Chapter 13, the death of the country, the ship mother everywhere (II)

Early in the morning of October 2, 1945, Truk Atoll, Naval Shrine behind the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet Headquarters

The tall crimson torii gate is hidden in the dense tropical foliage, and the long stone staircase stretches as far as the eye can see. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The pond in the shrine's backyard is filled with lotus flowers, rippling in the morning breeze and shrouded in a faint mist that resembles a veil of smoke.

The surrounding foothills, the air is moist and fresh, overgrown with leafy palms, hibiscus, bougainvillea and orchids, and the damp trunks are covered with ferns, mosses and orchids, and every leaf and branch is covered with crystal clear dewdrops. The monotonous ticking sound of the moist fern leaves breaks the dull silence. Tender branches of white or magenta flowers bloom everywhere in the greenery, and colorful butterflies dance among the flowers.

Looking down from the foothills, near the foot of the mountain, at the end of the woods, there are terraced fields with rice, vegetables and fruits. There is a clear stream flowing between the ridges, and various flowers of red, pink, lilac and white can be seen everywhere along the river. It's dazzling to look at: poinsettia grows as tall as a house and bears crimson flowers, while the white flowers of the mandala hang shyly like lilies.

Further afield, the vast blue sea and delicate white sand beaches suddenly come into view, and the scenery is truly refreshing and magnificent - lush tropical forests, moist air mixed with the sweet fragrance of flowers and fruits, intoxicating thin morning mist, fresh and gentle sea breeze, green sugar cane forests, classic Japanese wooden houses, delicate white sand beaches and coral reefs splashing with snow-white waves...... Looking at all this in front of us, it makes people forget all the filth and ugliness of this world, and forget that this world is still shrouded in the haze of war and death.

Dressed in a Japanese Navy white dress to disguise his identity, Wang Qiu, a newcomer, is standing on a terrace jutting out of the rocks in the backyard of the shrine, looking through binoculars at the Truk Atoll Lagoon below, the headquarters and most important anchorage of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet.

Since a considerable number of capital ships have not yet returned from the Indian Ocean, and another part of the ships are patrolling, escorting, and disrupting engagement missions in the frontline waters to the east, there are not many ships anchored in Truk at present. The most striking of these is, of course, the majestic bridge of the battleship Yamato, the general flagship of the Combined Fleet, which stands out from the crowd of destroyers, cruisers, transports, and submarines.

If it were another point in history, these ships would have basically either been buried at the bottom of the sea, or would have become immobile iron coffins lying next to the dock due to fuel shortages. However, in this world, Sophie, a ship girl who has opened a plug-in and is extremely hateful to the United States, has been desperately holding down the Yankees to fight to the death, so these warships still look majestic at the moment...... It's a pity that the future doesn't seem to be good.

In the thin morning mist, accompanied by a long whistle, a wide passenger and cargo merchant ship slowly sailed into the Truk anchorage from the open sea, and did not dock, but temporarily stopped in the deep water. Next, the people on the shore sent several small transport boats to approach and pick up some passengers and mail from the larger boats. The merchant ship then lifted anchor from Truk Atoll once again and set sail for its true destination further afield.

When the merchant ship raised fire from Truk Atoll and sounded its whistle again, Wang Qiu saw through the high-powered binoculars in his hand that Japanese girls in sailor suits were saluting each other, whether on the side of the merchant ship or on the traffic boat......

That's right, it's groups of Japanese girls in sailor suits, maneuvering these boats and armed merchant ships to chop the waves!

Although it is a scene like in the comic books of otaku culture in later generations, the real background in which it appears is not at all charming and romantic.

To put it simply, men die too much, so women can only be allowed to get on the boat and continue to fight for the war...... The truth is so cruel.

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-- Despite the fact that Sophie, a frantic Kryptonite warrior, with no regard for the balance of the game, desperately opened the plug-in and killed the Americans, holding the heads of the Americans and beating them to the death, so that the war machine of the Japanese Empire successfully operated until the fall of 1945.

The problem is that even if you count colonies like Taiwan and Korea, Japan during World War II was only a country with a total population of only 100 million.

