Great time travel

Chapter 92, Nuclear Explosion Concerto
If we say that the prelude to the First World War was a series of mobilizations among the participating countries; the prelude to the Second World War was a series of surprise attacks among the participating countries; then the prelude to the Third World War is A series of nuclear explosions between the warring nations.

On the whole, each time is more cruel, more despicable, and more terrifying each time.

However, this is the only way to sublimate the art of war, and it is also the inevitable course of the development of human civilization.

——The so-called civilization eternally demonstrates the barbaric war, and the barbaric war eternally carries the so-called civilization.

Don't forget that war is the catalyst and accelerator of human civilization, the collision and wrestling of the highest human wisdom, and the most magnificent and magnificent group activity of human beings. Heroes and epics, blood and honor, civilization and progress are all here. Live forever in the collision of blood and fire!

Strictly speaking, the history of human beings is almost a history of wars. Since the barbaric era of drinking blood hundreds of thousands of years ago, the gene for violence has been buried in our blood—in order to survive, the early primitive humans Fight with wild animals and fight with nature.Then, for the survival of the ethnic group and civilization, the war for resources began again between human beings.Evolving from primitive society to slave society, from slave society to feudal society and capitalist society, human desires are endless, and they snatch everything of value with infinite greed.From ignorant chiefs attacking other tribes to capture slaves and build palaces for their own enjoyment, to ancient kings launching large-scale wars to massacre cities and countries and looting population and wealth, and then to imperialist powers fighting each other to carve up the territory of the earth, human civilization is in blood and blood. Stumbling forward under the baptism of fire.

In the long history of mankind, war is a fierce collision between different civilizations and a violent exchange between various nations.It is the terminator of civilization, but also the creator of civilization.Countless great nations have risen in the midst of blood and fire, and then perished in the flames of war and slaughter.

After all, we live in a world where the strong are respected, and the most intuitive way for the strong to show their strength to the weak is always war!
——The fundamental basis for Westerners to conquer and rule the world has never been slogans like democracy and freedom, but unrivaled violence!
Therefore, as a social phenomenon, war has accompanied the occurrence and development of human society until now, and it will continue to exist in the foreseeable future.Although war can damage or even destroy civilization, it is also the most effective way to promote the progress of civilization.

No matter how much modern people hate war and love peace, war is still an inseparable part of human history, and it will still come to this world one after another. As long as the history of human civilization continues, the blood and fire of war It will never end.

A civilization that is too fearful of war is a cowardly civilization, and a civilization that is too bloodthirsty and warlike is a civilization that destroys itself.Only by skillfully balancing the ratio of war and peace, and successfully coordinating the rhythm of construction and destruction, can one become the final winner in the competition of civilizations.

In short, the smoke of World War II has not been blown away by the breeze of peace, and the mushroom cloud of World War III has plunged all mankind into a deeper nightmare...

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Fortress of Gibraltar, Iberian Peninsula
As a battleground for guarding the exit of the Mediterranean Sea, since defeating Spain and seizing Gibraltar, the British have spared no effort and spent huge sums of money to construct this huge reef protruding from the sea, making it the strongest in Europe. fortress.

By the time of World War II, the whole of Gibraltar had been fortified. The British filled this huge coastal rock with various coastal forts, bunkers and machine gun positions. More than 150 coastal artillery were installed on an area of ​​two square kilometers. At the same time, the entire rock The middle was hollowed out like an ant's nest, and the top cover was reinforced with reinforced concrete, which could easily withstand a direct hit from a one-ton aerial bomb, and its defense strength was even higher than that of the Maginot Line.

Moreover, the terrain around Gibraltar is rugged, and there are basically no flat beaches for landing. The coastline is full of cliffs and densely covered with layers of artillery fortifications and mine nets. It's hard for SEALs to do that.In addition, the British army also stored enough food for ten years and ammunition for three years in the tunnel fortifications in Gibraltar to prepare for long-term and protracted operations.

Relying on this fortress of Gibraltar that has been painstakingly managed for more than [-] years, even after the French and Spanish battlefields were defeated one after another, the remaining [-] British expeditionary forces still gritted their teeth and regrouped, and jointly withdrew from the remnants of General Franco in Madrid. With its back against the Fortress of Gibraltar, it once again set up a battle in the Andalusia region of southern Spain, vowing to preserve the last sense of existence of the British Empire on the European continent-according to the optimistic plan of the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Fortress of Gibraltar will become a stranglehold. Meat machine, let the European Bolshevik forces bleed out here.

