Imperial Far East Xinlan, strategic missile base.

Shao Jianhua is a host of Imperial Television, and most TV hosts are from a different background, in order to reflect the iron-blooded style of the Empire, he is a hero who has been on the battlefield and has made first-class military exploits, although he has not done anything to blow up a bunker with an explosive bag, but in the war in the Far East, once in the case of extremely heavy casualties in the entire platoon, he and several comrades-in-arms successfully blocked the desperate attack of a brigade of the Yue Army, relying on a ripper machine gun, and even eliminated dozens of devils by himself, He was grazed in the head by shrapnel and his left foot was hit by shrapnel from a grenade, crippling.

Because he is very eloquent, has an outstanding image, is handsome and tough, and has excellent politics, the overall image is very in line with the image of the emperor's iron-blooded tough guy, and when he retired from the army, he was lucky to become one of the military hosts of that batch.

He does not host entertainment programs, and since the Empire is in a state of prolonged war, Imperial Television has arranged a dedicated 30-minute military news time in prime time, which is very popular, and his iron-blooded hosting style combined with his own battlefield experience has been extremely successful.

Just over a week ago, he suddenly received an interview order and was secretly taken to the Far East on a military plane, and after a strict inspection, he came to the Xinlan strategic missile base, and the army also provided a military film crew.

When he arrived, he met with the commander of the base, Major General Fan Hua, and a senior director of the Imperial Propaganda Department, and he was told that he would be involved in the planning of a nuclear attack on a certain country, responsible for covering and broadcasting the Empire's first actual launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

As a veteran soldier and a broadcaster of military news on Imperial Television, he actually has access to a lot of secrets, some of which are even top secrets, but for missiles, he only knows that the Empire has many types of missiles, including surface-to-air missiles, air-to-air missiles, and missiles. He had only heard some rumors about long-range missiles, let alone ICBMs.

When he saw with his own eyes the thick guy more than 30 meters long in the missile silo, the whole person suddenly boiled with blood, he saluted a long military salute, the style of the old soldier was fully displayed, and he couldn't help crying out loud when he was excited. That kind of excitement is the excitement of seeing that the empire has a god needle for the country.

Leading the film crew, they interviewed several designated scientists during the first phase of filming, and the scientists generally disclosed some information about the successful development of the Imperial ICBM, which will serve as a news background for urgent news after the successful planned nuclear attack.

In the second phase of shooting, they took a relatively clear picture of the strategic ballistic missile, and the Dongfang-42 strategic missile, which was more than 30 meters long and sleeping in the silos, appeared.

In the third stage, they were allowed to come to the launch command center, and although they could not interfere with the launch command work, they were able to shoot from a distance.

"Audience friends, now you see the big central screen of the launch command center, which shows that the missile is working normally, and commanders at all levels are methodically monitoring and reporting the missile's flight. Let us now interview China's strategic missile scientist, engineer Wang Lixin. ”

Shao Jianhua handed the microphone forward and asked Engineer Wang Lixin to speak.

"Hello friends from the national audience, now everything is normal in the missile flight, and it is under the full monitoring of our satellite system. At present, the missile is trying to fly into far-earth orbit, and this flight process is a mid-course flight process, which is a necessary flight stage of customary guidance and will also provide preparation for the missile's re-entry into the atmosphere. ”

Wang Lixin pointed to the big screen in the center and explained briefly.

"Okay, thank you very much Engineer Wang Lixin. Audience friends, we will have two minutes of precious time to interview Lieutenant General Zhou Ting, the commander of this nuclear strike plan, of course, if he has time. ”

After Shao Jianhua finished speaking, the filming was temporarily suspended, and he was also told that there were still ten minutes left for the missile flight, and for the sake of the realism of the program, the Imperial Propaganda Department would arrange a 2-minute interview with the commander. The filming crew was suspended, and Major General Fan Hua needed to consult Lieutenant General Zhou Ting.

In the command hall in the distance, Zhou Ting's eyes fell on the screen, on which in addition to a 3D simulated missile flight map, there are many constantly updated parameters, including the real-time flight speed of the missile, the flight altitude, and other parameters that reflect the overall situation of the missile.

