One Hundred and Fifty, The End of Tokyo (Part II)

When the shock wave of the "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb washed all the way from the top of Mt. Fuji to Tokyo, its momentum was still unstoppable.

-- Even though it has already rushed 100 kilometers from the center of the explosion, the power of the "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb is still terrifying. Those who stand in the open air will have their clothes burned, and then their bare skin will be severely burned due to burning. Even those who stay in the house feel burned. Most of the lightweight paper-and-wood Japanese houses were razed and erased by the shock wave in an instant: the roofs were completely torn off as if they were made of cardboard, and the walls and beams were torn apart...... The sturdy reinforced concrete houses were also crumbling in a firestorm comparable to a Category 12 typhoon, and even gradually fell apart. Trees, cars, trams, rickshaws, bicycles, and pedestrians were swept into the air, then shattered to pieces, or burned to char in the air, carried by the fiery currents and carried on by the currents.

In the midst of such a devastating firestorm, tar-painted wooden telephone poles on the roadside, cardboard billboards in front of shops, curtains and furniture in houses suddenly catch fire. Gas stations, gas plants, trees, plants...... Anything that can catch fire will burn. The scattered fires soon coalesced into a sea of fire, and continued to spread rapidly in all directions, until there was nothing more left to use as fuel.

Even if a howling storm can temporarily extinguish the flames, after the scorching shock wave, the hot rubble will rekindle again. The hot and dry winds also fanned thousands of sparks into a prairie fire. Hot sparks crackled and flew in all directions, and metal bridges were scorched and twisted. The power pole broke apart in the flames, leaving any firefighter feeling powerless.

-- The fire after a large-scale fire is already difficult to control. The shock wave brought about by the nuclear explosion caused a huge wind in the area, and the area where the fire broke out immediately turned into a sea of fire -- the wind fueled the fire. The more it burns, the more intense it gets. Not only that, but the wind also spread the fire in all directions. Wherever the fire spreads, a sky-high fire ignites. Factories are burning, schools are burning, homes are burning. Everything is burning......

At the same time, the slender column of smoke produced after the explosion of the hydrogen bomb has changed from white to red, gold, and purple. Gorgeous and colorful, full of the brutal beauty of death. The top of the column of smoke began to swell, becoming like a mushroom, and it kept getting bigger and bigger...... Zuihou forms a depressing mushroom cloud. Rapidly expands and spirals upward. The height reached about seventy kilometers. From the ground all the way up above the atmosphere!

Major General Ishihara, who was on his way home from work, was so quick to get into the basement of a nearby department store that he was on his way home from work, but he was so shocked by a heart-rending muffled sound that he jumped to his feet and fell to the ground.

After narrowly escaping, Major General Ishihara grabbed a brand-new camera from the warehouse of the department store with a flashlight to record the catastrophe. Wait until he steps on the rickety staircase. When I ran upstairs, I found that all the windows had been shattered. The floor was covered with shards of glass, and it was barely possible to put your feet on. He easily walked to the window and saw the most terrible sight he had ever seen in his life!

-- The entire night sky was dyed bright red, and a thick cloud of smoke had obscured the entire sky over Tokyo. The deadly fallout has long since flown into the sky, obscuring the stars and the moon, forming a thick, dark nuclear hell! On the firelit ground, all the wooden traditional Japanese buildings do not exist, except for a few sturdy concrete buildings that stand alone on the empty ground.

What is even more terrible is that the fires that have erupted in various parts of the city are spreading rapidly, burning everything that can be burned; Even the concrete buildings were enchanted with flames. The flames writhed wildly in the night sky, big and small. A series of crackling sounds rang out from the sea of fire. The wind was strong, and the fire became redder and redder. From the forest of flames to a huge waterfall of flames, it seems to hold up the glowing radiant clouds, reflecting the twisted bundles of steel in the charred wreckage of buildings. Turning the whole of Tokyo into a scorching hell.

Even the Meiji Jingu Shrine and Akasaka Rikyu Shrine, which were surrounded by pine forests and surrounded by ancient trees, were not destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake and were admired by all the Japanese people.

Some of those who were lucky enough to escape from the ruins of their houses ran out into the streets and had to endure the smoke and fire, and in an instant they were covered in hot blood blisters. Zuihou was even burned to the point of being reduced to a handful of ashes. Even more tragic are the survivors who were crushed in the rubble, if there was no fire, these people might still be able to be rescued, but now they can only be crushed under layers of rubble, little by little roasted by the heat and smoke.

Even though there was still a certain distance from the nearest fire, Major General Ishihara felt a fierce flame and scorching heat that seemed to come from a molten iron furnace, and after he insisted on shooting a roll of film, he felt a lot of churning in his stomach, as if he was about to vomit with nausea, so he had to hold his stomach with one hand, hold the wall with the other, and hang the camera around his neck, and stumble back to the basement to rest.

