"All ruined?" Truman sat directly in his seat, the microphone was not buttoned, and muttered to himself.

"This is nothing short of a massacre! The massacre of civilians! News of the bombing of Chicago spread quickly, and MacArthur, the military adviser, was the first to jump out and shout.

Most of the more than a million residents of Chicago have been evacuated, but at least 300,000 remain in the city, believing that their troops and guns in their hands will protect their homes. However, with the capture of most of Chicago by the Chinese and the increasing intensity of the city's fighting, there were not many civilians left in the Allied-occupied areas when the Chinese army opened up the opening of the civilian population.

The less than 50,000 civilians are just an excuse for the Americans to seize on this, but in fact, the Americans feel more sorry for the more than 500,000 troops.

In order to win a victory in Chicago, the Americans sent elite troops to Chicago, and after a great wave of war, the soldiers who could stay in Chicago would at least not be weak in the fierce close-range life-and-death confrontation. But now more than 500,000 troops, including more than 100,000 Russians and British, have been destroyed by a sweeping bombardment.

The bombardment of the Kirov airship shook for hundreds of miles, and seeing the collapsed buildings in ruins, although the Allied commanders around Chicago were worried, they were still lucky to think that the officers and soldiers hiding in the underground fortifications would survive, but after waiting for a few days, no Allied soldiers had escaped from the city of Chicago. Only the hellish sights described by the soldiers who escaped from the outskirts of the city.

"All dead, all dead!" It was not until Huaxia soon released the prisoners found in Chicago that the American commanders learned some specific details one after another from the mouths of the vast majority of American GIs who had a mad and mentally broken mind, and combined with the information leaked from the agents inside Huaxia, the Americans had to accept the fact that less than 10,000 of the more than 500,000 troops could survive the bombing of Chicago that had been bombed more than once.

"Massacre, this is the slaughter of Chiguoguo!" Even without knowing the results, the Americans were shocked by the huge casualties caused by the destruction of the city by Huaxia.

Seeing that the Chinese army did not use heavy weapons to bombard those American cities on a large scale, but paid more attention to looting all kinds of materials and wealth from the various occupied cities, they thought that the Chinese would also covet the richer city of Chicago. It will be taken little by little according to the rules of urban warfare. In order to strive for more fruits of victory. That's what the whole Chicago urban war was planned for.

From the very beginning, Huaxia was indeed proceeding according to their script, and although the losses were large, at least the Americans held the Huaxia army in Chicago City for nearly a month.

Although the plan to transfer assets was shattered, it at least bought time for the Americans, and even used it to collude with some unwilling national forces around the world to prepare to resist the Chinese occupation.

But when the script was about to enter the climax, the Chinese suddenly changed the script and rules. No longer playing an inch of urban street fighting, it was directly a large-scale bombing, which modified the outcome of the Battle of Chicago, and even affected the outcome of the entire American war.

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Huaxia will not let the Kirov airship brocade travel at night, and all kinds of rumors about the trial airship spread quickly, and even only a small ransom is needed. The Americans who survived the city of Chicago were released. They either suffered heavy casualties or were insane, and they couldn't be a qualified coolie, just to return the burden to the U.S. government.

Even civilian relief agencies such as the Red Cross were allowed to come to the destroyed part of Chicago to participate in the rescue. While the Chinese army was cleaning up the destroyed city of Chicago without waste, the scorched background of the tragedy completely shocked the Western witnesses.

From the mouths of these witnesses, the horror of the Judgment-class airship soon spread throughout the United States, and even the whole world.

When more than 100 Kirov airships followed the Chinese army to attack Detroit quickly, the Detroiters, who were being threatened by the Chinese army from the direction of Lake District and Canada, completely collapsed.

This has been coming for some time. There were more and more Chinese warships on the Great Lakes. Not only torpedo boats and missile boats, but even destroyers began to pop up. With the assistance of aerial fighters, they gradually took control of large areas of the lake. Even the two paddle steamer carriers, the Sable and the Wolverine, were sunk at the bottom of Lake Michigan by a combination of Chinese destroyers and bombers.

With the offensive of the Chinese army, Lake Superior and Lake Michigan have basically fallen into the hands of the Chinese. Chinese speedboats can also be seen everywhere on Lake Huron, and water transportation from Detroit to Lake Erie has been cut off.

