The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

"I know, it's that invincible super battleship!"

"It's huge! Bigger than the Empire...bigger than the reactionary government's battleships!"

"This is a true super battleship. As expected, we made the right choice in choosing Xinhua."

"Only a great nation can possess powerful warships. Ultimately, the order in Asia will be determined by Xinhua."

"It's back! The old order is back! The order that belongs to us yellow people is back!"

Well, this is a fanatical Asianist, or to be more precise, a "yellow supremacist". Their nature is similar to those racists in the West. What makes them slightly more rational than Japanese militarism is that they believe that only when Japan and China unite to rule the whole of Asia can the yellow race truly win the decisive battle with the white race.

Just ignore the Japanese's second-year idea of ​​decisive battle. After all, thoughts are always integrated. As long as they don't make trouble, don't destroy, don't be reactionary, and just talk, it doesn't matter.

However, taking advantage of this opportunity, players launched their own cultural propaganda campaign.

"This is?"

Naoji Yamashina saw a special toy stall at the port. At this toy stall, a Liaoning ship made of many strong but light materials attracted the attention of many children.

This is indeed a toy, and the Liaoning super battleship is made up of 1940 Lego bricks.

As the founder of the powerful Japanese Bandai, Yamashina Naoharu's eyes were instantly drawn to it as if by fate, and he couldn't move his eyes away. It was as if that thing possessed endless magic power and was calling him in a way that ordinary people could not understand.

Many years later, when Bandai founder Naoji Yamashina was interviewed by a reporter (excerpt from the special interview "The Origin of Bandai"), he said:

"I was immediately drawn to the Liaoning model. It's hard to describe the feeling, but I was instantly captivated and couldn't take my eyes off it. Others thought the model was beautiful and cool, but I had a different feeling. To put it in a more childish way, it felt as if a thread of fate had connected it to me."

"So you felt you should do something?"

"How should I put it? The feeling was so vague, I can't quite put it into words. The only thing I did at the time, and I don't regret it, was to buy it with half a month's salary."

"It's so expensive." -p

"How can you measure the value of something you like by how much it costs? The only thing you can measure is whether it's worth it. I think it's very worth it."

"So you started assembling it after you bought it, right?"

"Of course, I couldn't wait to get started. The instructions at the time said it was still paper, but I have to say, the technology of the Volunteer Army was really advanced. At that time, they could provide high-definition color assembly diagrams. It was still a very exquisite book. Although it was not the color printing paper like today, it was unique back then. At that time, I felt that the Volunteer Army could use such advanced technology on toys. The reactionary government (the Japanese Empire) deserved its defeat."

"After you put it together, do you like it very much?"

"How can I say I loved it very much? I loved it very, very much. I get very excited every time I think about it now. It's truly a perfect work of art. Then I realized that I should try to make something like it. So the next day I took my idea to find a collaborator. That's how Bandai came to be today. I want to deeply thank the volunteers and the Liaoning. They gave me a second life that others can't imagine."

Section 231: Cutting off Central America

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The Panama Canal is an important transportation line connecting the two oceans. The US and Japanese navies are about to engage in a fierce battle here.

Frankly speaking, Japan did not want to go to war with the United States at this time because they had an enemy they had to fight with all their might - the Volunteer Army.

However, the situation has reached the point where one of the United States and Japan must fall completely.

The participation of the volunteers boosted the morale of the US military and also made Japan realize that it had lost the best opportunity to negotiate with the United States.

"We should have negotiated with the United States the moment Mexico gained the upper hand."

Isoroku Yamamoto shook his head, but he also knew in his heart that these words could only comfort himself and other Japanese naval officers and soldiers.

The United States would never allow a dangerous enemy nation to appear on its doorstep. Compared to Mexico, Japan was clearly too dangerous. Furthermore, the previous Mexican campaign had proven that Japan could not withstand the US's continued and relentless attack.

At this point, some rational individuals within the Japanese army realized that the war was developing in a direction that was unfavorable to Japan. The most rational option now was to immediately cease fire and negotiate peace with the United States, and to try to unite with it, preferably with the help of the United States to stop the Volunteer Army.

But just like the raging Showa chariot, it won't stop on its own. Any capitulationist rhetoric will now be subject to bullying and suppression within the Japanese military. Furthermore, the above sentiment is merely wishful thinking on the part of the Japanese. The Japanese have always had a knack for self-deception.

"At least we still have a technological advantage."

The technological advantage that Nanyun Chuyi mentioned is the Japanese army's current electric series fighter jets.

In contrast, the US military still uses the F4F fighter, which can only achieve victory through self-sacrificing tactics when the number of Japanese fighters is several times that of the US military.

