Supernova era - Chapter 6

“Nope.” Hua Hua said.
“Nope.” Lu Gang said, “In the days when I was in the army with my father, I used to hunt birds and frogs with the rural children around me every day after school, and I didn’t have any special feelings about watching those little animals die at our hands, and the same was true for other children.” ”
Glasses nodded: “Yes, it takes a long life experience to truly understand the value of life, and the status of life in the hearts of children is far less high than in the hearts of adults. ”
“What’s so strange about that?” Hua Hua glanced at his glasses, “In the era of adults, children are under their control, and more importantly, they don’t have the opportunity to collectively participate in the cold competition for survival in the world, so naturally they will not expose their true nature.” Oh, I’ve been reading the Lord of the Flies you brought with me for the past two days. ”
“That’s a good book, Golding is one of the few adults who really know children, but unfortunately, the other adults live with a gentleman’s heart and don’t recognize our true nature, which is the last and greatest mistake of adults, and this mistake makes the history of the supernova era full of uncertainties.” Glasses said in a heavy tone.
The three children watched silently for a long time before turning around and getting into the car to continue their journey.
If there had been an adult in the A.D. century who had survived until now, he would have thought that the world in front of him was a nightmare. In the last days of the century AD, when all the nuclear bombs in the world turned into flashes of light in space, the coming world of children was imagined to be a heavenly world of Datong. It was a world full of innocence and friendship, and children built a beautiful new earth hand in hand with their natural purity and kindness as if they were in a kindergarten garden. It was even suggested that the entire historical data of mankind should be destroyed: “Our last wish is to leave in the hearts of our children a slightly passable image, and in that peaceful and beautiful new world, when those good children see our history, and see these wars, powers, and plunder, they will feel what an incomprehensible and perverted group of animals we are.” ”
But the adults never imagined that just over a year after the start of the supernova era, a world war broke out in the world of children. The ruthlessness of the rules of competition and the bloody barbarism of the way of conduct in this world are unprecedented not only in the A.D. century, but in the entire history of mankind. The A.D. people need not worry about their image in the minds of their children, who are indeed incomprehensible in the eyes of them, but this is because of their gentleness and restraint, and because their nerves are so fragile, how ridiculous their moral code is. The international law and codes of conduct of the first century were abandoned overnight, and everything became naked, and no one had to hide anything.
As to whether to send troops to Antarctica to participate in the war game, the Chinese high command did not agree at the beginning. There is no disagreement about the importance of the Antarctic game, but Xiaomeng raised a very realistic question: “Our neighborhood is very unstable, for example, India, only plans to send one division to participate in the game, leaving a million troops in the country, who knows what they want to do?” If we go all out to participate in the game, we will have to draw a considerable proportion of the army forces, and the navy will have to draw two-thirds of the forces, and two of the three major fleets will have to sail away, which will cause the defense of the homeland to be empty. Looking at the current situation in the country, as the sea level rises, there will be major floods in the coastal areas, and other large-scale natural disasters may occur, which will require the support of a large number of troops. ”
Hua Hua said: “These two problems can be solved. First, India is held back by Pakistan, which has also left a large number of troops, and we can use a diplomatic offensive to force India to play in the same proportion to the Antarctic under pressure from the major powers. As for issues such as natural disasters, the absence of an army is certainly disadvantageous, but it is not impossible to deal with. ”
Lu Gang’s question made everyone even more uncertain: “Our armed forces are essentially a local defense force, and they have neither experience nor capability for long-distance operations across continents. For example, our navy is based on an idea derived from the theory of land warfare, it is only a coastal defense force, and it has no ocean-going combat capability…… As you all know, the adults left repeatedly emphasizing that you can’t fight across continents and oceans. ”
“But the world is far from what adults imagined, and we can’t stick to the rules.” Hua Hua said.
“If the Earth’s climate continues like this, half of our country will become too hot to live or be flooded, and Antarctica is at stake in our future,” he said. Worldwide, the scramble for the South Pole will be inevitable. In the eighties of the A.D., when our country decided to start an expedition to Antarctica, a national leader said: This is a step in the midst of a busy schedule, with foresight! But for us, the march into the Antarctic is no longer an idle move, it is an imminent matter, and if we miss this step, we may lose everything. ”
Hua Hua added: “Regardless of the strategic significance of Antarctica, purely from the perspective of the war game itself, the performance in the game may be the basis for the ranking of countries in the world of children. ”
The children agreed that what Hua Hua said might have more far-reaching meaning in the future, and so the decision to participate in the Antarctic Games was made.
News of the Antarctic war games has spread across the country, and the news has quickly ended the Sugar City era, and the country that has been sleeping for two months has been awakened almost overnight. In the words of later historians: “It’s like pouring a box of ice cubes in a hot bed.” “There is nothing surprising when you think about it, there is nothing more intense than war for a society.
In addition to the excitement and tension brought by the war, the new yearning that Antarctica brings to children is also an important factor in waking up society from the sugar city era. In the minds of children, the distant Antarctica is a magical and wonderful world, the only hope to escape the current boring life. They believe that their army will definitely get a vast land for Chinese children on that continent, and the children who go there will have a new life. In the mobilization order for entering the Antarctic published on TV, Hua Hua had this to say:
“Our current land is a piece of paper that has been painted by adults, and the Antarctic continent is a large empty blank paper, on which we can depict our dreams to our heart’s content and build the paradise of our dreams!”
This was seriously misleading, and a widely circulated narrative emerged in society that the state would run two five-year plans at the same time, a tedious five-year plan made by adults on the home soil, and a wonderful five-year plan on the Antarctic continent described in the virtual nation that children described online, where a park country would be established. This statement made all the children excited. For a time, “Antarctic Paradise” became a hot topic in the media and on the Internet, and it also made the whole society pay more attention to the war games on that distant continent. After the war mobilization order was issued, the country returned to the order of the era of inertia, the children returned to their posts and began to work, and the country was once again functioning efficiently.
The Supernova War was the first child war in human history, and from the outset it exhibited strange qualities that adults could not have imagined in the first century AD. It is a war in the form of a game, following the rules of a sports game.
Although countries have deployed millions of troops in Antarctica, and their bases are lined up at a distance of tens of kilometers, so far they have been peaceful, and there are still various contacts and exchanges between the bases. In the age of adults, the war may have begun long ago. For example, most of the sea transportation routes between the mainland of countries and the Antarctic forward bases are long and fragile, and the Antarctic continent is undeveloped, making it almost impossible to obtain local supplies. But in reality, on the contrary, the fleets of the great powers are helping other countries that lack the capacity to transport at sea to the Antarctic to transport soldiers and supplies to Antarctica.
There are reasons for this, and this is the strangest thing about the children’s wars: until now, each country did not know who its enemies were, they were just athletes in the Olympic Games, and only when the order of the games was arranged could they know who they would fight against, and each time they would face a different enemy. Although various diplomatic activities are carried out frequently and openly, covertly, no alliances have emerged, and all countries have maintained independent athlete status, waiting for the war game to begin on the playing field of the Antarctic continent.
After leaving the Japanese base, after walking for more than two hours, the convoy of Chinese children arrived at the American base. They were visiting for the first time, and they were astonished by the size of the base: dense tents and makeshift structures stretched as far as the eye could see, and it was said to stretch for more than twenty kilometres along the coast. Some of the buildings are quite tall, with forest-like antennas sticking out of them; There are a large number of radar antennas scattered throughout the base, half of which are inside the shield, and those white spherical shields are like many large eggs laid by a giant bird at random; The base is surrounded by cobweb-like improvised roads, and the various military vehicles that pass through them kick up dust that has never been seen before on the Antarctic continent, so that there is no clean snow in the area. Near the makeshift harbor by the sea, all sorts of supplies piled up along the beach; A row of large landing craft that had just arrived opened a black hole in the shore and spat out rows of tanks and armored vehicles from it, and drove through the shallow sea to the shore; These steel behemoths rushed to the shore and rumbled past the tracked trucks of the Chinese children, and they felt the ground tremble. One by one, large transport planes flew low overhead, casting large, fast-moving shadows on the sea and the ground, and flew towards the bases of the airfields, where the runways were quickly paved with specially made perforated steel plates.
The summit of the member states of the game was held in a spacious hall made of inflatable materials, brightly lit and warm like spring, and the roof of the hall was decorated with brightly colored balloons. The marching band is playing cheerful music, as if celebrating a big holiday.
When the Chinese children entered the venue, they saw that the young leaders of various countries had basically arrived. President David warmly greeted the Chinese children and ushered them to a long table in the center of the hall. The young heads of state gathered around the long table and ate something with relish, and the Chinese children saw hundreds of steel helmets neatly placed on the long table, each of which was filled with shiny things.
“Taste, krill from the Ross Sea.”
Hua Hua picked up a translucent krill, peeled it and tasted it, “Raw?” ”
David nodded, “Don’t worry, everything in Antarctica is very hygienic.” He handed glasses another beer, took a piece from a pile of ice cubes on a large plate on the table, and put it into the glass, and the ice squeaked and bubbled. This is the natural ice of Antarctica, which is rich in gas, and in the past, the most exclusive hotels in Europe made a special trip to transport this ice from Antarctica, which was very expensive. ”
“These good things will soon be gone, look at the oil you left on the beach.” Glasses said.
“I want to start by saying something that has nothing to do with the agenda of the meeting,” Hua Hua found Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Onishi across the long table, pointed at him and said, “Japanese children should be stopped from whaling, so it won’t be long before the cetaceans in Antarctica will become extinct!” ”
Fumio Onishi skinned the krill, looked up at Hua Hua and sneered, “Focus on the game, otherwise you will also become extinct in Antarctica.” ”
“Yes, let’s focus on the game,” David exclaimed, excitedly, “that’s what we’re here for!” Four months have passed since Washington’s last farewell, and countries have assembled a considerable amount of land, sea and air forces in Antarctica, and the game can begin. But until now, everyone didn’t know how to play! This summit is to discuss how to play, first of all……”
“Mr. President, I should be the presiding officer!” Jogana said as he banged on the table with an empty steel helmet at one end of the long table.
“Oh, yes, Mr. Olympic Committee President, please.” David bowed slightly at him.
After the first and final session of the United Nations General Assembly in the Supernova Era, Jogana has been trying to revive the international organization that has fallen into ashes in his capacity as Secretary-General of the United Nations. Later, even he found the effort boring, and spent his days in the dilapidated United Nations building, where he was the only one. The building is black and hollow, and legend has it that it is haunted. It is said that whenever the light of the rose nebula shone into the collapsed conference hall, Roosevelt appeared in a wheelchair on the half-collapsed pulpit, and the secretaries-general of the United Nations took turns appearing behind him to beat him on the back; If it was moonlight shining into the conference hall, there would be a clattering sound in the hall, and it was Khrushchev’s ghost knocking on the table in the audience, not with leather shoes in his hand, but with Kennedy’s head…… These legends made Jogana’s heart furious, and he could only borrow wine every night to strengthen his courage. When he couldn’t support it anymore, he received an invitation from the re-established International Olympic Committee to organize war games, and he happily accepted his current position.
Jogana waved his hand to both sides: “Please don’t eat, sit down, we have a meeting!” ”
The little leaders sat down at the long table one by one, all wearing the headphones of the electronic translator, and from time to time someone took shrimp from the steel helmets in front of them to eat.
“I told don’t eat it! Mr. President, please let these things be taken away! Jogana pointed to the steel helmet on the table and shouted at Davy next to him.
David glanced at him and said, “Mr. President, you need to understand your position: you are only the coordinator of the game, and you have no authority to dictate here. ”
Jogana stared at David for a few seconds, then withdrew his gaze and swallowed, “Okay, let’s start the meeting then.” I think you all know the heads of state who are here, so I won’t introduce them all here, but today there are also the top military commanders of various countries participating in the meeting. ”
The little generals of various countries began to introduce themselves one by one. They looked much more vigorous than those adult generals in the past, dressed in well-fitting uniforms of army, navy and air generals, epaulettes inlaid with glittering stars, and colorful medals and ribbons on their chests, which added a lot of brilliance to the whole hall.
The last person to introduce himself was General Scott, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the beginning of his tenure, this kid was hesitant to imitate Eisenhower or Bradley or Patton or MacArthur in his demeanor, so much so that he had a demeanor every day, which baffled the little staff officers. When he came to the meeting today, he chose MacArthur and asked a staff officer to prepare a corn pipe, but Antarctica, apparently, could not find it, so the staff officer had to find him a large, shiny black wood pipe, and the general was very angry about it. Now, instead of saluting like the little generals of other countries, he waved that big pipe at everyone:
“Wait, boys, I’m going to beat you all the out!”
All he said was a burst of laughter. “General Scott, we are attracted by your epaulettes.” The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army, Marshal Dzhavarov, said sarcastically. Scott has seven stars on his epaulettes.
“Do you have a question about the number of stars above? Yes, the highest military rank ever awarded by the United States is a six-star general, which is still awarded by the ceremonial nature after the man’s death, but I will put seven stars on my shoulders. Hmph, Barton can embezzle the medal himself, why can’t I wear an extra star? The president didn’t say anything, what do you want? ”
“I’m just wondering why don’t you wear eight stars? Be more symmetrical that way. ”
“No, that composition is too dull, I’d rather have nine!”
Lu Gang interjected: “Just put on your national flag.” ”
Scott was furious: “General Lu, are you laughing at me?!” I can’t allow it! No! ”
“Can you go a day without arguing with others?” Davy next to him said.
“He’s laughing at me……” Scott said, pointing at Lu Gang.
David snatched the big pipe from Scott’s hand and threw it on the table: “Don’t bring this nondescript toy in the future, and besides, rip off three stars from your stupid epaulettes, and don’t let the media gossip.” ”
Scott’s face flushed and turned white, and he knew that today’s choice of demeanor was a mistake, and MacArthur’s demeanor was not applicable in front of the president.
