"Does that work?" When Li Ling and the others' convoy fled out of the Matsumoto Valley in disarray, Li Ling, who was sitting in the jeep, asked in confusion as he watched the dense crowd frantically cutting down trees and laying firebreaks on the hillside. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Maybe it will be useful, right?" Masao Oda, who was sitting in the back seat, said with some uncertainty: "We can't let the fire continue to expand." If you burn it again, don't say it's a spear field, even Beidu is in danger. ”

Masao Oda, who had experienced the Tokyo fire, was very afraid of the monstrous flames, and looked at the mountain fire in the distance that reflected the entire night sky red, and even spoke with a trembling voice at this moment. The ruthlessness of fire and water is not just talk.

The incendiary bombs thrown by the Ming Army brought devastating damage to the entire Jiaxin Mountains. The aborigines here were either killed or taken away by the Ming or the Resistance, and there was no one to stop the fire. As for politics. The large-scale rescue organized by the government, where else will there be any politics here. Can you speak of it?

There was no one to put out the fire, and the wild animals in the mountains and forests fled in panic. And a large part of the resistance troops who were hiding in the mountain fortifications were suffocated alive in the mountain. The defenders of Daming Town could only mobilize the army and the locals to start building a firebreak on the edge of the control area to prevent the fire from continuing to spread.

After extensive excavation of the barrier and the laying of chemical firewalls, the rapidly spreading fire was stopped. However, this is only a palliative action, and this mountainous area is simply too big. Da Ming could not fully control this kind of fire.

At that time, the huge smoke from the burning of the mountain forest could be seen even by people living at the foot of Mt. Fuji from afar. The defenders of Daming Town have issued a mobilization order, ready to take all the people away when it is impossible to do so.

But thanks to God's help, two days after the uncontrollable fire raged, a typhoon swept through the entire Koshin area. The torrential downpour and violent winds completely blew out this catastrophe that could not be resisted by manpower.

It took many days after the fire for an exploration party from the Ming army to set out into the valley. When the convoy arrived at the lake, they were shocked to find that the huge lake had dried up at the moment, and even the mud pool at the bottom of the lake had become a dry plate. The dried corpses of countless aquatic creatures littered the entire bottom of the lake.

Continue driving to the road to the Matsumoto Valley. The roads have all been destroyed, and there is nothing left. The mountains were all gray and devoid of life, and even the solid stones had become a little loose and carbonized.

Standing on the car and looking into the distance, the Matsumoto Valley was shrouded in a huge fog. It was a huge dead place formed by the combination of torrential rain and wildfires. Not to mention the temperature or anything, the thick smoke and dust alone is enough to make people without life-saving equipment die immediately.

"The people inside are all finished." Li Ling, who was wearing a mask, raised his leg and kicked the charred corpse of an unknown animal that had fallen on the side of the road, and said with a complicated expression: "No one can escape in this situation." The Resistance is all finished. ”

In fact, not only the resistance, but also many locals who did not have time to escape the area were also killed in the fire. The exact number of casualties is impossible to count, and the only thing that does know is that the fire has kept the area from recovering for at least some years.

"Let's go back." Looking at the terrifying scene in the distance, Li Ling shook his head helplessly. There's nothing left to probe, and the people inside are definitely dead. And they can't get in.

The news of this fire did not spread too far, because at this time the whole of Japan was under the control of the Ming Dynasty. Although King Anle of the Ming Dynasty summoned some priests and mages to carry out memorial activities, this matter was still well covered up. It wasn't until many years later that the overburned mountainous area became densely populated again, and the tragic scene of that time gradually became known to the world.

It is estimated that nearly 100,000 people died in the fire. These include the local mountain people, as well as the resistance fighters who are hiding deep in the mountains, and their families.

Many of the fortifications dug deep in the mountains were burned down. The heat destroyed entrances and exits and ventilation pipes everywhere. The intense temperature and dense smoke caused the men who were hiding in the fortifications to die very tragically. Even if you dig these fortifications many years later, you can still feel the terrible pain before death.

There are also quite a few people who are trying to escape from the mountains. But they had no motor vehicles, and they couldn't outrun the raging fire with their legs alone. All of them were burned to ashes. Eventually, in the midst of the fires that lasted for two or three days, almost everything in the area was wiped off the map. Didn't leave a single mark.

The strength of the Japanese resistance was dealt a devastating blow.