Since the Manchuria Incident, the Japanese Empire has been reckless for so many years, fighting from China and the South Seas all the way to India, and then south across the equator to Australia, such a vast occupied area requires a large number of troops to be garrisoned, countless Yamato men are shedding blood and sacrifices every day, and the natural resources of each occupied area also need labor to develop, and then in order to transport these resources from the place of origin to the place where they are needed, they have to rely on a large number of ships and sailors. As a result, the war has been fought so far, and the Japanese Empire has not only been overstretched in military strength, but also has exhausted its own human resources.

Although the Japanese government, in order to make up for the shortage of shipping capacity, obtained a large number of merchant ships from the Soviet Union, and then used a bunch of beach shipyards hastily built on the islands of the South Seas, it insisted on building a lot of chaotic civilian ships on the spot. However, it takes several months to build a boat, and eighteen years to raise a baby to adulthood. After the army and the pioneer regiment had requisitioned so many strong men, there was no surplus manpower to drive merchant ships: this matter could not be left to the North Korean or Chinese laborers, otherwise what if these "non-nationals" drove ships and goods to the enemy en masse?

As a result, the wartime base camp, which was forced by the labor shortage, had to bite the bullet and open its brains, further break through the traditional concepts of Japanese society, mobilize some Japanese women to join the maritime transportation career as sailors, and established the so-called "sea aid team", which is the legendary "maiden fleet......

-- Of course, the regular warships of the Combined Fleet will not be handed over to these women who have at most experience in going out to sea and fishing, not even torpedo boats or old ships from the Russo-Japanese War, not to mention that many of them are even girls who are still in high school or even in middle school. However, armed merchant ships equipped with anti-aircraft guns or machine guns could still be handed over to women to practice. At first, it was just a break with the norm to let some women go on board as sailors, and to turn merchant sailors into a mixed formation, just as women were allowed to go into factories and mines on the mainland. Later, as the casualties of the war became more and more tragic and more male sailors were drafted into the navy, all-female sailors began to appear in transport ships, and even female captains popped up in a few ......

At the "New Japan of the South Island" centered on Truk, the girls' school was turned into a nautical school due to the shortage of manpower.

If the above-mentioned apostasy had been in peacetime, it would have caused an uproar, but in today's war years, it seems to be all the more normal -- all traditions and rituals have to stand aside, and war is everything! All for the sake of war! Dare to chirp crookedly is a "non-national"!

Although they are mainly only running transportation on relatively safe rear routes, or driving traffic boats in the port area, occasionally using self-defense firepower to hit a few American planes, and being shot into the soul by American submarines, falling into the sea and swimming with sharks or something, but with the increasingly cruel nature of the war and the gradual exhaustion of the strong men, perhaps one day, the wartime base camp will be forced to pinch their noses and let them go to the front line to face the rain of bullets.

This is the total war, the ultimate demonic beast created by industrial civilization, its flesh and blood are oil, steel, copper and aluminum, its tendons are railway ships, its internal organs are factory farmland, and its minions are guns and explosives, bringing endless blood and wails, pain and despair to mankind. The form of warfare seems to have become more civilized, but in fact it is more cruel, and both men and women are stuffed into the flesh mill and reduced to the nourishment of the cannibal beast of total warfare......

However, this is also a necessary process for the evolution and development of human civilization, and without the test of blood and fire, we will not know the preciousness of peace.

-- You must know that before the two world wars, intellectuals in various European countries generally regarded war as a "fierce sport belonging to the brave," and believed that fighting a few battles appropriately and shedding a little blood would be very beneficial to the healthy development of the country and society.

Wang Qiu thought wildly, turned around and put down the binoculars and returned to the room, and found that a huge map table was placed on the tatami mat of the shrine, and several blonde, black-haired, and chestnut-haired destroyer mothers used their superpowers to move various weapon models on the map, deducing the latest East Asian war situation.

-- Just two days ago, the Japanese Empire, which seemed to be besieged by the whole world, unexpectedly won another brilliant victory: After the failure of the Wuhan peace talks, in the face of the overwhelming offensive of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, as well as the foreign aid of the United States and Britain, which could not get through at all, and the desperate and troubled Chongqing government took place, Chairman Chiang was once again forced to step down.

Although the wartime base camp in Tokyo has not yet decided whether or not to accept the troublesome annexation of the Chongqing regime, this does not prevent the War Department from making a big deal about this incident and publicizing it to the people as "another great victory of the imperial army's Great East Asian Holy War."

Therefore, no one could have predicted that the destruction and fall of the Japanese Empire would be so sudden and so unexpected.

