Great time travel

Chapter 1, Bald Eagle's Nuclear Counterattack Plan

February [-], [-], United States, Washington, White House

Washington in February is still a scene of heavy snowfall, and the whole world outside the window seems to have turned into a piece of white.There was no one on the street covered with thick snow, and it seemed exceptionally quiet.This is not only because of the wind and snow that blocked people in the house, but also because of the wartime martial law issued by the government-since the outbreak of World War III, the US government has declared that the whole country has entered a state of martial law. Approval, and a large part of the urban area of ​​Washington, the capital, has been directly designated as a restricted area, and unrelated people without documents are strictly prohibited from entering without permission.

Therefore, the flow of people in and out of Washington has dropped sharply, and tourists have basically disappeared.From the Lincoln Memorial to the Arlington Obelisk, pedestrian solitude is everywhere.It is rare to see children playing snowball fights and making snowmen, and due to the new round of large-scale compulsory conscription, the number of sanitation workers who clear the snow has also decreased a lot.Except for the usual hustle and bustle of people at the White House and Capitol Hill, the rest of the place was so quiet that the sound of snow falling on the roof could be heard.

However, this quiet and peaceful atmosphere did not make the occupants of the White House happy at all—after a most disturbing Christmas, President Truman ushered in an even more depressing New Year, and An almost hopeless Valentine's Day seemed to follow.

With the outbreak of World War Three, the U.S. military on all fronts around the world is going from one embarrassing defeat to another even more embarrassing defeat.

The abominable Russians simply use the atomic bomb as a conventional weapon, playing with nuclear explosive mushrooms everywhere, even at times like Christmas and New Year, and continue to sing and bomb indiscriminately, refusing to leave even the US military A little respite.

——With the surrender of Britain, the retreat of Eisenhower, and the destruction of Portugal, the only military bases that the US military can still control in Europe, except for Iceland, which is actually closer to the Americas, are only the second largest city in Northern Ireland, London delhi.In order to consolidate the last bridgehead that can touch the edge of the European continent, the Pentagon, regardless of the harsh reality that the British mainland has surrendered, insisted on sending a large amount of materials and troops to Londonderry through the Arctic route under extremely difficult conditions, in an attempt to go against the trend. Continuing to maintain the Irish front—if, with the blessing of God, the Irish Republican Army can be wiped out and the island of Ireland can be captured, it will be able to offset the consequences of Britain's surrender to a considerable extent.

However, under the mushroom cloud of nuclear explosions planted by the Soviets, all these efforts and struggles were ultimately proved to be futile and futile. Guaranteed to shoot down every enemy plane that flies over his head.And as long as the destructive power of an atomic bomb is successfully dropped, one of the strongest port strongholds can be completely scrapped in a short period of time.

——On the morning of New Year's Day in 26, the Soviet strategic air force crossed the chaotic and turbulent Great Britain and dropped an atomic bomb on Londonderry, Northern Ireland, resulting in 240 US troops, [-] British troops, [-] ships and [-] five aircraft The plane was destroyed, and [-] civilians were killed or injured on the spot... And during the "New Year's Bombing" that lasted for half a month, the Soviet Strategic Air Force dispatched thousands of bombers to attack the area of ​​Northern Ireland, which is currently under the control of the US military. , Throwing countless incendiary bombs, high-explosive bombs and gas bombs, completely turning the six counties of Northern Ireland into purgatory.

The [-] American Expeditionary Force, which was fighting fiercely with the Irish Republican Army in Galway City, suddenly lost almost all of its logistical supplies, and quickly fell into the predicament of running out of ammunition.After the Pentagon made an assessment, it believed that the Irish front could no longer be maintained, so it had to abandon Ireland and organize a retreat.However, due to the destruction of roads, bridges and ports by the Irish guerrillas in the rear, the main force of the Irish Republican Army in the front is also clinging to the retreating U.S. troops, with Soviet aircraft bombing overhead from time to time, and Soviet submarines on the sea. The ambush and the Soviet cruiser's sneak attack broke the engagement... The entire retreat was very poorly organized. In the end, only about [-] US troops successfully withdrew from Ireland and arrived alive in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik.

So far, the war organized by the United States of America in the British Isles has finally come to an end with a total loss of capital and complete failure.

