Chapter 881 South America (8)

General Saldivar found a few confidants to pack some gold and silver treasures, and together with the American ambassador, they left Havana by boat and headed for the United States.

But the Americans did not tell them about the German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico, and they were on the largest destroyer in Cuba. In addition, they did not dare to hang the identification flag on the ship because of their "guilty conscience". As a result, they were targeted by German submarines in the waters less than 100 kilometers from the Port of Miami. Two torpedoes directly blew the destroyer into two pieces. The people on the ship did not even have time to jump into the water, and the two halves of the hull sank to the bottom of the sea.

The top leader of the country was missing, and the Cuban top leaders were in chaos for a while.

The German fleet had already sailed into Guantanamo Bay and issued a surrender notice to the US troops stationed in Guantanamo.

The US military naturally refused to surrender easily, and the German army did not waste time and immediately launched an attack.

The attack aircraft taking off from the aircraft carrier first sank all the old destroyers in the port, and then attacked the US military base in Guantanamo. The terrible napalm bombs were dropped without cost, and the US military base was immediately engulfed in a sea of ​​fire.

Until the German army eliminated the remnants of the US military in Guantanamo, the Cuban high-level officials were still in a state of chaos, and the German army was too lazy to pay attention to them. The fleet was heading for the next target without stopping.

Although the United States occupied the Bahamas, there were almost no troops stationed there. Seeing the aggressive German fleet, the residents of the port city quickly took down the American flag. But then they were in trouble again. They originally planned to hang the previous British flag back, but it was the German fleet that came, and it seemed inappropriate to hang the British flag, and they did not prepare the German flag.

However, the German army did not care about these things with them, and began to build a military base on one of the islands.

In the original time and space, after World War II, the United States established a large number of military bases around the world, reaching a climax during the Kennedy presidency in the 1960s, with more than 1,000 large bases alone. After the end of the Cold War, the United States' overseas military bases were greatly reduced. The United States has military bases in 140 countries around the world, with a total of 374 overseas military bases, 300,000 troops stationed, and more than 100 billion US dollars spent each year.

As for why the United States spends huge sums of money to maintain so many overseas military bases? There are multiple reasons, such as protecting allies; after World War II, many countries faced the threat of the Soviet Union and needed the protection of the US military. The US military stationed there protected their security. Of course, to put it nicely, it is protection, but in fact it is to control allies. For many small countries, they don’t know whether the Soviet army will come or not, and they don’t know when they will attack, but the US military is already on the mainland. Once a country has foreign troops stationed, it is difficult to maintain its independence. It is precisely by relying on the story of "The Wolf is Coming" that the US military has successfully entered more than 100 countries, making more than 100 countries no longer completely independent.

Moreover, countries like Germany and Britain in Europe, and island countries in Asia have strong industrialized economic strength. If they are not controlled, they may become enemies of the United States again one day. The presence of US troops can ensure that they will always be allies. With more allies, there will be fewer enemies.

With such a ready-made teacher, Yannick will naturally not waste it and deploy military bases wherever he goes.

At this time, another fleet arrived in the Bermuda Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Around 1503, Spanish (some say Portuguese) explorer Juan Bermuda first discovered this place, and the British landed on the island in 1609. In 1684, the Bermuda Islands officially became a British colony.

In the Age of Exploration without airplanes, it was impossible to cross the unpredictable Atlantic Ocean from Europe to North America without islands to rest in the middle, and supplies could not keep up. The Bermuda Islands are located between Europe and North America (closer to North America), so they have become a strategic stronghold for Britain. As long as Britain controls the Bermuda Islands, it can exert influence on North America. From the outbreak of the European war to the fall of Britain, the garrison on the island was not withdrawn. Even though Latin American countries were successively taken over by the United States, the Bermuda Islands were still firmly in the hands of the British army.

In later generations, the Bermuda Triangle became a topic of great interest to many people, but the discussion was not about its military importance, but the legendary "Devil's Triangle" supernatural event.

The so-called "triangle" refers to a triangle in the western Atlantic Ocean formed by the Bermuda Islands, Miami in the United States, and San Juan in Puerto Rico; as for the "devil", it is said that this mysterious sea area has repeatedly experienced mysterious disappearances and shipwrecks, and countless cargo ships, warships, submarines, airplanes, etc. that passed through here have disappeared strangely. Some even cannot find wreckage and bodies, as if the people and the boats have evaporated from the face of the earth.

Some cases are even more mysterious, saying that planes and ships that have been missing for decades suddenly reappear, and the passengers on them have not aged at all. Others say that when flying over this sea area, the pilot's watch is like traveling through time and space, and is several hours slower than other places.

Although there are many supernatural stories in the "Devil's Triangle", the story structure is similar, and most of them are about cases where a certain type of transportation disappears for no reason when it arrives in the area. At first glance, the "Devil's Triangle" seems to be really evil, and it has instilled in people the idea that the "Devil's Triangle" is very dangerous, and the disappearance of transportation is contrary to common sense and cannot be explained by science.

There are even many theories and hypotheses that try to support and explain these mysterious phenomena. For example, "infrasonic vibration theory", "Haiti water bridge theory", "natural gas hydrate theory", "pyramid magnetic field theory", "magnetic declination anomaly theory", etc., all have their own schools and try to justify themselves.

But the funny thing is that these are just rumors.

The name "Devil's Triangle" originated in the 1950s, when a reporter named Edward Van Winkle Jones wrote a story about the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle for the Associated Press. The story deliberately portrayed the Bermuda Triangle as a mysterious area where a large number of ships and planes disappeared. Later in the 1970s, the Bermuda Triangle became the world's best-selling book.

After that, many writers spotted the business opportunity and published many books related to the Bermuda Triangle, making a lot of money. Among them, the most famous is Baylis. His "Bermuda Triangle" published in 1974 sold 5 million copies, making the whole world know about the existence of the Bermuda Triangle.

But in the second year, Larry Kush published a book specifically against Belis, "Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle - Solved", which detailed the causes and investigation results of each accident. Belis later admitted that he had made up the truth and fabricated the truth.

In the Internet age of later generations, if you go online to check the real-time tracking map of planes and ships around the world, you will find that the ships and planes passing through this "Devil's Triangle" can be described as densely packed, and they will not deliberately go around the "Devil's Triangle". It can be said that facts speak louder than words.