However, even Gibraltar, the number one fortress in Europe, is still as fragile as a paper model in the face of the atomic bomb.

——The way the Soviet Red Army attacked Gibraltar was still as simple and crude as usual: there is no fortress in this world that cannot be dealt with by one nuclear bomb. On October [-], the day the Soviet Union officially declared war on the United States and Britain, the Soviet Strategic Air Force organized a large-scale bomber fleet to raid Gibraltar and dropped a [-]-ton atomic bomb over the fortress...

As a result, in the rising mushroom cloud, Gibraltar's famous white cliff was blown into a large crater, and the British destroyer formation and submarine force stationed here were instantly wiped out.And those fortifications on the mountain rocks that were densely packed like honeycombs also turned into melted wax figures in the high temperature of the nuclear explosion.

Although relying on the solid tunnels built for many years and buried deep in the ground, even if they were directly hit by an atomic bomb, many British defenders guarding the fortress of Gibraltar managed to survive.But the problem is that after the nuclear explosion and radiation pollution, the entire Gibraltar area has become a nuclear radiation zone in a short period of time, and it is no longer suitable for human survival-if the British army still insists on defending the Gibraltar fortress, then There is no need for the Soviet Red Army to waste a lot of ammunition. The pervasive radiation sickness alone can quickly collapse the defenders...

And according to the publicity of the Soviets, another more powerful atomic bomb will be dropped over the fortress of Gibraltar next month!
All of a sudden, the morale of the British army on the Iberian Peninsula plummeted to freezing point - after all, no matter how tough the steel and iron frame is, it cannot withstand the destructive power of the atomic bomb explosion... and the leader of the Spanish reactionary regime, Franco The general, who had just assembled some troops in the port of Cadiz, planned to use the opportunity of the Madrid nuclear explosion to launch a counterattack.However, as the mushroom cloud in Gibraltar rose, the counterattack had to end without a problem.

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Zurich Switzerland
As time passed, the blinding glare of the mushroom cloud of nuclear explosions gradually faded, and the deadly heat wave gradually cooled.

Looking through the billowing smoke, Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland, the famous financial city and the city of watches and clocks, and one of the safest, richest and highest living standard cities in Europe, has been destroyed by the atomic bomb Unrecognizable.The ancient bell towers and gorgeous buildings were all razed to the ground in the nuclear explosion, and half-naked corpses smoking thick smoke can be seen everywhere on the remaining streets.Parts of the city were reduced to nothing, others were left in rubble, while the rest of the neighborhood was ablaze.The surviving Swiss fled crying in the flames. In order to relieve the pain of the burns, they subconsciously opened their arms, and there were long rolls of burnt skin hanging under their arms, which was really indescribably terrifying.

——Since the war between the Soviet Union and Switzerland, relying on steep mountains, rugged terrain, strong fortifications, and ordnance and ammunition hoarded before the war, the brave Swiss mountain people once successfully blocked the Soviet Red Army and "Red Europe" "The offensive of the coalition forces.

Although the Soviet Air Force quickly wiped out the old Swiss planes, it firmly grasped the air supremacy of the Swiss battlefield, and bombarded every major town in Switzerland every day.But relying on the high mountains all over the country, as well as carefully camouflaged forts and defense tunnels hidden deep underground, the Swiss were still able to fight tenaciously, and at the same time sent guerrillas to continuously harass the Red Army's logistical supply lines.

At first glance, it seems that the Swiss battlefield this year is likely to become a quagmire similar to the Afghan war in later generations.

However, Stalin at this time is not the Brezhnev of later generations. He has never been afraid of throwing out all the nuclear bombs in his hand, let alone directly gaining his notoriety in the world. Already a bloodthirsty tyrant on par with Hitler!
As a result, Zurich, where hundreds of banks gathered, became the first sacrifice of the Soviet atomic bomb: the bright mushroom cloud that pierced the sky did not gradually dissipate until two hours after the nuclear explosion. Unfortunately, he died at that time.When those survivors who were lucky enough not to die directly from the nuclear explosion walked out of the underground air-raid bunker with their hearts broken, and looked at their homes that had been razed to the ground in disbelief, the sky full of various radioactive dust fell again. The turbid "black rain" left gray marks on the surviving citizens of Zurich.

—It is clear that thousands of Swiss will die of radiation sickness in the next few days and months after the rain.

