In the myths and legends of various civilizations in the world, you can see the expressive descriptions of the end of the divine punishment: flying together in ten days, boiling rivers and boiling seas, mountains pouring into rivers, and the earth cracking and the sky collapsing...... Millions of living beings died in an instant, and the entire world was reduced to a blood-colored purgatory of corpses. Through these thrilling texts, the ancient ancestors, who had a heart of reverence for nature, painted a picture of the horror that would appear when the gods were wrathed. However, these are only scenes that exist in fantasy after all. With the exception of the enigmatic Tunguska explosion of 1907, no such catastrophic sight has ever occurred on Earth. For the Japanese people, the most memorable disaster was the Great Kanto Earthquake in September 1923, which killed 140,000 people in a landslide measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, and the Kanto region was devastated and devastated.

Seventeen years later, however, Japan is facing a real apocalypse. The nuclear bomb that exploded hundreds of meters above Hiroshima unleashed an incomparable amount of majestic energy, and the blazing light and heat radiation and the shock air waves that overwhelmed the mountains and seas expanded instantly, tearing apart all the obstacles encountered in front of it without any stagnation. In an instant, all the buildings and trees within 500 meters of the center of the explosion were reduced to thousands of pieces, and the city blocks in the distance were as fragile as wheat seedlings and rice stalks, bursting and shattering in the face of the fierce waves that rushed down from the sky. The timber-based building soon reached its ignition point in the intense radiative heat transfer, and the roaring flames soon formed around it and spread like a tidal wave to the outer city.

The surging heat impact waves are like the Milky Way pouring down, rushing and rolling. Along the way, it was devastating. Destroy all traces of civilization to the ground. Countless people were torn apart into billions of carbon grains and scattered by the wind. Countless people were burned to the point that their flesh was torn apart and as fierce as ghosts, and many more were burned to death and suffocated in the monstrous fires that were produced after the nuclear explosion. Since most of Japan's buildings are made of wood, the secondary lethality of a nuclear explosion is much higher than in the United States. The fires that burned in downtown Hiroshima lasted for two days and three nights, reducing almost the entire city to a charred cemetery paved with ashes and rubble.

According to the Japanese government's statistics afterwards, as many as 170,000 people died in Hiroshima in the three days after the nuclear explosion; More than 80% of the buildings in the city were damaged in various ways, and the economic losses were almost incalculable in the amount of billions of yen. 35,000 people were trapped in the city stadium by the monstrous flames generated by the nuclear explosion, and the roaring fire demons blocked every way out. As a result, all of these people died in the fire due to lack of oxygen and suffocation, and none of them survived and escaped. When the Japanese fire brigade finally extinguished the fire, the impact and shock they suffered were beyond words to describe when they saw the veritable mass graves of countless dead bodies. Some people became insane on the spot, as if they were insane; Many more were stunned, and then trembled all over, losing all strength in extreme panic. The scene in front of them is far beyond the scope of their understanding, this is not a war, but a real apocalyptic punishment!

This time alone, the Hiroshima nuclear bombing, Japan suffered even more casualties than the Great Kanto Earthquake. The factory city was reduced to rubble, leaving only more than 100,000 wounded to wail and struggle after the catastrophe. And what is terrifying to the Japanese people is. The disaster in Hiroshima was only the beginning of a disaster for itself. Within 30 minutes of the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima, five industrial cities, including Okura, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Kumamoto, were also destroyed by nuclear missiles. Countless buildings and creatures have been wiped off the face of the earth with an efficiency unmatched at any time in history. Thousands of miles of clouds, thousands of acres of fire, the entire Japanese archipelago trembled under the blow of this divine expedition, and the mythical scene finally befell them.

Because the movement of the six nuclear bombs detonating in unison was so great that the Japanese government was unable to block the news, nearly two days later, this catastrophic news swept through the entire territory of Japan like a hurricane. When the Japanese people heard the news, their first reaction was that the press and media were all mad. However, when more and more conclusive news came, they were all like thunderbolts, and a strong illusion of being in a nightmare rose in their hearts. In less than half an hour, 6 cities have ceased to exist, and the death toll is close to a million, which seems to be impossible from any point of view!