-- In fact, on this seemingly ordinary morning, the countdown to the destruction of the Japanese Empire had begun......

On this day, October 2, 1945, is the day when the sun of this world is extinguished, and the day of the end of the old Japanese Empire!

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A few hundred meters away from the "Naval Shrine", the headquarters of the Combined Fleet, in a British red-brick building modeled after the building of the Tokyo Naval Ministry and Naval Command Department, has an even larger map table. People come and go, and the ringing of telephones and the sound of telegrams are endless. From time to time, a few navy staff officers in white uniforms held long wooden poles and pushed small models representing warships or airplanes around on the map table.

-- Tokyo, the imperial capital thousands of kilometers away from them, is being subjected to an unprecedentedly large-scale strategic bombing, and the US military has dispatched at least 200 B-29 Super Flying Fortress strategic bombers, and has even violated the war conventions by using poison gas bombs...... Although the people in Truk could not see it with their own eyes, based on their years of experience in warfare, they could know what kind of terrible situation Tokyo would be like just by imagining it.

In fact, the bombing was not entirely without warning: as early as a week earlier, the Japanese Navy's intelligence agencies had detected through radio surveillance that the U.S. Strategic Air Force was massively massing and transferring to Hawaii and Midway, and was likely to bomb the frontline islands or mainland cities. If the Navy can send a fast formation in time to organize a night attack on the Midway airfield, it may be able to delay the arrival of this bombardment.

But the problem is that the main force of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet on Truk's side is really powerless and helpless at Midway.

This is because, in the waters off New Zealand and Samoa on the southern front, the US Navy's Pacific Fleet has recently increased its strength on a large scale, and has now assembled about 50 armored aircraft carriers, fleet aircraft carriers, and escort aircraft carriers. On the side of the Japanese Combined Fleet, in addition to the three Yamato-class battleships in addition to the general flagship Yamato, there is also a large number of auxiliary ships and two aircraft carriers, all of which were previously sent to the Indian Ocean, responsible for sweeping the routes of the Arabian Sea, shelling the port of Mumbai, providing support to Indian friendly forces, and now on the way back to Truk, just past the Strait of Malacca...... Therefore, Truk is actually singing empty city plans.

Nowadays, in the Fiji Islands and Samoa Islands theater at the forefront of the confrontation between the two sides, the outpost battles of various schoolchildren (destroyers) vs. bear children (torpedo boats) have intensified. The intensity of the US air raids encountered by the various units defending the island is also as fierce as day by day.

For this reason, the Combined Fleet had to quickly concentrate all its combat forces to deal with the upcoming Third Battle of Noumea. Even so, in the face of the obvious disparity in strength and weakness, the naval staff officers of the Combined Fleet Command still felt a burst of weakness in their hearts.

(To explain, Halsey did indeed go to Alaska with his best American battleships in preparation for the Northern Offensive.) But the U.S. Navy on the southern front would likewise strike Nouméa for the third time. Because the total tonnage of the fleets on both sides is about four to one, the US military can completely beat people with two fists. ）

The Combined Fleet Command is now almost unable to take care of its own side, and the Tokyo side can only look forward to the fight of the local air defense forces.

The only thing that worries the naval staff officers is that His Excellency Marshal Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet, is not currently in Truk, but is also in Tokyo to report on his work and errands, and by the way, to see his relatives at home...... According to the original plan, His Excellency Marshal Yamamoto 56 was supposed to leave for Truk two days ago, but when he was about to leave, the marshal was suddenly summoned by the Emperor, and then he was called to attend today's Imperial Council to discuss the impact of the surrender of the Chinese Chongqing regime on the overall war situation in East Asia.

Luckily, as a matter of common sense, the underground air defense fortifications built in the Imperial Palace must be the strongest in all of Tokyo, and there must be plenty of gas masks and other items in stock. His Excellency Marshal Yamamoto 56 should still be very safe even if he encounters an air raid by the US military in the Imperial Palace......

Just as the naval staff officers were pointing around the map table and talking about it, a sharp whistling sound suddenly came from the mountain behind the headquarters, and someone poked their heads out of the window when they heard the sound, and saw a small rocket soaring from the shrine and reaching into the sky, making a bang.

