50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 548 Old Mountain is Gone
Sun Zhiwei had never actually detonated an H-bomb before. All the explosive data he knew was theoretical. Just in case, to be on the safe side, he decided to run far away to avoid sending himself to his death.

Half an hour later, Sun Zhiwei returned to the mountains and forests where the truck had been hiding.

Of the 4 tons of TNT he brought, only 500 kilograms were used at the blast site.

He put half a ton of the remaining 3 tons of TNT into the back of the truck before starting the engine, turning around and driving away from the border.

At this time, our troops stationed on the border had also withdrawn ahead of schedule as planned.

At the forward command post, in Kunming, in Beijing, in the military, and in the imperial court, everyone in the know was glued to their watches.

Sun Zhiwei was still driving the truck, with the accelerator floored, speeding wildly down the road.

He clearly remembered that the medium kill radius of "Little Boy" was 3 kilometers, while the bomb he planted had ten times the yield of "Little Boy".

He's less than two kilometers from Laoshan now. Even if his bomb was fired from underground, who can say for sure?

Time passed second by second, and Sun Zhiwei was getting further and further away from the blast center. Just as he was beginning to relax,

Suddenly, a muffled thud came from afar, and he knew that the TNT he had buried had exploded.

However, after the muffled sound, there was no further movement, and he knew that 500 kilograms of TNT was indeed not enough; the karst caves beneath Laoshan were still very thick.

他一边想着，一边倒数9、8、7…3、2、1、0
He had just silently counted to 0 when he and his truck were thrown off the ground, hovering in the air for less than a second before falling back down, crashing heavily onto the asphalt road, and then continuing to run forward.

Then came a buzzing sound, which seemed to come from nowhere and reached his ears, making him feel extremely oppressed.

Immediately afterwards, wave after wave of seismic waves came from behind, causing the truck to shake violently, followed by a large amount of dust that engulfed it.

He could no longer see the road ahead with his eyes, but thankfully he had his spatial ability. Guided by this spatial ability, he could continue to travel on the road.

Just then, a huge roar rang out from the direction of Laoshan, and the ground trembled continuously almost simultaneously. This commotion was no less than that of the nuclear explosion just now.

Sun Zhiwei knew that it was Laoshan Mountain, which had collapsed.

The road ahead of the truck began to crack noticeably, and rocks and dirt kept falling from the hills on both sides, hitting the truck.

Thinking that a landslide might occur, Sun Zhiwei quickly parked his car in an open area and waited quietly for the shockwave to pass.

The commotion he felt here was so great, and the commotion at Wenshan's command post was also quite significant.

They felt the tremors three times in a row, and some of the poor-quality glass windows in the small town were shattered by the tremors.

This puzzled them, because according to their agreement with Sun Zhiwei, there should only be two tremors: the first was an explosive explosion, and the second was a cave collapse. Where did this third explosion come from?

However, this was not the time to consider the details. The explosion had ended, and all coordinating units began to move as agreed.

The troops that had been withdrawing from the front lines immediately began a frantic rush toward the border.

There isn't a single soldier on the border right now, and they don't know how many enemies will infiltrate. They only have one thought: to drive the invading enemies back.

Unfortunately, their efforts were destined to be in vain. When the fastest company arrived near Laoshan, all the soldiers were stunned. There was no Laoshan left; where Laoshan had once stood, only a large pit, two kilometers in circumference and hundreds of meters deep, filled with rubble.

The small hills where they were originally stationed and guarded immediately became the highest points in the surrounding area.

The original mountain peaks in the Annam direction have all shrunk considerably, becoming small mounds. The terrain that originally put us in an uphill attack position has been completely changed.

All the high ground in the border area is within our territory, and the front-line defensive positions are all in a commanding position. Now it's Annam's turn to launch an uphill attack.

Now, there's not a single enemy breaking in here at the border, not even a ghost among them, let alone any.

If Sun Zhiwei were here, he could explain to them what a shockwave is. A small shockwave is like a gentle spring breeze, while a large one can kill silently.

Laoshan is the epicenter of a nuclear explosion. Even if the explosion occurred hundreds of meters underground, the shockwave alone could kill people as long as they were within the lethal range.

The Annamese troops that were originally stationed in the vicinity, whether on the ground or underground, have now been completely wiped out.

If they were on the ground, there was a chance they could at least have a complete body. But if they were hidden underground, they would either be buried by a cave collapse or turned to ashes in a nuclear explosion.

If you look down from the sky, you will see a distinct fan-shaped area extending southward from Laoshan.

The center of the fan-shaped structure is not directly below the original summit of Laoshan Mountain, but rather to the south. Both the cave and the explosion center are located within Annam.

After the explosion, the main body of Laoshan sacrificed itself to block most of the explosive force heading north, while more energy was released to the south, causing more damage than expected.

There is no living thing within three kilometers of the center of this fan-shaped area.

Within a radius of three to five kilometers, only a few lucky people survived, but they were all lying on the ground waiting to die with ruptured internal organs and bleeding from their seven orifices.

It wasn't until five kilometers away that a large number of wounded people gradually appeared. The closer they were to the center of the explosion, the more severe their injuries were; the farther away they were, the less severe their injuries were.

Upon seeing this situation, the troops that arrived at the front line dispatched some scouts to investigate, and they quickly reported back on the dire situation south of Laoshan.

An hour later, the command center received an urgent report from the front-line troops, at which point they realized that they had seriously underestimated the power of the explosion.

Judging from the situation on the front lines, Annam can forget about launching any offensive in the short term. They probably won't dare to come forward until they understand the details of the explosion.

This is good, as it allows the troops to rest and recuperate.

Those in the know are very curious now. One is to know the details of the explosion, why there was an extra explosion, and the other is to know the extent of the damage on the other side.

At this time, Sun Zhiwei had already driven back to his son's company. Sun Aiguo and most of the soldiers in the company were not in the camp; they had also gone on a mission as agreed.

Sun Zhiwei hadn't rested all night and had just experienced the thrill of a nuclear explosion, leaving him completely exhausted.

Now that he's back in a safe area, he doesn't care about anything else, goes straight into his son's barracks, and falls asleep immediately.

(End of this chapter)