Chapter 160: Bombardment of the White House
The gathering of crowds and huge commotion at Arlington National Cemetery on the other side of the Potomac River was naturally not hidden from the people in urban Washington.
In fact, as early as a few days ago, some observant Washington citizens had clearly sensed an ominous atmosphere, with men with unkind faces whispering to each other everywhere. The frequency of patrols in the city has increased much more than usual in recent days.
But at this precarious time, most people's nerves have long been numb, and they are too lazy to care about anything except calculating the reserves of food and fuel. On the night when unusual commotion was noticed across the Potomac, only the Secret Service, which was actually responsible for guarding the White House, and the Military Police and the Police Department, which maintained security in the capital, worriedly re-declared and reaffirmed martial law and increased the night watch. number of people.
As for the drunk President MacArthur... no one would count on him now, and no one would think of waking him up.
However, after being on tenterhooks all night, until sunrise, the urban area of Washington seemed to remain 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 drastic change had quietly begun to take place...
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Downtown Washington, East Bank of the Potomac River, Lincoln Memorial
In front of the tall statue of President Lincoln, two policemen on night duty fell in a pool of solidified blood. Their bodies had long since cooled down. General Eisenhower, wearing a camouflage cloak and a steel helmet on his head, stood nearby with a cigarette in his mouth, looking thoughtfully at the sparkling Potomac River in front of him.
The Lincoln Memorial, which was once deserted, is now full of people, and it seems to have become the headquarters of this military coup.
Not far from the Lincoln Memorial is the Arlington Bridge across the Potomac River. Although part of the bridge deck was destroyed in a previous air raid, the overall structure is basically preserved. intact. At this moment, Eisenhower's close subordinates were using some engineering equipment dug out from the ruins of the Pentagon and relying on the basically intact bridge piers to build a short bridge for people to walk on the basis of the broken bridge. In several refugee camps across the river, his "propaganda personnel" have also mobilized armed refugees with guns...
By this moment, all the preludes to the military coup had been planned, prepared, and tense, just waiting for his order.
Eisenhower has been waiting for this moment for a long time, and this day will come sooner or later. He had done everything he could to get to this day.
"...I hope there will be no more Soviet air raids today..." He sighed and motioned to his subordinates to take out the flares.
In fact, this "military remonstrance" aimed at using force to coerce President MacArthur to give up his stubborn resistance and sign an unconditional surrender agreement, thereby ending the world war and halting the catastrophe of nuclear explosions. According to the original plan of a small group, it was planned as early as a few months It should have been activated before. The initially scheduled leader was not Eisenhower, a "marginal figure", but Secretary of State Marshall and former President Truman, who were more famous and influential.
——After confirming the attitude of President MacArthur and his cronies, as well as the decisions of the major local financial groups, and being horrified to discover that in order to avoid being humiliated at the hands of the Bolsheviks, they actually decided to fight to the end and drag the entire United States to hell, A group of politicians and senior military officers in Washington who claimed to have "still conscience" formed a secret anti-war group, or an "underground national salvation group", and planned to restore peace. The leader was Secretary of State Marshall, and the participants included Navy Chief Ernest King, Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Air Force Arnold, as well as former President Truman, who was homeless due to widespread nuclear explosions across the country and was forced to stay in the capital, and a large number of Senior officials and think tanks, both in office and out of office, have joined one after another.
According to the view of this small group, these people are generally weak at present, and they also wear the label of "politically incorrect". No matter they take legal or illegal ways, it is difficult to fight against them for a while. The crazy White House militants, and the fact that they had given up on themselves in the face of Stalin's blatant death sentence, were determined to break the pot and would rather die than drag on. The conglomerates in the entire United States are going to hell together - there is no way, as part of the American ruling class, they all know the nature of the conglomerates, and they don't believe that these bastards have any conscience or compassion, and will do it for the sake of illusory things. They generously sacrificed their lives for the sake of their country and nation: These bastards will only drag everyone to death together. Even if they die themselves, they will have to drag a bunch of people on their backs!
However, as Wall Street in New York and major local cities are rapidly turned into radioactive ruins, and a large number of members of the upper class are fleeing overseas, the strength and influence of the above-mentioned plutocrats and die-hard hardliners in the United States is actually rapidly declining. As long as the opponent's power declines to a critical point, they, the "truly rational patriots", stand up and raise their arms, they can easily overthrow the government and achieve unconditional surrender. By then, those who have the ability to hinder the peace talks will either be dead or have already transferred their power to South Africa and will no longer be able to interfere in the United States.
