Transmigrated as the Crown Prince - Chapter 1016 Confiscation (6)

“How about we just surrender? Maybe we can save our lives and property.”

“!!” Upon hearing the lieutenant governor’s proposal, the governor’s face suddenly became extremely ugly. Until the war broke out, he never worried about his livelihood. He even bought a lot of stocks and received a lot of dividends every year. But these stocks were all stocks of arms companies in the northeastern industrial zone. With the crazy bombing by the Germans, the entire northeastern industrial zone was bombed into ruins. These arms companies went bankrupt one after another, and the value of the stocks he said he held also disappeared instantly. It became 0.

Although there is still a lot of savings, the war has reached this point, inflation is inevitable in the United States, and prices are skyrocketing. Today, the price of rice and noodles on the market has increased to more than five times what it was before the war. It is often expensive and unavailable, and sometimes you have to pay a higher price to buy it on the black market.

He is still sitting in the position of governor, so food will naturally be given priority to these high-level government officials. However, if he surrenders to the German army, he may be immediately demoted to a commoner. At that time, his savings will only be enough to feed the family for a week, and this is assuming that the price of rice and noodles does not continue to rise. If the Germans did not distribute relief food, the whole family would have to eat dirt and bark.

How could he choose to surrender in this situation?

The lieutenant governor’s words caused a brief silence in the conference room. The governor was extremely nervous. Without the consent of most people present, as long as the commander of the Virginia garrison agreed to surrender, there was nothing anyone else could say. Most of the National Guard had previously been transferred to active duty, but now there are very few National Guard troops left at his disposal as a governor. “Commander Harris, what do you say?”

Commander Harris was frowning and smoking cigarettes without saying a word. When he heard the governor’s question, he put out the remaining half of the cigarette butts in the ashtray. “To be honest, it is difficult for us to stop the German army. Continuing to resist is nothing more than fearless sacrifice. And the Germans obviously don’t care about our resistance.” Otherwise, they would not have driven back the special envoys they sent. Perhaps the Germans viewed their resistance as nothing more than a mantis trying to defeat a chariot, and that was indeed the case.

“…” The governor’s heart suddenly became cold, and he began to imagine the scene of begging with his wife and children.

Commander Harris lit another cigarette. “But surrendering like this is really unacceptable. Maybe we should fight the Germans hard. Let them know our determination to resist, and maybe we can get better terms.”

Just as the governor breathed a sigh of relief, he heard the deputy governor mutter. “At the beginning, Washington tried to get good terms, but now they are all buried underground.” It has not been excavated yet. I heard that a plague broke out at the excavation site, and anyone who came close to it would be infected with a strange disease. Dozens of people died within days, and the excavation project was put on hold. I’m afraid they will be buried underground forever and will never see the light of day again.

There is only a Potomac River between the state of Virginia where they are located and the capital Washington. As long as Virginia is captured, the Germans will go straight to Washington, and they will not be kind enough to dig up those people underground. come out.

Just then a staff officer from the headquarters hurried in. “Commander, the radar station has detected enemy aircraft.”

“What?!” Commander Harris stood up. “Did you come here?!”

The others’ faces were a little pale. After all, they had experienced the consequences of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia before, and they were afraid that they would also be beheaded by the Germans. Many people have already stood up. As long as the staff officer answers that the enemy plane is flying here, they will be the first to run out and hide in a safe place.

Fortunately, the staff officer shook his head. “No, the enemy plane seems to be heading for the radar station.”

“Radar station?” Could it be that the Germans wanted to bomb their radar station? Virginia has a total of five radars, three of which are deployed along the coastline and the other two are deployed near the state capital, Richmond.

After a while, another staff officer hurried in. “Commander, Commander, our No. 1 and No. 2 radars were destroyed. The radar station said that the German plane crashed directly into the radar antenna.” No. 1 and No. 2 radars are the two deployed near Richmond.

“Directly hitting the radar antenna?” Commander Harris was stunned for a moment, then reacted. “It must be a German ‘flying bomb’! Are there any other planes?!”

“No other aircraft were detected.”

“This is a bit strange.” Commander Harris frowned deeply. The United States has been bombed by many flying bombs before. It is not difficult to see that these flying bombs are not accurate at all and can only bomb targets the size of cities, and many of them fall outside the city.

Why did the German flying bombs become so accurate this time?

Naturally, he didn’t know that these flying bombs were equipped with passive radar seekers.

In the original time and space of 1942, a German scientific research team headed by Dr. Richard Vogt tried to develop a glide bomb called the BV246 “Hail” so that it could be dropped beyond enemy anti-aircraft fire. This can not only attack the enemy camp without anyone noticing, but also ensure the safety of our own personnel. The most important thing is that it can cause serious psychological shadow to the enemy soldiers, because what is invisible is the most terrifying.

“Hailstone” was initially controlled by radio commands, but as the British began to master radio jamming technology, the plan had to be abandoned at the end of 1943. In early 1945, the “Hail” project was revived again. After the installation of a passive radar seeker, it became the most ideal anti-radar weapon. Out of 10 tests, 8 failed and two hit the target accurately, with an error of less than 2 meters.

The appearance of “Hail” is very simple, with a cigar-shaped fuselage, slender wings and a normally arranged tail. What’s surprising is that its two long main wings are made of reinforced concrete. Of course, there is a reason for this. The purpose is to cleanly separate the bomb and the carrier aircraft during release, so as to avoid danger caused by mutual interference. “Hail” has very good gliding performance, with a gliding ratio of 1:25, that is, when launched at an altitude of 7,000 meters, it can hit targets 175 kilometers away. If the carrier aircraft is launched at a higher altitude, the maximum attack distance can reach 200 kilometers.

It was just that the factory produced 1,000 “Hailstones”, but it was already approaching Germany’s surrender and there was no time to equip the troops.

Now, after several years of research and development, Germany’s dynamic radar seeker has gradually been improved. Although the hit rate is still not very good, if more than a dozen missiles are thrown at a time, one or two will always hit the radar antenna and destroy it.

“Have the German flying bombs been able to hit the target accurately?!” Waves of chills filled everyone’s hearts. Isn’t this just “taking the enemy’s head from thousands of miles away”? If the Germans wanted to bomb this place, they didn’t need to send bombers. They could just blast them into the sky by launching a few flying bombs!