Chapter 26 (I) Sniper Point
At the same time that Tang Shuxing and the others landed on the small island on the Delaware River, among the temporary headquarters of the US military outside Camden City, the Supreme Commander of the US Armed Forces and the President of the United States had already arrived, and he was listening to the on-site report in the command car, and the mayor and the chairman of the City Council of Camden City were also present.
The "Marine Corps No. 1" was parked in a temporary tarmac 20 meters away from the command vehicle, and on the left and right sides were also parked escort helicopters and a mixed convoy of army special forces and secret services. The special combat personnel on the helicopter and the special service agents have been divided into two groups, one group went to the command vehicle for martial law, and the other group was left to guard the vicinity of the tarmac with the army's rapid reaction force, and a temporary "No. 1 command center" was established to cooperate with the army and other departments to provide all-round protection for the president.
In the command car, after listening to the boring report in front of him, the president, who had been blushing, finally asked: "You have said so much, but you can't come up with a practical solution, and you don't know the exact number of casualties?" The combined population of Philadelphia and Camden is close to two million, and according to your conservative estimate of more than 50 percent of the damage, that's one million killed in just two days, not counting the number of troops stationed. ”
No one nodded but the vice president, Army General James . Holder clutched his stomach, he had the urge to vomit all the time, all because he was too nervous. A three-way phone call between him and the secretary of homeland security and the secretary of defense before the president's arrival led to him becoming what he is now.
Admiral James was conflicted, wondering whether to inform the current president of what was coming. Yes. What he had in mind was indeed the "current president," because according to the secret envoy's words, it would not be long before the "current president" would "step down," and the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the president of the Senate, the president of the State Council, and the secretary of the finance would all "step down," and the next president would be succeeded by Defense Minister Charlie. Bel.
He weighed the pros and cons in his head, what would change if he said it himself now? Can it change the current situation? No, they don't have a solution in their hands, even if they do. Himself and the other three will also be sinners through the ages in American history. Their own children and grandchildren will also be burdened with infamy.
What if you don't say it? Not to mention, maybe no one knows what to do, but when Charlie takes office as the new president, they should be able to completely cover up the Philadelphia experiment 100% by using the power in their hands. But how much does that cost? How many lives will be sacrificed? Most importantly. When the time comes, the new president, Charlie, will succumb to the mysterious man and the organization behind it. Or lead them to the Jedi counterattack?
There is no answer to the latter, and Admiral James will be faced with a choice question that can only choose the second one: when to do it without knowing what to do. Waiting for the development of the situation, I hope that there will be a road before the car reaches the mountain.
"James? What are you thinking? "The president noticed that something was wrong with Admiral James.
"It's nothing, I'm just having another stomach problem." James covered his stomach with one hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a tissue in the other.
The president nodded slightly, then looked at the mayor and councillor of Camden who were standing in the distance and asked, "What is the current situation in Camden?" ”
The two of them glanced at each other and shook their heads slightly, but then the speaker of the city council stepped forward and said: "Mr. President, we have come up with the only feasible immunization plan, and before we implement it, many citizens have already implemented it on their own, and we can't stop it, we can only let them save themselves." ”
"Self-help? You mean to use ...... That kind of thing? The president was reluctant to say the word "drugs" on such an occasion, "We should be ashamed that we have the strongest scientific team in the world, and that we are helpless to do anything about such things." ”
Yes, shame, everyone feels shame, but does shame work? Everyone present actually had the same idea in their hearts.
"Anyway, I have to at least take a trip to the outskirts of Camden City to let the people know that I haven't given up on them!" The president said, "It's dawn, get the convoy ready, and we'll leave immediately." ”
Everyone present stood up and objected, thinking that it was too dangerous, but Henry, the security consultant, just whispered to the side: "Yes, it's already dawn, you can go on the road." ”
The President turned a deaf ear to the opposition of others, and after putting on body armor and high-density chemical armor with the help of the soldiers of the anti-chemical warfare unit, he left the command vehicle through the passage and headed for the convoy to make a tour of the outskirts of Camden City to give the population a booster. But he didn't know that Camden City didn't need a president at all, because the survivors, except for a few people hiding in the dark tunnels and basements of their homes, most of them chose to inject drugs to escape the yellow mist, but they had only one thing in common, that is, they had completely lost faith in this government.
The presidential convoy of tanks, armored vehicles, Humvee attack vehicles, and bulletproof off-road vehicles, escorted by C-130 gunboats, helicopter gunships, and six Bird helicopters filled with the 10th Mountain Division's Rapid Reaction Force, headed for Camden, while the president was forced to be placed in an armored vehicle equipped with explosive reactive armor, and did not ride in his Cadillac sedan "Army One" equipped with titanium alloy, high-strength ceramics, and composite armor.
