Washington, USA.

"Mr. President, this is today's public report."

Simon, an aide to the president, carried a large stack of reports to Truman's desk, but the latter frowned, alone and bored, unaware of what national affairs he was thinking.

It was early in the morning, and Simon didn't expect Truman to get off work so late, but when he thought about it carefully, the president's face was obviously in trouble, and his face was dull, as if he was pressed by something. As an assistant to the president, one of his jobs is to help the president.

However, perhaps for ordinary people, Truman is the president of the United States, who dominates the American continent, but, for Simon, he is just an old man, a leader who is at the helm of the United States, very good at listening to others, and very decisive.

"Simon, let's put it here for now."

Truman suddenly found that at this critical juncture, he could not find the generals and ministers in Pingyue, but this wise assistant appeared in front of him in time.

"Mr. President, has something big happened?"

In the past few years in the White House, since Truman was still vice president, Simon has rarely seen him frowning and looking dull, and this situation is usually either related to the defeat of the war or the people's anti-government sentiment.

Truman said slowly, "At about 3 o'clock in the morning of European time, that is, in the evening of Washington time, the Germans used super-large-scale biological and chemical weapons to attack Moscow, Leningrad and other strategic places. ”

"Is the loss really too big to accept? Mr. President. ”

Although Simon is an assistant to the president, he does not have first-hand information after all.

Truman nodded, handed him an emergency assessment report, and said, "There are more than 2.7 million Allied troops in the two strategic points of Moscow and Leningrad, and now at least one-third of the people in these two major battlefields are injured by poison gas, and the rest are waiting for rescue, perhaps ......."

Simon quickly looked through the data and found that the number of US troops in the two strategic cities was only about 500,000, after all, the heavy US troops were gathered north of Moscow to confront the Chinese.

They must not have dared to drop gas bombs on the positions of the Chinese, or even nearby.

Simon thought so.

Sure enough, he looked through it, and the report specifically indicated that in the area of the battlefield north of Moscow, where the Chinese were located, the Germans did not even drop a single stone, not to mention gas bombs.

Excluding the loss of Moscow, the huge loss of Leningrad, these two ruined fortresses in the face of a super-large-scale poison gas war, although it cannot be said that the whole city was killed, but it was definitely a high casualty. And other rear barracks were also attacked with varying degrees of poison gas.

"The Germans are butchers!!"

Simon's face turned pale with anger, and he couldn't imagine the huge losses at the front, and then he understood why a strong man like Truman would have dull times.

"I have ordered General Patton to be authorized to strike back in any form."

Truman said lightly.

"Does that include an attack on the German mainland?"

Simon remembered the B-29 strategic bombers deployed by the US military at the Soviet Arctic Ocean coastal airfield in the rear of Leningrad, and could not help but say with emotion.

"Yes, in the latest telegram, General Patton once again confirmed to me the counterattack plan to attack Berlin with B-29 strategic bombers carrying poison gas bombs. The plan was to be dominated by the paralysis of the Germans, and retaliation would take place suddenly at a later date. ”

Truman nodded and said.

Simon: "The Germans will tremble under the bombardment of the B-29. ”

He affirmed, and Truman nodded in the same way.

The Allied gas bombs on the front line, or the gas bombs stored within 1000 kilometers of the front-line battlefield, were actually no less than the Germans, and even of higher quality, but they were never used, and this time, he was ready to use them.

However, Simon, as an assistant to the president, also thought of a very difficult question, "But, Mr. President, the Chinese have the atomic bomb, and they are allies." If we use poison gas bombs to attack the German mainland, will it not catalyze the conclusion of nuclear lease negotiations between them? ”

"I've thought about it, but, Simon, you should probably have noticed that the war should be over at this point, yes, it should be over."

Truman, who was so cunning, would of course notice the problem, so in his reply to the confirmation telegram, he asked that the chemical warfare retaliation against the German mainland be postponed until tomorrow evening local time, that is, the Allies had one more day, and the Germans had only one day.

"Mr. President, General Eisenhower is here."

The staff reported that soon, Eisenhower walked in, the recent situation in the United States is unstable, just Washington will break out every day hundreds of robberies, arson, and even attacks on police and patrol troops, troubled times have appeared in the United States, this, Eisenhower, as the commander of the Allied forces, naturally knew, but felt helpless, can not mobilize the army to suppress those people on a large scale, or rather, those people have not touched the bottom line of the American political axe and the army.

Subsequently, Marshall and others also came, including the earliest Simon, and a simple meeting was held in the president's temporary office overnight, the meeting was very simple, even the seats were simple sofas, but the issues discussed were very important.

