Rise from the sword

Chapter 624
"lower the altitude."

"The first squadron bombed the Statue of Liberty, and the second and third squadrons bombed Manhattan."

"Low altitude bombing."

"Here the Americans have no anti-aircraft guns and fighter jets."

Following the orders of the Luftwaffe captain in the lead bomber, fifteen six-engine bombers named M265 by the Germans began to lower their altitude, and as the control rudder was pushed down, ninety huge propellers began to tear the clouds.

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below.

new york city.

"what sound?"

A National Guard captain looked up at the sky with a puzzled expression.

Beside him, more than a dozen National Guard members in military uniforms holding Garand rifles also raised their heads one after another, with puzzled expressions, and some people were curious, but no one showed vigilance.

As a United States of America, the United States is different from other countries in that its internal military forces are divided into the Federal Army and the National Guard.

The army is responsible for the outside world, and the National Guard is responsible for the interior. Simply put, the army is responsible for defending against foreign enemies and counterattacks, while the National Guard is responsible for maintaining internal order and homeland defense.

Although it is now the time of World Wars, the dividing line has become blurred, but overall, it is still clear.

Therefore, in the United States at this time, the national air defense is in charge of the National Guard.

At the beginning of the war, the United States was very vigilant. The national radio silence, air control, arms control, material control, floating population control, curfew, spy hunt, all kinds of means were very perfect, as if a serious attitude towards war.

But as the war progressed, especially in the European battlefield and the Pacific battlefield, there were frequent reports of success, and the internal security measures in the United States were loosened again and again, especially when the German wolves were driven away, it reached its peak.

Internal vigilance exists in name only.

In order to implement the Overlord Plan and to deal with the sudden appearance of the German army, while launching a new round of conscription, the United States also began to mobilize the Army Aviation Force of the National Guard to go to Europe.

This series of actions eventually led to the weakness of the local defense at this time.

The soldiers of the guards were not vigilant, but they discussed the noise in the sky with great interest:

"It is probably the bomber fleet that is being trained."

Beside the captain, several ordinary guard soldiers discussed casually.

There are many bombers in the United States and they are very advanced. This is well known to the world. I believe that the Germans feel the deepest. Therefore, bomber training in New York City is very common and normal.

The muffled sound of propellers clearly indicates that heavy bombers are flying, and there will be many of them.

"strangeness."

"There is no bomber training record today."

Only the captain was a little puzzled.

Although he is only a captain, he is generally notified of bomber training operations to avoid commotion and to deal with unexpected situations, such as an unexpected forced landing of a bomber and so on.

But he didn't forget it.

It is possible that he forgot to notify him.

It has been more than two years since Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese and the United States began to prepare for war. In the past two years, the United States has won successive victories and has been invincible. Not a single bullet of the enemy has been dropped on the mainland.

The only function of their guards is to catch spies and maintain law and order. The air defense force has been defending the air for two years, and has never seen a single enemy bird.

The aircraft that can fly over the United States can only be American.

"Flying down!"

When everyone saw the plane piercing through the clouds, they all cried out in surprise.

"Six engines, new aircraft."

A soldier discovered through the binoculars that it was a model he had never seen before, and his tone was even more pleasant:
"What a big plane!"

Although Mustache has repeatedly demanded that the planes bombing the United States must be marked with German symbols to demonstrate the strength of the German Empire and make the enemy feel fear and panic.

But there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

After careful consideration, Kesselring argued that not painting would be beneficial to bombing, so he asked the head of state to agree to only paint a small part on the grounds of lack of time, and the painted part was also pasted with oil paper, which would fall off when the wind blows. .

"No wonder."

Seeing the bare and unpainted plane, the second lieutenant of the guard also understood why he didn't know.

It must have been a new aircraft, and he was not notified out of secrecy.

A group of National Guard soldiers just stared blankly at the fifteen bombers gradually lowering their heights, their eyes were not only vigilant, but even proud.

Next to them, the Americans, as well as the Europeans who had recently arrived in the United States from Europe, all looked up blankly at the fifteen downed bombers, with different expressions on their faces.

There was shock.

curious.

have pride.

It's just that these National Guardsmen, as well as these Americans, who have just arrived in the United States, don't know that at this time, the top guards, and even the top executives of the Army Aviation, are at a loss.

"Why didn't I notify me of a bomber passing through New York?"

