The crematorium on the outskirts of Kronstadt, a specialist in identifying lethal factors, told the Soviet officers who arrived: "The corpses are black...... Most have a peculiar smell...... When they are cremated, the smell is created because the bodies have decomposed, many of them have developed a strange smell even before they are cremated, and some of them have rotted their internal organs even while they are alive. ”

In Kronstadt, a boy in the fourth grade at the time found words to describe this indescribable situation in a state of deep confusion:

"My father was completely bedridden. He was a naval officer who was burned at the port docks. Almost all the hair on his head had fallen out. His chest was suppurating, and he had a 5 cm hole rotting in his back, and there were a lot of maggots crawling in and out of the hole. The area is infested with flies, mosquitoes, and fleas, and each item is emitting a variety of very unpleasant odors. Everywhere I looked, there were many people like this who were unable to move. From the time we arrived on anight that father's condition deteriorated, and we seemed to see him weaken before our eyes. Because he had trouble breathing all night, we did everything we could to relieve his pain. The next morning, my grandmother and I prepared some porridge, and when we brought it to my father, he made one last exhale. When we thought he had stopped breathing completely, he took another long breath and then he didn't breathe at all. This happened at 9 a.m. on June 12. At the site of the Red Navy Insanitary, the smell of cremated corpses was filled. There was so much sorrow that I thought of myself as a stranger, and I couldn't cry in spite of my grief......"

The losses and casualties of the Soviet Navy were much heavier than those of Soviet civilians, who were heavily wounded.

In order to enter into an arms race with the "imperialist countries", the Soviet Union began the construction of "Soviet" class battleships under the strong impetus of Stalin. The shipbuilding department of the USSR decided to build a first-class battleship with a standard displacement of 55,000 tons, 9 406-mm guns and 32 130-mm flat-anti-aircraft guns, 24 37-mm guns and 24 12.7-mm machine guns, 450 mm side armor, 200 mm upper armor belt, 200 mm horizontal armor, 36 knots, and a cruising range of 15,000 nautical miles / 15 knots. At the same time there was a super-battleship scheme with 500 mm guns. Both the new battleship and the super-battleship were prepared at the beginning for the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. But it didn't take long for the design indicators to be significantly adjusted for some reason. In August 1936, the Soviet Union successfully concluded a bilateral naval agreement with Great Britain. The Soviet government expressed its readiness to comply with the limits of the Second London Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments of March 1936 for battleships with a displacement of no more than 35,000 tons and a caliber of main guns not exceeding 406 mm. However, the Soviets cleverly exploited the loophole of the treaty: among the major naval powers, only the Pacific Treaty did not ratify the Second London Treaty. Therefore, the Soviets believed that they had every reason to build a 406-gun supra-treaty battleship for the Red Fleet to counter the super-battleships that could have been developed. This time, the Soviet Navy was not ready to start anew, and decided to directly expand the preliminary design based on the prototype type of the "Soviet" class.

The new "Soviet" class was supposed to build as many as 10 ships, and on the basis of the experience of the war, the Main Command of the Soviet Navy proposed to Stalin to reduce the number of battleships to 4. Stalin, who was fond of heavy warships, after calm thought, agreed to the proposal to build only 4 ships. He also proposed the objectives of the design mission. He demanded that it be able to destroy all large warships that the enemy has and may build, that it can destroy the strongest coastal fortifications and port facilities, and that it be able to escort its vital convoys throughout the journey. The ship type was transferred to the Central Special Naval Research Institute under the Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry for design. This one inherited the original design, and the plans made one bigger than the other. At the time of finalization, the "Soviet" class had a full load displacement of 81,150 tons, a standard displacement of 72,950 tons, a total length of 282 meters, a maximum width of 40.4 meters, a waterline length of 270 meters, a waterline width of 37 meters, a draft of 11.5 meters, a depth of 16.7 meters, and a weapon system of three triple 460 mm turrets, a speed of 30 knots, and a cruising range of 6,000 nautical miles / 18 knots.

This scheme is considered to be the most practical design, and it inherits the principle of protection first that has always been used by Soviet battleships, but the design and completion on paper are very different things. And from the very beginning, the USSR was not capable of building such super-warships. Just when Stalin began to lose faith in the laborious and time-consuming super-battleships, the Germans came to the rescue. With the technical support of the Germans and the investment of the Soviet side at no expense, three battleships of the "Soviet" class "USSR", "Soviet Ukraine", "Soviet Belarus" and "Soviet Russia" were built.

The purpose of the Germans in helping the USSR to build super-battleships was clear, that is, to form a combined German-Soviet fleet that would play a role in future wars, but now, all this has come to naught.

These formidable steel behemoths disappeared forever in a nuclear explosion without firing a single shot.

Three days later, news of the "special bombing" of the Soviet coast reached the Imperial Palace in Berlin.

"This is the wreckage of the battleship 'Soviet' that our aircraft photographed." Strassel said, pointing to a photograph of the shattered wreckage that had been lifted to shore. It is no longer obvious from the photos that it is a warship, but the barrel and turret of the triple main gun, which have been distorted by the melting of the high heat, indicate its identity.

