Great time travel

Chapter 95, Burning Paris
——A certain sage has such a famous saying: The biggest lesson history has taught people is that people in any era will never learn from the experience of history. At the same time, history also tells us that even those who understand history, Will learn from history.

Although Churchill knew that the British Empire was doomed to lose in this war, he could not bear the consequences of defeat at all, let alone accept the disintegration of the British Empire. A letter of unconditional surrender, he is Churchill of the famous family, a great man who must be famous in history... Therefore, he can only close his eyes and ignore it, pinch his nose and carry the war to the end.

For this reason, he needs the U.S. military to launch more retaliatory nuclear strikes against the red camp in Europe: on the one hand, of course, it is to weaken the enemy and improve its own morale; The ruling position forced them to support their war policy.

As for whether this will accumulate more national hatred and make the fate of the British Empire even more miserable... Churchill has completely ignored these!

On the other hand, the White House was also very worried that the British would really break the pot and knelt down to Stalin for peace, trying to surrender and lose half.In this case, the U.S. military would be driven out of Europe—without the United Kingdom and Ireland as a springboard, the difficulty of the U.S. military’s single-handed cross-Atlantic expedition to Europe and the difficulty of confronting the Soviet Red Army head-on was a nightmare for the Pentagon.In order to completely destroy the relationship between Britain and socialist Europe and prevent the two sides from making peace, Truman had to grit his teeth and take out the already small nuclear arsenal-in his words: "...in order to keep the great European civilization from being tarnished, In order to prevent the social order we are familiar with from being subverted, we have to tell those evil Bolsheviks that we also have atomic bombs, and we are more daring to throw atomic bombs than them! Let those cruel and bloodthirsty red bandits know that the land under their feet is also not good safe!"

Since the entire European continent has been dyed red, it seems that it is too difficult for the US strategic bomber formation carrying nuclear bombs to shuttle at least [-] kilometers above the enemy's territory and directly detonate the Soviet Union.But instead of nuclear bombing, the most powerful ally of the Soviet Union in Europe, there is still some certainty-the American strategic bomber carrying the atomic bomb can take off from Sardinia, pass through the whole of France and drop bombs in Paris, and then arrive at the British airport landing.

Um?Why not nuke Germany?Firstly, it is because the distance is longer, and secondly, because Nazi Germany was just destroyed a year ago, Berlin was turned into rubble during the final siege, and the remaining citizens were dragged to Siberia by the Soviets to do hard work, even if the nuclear explosion did not Too much value.

Therefore, whether it is considering the actual strategic and tactical significance or the feud between Britain and France, it is clear that the nuclear bombing of France seems to be more effective.

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Therefore, on October 100, [-], when the "[-]-hour bombing" of the British strategic air force of the European socialist camp was coming to an end, the formation of American nuclear strike bombers that took off from Sardinia Airport quietly Fly over the Mediterranean Sea, break into French airspace from the south, and head straight for Paris!By the time Red France and the Soviet troops stationed in France discovered something was wrong, it was too late—in this era without missiles and satellites, and with imperfect radar performance, there was no way for any country to [-]% defend its airspace and prevent intrusions. Shoot down every enemy plane in the sky over the country...

As a result, unlike the Soviet atomic bomb that was misplaced in London, the formation of American nuclear strike bombers departing from Sardinia successfully broke through the layers of interception in French airspace and accurately dropped the atomic bomb on Paris. The city center of the city, the most bustling Seine Riverside...Accompanied by a brilliant flash of light across the sky, a huge ball of fire gradually rose from the Seine Riverside.All the citizens of Paris who didn't have time to hide in the underground air-raid shelter felt intense burning and pain from their eyes at the same time, as if they were being hit by a searchlight or exposed to the scorching sun of a tropical desert.Many people immediately uttered miserable yells, rolled to the ground in pain, and covered their eyes with their hands...

The next moment, the real nightmare began to come—in a deafening roar, the high-temperature shock wave that destroyed everything, wrapped in the scorching heat wave from the flame hell, mixed with various deadly rays, particles, and nuclear dust storms, ruthlessly Slammed hard in all directions!Even in the Compiègne forest, more than 60 kilometers away, people heard a powerful muffled sound and fell to the ground in horror, thinking that the end of the world was coming.In the Palace of Versailles, which was requisitioned as the temporary residence of the new government fifteen kilometers away, all the glass was shattered instantly, flying everywhere like deadly shotguns, penetrating through the door panels and screens, rushing towards the unsuspecting victims, splashing Blooming blood blossomed, causing an astonishing amount of secondary damage!

