Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Earth Under the Mushroom Cloud (Part II)

Jakarta, Java, Indonesia

After a routine rainstorm every afternoon, the air in downtown Jakarta, also known as the "Coconut City", becomes exceptionally fresh. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

From the air, the old town of Jakarta, built in the 15th century, centered on Fatahira Square, presents the elegant and humanistic atmosphere of a modern European city. And even the slums, which were originally chaotic, seem to have become much cleaner after being washed away by a heavy rain.

Overall, of course, the city is a lot more depressed. Many of the shops on the street are closed, and there are far fewer cars on the roads than they were in colonial times. Some of the buildings also bear more signs of bombing...... However, this is a necessary price for the freedom and independence of the country.

Sitting on the balcony of the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Indonesia, which has been converted from the old Governor's Palace, President Sukarno, the "Father of the Nation", thought so with great ambition.

-- After the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Indonesia, Sukarno and his henchmen took over the control of the vast land of the Thousand Islands.

Although Indonesia is still divided into powers, the territory that Sukarno, the president and the founding father, can actually control is quite limited, and a bunch of Sudanese sheikhs in Sumatra and Borneo occupy the throne and defy the orders of the central government. The British, who had just returned to Singapore, also came to take advantage of the situation, sending their fleet and marines to seize the Palembang oil field, while Sukarno, lacking a naval fleet and air power, could only stare at it...... But in any case, most of the things are going in a good direction. At least the island of Java, where the best of Indonesia is gathered, has been controlled by the government of the Republic of Sukarno. And as long as it has gained a foothold on the island of Java, then as long as it rests a little, it is only a matter of time before it is only a matter of time before it sweeps the whole country.

-- Although Indonesia is a vast country, it is mostly tropical rainforests that are difficult to develop, and there is not much land that can actually accommodate a large number of people. Only on the island of Java, because of the large number of volcanoes, a large amount of volcanic ash has been deposited, like a natural fertilizer, making the land on the island very fertile, and the small island of 130,000 square kilometers can actually gather hundreds of millions of people, and the population density is much higher than that of Japan.

Relying on such abundant human resources and the remaining munitions before the Japanese retreated, the government of the Republic of Indonesia in Sukarno raised a large army in a very short time. Although the attack ability of this rabble has yet to be tested, at least the size of this force is enough to bluff people.

During the recent Battle of Jakarta, Sukarno commanded Ruoding in the presidential palace and mobilized 180,000 troops to easily defeat 1,000 British marines who crossed the sea to attack, destroying more than 200 enemies and losing about 4,000 ...... Well, this exchange ratio is indeed humiliating enough, but Sukarno also showed great strength after all, fully proving that he could not be overthrown by just a few gunboats and a few thousand miscellaneous troops. At present, the Western European and American colonial powers have long run out of oil, and at most they can only use this little power to the East.

-- The Netherlands, the former owner of the Indonesian colony, is now the Socialist Republic of the Netherlands in Europe, and the Queen of the Netherlands living in London has not even a single soldier. The British have already exhausted an entire generation of young men in this war, and are now fighting in Europe, and are fighting India, Burma, Malaya, Vietnam, and China at the same time in Asia, and can afford to invest a few thousand men to intervene in the Indonesian colonies.

In an interview with reporters not long ago, Sukarno once said with pity: "...... After being repulsed by the Japanese, Britain should fully understand the limits of its own strength and stop trying to return to the East, which will only involve the already exhausted British in one wrong war after another, until it is at war with countless peoples throughout East Asia at the same time...... I don't think Prime Minister Winston Churchill had any idea of how to exit with dignity when he was thinking about entering East Asia. As a result, when Britain has already lost a generation, the war is still far away, even if the cost of the war is paid for by others, every moment of every day. There were British soldiers bleeding and dying, and this strong mental pressure would crush the British army's confidence to continue fighting. ”

As for the Americans? If they want to interfere with Indonesia, let's wait until the Pacific Fleet overthrows the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy!

