Chapter 283 Total Destruction
Back at Nassau, the AC-130U gunship defeated the Bunker Hill with just a dozen artillery shells. Meanwhile, a dozen speedboats from the Polarlys Legion were traveling at a high speed of thirty knots towards the Nassau port.
Under the gunship's scrutiny, the people on the Bunker Hill tank landing ship and the entire fleet surrendered. All of them were captured.
However, it was not the end of the story. After a short panic in Nassau, there were still thousands of armed soldiers loyal to Santos. These people were in Nassau port and Nassau Airport and refused to surrender.
When Santos received the information in Guantanamo, he quickly double-checked the situation in Nassau with the wireless radio. It was confirmed that his entire fleet surrendered and the enemy was landing on the port. Santos immediately commanded the armed soldiers to stop the Polarlys Legion.
In fact, even without Santos' command, the armed Cubans under Santos tried to stop them when Roma was landing and taking over the control of Nassau port. Soon, a shootout started at the port and it was covered in blood.
Santos was standing in front of the radio system and mumbling, "There's still hope, there's hope. I have thousands of armed soldiers in Nassau. As long as they hold the port and airport, there's still hope."
The Cubans were not giving up; they were fighting with their lives. All of them knew that they will not be spared if they were defeated. They could only fight back.
"Get that double 57-mm self-propelled tank here, fire at the port."
"Don't be afraid of those Americans, they only have speedboats. We're much stronger than them."
"Occupy the buildings, build the barricade, and use those Bahamians as shields."
An eight-wheel self-propelled tank arrived and started firing in the direction of the port. The artillery shells created a bunch of holes on the ground and soon, they could see the corpses in those holes.
The soldiers who just landed at the port were running and shouting, "Don't kill us, we're Cubans!" However, nobody would care about them on the battlefield. Meanwhile, Santos heard the situation reported by his soldier and he got pumped up again.
"Good job! Did you see the men I trained? They're pretty good, huh?"
"Get rid of all those Americans. They can't do anything if they can't land on Nassau."
"By the time I get out of here, I'll bring another fleet to help them. The battle isn't over yet."
It was only a few minutes, a platoon of soldiers from the Polarlys Legion were all shot and killed at the port. The port was covered with corpses and blood; the scene looked horrible and indescribable.
Meanwhile on the AC-130U, the commander of this battle, Roma watched as all the tank fodder mercenaries they got from Federo were eliminated. Roma was already used to that; he remained cool and steady. He commanded another platoon of soldiers to get ready. At the same time, he commanded the AC-130U to destroy the self-propelled tank and barricades.
When the gunship came closer with its deep, loud engine. The Cubans were not sure if they could stand against the Polarlys Legion with the barricades and the Bahamians as shields. Once again, the 57mm self-propelled tank showed up. The Cubans were trying to shoot the gunship.
The moment the self-propelled tank fired, the gunship launched a missile. The Bofors 40mm gun was used as the main weapon because the 105mm artillery shell was too slow.
With a firing rate of more than hundred shots per second, the Bofors 40mm bullets were deadly. Within just a few seconds, more than a hundred bullets fired. The raging bullets started from the sea and was on its way to the port. After a few moments, it struck the self-propelled tank.
When the gunners on the self-propelled tanks saw the AC-130U firing, they were frightened. They were hitting the top of the tank; they were trying to escape. However, before they could open the top of the tank, bullets were already raging in front of them.
The 40mm bullets easily went through the target. The self-propelled tank was completely destroyed in less than one second. The body of the tank was falling apart, its wheels and turrets were gone. The gunmen were instantly killed.
The bullets did not stop. It continued and touched a concrete building near the port. The thick and strong concrete could not withhold it. Within thirty seconds, the building was completely demolished. The armed soldiers under Santos who were hiding in the building were either dead or injured.
The AC-130U was getting closer; it was firing in any direction, at any angle that it could. The 105mm howitzer was accurate at shooting within a thousand meters. Those Cubans tried to hide but could not avoid the bullets at all.
Their defence line had totally collapsed. Meanwhile, Roma commanded the people to land, occupy the port, and wait for backup.