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While the European battlefield completely collapsed, the U.S. military in West Asia and Africa continued to show a state of collapse and defeat.

As the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar were closed one after another, and the Soviet Black Sea Fleet broke through the Turkish Strait and entered the Mediterranean Sea, the Allied forces that were originally scattered in North Africa and the ports of the Mediterranean islands suddenly became fish in a pot and turtles in a urn. There is no way to escape, no power to resist, and it is impossible to even gather together-the control of the sea has changed hands, and the land transportation has also been harassed by rebel Arab guerrillas. With no hope in sight and no morale, they could only sit and wait in their respective stations.

Despite the desperate situation, the Pentagon racked its brains and made the best efforts to save this heavy-armed group with a total strength of more than 80 as much as possible—first, order the islands of Crete, Cyprus, and Sardinia to The Allied forces stationed in Sicily, Corsica, and the Balearic Islands discarded heavy equipment and stockpiles, collected civilian ships on the spot as quickly as possible, crossed the Mediterranean Sea southward, and headed for North African ports that were still under the control of the Allied Forces.Before the Soviets blocked the sea route, as many as they could escape, those who could not escape could only wait for death or surrender.

Then, the U.S. military rushed to repair and expand airports in Nigeria and other places in West Africa at the fastest speed, deployed more than 400 transport planes urgently, and pulled up an air transportation line across the Sahara Desert...Of course, due to the carrying capacity of the planes It is too small, even if it only transports people without equipment, it is impossible to transport hundreds of thousands of troops from the north to the south of the Sahara Desert in such a short period of time.

Therefore, in addition to evacuating some senior military officers, political figures, pilots and technicians from the air, this air transport line across the Sahara Desert is mainly used for the Allied forces and their vassal forces trapped on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Airdrop supplies to assist him to flee southward by land
As a result, more than 70 British, French, Spanish, American and Italian colonial troops scattered in Algeria, Tunisia and other places, as well as a larger number of accompanying civilians - all of them were extremely hostile to the Soviet Union and Russia. The hard-core and die-hard reactionaries who opposed the socialist system, totaling about [-] people, just like this, in the last few days of [-], they each embarked on the arduous Long March across the Sahara Desert.

——Even in the "Bible", the "Exodus" led by Moses who divided the Red Sea with his bare hands did not have such a large number of people and such a large scale.The only thing that can be compared is probably the death expedition to Siberia commanded by Admiral Kolchak in the early days of the founding of the Soviet Union.

(After being defeated by the Red Army, Kolchak marched eastward with 120 million exiles in an attempt to regroup in Vladivostok. Unfortunately, he encountered a super cold of minus 25 degrees, just in Lake Baikal [-] people froze to death overnight, and the death toll was said to be as high as one million. These dead were the staunchest supporters of Tsarist Russia. With their freezing to death, there was no suspense about the Red Army's victory. )
Of course, there were also many British and French troops who were already desperate for the situation and were unwilling to continue to retreat, but were willing to stay where they were, waiting to surrender to the Soviets.

Due to the large number of migrants, only a very small number of people can take cars or camels. At least 50 people have to rely on their own feet to walk [-] kilometers of desert roads at a temperature of [-] degrees Celsius... The scorching sun, high temperature, thirst, hunger, sandstorms and mirages tortured these fleeing travelers non-stop.Even regular desert trade routes leave a few unlucky dead with every trip.

Especially different from the strong and sturdy Arab camel caravan, this time the refugee team crossing the desert included a large number of old, weak, sick, disabled, women and children—even the indigenous nomads who have lived in North Africa for generations , and usually don't send their old and weak women and children across the desert on foot.Because the physical strength is really unable to keep up and endure.During this difficult and dangerous desert escape, the only thing more than 400 American transport planes can do for them is to regularly airdrop some food, fresh water and anti-heat medicine so that they will not stop cooking during the journey.

In addition, in the periphery of the Sahara Desert, there are always desert bandits active for generations who have made a living by plundering business trips. Many seemingly docile and hospitable indigenous tribes don’t mind being a guest sand bandit when the conditions are right... and Now these fleeing teams who are not very familiar with this desert and carry a lot of property have become excellent robbery targets in their eyes.Even if these fugitives were all armed, it would not be of much use-as long as a malicious guide who deliberately led the wrong way a few times and escaped quietly, they could never get out of this desert.