“…… Is this ...... Flares? Doesn't that seem like a day to celebrate the festival? What's going on at the shrine in the back mountain? ”

“…… Will it be a rehearsal for the latest Indian Ocean Raiders? But fireworks are also set off at the rehearsal...... It feels like a waste! ”

“…… Don't worry about such small things! Did the radio listening department detect the traces of the main forces of the enemy's Pacific Fleet? ”

“…… Unfortunately, there is no ...... yet The main enemy forces seem to have been in a state of radio silence since they left Pearl Harbor...... Belch? Why did the signal in Tokyo suddenly go out? Could it be that the power plant or substation was bombed? But the Military Command Department should have a backup power supply, right? ……”

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“…… Phew—"

Accompanied by bright flames and a roaring roar, a small rocket was launched from the courtyard of the naval shrine in the mountains behind the headquarters of the Japanese Combined Fleet in Truk Atoll, spewing out a scorching exhaust gas, which quickly rose from the ground until it finally disappeared behind the clouds.

This is the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] that Wang Qiu got from Doraemon before, and it was launched into orbit from the courtyard of the shrine. In order to cover up the movement of the mini rocket launch, he also set off a large firework at the same time - although Wang Qiu and his companions have not yet come up with any clue about how to score points in this World War II copy of the "Ship Mother Mutation". But there's nothing wrong with finding ways to gather and grasp more real-time intelligence.

-- Although Sophie, the ship's mother, has great powers and seems to be omnipotent, the development and launch of reconnaissance satellites, which involves space expertise, is far beyond her ability, and no matter how much faith she has......

If you only rely on the perception ability of the ship's mother, she can barely detect the movement of the ship's hull within a range of 400 to 600 kilometers at most, and this function can only be activated in wartime, and it cannot maintain a large-scale reconnaissance 24 hours a day, otherwise, the power of faith will be consumed very much, no matter how much the Soviet Iron Uncle helps to brush faith everywhere, it is still not enough.

Therefore, despite all kinds of extraordinary superpowers, Sophie, the ship's mother, cannot detect any movement in this world at any time.

As a result, when the mini-satellite was successfully put into orbit and the first photos were displayed on the LCD screen of the ground remote control, Wang Qiu noticed at a glance the mushroom cloud rising from that location in Tokyo in the photo...... So I couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

And sitting next to the ship's mother, Sophie. Yamato, on the other hand, turned pale suddenly, knocked over the wine bowl by mistake, and stained a large piece of wine stains on the tatami mats......

“…… Damn it! Tokyo was bombed by an atomic bomb! The destroyer Yukikaze is broken...... My God! Marshal Yamamoto is still in the city! ”

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-- On 2 October 1945, the US Strategic Air Force launched an all-out attack, dispatching more than 200 sorties of B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" bombers to wantonly and indiscriminately bomb Tokyo, the capital of the Japanese Empire, and in violation of international conventions, dropping a large number of sarin gas bombs.

Although the Japanese Government had been alert and anticipating the US airstrikes and poison gas warfare in advance, and had conducted propaganda and education on the prevention of poison gas to the citizens of Tokyo several months ago, and had distributed a batch of gas masks to the residents, the number was far from sufficient and still led to a serious humanitarian crisis.

The anti-aircraft operations of the ground anti-aircraft artillery and the emergency take-off of the Japanese Army flying team were seriously disrupted as a result. What's more, the poison gas that permeated the city prevented the possible emergency escape of the Japanese high-ranking rulers in the Tokyo metropolitan area, creating favorable conditions for the next nuclear decapitation operation.

At 10:30 a.m. Tokyo time, following the high-altitude bombing and poison gas attacks, two B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" bombers carrying atomic bombs flew over Tokyo one after another, and successfully dropped and detonated the bombs when the firepower of the Japanese air defense forces in Tokyo had been greatly weakened.

Among them, an atomic bomb was thrown by mistake and hit Odaiba, Tokyo, causing only a large number of casualties among ordinary soldiers and civilians. Another nuclear bomb hit Nagata Town, Chiyoda Ward, where the Imperial Palace, the Ministry of the Navy, and the Army General Staff Headquarters were concentrated, dealing a devastating blow to the ruling center of the Japanese Empire.

According to the investigation conducted immediately after the incident, Japan's Emperor Hirohito, Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonechi, all cabinet ministers, and all members of the imperial family, including Marshal Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet, who attended the Imperial Council at the Imperial Palace at the time, all died in the nuclear explosion.

