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On September 19, marked by the death of Patton and the surrender of the defenders of the valley, this large-scale battle, which lasted for more than two months, integrating land, sea, air and other arms, multiple battlefields and multi-dimensional battles, finally came to an end. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info is known as the Brazilian Campaign, or more precisely the "South Atlantic-Brazilian Campaign", because the entire battle took place in Brazil

If it weren't for the fact that the Brazilian authorities sent the First Expeditionary Division to try to eliminate the German troops in the Americas and the American Republics in one fell swoop, the beginning of the campaign might have been completely different, but the Brazilians could no longer close this Pandora's box after opening it: the destruction of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, the attack of the Sauken cluster, the planned landing of the German Kranker detachment and the Rio coup d'état and other series of events pushed the German-American confrontation to a white-hot level, and the counterattack of Nimitz, Rommel's offensive and the Battle of El Salvador were the culminating part of the event.

To be honest, although the US military was defeated in the whole battle, if different changes occurred at some key points at the beginning, it is difficult to say that the German army will definitely have the last laugh, at least it will not be able to win so easily as it is now.

The first key node is the German submarine ambush formation, saturated lightning strikes abolished a lot of the Nimitz fleet, so that in the end it can only barely play with Kranker 2:3 exchange ratio of aircraft carriers, if there is no preset ambush, the result of the two sides is likely to be 1:3, and the TF48 fleet can still maintain considerable strength after the end of the naval battle, and it is even possible to launch a landing campaign before the arrival of the German main fleet in South America, which will add a lot of variables;

The second key point was the German ship-based rocket attack, which severely damaged the air power of El Salvador and caused great confusion to the defenders, and the German main fleet covered the successful forced landing in El Salvador. Without the preemptive rocket strike, it would not have been so easy for the German army to seize sea and air supremacy in El Salvador -- after all, the US Army and Air Force were not weak in this area.

It was precisely because of the German army's preemption and superiority at the two key nodes that the battle became more and more overwhelming as it went to the rear.

The lessons learned from this for Germany were that the XXI and XXIII submarines were of extraordinary use and should be built vigorously, and that the other submarines were completely obsolete; Rocket carriers are a deterrent weapon, but liquid fuel is too cumbersome to fill on site, and it is urgent to change to solid fuel to improve efficiency and reduce size, and it is also hoped that the rocket carrier ship will be faster and more defensive.

The Navy is now very flexible, and the missile carrier that undertook the launch mission has not yet returned, and immediately took the lead in designing a brand-new missile cruiser based on the Hipper-class:

The ship has a standard displacement of 17,500 tons and a full load displacement of 22,000 tons, and is equipped with 12 128mm high-level dual-purpose guns and other small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns for naval air defense, and the main attack weapons are missiles: it is required to have 6 4-mounted anti-ship and anti-ground ballistic missiles (48 in total), 8 quadruple cruise missiles (64 in total), and 6 twin-mounted anti-aircraft missiles (48 in total).

It further proposed to upgrade to a six-in-one rocket strike force: surface ships, submarines, heavy bombers, underground silos, road mobile launches, railway mobile launches, and hinted that missile cruisers were also preparing to launch super bombs.

Inspired by Hoffman's proposed anti-aircraft battleships, the crazier designers wanted to build super-missile battleships, codenamed Type H44, on the basis of the Japanese Yamato-class and Type H50 battleships.

The ship has a displacement of at least 100,000 tons, a speed of 30 knots, and a range of 15,000 nautical miles, considering conventional power in principle (if the super power is mature, it can also be considered to be used), the air defense is still a combination of 128mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns + phalanx, but there are nearly 800 missiles of various types (including spare bombs) all over the body, hoping to build 4 super rocket formations in one go to create a unique super rocket formation in the world, and directly blow the enemy back to the Stone Age! ”

Hoffman watched in amazement as they went further and further down the "evil road", but he had to go against his will to agree to the exploration and design, and even "endured" to hand over the name of "arsenal ship", a bunch of high-ranking people, including Dönitz and Speer, happily used this name, and a bunch of rocket, shipbuilding experts and high command staff flattered the Führer to "geniusly, creatively, and comprehensively" advance the doctrine of global warfare, and was "the greatest military strategist since Alexander the Great!" Merit far surpasses that of Emperor Napoleon! ”

Hoffman knew that they were deeply afraid that they would drastically reduce the Navy's military spending after the war, and they must find something to do it, but fortunately, the drawings are the drawings, and the funds are the funds, which are two different things.

As for the lessons learned by the United States and the German army, Truman slapped the table at the joint staff meeting: "The United States must have high-powered rockets and ultra-quiet submarines!" Without these things, the survival of the United States cannot be guaranteed, and there can be no influence and achievement of great power status! ”

As for some of Patton's overly aggressive practices in this battle, such as deploying Roosevelt Jr. in front of the front, and El Salvador not retreating in time to counterattack, the collapse of the 5th Army was accelerated, but even if it was dealt with in this regard, it would at best reduce its own losses and make some trouble for the Germans, and it was impossible to turn things around.