Jogana tapped the table with the steel helmet that replaced the gavel again: “Okay, okay, let’s go ahead.” The agenda of this meeting was twofold: one was to define a general principle of the war game, and the other was to define the items of the game. In the first case, we propose the following general principles of the game: in order to make the game exciting and fun, the six military powers participating in the game: the United States, Russia, the European Union (note that it counts as one country in the war game), China, Japan, and India, as permanent members of the World Game, must adhere to the package principle, that is, to participate in all game events without selectivity, and other countries can choose the ones they want to participate in. ”
This general principle was unanimously endorsed by all countries, and David jumped for joy: “Good, an encouraging start. ”
Jogana tapped the table with his steel helmet again: “Now for the second item: determine the game item.” ”
“I’ll mention one first!” David shouted, “Aircraft carrier battle group game!” ”
The children were stunned for a moment, and Jogana cautiously asked, “Is this …… Too big, isn’t it? That includes aircraft on aircraft carriers, escort cruisers and destroyers, submarines…… It’s too big. ”
David said, “If you want it, it’s big!” Don’t kids want to play with the big guys? ”
Hua Hua stood up and said: “It’s the American kids who want to play big guys, we can’t participate in this game, China doesn’t have aircraft carriers.” ”
“Neither does Japan.” Fumio Onishi said.
Indian Prime Minister Jayiru said: “We do, but it’s an old game with conventional power, and besides, we can’t form a battle group.” ”
“According to your meaning, you just let us play with the EU and Russia, and you are watching the excitement on the side?” David asked.
Jogana nodded and agreed: “This is also not in line with the package principle just confirmed. ”
Hua Hua shrugged and said, “That’s no way, we can’t afford to build an aircraft carrier.” ”
“We are the ones you won’t let make.” Fumio Onishi snorted through his nose and said.
Scott pointed at Huahua and Fumio Onishi and said, “The game made you bored at the beginning!” ”
Lu Gang stood up and proposed: “Otherwise, we will use the destroyer fleet and submarines against your aircraft carrier battle group.” ”
“No way!” David shouted.
“This kid is very smart.” After Lu Gang sat down, he whispered in Hua Hua’s ear, and Hua Hua smiled and nodded.
In fact, David is well aware that aircraft carriers are no longer the same thing in the hands of adults and children. At present, the child pilots of naval aviation have only just flown solo, and the success rate of ship and ground attacks is very low. At the same time, the combat attack of an aircraft carrier battle group is an extremely complex technical process, which is impossible for children to master in a short time, and in actual combat, the carrier-based aircraft taking off may not even find the target. Even more frustrating for the US Navy is the security of the aircraft carriers themselves: the aircraft carriers themselves do not have much defense capability, and their safety is guaranteed by the escort ships in the battle group. This Aegis-based aircraft carrier defense system integrates a variety of weapon systems on cruisers, destroyers, and submarines in the battle group, and its software and hardware technology is so complex that adults are dizzy and it is impossible for children to make it work properly. Although the aircraft carrier was surrounded by all kinds of ships as in the past, it was actually extremely poor in its own defense capability, and in addition to its large size and clumsy movements, it was an excellent target on the vast sea. There are many weapons that terrify American children, such as the C802 anti-ship missile of the Chinese Navy, known as the “China Exocet”, which is so powerful in combat that it is possible to sink an aircraft carrier if it breaks through the defense line of the “Aegis”. As the commander of the Atlantic Fleet said: “Our aircraft carrier is now as fragile as a big egg floating on the sea.” “The former Sea Overlord is now at best a long-range transport ship for fighters. But the aircraft carrier must not be sunk, it is the spiritual pillar of American children, a symbol of American power, so in this operation American aircraft carriers are cruising in the Pacific Ocean far from the coast. David was just bluffing.
“Alright then,” Davy said with a sigh, “let’s change it to a destroyer game.” ”
The permanent members unanimously agreed, and Jogana jotted down the item in a small notebook, then looked up and said, “Everybody keep …… mentioning.”
“Submarine game!” British Prime Minister Greene shouted.
“This one may not be playable, like a group of children playing hide and seek in a big dark room.” Marshal Gavorov shook his head and said. But Jogana wrote it down anyway.
“Don’t always mention the sea, what about land games?” Hua Hua questioned.
“Well, tank games!” This was stated by Russian President Ilyushin.
“It’s a big game and it should be broken down.” General Scott said, “I’ll mention one: in a close approach, tank formations on both sides attack each other at the same time at a long distance, firing at the approach. ”
“It’s a good fit for the vast and flat terrain here, and to make the game fun, you should limit the use of tank guns to no missiles.” Marshal Diavorov said that there were no objections.
“Then there should be a maximum distance for firing the artillery, and only when the two sides are close enough to shoot at less than this distance.” Mr. Lu said he got to the point: the Abrams, T90 and Leclerc’s fire control systems are all more advanced than the Chinese Kid’s Type 98.
“Three thousand five hundred meters.” Scott said.
“No, a thousand meters!” Lu Gang said.
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The children quarreled again, and Jogana interrupted them and said, “Okay, okay, these technical details are left to the expert group of each project, and we will only determine the composition of the big project!” ”
“This is a key factor that must be determined now!” Hua Hua did not give in, but in the end, because he was outnumbered, he finally set the maximum firing distance at 3,000 meters, which was very unfavorable to the Chinese children.
“Then let’s also mention a tank game sub-project: ultra-close wall collision game!” Hua Hua raised his hand and shouted.
“What do you mean?” The children were confused.
“The rule is that the tanks of both sides stop behind two parallel brick walls, hear the start of the game, knock down the brick walls and attack each other. The two improvised walls are only ten to twenty meters apart! ”
“Hehe, this game is really exciting!” David said with a smile. Scott whispered to him that the Abrams was heavier than both the Chinese Type 98 and the Russian T90, weighing 57 tons, and that it only took seven seconds to accelerate from a standstill to 30 kilometers per hour.
“There’s a more exciting tank game: infantry and tank versus game!” Marshal Diavorov said.
“Good game!” Lu Gang shouted, and everyone agreed.
“There are definitely a lot of fun things to come up with in the tank game, so let’s settle on these first, and we can add new ones as we play.” Jogana said, jogging down the tank games.
“Fighter game!” Scott yelled.
There was no objection, but some people asked whether they would be divided into two items: air-to-air missiles and cannons.
Marshal Diavorov shook his head: “I don’t think it’s necessary, the children are not familiar with flying planes, and it is not easy to be able to fight in the air, and I am afraid that it will not be able to play with so many restrictions.” So the project was decided.
“Infantry small arms game!” Hua Hua shouted.
“Well, this is a traditional basic project, but it has to be subdivided, first of all, how to define small arms?” Marshal Gavorov asked.
“Twenty millimeters or less in caliber.”
“Isn’t that divided into two games, the former where both sides shoot in the fortifications, and the latter is similar to the tank approach, where both sides charge at each other at a certain distance and fire at the farthest distance…… Don’t decide. ”
“Like a Russian-style pistol duel.” Someone muttered.
“Gunship Match!” David shouted.
Chinese and Indian children opposed the game, and Japan was neutral, but due to the support of the United States, Russia, and Europe, the game was finalized.
“Grenade game!” Hua Hua shouted, “By the way, this should be a sub-item in the infantry small arms game. ”
“How do you clean up these backward things?” David questioned the Chinese child.
“How do you mention these advanced things?” Hua Hua asked rhetorically.
Jogana came out to play the round again: “Okay, okay, everyone’s goal is the same, they are all to play a good game, to understand each other, everyone picks their own strengths and throws their weaknesses, so how can this game be played?!” ”
“The grenade is the most basic weapon, why can’t it be included?” Lu Gang said.
“Okay, let’s make a list, don’t think we’re inferior to this by much.” David said smugly.
“This should also be divided into grenade fortification throwing and charge throwing…… “Marshal Diavorov said, “and when it comes to basic weapons, how can everyone forget about artillery?” ”
The children suddenly came up with a game project about artillery.
“Artillery five-kilometer shooting game!”
“Ten kilometers of large-caliber artillery fire!”
“Thirty kilometers of rocket artillery!”
“Self-propelled guns are firing on the move! Ha, it’s a bit like a naval battle on the Antarctic plains. ”
“Mortar! How did you forget about the mortar?! ”
“Yes yes, mortars can shoot at close range, and they can also shoot on the move, haha, it’s fun!”
……
Scott interrupted everyone and said, “I want to make it clear: aerial reconnaissance and fire correction can be performed in a counter-fire game of more than five kilometers. ”
“Against! This complicates the game and increases the chances of foul play! Lu Gang said.
“Yes! This will make the game more interesting! Prime Minister Green said.
“Stop!” Jogana slammed the steel helmet again, “I said that the technical details will be solved by the expert group!” ”
After Joe Garner finished memorizing the artillery game, David jumped up and said, “You guys have mentioned enough of your favorite items, I’ll mention one more of ours: the bomber and ground air defense confrontation game!” ”
Jogana frowned and thought for a while: “This game is the same as the tank and infantry confrontation game, the roles of the two sides are not equal, and the role reversal competition needs to be carried out, which greatly increases the number of preliminaries, and there are difficulties in management and refereeing, so this kind of game should be as few as possible.” ”
“Hehe,” Hua Hua said with a smile at David, “I’m sure President David didn’t think about the role reversal issue, he probably just thought that the United States was on the bombing side and others were on the air defense side, right?” ”
David patted his head: “Well, I did overlook that. ”
“This can be regarded as habitual thinking, what’s the matter, are American children willing to defend themselves under the bombardment of our ‘H-12’ and Russia’s ‘Tu-22′?”
“This …… Since Mr. Chairman said just now that there are difficulties in management and refereeing, then forget about this project. ”
Scott interjected: “You can add a land and sea game, such as a landing and anti-landing game. ”
“It’s also extremely complex in terms of management and organization, and it lasts too long and isn’t necessarily fun, so I think it’s better to forget it.” Marshal Dzhavarov said that Chogana and other children immediately afterwards expressed the same opinion that the game was not passed.
“Here’s a quasi-line: a missile shooting game!” Reluctantly, David offered another one.
Ilyushin nodded approvingly: “Good, good game!” It can be divided into short-range and medium-range missiles and long-range intercontinental missile counterfire. ”
“ICBMs, wow!” David danced excitedly, “It’s by far the best game ever!” ”
“But NMD and TMD are disabled.” Ilyushin said coldly.
“What?! Of course, NMD and TMD must be used! Scott yelled.
“But most of the permanent members don’t have these things, and that’s not in line with the package principle.”
“No matter what! We’re going to use it! We insist on it 200 percent! Otherwise, quit the game! David shouted uncontrollably waving his arms.
“Okay, just use it.” Lu Gang waved his hand and said lightly.
“If you can’t even play Aegis, NMD? Hum. Marshal Gavorov said disapprovingly.
“Alright, let’s move on to something else.” David let out a sigh of relief and sat down to look at the other children triumphantly.
Hua Hua raised his hand: “Mine game!” ”
“It’s fun, but how do you play it?” The kids were interested.
“Each side of the game has two minefields, the size of the expert group to decide, the center of the minefield is planted with a national military flag, the first to open a way from the opponent’s minefield to obtain the military flag of the side wins.”
David pouted disdainfully: “Hmph, play with the kindergarten dolls, okay, Mr. President, make a note of it.” ”
At this time, the head of a Pacific island nation stood up and said, “A few small countries want me to say something on their behalf: You have to give us a little chance to play, right?” ”
“Aren’t you all able to play with the traditional projects that Chinese children propose?” David said.
“What you think is too simple, Mr. President, for example, my country, currently has only one company of troops in Antarctica, less than 200 people, let’s just say the simplest infantry game, it is estimated that it will almost lose its combat effectiveness after playing it once.”
“Then you can also come up with new ways to play.”
“I mention one,” said Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Thanh Lam, “guerrilla warfare game!” ”
“Evil, how do you play?”
“The two sides of the competition use small groups of guerrillas to attack each other’s bases, and the specific rules are as follows……
“Shut up!” David slapped the table and jumped up, “You should be ashamed to come up with such an abominable idea!” ”
“Yes, there should be a shame!” Prime Minister Green echoed the words.
“This and this…… This will indeed bring a certain amount of confusion,” Jogana said to Li Linlin, “as early as the Washington meeting, we reached a consensus on the inviolability of Antarctic bases in various countries, and this proposal will shake the foundation of the whole war game.” ”
The game was denied.
“Now that Antarctica has become a club of great powers, I don’t know what the point of us being here!” Li Linlin said angrily.
Jogana ignored him and said to everyone: “The meeting has been carried out so far with exciting results, is there any country that wants to come up with a new way to play?” He noticed Fumio Onishi, who was sitting at the other end of the table, and said to him loudly: “Prime Minister Onishi, you have not spoken during the whole process, and I remember that at the first session of the United Nations General Assembly, you expressed Japan’s strong desire to have a voice in the United Nations, and now that Japan is a permanent member of the World Game, you have remained silent. ”
Fumio Onishi bowed slightly and said slowly, “I’m going to propose a game that everyone hasn’t thought of yet.” ”
“Let’s hear it?” David said. All the children looked at the Japanese Prime Minister expectantly.
“Cold weapon game.”
The children looked at each other, and someone asked, “Cold weapons?” What cold weapons? ”
“Knives.” Fumio Onishi replied briefly. He sat upright, motionless like a statue except for his mouth.
“Knives? None of us have it. Scott said confusedly.
“I have.” After the Japanese boy finished speaking, he took out a long thing from under the table, which was a saber in a sheath. He gently drew the knife, and the cold light flashed, and all the children gasped, the knife was so thin that only a thin line could be seen when it was pointed at the blade. Fumio Onishi gently stroked the knife surface with his other hand: “It is made of the finest carbon alloy, and it is extremely sharp. With that, he blew on the blade, and the children could hear the knife humming for a long time. It is a double-layered blade that is blunted on one side and exposed on the other, so it will always be sharp even if it is not sharpened. After saying that, he gently put the knife on the table, and the children stared at the cold blade, and they all felt a chill rise up their spines. We can provide 100,000 of these sabers for use in the game. ”
“This …… It’s too barbaric. David said timidly, and the other children nodded.
