Chapter 46: The Last Judgment (7)
Captain Patrick felt that he was too depressed to do anything, and he was at first stunned, and then ecstatic that the other side was obviously not many in number, only a platoon of troops.
In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, he instructed the entire C Company of nearly 200 men to spread out from the left and right flanks to outflank him, and tried to surround and force the opponent to surrender, and he had explained that he wanted to understand the overall situation and wipe out the rest of the party. But what makes people dumbfounded is that although the number of opponents is small, their combat effectiveness is extremely terrifying, and at the moment when the encounter broke out, they blocked their left flank with Browning heavy machine guns, and then a bunch of people launched a counterattack from the right flank, submachine guns, Garand rifles and even grenades smashed over without money, relying on the impact of the Dodge truck to tear a hole and run.
What made him even more angry was that during the attack, the opponent did not hesitate to fire with all his might, while tearing his throat and shouting: "Your own people, your own people, which part of you don't kill each other"
The soldiers could not be completely indifferent to this, and often turned their heads to look at the officers, suggesting with their eyes whether they were really mistaken? If Patrick hadn't known that there was a real enemy on the other side, he would have almost gotten caught fire at first. Moreover, with such amazing combat effectiveness, not to mention the third-line National Guard Division on alert in the rear, even the regular front-line US military can't do it, right?
Even so, his heart was like a rock, he still couldn't beat his opponent, and he was so anxious that he kept using his walkie-talkie to call other friendly troops to come up and reinforce as soon as possible, and the sun was beginning to approach the setting of the mountain, as long as it was dark, it would be difficult to catch this group of people again.
Originally, although the scene was ugly, the morale could barely be maintained, and the soldiers of Company C constantly attacked, not to defeat the opponent, but to try to bite, but when the rocket appeared, the morale of the entire company suddenly collapsed.
"Oh God, what is this!"
"Hahahaha, this is the Last Judgment!"
The hunky Otoscolzny manipulated Browning to fire as hard as he could, patiently searching for a gap to break through. A mere company of the National Guard was not in his eyes, and an opponent lacking heavy weapons and combat experience was as ineffective as a boy soldier in the eyes of a battle-hardened commando. When firing at close range, the accuracy of the commando using the Garand rifle at a distance of 200 meters is basically one out of 3 shots, and the opponent has not had many effective hits so far. The reason why we patiently exchange fire with our opponents while constantly delaying time is to wait for better opportunities.
However, the enemy can get a steady stream of reinforcements, and the commandos only have more than 30 people at present, so it is unrealistic to fight a protracted war, and at such a critical moment, the rocket volley gave the commandos great courage who said that we were fighting alone, no, the Führer's reinforcements came!
The rocket roared, drew a shining trajectory from the air, and aimed at the target and volleyed down, although the circular probability error of this batch of V4 missiles has been improved many times, but it is still not small, and the warhead that is good finally makes up for the lack of accuracy. According to the pre-design, these rockets are all aimed at Oak Ridge, but the landing point is completely uncontrolled, and if you are unlucky, it is possible to hit yourself directly on the head.
However, Otto's luck was apparently not so bad, and at least 80% of the first 24 rockets fell within a 10-kilometer radius of Oak Ridge, and about 25% of them landed within 1 kilometer of Oak Ridge's critical facilities and departments, followed by violent explosions and skyrocketing fires.
"Boom", "boom", "boom", the sound of violent explosions is endless, blooming brilliant and colorful colors, it turns out that the Führer said that this is what smoke!
In order to improve the accuracy of the landing point of ballistic rockets, in addition to working gyroscopes and control systems, Germany has also tried to use the positioning system for secondary correction, but for ballistic missiles with terminal speeds as high as Mach 5, this technical difficulty is not ordinarily large, and high-speed warheads will form a protective layer of electric ions in the air, not to mention that it is simply unrealistic to accept instructions and adjust attitudes, and it is basically impossible to correctly receive radio signals.
