Daming 1805

The demilitarized zone on the western border between the Ming Dynasty and Lucia is the Ural Mountains and Ural River line, with an area of ​​[-] kilometers on each side on the east and west sides.

The total width from east to west is [-] kilometers, and the total length from north to south is nearly [-] kilometers.

However, the northernmost end of the mountain range has entered the Arctic Circle, and both sides of the northern half of the mountain range are basically uninhabited wilderness.

After all, the Ural Mountains are a mountain range. Without modern roads and railways, vehicles of all kinds cannot pass through it quickly.

Therefore, the main combat task of the troops responsible for the northern half of the demilitarized zone is to take over their own residential areas and transportation lines and set up defenses.

The main offensive battles were concentrated in the southern half, especially the southernmost banks of the Ural River.

The most critical competition targets are the Volga-Urals Oil Field and the Free Trade Zone, which are the most prosperous places on the border between Daming and Lucia.

This area is also Lucia's absolute favorite.

Since the end of the World War 19 years ago and the separation of the Xianbei Principality, the Lucians have begun to build military bases on the edge of the Demilitarized Zone as a border defense base against the Ming Dynasty.

After oil resources were discovered locally, a joint development cooperation agreement was signed with Daming, and an international free trade zone was established, Lucia once again increased investment in construction here.

On the western side of the border of the demilitarized zone in Lucia, approximately on both sides of the banks of the Volga River, from the Caspian Sea coast to the western side of the Ural Mountains.

In this arc-shaped area with a length of about [-] kilometers, three large areas of special urban residential areas and corresponding supporting facilities have been built.

In name, it is to cooperate with the development of the free trade zone and urban construction, and it is also a natural place to garrison troops when needed.

The Ming side is actually doing the same thing.

After the beginning of the West-West War, the Lucians began to strengthen the fortress defense here, built a large number of fortifications, continued to increase troops, and constantly replenished military supplies.

Now these three urban areas have been built into a group of military fortresses.

When the Ming Dynasty officially declared war on Germany, Lucia, and Italy, they gathered more than 150 million soldiers in the three fortress groups and surrounding military camps.

There are also tens of thousands of armored vehicles of various types, tens of thousands of combat aircraft of various types, and more than [-] artillery pieces of various types.

Among the three fortress groups, the northernmost one should be prepared for targeted non-military control of Lucia and the foot of the Ural Mountains.

The main goal of the two fortress groups in the south is to accumulate the power to attack the Ming Dynasty while doing local defense.

The Ming Dynasty's declaration of war was obviously a bit sudden for Lucia, Germany, and Italy.

When the war officially started, most of the soldiers near these three large military bases were still inside the bases and were not launching offensive or defensive lines.

After receiving the order, we began to quickly transport personnel out.

Some of them spread out to take over the demilitarized zone, and some of them moved quickly towards the east, trying to rush into the demilitarized zone on the Ming side.

The target of the main force is to prepare a battle line on the border.

Lucia and the Germans felt that Ming's attack should come faster, but it shouldn't be much faster than themselves.

The speed and endurance of ground combat vehicles are relatively limited, and the flying speeds of fighter jets and transport aircraft are not far apart. The two sides should arrive near the national border at about the same time.

It's just that the implementation is that Ming's jets are nearly twice as fast as the Lucians.

The battle between the two air forces broke out deep into Lucia.

As for the situation on the ground, the army units on both sides have not yet encountered each other, but the battle may have actually begun or is even about to end.

The commander of Ming Dynasty knew that Lucia had several super fortress groups here.

The staff officers responsible for specific tactical planning made suggestions to the commander-in-chief Yang Yuchun when formulating detailed combat plans.

They believe that even though the Ming Dynasty has more powerful conventional armed forces, it should be able to have a high exchange ratio when fighting head-on with Lucia and the German army.

But this kind of fortress group is really huge, and the number of soldiers stationed there and the amount of weapons and equipment hoarded are also too huge.

If it were allowed to exert its full power, if the Ming Dynasty relied on conventional forces to capture this fortress group, the number of soldiers lost would definitely be hundreds of thousands.

