Chapter 117, Bloody Valentine’s Day during World War III (Part 2)
As we all know, Russia’s core territory is in Eastern Europe, with its core base of three cities: Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Kiev and Moscow. Other than that, Central Asia, the Far East, and Siberia are just corners. Even if a few pieces are missing, it will only scratch the surface.
Therefore, in order to win this unprecedentedly cruel Third World War, Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay, the Chief of Staff of the Strategic Air Force of the United States Atlantic Theater on the Icelandic front, was planning to launch an expedition from Iceland to the east to nuclear bomb the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. When it comes to big moves, be all-in from the very beginning. They threw all their strength and invested all 18 atomic bombs allocated to the European battlefield and more than 1,900 B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" strategic bombers. To this end, they were forced to use the locally experienced B-29 strategic bombers The bomber pilots and crews plundered almost everything. In order to accommodate so many B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" strategic bombers to attack at the same time, the already large US military base in Iceland had to temporarily and urgently build more runways and aprons - so far, in addition to the already large In addition to the two atomic bombs that have been loaded onto warships and are being transported to the Middle East, the nuclear arsenal in the United States has once again been depleted.
However, as the core of the Soviet Union, the tightness of the air defense lines in Eastern and Northern Europe is far from comparable to remote borders like the Kamchatka Peninsula. In fact, the U.S. military's B-29 strategic bomber group had just begun its large-scale transfer to Iceland when it was discovered by reconnaissance satellites in the sky. The Soviet Red Navy even urgently organized a dual-carrier battle group, anchored from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, and set out for the Norwegian Sea. It attempted to imitate Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and bomb the US military base in Iceland first, thus taking a preemptive strike. However, the Soviets' actions were still a step too late. , the aircraft carrier battle group had just completed emergency supplies, not far from the German coast, and the strategic nuclear strike against the Soviet Union planned by Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay began...
At this time, the U.S. military base in Iceland was still far outside the strike range of the Soviet naval aviation, so preemptive strikes could only turn into interceptions on the way, which was not very efficient... Moreover, although due to insufficient range or Due to their "short legs", Iceland's U.S. fighter jets were unable to escort the bomber group throughout the entire journey, but at least in the Norwegian Sea where they had just departed, there was no problem in organizing a fighter group escort. Encountering a Soviet aircraft carrier trying to intercept and block it at this location, it’s still unclear who will hit whom!
Despite this, the operation of the U.S. B-29 strategic nuclear strike bomber group was pursued and intercepted with unprecedented intensity. Not long after the leading aircraft group left Iceland, it encountered a surprise attack by dozens of Soviet aircraft carrier fighter jets on the Norwegian Sea. After that, over Scandinavia, over the Baltic Sea, and over Leningrad, almost all the fighter jets of the European socialist camp were mobilized, with tens of thousands of them at the front and rear, like a siege of a giant elephant. Like a pack of wolves, they carried out a frantic hunt for the group of US B-29 strategic bombers that invaded from Iceland!
Although the US military dropped a large amount of jamming aluminum chaff in a targeted manner during this nuclear explosion operation, it also launched an airborne radar jammer in an attempt to affect the enemy's ground radar's long-range early warning capability. However, since the Soviet Union had reconnaissance satellites monitoring it from orbit at any time, all these little tricks were in vain - just like this, this cruel aerial strangulation battle was fought from the ocean to the land, and from the land to the ocean... I have to admit that the US B-29 strategic bomber is indeed durable and has extremely fierce firepower, comparable to an air armored ship. Dozens or hundreds of fighter jets that were attacking from the ground rushed over and soon fell like meteors. But the Soviet Union was also ruthless. Regardless of the heavy sacrifices, it was still like moths flying to the flame, sending batch after batch of fighter jets to meet them. From the most equipped "Yako 3" and "Yako 9" to the latest development and production of the "Yako 15" jet fighter, there are also Japanese-made Feiyan, Thunderbolt, Zhongkui high-altitude fighter jets and Qiushui jets obtained from unknown sources. aircraft, and even took off to seize the B-29 strategic bomber modified into a "gunship aircraft" on our side, and frantically engaged in aerial bombardment with the American B-29! For a moment, the sky in Northern Europe seemed like a volcano erupting. Tons of metal were sent up to a height of 10,000 meters by humans, and then fell down like meteorites wrapped in flames!
