Volume 14 The Smoke of Gunpowder Chapter 124 An Opportunity for Peace

Before the end of the year, the navy and the space army of the United States opened up the strategy of the United States. 【】

According to the information published by the authorities of the republic after the war, in the first three months of the strategic strike, the groping and summing up tactics of the main tasks did not put forward too high requirements for the purpose of the strike. Affected by this. In the first two months of the three years, less than 40,000 tons of war materials were spent on strategic strikes, much less than those spent on the attacks on Puerto Rico and on the invasion of Cuba. Judging by the situation at the time. The republican authorities did not place special demands on the naval and space forces that were tasked with strategic strikes, which, in addition to the absence of appropriate tactics, had a lot to do with logistical support. It is precisely for this 2 months that the High Command of the Republic limited the scope of the strategic strike to the west of Mount Rocky. Moreover, it is mainly concentrated in the four states of the northeastern United States, with the Space Forces deployed in the Pacific Ocean as the main striking force.

Even so, the strategic strikes of the past two months have still shown great power.

Not to mention anything else, just taking the strategic bombing of the Northwest Industrial Zone of the United States centered on Seattle as an example, in the past two months, the Republican Celestial Army dispatched strategic bombers with 10,000 sorties and invested 10,000 tons of ammunition of various types, and bombed dozens of large and small cities and towns, including Seattle, into ruins.

According to the combat record of the Celestial Army of the Republic:

On 3 July, two batches of strategic bombers with a total of more than one sortie were dispatched to carry out the first concentrated bombing of Seattle, using about 80,000 tons of bombs to flatten industrial areas, including the headquarters of Boeing Aircraft Company and Microsoft, as well as commercial areas with thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises. Because the bombing came very suddenly, and because of the use of mainly high-value long-range munitions, especially the heavy use of anti-personnel munitions against exposed persons in the second round of bombardment, and the frightened population did not anticipate a second round of bombardment, the bombing caused very large casualties. According to information obtained after the war, more than four people died directly in the bombing, about 30,000 people were missing, and countless more were injured and homeless, and Seattle became an empty city almost overnight!

Probably because the bombing was a little too good to be effective, for the next week, the bombers of the Republican Celestial Army did not visit Seattle, but went to other surrounding towns, especially those where American troops were stationed or near American military bases. For example, Everett and Bremerton are both U.S. naval bases, and they are the two largest naval bases on the west coast of the United States after San Diego. Because these towns and bases are near Seattle, the distance between Everett and Bremerton and Seattle is less than the old O, so the scattered bombing of small and medium-sized towns did not have much impact on the combat operations of the Republican Celestial Army, but gave the Republican Celestial Force the opportunity to learn more efficient bombing tactics.

Month. After the panic caused by the first poisoning had dissipated, the Republican Celestial Army again concentrated its efforts on bombing Seattle. In a sense, the main cause of this bombing was the American authorities.

According to the relevant records of the authorities of the Republic, because the casualties caused by the first bombing were too large, the High Command issued instructions to the Celestial Forces not to carry out a second bombing of Seattle without the resumption of work by Boeing, Microsoft, and other large enterprises. The problem is that it is impossible for the US authorities to shut down these strategic enterprises. You must know that during World War III, Boeing was the largest aircraft and spacecraft manufacturer in the United States, responsible for the production and manufacturing of about one-third of fighter jets and half of the space vehicles. While Boeing has an extensive factory footprint, Seattle has only one plant. But Boeing is headquartered in Seattle, and if the headquarters is not functioning properly, it will not be able to properly coordinate and distribute production capacity. Relatively speaking, Microsoft, which started as a civilian user, is more important than Boeing, because more than half of the control software used by the United States comes from Microsoft, and the network control system in the United States and the software of all walks of life are related to Microsoft. As a result, there is a risk that it will be bombed again. And certainly even more brutally, the U.S. authorities still allowed these two companies, as well as other companies that had been shut down by the bombing, to resume work.

Obviously, the scale of the second bombing was much larger.

Within an hour, the Republican Celestial Army dispatched about a number of concave bombers to carry out three concentrated bombings of Seattle's industrial and commercial areas, dropping nearly 10,000 tons of ammunition of various types.

The problem is that it turns out that the bombing of industrial and commercial areas did not have much effect.

Long before the end of the year, the United States moved its main factories inland, and scattered some factories that could be dispersed. Small towns are no longer concentrated in big cities. No doubt. This deployment is a strategic attack against the Republic and seeks to preserve basic industries as much as possible. More importantly, the United States has sufficient resources, a solid industrial base, and sufficient industrial production capacity to quickly replenish the losses caused by the bombing.

The only thing that cannot be replenished, or that cannot be replenished quickly, is skilled skilled workers. On the day of the moon, in view of the unsatisfactory results of the second bombardment, the Republic Celestial Army adjusted its tactics. Once again, the third strategic bombing of Seattle was launched.