The key is that the Ming Dynasty suddenly declared war, and the large number of soldiers in the fortress had not yet been fully deployed and distributed to the entire front.

They will be highly concentrated when the war begins——

There may be nearly 200 million Lucian-German coalition troops in the entire Ural theater, and more than half of them should be in and around these three fortress groups.

Very suitable for concentrated destruction using weapons of mass destruction.

Therefore, when they formulated the battle plan, they proposed that the Forbidden Army come forward to clear out the entire fortress directly to avoid the casualties of [-] Ming soldiers.

Similar to the situation, there is a group of fortresses at the intersection of the Caspian Sea coast in the Caucasus region of Lucia and the Caspian Sea coast in the north of the Baku oil field of the Persian vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

This is obviously a defensive fortress group used to prevent the Ming Dynasty from attacking the Caucasus.

There is also a group of fortresses built after Lucia occupied the Ottomans in the valley on the south side of the Caucasus Mountains facing Persia at the junction of Lucia and the former Ottoman state.

This should be a base used to store soldiers and supplies for attacking Persia.

Finally, there is the former junction between the Ottomans and the Great Food Kingdom, the fortress group in the upper reaches of the two river basins, and the fortress group on the east coast of the Great Qin Sea, which were expanded on the basis of the original Ottoman cities and fortresses.

They should be used as bases to attack the two river basins of the Great Food Country and the east coast of the Great Qin Sea.

Lucia, Germany, and Italy also organized hundreds of thousands of soldiers in these military bases and fortresses, and made tens of thousands of large-scale military preparations.

Including the three fortress groups in the Ural region, the total number of soldiers in these seven large military bases may be nearly 300 million, and the total number of major equipment such as artillery, vehicles, and aircraft exceeds [-].

If the Ming Dynasty really used conventional forces to attack these fortresses and military camps, the number of soldiers lost might be more than 30.

Therefore, it is recommended to use new elemental weapons to directly destroy them at the beginning of the war.

Yang Yuchun approved this judgment and analysis, so when he submitted the completed combat plan to the emperor for approval, he directly attached an application for the use of new elemental weapons.

After Zhu Jingyuan carefully reviewed the plan, he basically did not put forward any opinions on the details or direction. He directly approved the combat plan itself and also approved the application for the use of new element weapons.

When the new element weapon itself is not restricted by external factors, this is a natural and normal use method.

Zhu Jingyuan and Yang Yuchun both felt that this should be called efficient——

However, Zhu Jingyuan still reminded in his approval reply that the cleanest two-phase hydrogen bomb should be used first and detonated in the air above 1000 meters.

Unless absolutely necessary, do not use ordinary atomic bombs and three-phase bombs, and do not directly hit the ground or sea.

Daming's hydrogen bomb industry, like the atomic bomb industry, had already established a production line of sufficient scale before the test explosion, and there were countless raw materials.

After completing the test explosion verification experiment, the production of hydrogen bombs directly entered the fast lane.

From November last year to February this year, the factory produced a batch of two-phase hydrogen bombs as quickly as possible, and they were airlifted to the Forbidden Army on the front line at the end of January.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's instructions, although three-phase bombs are more powerful, in order to avoid nuclear contamination, it is best not to use them in actual combat.

Therefore, these hydrogen bombs aimed at actual combat are purely two-phase bombs.

The uranium [-] coating on the outer shell was replaced with lead.

As the trigger and detonator of the primary atomic bomb, the body size has been compressed to as small as possible, and the mass of the nuclear charge used has been as small as possible.

When an atomic bomb is used as a trigger, the actual reaction ratio can be further increased by the reflection after the secondary thermonuclear reaction occurs.

The probability and severity of possible nuclear contamination have been reduced to the lowest possible level.

According to the experience gained from experiments related to the new element project, pure nuclear raw materials that have not yet been refined or used, as well as pure fission products that have been completely reacted, will not produce obvious nuclear pollution.

