In Hanjing, General Chiang Baili received a preliminary report shortly after midnight on 5 May. Because it was midnight, he didn't wake up Chen Shao and the others. He slept in his office that night so that he could always receive a more detailed report. The detailed report arrived at 4:15 a.m., and three and a half hours later, Jiang Baili told Chen Shao, who was at home, by confidential telephone, and Chen Shao agreed to publish the prepared statement about the bomb to the press that morning.

A revolutionary bomb had been dropped on Tokyo, which described Tokyo as an important army base, the statement said.

"This is an atomic bomb, an application of the fundamental forces of the universe. This force, from which even the sun draws its power, has been unleashed on those who wage war. ”

China was ready to destroy all of Japan's factories, rice heads, and lines of communication. "The purpose of the ultimatum in Hankyung was to save the Japanese people from total destruction. Japan's leaders immediately rejected that ultimatum. Now, if they still refuse to accept our terms, they can expect devastating blows to rain down from the sky. There has never been a similar destruction on Earth. ”

In the early hours of the morning, Chen Shao invited Hitler and the leaders of other member states of the Nazi coalition in Europe to have breakfast together. At the dinner table, Chen Shao announced on the spot that a "powerful bomb" had been dropped in Tokyo, and the clear picture on the color television clearly showed that it had been successful.

Whether it was Hitler or someone else, they couldn't hide their excitement at all, and this war could not be lost.

In Tokyo, the mysterious consequences of atomic radiation began to reveal themselves at dawn on May 7.

Former University of Tokyo geology makoto Gogo Oka tries to walk through the rubble to get to the school. He enlisted in the army not so long ago. Fearing for the fate of the school, I deserted and walked for several hours to return. He could barely measure this boundless ruin. At the Gokuni Shrine near the Explosive Heart, he sat under a stone lantern exhausted. He felt like a pinprick in his body—it was radiation—and jumped to his feet. He discovers a strange photocopy of a person on the stone lantern, the surface of which has been partially melted. He immediately had a terrible idea: the atomic bomb! Japan must surrender immediately.

At dozens of first-aid posts, doctors were puzzled. The patient's symptoms were so strange that the doctors suspected that the enemy had used some kind of acidic poison gas to spread rod dysentery. Some of the victims suffered burns on only one side of their faces; Strangely, some patients have nose or ear marks on their faces.

Like Nagaoka, Dr. Shigedo of the Red Cross Hospital had heard of atomic energy, and he assumed that the patients had been exposed to atomic radiation. He inspected the walls of the hospital with a simple Aix light checker. He found that the readings were small. Conclude that it is safe to stay.

Atomic sequelae are unpredictable. Private First Class was one of the closest people to the site of the explosion at the time of the descent. Before flashing. He is short-sighted. Now, looking through your glasses, everything is a little blurry. Are you going blind? He took his glasses off and found that he had regained excellent vision. But his hair kept falling down. He also had the same ailments that thousands of people have: nausea. Then came vomiting. Later, diarrhea and fever followed. The other reactions were varied, and Kiri was odd.

Some of the victims had bright spots on their bodies - red, green to yellow, black and purple. But everybody is alive. Those with no visible spots on their bodies died instantly. One man had a burn on his hand, but he ignored it, and then vomited blood. To alleviate the pain, he dipped his injured hand in water, and "something uncanny, blue, came out of his hand like smoke." ”

All the survivors have an unspeakable horror, a horror exacerbated by a vague sense of guilt and humiliation: they survived because they ignored the pleas of their relatives, friends and neighbours, leaving them buried in the burning rubble.

The painful voices of the deceased on their deathbeds lingered in their minds. Parents who have lost their children constantly blame themselves, and children who have lost their parents see it as punishment for some kind of fault on their part. This tragedy shattered the complex and intimate structure of family life in Japan.