“Mr. President, and the rest of you, should be ashamed of your fragility.” Fumio Onishi said quietly, pointing to the saber, “It is the basis of all the games you have proposed above, the soul of the god of war, and the earliest toy of mankind. ”
“Alright then, join the cold weapon game.” Ilyushin said.
“It’s just, this saber…… I don’t need to. David’s gaze avoided the saber on the table, as if he feared that its cold light would dazzle his eyes.
“Then use a rifle bayonet.” Marshal Diavorov said.
The children’s excitement vanished without a trace, and their eyes converged on their sabers and were silent, as if they had just woken up from sleepwalking, trying to figure out what they were doing.
“Anyone else is going to come up with a new game?” Jogana asked.
No one answered, and there was a dead silence in the hall, and the children seemed to have been snatched away by the saber.
“Alright then, it’s time for us to prepare for the opening ceremony.”
A week later, the opening ceremony of the first Olympic Games of the Supernova Era took place on the vast plains of Mary Bird Land in Antarctica.
More than 300,000 children attended the opening ceremony, and a large area of black pressure stood on the plain. In the distance, the sun, which had been hanging low for half a year, had now mostly sunk below the horizon, revealing only a small corner, casting the last dark red afterglow on the black and white continent, reflecting on the dense steel helmets of the children. In the deep blue sky, silver stars began to appear sporadically.
The opening ceremony was simple. First of all, the flag-raising ceremony, in which the soldiers sent by all the participating countries carried the five-ring flag around the field, and then, on a high flagpole, the flag that once symbolized peace was raised on the battlefield of this new era. The child soldiers fired guns into the sky to salute, and as soon as the gunfire in this part of the sea stopped, that one rang out again, like the tide of the sea. On the podium under the flagpole, Joe Garner, the first president of the Supernova Era, waved his hand for a long time to silence the gunfire. As soon as he opened the speech, a child next to him handed him a steel helmet, he didn’t understand why he needed this, he pushed it away angrily, not noticing that the little leaders in suits and leather shoes on the rostrum and the guests were wearing steel helmets, he was just in a hurry to start speaking.
“Welcome to the first Olympic Games of the Supernova Era, children of the New World……”
Then he heard a crackling sound around him, like hail. He was stunned for two seconds before he realized that it was the sound of the bullet that had just been shot falling to the ground and the steel helmets of the little soldiers, and then he remembered the use of the steel helmet he had just given him, and turned around to look for it, and his head had been hit hard. The free-falling bullet hit the scar on his head, leaving a large bag there. The scar was left by broken glass that had fallen from the United Nations building a few months earlier. It may just be a NATO-standard 5.56 mm bullet, but if it is a 7.6 mm bullet from an old AK gun in the hands of a Chinese or Russian child, I am afraid that he will be knocked unconscious. He put on the steel helmet amid the laughter of the audience, and put a hand under the helmet and rubbed his head, and said loudly in the falling metal raindrops:
“Welcome to the first Olympic Games of the Supernova Era, children of the New World! It’s a war game Olympics, it’s a fun Olympics! An exciting Olympics! A real Olympics! Children, the boring century A.D. has come to an end, and human civilization has rejuvenated and returned to the age of happy barbarism! We leave the dreary ground and return to the tree of freedom, we take off our hypocritical clothes and grow beautiful fur, children, the new slogan of the Olympic Games is: focus on participation, more accurate, more ruthless, more lethal! Kids, make the world crazy! Let me introduce you to the game project ……”
Jogana opened the crumpled piece of paper and read it: “After consultation with all member countries, the game items of the first Olympic Games of the Supernova Era have been determined, and the items are divided into three categories: land, sea and air.
“Land projects: tank confrontation game, tank – infantry confrontation (infantry with heavy weapons), tank – infantry confrontation game (infantry without heavy weapons), artillery confrontation game (including large-caliber artillery 5 km shooting, rocket artillery 15 kilometers shooting, self-propelled artillery mobile fire and mortar 1 kilometer shooting), infantry confrontation game (firearms), infantry confrontation game (grenade), infantry confrontation game (cold weapons), missile confrontation game (including short-range missile shooting, medium-range missile shooting, cruise missile shooting, ICBM counterfire), mine game.
“Marine projects: destroyer games, submarine games.
“Air projects: fighter games, attack helicopter games.
“There are gold, silver and bronze medals in the above events.
“There is also a type of comprehensive project, such as air-ground competition, sea-air competition, etc., due to the complexity of the organization and refereeing, after consultation between the two parties, it is not included in the official project.
“Next, the oath will be taken by the representatives of the children of the world who participated in the game.”
The sworn deputies, a lieutenant colonel pilot of the US Air Force, a captain of the Russian Navy and a lieutenant of the Chinese Army, took the following oath:
“We swear: 1. Strictly abide by the rules of the game, otherwise we are willing to accept all punishments; 2. Do your part to make the game exciting and fun, and never have the slightest mercy for your opponent! ”
There was another burst of cheers and gunfire on the plain.
“Armed forces of all countries enter!”
For more than two hours, infantry and armored units from various countries swarmed past the flagpoles. Later, tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery and other vehicles from various countries mixed with the crowd, forming a chaotic torrent of steel and dust. On the sea in the distance, warships of various countries fired thousands of cannons in unison, and the cannonballs exploded into a snowy light cluster in the black and blue twilight sky, as if the entire continent was trembling in this loud noise and flash.
The plain fell silent again, the dust in the air had not yet cleared, and Chogana shouted the last item of the opening ceremony:
“Light the flame!”
The roar of engines sounded in the air, and the children looked up to see a fighter jet flying far from the east, and in the already dark sky, it was just a black silhouette, like a cardboard. As the plane approached, it could be seen that it was an ugly-looking A10 attack aircraft, and the two large engines in its tail seemed to have been added later. The A10 swept over the venue and dropped a napalm on a large clearing in the crowd, and after a muffled explosion, a large flame wrapped in black smoke rose into the air, and the plains and the sea of people were shrouded in orange firelight, and the children around the clearing felt the rolling heat in their faces.
By this time, the sun had completely set, and the Antarctic continent began its long dark night. But the night was not dark, and the aurora began to appear in the night sky, and the aurora at the poles of the earth was greatly enhanced by the radiation of supernova, and the dancing colored light bands illuminated every corner of the earth. On this vast continent under the Antarctic Light, the super-dimensional history will continue its nightmarish progress.
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Iron Game
The 35 tanks of the tank battalion to which Lieutenant Wang Ran belonged marched at full speed in an attack formation. But there was only an open plain covered with remnant snow in front of him, and he had rushed for a long distance without seeing the enemy. This is a face-to-face approach in a tank game. The sortie position of this force was a low-lying area, and it was not easy to find such an excellent hiding place for the armored troops in this plain. In the normal way of fighting, they could enter at night by bicycle at long intervals, carefully camouflage when all were in position, and suddenly strike at close range the next day when the enemy was already approaching…… Now none of this is possible, the enemy has long known their location, they have long known the enemy’s position, and the forces on both sides, both sides know it clearly. This information is absolutely accurate, and both sides have informed each other of each other. The 35 Abrams they were going to fight against, and even the type and quantity of ammunition each of them carried, as well as the problems with the tracks or fire control systems, were also reported by the American commander of the opposing side yesterday, and everything was as clear as the unsheltered plains under the South Arctic Lights. All they can play is the setting of the attack formation and the shooting technique. Wang Ran was originally the driver, but in the game the day before yesterday, his tank was destroyed, and he was lucky enough to escape with his life. And in the same game, now that the shooter of this tank is dead, let him act as the shooter of this car in an emergency. Although he was not sure about this position, Wang Ran was still excited at this time, the gunner’s feeling was different from that of the driver, sitting in this much higher position, he listened to the roar of the engine, and enjoyed the pleasure of speed. The most heart-warming moment is when the tank at full speed crosses a ground bulge that is neither high nor low, at that moment its tracks completely leave the ground, the Type 98 tank is completely in the air, and Wang Ran feels a wonderful weightlessness when it falls, at this time this steel giant weighing dozens of tons appears as light as a glider; But then it hit the ground hard, and the ground seemed as soft as mud under the heavy impact of the tracks, and he sank deep with the tank, and now it seemed to him to be as heavy as a mountain again. In the process, every cell of his was shouting excitedly, which is how a cavalry charge feels.
“First of all, we simplified tank warfare to the confrontation of two tanks running opposite each other on a completely flat plain, of course, this state does not exist in practice, just as points and lines in geometry do not exist in reality, but from this we can clearly understand the basic elements of tank warfare. At this time, the key to victory is the first enemy to fire and the first hit, which is not additive, but multiplication, and if one of them is zero, the total result is zero. The most interesting thing about this is that the two are opposites, and the earlier you fire at the farther you get from the target, the lower the hit rate, and vice versa……”
This was the lesson that the adult instructor gave to the little armored soldiers a year ago, and his words echoed in Wang Ran’s mind repeatedly at this time, although now he felt that it was all nonsense. Now Wang Ran can be the teacher of the Colonel of the Armored Corps, because the colonel has never experienced real tank battles, otherwise he would definitely tell Wang Ran and them something more useful. Of course, the colonel also mentioned that the improved Abrams’s fire control system can make it hit 78% from a mile away, in fact, he didn’t understand the meaning of this number at all, but Wang Ran now does. At this time, the ideal of Wang Ran and other young comrades-in-arms when they joined the armored corps: to be a hero who destroyed dozens of enemy tanks, has become the most humorous joke in the world. Their only dream now is to make a fortune by hitting an enemy tank before it is destroyed. This ideal grade is not low, and if every Chinese tank in Antarctica can do this, the Chinese children will not lose this game.
The two sides began to fire flares, and the outside was shrouded in a blue light, and Wang Ran looked out of the sight, and the front was yellow and cloudy, which was the dust raised by the No. 108 car driving in front of them on the left. Suddenly, the yellow color of the dust in the field of vision turned into a red reflected in the firelight, flashing and flashing. The field of vision is clear. He looked to his left and saw that the 108 car was slowing down with black smoke and flames, and was quickly left behind; One of the tanks in front of the right also burned and fell behind, and in the process he did not hear the explosions when the two tanks were hit. Directly in front of them, a pillar of dust suddenly splashed, and the tank hit this pillar of dust, and Wang Ran heard the sound of rubble and shrapnel hitting the shell of the tank, and the shell aimed at his tank was lowered, and judging from the shape of the dust column, it was a high-speed armor-piercing bullet with a stable tail. At this time, their tanks were already at the forefront of the attack formation, and the voice of the lieutenant colonel and battalion commander on the command vehicle sounded in Wang Ran’s headphones:
“The target is right in front of you! Shoot each! Shoot each! ”
Again, nonsense, as in the previous two battles, they don’t always provide what you want to know at every critical moment, only as a distraction. At this point, the speed of the car slowed down, apparently allowing him to shoot. Wang Ran looked forward from the sight, and in the light of the flares, the first thing he saw was the dust that appeared on the horizon, and then, at the root of the dust, he saw those black spots. He adjusted the focus to make the Abrams clear, and the first thing he felt was that they weren’t what he had seen in the pictures before. In those photographs, the main battle tank appears strong and sturdy, like two square iron ingots stacked on top of each other; But now they all have long trails of dust behind them, and they look a little smaller. He lassoed one with a cross wire and locked it with a key. At this time, the M1A2 was like a magnet, sucking the barrel of this 120mm smoothbore gun, and no matter how the tank bumped and undulated, the barrel was always pointed at the target like a compass. He pressed the trigger button and saw the flames and air currents from the muzzle of the gun stir up a cloud of dust in front of the car. Then he saw the fire and smoke of the explosion of this shell in the distance, which was a “clean” impact point, without a trace of dust, and Wang Ran knew that it had hit. The enemy tank was still rushing forward with black smoke in tow, but he knew it wouldn’t go far before it stopped.
Wang Ran moved the crosshair on the sight, trying to lasso another target, but then a loud bang sounded outside the car. His tank cap and headphones were well soundproofed, and the reason why he knew it was a loud bang was because he was numb from the shock and his sights were black. At the same time, his legs suddenly felt hot, much like when his father picked him up and put him in the hot tub when he was a child. But the burning sensation quickly turned into a burning sensation, and Wang Ran looked down and found himself standing on a stove: the cabin below was filled with dark red flames. Soon the fire extinguisher was automatically activated, and there was a white mist in the cabin, and the fire was temporarily suppressed. Then he saw a black dendritic thing at his feet, still trembling, it was a charred arm. He grabbed the arm and pulled it up, wondering who it was, the commander or the ammunition man? But whoever it is certainly not so light. Wang Ran quickly discovered the reason for the lightness: it was only the upper part of his body that he pulled up, a black piece, and there were flames in the fracture below his chest…… His hand trembled, and the half of his body fell again, and he still didn’t see who it was, but wondered how the fingers of that hand could still move. Wang Ran pushed open the top cover and climbed out as fast as he could, the tank was still moving, he flipped down from behind and fell heavily to the ground, surrounded by black smoke from the tank he had just left. When the wind blew the smoke away, Wang Ran saw that his tank had stopped, and the smoke from it was smaller, but there were flames spewing out of the body. He now knew that the tank had been hit by a shaped projectile, and that the high-temperature jet from the explosion of that shell had cut through the armor, turning the inside of the tank into a furnace. Wang Ran walked backwards, past several burning tanks, and pieces of burnt pants fell from his legs. There was a muffled thud behind him, and he jerked back to find that his tank had exploded, wrapped in smoke and flames. He felt a sharp pain in his legs, sat on the ground, explosions and burns everywhere around him, and the night sky with the swaying aurora was darkened by the smoke, but he felt the cold of the wind, and then the words of the colonel instructor rang in his head again:
“…… For cluster tank operations, the situation is much more complicated, at this time, the enemy tank cluster can be mathematically regarded as two matrices, and the whole combat process can be regarded as the matrix multiplication……”
Nonsense, it’s all fucking nonsense, and until now Wang Ran doesn’t know how the matrices are multiplied. He looked around the battlefield and carefully counted the destroyed tanks on both sides, and now the rate of destruction was calculated.