The most serious nuclear pollution is the reacting nuclear fuel and the half-reacted nuclear fuel.

Therefore, the nuclear radiation pollution caused by leakage and loss of control of nuclear power plants is countless times more serious than direct bombing by nuclear weapons.

Because a nuclear power plant requires the nuclear fuel to react slowly and continuously, continuously releasing heat to boil water to drive the steam turbine to generate electricity.

The pursuit of nuclear weapons is exactly the opposite. It is to release as much energy as possible in the shortest possible time and with as little fuel as possible.

It is inevitable to pursue the fastest possible response speed and the highest possible response ratio.

At the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, the two plant areas where the nuclear leak occurred directly turned into no man's land.

Red Lucia dealt with the Chernobyl accident, and a large amount of military equipment and materials discarded after use were illegally recycled by criminals and then flowed into the steel recycling industry.

It eventually became the main source of radioactive contamination in the steel industry at that time.

On the contrary, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the nuclear explosion occurred, seem to have become tourist cities in Zhu Jingyuan's memory.

The atomic bombs that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the earliest atomic bombs with the lowest reaction efficiency. The level of nuclear contamination can be regarded as very high among nuclear weapons.

The two-phase hydrogen bomb that Ming Dynasty has developed is expected to produce the lowest radioactive contamination among nuclear weapons.

Although the power is slightly lower than the three-phase bomb of the same weight, the maximum yield has been directly reduced from 500 million tons to just over 200 million tons.

But this gap will not make much difference in actual combat.

Because the killing radius of a nuclear strike is proportional to the cube of the yield.

On this basis, the most harmful factor in nuclear pollution caused by nuclear weapons is the radiation fallout after nuclear explosions.

That is, dust contaminated with radioactive elements and particles.

A very simple truth is that the closer a nuclear explosion is to the ground, the more radiation fallout will be produced.

In other words, the amount of radiation fallout is inversely proportional to the height of the explosion.

When the height of a nuclear explosion exceeds a critical value, no radiation fallout will be produced at all.

In most cases, when pursuing the maximum strike range, the ideal height of a nuclear explosion exceeds the critical height for radiation fallout.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the use of nuclear weapons will not directly produce radiation fallout.

Only when attacking fortified fortresses and fortresses may it be possible to use nuclear weapons to directly attack the fortress building itself.

And when the goal is to create radioactive fallout and use radioactive fallout to kill the population, the nuclear strike method of ground explosion will be used.

In 2006, two American think tanks, the Federation of Scientists (FAS) and the Natural Resources Council (NRDC), the authoritative U.S. intelligence analysis organizations, published a book on nuclear war titled "China's Nuclear Power and the U.S. Nuclear War Plan" Simulation report.

Among them, it is assumed that China uses 20 DF5 missiles carrying 20 three-phase warheads with a yield of 400 million tons to strike the United States mainland.

These warheads all use the method of ground explosion to directly hit the ground. The 20 huge mushroom clouds generated after the explosion will produce massive amounts of radiation dust.Under the right circumstances, radioactive dust can travel thousands of kilometers along the monsoon winds, covering more than half of the United States.

Over a vast area of ​​millions of square kilometers, hundreds of millions of people will be affected by radiation fallout.

The death toll could exceed 5000 million.

The scope of influence of this attack method can be said to be very large, but its shortcomings are also very obvious.

Radiation fallout is not an instantaneous hard kill. This dust is like powdered poison scattered in the air. The key is that this poison still has a time effect.

The number of 5000 million deaths seems very scary, but this number is the most ideal killing effect.

It's equivalent to the result of everyone doing nothing after a nuclear explosion and just standing and waiting to die.

If ordinary people discover an explosion, they immediately hide in radiation-proof bunkers, subways, basements, etc., or wear corresponding protective clothing.
Then these people will basically not be significantly affected.

Forty-eight hours after the explosion ends, the radiation intensity of the fallout will be reduced to one percent of the initial level.

As long as you survive the first 48 hours in the basement, ordinary people can basically avoid casualties due to radiation fallout.