In fact, there is indeed a technology for flexible orbit change according to the signal, but in the era of Hoffman's crossing, it is also high-tech, and generally there is a chance in the outer space layer, the terminal speed and technical difficulty of the rocket before landing are not even considered, the so-called TMDMD ballistic missile defense system also uses this principle that cannot be corrected, as long as the data is mastered, it is relatively easy to calculate the opponent's trajectory and landing point, which is the use of the anti-missile system.
However, for cruise missiles with slow speed and subsonic speed, it is much easier to make a second correction according to radio commands, and Germany has successfully used it many times, relying on the guidance of offshore submarines, the landing accuracy of the V3 rocket can reach the level of 12 kilometers, which is a remarkable high hit rate for a rocket in the 40s!
Now, all of these rockets have turned into brilliant and colorful meteors that pierce the sky and head straight for Oak Ridge.
"Sir!"
"Sir!"
The telephone in the command room rang one after another, but General Jefferson's eyes were full of despair, even if the radar or the naked eye caught that flash of signal, what was the use? It wasn't something he could defend against at all, and he recognized what it was at first glance when he saw that splash of Changhong.
"America is occupied?"
"The Germans put the firing positions on the east coast?"
"Did the Germans land on the east coast?" Richardson's mouth opened in surprise, "Tennessee is more than 600 kilometers from the East Coast!" ”
The panicked voice resounded throughout the command room, and everyone had a sense of imminent disaster, and now it seems that the team of agents with only a few dozen people is not so important, even if they let them blow up, how many can they blow up? Undefensible rockets are deadly threats!
"Immediately telegraphed to Washington that Oak Ridge was under rocket attack, and the current situation is unknown, judging by the trajectory, it is coming from the east." Jefferson was the first to recover from the shock, "Ask the core, do you need our help?" ”
With a bang, the door of the conference room of the Joint Staff Committee was slammed open by the staff officers, and MacArthur, Nimitz, Clark, and others, who were discussing the follow-up battle, all stood up in surprise.
"What's going on?"
"Oak Ridge Oak Ridge"
"What happened to Oak Ridge?"
"Attacked by Germany!"
"Attack?" Clark frowned, "Where is this place?" ”
"Tennessee."
"What are the Germans doing so far? How many planes do they have? What about radar stations! Spatz yelled, "Damn, I didn't get any warning!" ”
"It's not an airplane, it's a rocket!"
Everyone's hearts sank suddenly, and then the eyes of Admiral King and Marshall were full of horror,
"Get out!" This was Admiral King's statement.
"Get the phone in!" These are Marshall's words.
The staff officer who reported the news was stunned, not knowing who to listen to.
"Bastard, didn't you hear me when I let you out?" Admiral Jin slammed the table, "Lieutenant General and above officers stay, and the rest will go out for the time being!" Telegraph to Oak Ridge, rescue immediately! Protect the site! ”
"What the hell is going on?" Watching the other staff officers and officers retreat in turn, Spruance, Clark, and Spatz all asked in confusion, Admiral King's reaction just now was really too strange.
"My heart is beating hard, George, you name it."
Marshall glanced at everyone and said with difficulty: "Originally, this project was absolutely secret, and it should not be disclosed to you according to your level, but now that the Germans are attacking, it means that they have extremely top-secret information." ”
"What's the news?"
"Manhattan Project!"
"Our rocket project?" Spruance guessed.
"No, it's an atomic bomb that is more powerful than a rocket!" Marshall gasped, and his emotions were a little uncontrollable all of a sudden, "The people who know the news are only about 20 people so far, all of them are the most important figures in the military and political circles, and even General Douglas only recently learned about it." ”
MacArthur nodded, and after he took over as Chief of the Army Staff, he finally knew the whole story about the Manhattan Project.
After listening to Marshall's briefest introduction, Clark nodded involuntarily: No wonder General MacArthur was relatively tough in formulating the battle plan and the overall strategy, he didn't understand where this "lost self-confidence" came from, and now finding the root cause of this big bomb gave the big men a lot of courage.
Thinking of Dewey and Dulles's attitudes, he finally had a sense of God, it seems that this is the hole card that the president has always relied on, right?
:,,!!