At 2:40 a.m., MacArthur, commander of the US Pacific Theater Army, had already slept in the bomb shelter where he lived.

Since the Battle of Aleutian at the end of 1943, the U.S. Army's presence in the Pacific War has been extremely poor. Except for the previous Philippine Campaign and the Battle of Oahu, the US troops stationed in the two places showed their presence twice in a humiliating way of being completely annihilated and only a few high-ranking officers were spared, and the US Army behaved like a soy sauce player for the remaining two years.

According to the statistics of some good people, in the Pacific War in the past two years, the number of US Army casualties did not exceed 500, and it was not even as many as the number of accidental deaths such as training accidents and diseases.

For MacArthur, who has a good name and a good presence, it is intolerable to be in a state of "playing soy sauce" for a long time. Therefore, after the United States inflicted its first nuclear attack on Japan, MacArthur, the supreme commander of the Pacific Theater, relied on the North Pacific Island, which is the forefront of the war against Japan, and took the initiative to "accompany the atomic bomb" in order to increase his "appearance rate."

The use of the atomic bomb changed the pattern of war, and even gave many Americans the idea that in the future war, as long as they kept dropping the atomic bomb, they could win.

MacArthur knew that he was powerless to stop this "tide of history" when the atomic bomb became the protagonist of the war, but he could "go down in history" as the commander who ordered the dispatch of nuclear attack aircraft.

Join Halsey for a "visit" of the atomic bomb that had just been delivered to Artura Island, and then "take a photo" with the atomic bomb as a backdrop, the two top commanders of the U.S. Pacific Theater. One returned to rest on his battleship, while the other lived in a dugout on land.

After two years of operation, the U.S. military has built a number of solid underground bomb shelters on the island of Atura. The underground bomb shelter prepared for the command center was sturdy enough to withstand a five-ton bomb hit, and MacArthur stayed in the bomb shelter that night.

That night, MacArthur, who lived in a bomb shelter, was awakened by loud noises and tremors, which made him instinctively pull the switch on the light at the head of the bed, but the bulb was not lit.

The room was pitch black, and the outside was just as pitch black. Only the noise of the staff on duty and awakened constantly came into the room.

"What's going on? Was there an earthquake? Why is there a power outage? Where's the backup power? ”

MacArthur muttered as he fumbled his way through the bedside table for a flashlight and turned on the switch. There was finally a little light in the room.

There was a commotion outside, and the sudden vibrations, loud noises, and power outages made these officers and men of the headquarters who were "used to being comfortable" on Artura Island a little overwhelmed.

"What a daze, turn on the backup generator!"

MacArthur was on his phone. Reprimanded his flustered men. The small light cannon of the flashlight in his hand seemed to be out of order, and the bright lines flickered on and off, making it very unstable.

Despite being in a bomb shelter a few meters underground, MacArthur's ears continued to hear a strange rumbling sound.

At this moment, someone rushed over, shouting in panic as he ran: "Outside, something big is happening outside!" The sky is on fire! ”

Shouting people. It was the officer on duty who woke up earlier, after a blackout caused by a nuclear explosion. When I went to the air-raid shelter, I took a look at the aftermath of the 100,000-ton atomic bomb.

MacArthur's bomb shelter was at the southern end of the island of Tula, near the southern port. The submarine carrying the atomic bomb was beached from the northern tip of the island of Tula, nearly five kilometers away from his bomb shelter in a straight line. Due to its distance from the center of the nuclear explosion, the shock wave generated by the nuclear explosion has been greatly weakened by the time it reaches here. And importantly, the entrance and exit of the bomb shelter also happen to be in the direction of the blow center.

The officer on duty who ran out to see what was going on was already two minutes after the nuclear explosion when he went out, and he happened to avoid the light radiation and shock wave in the early stage, so he still had a chance to come back alive to report.

Soon, MacArthur led some people in the bomb shelter to the bomb shelter, and the scene outside made his eyes widen in horror, and then he habitually wanted to fumble in his pockets and take out his favorite corn pipe, but only then did he think that he had put the pipe at the head of the bed before going to bed and did not bring it out.

Although it is now three o'clock in the morning, the entire northern island of Artura is in a sea of fire, and from time to time you can see the glorious brilliance of the ammunition explosion in the night. Through these glorious illuminations, he faintly saw the huge mushroom cloud in the northern sky.

"Atomic bomb!"

Everyone at the scene couldn't help but read these three words in their hearts when they saw this scene. In the past few months, the U.S. government has been constantly touting the great power of the atomic bomb, and under the government's unremitting efforts to "eradicate nuclear literacy", everyone on the scene realized at this time that Artura Island had suffered a powerful nuclear attack before.

Characters within three kilometers of the heart of the explosion were all dealt near-devastating damage from the blow, and a little further away, the damage was devastating. MacArthur was already at the far end, nearly five kilometers away, but it was also severely affected by the nuclear explosion. The shock wave from the nuclear explosion was like a Category 18 typhoon, blowing away the exposed ground with no fixed equipment, and at the door of the bomb shelter, MacArthur saw his beloved jeep overturned by the shock wave.