However, ordinary people in this world still have no understanding of nuclear weapons.

If the Ming Dynasty used a three-phase bomb to hit the ground and explode, and directly hit the mainland of the western mainland, there would be a chance to achieve an almost ideal killing effect.

There is a chance that hundreds of millions of Thai people will be killed or seriously injured in a few days.

After the establishment of the Ming Forbidden Army, the Military Aircraft Department also discussed similar forms of combat plans and formed some tactical reference documents.

But doing so is obviously anti-humanity.

Although Zhu Jingyuan's ideal is to want land but not people, he will not kill ordinary people at will without restrictions.

Nor do we want a continent covered in radiation fallout.

What's more, radiation fallout is uncontrollable and is likely to blow to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty with the westerly wind.

More importantly, there are the Ming people in the Western countries.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan never approved a ground-explosion nuclear strike plan aimed at killing the population.

Zhu Jingyuan always recommended the use of nuclear weapons by air blast.

Even if Yang Yuchun wants to attack Lucia's military fortress, this is a completely normal military operation.

Zhu Jingyuan also requested that air blasts be used as much as possible, but he was only allowed to blast a few more.

Therefore, before the war began, Yang Yuchun applied for sixteen two-phase clean hydrogen bombs with a yield of 200 million tons, and the same number of ballistic missiles with a range of one thousand kilometers.

Before the war began, Yang Yuchun determined the target for attack with the Forbidden Army and asked them to deploy the missiles in advance.

For special strategic weapons such as hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs, their key charges and detonators are stored separately in peacetime, and are managed and preserved by different units within the Forbidden Army.

It will only be formally assembled when it enters actual combat status.

The liquid fuel of early missiles was stored separately before use, and was only injected into the missile casing when it was officially deployed.

So these things have to be prepared in advance.

Ming's participation in the war was not sudden, but was prepared in advance.

When the war officially started, Yang Yuchun directly issued an order to the Forbidden Army to first attack one of the seven fortress groups.

When this order is sent to the Forbidden Army responsible for its execution, it will also be sent directly to Zhu Jingyuan.

What was given to the Forbidden Army was an order, and what was given to Zhu Jingyuan was, of course, an application for permission.

All new elemental weapons of the Custodes must again seek permission from the Emperor before they are finally launched in conventional warfare.

Zhu Jingyuan was also waiting for this moment. After seeing the news, he directly replied to the Forbidden Army and could start the launch.

The personnel responsible for launching missiles from the Forbidden Army confirmed Yang Yuchun's order, Zhu Jingyuan's response and permission information in turn.

After confirming that the orders and permissions of both parties were the same and that they were within the combat plan approved and issued in advance, the launch procedure was officially launched.

From three launch sites thousands of kilometers apart, a total of seven missiles rose into the sky with billowing smoke and dust.

During the ascent, adjust the flight angle and turn in the direction of their respective targets.

Under the blazing flames, the speed of the missile continued to increase, increasing to more than three kilometers per second.

When the speed reaches the design limit of the missile, the missile's engine shuts down.

In most cases, ballistic missiles only use fuel to propel the missile into flight when accelerating.

Most of the remaining voyage depends on inertia.

Therefore, controlling the accuracy of missiles is a relatively difficult point.

The final range of a ballistic missile is basically directly related to the speed of the missile when the engine is shut down.

Ballistic missiles fly much higher than jet aircraft, so missiles are difficult to see from the ground after they reach high altitudes during the day.

Coupled with the terrifying speed of more than nine times the speed of sound, ordinary aircraft have no chance to capture its traces.

These seven missiles quickly surpassed the Ming Dynasty aircraft rushing to the battlefield and continued to fly towards their target location.

On the current border of Lucia, in seven huge fortress groups and military camp groups, densely packed soldiers are leaving the camps and heading to predetermined positions to fill the front line.

The entire camp was filled with noisy voices, harsh trumpet speeches and orders, and the roar of various engines.

The alert aircraft has taken off, and more fighter jets participating in the battle are continuing to take off.