Of course, even so, Stalin probably wouldn't give them any good things to eat afterwards. He would probably still have to go to a military court or even be hanged on the gallows. Marshall once took advantage of his position as Secretary of State and being in charge of foreign affairs. I had secret contacts with the Soviet Union Some indirect tentative contacts were made, but I was disappointed to find that the other party's attitude seemed to be very cold, and they didn't 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 done so. His own life and death were put on the back burner.
——In the current nightmare background of the end of the world, as long as the United States can be saved, they do not lack the consciousness to devote themselves to their country.
Although Eisenhower was also a member of this "secret anti-war group", he was responsible for another task-taking a refugee fleet out to sea to transport the families of dignitaries and scientists such as Einstein. Sent to South Africa and resettled through the connections he had established in Africa, the politicians of the anti-war group could die in peace, and also left some fire and inheritance for the "free world" that was about to be destroyed.
In this way, Admiral Eisenhower led a huge refugee fleet, left the motherland where mushroom clouds were everywhere, crossed the vast Atlantic Ocean, successfully arrived in South Africa, and got through the South African government, resettling them as properly as possible These exiles... However, the strange thing is that, as he waited in South Africa, he never saw the United States surrender, the war ended, and there was no new news from his local accomplices.
Therefore, in desperation, Eisenhower had no choice but to take a few close relatives and risk his life by boarding a refugee ship returning to solicit passengers, cross the Atlantic again, and return to the federal capital Washington to find out... As a result, after various experiences, After all kinds of hardships, Ai finally returned to Washington. Senhower heard the bad news like a bolt from the blue - shortly after he left the United States, Secretary of State Marshall and former President Truman and all the backbones of the anti-war groups were bombed during a secret gathering and were unfortunately killed. A 500 kilogram Soviet aerial bomb was sent to heaven together. Some of the remaining middle-level and lower-level personnel below did not know the overall plan, lacked the perseverance and courage to continue taking action, and did not trust each other. They quickly dispersed and fled in the past few months. His death has almost completely disintegrated.
However, although the anti-war groups in the capital Washington collapsed and stalled, the Soviet atomic bombs were still falling like a downpour, destroying the land of the United States of America with flames and radiation all the time, killing Americans. Citizens of the United States…
On the way back to Washington, Eisenhower saw countless cities and towns destroyed by nuclear explosions or riots, fields where weeds grew wildly because no one worked them, and thousands of people who were swollen, ulcerated, and dying from radiation sickness. The dead and wounded, as well as the war refugees wandering around, homeless, fighting each other for a piece of bread. These tragic scenes forced Eisenhower to give up his last remaining moral obsession and personally organized a military coup to "defeat" President MacArthur and force him to surrender unconditionally. As for the reputation of traitors and thieves, he no longer cares about it... Since this train named MacArthur's government is hurtling towards hell, and the regretful people are trapped in the carriage and cannot get out, then besides Besides destroying the locomotive, what better choice could there be?
Looking up at the stone statue of President Lincoln, General Eisenhower once again felt wavered and weak for a moment in front of this great president - President Lincoln did not hesitate to launch a civil war, but also wanted to maintain the existence of the Union, and now he was launching a The military coup ruined this federation...
But in just a blink of an eye, General Eisenhower regained his composure and strengthened his will.
After all, a country is still made up of its people. If there are no people, what is the meaning of the existence of a country?
The failure and fall of the United States of America may have been doomed to be inevitable, but the people on this land must continue to survive.
I believe that even if President Lincoln were reborn here, facing such a cruel and desperate situation, he would make the same choice as himself...
So General Eisenhower took a deep breath, turned around and gestured to his subordinates: "...flare, launch!"
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Whoosh——whoosh——whoosh——
As three red flares were shot into the sky from in front of the Lincoln Memorial at six o'clock in the morning, the originally peaceful Washington, D.C., suddenly became noisy. The elite gunmen who had previously been sent to sneak into the city poked their heads out of the abandoned houses where they were hiding, using rifles, submachine guns and grenades to pour fire from high windows at the police and gendarmes patrolling the streets.
Suddenly, there were constant explosions and loud gunfire on the streets of downtown Washington. The police and gendarmes who were patrolling the streets were caught off guard and suddenly fell into a nightmare, as if there was a rifle or submachine gun behind every window, aiming at them and firing, and countless bullets were fired from all directions. They were left with no place to hide, their livers and gallbladders were split, and even if they wanted to draw their guns and fight back, they couldn't find their way.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the police and military police were held back by a gun battle in the city, thousands of organized armed insurrectionists passed through the Arlington Bridge that had just been urgently repaired and poured into the city from the other side of the Potomac River. . Eisenhower also walked side by side among them, holding a red flag symbolizing revolution. This time it was a typical Western-style popular uprising. armed After the crowd was incited, they held high flags and chanted slogans and marched straight to the White House... It looked a bit stupid, but a group of ragtag people only had this little organization, and they looked very impressive, which was very important at this time of panic. Shocking power.
