Chapter 1147: Cloud Burst
"It's ridiculous, the Chinese are persuading us to surrender!" Barton bit his big Havana cigar dismissively.
The top level of the United States gradually unified their opinions, and they wanted to use the victory of an urban war as a bargaining chip in peace talks, so they filled the vacancy in the Chicago defense line at any cost.
Although there were constantly American GIs who weakened their legs and even collapsed, the army that was constantly filled in the rear gradually grew up under the tempering of the war.
Americans are also willing to make bets when it is critical. This is one reason why the resistance of the Americans has not weakened in the slightest.
"The Chinese people may have to make a big move!" Malinowski, who had been studying Huaxia, frowned and said, he knew that since the Huaxia people said it in such an ultimatum tone, they must have something to rely on.
Patton's expression froze, and then his cigar was cocked again: "As long as you send a few more divisions to cooperate with our operations, I think no matter what big moves the Huaxia people make, it will be impossible to break through our defense." ”
"We've already committed a full 20 divisions here!" Malinowski reminded with a straight face.
This is another reason why the Americans are still actively resisting, and there are more than 100,000 Soviet and Russian cannon fodder among the more than 400,000 Allied troops with more than 400,000 casualties.
The Russians could not bear the demands of the Chinese for peace talks, whether it was the huge war reparations or the cession of territory that reached the Don and Dnieper rivers, which made Stalin furious.
Perhaps he saw the hope of Chicago, and kept stuffing cannon fodder into Chicago's human flesh grinding plate, of course, all the expenses from Soviet Russia to the last moment of the battlefield were paid by the Americans. The Americans are also happy to shell out another fee to hire these cheap cannon fodder.
Compared with the British, who only invested 50,000 difficult servants, they only needed to negotiate the terms with the national representatives of the Russians, and those veterans who had experienced the test of urban warfare on the battlefield of Soviet Russia no longer needed additional subsidies that were more troublesome than those of American soldiers. As long as there was enough supply of spirits, they dared to meet the machine gun charge of the Huaxia people.
The Americans, who felt that these cannon fodder were useful, constantly threw out superior conditions and induced the Russians to continue to increase their troops here. But the Russians are not stupid, and they also understand that once they become the protagonists of Chicago's resistance, I am afraid that the Chinese people will not ignore them as they do in front of them, and they don't know how to open their mouths when they demand peace talks.
"We have made enough preparations, and the Huaxia people want us to surrender. No way! Barton shrugged his shoulders indifferently. Categorically.
The Americans are not counting only on foreign aid, either.
During this period of time, the American GIs, who had gradually become familiar with urban warfare, continued to strengthen and improve the city fortifications, and the rear was also constantly opening up the communication lines blocked by China and sending more supplies, and Patton was confident that it would be no problem to hold on for another three months.
More importantly, peace talks between China and some European countries have reached a deadlock, and under the instigation of the Americans, a large-scale storm is brewing in other places outside the United States. It is about to sweep the Chinese army scattered around the world. Under such a drastic change in the situation, Barton can optimistically estimate that he can hold on to it.
But his optimistic hopes were soon dashed.
Huaxia's persuasion to deal with official business soon ended, and the Kirov airship that gathered more and more over his head was replaced by it.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, the Kirov airship continues to converge on the city of Chicago, like a god in golden armor descending from heaven.
"Those are Judgment airships? That's a lot! "The blockade of the Kirov airship made almost all the American GIs know these golden airships. But no one had ever seen so many Kirov airships gathered overhead.
The Kirov airship, which seemed to float lightly in the sky, was oppressive because of its massive body, making the American GIs who were surprised in its shadow feel the amazing destructive power accumulated in it.
The shadows continue to spread, and many people realize that the situation is not good.
The American commanders began to prepare for an attack from overhead, but they absolutely did not expect what kind of catastrophe these airships would bring.
"When those huge figures completely obscured the sky in the smoke of gunpowder, you will know the true horror of the Judgment airship." This was recorded in Patton's war-torn diary.
Even Barton didn't expect the airship's attack to come so fast and so violently.
The airships that were high above did not lower their altitude at all, as soon as they received the attack order that Meng Xiang agreed. And he smashed the gates of hell with bombs.
Bombs the size of beetles are constantly falling. The 3.4-meter-long, 1.7-meter-diameter projectile can be seen even on the ground.
"Lie down!"
"Hide!"
"Hide underneath!"
The Allied soldiers on the ground panicked. Many people's faces were frightened white, and the high-altitude bombs that could be seen with the naked eye could imagine how powerful they could be, and they could only pray that the bombs would not fall on their heads, but the bombs falling all over the sky looked as dense as the stars at night, could they be lucky enough to dodge?