In an office of the Guard, a high-ranking National Guard yelled into the phone.

"Bombers passing New York?"

The army aviation staff officer who was scolded was also taken aback:
"Sorry General, this is a mistake in our work."

Lu Hang's staff officer didn't bother to check the authenticity of the matter. He first apologized directly, trying to appease the other party's emotions, and then, without waiting for the other party to attack, he immediately gave a promise:
"We will investigate this matter strictly to prevent similar incidents from happening again."

Those words left the angry high-level guards speechless, so they could only hang up the phone resentfully.

The army aviation staff also turned around and asked:

"Are there bombers flying over New York today?"

After being scolded for nothing, he was very upset, so his tone was very aggressive.

Another part of the reason was that the bomber fleet passed over New York, and he was so angry that he didn't know about such an important matter.

'No. '

Another staff officer on the side replied:
"No military aircraft passed over New York today."

"Walter?"

After all, he is the staff officer of the Army Aviation, and at this time, he has gone so far that something is wrong.

However, he still didn't think about the enemy's bombing, but angrily went to investigate what went wrong, or was there a company that tested the bomber privately?

The unique geographical location has created a safe homeland environment in the United States, but it has also cultivated a vigilant psychology.

the other side.

new York.

After hanging up the phone, the National Guard senior stood up and took out a binoculars, looked through the glass at the fifteen bombers gradually lowering their altitude, and recalled the voice of the staff officer just now.

He remembered that when faced with his inquiry, the first staff officer was full of doubts, as if he didn't know anything.

Subconsciously, a bad idea came to his mind.

Is it...
At this time, the fifteen bombers in the distance were flying at lower and lower altitudes. Even without the help of binoculars, everyone could clearly see the huge fuselage and six huge propellers.

But the person holding the binoculars can see clearly, the opened magazine, and even the bomb inside the magazine.

"Alert, air defense alert."

In the command room, the high-level guards shouted mournfully.

But it was too late.

"bomb."

Following the command of Captain Deutschland.

At an altitude of 500 meters, among the five leading bombers, the bomber pulled the trigger, and the [-]-kilogram bombs in the magazine fell continuously, and fell straight to the stone statue holding the torch below.

boom boom boom

A violent explosion rose around the stone statue holding the torch aloft,

Although each bomber can only carry twelve or thirteen tons of bombs due to the voyage of more than 6000 kilometers, it is not a lot. This has exceeded the maximum bomb load of the B29.

Moreover, these bombs are all produced by the system, and they are loaded with RDX's blockbuster bombs, which are amazingly powerful.

Five bombers with a total of 120 tons of bombs, that is, 500 pieces of [-] kg explosives, even though the horizontal bombing accuracy was low, but the low-altitude bombing increased the accuracy. In the end, more than a dozen hit the base and stone body of the stone statue holding the torch.

Accompanied by the explosion, the 50-meter-high, 220-ton statue, which represented independence by holding the Declaration of Independence, and held the torch of freedom in one hand, represented the Statue of Liberty, collapsed and fell.

As tens of thousands of people watched in New York, Fragment fell.

"Do not."

This scene made the high-level guards who were watching all this scream terribly.

But the bombing continues, and America's pain is redoubled.

Manhattan, near the Statue of Liberty, is the smallest district in New York, but it is also the wealthiest district in New York, inhabited by a kind of elite such as bankers, entrepreneurs, and politicians.

It's the essence of New York.

But today, this essence also ushered in the bombing of more than 200 [-]-kilogram aerial bombs.

"God!"

This scene sent chills down the backs of the top National Guard officers and chills in their hearts.

As a matter of fact.

Two hundred [-]-kilogram aerial bombs, even Octo gold charges, would not do much damage to Manhattan, which is full of skyscrapers and reinforced concrete buildings.

In an area of ​​[-] square kilometers, there are [-] bombs, only a little more than three bombs per square kilometer.

And here are all top skyscrapers, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Chrysler Building, MetLife Insurance Building, these top skyscrapers are all here.

For these top buildings, even a ton of aerial bombs can't do much damage.

The casualties caused by the real bombing were actually not many.

But the most terrifying thing brought about by the fall of two hundred bombs is not the casualties, but the fear, because the fall of these bombs means that from today onwards, the United States of America is also involved in the flames of war and is no longer a safe area. People are going to start fearing.

The booming economy of the United States will also suffer heavy losses.