Of course, the fate of downtown Paris must be even crueler—whether it is human beings, animals, vegetation, or buildings, they are all reduced to ashes in this foehn that seems to come from hell.The fountain pool in front of the Louvre was instantly vaporized by the astonishingly high temperature.The famous Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre, the Champs Elysées, which is synonymous with fashion and luxury, the Pantheon where many great French figures are buried, the Invalides where Emperor Napoleon is buried, and Notre Dame de Paris, where immortal love stories are spread. There are many cathedrals all over the urban area of ​​Paris... and they were all reduced to a scorching purgatory in the blink of an eye.

Even the Eiffel Tower, the landmark of Paris, whose steel and iron frame could not withstand the high temperature of the atomic bomb explosion, quickly melted like a candle in a flame storm comparable to a category [-] typhoon, and finally wobbled to the ground. It broke into several pieces, and collapsed with the background of the sky full of flames.

As for ordinary neighborhood mansions, they naturally disappeared under the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb.Most of the buildings that were not strong enough, especially the slums with poor construction quality, were all flattened by the tsunami-like shock wave, while a few of the strongest reinforced concrete buildings stood like rocks protruding from the sea, standing in a large area of ​​scorched black Over hot bricks and rubble.Trees, cars, trams, bicycles, and pedestrians were all swept up into the air, then smashed to pieces, or burned into coke in the air, and then they were carried by the fiery air currents and continued to drift around.

Many citizens who had no time to react were buried in the ruins. Of course, the citizens exposed in the open space were even worse-because they were directly illuminated by the flash of the nuclear explosion, they were scorched and scorched on the spot, and their skin peeled off... and then The spread of the fire caused the survivors hiding in the air-raid shelter to fall into a catastrophe.The high temperature of the nuclear explosion ignited too many flames, causing the fire to spread unscrupulously on the roofs of the street, burning from one house to another.

In such a destructive flame storm, tarred wooden utility poles on the side of the road, cardboard billboards in front of shops, curtains and furniture in houses will suddenly catch fire.Gas stations, gas plants, trees, plants... anything that catches fire will burn.The scattered fires quickly merged into a sea of ​​flames, hot enough to melt steel and burn cement, and continued to spread rapidly in all directions until there was nothing more to fuel.It is conceivable that the violent burning has drained the air on the surface, and even the sewage in the sewers has begun to boil, and the dilapidated streets quickly filled with a terrible smell of meat.The residents who rushed out of the air-raid shelters were surrounded by flames on the narrow streets, struggling for breath under the thick smoke and high temperature.In less than an hour, hundreds of thousands of French people were burned to death, bombed to death, smashed to death, and suffocated to death, and the number of injured people was several times that. Many people suffered extremely terrible radiation and burns. It is estimated that If it can't last for a week, the death toll will soar exponentially by then.

In addition to the direct damage to Paris, the outbreak of the atomic bomb also caused a large-scale electromagnetic pulse storm, which broke down the insulation layer, burned the circuit, and seriously damaged the components of all electronic equipment...not only caused the Its radio equipment was instantly scrapped, and the radio communications in Normandy, Brittany, Calais, and even the Netherlands were severely interfered, and it was impossible to send telegrams normally for several hours.And the tens of thousands of planes gathered at the front-line airports in the coastal areas of Western Europe, which had just carried out the "[-]-hour bombing" against the UK, also fell into the embarrassing situation of command paralysis and communication interruption, which eventually led to the planned "[-]-hour bombing". The next phase of the strategic bombing of the UK after the "bombing" was forced to abort

All in all, when the stunned French knew the tragedy in Paris, especially after the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Champs Elysees were wiped out, they all cried bitterly and shouted "half a million dollars!" France is dead."Immediately, even the people of France were furious, and the French Red Army, which was born out of the Red Guard, was filled with righteous indignation.

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On the other side of the strait, Britain, especially London, which had just been hit by a Soviet atomic bomb, learned that there was also a nuclear explosion mushroom cloud blooming over Paris, the capital of Huadu. Some morale has been lifted - although my country does not have an atomic bomb, but the US allies have it!At any rate, it is no longer one-sided, only being beaten and not fighting back, which makes people feel a little bit relieved.

