Great time travel

1Chapter 16, Nuclear War Apocalypse (Happy Singles' Day!)

January 23, [-], East Coast of the United States, New York, Manhattan
The former gateway to the New World, the economic and financial center of the United States of America, is now trembling amidst the reverberation of air raid sirens.

Every street and alley in Manhattan is blocked by cars with luggage tied to the roof, and the sidewalks are also crowded with citizens who are dragging their suitcases and preparing to flee.All kinds of noisy car horns, screams, and fights came one after another, and the scene was chaotic.

——After the nuclear explosion in a city on the west coast, although the United States is at the juncture of power transfer between the old and new presidents, the Pentagon, which is not affected by the change of government, has begun to evacuate the residents of the big cities on the east coast and persuade them to relocate far away The countryside in the urban area took refuge for a while.

However, after all, there were only a few short days before and after, and the whole of New York hadn't yet felt the sense of urgency to face war and destruction.At present, there is no time to transfer a large amount of materials and industrial equipment scattered in the New York City area. The evacuation work of millions of New Yorkers has just begun, and many citizens who are greedy for their homes and property are reluctant to leave.However, the terrifying figure of the latest Soviet jet strategic ultra-long-range bomber has already appeared on the radar screen of the patrol ship off New York... As a result, with bursts of sharp and loud air raid sirens, on Peaceful Day The long, busy streets of New York suddenly sounded, and millions of unprepared New York citizens suddenly fell into extreme chaos.

Previously, in order to show the government's preparations for war, the state government mobilized many National Guard troops into the New York City area, originally to suppress riots and maintain order.However, when the air raid siren sounded, these rookies who had never been on the battlefield really felt the horror of war for the first time. They fired at each other, but they couldn't stop the nuclear bombs falling from the sky. Even hiding in the air-raid shelter was useless.On the West Coast before, the Air Force has proved their incompetence with facts.They can no longer defend the sky of the United States. The Soviets can attack any American city from the sky without any scruples, and easily destroy everything they want to destroy with the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb, while the Americans on the ground can only watch it all Happened, completely powerless, even unable to save his own life.

Therefore, when the air raid sirens sounded on the streets of New York, the morale of these National Guard soldiers, which was not high at first, suddenly disappeared—the Soviet high-altitude bombers were about to bring nuclear bombs to the top of their heads. What's the use of wandering around in New York City, is it to use flesh and blood to resist the high-temperature shock wave of a nuclear explosion?Or shoot down Soviet jet bombers at stratospheric altitudes with a rifle in your hand?

In the face of the nuclear explosion crisis that cannot be resisted by manpower, the National Guard stationed in the New York City area immediately disintegrated on its own. With their own firearms and ammunition, the members snatched the cars on the street and fled to the suburbs.Seeing that the soldiers had run away, the rest of the citizens immediately joined the fleeing team...

A terrible large-scale refugee wave broke out immediately.Millions of New Yorkers recklessly broke into any store on the street, beat up shopkeepers who tried to protect their property, frantically looted all the food, fuel, clothing, and daily necessities they could find, and then rode in every car they could find. The vehicles, carrying all the belongings they could take with them, began to flee from their neighborhoods in a hurry.

At this moment, there is only one common idea left in everyone's mind, that is to escape to the suburbs before the nuclear explosion lands, the farther away from the city center, especially Manhattan, the better, so as to avoid the nuclear explosion that is likely to come next. In the explosion, he was caught in a pond.On the highways leading from the center of New York to the suburbs, the fleet of fleeing people continued mightily, causing severe congestion everywhere.On this chaotic road, all class divisions have blurred, whether you drive a Rolls-Royce or a Ford truck.God treats everyone equally, and no one can run faster because of a more luxurious car.Some stingy guys piled all their belongings on the top of the vehicle, from pots and pans to furniture, clothes, bags, food and drinking supplies, piled up into a hill, which seriously blocked the sight of the vehicles behind and caused a fire. Many traffic accidents...