"It's been 15 minutes of flying! There are 15 minutes left. ”

The whole flight process is precisely controlled at speed, and it will take about 30 minutes, as the commander-in-chief of the operation, Zhou Ting clearly knows that the missile launch is monitored and observed by the Gao Neng space satellite in space, and the missile equipment is also very advanced, so all the flight data is accurate.

"The missile flight attitude is normal."

"The missile navigation system is normal."

"The missile communication system is normal."

…… After a series of normal reports, the missile continued to fly smoothly and normally, and two minutes later, a commander loudly reported, "The missile began to enter the far-earth orbit flight phase." ”

"Closely monitor the flight attitude of the missile, and the navigation system pays attention to remote control adjustment."

The missile of this operation is matched with a very advanced attitude adjustment system, although this technology has not yet been applied to the missile produced by the standard, but this missile is equipped with this advanced system with the help of the Science and Technology Committee.

After the far-earth orbit phase, the final missile re-entry phase is passed. The flight phase in far-earth orbit is about 10 minutes, the final re-entry flight phase is the shortest, and the missile is the fastest, up to several kilometers per second.

According to the assessment of the plan, unless the Reich's missiles are deflected by themselves, then, with the scientific and technological level of the Americans, even if they develop for another twenty years, they will be helpless.

"The development of science and technology is an important part of the development of civilization."

Fan Hua looked at the 3D simulation image on the screen, said with emotion, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, turned to Lieutenant General Zhou Ting and said, "Lieutenant General, according to the plan, Imperial TV will have two minutes of interview time with you, you see?" ”

Zhou Ting frowned slightly and said, "Let them come over, you have to strictly control the time." ”

"Yes!"

After Fan Hua finished speaking, he whispered a few words to a lieutenant colonel next to him, and the lieutenant colonel immediately ran to the film crew outside the command hall, and immediately, the host Shao Jianhua and two film crew members followed.

"Audience friends, the Lieutenant General Zhou Ting we are about to interview is the commander of a certain unit of China's Strategic Rocket Forces, and he is also a senior commander, and this operation is under his command, and now we will interview him for two minutes."

Shao Jianhua gave Zhou Ting a military salute and handed him the microphone.

Zhou Ting also saluted the camera, and then said, "Hello imperial viewers in front of the TV, I am Lieutenant General Zhou Ting, the commander of this nuclear strike, and you have seen the preparation and launch stages of this nuclear strike just now. At the moment the missile is in the flight phase, everything is normal with the missile and the nuclear warhead.

The launch mission is a carrier missile of the Dongfang-42 type of ICBM independently developed by China, and the warhead is a nuclear warhead of a certain type of 250,000-ton TNT equivalent nuclear warhead, which is a new way of nuclear warfare that embodies China's global nuclear strike capability in addition to airborne nuclear strikes in the air: nuclear missile strikes.

On behalf of the Imperial [***] side, the Imperial Strategic Rocket Forces, I hereby assure the people of the whole country that we will at any time and under all circumstances, in accordance with the orders of Chairman Zhang Shusheng of the Supreme Council, reserve the right to inflict nuclear strikes on any enemy. ”

"Thank you, Lieutenant General Zhou Ting, for your speech, do you have anything to say to the audience and friends at the end?" Shao Jianhua continued to ask.

Zhou Ting: "To borrow an ancient saying, those who offend my Chinese Tianwei will be punished even if they are far away." ”

He saluted the camera again, then shook hands with Shao Jianhua with a smile, exchanged a few words of greeting, and returned to the command post.

Shao Jianhua also temporarily left the hall of the command center, pointed to the command center through the glass and said to the camera, "Audience friends, the missile still has more than ten minutes of flight time, and we will wait silently for the final result with everyone." ”

…… Alaska, a U.S. homeland defense command center.

At this time, it was already 9 p.m. local time, and Eisenhower had been checking the radar data gathered by the air defense command center during the day, and several reports mentioned that everything was normal and no suspicious flying targets were found.