- What Major General Ishihara didn't know was that he had already suffered a severe overdose of radiation at this time, and he was about to start losing his hair.

Behind Ishihara, a bright waterfall of flames had risen into the sky and turned into a red-hued mountain of flames, where countless golden snakes danced throughout the city of Tokyo, creating vast heaps of scorched earth and rubble, with piles of blackened corpses buried underneath.

However, the catastrophe that befell the capital of seven million people was only just beginning......

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The ancients had a saying: "The water is in dire straits".

After nearly an hour of churning the atmosphere over half of East Japan with the liliang of the hydrogen bomb, a 100-kilometer radius centered on Mt. Fuji began to rain down water vapor carried up by the rising mushroom clouds. It was enough to rain down in the air, and then stick to countless deadly radioactive fallouts and sprinkle them down. It contrasts with the mushroom clouds that reflect the red sky.

As a result, the people who were scorching the ground by the sea of fire and heat saw a sticky black raindrop falling, emitting a strange smell and a strange touch - this mysterious and terrifying-looking, almost supernatural "black rain" made the survivors frightened and looked at this abnormal black rain. They all suspect that it is some kind of poisonous oil that sticks to the skin and will slowly kill them. But there are also some people who have long suffered from the smoke and fire, and are extremely thirsty, but they drink the high-radiation rain that hurts their bodies with their mouths open.

This is an extremely deadly, black rain that makes people feel like the end of Shijie. After it continued for more than ten minutes, it turned into a misty yellow drizzle, spreading downwind to the northwest, but still far from extinguishing the fire in the city. And a large amount of radioactive fallout wrapped in rainwater. He also sentenced tens of millions of Japanese to almost the entire Kanto Plain...... Or a reprieve......

The Emperor's Imperial Palace is located in the center of Tokyo. Showa Emperor Hirohito's dormitory was overturned by the shock wave at the first time, and the emperor and his wife, who had just gone to bed, were also unlucky enough to be crushed under the rubble...... One of the advantages of traditional Japanese architecture is that the building materials are generally light and thin, and even if they collapse, most of them will not crush people, so the emperor and empress finally escaped the catastrophe, but suffered a few skin injuries.

After they were picked up by the surviving attendants and ladies, they immediately sent the emperor and his wife to the basement of the Imperial Library, the most sturdy in the palace. This avoids the ensuing Burning City Fire and Radiant Rain......

In fact, the Emperor's Imperial Palace, where there are many combustibles. It was also ignited in a terrifying firestorm. Although the surviving attendants and Praetorian Guards fought together to extinguish the fires, extinguishing the flames with burlap bags, cutting down the carved beams and paintings that started the fire, and rescuing valuable cultural relics from the smoky and burning palace...... But they couldn't prevent most of the palace from turning to ashes, and even burning or suffocating to death in the flames

So, when the frightened Emperor Hirohito came out of the basement at dawn wrapped in bandages, he still had to face an extremely cruel reality - Tokyo, the "first city under heaven" in the Tokugawa shogunate era, had been reduced to a bleak ruin!

-- The tall buildings that once lined up in the city collapsed in an instant, making the whole of Tokyo much lower and more empty. Hundreds of thousands of citizens were charred in the fire. The pungent stench of burnt human flesh filled the air. No one knows how much life was once contained in those piles and patches of ashes...... In many remote neighborhoods, the fires are still raging, and Tokyo firefighters have long since declared themselves powerless, because the water and electricity supply has been cut off, and even the fire trucks have become difficult to start for some reason.

The slums, which used to be full of shacks and disorganized, have been "cleared" into a very well-viewed slivered flat land, where you can almost see for kilometers at a glance, and there are only charred and black wreckage on the ground that I don't know what they were originally. Through the smoke, one could also see some anxious citizens, still wandering over the scorched ruins that smelled of burnt and corpses, trying to rummage for something - perhaps to collect the remains of their loved ones, but more likely to try to find something that could still be used, because they had nothing left.

Many more stood silently in the ashes and rubble, like walking corpses, just staring at the vanished homeland, not knowing what to say or what to do, their tears long since they dried up, their spirits numb......

The surviving officers, policemen and officials in the disaster area, after the initial panic, began to try to establish some kind of order in the chaos, on the one hand, they severely suppressed the market and directly executed all the rioters who took advantage of the fire to loot; On the one hand, organize the ragged, glazed-eyed citizens of Tokyo to clear the rubble-strewn roads while searching the rubble for new corpses, survivors, and anything else they can use.

-- At this point, the people of Tokyo are left to survive on their own.

After such a catastrophe, all cable telephones and telegraphs in Tokyo were cut off, radio was also out of order, and rail and road transportation was also cut off. This makes Tokyo seem to be an isolated island. It also made Emperor Bixia lose contact with the outside world for a while. But the mere tragedy that the emperor could see in his field of vision, namely the loss of Tokyo, had already devastated the entire Japanese empire.