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However, this wave of fleeing from New York has come too late.Just as the black bartender in Brooklyn and the stock trader on Wall Street were running side by side on the street, a bright light shone from behind them, drowning everything around them instantly...

"...Ah..." The fleeing New York citizens suddenly uttered countless extremely miserable shouts. Some fell directly on the road and covered their eyes with their hands in pain.The rest of the people also felt as if their skin was smoking from top to bottom, as if they had been roasted by fire...

A stock trader in a vest endured the smoke from his clothes and the burns all over his body. After the light temporarily dimmed, he turned his head to look instinctively. As a result, he couldn't help opening his mouth in extreme horror, completely overwhelmed by the terrifying scene in front of him. I was stunned.

——Only a loud noise was heard from the sky above Manhattan Island, and the blue sky turned into a raging fire, the air became as hot as a furnace, the flammable paper advertisements caught fire, and the flowers and plants on the roadside dried up in an instant , and the human skin is instantly scorched and smoked...

Next, in the direction where the light came from just now, the destructive power far exceeds the shock wave of any tsunami or hurricane, and it spread rapidly in an instant, and all the buildings were quickly ignited as if they were made of paper, or were destroyed. The shock wave crushed it to pieces.The skyscrapers with steel and iron frames, as if they were made of cardboard, twisted, disintegrated, burst into pieces in the shock wave, and finally collapsed and collapsed.The people staying in the skyscraper were like ants being swept into the air by the strong wind, and turned into flying ash before they landed.Cars, buses, trams, and small boats on the East River were all thrown around like matchboxes by the air waves, and some of them even smashed towards themselves!

However, before a certain car or tram fell head-on, a violent shock wave arrived first. In an instant, everything nearby was smashed to pieces by the scalding high-speed airflow, and the clothes on everyone's body burned quickly. Then it was burnt off all the internal organs, skin and flesh, leaving only a pair of scorched bones, which were broken inch by inch in the shock wave, and finally fell to the ground, turning into a pool of ashes that drifted with the wind.

In this way, New York, the bustling metropolis known as the "Big Apple" and the famous No.1 city in North America, finally became a sea of ​​flames where humans and animals could not survive in the midst of the nuclear explosion catastrophe that could not be resisted by manpower. Hell - the intense light waves at the time of the nuclear explosion blinded tens of thousands of people instantly; and the terrifying high temperature reduced everything in the center of the explosion to ashes.The tiles on the roof and the bricks and stones of the house melted, turning from black to olive color, and the surface of the cement components was burnt out with a layer of shiny glass, which by the way made the trees and houses within a few kilometers radius A fire was ignited... Next, the shock wave and air wave formed by the huge pressure difference at the moment of the explosion destroyed all the buildings along the way again.Even in New Jersey, outside the city limits of New York, people can still feel the scorching storm blowing head-on, bringing the breath of death!
Those people and animals near the explosion center gasified and disappeared like dry ice at the moment of the nuclear explosion, leaving at most a vague human-shaped trace on the stone slabs and walls.A little further from the epicentre, the remains of men, women and children who were charred in that moment can be seen.In a place farther away, some people were lucky enough to survive, but either their skin was severely burned, or their eyes were burned into two holes.

Within a distance of one or two kilometers from the epicentre, as long as people stand in the open air or close to windows, their clothes will burn, and their exposed skin will be severely burned due to scalding.The instantaneous high temperature caused by the intense light radiation ignited a wide range of fires in all directions, causing everything that could catch fire to burn, and finally merged into a sea of ​​flames that spread rapidly until there was nothing left to burn. until.

And the shock wave that appeared a moment later formed the most violent superstorm in New York history, razing countless towering and magnificent buildings in an instant - such as the famous Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge And the Statue of Liberty, these landmark buildings that symbolize New York and even the United States in the world, were all reduced to rubble in the flash of the nuclear explosion...

