has rebelled collectively. The Trujillo shogunate can only rely on the navy to keep the enemy out of the country.

　Dominican Navy Chief of Staff: Me?? !!

　(This refers to the confused expression on the catfish demon's face when a demon king ordered him to kill Tang Sanzang and his disciples in Journey to the West.)

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　Well, although the Dominican Republic is a small country, it still has some navy under the rule of the ambitious Marshal Trujillo.

　It can even be called a "century-old navy."

　——As early as 1844 during the anti-colonial war of independence, the Dominican Republic established a navy, which can be said to be the same age as the country.

　However, what is special is that in other places, the colonial wars of independence were generally fought by people of color against white colonizers. But the Dominican Republic's war of independence was more magical. The skin color was reversed, and it was the white rebels who fought against the black colonizers!

　Well, to put it simply, the Dominican Republic was occupied by black people from the Republic of Haiti. So the local white people rose up in resistance, engaging in fierce battles on land and sea with the black Haitian colonists. On land, they lined up to shoot each other with flintlock rifles, and in the Caribbean Sea, they sailed brigs and sloops. The fighting continued until 1856, when the black colonists were finally defeated by their former white slaves and had to surrender.

　The island of Hispaniola was then divided into two countries, Haiti in the west and the Dominican Republic in the east.

　In the hundred years that followed, Haiti and the Dominican Republic continued to fight wars from time to time, but both sides were small countries with few people, short of money and people, so there was no major development of their navies - in fact, at that time, the small countries in the entire Caribbean region basically had no decent navies to speak of.

　After all, modern navies are money-eating beasts. An ironclad ship can empty the treasury of a small country. Who can afford to support it?

　It was not until the end of World War II that the two most powerful navies in the world, the British Royal Navy (including the major dominions) and the United States Navy, began to sell off their surplus military supplies at a discount price. Marshal Trujillo took the opportunity to seize this wave of sales and got some big ships and big guns to play a scary game.

　He first acquired some small ships from the United States, including three PC461 submarine chasers, one Jianghe-class frigate, two Admiration-class minesweepers and two LCI-type infantry landing craft. Finally, he imported a batch of retired warships from the United Kingdom, including two

　F-class destroyers, two Hua-class frigates and two Jianghe-class frigates, and one destroyer was converted into a flagship and named Trujillo.

　By the time Marshal Trujillo was killed, the Dominican Navy had two destroyers, five frigates, ten patrol ships, three auxiliary ships and one training sailboat, with a total number of about 3,000 people, including a Marine Corps battalion, and its strength reached its historical peak.

　However, with such a lineup, wanting to challenge the US Navy alone, even if it was just a task force, would be a completely suicidal act.

　The problem was that Marshal Longface Trujillo, whose eyes were red, didn't care about all that. He just roared madly: "Now is the most glorious moment! I want you to attack the US Navy near the capital!

　I want to let Americans know that although our country is weak, it will not succumb to their oppression!

　All ships from the capital, San Cristobal, and Las Calderas naval bases, send out to sea immediately to meet the attack!

　Even if I die, I will die like a hero!

　Anyone who shrinks back from fighting, afraid to engage a powerful enemy, will be executed on the spot! Shot immediately!

　——How should I put it? It’s probably similar to what happened at the end of World War I, on the eve of the Kiel sailors’ uprising in Germany. The German Emperor Wilhelm II, who had become a red-eyed gambler, ordered the entire High Seas Fleet to go out to sea for a general attack, to have a decisive battle with the British Navy, and died gloriously in battle.

　Faced with this young marshal who was on the verge of madness, the officers of the Dominican Navy were speechless for a moment, but finally agreed.

　However, after leaving the Grand Marshal's Mansion, they immediately held a small meeting and reached a consensus in just one minute:

　What do you mean by being a hero? Go to hell! I won't be buried with you, young marshal!

　That evening, naval vessels in the capital, Ciudad Trujillo (Porto Santo Domingo), hoisted white flags and set sail, surrendering to the US Navy blockading the port. Dominican naval officers and soldiers at the San Cristóbal and Las Calderas naval bases subsequently issued a public telegram formally declaring their allegiance to the legitimate government led by President Joaquín Balaguer and refusing to obey the orders of the "illegal shogunate."

　At this point, after losing the strongest air force in the Caribbean that it had built at great expense, the Trujillo shogunate also lost its strongest navy in the Caribbean.

　Young Marshal Langfus Trujillo still had no other options except to continue throwing things around the house and shaking with anger.

　Next, the 300-man rapid column of Cuban mercenaries from the 2506th Brigade finally spent five days to complete the 300-kilometer bumpy road from Puerto Plata to Trujillo (Port of Santo Domingo), and appeared exhausted on the outskirts of the Dominican capital.

　Well, on modern highways, 300 kilometers might only take three hours to drive. But for a mechanized army running through rugged mountains, completing this march in five days was almost a death sentence.

