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USA, Washington.

"Mr. President, here is today's public opinion report."

Simon, the presidential assistant, carried a large pile of reports to Truman's desk, but Truman frowned and was alone there, thinking about some major national event.

It was early in the morning, and Simon didn't expect Truman to get off work so late. But when he thought about it carefully, the president's face clearly showed that he had encountered some difficulties, and his face was dull, as if something was weighing on his heart. As a result,

Assistant to the President, one of his jobs is to solve problems for the President.[

However, perhaps to ordinary people, Truman is a lofty American president, dominating the American continent, but to Simon, he is just an old man, a leader who is at the helm of the United States, very good at listening to other people's opinions, and very decisive.

"Simon, put it here first."

Truman suddenly discovered that at this critical moment, he could not find his usual generals and ministers, but this wise assistant appeared in front of him in time.

"Mr. President, what happened?"

In the past few years in the White House, from when Truman was still the Vice President, Simon rarely saw him frowning and having a dull look on his face. Generally, this situation was either related to the defeat in the war or to the people's anti-government sentiment.

Truman said slowly, "At about 3 a.m. European time, that is, in the evening Washington time, the Germans used extremely large-scale biological and chemical weapons to attack Moscow, Leningrad and other strategic locations."

"Is the loss really too great to accept? Mr. President."

Although Simon is an assistant to the president, he does not have first-hand information after all.

Truman nodded, handed him an emergency assessment report, and said, "There are more than 2.7 million Allied troops in the two strategic locations of Moscow and Leningrad. Now at least one-third of the people in these two battlefields are being poisoned.

Injured, other people are waiting for rescue, maybe..."

Simon quickly looked through the data and found that the number of U.S. troops in the two strategic cities was only about half a million. After all, heavy U.S. troops were concentrated north of Moscow to confront the Chinese.

They must not dare to air-drop poison gas onto the Chinese positions, or even nearby.

Simon thought so.

Sure enough, he looked through it, and the report specifically stated that in the battlefield area north of Moscow where the Chinese were, the Germans did not drop even a single stone, let alone poison gas.

Excluding the losses in Moscow and the huge losses in Leningrad, when these two ruined fortresses faced a very large-scale poison gas war, although it cannot be said that the entire city was wiped out, they definitely suffered high casualties. Other rear military camps also suffered different consequences.

level of poison gas attack.

"Germans are butchers!!"

Simon's face turned pale with anger. He could not imagine the huge losses on the front line. Only then did he understand why even someone as strong as Truman would have dull moments.

"I have given orders authorizing General Patton to launch a counterattack in any form."

Truman said calmly.

"Does it include attacks on German soil?"[

Simon thought of the B-29 strategic bombers deployed by the US military behind Leningrad and at the Soviet Arctic Ocean coastal airports, and couldn't help but say.

"Yes, in the latest telegram, General Patton once again confirmed to me the counterattack plan to use B-29 strategic bombers to attack Berlin with poison gas. The plan will mainly paralyze the Germans, and retaliation will be carried out suddenly at a later date."

Truman nodded and said.

Simon: "German Berlin will tremble under the bombing of B-29s."

He said affirmatively, and Truman nodded in return.

The Allied forces' poison gas on the front line, or the poison gas stored within 1,000 kilometers of the front-line battlefield, is actually no less than that of the German army, and is even of higher quality. It's just that it has not been used, but this time, he is ready to use it.

However, as the presidential assistant, Simon also thought of a very difficult question, "But, Mr. President, the Chinese have atoms, and they are allies. If we use poison gas to attack the German mainland, will it catalyze the completion of nuclear weapons between them?"

Lease negotiations?”

"I have also considered this issue, but Simon, you should probably also notice that the war should be over at this time, yes, it should be over."

Truman, a cunning person, would certainly notice the problems here, so when he responded to the confirmation message, he requested that chemical warfare retaliation be carried out on German soil as late as tomorrow evening local time. In other words, the Allies still had one day.

, and the Germans only have one day.

"Mr. President, General Eisenhower is here."

The staff reported that soon Eisenhower came in. The situation in the United States was unstable recently. Hundreds of robberies, arson, and even attacks on police and patrolling troops broke out every day in Washington alone. "Chaos" has appeared in the United States.

, Eisenhower, as the commander of the Allied Forces, naturally knew this, but he felt that he could not mobilize the army to suppress those people on a large scale, or that those people had not yet come into contact with the US government and the military.

Bottom line.

Later, Marshall and others also came, including the earliest Simon, and a simple overnight meeting was held in the president's temporary office. The meeting was very simple, even the seats were simple sofas, but the issues discussed were very

major.

"Gentlemen, I think it is time to surrender to the Chinese terms."