"Here are the pictures of three other ships of the same class...... "Strassel took a few more photos and handed them to Ruprecht I, "in addition to Kronstadt, the port of Tallinn was also attacked......"

"That is, the Soviet Navy no longer exists, does it?" Distraught, Ruprecht I put down the picture in his hand and asked.

"That's right." "The officers of our medical unit believe that the total number of casualties in Kronstadt is about 60,000, of which 17,000 died on the spot, most of them armed men," Strassel said in a hoarse voice. Of our people, 725 people were martyred in this explosion. The mortality rate of this destruction was 54%, which is an extremely dense situation of death; Our people have calculated that the casualties caused by this explosion carried out by the Chinese are 7,500 times higher than ordinary high-explosive bombs. ”

"This is the Chinese showing us that they have the power to destroy us." Ruprecht I sighed, "Our weapons are not yet fully operational, and they are already capable of striking multiple targets." ”

"That's right." "Our first atomic bomb will be assembled in a week, but it will not be possible to strike China itself." ”

"The Americans and the British are so happy now." Ruprecht smiled wryly and sat down at a table, "They can free up their hands to deal with us." ”

"yes. Ben's landing operation in the United States has been a complete failure. Strassel said, "Ben's defeat is inevitable, so it will be difficult for us to hold Britain." ”

"If there had been an atomic bomb, China might not have dared to threaten us like this." "But this is ......," he sighed, "but he ," he shook his head, and said no more.

Neither Ruprecht I nor Strassel knew that Ben was not as backward in the development of the atomic bomb as they thought.

After about 40 minutes on the Chuo Expressway, we arrived at the junction of the expressway at Lake Kawaguchiko and the ordinary highway. At this time, the milky white mist became thicker and thicker.

The car drove along the right bank of the lake, and in the middle, Yang Mingyun drove to the right and turned into a fork in the road. The car drove quietly through the trees of larch and birch. Yang Mingjun drove into the courtyard of a villa owned by the general manager of a company and currently unoccupied. After getting out of the car, he lifted the lid of the trunk, took out a "Storm" assault rifle and hung it around his neck, tied a bullet belt around his waist, and inserted eight magazines of 30 rounds on the bullet belt, and then inserted the "Thunder" automatic pistol with a 32-round drum magazine, six grenades, and a bayonet into the bullet belt.

He picked up another bullet belt and slung it across his left shoulder and right flank. He smeared a handful of dirt on his face so that he would not be conspicuous in the dark. Everything was packed up and he set off.

After about 20 minutes of walking up a not-so-steep slope through the woods, a small and chic bungalow is in front of you. The small bungalow is surrounded by a meadow.

According to the confession of the killer he had just captured, that was where Valentin's gang was hiding. The buildings above ground are just for hiding from people, and the underground is their real lair. Deep in the forest, two kilometers from here, there is also a secret stronghold, and there are tunnels connecting the two places. If they're not here, they'll have to move there.

Now, there is no light in the reinforced concrete bungalow. Yang Mingyun quietly came to the junction of the woods and the meadow, but he did not step into the meadow, but walked north along the edge of the woods. Soon the meadow came to an end.

He continued on his way, walking about 500 meters, and found a ruined ancestral hall in the woods, the gate of which had long since decayed. Yang Mingyun walked into the ancestral hall, lifted a piece of floor, and the tunnel entrance was exposed, and a cement step led to the underground, and along this step, you can reach the tunnel connecting the two secret strongholds.

All the lights on the steps were turned off, and the tunnels were pitch black. After Yang Mingyun walked down a few steps, he reached out and covered the cover plate above his head as usual. After descending to the aisle, he went south, and after not going far, he came across a steel door, which he easily opened with wire.

When Yang Mingyun opened the third door, an orange-yellow light shot out from inside. On the left and right arms of the tunnel, there are sets of fireproof suits, oxygen masks and oxygen cylinders.

Yang Mingyun opened the safety of the "Storm" assault rifle, pulled it to the position of the burst, and walked forward with the gun in his hand.

When he walked to the end of this winding tunnel, he encountered a steel door again, Yang Mingyun put his ear to the door, listened attentively, and vaguely heard someone talking inside.

He peeked through the keyhole with one eye, but a screen behind the door blocked his view. He was creeping the wire into the keyhole to pull the lock open, when his keen ears heard footsteps approaching behind the door, and he stopped at once. He mounted his assault rifle with a bayonet and ducked to the side of the door, which was just behind it when it opened.

The door opened. The door that opened was just against Yang Mingyun's nose. Two heavily armed men came out of it, looking like they were themselves.

The two turned around and were about to close the door, when they suddenly found Yang Mingyun behind the door, and couldn't help but be surprised, and in a panic, they went to grab the short-barreled machine gun hanging from their necks.

However, Yang Mingyun's movements were faster, the bayonet was plunged into one person's heart like lightning, and then another punch to his chest, pulling out the bayonet, backhand the butt of the gun, shattering the jaw of the other person, and pushing the knee at the same time, pushing the door shut. This series of movements, in just a second and a half, lay on the ground a corpse and a guy who was seriously injured and in shock.

