Chapter 986 American Strategy (14)

Although Marshall showed extremely firm determination, no one could be optimistic. The Germans have such terrifying technology, and the situation is extremely serious and despairing!

If the Germans use this terrible technology on a large scale, think about how German soldiers can easily throw grenades with an explosive equivalent of several kilograms or dozens of kilograms of TNT, tank guns can easily fire shells with an explosive equivalent of hundreds of kilograms of TNT, and bombers can easily Dropping a bomb with the explosive equivalent of several thousand kilograms of TNT is a big deal! Our own soldiers can only be slaughtered.

Moreover, the Germans do not even need to fight on the ground. Bombing alone is enough to blow the entire United States into rubble. By then, let alone declining into a second- or third-rate country, I am afraid that it will be bombed directly back to the Stone Age and never recover!

Seeing the ugly expressions on everyone's faces, Marshall comforted them. "This kind of nuclear weapon of the Germans should be difficult to equip on a large scale." If it could be easily produced, wouldn't other countries have started research and development long ago? "Maybe like those carbon fiber bombs before..." Speaking of those abominable carbon fiber bombs, Marshall recalled how he was frightened by the German's bluff and paid thousands of tons of gold "protection fees" in vain.

Vice President Truman couldn't help but sigh. "But even if we build one a month, we can't afford it. Can our defenses withstand the explosive power of 50,000 tons of TNT?" Let's not talk about whether this kind of super bomb is really impossible to scale on a large scale as Marshall said. equipment, but even if they build one a month, the Germans will be able to build at least three such super bombs before the landing next year. When the landing battle is launched, dropping one of these super bombs on one's own defense lines must not be directly After destroying a large section of the defense line and wiping out all the defenders, how can they defend it!

MacArthur spoke. "We should strengthen the underground fortifications on the defense line." There is no other way. We can't let soldiers resist such terrible bombs on the ground, right? The existing underground fortifications obviously cannot withstand the bombardment of such super bombs. Even if the soldiers hide in then, they will only end up being buried alive. The only solution is to reinforce the existing underground fortifications. "Using a large amount of steel bars and reinforced concrete for support should be able to withstand the bombardment of this kind of bomb."

It sounds feasible, but there is still a problem, that is, they have run out of time. It's almost December, and there are only more than three months until next spring. How can they possibly reinforce all the underground fortifications in such a short period of time? But if there is only time to reinforce some of the underground fortifications, what will happen when the Germans land in areas that cannot be reinforced in the future? !

It is entirely possible with the intelligence capabilities of the Germans!

"We can't let our soldiers die in vain." We can't withdraw the defenders on these defense lines that will not be reinforced in the future. Wouldn't it be that these defense lines were built in vain.

Everyone could only sigh helplessly. If the conditions proposed by the Germans were not too harsh, they would have given up resistance long ago. But think about the fact that the Soviet Union was cut into pieces and divided up by the entire Europe not long ago. If the Germans also want to divide the United States into pieces, they can only bite the bullet and resist to the end. After all, no one wants to see the United States perish.

Just then Truman's secretary hurried in and reported. "Mr. Vice President, the Germans just said on the radio that the Panama Canal section has been cleared and they will start the widening project."

Vice President Truman was stunned when he heard this. "What, how did the Germans do it?!" Since a strange disease broke out in the Panama Canal section, the US government has sent several groups of medical teams, but without exception, they died suddenly there. How did the Germans clean up?

What's even more despicable is that the Panama Canal was painstakingly dug by the United States. It started in 1880, was completed in 1914, and was officially opened to navigation in 1920. During this period, hundreds of millions of dollars were spent. It's good now. It's only been ten years since this passage was snatched away by the Germans. These Germans seem to regard the Panama Canal as their own, and I'm afraid they don't even plan to pay a dime!

"Those nasty Krauts!"

A jeep drove slowly along the bank of the Panama Canal. The four people in the car were all wearing thick protective clothing and special gas masks. Except for the driver who was concentrating on driving, the other three people stared at the instruments in their hands.

Suddenly, the person in the passenger seat shouted. "parking!"

With a creak, the driver stepped on the brakes and the car stopped. The other three people got out of the car and walked around a few times, the pointer on the instrument shaking slightly. After a while they returned to the car again. "The radiation pollution here has not yet been completely eliminated, but it is within a safe range. Two more rains should be able to completely eliminate it." This is a rainy tropical climate, and it rains almost every day.

In this way, they walked back and forth along the 82-kilometer-long canal bank to check several times. "Okay, there's no big problem. Send a telegram to the boss and we can start construction."

Soon, the telegram was sent back to Berlin, and Speer came to see Yannick. "Your Highness, there is no big problem on the Panama Canal side, construction can start."

"Oh, let's get started."

In fact, as long as the gates damaged by the explosion are repaired, the canal can be restored to traffic, but Yannick wants to take this opportunity to widen the entire canal.

In this highly globalized world, Panama remains the lifeblood of the global economy. Hundreds of passenger ships, cargo ships and oil tankers pass through the Panama Canal every month.

Unfortunately, due to the insufficient navigation capacity of the canal, the size of the ship needs to adapt to the canal. It even affected the design and construction of American warships. When the US Navy built the Iowa-class battleship in the original time and space, in order to quickly mobilize between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, it was restricted by the Panama Canal locks and adopted the design measures of limiting the maximum width of the hull and lengthening the hull to carry a larger power unit.

With the development of world trade and the increasing busyness of maritime cargo, ship construction has also been continuously developing in the direction of large-scale. The width and draft of the Panama Canal have gradually failed to meet the shipping needs. The congestion of ships has become more and more serious, weakening the competitiveness of the canal. Ships that previously regarded the Panama Canal as a "must-pass" began to switch to new routes and began to bypass the Suez Canal in the opposite direction to the west. Therefore, the Panamanian government of later generations invested billions of dollars and spent nearly ten years to expand the canal.

Although the Suez Canal is now in the hands of Germany, Yannick still decided to start construction to expand the Panama Canal.

As Yannick's order was issued, transport ships loaded with various engineering equipment set sail from Europe to the Panama Canal, and the Americans could only stare blankly and do nothing.