However, compared with the evil of the human heart, the harsh nature itself is scary enough, although as early as thousands of years ago in the Middle Ages, the Arab caravans riding camels were like the pioneers of Western navigators who opened up new sea routes in the Age of Discovery Similarly, two trade routes across the Sahara Desert were successfully established.After hundreds of years of colonial rule in Africa, the European colonists in the middle of the [-]th century also understood and mastered the basic information of these desert trade routes.But the problem is, just as a long-distance sailing ship cannot be separated from the harbor where it stops halfway, a long-distance camel caravan cannot be separated from the oasis in the desert—to be precise, it cannot be separated from the spring water in the desert oasis: just relying on The physical strength of people and camels, even without any cargo, cannot carry all the drinking water needed for the journey across the entire Sahara Desert.Not to mention that in order to avoid losing money, merchants always hope to put more goods in the camel's knapsack.Therefore, if the camel caravan wants to carry a large amount of goods across the Sahara Desert, it needs to supply fresh water for humans and animals to drink on the way.

And the drinking water for these halfway supplies can only come from oasis springs scattered in the vast desert.However, within a unit time, the flow of any spring water is very limited. If a large number of people drink from a spring, it can only support a few thousand people at most.

But the vast majority of Europeans are not aware of this desert killing opportunity, because in the vast and sparsely populated Sahara Desert, usually there will not be thousands of people trying to cross the desert at the same time, and Replenish drinking water in the same oasis - when a small team of hundreds or thousands of people pass through these desert oases, they can naturally drink spring water to their heart's content, even if everyone drinks enough and fills up each water bag, in the oasis The spring water is more than enough.For those European travelers who just pass by in a hurry, even if they have walked this desert trade road and stopped in these oases, as long as they can easily get enough water by themselves, as long as there are plenty of springs in the oasis Water is flowing out in a steady stream, and a lot of water is idle and wasted, so the water is "sufficient" and "will not be lacking". Few people will seriously count the flow of spring water.

Even when planning the escape route this time, they did not carefully calculate whether the demand for drinking water for several 10 people and livestock in the scorching hot weather was in a palm-sized desert oasis, which was bigger than a swimming pool What can the little springs provide?Just like people living in modern big cities, they usually don't think about whether the water released by a tap is not enough for many people to use at the same time.

——Although on the edge of many deserts, occasionally there are huge oases that cover a vast area and have hundreds of miles of green fields, which are enough to support the survival of a city-state with a population of 10.But in the hinterland of the Sahara Desert, most of the oases are much smaller than the Crescent Lake in Gansu, China.It is conceivable that the fresh water in these miniature desert oases must be very limited. Naturally, it is not a problem to supply camel caravans for hundreds of people, and it is barely enough for migratory tribes to supply thousands of people.But the result of tens of thousands, tens of thousands of people rushing over in one breath... the small pond in the oasis was drank dry all at once!
As a result, the hungry and thirsty Allied soldiers and the fleeing civilians were almost desperate.Although the US military's transport planes did their best to airdrop some rubber bags filled with fresh water to them, compared to the daily consumption of tens of thousands of people, it is really a drop in the bucket.Thirsty people began to fight each other for a sip of clean water, even killing people to drink blood, and countless horrific and cruel tragedies of death broke out...

In the end, only about a third of those who set out on the journey from North Africa managed to make it all the way to the tragic end
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When the Allied forces in western North Africa were trekking hard across the desert in the south, the Allied forces in eastern North Africa were also carrying out their desert journey in the rain of bullets and flying sand and stones, but they did not go south into the black African rainforest. , but head east to Asia—because east of Tripoli, the Sahara Desert in that area becomes wider, and there are few oases in the desert hinterland, and because of the deep inland, the desert storm is more intense, even the native cypress It is also difficult for the Berber tribe to successfully walk south through the desert, let alone the Western whites who are not familiar with the place.

Therefore, the Pentagon ordered the allied forces assembled in Cyrenaica (Benghazi) to advance eastward, enter the rebellious Egypt along the coast, join the Egyptian garrison that broke out from the encirclement, and then abandon Egypt and follow the path where Moses led the Jews out of Egypt. The old road, withdrew to the area around Jerusalem.

