Chapter 1237 Great News
Hersmann left the intelligence command center and returned to his office. His personal secretary Natalie was waiting there. Seeing Hersmann push the door open, she immediately called in advance to get through to the Chancellery hotline for him.
"It was Mr. Hitler himself who called," Natalie handed the phone to Hersmann and said with a smile, "From the tone, it sounds like great news."
"Great news?" Hersmann raised his eyebrows and understood what happened.
"Adolf?" Hersmann took the phone, "I'm Hersmann."
"Ludwig," Hitler's voice, almost laughing, came from the phone, "We won, this time we really won... I just received a call from Mussolini, he told me that the Americans agreed to accept all the peace terms, we won! The war is over! The United States of Europe is really going to be established now!"
It seems that the effect of the three atomic bombs exploding underwater is still very good! Hirschmann thought: But 500 billion European marks seems to be a little too little, at least 1 trillion, and the Canadian people must get rid of the colonial rule of American imperialism...
"That's great," Hirschmann thought about it, "but we can't cease fire now."
"Can't cease fire?" Hitler seemed a little surprised, "Ludwig, what else do you want? Do you want to increase the amount of reparations? This has nothing to do with the cease fire, right?"
"It's not a question of discussing the amount of reparations now." Hirschmann did not deny it. He said, "Adolf, what I mean is that we can't cease fire unconditionally. If the Americans want a cease fire, they must hand over the Avalon Peninsula."
The Avalon Peninsula is the most important part of Newfoundland Island. Churchill Naval Fortress and several large air force bases are built on the peninsula, and it also has several deep-water ports, among which St. John's Port is the largest port on Newfoundland Island.
If the European coalition forces can control Avalon Island, they can deploy three atomic bomber squadrons there, putting the most prosperous areas in the northeastern United States under the deterrence of German nuclear weapons.
"Of course we can't cease fire unconditionally," Hitler agreed with Hessmann's opinion, "If they are really sincere, they will definitely agree to our ceasefire conditions."
Herssmann smiled: "If they don't agree, we can also take the Avalon Peninsula, which is actually not a big deal."
"No trouble?" Hitler asked, "But the terrain there is quite dangerous."
"No problem, at least Churchill Naval Fortress will be occupied by us soon." Hessmann said.
"Really?" Hitler on the other end of the phone line didn't seem to believe it, "That's a very solid naval fortress... How are we going to occupy it? Use special forces?"
"No, not special forces, but Marshal Harold Alexander." Hessmann told Hitler, "He will find a way to take Churchill Naval Fortress, after all, it is a fortress belonging to the British Royal Navy."
After all, Newfoundland is a territory of the British Empire, and nominally does not even belong to Canada (historically, Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949), so the US military must pretend to respect the sovereignty of the British Empire while stationing. Therefore, the most important naval fortress on Newfoundland (built by Americans) was handed over to the British army. But now, the atomic bombs have exploded in Conception Bay, and the United States is ready to accept all the peace conditions proposed by Germany - this is equivalent to conditional surrender. What reason do the British soldiers guarding Churchill Fortress have not to abandon the dark and join the light? Even if they want to fight for Canada's freedom and democracy, Newfoundland is not part of the Dominion of Canada.
Moreover, the Germans still have atomic bombs to scare people. The British guarding Churchill Naval Fortress have no obligation to bear the atomic bombs for the Americans, right?
"Well," Hitler already understood Hersmann's idea, "then I will tell Mussolini this condition... Is this okay?"
"Okay," Hersmann immediately gave an affirmative answer, "Just say that the Avalon Peninsula is a guarantee of a ceasefire... Don't mention other demands for now, don't mention the matter of reparations. Now we should disarm them mentally, just like in 1918."
Hersmann meant to trick the United States into surrendering its guns first, and then slowly rectify them! As long as they can take the Avalon Peninsula and deploy the atomic bomber squadron there, what room do the Americans have to resist?
"Okay, okay, that's it!" Adolf Hitler hung up the phone, but he did not immediately dial the hotline with Mussolini, but called his personal secretary Martin Bormann in: "Send a telegram to the Dutch Standard Oil Company and tell them that they must hand over the Avalon Peninsula, otherwise... Hessman will also have a way to seize it. The cost of the ceasefire will be higher at that time!"
The Dutch Standard Oil Company is the Rockefeller family's asset in the Netherlands, mainly responsible for selling American petroleum products in the neutral Netherlands. However, after Kennedy visited the Roman Empire a while ago, a senior manager named Rockefeller arrived there, and also secretly purchased a confidential military high-power radio from Germany, and set up an antenna on the top of the rented building. The Dutch police and customs also turned a blind eye to the actions of the Standard Oil Company...