Oops! He didn't take the "Army One"! After watching the president be placed in an armored car by the head of the Secret Service, Security Adviser Henry knew that things were going to be difficult because he would not be able to locate the president's detailed location, but at this moment he found that the president was waving at him, signaling him to go with him and need his own professional advice.
That's great! Henry took a deep breath and got into the armored car, and sat down with the president, while secretly turning on the locator and signal transmitter at his ankle, locating the president's position, and informing his other accomplices in Washington that the president's motorcade had set off and could do other things according to the plan.
"Mr. President, we can go." The Secret Service supervisor said to the president after hearing the word "ready" on the intercom, and the president only nodded slightly, and then the motorcade set off in a majestic manner.
At the same time as the president's motorvoy set off, Bai Zhanqiu, who had already arrived on the island, took out the weapons that Yao Luxiu had prepared there from the designated place according to the instructions.
When Bai Zhanqiu dug out the box from the tunnel, which looked like a grave pit, and opened it, he couldn't help but gasp, because the gun box contained a 20mm caliber anti-materiel sniper rifle!
Bai Zhanqiu took the gun out of the box and stroked the sniper rifle, known as the "Individual Artillery Monster". It was the first time he had seen and held such a monster with his own eyes. Before that, he had only heard of this kind of monster from weapons dealers, because this monster sniper rifle caliber, power, and shooting distance could rank first in the world today, and it was on the list of foreign embargoes of individual weapons in the United States when it was developed.
Bai Zhanqiu opened the bullet box and took out a bullet whose warhead was thicker than his middle finger alone, and the length of the entire bullet exceeded his palm, and after he really combined the gun, he found that the length of this thing exceeded his height!
"This kind of thing can't be carried by normal people, and it can't be taken away after use." Bai Zhanqiu knew that he didn't have a chance to test the gun at all, but he knew in his heart that once the gun was fired, the gunfire would definitely be heard several kilometers away, and the smoke and dust around it would be very large, and even if the muzzle of the gun had a brake, it would have no effect. If it is not used under the premise of dense fog, as long as the gun is fired, even if the person standing on the other side of the river is highly short-sighted, he can immediately know the location of the sniper.
Bai Zhanqiu immediately rushed to the predetermined ambush location with his gun, and opened the Five Elements Sand Table, while planning an escape route. Although he had a plan in his mind at first, after seeing the anti-materiel sniper rifle, he knew that the plan was completely useless, and he also guessed that the person who was probably going to assassinate should be a high-level American dignitary.
Bai Zhanqiu lay there correcting the sniper rifle, installed the positioning imager according to the instructions, and calculated in his heart how many shots he could fire, and it stands to reason that he could shoot two shots at most.
No, only one shot, only one shot! Bai Zhanqiu looked at the other side of the river, and after shooting, he immediately swam towards the location of the target, which was the most dangerous, but the safest, as long as he escaped before the blockade, he would be completely safe.
Just when the presidential motorcade was about to enter the range of Bai Zhanqiu's sniper, in the US Capitol in Washington, almost all high-level US government officials had already arrived, and they all gathered in the original hearing hall to wait for news from the president.
According to the original plan, they will stay in the Capitol for the first time, wait for the president to successfully board the "President No. 1", and then decide whether they will stay or stay depending on the development of the situation, and if the situation develops well, they will go to the Capitol to perform their duties. If the situation is serious, then the vast majority of people here will be evacuated, separated from each other, taken by helicopter to the air base, and boarded "Air Force One" when it is safe to do so.
The military and police surrounded the Capitol building, and when all the high-ranking officials arrived, they immediately cordoned it off, and whoever broke into it was shot dead on the spot. In addition to ground troops, air defense and anti-armor units are also stationed in the surrounding area, and even tanks cannot break through their perimeter defenses, not to mention the highly guarded and heavily armed army anti-terrorist units hidden in the various dark rooms inside the building.
The senior officials sat in the conference hall, looking at the blurry satellite footage that was supposed to send back the real-time image of the presidential motorisade monitored by drones, but because of the dense fog, they could not see anything, so they had to switch to a thermal imager, so that they could barely see the outline of the motorcade.
But the accident happened in an instant, just when everyone was engrossed in the big screen and closely watched the situation of the convoy, the picture on the big screen suddenly switched, and the picture switched to the presidential office in the White House.
"What's going on?" The officer in charge of communications immediately searched for the problem, only to find that his communications channel had been hacked, and then a man in a strange black military uniform, a military cap, and a silver-white mask appeared in the frame, and sat directly behind the president's desk.
The conference room was silent for a moment, but after a few seconds, it boiled again, and everyone stood up and asked what was going on, and who was in the president's office at this time? (To be continued......)