Chapter 640: The Great Bombing (2)

If the investigation was conducted within the Soviet Union, Beria was absolutely confident that he could make even a dead person stand up and confess; but the problem now was that the Americans were also suspected, and we couldn't use the same means to deal with the Americans.

Speaking of the Americans, Stalin frowned deeply. Yes, the Americans were not without suspicion. The Americans had their own radio stations and communication keys. Even if they sent a telegram, they didn't know where to send it or what to send.

"Then check our internal people first. As for the Americans." After thinking for a while, Stalin spoke. "Isn't their expeditionary commander-in-chief going to arrive in a few days? When the time comes, you can communicate with him and see what he thinks about it. What is the commander-in-chief's name?"

Beria said respectfully. "Dwight David Eisenhower."

Stalin nodded casually, and just as he was about to say something, news came from the front. Minsk, less than 100 kilometers from the border of Western Belarus, was bombarded by dozens of German bombers. Then came Kiev, Orsha, Smolensk, Kursk, Velikiye Luki, etc., and cities large and small were bombed by the German army.

Soon, a shrill air defense alarm sounded over Moscow. Fortunately, Moscow's prevention and control measures are much better than Washington's. For example, the Moscow Metro, which was built in 1932, was built mainly for military purposes, and facilitating travel was actually a secondary purpose. Most of the subway lines are built 50 meters below the ground. According to its capacity, the entire Moscow Metro can accommodate at least 4 million people for refuge, and the population of Moscow at that time was only about 4.2 million, which means that if they squeezed together, all the residents of Moscow could take refuge in the subway passage. Therefore, many people directly call the Moscow subway system-underground city.

When the Soviet-German War broke out in World War II, the German army deep into Russia quickly put Moscow within the bomber's range, and the military use of the Moscow Metro began to show. At the most intense moment of the German air raid on Moscow at the end of 1941, the Moscow Metro became an excellent refuge for citizens.

The Soviet leadership and the Supreme Command of the Army at that time also moved their offices to the subway. There are some secret core areas inside the subway, which are built as high-level command posts during wartime. They are deeper and have a dedicated line directly to the airport in the suburbs.

During the Cold War, facing the nuclear threat, the depth of the Moscow Metro continued to deepen, and some new lines have even reached a depth of 100 meters underground. Some lines are not only very deep, but also equipped with three-defense equipment to filter nuclear, biological and chemical environments, ready for a nuclear war.

Because several exercises have been conducted before, as the air defense alarm sounded, Moscow residents hid in the nearest subway station in an orderly manner.

On the air defense positions around the Kremlin, the anti-aircraft gunners looked at the low and heavy clouds covering the sky and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. "It seems that we are lucky, and the German bombers can't find the target."

The height of these clouds is only about three or four kilometers. The bombers flying above the clouds can't see anything. If they dare to lower their altitude and leave the cover of the clouds, these anti-aircraft guns can easily shoot them down.

"It seems we are lucky." The commander of the bomber formation in the sky also shouted the same words excitedly. There was a thick cloud layer below them, and the anti-aircraft gunners on the ground could not see anything. Now Germany has begun to mass-produce 3-centimeter wavelength navigation/bombing radars, so they can bomb targets even without visual observation.

"Lower altitude, lower altitude." The bomber formation slowly lowered its altitude until it dropped to about 3,500 meters. "Target the Kremlin, prepare to drop bombs." Following the order of the formation commander, the bomber's drop compartment slowly opened, revealing the bombs hanging inside, and the flow of air made the air whistle on the bomb emit an inaudible whistle.

"I found the target area! Very clear!" The radar operator in front of the radar screen reminded the bombardier loudly. Just like the stealth fighters of later generations cannot be visually invisible, the visually invisible Kremlin at this time cannot escape the radar scan. "Prepare to drop bombs! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, drop bombs!"

"Got it!" The bombardier responded and pressed the bomb trigger. The heavy bombs hanging inside the belly of the plane fell one after another. "The first bomb has been dropped!"

"The second bomb was dropped successfully!"

With the sound of the bomber throwing action rubbing against the bomb body, the aerial bombs left the bomb bay like raindrops, and fell rapidly along their own parabolic trajectory. The air whistle installed on the tail began to emit a heart-wrenching whistle.

At this time, several air force generals who were still in the Kremlin conference room heard the whistle coming from far away, and their faces changed immediately. Before they could warn, the first bomb had already landed not far away.

Boom!

The shock wave of the explosion instantly shattered all the window glass nearby, and large pieces of glass flew off the balcony and windows.

"Quick! Let Comrade Stalin go into the underground air-raid shelter!" A group of people carried Stalin into the underground air-raid shelter without saying anything.

"What's going on? How can the Germans drop bombs so accurately?!" The first bomb fell accurately into the Kremlin, which was incredible! !

Just when everyone was puzzled, Major General Spiridonov, the commander of the Kremlin garrison, looked as pale as a paper man. Just now he was confident that the Germans would never find the Kremlin, but reality is so slapping. It has not been a few hours, and the German bombs have fallen. If Comrade Stalin blames him, will he have a good harvest? !

So he shrank himself in the corner as much as possible, hoping that others would treat him as a transparent person.

Listening to the explosions on the ground one after another, Stalin's face was extremely gloomy, as if he was about to explode at any time, and the rest of the people did not dare to breathe.

The people on the air defense position were also startled, and hurriedly turned the muzzle to the sky above the Kremlin and fired, but because of the thick clouds, they did not know the specific height of the German bomber, and could only guess roughly based on the sound of the engine.

Let's not talk about the accuracy of this guess. Before they fired a few rounds of shells, the German bomber climbed to a higher altitude and flew away after dropping the bombs.

40 bombers dropped more than 300 heavy bombs. The Kremlin covers an area of ​​275,000 square meters. In addition, the German bombers were bombing at low altitudes, so many bombs fell into the Kremlin.