At the same time that the defenders of Daming Town were clearing out the resistance forces in the mountainous areas of Japan. In the vast Pacific Ocean, the Daming Pacific Fleet and the U.S. Pacific Fleet fought the fiercest battle since the start of the war around the Hawaiian Islands, a strategic island that could determine the direction of the Pacific War.

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Located almost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are the largest secondary archipelago in Polynesia. The entire archipelago runs through the Tropic of Cancer. The entire archipelago was formed by the movement of the Pacific plate and volcanic eruptions.

The archipelago was discovered when Ming navigators ventured across the Pacific Ocean to the New World. The Ming navy at that time quickly realized the value of this archipelago, and since its discovery, it has taken this strategically important archipelago into its own hands.

After all these years, there are no local natives on the archipelago. Now living on this archipelago are the people of the Ming Dynasty and the people who come to beg for food from the client state. Nominally entirely owned by the navy, the naval base on Oahu, the second largest island, has maintained the title of the world's number one naval base for many years.

After so many years of unremitting repairs and excavations, this giant naval base named Pearl Harbor is home to the most elite and core fleet of the entire Ming Navy. They are the core power of the Ming Dynasty to control the entire Pacific Ocean and project its influence to all regions around the Pacific Ocean.

The Pacific Ocean is so big that there are only a few small islands on the vast ocean. The most important of these islands is Hawaii. It was only 2,000 nautical miles from the American continent, and the Ming could send bombers from aircraft carriers to keep bombs on the heads of Americans in a matter of days. This is also the main reason why the Americans did not dare to send all the main forces to the European battlefield.

In order to protect his homeland, but also to be able to fight the Ming Dynasty. The U.S. Navy has gathered its main forces and deployed them on the west coast of the United States, which is the only huge fleet on the planet that can compete with the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy.

For Americans, Hawaii is definitely no less important than its own homeland. Hawaii is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has the initiative in the Pacific Theater, and they can attack the mainland of the United States whenever and wherever they want. This strategic disadvantage is something that no commander is willing to accept.

On the other hand, as long as the U.S. Navy can seize Hawaii, it means that they have strategic superiority over the entire Pacific Ocean. They can sweep south across the islands of the South Pacific and enter the Australian mainland to threaten the back garden of the Ming Dynasty. It is also possible to advance in the middle of the road along Midway, Wake Island, and the Mariana Islands this route threatens Luzon Terrace. b. as well as Japan. This temptation is something that the US Navy cannot refuse.

The Daming Navy is actually the same. They did not take into account the European Navy, which had been trampled under their feet for many years, even if they were not weak at all. But they were still just a bunch of defeated men. In the hearts of the Ming Navy, the only one who can be qualified to challenge them at this moment is the US Navy.

Both have made their strategic intentions very clear, and the two powerful navies are fighting bloody battles for the throne, and the two generations of lions, the old and the new, pounce on each other. The Pacific Ocean is almost the battlefield that will determine the course of this war.

Once the U.S. Navy fails, the Ming Dynasty will open a passage to the American continent. When the Ming army landed on the American continent, the United States would no longer have the strength to help the European allies. And without the assistance of the Americans, how long can European countries hold out in the face of the strong pressure of the Ming Dynasty?

In turn, once the Ming navy was defeated, the Hawaiian Islands were lost. Then the Americans will gain the initiative on the battlefield, and they will soon approach the Ming mainland. Da Ming himself was very happy when he used strategic bombing to deal with the enemy, but once this kind of thing happened to him, it would definitely not be a wonderful feeling.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the naval battle in the Pacific decided the fate of the war. The navies of both sides have also made up their minds to completely defeat their opponents here and firmly grasp the strategic initiative in their own hands.

After Japan's defeat and surrender, many Americans began to criticize the government. The government's wrong policy toward Japan resulted in the loss of an extremely important outpost. However, in fact, the Americans took advantage of the time that Japan entangled the Ming Dynasty, and greatly strengthened their military power.

It is impossible for the armies of all countries in the world to maintain an incomparably large size in peacetime for a long time. This is true both in terms of the number of soldiers and military equipment. The soldiers are all professional soldiers, and they all have to be paid. And their food, clothing, housing and transportation are a lot of expenses. It's easy to say that there are fewer people, but when there are more people, it's an astronomical number.

In peacetime, even the Ming Dynasty would not maintain a large army, let alone other countries. (To be continued.) )