Chapter 158: The Last Gunshot (Part II)

Today, Washington, D.C., the federal capital of Washington, D.C., which was specially designed and built by French designers and is as delicate as a handicraft, has been transformed into a charred, ugly, foul-smelling and hideous ruins. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe city's water and electricity supply has long been cut off, and about a fifth of the buildings in the city have been destroyed despite firewalls and fire ditches. The Pentagon, which had only been completed for a few years, was almost a pile of rubble during the major bombing of the Soviet Strategic Air Force, and even the steel components were burned by the high temperature of the incendiary bombs, turning them into a pile of twisted garbage. A 500-kilogram aerial bomb was hit by the dome of Capitol Hill, killing dozens of people on the spot, and fragments of human flesh and blood and brains were sprayed on the wall decorated with exquisite murals, frightening the members of the citizen volunteer service team who went to collect the corpses. Several bridges across the Potomac River have also been blown off, and the only way to get between the two sides is now by boat. Even a corner of the White House was blown up, but fortunately the Oval Office was still intact, except for the furnishings that were much shattered.

Now in Washington, there is no electricity, no running water, no newspapers and shops, and no hotels and hotels...... Thousands of homeless citizens and refugees who fled from other places were not effectively resettled, and some of them spontaneously poured into museums and the remaining public buildings such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial to set up camp, while the rest had to live in huts in Lafayette Park, Potomac Park, and other squares, using old newspapers and wood from the rubble, relying on the little relief food provided by the government, plus collecting wild vegetables and fruits, catching rats and hares, and fishing from the Potomac River. It's like the "Hoover Village" and "Hoover House" built by American veterans when they marched into the capital to ask for wages during the Great Depression era...... At first glance, it looks like yesterday repeating itself. Some of these dilapidated shacks have even reached the door of the White House, less than 200 meters from the Oval Office, and from President MacArthur's window, you can see the smoke of their cooking from cutting trees.

Many people suffer from dysentery and cholera due to unhealthy diets, and people die every day from epidemics, often not noticed until the corpses are decomposing and stinking. And every transoceanic bombing by the Soviet Strategic Air Force created more ruins, craters and corpses in this desperate city.

The majestic, neat and dignified capital of the Union was like a deep and distant dream, completely shattered, and gone forever.

However, the current President MacArthur no longer has the heart to drive tanks to drive away and crush the shacks of these homeless people...... Strictly speaking, President MacArthur at this time no longer had the heart to care about anything, and in fact, even if he wanted to, he could not control anything. Because his federal government has fallen into a state of idling, has basically lost control of the country, and has almost cut off even news outside the capital, President MacArthur has been blind to the state of the state in the country in recent months, and knows less than Stalin.

For example, as the current president of the United States, MacArthur actually learned through the international broadcast of the Soviet Union's TASS news agency that a Japanese army had landed in the port of Tacoma, Washington, on the west coast, and that the commander of this Japanese army was still his old acquaintance, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji, who had captured him in Japan and put him in an iron cage and paraded through the streets...... The Washington State Assembly and government have long since disappeared, and the local garrison that survived the bombing cut off contact with the White House after reporting a Japanese immigrant rebellion in May, and no new telegrams have been sent.

As a result, even if President MacArthur wanted to organize a counterattack, he could not find anyone to order, and there were not even many troops that could be mobilized—the number of troops that he, a dignified president, could currently control in the United States was actually less than the Japanese troops stationed in the United States under the command of Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji!

Besides, even if he had troops at hand, he would not be able to move his troops through the entire wasteland of the United States to the West Coast to defend against the enemy.

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Therefore, in the face of this small group of Japanese troops appearing in Washington State, the only choice MacArthur could make was to pretend to be deaf and dumb, pretending not to know...... Fortunately, unlike in the past, His Excellency the President no longer has any public opinion and pressure to deal with, and no longer has to worry about the press and congressional inquiries and impeachments—all newspapers in Washington, D.C., have ceased publication due to Soviet air raids that have destroyed the printing press, and the supply of electricity, paper, and ink has been cut off. At the same time, the Senate and House of Representatives of Congress were permanently adjourned as members of parliament almost disappeared.