Japan's Ministry of Army, Army General Staff, Navy Ministry, Navy Command Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and other key institutions were also destroyed by the nuclear explosion, and most of the members of the wartime base camp died on the spot, or died of radiation sickness and sarin gas shortly after being rescued from the rubble......

The commander of the gendarmerie, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, was far away from the blast at the time of the atomic bomb fall, so he was initially only slightly injured. However, after learning that the emperor had died and that Japan's military and political organs had been completely destroyed, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo had a nervous breakdown and committed suicide with a gun.

At this point, the central power of the Japanese Empire completely collapsed, and millions of imperial naval and army units fell into a state of leaderless chaos.

One of the two B-29 strategic long-range bombers that dropped nuclear bombs on Tokyo and carried out this decapitation tactic was hit by a nuclear explosion and lost control and crashed into the suburbs of Tokyo, killing all the crew members on the spot. Another B-29 strategic long-range bomber successfully escaped, and when it ran out of fuel, it successfully forced to land 800 kilometers east of the Japanese archipelago according to the predetermined plan, and was rescued by the US submarine "Big Mackerel" after drifting for a day.

Upon their return, the entire crew was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and invited by President Truman to a dinner at the White House.

On the evening of 2 October, after confirming the news of the successful nuclear bombing, President Truman triumphantly delivered a speech on Capitol Hill, proclaiming the great victory of the nuclear bombing of Tokyo and urging the Japanese side to surrender unconditionally as soon as possible. At night, New Yorkers spontaneously organized a parade to celebrate the victory.

On 3 October, Admiral Halsey led the main force of the US Pacific Fleet to suddenly appear in the waters off the Kuril Islands and attack Hokkaido Island and Aomori and Sendai in the northeastern part of Honshu Island.

On the same day, railways throughout the Japanese archipelago were suspended, some telegraph and telephone lines were suspended, and transportation and shipping fell into a state of complete paralysis and chaos.

In the next few days, the Halsey fleet continued to venture close to the coast of Japan, and even tentatively shelled the port of Muroran in Hokkaido on 7 October.

On 5 October, another military coup d'état broke out in the Chongqing Nationalist Government, and He Yingqin, the leader of the pro-Japanese faction who had just come to power, was placed under house arrest.

The Dian Army and Gui Jun also issued a telegram congratulating Chairman Chiang on putting things in order and agreeing to reconvene peace talks to avoid the collapse of the Nationalist Government.

During the reign of He Yingqin, the chief of staff of the Allied China Theater of Operations, Joseph Murphy, who was briefly arrested and imprisoned. Lieutenant General Stilwell, before he could figure out what had happened on this day, was released from the secret prison of the White Mansion, and then was invited by Chairman Chiang to the Huangshan Villa to enjoy a state banquet.

At noon on the same day, Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, was easily captured by a small Red Army guerrilla force because of internal chaos and disintegration.

On 6 October, spurred on by the success of the nuclear bombing of Tokyo, the 1st Marine Division of the United States launched a large-scale offensive in the southwest Pacific Ocean, landing on Viti Levu, the capital of the Fiji Islands, and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese defending the island. On the same day, United States naval air forces bombed Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, and severely damaged the nickel ore mined on the island and the narrow-gauge railway system that transported the ore.

On 7 October, the Halsey Fleet organized naval aviation to launch a "paper bombardment" against major Japanese cities, dropping a large number of urgently printed leaflets, declaring to the Japanese that the emperor was dead and that the old regime had collapsed, and threatening them to surrender unconditionally as soon as possible, otherwise more atomic bombs would fall on the Japanese archipelago.

On 8 October, an American detachment ventured into the Sea of Japan from the Soya Strait, destroying and capturing three Japanese merchant ships. On 9 October, the fleet bombarded the port of Akita and destroyed an old Japanese coastal defense gunboat, but then came under air raid and sank a destroyer.

On October 10, in the midst of the chaos of the entire Japanese Empire, the "Provisional Government of Japan" was established in Kyoto, and the veteran politician Fumima Konoe was unanimously elected prime minister of the provisional government. Due to the rush of time and the disagreement between the various participating forces, the provisional government in Kyoto has not even decided whether to follow the monarchy or change to a republican system, and who should appoint the emperor if so.

The only thing that is clear is that at the same time as the establishment of this "Provisional Government of Japan," it announced on behalf of Japan its unconditional surrender to the US military, and demanded that all the military and civilians "bear the burden of humiliation and take the country's social interests as considerations," stop resisting, and collect weapons, seal up ammunition, and wait for the US military to take over.

