Chapter 156: Towards the Wasteland (II)

All in all, beginning in March 1949, after ending the consternation over the US military's decisive counterattack across the ocean, and after a period of recuperation, the Tu-100 "Flying Bear" supersonic jet ultra-long-range strategic bombers of the Soviet Strategic Air Force nuclear strike force once again resumed the rhythm of high-frequency nuclear explosions aimed at the US mainland, and dozens to hundreds of atomic bombs were dropped on the land of the continental states of the United States of America every day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first target to be bombed was the Oak Ridge uranium refinery in Tennessee. In order to completely destroy the nuclear war potential of the United States, the Soviet Strategic Air Force repeatedly dropped twenty atomic bombs on this area, including ten of the most "dirty" cobalt bombs - this thing has a strong radiation intensity and a long time of contamination, and it is difficult for the attacked person to wait for the radiation level to return to normal even if he takes refuge in the bunker. During the Cold War, some scientists even claimed that if everyone was desperate to build a cobalt bomb, it was really possible for mankind to destroy itself in a nuclear war......

Anyway, after being repeatedly bombed by the murderous Soviet Strategic Air Force so many times, the Oak Ridge factory in Tennessee has basically been extinct to humans and animals, and within a radius of 50 kilometers with the factory as the core, from humans to pet dogs, not half of them have survived, and it is estimated that there will be no grass for decades...... Even a small part of Tennessee has become a nuclear pollution area, and it is expected that a large number of strange mutated animals and plants will appear in the future.

In addition, those megacities in the United States that have already dropped an atomic bomb are also the targets of nuclear explosions that need to be replenished. After all, cities like New York and Los Angeles are very large, and there are many satellite cities, and an atomic bomb will definitely not be able to blow it up, and it will take several more nuclear explosions to feel at ease.

Next, those second- and third-tier small and medium-sized cities in the United States, as well as the locations of various important factories, mines, and dams, have also become the targets of the next phase of the Soviet Strategic Air Force's nuclear explosions - anyway, there are detailed geographical information that Wang Qiu and they got from the United States in another world, and the ship's mother, Miss Sophie, "pinched" the atomic bombs with the power of faith are too many to be used, so the Soviet Strategic Air Force squandered the nuclear stick to its heart's content.

Then, in addition to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central American countries and Caribbean island countries, as well as the US military garrison areas in South America, which were also the target range of the Soviet strategic air force, suffered from nuclear explosions every week, and the number of remaining human beings plummeted sharply every day. Thanks to a joint letter from several Soviet archaeologists and the approval of the Kremlin, the relics of ancient civilizations of the Maya, Mexico and Inca empires were designated as nuclear explosion ban zones for special protection...... As a result, after the news spread, these "forgotten countries", which had been engulfed in jungles, soon became crowded, and people everywhere dragged their families to experience the life of the ancient Mayans—all of whom came to the ancient Mayan cities to escape the nuclear explosions......

Correspondingly, the resistance and counterattack capabilities of the United States are getting weaker and weaker - in the face of Soviet jets soaring above 19,000 meters, ordinary anti-aircraft guns cannot reach them, piston fighters cannot fly so high, and the only remaining batch of B-36 "Peacemaker" gunboats (capable of flying to an altitude of 20,000 meters) were shot down one after another during the battle, or the parts were damaged and could not be replenished (the production plants were all finished in the nuclear explosion), and were forced to ground them. The Americans could only curl up in their holes with their arms folded, praying to God and stiffening themselves to be bombed.

In this way, throughout the Third World War, from the beginning to the end of the nuclear strike against the United States, the number of Tu-100 "Flying Bear" supersonic jet ultra-long-range strategic bombers shot down by the US military was not as large as the number of Tu-100 "Flying Bear" bombers that crashed due to mechanical failure or meteorological disasters.

Although the effective resistance of the U.S. forces at home soon came to an end, the Soviet Union's nuclear bombing operation did not stop because the opponent gave up resistance.

From spring to summer, and from summer to fall, 130 million people throughout the United States, as well as tens of millions of Canadians and Mexicans who were unfortunately tied up, trembled in the mushroom cloud of the Soviet atomic bomb...... Although Iceland's volcanoes stopped erupting more than a year ago, the resulting global climate anomalies and, more importantly, the ensuing global food failures and widespread famine have all but come to an end as ash settles. But instead of feeling any joy when the climate returns to normal, the poor people of North America find themselves in the Bible, as if they were in the Bible, and Sodom and Gomorrah, who were destroyed by God's heavenly fire, and every day and every night, as if they were tormented in purgatory.

