Long Xiaotian's thoughts are not exaggerated.

In the entire empire, there will be no more than 20 people who know the existence of "naughty babies", including those who signed the highest level of confidentiality agreement, the H-37 Cerberus bomber crew that launched the first "little naughty" in Gibu, Japan, excluding these nine air force flight crews, and the rest of the people who know about it are only about ten, and they are all high-level generals of the imperial army, in other words, they are people who can have a considerable say in Weiqing Pavilion.

Admiral Long Xiaotian, who had served as commander of the RAF's strategic bomber force, was certainly one of them. Airdrop "naughty baby", Admiral Long may also be one of the most unavoidable people. But even if Long Xiaotiangui is a general of the Imperial Air Force, he has no right to open the underground nuclear arsenal where the "naughty baby" is stored, it seems that the intelligent robots there only recognize Your Majesty!

Of course, this is just a rumor, for those who know that the empire has super weapons, most of them only know about it, as for the individual location of the underground nuclear weapons stockpile, what can be understood more specifically is nothing more than Jiang Shuai and Director Mu and the like.

Ye Shuai...... In the eyes of the world, Ye Shuai is highly powerful and powerful, and he can be the most important favorite minister of His Majesty like Jiang Shuai, but people who have reached the status of Long Xiaotian know very well: of course, several marshals can be called important ministers of the country, but they are still a little bit short of favored ministers. Those who are qualified to be called His Majesty's favored ministers, Jiang Shuai and Director Mu must be counted, as well as Governor Nanyang Qian and Governor Dongyingquan, and the others ...... It should be the Imperial Chancellor of the Exchequer Hebal. These people are all in and out of the Jinhua Hall as if they were entering their own door, and they can even spend the night in His Majesty's dormitory if they drink too much.

As for Ye Shuai, it is not that His Majesty is not important, you are the chief of the general staff of the three imperial armies, although the subordinate organs of the Supreme Command have been divided into four general departments, but the General Staff is undoubtedly still the most important command organ in the imperial army. In terms of authority alone, it is not an exaggeration to call Ye Weixunyuan, chief of the General Staff, the third person in the imperial army.

However, no one denied that only the officers of the Guards Legion system were the descendants of the Han Emperor, just like the Whampoa department of the former chairman of the committee. Without this layer of relationship, no matter how high the official position is, don't let you not regard you as a close confidant of His Majesty.

Zhong Yi didn't have this idea, but it was undeniable that between the absolute loyalty of the Red Police soldiers and the power of the superiors, he was always more accustomed to choosing the base and choosing the Red Police soldiers recruited from the base military camp.

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Before the official launch of the "Hou Xi" program, there was a rather fierce debate in Weiqing Pavilion about whether to use superweapons in the Americas. Forcing the United States to surrender, ending the war, and unleashing nuclear demons at minimal cost will put humanity into a process of self-destruction, both for good and bad reasons, and even more difficult to choose.

As with many disagreements on major matters, the final decision-making power will still be transferred back to His Majesty.

Long Xiaotian attended that important meeting, and he clearly remembered that His Majesty closed his eyes and hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to start the Hou Xi plan as originally planned, but reserved the possibility of using super weapons before the situation was beyond the control of the Empire.

But...... It seems that the current situation on the North American battlefield is not unacceptable. At the end of the Battle of the High-Speed Zone, although the Allied forces did not achieve the goal of completely annihilating the elite of the US Western Theater, they were able to seize the Nevada Defense Line and have an important position in American agriculture in the Great Basin area. At the same time, because of the loss of the Nevada Line, the US army's inland defensive circle has actually been broken, and the long-standing Phoenix offensive and defensive battle is also expected to end in the short term because the rear and flanks of Phoenix are exposed under the artillery of the Allies.

In addition, New Mexico and Texas, which border Mexico to the south, were almost entirely in the hands of the Allies, which equated to the fact that in less than half a year, the Allies had captured a quarter of the United States, including California on the West Coast and Texas in the Bay of Mexico, which were economically and strategically important to the United States.

The fall of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and even some famous cities such as Phoenix has dealt a heavy psychological blow to Americans, in particular.