After the surrender telegram was issued, only a handful of prefectures announced their recognition of the provisional government in Kyoto, and most prefectures remained on the sidelines.

On 12 October, Umezu Yoshijiro, commander of the Kwantung Army, Okamura Ninji, commander of the North China Front, and Koiso Kuniaki, the governor of Korea, jointly issued a telegram, announcing that they would not recognize the "puppet government" in Kyoto, denounce it as a traitor, and call on the Japanese military and people to "rise up vigorously and punish the national ♂ thief."

Rather delicately, Taiwan's governor-in-chief, Toshikichi Ando, recognized the "Provisional Government of Japan" in Kyoto. The Chinese Dispatch Army Command in Nanjing, as well as Chen Gongbo, who succeeded Wang Jingwei as the successor to the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, expressed an intriguing silence on this.

On 14 October, a group of young officers of the Young Zhuang faction set up an "army to fight thieves" in Nagoya, an important industrial town, and elected Ishihara Waner, a retired lieutenant general and the initiator of the Manchurian Incident, known as "Japan's No. 1 strategist," as commander-in-chief, to prepare for "the western expedition to Kyoto and the elimination of traitors."

On 15 October, after receiving the news, in order to further break the will of the Japanese diehards to resist, the U.S. naval aviation of the Halsey fleet bombed Nagoya, encountering stubborn resistance from the local Japanese Navy and Army air corps and anti-aircraft artillery units.

On 18 October, Japanese Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi announced his recognition of the "Provisional Government of Japan" in Kyoto at the Kure Port Town Guard House, and demanded that the naval fleet on the mainland stop resisting, seal up its ships and weapons, and prepare to surrender to the US forces. As a result, a riot broke out at the Naval Academy on Etajima, and then a mutiny broke out in the army near Kure Harbor, and after a scuffle, a considerable number of ships anchored and went to sea, preparing to defect to the main force of the Combined Fleet in the South Seas.

On 20 October, the Soviet Red Army border guards stationed on Beiyetai Island (Sakhalin Island) crossed the border and moved south to take over Nanyetai Island within a few days.

On the same day, at Halsey's strong request, a small U.S. force landed in Sendai Port without any resistance.

And just when the Japanese archipelago was full of strange clouds, the Combined Fleet Command in the Truk Atoll in the South Seas also fell into unprecedented chaos and confusion due to the sudden death of Marshal Yamamoto 56 and the drastic political situation in the empire itself......

The ground rises until it finally disappears behind the clouds.

This is the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] that Wang Qiu got from Doraemon before, and it was launched into orbit from the courtyard of the shrine. In order to cover up the movement of the mini rocket launch, he also set off a large firework at the same time - although Wang Qiu and his companions have not yet come up with any clue about how to score points in this World War II copy of the "Ship Mother Mutation". But there's nothing wrong with finding ways to gather and grasp more real-time intelligence.

-- Although Sophie, the ship's mother, has great powers and seems to be omnipotent, the development and launch of reconnaissance satellites, which involves space expertise, is far beyond her ability, and no matter how much faith she has......

If you only rely on the perception ability of the ship's mother, she can barely detect the movement of the ship's hull within a range of 400 to 600 kilometers at most, and this function can only be activated in wartime, and it cannot maintain a large-scale reconnaissance 24 hours a day, otherwise, the power of faith will be consumed very much, no matter how much the Soviet Iron Uncle helps to brush faith everywhere, it is still not enough.

Therefore, despite all kinds of extraordinary superpowers, Sophie, the ship's mother, cannot detect any movement in this world at any time.

As a result, when the mini-satellite was successfully put into orbit and the first photos were displayed on the LCD screen of the ground remote control, Wang Qiu noticed at a glance the mushroom cloud rising from that location in Tokyo in the photo...... So I couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

And sitting next to the ship's mother, Sophie. Yamato, on the other hand, turned pale suddenly, knocked over the wine bowl by mistake, and stained a large piece of wine stains on the tatami mats......

“…… Damn it! Tokyo was bombed by an atomic bomb! The destroyer Yukikaze is broken...... My God! Marshal Yamamoto is still in the city! ”

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-- On 2 October 1945, the US Strategic Air Force launched an all-out attack, dispatching more than 200 sorties of B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" bombers to wantonly and indiscriminately bomb Tokyo, the capital of the Japanese Empire, and in violation of international conventions, dropping a large number of sarin gas bombs.

