Chapter 1238 Let's All Hide From the Atomic Bomb 1272 Everyone Flees when Disaster Strikes

The source of the news that the German army would use atomic bombs on the Avalon Peninsula was US President Truman!

After he finished talking to Kennedy on the phone, he immediately convened an emergency military meeting of the cabinet. At the beginning of the meeting, he first announced that he had learned through "secret channels" that Germany would use atomic bombs again on the Avalon Peninsula.

Since Truman's "secret intelligence" was confirmed last time, no one dared to take it lightly this time. Marshall immediately called the Army General Staff and asked them to give an order to the Northeast Command of the Allied Forces in North America: requiring the Allied officers and soldiers on the Avalon Peninsula to make all preparations for defense against atomic bomb bombing!

However, everyone knew that the Allied officers and soldiers on the Avalon Peninsula had no good way to defend against the German atomic bombs except digging pits! And the Germans could use more than just a few 200,000-ton atomic bombs on the Avalon Peninsula. They also had a powerful fleet sailing outside Conception Bay.

The US Navy has completely collapsed after the explosion in the Bay of Fundy. Two of the 10 Essex-class aircraft carriers of the 56th Task Force sank and six were seriously damaged. Twenty to thirty cruisers and destroyers sank, and more than twenty were seriously damaged. The entire task force has completely lost its combat effectiveness and is now dispersing and retreating to the Norfolk base.

As for the 11th Task Force, which was originally planned to reinforce Newfoundland, and the 57th Task Force, which was preparing to raid the Azores, they have now given up fighting and are retreating towards the Caribbean.

In other words, Newfoundland has become an isolated island! And it will soon be attacked by the overwhelmingly superior European Community Navy. Even if the Germans did not use atomic bombs to bomb the Churchill Naval Fortress, they could rely on battleships and missile ships to knock down the Churchill Fortress and open up the channel to Conception Bay.

In fact, shortly after the atomic bomb exploded in Conception Bay, the German S-100 torpedo boats, driven by naval officers and soldiers wearing full radiation protection suits, ventured into Conception Bay and attacked the remaining British ships. Fokker 636, which took off from the aircraft carrier, also joined the battle in Conception Bay with bombs. As of sunset on the 29th, the British fleet in Conception Bay had basically lost its combat capability, and the only force that could stop the German army from landing in the bay was the cannons of Churchill's naval fortress.

What is even more worrying is that these cannons that can defend Conception Bay are not directly controlled by the US military!

"Just now, I have instructed the Secretary of State to submit a peace request to Germany through the Roman Empire Embassy (currently relocated to Chicago), and I believe that a comprehensive ceasefire will be achieved soon..."

When Marshall returned to the conference room, President Truman was introducing the progress of the peace talks to cabinet members and military leaders - of course he could not tell everyone that he had been in direct contact with Hitler through secret channels, because this secret channel was not under the supervision of the United States and Congress and was illegal. So Truman only talked about the public progress of peace, that is, through contact with the Roman Empire Embassy in the United States, and then through Rome as an intermediary to seek peace with Germany.

Although this formal and public peacemaking channel will not put the president in a judicial crisis, it has the problem of insufficient flexibility and slow response. It is possible that the United States will miss the best time to seek peace - in fact, the United States has already missed the best time, and if it is delayed, the situation will only get worse.

In addition, Truman also learned through various channels that in Germany, the "peace advocate" Prime Minister Hitler was actually constrained by the "warmongering" German Junker military group, and also needed a channel that could avoid the sight of the Junker military group to directly contact the US President. This is also the reason why Truman took the risk of establishing a secret channel to contact Hitler.

Since it is a secret channel, Truman cannot disclose the content of the private agreement reached between him and Hitler at the cabinet military meeting. In this way, he will encounter great difficulties in fulfilling his promise to Hitler.

For example, now he cannot publicly say that surrendering the Avalon Peninsula is a prerequisite for achieving a ceasefire, because the ceasefire negotiations through public channels have not yet begun.

So Truman can only fulfill his promise to Hitler by directly intervening in combat command, which is also not in line with the rules.

"Since the ceasefire is about to be realized," Truman looked at Admiral Marshall, who had just finished a phone call with the Army General Staff and looked worried, "so we should avoid unnecessary casualties and withdraw the US ground forces on the Avalon Peninsula now."

"Mr. President..." Marshall was shocked when he heard this, "The Avalon Peninsula is only 1,800 kilometers away from New York. If we give up there, the Germans will have a base for launching an atomic bomb attack on New York."

"Admiral, I know how close the Avalon Peninsula is to New York." Truman said unhappily, "But can we defend the Avalon Peninsula? The German atomic bomb will soon raze the Churchill Naval Fortress to the ground, and then we will still lose the peninsula." He paused and said in an unusually gloomy tone, "But I doubt whether the British guarding the Churchill Fortress have the determination to take the atomic bomb for the United States? Colonel Donovan, what do you think?"

