Chapter 160: Bombardment of the White House

The crowds and commotion at Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River naturally couldn't hide from people in downtown Washington. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, a few days earlier, some observant Washington citizens had clearly sensed an ominous atmosphere, with bad-faced guys talking and whispering everywhere. The frequency of patrols in the city has also increased much more than usual in recent days.

But in these precarious times, most people's nerves have long been numb, and they don't bother to care about anything other than counting the reserves of food and fuel. On the night of noticing the unusual commotion on the other side of the Potomac, only the Secret Service, which was actually responsible for guarding the White House, and the Gendarmerie and the Police Department, which maintained law and order in the capital, worriedly re-declared and reaffirmed martial law, while increasing the number of people on duty at night.

As for President MacArthur, who was drunk...... No one would still be counting on him now, and no one would have thought to wake him up.

However, after a night of fear, until sunrise, the city of Washington seemed to be calm. Just when some people who had not slept all night looked at the faint morning light in the east and breathed a sigh of relief, they did not know that an unprecedented upheaval had quietly begun to take place......

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Downtown Washington, D.C., East Bank of the Potomac River, Lincoln Memorial

In front of the tall statue of President Lincoln, two policemen on night duty collapsed in a pool of congealed blood, their bodies already cold. General Eisenhower, cloaked in a camouflage cloak and wearing a steel helmet on his head, stood next to him with a cigarette in his mouth, looking thoughtfully at the sparkling Potomac River ahead.

The once empty and uninhabited Lincoln Memorial was now full of people, as if it had become the headquarters of this military coup.

Not far from the Lincoln Memorial is the Arlington Bridge across the Potomac River, which has been partially destroyed in a previous air raid but is largely intact. At this moment, Eisenhower's cronies are using some engineering equipment excavated from the ruins of the Pentagon to build a temporary bridge on the basis of the remnants of the bridge that can be passed on foot, relying on the basically intact bridge piers. And in several refugee camps on the other side of the river, his "propagandists" have also mobilized armed refugees with guns......

At this moment, all the preludes to the military coup were planned, ready, and tense, just waiting for his order.

And Eisenhower has been waiting for this moment for a long time, and this day will come sooner or later. For this day, he has done everything he can.

“…… I hope there will be no more Soviets air raids today......" he sighed as he motioned for his men to pull out flares.

As a matter of fact, this "military admonition" aimed at coercing President MacArthur to give up his stubborn resistance by force and sign an unconditional surrender agreement, thereby ending the world war and stopping the nuclear bombing catastrophe, should have been launched several months ago, according to the original plan of a certain small group. The initial intended leader was not Eisenhower's "fringe figure," but the more famous and influential Secretary of State Marshall and former President Harry S. Truman.

-- After confirming the attitude of President MacArthur and his cronies, as well as the decision of the major local business groups, and being shocked to discover that they had decided to carry the whole of the United States to hell in order to avoid humiliation at the hands of the Bolsheviks, a number of politicians and high-ranking military officers in Washington, who claimed to have "a good conscience," formed a secret anti-war group, or "underground national salvation group," and plotted the restoration of peace. The leader was Secretary of State Marshall, and the participants included Inspector General Ernest Murphy. Kim, commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Force Arnold, and former President Harry Truman, who was left homeless due to a widespread nationwide nuclear bombing, and a large number of incumbent or non-public high-ranking officials and think tanks have joined one after another.

According to the view of this small group, these people are currently weak and weak, and they still wear the big hat of "political incorrectness", whether they take legal or illegal channels, it is difficult for them to resist the main battle faction in the White House that has gone crazy for a while, and there are also corporate gatekeepers who have given up on themselves in the face of Stalin's blatant death trial, and are determined to break the jar and break it, and would rather drag the whole United States to hell -- no way, as a part of the American ruling class, they are all well aware of the nature of the plutocracy. I don't believe that these bastards will have the slightest conscience and mercy, and will generously sacrifice their lives for the sake of the illusory country and nation: these bastards will only drag everyone to die together, and even if they die, they will have to drag a bunch of backs!

But as New York's Wall Street and other major cities in China are rapidly turning into radiant ruins, and a large number of upper-class members have fled overseas, the power and influence of these plutocrats and hard-core hardliners in the United States are rapidly declining. As long as the other side's power declines to a critical point, they, the "truly sane patriots", can easily overthrow the government and achieve unconditional surrender. At that time, those who have the ability to obstruct the peace talks will either die, or they will have already shifted their influence to South Africa, and they will no longer be able to interfere in the United States.