In Tokyo, the fanatical Army was unwilling to take responsibility for surrender and instead questioned the significance of the total destruction of a major city. Foreign Minister Togo, who suggested accepting the Hankyung Declaration, methodically noted that the atomic bomb "had dramatically changed the entire military situation, providing the military with a great deal of reasons to end the war, and today the four cities of Tokyo, Sasebo, Nagoya, and Yokohama have been completely reduced to ashes." There is no longer any need for the war to continue. The Army did not think there was anything merit in Togo's proposal.

"This kind of action is unnecessary," retorted Anan, the prime minister, "and we don't know if it's an atomic bomb or not." Only Chen Shao said so. It could be some kind of ruse. Dr. Yoshio Nishina, a well-known Japanese nuclear scientist, should be sent to Tokyo immediately to conduct a field investigation.

When Dr. Nishina and the head of the intelligence bureau, Lieutenant General Seizo Arisue, were about to board the plane at Tachikawa Air Base, the air raid sirens roared again. Lieutenant General Sue ordered Dr. Nishina to wait for the alarm to be lifted before leaving, and he took a few of his subordinates to take off immediately.

At dusk, the plane arrived in Tokyo. General Arisue had seen many cities burned to ruins by incendiary bombs—a city that was usually full of embers, smoke from makeshift kitchens, and signs of living activity—but the city beneath his plane was a lifeless desert. No smoke, no fire, nothing. Not even a street in sight.

The driver turned around and shouted, "Your Excellency, this is Tokyo." What to do?"

"Landing!"

The plane landed on a grassy field near the port. When I got off the plane, I found that the grass on the ground was a strange earthy color, and it was lying in the direction of Tokyo Bay. It was an army lieutenant who came to greet him, and he respectfully gave a military salute. The left half of his face had been badly burned, but the right half was intact.

The last one came to the ship headquarters by motorboat. He was greeted by Lieutenant General Hideo Baba, a friend from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, who reported Baba. Tokyo has neither water nor electricity.

The two generals sat down at a long wooden table in the open air, lit a candle for the light, and the horse farm could not control their feelings. He talked about how his daughter was killed on her way to school, "Not only my daughter, but thousands of innocent children were slaughtered. This new bomb is really like the devil, and it is terrible and brutal to use it. He covered his danger with his hands.

Yusue hugged his friend. "Remember, we're all soldiers," he said, and Baba apologized for crying. He told Yumo. "There have been rumors," he said. China may have to drop one of these new bombs on Tokyo.

More and more people are coming back to the city. The team began collecting the bodies and cremating them with randomly picked wood. The smell is a bit like grilled sardines, which is extremely disgusting, but some workers have become particularly fond of it. It actually stimulates their appetite.

Dr. Nishina's plane arrived the next afternoon. He inspected the whole city. Conclusions were drawn immediately. Only an atomic bomb can cause such a terrible image. He informed General Arisug that it was a uranium bomb, similar to the one he was trying to develop. Should he continue to develop his bombs?

There was no answer.

The destruction of Tokyo and three other major cities made it all the more urgent and unrealistic for Japan to intervene in the peace talks through Germany. Togo sent a telegram to Ambassador to Berlin Sato, saying:

"The situation has taken a turn for the worse, and Germany's position must be clarified as soon as possible. Please make another effort and report back immediately. ”

On the afternoon of May 8, Ambassador Sato requested an immediate meeting with Andri. For weeks, Andri avoided Sato. Andri promised to see him at 8 p.m., but a few minutes later, without explanation, asked to bring the meeting forward to 5 p.m.

A few minutes before five o'clock, when Sato entered the winding Empire State Building, he forced his composure and was ushered into Andri's study, but before he could greet the diplomatic commissar in German (which was his habit), Andriy interrupted him with a wave of his hand. "I have here a circular addressed to the Government of Japan in the name of Germany, which I would like to convey to Your Excellency."

Sato's instinct told himself that it was a declaration of war. Although this was not his expectation, it was a blow to the fact that it became a reality. Andriy got up and left his desk and sat down at one end of a long table. Sato was motioned to sit down on a chair at the other end of the table. Andriy began to read out a document with a fixed expression:

"After the defeat of the criminal Soviet Union, Japan was the only great power in the Far East to continue the war.

