Volume Fourteen, Smoke of Gunpowder, Chapter 124, Opportunity for Peace
Before the lunar month point, the Navy and the Sky Army of the United States could open up its strategy to the United States.
According to the data released by the Republic authorities after the war, the exploration and summary tactics of the main tasks in the first three months of the strategic strike did not put too high demands on the purpose of the strike. Affected by this, the war materials used in strategic strikes were less than 100 million 40,000 tons, which was much less than those used to attack Puerto Rico and march into Cuba. Judging from the situation at that time, the Republic authorities did not make special requirements for the Navy and the Sky Army that undertake strategic strikes. In addition to lacking appropriate tactics, they also have a lot to do with logistics support. It is precisely because of this that during these two months, the Supreme Command of the Republic limited the scope of the strategic strikes to the west of the Rocky Mountains. It was mainly concentrated in the four states in the northeastern United States, with the Sky Army deployed in the Pacific as the main strike force.
Even so, the strategic blow in the past two months still showed great power.
Not to mention anything else, just taking the strategic bombing against the Northwest Industrial Zone in the United States centered on Seattle, in two months, the Republic's Tianjun dispatched 10,000 strategic bombers in batches, investing 10,000 tons of various types of ammunition, and blew dozens of large and small towns, including Seattle, into ruins.
According to the combat records of the Republic's Sky Army:
On the 3rd of the 3rd, two batches of strategic bombers of more than 100,000 tons of bombs were used to flat ground, using about 80,000 tons of bombs to blow the industrial zones including Boeing Aircraft Company, Microsoft headquarters, and commercial zones with thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises. Because the bombing came very suddenly, it mainly used high-value long-range ammunition, especially in the second round of bombing, the frightened crowd did not expect that there would be a second round of bombing, so the bombing caused very huge casualties. According to the information obtained after the war, as many as four people died directly from the bombing, and about 30,000 people were missing, and countless injured and homeless people were countless. Seattle became an empty city almost overnight!
Perhaps the bombing was so good that it was a little better. In the next week, the bombers of the Republic's Sky Army did not visit Seattle, but instead targeted other surrounding towns, especially those stationed in US troops or nearby U.S. bases. For example, Everett and Bremerton are both US naval bases, and are two major naval bases on the west coast of the United States, second only to San Diego. Because these towns and bases are both near Seattle. The distance between Everett and Bremerton and Seattle is less than 0 kilometers, the scattered bombing of small and medium-sized towns did not have much impact on the combat operations of the Republic's Sky Army, but instead gave the Republic's Sky Army a chance to understand more efficient bombing tactics.
On the lunar month, after the panic caused by the first poison bomb dispersed, the Republic's Sky Army once again concentrated its efforts to bomb Seattle. In a sense, the main cause of this bombing was the US authorities.
According to relevant records of the Republic authorities, because the casualties caused by the first bombing were too huge, the Supreme Command issued instructions to the Tianjun that if large companies such as Boeing, Microsoft did not resume work, there would be no need to bomb Seattle for a second time. The problem is that the US authorities cannot let these strategic companies stop working. You should know that in World War III, Boeing was the largest aircraft and spacecraft manufacturer in the United States, and undertakes the production and manufacturing of about one-third of fighter jets and half of space vehicles. Although Boeing's factories were extremely wide distributed, it was very wide.
There is only one factory in Seattle. However, Boeing is headquartered in Seattle. If the headquarters cannot operate normally, it will not be able to reasonably coordinate and allocate production capacity. Relatively speaking, Microsoft, which started out as a civilian, is more important than Boeing, because most of the control software used by the US side comes from Microsoft. The network control system in the US and software from all walks of life are related to Microsoft. Affected by this, even if it is possible to be bombed again, it will definitely be a more tragic bombing. The US authorities still let these two companies, as well as other companies that have been shut down due to the bombing, resume work.
Apparently, the second bombing was much larger.
Within the hour, the Republic's Sky Army dispatched about the recessed bombers to carry out three concentrated bombings on the industrial and commercial areas of Seattle, dropping nearly tens of millions of tons of various types of ammunition.
The problem is that it turns out that bombings against industrial and commercial areas does not have much effect.
As early as before New Year, the United States moved its main factories inland and scattered some scattered factories in various medians and small towns no longer concentrated in big cities. There is no doubt that this deployment is a strategic blow to the Republic, striving to preserve basic industries as much as possible. More importantly, the United States has sufficient resources, a strong industrial foundation, and sufficient industrial production capacity to quickly replenish the losses suffered by bombing.
The only ones that cannot be supplemented, or that cannot be supplemented quickly, were skilled technical workers. On the Yuekou Day, given that the results of the second bombing were not ideal, the Republic Sky Army adjusted its tactics and once again concentrated its efforts to launch the third strategic bombing on Seattle.
This time, four bombers dispatched by the Republic's Sky Army sent about 10,000 tons of ammunition to the residential area.
The result can be imagined.
During this bombing that lasted nearly an hour, about tens of Seattle citizens became cannon fodder. There was also the same number of civilians missing since then. A bombing took away nearly ten thousand people's notches, and the umbrellas were scattered. It was absolutely unprecedented. Even decades after the end of the war, Xun and Daiyou discussed the necessity of this bombing. It is not that there is no need to bomb residential areas, after all, actual combat proves that bombing residential areas is an effective means to defeat the United States. The key is whether it is necessary to organize such a large-scale centralized bombing, and whether it is necessary to use a large number of anti-destructive ammunition specifically targeted at the bombing. You must know that in the middle of the century, not only incendiary bombs were used to turn cities into ruins, but also various high-tech weapons. For example, the Republic's Sky Army was in the war
A sensor bomb specifically for living personnel used on a large scale. This bomb that is not urged to weigh the weight is equipped with a device specifically used to detect biological currents and connects this device to a fuse. That is to say, as long as a creature similar to that of an adult in the range of explosion killing appears, the bomb will automatically detonate and detonate in the direction of the organism. Because the amount of use is too large, no one knows how many lives this bomb has been taken, and no one even knows how many such bombs were produced by the arms factories of the Republic. Only a little bit is certain. That is, after the war, countries around the world spent years to use the blade name to basically eliminate the lives of the 10,000 people scattered in various places.
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In fact, it was this sensor bomb called the "human nemesis" that pointed out the direction of strategic bombing for the Hetian Army. After this bombing, Seattle basically became a dead city.
Although the Republic's Sky Army carried out two additional bombings in Seattle in February, the main task of these two bombings was to continue to spread sensor bombs and enhance the bombing effect.
Of course, these bombings are not just as simple as taking away the lives of Aoduo million Americans.
Before the war broke out, Seattle's permanent population exceeded 10,000, including living in small towns around it. The total number of mobile people working in the city exceeded 10,000, which is the seventh largest city in the United States. The Navy lost the Pacific sea control. The US authorities issued the first war evacuation order to transfer factories in western coastal cities, including Seattle, to inland cities, and advised capable citizens to leave the big cities. Therefore, by the time the strategic strike began, the number of residents in Seattle had decreased a lot, and the conservative estimate was between 10,000 and 10,000.
Even according to the calculation of the 10,000 people will lose their homes and become war refugees.
No matter which country it is, the war is enough to lead to a humanitarian disaster, let alone the only country in the world where the guns can be freely held. You should know that before the war broke out, the United States was the only country in the world that clearly stipulated that citizens had the right to hold guns in the form of a constitutional amendment, and that governments at all levels were not allowed to force confiscate citizens' guns. In fact, it was this situation that made the Republican authorities have to think twice when considering whether to attack the United States. In a sense, every American adult was a para-military, and any other party. Americans could take up weapons and fight the enemies entering their homes.
The problem is that this "enemy" is not necessarily the Republican team, maybe the Americans, or the American team.
When 10,000 Seattle citizens with guns were forced to leave their homes and go to find new habitats, they should not be afraid of the leaders of the Republic, but the leaders of the United States. You must know that even with the strength of the United States, it is impossible to accommodate so many war refugees in the short term. Because the preparations were not sufficient, it was not expected that the Republican team would destroy Seattle in such an extreme way. The US authorities were not prepared to deal with it at all, and could not even provide minimum living security for refugees. Therefore, in order to survive, Americans rushed out of Seattle. That is, when neighboring towns were in trouble, it was also the beginning of social turmoil in the United States.
This situation quickly attracted the attention of the Republic's Sky Army.
If the United States needs to be defeated, then letting the Americans defeat the United States is naturally the most ideal choice.
In order to "consolidate" the results, starting from the Yuexu Sun, the Republic's Sky Army began to bomb towns within a radius of 1,000 meters around Seattle, and used sensor bombs specifically for personnel to turn the northwest Washington State into an unmanned land.
Although hundreds of millions of ammunition were consumed for this, the result was very significant, that is, the area's approximately 10,000 people had to be forced to move inland.
By this time, the Republic's Heavenly Army finally found an effective strategic strike.
Of course, this is not all.
To drive residents out of the city and turn factories relying on cities into decorations can only weaken the United States' potential for war, but not completely defeat the United States. After all, as early as the year before, the United States began to evacuate industrial facilities and transfer all major factories to inland areas. If these factories were destroyed by bombing, the cost would be extremely huge. More importantly, as millions of Americans flock to inland cities, factories that have completed the relocation will soon resume work, and the American war machines will still operate with extremely high efficiency.