This is indeed a problem!

Marshall looked at Donovan, the director of the Office of Strategic Services. Donovan shook his head and said, "The British troops guarding the fortress were relatively reliable, but that was before the atomic bomb exploded..."

The atomic bomb can not only destroy Churchill's naval fortress (in fact, the Heisenberg device with a 20,000-ton equivalent does not have such power, but the British and American sides overestimated the power of the German atomic bomb because the scene of the underwater explosion of the atomic bomb was too big), but also destroyed the hope of winning and tying!

Now the United States is bound to lose, the only question is how much it will lose. The situation of the British (Canadians) who followed the United States to fight is even more desperate. Not only are they facing failure, but they may also become traitors to the country. Because they lost not only a world war, but also a war of succession.

If they don't want to be sinners of the country for the rest of their lives, it would be a good way out to surrender to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in time.

"Retreat from the Avalon Peninsula!" Truman saw that Marshall had nothing to say, so he simply made the decision himself, "This is my order, the Army Staff just needs to execute it!"

"Yes, sir." Marshall stood up, saluted Truman, then picked up his military cap and left the meeting room again to issue an order that was later considered to have accelerated the slide of the United States into the abyss.

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The tribal-class destroyer "Athabascan" on which Vice Admiral Fraser of the British Navy was riding was hiding behind Bell Island when the nuclear explosion occurred in Conception Bay, so it escaped.

However, the German atomic bomb still severely hit the psychology of all British officers and soldiers on the Avalon Peninsula, including Vice Admiral Fraser, and made them completely desperate.

The spirit of "destroying the enemy when you see it" that the British Royal Navy has always been proud of was also wiped out with the explosion of the atomic bomb. The ships on the sea that survived the nuclear explosion (including American torpedo boats incorporated into the Newfoundland Fleet) did not wait for Fraser's order, and all rushed to the nearest beach. Regardless of whether there was a port or not, they directly parked the ships on various mudflats, and then abandoned the ship and fled - there was no place to hide from the atomic bomb at sea, so they had better go ashore quickly!

Vice Admiral Fraser performed a little better. He finally prevented the Athabascan from running aground on the beach, but drove the warship into Portugal, the closest port to Churchill Naval Fortress. After getting off the ship, he asked his men to find a few cars and then headed straight to Churchill Naval Fortress.

When he arrived at the panicked Churchill Naval Fortress in a daze, he found that the fortress seemed to be empty! Where did the British soldiers who were supposed to be on duty outside the fortress go? Lieutenant General Fraser's car had no obstruction all the way, passed through several unmanned checkpoints, and was finally blocked at the entrance to the core area of ​​the fortress-because the gate of the core of the fortress was closed, and no one was on duty at the checkpoint outside the gate.

"What's going on? Where are the people? Where did everyone go?" Lieutenant General Fraser asked loudly, looking at the closed gate and the empty trenches, air defense positions, anti-tank gun positions and lookout posts around.

"Maybe they all went to hide from the atomic bomb?" Colonel Cook, Fraser's chief of staff, guessed the reason correctly.

The British troops at sea were afraid of the atomic bomb, and of course the British troops in the fortress were also afraid! Moreover, the hasty evacuation of the Allied Newfoundland Ground Force Command led by US Army Lieutenant General Collins from the fortress also severely hit the morale of the British troops in the fortress. Everyone believed that the Churchill Naval Fortress would be the next target of the atomic bomb.

Therefore, after the nuclear explosion in Conception Bay, all the British officers and soldiers originally stationed on the surface of the fortress hid in the core bunker underground to hide from the atomic bomb. Not only were the positions outside the fortress unguarded, but even the most important four twin-mounted 406mm armored turrets and the fortress radar station were empty.

It can be said that the Churchill Naval Fortress is now in an undefended state. If the Germans drop a company of paratroopers now, the fortress will change hands.

"It's so shameful. How can the soldiers of the British Empire be so afraid of death?" After figuring out the situation, Fraser was furious, but he couldn't do anything about those cowards of the British army who were hiding from the atomic bomb. Because he couldn't enter the fortress now, and his subordinates couldn't hear him when he wanted to give orders.

When he was angry, someone beside him suddenly shouted: "Air raid! Air raid!"

Fraser quickly raised his telescope to look at the dark sky - he wanted to see if it was the Me264 that dropped the atomic bomb, if it was, he would be dead. But he was stunned when he saw it. It turned out that there were three Short "Sunderland" seaplanes painted with the British Royal Navy markings in the sky.

Chapter 1272: Everyone Flies When Disaster Comes

Now it is the seaplanes of the British Royal Navy that are attacking the fortress of the British Royal Navy!