Simply put, an F4F attracts the attention of the Japanese fighter planes in the front, and the remaining F4F fighter planes attack the Japanese electric series fighter plane from multiple directions at the same time, so as to ensure that the opponent is shot down.

The good American pilots during World War II were still very self-sacrificing. It was not a good idea to lose pilots every day. The US military was also developing its own new fighter jets. However, due to the deliberate mischief of some technicians who infiltrated the US military, these fighter jets often had various problems. Even if they could be barely used, the extremely high failure rate would make US pilots terrified every time they attacked.

Despite this, these bravest American pilots still threw themselves into the war and launched attacks on the Japanese army one after another.

Now the US military has finally gathered a wave of soldiers and started trying to get back what they lost.

In this Panama operation, the US military concentrated 5 main aircraft carriers, 17 escort aircraft carriers, 7 battleships, 25 cruisers and hundreds of destroyers, and other auxiliary ships were even larger in scale.

This is the strength of a WWII industrial power. Even players will find this massive fleet imposing and majestic.

"As expected of the world's most powerful industrial nation during World War II, their wealth is truly enviable."

"It doesn't matter. America's glory is only temporary. We are the future."

"The Jiaozi-class aircraft carriers have already been launched. Given the current battlefield situation, I'm afraid we'll have to build 30 Essex-class aircraft carriers at full capacity."

"Then build it. We don't care."

"Xinhua's shipbuilding industry is progressing very quickly. It will catch up with the United States in 10 years at most."

"However, this massive fleet will inevitably affect the entire world situation. We'd better let this fleet perish together with the Japanese army on the battlefield."

"I agree. This is the most perfect result."

"Then everyone should prepare to go. If America wishes to be king on the Iron Throne, it must pay a price that matches its wishes."

Habits are very scary things. As a veteran with thirty-nine plane crashes, Hank felt it was normal for him to see God one day.

Every attack is like God rolling the dice. No one knows what God's mood is today, but as long as you are still alive, you must continue to fight.

There is no other complicated reason, it's just because Hank is patriotic, a pure patriot.

People like him were not a minority in the US military in World War II, so the US military in World War II was the pinnacle of US military faith and combat effectiveness. They knew why they went to the battlefield and were willing to sacrifice themselves. However, people like him are a minority among the minority in any country. Compared with the Soviet Union, the United States, which has been fully alienated by capital, can't afford to lose aspiring young people.

Sadly, what American capitalists want most are these ambitious young people, because they will sacrifice them for the collective interests of the United States, but a US military without children from good families is a joke.

Love for the country, love for capital, love for oneself, this is an impossible triangle.

"God bless me, I will fight for my country until the last moment, Amen."

The prayer was over, and Hank prepared to go to heaven.

"John, I'm going to trouble you again today." Hank said to his maintenance worker on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

"No big deal, it's been prepared and is in great condition now."

"Hahaha, thank you. According to what you said, the Machine Soul is now very happy, right?"

"Yes, Machine Spirit is very happy. I have also prepared a village purity mark for you to pray for. Come, put it on."

That’s right, this John is one of the players who infiltrated the US military, nicknamed “Misaka Crow”.

Now he's John, the mechanic on the Essex, the know-it-all."

Such high-level technical talents are welcome wherever they are, especially players who can use cheats and can repair equipment that seems to have no hope of repair at any time and any place. In addition, after they go abroad to change their skin, they have a standard American star-spangled handsome face and quickly become the most popular group of people on the ship.

Especially on those American battleships, there are at least two or more players. All kinds of mechanical equipment repaired by them are running very smoothly. So no matter what difficulties they encounter, as long as they are technical, even if the captain comes, he will find them first to ask for solutions.

The way Misaka Iron Crow got acquainted with the Americans on the ship was very simple. Not only was he good at maintenance and could ensure that the planes he repaired would have a high probability of no problems, he could also go into the kitchen and cook delicious food, successfully conquering a group of American soldiers. Even many American pilots were most entangled in the question of whether to ask John to take care of their planes before they took off, or to have a good meal and go straight on the road. After all, given the current probability of death after a battle, you know.

The exchange of experience between players was very rapid, and soon the talented people on each US battleship underwent a miraculous transformation of convergent evolution. Some even became the dead chefs and anonymous staff appointed by the captain himself, influencing battlefield decisions from all kinds of incredible angles.

Then the players reached a consensus that it was necessary to cheat the US military, but not everyone should be cheated. Those who were truly good people had to stay, especially those who were prone to communist tendencies.

The smarter and kinder people are, the more likely they are to be attracted to communism. Therefore, the players' screening is equivalent to adding a large number of potential communist elements to the US military, but the top US military officials and even the grassroots are unaware of this.