Three days later, Wang Ran dragged his injured leg and got on a third tank, this time as a driver again. Before dawn, they were in the game position. More than 100 tanks were parked against a long brick wall. This is a type of tank matchup: an ultra-close wall collision match, where the rules are that the tanks of both sides stop behind two parallel brick walls, hear the start of the game, knock down the brick walls and attack each other. The two improvised walls are only ten meters apart. This competition requires extremely agile reflexes, and the key to victory lies in the formation of the attack rather than the technique of shooting, as there is no need to aim at all. The adult instructors of the A.D. century would never have imagined that their students would have to fire at enemy tanks at a distance of several meters, let alone that the order to strike was given by a Swiss referee who watched the battle from a helicopter hovering in mid-air in the distance.
In the next few hours, Wang Ran saw the entire outside world through the observation window in front of the tank was this wall. As the aurora changed, sometimes blurry and sometimes clear, he carefully observed the wall in front of him, observed all the cracks on each brick, studied the shape of each cement joint that had not yet dried, and admired the changes in light and shadow produced by the invisible aurora on that wall…… For the first time, he discovered that there was so much to admire in the world, and he decided that if he could survive this competition, he would definitely appreciate every part of the world around him as a painting.
The command to attack suddenly sounded in the earphones that had been silent for more than five hours, and the sound was so sudden that Wang Ran, who was studying the composition of the cracks on the thirteenth brick in the fourth row, was stunned for a second. But in a second, he slammed on the accelerator, causing the steel beast to slam out, crashing into the brick wall along with the other tanks. When the tank rushed out of the flying bricks and dust, Wang Ran found himself rushing straight into the enemy’s armored array! Then there was a short scuffle, the sound of shots from smoothbore guns and the explosion of shells, the bright light shining outside, the turret above was turning rapidly, the loader was clicking non-stop, and the cabin was filled with the smell of shell propellants. Wang Ran knew that at this time, the gunner did not need to aim at all, he only needed to fire in different directions at the fastest speed. The frenzied shot lasted less than ten seconds, and with a loud bang, the world exploded before his eyes……
After Wang Ran regained consciousness, he was already lying in the field ambulance station, with a military newspaper reporter sitting next to him.
“How many are left in our battalion?” He asked feebly.
“There’s not a single one left.” The journalist said. In fact, he should have thought that the distance was too close to set a world record in the history of armored warfare. The reporter continued: “But I still congratulate you, 1 to 12, for the first time, you have reversed the damage rate!” Your car crashed two, a Leclerc and a Challenger. ”
“Zhang Qiang is really good.” Wang Ran nodded his head in pain. Zhang Qiang was the gunner of the tank he was driving.
“You can do it too, your gunners only hit one, and the other was knocked over by your tank!”
Wang Ran lost too much blood in his brain and fell asleep again. The sound of the frenzied shooting rang in my ears, like an endless torrential rain hitting the tin roof, but it was always the abstract brick wall that appeared in front of me.
…………
The commander of Wang Ran’s armored division stood on a low hill and watched the last tank battalion of his division attack. When the steel skirmish line entered the engagement position, the smoke pipes on all the tanks were activated, and he saw only a white smoke band. Dense explosions came, and the enemy’s tank group could not be seen from this position, only the shells they fired exploded in their own tank formation, causing dazzling clusters of light to flash everywhere in the white smoke belt, and in the light of these explosions, the shadows of the tanks appeared briefly in the smoke from time to time. The thirteen-year-old boy suddenly felt familiar with the situation: on the morning of the Spring Festival that year, he set off firecrackers for the first time, and for fear of throwing a whole set of lit firecrackers on the ground, the long firecrackers crackled on the ground, and a small fire flashed in the smoke on the ground……
But the battle lasted far less than the firecracker commander, and in fact it was stretched out in the sense of the division commander. It was only later known that the shot lasted only twelve seconds! Twelve seconds, in just twelve seconds, a person can only breathe about six times, and the last tank battalion of this division is destroyed. In front of him was a flaming Type 98 tank, the thinning smoke covering the steel and flames like a veil.
“Right?!” The division commander asked the staff officer next to him, unable to hide the tremor of his voice, as if a soul standing at the intersection of the roads of heaven and hell was asking God which way he should go. The staff officer took off the radio headset and said the cold, scorching number that had been paid for hundreds of children’s lives:
“Report to the division commander, 13 to 1!”
“It’s okay, it didn’t go over the mark.” The division commander let out a sigh of relief. He knew that in the distance, which was unsightly here, there were also enemy tanks burning equal to 10/13 of them, and the game was still going on, but this division had completed its mission, and their damage rate was not exceeded.
Another of Hua Hua’s classmates, Second Lieutenant Wei Ming, together with his missile platoon, participated in a tank-infantry competition in the heavy weapons group, in which infantry against tanks can use heavy weapons such as anti-tank guns or missiles, while light weapons groups can only use anti-tank grenades. This does not mean that they are much easier than the small arms group, where a platoon only competes against one tank, while they have to compete with three main battle tanks or five light tanks per platoon!
Today is the group preliminaries, and Wei Ming and his little comrades-in-arms carefully studied the battle plan last night. They observed yesterday’s competition, and the second platoon of this company took part, and this platoon selected our army’s most advanced Red Arrow 12 anti-tank missile, which was praised by adult instructors in the past, and which used three guidance methods at the same time, including the most advanced pattern-matching guidance. As a result, in the actual competition, the three missiles fired by the second platoon were all jammed and deviated from the target, and five people survived in this platoon, and the rest all died under the three Leclerc tank guns and machine guns. The electronic jamming system of the M1A2 that Wei Ming’s platoon had to deal with was even more powerful, so they decided to use the relatively backward Red Arrow 7 missile. It is wire-guided, has a relatively short range, but has a strong anti-jamming ability, and at the same time, its warhead is improved, and its armor-piercing ability has been increased from the original 300 millimeters to 800 millimeters.
At this time, Wei Ming and his little comrades-in-arms were ready, and three anti-tank missiles were lined up in their small position, like three short wooden stakes painted with white paint, which were inconspicuous. The Indian referee, who had been watching from the sidelines, signaled for the game to begin, then ran away, hiding behind a row of sandbags in the distance and watching through binoculars. It is not easy to be a referee in this kind of competition, and by this time, in the tank-infantry match, two referees have been killed and five wounded.
Wei Ming operated one of the three missiles, and in his training as an adult, his results in this subject were always the best in the ranks, which had something to do with the small camera he loved in the gamer. The operation of this missile is to keep the cross wire on the seeker on the target, and in this process, the seeker will automatically guide the missile to the target.
A cloud of dust appeared on the horizon, and Wei Ming saw a large area of enemy tanks through his binoculars. Today, there is an infantry regiment of Chinese children participating in this project, and most of these tanks will attack other targets of this infantry regiment, and only three of them M1A2 are coming towards the position of this platoon. Wei Ming quickly identified the three tanks from the predetermined route, which were far away at this time, and they all looked small, and he couldn’t tell how fierce they were.
Wei Ming dropped the telescope, leaned on the guide and began to aim at the middle one, so that the crosshair firmly lassoed the black block that appeared and disappeared in the dust, and when he was sure that it had entered the range of three thousand meters, he pressed the launch button, and the missile next to it flew out with a pop, dragging a slender wire behind it. Then there were two more pops, and two more missiles flew out. At that moment, the three M1A2s flickered with fire at the front end, as if they were blinking. Two or three seconds later, the shells landed on their right and rear sides, and after a few loud bangs, clods of earth and stones rained down from the sky; Immediately after that, shells continued to be fired, and Wei Ming involuntarily hugged his head in the explosion, but quickly came back to his senses and put his eyes on the sight of the guider, but there was only a swaying horizon inside. When he finally found the target again and locked it onto it with the crosshair, he saw a column of dust rising from the right side of the tank, and he knew that the missile had missed. Looking up from the scope, Wei Ming saw two more dust columns, located behind the three tanks, and all the missiles were empty! The three M1A2s were still charging at them, and they were no longer firing, apparently knowing that the position was no longer a threat to them. At this time, the competition had actually turned into a tank of the small arms group – an infantry competition, except that this platoon faced not one main battle tank but three.
“Prepare anti-tank grenades!” Wei Ming shouted, took one himself, and crouched in the bunker to stare at the approaching enemy tanks. This grenade with a magnetic body in the head is heavy.
“Platoon commander, this …… How do you do this, I haven’t learned it! A child next to Wei Ming said nervously. They really hadn’t learned, and the adult officers who trained them would never have imagined that these kids would have to fight the world’s most ferocious main battle tanks with grenades.
The three-headed steel beast was getting closer and closer, and Wei Ming felt a tremor coming from the earth. Machine gun bullets whined over his head like a gust of wind, and he lowered his head to gauge their distance from here. When he sensed that they had rushed to the front of the position, he stood up and threw the grenade at the tank in the middle, and at the same time he saw that the muzzle of the machine gun on the turret was flashing at him, and the bullet was grazing against the base of his ear. The grenade arced and stuck to the flat turret of the M1A2, causing the American kid who was firing the machine gun to retract into the turret. The other children of the platoon also leaned out of the trenches and threw grenades at the tanks, some of which stuck to the tanks and some fell to the ground. A child next to Wei Ming fell outside the trench, a big bullet hole appeared in his back, and the grenade slipped two or three meters away from the trench, but it never exploded, maybe the child forgot to pull the fire hydrant. But the other grenades exploded, and in the flames and smoke of the explosion, the three tanks rushed out intact and rolled straight over the trenches. Wei Ming jumped backwards out of the trench and rolled to the side, dodging the tracks of the tank, but several children were rolled into meat sauce, and at the same time, with a bang, an M1A2 fell crooked on the trench and did not move, it turned out that it knocked down a child who was jumping out of the trench and threw a grenade at it, and crushed the child under the track, the grenade that had already ignited exploded in the child’s hand, blowing up the track and blowing off a wheel.
The referee in the distance fired a green flare, announcing the end of the game. The door to the upper turret of the paralyzed Abrams slammed open, and out of it came an American kid in a tank cap, saw Wei Ming raising his submachine gun at him below, and drilled back in. He peeked out half of his head from inside the tank and shouted through the translator: “Chinese children pay attention to the rules of the game!” Chinese children pay attention to the rules of the game! This game is over, stop fighting! Seeing Wei Ming throw down the gun, he got out again. Three more children came out of him, jumped out of the tank, put their hands on the pistols behind their buttocks, looked vigilantly at the Chinese children who were still alive on the position, and then walked in the direction of the American position. The American child who walked at the end hung a big translator around his neck, he stopped, turned his head to Wei Ming, saluted, and then said something, and the translator translated:
“I’m Lieutenant Morgan, second lieutenant, and you’re having a good time.”
Wei Ming returned the salute and didn’t say anything. Suddenly, he noticed Morgan’s chest jump, and a cat’s head poked out of the child’s armored jacket and meowed. Morgan took the kitten out of his arms for Wei Ming to see, and said to him with a smile: “It’s called Watermelon, and it’s the mascot of our car group.” Wei Ming looked at the cat, the circles on its body made it look like a small watermelon. Lieutenant Morgan saluted again and turned to leave.
Wei Ming stood dumbfounded, staring blankly at the horizon of the Antarctic continent surging with colorful auroras. After a long time, he slowly walked to the side of the trench next to the two little comrades-in-arms who had been crushed into meat sauce, sat on the wet ground and wept bitterly.
Hua Hua and Glasses’ third classmate in Antarctica was Major Jin Yunhui, a fighter pilot of the 1st Air Division, and now he was participating in the fighter air combat game, at this time the J-10 formation of their squadron was flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters. The sky visibility was good, and the cockpit was filled with halos cast by the aurora. Their opponent, the F15 squadron, was flying parallel to them, only three thousand meters apart. At this time, the signal of the start of the game came from the headphones.
“Throw the auxiliary fuel tank and seize the height!” The squadron leader ordered.
After Jin Yunhui pulled down the switch of the auxiliary fuel tank clutch on the corner of the dashboard, he pulled the lever sharply, causing the J-10 to jump upwards with its head high, and the overweight made his eyes dark. When the black fog in front of him dissipated, he found that the surrounding enemy formations were all herding sheep, and there was chaos. He leveled the plane, but what he could do now was not to attack the enemy plane, but to try not to collide with other planes, whether it was an enemy plane or a ours plane. This fearful situation did not last long, and the surrounding airspace was empty. Jin Yunhui called the wingman, but did not answer. At this time, he saw a silver bright spot flashing in front of him in the aurora, and quickly determined that it was an F15, it seemed to be looking for something, and it must have not found this J-10 yet. Jin Yunhui cautiously shortened the distance between the two planes, and when he saw the enemy plane suddenly pull up and turn, he obviously spotted him, he launched two missiles, and saw that the F15 threw two magnesium hot bombs and dived to the side and rear, throwing off the two white lines. He also turned to dive, bit the enemy plane again, and fired two more missiles, which were thrown off by the kid by one side. He pressed the button to move the gun, felt the slight vibration of the twin cannon fire, and when the enemy plane made a move to the left to get rid of it, he clearly saw that the fire whip of the tracer bullet swept to the tail of the F15, and a small cloud of white smoke seemed to come out of the middle of the bullet, and there was a burst of ecstasy in his heart, but then nothing happened, and the F15 was still flying. The shells were quickly squandered, and he had no weapons left but to flee for his life. Thinking that his opponent was obviously much stronger than himself in terms of technology, fear grabbed Jin Yunhui, and he slid left and right to fly blindly, not caring where the enemy plane was now, and he couldn’t see it. When the alarm radar screamed to warn of a missile tracking behind him, he jerked sideways and made an escape motion. The action was too violent, the technique was not up to par, and the plane fell into a tailspin state and fell like a stone. Jin Yunhui pressed the ejection switch without hesitation, and until now he had never seen a child pilot who could free a high-speed fighter from the tailspin state. When he ejected the cabin and the umbrella was flare overhead, he looked around for the enemy plane and quickly found it. The F15 was swooping down on him, and he didn’t know whether he wanted to strafe or overturn the umbrella, neither of which violated the rules of the race anyway, and he had to wait for death. But then there was a strange scene: a white thing suddenly popped out of the back of the F15, and it was actually its landing parachute! The umbrella was quickly shattered under the impact of high-speed air currents and engine jets, but the F15 was also pulled into a stall by it and went into a tailspin like the J-10. Jin Yunhui saw that the American child also ejected from the cabin and opened his umbrella. They give each other thumbs up from a distance. Jin Yunhui is sincere, the kid is indeed much stronger than him in technology, and the parachute is by no means opened by mistake, the F15 parachute is locked when flying at high altitude, and its accidental release can only be due to the fact that the cannon of the J-10 just hit the tail parachute cabin.
