Chapter 630: Revenge 5
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Accompanied by a burst of rapid and sharp whistling, a group of more than 500 B2 bombers of the Bermuda Air Wing, which had taken the lead in breaking through the interception of the US Air Force, had already flown over the District of Columbia and began to drop bombs. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.infoββ
Each B2 bomber has a standard bomb load of one ton, and can carry 200 kg to 1 ton of aerial bombs depending on the mission, while giant aerial bombs are generally used to bomb high-value targets such as super battleships. In this air raid against Washington, all B2 bombers carried only 50 200-kilogram aerial bombs, and only destroyed civilian buildings and general military buildings, and the key point was to divert the attention of the US military, and the real highlight was the bombing operation of the heavy strategic bombers of the Hawaiian Air Wing that arrived later.
Rows of aerial bombs rained down from the sky.
"Boom!"
Bombs fell one after another in factories, houses, and shops in the District of Columbia, and a series of violent explosions razed the original high-rise buildings to the ground in an instant, and the earth and rubble were shot in all directions, and the smoke of gunpowder billowed and swallowed everything.
The earth trembled like a mountain shaking, and even the air defense headquarters located on the tenth floor underground clearly felt the tremors. ββ
"Is it safe up there?"
Roosevelt looked up at the ceiling, where the cement scum had been shaken off a lot, making him nervous.
Abby immediately explained: "If it doesn't hold out here, then there is no safe place for all of Washington." β
Roosevelt nodded, regained his composure, and shouted, "Report the situation outside!" β
"Report to Your Excellency the President. There was a cloud of smoke and dust outside, and it was no longer possible to see the direction of the enemy. β
"The aviation command reported that our interceptor group had been completely lost, and thirteen air force aces, including Major General York, had been martyred."
Roosevelt turned to Abby and asked, "Didn't you say you could last half an hour?" It's only been less than twenty minutes! β
Abby's eyelids sank and she replied speechlessly, "I mean half an hour at most!" β
Roosevelt held back his anger, turned to MacArthur and asked, "Why didn't you hear the sound of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment counterattacking?" What are they doing? β
MacArthur explained: "This is the tenth floor underground, and you can't hear the counterattack of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment!" β
Roosevelt was stunned. ββ Then he calmed down and asked, "Is there any report from them?" β
MacArthur hesitated, then turned to give Eisenhower a look, who stepped forward and said, "Mr. President, our air defense forces have been fighting back bravely, and have shot down more than a dozen enemy planes so far. Rest assured, we will do our best to surround the capital! β
Roosevelt said angrily: "A dozen anti-aircraft artillery regiments." Only a dozen enemy planes were shot down? There were thousands of enemy planes in the sky, so you still have to fight back? I'll see if they're all hiding! β
Eisenhower hurriedly explained: "Mr. President, you have misunderstood! Since most of the enemy planes are in the middle and high altitude of more than seven or eight thousand meters. ββ The firing height of our small-caliber anti-aircraft guns is not enough. And less than two hundred large-caliber anti-aircraft guns were deployed. However, the rate of fire of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns was too slow, while the speed of enemy aircraft was too fast, far exceeding the simulated speed of artillery during peacetime training, so the hit rate was much lower. β
Roosevelt suddenly darkened his face and said, "Wouldn't it be better for you to directly say that you underestimated the enemy's strength and were not well prepared?" β
Eisenhower cheekily replied, "That's right, that's what I meant!" β
Roosevelt was so angry that he had the urge to kill, and Marshall, who was on the side, hurriedly diverted the topic. He said, "Mr. President, our air defense forces are almost completely wiped out. And in an hour, tens of thousands of enemy planes will attack from the northwest, do you think that fighters will be drawn back from the Mexican front line to reinforce them? β
Roosevelt had a headache at the thought of this. Not only did others underestimate the power of the Chinese Empire, but so did himself.
Whenever he thought of this, Roosevelt couldn't help but sigh and said, "It's too late to transfer back!" What's the use of transferring it back? Haven't you come back to die? Let them act according to the original plan and ignore Washington! β
As soon as Roosevelt's words came out, everyone understood his intention, that is, to completely abandon Washington. ββ
According to the Roosevelt administration's previous plan, after the sneak attack on San Juan, the U.S. army, navy, and air force would attack Mexico with all their might, and defeat Mexico before the Chinese emperor officially intervened in the American theater, so as to lay the foundation for a long-term war with the Chinese empire in the future.
After receiving Roosevelt's instructions, the more than 3 million US troops assembled in the US-Mexico border area launched a full-front counteroffensive against the Mexican army with the support of more than 7,000 fighters, more than 6,500 bombers, more than 6,500 tanks, and 64,000 artillery pieces, and immediately broke the stalemate in the US-Mexico battlefield.
For a long time, although the U.S. military has an absolute advantage and can defeat the Mexican army at any time, based on the lessons of the Third U.S.-Mexico War, the U.S. military is worried that the Chinese Empire will intervene in the war by using the "China-Mexico Security Treaty", so it has not spread the battlefield to Mexico.