Of course, even so, Stalin probably won't give them any good fruit to eat after the fact, and it is estimated that they will still have to go to court-martial, or even be hung on the gallows-Marshall once took advantage of his position as secretary of state and in charge of foreign affairs to secretly have some indirect and tentative contacts with the Soviet side, but he was disappointed to find that the other side's attitude seemed to be very cold, and he did not care much about whether the United States could surrender unconditionally at an early date...... However, anyone who is willing to join this anti-war group has already put their own life and death on the line.

-- Against the backdrop of this nightmare of the end of the world, as long as the United States can be saved, they do not lack the consciousness of dedicating themselves to their country.

Although Eisenhower was also a member of this "secret anti-war group", he was responsible for another task - to take a refugee fleet to anchor and go to sea, send the families of political leaders and scientists such as Einstein to South Africa, and settle them through the connections he had established in Africa, so that the dignitaries of the anti-war group could die with peace of mind, and also leave some fire and legacy for the "free world" that was about to collapse.

In this way, Admiral Eisenhower led a large fleet of refugees from his homeland, which was full of mushroom clouds, crossed the vast Atlantic, and successfully reached South Africa, where he was able to settle the exiles as well as possible through the doors of the South African authorities...... However, the strange thing is that the next thing he did was to wait left and right in South Africa, and he never saw the surrender of the United States, the end of the war, and no new news from his local accomplices.

So, in desperation, Eisenhower had no choice but to take a small number of close associates and risk his life to take a refugee boat that was returning to the Atlantic Ocean to return to Washington, D.C., to find out...... As a result, after finally returning to Washington after all kinds of hardships, Eisenhower heard the bad news like a thunderbolt from the sky -- about the shortly after he left the United States, Secretary of State Marshall and former President Harry S. Truman, and all the backbone of anti-war groups, were bombed during a secret gathering and unfortunately sent to heaven along with a 500-kilogram Soviet aerial bomb. Some of the remaining middle and bottom personnel below did not know the full plan, lacked the perseverance and courage to continue the operation, and distrusted each other, and soon dispersed, fleeing and dying in the past few months, and had almost disintegrated.

However, although the anti-war groups in Washington, D.C., collapsed and broke down, the atomic bombs of the Soviets continued to fall like a torrential downpour, destroying the land of the United States of America and killing its citizens with flames and radiation all the time......

On his way back to Washington, Eisenhower saw countless cities and towns destroyed by nuclear bombings or riots, fields with wild grass growing wildly uncultivated, thousands of dying and wounded from radiation sickness, and war refugees wandering and homeless, fighting each other for a piece of bread. This is a tragic scene, so that Eisenhower had to give up the last moral purity in his heart and personally organize a military coup d'état to "admonish" President MacArthur and force him to surrender unconditionally. As for the infamy of a traitor ** thief, he can't care about it...... Now that the train called the MacArthur government is hurtling towards hell and the people who regret it are stuck in the carriages and unable to get out, what better option could there be than to destroy the locomotive?

Looking up at the statue of President Lincoln, Admiral Eisenhower was once again shaken and weak for a moment before the great president, who was now staging a military coup to bury the Union, even though President Lincoln was willing to start a civil war to preserve the Union......

But in the blink of an eye, Admiral Eisenhower once again stabilized his mind and strengthened his will.

In the final analysis, the state is still composed of the people, and if there are no people, what is the meaning of the existence of the state?

The defeat and demise of the United States of America may have been doomed, but the people of this land must continue to survive.

I believe that even if President Lincoln was reborn here, he would have made the same choice as himself in the face of such a cruel and desperate situation......

So, Admiral Eisenhower took a deep breath, turned around and gestured to his subordinates: "...... Flares, fire! ”

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Whoa-whoa-whoa-

At six o'clock in the morning, three red flares were fired into the sky from the front of the Lincoln Memorial, and the otherwise calm Washington-D.C. suddenly became noisy. The elite gunmen who had been sent to infiltrate the city poked their heads out of the abandoned houses where they were hiding, and poured their rifles, submachine guns and grenades into the police and gendarmes patrolling the streets from high windows.

All of a sudden, explosions and gunfire erupted in the streets of downtown Washington. The policemen and gendarmes who were patrolling the streets were caught off guard and fell into a nightmare, as if a rifle or submachine gun was being aimed at them behind every window, and countless bullets were fired from all directions, leaving them with nowhere to hide, and even if they wanted to draw their guns and shoot back, they could not find their way at once.