In such intense fierce battles, more and more American B-29 "Super Fortress" strategic bombers were shot down one after another despite thick smoke, including aircraft carrying nuclear bombs. Three atomic bombs failed to be detonated in time and crashed together with the B-29 bomber carrying them. Seven atomic bombs were detonated by American crews at sea or in the wilderness when the plane crashed. There are still several groups of B-29 bombers left. The crew of the "Super Fortress" saw a bad situation , not daring to continue to break into Soviet airspace, they just randomly found a valuable-looking city halfway through and dropped the atomic bomb - among them, the urban and suburban areas of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, were hit by three atomic bombs. The atomic bomb basically destroyed everything that could be exploded on the ground. Then there is Helsinki, the capital of Finland. This "Nordic White City", which is basically built of light-colored granite, was also unfortunately hit by two American atomic bombs. At least thousands of citizens were vaporized, leaving only the granite walls. A black humanoid mark...
At the same time, in order to interfere with the Soviet Union's judgment and contain the fighter forces in southern Eastern Europe, about three hundred B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" strategic bombers without nuclear bombs also turned to feint south, using burning Bombs and high-explosive bombs bombed Copenhagen, Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Danzig, Warsaw and other places, causing continuous fires and tens of thousands of casualties, but also paid the price of basically annihilating the entire army.
Next, at the cost of more than 60% of its own losses, the U.S. strategic nuclear strike bomber group finally broke through the layers of obstruction and broke into Soviet airspace. Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, which had just been annexed by the Soviet Union, was immediately struck by an American atomic bomb. Most of the city was reduced to burning rubble on Valentine's Day. Another atomic bomb crashed together with the plane in the city of Viborg on the north shore of the Gulf of Finland, and was detonated more than 100 meters above Viborg, which originally belonged to the Tsarist Russian Empire, was later classified as Finland, and was classified again in the past few years. The port city that belonged to the Soviet Union instantly turned into a pile of radioactive ruins.
However, the nuclear explosions encountered by the above two are really just two appetizers for the ambitions of the American Iron Eagle.
The biggest target of their operation is still in front of the end of the Gulf of Finland - the old capital of Tsarist Russia, the economic center of the Soviet Union, Leningrad...
——According to the Pentagon's war games and expert assessments, it is indeed difficult to penetrate thousands of kilometers into the Soviet Union. In addition, breaking through the air defense network in the capital area and dropping an atomic bomb on Moscow's Red Square, then carrying out a nuclear explosion on Leningrad near the border is the most cost-effective strike option.
Among the nuclear explosion targets of this Valentine's Day operation, if we say that comparing the importance of Vladivostok with Petropavlovsk, it is like comparing gold to black iron. So comparing the importance of Leningrad to Vladivostok is like comparing diamonds to gold!
Moreover, what these American pilots who bravely rushed to Leningrad with the intention of killing themselves and benefiting others did not know at this time that Leningrad today was not just the Soviet Union's window to Europe. In a sense, it is the Achilles heel of the entire Soviet Union and even the entire socialist camp!
——Because, on the Neva River flowing through the city of Leningrad, there is a magical warship with a soul parked, the Aurora, which was famous during the October Revolution...or, in other words, the only reincarnation in this time and space. The main body of the Soviet warship Miss Sophie...
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The sky above Leningrad was filled with smoke and flames. The roar of engines, the firing of machine guns and cannons, and the volleys and explosions of fighter jets and bombers were all mixed together in a mess. The bright light of the tracer bullets drew dazzling trajectories in the gloomy sky, and the explosive fireballs were like countless majestic thunder and lightning, flashing in the rolling thunderclouds of summer, like an overwhelming mountain. .
Thousands of planes were fighting and fighting in the sky, whistling and circling, as if even the clouds were torn apart by the murderous aura soaring into the sky. The anti-aircraft guns of various calibers on the ground were also spitting out bullets with all their strength, far more intense than the holiday fireworks. In the midst of the artillery fire, which was more violent than a thunderstorm, graceful fighter planes spun in black smoke and fell in circles, exploding into clusters of soaring flames on the ground. At the end of the northwest horizon, you can still vaguely see the mushroom cloud caused by the nuclear explosion of Vyborg, which added a cruel color to the battlefield.
Since the main target of this raid by the U.S. B-29 strategic nuclear strike bomber group is nuclear strike, the conventional aerial bombs they carry are just a supplement. Therefore, in addition to the eighteen bombers carrying atomic bombs and some ordinary bombers that diverted attention, there were at least a thousand B-29s that had been modified before the attack, with thickened armor and enhanced firepower output. It basically gave up its ground attack capability and became an air combat gunship that covered the penetration of atomic bombs (to be precise, our own bombers carrying atomic bombs). ——The self-defense firepower has been enhanced from ten 12.7 mm caliber aviation machine guns and one 20 mm caliber rapid-fire aircraft cannon to twelve 12.7 mm caliber aviation machine guns and three 20 mm caliber rapid-fire aircraft cannons. The carrying capacity of each machine gun or aircraft cannon The amount of bombs has also been increased from one thousand to two thousand. In addition, aviation rockets are also mounted to deal with similar heavy gunships of the Soviet Union.
