From 4 a.m. on November 15 when the German army used missiles to saturate and wash the ground to 2 a.m. on the 16th, the "beheading" was successful, but in just 22 hours, the situation in South Africa underwent earth-shaking changes.

Considering that the front-line command was "beheaded" by Brandenburg troops deep behind enemy lines in the rear of more than 300 kilometers of the initial front, it was even more chilling. Guderian, Paulus and others were satisfied with the results of the beheading, but when they heard that Bradley himself was not there, their evaluation of him was greatly discounted in their minds - can the battlefield commander command so far away from the rear manage the battle situation?

On the afternoon of the 16th, the Germans took advantage of yesterday's victory, with armored forces as the lead, penetrated all Allied defensive lines, and formed a pincer encirclement by clustering the left and right flanks, and the two most important cities in northeastern South Africa, Pretoria and Johannesburg, happened to be the prey in this pair of large pincers.

With so many troops trapped in the front six lines of defense that they could not retreat, the Allies defended the two cities with only two South African divisions and a few Canadian troops—the remnants of the forces that had escaped the Kenyan encirclement. Earlier, the remnants of the ANZ Division stranded on the front line had been greeted by three cloudburst bombs and set out to follow Montgomery's footsteps.

Since the beginning of the North African war in 1941, Australia and New Zealand have provided a total of more than 60,000 troops, and after continuous fighting, except for more than 2,000 wounded and sick who retreated to South Africa at the beginning, and then returned to China with the Nimitz fleet, most of the rest died on this continent, and the Canadians seem to be following in this footsteps.

At 5 p.m., in the face of more than 100,000 German troops, thousands of tanks and hundreds of aircraft, the frightened South African defenders declared Pretoria and Johannesburg undefended cities and laid down their arms and surrendered. After controlling these two pivotal nodes, the remnants of the defenders on the entire Bradley Line were completely cut off from retreat, and there was no room for struggle anymore, and the result of not surrendering was nothing more than the difference between dying tonight or dying tomorrow.

However, in the 36-hour battle, the overall casualties of the German army were less than 4,000, but 50,000 American troops were killed, wounded and captured, more than 10,000 Australian and New Zealand troops, thousands of Canadian troops and more than 90,000 South African troops. More than 150,000 enemy troops have been destroyed, and South Africa has a total of 300,000 allied troops, more than half of which have been lost so far.

In the battle, the real casualties of the Allied forces were actually in the early 30,000s and less than 40,000, and the remaining 100,000 or so basically surrendered - although some of the troops trapped in the encirclement had not yet clearly laid down their arms and surrendered, it was a matter of time.

After the occupation of Pretoria and Johannesburg, the northeast of South Africa was wide open, and the German army would face the entire open field, which was unsafe and sparsely populated, and there were still about 400 kilometers to the two cities and mining areas of Kimberley and Bloemfontein in central South Africa, which was converted into 4-5 days according to the standard of Blitzkrieg 2.0 - such a large open area had less than 40,000 troops left, but it was more than 400,000 German troops who were eyeing each other.

Ironically, the Germans on the front line had already taken Pretoria and Johannesburg, and the second echelon of troops that Guderian had arranged for the campaign in the rear, mainly part of the infantry divisions of the 6th Army, had not yet been put on the offensive from the intended front, and they would take over the defense on the spot by train, and the whole process would be as easy as travel.

Everyone in the rear headquarters who got the news of the loss of the two cities was stunned, but the 51-year-old Lieutenant General Bradley, who was very young and capable, seemed to have aged 10 years in an instant, and his heart was full of collapse. Shi Mozi looked at him intently, and finally asked, "Omar...... We...... South Africa...... Is there any salvation? ”

"I ......" Bradley wanted to cheer up Shi Mozi, but when the words came to his lips, he really didn't know what to say, because the situation was even more unfavorable than he had imagined.

The rapid collapse of the six lines of defense is closely related to the power of the German Blitzkrieg 2.0, and it is also inseparable from the weak combat effectiveness of the South African army. When formulating the defense plan, Bradley had already seen the shortcomings of the South African army, so at key points the US and ANZ forces were arranged, and only the larger number of South African troops provided flank cover.

And Guderian and Paulus also give priority to the spearhead of the attack at the South African army, thanks to the battlefield folding of Blitzkrieg 2.0, they do not need to fight the US army and Australia and New Zealand and then South Africa step by step, they can flexibly find targets to strike and mobile deployment through the battlefield breakthrough, often the US troops in front are still resisting, and the South African troops on the left and right flanks have surrendered or collapsed, and then collapsed along with the US military positions.