When General Santos heard that the armed soldiers he trained had all been killed by the gunship, he was in despair. He whimpered and grabbed the microphone of the radio and commanded, "All of you, fall back to the city. Fight the Polarlys Legion in the city. The guards at the airport, destroy the fuel tanks right now. Don't leave any resources for the enemy."
Santos' command would not only make things harder for Polarlys, the armed soldiers in Nassau also would not be able to escape anymore. Right after Santos commanded, a scream came from the radio. It sounded like something terrible must have happened.
"What's going on? Don't panic, destroy the fuel tank. Fuel is the most important. They must be destroyed!" After a few moments, someone finally replied him in a hurry, "General, there are several transport aircraft that have landed at the airport. The special force of Polarlys Legion is here."
Santos was mad and he shouted, "Where are the guards? I have a self-propelled tank at the airport."
"The gunship destroyed the self-propelled tank, we can't stop them." The guard stopped replying after he explained. Santos could only hear the sounds of gunshots from the other side of the radio.
Meanwhile, at the airport, Katrina was leading her five-hundred-men-team. They were invading the Nassau airport under the gunship's cover. They even brought a few light-wheeled armored vehicles. The armed soldiers from Cuba lost the power to resist.
However, there were too many important buildings in the airport like the fuel tank storages. The Cubans who received the order to destroy the fuel tanks managed to hold the storage with a few heavy machine guns.
This would be the time for Katrina to show up like a Valkyrie!
Katrina moved. Her speed was double that of the normal person. As the enemies reloaded, she ran over thirty meters in just two seconds. One of the guards was kicked to death, the enemies were defeated, and the defence line was torn down as swift as lightning.
"Nice try. But, it's not good enough!" Katrina moved as quick as lightning and stabbed the Cubans who put the bomb in the fuel tank. "There's no way you'll be as fast as that crazy Victor!"
Chapter 284 Mad
The Nassau port was under attack, Xu Guangrong led the backup team of two thousand men, as their sergeant, and landed at Nassau. Under the AC-130 gunship's cover, Katrina led her five-hundred-men team to occupy the Nassau International Airport.
The soldiers and armed vehicles were transported by a dozen transport aircrafts. Even though it was only five hundred of them and they were not strong, they had air support. They received more than the helicopters from Enclave and right now, the helicopters provided support from the air; they were armed with machine guns. Under such circumstances, resistance from the armed soldiers in Cuba was totally meaningless.
"Damn it!" Santos was devastated and fell to the ground. He never thought Nassau would be conquered in such a little amount of time. The enemy occupied both the port and the airport. What am I supposed to do now? Without the soldiers in Nassau, Santos was nothing more than an ordinary old man!
Zhou Qingfeng heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that Nassau had fallen. Nassau has a great port and an international airport with cheap labor. The islands around have rich resources and the Bahamas has a good, strategic depth.
It was located at least more than two hundred nautical miles away from the two nearest places, Florida and Cuba. Thus, it was relatively safe. It was a great place for not only preventing the attack from enemies, but also significantly reduced the impact of the nuclear war in the future.
The first part of the Polarlys Legion's plan for the Caribbean was basically achieved and Enclave was contented. This meant that at least half of the Cubans would be stopped from coming into Florida. If the Bahamas was under the Polarlys Legion, the Brotherhood of Steel's plan of expanding to the south of the United States would be interrupted.
Of course, Enclave increased its supplies to prevent the Polarlys Legion from getting lured by the Brotherhood of Steel. Katrina spent an entire day settling Nassau. On the second day, the Nassau International Airport had already returned its normal operations. After a few days, there were already tons of cargo ships at the Nassau port.
The entire invasion and implementation only took three days. Right now, there were only eight days left until the nuclear war.
Ms. Mirta, who was in Guantanamo, sold all the transport aircraft, gyroplanes, and helicopters to the Polarlys Legion at a price of one hundred and fifty tons of food per equipment.
Other than the transport aircraft which were transporting people and important equipment from the United States to Nassau, the rest of the aircraft were detained in Nassau because Zhou Qingfeng thought they did not 'meet the requirements'. There was one ship left, the Anchorage-class dock landing ship, and Enclave was very interested in that ship.
