Chapter 946: Decisive Battle (13)

In the combat command room of the "underground Kremlin" in Moscow, Zhukov listened to the continuous explosions from above with a gloomy face. The lights above his head flickered with the explosions, as if they could go out at any time; from time to time, dust fell from the ceiling.

Although there was an air filter in the underground fortifications, a hint of gunpowder could still be smelled in the air here.

Zhukov took the teacup and prepared to take a sip, but saw a small piece of wall skin falling down and falling into the teacup without bias. He frowned slightly, but did not call the orderly. He reached out and picked up the piece of wall skin and threw it aside, and took a sip.

Just as he put down the teacup, he heard Minuk complaining in despair. "It's been three days. How many shells have these damn Germans prepared?" Three days and three nights! The continuous shelling day and night made everyone's spirit tense to the extreme, under tremendous pressure, and some people's spirits were on the verge of collapse.

They estimated that the European coalition had fired hundreds of millions of shells, but there was still no sign of stopping; did these bastards want to flatten the entire city of Moscow with artillery fire? ! I'm afraid the ground has been flattened, but they still keep firing!

Suddenly, accompanied by a dull bang, everyone in the room felt an unusually obvious vibration.

"What's going on?!" They were more than 70 meters underground, and it was incredible that they could still feel such a strong vibration at this depth. The staff in the command room hurriedly called various places, and soon they finally got a clue. But the staff who reported was a little pale, and his voice trembled slightly. "Comrade Commander, the German bomb drilled into the 131st area and exploded! There was a large area of ​​collapse there, and there were heavy casualties."

"What?! Drilled into the 131st area?!" Minyuk exclaimed in disbelief, and stood up and hurried to the huge map hanging on the wall. This map was a map of Moscow's underground fortifications. He searched carefully and found the 131st area. "How could the German bombs get here?! Is it a bunker buster?!" As mentioned earlier, the Moscow Metro can accommodate more than four million people, and as the war progressed, it was urgently expanded, barely able to accommodate nearly 10 million soldiers and civilians today. But these expanded underground fortifications are just like the subway lines, deep underground, how could the German bombs get in? !

In fact, they are not too unfamiliar with bunker busters, because the Germans also used a lot of bunker busters when attacking Smolensk, Leningrad, and Stalingrad; especially at the last moment of the Battle of Leningrad, a bunker buster happened to get into the underground command post of Leningrad Guard Commander Mikhail Semenovich Khozin, killing everyone inside. But the underground fortifications of these three cities are only 20 to 30 meters deep, and the 131st District is 50 meters above the ground. How could a bomb get into this depth? !

A staff officer said uncertainly. "Could it be that the Germans used some special bombs?" Since the outbreak of the war, the Germans have been producing new weapons one after another. "I heard that the Germans destroyed the Eben-Emael Fortress in Belgium with a single bomb. The British Gibraltar Fortress was also breached by this bomb." Although the specific situation is unknown, the rumor is like this.

But he really guessed right. The German bombers dropped the "Grand Slam" super bomb. Because in this Soviet-German war, the German army did not encounter any tough bones like the Brest Fortress in the original time and space, so this "Grand Slam" super bomb was not used. And this thing cannot be produced on an assembly line. So far, only 200 have been produced.

But this time, the upgraded "Grand Slam" 0 version was thrown.

In order for a bunker-buster to penetrate deeply into some buildings or the surface and explode, it must have three special capabilities, one is high speed, the other is high strength, and the last one is a delayed fuse.

In order to achieve a higher speed, the rocket thruster at the tail of the Grand Slam 0 version bomb has also been upgraded, doubling the terminal speed of 1,800 kilometers per hour of the 0 version, approaching three times the speed of sound.

High strength means that the super-pointed warhead and body structure of the bunker buster are extremely hard, harder than ordinary reinforced concrete or even steel plate armor, so that it can easily penetrate obstacles when it comes into contact; the warhead of the Grand Slam 0 version uses an extremely hard tungsten alloy.

High speed and high strength alone cannot guarantee that the bunker buster can explode after penetrating into the interior of an object. The delayed fuze is its last resort. This fuze can explode after a set time after being triggered. The trinity of high speed, high strength and delayed fuze can bring out the maximum power of the bunker buster.

This time, the German army sent 5 B-36 bombers and dropped five "Grand Slam" 0 super bombs. One of them penetrated the 50-meter-thick soil layer and drilled into Area 131. The other two collapsed two underground fortifications. As for the remaining two, they only blew two large pits on the ground.

After listening to the full report, Minyuk looked at Zhukov nervously. "Comrade Commander, do we have to move down two floors?" Although they were 70 meters underground, who could guarantee that the Germans' bunker-buster bombs would not hit this depth? What if a bunker-buster bomb hit them all, it would be too pathetic to die!

"..." Zhukov nodded and agreed to his proposal.

Just as he was about to get up and leave, the phone on the table rang.

Minyuk picked up the phone and listened to two rings, then looked at Zhukov. "It's Comrade Malenkov. Comrade Stalin asked what happened to the explosion just now?"

Zhukov sighed. "Report truthfully, tell him that the penetration depth of the German bunker-buster will not exceed 50 meters." Of course, he didn't know how deep the German bunker-buster could penetrate, but if he didn't say that, Comrade Stalin would probably be hysterical again.

As he expected, Stalin was shocked and angry when he heard that it was the German bunker-buster that drilled in and exploded, and immediately asked Malenkov to find Molotov.

Malenkov didn't know what the point of finding Comrade Molotov at this time was. Could it be that he asked him to send a telegram to the Americans to urge them to land in Europe quickly?

But when the call was made to Molotov's office, it was his secretary who answered the call.

"Where is Comrade Molotov?"

"Comrade Malenkov, Comrade Molotov didn't come to work today."

"Didn't come to work? Is he sick? Go to his place right away." Malenkov was quite concerned about this "comrade".

"Yes, Comrade Malenkov, I'll go check it out right away."