This route was already a densely populated commercial route long before the Roman Empire, so there were no natural obstacles.The only trouble was the bombing by the Soviets and the harassment by the Egyptian partisans.However, the Soviets are now engaged in a bloody battle with the Turks in Asia Minor, and there is not much spare power to invest in Egypt.And the fighting power of the Egyptians... that's what happened since the time of Cleopatra.So, at the cost of thousands of lives, some 20 Allied and expatriate troops managed to evacuate to Jerusalem, gaining a period of respite.

Relying on the US-British allied forces retreating to West Asia, as well as the Iranian and Saudi troops that went abroad for reinforcements, as well as the Turkish troops that fled the country, the total combat force is about 60 people. Eisenhower, who had become the commander of the U.S. troops stationed in Europe and America and was recently kicked out of Africa and became the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East again, finally had the capital to continue dealing with the Soviets.

Although the quality of these troops is uneven, there is not much heavy equipment left, and there are still a lot of internal contradictions, but Eisenhower gave full play to his talent in overall planning and coordination, and in the shortest possible time. The mob reorganized and formed two military groups of comparable size-the Mosul Army Group and the Jerusalem Army Group.Each army group has 60 men.After some political games, it was finally decided that Shah Pahlavi II of Iran would serve as the nominal commander of the Mosul Army Group, while the Jerusalem Army Group would be commanded by Eisenhower himself to deal with the imminent pressure from the north and west to the Mesopotamia. Come the red wave of the socialist camp.

However, even a trainee staff officer who has just graduated from West Point Military Academy can see that such a defense strategy is really problematic-the Mosul army group is mainly composed of the Saudi army, the Turkish army, the Iranian army and the local Iraqi army. Not to mention inferior and backward equipment, there are a lot of internal religious contradictions and ethnic conflicts. King Pahlavi II is not a courageous hero. Can he suppress the various hills in the army and establish a system that can at least work? At present, it seems that it is very difficult to say... It is such a group of miscellaneous people with worrying combat effectiveness. They have neither force superiority nor air supremacy, but it is really difficult to face the main force of the Soviet Red Army that is overwhelmed from Armenia. People are optimistic about their future.

What's more terrible is that if the Soviets were too lazy to do anything else and just dropped a bunch of atomic bombs, this seemingly cowhide heavy army group would definitely be finished.Moreover, the Soviet army may cross the Caspian Sea and land in northern Iran... In this case, the Mosul Army Group may even be in danger of collapsing without a fight.

The situation of Army Group Jerusalem is a bit better. This place is still relatively far away from the Soviet Red Army. It has enough strategic buffer space and preparation time. The main basic forces are genuine American and British troops. Although they have basically lost everything, including cars and tanks. All the heavy equipment inside, but rebuilding the command system is still relatively easy. When digging trenches and defending on the spot, they should also be able to display a better tactical level.

Moreover, as a worldwide religious holy place, the possibility of the Soviets dropping an atomic bomb on Jerusalem is extremely slim.

But the problem is, for the 30 troops of Army Group Jerusalem, how to maintain the supply line is a big problem.At this moment, the port of Etra in southern Israel and the port of Aqaba in Jordan do not yet exist. The entire northern shore of the Red Sea, except for the port of Suez, which has just suffered a nuclear bomb, is basically deserted.Unless it takes one or two years to build ports and roads, the US military will simply not be able to transport supplies from the Red Sea to Jerusalem.

At present, Eisenhower is letting the American Liberty and Victory fleets unload at the port of Basra, then load them on trucks, and go west across the entire Jordanian desert before crossing the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, and finally reaching the outskirts of Jerusalem.Or let the transport fleet organize airlifts at low cost... Such a long and rough supply line can barely maintain the supply of ammunition at most. As for food and clothing, it can only allow 30 Allied forces to expropriate in Jerusalem. As a result, Less than a month after the 30 troops of the Jerusalem Army Group moved in, the Jews and Arabs in Palestine were all overwhelmed. Various terrorist attacks and anti-tax uprisings emerged one after another, and it was about to evolve into a full-scale guerrilla war...