In a few moments, they saw two flames on the black and white ground below.
Antarctica is engaged in a war pattern that human society has never seen before, and which is unlikely to be repeated in the future: game wars. In this type of war, the opposing sides fight in a manner similar to competitive sports. The high command of the two sides first agrees on the time and place of the battle, and agrees on the strength of the troops of the two sides, selects or formulates a common rules of operation, and then fights according to the above agreement, and a neutral referee committee observes the battle and decides the winner. All the participating countries are on an equal footing, there are no alliances, and they play in turns. The following is a transcript of a call between the two high commands to arrange the match:
Country A: “Hey, Country B, hello! ”
Country B: “Hello. ”
Country A: “Let’s decide the next tank game, how will we play tomorrow?” ”
Country B: “Let’s play the Opposite Approach.” ”
Country A: “Okay, how many are you going to do?” ”
Country B: “One hundred and fifty.” ”
Country A: “No, it’s too much, tomorrow we have some tanks to participate in the tank-infantry confrontation game, 120 of them.” ”
Country B: “Okay, how about the game in Arena 4?” ”
Country A: “Venue No. 4? Not so well, there have been five close-quarters and three ultra-close-quarters races there, and there are tank wreckage everywhere. ”
Country B: “The wreckage can be used as a cover for both sides, which can make the game rich in variety and more fun to play.” ”
Country A: “That’s true, let’s be in the fourth arena, but the rules of the game have to be changed.” ”
Country B: “Let the referee committee do it.” Time? ”
Country A: “Let’s officially start tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, so that we both have plenty of time to assemble.” ”
Country B: “Okay, see you tomorrow.” ”
Country A: “See you tomorrow!” ”
In fact, if you think about it carefully, this kind of war is not so incomprehensible: rules and conventions imply the establishment of a system that has its inertia once it is established, and the default of one party means the rupture of the entire system, the consequences of which are unknowable. The key point is that this system of warfare is only possible in the world of children, where playful thinking plays a decisive role, and it cannot be reproduced in the world of adults.
If the people of the Common Era witnessed the game war, the most incredible thing for them was not the competitive sports method of war, in fact, this kind of combat method also appeared in the era of cold weapon warfare of adults, but it was not so obvious. What puzzled and shocked them was the nature of the role of the participating countries: the enemies of the countries in the war were determined by the order of the competition, which was later called the “athlete role” of the participating countries, and this peculiar pattern of warfare has never been seen before in human history.
Another major feature of game warfare is the specialization of combat: each battle is a single weapon in the confrontation, and the synthesis and coordination of various arms basically do not exist.
Soon after the start of the Olympics, supernova warfare on land evolved into large-scale tank battles. Tanks are children’s favorite weapons, and nothing encapsulates boys’ fantasies about weapons more than tanks. In the old days, the gift that made a boy ecstatic the most was a remote-controlled electric tank. After the outbreak of war, they became obsessed with tanks and threw them into the battlefield in large quantities with impunity. Nearly 10,000 tanks have been deployed on the Antarctic continent, and the game of large-scale tank battles has gone on unchecked, with each battle being a duel of hundreds or thousands of tanks on both sides. On the vast plains of the Antarctic continent, groups of steel monsters are speeding, shooting, and burning, and everywhere you can see patches of destroyed tanks, some of them can burn for two or three days, and when the wind is light, there will be a very special kind of long and thin black smoke, these black smoke gather in clusters on the plains, and from a distance it looks like the chaos of the earth.
Compared to the grandeur and brutality of tank battles, the air battlefield is much more deserted. Originally, fighter aerial combat was the most competitive combat, but since all the child pilots had only received less than a year of training, most of their flight time on high-speed fighter planes was only a few dozen hours, and the skills they mastered were at best to complete normal take-off and landing and watch and balance in the air, and the superb skills and physical fitness required for aerial combat were beyond the reach of most of them. Therefore, most of the confrontation between the fighter formations of the two sides could not be fought at all, and the planes of both sides fell due to their own wrecks far more than were shot down by enemy planes. In aerial dogfight, most of the pilot’s attention is focused on doing combat flights, and it is difficult to attack the enemy with all his might. At the same time, the acceleration generated by modern fighters in air combat is generally more than 6G, and it can even reach 9G when doing actions to get rid of guidance radar locking or missile tracking, and the child’s fragile cerebral blood vessels are not able to withstand such overload, which is also one of the important reasons why air combat cannot be fought. Of course, there have been some small flying geniuses, such as the American air hero Kairos (the F15 pilot who escaped missile tracking twice mentioned in the digest above), but only a few and could not afford to hide.
The sea is even more deserted, due to the special geographical location of the Antarctic continent, for the armies of the countries here, the sea transportation line is the lifeline, once the sea transportation is cut off, the children in the Antarctic will be like being abandoned on another planet, will fall into a catastrophe. Therefore, in order to ensure the sea transportation routes, all countries do not dare to risk their own sea power. In naval warfare games, the ships of both sides are far away from each other, generally outside the horizon of the horizon, and the sea over-the-horizon attack is a technically complex operation, and the huge missile attack system is extremely inefficient in the hands of children, and it is rarely able to hit the target, so only a few transport ships are sunk in the sea game. The same is true for the underwater battlefield, where a submarine with a complex structure is piloted in the dark seabed, and the complex technology and rich experience required for this kind of combat are not something that children can master in a short period of time. So similar to air combat, submarine warfare is also incomparable, and not a single torpedo hits the target in the entire game. In addition, there is no submarine base in Antarctica, and the construction of such a base is far more complicated than the construction of a simple port for surface ships, so submarines of various countries can only use Argentina or Australia as their rear base, which makes it difficult for conventional submarines to operate in the Antarctic Sea for a long time, and there are not many countries with nuclear-powered attack submarines. In the entire underwater game, only one conventionally powered submarine sank, again because of its own technical mistakes.
During the Olympic phase of the Supernova Wars, most of the battles were focused on the ground battlefield, and many peculiar forms of warfare that had never been seen before in the history of warfare appeared.
The five-kilometer cannon firing in the artillery competition is a game without much suspense, and the precise coordinates of the artillery positions of both sides are notified to both sides by the referee committee, and the artillery of both sides bombards each other frantically when they start to give the command. In the initial game, both sides have already finished aiming before the start, and the result of the game is often a lose-lose situation; Later, the rules were changed, and under the supervision of the referee committee, the guns of both sides were facing in other directions before the game began, and over-the-horizon aiming was carried out after the game began. It’s a lot like a pistol duel between two people, the key is to be fast – aim, salvo, and then the gunner quickly evacuates the artillery position (the movement of large-caliber artillery is very inflexible, and it is impossible to remove the cannon as well), often at this time the opponent’s shells are already in flight, and the time difference of a few seconds can determine the life and death of both sides. Later, the rules were further improved: the cannon was dragged to the firing point after the game started, at which point the gun emplacement began. This rule widened the gap between the two sides even more, and sometimes the artillery position of one side was covered with a rain of bullets fired by the enemy five kilometers away before the pit was dug up. During the game, the artillery emplacement becomes an extremely terrifying place, and standing there is like standing on the edge of hell. The children call this game “artillery boxing”.
In contrast, self-propelled guns have more variables in the game of fire. In this kind of game, the position of the artillery positions of both sides is uncertain, and one side can only use ballistic radar to determine the enemy’s position through enemy shells, but this is only the position of the enemy when it was last fired, and the current position can only be guessed based on this, and multiple positions in different directions and distances can be test-fired. A small artillery commander has a vivid description of this kind of operation: “It is like forking a fish with its head in muddy water with a harpoon.” “In this kind of game, the hit rate on both sides was very low, and later the artillery fire correction machines of the aviation forces of both sides were allowed to participate in the game, which greatly increased the hit rate of shooting. Children call this type of game “artillery basketball game”.
Mortars are the equipment of infantry, but their counterfire is also included in the scope of artillery games. Because the distance between the two sides when the mortar is fired is only one or two kilometers, it is within the visual range, so it is the most thrilling. It’s also one of the most physically demanding games of all, with mortarists on both sides running non-stop with mortars on their shoulders, dodging enemy shells while looking for an opportunity to fire their own shells at enemies who are also running in the distance. On an open plain, columns of dust and smoke from the explosion, groups of moving mortars, form an ever-changing abstract painting. This kind of game has a very vivid nickname: mortar soccer game.
The most terrifying of these games are infantry games, which are all small arms but have more casualties.
The largest game in the infantry game is gun shooting, and the game is divided into fortifications and charges.
Fortification-type gun games are in which two sides hide in the fortifications at a certain distance from each other and shoot at each other, which lasts for a long time, up to a day or even days. But the children later found that in the fortification shooting, because the enemy hid in the fortifications and shot, the exposed surface was very small, so the lethality of ordinary firearms was not large, and the two sides often poured bullets into each other for a long time, and the bullets were so dense that they collided in the air, and the bullet casings at the bottom of the trench could submerge the calves. In the end, when the results were counted, it was found that there was no more success except for peeling off a layer of the surface of the opponent’s fortifications. As a result, both sides switched to high-precision sniper rifles with scopes, and the results increased tenfold when the ammunition consumption was only one thousandth of the original one. In this kind of battle, the small shooters on both sides spend most of their time observing each other’s positions from their own bunkers, carefully observing inch by inch, finding anomalies in every piece of snow and every stone, finding a point that may be an enemy hole, and then sending a bullet into it. In this kind of game, the front line is empty, the children are hiding in bunkers, and there is no living creature in sight on the vast plain battlefield, only the sporadic sound of sniper rifle shooting, followed by the screech of bullets as they pass through the air, horn-hook, horn-hook, as if a lonely ghost on the empty plain under the Southern Lights is plucking the strings at will, making this silent battlefield even more solemn. The children gave this game a funny name: rifle fishing.
Assault games are a different story. In this kind of game, the two sides shoot and close to each other, much like the scene of land warfare in the era of hot and cold weapons in the 19th century. At that time, the soldiers lined up in long skirmish lines and marched across the open battlefield to shoot. However, due to the fact that the range and rate of fire and the rate of hit of today’s small arms were incomparable to the smoothbore guns of that era, the queues on both sides were much more sparse, and most of them were crawling rather than marching upright. Since there is no fortification cover on both sides in this game, the casualty rate is much higher than that of fortifications, and the game time is much shorter.
The most tragic and thrilling infantry game is the grenade game, which is also divided into fortifications and charges. The former first builds fortifications before the game, and the distance between the two fortifications is only about twenty meters, which is the distance that a child can reach by throwing a grenade. At the beginning of the game, the children on both sides jump out of the fortifications and throw grenades at each other, and then flash back to the fortifications to dodge the grenades thrown by the opponent. The grenades used in the game are generally of the wooden handle type, as they are more powerful when thrown at a long distance, while oval grenades are rarely used. This kind of combat requires great courage and physical strength, especially extremely strong nerves. As soon as the game starts, the opponent’s grenades rain down like hailstones, and even if you huddle in the fortifications, the sound of sudden explosions outside is terrifying, let alone jump out to drop bombs at the enemy. At this time, the strength of the fortifications is crucial, and if the top of the fortifications allows the opponent’s grenades to blow through or uncover, then everything is over. This is one of the games with the highest casualty rate, and the children call this game “grenade volleyball”.
Another type of grenade competition is the Charge, a game in which both players charge at each other in the open field, throw the grenade when the distance from the enemy is reduced to the throwing distance, and then defend themselves by lying down or running back out of the circle of explosive power. Oval grenades are often used in this type of game, as they can be carried more often. During the attack and evasion, soldiers on both sides often ended up mingling, each throwing grenades only at crowded areas. In an open field, in the dense smoke and light of the explosion, a group of children lay down or run, occasionally pulling a grenade from a bag and throwing it, and smoking grenades rolled everywhere on the ground…… It’s a nightmarish frenzy, and the kids call it “grenade rugby.”
Contrary to its catchy name, game warfare is the most brutal form of warfare in human history. In this kind of warfare, the confrontation of weapons has become more direct than ever, and the casualties caused are the highest among all types of warfare. For example, in a tank match, at least half of the tanks are destroyed even by the winning team. At the end of every game of the War Olympics, there was a river of blood. For every little warrior, one strike is often eternal.