"Then why at this time, His Majesty instructed Ye Shuai to activate the 'Naughty Baby', instead of Jiang Shuai, who was already preparing to settle on the British Island, to launch the eastern landing?" After Ye Shuai nodded, a lot of question marks appeared in Admiral Long's mind, and he couldn't wait for the meeting to end soon, so he could find a place where no one was and ask Ye Shuai for clarification.

But Ye Weixun obviously didn't mean to fulfill Long Xiaotian. After arranging operations to attack the Great Basin, the meeting was moved to operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

After the Jingzhou Army and the Mosu Army captured Houston, the flames of war had already spread to Louisiana. But whether it is Ye Shuai or the other commanders of the General Command, everyone's desire/desire for New Orleans is not strong. It was even pointed out that since the Royal Navy's area of activity did not include the Gulf of Mexico, the supply lines of the Jingzhou Army and the Mosu Army were already a little too long, and they were unable to organize a larger offensive campaign. Therefore, the Allied forces, including the Mexican army, will be put on the defensive after the Battle of Palestam.

Including the Youzhou Army and the Xuzhou Army in the bitter battle in Phoenix, after the Yizhou Army forced the back road south, forcing the American Army to abandon Phoenix, which had been beaten to ruins, it would also stop at Albuquerque on the south side of the Rocky Mountains.

As a result, in North America, only the Zhanghou Mountain Cluster and the Liangzhou Army and the two Western Regions Army Corps on the Western Road continued to maintain the offensive. Because, they want to drive out the US troops in the "Great Basin" and control this important food-producing area.

At a time when the armies were on the offensive, the Allied strategy suddenly turned conservative. "Could it be that the United States has begun to resume negotiations with the Empire? After recovering the lost territory for Mexico and leaving room for the Indians to establish a state, Your Majesty is satisfied? ”

The most reasonable explanations are these, but Admiral Long Xiaotian didn't believe that His Majesty was such an easily satisfied person. In the Asia-Pacific, in Siberia, and even in the Mediterranean, where the Imperial Army has fought, where has His Majesty not left traces of the wind or plucked the feathers of geese. "No, it's not Your Majesty's character to let the Americans go so easily."

Noticing the dragon general who frowned for a while and pondered for a while, Ye Shuai suddenly smiled!

Ye Weixun knew very well how much trouble his gentle action just now would bring to Long Xiaotian. remembered that when he first received His Majesty's secret letter, he was also torn apart...... Looking puzzled, now looking at Admiral Long, his mind suddenly feels much more balanced.

Knowing more is not necessarily better. In many cases, the more you know, the more responsibilities you have, the more you have to bear.

Not long ago, the Empire's super spy "Del Mar" was finally awakened and sent back top-secret information that could shock the world: the United States was about to develop an atomic bomb.

Just as when Albert Einstein fled Europe and the United States learned that Germany had begun research on the atomic bomb, it was explosive and alarming. If the United States is allowed to succeed in testing the atomic bomb, the good situation that the empire has achieved through years of war and the sacrifices of countless soldiers will be completely lost. The Empire's top brassiers, who had learned about the power of the atomic bomb, knew better than anyone how terrible it was.

After Mu Yu reported the only piece of information after "Del Mar" was awakened, an intelligence with only four words "about to succeed", His Majesty only said one sentence: "I will not be the second Napoleon." ”

-- Historically, the invincible French Emperor Napoleon failed to build an advanced naval fleet for France, and ultimately led to the defeat of Waterloo.

The bombing of the U.S. nuclear research zone, the destruction of Oak Ridge, and the destruction of Chicago immediately became the most urgent task of the Empire. It is unrealistic and impossible to count on the rapid advance of the Army to Tennessee, where the Manhattan Engineering District is located, sending special forces to sabotage?

When Mu Yu proposed this plan, Zhong Yi just said "hehe" twice, and Director Mu immediately blushed! WITH THE UNITED STATES' ATTENTION TO AND PROTECTION OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, NOT TO MENTION THE SPECIAL FORCES, EVEN IF THEY BUILD A SUPER-MAN IN DANYANG FILM CITY, IT IS DIFFICULT TO GET CLOSE TO THE PERIPHERY OF THE U.S. NUCLEAR ENGINEERING ZONE, LET ALONE THE MOST CORE NUCLEAR PLANTS AND RESEARCH LABORATORIES.

