Chapter 777: Real Nuclear Attack
The stars are clear, the moon is high, and the tropical palm forests belonging to the Caribbean Sea are swaying, quietly dancing in the cool night breeze. In the wide flat land not far away, nearly 100 heavy bombers like Gao Peng's big birds have been neatly docked on the airport runway; Under the illumination of the lights, countless ground crews were shuttling in an orderly manner, refueling and reloading these huge dragon falcons sprayed with iron cross logos before attacking. Except for the footsteps of the personnel and the inherent sound of equipment such as fuel pumps and wheels, the entire front-line airfield was so orderly that there was no superfluous sound.
A low roar rang out, and a tall truck quickly drove to the center of the airport with the roar of the engine; Under the afterglow of the surrounding lights, the ball-shaped "giant egg" loaded at the back of it looked extraordinarily large and hideous. Although the surrounding area is full of steel machines full of the atmosphere of modern industrial civilization, at first glance everyone still has a strong illusion that they have traveled to a mythical world: as if this truck is carrying Smaogo's dragon egg, and the next moment a fire dragon lizard will burst out of the cocoon!
Before the truck could stop, dozens of ground crews and armed guards quickly met it; When the dome was slowly unloaded, no one dared to have the slightest slackness. A few steps away, a special Me-264 bomber with all machine gun towers removed was ready; The ground crew carefully lowered the cart to the bottom of its belly, and then secured the dome to its body with the hooks and locks that had been reserved in advance. Several pilots wearing special goggles stood next to the bomber, their faces full of a mixture of joy, anticipation, and apprehension. In the sky far away in the east, a faint light color has been embedded in the inky black and blue; Ten more minutes. The first rays of morning light will fall over the air base on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba.
Three days ago. The Berlin government gave instructions to carry out Operation Godfall. The various units involved in Cuba began to get busy at an unprecedented pace. A Berlin-class heavy cruiser arrived at Guantanamo in southeastern Cuba late at night and unloaded from the deck the giant bomb that was still more than a man tall in a flat state, and the Germans spent great effort to transport it to Havana in the northwest to avoid being detected by spies left behind by the United States when they retreated from the island. At this moment, the bomb painted with the word M is finally in a state of readiness, and can rise into the sky more than 8 kilometers at any time under the bomber's load; And its single-shot power can withstand a full lineup of 5,000 four-engine heavy bombers!
Ten thousand clouds of sunset burst into the sky from the eastern sky, bringing a dazzling and dazzling halo; Accompanied by the signal of the command tower, it was given. The German planes, which had been waiting at the airport for a long time, took off one after another to attack with the roar of engines. At the same time, the airports around Havana are busy with propellers spinning; The warhawks taking off from these places sent frequent communication telegrams, and soon joined up with the unit of the core bomber, and according to the pre-arranged formation, they formed a majestic and continuous group of air forts.
In order to ensure the success of the bombing of Atlanta, the Luftwaffe concentrated more than 700 Me-264s in the operation, and their firepower was enough to tear apart any enemy who dared to attack. In the precautionary consideration, the Luftwaffe also played another trick: more than 20 Me-264s were modified to have bomb bays like bomb planes, and a dummy bomb with the exact same shape as the M gold plutonium bomb was attached to confuse the opponent. If the US pilots who came to intercept could realize the true purpose of their trip. Then in the face of these many goals, it can only be in vain; It was obviously impossible to shoot down so many targets in the center of the queue, and the German planes that actually carried the nuclear bombs would be able to carry out the bomb dropping mission under heavy cover.
The sun shines. The clouds danced, and the deep blue sea below the German pilots was finally replaced by turquoise land as the red sun rose in the east. The machine gunners gathered their attention and carefully examined the movement in front of their eyes through the observation window: after entering the skies over the US mainland, they completely entered the core theater of operations, and in the next 600 kilometers, the US anti-aircraft artillery and interceptor fighters will be a deadly threat that they must go all out. After a short time, the sporadic interception battle was announced in the roar of machine guns, and for a while, countless brightly colored lightning flashes seemed to fly in the air.