Vice Admiral Fraser looked at the Short "Sunderland" seaplanes circling in the air, and suddenly felt that it was not real. Because the anti-aircraft gun positions of the fortress were unmanned, there was no anti-aircraft firepower to stop the three Short "Sunderland" seaplanes from approaching the fortress. Several of Fraser's adjutants and staff rushed over to hold Fraser up and wanted to find a place to hide, but they were pushed away by the angry British Navy Vice Admiral.

"I'm not going anywhere, I'll let the British bombs kill me here!" Vice Admiral Fraser shouted out his "wish", but unfortunately the British bulletin in the sky did not carry a bomb, and what was dropped were pages of leaflets. The content of the leaflets was the edict of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom!

In the edict, the Queen of England ordered the "misguided" officers and soldiers of the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force stationed in Canada to immediately pledge allegiance to her and join the cause of liberating the Dominion of Canada. At the same time, the Queen also guaranteed that all British officers and soldiers who surrendered to her could retain their original military ranks and all honors, and would be properly resettled after the war, and their experience of being deceived and used by the American invaders would not be investigated.

In short, if they immediately abandon the dark and join the camp of Elizabeth II, they will all be good comrades of the British Empire.

If they refuse to join, Her Majesty's army will immediately land and eliminate these traitors of the British Empire!

After handing a mimeographed edict to his chief of staff, Colonel Cook, Lieutenant General Fraser smiled bitterly: "If we defeat Her Majesty's army, the Germans will probably drop an atomic bomb, right?"

"No, they won't." Colonel Cook shook his head, "Lieutenant General, if it is Her Majesty's army that landed on Newfoundland, then why should we fight them? Aren't we the British army?"

"But... Queen Elizabeth's throne is illegal." Lieutenant General Fraser seemed a little hesitant.

"Illegal?" Colonel Cook looked at Lieutenant General Fraser seriously, "We are soldiers and don't know much about the laws of the empire... The question of whether it is illegal or not should be decided by the Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain."

Yes! Lieutenant General Fraser nodded repeatedly. Colonel Cook was right! He was a general, not a judge, so how could he know whether the queen was illegal or not?

"Lord Simon, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, has never said that the Queen is illegal." Colonel Cook said confidently, "This shows that Her Majesty is the legitimate monarch of the British Empire!"

The Lord Chancellor of Great Britain that Colonel Cook was talking about was Viscount John Simon, who had been the British Foreign Secretary and was also one of the three giants of the Conservative Party. He happened to be the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain during the London Incident, and he did not run to Canada. As a result, he was caught by the Bolsheviks and was almost shot according to the authority of bourgeois reactionary law. Fortunately, Queen Elizabeth's guards were able to fight and rescued him in time. After being rescued, he continued to serve as the Lord Chancellor and Viscount of Great Britain.

How could such a Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, whose life was saved by Queen Elizabeth, dare to say that the Queen is illegal?

Fraser nodded vigorously: "Yes! Her Majesty is the legitimate monarch, and we must stand on the side of the legitimate monarch."

Speaking of this, he looked up at the closed gate of the fortress-he couldn't enter the fortress now, so wouldn't it be impossible to surrender?

At this time, one of his adjutants had found a way to get in. It turned out that the man found a phone in the checkpoint outside the gate of the core area of ​​the fortress, and the phone was connected, directly contacting the deputy commander who stayed in the fortress.

"Damn it, why is there no garrison in the upper level of the fortress?" Fraser took the phone from the adjutant and did not say that he was ready to abandon the dark and join the light, but directly scolded him.

Even if you want to surrender, someone has to guard the fortress, right? Otherwise, surrendering will not be welcomed.

"Sir, I've asked someone to open the door for you. Please come down quickly... The Germans are about to drop an atomic bomb!"

"What?" Fraser was shocked when he heard the deputy commander's report. "Who said that? Is this a rumor?"

"No, it's not a rumor. It was said by the Allied Newfoundland Command! The Germans are going to bomb the Avalon Peninsula with an atomic bomb, so the Americans have begun to withdraw from the Avalon Peninsula..."

"What? What?" Fraser was even more surprised this time. "The Americans ran away? They ran away?"

"Yes! Now we are the only ones left on the Avalon Peninsula."

"Lieutenant General," Colonel Cook was right next to Fraser and could hear the voice coming from the receiver. He interrupted at this time, "When we came from Portugal Port just now, we didn't see a single American soldier, and we didn't see any Americans in Portugal Port..."

Fraser thought about it, and it was indeed the case. He didn't see any Americans along the way, which meant that the Americans ran away and left the British to eat the atomic bomb!

This is too shameless, absolutely not!