This led to the discovery of a fundamental error in the perception of children in the Common Era. Through supernova warfare, it is understood that children are less likely to value life than adults, and therefore more tolerant of death. When needed, they will be braver, calmer, and more ruthless than adults. Later historians and psychologists agreed that the unimaginable mental stress of such a brutal and crazy form of warfare would have caused a collective mental breakdown among those involved in the war, if it had been placed in the first century. There are many children who have escaped from war, but few have heard of a nervous breakdown. The spiritual strength they unleashed in this war left a deep impression on future generations, and this is most fully manifested in the little heroes who emerged from the war that seemed incredible to adults. For example, in the grenade competition, there are some children called “pitchers”, who never use their own grenades, but only pick up the grenades thrown by the enemy and throw them back. Although few of them survive in the end, the children are proud to be “pitchers”. There is a very popular war song that sang:
I’m one of the best throwers
Looking at the smoking grenade was ecstatic
I picked them up quickly
Like Alibaba picking up treasures
…………
Of all the war games in the War Olympics, the most brutal and terrifying is the cold weapon game in the infantry game, in which the two sides use bayonets and other cold weapons to fight in a white-knuckle battle, bringing the war back to its oldest form. The following is the recollection of a young soldier who participated in such operations.
I found a stone nearby and sharpened the bayonet on my rifle one last time. Yesterday, when he was sharpening the bayonet, he was seen by the squad leader and reprimanded, saying that if the bayonet cannot be sharpened, it will damage the anti-rust layer on it. I don’t care, I still sharpen, I always feel that the bayonet on this rifle is not sharp enough. I’m not going to survive this game at all, what the fuck are I going to do?
The boys from the referee committee checked our rifles one by one, made sure they were not loaded with bullets, removed the bolts, and searched us for hot weapons such as pistols. In the end, all 500 Chinese children passed the examination. But the referees didn’t notice that there was a grenade buried in the snow under each of us’ feet, which was planted before they came to inspect it, and after the referees left, we all dug up the grenade and put it in our pockets. It’s not like we want to commit a foul on purpose. Last night, a Japanese captain secretly came to us, saying that he was a member of the Anti-War Society, and told us that in today’s Cold Weapon Match, the Japanese children will use a scary weapon. We asked what it was, and he didn’t answer, just said that it was a weapon that we would never have imagined, extremely terrifying, and let us be on guard.
The game began, and the infantry phalanxes of both sides advanced towards each other, and thousands of bayonets flashed under the changing Southern Lights. I vividly remember that the wind was howling, blowing up the remnants of snow on the ground, as if singing a terrible war song.
My position was at the back of the phalanx, but since I was on the edge of the queue, I could still see the situation in front of me very clearly. I saw the Japanese children slowly approaching, all of them wearing steel helmets, with strips of white cloth tied around their heads, singing songs as they went. I saw that they all had bayonet rifles in their hands, and I did not see the scary weapon that the Japanese captain had said last night. Suddenly, I noticed that the enemy’s formation had changed, and the dense phalanx had become sparse into columns, each with a distance of two paces between them, which formed longitudinal passages in the phalanx. Then I noticed a cloud of snow and dust flying behind the phalanx, and in the snow and dust there was a large black thing clinging to the ground and rushing forward, quickly catching up with the phalanx like a flood. I heard a low whine, and when I looked closely at the black torrent, my blood clotted for a moment.
It was a large pack of ferocious military dogs.
The military dogs rushed through the passages between the enemy phalanxes, and in an instant they rushed into our phalanx. I saw the first half of the phalanx in chaos and heard a scream. The dogs of unknown breed were huge, erect a head taller than all of us, and unusually fierce. The children in front of them fought with the vicious dogs, and a pool of blood began to appear on the ground. I saw a military dog leap out with a freshly torn child’s arm in its mouth…… At this time, the Japanese children, who were already approaching, disrupted the phalanx, rushed up with bayonets, and attacked the Chinese children together with those military dogs. The little comrades-in-arms in front of me were already blurred with flesh and blood under the canine teeth and bayonets.
“Throw a grenade!” The regiment leader shouted, and without thinking too much about it, we all took out our grenades, pulled out the safety pins, and threw them at the pile of people and dogs, and the flesh and blood flew in the dense explosion.
The rest of us rushed through the blast zone of the grenades, stepping on the corpses of comrades, enemies, and military dogs to rush at the Japanese soldiers behind, turning themselves into assassination machines, fighting the enemy with bayonets, butts, and teeth. I first confronted a Japanese second lieutenant, and he screamed and stabbed my bayonet in the heart, and I swung my gun at me, and the bayonet stabbed me in the left shoulder, causing me to tremble in the pain and drop my rifle to the ground. Instinctively, I gripped the junction between the barrel and the bayonet with both hands, and could feel my warm blood running down the barrel. After a few pushes back and forth with him, he somehow pulled the bayonet off the barrel of his gun! With my movable right hand, I pulled the bloody bayonet from my left shoulder, held it and staggered towards my opponent, the boy stared at me blankly, and ran away with the rifle with the bayonet missing. I didn’t have the strength to chase him, so I looked around and saw that a Japanese kid to my right was pinning one of my comrades to the ground, holding him by the neck with both hands. I walked over briskly and stabbed the guy in the back. I didn’t even have the strength to pull out the knife, and it was dark in front of me, and I saw the ground rushing towards me, it was brown muddy ground, and my face snapped into the mud. The mud was made with our blood and the blood of the enemy with the snow and dirt of Antarctica.
I woke up in the field aid station three days later and learned that we had lost the game. The referee’s explanation was: Although both sides fouled, our situation was more serious, because the grenade we used was definitely a hot weapon, and the military dog used by the Japanese children could only be regarded as a warm weapon.
(Excerpt from “Blood Mud: The Chinese Army in the Supernova War”, by Zheng Jianbing, Kunlun Publishing House, Supernova Era 8th Edition)
As the Olympics of War progressed, the outcome of the war became clear, and this outcome was not anticipated by the advocates of this form of warfare.
From a purely military point of view, game warfare is completely different from traditional warfare. Since the battlefield was pre-agreed and the location of the two sides was relatively fixed, for the first time, the geographical situation of the forces of the two sides appeared to be less important, and the purpose of the campaign was no longer to occupy strategic points and cities, but purely to consume the other side on the battlefield. Since the beginning of the game war, the children’s attention has been focused on one point, and at this time, from the supreme commanders of both sides to the frontline trenches, everyone thinks and talks the most about one word: the rate of destruction.
In the age of adults, the rate of destruction of a weapon on both sides of the enemy was a factor that was taken into account in war decision-making, but it was rarely a major factor, and the high command could do whatever it took to achieve a certain strategic or tactical goal. But the rate of destruction has a completely different meaning in the children’s war. This is mainly due to the fact that heavy weapons are a non-renewable resource in the world of children, and it is impossible for them to produce these complex war machines in a short period of time. One tank is one less when it is destroyed, one less is one less when an aircraft is shot down, and even relatively simple heavy weapons such as artillery are difficult to replenish from the rear. Therefore, the destruction rate of weapons on both sides has become almost the only factor that determines the outcome of the war.
In the Supernova War, because it is difficult for children to master complex operation techniques, the high-tech weapons of the attacking alliance do not play a big role. For example, air power, which played a decisive role in modern warfare in the first century AD, was only an inconsequential supporting role in supernova warfare. Because the reconnaissance and positioning of battlefield targets involves complex multidisciplinary technology, most combat planes cannot find ground targets to attack at all after sorties, and even if they can complete target positioning, it is difficult for children to accurately hit targets in the air, and they can only carry out large-scale bombing like scattered flowers. Another example is cruise missiles, which were the incomparably powerful sword of the United States in several local wars at the end of the A.D. century, and did not play a great role in supernova wars. Because in the children’s world, the GPS global positioning system has been nearly paralyzed due to poor operation, which makes cruise missiles lose an important means of guidance. As for another guidance method for cruise missiles, terrain matching guidance, the technology involved is more complex, and it is necessary to input topographic radar data on the way to the target into the missile. At present, the Antarctic part of these materials is difficult to retrieve from the vast database left by adults, and it may not exist at all, let alone detect and generate them by themselves.
The supernova war was a war similar to the First World War at a technological level, in which the conventional forces of the army played a decisive role. In game warfare, the disparity between conventional weapons and high-tech weapons is not as great as that of high-tech weapons.
Tanks are the most important weapons in this war, and in NATO’s theory of land warfare, ground armored forces are inseparable from the low-altitude attack force composed of helicopters. As one of the American armored commanders of the A.D. century said, “Without the Apache, Abrams is like no pants.” “In supernova warfare, because the training time of children is too short, like the medium and high altitude forces composed of fighters and bombers, the low-altitude attack force of helicopters is difficult to function, and the crash rate and the number of downed are higher than those of fighters. When an Apache is piloted by two technologically unscrupulous children hovering over the battlefield, it becomes an excellent target for ground-based shoulder-fired missiles. So on the Antarctic battlefield, the attack helicopter that army aviation pilots envy the most is not the American Apache, but the Russian coaxial twin-rotor attack helicopter Ka-50. It is different in that it is equipped with an ejection seat similar to that on a fighter plane, which is the first of its kind in a helicopter, because the rotors above the helicopter make it very difficult to eject and escape, and the Ka-50 takes the method of blowing up the rotors before starting the ejection seat, which greatly increases the survival rate of the pilot when it is hit. In the case of Apache, the little pilots had to wait for death after their helicopters were hit. In tank games, due to the lack of cooperation and cover of low-altitude forces, there is no great difference in the destruction rate of tanks in various countries.
Time flies, and another six months have passed in the blink of an eye, during which time the global sea level continues to rise, submerging all the coastal cities, Shanghai, New York, Tokyo and other cities have become floating cities, most of the children in the cities have moved to the mainland, and the remaining children have gradually adapted to the life of the water city, boating between the high-rise buildings, maintaining the life of these former metropolises. At the same time, Antarctica’s climate continues to warm even after long dark nights, with average temperatures above -10 degrees Celsius, making it feel like you are in a mild early winter, and the importance of the soon-to-be-pleasant climate is even more prominent.
The international negotiations on the division of the Antarctic continent are about to be held, and each country’s important bargaining chip in this negotiation is its performance in the Antarctic war game, which makes the children of all countries devote themselves more fully to the war game, and they continue to increase troops to the Antarctic, making the scale of the game bigger and bigger, and the war continues to spread on the Antarctic continent.
The United States, the initiator of the war game, is in a state of deep disappointment and loss, and has not become the hegemon of the game as its children would have liked, as high-tech weapons have lost their power in the hands of children. The war game presents a multipolar state that they do not want to see, and the upcoming Antarctic negotiations have American children anxious.
The last project of the war game is about to begin, and this is a game that American children have pinned their hopes on: the game of intercontinental missiles.
“You’re not mistaken? It’s really coming at us?! Marshal Dzhavarov asked the staff officer.
“This is what the Radar Warning Center said, and it should be true!”
“Perhaps, it will also change tracks?” President Ilyushin asked.
“No, the warhead has entered terminal guidance, and it is now in free fall without power, like a falling stone.”
This is the command center of the Russian army, and everyone in the Russian high command is watching the first intercontinental missile game between the United States and Russia. Now, the ICBM launched by the American child from the mainland, thousands of miles away, is aimed at the command center of the Russian army, which is a serious violation of the rules of the game. The two sides have already determined their respective target areas before the game, and the target area for Russia to be attacked by the United States is 100 kilometers away from here, and the other side should not be mistaken.
“What are you afraid of, there are no nuclear warheads anyway.” Ilyushin said
“Even the conventional warhead is terrible, this is a ‘Peacemaker’ ICBM, it seems to have been deployed in the eighties of the twentieth century, it can carry a three-ton conventional high-explosive warhead, and it will destroy here if it falls within 200 meters!” Diavorov said.
“Besides, what if it hits us right on the head? That’s what will kill us if we don’t bring anything! A colonel staff officer said.
“It’s not impossible that the Peacemaker is one of the most accurate intercontinental missiles, and its strike accuracy is 100 meters,” Dzhavarov said. ”
At this moment, a scream sounded in the air outside, as if the sky had been cut open by a sharp blade. “It’s coming!” Someone screamed, and everyone held their breath, their scalps tightened, waiting for the blow to come.
A dull crash sounded outside, the ground shook slightly, and everyone rushed out of the command hall, just seeing a small pillar of dust falling on the plain half a kilometer away. When Ilyushin and Djavorov drove there, they saw a forklift and a group of soldiers with shovels and hoes digging in a crater.
“The warhead seems to throw a small parachute at an altitude of about 10,000 meters to brake, so it does not penetrate deep into the ground.” Said one of the Air Force colonels who was present.
Half an hour later, the bottom of the warhead of the ICBM, which had penetrated into the ground, was exposed, a metal circle with a diameter of 2.3 meters, and the remnants of three blasting bolts on the edges. When the children saw a gap in the edge, they inserted a steel drill and easily pried the metal lid open. The children were amazed to see many colorful boxes of different sizes inside the warhead, placed in a circle of shockproof pads, carefully opened one box, saw that it was a small piece of stuff wrapped in tin platinum foil, and then opened the tin platinum foil to reveal a brown lump.
“Dynamite!” There are children who say warily.
Diavorov took the piece of “explosives”, looked at it carefully, sniffed it again, bit down on the next piece and ate it, “It’s chocolate.” He said.
The children opened the other boxes, which contained several packets of cigars in addition to delicate chocolates. While the other children were busy sharing the chocolate, Ilyushin took out a thick cigar and lit it, and without a few puffs, only heard a popping sound as one of the firecrackers placed in the cigar exploded, blowing up a cloud of streamers. The children looked at Ilyushin, who was stunned with a cigar in his hand and only his butt left, and laughed.
“In the game three days later, we also hit the command center of the American kids!” Ilyushin said as he threw away the cigarette butt.
“I have a sense of foreboding.” At a meeting of the command center of the Chinese army, glasses said.
“Yes, our command center should be transferred immediately.” Lu Gang said.
“Is this necessary?” Hua Hua asked.