Although the momentum of this group of German planes sweeping through the sky can be described as majestic and almost not concealed, since the US military does not know the target of this wave of planes, it is impossible for them to take such a-for-tat response in interception. In order not to delay the fighters in the planning and dispatch, so that the German bomber group could complete the bombing and return without any interference, they could only send fighter planes to meet the enemy in a tactic that was almost refueled, that is, they dispatched a batch when they were ready. In the face of the German aircraft group's peak lineup and firepower, the role that these thin US fighters can play can be imagined. Although the commanders of the U.S. land-based air forces have been trying to increase the number of single-wave fighters to intercept according to the enemy's flight conditions, their defensive line is still run straight through by the enemy, leaving behind only debris and debris that has crashed into the ground from a high altitude.
At 10:45 a.m., the magnificent figure of Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, finally appeared in the eyes of German pilots. As an important industrial center in the eastern United States, Atlanta has the characteristics common to the top cities of this era: the streets are wide and horizontal, the buildings are lined up one after another, and countless huge billboards towering in the center of the city square and the wings of high-rise buildings on the commercial street are particularly prosperous and magnificent against the blue sky and white clouds. One street away in the industrial city, dozens of giant cement chimneys stand majestically like Optimus Pillars, from which gray-black billowing smoke continues to gush out; And the sonorous sound of the machine tool air hammer in the factory makes anyone who is intoxicated with the big industrial age enthusiastic. If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's hard to imagine that this will be the scene of modernization that you can see in the 30s of the 20th century; Even after being greatly weakened, the strength of the Lighthouse Nation is beyond the reach of almost all industrialized countries in the world!
As pure soldiers, the German pilots did not have so many emotional feelings. After several bombers dropped bombs for marking, countless bullets rained down from the sky; Immediately from the sky, small bright yellow dots appeared on the ground, and these points of light spread out like ink dripping into water, and soon spread into many fiery red spots of different shapes. Although the air raid siren sounded in Atlanta more than 10 minutes ago, it was obviously not enough time for more than 500,000 residents to properly evacuate and take refuge.
What all Americans did not expect was that the intensive bombing of hundreds of bombers on the other side was just a prelude to a high-pitched symphony. As they scurried in the blazing flames, hoping for a place of safety, a German bomber with a bulging belly had already clashed out of the returning array and dropped a giant bomb on the belly of the aircraft aimed at the industrial area of the city that had not been attacked before. Feeling the sudden lightness of the aircraft, the pilot immediately steered the fighter plane and turned the power of the four engines to the maximum and fled at full speed; Thanks to the short-distance communication between the planes, thousands of pilots quickly put on special goggles. Since they did not know the specific performance of the nuclear bomb, a considerable number of officers and soldiers were extremely puzzled by this almost redundant piece of equipment, but soon they would be extremely glad that they had it.
At 11:14 a.m. on June 29, a plutonium bomb codenamed M exploded 350 meters above the American city of Atlanta. The blazing brilliance of the extremely bright, together with the unimaginable heat and shock waves, shot out in all directions with the momentum of a landslide and tsunami, and the earth-shattering explosion could be clearly heard from a hundred kilometers away. Gray-black clouds of smoke and dust billowed into the sky, eventually forming the iconic mushroom-shaped shape; Looking from dozens of kilometers away, it seems that a giant pillar is in the sky, and a python is cruising; The momentum is astonishing, and the spectacle is extreme.
Under the slamming of this 35,000-ton TNT-equivalent nuclear bomb, the entire city of Atlanta was instantly subjected to an unprecedented catastrophe. The construction road located within 500 meters of the explosion site suddenly looked like mud and paper paste, and everything including steel bars turned into thousands of debris and flew inch by inch. In an instant, there was no trace of them on the earth. The 2.5-kilometer-long high-rise buildings collapsed like a snowy ridge, and in an instant, bricks and stones flew in all directions, beams and columns were broken, and only the ruins of the ancient Roman beast arena were left in the billowing smoke and dust. Flames poured out of the ruins, scorching even in the midday sun: a situation caused by the extreme temperature generated by the center of the nuclear explosion spreading dramatically in all directions, and thus sending the object beyond the flammable point. At a slightly greater distance, although the buildings did not collapse under the action of the shock wave, they all had catastrophic spontaneous combustion; Even if the objects are like this, the casualties suffered by the people in the city are even more tragic! (To be continued......)
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