The Chinese Empire's demand for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces on April 26 was rejected by Japan. Thus, the proposal of the Japanese Government to Germany for mediation in the Far East lost all its basis.

The German Government believes that this policy is the only way to achieve peace more quickly and to save the people from further sacrifice and suffering.

In view of the above, the German Government declares that, starting tomorrow, May 9, Germany considers itself to be in a state of complete severance of diplomatic relations with Japan, and will be limited to three days of the withdrawal of all personnel from Europe ......"

Ambassador Sato suppressed the impulse to take care of whether he could telegraph the news to his government. Andriy changed his expressionless face and replied that he could send whatever telegram he wanted, and he could use cipher.

Personally, he said, he regrets what happened. "I have been deeply pleased with your actions as ambassador over the past few years. I am glad that, despite all the difficulties we have encountered, our two countries have not been completely at loggerheads. ”

"I would like to express my gratitude to your Government for its kindness and hospitality," Sato replied in German, "which has enabled me to remain in Berlin at this difficult time." It's really unfortunate that we're going to break up as enemies. However, there is no way around this either. Anyway, let's shake hands and then part. This may be the last handshake. ”

They shook hands, but the phones inside the Japanese embassy were cut off almost immediately, and all radio equipment was confiscated. Sato wrote a telegram in Japanese code and sent it to the telegraph office.

There is no doubt that the bombing of Tokyo made the Germans completely correct their attitude.

Letter to the Japanese people:

"China asks you to pay immediate attention to what we say in this leaflet."

"We have the most destructive explosives that humanity has ever had. The explosive power of a newly invented atomic bomb is actually equal to the explosive power that 2,000 of our giant B-39 bombers can carry in a single mission. This terrible fact is worth pondering. We solemnly assure you that the bomb was delivered with the utmost accuracy. ”

"We're just getting started with this bomb on your homeland. If you still have any doubts. Please know what happened to Tokyo after it was hit by an atomic bomb. ”

"Until such bombs are used to destroy all the resources of the military to drag out this useless war, we ask you to petition the Emperor now to end the war. Our President has outlined for you thirteen outcomes of a dignified surrender. We urge you to accept these 13 points as soon as possible and begin to work towards a better peace-loving new Japan. ”

"You need to take steps now to stop the military resistance. Otherwise, we will resolutely use this bomb and all other superior weapons to force an end to the war immediately. ”

"Evacuate from your city now!"

Even before the leaflets were distributed, Japanese newspapers had begun to warn that "new bombs" had been used in Tokyo. "Don't take it lightly." said the Japan Times. The enemy seems to be "bent on killing and wounding as many innocent people as possible in order to end the war as soon as possible."

An editorial in the United States entitled "Moral Atrocities Against Mankind" revealed that the new bomb had "unprecedented power." Not only has it destroyed most of a city, but it has also killed or injured a particularly large number of citizens."

To Professor Sagashi Root

From: Three of your former colleagues in the scientific community during your time in China.

"We are writing this letter on a personal basis to urge you to use your influence as a reputable physicist. Convince the Japanese base camp. If you continue this war. The terrible consequences that your people will suffer. ”

"You have known for years that if a country is willing to pay a high price to prepare the necessary materials. Atomic bombs can be made. Now that you have seen that we have set up factories to produce it, there must be no doubt in your mind that the factories that work day and night will surely send all their products to the soil of your homeland and explode. ”

"In three weeks, we dropped one such nuclear bomb on each of Japan's four major cities."

"We ask you to confirm these facts to your leaders and do your best to stop the destruction and waste of life, and if the bombing continues, the result will only be the destruction of your entire city. As scientists, we regret that a brilliant scientific discovery was used in this way, but we assure you that unless Japan surrenders immediately, the atomic bomb will rain down in anger. ”

However, the letter was withheld and did not reach me. Sajogen didn't know about it until after the war.

