Chapter 129: Shocking Changes in South America (Part 1) In the far southwest of South America, there is a magical country called Chile.
This may be the most remote country in the world, excluding Antarctica.
There are insurmountable geographical barriers between it and the centers of various civilizations.
On a map, Chile looks like a slender bamboo pole, sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains.
This is the narrowest country in the world, with a length of 4,270 kilometers from north to south, and an average width of only 180 kilometers from east to west.
It is located in South America, where tropical rainforests are widespread.
It has a long coastline and the Atacama Desert, known as the "dryest extreme in the world."
The original meaning of the word Chile is "the end of the world".
This is because during the colonial period, Chile was limited to the south of the desert and north of the Bio Bio River.
It was a remote and relatively isolated place for the mother country, and at that time Chile did not discover as rich precious metal deposits as Mexico and Peru, so it did not receive the attention of the mother country.
In addition, Chile is located in the Pacific Rim Seismic Belt, where earthquakes and other natural disasters occur frequently.
However, despite its remote location and strange shape, Chile is by no means a poor and weak country.
It is this special geographical structure and historical reasons that have created the Chilean people's tenacious character, tradition of seeking knowledge and learning, and their strong ability to govern themselves.
And it provides them with a natural barrier against foreign invaders.
Of course, nature also has unique gifts to Chile.
Its rich mineral resources have given Chile a solid economic backbone.
Its copper ore materials account for a quarter of the world’s reserves.
It is also the country that produces the most natural saltpeter in the world; Chile It also has rich forest resources.
These rich natural resources provide a material foundation for the development of the Chilean economy, and also give Chile, which was once remote and poor, the basic conditions for fighting for hegemony in the war.
As one of the few bellicose countries in South America, Chile has been militaristic and violent since its founding.
He continued his northern expedition, repeatedly attacked Bolivia and Peru, and achieved a series of brilliant naval and land battle victories.
His territory expanded hundreds of kilometers northward, and he was known as the "British in South America."
However, in the face of a giant like the United States, the strength of Chile, a small South American power, is a bit insufficient.
Although at the end of the 19th century, Chile once had the most powerful naval fleet in the entire Americas, with tonnage and combat effectiveness exceeding that of the U.S.
Navy at the time.
However, as the global warship-building competition between the late 19th and early 20th centuries began with great vigor, and when the Americans organized the "Great White Fleet" to sail around the world to demonstrate, the Chilean Navy, which was once glorious in the past, lacked the ability to build warships on its own. industrial strength, but quickly fell behind and became an inconspicuous little player.
Next, with the implementation of the Monroe Doctrine and the rapid expansion of U.S. power, Chile, like other South American friends, gradually became the backyard and economic colony of the Americans.
During World War II, under strong pressure from the United States, Chile also declared war on the fascist regimes of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
It joined the Allied camp originally just to join in the fun and earn the title of victorious country to show off.
However, the development of the war turned out to be far more cruel and bloody than the Chileans imagined.
After defeating Germany and Italy, which were strong foreign powers and weak in power, they had to fight the Soviet Union next.
In an unprecedentedly cruel war, the Chilean navy's ships and sailors were basically forcibly requisitioned by the U.S.
Pacific Fleet, and were exhausted in a series of wars in the South Pacific.
The more than 200,000 Chilean Army soldiers who followed the United States to participate in the World War were almost completely wiped out in a series of overseas wars in the Pacific, Japan, North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
On average, only one person in a thousand people came back alive.
In order to support the expenses of this war, Chile has repeatedly raised taxes, squeezing its citizens into misery.
Although the United States has given the Chilean government a lot of loans and subsidies, under wartime material control, these dollar loans cannot buy anything except for investment.
Seeing that following the United States to participate in the world war, instead of enjoying any war dividends, Chile had to lose its only capital.
The whole country of Chile had already accumulated great dissatisfaction, and the crazy increase in the number of casualties also made this country with a limited population It is becoming increasingly unbearable for small countries.
In the eyes of South Americans, both World War II and World War III are "other people's wars."
They work as mercenaries for the Americans for money.
But today's US dollar is becoming less and less valuable, and it may one day become useless paper.
If we continue to fight, we will no longer exchange lives for money, but lose money and lose lives.
Who is willing to do such a stupid thing?