-- Although it has not yet been bombed by a nuclear bomb, Washington, which has been bombed twice in three days, is also not a safe zone. Therefore, the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill have been saying goodbye to each other since this spring, and have gone their separate ways to make a living. A few fled with their families into seclusion in the most remote mountains and forests, intending to learn from the western cowboy pioneers, or the modern inland version of Robinson, and re-rely on their own and their families' hands to burn the wasteland and farm. Most of the guys, who thought they lacked the ability to survive in the wilderness, dragged their wives and children, their belongings, and fled across the vast Atlantic to South Africa on all kinds of cruise ships, freighters, yachts, and the remaining ships of the Atlantic Fleet.

During this chaotic exodus of millions of people, due to the dilapidated and unmaintained nature of many refugee ships, the poor quality of sailors (all experienced sailors were exhausted in the war), and the captain's greed for money and excessive carrying of passengers, all kinds of tragic and unbelievable shipwrecks continued one after another, and even made matters worse, a large number of modern pirates who killed and robbed people and goods appeared - a considerable part of these modern pirates who suddenly appeared were the predecessors of the defeated soldiers of South American countries. Even many former U.S. Navy officers and sailors, as well as criminals who took advantage of the chaos to snatch heavy military weapons, their only idea was to make a fortune before the end of the war, and the fugitives with large amounts of gold and silver were the best prey...... Overall, however, at least more than eighty percent of the refugee ships made it to their destination, South Africa......

In addition to the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the principal officials of various departments of the federal government and the Supreme Court, many generals of the Pentagon, and many plutocratic families that once dominated the United States, as well as many ordinary people who were unwilling to stay in the capital and wait for death, trying to find a way to survive, have also fled the capital and scattered. In the entire federal government, there are only a few decadent people who feel that they have nowhere to go and no love, or cowards who lack a sense of adventure, and continue to stay in the capital district - at least there are houses to live in and food rations to receive.

Today, the District of Columbia has become a giant ant nest in a mess, and everything is messed up. Thanks to President MacArthur's loyal guards, as well as a small number of police and gendarmes who remained committed to their duties in such a desperate situation, they were able to barely maintain law and order in the city without completely collapsing, and when the air raids came, the anti-aircraft guns that could not hit the enemy planes at all were operated to give themselves a bang to their own courage. In addition, as the capital of the Federation, long before the nuclear bombing disaster fell on the land of the United States, the federal government had stockpiled a large amount of food, fuel and daily necessities in the city, even if some were destroyed by the bombing, there were still many left, so that most of the people in the city were not in danger of freezing and starving for the time being...... So, even when the country is gradually turning into a wasteland and the capital has been reduced to an island, there is still a bit of order here.

Despite this, this dying city is still full of bad things, full of neurotic and debilitating people, which makes people discouraged when they see it.

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In fact, even President MacArthur himself sent his wife, First Lady Jane. Fairclaus. MacArthur, along with his son Arthur Jr., secretly boarded a refugee ship bound for South Africa...... According to the last news that came back half a month ago, at present, their mother and son have successfully arrived in South Africa, bought a house in Cape Town with the gold, silver and jewelry they carried, and also let the last stone in President MacArthur's heart fall to the ground - from now on, he will no longer have anything to worry about and worry about in this world, and he can face the cruel fate that is about to come without any drag.

But despite the bleak situation and the increasingly desperate future, President MacArthur had no intention of surrendering unconditionally to the Soviets.

- As an ambitious, showy professional soldier who dreamed of becoming Caesar and Napoleon, he was not very afraid of death, but he would rather die than become the first president of the United States to sign an unconditional surrender agreement, and in humiliation he personally signed the death decree for the United States of America...... Recalling that three years ago, when he was ambushed by Masanobu Tsuji in Japan, unfortunately became a prisoner, and then was put in an iron cage by the Japanese like a monkey and paraded through the streets, and was watched, ridiculed and thrown by countless yellow-skinned dwarves, the feeling of shame and indignation was so humiliating that people could not describe it in words.

At that time, he was lucky not to die, he escaped, and once again proved himself on a new battlefield, uncovering his previous defeats, and finally winning the election, entering the White House, and reaching the pinnacle of his life. But I never imagined that after becoming president, I would have to experience such a nightmare again!

Masanobu Tsuji, who has landed in the Americas with a vote of people and is showing off his might in Washington State on the West Coast, may have already prepared a sturdier new cage with a contemptuous sneer, just waiting to stuff him, a more noble enemy, into it and carry him through the streets again, right?

Whenever he recalls the torments in the iron cage at that time, President MacArthur's heart is filled with a fierceness that would rather die than give in.