"What? You said the Germans want to take the Avalon Peninsula as a guarantee?"
The radio station inside the Standard Oil Company building and the antenna on the roof are indeed very useful. Just a few hours after Hitler and Herschmann spoke on the phone, Truman was already discussing peace issues with Kennedy in his office on the phone in Chicago.
"Yes, this may be a request of the German military. And Hitler also hinted that if we refuse, the German military can easily take the Avalon Peninsula."
"Easy?" The word "atomic bomb" suddenly flashed in President Truman's mind. "Are they going to use an atomic bomb to blow up the Churchill Naval Fortress?"
"I think so!" Kennedy told Truman in a very worried tone. "I just had a phone call with Dr. Oppenheimer. He also believes that the Germans' atomic bomb technology has made a breakthrough compared to 1944. They invested in Concei The power of the three atomic bombs in Pushkin Bay and the Bay of Fundy must have exceeded 100,000 tons, and even reached 200,000 tons.
If the Germans used this kind of atomic bomb to bomb the Churchill Naval Fortress, they should be able to level it to the ground! "
Because the three atomic bombs exploded in the Bay of Conception and the Bay of Fundy were all underwater explosions, and the momentum they displayed was very alarming. Even Oppenheimer made a mistake after receiving the preliminary report. judgment and overestimated the yield of the atomic bomb.
After hearing Kennedy's words, Truman's heart sank: "If that really happens, the officers and soldiers on the Avalon Peninsula will probably be frightened and go crazy. How can this war be fought? But I can't hand over the Avalon Peninsula right away. To the Germans... After all, the formal peace talks have not yet begun. In addition, the geographical location of the Avalon Peninsula is too important. I must take some time to convince the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph, tell Hitler what I mean. Hand over the Avalon Peninsula, but he must find a way to control Hersman and never drop another atomic bomb, because the war is over and there is no need to let innocent people die. "
Some of Truman's judgments were correct. The psychological problems caused by watching the atomic bomb explosion at close range were very serious, especially when the atomic bomb was dropped by the enemy.
Therefore, the US military on the Avalon Peninsula is now in panic, and the offensive against the German positions on the west bank of Concepcion Bay has long been stopped. Some troops of the U.S. 16th Armored Division who had previously occupied Grays Harbor simply abandoned the city and fled after the atomic bombing. They were almost scared crazy and lost their organization. The division commander and division personnel of the 16th Armored Division all Disappeared in the tsunami, the troops entering Grays Harbor and some of the troops near the port also lost their normal organization and were no longer an organized army.
Lieutenant General Walton Walker, commander of the 20th U.S. Army, was busy preventing these poor American officers and soldiers who were scared crazy by the atomic bomb from escaping from the front line.
Near dusk on April 29, Lieutenant General Walker's men finally blocked the fleeing troops on a road near Grays Harbor Airport. A U.S. Army colonel was grabbed by the military police of the 20th Army in front of Lieutenant General Walker. When the lieutenant general saw his military rank, he couldn't help but cursed: "Colonel, are you crazy? Do you know what you are doing? You are a colonel!"
"General, we are defeated," the colonel cried loudly when he saw Lieutenant General Walker. "The German weapons are too terrible, really terrible..."
"But you can't run away, you are a soldier, an American soldier!" Lieutenant General Walker felt very sympathetic to the colonel who looked wet and still shaking. Most of his troops encountered a tsunami in Grays Harbor... Those were 9 tsunami waves! It's perfectly normal to scare people crazy. But Walker is a soldier, and soldiers have their vocation.
The colonel continued to cry: "General, I don't want to die, I don't want to die yet... Please let me go to a military court. Please, don't let me go to the front line again. That is meaningless."
I don’t know if they were infected by his crying, but the two to three thousand exhausted American soldiers who were blocked by Lieutenant General Walker no longer ran away, but all sat on the ground and howled.
Just when Lieutenant General Walker didn't know what to do, one of his staff officers suddenly ran over breathlessly. Without even looking at the occasion, he yelled: "General, Lieutenant General Collins ordered us to immediately Dig bunkers...According to reliable intelligence, the Germans will use atomic bombs again tomorrow!"
"What? You want to throw an atomic bomb?" Lieutenant General Walker's calf also trembled. He also witnessed the power of the atomic bomb explosion during the day. Fortunately, this guy fell into the sea. If he was on the shore, the 20th Army might give it to him. It blew up.