"Oh, the cake seller!" Roosevelt, who heard that the Third Fleet had been hit by a typhoon, couldn't help but exclaim.\\

"Is God really warning us about something?" The subsequent exclamation of Vice President Wallace, who was about to step down, even caused a trace of doubt in Roosevelt's heart about the correctness of this war with China.

Ever since the declaration of war on China, Roosevelt had felt bad things coming his way.

Although the news of the alliance between China and Germany had been expected by the Americans, who ignored the opposition of their allies, the successive reactions to their alliance still made the United States feel very stressed.

The Chinese did not hesitate to cross the Ural Mountains directly, so that Soviet Russia could not wait for the large-scale action of the Americans on the Japanese mainland, so they dispatched a million troops to guard the rear as early as possible to protect the belongings they had accumulated with great difficulty.

This relieved the Germans, who had just been driven out of Moscow, and stabilized their positions and had more energy to deal with the crisis on the Western Front.

At this time, however, Americans need to spare their energies to cope with the stability of the post-huā garden.

The alliance between China and Germany caused several Latin countries, such as Brazil, which had joined or were preparing to join the alliance, to wait and see again. Argentina and Mexico, on the other hand, have come alive again after a period of silence.

Mexico, in particular, has suppressed many incidents of the Axis powers trying to woo Mexico in this place that the Americans have been watching, and even ousted former President Cárdenas from power early, suppressing all abnormal voices. Recently, however, public opinion in Mexico has raised questions about the secession of land in the Mexican-American War. Some of the American-sponsored proxies have also been embroiled in various scandals, making it difficult for Americans to regain their disadvantage.

In countries such as Panama and Cuba, the proxies of the Americans have even suffered heavy losses, and some armed opposition forces have even directly shouted slogans against American colonization.

Although the various anti-American trends, including those in the Philippines, are still only petty fights, and even the Chinese Americans in the Americas who are most worried are not involved, Roosevelt still keenly sensed the surging tide in the shadows.

Of course, the most frustrating thing is the action in the "day".

At the beginning of those conflicts with China, the Americans suffered a small loss first, and the next sudden earthquake directly caused the US Army to suffer the worst one-time casualties in history.

Although public opinion has been deliberately downplayed, and even the death toll of the Chinese servant army has been counted to appease the mood of the domestic people, some related rumors have made Washington somewhat passive.

And this time, before Roosevelt could finish dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake, another huge typhoon came, which directly put the Third Fleet in a desperate situation.

Although it is not yet known what the casualties were, the news from Halsey that in a short period of time 2 escort carriers, 2 light cruisers and 6 destroyers had completely lost contact, it is possible to guess what the final fate of the Third Fleet will be.

"I'm afraid it's even worse with the cargo ships and troop carriers that accompany them!" Leahy shook his head and sighed.

The Americans, who had deep pockets, could not care less about the large quantities of supplies and weapons carried by the more than 300 large cargo ships accompanying the Japanese mainland, but they could not ignore the three infantry divisions that had just been transferred from the American mainland to accompany the Third Fleet. In order to facilitate management, this group of American GIs, who had caused a lot of trouble in Hawaii and Guam, were originally scheduled to stop in the Philippines and follow the fleet directly to the mainland of Japan.

Although the battleships and Essex-class aircraft carriers can barely hold up in the storm, these battleships ready to fight at any time basically do not undertake troop transport tasks, and the thin figures of those troop carriers carried by cruise ships and some cruisers cannot resist this storm at all, and the infantry above can only rely on praying to God.

"Lord, bless those poor children!" At this moment, Roosevelt, who felt the power of nature, could only pray helplessly.

Roosevelt, who was getting worse and worse, had gradually come to believe in the existence of God, and preferred to believe that God was manipulating this warning to him. Unexpectedly, all this control is rejoicing in the distance.

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"It's finally time to catch up!" Hearing the report from the Kirov airship in the high-altitude stratosphere, Meng Xiang, who had planned to promote all this behind him, was very determined.

Like the earthquake in Japan, even Meng Xiang, a pseudo-military fan, heard about the unbeatable U.S. Navy being hit by a typhoon in World War II on the vast Internet of information in later generations, and made a fuss.

Meng Xiang also vaguely remembered the Halsey typhoon not far from the date of the 44 year earthquake.