In short, the armed uprising team of tens of thousands of people entered downtown Washington from the Arlington Bridge smoothly, then divided into two groups at the Lincoln Memorial, and marched eastward along Constitution Avenue to the Ellipse (the same one in the movie The open green space where the obelisk was erected), and the other group easily captured the Naval Medical Service and the National Academy of Sciences, which had only a few petrified guards, in an attempt to continue a detour to the northwest of the White House for a side attack.
However, these insurgents were obviously overly optimistic about this battle and seriously underestimated the government's resistance and counterattack capabilities.
In fact, because the tens of thousands of revolting people moved too slowly, they made too much noise. At this time, the military police, police and Secret Service had responded and made emergency mobilization and deployment. When the insurrectionists, carrying flags and beating tin drums, had just arrived on Virginia Street in front of the Red Cross, they saw a rocket trailing a long plume of white smoke flying towards them from the roof of the building in front. Come!
The next moment, with a loud roar, several broken bodies and a blackened flag flew backwards in the firelight.
Almost at the same moment, every window of the buildings across Virginia Street seemed to spit out countless bright tongues of flames, countless rockets, mortar shells, heavy machine guns, light machine guns and rifle bullets, as well as A grenade was thrown high, hitting the insurrectionary masses crowded in the street like a heavy rain. In an instant, clouds of fire and smoke were ignited, and the people walking in the front were blown to pieces. !
Next, a small group of cavalry rushed out of the ruins of George Washington University and greeted the chaotic crowd with carbines and sabers. In a very short period of time, more than two hundred rebels fell. But more people were aroused by the blood and smoke. Taking advantage of the large number of people on their side and their weapons, they fired wildly with Thompson submachine guns while pouring across Virginia Street and charging in. into the enemy formation.
Suddenly, between Virginia Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, the blood-red insurrectionists collided head-on with the police and military police who came to suppress them, and started a fierce street fight. Figures jumped and fought in the firelight and smoke, and the guns were fired. Sounds, roars, explosions and the sound of sharp blades piercing flesh were mixed together, accompanied by turbid smoke and flames, intertwined with the breath of blood and death, setting off a purgatory-like sadness and tragedy...
At the same time, the people walking along Constitution Avenue were not going smoothly. Although the roadblocks (checkpoints) arranged by the military police and the police had been destroyed by the small team of special agents sent by Eisenhower before the uprising was launched. But realizing that the situation was not good, the White House actually dispatched two "Sherman" tanks before the insurrectionists came in large numbers and rumbled up Constitution Avenue to suppress the rebellion!
The few elite gunners of the coup army who were ordered by Eisenhower to stay on both sides of the street lacked heavy weapons capable of anti-tank and did not have time to deploy street bombs. They were unable to deal with the armored troops and could only watch them run over Constitution Avenue. The lawn, covering hundreds of heavily armed police and gendarmes, drove into Constitution Park where a large number of insurrectionists gathered, and then used machine guns and artillery fire to beat these rabble into chaos. 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 before he could secure his footing.
All in all, from George Washington University to Constitution Street, the rebels and government forces seemed to have reached a brief stalemate. The rebels had a large number of people, with as many as 20,000 to 30,000 people. However, their shortcoming was the lack of heavy firepower, not even machine guns, and most of them were inexperienced. The suppression troops sent by the White House only amounted to more than 700 people on both sides, but they were backed up by tanks and cavalry, and their quality was relatively high, making the fight inextricable.
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In the small square in front of the Lincoln Memorial, there are piles of corpses everywhere, bomb craters are staggered, and the blood of the dead flows into a stream.
General Eisenhower squatted behind a simple fortification made of sandbags, furniture and sundries, frowning and looking at the tanks opposite.
"... Damn it... I didn't expect that they actually had tanks! This is so careless!" He murmured and cursed.
Although the rebels recovered from the rout and successfully destroyed the tracks of a "Sherman" tank with rocket launchers and recoilless rifles, rendering it incapable of action, they were unable to completely destroy the solid tank. The tank's firepower and sighting system, which became a fixed turret, still fired at the Lincoln Memorial one after another, causing stone fragments to fly and screams to come. As for the other intact Sherman tank, it was galloping back and forth in Constitution Park, using its vehicle-mounted machine gun to mow down the crowd of scattered rebels. About two companies of military police and some Secret Service agents in black suits followed closely, using Garand rifles and M1911 pistols to kill the poor poor people who had become frightened birds.