Think about it! The scorching flames ignited by the nuclear bomb poured down from the sky overhead like the blade of the final judgment, and the vast land, which was once full of vegetation and green onions, was first swallowed up by the scorching flames, and then polluted by the viscous radiant black rain. The steep mountains were collapsed by nuclear explosions, burying the villages and towns directly below; The tall dam collapsed, causing a terrible flood; Railways, highways, and electricity, all indispensable to modern civilization, have disappeared one after another in the mushroom clouds that bloom everywhere like flowers of death. The human beings who inhabit this land can only face the fate of destruction in despair. Tens of millions of souls of the dead, like residual radiation, drifted in the wind in the dark and dead wasteland of radiation...... There is no longer a truly safe place in the whole of America, every day may be the last day of life, every time you fall asleep, you may never wake up again, in such a terrifying nightmare world, who can farm and live a normal life with peace of mind?

In comparison, something as small as the raising of the sun flag in a port city on the west coast doesn't deserve much attention at all......

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Port of Tacoma, Washington, West Coast, USA, September 1949

The Port of Tacoma is located at the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington State, USA, between Seattle and the state capital of Olympia, and was once the state's third-largest city. At the moment when Seattle and Olympia were both hit by the atomic bombs of the Soviets and turned into a pile of radioactive rubble, it became the largest city in Washington State and one of the safest natural shelters in the entire continental United States.

— because, in the autumn wind that seemed to be covered in radioactive dust, a bright sun flag was fluttering on the roof of Tacoma's City Hall.

Since two months ago, the Port of Tacoma became the first city on the continental United States to be occupied by foreign invaders.

In this regard, the local residents of the Port of Tacoma generally expressed a calm mood - they have been frightened by the nuclear explosion that may come at any time for so long, and now it has become a occupied area, and they feel very unhappy, but they will not be killed by the Soviet nuclear bomb again, at least they can sleep at home.

- Although the Americans are inherently unruly, when they were invaded by the British, the Americans in the occupied areas did not seem to have much of a broken ......

Moreover, even if some radical guys dared to jump out and make a fuss, the Japanese bayonets had always been a monopoly on all kinds of disobedience, and they were very slippery in such tricks as "even sitting down", "denounce each other", "curfew", and "martial law". After the Japanese occupation forces executed more than 200 "outlaws" in one go, order in the port of Tacoma was stabilized, and even Americans from other places rushed to the port of Tacoma for refuge after hearing the news.

At this very moment, the new owner of the port of Tacoma, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji, commander of the Japanese Army's American Expeditionary Force, the first Asian invader of the century, was sitting cross-legged in an office at City Hall, idly flipping through a few captured English books.

Since landing and occupying the port of Tacoma, the Japanese have fought little or no war, and have not done much more than to patrol and enforce martial law. Although Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji himself is still as ambitious as ever, the so-called "American Expeditionary Force" under his command has only two seriously understaffed infantry brigades and one locally recruited Japanese security force brigade, and even if you count the clerical and miscellaneous servants, there are only more than 4,000 people at full strength—with such a small number of troops, it is simply an impossible task to create any achievements in the huge North America.

However, when the world war was coming to an end, the reason why Japan's wartime base camp sent Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji to North America with such a small force was not to conquer the city, but to rescue "the Japanese compatriots who fell into the United States and suffered......

In fact, Japanese immigration to the Americas began very early, and since the late 19th century, some Japanese have come to American soil along with the Chinese workers who built American railroads. By the time of World War II, the first group of Japanese immigrants had multiplied in the United States for several generations.

As a result, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the entire West Coast was in a state of panic, and for a time there were rumors throughout the United States that it was the "fifth column" of Japanese descent that had infiltrated the United States and provided accurate information to the Japanese army. Angry Americans are taking their anger out on Japanese Americans. For a time, the police went around arresting the so-called "Japanese spies", perhaps under the influence of Hollywood spy movies and detective novels, the trend of searching for Japanese people intensified, and finally developed into the large-scale persecution of American expatriates of Japanese ancestry - although most of these Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were born on American soil, and were already "second" or even "third", many of them simply could only speak English, not even Japanese.

However, the furious Americans did not care about this at all, and everyone was clamoring that these "spies", "scoundrels", "accomplices of the enemy" and "bad guys" could not be allowed to stay in American cities any longer. Japanese immigrants in the United States suddenly became "Jews" in the United States, unable to join the army or allowed to work, their shops were closed, and their bank deposits were frozen. One by one, like frightened birds, huddled together with each other, waiting for the catastrophe to come.