Now, according to the scoring standard of the German army, the combat effectiveness of the Italians can be raised to another level - the combat effectiveness and combat will of the South African troops are even worse, almost on a par with the Indian soldiers. Many officers and soldiers who have experienced the war in North Africa feel strange, the South Africans in North Africa did not seem to be so bad at the beginning, and after asking, they realized that it was the best three divisions of South Africa that fought in North Africa, and after these three elite units were eliminated, the South African Army formed later could not be seen very well.

And so it was!

After hesitating for a long time, Bradley finally didn't tell Shi Mozi what he was deceiving, but said: "I'll report to Washington first, maybe I have to prepare for the worst!" ”

At the end of history, the old man was in tears, but he couldn't say a word. Of course, he knew what the worst-case plan was: Washington had made it clear that he wanted Shi Mozi to go to Washington or Ottawa to organize a government-in-exile, and Churchill, who was also sympathetic, also extended an olive branch to Shi Mozi to come to Canada for exile.

In order to prevent Shi Mozi from taking the bait and backlashing at a critical moment, the Joint Chiefs of Staff also issued a secret order to Bradley, and if necessary, let the elite US commandos "protect" Shi Mozi and a few dignitaries to go together. To this end, Bradley prepared well in advance and arranged 15 submarines in Cape Town - preparing to take the submarine to Recife first, and then change planes from Recife to Florida.

As for him himself, Washington also explained that he must retreat safely, and the United States has just lost two lieutenant generals in South America and the Pacific Ocean, and can no longer afford to lose one lieutenant general. So far, Bradley's arrangements have been much better prepared than MacArthur's, who fled the Philippines in a hurry.

That night was also the time when the polling stations and mobile ballot boxes in the U.S. election were finally counted, confirmed, and counted, and the final result was that Dewey was elected with an unprecedented 74.91 percent of the vote. On the morning of the 17th, even worse news came, when the Aleutian Islands air force discovered the main fleet and landing force of the Japanese army advancing on the sea more than 800 kilometers to the south, and the Japanese army almost unabashedly expressed its intention to seize the Aleutian Islands.

After the fall of the two islands of Hawaii, the Japanese army carried out Horiyoshi's instructions and collected the vast majority of the civilians on the islands and released them back to Oahu.

In the past two days, Japanese and US planes have frequently exchanged victories and defeats, and the overall battle losses have remained at about 2:3, and the problem is that Japan has piled up three flight divisions in one go, and its own losses are less than those of the United States, and the number of planes is more than twice that of the US military, which makes Doolittle panic. Not only was a large number of planes and fuel rapidly depleted, but also the pilots were also being worn out at a very fast rate, and under the continuous bombing and attack of the Japanese army, the resistance to Pearl Harbor was rapidly weakened, the night sky was almost undefended, and the people and troops had to face the Japanese attack and harassment every day.

In particular, the Mosquito bombers that Japan had acquired from the British, who had brought endless harassment to the Germans across the Channel every night, now had the turn of Oahu and Pearl Harbor to enjoy it all.

At the emergency meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, most of the people did not say a word and did not know what to do. Dewey's eye sockets were sunken deeply, and he was so exhausted by the battlefield and bad news in diplomacy that many wondered if he would become the first president to have to be hospitalized before he could take office.

Judging from the negotiations, the current situation is trapped in all aspects, and Germany's conditions have increased unabated due to the advancement of the battlefield situation in South Africa and South America; Japan rejected the U.S. reply to the terms of the armistice and made it clear that if the U.S. refused to cede Hawaii and the Aleutians, Japan would take it upon itself.

Japan is not boasting, they are capable of doing it, the Aleutian defenders could not stop the Japanese attack at all, and on the morning of the 19th, the Aleutian Islands fell.

In the past, the Joint Chiefs of Staff believed that Japan could not maintain a supply route across the Pacific, and Turner also launched an air raid operation on the basis of which the crew was replaced by tankers, but after Japan obtained a large number of transport ships from Britain, Germany and other European countries, it was more than enough to maintain this volume, and after Germany helped Japan obtain a supply support point in the direction of Peru, the Japanese army fighting in the Pacific could now receive supply support from both sides.

At present, the only hope for Pearl Harbor is the submarine force, but the supplies carried by the first batch of submarine transport troops have not yet reached Pearl Harbor, and although the submarine combat units with Pearl Harbor as their home port have tried their best to fight Tsunoda's Second Air Battle, the losses are very large, and the results are very small - the US military sank a light cruiser and a supply ship at the cost of five submarines, so that Tsunoda has increased his vigilance, and it will not be so easy to succeed.

The situation in South America also collapsed, the German army quickly infiltrated after occupying Guyana, and British and Dutch Guiana were also in a hurry, and what made Washington even more furious was that the British government and the Dutch government sent a telegram calling on their own residents to cooperate closely with the German army, and they were invited by their own governments to prepare to "liberate" the European territories occupied by US imperialism, and they were the Axis allies!

This has made the United States, which claims to be a free world, feel disgraced and embarrassed......

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