Therefore, after the pro-American President Alessandri announced the dissolution of Congress, the suspension of elections, and nationwide martial law in order to maintain the shaky regime and suppress the anti-war movement, the pro-communist left-wing coalition party "Popular Front" immediately declared "safeguarding the constitution" "Initiating a military coup under the banner of After six hours of melee, President Alessandri and his 1,500 close associates died in the streets of Santiago, the capital.
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While the newly established Chilean government continued to suppress opposition elements across the country, it announced the end of military ties with the United States.
Alliance Agreement, withdraw from this war.
At the same time, the Argentine government, which had always been "anti-American" and had always been half-hearted and extremely reluctant to participate in the war, also officially announced its rebellion.
After the Peron government that came to power last year stabilized its internal affairs, it began to cool down and dilute alliance relations.
It first gradually stopped military cooperation with the US government, and then tried to recall the Argentine troops that had been sent overseas to assist in the war.
This work had just begun.
It was forced to end as soon as it started, because all the Argentine troops participating in the war were quickly destroyed.
They either went to see God or entered a prisoner of war camp.
However, the United States cannot tolerate Argentina jumping off the chariot so easily.
Although the intensity of the war between the two camps has dropped rapidly since the spring of 1947, in order to cope with the brutal war of attrition that will inevitably follow, the Pentagon needs to recruit more soldiers from South America to serve as cannon fodder and plunder more resources to maintain the operation of the huge war machine, so it must tighten rather than relax its control over South American countries.
In order to suppress the anti-American forces in Argentina, while dealing with the domestic disaster, the United States also did not forget to send more troops to Brazil.
At the same time, it sent a fleet to patrol the mouth of the Rio de la Plata to deter Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, which is located on the south bank of the estuary of the Rio de la Plata.
North Aires However, in the face of the U.S. government's brutal demands such as large-scale forced conscription of Argentines, purchase of large quantities of grain and meat at low prices, and forcible apportionment of huge war national debts, all these military intimidation measures failed.
Suppress the raging anger of the Argentinians.
The anxious Argentinians expressed that they would rather fight with the Americans and die at home than have their last copper coin plundered and then be buried in an unknown wilderness on the other side of the ocean.
The Peron government, which was originally extremely anti-American in its political stance and extremely Nazi-like, continued to add fuel to the flames.
Soon, with the help of public opinion and general trend, it successfully purged the weak pro-American forces in the country and officially Falling out with the United States Although as remnants of the Nazis, they also hate the Soviets, but after all, the Soviets are far away across the ocean, and the Americans have already extended their dirty hands into Argentina, so it is natural to oppose the United States first.
Next, under the pressure of the US military's previous defeats, Peru's political situation also underwent drastic changes.
The left-wing parties that advocated withdrawing from the war came to power through a coup, but the pro-American old regime gathered its own troops and began to counterattack.
Just as the two sides were fighting inextricably, foreign aid arrived again.
Northern border of Chile, Atacama Desert, Port of Antofagasta The new flagship of the Soviet Red Flag Pacific Fleet, the nuclear-powered battleship "Lenin", is anchored outside this desert port.
Wang Qiu stood by the railing of the ship, looking curiously at the tawny coastline and bare mountains on the opposite side.
Although this land is very close to the sea, the Peruvian cold current brought icy seawater near the Antarctic, causing the Atacama Desert The nearby air is colder at the bottom and warmer at the top.
In meteorology, this situation is called an "inversion layer", which is very unfavorable for the condensation of raindrops.
At the same time, the Andes Mountains are like a tall and insurmountable barrier, blocking the wind blowing from the Amazon Basin.
Moist air mass.
After all, the Atacama Desert does not meet any meteorological conditions that can make it rain.
Therefore, although this place is foggy all year round and the relative humidity of the air can sometimes reach 70, it has become the world's most humid place.
Arid place.
How dry is this Atacama Desert?
The average annual precipitation in the entire desert is less than 50 millimeters, and in the northern region it is less than 10 millimeters.
It rains only two to three times per century on average; somewhere in the desert In some places, there has been drought for almost 400 years since the Spaniards began to keep meteorological records here in the late 16th century.
In other words, it is difficult to say whether there are any living people there who have witnessed the last rain.
The Atacama Desert is so dry that it is extremely unsuitable for human habitation.