Mirta thought that an aircraft for a hundred and fifty tons of food was not worth it. Also, she could see that Zhou Qingfeng was working with Clooney. Thus, she secretly sold the dock landing ship to Enclave for fifty thousand tons of resources.
However, Enclave was more interested in the aircraft carrier, Kennedy which was still under Zhou Qingfeng's control. They would not dare to get in touch with Mirta directly. On the other hand, Zhou Qingfeng was planning to continue supplying the Alliance with what they needed. Right now, he was just waiting for the carrier rescue team gathered by Lena to get the aircraft carrier back to sea.
It took Lena Fox two days to prepare and gather the carrier rescue team in Newport News. Therefore, Zhou Qingfeng stayed for two days to play around with Mirta and Enclave to get more benefits from them.
Besides having fun with the Cuban ladies, Zhou Qingfeng thought about Lawrence's family in New York. He then grabbed the high-power wireless radio and called Angie.
After a few moments, instead of Angie, David Lawrence answered the call. David was surprised that Zhou Qingfeng called. He asked, "Victor! How are you doing in South America?"
"Uh…., not too bad, I guess." Zhou Qingfeng was trying to be humble even though he was doing really great.
However, David Lawrence misunderstood what Zhou Qingfeng said, "You come back if it's too tough for you out there. Don't be so stubborn. I understand that you're young, hot-blooded, and want to do something great, I was completely like you. But, you know, the world is in chaos now, you need help no matter how strong you are."
"I agree that you're strong - you and your team. You know what? You can be my assistant. Yeah, you heard me! I have the power to do that."
"I'm the regional director of the Brotherhood of Steel in New York City. In fact, the entire New York and New Jersey are under my control. Thousands of people are under my control. You know what? You could be here to help me manage these people, it would be a challenging job that's good for your future."
David Lawrence was so contented in the period when Zhou Qingfeng was not around. He could not wait to brag about his current situation to this kid who used to be his neighbor, who used to take naked pictures of his wife, who used to hook up with his daughter, who took his best friend, Katrina, and finally got his wife to put on the chastity underwear.
"I'm now one of the strongest legion directors in the Brotherhood of Steel; the power I have can only be owned by the rich and the royal families. But now, they all came into my hands easily. Victor, I know South America isn't going to be easy for you. Angie misses you, Rachel…., um, my wife has already forgiven you for the mistakes that you've made. Why don't you come back to us?"
What a touching call; Zhou Qingfeng was flattered. Zhou Qingfeng was speechless because it was so awkward. It would be normal if Angie missed him, but Rachel…., she must hate him to death.
"Mr. Lawrence, thank you very much for your invitation. I'm actually doing pretty well over here." Zhou Qingfeng was trying to explain.
"With just those two ships? The resources should've already been depleted by now because there are hundreds of you," David Lawrence said with disdain. "Do you have any idea how much resources I own? I could simply take out a thousand tons of food to help the people and more than thousands of people would appreciate what I did. They're going to praise me."
"Actually, that's what I just did."
"What? You're kidding me."
"I'm not even joking. I'm in Cuba right now. Just before today, we conquered the capital city of Bahamas, Nassau. We rescued more than twenty thousand people who were treated as slaves. They really appreciate what I've done."
"......." David remained silent.
Zhou Qingfeng continued, "Right now, I'm at the Guantanamo military base. You know what? Millions of Cubans got to eat because of me. Before I was here, they lived on only drinking water and added sugar and caught fish along the coast. Oh poor Cubans, they have boats for fishing but they couldn't do it because they didn't have fuel."
"......" Again, David kept quiet.
"Oh right, I've been working with Enclave and they were being really nice. They sent me tons of resources. Honestly, we're already running out of space to put them. Our port and airport are so packed."
Meanwhile, Zhou Qingfeng could hear heavy breathing from the other end of the wireless radio. It sounded like an angry, heavy breath.
"Actually, the reason I called you today was to remind you that there's going to be a huge crisis in New York. Millions of people would be killed…."
"Bullsh*t! That's impossible! The people here are living even better than before the cataclysm. They love me, appreciate me, and they listen to me. Victor Hugo, just stays wherever you are, in some little place in South America that I don't care about. Don't ever come back to New York again."
Oops…., it seems like David Lawrence is really mad!