*****
With the dead body of his Air Force commander slumped on the floor of the bridge, the chairman took over the battle. He had ordered the frigates to fire into every building around the harbor area and destroy every visible building. Again, it was under his orders that the two destroyers went in under full power a few seconds before both frigates erupted into massive explosions. Then he ordered the aircraft carrier to full steam ahead to catch up with the destroyers. The admiral tried to intervene and suggest that the carrier stay outside until the battle was over, but he was told to shut up. Then, the frigates and a minute later the first destroyer blew up and a couple of his fighters dropped into the harbor a mile or so away. It was then that the chairman realized that he might not be competent to fight a battle such as this one, and ordered the admiral to take over.
The admiral immediately ordered the carrier’s engines into full reverse and the chairman shouted into his radio for all the troops on the container ships to get off and kill everybody they saw.
They did that, and hundreds of Red Guards came down the sides of the ships on ropes only to be mowed down by the waiting American troops. Their falling bodies turned the water red around the first four ships.
*****
The two American destroyers had approached as the second Chinese destroyer, whose captain hadn’t even seen the two old World War destroyers firing shells into her as fast as their nine 105mm guns on each ship could. It wasn’t only the two torpedoes that blew his modern destroyer apart, but well over 70 rounds from the rapidly firing guns on the old destroyers that went into her before she sank.
The last container ship was not yet docked, and she had her engines in full reverse when the nearest destroyer fired a round into her bridge, killing everybody there. The engineers below deck closed down her engines as they felt the vibrations of the explosions vibrate badly through the whole vessel.
The vessel was still moving and now out of control. Ropes were shot over her bow and stern by the destroyers and the few soldiers on board who tried to shoot back were mowed down by several heavy machine guns on both American ships. Once the crew realized that they had no chance, they waved white flags and secured the ropes as the destroyers, acting as tugs, slowly stilled the massive ship 20 times bigger than they were.
*****
The chairman was in shock. Minutes earlier he had ordered his Politburo up on deck to be with him as they went under the bridge. He was excited about renaming the bridge, but then as the men arrived, everything seemed to go wrong.
The 14 men looked on in shock as one ship exploded after the other, and they all held on as the vibrations of the engines in reverse tried to still the large ship. Slowly, they inched under the bridge, and the chairman put his hands up for silence. He shouted out as loud as he could that this bridge would now be “renamed the…” Suddenly hundreds of massive explosions filled the air from the bridge directly above them, shutting him up once and for all.
Hundreds of blinding explosions hurt their eyes and deafened their ears as the bridge span above them was ripped away from its two towers. Very slowly the whole structure above the aircraft carrier began to descend, gathering speed as it fell right on top of them.
The Chairman of Zedong Electronics—the most powerful man in the world, the man who had already killed one third of the world’s population—still had his arms outstretched and his mouth open mouthing words as the tons of steel and cement came down, crushing the whole tower of the aircraft carrier and imploding the steel structure into the flight deck as if it was paper. It turned everything underneath it into hamburger meat, and the whole bridge hit and then sliced and diced the dying ship into two. Within seconds, there was nothing left on the surface apart from rolling water and explosions, as hundreds of pockets of air boiled back up to the surface.
The whole bridge, the Politburo, the Chairman of the New World, and the entire aircraft carrier was gone—gone forever.
To Be Continued in…
INVASION USA III – THE BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL
Books by the Author:
The Book of Tolan Series:
Banking, Beer & Robert the Bruce – Hardcover and eNovel.
Easy Come Easy Go – Hardcover and eNovel.
It Could Happen – eNovel.
INVASION USA Series:
INVASION USA I: The End of Modern Civilization – eNovel.
INVASION USA II: The Battle for New York – eNovel.
INVASION USA III: The Battle for Survival – Launch date – June 1st, 2012.
INVASION USA IV: The Battle for Houston – The Aftermath – Launch date –June 1st, 2013.
The Tolan Chronicles Series:
Volume I 1779-1879: Launch date – July 1st, 2012
Volume II 1879-1979: Launch date – July 1st, 2012
Volume III 1979-2079: Launch date – July 1st, 2012
Volume IV 2079-2379: Launch date – July 1st, 2012
Volume V 2379-2779: Launch date – July 1st, 2012
About the Author
T I WADE was born in Bromley, Kent, England in 1954.
His father was promoted with his job to Africa and the young family moved to Africa in 1956.
T I Wade grew up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Once he completed his mandatory military commitments, he left Africa for Europe at the age of 21.
He lived in the UK, Germany and Portugal for 15 years before returning to Africa in 1989. Here the author got married and due to the upheavals of the political turmoil in South Africa, the Wade family moved to the United States in 1994. Park City, Utah was where his writing career began in 1998.
To date T I Wade has written five novels, the sixth is under edit and the seventh half complete.
T I Wade, his wife Cathy and two teenage children live 20 miles south of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1:
Captain Mike Mallory – Escape from New York
Chapter 2:
‘Z’ Day 2 – Salt Lake City – Lee Wang – Satellites
Chapter 3:
North Carolina – Preparations for an Attack
Chapter 4:
‘Z’ Day 3 – The First Official Meeting of the New World
Chapter 5:
The First Attack
Chapter 6:
‘Z’ Day 4 – It’s Time to Hit Back
Chapter 7:
JFK – New York
Chapter 8:
Where are the Hit Squads?
Chapter 9:
China
Chapter 10:
Flight to Alaska
Chapter 11:
JFK – Major Joe Patterson
Chapter 12:
The Hit Squads
Chapter 13:
‘Z’ Day 7 – China Attacked
Chapter 14:
‘Z’ Day 8 – The Beginning of the Second Week
Chapter 15:
The Beginning of the End
Chapter 16:
The Lull before the Storm
Chapter 17:
Preparation for INVASION USA
Chapter 18:
INVASION USA – The Battle for New York