Nagasaki is a city of 200,000 people, and like San Francisco, the city was built on some steep hills. Its harbor faces the East China Sea. Nagasaki is a port of particular beauty in the legend, especially at this time of year, when autumn is already in full swing and many of the leaves have turned red or yellow. The city center faces the harbor, and the Urakami River flows into the bay from the north. For centuries, Nagasaki has been centered on this area and expanded into various valleys, including the valley formed by the river, which is Nagasaki's industrial area and houses 90 percent of the city's labor force.

In 1571, the Portuguese helped transform Nagasaki from a fishing village into a major Japanese foreign trading port, importing tobacco, munitions, and Christianity. Because of the widespread spread of faith in Christianity, the Japanese government resorted to brutal measures to suppress it. All the missionaries were either killed or forced to leave, but in the 17th century their 37,000 followers rebelled against religious persecution. They gathered around a fort near Nagasaki and, with the help of several Dutch ships, repelled the Central Army, held out for thirty months, and finally slaughtered almost all of them.

However, their faith has survived, and Nagasaki remains Japan's most Europeanized, most Christian-populated city, with a fusion of Eastern and Western cultures, many churches and church schools, hundreds of Western-style houses, and buildings that attract tourists, such as the legendary Glover Building, the former home of Madame Butterfly overlooking the harbor.

Shigeyuki Morimoto is hurrying back to his home in Nagasaki, a nervous and frightened man. Just three days earlier, he had miraculously escaped the bombing of Tokyo. In Tokyo, he worked as an anti-aircraft kite for the Army for several months. At the time of the atomic bombing, he was buying paint brushes less than 900 meters from the center of the explosion. What saved him from the light was the wreckage of the thin and fragile little shop. Together with three clerks, he escaped from Tokyo to the safety of Nagasaki on a coal truck.

All night they involuntarily talked about the "atomic bomb". Is it some supernatural force that punishes Japan for attacking China? When the coal train climbs over the steep hillside. As he drove rapidly to the Nagasaki train station, he could not shake off the premonition that the atomic bomb would follow him to his home. He had to give his wife a warning. It was nearly eleven o'clock when he returned to his shop in the city center.

Kite dealer Morimoto breathlessly told his wife that Tokyo had eaten a terrible bomb and that he was afraid that next time it would be Nagasaki's turn. He described the flash: "First of all, a big blue flash—"

As he spoke, an eye-opening blue flash interrupted him. He hurriedly opened the trapdoor on the floor and stuffed his wife and children inside, and when he pulled the heavy lid down, it shook like an earthquake.

In the sky, several Chinese planes began to return home.

If only there were no clouds in the sky. Morimoto's shop, which was just below the original bombing site, was bound to be wiped out. However, the bomb exploded several hundred meters northeast of the stadium and the Urakami River, between the Mitsubishi Steel Works and the Mitsubishi Torpedo Factory.

The next day, Iwanaga, who would turn fourteen, was taking a bath on the Urakami River, near the Mitsubishi torpedo factory. He saw the plane drop a black object (a barrel for the instrument) and spread out into a parachute. He shouted to one of his companions, "Friendly machine! Then he plunged into the water in high spirits.

Right now. Flashes appeared. A few seconds later. He surfaced. It was a dark world all around. He felt that his left shoulder was hot, and at first glance, his shoulder was already yellow. He was bewildered. When I reached out and touched it, the skin fell off.

It was getting dark, and he swam desperately to shore. As he reached for his clothes, two blue-black balls the size of softballs came at him, one of them hit his clothes, and the balls disappeared instantly, setting the clothes on fire. When he climbed ashore, he heard a companion screaming in pain in the middle of the river, "Mother! "He was hit by a huge raindrop.