The easiest and best way is, of course, an air strike," but ...... Your Majesty, that place in Oak Ridge is surrounded by high mountains. In addition, the U.S. military will definitely deploy key air defense, and the Royal Air Force may not be able to easily achieve bombing, and besides, if there are no accurate coordinates in that kind of terrain, it is difficult for us to guarantee that all the research laboratories and important areas of the nuclear plant that have been solidly defended will be destroyed. ”

Mu Yu hesitated for a moment, but still expressed the doubts in his heart.

Zhong Yi nodded and looked at Air Force Commander Yun Jiu who was sitting on the side, "Yes, Your Majesty, Director Mu is right. In fact, I have also studied the terrain of Oak Ridge, which is really not conducive to the operation of the Air Force. Unless we carry out successive strikes in multiple batches, it will be difficult to guarantee the effectiveness of air strikes, even with the power of our most advanced air-to-surface missiles. Unless ......"

Hearing Yun Shuai's words, the corners of Zhong Yi's mouth grinned with a wicked smile, revealing a hint of firmness and a hint of cruelty, "What if it is?" ”

"Your Majesty......" Yun Jiu's performance was a little excited, if there were outsiders present, it was really hard to believe that this was the commander-in-chief of the Royal Air Force, which was powerful all over the world.

"Lao Jiu, do you want to say, if so, then the terrain of Oak Ridge is an excellent place?"

"Your Majesty!" With a sound from Yun Jiu's horn, the heels of the high-waisted military boots touched hard, and then he raised his thumb again, "High, really high!" ”

"Rely on ......" Zhong Yi smiled bitterly, and Director Mu slapped his forehead, "Nima, Lao Jiu, you are the marshal of the empire!" Can we stop playing elementary school students? ”

The three of them reached a consensus and were in a good mood. After learning the shocking information of "Delmar" for the first time, the agitation in my heart gradually subsided. "Don't say that the Manhattan Project hasn't been finally successful, even if it has succeeded, even if 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' have been made, so what? In the previous life, Truman was able to scare the Japanese, but it does not mean that no one in this life knows his hole cards. ”

"His hole cards are after Nagaki and Hiroshima, and there are no hole cards! With the detonation of those two atomic bombs, the United States simply cannot afford to build even one more atomic bomb in a short period of time. ”

Zhong Yi's eyes flashed with a hint of anger, unlike the United States, after the nuclear bomb icon at the base was lit up, thirty were produced in one go. Three of them were sent to a nuclear laboratory on the unnamed island of Dahan Bay in the south of Jiaozhou, and one was tested on an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean, and then the one in Kibu, Japan.

In the underground nuclear arsenal located in Liangzhou, there are still twenty-five "naughty babies". The babies are so well-behaved that they haven't seen the light of day for years. In fact, the underground nuclear arsenal is a sub-base, a sub-base in Greater China built 50 meters underground. With the "Bird of Paradise" guarding, it is probably really the safest warehouse in the world.

Thinking of this, Zhong Yi suddenly remembered that he had really not been in contact with the "female anchor" for a long time, and he was getting more and more used to the world. With the rapid development of the empire's industry and economy, considering that the time for the closure of the base is getting closer and closer, whether it is scientific research or military production, there are fewer and fewer places to rely on the base.

But...... Zhong Yi was speechless for the important moment when he was able to decide the life and death of the empire, and he actually thought of the female anchor and the days when he just crossed Australia. Is this a big heart or no heart and no lungs?

In fact, there's really nothing too stressful about it. The hardest part was just that decision. Once you have made up your mind, play nuclear war? The United States is not yet an adversary, at least, the empire still has an absolute head start.

Fortunately, by chance, I remembered the "Delmar" that allowed the Soviet Union to build an atomic bomb almost overnight and break the nuclear blackmail of the United States.

If we follow the traces of history, it will be more than a year before the atomic explosion of the United States is born. But the time when it was supposed to be the Normandy landing, but it was the Han and American battles against Phoenix, and this world is no longer the same world that Zhong Yi once knew in his mind but has now forgotten.

"Lao Jiu, start the male 'Tianlei Project', Mu Yu, summon Uncle Sam, and discuss the founding of the southern United States."

In a short sentence, the fate of another people is decided. When Air Marshal Yunjiu and Admiral Mu Yu of the Imperial Military Intelligence Agency stood up to answer, the future of the United States had been changed.

The 22nd Special Service Squadron of the Royal Air Force of the Han Empire was secretly established at the Royal Air Force Base in Dahan Bay, and the air force pilots and crew members who were called into the Special Service Squadron did not know what an important mission they were about to perform. They just knew that they were going to carry out a special bombing mission. Instead of the usual operational requirements, they were given a new flight compendium to train them to quickly move away from the blast zone after dropping a giant bomb, etc. Of course, in the 22nd Special Service Squadron, not only one type of aircraft participated in the training. The Qiulong H-41B flying wing bomber, the J-39C Tianlong fighter and even the J-15 Eagle carrier-based fighter, and other advanced fighters such as the "Raptor" and "Cerberus" have all appeared at Dahan Bay Air Base. An evaluation team composed of more than 20 air force experts evaluated the various types of fighters that the empire could carry "naughty babies," and then combined the characteristics of the US ground air defense forces and air force fighters to report to Air Marshal Yun Jiu on the advantages and disadvantages of various fighters in carrying out their tasks, and finally His Majesty personally decided what kind of plan to implement.

It seems that compared with the B-29, the only choice of the US military in the previous life, the strength of the Han Imperial Air Force far exceeded that of the US military at that time, and the choice of fighters was just a happy trouble.

But Zhong Yi doesn't think so, the Han Army's fighters are advanced, but the U.S. Air Force is not the strength of World War II in the previous life. The monitoring capability of US radar is by no means comparable to that of Japan, which was already crippled in those years.

In the era when the United States bombed Japan, the B-29 did not need fighter escorts at all, because Japan at that time did not have a fighter capable of flying to an effective flight altitude of more than 10,000 meters for the B-29.

But in the United States today, the situation is completely different. Although the Royal Air Force has achieved a certain advantage in the air battle in the west, this does not mean that the US Air Force is powerless to fight back. Marshal Ye Weixun, who was on the North American battlefield, even judged that the US Air Force was saving strength for the Central Campaign. That is, after the Allied air forces were completely out of the scope of naval support, a decisive battle with the Allied air forces in the middle of the United States. In this way, it was possible to avoid the joint strangulation of the imperial royal navy and air force.

Otherwise, with the US aircraft production capacity on the east coast of the United States, the air force would have avoided fighting half a year after the outbreak of the North American war.

The Oak Ridge and Chicago programs are located in Tennessee, in the middle of the United States. Chicago, the economic powerhouse of North America, is located in the Great Lakes region, far from Allied control. Therefore, although Zhong Yi has made up his mind to bomb both places, the preparation and implementation of the entire plan are by no means easy.

If, in the course of a mission, a plane carrying a "naughty baby" is intercepted by a US fighter plane, then the loss of a few nuclear bombs is a small matter, and it will even cause the US nuclear bombs to enter the final assembly more quickly, which is the most fatal thing.

Perhaps, the opportunity to launch the "Sky Thunder" program is not the only one, but to be able to concentrate and completely destroy the US nuclear facilities, it must be a one-time success, a perfect success.

The 22nd Special Service Squadron is training rigorously, and the Air Force experts are also nervously making assessments, and Zhong Yi is also a little anxious to wait in the Weiyang Palace! But the final execution time will be proposed by Marshal Ye Weixun, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in the western North American theater.

Therefore, after deciding to implement the "Heavenly Thunder" plan, Ye Shuai received His Majesty's order almost immediately: to find an appropriate time to carry out an "important" air attack on the US military.

In Ye Shuai's view, this is not a simple task, and this "right time" is too difficult to find. Judging from the area currently controlled by the Allies, the bombing of Oak Ridge will definitely start in Texas. There was no problem with distance, and almost all of the Empire's main combat aircraft could easily cover Tennessee, less than a thousand kilometers away.

But this road is densely packed with US air bases. In order to prevent Allied air strikes in the east, the US military also deployed a large number of radar base stations, and it was not easy to make a long-distance raid to Oak Ridge.

In addition, Chicago, which is even more difficult, takes off in Houston and needs to fly directly for nearly 2,000 kilometers to reach the target, almost crossing the entire north-south longitudinal line in the middle of the United States, and the difficulty of such a combat air attack can be imagined, and in terms of the range of aircraft, there are very few fighter-bombers that can reach a combat radius of 2,000 kilometers, unless it is ...... Qiulong flying wing strategic bomber.