"Gentlemen, I believe that the time has come to surrender unconditionally to the Chinese."

Truman raised this shocking topic as soon as he came up, but it was not surprising, at this time of the war, the Chinese's atomic bomb was still hanging high over their heads, and there was no hope for victory, perhaps surrender was a very good choice.

"Gentlemen, I think that the time has come to surrender, not that America has reached the point where it cannot fight, but on the contrary, I want to preserve the last bit of American strength.

The war continues, just as we planned two or three years ago to attack Hanking and Berlin with atomic bombs after the atomic bomb was successfully developed, and in turn, the possibility of a nuclear attack on the United States mainland at such a difficult time is infinite. ”

Truman paused for a moment and said, "Especially now that our two sides have broken out in an unlimited gas war. Some of you may question my decision to fight back and retaliate, but if we don't fight back, if we don't retaliate, the American political axe will collapse at a much faster pace, and that's not 500 soldiers, not 5,000 soldiers, that's nearly 3 million Allied troops suffering from poison gas. ”

"We have no way out, revenge is the only option." Eisenhower also suddenly interjected.

"Yes, my general, revenge and counterattack are our only options. Although the news is still being blocked, if we respond passively, the American political axe is likely to fall tomorrow, and at that time, we will lose everything, and the new political axe will be like the Germans, overthrowing the old regime, and then the new regime will negotiate with them and surrender. We cannot allow that to happen. ”

Truman threw out his final bottom line, guaranteeing that the United States homeland would not be attacked by nuclear weapons, and that the American political axe would not be disintegrated or overthrown.

After a serious discussion and a lot of questions about Truman, it was only then that the president's topic was fully understood.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first to understand.

President Truman believed that the Allies had to act when they were hit by such a major gas warfare, otherwise the situation at home would be even more dire, weak, and even the political axe could collapse.

President Truman believed that it was necessary to retaliate against the Germans, first of all, to retaliate against Germany's front-line targets, and secondly, to use the high-altitude and high-speed defense of the B-29 strategic bomber to penetrate the defense at night and drop poison gas bombs over Berlin and other major cities of the Germans. (During World War II, in air operations, high-altitude and high-speed penetration was used very much, and it was very useful, and it lasted until later, until the Americans' high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance planes were shot down by Red Army missiles, and more high-altitude and high-speed fighters were put into service, and bombers and reconnaissance planes began to return to low-altitude and ultra-low-altitude penetration.) Of course, President Truman considered the stimulus to the Axis powers that such an action would likely lead the Germans to borrow poison gas bombs from the Chinese, and of course worse, that Zhang Shusheng would voluntarily order a nuclear attack on the United States, whichever such scenario would be a catastrophe.

The United States cannot gamble, the time has come when the war cannot continue.

When the retaliatory action was carried out, it was one to order the Allied forces to retreat, and the other was to agree to the Chinese's conditions after the operation was successful, promising to surrender unilaterally and unconditionally to China.

This is the core idea put forward by Truman.

"Gentlemen, my expectation is that as soon as our plan succeeds, we will announce to the Chinese at the first time that we accept their conditions and surrender unconditionally.

The Germans are in the midst of a gas attack and have no absolute advantage over us, while the Chinese will stop any possible follow-up because we surrender on our own initiative. It was a fluke, but it was a necessary choice for the United States to preserve its vitality after the end of World War II. ”

Truman slowly spoke all his thoughts.

These plans were not the ones he spent hours thinking about, but months, and from the time the Chinese demanded unconditional, he began to think about where this battlefield was going.

"Maybe that's the best thing to do."

After discussing for a long time, Eisenhower spoke again, "In terms of the distance between China and the United States, their nearest airfields that can be used for strategic bombers to take off and land are all under our key monitoring, and even a plane that changes at night cannot escape our intelligence."

So, of course, their bombing campaign will never come more timely than we announced our acceptance of the conditions. ”

Everyone nodded, the president and General Eisenhower apparently agreed, monitoring the Chinese's airfield is only one aspect, and the most important thing is that the revenge operation will be accepted as soon as it is successful, so that the Chinese nuclear bombers should not have time to transfer and carry out nuclear bombing.

From the point of view of war, even if things go in the worst direction and nuclear bombers have already flown to the United States, as long as the United States announces its acceptance of their terms and declares to the whole world that the United States has unconditionally surrendered to China, then the atomic bomb will not fall.

After all, as a last line of insurance, the latest high-altitude detection radar secretly deployed by the United States on many islands can be alerted to the flight altitude of strategic nuclear bombers, and this is also one of the most secret weapons of the US military.

(To be continued)