Fifteen-year-old Taeko Fukabori is helping pump water out of a natural cave that serves as a public bomb shelter. She was thrown into the mud. Then she remembered the fact that people had been buried alive in the shipyard during an air raid last week. Frightened, she felt her way to the hole. Outside, less than 200 meters from the center of the explosion, she found herself in hell. The workers working at the entrance of the cave were all scorched, and even the front and back of the chest could no longer be distinguished. One man, with his hair gone, all black—no one could tell whether it was a man or a woman—walked past her in a daze, with only a burning trouser belt left at his waist.

Taeko went home along the eastern slope of the valley to find her mother. An army soldier stopped her and said it was impassable in that direction. She followed the soldier across the railroad to the river, not even noticing that her right cheek and shoulder were burned. For some unknown reason, she suddenly affirmed that her family on the mountain was safe.

Further up the hill, near the prison and less than 275 meters from the center of the explosion, 12-year-old Kazuko Tokai climbed into the unfinished family bomb shelter to rest before the explosion. The soil on the hole was two feet thick, and it was the hole that saved her from the flash. She felt something indescribable about her and heard the sound of fried ribs peeling. She crawled outside - but into the darkness. Somehow—I thought it was dark—she couldn't look at anything, couldn't smell anything, and walked away aimlessly.

When the smoke cleared, Kazuko found herself standing at the base of a crumbling wall—the only thing left to go to prison. She turned to go home. The house is gone. Kazuko pulled out her mother, who was buried under the rubble. The mother and daughter found Mr. Tokai among the broken walls. When he was pulled out, the skin on his body fell off like people taking off their gloves.

Near the top of the hillside there is a 70-bed tuberculosis sanatorium, about 1,500 meters from the site of the explosion. Dr. Tatsuki Tatsuchiro was injecting a male patient into the ribs with a long needle when he heard some kind of desolate and terrible noise. It was as if a giant plane was roaring down at them. It's time to blow up the hospital, "lie down on the floor," he shouted. He pulled the needle out and lay down on the floor. I saw a flash of white light, and the fire splinters rained down on him. He struggled to his feet, unharmed. The air was filled with lime powder, and I choked on it.

Fearing that all the patients on the second and third floors would be killed, he took a nurse and ran towards the stairs. Frightened patients swarmed down, suffering only a few external injuries. He looked out the window. I saw yellow smoke billowing from the valley in Urakami. Churches have caught fire, as has vocational training schools. The sky is red and yellow. He couldn't help but walk into the garden. Both eggplant leaves and potato leaves are smoking. This bomb must be similar to the bomb eaten in Tokyo. The president of Nagasaki Medical University had seen the ruins of Tokyo, and the day before he had excitedly described it at a teacher's and students' staff meeting.

At the bottom of the valley, Sahachiro had just walked into the torpedo factory's warehouse to receive some kind of metal material, and he suddenly felt strange, but he couldn't say it. He turned to look, and saw that the windows were full of tinted flames—it must have been an explosion of a gas storage tank. The ceiling collapsed and he collapsed to the floor. He stumbled towards the factory infirmary, not feeling the gaping cuts on his head, feet, or thighs. The infirmary is gone. In the dimness of dusk, people were helplessly circling around.

His instincts told him to run. Come home. Due to excessive bleeding. Weakened. He untied his gaiters and tightened his thighs to stop the bleeding. Fearing that his relatives and friends would not find his body and that there would be no one to bury him, he walked to the Mitsubishi Steel Works to the south. After a while, I couldn't stand on my feet anymore. He used both hands and feet. Keep crawling.

The Mitsubishi plant stretches for about a mile. All the way to the train station. At the factory, 16-year-old Etsuko Kohata had just taken up her new job that morning – installing machine parts on the second floor. The shockwave knocked her unconscious, when she woke up. She found herself hanging from the wreckage of her house six feet above the ground.

She was lifted onto a truck and taken to the university hospital on the eastern slope, but the fire forced the "ambulance" to make a detour to the station to the south, and on the street, the fire spread and blocked the way. The patients were ordered to get out of the car and walk. Etsuko climbed out of the truck in agony.