To defeat the United States, we must not only destroy the material foundation of the United States, but also destroy the spiritual pillar.
In order to achieve this goal, Americans must know that the bombers of the Republic's Sky Army can not only turn hundreds of towns into no-man's land, but also turn the American land into hell.
In other words, we have to make some big noise.
On February, the day after the Republic Marines landed on Cuba, the Republic's Sky Army launched an extremely special bombing operation.
In this bombing operation, only 2 strategic bombers were dispatched and only 4 bombs were dropped.
Obviously, the key is not the number of bombers and the scale of bombs, but the bombing targets. It is not the towns, military facilities, or transportation hubs, but the real no-man's land, that is, Mount St. Helens, south of Seattle!
This is an active volcano in a dormant state, and it is the most active volcano in the Northwest United States.
The purpose of the bombing is to awaken the volcano!
Obviously, the drop was definitely not ordinary bombs, but four explosion equivalents. The fifth-generation tactical nuclear weapons were stewed. Because the Republic authorities had long promised in the London Treaty and the Stockholm Agreement that they would not use weapons of mass destruction first, and both international treaties classified the fifth-generation tactical nuclear weapons as weapons of mass destruction, the Republic authorities have never admitted that they had used the fifth-generation tactical nuclear weapons during the war, but only announced that the drop to Mount St. Helens was a new type of bomb. Because the power of the rainbow bomb is indeed huge enough, the earthquake triggered is even far away. The earthquakes in Brazil and Europe, many kilometers away, were discovered, so some people believe that the Republic had developed the sixth-generation nuclear weapons, that is, the legendary antimatter bomb during the war.
Whether it is the fifth or sixth generation, the result is the same.
The bombing woke the volcano up.
Just a few hours later, the largest eruption in history occurred on Mount St. Helens. Hundreds of millions of tons of volcanic ash were sent into the air, and the ash that entered the stratosphere even floated across the ocean and scattered on the South American and Asian continents thousands of kilometers away. Of course, what is even more terrifying is the erupting magma. Because the bombing point is on the south side of the volcano, and at least two bombs fell on the hillside of the volcano, the magma that erupted flowed southward. After a small summit, it entered the main channel of the Columbia River, completely blocking the largest river in the northwest of the United States.
It was not Seattle that was hit, but Portland located on the Columbia River.
On the third day of the volcanic eruption, Portland was forced to evacuate the entire city.
On February, the dam of the magma preliminaries formed by the magma preliminaries collapsed. The flood of Darenmi swept through Portland, which was already covered by half a meter of volcanic ash in half an hour, completely submerging the city with a population of tens of thousands. After the flood receded, the silt that came with the flood and the ash mixed with the flood did not retreat, but flooded the entire city outside the tall buildings with a height of more than four meters. Portland has since become a small city like Pompeii, the ancient Roman Empire, which only exists in history.
It must be admitted that the last mayor of Portland was the biggest hero, and he saved more than 40,000 citizens.
The problem is that the power of the strategic strike has been revealed, and its devastating destructive power is enough to make any living Americans consider whether to continue fighting.
Unfortunately, not every American has the right to make a surrender decision.
After Portland became history, the US authorities did not realize the seriousness of the problem. After all, it was just a city in the Northwest region, thousands of kilometers away from Washington.
If the United States does not surrender, the bombing must continue.
However, the devastating power of strategic strikes has been revealed. You should know that at that time, it was not only the Republic's Sky Army that took on the heavy responsibility of strategic strikes, but also the Republic's Navy with a stronger firepower delivery capability. The navy's devastating ability was definitely more than that of the Heavenly Army.
Affected by this, even if the US authorities still believe that there is a chance to win a more favorable way of surrender for the United States, they must consider surrender.
On the key day, the US authorities took the lead in conveying the intention of a ceasefire negotiation to the Republic through Switzerland.
Of course, the US authorities did not have much sincerity, so the Republic authorities not only ignored this signal, but instead made the Sky Army and the Navy strengthen their strike force. In the next sky, the Sky Army and the Navy more than doubled the strike intensity. They almost tried every means to destroy towns in the western United States.
On Keyword Day, the US authorities once again conveyed their intention to negotiate armistice through Switzerland.
The difference is that this time, the US authorities also conveyed the same intention through Brazil and South Africa.
Obviously, at this point, it is no longer whether the United States has sincerity, but whether the Republic has sincerity.
On the night of February, the Republican authorities conveyed the intention of a non-public ceasefire to the United States through Switzerland, Brazil and South Africa to facilitate the truce negotiations.
The ceasefire time starts from 0:00 on the key day, and reaches the fog of the flying point.
That is to say, if a preliminary agreement on the armistice cannot be reached within this period, the war will continue to enter the country.
Obviously, no war armistice negotiations can achieve results within hours.
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