Truman brought up this shocking topic when he first came up, but it was not surprising. At this point in the war, the Chinese people's atoms were still hanging high on their heads, with no hope of victory in sight. Perhaps surrender would be a very difficult decision.

Good choice.

"Gentlemen, I think it's time to surrender, which doesn't mean that the United States has reached the time to fight with France. On the contrary, I want to preserve the last bit of strength of the United States.

The war continues, just as we had planned to use atomic attacks on Hanking and Berlin two or three years ago after the successful development of atomic weapons. In turn, the possibility of nuclear attacks on the United States mainland at such a difficult time will be greatly reduced.

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Truman paused for a moment and said, "Especially now, when a limited poison gas war breaks out between us. Maybe some of you question my decision to fight back and retaliate, but if we don't fight back or retaliate, the U.S. government will fight back faster."

It collapsed at such a speed that it was not 500 soldiers, not 5,000 soldiers, but nearly 3 million Allied troops suffering from the poison gas."

"We have no way out, revenge is the only option." Eisenhower suddenly interjected.

"Yes, my general, retaliation and counterattack are our only options. Although the news is still blocked, once we respond passively, the US 'government' is likely to collapse tomorrow, and at that time, we will lose

After all, the new 'government' will overthrow the old regime just like the Germans did, and then the new regime will negotiate with them and surrender. We cannot allow this to happen."

Truman threw out his final bottom line, ensuring that the U.S. mainland would not be subject to nuclear attacks and that the U.S. "government" would not collapse or be overthrown.

After a serious discussion and many questions to Truman, everyone finally understood the issue raised by the president.

Eisenhower was the first to understand.[

President Truman believed that the Allied forces must take action when they suffered such a major poison gas war attack, otherwise the domestic situation would become more severe, and if treated weakly, even the "government" might collapse.

President Truman believed that retaliation against the Germans was necessary. First, retaliate against German frontline targets, and secondly, use the high-altitude and high-speed penetration capabilities of the B-29 strategic bomber to penetrate German cities such as Berlin at night.

, dropping poison gas. (During World War II, air operations

Among them, high-altitude and high-speed penetration was widely used and very easy to use. This continued until later, until the American high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft were shot down by the Red Army missiles, and more high-altitude and high-speed fighter aircraft were put into service, and bombers and reconnaissance aircraft were brought into service.

Begin to return to low-altitude and ultra-low-altitude penetration.)

Of course, President Truman considered that such an action would stimulate the Axis powers, which would probably lead to the Germans renting poison gas from the Chinese. Of course, the worse case scenario would be that Zhang Shusheng took the initiative to order a nuclear attack on the United States. In such a situation,

If either one of them happens, it will be a huge disaster.

The United States cannot gamble. The war has reached a point where it cannot continue.

During the retaliatory operation, one is to order the Allied forces to retreat. The other is, at the most critical moment, to agree to the Chinese conditions after the operation is successful and promise to surrender to China unilaterally.

This is the core idea proposed by Truman.

"Gentlemen, my expectation is that once our plan is successful, we will announce to the Chinese as soon as possible that we accept their terms and conditions for surrender.

The Germans are in the middle of a poison gas attack and have no absolute advantage over us, while the Chinese will stop any possible follow-up actions because of our surrender. This is a fluke, but it is necessary for the United States to maintain its vitality after the end of World War II.

Chosen."

Truman slowly expressed all his thoughts.

These plans were not something he spent a few hours thinking about, but months. From the time the Chinese put forward the conditions, he began to think about where this battlefield was going to go.

"Maybe this is the best way."

After discussing for a long time, Eisenhower spoke again, "Based on the distance between China and the United States, their nearest airports for strategic bombers to take off and land are all under our key monitoring, even if it is an aircraft that transfers at night.

There is no way to escape our intelligence.

So, of course, their bombing campaign will never come in time for us to announce our acceptance of the terms."

Everyone nodded. The President and General Eisenhower had obviously reached an agreement. Monitoring the Chinese airport was only one aspect. The most important thing was that they would accept the revenge operation as soon as it was successful. In this way, the Chinese nuclear bombers should not have time to move around.

, carried out nuclear bombing.

From a war perspective, even if things turn to the worst and nuclear bombers have already flown to the United States, as long as the United States announces its acceptance of their conditions and announces to the world its surrender to China, the atom will not fall.

After all, as the last line of insurance, the latest high-altitude detection radars secretly deployed by the United States on multiple islands can detect the flight altitude of strategic nuclear bombers. This is also one of the most secret weapons of the US military.

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I'm particularly sorry. After returning from my hometown, I stayed in the delivery room for five days and nights. I caught a cold that hasn't gone away. I have tonsillitis, sore throat, dizziness, and some signs of a viral cold. I feel dizzy. The air conditioner blew on me over the weekend.

It's even more serious. In the past two days, my coding status has not been serious.
Chapter completed!