Now that the U.S. military has attacked San Juan and China and the United States have officially declared war, there is no need for the U.S. military to tolerate it any longer. When Roosevelt's telegram arrived at the U.S. Front Headquarters in San Luis Ana, more than a million U.S. troops, already ready to go, launched a general attack on the Mexican army on the opposite side under the cover of aircraft, tanks, and artillery. ββ
At the beginning of the Battle of the Rio Grande, 66 airfields in northern and eastern Mexico were heavily bombed by US bomber groups, and the Mexican army lost more than 1,300 planes in half a day, of which more than 600 planes were destroyed at the airfields before they could take off. Cities in eastern Mexico, naval and air bases, and communications facilities were seriously damaged by the attacks of the US air force, and the command organs of the border military districts were basically paralyzed. The U.S. armored forces advanced 50 to 60 kilometers in less than two hours, almost as the Mexican army was in the air, creating a miraculous example since the outbreak of World War II.
Of course, this is all due to the incompetence and command of the Mexican military. Because the Mexican military has always believed that as long as the Mexican mainland is attacked, the airborne troops of the Chinese Empire will magically land on various strategic points in Mexico to help the Mexican army block the attack of the American army, so the Mexican military is too dependent on the military intervention of the Chinese Empire, underestimating the hidden military capabilities of the American army during this period, and as a result, the blind command has worsened the situation on the front line.
As far as the Imperial Chinese Air Force was concerned, when Lin Zhiguang, who was in command at the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii, learned the latest report on the US raid on Mexico, he couldn't help but gasp and secretly begged himself to be lucky. This is because the Caribbean Air Wing, which was in Mexico for a transfer, had completed its refueling and take-off operations ten hours earlier. If it is ten hours late, it is estimated that Mexico's backward early warning capability will also implicate the Chinese Imperial Air Force, so that more than 5,000 Chinese Imperial planes in Mexico preparing to attack Washington will be destroyed at the airport. It can be said that if Roosevelt had anticipated it earlier, then perhaps it could have changed the outcome for Washington.
In the skies over Washington, the Bermuda Air Wing and the Caribbean Air Wing of the Imperial Chinese Air Force had completed the task of destroying the Third, Seventh, Eleventh, and Seventeenth Air Wings of the US Air Force, completely occupying air supremacy over Washington and covering the bomber groups for bombing.
After a fierce air battle, more than 4,000 US fighters were shot down, while the two air wings of the Chinese Empire still had more than 1,300 Jian-11 fighters and 2,075 B2 bombers left.
After more than 20 minutes of bombing, the Chinese Imperial Air Force dropped more than 2,000 tons of aerial bombs, and about 10,000 aerial bombs fell on the urban area of Washington, D.C., causing a quarter of the urban area of Washington to fall into a sea of monstrous fire. The first to bear the brunt was the New White House, where the Bermuda Air Wing was the first to fly and dropped more than 1,400 bombs, completely razing it to the ground, blowing up a huge man-made tourist lake and turning Roosevelt's fish into steamed or grilled fish.
Just after ten o'clock in the morning, the Hawaiian Air Wing of the Imperial Air Force of China arrived late. More than 8,000 bombers formed a huge group of planes swept over the sky of Washington, and the group of planes covered the sky and the sun, enveloping the earth in a huge black shadow, a veritable black cloud domain.
Although the Hawaiian Air Wing encountered more than a dozen waves of US planes intercepting it on the way, and the more than 2,000 carrier-based planes of the First Air Wing of the Pacific Fleet that escorted it fought fiercely with the US troops, they could only escort them to the skies over Indiana and were forced to turn back, and more than 500 US planes rushed to intercept the remaining 800 kilometers to Washington, but even if the bombers of the Hawaiian Air Wing were not escorted by fighter planes, The powerful firepower and armor of the 5,380 H7 Flying Fortress strategic bombers are also a nightmare for US fighters.
2060 H6N5, H6N4, H6N3 bombers are protected in the middle because of their thin armor and weak firepower, surrounded by H7 Flying Fortress bombers, a powerful collective air defense fire network makes dozens (per wave) of US fighters unable to approach at all, hundreds of US fighters are too vulnerable in front of more than 5,000 H7 Flying Fortress bombers, and they cannot intercept at all, but they provide reconnaissance data to the US Air Defense Command in Washington, But that doesn't change the fate of Washington being razed to the ground.
More than 8,000 old and new strategic bombers flew over Washington, and with the commander's order, the hatch opened, and more than 100,000 tons of aerial bombs were all dropped within an hour, and more than 400,000 aerial bombs leveled the entire city in an instant, more than 2 million buildings in the city were destroyed, more than 30,000 people disappeared in the bombing, more than 100,000 people were buried and trapped in the ruins of collapsed air-raid shelters, and more than 300,000 people were injured to varying degrees.
A capital city of a million people, although not subjected to a nuclear strike, was wiped off the face of the earth like a nuclear strike.
Although the underground bunker of Roosevelt's Air Defense Command was not destroyed, the Capitol building, where the exit was located, had collapsed, and the rubble was piled up seven or eight meters thick. It wasn't until seven days after the end of the bombing that the U.S. rescue team opened the exit. When Roosevelt returned to the ground, he couldn't help but cry when he looked at the devastated capital, which had been razed to the ground, and it was only at this moment that he regretted offending the Chinese Empire. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )