Chapter 97: Let the nuclear explosion be more violent! (Chinese)
In November, the island of Great Britain was full of lively scenes of mushroom harvest, radiation explosion, and refugees fleeing.
With the relocation and evacuation of the British government and royal family, diplomats from various countries who were originally stationed in London will naturally have to move with them. However, due to the complicated work of moving belongings and organizing documents, most countries' embassies in the UK have not yet had time to completely withdraw from London.
At the U.S. Embassy in downtown London, in an office that was very messy because there were many people coming and going, burning documents and packing luggage, Ambassador Alan Kirk, who had a background in U.S. naval intelligence and had just taken office, was Holding a red pencil and frowning at the wall On the hanging map of Britain, mushroom clouds were marked one after another... In his eyes, they were like cracks leading straight into the abyss of hell, trying to swallow up the entire British Isles - this was not romantic. Literary rhetoric, but iron-clad cruel facts.
On October 31, after two weeks of silence, the Soviet strategic bomber formation was dispatched again and dropped an atomic bomb on the famous British heavy industry city of Manchester, causing a devastating blow to the city and British military production. On the same day, in order to ensure the damage to the fortress, the Soviet army nuclear bombed Gibraltar again, causing the remaining British survivors who were clearing the ruins in the Gibraltar area to suffer another radiation catastrophe.
On November 2, Coventry, a city in the center of the textile industry in southern England, suffered a nuclear explosion. Although the citizens were evacuated, as many as 30,000 people were killed or injured.
On November 4, a Soviet atomic bomb exploded in Leeds, Yorkshire, killing more than 100,000 British soldiers and civilians.
On November 6, Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK and another center of heavy industry and manufacturing, suffered a nuclear explosion. More than 400,000 residents were killed and injured, and the British military production was on the verge of collapse. Many weapons were destroyed due to the destruction of supporting parts manufacturers. Forced to stop production.
On November 8, the Soviet Red Army prepared to nuclear bomb the industrial town of Glasgow in Scotland. However, due to the desperate resistance and suicide attack of the British Royal Air Force, the Soviet bomber carrying the nuclear bomb crashed into the Port of Newcastle in northern England. After the detonation, thousands of people were killed. Civilian casualties.
On November 9, under the repeated pleading of Churchill's cabinet, President Truman took out the last American atomic bomb deployed on the European front and dropped it on Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It not only killed and injured hundreds of thousands of citizens, but also It also blew up the sea wall and flooded a large area of the Netherlands.
However, this kind of counterattack, like a cat scratching a person, did not scare the ferocious red devil at all. Instead, it further stimulated the opponent's ferocity, and it no longer continued the previous "slow" rhythm of dropping a nuclear bomb every two days. , but launched an even more exaggerated and massive nuclear attack on the British mainland!
On November 12, Soviet bombers from airports in France and Belgium launched a large-scale attack and dropped atomic bombs on three cities: Sheffield, Liverpool, and Cardiff, the capital of Wales. On that day, more than 300,000 people were killed. The British Domestic railway and highway transportation has also been completely paralyzed as a result.
At this time, the American and British allies on the European battlefield did not even have a nuclear bomb in their hands, and they no longer had the slightest ability to fight back.
On November 15, the day before yesterday, the Soviets dropped an atomic bomb on the university city of Oxford, destroying this cradle of British culture. An American student who luckily escaped from Oxford described the matter in a lyrical tone as follows after taking refuge in the embassy:
"...Another sun seemed to appear in the sky, emitting dazzling light. Huge clouds of smoke rose into the sky, and hot winds swept in, destroying everything on the earth...It was as if flames were erupted from hell, and the earth was destroyed. It turned into lava, the rivers and seas boiled, and the fish were cooked and floated. Floating on the water, the lively town was instantly destroyed. People covered with fire ran around until they turned into ashes. Black rain fell from the sky, pouring on the survivors, burning their skin. People Terrified, watching helplessly the end of the world..."
Well, that sounds like the end of the world - or the end of the Anglo-Saxon race!
One month after the official start of the war, Britain's major cities were already like hell. Even in the capital London, due to an atomic bomb in the suburbs, the entire city was without power and water, and even food supply stations were closed. As for the work of clearing the ruins and resettling refugees, it has come to a complete standstill as many mushroom clouds have risen in various counties across the country. Churchill, the fat man, took the cabinet, parliament and royal family to Belfast, Northern Ireland, leaving behind only a chaotic capital city mired in anarchy and a group of hungry, bewildered citizens...
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Even the English in the countryside suffered from it. Because, in addition to the direct death caused by nuclear explosions, the mushroom clouds of nuclear explosions also contain a large amount of radioactive dust, which mixes with the water vapor in the clouds to form highly radioactive "black rain" falling down, which can contaminate up to several kilometers in a radius. Ten kilometers, or even hundreds of kilometers of rivers and ponds, most of the refugees who drank radioactive sewage died within a week. Even if you don't drink the radioactive sewage, just having your house and clothes contaminated by the "black rain" of radiation is scary enough. In addition, only God knows what kind of weird crops will grow on the cultivated land that has been soaked and irrigated by radioactive sewage.