Thinking of this, Fraser immediately gave an order over the phone: "Send someone to open the door for me quickly, and prepare a speedboat and a white flag."

"White flag? Lieutenant General, what are you going to do?"

"What?" Fraser snorted, "Of course I'm standing on the right side... If you don't want to be hit by an atomic bomb, you have to stand on the right side! Do you understand?"

After that, Fraser hung up the phone and said to Colonel Cook: "When the sun rises tomorrow, you will take a speedboat with a white flag to Conception Bay to see if you can meet the German speedboat. If you meet it, say that you are an envoy sent by the Churchill Naval Fortress to see Marshal Alexander."

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While the British troops in the Churchill Naval Fortress were busy re-forming, on the west bank of Conception Bay, German Airborne Lieutenant Brandt was leading his paratrooper platoon, which had only a dozen or so people left, to chase the fleeing American armored forces!

That's right, German paratroopers armed with FG42 paratrooper rifles and Panzerfaust grenade launchers are now chasing M26 tanks and M4A3 tanks!

Although the Americans' M26 and M4A3 can easily crush the pursuers to death with their tracks as long as they are turned over. But the Germans have atomic bombs! When that thing is dropped, it can explode a "5,000-meter" high water wall (actually only 2,000 meters, but the frightened American officers and soldiers thought that the water wall was as high as 5,000 meters), and it can also create several waves. If a big tsunami fell on my head, I wouldn't even be able to find ashes.

So once the order to retreat was given, not even Lieutenant General Walker could stop the troops from crumbling and fleeing. This was probably a real defeat, right?

When the morale of the army completely collapsed and the officers and soldiers lost their fighting spirit, the armored soldiers operating tanks and armored vehicles were no longer willing to engage in firefights with the armored soldiers who only had light weapons.

Going west from the Grays Harbor Airport, abandoned vehicles and weapons can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road. Some of the vehicles only had minor malfunctions, while others simply ran out of fuel - the U.S. military on Newfoundland was not at all Short of fuel, the 20th Army commanded by Lieutenant General Walker also brought a long fuel convoy to the battlefield. In theory, you only need to wait a short time before a tanker truck comes to refuel the tank or other vehicle.

But now the American soldiers who are frightened by the atomic bomb have fallen into chaos, fearing that they will be killed by the atomic bomb if they run slower.

However, this kind of pursuit of drowned dogs could not last long. At three or four o'clock in the morning on the 30th, the US military, which had retreated more than ten kilometers south from Grays Harbor Airport, finally stopped retreating, and the U.S. troops who were pursuing them finally stopped retreating. The German paratroopers did not dare to go head-to-head with the armored troops, so they just gave up.

The reason that Lieutenant General Walton Walker's troops stopped retreating was not that they remembered the responsibility and honor of an American soldier, but that there was a serious traffic jam.

It turned out that the U.S. military convoys withdrawing from various parts of the Avalon Peninsula flooded onto the road near the isthmus, resulting in the road being blocked.

Lieutenant General Collins' command column was also blocked on the road near the small town of Whitburn. At about 5 o'clock in the morning on the 30th, he saw Walton in a panic on the road leading to the isthmus to the west of the town. .Walker.

"Why are you ordering a retreat?" Lieutenant General Walker asked angrily. "That damn atomic bomb has already panicked people. Retreating at this time can easily cause the troops to collapse!"

Lieutenant General Walker's anger was justified. The troops witnessed the explosion of atomic bombs in the water, and some troops were hit by tsunamis. Their morale had long been shaken. In this case, the most important thing is to stabilize the morale of the troops rather than retreating headlessly. If you retreat blindly when morale collapses, it is extremely easy to cause a rout. These principles are almost common sense!

Lieutenant General Collins also looked unlucky. The victory he was about to win was blown away by three German atomic bombs. What's worse is that the fourth German atomic bomb is likely to hit his head directly.

"Walton," Lieutenant General Collins sighed, "This is an order from above, an order from the North American Eastern Theater Command... He also said," He looked around and saw that they were his and Lieutenant General Walker's adjutants. Then he continued, "It also said that Germany will drop atomic bombs on the Avalon Peninsula tomorrow, and may drop two more."

The intelligence obtained by Lieutenant General Collins did not include any information about how many bombs to throw, but the commander who was an elite staff officer of the U.S. Army was very good at guessing. He believed that the two atomic bombs dropped on the Bay of Fundy were originally intended to be dropped on the Avalon Peninsula, but the plan was temporarily changed only because the Germans discovered Task Force 56...

"Throw two more?" Lieutenant General Walker took a breath, "Is the intelligence reliable?"

Lieutenant General Collins nodded and said, "Didn't we get the news before today's atomic bomb attack? Otherwise, our losses would probably be even greater, right? So we'd better retreat quickly."