This time, 4 sorties of four bombers dispatched by the Celestial Forces of the Republic dropped about 10,000 tons of ammunition on residential areas.

The results can be imagined.

In the bombardment, which lasted nearly an hour, about the citizens of Seattle became cannon fodder. An equal number of civilians have since disappeared. A bombardment that took away the notches of nearly 10,000 people in the field and threw off the books and dried all the umbrellas" is absolutely unprecedented. Even decades after the end of the war, Sun-Deyu discussed the need for the bombing. Not that there is no need to bomb residential areas, after all, it has been proven in real combat. Bombing residential areas is an effective means of bringing down the United States. The key question is whether it is necessary to organize such a large-scale concentrated bombing and whether it is necessary to use a large number of anti-personnel munitions in the bombing. You know, in the middle of the introduction century. It is not only incendiary bombs that are used to turn cities into ruins, but also a variety of high-tech weapons. For example, a sensor bomb that was used on a large scale in the war by the Republican Celestial Army specifically aimed at living people. The bomb, which weighs less than a gram, is equipped with a device specially designed to detect bioelectric currents, which is attached to the fuse. In other words, as long as there is a creature about the size of an adult * person within the killing range of the explosion, the bomb will automatically detonate, and it will be detonated in the direction of the creature. Because of the large number of bombs used, no one knows how many lives such bombs have been taken, and no one even knows how many such bombs have been produced in the arms factories of the republic. Only a little is certain. That is, after the end of the war, it took years for the countries of the world to use the lives of the EOD personnel in the name of the blade to basically remove the approximately 10,000 such guns scattered all over the world.

In fact, it was this kind of sensor bomb, known as the "human nemesis," that pointed out the direction of strategic bombing for the Celestial Forces of a certain country. After this bombing, Seattle was essentially a dead city.

Although the Republican Celestial Forces carried out two supplementary bombings of Seattle in February, the main mission of these two bombings was to continue to disperse sensor bombs and enhance the bombing effect.

Of course, these bombings were by no means as simple as taking the lives of tens of thousands of Americans.

Before the war, Seattle had a permanent population of more than 10,000 people, including those living in the surrounding small towns. The U.S. authorities issued the first war evacuation order, transferring factories in large coastal cities in the west, including Seattle, to inland cities, and advising citizens who can afford to leave the big cities, so by the time the strategic strike began, the number of Seattle residents had dropped a lot, and it was conservatively estimated that it was between 10,000 and 10,000.

Even according to the Chewan calculation, this means that nearly 10,000 people have lost their homes and become war refugees.

Thousands of war refugees can lead to a humanitarian catastrophe in any country, let alone the only country in the world where they are free to bear arms. You must know that before the outbreak of World War II, the United States was the only country in the world that clearly stipulated that citizens had the right to bear arms in the form of constitutional amendments, and governments at all levels could not forcibly confiscate citizens' guns. In fact. It is precisely this circumstance that makes the authorities of the Republic have to think twice about whether to attack the continental United States. In a sense, every American adult is a paramilitary, and any. It is possible for Americans to take up arms and fight an enemy who enters their homeland.

The problem is that this "enemy" is not necessarily the republican ** team, maybe the Americans, or the American ** team.

When 10,000 Seattle-owning Seattle citizens were forced to leave their homes and find new habitats, it was not the leaders of the Republic who needed to be afraid, but the leaders of the United States. You know, even with the national strength of the United States, it is impossible to accommodate so many war refugees in a short period of time. Because they were not well prepared and did not expect the Republican ** team to destroy Seattle in such an extreme way, the US authorities were not prepared to deal with it at all, and they could not even provide the refugees with a minimum living guarantee, so in order to survive, thousands of Americans rushed out of Seattle. That is, when neighboring towns suffered, and it was also when social unrest began in the United States.

This situation soon attracted the great attention of the Republican Celestial Army.

If it is necessary to defeat the United States, then letting the Americans defeat the United States is naturally the most ideal option.

In order to "consolidate" the results of the war, starting from the rising sun of the moon, the Republican Celestial Army began to bomb cities and towns within a kilometer radius around Seattle in a planned and arranged way, turning the northwest region of Washington State into a no-man's land with sensor bombs designed to deal with personnel.

Although hundreds of millions of ammunition were consumed for this. But the results were remarkable: some 10,000 people in the region had to be forced to move inland.

By this time, the Celestial Forces of the Republic had finally found an effective means of strategic strike.

Of course, that's not all.

Evicting the inhabitants of the cities and turning the factories that rely on the cities into ornaments can only weaken the war potential of the United States, but not completely defeat the United States, after all, the United States began to evacuate its industrial facilities and move all the major factories to the interior years ago, and if these factories were destroyed by bombing, the cost would be extremely great. What's more, as millions of Americans flock to inland cities and relocated factories will soon be able to reopen, the American war machine will still operate at great efficiency.

