"Send a telegram to the Admiralty immediately, and the people of China may shell those coastal cities in the northwest of Kyushu Island, so that the government can evacuate them." Admiral Isamu Takeshita ordered. Although, he knows, it will be very difficult to evacuate these Japanese people. However, it is much better than dying under the guns of the Chinese Navy.

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander." A staff officer nodded, and immediately went to telegraph. Everyone felt the urgency of the matter.

Admiral Rokuro Yashiro, the Minister of the Navy who was far away in Tokyo, was also shocked when he received a telegram from Admiral Isamu Takeshita, and immediately reported it to Prime Minister Masashi Terauchi. Terauchi Masayi immediately issued a decree demanding that the coastal cities on Kyushu Island and even the southern part of Honshu Island begin to evacuate their people, so as not to cause too much damage in the shelling of the Chinese Navy.

The Japanese live mainly in coastal cities. More than half of the country's population lives by the sea. If the Chinese navy launches another shelling of Japan's coastal cities, it is easy to imagine what kind of tragedy it will cause.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida proposed that Britain, France, the United States, and other countries could put pressure on the Chinese Empire in the international community to get the Chinese Empire to abandon this attack on civilians. It's just that it's hard to say whether this will be useful or not.

Both sides in a war have only one goal, and that is to defeat the other. In order to achieve this goal, the bottom line of morality can be trampled on and everything can be done. As early as World War I, the warring sides used a large number of chemical weapons such as poison gas in order to win. As for civilian casualties, they are even more unavoidable. In war, the lives of civilians are inherently extremely fragile and can cost their lives at any time.

Fukuoka is the largest city in the northwestern part of Kyushu Island, home to more than half a million people. The shipbuilding and steel industries are thriving here, and it is also an important port in southern Japan. In particular, after Japan colonized Korea and snatched special rights and interests in Northeast China from the Russians, a large amount of resources brought back from Northeast China and Korea were transported here first.

It's just that right now, the people of this big city are really scared. The government's evacuation order has been issued, and a large number of Japanese have begun to drag their families with them. Prepare to flee their homes. After all, in government propaganda, the Chinese are demons, and they will shoot at cities where civilians live. If you don't leave, you'll have to die. Therefore, even if it was difficult to leave their homeland, these Japanese still had to leave.

Of course, even if they escape Fukuoka, these Japanese people may not survive. Mostly Japanese. Under the exploitation of the government, they are already very poor, they have no property, let alone food. After fleeing their homes, the Japanese government did not have much food to help them. It is foreseeable that it is not known how many people will starve to death. As far as being killed by the Chinese Navy's shelling, they are just relieving for a while.

On the morning of August 19, 4621, when the sun had just risen. Nine of the main warships of the Imperial Navy's Pacific Fleet have entered Hakata Bay, north of Fukuoka, under the protection of a fleet of cruisers and destroyers. For a large city with hundreds of thousands of people. It was almost impossible to evacuate before the night. In particular, when some people are unwilling to cooperate, the evacuation work is even more difficult. At the time of the appearance of the Chinese Navy's fleet, only half of the Japanese in Fukuoka Castle had been evacuated, and half remained in the castle.

When those huge warships like hills floating on the sea appeared in Hakata Bay. A terrible siren sounded in Fukuoka Castle.

"I heard that Fukuoka is the largest city on the Japanese island of Kyushu, and if we bomb it to the ground, the Japanese will be very sad. When the time comes, the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy will go out of the port to fight a decisive battle with us. I'm afraid there is no other choice. Admiral Liu Guanxiong said.

"Of course, the Japanese have no choice. If they turn a blind eye after shelling Fukuoka, then we will continue north and destroy Kitakyushu as well. Then, other Japanese coastal cities were shelled. Lieutenant General Li Dingxin said.

"Hmmm! His Majesty the Emperor said that only dead Japanese are good Japanese. So, let us be the executioners and carry out His Majesty's plan. Order all ships, ten minutes command to start shelling, destroy the whole of Fukuoka! Admiral Liu Guanxiong ordered. At this moment, he was very cold-blooded, and he almost didn't treat the Japanese as human beings at all. In his eyes, the Japanese are probably no different from pigs and dogs.