"...Attention, everyone! Aim - release!"
At the Lincoln Memorial, a certain captain grabbed his Motorola walkie-talkie and shouted, and at the same time, he reached out and struck, and two anti-tank rockets roared towards the Sherman tank with its tracks interrupted from a short distance away. . Due to the very close distance and the fact that the enemy tank did not move at all, both rockets hit the target accurately. One of the rockets bounced off the armor of the tank turret, and the other It hits the nail on the head.
So, with a loud "boom", the Sherman tank turned into a burning fireball, and even the tank crew could not escape.
However, before the rebels at the Lincoln Memorial could cheer for victory, another Sherman tank in Constitution Park slowly turned its turret... and with a flash of muzzle fire, a shot High-explosive shells fell on the Lincoln Memorial!
Eisenhower was lying on the concrete floor in an emergency, his ears were buzzing from the shock, and he felt the dirt and small stones around him falling straight down on his back... After a moment, he sat up with his hands on his back. Straightening up, his right hand touched a sticky, soft thing. At first glance, it looked like a ball of mud covered with black bullet ash. But Eisenhower, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, knew that it was a piece of leftover meat, but he didn’t know which part of the body it belonged to, let alone who it belonged to. In the battle just now, just at the Lincoln Memorial, many people were killed. At least half the platoon.
If he were a new soldier, he might have vomited when encountering this situation, but as a battlefield veteran, Eisenhower just wiped the blood on his hands casually and ordered his subordinates to continue their efforts and use anti-tank rocket launchers to destroy the remaining vehicles. Mann will be killed too!
However, before the coup troops 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 power just now, suffered a deafening crash. big Bang! When the thick smoke dissipated, the tank had turned into a wreckage in the flames, and the military police units near the tank were also blown to pieces, and some even turned into burning fires.
This is……? Eisenhower raised his eyes and could see without a telescope that at the end of his field of vision, on the pavement of Constitution Street, there was a heavy anti-aircraft gun laid flat. On top of the tractor of the anti-aircraft gun, there were several people with red armbands tied to their arms. The soldier was waving in his direction.
At the same time, at the anti-aircraft gun positions on Capitol Hill and Potomac Park, there were bursts of gunfire and smoke, and rows of artillery shells were screaming at the air as they blasted toward the White House. Although the accuracy of the anti-aircraft guns was a bit poor because they were not suitable for direct fire, just seeing the rising smoke and faint flashes of fire around the White House was enough to wipe out the last will of the suppression troops to fight.
——The anti-aircraft artillery unit of the Capital District was also successfully carried out by Eisenhower's propagandists to carry out a "troop movement" and invested in this coup!
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For this military coup that was once deadlocked, the defection of the anti-aircraft artillery troops in the capital finally dealt a fatal blow to the government forces!
——The rebellious armed mob seemed to be dozens of times larger than itself. The two Sherman tanks that were the last weapon were also destroyed, and the anti-aircraft artillery troops stabbed the enemy from the back and fired hail-like shells towards the White House... All of the above are superimposed on Together, they finally completely collapsed.
A small number of them dropped their guns in despair and allowed themselves to be tied up by the insurgents. At the same time, they would probably receive a few punches or be spit on. Most of the officers and soldiers of the suppressive force took advantage of the fact that they were not surrounded, and fled in various directions with their firearms and ammunition. In today's chaotic situation, and when they had just forged a bloody feud, they did not believe that these rebels were still alive. Will abide by the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War...
On the other side, General Eisenhower did not bother to clear out these remaining soldiers, and just continued to advance towards the black smoke billowing White House.
——I have to admit that the agents of the White House Secret Service are indeed a group of dedicated guards. Even in this sudden and desperate situation, he still tried to find a intact and drivable Ford car in order to send President MacArthur away. But the problem is that before they had time to act, tens of thousands of insurrectionists had already surrounded the White House. During this period, a large number of Washington citizens came to join the war with guns in tow... The entire city seemed to be reduced to ruins. The day turned into a sea of mobs, and the White House, where the Secret Service last defended, seemed to be an isolated island in the ocean.
So, after a fierce battle and using artillery shells to make several holes in the outer wall of the White House, General Eisenhower finally crushed the last resistance of the Secret Service. According to the results of the torture of several captured agents, he took only a few A few followers stepped into the White House where the smoke had dispersed...
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Then, the International Olympic Committee is preparing to put the baseball event of the Tokyo Olympics in the Fukushima radiation zone... Fortunately, the Chinese don't play baseball very much.