On the other hand, a large fireball is rapidly rolling up into the sky with hot smoke and dust, expanding bigger and brighter... The evaporated water vapor gradually forms a straw hat-shaped cloud above the fireball, which is in contact with the ground. The rolled up dust pillars mixed together, and finally turned into a huge mushroom cloud that stands tall and upright, penetrating from the ground of New York to the stratosphere, as eye-catching as the Babylonian Tower of Babel in the legend of the "Bible"!
In this regard, a "New York Times" reporter who escaped by chance made the following description in the record in a lyrical style:
"...It seems as if another sun appeared in the sky, emitting dazzling light, huge clouds of smoke rose into the sky, and a scorching gust of wind swept in, destroying everything on the earth... That terrifying flame that seemed to spew out from hell, Turning the solid earth into flowing lava, the rivers, lakes and seas are boiling, the fish are boiled and floating on the water, the bustling city is destroyed, and the people covered in fire flee around until they are turned into ashes, the sky Black rain started to pour on the survivors, scalding their skins, and people were terrified, watching the doomsday coming..."

——Like any previous nuclear explosion, the mushroom cloud in New York also contained a large amount of radioactive dust, which mixed with the water vapor in the cloud to form a highly radioactive "black rain" that fell and polluted rivers and ponds. Most of the refugees who drank the radioactive sewage died within a week.

And, just as the first mushroom cloud was rising over New York, the sun was shining again at the end of the horizon...

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——The sky burned up, the atmosphere began to evaporate, the wind was mixed with destructive energy, and the whole world was burned to ashes...

Such a scene does not seem very realistic, but it happened in a series of big cities on the east coast of the United States.

Whether it is poor or rich, soldiers or civilians, they can only hug their heads and howl, and then they are burned to ashes without distinction.

Everything was burned, living and dead, leaving nothing but white ashes.

——When New York, the most prosperous metropolis in the entire capitalist world, is gradually being destroyed under the shadow of the nuclear explosion mushroom cloud, Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Boston in Massachusetts, Richmond in Virginia and Norfolk Naval Harbor, Trenton, New Jersey, Miami, Florida, Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, New Orleans, Louisiana, Baltimore, Maryland, and Harry, the capital of Nova Scotia, Canada Fax has also become the target of atomic bombs dropped by Soviet jet ultra-long-range strategic bombers.

At this time, the U.S. Air Force has no countermeasures at all. The gunboats used for high-altitude interception are still being refitted at this time, and there is no way to defend against the enemy for a while.I can only watch helplessly as mushroom clouds rise one after another, destroying more than half of the famous cities in the best part of the East Coast of the United States.

So, Einstein, who had just left Princeton University with a group of nuclear physicists and was evacuated to a rural farm, stared blankly at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance while muttering the ancient poems he had just heard. A war poem in the Indian mythological epic "Mahabharata":
"... Just a single bombardment wasted all the destructive power in the universe!
Fiery pillars of smoke and flames, as bright as 1 suns, soared into the sky...

It is a weapon that no one knows, a thunder of steel, the messenger of death, which reduced the entire race of Reshili and Andaka to ashes...

Their limbs were burnt beyond recognition, with only their hair and nails falling to one side,
The pottery crumbled for no reason, the feathers of the birds turned pale, and after dark, all the crops were attacked...

To escape the fire, the soldiers jumped into the river, washing themselves and cleaning their weapons...

Those who are intoxicated and victorious, those who are wicked without mercy, those who wield iron and lightning, are the destroyers of that nation..."

——At this moment, Mr. Einstein, who had always been uninterested in war, finally discovered with some sadness that the United States of America, which he regarded as the last refuge, accepted his family when the Nazis were rampantly anti-Semitic. It is about to be destroyed by the power of the atom he discovered!
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On January 22, the third day of President MacArthur’s inauguration, twelve cities on the east coast, including New York, Philadelphia, and Miami, were simultaneously attacked by Soviet jet ultra-long-range strategic bombers carrying nuclear bombs from the direction of the Atlantic Ocean. Nuclear explosions are everywhere in time, and mushroom clouds are everywhere.Although Washington, the federal capital, was not hit by a nuclear bomb, a striking mushroom cloud still rose in Baltimore, tens of kilometers away from Washington.