Taking advantage of the fact that the police and gendarmes were held back by the shootout in the city, thousands of organized armed insurgents rushed into the city from across the Potomac River across the Arlington Bridge, which had just been urgently repaired. Eisenhower, too, walked side by side with a red flag symbolizing the revolution -- this time a typical Western-style popular uprising, beginning with a long, impassioned incendiary rally, and then marching to the White House with banners and slogans after completely inciting the armed masses with guns...... It looks a little silly, but a rabble of rabble only has this bit of organization, and it looks very imposing, which is very shocking when this person is panicking.

In short, the armed insurrectionists, numbering tens of thousands, made it from Arlington Bridge into downtown Washington, D.C., and then marched east along Constitution Avenue to the Oval (the open green space where the obelisk is erected in the movie) at the Lincoln Memorial, and easily captured the Naval Medical Bureau and the National Academy of Sciences, which had only a few stunned janitors, in an attempt to continue the detour northwest of the White House for a flank attack.

However, these insurgents were clearly overoptimistic in their assessment of the battle, grossly underestimating the government's ability to resist and counterattack.

In fact, the movement of tens of thousands of insurrectionists was too slow, and the commotion was too great. At this time, the gendarmerie, police and secret services had reacted and urgently redeployed and deployed. When the insurgents, with their flags and tin drums, arrived on Virginia Avenue in front of the Red Cross, they saw a rocket dragging a long wisp of white smoke towards them from the roof of the building in front of them!

The next moment, with a loud bang, several broken bodies flew backwards in the firelight, along with a charred flag.

Almost at the same moment, every window of several buildings across Virginia Avenue seemed to spit out countless bright tongues of fire, countless rockets, mortar shells, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, rifle bullets, and hand grenades thrown high, like a torrential rain, hit the insurrectionary crowd crowded in the streets, and in an instant burst of fire and smoke burst into pieces!

Then a small squad of cavalry from George. Rushing out of the ruins of the University of Washington, he fiercely greeted the chaotic crowd with carbines and sabers. In a very short period of time, more than 200 of the insurgents fell. But many more people were aroused by the blood and smoke of gunpowder, relying on the strength of their own side and the fact that their weapons were not bad, while holding Thomson submachine guns and firing wildly, they rushed across Virginia Avenue and killed the enemy.

All of a sudden, between Virginia Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, the red-eyed insurgents collided head-on with the police and gendarmes who came to suppress them, and a tragic street battle began......

At the same time, the road along Constitution Avenue was not going well, although the barricades (checkpoints) set up by the gendarmes and police had been destroyed by a small force of Eisenhower's agents before the intifada began. But the White House, which found out that the situation was not good, actually transferred two "Sherman" tanks before the insurgents rushed in, and rumbled up Constitution Avenue to suppress the rebellion!

The small number of elite gunmen of the coup army who remained on both sides of the street on Eisenhower's orders, lacking heavy anti-tank weapons and having no time to place street bombs, could not deal with the armored troops, so they could only watch as they ran over the lawn from Constitution Street, covering hundreds of heavily armed police and gendarmes, into Constitution Park, where a large number of insurgents had gathered, and then beat the rabble to the ground with machine guns and artillery shelling. Eisenhower had no choice but to command the rebels to retreat into the area around the Lincoln Memorial and use the buildings to shoot at the enemy.

All in all, from George. From the University of Washington to Constitution Street, there seems to have been a brief stalemate between the rebels and government forces. The insurgents were outnumbered, numbering 20,000 or 30,000 men, but they were wounded by a lack of heavy firepower, few machine guns, and the inexperience of most of them. The suppression troops sent by the White House combined were only more than 700 people on both sides, but they had tanks and cavalry to suppress the formation, and their quality was relatively high, so that it was difficult to fight.

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The small square in front of the Lincoln Memorial was littered with corpses, craters, and streams of blood flowed from the dead.

Admiral Eisenhower crouched behind a rudimentary fortification made of sandbags, furniture, and sundries, and looked at the tank opposite, frowning.

“…… Damn it...... I can't believe they still have tanks! This is really careless! He muttered.

Although the rebels, who had come out of the rout, had succeeded in destroying the tracks of a "Sherman" tank with bazookas and recoilless guns, making it immobilized, they had not been able to completely destroy the fire and sighting systems of the sturdy tank - it had become a fixed battery and was still firing at the Lincoln Memorial one after another, causing stone chips to fly and scream. As for the other intact Sherman tank, it galloped back and forth in Constitution Park, sweeping the scattered crowd of insurgents with a vehicle-mounted machine gun. About two companies of gendarmes and a few Secret Service agents in black suits followed, unhurriedly shooting the wretched creatures with Garand rifles and M1911 pistols.