These elites will also flee here, and the east coast will also fall into chaos, and there will even be a wave of immigration to the inland areas.

That's the scariest thing.

It is also what America fears most.

It has to be said that although the Yankees are lax in their homeland defenses, they are only lax, not non-existent. The influx of talents from all over the world has given the Americans enough wealth.

As soon as the bombing ended, dozens of fighter jets flew in and attacked the bombing fleet.

Relying on their speed advantage, these fighters successfully shot down two of the bombers, but the remaining bombers took the opportunity to fly to an altitude of [-] meters, forcing the fighters to be unable to continue their attack.

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at the same time.

Everett.

Boeing's largest bomber assembly plant.

Compared with the slackness of the guards, the person in charge of the security of this factory is the army. This person acts cautiously. Even though there has never been a bombing situation in the United States, he still implemented the camouflage strategy perfectly to avoid the enemy's attack. aerial reconnaissance.

Under his work, the sky above the entire factory was disguised as a small town.

Streets, sidewalks, vegetation, fences, houses, and cars are all available. The only difference is the scaled down buildings. However, the detection technology during World War II, observed from the sky, does not show the slightest difference here.

Unfortunately.

The Americans' elaborate camouflage only deceived themselves.

The test runway, apron, maintenance facilities, and rail transportation next to the town all exposed the truth here, and the Germans naturally knew that there was an aircraft factory here.

It's just beyond the reach of the whip.

I even bought information about this factory from the 'warehouse' - it can assemble 17 b[-] bombers per month.

Now that there are bombers, naturally they will not let this place go.

Ten bombers pierced through the clouds and lowered to an altitude of 1000 to [-] meters. After dropping [-] tons of bombs, they flew away, leaving only the burning factory and the wreckage of the plane.

And here, because the Yankees were too confident, there were no fighter jets deployed around, so that none of the ten bombers were lost.

Still the same time.

Oak Ridge.

Sixty bombers pierced through the clouds and appeared in the sky together.

As the most important area in Manhattan, the factory where the centrifuge cluster is located and where the core raw materials are manufactured, the level of security here is extremely high. There are thousands of guards alone. Anyone who approaches and leaves must go through strict investigation.

Of course, the Americans with deep pockets and sufficient troops also deployed a large number of air defense forces around them.

just,

In order to maximize the surprise of the bombing, Kesselring made a detailed plan before the bombing to ensure that all formations started bombing at the same time.

As a result, although areas such as Oak Ridge have a strict air defense system, although the old German models are slow and the loud noise can be heard in advance from a long distance, the slack Yankee still failed to react in time.

Even when they saw a bomber piercing through the clouds, they thought it was one of their own, but they flew in the wrong place.It wasn't until I saw the bombs falling that I realized that it was the enemy bombers coming.

"This is an enemy bombing."

More than ten kilometers away from Oak Ridge, in an ordinary room, several young Chinese looked at the factory shrouded in smoke and explosions in the distance. One of them was dumbfounded and muttered to himself.

Although it claims to gather the top talents in the world, in this era, racial discrimination can be called the pinnacle, and the impure skin color makes them able to participate in core projects because of their excellent ability, but overall, they are excluded of.

Such as residence, for example, treatment, etc., and it is very inconspicuous.

"Ah··"

Beside him, another person wearing glasses sneered:
"It's a blessing in disguise for us."

Because of their skin color, they were excluded, away from the group of so-called white elites, and could only live in remote places. Now, those people were bombed, dormitories, and factories burned, but they survived in remote areas.

"really."

Obviously, everyone is centered on this person.

"Let's find a chance to go back."

The person suddenly changed the subject:
"It is said that there are many large-scale factories in the motherland. Our knowledge must be able to play a certain role."

"Just to my liking."

Everyone agreed.

"Just, how to go back?"

One of them looked at the person wearing glasses:

"We are watched very closely. The Americans will never allow us to return to China. My ex-brother, especially you, Master Carmen's most valued disciple and an assistant professor at Caltech, they will never let us go."

"We can ask the motherland for help."

The leader smiled.

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After a few minutes.

While the bombing of Oak Ridge, Manhattan, Boeing Aircraft Factory, McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Factory, Detroit Tank Factory, East Coast port cities, and East Coast warehouses continued.

The United States was bombed, and the news of the heavy losses reached the White House, and reached the ears of the giant in the wheelchair.

(End of this chapter)