The emperor never imagined that he would one day meet the present scene. A Tokyo in ruins. The most prosperous city of the Japanese Empire was destroyed in this way, and under the powerful liliang that shook the heavens and the earth, the hard work of the Japanese people for hundreds of years of construction became meaningless in an instant.

In addition to this, there must have been many more towns closer to Mount Fuji than Tokyo that had been destroyed, along with the Empire's dream of Shijie supremacy. All the country's achievements since the Meiji Restoration have come to naught.

Suddenly, Emperor Hirohito felt a pang of discouragement. It seems that the hegemony of the past has become an empty thing, and those bold words have become a joke. The walls of the palace are surrounded by noisy people, buzzing noises, and smoke and fireworks, as well as the Japanese archipelago, which is in the midst of a catastrophe. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with him. He just looked at the ruined city with a wooden expression, and an ominous thought popped up in his heart:

“…… weishenme? Weishenme is at this time of the day? Could it be that the gods could not see Japan unifying the world and dominating Asia? ”

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The disaster caused by the nuclear explosion of Mt. Fuji. And not just on land. It is also found in the ocean.

-- The shock wave of a nuclear explosion comparable to a Category 12 typhoon not only swept across the land with a large amount of radioactive fallout, leveling towns and villages, but also swept through the sea mercilessly, surging up a huge wave that violently hit the coast of Tokyo Bay.

At this time, people who are afraid of fire are flocking to the beaches and piers in Tokyo, Yokohama, and other places. Who knew that even the sea at this time suddenly lost the tenderness and romance of the literati. It turned into a hideous and terrifying evil spirit, and the huge waves that were more than ten meters high burst into the bay, as if overwhelming. Rushing to the shore at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour, it engulfed tens of thousands of people in an instant.

Some people were swept to the deepest part of the sea, some were thrown into the air by the waves, and some were smashed to land by the waves.

In the same way, most of the ships of all types anchored in Tokyo Bay were either smashed, sunk, or collided with each other in the ferocious shock waves and waves. Fragile port terminal facilities were swept away in the waves. By the time the raging sea had finally calmed down, the entire beach had turned into a king-size garbage dump, full of wooden roofs, bed boards, doors and windows, fragments of boats, and swollen bodies of people and animals. The large and small ports and wharves in Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Chiba, Shizuoka, and Hamamatsu were all paralyzed.

What is even more terrifying is that the Standard Oil Company and its oil depot on the shores of Tokyo Bay were damaged by the shock wave of the nuclear explosion. With a series of huge explosions, about 200,000 tons of oil spilled into Tokyo Bay, causing a raging fire on the water, almost boiling the sea!

As a result, after all radio and cable circuits in Tokyo were cut off, road and rail traffic was paralyzed, and even the sea route was impossible.

Therefore, it was not until three days after the outbreak of the disaster that the central government in Tokyo made contact with the outside world and reported the various disasters - the essence of the Japanese Army, the 1st Division and the Guards Division stationed in Tokyo, suffered more than 6,000 casualties in the disaster. As for the dead civilians and policemen, there are too many to count. Even half of the cabinet members in the Imperial Council were missing: either dead, missing, or seriously injured and bedridden.

As far as the Japanese Navy was concerned, this catastrophe, which was considered to be the "Great Eruption of Mt. Fuji," was also a mend to their bloody wounds -- the battleships Kongo and Hiei, which were being modernized at the Yokosuka Town Morifu Dockyard, as well as other types of ships with a total tonnage of up to 180,000 tons, were all turned into scrap metal garbage in this disaster, and the Japanese Navy's already very weak Liliang was given another handful of blood. According to the caustic assessment of the French naval attaché in Japan: "...... In less than two months, Japan is on the verge of becoming a country without a navy! ”

-- In the eyes of many "international observers," the Japanese Empire, which has suffered many calamities, has been temporarily expelled from the ranks of the great powers......

As for the radiation sickness that will break out in the entire eastern part of Japan, I don't know how many Japanese lives will be taken.

However, in the eyes of the Shanghai Soviet government, which was the "initiator," no matter how terrible the damage caused by this nuclear bomb to the Japanese Empire, as long as Shijie public opinion remained convinced that it was a natural disaster, it would not be able to produce a real deterrent effect and change the adversity of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which was the enemy of the whole world.

“…… As I said a long time ago, comrades, in order to win the victory of the revolution, this nuclear bomb cannot be stopped! ”

At the combat meeting in June, Senior Sister Ma Tong waved her fists again and said, "...... Next time, we can't make up some old nuclear bombs that have expired and obsolete in order to save money! Instead, we must be willing to spend our blood and blood to build a launch site in a bright and bright way, give the Japanese devils a shot into the soul, and invite reporters from all over the world to observe the whole process, so that the imperialist powers can truly understand what it means to 'be punished even if it is far away'! (To be continued......)