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At the time of the second explosion at the Federal Reserve Bank, Brigadier General Copperfield was arranging combat duty for the National Guard. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the arrival of the regular troops, Brigadier General Copperfield's National Guard took a back seat and took on the perimeter guard. According to Admiral Robot's arrangement, after the Special Forces have completed the assault and the Army and Marines have entered Manhattan from the air, the National Guard will be responsible for building a boat bridge over the East and Hudson Rivers, opening up ground access for the Army's armored units to drive in, and then evacuating the wounded who need medical treatment.

That's Copperfield's mission, but it didn't go well from the start.

The U.S. military does not lack bridge-building equipment, but the National Guard does not have professional engineers. To Copperfield's annoyance, the East and Hudson rivers were very open, and even if the current was not very rapid, the bridge was very difficult. As for helping civilians who have been trapped for five days and six nights, it is even more troublesome.

Copperfield was busy when the explosion happened.

It's very violent, and it's very shocking.

The mushroom cloud was hundreds of meters high, leading many to believe that the attackers had detonated a nuclear warhead.

The first thing Copperfield did was to ask his subordinates if the Geiger index instrument, which was used to detect nuclear radiation, was normal.

It was not a nuclear warhead that exploded, but hundreds of kilograms of **high energy**.

Not only were the destroyed Federal Reserve Bank buildings, but also dozens of Navy SEALs who had reached the ground and were preparing to enter the Federal Reserve Bank.

At this time, Admiral Robert was in the command center.

Because the Navy Yard was too small and on Long Island, Admiral Robert shifted the command center of the American Army to the northern suburbs of Jersey City as he prepared for the attack.

At the time of the explosion, he was learning about the situation ahead through the tactical information exchange system.

The SEALs on assault missions carried miniature cameras, some mounted on fast helmets and others mounted on the Picatinny rails of rifles. Through the footage captured by these cameras, Admiral Robert and the rear command staff were able to accurately grasp the situation at the front.

After the attack on the special forces attacking the Federal Reserve Bank, Robert immediately asked the staff officers to mobilize the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

It is a pity that the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft has just guided the bombing and is being adjusted, and it is impossible to send back images of the battlefield in time.

After the image of the commando suddenly disappeared, Robert did not expect a big explosion and the entire commando team was annihilated, and he immediately asked the staff officer to check the communication system.

Before the staff officer could finish his inspection, the ground shook and explosions followed.

By the time Admiral Robert rushed out of the command center, the mushroom cloud from the explosion had risen nearly a thousand meters and was tumbling and spreading in all directions.

Although it was clear at a glance that the explosion had taken place in Lower Manhattan, far from the Empire State Building, the tough soldier, like everyone else, first thought that the attackers had diverted the nuclear warhead and detonated it after the attack. It wasn't until he learned that no anomalous radiation had been detected that Robert breathed a sigh of relief.

Send a second assault force, or re-bombing?

Robert only hesitated for a moment, and then gave the order to the tactical fighters patrolling near the battlefield to bomb the city with the Federal Reserve Bank as the center and a radius of 150 meters, and according to the information provided by the command center, focus on bombing the buildings that ambushed the attackers.

This time, it was the first F-35A fighters that had just entered service on a bombing mission.

Because at the beginning of the offensive, the President had already given the order under the full command of Admiral Robert, so after receiving the order, the pilot of the F-35A fighter jet dropped bombs on the target provided by the command center without asking whether it was the President who gave the bombing order.

The F-35A also carries JDAM guided bombs, but they are all 450-pound bombs.

Each fighter carried two bombs, for a total of eight fighters dropped sixteen bombs in fifteen seconds.

Because the bombs were dropped very closely, less than fifteen kilometers from the target, these JDAM were not equipped with gliding wings, and it would not take more than two minutes from the time the fighter dropped the bomb to the time the bomb hit the target. Even if you count Robert's order and the pilot's preparation for the bomb, there are only three minutes in total.

Seeing the bombing of buildings near the Federal Reserve Bank, Robert was convinced that the attackers who ambushed the Navy SEALs would not escape death.

It's just that what happened next made Robert not happy.

By this time, the bombardment in the other two key directions had ended, and the Delta Commando had entered the LaGuardia airfield.

The capture of LaGuardia Airport was the easiest and most successful of the assault. By the time Delta Commando arrived, the JDAM bombs dropped by the B-2A had destroyed the C-17B docked next to the terminal building. Because the bombing site was outside the transport plane, no hostages were injured in the terminal building. It's just that there were dozens of tons of aviation fuel on board the transport plane, and the fire that was caused quickly got out of control.

Upon arrival, the Delta Commandos quickly occupied the terminal building.