In addition, the only soil it has is highly acidic and extremely barren.
Therefore, except for a few settlements, it has become the world's largest desert.
The only place without any sign of life.
So much so that NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover is conducting experiments here.
Scientists believe that this is the most Mars-like place on Earth, and maybe the conditions are not as good as Mars.
However, despite such harsh natural conditions, the Port of Antofagasta, which is in front of a million people, lives in this desert.
It is also the second largest port and the fifth largest city in Chile without a surface.
To provide water, they took advantage of the foggy weather and set up hundreds of "fog-catching nets" that covered the sky and sun to collect moisture in the fog, allowing the thick fog to condense into water droplets on the surface of the nets.
It is said that on a good day each net can collect one hundred and seventy liters of water per day.
In addition, long water pipes were laid to divert snow water from the Andes Mountains to eke out a living.
The reason why so many Chileans live together in this desert where there is no water to drink is of course not because they like to ask for trouble, but because this desert produces a large amount of struvite, natural saltpeter and copper ore.
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They are all good things that can be sold at a good price.
And Chile, which is far away from the prosperous areas of the civilized world, relies on the trade revenue from these minerals to afford a large and money-burning navy.
Although the current Chilean navy has been torn apart by the Americans because of its participation in the world war, so Not much left.
But there are still many military port facilities left in the Port of Antofagasta, close to the northern border, which are now directly occupied by the Soviet Red Navy, which crossed the Pacific for the first time, as an advance base for supplies and rest.
At this moment, the entire harbor of Antofagasta was filled to the brim with Soviet navy ocean-going ships flying red flags.
The Japanese naval combined fleet, which arrived on the coast of South America earlier, has already set off for Peru in advance to cooperate with the new regime in crushing the counterattack of the domestic pro-American reactionaries.
"How is the situation in Peru?
Has the latest information been sent?
Have the Japanese Marines invaded the capital Lima?"
Turning around to the chart room of the battleship "Lenin", Wang Qiu asked casually while looking at the messy map on the table.
"Progress is going quite smoothly.
The Callao military port on the outskirts of Lima has been destroyed by shelling, and there are no signs of shore-based aviation taking off for bombing.
Some intelligence and political workers have already gone ashore to launch an armed uprising of local Japanese expatriates to cooperate with the new government in encircling and suppressing pro-U.S.
Send the remnants of the army” While political commissar Guo kept in touch with the radio room using the ship's phone, he wrote something on the map and notebook with a pencil, "The pro-American rebels' offensive on the capital Lima has been destroyed by high-density bombing by Japanese naval aviation.
Frustrated, we are currently launching a full-scale counterattack.”
"It sounds like things are going well.
How do Americans react to the changes in South America?"
Wang Qiu nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to ask, "This time they took away such a large piece of the wall, and it was in such a fatal and vital part.
It may also trigger a chain reaction of reshuffle throughout Latin America."
The White House must be going crazy right now."
"It's no use even if they are madly anxious.
The main force of the U.S.
Navy's Pacific Fleet was deceived by the Japanese Navy's combined fleet's previous feint to march westward into the Indian Ocean.
It is still staying in the Hawaiian Islands to prepare for war, and it is impossible to reach South America for a while.
Come."
Professor Guo poked the Hawaiian Islands on the map with a pencil and replied, "Moreover, even if they attack from the Hawaiian Islands quickly and slowly, not to mention how long it will take, they will not be able to withstand it next."
Half of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy and the entire Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy have joined forces with Yamato-class battleships alone.
In this South American battle, a full twelve aircraft carriers and mobile fleets are even more outstanding."
Regarding Professor Guo's above-mentioned views, Wang Qiu also nodded in agreement.
Although since the introduction of the Monroe Doctrine, the United States has regarded the entire Latin America as its own backyard and its dominant sphere of influence, its main method is economic and political penetration.
As for the troops directly stationed in various countries in South America, there are really very few.
Before World War II, the small establishment of the U.S.
Army did not even make a sound when spread overseas.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the U.S.
Navy and Army experienced rapid expansion one after another, which caused a shortage of human resources at home.
They had to recruit more men from allies.
How could they get enough manpower to station in South America?
Therefore, faced with the sudden and rapid defections of South American allies, Americans in the northern hemisphere seemed unable to react at all. oshow7: