Chapter 506: The Mushroom Harvest Season (Subscribe after one o'clock)
PS: After listening to everyone's opinions, I found that the setting of the previous chapter was wrong, the time when the Americans transported the atomic bomb to the Panama Canal should be July instead of June, I miscalculated the time, here to correct it.
There are two reasons why the Eurasian coalition forces in Hokkaido did not inflict a nuclear strike on the U.S. fleet in the previous war: first, the stock of atomic bombs on hand was not enough; Second, the time is not yet ripe to find the opportunity to inflict maximum damage on the US fleet in the event of a nuclear attack.
Since the successful nuclear test last year, the Soviet Union and Germany, including China, which they have brought into the nuclear gate, have been frantically starting construction with the strength of the whole country, desperately trying to produce relevant nuclear materials.
When the United States dropped its first atomic bomb in actual combat at the end of March, the Soviet Union and Germany had a total of four ready-made atomic bombs, but they had already hoarded a lot of nuclear materials in their hands and were in the process of processing them into atomic bombs
Not counting the one fished out of the sea, by the end of June, the total number of atomic bombs in the hands of the Soviet Union and Germany had reached as many as eight, and even New China had hoarded two atomic bombs in its hands so far.
With the addition of the atomic bombs "gifted" by the Americans, the total number of atomic bombs in the hands of the Eurasian coalition forces has increased to as many as 11.
If you don't do it, you can do it!
The same is true for dropping atomic bombs, in the strike plan against the US Navy drawn up by the Soviet Union and Germany, it is intended to throw a bunch of atomic bombs all at once.
Both Hannah and Stalin were such "simply" people, nuclear demonstrations, flexing muscles, and neither of them disdained to do such things.
The purpose of the atomic bomb delivered to Colombia was to destroy the Panama Canal and cut off the connection between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Let the US Navy become a navy of two oceans that cannot take care of the head and tail in a short period of time. Although the shipbuilding capacity of the United States is huge, two-thirds of the shipyards are in the Atlantic. And several large shipyards on this side of the Pacific were once occupied by the construction of Montana-class battleships. After the Panama Canal is destroyed, the ability of the United States to repair the Pacific Fleet's battle damage will be seriously impaired.
The atomic bomb originally planned for the destruction of the Panama Canal was supplied by Germany. But an unexpected "seizure" in the North Pacific made the Germans change their minds. They reworked the nuclear material from the "boy" and recreated the atomic bomb. If a nuclear attack is successful, the Germans can also taunt their opponents with the phrase "this is your own atomic bomb made by the United States."
President Dewey wanted to stock up on more atomic bombs to ensure that the war would not be lost, and so did the Soviet Union and Germany.
At the beginning of July, the Americans were building the atomic bomb with the power of the whole country. The number of nuclear bombs in hand has also reached as many as ten. President Dewey, who had the confidence, once again concentrated the Pacific Fleet on Artura Island and once again staged an armed demonstration against Britain and Germany.
At the end of June, after lengthy negotiations, the Soviets relented on the issue of borrowing some Soviet islands to the United States as advance bases for attacking Japan. At the same time, Britain and Germany remained intransient, and in June, the two navies conducted a joint military exercise with the Japanese navy in Hokkaido as a demonstration to the United States.
In response, President Dewey ordered the Pacific Fleet, scattered in the Aleutian Islands, to be regrouped. With more than twice the strength of its opponents in terms of tonnage, it has demonstrated the confidence of the United States of America to the world.
In 1942, President Wilkie's plan for the "Second White Fleet" to move westward into the Pacific Ocean was "pretended" to be manipulated, creating the greatest tragedy in the history of the U.S. Navy.
Four years later, President Dewey, who had healed his scars and forgotten the pain, repeated the mistakes made by his predecessor.
When the huge fleet began to assemble around the island of Artura, Britain, the Soviet Union, Germany, and China were overjoyed. The four countries had planned to delay a little longer, stockpiling more nuclear bombs before launching a nuclear strike on the United States. As a result, Dewey always put on a show of death on the island of Atura, giving his opponent the best chance.
Artura Island and its surrounding seas. The season of "mushroom harvest" is coming.
From the end of June 1946, a large number of U.S. warships continued to assemble around the island of Atura. The U.S. has occupied the island for more than two years, and with its engineering capabilities, two years is enough time for the U.S. Navy to transform it into a military port capable of berthing a large number of warships. Later, the US Navy renovated several satellite islands near Artura Island and added radar and other air defense warning facilities.
In order to prevent a sneak attack by foreign enemies, the island of Artura is the center. The U.S. Navy has also set up alert fleets on the periphery, and these alert fleets are centered on escort aircraft carriers, supplemented by destroyers as cover, and the ships are equipped with radars. As an air defense early warning device for sea movements.
The Americans' air defense means are already very well done, and it is almost impossible to avoid radar surveillance by flying at low altitudes, and because there are swimming early warning radars on the periphery to expel them.
However, if it is not in the sky, it does not mean that it will not work in other directions.
On the evening of 3 July, when the Colombian cargo ship carrying dangerous goods was sailing for the Panama Canal, Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet, Halsey, and MacArthur, commander of the US Pacific Theater Army, were looking at the three "swords of God" that had just arrived on Artura Island with mixed feelings.
Halsey, the bull, spat at MacArthur: "Atomic bomb, atomic bomb again, I don't like this thing, since he has him, war has become a simple game of throwing atomic bombs." ”
MacArthur, with a corn pipe in his mouth, said, "I'm the opposite of you, I like this thing!" Isn't the essence of war to strive for the least casualties on our own side and at the same time to inflict maximum damage on the enemy? If possible, I'd like to throw a few of them all in Tokyo, Beijing, London, Berlin, and Moscow. I'd love to see what happens to those five non-human evil gods after they eat the sword of God. ”
Intelligence shows that just today, the main fleet of the coalition forces is now concentrated in the waters 2,000 kilometers away from the island of Artura, and it is far away from the main force of the US Pacific Fleet deployed here. For security reasons in the event of a nuclear strike, the combined fleet is now very fragmented.
A fleet that is divided into a relatively large number can effectively reduce the effect of an atomic attack, but the consequence of being too dispersed is that it will suffer a great loss if it encounters a concentrated attack by the enemy's fleet aviation.
"They're killing themselves!"
Halsey thought to himself.
The White House is debating whether to order a nuclear attack now. A few nuclear bombs were fired at the head of this multinational combined fleet. What made the president hesitate was the fact that the fleet also included the Soviet fleet, including Soviet aircraft carriers. So far, the attitude of the Soviet Union towards the United States is becoming softer and softer. At this juncture, President Dewey, who still had the illusion of winning the cooperation of the Soviet Union, did not want to do anything at this time.
But. The president ordered the decision to strike again in two or three days. If the Soviet Union is no longer interested, even Halsey, who does not like the atomic bomb, is very supportive of using this vicious weapon of destruction to give the opposing fleet a few more rounds.
At this time, the American upper echelons in the White House in Washington were discussing how to continue to use the atomic bomb to the same degree of "ferocity" as MacArthur.
The discussion in the White House is about this war. To what extent will the United States use the atomic bomb?
"Don't you understand? My dear friend. ”
President Dewey, a hardliner who advocated the use of the atomic bomb, said to the curtain against the excessive use of the atomic bomb:
"The results of the Hokkaido campaign have proven that we will not be able to defeat the Japanese completely if we fight them by conventional means! With the support of the Eurasian coalition forces, this war will only be a never-ending rotten war! Even if the United States of America were to be able to defeat them, the price we would pay would not be too heavy to bear. We must use the least costly and most powerful methods to end this war! ”
In President Dewey's mind, he had a crazy idea: to confirm the absence of the oracle. Send a submarine and load an atomic bomb. Then surreptitiously approached Shanghai, the coastal center of China, and then detonated off the coast of Shanghai. Using this method of carrying out a "nuclear explosion" on the tip of the nose of the enemy country, it is a final yellow card warning to the Eurasian coalition forces.
The reason why China was chosen was that President Dewey was the weakest country in the Eurasian coalition.
Of course, this was a very crazy and money-burning demonstration. But now the United States is already at war. It burns a huge amount of money every day in the Pacific. In order to maintain such a large superfleet of nearly 5 million tons in the Pacific Ocean, the military expenditure every day is a literal amount of money.
After such a high amount of military consumption, even the deep-pocketed Americans have felt a little unbearable.
While everyone in the White House was still discussing how to identify the next nuclear strike target as soon as possible. Their opponents on the other side of the Pacific are ready to show their sharp teeth against the United States.
On the evening of July 3, two submarine ships with snorkels and advanced designs were quietly heading for the island of Artura. Both submarines belong to Germany and are currently the most advanced submarines in Germany. With the installation of the snorkel, the two submarines can use the snorkel to move underwater at high speed in the middle of the night without surfacing the surface.
These two submarines, one is Hannah's spirit ship and the other is Lin Han's spirit ship, and the submarine where Lin Han is located is carrying an enhanced atomic bomb.
Because it was a submarine as a vehicle, the atomic bomb could be built without considering its weight, and everything was built with the pursuit of maximum power as the starting point, and the power of its explosion was estimated by German scientists to be more than 100,000 tons of TNT.
Taking advantage of the cover of night and the map hanging of the ship's spirit, the two submarines avoided the American destroyers patrolling along the way, and cautiously approached the island of Artura.
At 2 a.m. on 4 July, the two submarines were less than five kilometres off the coastline of Atura. After lurking underwater for half an hour, avoiding a wave of patrolling destroyers, two submarines surfaced one after another.
Then, the crew of Lin Han's submarine climbed out of the submarine and transferred to Hannah's submarine by kayak.
Then, after closing the hatch from the outside, the empty submarine, under the control of the radio remote control device, the diesel engine on board the submarine started again and rushed to the coastline of Atura.
Twenty-five minutes later, the boat ran aground on a shoal on the island of Artura. At the same time, Hannah's submarine was sneaking away from Artura Island as fast as possible.
At 2:45 a.m. on July 4, a blinding white light suddenly flashed over the dark island of Atura, and after a huge roar, a crimson mushroom-shaped red cloud flew up over the island of Atura. Deadly rays, particles, nuclear dust storms, and shock waves swept away in all directions with a deafening roar, starting with the island of Artura on the side and the U.S. fleet on the other side of the man-made dock.
The entire island of Artura was soon enveloped in a huge storm brought by the 100,000-ton yield enhanced atomic bomb.
The light radiation and shock wave from the 100,000-ton atomic bomb swept across the island of Artura. The anti-aircraft guns exposed on the island, the land-based planes parked at the airfield, and the military barracks built on the island were all blown like dead leaves and rotten wooden ships flying in the sky. Even more unfortunate are those "protein organic human bodies", who are directly hit at close range in the deadly light and heat field radiation and shock waves, and their bones, teeth, muscles, nerves, skin, ...... All of them absorbed a huge amount of radiant energy in an instant, solidifying, boiling, vaporizing like meat in a microwave oven, or being burned to something like charcoal and tree roots, no longer human.
Operated by the U.S. military for many years, Artura Island has been transformed into a huge military base, as well as a huge arsenal and oil depot.
Under the impact of the 100,000-ton atomic bomb hurricane, the ammunition stored on the island was also detonated, and the flammable aviation fuel was ignited. What is even more terrifying is that under the impact of the nuclear explosion hurricane, the lighter fuel oil was ignited at the same time, and it was also blown into a "liquid torch" flying in the air by the storm, burning and "splashing" into the sea several kilometers away, and many oil fires fell directly on the warships anchored in the harbor.
Due to the location, the damage suffered by the US fleet moored in the artificial harbor in this wave of nuclear attack was not too serious, and many fleets only shook up and down violently under the pressure brought by the shock wave, and suffered some damage, but none of them were too serious.
The 100,000-ton atomic bomb detonated by the Soviet-German forces on Artura Island only dealt a near-fatal blow to the garrison on the island, but it did not have the effect of striking a heavy blow to the US Navy warships.
However, tonight, the Soviets and Germans simply planned to drop only one atomic bomb on Artura Island, and this 100,000-ton atomic bomb was only the first hors d'oeuvres before the meal was served, and its purpose was only to destroy the air defense system on the American island in order to make room for planting more "mushrooms". (To be continued......)