The way players act is so weird, they even exchange things for you directly from the four-dimensional pocket of the game store. Who can defend against this? So those rednecks, bandit soldiers and rednecks will disappear forever in various ways in military operations again and again. Players will also deliberately contact the American soldiers around them in their daily work, and test their attitudes towards various ideas and races in a joking way. Once they determine that the person is hopeless, they will find an opportunity to kill him.

But American military officers certainly cannot observe such details. On the contrary, at the macro level, the combat effectiveness of the US military is rapidly improving, and the quality of soldiers has also improved a lot. This is a good thing for American military officers, and they naturally support it. In addition, players can easily become capable assistants of these people by relying on their excellent personal abilities, and it is easier to deal with those scum. It is quite humorous that the Red Party openly held a three-person group meeting in the Kuomintang intelligence agency.

Hank naturally didn't know that John in front of him had such a complicated identity. He only knew that John had maintained the fighter jet for him this time, so he didn't have to worry about mechanical failure and crash when he set off. He just had to devote himself to the battle.

As the aircraft carrier formation began to adjust its angle according to the wind direction, it was time to take off.

"Bye, brother."

"Come back safely, brother."

The F4F piloted by Hank took off into the wind, and other US aircraft carriers also began to release carrier-based aircraft. Then, fighters and bombers formed teams and flew towards the Panama Canal.

Their opponents had been waiting for a long time. After the Japanese Navy captured Panama, they built a large number of airports here. Therefore, these electric series fighters all took off from Panama airports. On the one hand, they defended on the spot and waited for the enemy to tire, and on the other hand, they launched an attack after sailing here from the east coast of the United States.

If possible, the United States would naturally like to launch an attack from Mexico, but due to the Avengers, the US military now dares not step across the US-Mexico border. Therefore, except for the small number of B-29s currently equipped by the United States, other US bombers can only rush to Panama, drop the bombs and return immediately even if they are modified.

But even the B-29 had no advantage over the Japanese electric series. With the stimulation of the Volunteer Army and the help of the Amalgam Company, Japan's fighter planes now have at least two high-performance 20mm cannons, and can also be equipped with a 13mm aircraft machine gun plus a 30mm cannon, or six 13mm machine guns.

The electric series fighters can reach the ceiling of the B-29, and their machine guns can also do a good job of damaging the B-29, without the need to develop many strange aircraft models to fight against the B-29 as was done at the end of World War II.

You know, at the end of World War II, the Japanese even came up with the idea of ​​having bombers carry cannons with limited ammunition to snipe B-29s from a distance. This is really an example of their wild imagination.

This forced the US military to design an escort fighter with sufficient range for the B-29, and the P-51 came into being. At least in terms of army-level fighters, the US military was truly on par with the Japanese. At the same time, the P-51 "Mustang" was also developing a ship-based model.

There was no other way. The US military in this world had not yet captured the Zero fighter, let alone the E-series fighters. They could only modify their own fighters based on the currently available information, so the F6F was gone. However, it also helped the US military equipment move towards standardization. The fact that there were not many models that were truly mass-produced meant lower production costs and greater output.

There is no ace saving the world in the real world. The setting of cannon fodder and marginal soy sauce is that every combat unit on the battlefield is cannon fodder. If you want to become a hero who saves the world, you can't rely on personal efforts alone, but also on the historical trend.

Always missed.

But the number of B-29s is too small now, so the US military's combat plan is to advance by sea, then conduct a landing battle to seize the Panama Canal and restore the United States' two-ocean advantage.

Then, less than five minutes into the battle, bad news came from Panama. The Japanese army blew up the canal with a large amount of explosives, and before the bombing, they stuffed a bunch of ships full of scrap into it. In other words, even if the United States recaptured the Panama Canal, it would not be able to be used in a short time. If it wanted to enter the Pacific Ocean, it would have to go around South America.

Very good, the distance has been increased by at least 4000 nautical miles. This is starting from the southernmost port of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean. If the ideal distance is taken, it will actually take a detour of 8000 to 9000 nautical miles, and the time will be increased by three times. This can be regarded as an operation of Tsarist Russia giving away its lives. The only good news is that the United States can use the ports of South American countries. At this time, South America has not yet been deindustrialized and can provide certain maintenance and support capabilities to the US military.

But who would be willing to travel halfway around the world to fight a war? So even if Japan blew up the Panama Canal, the US military would have to take it by force, or at worst blow it up again.

Another piece of good news is that Japan's move has made it a target of public criticism in Panama. For Panamanians, the canal is necessary for their livelihood. Even though the US military has often acted as a virgin terminator here in history, it has also brought a garrison economy to the local area, not to mention that ships passing by here have to pay tolls and other expenses. Now that Japan has bombed this place, it is digging up the roots of the Panamanians.

So the Panamanians immediately took to the streets to protest against the Japanese army, but they made a mistake: the Japanese army was more bestial, more brutal, and more shameless than the American army.

