Chapter 396: Tactical Nuclear Strike

Once the Soviet Union was destroyed, Britain would not be able to stand alone, and Japan would no longer be able to fight.

The Germans found that the opponent of the Red Alert Empire in the whole world was Germany.

But is Germany an opponent of the Red Alert Empire?

The Germans naturally thought about this, regardless of whether the future Germany and the Red Alert Empire ended the war peacefully, or broke out into war.

For Germany, life will not be easy under the powerful Red Alert Empire.

But the war had reached such a point that Germany did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Red Alert Empire, but it was also unwilling to compromise with the so-called partner of the Red Alert Empire.

Germany is now quite entangled and unable to find an appropriate balance between the two sides.

Fan Yize does not have so many entanglements, Europe is about to be under his rule, no matter what the Germans think, in the face of absolute strength, it is all a mantis arm.

However, in order not to make the Germans react faster, the pace of the war needed to be accelerated.

Therefore, a plan to use tactical nuclear weapons, Fan Yize agreed.

This plan is aimed at using tactical nuclear bombs to attack the Soviet viable forces in the event of a full-scale blitzkrieg in the third theater of operations, once the main forces of the Soviet Union counterattack.

The plan was aimed at only one goal, and that was the living combat strength of the Soviet army.

The plan was not to be carried out in the populated areas of the USSR, only against the Soviet troops.

Plans were also put on the agenda when Rokossovsky began to assemble troops in preparation for action.

Sending troops to occupy the town of Ilansky, which must be passed through, to block the enemy's advance force, to force the enemy to press in heavily, and to keep the Soviet forces as little as possible from being too scattered.

When Rokossovsky ordered the entire force to be dispatched, the most critical step in the plan was quickly launched.

Behind the air command platform of the third theater of operations, four stratofortress bombers were on standby at high altitude.

The belly magazines of these four bombers are all filled with cruise missiles loaded with tactical nuclear warheads, and all the external attachment points under the wings are also full of nuclear cruise missiles.

A nuclear cruise missile is an ordinary cruise missile with a nuclear warhead and a nuclear strike vehicle.

Each of the four Stratofortress bombers carried 48 nuclear cruise missiles, a full 192 tactical nuclear warheads.

Each tactical nuclear warhead is a neutron bomb with an explosive yield of 2,000 tons, which is extremely powerful and even more lethal.

The neutron bomb is a type of hydrogen bomb, which is a low-yield nuclear weapon with high-energy neutron radiation as the main lethality.

The more formal name is a weapon of intense radiation, and the neutron bomb is a special tactical nuclear weapon with a weakened blast wave effect and increased radiation. It only kills and injures enemy personnel, causes little damage to buildings and facilities, and does not bring long-term radioactive contamination.

The killing principle of neutron bombs is to use the strong penetration of neutrons.

The nucleus composed of protons and neutrons is positively charged, and the neutrons are not charged.

Within the radius of destruction, neutrons can penetrate the steel armor of the tank and the thick walls of reinforced concrete buildings, killing and injuring those in it.

When neutrons pass through the human body, the molecules and atoms in the human body deteriorate or turn into charged ions, causing nuclear reactions of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen atoms in the human body, destroying cell tissues, causing people to have spasms, intermittent coma and muscle disorders, and in severe cases, death within a few hours.

For this operation, the Red Guard Corps also conducted a live-fire explosion test.

At the test site, the Red Guard Regiment collected many Soviet weapons and equipment, such as trucks and tanks, and placed some Japanese prisoners of war in these trucks and tanks.

At the same time, at different distances from the test site, a lot of prisoners of war were arranged.

A neutron bomb with a yield of 2,000 tons detonated at an altitude of 120 meters above the test site, causing enormous devastating damage to personnel.

Although the eruption did not produce a terrible shock wave, except for some equipment damage in the core area of the explosion, there was no damage to the tanks and vehicles on the periphery.

According to the results of a comprehensive examination after the explosion, within 1,600 meters of the center of the explosion, whether it was on the ground exposed, or the people in the tank and the building, the body was immediately disabled, and most of them died directly.

People between 1,600 and 2,400 meters from the central area, whether naked or in tanks, will die in a day to a week, and within 3,500 meters in a month to a few months.

According to the results of this test, even if you stay in a tank 40,000 meters away from the center of the nuclear explosion, you will be damaged by radioactivity, so you will fall into a terminal illness and die a few months later.

At the end of the test, most of the thousands of Japanese prisoners of war who were tested died directly, some died on the second day of the nuclear explosion, a few persisted until the seventh day, and more than a dozen were still under medical surveillance, all of them had severe sepsis, showing that their bodies were dying rapidly, and the number of white blood cells was rapidly decreasing, and they could not last long.

Half an hour after Rokossovsky ordered the troops to move, Fan Yize, who was far away in London, unlocked the safety unlock button for this batch of neutron bullets.

The four Stratofortress bombers were also given the order to launch nuclear cruise missiles and obtained detailed attack coordinates.

The coordinates are entered into the cruise missile, and when the cruise missiles are launched, it means that an irreversible death prelude has begun.

A few minutes later, the first nuclear cruise missile arrived over Soviet troops approaching Ilansky, and to the shocked gaze of the Soviets on the ground, the missile detonated at an altitude of 120 meters above the ground.

In an instant, a huge round fireball rose into the air, dust and smoke splashed on the ground, and within a radius of six hundred meters, it was instantly engulfed by the high temperature of the explosion, and the waves were accompanied by the rapid spread of radioactive materials.

Immediately after that, one after another nuclear missiles fell over different areas of the Soviet troops, controlling the range of strikes and demanding that all Soviet soldiers be killed as instantly as possible.

Clusters of fire rose into the air, and although not as shocking as a large-yield nuclear weapon, the attack was still fraught with deadly violence as hundreds of thousands of lives were lost.

The fireballs that rose into the air could be clearly seen even dozens of kilometers away, and the sound and movement of the explosion made Rokossovsky's hands and feet cold, he didn't know what it was that exploded, but he knew that the location of the explosion was the army that was preparing for a counterattack.