Chapter 1016 Confiscation (6)
"Why don't we just surrender? Maybe we can save our lives."
"!!" Hearing the deputy governor's proposal, the governor's face suddenly became extremely ugly. Until the outbreak of the war, he had never worried about his livelihood, and even bought a lot of stocks, and he could get a lot of dividends every year. But these stocks are stocks of arms companies in the Northeast Industrial Zone. With the crazy bombing of the Germans, the entire Northeast Industrial Zone was bombed into ruins. These arms companies went bankrupt one after another, and he said that the value of the stocks he held instantly became 0.
Although there are still a lot of savings, the war has reached this point. Inflation is inevitable in the United States, and prices are skyrocketing. Now the price of rice and flour in the market has risen to more than five times that before the war, and there is often no market for it. Sometimes you have to pay a higher price to buy it on the black market.
He is still sitting in the position of governor, and food is naturally supplied to these government officials first, but if he surrenders to the German army, he may be immediately demoted to a civilian. By then, his savings would only be enough for his family to eat for a week, assuming the price of rice and flour would not continue to rise. If the Germans did not send relief food, his family would have to eat dirt and bark.
How could he choose to surrender in this situation?
The deputy governor's words caused a brief silence in the conference room. The governor was extremely nervous. He did not need the majority of the people present to agree. As long as the commander of the Virginia garrison agreed to surrender, no one else would have anything to say. Most of the National Guard troops had been transferred to active service before, and now there were only a few National Guard troops left for him, the governor, to dispatch. "Commander Harris, what do you say?"
Commander Harris was frowning and smoking one cigarette after another without saying a word. When he heard the governor's question, he put out the half-remaining cigarette butt in his hand in the ashtray. "To be honest, it is difficult for us to stop the German army. Continuing to resist is just a fearless sacrifice. And the Germans obviously don't care about our resistance." Otherwise, they would not have driven back the envoys they sent out. Perhaps in the eyes of the Germans, their resistance was nothing but a futile effort, and that was the truth.
"..." The governor's heart suddenly sank, and he began to imagine the scene of begging along the way with his wife and children.
Commander Harris lit another cigarette. "But if we surrender like this, it would be really unacceptable. Maybe we should fight the Germans hard. Let them know our determination to resist, and maybe we can get better conditions."
The governor just breathed a sigh of relief, and then he heard the deputy governor muttering. "At the beginning, Washington also wanted to fight for good conditions, but now they are all buried underground." They have not been excavated yet. It is said that a plague broke out at the excavation site. Anyone who approached would be infected with a strange disease. Dozens of people died in a few days, and the excavation project was shelved. I am afraid they will be buried underground forever and will never see the light of day again.
The state of Virginia where they are is separated from the capital Washington by only the Potomac River. As long as Virginia is captured, the Germans will go straight to Washington, and they will not be kind enough to dig out those people underground.
At this time, a staff officer from the headquarters rushed in. "Commander, the radar station has detected enemy aircraft."
"What?!" Commander Harris stood up. "Is it coming here?!"
The faces of the others were a little pale. After all, there were precedents in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. They were afraid that they would also be beheaded by the Germans. Many people have stood up. As long as the staff answered that the enemy plane was flying here, they would be the first to run out and hide in a safe place.
Fortunately, the staff shook his head. "No, the enemy plane seems to be heading for the radar station."
"Radar station?" Could it be that the Germans wanted to bomb their radar station? There are five radars in Virginia, three of which are deployed on the coastline, and the other two are deployed near the state capital Richmond.
After a while, another staff officer hurried in. "Commander, commander, our No. 1 and No. 2 radars were destroyed. The radar station said that the German plane directly hit the radar antenna." The No. 1 and No. 2 radars are the two deployed near Richmond.
"Directly hit the radar antenna?" Commander Harris was stunned for a moment, then reacted. "It must be the German's 'flying bomb'! Are there any other planes?!"
"No other planes were found."
"That's a bit strange." Commander Harris frowned deeply. The United States had been bombed by many flying bombs before. It is not difficult to see that these flying bombs have no accuracy at all. They can only bomb city-sized targets, and many of them fall outside the city.
How come the German flying bombs have become so accurate this time?
He naturally didn't know that these flying bombs were equipped with passive radar guidance heads.
In 1942 in the original time and space, a German scientific research team led by Dr. Richard Vogt tried to develop a gliding bomb called BV246 "Hail" that could be dropped outside the enemy's air defense firepower. This can not only attack the enemy camp without being noticed, but also ensure the safety of one's own personnel. The most important thing is that it can cause serious psychological trauma to enemy soldiers, because the invisible is the most terrifying.
"Hail" was initially controlled by radio commands, but as Britain began to master radio jamming technology, the plan had to be abandoned at the end of 1943. In early 1945, the "Hail" plan was revived again. After adding a passive radar guidance head, it became the most ideal anti-radar weapon. In 10 tests, 8 failed, and two hit the target accurately with an error of less than 2 meters.
The appearance of "Hail" is very simple, with a cigar-shaped fuselage, slender wings, and a normal tail. What is surprising is that its two long main wings are cast in reinforced concrete. Of course, there is a reason for doing this. Its purpose is to make the separation of the bomb and the carrier aircraft clean and neat when dropping, avoiding mutual interference and danger. "Hail" has good gliding performance, with a gliding ratio of 1:25, that is, it can hit targets 175 kilometers away when dropped at an altitude of 7,000 meters. If the carrier aircraft is dropped at a higher altitude, the maximum attack distance can reach 200 kilometers.
The factory only produced 1,000 "Hail", but Germany was about to surrender, so there was no time to equip the troops.
Now, after several years of research and development, Germany's dynamic radar guidance head has gradually improved. Although the hit rate is still not very good, if a dozen bombs are thrown at a time, there will always be one or two that hit the radar antenna and destroy it.
"Could it be that the German flying bombs can accurately hit the target?!" Everyone felt a chill in their hearts. Isn't this "taking the enemy's head thousands of miles away"? If the Germans want to bomb here, they don't need to send bombers, just launch a few flying bombs to blow them up!