At the same time, the Soviet Union also publicly notified the Swiss government that this was only the first nuclear strike against Switzerland.If the Swiss government continues to be obsessed with refusing to surrender unconditionally, then more nuclear bombs will follow. 48 hours later, due to the delay in receiving the unconditional surrender announcement from the Swiss government, the second atomic bomb was dropped over the Swiss capital Bern. There was a bang, and then about [-] Swiss people died... This is only the data calculated on the spot. Because of the radiation pollution, more people will definitely die in the future.

At this point, the Swiss have already broken their backbones - Switzerland during World War II was only a small country with a population of 500 million, and in just a few months of war, Switzerland had already wiped out [-]% of the country's population One, most of them are young and middle-aged men who are the main labor force!
If the fighting continues, I am afraid that the entire society will collapse, and the old will have nothing to support, and the young will have nothing to support.

On October [-], the Swiss government, which had moved to Geneva, issued a telegram announcing a cessation of resistance across the country and an unconditional surrender to the Soviet Red Army.

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England, Scotland, Scapa Flow

The most famous wartime anchorage of the British Navy in modern times is a semi-enclosed waters located in the northernmost part of Scotland, England, in the Orkney Islands. It consists of the main island, Hoy Island, South Rhonesay Island and a dry Surrounded by small islands, it is a good natural bay, about 24 kilometers long, 13 kilometers wide, and covers an area of ​​130 square kilometers.There are 3 waterways leading to the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.Since the era of Viking invasions in the Middle Ages, Scapa Flow has always been an area where warships frequently entered and exited. In the First and Second World Wars, the British Royal Navy also guarded the North Sea.

During the most prosperous period of the British Grand Fleet during World War I, Scapa Flow once gathered more than 30 battleships and hundreds of other ships. The appearance of Seven Seas Invincible Hand.However, at this moment, the essence of the British Grand Fleet has been gradually withered in the flames of war, the speed of replenishing ships is far behind the consumption, and there are very few surviving capital ships.

Last summer, in order to face the Soviet Red Navy rushing out of the Baltic Sea, the Royal Navy fleet in Scapa Flow was dispatched for the last time. Although it successfully defeated the Soviet fleet off the coast of the Netherlands, it was hit by two Soviet atomic bombs in a row. Bombardment... During this nuclear catastrophe, the total tonnage of the ships sunk by the British Royal Navy was as high as [-] tons.After the remaining ships struggled and barely retreated to Scapa Flow, after inspection by relevant experts, they found even more desperately that, except for a few destroyers that were far away from the explosion center at that time, almost all the remaining surviving ships were severely damaged. For radioactive contamination, at least three months of decontamination operations are required before resuming active service.Some of the heavily polluted ships were simply judged to be abandoned, or even unable to be dismantled and returned to the furnace, because the hull steel has become a source of radiation pollution...

To make matters worse, the Royal Navy not only destroyed a large number of ships, but also suffered heavy losses in personnel—the crew of all ships participating in the battle showed symptoms of radiation sickness on a large scale, and with the medical capabilities of this era, even the slightest degree of radiation disease, the actual cure rate is still pitifully low.

And the navy is a highly specialized army, which can only be supplemented by navigating schools and merchant sailors. It is not like the army, which just grabs some strong men and can go into battle after two weeks of emergency training—— Although Britain used to have the world's largest merchant fleet and the most skilled sailors, after several consecutive years of world wars, all of these capitals have been almost exhausted.In this way, after the nuclear explosion, the Royal Navy was short of both ships and men, which was a miserable scene of misery and gloom.
As a result, for a long period of time, Britain almost fell into a catastrophic situation with no sea defense.

However, although they suffered such devastating damage from the nuclear explosion off the coast of the Netherlands, after retreating to Scapa Flow to recuperate and operate in a dismal manner for a year, with the successive launching of several new ships into service, and several batches of With the recruitment of new recruits, the fleet gradually regained some vitality.A series of battleships such as the "Howe" battleship, the "Anson" battleship, and the "Formidable" fleet aircraft carrier that were once paralyzed due to radiation pollution, after large-scale renovations and repeated decontamination operations, they are finally able to be put back into use.

