1271 Let’s go hide the atomic bomb 1272 The catastrophe is imminent
The source of the German army's use of atomic bombs on the Avalon Peninsula is US President Truman!
After he finished the phone with Kennedy, he immediately held an emergency military meeting of the cabinet. At the beginning of the meeting, he first announced that he learned through "secret channels" that Germany would use the atomic bomb again on the Avalon Peninsula.
Since Truman's "secret intelligence" was confirmed last time, no one dared to take it lightly this time. Marshall immediately hung up the phone to the Army Staff and asked them to issue an order to the Allied North American Northeast Command: to require the Allied officers and soldiers on the Avalon Peninsula to be prepared to defend against atomic bombing!
However, everyone knows that the Allied officers and soldiers on the Avalon Peninsula have no good way to defend against the German atomic bombs besides digging pits! Moreover, the Germans were not only used in the Avalon Peninsula with a size of 200,000 tons, but they also had a powerful fleet outside the Bay of Consepshin.
The US Navy has completely collapsed after the explosion of the Bay of Fundy. Two of the 10 Essex-class aircraft carriers of the 56th Special Mixed Fleet were sunk and 6 seriously damaged. Twenty or thirty cruisers and destroyers sank, and more than 20 were severely damaged. The entire Special Mixed Fleet completely lost its combat effectiveness and is now scattered to retreat to the Norfolk base.
As for the 11th Special Mixed Fleet originally planned to reinforce Newfoundland and the 57th Special Mixed Fleet that was preparing to raid the Azores, they have now given up their operations and are retreating towards the Caribbean Sea.
In other words, Newfoundland has become an isolated island! It will soon be attacked by the European Community Navy, which has an overwhelming advantage. Even if the Germans do not use atomic bombs to bomb Churchill Navy fortress, rely on battleships and missile ships, they can knock down Churchill Fortress and open up the waterway into Concepshun Bay.
In fact, shortly after the atomic bomb explosion in Concepshun Bay, the German S-100 torpedo speedboat ventured into Concepshun Bay under the pilot of naval officers and soldiers wearing full radiation suits and launched an attack on the remaining British ships. The Folk 636, which took off from the aircraft carrier, also carried a bomb to join the battle in Concepshun Bay. As of sunset on the 29th, the British fleet in Concepshun Bay had basically lost its combat capability. The only force that could stop the German army from landing in the bay was left was the cannons of Churchill Navy Fortress.
What is even more worrying is that these cannons that can defend Concepshun Bay are not directly under the control of the US military!
"Just just now, I have instructed the Secretary of State to make a peace request to Germany through the Roman Empire Embassy (currently moved to Chicago), and I believe a full ceasefire will be achieved soon..."
When Marshall returned to the conference room, President Truman was introducing the progress of the summons to cabinet members and military leaders. Of course, he could not tell everyone that he had contacted Hitler directly through secret channels, because this secret channel was not under the supervision of the US State Department and Congress, and was a violation of the law. Therefore, Truman only talked about the progress of the summons, that is, through the contact between the State Department and the Roman Embassy in the United States, and then through Rome to seek peace from Germany for intermediaries.
Although this formal and open summation channel will not cause the president to face a judicial crisis, it has problems of insufficient flexibility and slow response. It is possible that the United States will miss the best summation opportunity. In fact, the United States has missed the best time. If it is delayed, the situation will only be worse.
In addition, Truman also learned through various channels that in Germany, the "peaceful" Prime Minister Hitler was actually restricted by the "militant" German Junker Military Group, and also needed a channel that could avoid the attention of the Junker Military Group and directly contact the US president. This is also the reason why Truman took the risk of establishing a secret channel for contact with Hitler.
Since it is a secret channel, Truman cannot disclose the content of the private agreement reached by himself and Hitler at the cabinet military meeting. In this way, he will encounter great difficulties in fulfilling his promise to Hitler.
For example, now, he cannot publicly say that handing over the Avalon Peninsula is a prerequisite for achieving a ceasefire, because ceasefire negotiations on public channels have not yet begun.
Therefore, Truman could only fulfill his commitment to Hitler by directly intervening in combat command, an equally unruly approach.
"As the ceasefire is about to be realized," Truman glanced at General Marshall, who had just finished talking to the Army Staff and looked worried. "So we should avoid unnecessary casualties and should now withdraw the US ground forces on the Avalon Peninsula."
"Mr. President..." Marshall was shocked when he heard this. "The Avalon Peninsula is only 1,800 kilometers away from New York. If we give up there, the Germans will have a stronghold to launch an atomic bomb attack on New York."
"Admiral, I know how close the Avalon Peninsula is to New York." Truman said angrily, "But can we defend the Avalon Peninsula? The German atomic bomb will soon level Churchill's Navy Fortress, and we will still lose the peninsula at that time." He paused and said in an extremely gloomy tone, "But I doubt whether the British guarding Churchill Fortress had the determination to get the atomic bomb for the United States? Colonel Donovan, what do you think?"
This is indeed a problem!
Marshall looked at the Director of Strategic Intelligence Donovan, who shook his head and said, "The British troops guarding the fortress are all more reliable, but that was before the atomic bomb exploded..."
The atomic bomb can not only destroy Churchill's Naval Fortress (in fact, the Heisenberg device with an equivalent of 20,000 tons does not have such power, but the British and Americans overestimated the power of the German atomic bomb because the scene of the underwater explosion of the atomic bomb is too large), but also destroyed the hope of winning and tied!
Now the United States will definitely lose, the question is just how much it will lose. The British (Canadian) who followed the United States in a more desperate situation, not only facing failure, but also likely to become traitors of the country. Because they lost not only a world war, but also a war of succession to the throne.
If they do not want to be sinners of the country for the rest of their lives, it would be a good way out to submit to Queen Elizabeth II in time.
"Retreat from the Avalon Peninsula!" Truman saw that Marshall had nothing to say, so he simply made the decision. "This is my order, the Army General Staff will just do it!"
"As for the order, sir." Marshall stood up, saluted Truman, then picked up his military cap and left the conference room again, and gave the order that was later considered to have the United States accelerated to slide into the abyss.
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The tribal destroyer "Assabaska" that British Lieutenant General Fraser was riding on was hiding behind Bell Island when the nuclear explosion occurred in Consepshin Bay, so he escaped.
However, the German atomic bomb still severely hit the psychology of all the British officers and soldiers on the Avalon Peninsula, including Lieutenant General Fraser, and completely fell into despair.
The spirit of "destroying the enemy when it comes to the explosion of the atomic bomb has disappeared. The ships that survived the nuclear explosion on the sea (including the American torpedo speedboats incorporated into the Newfoundland fleet) rushed to the nearest beach without waiting for Fraser's order. Regardless of whether there is a port or not, they directly put the ship on various tidal flats, and then abandoned the ship and fled at the sea without even hiding from the atomic bomb. Let's hurry up and go ashore!
Fraser, the lieutenant general, performed a little better. He did not make the "Assabaska" stranded on the beach, but instead allowed the warship to enter the Portogar, the closest to Churchill Naval Fortress. After getting off the ship, he asked his men to find several cars and then headed straight for Churchill Naval Fortress.
When he was dizzy and reached the panicked Churchill Naval Fortress, he found that the fortress seemed to be empty! The British soldiers who were supposed to be on duty outside the fortress didn't know where they went? The car Lieutenant General Fraser was riding unobstructed and passed several unattended checkpoints, and finally was blocked at the entrance to the core area of the fortress. Because the gate of the core of the fortress was closed, and no one was on duty inside the checkpoint outside the door.
"What's going on? Where are the people? Where have they been?" Lieutenant General Fraser asked loudly at the closed door and the surrounding empty trenches, air defense positions, anti-tank gun positions and watchtowers.
"Absolutely, we've gone to avoid the atomic bomb?" Colonel Cook, chief of staff of Fraser, guessed the reason correctly.
The British army at sea were afraid of the atomic bomb, and of course the British army in the fortress was also scared! Moreover, the Allied Ground Force Command, led by US Lieutenant General Collins, rushed to evacuate from the fortress, which seriously damaged the morale of the British army in the fortress. Everyone believed that Churchill Naval Fortress was the next target to be bombed by atomic bomb.
Therefore, after the nuclear explosion in Concepshun Bay, all the British officers and soldiers who were originally stationed on the fortress surface drilled into the core bunker underground to avoid the atomic bomb. Not only was there no one guarded the positions outside the fortress, but even the four most important double-equipped 406mm armored turrets and the fortress radar station were empty.
It can be said that Churchill Naval Fortress is now in an unguarded state. If the Germans now cast a company of airborne troops, the fortress will change hands.
"It's so shameful. How can the soldiers of the British Empire be afraid of death like this?" After figuring out the situation, Fraser was furious, but he was afraid of the dead with the British troops who were hiding from the atomic bomb for a while. Because he couldn't enter the fortress now, and even the people who wanted to issue orders could not hear it.
When I was angry, someone suddenly shouted: "Air raid! Air raid!"
Fraser quickly raised his telescope and went to the dim sky to see if he was coming to see if the me264 that dropped the atomic bomb, and if so, he would be dead. However, he was stunned at this time. It turned out that the three Short "Sunderland" seaplanes painted with the Royal Navy marks appeared in the air.
Chapter 1272: Everyone flies when the disaster comes
Now it is the Royal Navy's seaplanes raiding the Royal Navy's fortress!
Lieutenant General Fraser looked at the Short Sunderland seaplane hovering in the air, and suddenly felt a little real. Because the anti-aircraft artillery position in the fortress is now unattended, there is no anti-fire firepower to prevent the three Short Sunderland seaplanes from approaching the fortress. Several Fraser's adjutants and staff rushed to set up Fraser and wanted to find a place to hide, but was pushed away by the British lieutenant general who was angry.
"I won't go anywhere, just here, let the British bombs blow me to death!" Lieutenant General Fraser shouted and said his "wish". Unfortunately, the British notice in the sky did not bring a bomb, and what was thrown down was a page of leaflets. The content of the leaflet was an edict from Queen Elizabeth II of England!
In the edict, the Queen of England ordered the "mistraight" Army stationed in Canada, and the officers and soldiers of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force immediately became loyal to her and joined the cause of liberating the Dominion of Canada. At the same time, the Queen also guaranteed that all the British officers and soldiers who surrendered to her could retain their original ranks and all glory and would be properly placed after the war, and that their experiences of being deceived and used by American invaders will not be pursued.
In short, if you immediately abandon the darkness and turn to the light and join Elizabeth II's camp, you will be all good comrades of the British Empire.
If they refuse to join, Her Majesty's army will immediately land and destroy them, these traitors of the British Empire!
After handing over a mimeographed edict to his chief of staff, Colonel Cook, Lieutenant General Fraser smiled bitterly: "If we defeat Her Majesty the Queen's army, the Germans will probably throw an atomic bomb?"
"No, no." Colonel Cook shook his head, "Lieutenant General, if the army of Her Majesty the Queen is on Newfoundland, why should we fight against them? Are we not British?"
"But... Queen Elizabeth's throne is illegal." Lieutenant General Fraser seemed a little hesitant.
"Illegal?" Colonel Cook looked at Lieutenant General Fraser seriously. "We are soldiers and do not understand the laws of the empire very much...the issue of not being illegal is that the Supreme Justice of Great Britain should rule."
Yes! Lieutenant General Fraser nodded repeatedly, Colonel Cook was right! He was a general and not a judge, how could he know that the Queen was not illegal?
"Justice Simmon, the Supreme Justice of Britain, never said that the queen is illegal." Colonel Cook said with striking remarks, "This shows that Her Majesty the Queen is the legal monarch of the British Empire!"
The British Justice Colonel Cook mentioned was Viscount John Simmon, who was once the British Foreign Secretary and one of the three Conservatives. During the London Incident, he happened to be the Justice of Great Britain and did not go to Canada. As a result, the Bolsheviks caught him and almost shot him according to the bourgeois reactionary law authority. Fortunately, Queen Elizabeth's Guards could fight and rescued him in time. After he was rescued, he was still the Justice of Great Britain and Viscount.
How dare the British Justice, who was rescued by Queen Elizabeth, say that the Queen is illegal?
Fraser nodded vigorously: "Yes! Her Majesty the Queen is the legal monarch, and we must stand on the side of the legal monarch."
Speaking of this, he looked up at the closed door of the fortress and he couldn't enter the fortress now. Wouldn't he have no way to surrender?
At this moment, one of his adjutants had found a way to enter the door. It turned out that the man found a phone call in the checkpoint outside the gate of the core area of the fortress, and the phone could be connected, so he directly contacted the deputy commander who stayed in the fortress.
"Hehe, why is there no defender in the upper level of the fortress?" After receiving the phone from the adjutant, Frazier did not say that he was going to abandon the darkness and turned to the light, but directly scolded him.
Even if you want to surrender, someone has to guard the fortress? Otherwise, it would not be popular when surrendering.
"Sir, I'll have someone go and open the door for you. You can get down as soon as possible... The Germans are about to throw an atomic bomb!"
"What?" Frazier was shocked when he heard the deputy commander's report, "Who said it? Is this a rumor?"
"No, it's not a rumor. It was said by the Allied Newfoundland Command! The Germans were preparing to use atomic bombs to blew the Avalon Peninsula, so the Americans have begun to retreat from the Avalon Peninsula..."
"What? What?" Fraser was even more surprised this time, "The Americans ran away? They ran away?"
"Yes! Now we are the only one left on the Avalon Peninsula."
"Lieutenant General," Colonel Cook was right next to Fraser, and could hear the sound from the phone receiver. He then interrupted, "When we came from Portogar, we didn't see a single American army, nor did we see Americans in Portogar..."