The water transportation to Lake Erie was also cut off, and the Chinese army that captured Toronto finally defeated the more than 400,000 American and British troops guarding Hamilton, and drove more than 100,000 remnants of the enemy into the United States.

The Americans were not too worried about the troops from the Lake District and the north at first, and with the precedent of urban warfare in Chicago, Detroit was also turned into a front line in one of the Americans' plans, ready for urban street fighting.

Even those Detroit civilians have this kind of awareness, who makes Detroit an automobile city, and it is difficult to relocate with a big family. Even the top leaders of the United States wanted to open it, deliberately taking advantage of the huge wealth of the Motor City, and while attracting the Chinese people, they also limited the power of the powerful fighters, giant artillery, and missiles in China, and could only fight street battles inch by inch.

But the final change in the city of Chicago frightened the Detroiters, Nima, it turned out that the Chinese had changed the rules, no longer put on the demeanor of civilized knights, carefully fighting for control of the city, but directly like the former Mongol cavalry to slaughter the city.

Detroit civilians continued to flee, and even the remaining American troops, as well as those who had been deployed, waited with trepidation for the Chinese to move.

But when the Chinese airships began to come over Detroit, the Detroit people had been constantly replaying the rumors of the tragic scene in Chicago that had been constantly replaying in their minds.

The capital predators in Detroit were even more worried that their property would be turned into ashes, and frequently put pressure on the US government, and finally the US army withdrew, and before Huaxia announced the surrender, the motor city of Detroit raised its hands and surrendered.

The city of Cleveland was about to surrender directly, but was persuaded by Washington.

The large amount of American assets in the occupied areas of China has made their masters, those American capital predators, feel painful. They are still insisting that only a victory can regain their disadvantage, and not all their assets will be swallowed up by the Chinese people.

The more they lose, the more they want to save, and the predators, who have lost a lot of assets in the north and west, have formed an alliance that Washington cannot ignore, in order to save their assets.

Either fight and end up together, or negotiate peace to get back enough benefits.

The profit cake was redistributed, and the Cleveland consortium, which had received a large enough pie, no longer strongly opposed the proposal to use Cleveland as a resistance position.

Washington is making preparations with both hands.

The bombing of airships in Chicago, frightened the Americans.

The city near Chicago is in the mood for the wind. Seeing that the entire United States is about to collapse, Washington has to do something to save it.

In addition to actively seeking peace talks with China, they are still resisting unwillingly.

In response to the deployment of the Chinese army in Chicago all the way to the south and all the way to the east, Washington still planned to sacrifice Cleveland and Springfield, and use the nearby munitions factories in these places as a reserve for resistance.

Of course, just preparation. If Huaxia were to launch the Kirov airship bombing, Washington would allow them to surrender and retain their strength.

"We have to find out what weapon they're using!" During this preparatory period, the Pentagon was under pressure to study countermeasures to crack the Chinese trial airship.

Shocked by the astonishing destructive power of the bomb that scorched everything in China, the Pentagon must also find a way to deal with that bomb.

"Are they atomic bombs?" After taking over Roosevelt's presidency, Truman, who had just learned about the Manhattan Plan, asked Marshall worriedly.

"Probably not!" Marshall hesitated, "The atomic bomb would be more powerful and would probably destroy all of Chicago." And they have radiation, and we have intelligence in Chicago, and no radiation is found. The so-called chemical gas was not even found! ”

The Americans obtained images of some of the dead, and those who hid in the fortifications seemed to have died of suffocation, and many even scratched their throats directly, but organizations such as the Red Cross that visited there found no traces of chemical gas.

This tragic death is also one of the reasons for the collapse of many Americans' nerves, and the more unknown the more terrifying, and the mystery that cannot be found is even more heavy on the hearts of Americans.

"If only it wasn't an atomic bomb!" Truman breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm afraid that China's backward industries will not be able to produce atomic bombs." ”

Previously, he had been worried that the personnel and equipment of Germany, Japan and even Italy's nuclear bomb program would fall into the hands of Huaxia, but given the huge electricity consumption and the huge financial and advanced technology support, he still held on to the luck.

Marshall didn't mention the mysterious copycat company either, he just frowned and said, "According to the way those bombs attacked, the vast majority of our fortifications simply can't resist it." Even if we stop those airships at a huge cost, the Huaxia people can use jet bombers to drop those damn bombs! ”

Truman was silent for a long time before he reluctantly said, "We can only count on our little boy." This is our only chance! (To be continued......)