With the gradual recovery of combat effectiveness, the large fleet, which had been dormant for a year, no longer hid in Scapa Flow to install ostriches, but restarted a series of small-scale military operations.Although London's wartime cabinet did not dare to use this limited capital to go deep into the Baltic Sea and go straight to Leningrad, nor did it have the courage to go around the entire Scandinavian Peninsula and expedition to Murmansk, but organized a cruiser fleet It is still easy to fight on the merchant shipping routes in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea, or occasionally sneak attack on the coastal ports of Norway and Denmark.

However, no one expected that the second destruction of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet had already entered the countdown...

This autumn, the North Atlantic is extremely cold, as if the warm Gulf Stream that brings warm climate to the whole of Europe has suddenly stopped. Although winter has not yet officially entered, the surrounding area of ​​Scapa Flow is already extremely cold. In the north of the Orkney Islands On the Norwegian Sea, there was even a light snowfall.

At this time, a British coast guard patrol ship with a displacement of more than 200 tons was cleaving the waves in the rough Norwegian sea and performing patrol missions.

In fact, in the outer waters of the military port, routine cruise missions like this should logically be assigned to destroyers.But now that the Royal Navy has suffered repeated heavy losses and has to undertake heavy escort missions, it has to allocate ships to the Far East to participate in the colonial war. The number of destroyers left in the mainland is really not enough, so they can only serve as combat missions.As for these routine patrols and guards, we can only try to collect some messy ships to make up the number.

Overall, it's a tiresome chore.Even in good weather with clear skies, the air and sea water are still icy cold. In bad weather, snowflakes and waves will mix into ice particles, making people and the ship feel like they are in the world of ice monsters. Except for the chimney, which is covered with ice shells and covered with icicles... The living environment of a boat of two to three hundred tons like this is very bad. Although there are stoves in some cabins for heating, in order to prevent the coal stove from burning In case of sufficient carbon monoxide (gas) poisoning, portholes or doors need to be ventilated, which greatly reduces the heating effect.What's more terrible is that because skilled sailors have been conscripted onto warships, the guys driving these patrol boats are basically rookies who are not familiar with the sea. , Power outages, getting lost and hitting rocks are all common occurrences, which make the captains have to jump all day long.Because of nervous tension, cold and fatigue, some captains even need morphine to sleep.

The captain of the current coast guard patrol boat, after dealing with a lot of trouble exhaustedly, just injected himself with a shot of morphine to get a good night's sleep.Unexpectedly, before his head touched the pillow, he was dragged up by the panic-stricken first officer, "...Captain! There's a plane!"

——It is naturally not one or two reconnaissance planes or lost fighter jets that can make Mr. Chief Officer panic like this, but a huge bomber fleet overwhelming the sky.Although from the misty sea, even with a telescope in hand, the aircraft and badges above the altitude of [-] meters cannot be distinguished-that is to say, the identity of the other party cannot be confirmed, but just looking at their heading and posture, It is enough to make people feel that the visitor is not good!

"...This is very likely...the bomber fleet of the Soviets! Hell, why didn't they find it on the radar at all?"

The captain shook his head against the sea breeze, trying to dispel the drowsiness caused by the morphine injection, "...Call the police quickly!"

However, it was an embarrassing voice that answered him: "...Captain, our radio and radar have long been damaged by wind and waves"

So the poor old patrol boat had to turn around, burn the boilers to the limit, and head for Scapa Flow at a top speed of twenty knots-at which speed, by the time it reached Scapa Flow, It is estimated that the Soviet aircraft had already finished bombing and went back to work.The only hope of sending out an early warning message is to try their luck to see if they can meet another ship with a good radio halfway... Unfortunately, until about half an hour later, they did not meet another ship. A boat, but saw a mushroom cloud rising from the far end of the horizon...

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——Although the anti-aircraft artillery units and aviation units in Scapa Flow fought extremely tenaciously in the defensive battle, and the British shore-based aviation units in Scotland also rushed to the rescue, but for horizontal bombing from an altitude of [-] meters, this era is fundamental No country is immune to dripping water.

According to the standards of World War II, in the face of a strategic bombing of this scale, it is a great success for the defending side to be able to shoot down a quarter of the bombers. It is simply a dream to prevent a bomb from falling on their own heads— ——If it was an ordinary bomb, it would be fine to hit a few, and it was very likely that it would not be hit directly, but just missed.But if it's an atomic bomb... Does a nuclear strike also have the concept of near miss?
In short, although the Soviet Air Force paid a certain price, dozens of planes turned into balls of flames and fell into the sea, but God did not favor the British after all. The Soviets broke through the siege of the British planes and successfully moved towards Scarpa An atomic bomb was dropped on Bay.