Although the Japanese Government had been alert and anticipating the US airstrikes and poison gas warfare in advance, and had conducted propaganda and education on the prevention of poison gas to the citizens of Tokyo several months ago, and had distributed a batch of gas masks to the residents, the number was far from sufficient and still led to a serious humanitarian crisis.

The anti-aircraft operations of the ground anti-aircraft artillery and the emergency take-off of the Japanese Army flying team were seriously disrupted as a result. What's more, the poison gas that permeated the city prevented the possible emergency escape of the Japanese high-ranking rulers in the Tokyo metropolitan area, creating favorable conditions for the next nuclear decapitation operation.

At 10:30 a.m. Tokyo time, following the high-altitude bombing and poison gas attacks, two B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" bombers carrying atomic bombs flew over Tokyo one after another, and successfully dropped and detonated the bombs when the firepower of the Japanese air defense forces in Tokyo had been greatly weakened.

Among them, an atomic bomb was thrown by mistake and hit Odaiba, Tokyo, causing only a large number of casualties among ordinary soldiers and civilians. Another nuclear bomb hit Nagata Town, Chiyoda Ward, where the Imperial Palace, the Ministry of the Navy, and the Army General Staff Headquarters were concentrated, dealing a devastating blow to the ruling center of the Japanese Empire.

According to the investigation conducted immediately after the incident, Japan's Emperor Hirohito, Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonechi, all cabinet ministers, and all members of the imperial family, including Marshal Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet, who attended the Imperial Council at the Imperial Palace at the time, all died in the nuclear explosion.

Japan's Ministry of Army, Army General Staff, Navy Ministry, Navy Command Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and other key institutions were also destroyed by the nuclear explosion, and most of the members of the wartime base camp died on the spot, or died of radiation sickness and sarin gas shortly after being rescued from the rubble......

The commander of the gendarmerie, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, was far away from the blast at the time of the atomic bomb fall, so he was initially only slightly injured. However, after learning that the emperor had died and that Japan's military and political organs had been completely destroyed, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo had a nervous breakdown and committed suicide with a gun.

At this point, the central power of the Japanese Empire completely collapsed, and millions of imperial naval and army units fell into a state of leaderless chaos.

One of the two B-29 strategic long-range bombers that dropped nuclear bombs on Tokyo and carried out this decapitation tactic was hit by a nuclear explosion and lost control and crashed into the suburbs of Tokyo, killing all the crew members on the spot. Another B-29 strategic long-range bomber successfully escaped, and when it ran out of fuel, it successfully forced to land 800 kilometers east of the Japanese archipelago according to the predetermined plan, and was rescued by the US submarine "Big Mackerel" after drifting for a day.

Upon their return, the entire crew was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and invited by President Truman to a dinner at the White House.

On the evening of 2 October, after confirming the news of the successful nuclear bombing, President Truman triumphantly delivered a speech on Capitol Hill, proclaiming the great victory of the nuclear bombing of Tokyo and urging the Japanese side to surrender unconditionally as soon as possible. At night, New Yorkers spontaneously organized a parade to celebrate the victory.

On 3 October, Admiral Halsey led the main force of the US Pacific Fleet to suddenly appear in the waters off the Kuril Islands and attack Hokkaido Island and Aomori and Sendai in the northeastern part of Honshu Island.

On the same day, railways throughout the Japanese archipelago were suspended, some telegraph and telephone lines were suspended, and transportation and shipping fell into a state of complete paralysis and chaos.

In the next few days, the Halsey fleet continued to venture close to the coast of Japan, and even tentatively shelled the port of Muroran in Hokkaido on 7 October.

On 5 October, another military coup d'état broke out in the Chongqing Nationalist Government, and He Yingqin, the leader of the pro-Japanese faction who had just come to power, was placed under house arrest.

The Dian Army and Gui Jun also issued a telegram congratulating Chairman Chiang on putting things in order and agreeing to reconvene peace talks to avoid the collapse of the Nationalist Government.

During the reign of He Yingqin, the chief of staff of the Allied China Theater of Operations, Joseph Murphy, who was briefly arrested and imprisoned. Lieutenant General Stilwell, before he could figure out what had happened on this day, was released from the secret prison of the White Mansion, and then was invited by Chairman Chiang to the Huangshan Villa to enjoy a state banquet.