In the base camp of the Japanese army, all the generals and politicians seemed to be crazy, and they had lost their minds and did not know how to deal with the situation, but they were like headless flies to call all over the country to understand the losses or trace the causes. And what makes them feel completely desperate is that not only have they suffered the devastating blow of the collapse of civilization, but they don't even know how the other party did it; Border lookouts in various localities did not find any trace of enemy planes entering the country, and only radar stations detected a few flying objects that were not capable of being humans, and in a very short period of time they rushed through their deep edges at a speed more than ten times that of airplanes. Since the height and speed of the target were far beyond the understanding of the Japanese army, the radar soldiers either thought that the equipment was malfunctioning, or regarded the reflective signal on the screen as a meteorite that was rare for a thousand years!

At a time when Japan was at a loss in the face of this world-shattering disaster, the German government issued its own statement to the world. In the sonorous voice of the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Germany had no qualms about admitting that it had used a strategic rocket with an ultra-long range to drop a nuclear bomb directly over a Japanese city and detonate it. In order to disguise the existence of the Vladivostok missile base and to give Japan an even stronger fear, Germany claimed that the missile had a range of 10,000 kilometers and could fly accurately over Japan two hours after being launched from the German mainland. Despite the inhumanity of dropping nuclear bombs on cities inhabited by large numbers of civilians, the German government had previously issued a final warning to the Japanese side to evacuate civilians; Therefore, the civilian casualties caused by the nuclear bomb should also be remembered on the head of the stubborn and belligerent Japanese government. At the end of the statement, Germany ordered Japan to accept the armistice and surrender within 48 hours, otherwise 60 or 600 nuclear missiles would break through the clouds and wipe out 70 million Japanese from the Dongying Islands.

In the face of this unimaginable horror, the militaristic frenzy that had been enveloping the hearts of the Japanese people for half a century has finally begun to dissipate with the tremendous heart-wrenching pain that they are currently suffering. Even the most stubborn fanatical war-like elements were frightened by the unprecedented shock of a million deaths; The war has completely departed from the mutual attack between the two sides at a visual distance, and has become a devastating slaughter punishment only for themselves, in this case, what is the point of pushing the war forward? No one will be optimistic that the German strike will be limited to this, after all, they fired 6 nuclear bombs at themselves at one time, and who knows how much stock the other side still has, even if the whole of Japan is destroyed, it is most likely not empty talk!

To the pain of the Japanese generals, the first to be unable to support themselves under the weight of this ruin was none other than Emperor Hirohito, whom they had long worshipped as a god. 17 years ago, when he was still the crown prince regent, he experienced the horror of the Great Kanto Earthquake firsthand, witnessing countless high-rise buildings and palaces collapsing and collapsing like cards. And the tragic scene of the crack in the ground cracking and then suddenly closing, squeezing countless people who fell into it into bloody flesh and pulp, was deeply engraved in his mind, making his hands and feet cold and trembling every time he thought about it. This time the Germans showed mercy and did not include Tokyo in their nuclear attack, but what about the next time? Do you want to be like the rumored one, under the blow of a nuclear bomb, you will become a lonely ghost with no place to die?

"Secretaries, I am willing to accept the conditions of the independent government and end the current pattern of disasters, I wonder if the secretaries have any objections?" When Hirohito proposed this idea at the headquarters meeting held the next day, everyone present bowed their heads deeply, pain, mourning, desolation, and remorse...... All kinds of feelings are mixed in his heart, and he just hates that he can't end his shameful life with one cut. Ten days earlier, they had promised the Emperor that Japan would be invincible in the war against Germany, and that even if it was poor, it would be able to make peace with Germany in a way far superior to that of the pre-war period, and force the other side to admit their conquest and occupation of the Asian continent. However, only a few days later, the other party stepped his head directly into the muddy ground with an unavoidable kick, and deprived himself of the strength to move even one finger with the tremendous force of Mount Tai. At this time, accepting the other party's truce and surrender is tantamount to beheading one's own hands and feet and becoming a catfish on the chopping board; However, if you don't do this, you will be frustrated by the other party!

"Minister...... A qiē are subject to the judgment of the majesty. I don't know how long it took for Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe to speak in a hoarse voice, and his haggard and gloomy face seemed to suddenly age by ten years. Lu Xiang, Hideki Tojo's nails were deeply embedded in his palm, and a little blood seeped out of it, and he didn't even realize it. Hirohito's words were like knives, cutting his heart, which had always been known for its strength and stubbornness, to blood; However, despite the resentment and unwillingness in his heart, he could not find any reason to continue this war, so he could only stand like a log. Two days later, when an armistice announcement sounded on the radio, Tojo, who felt that he had nothing to love, pulled out his ancestral katana and plunged it into his abdomen. (To be continued......)

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