Although most of the soldiers and officers knew that the war had broken out, they instinctively felt that the camp was safe for the time being.

In the first few days of the battle, the main goal of both sides must be to seize the demilitarized zone and organize a defensive or offensive line.

In addition to the air force, actual engagement and fighting by ground forces would have to wait several days.

The key is that in everyone's mind, there is no concept of a weapon that can directly destroy the city, and there is no corresponding understanding or imagination at all.

Ming Dynasty's ballistic missile fell from an altitude of tens of thousands of meters and exploded at an altitude of more than 1000 meters above the fortress group.

When a blazing ray of light almost covered the sun, the soldiers who were noisily rushing off to the battlefield below began to realize what seemed to be happening in the sky.

Then that was it, their consciousness basically stayed at this second.

All kinds of aircraft over the camp were the first to bear the brunt. Within a radius of a few kilometers, hundreds of thousands of aircraft were like small bugs falling into the molten iron.

It turned into fly ash in an instant, leaving no residue at all.

It can be seen that the effect of nuclear air defense is extremely terrifying. Unfortunately, it is difficult to use it above your own camp.

What followed was a terrifying shock wave, a wave of pure energy that was almost visible to the naked eye that was usually hard to see, and passed through the buildings and people in the fortress camp below in the blink of an eye.

As a result, almost all buildings within a radius of five kilometers instantly turned into ruins.

The people, tanks, aircraft, and various equipment among them all turned into inconspicuous little sparks in the huge fire.

A little further away, within a range of a few kilometers to more than ten kilometers, ultra-high photothermal radiation ignites everything that can be ignited.

The extremely terrifying flames seemed to appear out of thin air, and at the same time spread like a tsunami under the influence of the terrifying shock wave.

The entire world where the military camp was located seemed to have turned into an endless sea of ​​fire.

There were continuous explosions in the sea of ​​fire.

At this time, the military camps and fortresses were not designed to withstand the explosion of nuclear weapons. In addition, sufficient supplies were imported and hoarded in the future, and as many manpower as possible were organized and prepared as soon as possible. Many constructions were very simple and crude.

Therefore, a large amount of supplies and equipment are piled directly in the open space outdoors, and a large number of soldiers live in outdoor tents.

This caused the fire storm to be particularly violent.

The ammunition in the ammunition depot, the fuel in the fuel depot, and various daily necessities and supplies caused continuous explosions and continuous flames.

The scope of the sea of ​​​​fire is approximately a circle with a radius of sixteen kilometers.

Some of the people on the edge of the ring could escape by luck, but they were already outside the fortress area.

The park with a radius of 800 kilometers covers an area of ​​more than 400 square kilometers, and the entire Haidian District only covers an area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers.

Only those airmen who were the first to set off and leave the camp for the battlefield were indeed lucky enough to escape this disaster.

But they soon encountered the Ming Dynasty's air force.

So they were quickly wiped out by Ming Dynasty's new air force soldiers like Wu Xiongying.

As for the inside of the camp in the fortress area, it was a complete purgatory on earth.

When the explosion occurred, most of the soldiers were preparing to go out to assemble, and they did not have much awareness of evasion at the time.

The appearance of missiles at nine times the speed of sound was particularly sudden. There was no equipment in the military camp to detect these missiles, and of course there was no early warning.

So, when the huge mushroom cloud slowly took shape, the seven huge fortress groups had basically turned into seven ruins.

The total number of soldiers may exceed 300 million, and more than 200 million were directly killed in this round of strikes.

Some of the remaining soldiers were very lucky not to die immediately due to various reasons, but most of them were severely burned or seriously injured.

If these people do not receive immediate treatment, most of them will die within the next few hours.

It is basically impossible for them to receive treatment.

Therefore, the seven hydrogen bombs sent by the Forbidden Army can be said to have directly eliminated at least 300 million enemies.

The existing armies of Germany, Lucia, and Italy have been directly reduced by more than one-third, and most of them are elite troops.

The key is that most of the entire eastern front will become a vacuum.