Fraser thought about it and it was true that he didn't see Americans along the way, which meant that the Americans fled and left the British to eat the atomic bomb!
This is too shameless, absolutely not!
Thinking of this, Frazier immediately issued an order by phone: "Send someone to open the door quickly, and prepare a speedboat and a white flag."
"White Flag? Lieutenant General, what are you going to do?"
"What are you doing?" Fraser snorted, "Of course you are on the right side... If you don't want to get hit by the atomic bomb, you have to stand on the right side! Do you understand?"
After saying that, Fraser hung up the phone and said to Colonel Cook: "When tomorrow dawn, you will get on the speedboat and take the white flag to Concepshun Bay to see if you can meet the German speedboat. If you meet it, it will be said that it is an envoy sent by Churchill Naval Fortress, and you must meet Marshal Alexander."
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While the British troops in Churchill's Naval Fortress were busy re-striving their lineup, on the west coast of Concepshun Bay, German Airborne Lieutenant Brandt was taking his paratroopers with a dozen remaining paratroopers in pursuit of the fleeing American armored forces!
That's right, the German paratroopers holding the FG42 paratrooper rifle and iron fist grenade launcher are now pursuing the m26 tank and m4a3 tank!
Although Americans' m26 and m4a3 can easily crush all the pursuers with tracks to kill them, the Germans have atomic bombs! That thing can be dropped and can explode a "5,000-meter" water wall (actually 2,000 meters, but the frightened American officers and soldiers think that the water wall is as high as 5,000 meters), and can create several waves of tsunamis. If it falls on their heads, it will be impossible to find even the dust.
So after the order to retreat, even Lieutenant General Walker could not stop the troops from escaping in a collapsed manner. This is probably a real defeat, right?
When the morale of the army completely collapsed and the officers and soldiers lost their fighting spirit, the armored soldiers who controlled tanks and armored vehicles were unwilling to exchange fire with armored soldiers who only had light weapons.
Going west from Grace Harbour Airport, abandoned vehicles and weapons can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road. Some of them had minor failures, while others simply ran out of fuel. The US troops on Newfoundland Island were not short of fuel at all. The 20th Army commanded by Lieutenant General Walker also took a long fuel convoy to the battlefield. In theory, it would take only a short wait, and a tanker would come to refuel the tank or other vehicles.
But now the American soldiers who were scared by the atomic bomb have fallen into chaos, fearing that they will be killed by the atomic bomb after running slower.
However, this kind of pursuit of the fallen dog failed to last long. At three or four o'clock in the morning on the 30th, the US troops who had retreated more than ten kilometers south from Grace Harbour Airport finally stopped retreating, and the German paratroopers chasing them did not dare to really fight head-on with the armored forces, so they stopped when they saw the opportunity.
The reason why Lieutenant General Walton Walker's troops stopped retreating was not that they remembered the responsibility and glory of an American soldier, but that there was a serious traffic jam.
It turned out that the US military convoys that had withdrawn from all over the Avalon Peninsula rushed to the highway near the isthmus, and the road was blocked.
Lieutenant General Collins' command column was also blocked on the road near the town of Whitborn. At around 5 a.m. on the 30th, he saw the embarrassing Walton Walker on the road to the isthmus west of the town.
"Why order to retreat?" Lieutenant General Walker asked with some anger. "That damn atomic bomb has caused panic. Retreat at this time can easily cause the troops to collapse!"
Lieutenant General Walker's anger makes sense. The troops witnessed the atomic bomb explosion in the water and some troops were hit by tsunamis, and the morale of the army had long been shaken. In this case, the most important thing is to stabilize the morale of the army, rather than retreating without any brains. If you retreat blindly when morale collapses, it is very easy to cause defeat. These principles are almost common sense!
Lieutenant General Collins also looked unlucky. The victory that was about to be won was blown away by three German atomic bombs. What's worse is that the fourth German atomic bomb is likely to hit him directly on the head.
"Walton," Lieutenant General Collins sighed, "this is the order above, the order of the command of the Eastern Theater Command of North America... and said, "He looked around and saw that it was his own and Lieutenant General Walker, and then continued, "It also means that Germany will throw the atomic bomb on the Avalon Peninsula today, and may have to throw two more."
Lieutenant General Collins received no news of throwing a few, but the commander, who was an elite US Army staff member, was very good at thinking about it. He believed that the two atomic bombs thrown in the Bay of Fundy were originally to be thrown on the Avalon Peninsula, but the Germans temporarily changed their plans because they discovered the 56th Special Mixed Fleet...
"Twist 2 more?" Lieutenant General Walker took a breath, "The information is reliable?"
Chapter completed!