Chapter 828: Dam Blast

No matter what bombs the Germans used, since they attacked the dam, they must be sure to destroy it.

President Wilkie immediately ordered the people downstream of the dam to evacuate quickly.

Unfortunately, before he could leave the conference room with this order, the German attack planes flying over the Kennebec River in Maine had already dropped special ricochets. More than a dozen ricochets bounced forward on the water surface. Several were stopped by the mine protection net. The remaining ricochets successfully avoided the mine protection net, hit the dam, and began to sink slowly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Fine cracks began to appear on the Edwards Dam, which has a history of more than 100 years, and small water columns sprayed out along these cracks. With the successive explosions, the tiny cracks gradually expanded and thickened, the trickle became turbulent, and large chunks of cement began to fall from the dam.

"Boom... Boom..."

Finally, the dam failed to hold on and a gap was blown open, and the surging flood made the gap bigger and wider.

Looking at the turbulent flood below sweeping downstream with an unstoppable momentum, the German pilots in the sky couldn't help but smack their lips. "It's really spectacular. I don't know why these Americans built so many dams."

"It would be great if we could blow up the Hoover Dam. It would definitely be more spectacular than here."

However, the location of the Hoover Dam is beyond the combat radius of the fighter jets, and they can't go deep into the bombing alone.

"It's a matter of time. These stupid Americans refuse to surrender, so we will bomb every inch of their land!"

Soon, the news of the destruction of the Edwards Dam was sent back to Washington, and the conference room fell into silence. The Germans attacked more than one dam, and I'm afraid that the dams they targeted would not be spared. The losses and casualties caused are a headache to think about.

"Fortunately it's not winter now." Marshall sighed with some relief. If they were swept by the flood in the cold winter, there would be many more casualties.

"These damn Germans!" President Wilkie cursed angrily. Now that the Germans have the cover of aircraft carriers, their bombers can bomb any target within the combat radius of the carrier-based aircraft. "Is there no way to destroy their fleet?" Even if it can be severely damaged, it would be too cowardly to be beaten unilaterally.

After hesitating for a while, Commander Arnold slowly spoke. "According to the last experience, if we lose 1,000 fighters, we should be able to get close to the German fleet, and then our bomber group can launch an attack. But it's hard to say whether we can severely damage the German fleet."

"!! Losing 1,000 fighters to get close to the German fleet?

This price is too high!

In fact, everyone familiar with the history of World War II knows that 1,000 fighters are just a drop in the bucket for the US military in the original time and space. As the country with the highest industrial production capacity in World War II, the United States has a very considerable aircraft production. If we start counting from 1939, the total aircraft production of the United States during World War II exceeded an astonishing 300,000. Among them, from 1942 to 1945, the United States had already manufactured more than 275,000 combat aircraft.

But now is "not the same as the past", the US economy has been in dire straits. The piles of European foreign exchange in the treasury have become a pile of waste paper. The funny thing is that the European euro has long been a foregone conclusion, but the Americans dare not deal with this pile of waste paper. After all, if the counterattack in Europe is successful one day, these foreign exchange can still be exchanged, right? Although the possibility of this is quite slim.

Coupled with the thousands of tons of gold "robbed" by the Germans, the US economy has fallen into an unprecedented predicament.

When you want to spend every penny, you actually say that you have to lose at least 1,000 fighter planes to get close to the German fleet? And you can't guarantee the annihilation of the fleet?

Then continue to be a turtle.

President Wilkie mentioned another thing. "How is the 'Atlantic Defense Line' plan going?" The last time, the Pacific Fleet Commander-in-Chief Nimitz proposed the "Pacific Defense Line" plan; based on this plan, they customized the "Atlantic Defense Line" plan.

Marshall replied. "It's about the same. But the funds needed to build these defense lines are not a small amount. The infrastructure alone requires about 50 billion."

"50 billion?!" President Wilkie's mouth twitched slightly. What's more terrifying is that this is just the cost of infrastructure. If all the construction is completed, how much will it cost? ! This is the first time he complained that the US coastline is too long. The original long coastline provided the United States with many excellent bays and ports, but now this long coastline has become a disadvantage, even a burden!

Marshall was very worried. "Mr. President, we don't have much time. The Soviet-German War will probably be decided next year at the latest, and then the Germans will turn around to deal with us." According to his estimation, even if the Soviets grit their teeth and persist, they can only hold on until the end of next year at most.

After the end of the Soviet-German War, the Germans would rest for half a year at most, and then attack the United States.

That is to say, they only had two years to build the "Pacific Defense Line" and the "Atlantic Defense Line".

Of course, if the war ended during this period, there would be no need to build these fortifications.

But the conditions proposed by the Germans were really unacceptable.

The first of them was that a group of war criminals headed by former President Roosevelt would be tried by the European Military Tribunal.

In the war settlement, there is a definition of war criminals, which determines who is a war criminal and who is not. The first is the judgment of politicians. For politicians, it depends on whether they support the war, crazy incite the people, etc. The second is for soldiers. Soldiers are generally not treated as war criminals, because soldiers obey orders, and there is no right or wrong. But if they kill and massacre civilians on the battlefield, use illegal weapons, issue orders to massacre surrendered soldiers or people, and other violations of humanitarianism, they can be treated as war criminals. Finally, there is the judgment of civilians. Generally speaking, they will not be treated as war criminals on average, regardless of which side of the war, civilians are innocent. However, there are also civilians who advocate war, promote war, and conduct ideological infiltration, etc., which can be treated as war criminals.

But the Germans did not play according to common sense. The last time the European Military Tribunal opened, it tried war criminals from most of the defeated countries in Europe, including politicians and soldiers. In their opinion, many of them did not constitute war criminals, but they were still sentenced as war criminals by the Germans. If the Germans compiled a list of American war criminals, Marshall felt that everyone in the conference room would be on the list. In that case, who would agree to a ceasefire?