The jet fuel splashed from the shore oil depot destroyed by the nuclear explosion ignited a fire wherever it went. Standing at the door of the bomb shelter and looking at the port, there were fires lit by splashing gasoline everywhere on the water of the harbor and on the warships.

"God, do the five nations that have evil gods also have the sword of God? It's horrible! ”

This exclamation was made by Naval Commander Halsey, who was sleeping on the battleship Montana.

Due to the distance from the blast center and the land obstruction, the US Pacific Fleet suffered minimal losses in this hit. The main loss was that some sailors on duty happened to be looking in the direction of the nuclear explosion at the time of the nuclear explosion and were blinded by the bright light that stabbed their eyes. In addition, in the shock wave that followed, the warship shook violently, causing certain damage to the facilities on the ship, and some warships with strong shaking fell out of bed and fell into injury. There were also some splashes of oil that fell on the warship. Produce some small fires.

None of this is fatal, but the real lethal is after this 100,000-ton nuclear explosion. Not only on Artura Island, but also on the warships anchored in the harbor, the electronic equipment on board them suffered severe damage.

The radio stations and crystal equipment on board the ship are almost all scrapped, and only some of the outdated old tube equipment can still be used. And the ship's radar was also damaged under this blow. And the electromagnetic disturbance caused by the atomic bomb explosion also made the radar of the few warships that were still working normally full of snowflakes. It simply does not have the effect of early warning.

EMP, or Electromagnetic Pulse, is a physical phenomenon. The electromagnetic pulse is mainly used to destroy the enemy's electronic equipment, and the electromagnetic pulse generated when the nuclear bomb explodes can have a great damage and burning effect on electronic equipment, especially transistor electronic equipment. It's not just these fragile transistor radios and devices that use transistors. Quite a few warships are working on the generator coils. It was also damaged by an overload caused by the EMP impact of a nuclear explosion.

"Immediately send electricity to other warships, we have suffered a nuclear attack from the enemy, and all warships in the harbor must be evacuated as soon as possible."

Realizing that he had been attacked by a nuclear attack, Halsey immediately ordered the warships in the harbor to be negligent. However, when this order could be transmitted, it immediately encountered the problem that "all the radio stations on the ship were damaged and could not be used." Fortunately, the battleship Montana was able to operate normally due to the distance from the blast center due to the distance from the berth. Relying on the light signal of the searchlight, he contacted the surrounding ships, and finally conveyed the order.

It's just that. It is a waste of time to communicate by light, and it is impossible for a large fleet to be evacuated in an emergency dispersal without taking several hours, and it takes even more time when the communication is seriously damaged.

Over the past few years, the Germans have been deliberately selling large quantities of finished transistor radios and scattered transistor products to the United States cheaply. These lightweight, stable, low-energy, easy-to-maintain transistor equipment are extremely popular with the US military, and for many years, almost all military radio stations are crystal devices, and the parts on military radars also have a large number of transistor products imported from Germany.

The EMP produced by the nuclear explosion is the biggest killer of transistor equipment, and the shadow that Hannah planted many years ago finally appeared at this moment.

Only some of the transistor devices on the warships that were not turned on and were far away escaped the nuclear explosion, but this did not include Halsey's flagship, the Montana. In order to get in touch with the outer fleet, Admiral Halsey had to abandon the ship, take a small boat, and move to a nearby warship where the radio station was still functioning.

But it still consumes time, and time is of the essence at this time.

Ironically, at 3:25 a.m., 40 minutes after the nuclear explosion, the communications corps on the Montana finally found a way to communicate with other warships by radio: in the confusion, the sailors on the ship suddenly thought that there was still an obsolete tube radio station stored in the warehouse. Radio communication was finally restored. (Note: The old-fashioned vacuum tube radio station is not used, and the tube is easy to fail and be damaged)

And by this time, Halsey had just transferred his command to a nearby cruiser. While Halsey was hesitating to return to the flagship, a telegram from the cruiser's communications radio was from the outermost alert fleet, two hundred kilometers away: three minutes before the nuclear explosion, the outer fleet had spotted a large number of radar signals in the direction of the Comando Islands, which were being closely monitored in the northwest, and it was suspected that planes had taken off from the Soviet airfield on the island.

At that time, less than a minute after these flying targets were exposed on the alert radar of the outer fleet, the adversary dropped a large number of aluminum foil dry belts, interfering with the radar's surveillance.

After a year of war, the United States absorbed the lessons of the British and its own defeat in the Pacific naval war, spent great efforts on the research of new radars, and successfully developed a variable frequency radar with strong anti-jamming capabilities against aluminum foil jamming. The alert fleet quickly avoided interference by means of frequency modulation and notified the direction of Artura Island to prepare for a night air raid.

However, before the alert fleet could send an alert telegram to Artura, the 100,000-ton atomic bomb was detonated at zero altitude on Artura Island. The violent nuclear explosion completely destroyed all the air defense facilities and land-based aircraft on the island. Full-band blockage of EMP from a nuclear explosion. As a result, radio communication between here and the outside world was interrupted for nearly half an hour.

In the time of 1946, aircraft carriers, under normal circumstances, would not send night fighters for air defense operations.

In this day and age. Once a carrier-based aircraft is released, landing at night or searching for an aircraft carrier is a big problem. In order to allow the released aircraft to find the deck of the aircraft carrier to land when it lands, it is necessary to light the headlights to illuminate the indication, which is simply an act of looking for death in the sea infested by submarines, and at the same time lighting the headlights is equivalent to telling the opponent that I am here. Come and up.

And the alert ships on the periphery, although they are also accompanied by air carriers, these are escort aircraft carriers. There are not many of them, the number of ships and aircraft is small, and tactically and technically, it is impossible for an aircraft carrier to release a large number of night fighters to intercept the opponent's night bombers. And for pilots. Night air combat and day sky combat are two different things entirely. The former pilots are more difficult to train and have additional requirements for the performance of the aircraft. Even when aircraft carriers are flying far from land-based airfields, night air defense tasks are entrusted to carrier-based aircraft on official combat carriers. (Note: Historically, the Americans developed the F4U night version for night air combat missions on ships, but in fact, Japanese aircraft did not have the ability to search and attack the US fleet at night, and finally the F4U night version was usually only used for night air defense at island-based airfields)

And the biggest drawback of the entire night air defense system of the US fleet centered on the island of Atura, is that it is overly dependent on land-based airfields on the island of Atura.

After suffering a big loss in the Battle of San Francisco, the Americans developed a professional night fighter, the Black Widow P61. This is an excellent night fighter. The P-61 was the first practical night fighter, the first to use infrared search technology (airborne radar) and the first generation of night fighters with stealth colors.

After the U.S. Navy was stationed on the island of Atura. Four P61s flew over Artura every night for non-stop night cruises, while 60 P61s were parked in the open air for standby duty at the island-based airfield. In addition, the Americans, who had suffered a great loss in the Battle of San Francisco, even placed 20 old biplane night fighters on the island to spare "low-altitude and low-speed" rogue attack aircraft such as needle-like bats and swordfish.

The Americans are not indifferent to night air defense, but they did not expect that the opponent would directly use a 100,000-ton enhanced atomic bomb as soon as it struck, and directly wiped out all land-based air defense forces on Artura Island with one blow.

The blockage of the entire frequency band, which was caused by the atomic bomb explosion at the moment, caused the US warships stationed here to lose the ability to communicate with the periphery and waste nearly 40 minutes of air defense warning time in vain -- even if there was an early warning, it would not have much effect, because it was impossible for an aircraft carrier at anchor in the harbor to accelerate to a speed that could fly night fighters in 40 minutes.

At 3:36 a.m., the hum of airplanes was heard over the port of Artura, and then, when the sailors of the Pacific Fleet, who had been awakened from their sleep by the nuclear explosion, looked up at the sky, the first thing they saw was a huge fireball crashing into the ground like a meteor, and then crashing into the sea.

This is a P61 night fighter that is faithfully flying night cruises over the island of Artura.

At the time of the atomic bombing, a total of four P61s were flying at night over this sea area, and two of them were facing the center of the explosion from the nose of the plane at the moment of the explosion, and the pilot was directly exposed to the flash of the nuclear explosion, but his eyes were blinded by the strong light on the spot, and finally the plane crashed.

The other two P61s, although flying with their backs to the blast center, one of them was too close to the explosion center and was caught up by the shock wave generated by the explosion, causing the plane to lose control and eventually crash. Only the last one survived, but the pilot, whose body had already been exposed to large doses of nuclear radiation, was also short of life.

At that time, the transistor radio on the plane had been scrapped, and the airport below was also in a mess and could not land, and he was in a circle in the air with no contact or landing site, when he was in a circle in the air in a daze, the nuclear attack plane from the direction of Comandor Island had already been killed.

The first to arrive over Artura Island was neither the latest German ME26 (Crab) 4 long-range bomber nor the Soviet Tu-4 bomber, but eight TA154 night fighters led by Li Huamei.

Li Huamei did not make a move, but commanded in the center, and under her guidance, the rest of the TA154 pilots easily knocked down the P61 fighter piloted by the pilot who had suffered a large dose of nuclear radiation.

Three (crab) thirty-eight, ME26 (crab) 4 flew over the island of Artura.

Although the U.S. warships in the harbor have been desperately trying to leave since the first nuclear explosion, except for the destroyers that started quickly, the large warships have not been able to move until now.

At 3:40 a.m., the second nuclear bomb broke out of the magazine of ME26 (Crab) 4, and the target was the warship moored in the harbor and desperately trying to make a fire and accumulate power to move.

At an altitude of 6,500 meters, ME26 (Crab)4 dropped an 80,000-ton enhanced atomic bomb.

On the sea, every U.S. warship used all the anti-aircraft guns on board to fire wildly into the air, but to no avail.

At 3:44 a.m., another white light tore through the darkness of the North Pacific Ocean, and a huge mushroom-shaped fireball rose again less than six kilometers away from the first nuclear explosion. (To be continued......)