Then, in January 1942, the U.S. War Department officially ordered all 5,000 Japanese soldiers to be forcibly discharged. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order No. 9066, requiring Japanese immigrants to sell their houses and businesses, report to a designated location, and be resettled. The National Guard and police immediately went from house to house smashing down the doors of Japanese immigrants and handing them an "ultimatum": they had to move out of the big cities on the West Coast within 24 hours, forcibly move to 10 concentration camps in the western wilderness and desert, and forcibly arrest them if they did not arrive...... As a result, because the yellow race seemed to be the same in the eyes of the whites, and the members of the American police and National Guard who were in charge of the work were also very rough, many Chinese and Indians were inexplicably arrested in the Japanese enemy concentration camps, and the total number of those who were mistakenly arrested was said to be as high as 10,000......

In Washington state, Japanese immigrants from coastal cities such as Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia were placed on an Indian reservation called Carlville. Located in the northeastern corner of Washington State, Carlville is remote and wild, infested with wild wolves. In winter, the wind is howling and the snow is flying, and in the summer, only one crop can be grown, and it is notoriously poor. Under the surveillance of the U.S. military, these Japanese immigrants from Washington State were transported by trucks to the Carlville concentration camp, where they lived in simple wooden houses, shared bathrooms, and lived in isolation. Still, the first thing many people do when they wake up every morning is to recite the oath of allegiance to the United States. Many Japanese immigrants also said they remained loyal to the Stars and Stripes and the land called "Motherland" despite the government's harsh treatment of them. He even took the initiative to sign up to go to the factory or the battlefield to do his best for the United States.

However, these expressions of loyalty were of little avail, as more than 100,000 Japanese immigrants were imprisoned in the camps for four years, and the young Japanese who were imprisoned in the camps were forced to work in the fields, while the Japanese women were forced to work in the production of military camouflage nets...... Until the U.S. military successfully bombed Tokyo, destroying the entire government of Emperor Showa, and then landing on the Japanese archipelago. It was only when the U.S. government ordered the closure of the camps, and the Japanese-Americans finally returned to their homes in the United States. It's a pity that the home has been ruined by angry Americans. All the windows were smashed, everything of value was stolen, and the houses were covered in anti-Japanese slogans. Despite this, they managed to return home safely.

After a while, the U.S. government also armed and trained some active Japanese immigrants in Washington State, preparing to send them to Japan as security forces or as undercover agents in the new Japanese government after quelling the remnants of resistance on the Japanese archipelago.

However, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and the arrogant GIs of the United States of America, who had only been in the Japanese archipelago for just over a year, were driven out to sea by the newly rising "Red Japan". The Japanese-American troops, which had just been trained in Washington State, had no choice but to be idle and scattered...... After that, the United States had to deal with repeated defeats on overseas battlefields, and on the other hand, it was caught up in various political turmoil in the internal political arena, because of the imposition of various anti-democratic militarization policies, which led to continuous popular protests and riots, as well as a large number of strikes and marches, plus the canvassing activities of the 1948 presidential election, which made the White House anxious, and for a time did not care about the Japanese immigrants who were released from the concentration camps on the West Coast and the Japanese American troops who were armed.

It was not until the dust settled in the general election at the end of 1948 and President MacArthur was about to take office that he remembered to disarm and decommission the Japanese troops that had become chicken ribs, and then put the Japanese immigrants back into the concentration camps...... But before they could be put into action, dozens of Soviet atomic bombs had already fallen from the top of their heads, and the United States of America was suddenly in a desperate situation of collapse, and it could no longer care about such trivial matters.

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On the other hand, the Japanese immigrants who had already tasted the hardships of a concentration camp never relaxed their vigilance, and when the first mushroom cloud of nuclear explosions rose on the west coast, the Japanese infantry regiment stationed in Washington State was keenly aware of the crisis and opportunity, and immediately forcibly attacked the ammunition depot, snatched out a large number of weapons, ammunition and supplies, armed itself, and then seized an idle barracks, ready to take advantage of the chaos and danger to defend it.

Because Seattle and Olympia, where the Washington state government was stationed, had been destroyed by a nuclear bomb at this time, the whole country was in chaos, and no one cared about these Japanese soldiers who raised flags and ran wild. As a result, the leader of this Japanese army, Commander Kobayashi Edward, took the opportunity to recruit Japanese compatriots in Honshu, as well as Chinese immigrants who were also hostile and discriminated against after the declaration of war between China and the United States, and even secretly formed an offensive and defensive alliance with nearby Indian tribes.

At the same time, the response of the white authorities in Washington state was astonishingly slow, as the entire Washington state government and parliamentary teams went to heaven and the Soviet atomic bombs were falling one after another. It wasn't until two months later that a 700-strong National Guard was ordered to attack the Japanese rebels, only to be easily defeated by the general-in-command Kobayashi Edward. In early June 1949, he even stormed Tacoma, the largest surviving city in Washington State, and sent a telegram to the new Japanese government and the Japanese base camp asking for help, begging the motherland to pull them overseas and send reinforcements to rescue them.

