Chapter 1483: Good News and Bad News
“Earthquake?”
There was a tremor right above the multimedia room.
It was the second time that happened.
Celestial Trade launched a large-scale offensive against C City. After the wartime committee composed of officials and military officers received the latest information, they immediately convened a combat meeting.
However, the noise that came from the outside from time to time always interrupted the meeting.
The ongoing combat meeting was forced to stop again. This time everyone stopped what they were doing and listened quietly, as they tried to figure out what happened above. Mike Pence, who sat in the first row, frowned slightly, and the tip of the pen above his notebook stopped mid-air, and he soon heard a faint roar.
“d.a.m.nit, I don’t have a good feeling about this,” when an officer heard the faint roar, he cursed with his voice lowered.
When the colleague next to him heard it, he whispered comfortingly.
“Take it easy, it’s more than 400 meters of thick granite, and there is a steel protective belt. Even if they used the s.p.a.ce-based weapon, it’s impossible to penetrate such thick protection. Our geological experts have a.n.a.lyzed the longitudinal strike depth of the tungsten rod projectile, at most they…”
As they spoke, the ceiling shook violently again.
“d.a.m.nit, what are they doing…”
Mike Pence listened to the discussion inside the multimedia room, then looked to the Secretary of Defense standing under the projector and frowned.
“Mattis, I want to know what is happening outside.”
Just as James Mattis was about to speak, there were rapid footsteps outside the door.
Quickly after, an officer of the Department of Defense opened the door to the room, walked in, and reported in a quickened tone.
“Report! Just now Unit 721 has made contact with us. The special forces of Celestial Trade raided the radar station directly above the military base, and…”
“And?” Mattis frowned.
The officer hesitated for a second before he said, “They dropped a huge drill directly above us.”
Obviously, he also felt quite bizarre about the report from Unit 721.
“Drill?”
The officials and officers in the multimedia room looked at each other in confusion.
It was just whimsical to use a drill to penetrate through the sh.e.l.l of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. Could it be that Celestial Trade was so foolish that they naively thought they could break into the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, which was known as the world’s most secure air-defense facility, with a drill?
“Drill? Is it the one on Mars?” Mike Pence frowned.
Different from others, as the President, he remembered that he heard an incident from the Director of NASA not long ago. It seemed that Celestial Trade deployed a drill rig larger than two locomotives on the Mars colony to dig tunnels on Mars to fight with the Devil Worms that lurked deep underground.
Although he was skeptical that Celestial Trade could penetrate the defense of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the fact that these people never failed before made him question his skepticism.
Mike Pence did not say much more and just ordered emotionlessly.
“Get the C State National Guard to hurry up.”
“ROGER!”
The officer saluted, turned around, and ran towards the command center outside the multimedia room.
After Mike Pence gave this order, his hanging heart finally eased slightly. Even the faint roar was not so annoying to his ears. No matter what the enemy was thinking, when hundreds of rockets cover the top of Cheyenne Mountain, all conspiracies would be turned into ashes.
No one could survive that purgatory.
NO ONE!
Mike Pence had no doubt in his mind.
He always believed that the Statue of Freedom would eventually bless the star-spangled flag and protect the land of freedom as it had done countless times in history.
No matter the price paid, they would eventually win——
BOOM!
There was a violent tremor right above the multimedia room. Unlike the past, the tremor lasted for a full half a minute, and at the end, it was accompanied by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. The officials and officers inside the room all grabbed onto their seats or the tables around them. Some that did not sit properly were knocked down to the ground.
Then, a shrill alarm echoed through the corridors inside the complex.
Only under one condition would such an alarm sound inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
The look of shock and horror swayed in his constricted pupils, Mike Pence looked at the slightly shaken ceiling and exclaimed out.
“IT’S IMPOSSIBLE… HOW IS IT POSSIBLE! HOW DID THEY DO IT!”
…
Daybreak in C City.
The twelve-hour offensive finally stopped and only one or two sniper shots occasionally fired on the empty battlefield.
The b.l.o.o.d.y battle turned the former bustling streets into devastated ruins.
More than 3,000 UA soldiers were killed on the first day of battle, and nearly 10,000 were injured.
The exhausted soldiers dropped the weapon in their hands, removed their helmets, leaned on the bunker behind them, slowly sat down on the ground, and stared at the unrecognizable street in a daze. Some people lit a cigarette silently, some closed their eyes to rest their minds, and some prayed in a low voice, or wept to a photo…
Sorrow pervaded behind the fragmented trenches and sandbags. The soldiers on the front line silently took over the bread and hot tea in the hands of the logistics and hurriedly ate breakfast. Most people chose to rest for a while and recharge their energy. Perhaps ten minutes later, another battle was waiting for them.
Maybe in half an hour, this breakfast would be their last memory…
Slightly different from the mood of the UA military, the morale on Celestial Trade’s side was more uplifting. However, the soldiers who withdrew from the front line were mostly silent, and they were nowhere as relaxed as they were at the start. The damaged power armors were sent to a maintenance workshop for repair, and the damaged kinetic skeletons were directly replaced.
Most of the sc.r.a.pped equipment was drones. Although many soldiers were injured, very few died…
At least, the casualty was much less than their opposing side.
Different from the violent airborne landings in Capital, Nouveau York, and P City, in the suburbs of C City, the boys of Celestial Trade finally encountered resistance. The UA military had been preparing for this “decisive battle” for a long time. Tank traps and sandbags were placed on the main roads, and even foxholes and trenches had been dug to avoid explosives at the expense of the road.
Not only that, but they also deployed atomic demolition munition…
Maybe the UA soldiers themselves did not expect that this kind of unique weapon developed as a response to Soviet nuclear deterrence would really be used one day.
In the twelve-hour battle, Celestial Trade only managed to push forward by 800 meters. It was evidence that showed the bloodiness and fierceness of the battle.
Unlike Celestial Trade and UA soldiers, the Moro soldiers were extremely thrilled. Even though they suffered a lot of casualties during the first day of the offensive, the power of hatred made them unfearful of death. From the moment they set their foot on this land, their emotions were never calm.
Time pa.s.sed second by second. At about nine o’clock, artilleries exploded, and the air that engulfed the battlefield suddenly became more deadly.
The soldiers who were resting opened their eyes one after another, then they picked up their weapons in silence.
However, just when everyone was ready to fight to the death, the original combat mission was temporarily canceled.
Good news came from C State.
Although the news was undoubtedly bad news for the UA soldiers battling on the streets of C City…