Taking advantage of this hard-won favorable situation, Prime Minister Churchill issued a nationwide broadcast, condemning all kinds of atrocities committed by the Bolshevik "red devil" in a plausible manner, and at the same time encouraged the British soldiers and civilians to fight the evil enemy to the last moment for the glory of the empire. He vowed that he would never consider making peace with the enemy, let alone surrendering to the invaders. He would lead this great country to fight until victory came or the last Englishman on earth fell—"...I love this country , I have fought half my life for its glory and greatness. I have dedicated the most precious time of my life to the empire and the king... We are engaged in an unprecedented war, and we must use any means to defend our country, our The people, and all the wealth that countless ancestors have exchanged for their sacrifices and sweat. We have no way out, we can only go forward bravely, or win or perish, and there is no third ending. But I firmly believe that our future generations will definitely serve us Proud of a great job done!"

However, although what this fat man said was so impassioned and righteous, it seemed that he wanted to fly a fighter jet into the sky himself, and fight to the death with those Soviet planes that sowed death over Britain.However, while the sound of his radio speeches was still being broadcast throughout Britain, Churchill himself had already slipped out of the British Isle and moved to Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, with the entire War Cabinet and the War Department. At the same time, he forcibly dragged away from Windsor Castle, as well as His Majesty King George VI who was seriously ill and the entire British royal family...

In fact, as the wartime prime minister of the British Empire, Churchill had the strongest and safest underground shelter in London as his office location—it was in the basement of a concrete office building near Storey Gate, and the construction workers were in the basement of the original office building. The first floor is filled with high-grade cement, forming a five-meter-thick concrete roof, which is enough to hold the largest aerial bombs of various countries in the early days of World War II.The entrance to the basement is also equipped with a one-foot-thick special armored steel door, which can last for three hours at a high temperature of [-] degrees, and will not deform after cooling down, and can still open and close smoothly.

Then, the space in this underground shelter is also very spacious. The bright lighting system and powerful ventilation system make it impossible to feel that you are in a deep underground. The interior decoration is full of British style, with white walls and smooth floors. Combined together, there is no sense of depression that ordinary air-raid shelters give people.During the entire British Air War against Nazi Germany in the past, His Excellency Churchill directed the war here.

It is a pity that even such a rock-solid underground shelter cannot withstand the terrifying and destructive power of an atomic bomb attack... Therefore, after personally inspecting post-nuclear London and several other bombed cities, After witnessing the devastated horrors of these cities, this guy decisively decided to run away and hid in Northern Ireland, which is the furthest from the mainland of the British Empire to the European continent. Northern Ireland can also be obtained.And in the "hundred-hour bombing" that just ended like a purgatory nightmare, towns in Northern Ireland were indeed hit by a few bombs, but compared with the devastating tragedy of millions of casualties in England, the whole of Great Britain Northern Ireland, where the island serves as a buffer, can already be called a safe paradise, and it is far more suitable for the British ruling class, whose lives are precious, to live longer than London today.

In addition to moving the government and the royal family to Northern Ireland, another important decision made by Prime Minister Churchill in mid-October was to completely abandon the Mediterranean battlefield and the Far East battlefield at the cost of the total collapse of the colonial empire, and recall those stranded in the South. Italy's Mediterranean Fleet and the Royal Navy's Eastern Fleet as far away as Singapore are used to deal with the dilemma that after the destruction of the Scapa Flow Fleet, the entire territory of Great Britain is almost defenseless.

However, among the only poor reinforcements on these two lines, the former is limited in scale and weak in strength. It doesn't even have a battleship, battlecruiser or armored aircraft carrier. It is impossible to face the Arctic Fleet and Baltic Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy alone. The latter is far away on the other side of the earth, and the journey is too far away. Even if the journey goes smoothly, it will take at least a month or two to rush back to China from the Far East, and it feels a bit slow.

In this way, for a long time to come, the Soviet Red Army can easily cross the strait and launch a landing war on the British mainland!