After receiving the telegram, the upper echelons of the new Japanese government were very ambivalent about these Japanese immigrants who took the initiative to return their homeland, because according to traditional habits, they no longer regarded these Japanese who had taken root abroad as real compatriots, and at the same time they thought that they had no obligations to them. However, after so many years of devastating wars, Japan's domestic population has been halved, and the labor force is extremely scarce...... It would be a good supplement if we could get back the tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants from North America - Japan is really short of people today!

Then, because he once commanded the "barrel and narrow counterattack war", captured the former US Army general and current US President MacArthur, and put him in an iron cage to parade in the streets, the "star of the army" Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji, who has been idle since the end of the Australian war, so after hearing the news, he immediately jumped out, happily and actively agreed to send troops, and took the initiative to ask Ying to ask for the commander to go to the mainland of the United States, for which he did not hesitate to risk falling into a heavy encirclement and bearing the risk of nuclear radiation, so as to be more in the limelight. Grab more merits before the end of the war, so that you can get mixed up with a general and then retire to politics......

The new Japanese government finally reluctantly agreed to Vice Admiral Tsuji's plan to expedition to the Americas, but only allocated two infantry battalions to him, which were badly understaffed, to be transported to the port of Tacoma in Puget Sound, Washington, on a landing ship and a merchant ship. Then, the landing ships and merchant ships unloaded Vice Admiral Masanobu Tsuji's expeditionary force, loaded with Japanese immigrants who wanted to return to Japan, and the next step was to have more fleets cross the Pacific Ocean over and over again, preparing to transport tens of thousands of Japanese Americans in Washington State and a small number of other Asians willing to follow back to Asia within this year......

After Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji went ashore, he immediately incorporated the Japanese soldiers under Kobayashi Edward, counted the heads, and found that the total strength was less than a brigade. Together with the two brigades he brought, there were three infantry brigades that were missing...... Immediately, my heart was half cold, such a small number of troops could not do anything at all! Although before actually heading to North America, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji had repeatedly imagined that one day he would be able to drink the Mapotomac River and take photos in front of the White House and the Lincoln Memorial...... However, although he has now set foot on the soil of North America, there is still a distance of thousands of kilometers between him and the White House, and the troops at hand are so pitiful that he does not dare to leave the coastline 50 kilometers away, and it seems that he can only obediently stay in this port city, waiting for the end of this war, or waiting for the completion of the "evacuation of overseas Chinese" mission, and the base camp orders the withdrawal of troops.

Fortunately, although he has few troops in his hands, the resistance of the Yankees is also very weak, and there is no trace of the American regular army so far, and the US Pacific Fleet seems to have collapsed on its own, and the little food needed by thousands of troops can also be scavenged on the spot in Washington State, which is more than enough.

The problem is that in this way, he will hardly fight in North America, which is far inferior to the "Siberian Intervention Army" (Japan's participation in the Red and White Civil War in Russia), and I don't know if I am qualified to be a general after returning to evaluate merit and reward...... Although he had long decided to retire and enter politics after the end of the war, there was a world of difference between the gold content of retired lieutenant generals and retired generals in society......

Alas, a world war! This is how many soldiers in peacetime, a lifetime can not look forward to the meritorious service, the good opportunity to leave a name in history, not only fortunate to meet, but also more fortunate to stand on the side of the real victor, if in the end still not to be a general, it would be a pity!

Suddenly, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji, who was a little depressed, muttered like this, and stretched out his hand to unscrew the bulky tube radio in the corner, wanting to see if he could hear some news - the whole territory of the United States is now suffering from frequent nuclear explosions, the electromagnetic environment is disordered, not to mention the radio, even the wireless telegraph is intermittent, and often encounters interference, so the radio has become a decoration, and whether or not to receive the signal depends entirely on luck.

Luckily, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji had good luck this time, and he soon succeeded in turning up the tube radio. And, next, he also heard an unexpected bombshell news from the vague English broadcast:

“…… Yesterday there was a mutiny in Washington, and President MacArthur accepted the petition of the coup army and telegraphed to announce his unconditional surrender......"

Suddenly, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji, who was caught off guard, couldn't help but be stunned all of a sudden.

“…… Unconditional surrender...... This war...... Is it really going to end? ”

At this moment, he suddenly had an urge to burst into tears, and a kind of emptiness that was lost, and a thousand thoughts and thoughts in his heart were intertwined, and finally he had mixed feelings and turned into a leisurely sigh, "...... It's finally over!! (To be continued.) )