“American children strike at Russian command centers in ICBM games, breaking the convention of the inviolability of bases. Our base targets can also be hit in this game, and the warheads are not necessarily filled with chocolate and cigars. ”
“My sense of foreboding is deeper, and I think the situation may be about to change abruptly,” the glasses said. ”
Looking out of the command center window, a white morning light had appeared on the horizon, and the long dark night in Antarctica was coming to an end.
In the desolate plains of northwestern Russia, near the Arctic Circle, an SS25 intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with an extended-range booster roared from a 10-wheeled launcher and flew over the Antarctic continent in 40 minutes. After the missile was launched, the US NMD and TMD systems successively launched six anti-ballistic missiles to intercept it, and the American children watched in surprise on the big screen as the two bright spots collided almost identically, but this surprise failed again and again, and in the suborbit above the atmosphere, those interceptor missiles all passed by the incoming missiles at a distance of several tens of meters.
After a period of panic, the American child dug up the warhead and found that the Russian child had launched many bottles of vodka from a distance of 20,000 kilometers, and the wine bottles were specially made shockproof bottles; There was also a beautiful box labeled as a gift for David, which was opened to reveal a matryoshka doll inside. There are a total of ten dolls in one set, all of them are David’s appearance, vivid, the outermost doll is smiling, the more inward the less he smiles, and then he becomes sad, and the innermost thumb-sized David is grinning and crying.
In a fit of rage, David threw the pile of dolls into the snow, grabbed Scott with one hand, and General Harvey, who was in charge of the Strategic Missile Defense system with the other, “You’re all fired!” You idiots, you promised me that NMD and TMD would work! You-” he said to Scott, “did you say that with them we were in the safe?!” You—” he shouted at Harvey again, “what are your Westinghouse Award-winning geniuses doing?” Are they just going to fucking be hackers online?! ”
“We …… We almost hit it six times. Scott said with a red face.
Harvey, who hadn’t slept for three days in a row, couldn’t care about the president’s dignity at this time, shook off David’s hand and shouted: “You’re an idiot!” Are those two systems that fun? TMD’s software alone has nearly 200 million lines of code, you want to try it?! ”
At this time, a staff officer came over and handed David a piece of printer paper: “This is the latest revised version of the agenda for the Antarctic territorial negotiations that Mr. Chogana has just sent. ”
The children of the American High Command stood wordlessly beside the big crater, and at the bottom of the pit was a large warhead from the other pole of the earth. After a moment of silence, David said:
“Before the territorial negotiations, we must achieve absolute superiority in the game!”
Vaughn said: “It’s impossible, the game is nearing its end. ”
“You know it’s possible, you just don’t want to think in that direction.” David said as he turned his head sharply to stare at the Secretary of State.
“You don’t mean that new game, do you?”
“Yes, new game! Exactly that new game! It’s long overdue! Scott excitedly answered for David.
“It’s going to take the Antarctic game in the unknowable.” Vaughn said, looking into the distance, his deep-set eyes reflecting the white morning light on the horizon.
“You like to complicate simple things to show your knowledge, and a fool can see that that new game will give us an absolute advantage in the whole of Antarctica at once, and it will make the direction of the Antarctic game clear,” David waved at Vaughn the piece of paper that the staff officer had handed him just now, “as clear as this blank piece of paper, nothing unknowable!” ”
Vaughn reached out and took the piece of paper from David’s hand, “Do you think this piece of paper is clear and unambiguous?” ”
David looked at him inexplicably, then at the piece of paper: “Of course.” “
Vaughn folded the paper in half with his withered twig hand and said, “This is once,” and folded it in half again, “This is twice,” and “again in half,” “This is three times…… Now, Mr. President, do you think that’s a very clear thing? Something that’s easy to predict? ”
“Of course.”
“So, do you dare to fold this piece of paper in half thirty-five times?” Vaughn held up the paper, which had been folded in half three times, in front of David.
“I don’t understand.”
“Answer me, dare or not.”
“What’s not to dare to do here?”
David reached for the piece of paper, and Vaughn’s other hand pressed his. David felt Vaughn’s hands cold and wet, like a snake crawling on the back of his hand. “Mr. President, you are speaking as a top decision-maker, and every decision you make is making history, and now that you think about it, do you really dare to do that?” David looked at Vaughn in bewilderment.
“You have one last chance: don’t you want to predict the consequences of this thing before you make a decision, just like you would predict the consequences of that new game?”
“The consequences? What are the consequences of folding a piece of paper in half thirty-five times? Amusing. Scott said contemptuously.
“For example, how thick will that piece of paper be folded?”
“It’s as thick as the Bible, I think.” David said.
Vaughn shook his head.
“Is my knee so thick on the ground?” Harvey asked.
Vaughn still shook his head.
“It’s as thick as the command center over there?”
Vaughn shook his head.
“You can’t say it’s as thick as the Pentagon, are you?” Scott scoffed.
“The thickness of this single sheet of paper is about 0.1 millimeter, and according to this calculation, after being folded in half thirty-five times, the thickness of the paper is 6,871,950 meters, that is, 6,872 kilometers, which is equivalent to the radius of the earth.”
“What?! Only 35 folds…… You’re kidding! Scott yelled.
“He’s right.” David said he was no stupid kid and quickly thought of the Indian legend of the king and chess.
Vaughn slipped the piece of paper into David’s jacket pocket, looked at the little commanders around him in a daze, and said slowly, “Don’t be overly optimistic about your judgment, especially the course of history.” ”
David threw himself in defeat and said, “I admit that our minds are much simpler than yours, and that the world should be terrible if all of us had minds like you.” But we can’t be sure of success, and we can’t be sure that it will fail, so why not give it a try? We’re going to do it! There’s no way we’re not going to do it! ”
Vaughn said coldly: “Mr. President, that is your power, I have said everything I should say. ”
In the dawn of the Antarctic wilderness, the history of the beginning of the supernova era has reached its most dangerous place.
Chapter Twenty-Five: A Thousand Suns
Before the start of the ICBM game with the American children, the command center of the Chinese children was secretly transferred, and all the personnel of the center, together with the necessary communications equipment, flew more than forty kilometers inland in fourteen helicopters. The topography here is different from that of the coast, with several small cone-shaped hills on which the snow has not melted. The command center set up its tent here, with a hill behind it and a vast plain in the direction of the base in front.
“The command of the 2nd Artillery called and asked what we had on our warheads.” Lu Gang said to Hua Hua.
“Hmm…… Let’s put sugar gourds. ”
Then, the children all raised their binoculars to observe the sky on the other side of the sea, and a small staff officer wearing headphones showed them the general direction, and the radar warning center in the distance relayed to him the information about the approaching US ICBM.
“Attention, they say it’s close! The azimuth is 135, the elevation angle is 42, that’s the direction, you should be able to see it! ”
The sky at Antarctic dawn is a deep dark blue, and the stars are already sparse, but because the auroras in the sky have greatly diminished, the sky looks much darker than it did in the past long night. On this dark blue background, a moving point of light can be clearly seen, it is fast, but slower than a meteor, and if viewed with a telescope, it can be seen dragging a short tail of fire, which is the frictional glow of the warhead when it re-enters the atmosphere. The point of light quickly disappeared, and nothing could be seen in the dark blue sky, either with the naked eye or through telescopes, and the point of light seemed to melt into the dark blue abyss. But the children know that the warhead of that ICBM has entered the atmosphere and is falling along a precise trajectory under the influence of gravity towards the target.
“That’s right, its target is the base, heh, it’s more accurate, it’s the command center!” The little staff officer wearing headphones said loudly.
“What’s in the warhead this time?”
“Maybe a doll”
…………
The children were talking.
Suddenly, the dawn of Antarctica turned into daylight.
“Supernova!” A child screamed.
Yes, it was a familiar and familiar scene to children: it was too much like a supernova eruption, and the earth and mountains became clear and bright in the sudden appearance of strong sunlight, but this time the sky did not turn blue, but a deep purple. The sunlight came from the direction of the sea, and the children looked in that direction and immediately saw the new sun on the horizon. Unlike a supernova, this sun takes on a spherical shape larger than a real sun, and the light is so intense that children feel a burning sensation on their faces.
Lu Gang was the first to realize what was happening, and he shouted, “Don’t look at it! It will hurt your eyes! ”
The children closed their eyes, but the sharply intensified light still shined brightly through the eyelids, making people seem to sink into a sea of light, and the children had to cover their eyes with their hands, and the bright light still stubbornly seeped through their fingers. After a short while, everything went dark. The children opened their eyes carefully, and their eyes, which had just been dazzled, could not see anything for a while.
Lu Gang asked everyone: “How long do you think the sun was bright just now?” ”
The children recalled that it seemed to be more than ten seconds.
Lu Gang nodded: “I think it’s also so long, judging from the duration of the fireball, its equivalent may exceed 1 million tons.” ”
The children’s eyesight returned, and they looked in the direction in which the sun appeared and disappeared, and saw a white mass on the horizon in that direction expanding dramatically.
Lu Gang shouted again: “Cover your ears!” Fast! Cover your ears! ”
The children covered their ears and waited for a while, but there was no explosion, but the mushroom cloud on the horizon was already standing up to the sky, silvery white in the morning light. Its contrast with the earth and sky is so great that it gives a surreal feeling, as if it were a giant phantom superimposed on the picture of reality. The children stared up at it blankly, unconsciously putting their hands off their ears, and Lu Gang shouted again:
“Cover your ears! It takes two minutes for that voice to come! ”
As soon as the children covered their ears again, the ground under their feet shook like a drum with a loud bang, and the floating earth and snow on the surface were shaken up to knee height, and the snow on the hill flowed down as if it had melted. The loud bang penetrated the children’s minds through their flesh and bones, and their bodies seemed to be shattered and scattered, leaving only terrified souls trembling on the ground.
Lu Gang shouted: “Hurry up and hide behind the mountain, the shock wave is coming!” ”
“Shockwave?” Hua Hua stared at him and asked.
“Yes, it may have faded into a gale by the time you got here!”
As the children circled the back of the hill, a sudden wind howled around them, and several tents were uprooted, and the equipment inside rolled on the ground. Half of the helicopter parked in front of the hill capsized, and then the snow and dust flooded everything, and there was nothing to see around, and the flying rocks made the helicopter ping-pong. The wind lasted only about a minute before quickly abating, and finally stopped completely. The snow and dust in the air were slowly falling, and a hazy glow of fire appeared on the horizon behind the dust curtain, and the mushroom clouds in the distance were blurred by the spread, but they were larger in size, taking up half of the sky, and the wind blew the smoke from the top of it aside, draping the huge monster with a silver mess of hair.
“The base is destroyed.” Lu Gang said heavily.
All communication with the base was cut off, and everyone looked in the direction of the base in the dust that had not yet fallen, and only the faint light of the fire could be seen below the horizon.
At this time, a small staff officer came over and told Hua Hua that the president of the United States was calling him.
Hua Hua asked, “Will answering him reveal our position?” ”
“No, the transmitter is in another place.”
David’s voice came over the radio receiver: “Wow, Huahua, that nuclear bomb didn’t kill you?” You’re very, very smart in moving the command center, and I’m very, very happy to know that you’re still alive! I think you already know that a new game has begun! Nuke game! Haha, the most fun game! How beautiful that new sun is! ”
Hua Hua said angrily: “You shameful guys, you have trampled on all the rules of the game!” Destroyed the foundation of the game! ”
“Hee-hee, what rules, fun is the rules!”
“Your adults are so bad that they actually left you strategic nuclear weapons!”
“Alas, it’s just that there is some left unintentionally, our nuclear arsenal is huge, and eating a large loaf of bread will inevitably drop some dregs. Besides, who knows if there is some dregs of Russian loaf? ”
“He’s got to the point.” Lu Gang whispered in Hua Hua’s ear, “They don’t dare to carry out a nuclear strike on Russia because they are afraid of their nuclear retaliation, but we don’t have that worry.” ”
“Don’t worry about these little things, don’t care.” David said on the radio.
“We don’t care,” the glasses said coldly, “in this crazy world, there’s no need to be angry for moral reasons, it’s too tiring.” ”
“That’s right, Huahua, did you hear that, this is the right mentality, so that you can play well.” With that, David hung up.
The Chinese children immediately contacted the countries participating in the Antarctic game in an attempt to create a coalition to punish American children for their violations, but they were greatly disappointed.
Hua Hua and the glasses first contacted Russia, and Ilyushin said on the radio without hesitation: “We have been informed of your country’s plight and are deeply sympathetic. ”
“This heinous violation should be punished, and if this bad precedent is tolerated, the next step will be to hit nuclear bombs on bases in other countries, or even on other continents outside Antarctica,” Hua Hua said. Your country should launch a nuclear counterattack on the violator’s base, and now you may be the only one capable of it. ”
Ilyushin replied: “Of course, such behavior should be punished, and I think that now the children of all countries are looking forward to a nuclear counterattack by your country in order to uphold the dignity of the rules.” Our country also wants to punish the violators, but Russia has no nuclear weapons, and our respectable parents have launched those nuclear bombs into space. ”
Ties to the EU are even more frustrating, with British Prime Minister Gerin, the president of the ruling country, saying in all seriousness: “How can your country think that we still have nuclear weapons?” This is the most outrageous slander against a united Europe, please let us know where you are and we will send a note of protest! ”
Hua Hua put down the microphone and said: “These little slippery heads all want to protect themselves and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight.” ”
“Very smart.” Glasses nodded and said.
The command center’s contact with the Chinese base was initially restored, and terrible news began to come by radio: Army Group G stationed at the base had been devastated, the number of casualties was not yet known, and it was estimated that this army group had basically lost its combat effectiveness. The base’s facilities have been largely destroyed. Fortunately, due to the continuous expansion of the geographical scope of the game, the other two armies originally stationed at the base moved hundreds of kilometers inland, which allowed two-thirds of the Chinese children’s strength on the Antarctic continent to be preserved, but the port that the base spent more than two months to build was seriously damaged in the nuclear attack, and the supply of these troops became a big problem.