At noon on the same day, Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, was easily captured by a small Red Army guerrilla force because of internal chaos and disintegration.

On 6 October, spurred on by the success of the nuclear bombing of Tokyo, the 1st Marine Division of the United States launched a large-scale offensive in the southwest Pacific Ocean, landing on Viti Levu, the capital of the Fiji Islands, and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese defending the island. On the same day, United States naval air forces bombed Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, and severely damaged the nickel ore mined on the island and the narrow-gauge railway system that transported the ore.

On 7 October, the Halsey Fleet organized naval aviation to launch a "paper bombardment" against major Japanese cities, dropping a large number of urgently printed leaflets, declaring to the Japanese that the emperor was dead and that the old regime had collapsed, and threatening them to surrender unconditionally as soon as possible, otherwise more atomic bombs would fall on the Japanese archipelago.

On 8 October, an American detachment ventured into the Sea of Japan from the Soya Strait, destroying and capturing three Japanese merchant ships. On 9 October, the fleet bombarded the port of Akita and destroyed an old Japanese coastal defense gunboat, but then came under air raid and sank a destroyer.

On October 10, in the midst of the chaos of the entire Japanese Empire, the "Provisional Government of Japan" was established in Kyoto, and the veteran politician Fumima Konoe was unanimously elected prime minister of the provisional government. Due to the rush of time and the disagreement between the various participating forces, the provisional government in Kyoto has not even decided whether to follow the monarchy or change to a republican system, and who should appoint the emperor if so.

The only thing that is clear is that at the same time as the establishment of this "Provisional Government of Japan," it announced on behalf of Japan its unconditional surrender to the US military, and demanded that all the military and civilians "bear the burden of humiliation and take the country's social interests as considerations," stop resisting, and collect weapons, seal up ammunition, and wait for the US military to take over.

After the surrender telegram was issued, only a handful of prefectures announced their recognition of the provisional government in Kyoto, and most prefectures remained on the sidelines.

On 12 October, Umezu Yoshijiro, commander of the Kwantung Army, Okamura Ninji, commander of the North China Front, and Koiso Kuniaki, the governor of Korea, jointly issued a telegram, announcing that they would not recognize the "puppet government" in Kyoto, denounce it as a traitor, and call on the Japanese military and people to "rise up vigorously and punish the national ♂ thief."

Rather delicately, Taiwan's governor-in-chief, Toshikichi Ando, recognized the "Provisional Government of Japan" in Kyoto. The Chinese Dispatch Army Command in Nanjing, as well as Chen Gongbo, who succeeded Wang Jingwei as the successor to the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, expressed an intriguing silence on this.

On 14 October, a group of young officers of the Young Zhuang faction set up an "army to fight thieves" in Nagoya, an important industrial town, and elected Ishihara Waner, a retired lieutenant general and the initiator of the Manchurian Incident, known as "Japan's No. 1 strategist," as commander-in-chief, to prepare for "the western expedition to Kyoto and the elimination of traitors."

On 15 October, after receiving the news, in order to further break the will of the Japanese diehards to resist, the U.S. naval aviation of the Halsey fleet bombed Nagoya, encountering stubborn resistance from the local Japanese Navy and Army air corps and anti-aircraft artillery units.

On 18 October, Japanese Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi announced his recognition of the "Provisional Government of Japan" in Kyoto at the Kure Port Town Guard House, and demanded that the naval fleet on the mainland stop resisting, seal up its ships and weapons, and prepare to surrender to the US forces. As a result, a riot broke out at the Naval Academy on Etajima, and then a mutiny broke out in the army near Kure Harbor, and after a scuffle, a considerable number of ships anchored and went to sea, preparing to defect to the main force of the Combined Fleet in the South Seas.

On 20 October, the Soviet Red Army border guards stationed on Beiyetai Island (Sakhalin Island) crossed the border and moved south to take over Nanyetai Island within a few days.

On the same day, at Halsey's strong request, a small U.S. force landed in Sendai Port without any resistance.

And just when the Japanese archipelago was full of strange clouds, the Combined Fleet Command in the Truk Atoll in the South Seas also fell into unprecedented chaos and confusion due to the sudden death of Marshal Yamamoto 56 and the drastic political situation in the empire itself......