“…… Attention everyone! Aim - Release! ”

At the Lincoln Memorial, a captain grabbed a Motorola walkie-talkie and shouted, and at the same time reached out and slashed, and two anti-tank rockets whizzed not far away towards the Sherman tank whose track had been broken. Due to the close proximity and the fact that the enemy tank was completely immobile and purely a fixed target, both rockets accurately hit the target, one of which was bounced off by the armor of the tank's turret, and the other hit the vital point.

As a result, only a loud "boom" was heard, and the Sherman tank turned into a large burning fireball, and even the tankers could not escape.

However, before the rebels on the Lincoln Memorial could cheer in victory, another Sherman tank in Constitution Park slowly turned its turret around...... With a flash of fire from the muzzle, a high-explosive shell fell on the Lincoln Memorial!

Eisenhower, who was lying on the ground urgently, lay on the concrete floor, his ears buzzing, and he felt only the dirt and small rocks around him fall straight on his back...... After a few moments, he sat up straight with his hands, but his right hand touched a slimy mass of soft stuff that at first glance looked like a lump of mud covered with black bullet ash. But the battle-hardened Eisenhower knew that it was a piece of flesh, but he did not know which part of the body it belonged to, let alone to whom it belonged - at least half a platoon had been killed in the Lincoln Memorial alone.

If it was a new recruit, he might have vomited when he encountered this situation, but as a veteran of the battlefield, Eisenhower just wiped the blood on his hands casually, and ordered his subordinates to make persistent efforts to use anti-tank bazookas to knock out the remaining Sherman!

However, before the coup army guarding the Lincoln Memorial could fire rockets at the tank again, Eisenhower saw a flash of red light in the distance, and then the Sherman tank, which was still showing off its might, had a deafening explosion! By the time the smoke cleared, the tank had turned into a wreckage in the flames, and the gendarmerie near the tank had been blown to pieces, some of which had even turned into burning fires.

This is......? Eisenhower looked up to see without a telescope, and at the end of the field of vision, on the pavement of Constitution Street, there was a heavy anti-aircraft gun that had been flattened, and on top of the tractor of the anti-aircraft gun, several soldiers with red armbands on their arms were waving to him.

At the same time, the anti-aircraft gun positions on Capitol Hill and Potomac Park were also filled with gunfire and smoke, and rows of shells were screaming through the air and slamming towards the White House. Although the accuracy of the anti-aircraft guns was a bit poor because they were not suitable for curved fire, just seeing the smoke and faint flickering fires around the White House was enough to wipe out the last will to fight of the suppressive troops.

-- The anti-aircraft artillery units of the capital SAR were also successfully carried out by Eisenhower's propagandists and threw themselves into this coup d'état!

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For this once-deadlocked military coup, the defection of the capital's anti-aircraft artillery units finally dealt a fatal blow to the government army!

-- The rebel armed mob seemed to outnumber itself by dozens of times, and the two Sherman tanks that were the last killer weapon were also destroyed, and the anti-aircraft artillery units stabbed them in the back and fired hail shells at the White House...... All of the above was added together, and they finally collapsed completely.

A small number of them dropped their guns in despair, leaving them to be tied up by the insurgents, most likely with a few punches or spits. Most of the officers and men of the repressive forces fled with guns and ammunition before they were surrounded, and they did not believe that these thieves would abide by the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, in the current chaotic situation, and when they had just formed a bloody feud......

On the other hand, Admiral Eisenhower did not care about clearing these remnants, but continued to advance towards the White House with black smoke billowing from his mind.

-- I have to admit that the agents of the White House Secret Service are indeed a group of dutiful guards. Even in today's sudden and desperate situation, he struggled to find a Ford that was ready to drive and sent President MacArthur away. The problem is that tens of thousands of insurrectionists surrounded the White House before they could act, and a large number of Washingtonians came to join the war with guns in tow...... The entire city, which seemed to be in ruins, became a sea of mobs on this day, and the White House, where the Secret Service was finally defended, seemed to have become an island in the ocean.

So, after a fierce battle and a few holes in the exterior wall of the White House with shells, Admiral Eisenhower finally broke the last resistance of the Secret Service, and according to the results of the torture of several captured agents, he stepped into the White House with only a few retinue......

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PS: There is exciting news today, France is going to leave the European Union! This, this, even France is gone, could it be that this is the rhythm of the EU to break up?

The IOC then prepares to place baseball at the Tokyo Olympics in the Fukushima radiation zone...... Fortunately, the Chinese don't play baseball much. (To be continued.) )