Yang Mingyun removed the weapon from the guy who was in shock, lifted his feet, and dragged back more than 50 meters.

The man's head rubbed against the concrete floor, and soon became a blood gourd. The pain brought him to his senses and he groaned. Yang Mingjun knew from the driving photos that his name was Li Delin. Yang Mingyun gently pressed his bayonet against Li Delin's throat to prevent him from shouting, "Say! Where is the Valentin gang? ”

Lidlin said. As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Mingyun cut off his neck with a knife and returned to the steel door just now.

Open the door and go around the screen, inside is an extremely spacious hall with glazed mural tiles on the walls. Yang Mingyun walked to the front wall, followed from left to right to count to the fourth row of tiles, and then from the bottom to the seventh tile, this tile, according to Li Delin's confession just now, is the button of the elevator, and the former original did not explain this situation. Li Delin didn't lie, Yang Mingyun pressed the tile hard, and sure enough, the elevator decorated with colored glazed tiles disguised as part of the ceiling slowly descended. Yang Mingyun let go of the tiles he was pressing and jumped into the elevator. The elevator slowly rose, and Yang Mingyun held a cigarette box-type pistol in his left hand. The upper floor is still a basement, and there is a sentry in the hallway. When he saw that it was not an accomplice who came up by elevator, he hurriedly reached out and touched the pistol on his waist.

In order not to sound the gunshot and alarm the enemy, Yang Mingyun fired a shot with a cigarette box-type pistol in his left hand. The bullets are fired by the pressure of carbon dioxide gas, not by the explosive power of gunpowder, so the sound of gunfire is almost inaudible. The warhead is small, with a diameter of only 3 mm, which, combined with the slow launch speed, is not lethal enough if it is an ordinary warhead. To compensate for these deficiencies, the warhead contains high-energy explosives, which are actually a miniature bomb.

A small bullet burrowed into the sentry's eyebrows and exploded inside the skull, and the explosion was very quiet. Yang Mingyun saw the man fall to the ground, and his eyes were sticky and flowed out of his sockets.

Yang Mingyun put away the cigarette box-type pistol, bent down and tore off the keychain from the sentry's belt, and opened the door to the inside.

Inside is where the guards live, there is a row of three-tiered iron beds on the left and right sides of the room, and there are several tables in the middle, and nearly 20 guards are around the table, some playing mahjong, some playing cards, and they are having fun.

Yang Mingyun picked up the "storm" and shot violently. He knelt on one leg, pressed the barrel of the gun with his left hand, in order not to let the muzzle jump up, and held the trigger with the index finger of his right hand, and as he fired, he quickly replaced the new magazine, and in the blink of an eye, 150 hot bullets poured out of the muzzle. can fight back at Yang Mingyun. At best, there were only two or three people, but they were also dazed by the sudden blow, and the bullets didn't know where they flew.

A pool of blood suddenly accumulated on the concrete floor, and Yang Mingyun walked through the large room and walked to the door of the inner room. Menli is where Valentin's gang lived.

Yang Mingyun was just about to use wire to unlock the door, but he was suddenly stunned, it turned out that in addition to the ordinary bullet lock, there were also three combination locks on the door.

Regarding the opening method of these three combination locks, neither the killer nor Li Delin has confessed. Yang Mingyun wanted to find a guard to ask, but all the guards were already in a pool of blood. There was no way, Yang Mingyun had no choice but to pick up the "storm", aimed at the cement floor under the door, and fired more than 50 rounds of ammunition in one go.

A pit the size of a basin was punched out on the concrete floor, and Yang Mingyun pulled out 3 grenades, pulled off the safety lock and put them in the pit.

Yang Mingyun dragged some of the corpses in the room to the corridor, set up a bunker, then retreated to the back of the bunker and squatted down, aimed his gun at a grenade switch, and immediately lay down.

There was a loud "boom", and the grenade exploded. Cracks appeared everywhere in the walls of the basement. The crumbling corpses were stuck in numerous shrapnel grenades and fragments of cement. Most of the lighting was destroyed.

Yang Mingyun raised his head, and with the help of the faint light of the few remaining electric lamps, through the fine dust and mist of cement powder, he saw that the steel door had been blown open by a grenade, and was falling to the ground and being licked by tongues of fire.

Yang Mingyun took out a grenade from the bullet belt on his waist, removed the safety, and flicked his hand into the inside of the black ancient winter, and there was another loud bang. After 30 seconds, Yang Mingjun got up.

At this moment, a faint voice and choking sound came from the inside: "Don't shoot!" We surrender, and we come out with our hands raised......"

It seems to be Valentin's voice.

Yang Mingyun shouted loudly: "Quickly put down your weapons and come out!" If you find a weapon hidden on your body, you will be killed! ”

The three guys staggered out with their hands raised. Who are they, Yang Mingyun couldn't judge clearly for a while. The hair and eyebrows of the three were all burned, and their burned faces were covered with blood and shards of cement. The clothes were also in tatters.

(To be continued)