Within two minutes, the commandos cleared the terminal building and found no attackers. Because the fire was spreading, the officers who were on the command of the front had to adjust their plan of action, and instead of expanding the search area, they organized officers and soldiers to immediately transfer the women and children in the building.

This decision saved thousands of civilians.

For this act, the commander of the unit was also awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

It took about fifteen minutes for officers and men of the 101st Air Assault Division to arrive by helicopter, followed by officers and men of the 4th Infantry Division from the ground.

After handing over the women and children to the regular army, the Delta Commando Force swept the entire airport.

As previously expected, no attackers were found.

In the panic, neither the officers and men of the Delta Assault Force, nor the American troops who arrived later, noticed that the thousands of hostages rescued were women and children, and there were no wounded police officers mentioned by the attackers.

Of the three locations, the assault on the Empire State Building was the most arduous.

Because of the use of special incendiary bombs in the bombing, the SEALs on the assault mission were not able to immediately enter the Empire State Building, and the first commandos all landed on nearby buildings and occupied the commanding heights. It wasn't until about five minutes after the bombing, when the fire was gradually extinguished, that the commandos in radiation suits entered from the air and, with the help of highly skilled pilots, jumped directly onto the roof of the Empire State Building, into the top floor of the smoky building, searching for the nuclear warheads placed by the attackers.

The effort paid off, and the SEALs found the nuclear warhead as soon as they entered the building.

The readings displayed on the Geiger detector discouraged the commandos from approaching, as the radioactivity index indicated that there must have been weapons-grade high-purity uranium rods in the nuclear warhead.

Although the nuclear warhead has been damaged in the bombardment and cannot be detonated properly, the consequences of an explosion are still difficult to imagine.

At this point, it's the turn of a professional bomb disposal specialist.

It was also at this time that another explosion occurred on the top floor of the Empire State Building, and the more than two dozen Navy SEALs and two bomb disposal experts who had already entered the Empire State Building did not even have a chance to pray on their deathbed.

This scene happened to fall into Robert's eyes.

As soon as the F-35A bombed the Federal Reserve Bank and eliminated the attackers there, the Empire State Building was in an unusual situation, not only was the commando team wiped out, but even the nuclear warheads that had been found were blown into the sky.

Thankfully, the explosion on the top floor of the Empire State Building was directional, meaning that all the explosions were detonated inward.

What's more, the explosion was not very powerful, it only blew up the roof of the building.

The fireball from the explosion has not been extinguished, and the Navy SEALs, who are occupying the surrounding high ground, are attacked.

The battle came very suddenly, and the attackers seemed to know that the SEALs were going to occupy the buildings, and had already made arrangements, and did not give the SEALs much of a chance once the fighting began.

All of a sudden, the U.S. military's tactical communications channels were filled with gunshots, explosions, and cries for help.

At this time, Robert's expression can only be described as "dumbfounded".

Obviously, this was not a surprise attack by the US military, but by the attackers. The attackers not only guessed that the US military would attack, but also mastered the tactical deployment of the US military.

When a hunter becomes a prey, it must not feel good.

Saving the encircled Navy SEALs? Hardly!

To be sure, Robert sent all the "seals", and most of them were on the side of the Empire State Building. By the time the battle began, two hundred and fifty "seals" from two and a half brigades had been deployed. In addition to the Delta Assault Force, which was still searching for attackers at LaGuardia airport, Admiral Robert had only a few tens of thousands of infantry who were not good at assault operations and no reliable transport equipment.

The SEALs' cries for help made Admiral Robert suffer.

Thankfully, the ordeal didn't last long.

In less than five minutes, there was silence in the tactical channel, with only the occasional gunshot.

At the end of the battle, all 250 "seals" of the two brigades were wiped out, and counting the previous sacrifices, a total of more than 300 "seals" were killed.

What is this concept?

The Navy SEALs have only six brigades in total, and the fifth brigade is the teaching force, with only five hundred commandos.

Although the Delta Commandos captured LaGuardia Airport and rescued nearly 5,000 women and children, with only a dozen burned, the assault was a failure for Admiral Robert, and it was a complete defeat, and he lost the most elite assault force.

Could this have been done by the dozen or so attackers who stayed behind?

Robert could not believe it, and he even believed that the attackers did not leave Manhattan at all, and that only some hostages were taken by the transport plane. In doing so, the attackers want to inflict casualties on the US military, add a few wounds to the United States, and make the United States lose this war completely!

Will that be the case?

Robert was not sure, and even Norris, who was in the rear and witnessed the entire battle through the large screen in the strategic command center, could not be sure.

(To be continued)