Chapter 1473 - Above the Statue of Freedom, the Xin Flag Waved High (1/2)

Many years later, when Luo Zheng recalled and reminisced that day, he would still feel the same eagerness and emotions.

That was definitely the craziest thing he had ever done in his life.

After Celestial Trade Marines landed on Freedom Island, they climbed to the top of the Statue of Freedom and used thermite to blast the flame made from copper. The fire of freedom that shone on the East Coast was extinguished and it was replaced by a Xin flag that blew in the sea breeze of Nouveau York.

Luo Zheng gazed at the crowds fleeing in Battery Park and watched the congested traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. He then stepped on the control terminal of the bridge with one foot and started to fire out of the window.

“LET’S GO! LET’S GO! FULL SPEED! LET’S HIT IT!”

Major Admiral Hogg had already squatted under the table with his hands around his head. He was roaring in despair in his mind.

This guy has gone crazy!

The Ford aircraft carrier that maintained the maximum speed smashed into Battery Park with its bow, just like a machete that chopped through a bamboo stick, it crushed the fence of the park and landed on Manhattan Island. The violent impact caused the sailor who was controlling the aircraft carrier to smash his head towards the terminal, then he immediately fell and rolled to the side.

Luo Zheng, in his power armor, shook his body. Then he threw out a punch with his powerful steel arm and broke through the bulletproof glass of the bridge. He then grabbed onto the twisted steel bars, jumped out of the bridge, and landed heavily on the deck.

REEEEEEK

The sound of metal creaking squeaked.

The Ford aircraft carrier, which accelerated onto Manhattan Island, broke in two. The second half stayed in Battery Park while the first half ran rampant under inertia, broke through the National Archives of Nouveau York, crushed into the streets of Broadway, and knocked down the Wall Street Bull…

“AHHHHHHH!!!”

“RUN!”

“DON’T PUSH ME! LET ME GET THROUGH—”

Inside the Nouveau York Stock Exchange, the people gathered here seemed to all go insane as they desperately tried to escape. Whether it was a professional trader, a CEO of a listed company, or a financial mogul with billions of dollars under management, all of them shared the same thought at this moment.

Celestial Trade chose to land from Manhattan Island, and all of them were pushed to the forefront of the war.

Although since World War I, they had participated to some extent in the many wars that happened in this world, they had never imagined this day.

“These savages! How dare they…” A man in a suit stood in the middle of the trading floor as he stared at the door blankly, occasionally, someone running would bump into his shoulder, but he would just shake it off and had no reaction at all.

Behind him was the Dow Jones Index plummeting, and a sea of red tickers.

It started from the explosion in W State. He tried to recover his investment by using banknotes to stabilize investors’ panic while he quietly dumped his holdings; he desperately tried to withdraw his assets from the stock market… but all his efforts could not stop the aircraft carrier that crashed into Manhattan Island.

Just a minute ago, he went bankrupt.

…

There was no need for a landing ship.

This degree of impact was nothing for the Celestial Trade soldiers who could carry out orbital airdrop missions.

From the middle of the fractured aircraft carrier, the Viper drones that swarmed out formed an arrow-shaped attack formation towards the National Guard that just arrived as reinforcement. The prosperous blocks and elites on the streets of Manhattan made the use of First Calvary’s 155mm self-propelled howitzer battalion and M270 multi-barreled rocket launchers extremely difficult. Even if the weapons could effectively suppress targets within a depth of 30 kilometers, they did not dare to fire a shot. They could only send highly mobile armor units such as the M3 Bradley to cooperate with the M1A2 main battle tank to launch an attack.

But soon, they met the real opponent of this war.

The main force of Celestial Trade landed from Manhattan, and the force that attacked Long Island was just a feint attack by amphibious light armor units.