"Bang!" The bomb weighing more than six tons landed much faster than they reacted, but it exploded in the air before it landed, but the crisp explosion was not as powerful as people thought.
Under the watchful eye of the Allied soldiers hiding below, the bombs that were getting bigger and bigger exploded, and directly split out three small bombs like cylindrical beer kegs from the belly of each bomb, with a long iron rod stretched out underneath, and a parachute tied to the top, and slowly floated down.
"The bomb still has a parachute, what power is there without the impact?" Barton, who was hiding from the observation port of the fort and looking out, couldn't help but laugh.
"Could it be a butterfly bomb?" Malinowski next to him frowned and said.
The Russians suffered a lot in the cluster bombs of the Huaxia and Germans, and those cluster bombs that did not explode were particularly troublesome when they were eliminated, and even the Russians who did not take cannon fodder seriously felt a headache.
"Boom!" As he spoke, a bomb had already landed and exploded, but the explosion was much quieter than the usual bomb explosion, and a cloud of white gas spread from the place of the explosion.
"It's a gas bomb!" Someone lost color, and his hands and feet were already wearing gas masks.
Since the anthrax incident, even if the Chinese army has not used highly toxic chemical weapons, the gas masks of the American GIs have never left their bodies at any time, and at least they can escape from the tear gas of the Chinese people.
"Boom!" When the Allied soldiers were scrambling to put on their gas masks, the earth shook after the white gas turned into a blue-blue flame in the blink of an eye, like a thunderbolt splitting in the chaos.
"Boom, boom!" As the huge bombs cracked and fell, continuous explosions rang out everywhere, and from the white fog that gradually filled the entire battlefield, burst into the sky, like mushrooms towering into the clouds, and the huge body of the airship in the sky shook a little bit.
The only sound of the giant bombs could be heard on the entire battlefield, and even the screams of the Allied officers and soldiers seemed to be sucked away by the air of the huge explosion.
The sound of a huge explosion and the violent tremor of the earth could be heard and felt dozens of kilometers away.
"What's going on?" Eisenhower, who was in Detroit to raise weapons, hurriedly called the command headquarters to ask Patton, the commander-in-chief of the front, about it, but the phone never went unanswered.
He had no idea that the 12-meter-thick reinforced concrete command had fallen silent under the key blows of the Kirov airship. Even if they weren't directly hit by the slam bomb mixed in, they all suffocated to death after the cloudburst bomb drained the oxygen.
Patton also collapsed early at the observation port, and the Marshal Malinowski, who later commanded the evacuation of the Japanese heritage in Tohoku, was also silent.
Under Meng Xiang's prompting, Huaxia had already developed a cloud burst bomb early. After the base was upgraded again, the Cloud Burst Bombs developed during the Vietnam War could also be manufactured in large quantities. Even the BLU-82 "Rolling Ball", which weighed more than 6.8 tons, had no problems in front of the Kirov airship of the third class, which had a load of more than 500 tons. But as the main killer of this trial operation, it is still the cloud explosion bomb that comes with the third-level Kirov airship.
The Kirov airship has become one of the ultimate weapons, and the bombs it carries are the most terrifying for the enemy. Not only the huge bomb load, but also the performance of the bomb.
The elastic performance of the cloudburst on the third-level Kirov airship has surpassed that of the BLU-82 ball, and it can be unleashed with more power in a smaller size.
The rolling ball carried in this operation was just some experiments that Meng Xiang needed to rely on himself, and it was the Kirov airship's own bomb that turned the remaining quarter of Chicago into hell completely.
Even a rolling ball cloud burst bomb can turn all the balls into coke within a diameter of 500 meters, not to mention the Kirov cloud burst bomb that is even more powerful than Russia's 44-ton TNT-equivalent ATBIP.
In a burst of vibrations and roars that seemed to turn the whole earth upside down, Chicago's high-rise buildings collapsed one after another, and neighborhoods were completely in ruins.
The 2,500 degrees Celsius heat had already incinerated everything on the ground, and the oxygen quickly extracted from the cloudburst bombs had suffocated the soldiers hiding in the fortifications, and gas masks could not save their lives.
The bombs continued to be dropped, and although the three-stage Kirov airship had not yet used space-time technology to achieve an infinite bomb capacity, the terrifying bomb load of the 137 Kirov airships was enough to completely cover the city of Chicago with cloudburst bombs.
After a full day of cloudburst bombing, the Allied-controlled part of Chicago had fallen into complete silence. (To be continued......)