——Next, the British Royal Navy's large fleet anchored in Scapa Flow ushered in its own doomsday...

It was the same as the last battle in the Dutch sea.This time the Scapa Flow nuclear explosion also occurred on the sea.At the moment of the detonation of the nuclear bomb, a rapidly expanding fireball appeared at the detonation point on the water surface, and produced a supersonic terrifying shock wave underwater, like the palm of a Titan, instantly tearing the keel of the nearby parked ship into pieces Fragments!At the same time, the strong flash of the nuclear explosion immediately ignited the cables and flags on the mast, roasted the radar antenna into a mass of molten metal garbage, and burned the eyes of a large number of naval officers and soldiers, and then the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, It directly smashed the porthole glass and shot close to the cabin.The crushed glass slag and scrap copper and rotten iron were like bullets, hitting the faces and bodies of the officers and soldiers on board fiercely, piercing their bodies like a sieve, and the following light radiation, heat radiation and radioactive radiation , slaughter them all.

On the other hand, when the underwater shock wave created by the nuclear explosion in Scapa Flow spread outward, the color of the sea water became darker, just like the spread of oil pollution at sea; and the sea level immediately after the shock wave changed instantly. It becomes a layer of white foam——because the sound transmission speed of water is five times faster than that of air, when the shock wave spreads underwater at high speed, the sea surface behind it is quickly dyed white, just like a thin layer of white surface going outward at high speed on the sea extend.

——Although such a scene is indeed quite strange, it is a purgatory spectacle that brings death and destruction!

At the same time, the bubbles caused by the nuclear explosion directly penetrated the seawater and hit the seabed, blasting a shocking crater on the seabed.The high temperature caused by the nuclear explosion instantly atomized millions of tons of seawater, spraying it into the air in a dome shape.And formed a terrifying water wall with a height of thousands of meters and a thickness of nearly [-] meters, like a man-made tsunami, centered on the explosion point of a nuclear bomb, surrounded by a loud explosion-like sound, sweeping across the semi-enclosed waters of Scapa Flow in an instant !
For a moment, the entire Scapa Flow anchorage seemed to be a boiling cauldron, and the warship became rice grains and peas jumping in the boiling water... The shock wave generated by the nuclear explosion swept across the surrounding islands, like an eighteenth-level ship. The typhoon passed through the country normally, and the cars, cargo boxes and houses were all thrown into the sky.

Then, before reaching the shore, the wall of water caused by the nuclear explosion began to fall with gravity, forming an unprecedented giant waterfall.Millions of tons of seawater, which has been subjected to zero-distance nuclear pollution, fell from the sky, triggering a wave of ultra-high-radiation nuclear-contaminated waste water, which flooded most of the ships and ships on the sea, and finally washed up on the coast, turning the pier, trestle bridge , Cranes, warehouses, bridges and lighthouses were all smashed to pieces...

Although some of the strongest battleships have withstood such a toss like a roller coaster, and have not been hit by huge waves to disintegrate in the air, or washed up on the coast and turned into scrap iron, but they have been drenched and washed by such high-radiation sewage. The battleship was unsinkable, and the crew basically had to die.

When everything is settled and it is temporarily declared over.British sailors and officers in twos and threes struggled to climb out of the underground bunkers. Looking at the devastated military port and the fleet that no longer existed, they couldn't help crying, or sat on the ground sluggishly, smoking cigarettes.However, what these survivors did not know was that because they were too close to the epicenter and stayed in the radiation-contaminated area for too long, even if they were lucky enough to escape to death that day, they would not be able to escape the torment of radiation sickness in the future. After living for a while, most people will eventually die in pain on the hospital bed.

Of course, the Scapa Flow anchorage, which was hit by a nuclear bomb, was declared scrapped, and it will not be usable for at least a few years.

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On the day when the Soviet Union officially declared war on the United States and Britain, the British Royal Navy fleet and its anchorage in Scapa Flow were hit by a nuclear explosion, and they were basically wiped out...

This earth-shattering bad news, and the failure of the destruction of the Gibraltar fortress, appeared on the desks of the ruling class of the British Empire almost at the same time, making the morale and fighting spirit of these British gentlemen already shaky, also suffered a nuclear explosion. A devastating blow—after nearly a year of dismal management, Prime Minister Winston Churchill's second wartime cabinet finally encountered a fatal crisis of overthrowing the cabinet...