Meng Xiang, who was exposed to the various propaganda of asymmetric warfare in later generations, naturally understood that war is not only about using guns and cannons to decide victory or defeat, but also that economic, cultural, and natural disasters can be transformed into weapons to attack opponents.

Since Meng Xiang used the earthquake on the 7th to deal with the US Army, he did not prevent the US Navy from using the 17th typhoon.

It's just that unlike earthquakes, which are generally not susceptible to external influences, natural phenomena like storms that are easily instigated by butterfly wings, Meng Xiang is also unsure in his heart.

However, under Meng Xiang's attention, the field of weather forecasting in China, which is often trapped by various natural disasters, has developed rapidly, and the level has been at the world-class level. Even the Zeppelin airship, which was brought from the Germans, was in the service of the meteorological department along with three Kirov airships, detecting at high altitudes and improving the level of prevention of large-scale natural disasters with the help of changes in the cloud map.

This time, in order to use the typhoon as a weapon, Meng Xiang sent seven Kirov airships to pay attention to the nearby meteorological changes three months ago, with the help of a comprehensive analysis of multiple meteorological survey stations set up near the Philippines for three years. After giving up two general typhoons in a row, I finally caught a trace of this mega typhoon in advance not long ago, and tracked and confirmed its intensity, speed and direction all the way, and finally figured out the temper of this mega typhoon that was a day ahead of schedule.

As a result, the Huaxia Navy's plan to engage the U.S. Navy near Taiwan was put on hold, and this seemingly unreliable backup plan was launched.

The main force of the Huaxia Navy made a circle near the Philippines and then withdrew, leaving only a rough-skinned and thick-skinned three-pole dreadnought battleship and a resistible Red Alert second-class aircraft carrier to stay as bait and successfully hook the US Third Fleet.

Before the arrival of this catastrophic typhoon, most of the fighters on the aircraft carrier had already been evacuated under the pretext of defeat. In order to resist the attack of American fighters, even these two warships have been modified separately, focusing on strengthening anti-aircraft firepower, and some equipment changes have been made to resist storms.

Compared with these 2 warships that can be repaired quickly by the base, or even directly recovered, Meng Xiang, who has no bottom on the strength of the typhoon, is more concerned about the safety of the personnel.

The clones also knew the whole plan early on and were ready to defend themselves against the attacks of American fighters and typhoons.

In order to reduce the loss of these loyal clones, Meng Xiang even ordered some of the equipment and weapons on the two base warships to be directly controlled by Zhi Brain, reducing the personnel arrangement on the surface of the battleship and additionally strengthening the defense in the air.

As long as they are willing to spend money, Zhinao's control of the battleship's own anti-aircraft weapons is more accurate, forcing the American fighters not to get too much cheap, and also avoiding the fate of the two battleships being sunk in advance.

Until the storm hit, these two warships, which were also swaying in the storm, but had already avoided the center of the storm, were finally safe.

And the U.S. Third Fleet, at the center of the storm, is still struggling.

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"Hurry to the rescue!" Nimitz, who was still in Hawaii, could only command helplessly at this time.

When the storm is raging, going to the rescue is simply looking for death. In order to prevent the Philippines from being unable to support the storm, this order to order the Philippines and the Japanese fleet to rescue at the same time was issued early, but the rescue operation could only be after the storm.

And during this time, the American GIs who were killed could only continue to pray.

And during the same period, Meng Xiang, who was far away in Zhongdu, also issued a series of follow-up orders. The storm was only the prelude to the offensive.

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The storm finally passed, but Halsey wanted to cry without tears.

Initial losses have already come out.

In battleships alone, the US military lost 4 light aircraft carriers, 5 escort aircraft carriers, 1 heavy cruiser, 3 light cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 8 escort destroyers.

Even the newly commissioned Essex-class aircraft carrier in the Philippine Sea was continuously bumped into and fro by planes in the hangar, causing continuous explosions, and finally sank into the eastern waters of the Philippines amid the sound of ammunition in the ammunition depot.

Although the battleships and other aircraft carriers were not damaged, the vast majority of the supply ships and cargo ships that accompanied the troop carriers were not spared, and the losses could not be counted for a while.

"Is this simply the greatest disaster in the history of the American Navy, anything worse than that?" Halsey was heartbroken.

However, a high-pitched air raid siren made him want to puff his crow's mouth.

"Enemy attack! Air raid! The American sailors on deck, who had not yet recovered from the storm, shouted again in panic.

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