Each air combat gunship like this is basically equivalent to an air combat cruiser with strong armor and fierce firepower, leaving those old-model Soviet fighter jets with only two or three small water pipes (machine guns) almost nowhere to go. In the end They simply flew into hysterics and crashed into it... despite the Soviet Air Force's back-and-forth adjustments. Tens of thousands of fighter jets have been assembled to intercept this huge group of American bombers, but they can still only slowly reduce their number and cannot swallow them all in one go. Not to mention, every time any American atomic bomb is detonated in the air, the nuclear explosion alone The huge shock wave generated will lift countless small and light fighter jets. The flash of nuclear explosion caused countless pilots who were caught off guard to be blinded instantly, and their fighter planes fell crookedly.
Despite this, when it finally broke through the layers of obstruction and broke into the Soviet Union, the U.S. B-29 strategic nuclear strike bomber group was already at the end of its strength. The huge fleet of more than 1,900 aircraft that once covered the sky and the sun, in the end, only less than 200 bombers entered the sky over the city of Leningrad.
However, for the Americans, this was enough - because they finally transported the last atomic bomb to Leningrad!
Moreover, they successfully dropped the atomic bomb before it was shot down by Soviet fighter jets or heavy anti-aircraft guns!
Then, 1,800 feet above the city of Leningrad, the atmospheric pressure device triggered the detonation mechanism very accurately - in a thousandth of a second, accompanied by a super powerful blast that exceeded the limits of ordinary people's imagination. With a flash, the atomic bomb exploded into a fireball of devastating energy.
Just like that, at the next moment, all the pilots on both sides who were fighting in the sky at an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters saw a purple-red light spot the size of a pinhead suddenly appear a few kilometers below their feet, and then expanded into a dot at an alarming speed. Purple bright fireball. Then, this huge heterochromatic fireball exploded into a group of dancing flames, spitting out circles of boiling thick smoke. Then from the swirling purple clouds, a thick white smoke column suddenly rose up, like a rocket, quickly jumped to an altitude of three thousand meters, and then exploded violently, forming a huge mushroom cloud. From a distance, it looks like a monster's head, with a large and expanding ball at the top that changes colors like a kaleidoscope.
This mushroom cloud rolled up and down like boiling water, constantly changing strange colors, and continued to rise to an altitude of 10,000 meters where they were fighting. As a result, waves of violent shock waves came together with the rapidly rising mushroom clouds. All the planes seemed to be like canoes caught in the stormy waves. They were violently shaking in the terrifying kinetic energy of the nuclear blast shock wave, shaking everything inside. The crew members had bruises on their noses, swollen faces, and bloody heads. Some of the most unlucky planes were even flipped over, or their engines vibrated and stalled, falling from the sky like stones.
At the same time, on the ground under the mushroom cloud, Leningrad, the second largest city in the Soviet Union, also turned into a purgatory on earth in an instant... Except for some remote neighborhoods on the seaside, it is located on the Neva River Delta. The entire city was covered by a thick layer of dark gray dust, and this rolling dust later merged with the cloud pillar, becoming more turbulent and violent. In the thick dust, flames could still be vaguely seen. The flash of...
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——The U.S. B-29 "Super Fortress" strategic bomber group flying from Iceland dropped the 20,000-ton atomic bomb on Leningrad at the mouth of the Neva River on February 14, 1947. It was successfully detonated at an altitude of 1,800 feet above the nearby Peter and Paul Fortress.
As a result, the instantaneous high temperature of more than 6,000 degrees Celsius generated in the center of the Leningrad nuclear explosion, as well as the ultra-high-intensity light radiation comparable to the surface of the sun, instantly leveled the city that was born at the same time as the city and was built by Peter the Great himself. The Peter and Paul Fortress built in the swamp (it was also a famous prison for political prisoners in late Tsarist Russia. A large number of early leaders of the Soviet Union once had prison meals here, which is roughly similar to the Bastille during the French Revolution).