So, looking at the mushroom cloud rising at the end of the horizon, President MacArthur and his staff had no choice but to give up their plan to go to the Pentagon to take command, and continue to hide in the countryside, while praying to God very devoutly, hoping that this The disaster will be over soon.

On the 23rd, the mushroom cloud on the east coast had just dissipated, and the ruins of New York were still full of mourning. Twelve jet-powered Soviet "Flying Bears" with nuclear bombs on them crossed the Pacific Ocean again and visited the west coast of the United States again. A large city on the west coast of the United States that was not completely bombed was subjected to a supplementary nuclear strike—the San Diego Naval Base, which had become a radioactive ruin, was hit by another atomic bomb this time and was completely declared useless.San Francisco, which escaped the net by chance last time, did not escape bad luck this time after all. An atomic bomb directly hit the city and razed it to the ground.Also suffering were West Coast cities such as Sacramento, the capital of California, Pasadena, San Jose and Salem, Oregon.

On the 24th, President MacArthur, who had just returned to the White House, hadn't had time to figure out the situation of the attacks on the mainland of the United States in the past two days.The Soviet jet-type ultra-long-range strategic bomber group in the Atlantic direction attacked for the second time across the ocean with twelve atomic bombs hanging on them, and carried out a second nuclear explosion on New York, killing a large number of New Yorkers who were lingering in their hometown and unwilling to leave .At the same time, industrial cities such as Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee in the Great Lakes region, Toronto, Montreal in Canada, and Atlanta, New Orleans, and Houston in the southern United States were also bombed.

In this way, if you count the six cities that were bombed on the west coast of the United States before President MacArthur took office, then in just one week from beginning to end, a full 42 Soviet atomic bombs were dropped on the United States. On the soil of the United States, tens of millions of casualties were caused.And the loss of economic property is already immeasurable - the instant destruction of Wall Street alone is enough to turn the United States upside down!
What's even more frightening is that in the face of such an arrogant Soviet air butcher, the U.S. Air Force has no countermeasures, nor can it come up with countermeasures that can effectively defend the airspace of the U.S. mainland. Facing enemy planes at high altitude, the B-36 "Peacemaker" bomber that was urgently converted into a gunship aircraft has now destroyed a considerable part of the factory along with the nuclear explosion, and the remaining B-36 " "Peacemaker", since many railways, roads and spare parts manufacturers were destroyed by nuclear bombs, the conversion process was also slowed down a lot.Moreover, even if a batch of B-36 high-altitude gunboats are successfully modified, it is still unknown whether they can stop the Soviet jet bombers by then.

The most terrible thing is that even the B-36 high-altitude gunboat really has the strength to support an air defense line in front of the Soviet jet ultra-long-range strategic bomber.But because the number of B-36s is too small, it is not enough to protect the entire United States airtight-in fact, it is already the limit to be able to ensure the safety of the capital Washington and several major cities.Other minor cities can only continue to suffer nuclear explosions.

However, the destructive power of an atomic bomb to a city on the ground is definitely much higher than that of a thousand ordinary aerial bombs.

No matter from which angle you look at it, if the war continues, it will only lead to the United States being overwhelmed on one side until its final defeat.

As a result, the helpless President MacArthur saw that the war could no longer continue. Although there were still 200 million federal troops in the United States, they could only be used to suppress the local rioters. Negotiate a decent truce.However, the appetites of Stalin and the "red heads" of the Kremlin far exceeded MacArthur's most pessimistic assumptions!
"...Surrender unconditionally?!! Are you kidding me? Is this going to shame me into being the last president of the United States?"

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