Although Sukarno is unable to recover the Palembang oil fields occupied by the British in the distance, and is unable to cross the sea to crusade against the separatist forces on the outer islands such as Sumatra and Borneo, at least it can walk sideways on the island of Java.

In his view, as long as they continue to hold out for a while, the imperialist powers who are fierce and inward-looking will only have the share of a gray retreat.

However, just as President Sukarno was looking up at the blue sky after the rain and stretching out on the balcony, ready to go back to his office to continue reviewing the documents and by the way draft a speech for tomorrow's mass rally, a sharp air raid siren suddenly sounded in his ears!

-- As the air raid sirens sounded, the calm and lazy atmosphere in Jakarta suddenly disappeared. Pedestrians on the street ran to avoid it, shouting and screaming. President Sukarno was also put into the bomb shelter of the presidential palace by two guards with big shoulders and round waists.

A moment later, several B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" bombers roared from afar, with four powerful engines on the fuselage, dragging out four white atomized wakes, and the rumbling sound of the engines resounded in the sky. It has a low frequency and a lot of intensity, bringing a heavy sense of depression to people's hearts.

On the ground, a small number of antiaircraft artillery began to fire "dong dong", but unfortunately they could not reach the enemy planes at an altitude of 10,000 meters, so they could only give themselves courage. On the other hand, many bold citizens ignored the air raid sirens and instead stood on rooftops or climbed large trees, gazing curiously at the huge planes overhead—in general, due to the previous few small air strikes organized by the British and Americans, the damage to Jakarta was not serious, and even less than the number of people killed by a major typhoon, and the citizens were not too nervous about such a small bombing, thinking that it was nothing more than that.

This time, however, they were very wrong!!

A few minutes later, golden light erupted over Jakarta, fireballs volleyed into the air, and mushroom clouds rose into the sky – ah! It was an atomic bomb attack!!

In the last moments before death, many Jakarta citizens saw a churning fireball soaring into the sky, growing bigger and bigger, constantly changing colors, from violet to orange and yellow, like the Buddha holding a gem and spinning, colorful and dazzling. The fireball, along with a huge pillar of smoke rising below, turned into a strange green mushroom cloud, rising into the clear blue sky, and finally disappearing at an altitude of 20,000 meters.

Unfortunately, Fatahira Square and the Presidential Palace, located near the center of the nuclear bomb, were wiped out in heat comparable to the surface of the sun. Concrete was reduced to powder, gravel and pebbles were melted and re-solidified into purple glass balls, trees were charred, human bodies were reduced to ashes, artillery on anti-aircraft gun emplacements was fused with their weapons, and shadows of people and objects were imprinted on the ground and on the remaining walls...... Even if you hide in a strong underground bomb shelter, you can't escape the butcher's knife of death. At the same time, a terrifying shock wave also rampaged through the city, knocking down most of the buildings within a radius of five kilometers in an instant. Within seconds, the trees in the streets and the thousands of citizens who had not had time to take refuge in their bunkers were scorched by the extremely dry and hot foehn wind. Many were burned to death at once, and many more half-dead were rolling on the ground, screaming in pain as they were burned.

A few minutes later, another sticky, jet-black rain of radiation fell from the sky, bringing deadly radioactive nuclear fallout to the frightened survivors.

Then, in those urban areas that were far from the center of the explosion and had not yet been directly destroyed by the atomic bombing, a fire broke out because of the heat wave of the atomic bomb explosion - the terrible nuclear explosion scorched the air to a temperature above the ignition point of wood and cloth in an instant, and then there was no need for fire at all, and wherever this terrible hot air flow blew, it began to burn! The cloth was burning, the wood was burning, the houses were burning, and even the living and the dead were beginning to burn - first the hair, then the clothes, then even the skin and subcutaneous fat, and the dead were lucky, because it was impossible for them to die again. And those who are alive and burned are equivalent to being poured with gasoline and lighting sky lanterns, and the burning pain of the whole body is as if falling into the flames of hell, which is really miserable and indescribable. At the same time, they have to endure suffocation caused by high temperatures.