Then, incandescent flames and thunderous shock waves followed, sweeping through the famous Cathedral of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the Winter Palace, the Talif Palace, and the Schnemore Palace, the headquarters of Comrade Lenin planning the October Revolution... ...Within seconds, in the urban area of Leningrad near the center of the explosion, thousands of pedestrians who had no time to hide in air-raid shelters were roasted alive on the streets. The gardens in the city center were also scorched by the dry heat wave with temperatures of hundreds of degrees. Even inside the houses, many people were burned to death immediately, and many others were severely burned, rolling on the ground and screaming.
Looking down from the air, everything that blocked the direction of the nuclear blast wave: walls, houses, factories and other buildings were easily destroyed and ignited, leaving only some debris wrapped in flames, which were burned. The whirlwind caused by the nuclear explosion swept into the air and landed on the flammable building materials further away that were also dried out by the heat wave of the nuclear explosion. In an instant, a raging fire burned the city!
What's even more terrible is that on the Neva River only five kilometers away from the center of the explosion, there is still the body of the ship's wife Miss Sophie - the legendary meritorious ship Aurora of the October Revolution... In fact, as early as When she discovered that there was something strange about the US military in Iceland, Miss Sophie had already thought about transferring her body. But the problem is that at this time, the Neva River is in a frozen state in winter, and the entire river has been frozen into an ice rink, and the Aurora is also frozen in the ice. The nearest unfrozen sea surface , dozens of kilometers away. Even if explosives are used to break the ice, it will definitely not be possible to dig a channel within ten days and a half.
In addition, after discussion, Sophie, Wang Qiu and others believed that Leningrad’s air defense capability was second only to Moscow in the entire Soviet Union, and that Scandinavia must be broken through before reaching Leningrad. The air defense forces are intercepting them at all levels. Even if the US military devotes all its national strength, it cannot be like that. Just like the Tokyo Fire Attack organized by General LeMay in another time and space, he used carpet bombing to burn Leningrad to ashes in one fell swoop - even if a few planes were lucky enough to successfully penetrate the defense, they would only reach Leningrad city at most. If the area throws a few aerial bombs randomly, the chance of them falling on the Aurora is extremely slim. What's more, the Aurora cruiser's own anti-aircraft firepower is also very powerful, and the armor is even thicker. It won't be a big deal if it is hit by one or two aerial bombs.
Moreover, the US military may not bomb Leningrad with all its strength this time. Maybe it will go to Moscow? If we waste a huge amount of manpower and material resources to dig ice on the Neva River to evacuate warships just for such a small probability of danger, it will feel like we are all in danger.
Therefore, the Soviets did not rush to move the Aurora, which was frozen in the urban river, before the air raid arrived - in fact, it was too late.
As a result, at this moment, when the American atomic bomb exploded over the Peter and Paul Fortress, the ship's wife Miss Sophie could only swallow the bitter pill: the ice on the river torn apart by the nuclear explosion, and the bricks and tiles knocked down from the embankments on both sides. The rubble, as well as the cars and street trees that were blown off the street, were all turned into countless natural artillery shells in the nuclear blast wave that swept the world, and hit Aurora hard, who was unable to move. On the hull of the ship!
Suddenly, the ice on the river broke instantly. The Aurora was pulled up directly from the ice, and the front half rushed directly to the river bank. At the same time, it suffered a series of explosions from countless rubbles, debris and ice. Shocking heavy damage: the mast and gun barrel were broken on the spot, the chimney and bridge collapsed one after another, and even the hull of the ship was crushed and deformed. Almost half of the ship was damaged. It was buried under dirty ice, bricks, sand and vegetation mixed with countless radioactive dust. At first glance, it looked like it was picked out of a garbage dump... and stayed on the cruiser Aurora. The crew, from the captain to the engineer, were amidst the shock wave of the nuclear explosion and the roll of the ship's hull. In an instant, more than half of them were dead, and the survivors suffered from broken muscles and fractures and injuries.
However, all surviving crew members swore that they heard an angry female voice roaring at the moment of the nuclear explosion.
At the same time, in countless corners of the world, the painful groans and angry roars of a certain ship girl's clones were heard at the same moment:
"...Damn Americans! It hurts me to death!"
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PS: There is new news recently. After being replaced, Samsung Note7 will still heat up and explode when it is turned off and not charged. Is this a bomb or a mobile phone? I am speechless to the sky, so I can only compose a song: The stars in the sky do not speak, and the three stars on the ground will explode. The Note7 in my hand kept blowing up, and all my hard-earned money was wasted. Ah~ah~ah~ahhhh~ Samsung’s Note7 will explode every night when I think of Cook’s words. Despite this, Korean newspapers still shamelessly said that Samsung Note7 is the best mobile phone in the world, and French experts have proven this.