"How many night combat planes do we have now flying on duty at high altitudes?"

He asked a major general next to him, Lieutenant General McClay was the commander of the Alaska Homeland Air Defense Command Center.

"At present, in the skies over the Alaska region, including the night patrol provided by a detachment, we have a total of 72 aircraft flying at high altitude on combat readiness duty, and no anomalies have been found."

Lieutenant General McClay reported.

"Hmm."

After waiting for a while, Eisenhower still didn't notice the situation, so he picked up the phone and dialed the presidential office at the White House in Washington.

"Mr. President, everything is normal at the moment, neither the Los Angeles Air Defense Center nor the Hawaii Air Defense Center has found any anomalies, and there are no anomalies in the offshore radar network and the sea surface monitoring system."

Eisenhower reported on the whole day.

It was late in Alaska and even later in Washington, but Truman still didn't sleep in order to wait for Eisenhower's last normal report today.

"The emergency vote in Congress has been preliminarily passed, and we will announce to the whole world the decision to surrender unconditionally to the Chinese by tomorrow morning at the latest, God bless the United States."

Truman prayed a little, and he was even rejoicing, glad that the United States was able to make a major decision at the most critical time, and that surrender was not terrible, compared to the atomic bomb.

"God bless America." Eisenhower also repeated.

The five-star general has always supported President Truman not because of his prestige, but because President Truman has done at least one thing right, that is, to carry out American pragmatism to the extreme, with American interests as the highest criterion.

The war had come to an end, so he was very supportive of the president's decision to surrender unconditionally.

It's just a pity that history often leads to some kind of doomed tragedy in many coincidences. Many major historical events, if the parties can predict in advance, then history will be completely changed.

If Jesus knew that Judas was a traitor, perhaps it was Judas who was crucified on the stake.

If the Tang Dynasty knew that the Yue Ben would probably slaughter tens of millions of Chinese sons and daughters one day, it might have raised a large army to subdue the Yue Ben. Of course, perhaps the Ming Dynasty would not have sent the Armada to the South Seas, but to the East.

If Xiang Yu knew that he would kill himself one day, he would not be merciful to Liu Bang.

And now, if the Americans had known, China would not have used so-called strategic bombers to carry out a nuclear attack on the United States at all, but would have launched a nuclear strike from 10,000 kilometers away using ICBMs that they had never heard of, and they would probably cry and kneel and shout for an unconditional surrender days or even months in advance.

However, history has only coincidences, not assumptions.

At this time, far away at the strategic missile base in Xinlan in the Far East, the command center has reached the most tense moment.

"Report, everything is normal after the nuclear warhead is unlocked, and it can be detonated on time!"

A lieutenant colonel reported to Zhou Ting and Fan Hua that on the big screen in the center, the sign representing the lock of the nuclear warhead had long since turned green on, which meant that Zhang Shusheng once again relied on remote control to complete the remote unlock, and the nuclear warhead was no longer a scrap metal, but a terrifying nuclear warhead that could destroy thousands of people.

"The missile began to re-enter the atmosphere and flew at a speed of 3.8 km/s."

The latest report raised everyone's hearts to their throats.

The re-entry of the Dongfang-42 strategic missile into the atmosphere also means that it has entered the final state of dive, and the flight time does not exceed two minutes.

Soon, the film crew also pointed the camera at the central screen again, and Shao Jianhua shouted excitedly into the microphone, "Audience friends, there is still 1 minute, and there is still one minute of countdown on the screen, let's count down together and look forward to it together." ”

“56.55.54…… 10… 9… 8… 7…… 3”

The missile enters the final countdown to hit, and if someone can fly into the air to take a look over Washington, they can see a super-high-speed flying fiery object that is crashing towards Washington at a super-high speed, and the target is in the area where the White House is located.

Everyone held their breath and stood up, staring at the large central screen where the real-time simulation was playing.

Zhou Ting's eyes widened and he looked at the countdown, and on the 3D simulation, the missile had already crashed into Washington in the final countdown. "Boom ......!!!!"

(To be continued)