Jakarta's fire brigade has long been paralyzed by the nuclear explosion, and panicked people are scattering and fleeing. I don't know if they should find a place to hide or hurry to put out the fire - in fact, even if they wanted to put out the fire, there was no running water to use. And it is too late to draw water from the well. Soon, the rapidly approaching flames forced the remaining citizens to make a choice, and one by one they rushed out of the flames with desperate cries, trying to hide in the open field where the fire could not be baked. But the wind blowing from the Java Sea fueled the fire, and huge fireballs carried starry slag and "sowed" from one building to another. The fire spread much faster than expected.

As a result, less than half an hour after the nuclear explosion, the fire had already spread to the wooden houses and bamboo sheds of the whole city of Jakarta, devouring everything that could be burned, the metal melted, the tiles turned into black powder in the fire, and many people hiding in the bomb shelters were roasted alive.

The streets were filled with fiery snakes, smoke billowing from the fire, and the roar of collapse and heart-rending screams of terror were everywhere. People ran around like rats, some were surrounded by flames and eventually burned to charcoal, others were trapped in buildings, smoked alive and suffocated by lack of oxygen. Desperate people almost went crazy and jumped into the water at the sight of it, and the ponds and pools in those gardens were packed with people trying to escape, but the heat soon turned the pools into boiling cauldrons, and the people in the water became boiled dumplings.

-- Five hours later, the US Air Force stationed in Singapore sent several planes over Jakarta to reconnoiter the situation after the atomic bombing. A moment later, they radioed back to the airport from the air, saying that the entire city of Jakarta was in flames, with billowing smoke obscuring the sky and setting fire to the mountains and forests on the outskirts of the city, and it was impossible to tell from the air whether the city of Jakarta still existed......

Twelve hours later, a sudden rainstorm almost extinguished the flames in Jakarta, the radioactive dust that permeated the air and sewage continued to take the lives of survivors. What's worse is that due to the sudden destruction of the central government of the entire republic, Java fell into a state of anarchy for a short time, and there were rioters everywhere around Jakarta for a while, and countless people were fighting each other for gold, silver and food.

As a result, it was not until a week later that the destruction of the central government of the Republic of Indonesia and the death of President Sukarno were confirmed.

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Madrid, Spain

At this moment, the Puerta del Sol square in the center of Madrid is a noisy and noisy scene of red flags waving and crowds.

Tens of thousands of workers, townspeople, and students gathered here with excitement on their faces, shouting revolutionary slogans and singing revolutionary ballads to celebrate the collapse of Franco's reactionary regime and the "return ceremony" of the government-in-exile of the Second Spanish Republic.

Accompanied by the melody of "The Internationale", Juan Brown, who had just finished his years in exile. Prime Minister Negrin and several members of the government-in-exile of the Second Spanish Republic behind him appeared on a makeshift podium on one side of the square amid deafening cheers.

Looking at the enthusiastic faces under the podium and the familiar street scene around him, Juan. For a moment, Prime Minister Negrin could not help but feel a lot of emotion, like a dream: since the defeat in the civil war and forced to flee overseas, Prime Minister Negrin has been in France, Mexico, and South America, and has been displaced for many years, and even thinks that it is impossible for him to return to his homeland. I can't imagine that today, there will be a day when I will raise my eyebrows and make a comeback!

Although the war in Spain has not yet been extinguished, Franco and his descendants are still entrenched in Andalusia, the southernmost part of Spain, and the British troops stationed in Gibraltar continue to resist stubbornly. The Catholic Church in the countryside instigated the landlords and peasants to revolt, and the Basques and Catalans demanded autonomy, but none of this was anything compared to the bitter Spanish Civil War.