If we want to defeat the United States, we must destroy not only the material foundation of the United States, but also the spiritual pillar.

In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to let the Americans know that the bombers of the Republican Celestial Forces can not only turn hundreds of cities and towns into no man's land, but also turn the American land into hell.

In other words, we have to make some big moves.

On February, the day after the Republican Marines landed in Cuba, the Republican Celestial Forces launched a very special bombing campaign.

In this bombing operation, only two strategic concubine bombers were dispatched, and only four bombs were dropped.

Apparently. The key is not in the number of bombers and the scale of the bombs, but in the bombing target. It wasn't towns, not military installations, not transportation hubs, that were bombed, but a real no-man's land, Mount St. Helens just south of Seattle!

It is a dormant active volcano and the most active volcano in the Northwest Territories of the United States.

The purpose of the bombing is to revive the volcano!

Obviously, it was not an ordinary bomb that was dropped, but four explosive yields that would be like a stewed fifth-generation tactical nuclear weapon. Because the authorities of the Republic had long promised in the Treaty of London and the Stockholm Accord not to use weapons of mass destruction first, and both international treaties classified fifth-generation tactical nuclear weapons as weapons of mass destruction, the authorities of the Republic have not admitted that they had used fifth-generation tactical nuclear weapons during the war, but only declared that it was a new bomb that was dropped on Mount Saint Helens. Because the power of the rainbow bomb is indeed huge enough. The earthquake that led to it was far away. Seismic stations in Brazil and Europe have been found many kilometers away, so it is believed that the Republic had already fired its sixth generation of nuclear weapons, the legendary antimatter bomb, during the Great War.

It doesn't matter if it's the fifth or the sixth, the result is the same.

Bombing, so that the volcano woke up.

Just hours later, Mount St. Helens had the largest eruption in history. Hundreds of millions of tons of volcanic ash are sent into the air, and the volcanic ash that enters the stratosphere even drifts across the ocean, scattering thousands of kilometers away on the South American continent and the Asian continent. Of course, what is even more terrifying is the erupting magma. Because the bombing site was on the south side of the volcano and at least two bombs fell on the mountainside, the erupted magma flowed southward and entered the main channel of the Columbia River after a few hours, completely blocking the largest river in the Northwest United States.

It wasn't Seattle that suffered, it was Portland, on the banks of the Columbia River.

On the third day of the eruption, Portland was forced to evacuate the entire city.

On February day, the dam of the dammed lake formed by the magma preliminaries burst, and the flood of up to a blade of rice swept through Portland, which had been covered by half a meter of volcanic ash, in half an hour, completely submerging the city of more than 10,000 people. After the flood waters receded, the silt that came with the floodwaters. And the volcanic ash mixed with the flood did not recede, but submerged the entire city except for dozens of high-rise buildings with a height of more than four meters. Portland has since become a city that exists only in history, like Pompeii in the Roman Empire.

It must be admitted that the last mayor of Portland was the greatest hero, he saved more than 40,000 citizens.

The problem is that the power of a strategic strike has already been revealed, and its devastating destructive power is enough to make any one of them do anything. The Americans who are alive are considering whether to continue fighting.

Unfortunately, not every American has the authority to make the decision to surrender.

After Portland became history, the US authorities did not realize the seriousness of the problem, after all, it was only a city in the Northwest Territories, thousands of kilometers from Washington.

The United States did not surrender, and the bombing had to continue.

It's just that the devastating power of a strategic strike has already been revealed. You must know that at that time, it was not only the Republic Celestial Army that undertook the heavy task of strategic strike, but also the Republic Navy, which had an even more powerful firepower projection capability, and the Navy's devastating strike capability was definitely surpassing that of the Celestial Force.

As a result, even if the U.S. authorities still believe that there is an opportunity to obtain a more favorable form of surrender for the United States, they must consider surrendering.

The U.S. authorities were the first to convey their intention to negotiate an armistice to the Republic through Switzerland.

Of course, there was little sincerity on the part of the American authorities, so the authorities of the republic not only did not bother with this. signal, on the contrary, let the Celestial Army and the Navy intensify their strikes. In the following days, the Celestial Forces and Navy more than doubled the intensity of their strikes. Almost everything is done to destroy the towns and cities of the western part of the United States.

On the day of the Sword, the US authorities once again conveyed their intention to negotiate an armistice through Switzerland.

The difference is that this time the United States authorities have conveyed the same intention through Brazil and South Africa.

Obviously, at this point, it is no longer whether the United States is sincere or not, but whether the Republic is sincere or not.

On the night of February, the authorities of the Republic conveyed to the United States, through Switzerland, Brazil and South Africa, the intention to hold an open ceasefire to facilitate armistice negotiations.

The ceasefire time starts from the point of the key day, the whole point, to the concave point of the flying point.

That is, if a preliminary agreement on an armistice cannot be reached within this period, the war will continue unified

Obviously, no armistice negotiation in any war can be brought to fruition within hours.

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