　Although they encountered no armed resistance along the way, four of the five M41 light tanks of the fast column broke down, leaving only the last tank barely able to reach the outskirts of the capital of the Dominican Republic, while many trucks and jeeps were also damaged.

　It was only by requisitioning cars, horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts and even tractors from villagers along the way that they reached their destination within the deadline set by the CIA.

　Well, behind them were at least seven hundred armed mobs instigated by the Catholic Church, led by priests and nuns, and waving cross flags, who were heading to the capital to fight against the "Peasant Crusade" of "Trujillo the Apostate."

　Then, after such a long journey, everyone was exhausted, their backs and legs were sore, they walked unsteadily, and they had difficulty lifting their guns.

　So, even though the buildings and streets of the capital seemed to be in sight, the mercenaries still planned to get off the car to rest for a while, have a picnic, take a nap to restore their strength, and then see if they could break into the city, or whether they could only find a place in the suburbs to dig fortifications and defend.

　According to intelligence gathered before the landing, the Dominican Army was equipped with thirty-five tanks! Even if not all of these tanks were concentrated in the capital, even if five could be driven out of the city, it would be enough to send the Cuban mercenaries, who only had one tank left, fleeing in panic.

　But what Irnedo Oliva, the deputy brigade commander commanding the fast column, didn't know was that at this moment in the capital, both the army and the government had been paralyzed. Officials and officers at all levels either abandoned their posts and fled, or ran to the Americans and the current president to show their loyalty.

　The Dominican Republic's armored forces have now been disbanded on the spot and have fled back home. Tanks without people driving them are useless no matter how many there are!

　On the contrary, Captain Ferry King, who was staying beside President Balaguer, was worried that his military exploits would be in vain after learning that the Cuban mercenaries had not fired a single shot after landing, and the Shogunate army had disintegrated on its own, and that "Operation Crusade" might be won without a fight.

　So he strongly urged Team Leader Estelion to launch an airstrike on Trujillo before the enemy surrendered.

　The reason given by Firi was that if the victory came too easily and too uneventfully, it would likely affect the post-war assessment of merit.

　Even the shortest war in world history was the 1896 British Royal Navy's "37-minute Zanzibar" war. In just 37 minutes, the British Navy fired five missiles at the royal palace on Zanzibar Island.

　More than a hundred shells were fired, and an enemy ship was sunk.

　If Operation Crusade was not even as intense as the Battle of Zanzibar, and not a single shot was fired from beginning to end, how can it be considered a war?

　You know, the hard work of an armed parade and the merit of defeating the enemy on the battlefield are simply not on the same order of magnitude!

　What? Marshal Trujillo had already been assassinated?

　Come on, assassinating a dictator can't be considered a military achievement. At least you have to blow up a landmark building to be considered a battle, right?

　As for where specifically to bomb, Firi suggested bombing the National Palace, as that place is large and conspicuous and there is no doubt that it will be unmistakable.

　Afterwards, everyone can go to the ruins of the National Palace and take a few photos, and then exaggerate it as a feat comparable to the Soviet Red Army planting its flag on the Reichstag in Berlin!

　President Balaguer was clearly unhappy to hear that his office was going to be bombed. But Firi said it was intended to intimidate the Trujillo family into surrendering quickly and prevent the capital from descending into street fighting, and he couldn't really object.

　Privately, Fili told Team Leader Esteline that after the Dominican War, the Trujillo family's assets would undoubtedly be confiscated. The sugar mills, estates, palaces, and villas could all become CIA assets, and it would be a shame to blow them up now.

　However, the National Palace, the seat of the Dominican Republic’s central government, is an absolute state-owned asset and there is no way to “turn private into public”.

　So it would be better to blow it up now and create a battlefield ruin, so that everyone can have something to brag about and show off their military achievements.

　So, just as the Cuban mercenaries were cooking outside the capital, a Dominican Air Force B-26B "Intruder" bomber, which had just been maintained and repaired by American ground crew, took off from the Presidential Trujillo Air Base under the pilot of Captain Matos France, a Cuban defector pilot hired by the CIA, and was led by a navigator of the Dominican Air Force and successfully arrived over the capital.

　Next, Captain Mats France circled four times over the Dominican capital and confirmed that there was no anti-aircraft fire in the city. Then he dived down, took the attack position, dropped two aerial bombs on the National Palace, and then launched unguided rockets.

　Accompanied by raging flames, the dome of the National Palace collapsed, and the last bit of resistance of the Trujillo shogunate collapsed.

　An hour later, under the repeated persuasion and even coercion of his two uncles, Marshal Langfus Trujillo finally sent a telegram reluctantly, expressing his willingness to stop resistance, dissolve the shogunate, resign and step down, and at the same time hoped that the safety of himself and his family would be guaranteed.

　At the same time, Deputy Brigadier Irnedo Oliva and his Cuban mercenaries had just stepped into the streets of the capital.