Tanks and machine guns killed more than 5,000 people on the spot, and the rest were all imprisoned in concentration camps and slave factories. Japan perfectly replicated their operations in Australia and directly killed nine out of ten Panamanians near the canal.

The sorrow of small countries is embodied here. In tiny Panama, the locals don't even have the ability to resist, and there are no countries around that can help them. Those small countries are themselves in a difficult situation and certainly cannot respond to Panama's cries.

But these are just decorations on the chessboard for the United States and Japan. The game between major powers never cares whether small countries will cry out in pain. Chess pieces are smashed down in the most brutal way on the Panama Go board. Even the surrounding Costa Rica and Colombia were involved in the war. Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, which are slightly more marginal, are not much better off, because there are landing sites nearby. The Japanese army wants to prevent the US army from landing, and the US army wants to choose a breakthrough point. So both sides spread the war beyond Panama without caring, causing a larger-scale war tragedy.

The people of Central America are really sitting at home while war breaks out.

But who can blame them for being a small country? Small countries have no choice in the face of the flames of world war.

The place that has a slightly better advantage here is Cuba. The US military built a large number of airports here, and many US military planes specifically bombed the Japanese troops in Panama from here. Later, they found that taking off directly from here was more cost-effective, so the US military began to build large-scale projects in Cuba, and the neighboring Jamaica also reaped a lot of benefits. After all, they are both island countries close to Panama. Cuba already has strategic resource output, and Jamaica is even closer.

The island tactics that the US military originally implemented in the Pacific during the Second World War were actually practiced at home.

The F4F piloted by Hank landed safely on the USS Essex. This was his 27th takeoff and landing this week. At most, he took off and landed five times in one day. He was lucky enough that although his aircraft was damaged during the battle, he still survived. In comparison, although his redneck comrades persisted in the battle, they fell into the sea due to mechanical failure when they came back and did not even have the chance to parachute.

“Luckily, John maintains my plane.”

Hank didn't know that his redneck comrade's plane had also been secretly maintained by Hank. It was just that when no one else noticed, in the blink of an eye, the original good plane was replaced by a faulty one by Misaka Iron Crow. Although there would be no malfunction during takeoff, after experiencing fierce battles, the failure rate would skyrocket. Whether it could come back really depended on whether the machine spirit was strong enough.

It was obvious that the machine spirit was unhappy this time, so they were all gone.

"Good job, Hank, you're back safely."

John stood under the plane and greeted Hank.

"Thanks to your blessing, the machine soul is very powerful." Hank smiled and shook the purity mark in his hand.

It's abstract, but because Americans are religious, they can easily develop corresponding beliefs due to changes in the real world. It's true that there is only one God, but no one stipulates that God can't be a big human with four arms, golden mechanical hands, green skin, psychic powers, and shouting "devour everything."

What a loyal image (nods).

It's impossible to expect players to avoid trolling. Just look at Misaka Iron Raven, a Hammersmith Mechanicus player, who's been promoting the bizarre belief in "God's name is Om Messiah" among the US military. It sounds incredibly heretical, the kind that warrants burning at the stake. But the planes repaired by Comrade John never experience mechanical failures, while unblessed planes constantly crash. How do you explain this? Are you shouting that physics doesn't exist?

What's more blackly humorous is that the people who are most likely to believe in the "Cult of God Mechanicus" are the rednecks, and the probability of them getting into trouble is basically 50-50. After all, can rednecks also convert to faith?

Does anyone still believe this?

Of course, if you don’t believe it and something happens, it’s because Om Messiah will not bless you.

If you believe and something happens, it's because your faith is not sincere enough, you deserve it.

What do you call this, my friends? This is called being stubborn but blocked in both ends.

The players didn't care whether those religious people really believed or not. They just had fun playing the game. However, the more they didn't care, the more many people wanted to pursue the faith. Even many American soldiers who were originally staunch materialists were shaken and started to put purity marks on their fighter planes.

It's so damn abstract.

However, these are just side jobs of the players. The real main job must be to constantly make things difficult for the United States, so that even if they win, it will be a miserable victory. Anyway, the United States is a big country with a big business, and the loss of this little money is nothing. At most, you can throw your Anglo-Saxon buddies into the juicer and squeeze them. When it comes to various ways to betray your allies, you Anglo-Saxons definitely have no psychological burden. If you don’t believe me, ask France and Prussia during the Thirty Years’ War.

While the U.S. and Japanese armies were engaged in fierce fighting, a powerful armed force was watching covetously. That was the Third Column of the International Volunteer Army formed in the Americas after the players regrouped.

The bullets are loaded, the bayonets are drawn, take control of Central America, tear apart the back garden of the American empire, and charge!