An emergency meeting of the High Command was held in a makeshift tent at the foot of the hill. Before the meeting began, Hua Hua said that he would go out first.
“It’s urgent!” Lu Gang reminded him.
“Just five minutes!” Hua Hua said, then turned around and went out.
After half a minute, Glasses also walked out of the tent, and saw Hua Hua lying on his back on a piece of snow, staring at the sky with blank eyes, and Glasses walked over and sat down beside him. The dust in the air had already fallen, and there was a slight hot wind blowing, carrying with it the moisture and earthy smell of melted snow. In the sky in the direction of the sea, the huge mushroom cloud was blurred by the spread and lost its shape, but it was larger and took up half of the sky, making it impossible to distinguish it from the clouds in the sky. On the horizon in the other direction, the morning light was already pouring into the sky.
“I really can’t stand it anymore.” Hua Hua said.
“No one else is much better.” Glasses said lightly.
“But we’re different from others, it’s really damn!”
“You imagine yourself as a computer, made up of just cold hardware, reality is data, you can calculate what you enter, and you can support it.”
“You’ve been using this method since the beginning of the New Era?”
“I used this method before the beginning of the new era, it is not a method, it is my nature.”
“But I don’t have that nature.”
“It’s easy to get free, don’t take anything, go in any direction from here, and you’ll soon get lost and soon freeze or starve to death in the Antarctic wilderness.”
“That’s a good idea, I just don’t want to be a deserter.”
“Let’s be a computer.”
Hua Hua stood up, looked at his glasses and asked, “Do you really think that everything can be achieved by cold reasoning and calculation?” ”
“Yes, behind what you think is intuition, there are extremely complex reasoning and calculations, so complicated that you can’t feel it, and all we need now is to be calm or calm.”
Hua Hua stood up and patted the snow on his back: “Let’s go, let’s go to a meeting.” ”
The glasses pulled at him: “Think about what you have to say.” ”
Hua Hua smiled at his glasses in the morning light: “I think about it, in fact, for a cold computer, the current situation is just a very simple arithmetic problem. ”
When the meeting began, the children were silent for a long time, and they were stunned by the drastic situation in front of them.
The commander of Army Group D broke the silence and slammed the table and shouted: “Our adults are so honest? Why don’t you leave us some of that stuff too?! ”
The children chimed in: “Yes, even if it’s a little less!” “We’re defenseless now!” “Even if there is a nuclear bomb, the situation will be different!” “yes, it’s good to have one!” ……
“Okay, don’t say these useless words,” Lu Gang said, and then he turned to Hua Hua, “What should we do next?” ”
Hua Hua stood up and said: “The two armies in the interior were immediately evacuated urgently to preserve their strength in the event of a further nuclear strike by the enemy. ”
Lu Gang stood up and paced quickly: “You should know what this means, if all our land forces change from a combat assembly state to a non-combat evacuation state, it will take a long time to assemble again, and we will completely lose our combat effectiveness in the Antarctic continent!” ”
“It’s the equivalent of formatting our hard drive,” the glasses said. ”
Lu Gang nodded: “This analogy is very appropriate. ”
“But I agree with Hua Hua’s opinion, evacuate immediately!” Glasses said firmly.
Hua Hua lowered his head and said: “There is no way, if the various group armies still maintain a dense combat assembly state, they may be completely annihilated under the enemy’s next large-scale nuclear strike.” ”
Lu Gang said: “But if the group army becomes a large number of small units scattered over a vast area, it will be difficult to guarantee supplies, and it will be impossible for them to survive for a long time!” ”
The commander of Army Group B said: “Let’s take one step at a time, now is really not the time to think too much, every second the danger grows by one point, quickly give the order!” ”
The commander of Army Group D said: “We now have a sword hanging from our heads with strands of hair, which will fall at any moment!” ”
Most of the children advocated evacuation as soon as possible.
Hua Hua looked at the glasses and Lu Gang, and they all nodded. He walked up to the conference table and stood still, saying: “Okay, issue an evacuation order to the two army groups, there is no time to plan the details, let the troops evacuate on their own, take the battalion as a unit, you must be fast!” At the same time, please be aware of the consequences of this choice and be mentally prepared that the mission of Antarctica will be very difficult for us in the future. ”
The children all stood up, and a staff officer read over the draft evacuation order, but no one made any comments. They just wanted to hurry, faster, and the staff officer walked towards the radio with the order, when a calm voice suddenly sounded:
“Please wait a minute.”
The children all turned their eyes to the person who spoke, who was Senior Colonel Hu Bing, the liaison of the five-person observation group. After saluting Hua Hua, Glasses and Lu Gang, he said: “Report to the chief, the special observer group will perform its final duties!” ”
The Special Observer Group is a mysterious institution left behind by the adults, consisting of three Army Colonels and two Air Force Colonels. In the event of war, they had the right to know all the secrets and to observe all the decision-making processes of the High Command, but the adults had assured that the five-member observer group would never interfere in the work of the High Command. In fact, it was also the case that throughout the previous course of the war game, at every military meeting of the Supreme Command, the five children just sat by and listened quietly, not even taking notes, just listening. They never spoke, and even in the aftermath of meetings, they rarely communicated with anyone, and gradually, the children of the High Command almost forgot that they existed. Once, Hua Hua asked them who the team leader was, and an army colonel named Hu Bing in the observation group replied:
“Report to the chief, the five members of us have equal powers, there is no team leader, I will act as a liaison to the group when necessary.”
This makes their mission even more mysterious.
At this time, the five officers of the observation group stood in a very strange formation, and they stood in a circle facing each other, standing solemnly, as if there was a national flag in the middle that they were hoisting.
“Category A situation has appeared, vote!”
Hu Bing said that the five children raised one hand at the same time.
Hu Bing turned to the several ammunition boxes that served as conference tables, took out a white envelope from his arms, placed it in the middle of the ammunition box with both hands, and said: “This is a letter from the last president of the country in the A.D. century to the current national leadership. ”
Hua Hua reached out and picked up the letter, tore open the seal, and there was only one page of stationery with handwritten pen words on it, and he read it.
The children:
By the time you read this letter, our worst premonition has become a reality.
In the last days of the century A.D., we can only speculate about the future according to our way of thinking, and do as much as we can do in the end based on that speculation.
But that premonition has come to us more than once, that the way children think and behave is completely different from that of adults, that the trajectory of the child’s world may be completely beyond our predictions, and that world may be a world that we cannot imagine. We can’t do much for you.
There is only one thing left for you.
It’s the last thing we want to leave to our children, and while leaving it behind, we feel like we’re putting an open pistol next to a sleeping baby’s pillow.
As cautious as possible, we have appointed a special observer team, composed of five of the calmest children, who, depending on the severity of the situation, decide whether or not to hand over this relic to you, and if it is not handed over after ten years, the remnants will destroy themselves.
We hope that they will never have to have to vote like this, but now you have opened the letter.
This letter was written at the final meeting, when we were all at the end of our lives, but our minds were still clear. The letter is to be delivered to the observation team by a child messenger who is waiting at the final settlement. I thought that everything that should have been said had been said, but when I wrote this letter, a thousand words came to my heart again.
But you have opened the letter.
When you open the letter, it means that your world is completely beyond our imagination, and there is no point in saying these words, except to say:
Kids go well.
On the last day of the A.D. century, it was the final settlement of China No. 1
(Signed)
The eyes of the children’s leaders will focus on Hu Bing again. He stood up and saluted and said: “The five-member observer group is now handing over: a Dongfeng-101 intercontinental nuclear missile with a maximum range of 25,000 kilometers, with a thermonuclear warhead with a yield of 4 million tons. ”
“Where’s the nuclear bomb?” Lu Gang stared at him and asked.
“We don’t know, and we don’t need to know!” Hu Bing said. At this time, another colonel in the observation group put a laptop on the conference table and opened it. The computer has been turned on, and a map of the world is displayed on the screen, “The various positions of this map can be magnified to a maximum of 1/100,000 scale, just double-click the target with the mouse, the wireless modem on the computer will send a signal, a satellite link will transmit the signal to the destination, and the missile will be automatically launched.” ”

The kids rushed up and stroked the computer. Many of them burst into tears, as if they were holding the warm hands of the adults reaching out to them from the underworld.
Chapter XXVI A.D. Landmines
The supernova explosion has not changed dramatically in every part of the world, such as this small village deep in the mountains of southwest China, where life has not changed much. Yes, there are no adults, but in the A.D. century, there were not many adults in the village, and they all went out to work. The children do not do much more farm work now than they did then, and their daily life is the same as then, from sunrise to sunset, and they are even more ignorant of the outside world than they were when the adults were there.
But for a while before the adults died, it seemed like life was really about to change dramatically. At that time, a road was built next to the village, and it led to the edge of the mountain, into a valley sealed with barbed wire. Every day, there are countless big trucks pulling in full of stuff and coming out empty. They were covered with green tarpaulins, or packed in big boxes, I don’t know what they were, but they had to be piled up, and I am afraid they were as high as the mountain behind the village, because the big trucks on the road were flowing day and night like rivers, and they were all full of them and they came out empty, and sometimes there were some kind of planes with electric fans on their roofs flying into the valley, and something was hanging underneath, and when they flew out, they were gone. After half a year, the place calmed down again, and a bulldozer knocked the road down, and the children in the village and the adults who were already seriously ill did not understand this: why bother to destroy the road if it is not needed? Soon, the upturned pavement was overgrown with grass again, and it looked similar to the surrounding mountains. The barbed wire fence that sealed the valley was also removed, and the village children were able to go there again to chop wood and hunt. When they went, they found that nothing had changed in the valley, the woods were still the same as before, and the meadows were still the same as before. They don’t know what the thousands of foreign people in military uniforms or non-military uniforms have been tossing around here for half a year, and they don’t know where the things brought in by the river-like convoy have gone, and everything has passed like a dream and gradually forgotten.
They could not have imagined that beneath the valley there was a sleeping sun.
Historians call it the AD landmine, and the reason why it is called an intercontinental missile is because it is located in the deepest silo in the world, 150 meters deep, and the upper part of the wellhead is covered with a layer of soil 20 meters thick, so it is impossible to discover this huge secret even if it is dug deep in the valley. Before launch, a directional blasting breaks open the soil layer to expose the exit of the silo; The second is because it is unattended, just waiting for the signal to trigger, much like a super mine buried in this land, waiting for the trigger to come. The mine is 90 meters high, and if it stands on the outside, it looks like a lone peak of metal. It is asleep in the silo, with only one clock and one receiving unit working. The receiving unit listens silently all the time, and at the frequency it locks into, it must hear a cacophony from the outside world, but it is just waiting for a long string of numbers, which is a large prime number. If you try to calculate with the world’s fastest computer, you won’t be able to do it at the end of the world. And there is only one copy of this large prime number in the world, stored in the laptop of the five-person observation team. When the timer reaches 315,360,000 seconds, that is, the tenth year after it is activated, the mine has reached the end of its lifespan, it will wake up, activate all its systems, fly out of the silos, fly out of the atmosphere, and self-destruct in Earth orbit at an altitude of five thousand kilometers. At this time, even during the day, a bright star will be seen shining in the sky for more than ten seconds.
But just 23500817 seconds after the timer starts, the receiving unit receives the large prime number, and it continues to receive the following information, which is two digits accurate to three decimal places. A simple program in the receiver unit checks the two numbers, and if the first and second of them are outside the range of 0-180 and 0-80 respectively, nothing will happen and the receiver will continue listening. But this time, the two figures, while close to the edge of the range, are still within the range, and that’s enough, it doesn’t care about anything more. At this time, dawn was approaching, the mountains to the southwest were still sleeping, and the valley was shrouded in a mist, and the A.D. mines had awakened its sleeping power.
In an instant, a warm current flowed through the massive body. The first thing it did when it woke up was to extract the pair of latitude and longitude coordinates from the receiving unit, send it to the target database, and immediately turn it into a point on the world map of the database, which is one in 100,000. The central computer generated the flight trajectory parameters in an instant, and at the same time, it learned from the target database that the target was located on a plain, so it set the detonation altitude of the warhead at 2,000 meters. It would be strange if it was conscious, given that after it was assembled, countless simulated launches were performed to test the reliability of the system. Of all the continents, the continent where this target area is located is the only one that has not been tested, but that’s none of its business, everything is still going according to procedure. In its electronic consciousness, the whole world is extremely simple, meaningful only to the target point on the far southern continent, and the rest of the world is only the coordinates that mark that point, which shines at the top of the transparent spherical coordinate system of the Earth, luring it to go there and accomplish its extremely simple mission.
The AD mines activated the heating system in the fuel tanks. Like most ICBMs, it is propelled by liquid fuel, but for the long-term preservation of the fuel, it uses a solid-liquid conversion fuel, which in normal times is a gelatinous solid state that needs to be heated to dissolve it into a liquid state when launched.
The layer of soil above the silo was lifted by directional blasting, and the A.D. mines saw the dawn sky.
A few children in the small village who were not sleeping deeply heard a dull explosion, which seemed to come from the direction of the valley, and they did not care, thinking that it was just a distant thunderclap.
The ensuing sound made it impossible for the children in the small village to sleep, and kept waking up more children in the village. It was a low roar, like a waking beast from the depths of the earth, and like a flood rolling in the distance that engulfed the whole world, and the window paper trembled slightly in the sound. The sound quickly intensified, and turned from a low roar to a high-pitched loud noise, and the whole tiled house trembled.
The children ran out of the house, just in time to see a huge dragon rising slowly from the valley, the flames of the dragon that made them dare not look at it, and the surrounding mountains were shrouded in an orange glow. The children saw that the speed of the fire dragon’s ascent was accelerating, rising higher and higher, becoming a point of light, and the sound it made became faint. Later, the point of light flew south, and soon merged into the starry sky of dawn.