After receiving the order, the three 'Three Emperor-class' battleships of the Imperial Navy, the 'Yasukai' battleship and the five 'Five Emperor-class' battleships, began to cross the hull of the ship, facing Fukuoka with their side sides. All the main guns had begun to rotate, and the thick muzzles were raised high, looking very hideous. Inside the turret, high-explosive shells are being lifted from the ammunition depot with a loafer, stuffed into the chamber, and then loaded with ******, closed the bolts, and waiting for the shells to be fired.

Around these capital ships, light cruisers and destroyers were cruising, looking for possible danger. When these capital ships are shelling land targets, they are vulnerable to attacks from underwater. The Japanese Navy also has a submarine force. Although the Japanese did not have very good submarines and they were not very good at using submarines, the Imperial Navy still had to be cautious. Otherwise, the slightest negligence may lead to irreparable results.

The Japanese will not use submarines, that one is well known. In another time and space, Japan also had a large submarine force in World War II. However, during the war, the submarine forces of the Japanese did little to make any contributions. Compared with the German submarines, which had achieved great success, the Japanese submarine force was simply synonymous with garbage.

At 9:35 a.m. on August 18, 4621, the battleship Fuxi, the flagship of the Imperial Navy's Pacific Fleet, with three triple 410mm guns, began the first salvo. Nine 410-mm high-explosive shells, under the action of the huge kinetic energy generated by the ******, flew towards Fukuoka. The cannonballs flew at high speeds, rubbing violently against the air and emitting a sharp and piercing whistling sound.

"Amaterasu! The people of China have opened fire, so get out of here. "Inside Fukuoka Castle, some people heard the roar like thunder, and some people saw the orange-red flames shining from the guns of the battleship Fuxi, and they shouted loudly.

Countless Japanese began to flee in a panic, they wanted to escape the city. Even those Japanese who were initially reluctant to leave Fukuoka were frightened.

When the battleship Fuxi began its shelling, it was only 10,000 meters away from Fukuoka. It took less than twenty seconds for the shells to land inside Fukuoka Castle.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Violent explosions came one after another, and the 410 mm high-explosive shells were so powerful that often when a shell landed on a street, half a block was destroyed. A large crater will be blown out of the pavement of the street. The houses on both sides of the street will be shattered by the shock wave. At the same time, it will be ignited.

Those wooden houses in Japan were undoubtedly easily set on fire during the shelling. It's like a pile of hay that ignites as long as there is a spark.

As for the Japanese, they were even more vulnerable in the violent explosion. In the violent explosion, the human body was directly torn to pieces, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. Even people who are relatively far from the center of the explosion cannot escape. The shock wave from the explosion of the cannonballs will easily blow them up, like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.

After the battleship 'Fuxi' began shelling, the remaining eight battleships also began shelling.

All of a sudden, huge cannonballs rained down on Fukuoka Castle. Flames shone brightly in the city, smoke rose from inside the city, and houses were set on fire. Countless Japanese were killed in the shelling. The once prosperous city suddenly turned into hell.

"Run! Get out of here. Otherwise, they'll all die here. ”

The Japanese, who had not yet been killed, began to flee the city in flocks. They crowded the roads out of the city, and this provided the Imperial Navy with better opportunities for shelling.

Often, if a large-caliber naval artillery shell explodes in the middle of a crowd, it can kill and injure hundreds of people.

The sound of bombs and the cries of the Japanese all came together to make the city a ghost town.

The misery of the Japanese was not visible to the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Navy, but they imagined it. They know their ships very well and how powerful these weapons are. Under the slaughter of these warships, what kind of tragic fate will the Japanese in Fukuoka Castle have?

However, the officers and men of the Imperial Navy, as if they were hard-hearted, were not moved at all. All they knew was that Japan was the old enemy of the empire, and if the empire wanted to rise, it had to destroy Japan. Only in this way will the empire be able to compete with the Western powers for world hegemony without any worries. In the past, the Japanese unscrupulously slaughtered Chinese on the territory of the empire, but now, they are only treating others in their own way. In war, there is no distinction between good and evil. There is only a distinction between the victors and the vanquished.

The shelling of Fukuoka by the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Navy lasted only a little more than two hours. However, after the shelling, the whole of Fukuoka was reduced to rubble. (To be continued.) )

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