Chapter 1,484 Good News and Bad News

"earthquake?"

There was a faint tremor directly above the multimedia screening room. Chen ♦ Yuan √ Literature · Xue ♦ Network

This is already the second time.

Starring Trading launched a large-scale offensive against Columbus, Ohio. After receiving intelligence from the front, a wartime committee composed of White House ministerial officials and Pentagon civil and military officers immediately held a combat meeting.

However, their meetings were always interrupted by noises coming from outside.

The ongoing combat meeting was forced to stop again. This time everyone stopped what they were doing and listened quietly, trying to hear the noise coming from above. Mike Pence, who was sitting in the front row, frowned slightly, and the pen tip hanging on the record book stopped, and soon he heard a faint roar.

"Damn, I have an ominous premonition." Listening to the faint roar, a Pentagon officer cursed in a low voice.

The colleague sitting next to him heard it and comforted him in a low voice.

"Relax, it is more than 400 meters thick granite and steel protective belts. Even space-based weapons cannot penetrate such thick protection. Our geological experts have analyzed the longitudinal impact of tungsten rod bullets Depth, at most they..."

While he was talking, the ceiling shook violently again.

"What the hell are they doing..."

Listening to the discussion in the screening room, Mike Pence looked at the Secretary of Defense standing under the projector, frowned and said.

"Matisse, I want to know what's going on out there."

James Mattis was just about to speak when there were rapid footsteps outside the door.

Not long after, an officer from the Ministry of National Defense pushed open the door to the screening room, walked in quickly, and reported in an urgent tone.

"Report! The 721st unit just got in touch with us. The special forces of Star Ring Trading raided the radar station located directly above the military base, and..."

"And?" Matisse frowned.

"And, they air-dropped a huge drill directly above us." The officer said hesitantly.

Obviously, for the report of Unit 721,

He also felt quite strange.

"drill?"

The officials present in the screening room looked at each other.

The idea of ​​using a drill to break through the shell of Cheyenne Mountain Fortress is simply a fantasy. Are the people at Starlink Trading so stupid that they naively believe that the Cheyenne Mountain Military Base, known as the world's number one civil defense facility, can drill a hole with its broken drill bit?

"Drill? The one on Mars?" Mike Pence frowned.

Unlike others, as the president, he remembered hearing the NASA administrator mention this matter not long ago. It seems that the Star Ring Trade deployed a drilling vehicle larger than two locomotives on the Mars colony to dig tunnels on Mars and fight against the devil bugs lurking deep underground.

Although he doubted that Star Ring Trade could penetrate the defenses of Cheyenne Mountain, he still couldn't help but murmur in his heart when he thought that these guys had never failed.

Without saying much, Mike Pence just ordered lightly.

"Get the Colorado National Guard to hurry up."

"yes!"

The officer gave a military salute, turned around and ran towards the direction of the command center outside the screening room.

After issuing this order, Mike Pence's hanging heart finally relaxed a little. Even the faint roaring sounds were no longer so annoying to his ears. No matter what these jackals are planning, when hundreds of rockets cover the top of Cheyenne Mountain, all their plots will be reduced to ashes.

No one could survive that level of purgatory.

Nobody!

Mike Pence is convinced of this.

He always believed that the Statue of Liberty would eventually protect the Stars and Stripes and the land of freedom, just as it had happened countless times in history.

No matter what the cost, they will eventually win——

boom! ! !

There was a violent tremor directly above the multimedia screening room. Unlike the past, this tremor lasted for half a minute, and at the end was accompanied by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. White House officials and Pentagon officers sitting in the screening room grabbed the chairs and conference tables at hand, and some of them couldn't sit still and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

Immediately afterwards, a piercing alarm echoed in the corridors inside the fortress.

Only under one circumstance would such an alarm sound inside the Cheyenne Mountain military base.

Shock and horror swayed in his constricted pupils. Mike Pence looked at the gently shaking ceiling and exclaimed.

"This is impossible...how is it possible! How did they do it!"

…

It's dawn in Columbus.

The offensive that lasted for twelve hours finally stopped, and only an occasional sniper's shot or two remained on the empty battlefield.

The bloody battle turned the once bustling streets into devastated ruins.

More than 3,000 American soldiers were killed in the first day of fighting, and nearly 10,000 were injured.

The exhausted soldier threw away the weapon in his hand, took off his helmet, leaned on the cover behind him, and slowly sat down on the ground, staring blankly at the unrecognizable street. Some people lit up a cigarette silently, some closed their eyes and meditated, some prayed in a low voice, or sobbed quietly at the photos...

Sadness filled the air behind the broken trenches and sandbags. The soldiers on the front line silently accepted the bread and hot tea from the logistics hands. After hastily finishing their breakfast, most people would choose to take a nap to recharge their batteries. Maybe ten minutes later, a big battle would be waiting for them.

Maybe half an hour later, this breakfast will become their eternal memory...

Slightly different from the US military side, the morale of the Star Ring Trading side is still slightly better, but the expressions on the faces of the soldiers who have been withdrawn from the front line are mostly silent, and they are not as relaxed as they were at first. The damaged power armor was sent to the maintenance team for repair, and the damaged exoskeleton was directly replaced with a new one.

Most of the scrapped ones were drones. Although many soldiers were injured, there were still very few casualties...

At least much less than the opposite.

Different from the unstoppable situation when they landed in Washington, New York, and Pittsburgh, in the suburbs of Columbus, the young men of Star Circle Trading finally encountered decent resistance. The U.S. military had been preparing for this "decisive battle" for a long time. Tank traps and sandbags were placed on the main roads, and they even went so far as to destroy the roads and dig foxholes and trenches to avoid explosives.

Not only that, there are also ADM "mountain" nuclear mines...

Perhaps the Americans themselves did not expect that this kind of imaginary weapon developed for the Soviet nuclear deterrence would one day be actually used.

The twelve hours of fighting only advanced the front line 800 meters, which shows how brutal this battle was.

Unlike Star Ring Trade and the Americans, only the people of the Moro Kingdom were extremely excited, even though they suffered a lot of casualties in the first day of the attack. It is the power of hatred that makes them not afraid of death. From the moment they set foot on this land, their emotions have never calmed down.

Time passed minute by minute, and at about nine o'clock, the sound of artillery sounded, and the murderous atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly became solemn.

The resting soldiers opened their eyes one after another and wordlessly picked up their weapons.

However, just when everyone was preparing for the next battle to fight to the death, the original combat mission was temporarily canceled.

Good news came from the direction of Colorado.

Although this is undoubtedly bad news for the American soldiers on the streets of Columbus...