At a time when the red flag of socialism is about to be planted in Europe, Prime Minister Negrin does not see any chance of another defeat. As long as the thick legs of the invincible Soviet Red Army are firmly clung to, neither the British, the Portuguese nor Franco will have any hope of turning the tables.

In fact, as far as he knew, after the liberation of Spain had been completed, the reactionary regime in Portugal would be the next target of the European socialist camp. And the end of the British Empire is probably coming.

So, smiling and waving in response to the cheers of the crowd in the square, he leaned in front of the microphone and cleared his throat...... But right in Juan. At the moment when Prime Minister Negrin began his speech, a shrill air raid siren suddenly sounded in the square!

Oh! Damn British! Damn Franco!

His Excellency Prime Minister Negrin suddenly felt as if 10,000 alpacas were rushing out of his heart, and he almost couldn't catch his breath......

But in any case, this rally celebration will definitely not go on. At the same time that the fighter group of the Soviet Red Army, which was stationed near Madrid, began to take to the air one after another to meet the enemy. The people in the city at the Puerta del Sol Square also scattered one after another, rushing in all directions, looking for an air-raid shelter with vacant seats. As for the celebration of the return of the capital that the government of the Second Spanish Republic had been brewing for many days, it could only be postponed for the time being.

While crouching in an underground bunker, Juan. Prime Minister Negrin is also considering how to revise his speech for the next time.

But what happened next proved that he was completely overthinking, because he didn't need to make any more speeches in his life.

-- A few minutes later, an atomic bomb with a yield of about 50,000 tons of TNT explosives exploded over Madrid, the ancient capital of the plateau in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula......

A few hours later, when the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army and the International Column, who had arrived at the risk of radiation sickness, wore rudimentary earthen protective equipment, and cautiously entered the city of Madrid, they found that the whole city had fallen into a deathly silence.

With the help of an unusual glimmer of smoke that pierced through the smoke cloud of nuclear radiation, Pravda reporters accompanying the army were surprised to see that a large block in the center of Madrid had disappeared, with only a few concrete telephone poles and iron shelves standing alone, while other undistinguishable wreckage was still slowly smoking, and the pungent smell of charred corpses was in the air. A few charred survivors can be seen scattered in the streets, staggering around like the walking dead. On the side of the road lay some seriously wounded people who had been terribly burned, lying on the ground groaning in pain, and when the Red Army soldiers tried to lift them up, their badly burned black skin fell off piece by piece, and fell down like people taking off their gloves, and the scene was truly terrible.

Then, in the city of Madrid, places of interest such as Plaza de Mayoc, Puerta del Sol, the Cervantes Monument and the statue of Don Quixote, were buried in a mess under the rubble. The trees in Retiro Park were charred by the fire, and even the artificial lake was dried in the heat. The streets are filled with all sorts of illegible garbage, and cars are barely able to move. Most of the bridges over the Manzanares River, which runs through the city of Madrid, have also disappeared, the water has turned black, and countless charred corpses float on the surface of the river, barely distinguishable from men and women.

The Red Cross then set up a first-aid post outside the city, where thousands of wounded people were soon received. Many people are burned or smashed, and then because the inflammation is not eliminated in time, they begin to become infected and suppurated, and these injuries and illnesses can barely be rescued by the first aid station. But other Madridians appeared to have no serious injuries, but their hair continued to fall down, and they were nauseous and vomited, and finally vomited blood...... With the medical technology of this era, there was no way to deal with radiation sickness, so that at least hundreds of people died quickly every hour, and doctors could not do anything about it.

In short, the government of the Second Spanish Republic, which had just returned to Madrid after its exile abroad, had already been declared dead before it could officially open its doors. There is no doubt that this was a resounding slap in the face of the socialist camp by the capitalist camp of the United States and Britain at a time when the red flag swept across the European continent.

What is even more terrifying is that the United States of America has thrown its fists and tortured the whole world with a series of uranium light wave explosions, which is far from over......