At present, the essence of the British Army is withered in the Far East, North Africa, and the European continent. The country is extremely short of major generals. The only remaining allies in Europe are Portugal and half of Spain, which are even more precarious. Hai, the Irish who may turn against each other at any time on the battlefield... In short, they are a bunch of unreliable useless woods and bastards.Therefore, unless the Royal Navy can prevent the Soviet Red Army from going ashore, once these beasts set foot on British territory, relying on the current defense forces in the British mainland, there is no hope of winning the homeland defense battle.

However, the large fleet that concentrated the last essence of the Royal Navy has now perished in the mushroom cloud rising from Scapa Flow...

In order to deal with this crisis, Prime Minister Churchill had no choice but to bite the bullet and tap the domestic potential, announcing that he would quickly train the militia, and set up a million "National Self-Defense Forces" within two weeks, planning to recruit all the people in the United Kingdom who have not been conscripted to serve. Males between the ages of 100 and 16, and any female who is in service and volunteers.In fact, the county councilors, nobles and squires are responsible for forming and commanding these personnel. Prime Minister Churchill himself acts as the nominal commander-in-chief of the National Guard, and his chief of staff and most trusted military adviser Hastings Ismay The general is responsible for the training and arming of these "National Self-Defense Forces"-of course, on the bright side, it is to mobilize all its forces to resist the Soviet Red Army that seems to be about to cross the sea, or the "European socialist coalition forces" , to win... at least to win the war that will determine the future and destiny of Britain; but on the other hand, there are also considerations for maintaining domestic social order and preventing civil uprisings and riots.In fact, if the torrent of iron armor of the Soviet Red Army really crossed the strait and landed on the low-lying and wide plains of southern England (England), then in the face of the various powerful modern weapons of the Red Army, the defensive side simply relied on Too many people are useless.If this group of temporarily recruited uncles, aunts, grandpas, children, and big girls rushed forward screaming like ancient Celtic warriors, then I am afraid that at most the Russians will only waste more ammunition.

However, if you think about it from another angle, from the perspective of maintaining social order and avoiding the kind of civil strife that caused the collapse of Tsarist Russia, this is a good idea.

——Accompanied by the overwhelming bombing and the tragic nuclear explosion mushroom cloud, countless British people and their accumulated wealth were turned into a pile of ashes, or died of convulsions under the envelope of poisonous gas, and their families died.But those who survived suffered even more, because they lost their property, houses, relatives, careers and jobs in the bombing that turned the whole city into a sea of ​​flames, leaving only a piece of their body Suits and scars... Something like this happened during the Battle of Britain six years ago, but there were far fewer towns destroyed in Britain, and the British government had far more human, financial and material resources than it does now , can also organize rescue activities in time, provide medical assistance to the wounded, distribute some stored food and clothes to them, and even arrange housing and work for them, and at least a tent for shelter in the worst case.

However, by the time World War III broke out, the various resources of the British Empire had long been exhausted, and the number of war refugees caused by the "[-]-hour bombing" to Britain was at least dozens of times that of the Luftwaffe six years ago.Faced with so many war refugees who were displaced, hungry and cold, the rescue forces that Churchill's war cabinet could organize were completely stretched and barely enough. Many poor people who lost their homes and property could only sit helplessly by the side of the road. I don't know where to get a piece of bread to feed my hunger... The British civil society order is already at risk of getting out of control.

As the saying goes: When you are desperate, please don't forget that there is the last way out, and that is crime.

If it is a time of peace, this at most means the growth of the underworld and the red light district.But in the wartime... Well, you can probably refer to the Chinese society in the late Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China, or the Tsarist Russia after the outbreak of the February Revolution and the sudden collapse of the imperial system.

Thinking about the appearance of hundreds of thousands or millions of rogues and thugs in a country, you can know how anxious Churchill must be.

Under such circumstances, delegating power to local forces and setting up armed militias has become an inevitable choice—roughly similar to the Song Dynasty in China, whenever there was a famine and military chaos, young and strong were selected from the victims to serve as Xiangjun to prevent them from being cornered. And the reason for chaos.Although this will definitely cause many problems and troubles in the future, such as local separatist regimes, warlords, financial burdens, etc., those in power who are completely cornered in desperation often can only treat their heads and feet. Even if it is to drink poison to quench thirst, I have no choice but to pass the test in front of me first.

In this way, the British Isles, which had been exhausted from fighting for a long time, was given a shot in the arm again, ushering in a vigorous national military training movement.