The sun was scorching, big and red, like a fire. She wanted to lie under the truck and dodge, but she couldn't get down. The sky was unduly raining again, and the raindrops hit the fire and fell on the hot ground, hissing.

In the sky, the Chinese pilot saw "a huge fireball, as if rising from the interior of the earth, spewing out one large white smoke ring after another."

Chen Mingming, a reporter who was in the passenger seat of an Intruder fighter jet, saw a large pillar of fire that rushed into the air two miles high. When this pillar of fire turned into "a living thing, a new species of living being, unbelievably descending into the world before people's eyes", he desperately recorded it in his notebook.

A huge mushroom appeared on top of the pillar of fire, and waves of smoke rolled over it, more lifelike than the pillar itself. The white waves are like a raging and angry prayer, like a thousand pillars of water rising and falling. After a few seconds, the mushroom detaches from the stem and is replaced by a smaller mushroom. Chen Mingming thought that this was like a monster with a severed head growing a new head.

"Major, let's get out of this place quickly!" On the airborne radio channel, a pilot said.

"Hey, Lao Gao, there are 100,000 Japanese you killed just now."

Lao Gao did not answer, this nuclear bomb was pressed by him. The fleet also began to return. This is the second wave of China's nuclear bomb attack on Japan.

"At 9:1:58 Nagasaki was bombarded with the naked eye, and no fighter planes met it and no anti-aircraft artillery fire was encountered. The bombing turned out to be technically successful. ”

Not all of Nagasaki's victims were Japanese. At the Mitsubishi Steel Works, a group of laborers from Vietnam who had been captured happened to be hit by an explosion, and many people died. The prisoner of war camp a mile away was also badly damaged, and no one knows how many people died.

Even forty miles away in the Thousand Streams POW camp, in Bataan was captured by the surgeon Julien. Dr. Goodman also felt the shockwave. First there was a dull rumble, then a gust of wind. The ground trembled. A moment later, it shuddered again. Australian doctor John Brown. Higgin said: "It must have been a massive naval artillery attack that began. "The shock wave and the jolt lasted for five minutes. This inexplicable phenomenon has transformed the POW camps. The prisoners of war were called to the canteen, where they were informed that they would no longer be sent down to the mines to mine coal.

A Japanese seaplane flew through the clouds at 10,000 feet and headed straight for Nagasaki. Ten minutes ago, Sasebo's naval air base received reports of a "major bombardment" of nearby Nagasaki. The pilot of the plane, a 20-year-old non-commissioned officer candidate, flew the plane without authorization to investigate. Alternate student Komatsu once heard Chen Shao's bombing of Tokyo on the shortwave radio. This time it might be an atomic bomb as well.

The plane emerged from the clouds and encountered a huge column of black smoke. Above, "like a monster's head", there is a large ball that is constantly expanding, and it changes color like a kaleidoscope. After flying a little further, Komatsu realized that the colorful colors were hallucinations caused by the sun's rays. He began to circle around the smoke cloud, and everything below was invisible. He shouted to his two companions, "Let's rush through the clouds!" ”

The clouds of smoke are like fires. Komatsu pulled open the cab hatch and stretched out his gloved hand, which he felt as if he had put his hand in hot steam, so he hurriedly retracted his hand and closed the hatch, only to find that the gloves were covered with "slimy dust". One of his companions shouted, and Umeda was vomiting. The sky is getting darker and hotter. The third person was the alternate Shengfumura, who opened the window to let in. A gust of hot wind hit his face. He screamed and immediately closed the window. At this point, the plane flew back into the sun. Their faces were all covered with gray dust.

Komatsu's head throbbed and swelled, and he overcame his nausea and circled down. Below, Nagasaki was already on fire, smoke billowed from him, and he slowed down to take a picture, but the heat on the ground forced him to fly towards the harbor. He planned to land in the harbor and then walk into the city to continue exploring.

Two years later, Komatsu and others all died of cancer. (To be continued......)