According to a rough estimate by intelligence personnel at the U.S. Embassy, the number of British people who have died directly from nuclear explosions since the war began is now no less than three million, while the total population of the United Kingdom before the war was only 46 million— -The war has reached this stage. The British Empire has not only been drained of blood, but has had its bones broken, its belly disemboweled, its brains and internal organs dug out, just like the frogs that were dissected in the laboratory. Now it is All that's left is the twitching energy. What is even more worrying is that the Soviets seem to be far from losing all their atomic bombs! How many nuclear bombs do they have? ! !
Thinking of this, Ambassador Alan Kirk couldn't help but become more and more worried. The Third World War between the free camp and the red camp had just begun, and it was already showing signs of defeat. If the United States really loses this world war... then the future is really unimaginable.
However, the earth does not revolve around you, and many unfortunate things will not happen if you don’t think about it...
According to the intelligence he had at hand, although the British mainland was full of mushrooms, the situation in other battlefields in Europe was also not good. The Soviet Red Army is advancing all the way south on the Italian Peninsula. Rome and Naples, where the US military was originally stationed, have fallen. General Eisenhower has just moved his command to North Africa. It is only a matter of time before South Italy changes hands - if you are lucky, Maybe Sicily can be saved.
Then, on the Spanish battlefield where the British army was responsible, due to the chaos and trouble caused to the enemy's logistics supply line by the previous US nuclear bombing of Madrid, the Soviet Red Army and the volunteer forces from various European countries were unable to continue the offensive in a short period of time. Both sides were still at the southernmost tip of the peninsula. The Andalusia region is in a stalemate and seems to be able to hold on for a while longer. However, President Franco's troops were frightened, and all major industrial areas in the country were lost. The army was very short of guns and ammunition. Unless it received large amounts of aid from the United States, it would not have the ability to fight for a long time. And as their hometown on the island of Great Britain gradually turned into a radioactive wasteland, and the mushroom cloud rose from the Fortress of Gibraltar behind them, the British army on the front lines in North Africa and Spain also experienced a surge in morale, fighting will and combat effectiveness... They really wanted to fight. , it is estimated that it will only end in a collapse of thousands of miles.
What's even worse is that in the face of mushroom clouds blooming all over the country and all kinds of terrifying rumors spread, the British no longer want to fight.
——From ancient times to the present, when human beings face powerful forces that they cannot resist, they will first be surprised and angry, then hate and despair, until they are numb and resigned. In the end, except for a few staunch people, most people will choose to go with the flow. , follow its trend.
Although it sounds really cowardly, useless, and frustrating, for the survival, reproduction, and continuation of the ethnic group, there is nothing we can do about it. A person can value loyalty over life and death, and most people will raise their thumbs and praise him for his heroic spirit. Even if he is broken into pieces, he is still a tragic hero. But if a nation, a country, or even a tribe does this, it can only be ridiculed as stupid and seeking death.
Because even if it is based on animal instinct, any biological group must have survival and reproduction as its highest purpose. Any approach that violates this purpose and leads to the destruction of the entire ethnic group is undesirable, or it goes against the laws of nature - this is the saying that it is better to live than to die.
And after being hit by a bunch of nuclear bombs on his own land and being planted with so many mushrooms, the British gentleman, who was originally more arrogant and stubborn than a bull, gradually became enlightened in front of the cold god of death - it was like a nuclear explosion scene at the end of the world. The bone-wrenching radiation contamination, and the fear that the entire city could be destroyed at any time, were like the Black Death in the Middle Ages, completely crushing their glory, self-esteem, and pride. The only thought in their hearts is that this nightmare-like day will end as soon as possible. It doesn't matter whether they lose their power and humiliate the country or kneel down to beg for mercy.
If you fall into such a world, your life will be lost, your family will be extinct, why should you save face and dignity?
On the contrary, since it is almost impossible to travel across the entire Europe to atomically explode the Soviet Union, the nuclear strikes carried out by the US military in Europe against European countries, in addition to reaping the deep-seated hatred of all European nations, do not harm the Soviet Union at all. On the contrary, if he could completely destroy the European continent and force people of all ethnic groups in Europe to flee to the Soviet Union, Stalin might be overjoyed - if tens of millions of high-quality Western European immigrants poured in, the problems that had troubled the Soviet Union for many years would The labor shortage problem can be solved in one fell swoop! The success of the development of Siberia is just around the corner... Ambassador Alan Kirk felt heartbroken when he thought about the scene where all civilized people in Europe were driven away by American nuclear bombs, crying and shouting to immigrate to the Soviet Union to develop Siberia.
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However, from the perspective of an onlooker, Ambassador Alan Kirk actually does not need to be so laborious and unfounded.
Because his life has quietly come to an end, and he no longer has any extra time to think about this or that, or what to consider for others and the country!
——While Ambassador Alan Kirk was looking at the map of the United Kingdom covered with mushroom clouds and thinking about the next diplomatic strategy of the United States in Europe, a dazzling bright light suddenly came from the glass window of the office, and was instantly drowned. All that was around was a few miserable screams.
Since London's warning system was severely damaged after the first nuclear explosion, it was completely paralyzed and abandoned after the government moved. Therefore, for people who had not yet had time to escape this former world capital, the second nuclear explosion in London came so suddenly.
——Unlike the missed atomic bomb last time, because with the withdrawal of government agencies, London's air defense force has been weakened to basically zero level, this time the Soviet atomic bomb was very accurately dropped in the West Minster, above Big Ben on the Thames.
——In an instant, the sky burned, the river began to evaporate, and the rushing wind was mixed with destructive energy... In the center of the nuclear explosion, everything was burned, including the tiles on the roof and the bricks and stones of the house. All melted, changing from black to olive color, and a layer of shiny glass was burned out on the surface of the cement components. Whether they were poor or rich, soldiers or civilians, they could only hold their heads and howl, and then the clothes on their bodies quickly burned, and then their internal organs, skin and flesh were burned away, leaving only a pair of charred bones. It shattered inch by inch in the shock wave, and finally fell to the ground, turning into a puddle of ashes scattered by the wind. Or it might just evaporate and disappear like dry ice, leaving only a vague trace of a human figure on the stone slabs and walls.
A place slightly away from the center of the explosion suddenly became like purgatory - the blue sky was filled with raging fire, the air was as hot as a furnace, flammable paper items caught fire, and the flowers and plants in the courtyard dried up instantly... Those who unfortunately forgot to look away suddenly fell to the floor, covered their eyes with two burned holes in pain with their hands, and let out bursts of heart-rending wails. For the remaining people whose eyes were not burned out, as long as they stood in the open air or near a window, their exposed skin would be severely burned in an instant due to the scalding light radiation.
Next, the terrible shock wave spread in all directions in an instant, from the famous Tower Bridge to the ancient Tower of London, as well as the buildings of Buckingham Palace and the bronze statue of Nelson in Trafalgar Square. The buildings made of cardboard collapsed and fell one after another, and were even smashed to pieces by the hot high-speed airflow and exploded easily. As for the people inside the building, they were like ants being blown away by the strong wind. It was blown up and thrown into the air, and many people were burned to coke before they even landed... Telephone booths, cars and ferries on the Thames River were all blown around like matchboxes by the air waves, and they were trapped inside. The high-temperature, dry and hot air waves also ignited extremely wide fires in all directions, causing everything that can catch fire to burn. Eventually, it will merge into a sea of fire that spreads rapidly, burning until there is nothing left to burn. Even at the Thames Estuary, which is dozens of kilometers away in a straight line, people can still feel the hot storm blowing towards them, bringing the breath of death!
After this second nuclear explosion, London's pride and greatness, prosperity and monuments finally disappeared, and it followed the footsteps of Paris!
On the other hand, a large ball of extremely high temperature fireball is glowing with colorful and strange brilliance. It is rolling upwards with hot smoke and dust, expanding bigger and bigger, and getting brighter and brighter... The evaporated water vapor is in the fireball. A straw hat-shaped cloud gradually formed above, which mixed with the dust pillars rolled up from the ground, and finally turned into a huge mushroom cloud that stood in the sky, as eye-catching as the Babylonian Tower of Babel in the biblical legend. Even on the coast of Calais, France, across the strait, you can still see the rising mushroom cloud behind the horizon...
At the same time, King George VI, who was old and frail and suffering from various diseases, saw not only the overseas colonial system of the British Empire falling apart, but also the mainland of Great Britain being overgrown with mushrooms. He felt that he was ashamed to face his ancestors in heaven. Lieutenant was eventually overwhelmed. When he learned that London had been hit by a second nuclear explosion and Buckingham Palace, Whitehall and Regent Street were all reduced to ashes, he unfortunately suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died suddenly at the Belfast Palace. In the next few days, seemingly to take care of Britain's national mourning, the Soviet Union temporarily stopped its nuclear bombing offensive and even stopped conventional air strikes. Instead, it began to drop leaflets on a large scale in the UK and launched "paper bombing" campaigns against civilians. "Offensive", first of all, to show off that he still has many atomic bombs, at least enough to blow up all the cities in Britain. Then he sternly warned the "reactionary British authorities headed by the war criminal Churchill" to give up their illusions and not think that hiding in Northern Ireland is safe. "Our atomic bomb can turn any corner of Britain to ashes"!
Faced with this vicious nuclear blackmail by the Soviets, the British, who were in chaos from top to bottom, were still gritting their teeth and holding on, or they had not yet reacted. But the problem is that the American and British Allied Forces have few remaining "loyal allies" in Western Europe. The Irish, who can still watch the fire from the other side, are frightened out of their wits by the mushroom clouds blooming all over the island of Great Britain, and suddenly they can't sit still. Got it...