- It's a taste that is worse than death, and once in a lifetime is enough! Now, he would rather face the irresistible death with a vigorous roar as a heroic warrior than once again incarnate as a pug and steal his life and bear that maddening shame!

In fact, in addition to President MacArthur, those senior federal officials who are still in Washington today are also fierce people who are unwilling to endure humiliation and steal their lives and have already decided to die for their country...... Of course, it can also be said that he is the most stubborn and old-fashioned guy.

However, no matter what happens next, he has become a defeated general, and there is no chance of turning around.

The history and destiny of the United States of America will soon come to an end at the hands of President MacArthur, or someone else.

Therefore, every day and night of staying in the White House waiting for the final fate, President MacArthur felt very, very sad. Frustration, disappointment, anger, pain, powerlessness...... A flood of intense emotions rushed over him, making it almost impossible for him to maintain a moment of calm.

At such times, he always tried to put on a cold and indifferent appearance, distracted others, and used alcohol and tobacco to anesthetize himself......

For example, at the moment when this wave of air raids had just ended, looking at the puffs of black smoke rising from the sky, President MacArthur casually found a fairly intact chair, dusted off it, and ordered the bodyguards to bring a few bottles of cellared fine whiskey from the White House cellar. Then, he picked up the bottle and a box of Spam luncheon meat, intending to get drunk while looking at the streets of Washington, D.C., which was becoming more and more strange and evolving in the direction of ruins...... Anyway, there is no decent official business now, and he needs to be dealt with as a president. As for what miserable the United States will become in the future, he is even more reluctant to think about it, and he is too lazy to think about it again.

-- Due to the gradual disconnection of domestic information, MacArthur, who stayed in the White House, did not even know how many nuclear bombs the United States had suffered so far, but only knew that the Soviets' atomic bombs seemed to be endless, and perhaps they could really raze the entire United States to the ground...... Even if the entire United States were not completely blown up, and some Americans survived, the future of the United States was simply unimaginable: it was doubtful whether the survivors of the states who had escaped the nuclear bombing would continue to recognize the federal government that had brought them destruction.

And only God knows how the Indians, who were driven to the reserve deep in the mountains and old forests, but escaped the nuclear bombing because of the blessing of misfortune, will take cruel revenge on the white immigrants who were killed...... After so many bloody killings and vicious deceptions during the westward expansion, the romantic encounter between the Mayflower immigrant ship and the Native Americans "Romance in the Wind" 300 years ago will probably not be repeated......

Still, President MacArthur believes that it makes sense for his country and people that he continues to hold on to his cried out in Washington today.

Although he was in the White House, he could not shoot down a single Soviet bomber, could not defend against a single Soviet atomic bomb falling from the sky, and could not give the enemy on the other side of the ocean any even the slightest retaliation...... But he and the Stars and Stripes erected in front of the White House were still able to do one thing:

That was to attract the firepower and attention of the Soviet Bolsheviks to others – the longer they held out in Washington with the Stars and Stripes, the more time they could buy for Americans who had fled abroad, and more hope for the American spirit of freedom......

And that's the last thing he, as a president, can do for his country......

As for whether the United States will suffer more Soviet atomic bombs because of this delay, more cities and villages will be reduced to radioactive wasteland, and more Americans who could have survived will die in the nuclear explosion...... To be honest, MacArthur didn't think about this problem at all - in his opinion, anyway, now that the United States of America is going to die, Lao Tzu is the honor of the president, and he is going to be martyred for this country, what do you inferior people have to chirp crookedly? To be able to dedicate oneself to the country with this president is a supreme honor to leave a name in history!

Unfortunately, despite President MacArthur's dedication to his country, it is clear that there are still many Americans who do not share his views.

——At this moment, in Arlington Cemetery, across the river from downtown Washington, a sonorous and powerful cry is resounding in the sky:

“…… To hell with the dignity and arrogance of those politicians and magnates! Our poor lives matter! ”

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ps: I was going to create a sad and sad funeral requiem for the United States of America, and some details had not been conceived yet, so it was a little longer.

Then continuing to complain about current affairs, the IOC announced that after the re-testing of urine samples of athletes at the 08 Olympic Games, a total of 16 athletes were unqualified and deprived of medals. All but one of them are Russian, and the meaning of this political operation is really beyond words! Having said that, the old urine eight years ago has not yet passed its expiration date? And will people really turn in their medals obediently? (To be continued.) )