In the end, the result was unexpected even by the Germans themselves.

In the whole battle, from Sauken's participation in the coup d'état in Brazil and the landing in Rio de Janeiro to the final surrender of the Patton cluster, the German army killed, wounded, and captured nearly 150,000 American troops, including more than 130,000 US Army (mainly the Fifth Army), more than 7,000 US Army Aviation, and nearly 10,000 US Navy.

The U.S. Army's divisional numbers of 5 and 6 divisional units that were heavily damaged or annihilated were hit by the medium wound and lost part of their strength (including the 1st Red Division and the 1st Cavalry Division); Countless tanks, artillery and vehicles of all kinds were destroyed and captured.

The US Navy lost more than 1.2 million tons of various ships (including warships and cargo ships), and more than 200,000 tons of cargo ships were captured by the Germans in the port of El Salvador alone, and the most tragic loss was that the last elite carrier-based aircraft pilots of the Navy lost more than 80 percent, so that the Atlantic Fleet had to draw skilled pilots from other battlefields for a period of time to come.

The U.S. Army lost nearly 4,000 planes of various types before and after, of which more than 2,800 were lost in battle (including being shot down, being seriously damaged and unusable, and crashing in an accident), and more than 1,100 were destroyed or captured on the ground and on cargo ships.

The direct economic losses in the whole battle were as high as nearly 20 billion US dollars, and the warships and ships sunk by the German army alone were worth a lot of money, and although the more than 600,000 B-29s were not much, the losses of C-46\C-47\P-51\P-47 and P-47 of about tens of thousands or 100,000 US dollars were counted, and the tanks and armored vehicles of tens of thousands of dollars were counted in thousands.

In order to win the battle, the German army also paid a lot of price: 2 regular aircraft carriers and 2 escort aircraft carriers of the Kranke detachment were sunk, 1 fleet aircraft carrier was heavily damaged, a number of other auxiliary warships and submarines were also sunk, and 3 battleships were not sunk but also scarred. The army suffered more than 10,000 losses (more than 4,000 killed) in front and rear operations, and the air force and naval aviation lost more than 600 aircraft and nearly half of their crews.

Although the cost was high, the campaign was extremely successful overall:

First, the expansion and defense of the nascent American Republic. The American Republic, which was originally under the threat of Brazil, was not only successfully consolidated in this campaign, but also expanded its territory, with a total area of nearly 900,000 square kilometers, almost equivalent to the area of the Third Reich in Europe, but with a population of more than 400,000;

Second, it established the absolute prestige of the Third Reich in South America. Since the Monroe Doctrine, the hegemon of South America has always been the United States, although the La Plata group or other South American countries have the idea of opposing the United States, but no one dares to put it into practice, the Third Reich beat the American imperialists with a violent style of play so that they cannot take care of themselves, and now all South American countries know that Germany is not easy to mess with, and it is better to mess with the United States than to provoke Germany.

Third, an extremely favorable strategic posture has been obtained. After the victory in Brazil, Germany's sphere of influence in the South Atlantic expanded from the Falklands and Argentina to El Salvador. With the tiger skin of the German army, located in Rio, the Brazilian government of Montero, which initially had only two states, not only expanded its sphere of influence to six states in the east, but also obtained the allegiance of two states in the center, and the number of controlled states was almost half a pound and eight taels with the other Brazilian government located in Recife, and Montero controlled a larger area, and the signboard of the Brazilian National Socialist Republic was about to be loomed.

Fourth, it dealt a heavy blow to the United States' will to war. Before the start of the South American campaign, Truman was convinced that he would never propose peace during his term of office, but when the Brazilian campaign came to an end, he was stunned to find that Japan and Germany were advancing on the two sides, and they were pressing on their homeland step by step, and if they did not make peace, it would really be over. Now the internal thinking of the United States has changed to the necessity of an armistice with Europe, and the difference is how to stop and at what cost.

"Is Patton really dead?" After listening to Keitel's report, Hoffman didn't pay much attention to the progress of the war, and asked about this first.

"It's dead! The ...... who was killed while sitting in the tank" Keitel didn't understand why the Führer specifically asked about it, but he knew that the Führer liked brave generals, so he said, "This is a brave general, and when he heard the captives say that he refused to retreat several times, and insisted on staying and dying with the soldiers, the captives cried when they heard that he was killed." ”

He immediately called Goebbels: "Doctor, I am satisfied with the information you sent. The title of my speech is "The Death of Patton and the Future of America", considering that the speech to the United States on September 26 will allow the 'Voice of Europe' to build momentum in advance, which is also the day of the presidential debate in the United States? ”

"Yes, you're not mistaken, I'll do whatever you ask me to do my best."

Hoffman smiled slightly: "That is the day, I want to tell the American people the truth about war and peace, and I can't let them be toyed with by politicians anymore." ”