Japan, Kyushu Island, Sasebo Town Shofu

In this brutal Shijie that has just experienced a nuclear explosion, everywhere is full of gloomy death tones, and under the extreme view, in addition to the endless dead and silent wilderness, there are undulating ruined ruins, and there are no animals or living people in sight, not even a cluster of green grass and trees. As for the Radiant Wasteland, the sky is forever gray, with thick clouds blocking out most of the sunlight, and even during the day it remains a little dim. Countless corpses and radioactive dust float in the ocean, giving the waves a pathetic leaden gray.

Although the blazing mushroom cloud that stood above the sky was gone, the purging radioactive dust had not yet completely dissipated, but it still could not stop some people from boldly intruding - the current Japanese Admiralty Okari Tsuyoi sat on a seaplane that had ventured to land off the coast of Sasebo Port, looking at the unrecognizable harbor in the distance with disbelief in the eyes of the bay full of floating debris.

The once pride of the Japanese Empire, the mighty Combined Fleet, had completely disappeared along with the Sasebo Castle - the batteries were in ruins, the docks were scorched, the forests were reduced to smoke, and the fleet disappeared beneath the surface of the sea...... Even the mountains of Gongwei Harbor have been bulldozed and leveled, making the terrain unrecognizable. What is even more terrifying is that at least 60,000 navy soldiers were reduced to ashes in an instant, and their bones were buried under rubble and mud...... They were accompanied by at least 300,000 civilians – and the horrific number is rising......

“…… Who's going to tell me...... This is not true...... Jun Yamamoto...... This is not true...... This must not be true......"

Looking at this place of death where half of the combined fleet was buried, Big Horned Qinsheng was really heartbroken. He immediately held Yamamoto Fifty-six beside him on the shoulder, and for a time he burst into tears and wept silently--Emperor Meiji's painstaking management of food and clothing, and the supreme glory of the great victory over the Russian fleet in the Battle of Tsushima. The emperor's dream of dominating the seas of East Asia, and the ambition and arrogance of competing with the United States and Britain to dominate the blue ocean...... All of them have been reduced to ashes and bubbles!

Fifty-six Yamamoto, who was also depressed and depressed, didn't know how to comfort the mentally broken boss, so he just pushed open the porthole of the plane and smoked one cigarette after another in annoyance...... Then he erupted into a heart-rending cough that seemed to cough out all his lungs. After a moment's respite, Yamamoto took out a white handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his mouth. But I was surprised to see a dazzling red!

“…… I was so tired that I vomited blood...... It's been a long time...... he muttered, throwing the blood-stained handkerchief out of the cabin, only to choke on the dust that blew in and coughed again. Meantime. He also noticed that there were a few more dark spots on the back of his hand at some point.

Moments later, with the roar of the propeller engines, seaplanes covered in a thick layer of radiant ash cut through the murky waves. Carrying two Japanese Navy figures away from the site of the nuclear explosion - at the time of such a devastating blow to the Navy. They have a lot of things to deal with and have to work hard to salvage the damage...... But in fact, neither Bighorn nor Yamamoto Fifty-six had to worry about anything anymore, because the rest of their radiation-stricken bodies could only be counted in hours......

――In the next week, Yamamoto Isoroku and Okaku Tsuyo, who personally stormed the disaster site of the Sasebo Town Guardian Mansion. There were also Japanese pilots who flew seaplanes, all of whom died of acute radiation sickness...... And until death. I didn't know that I was dying because of Weishenme.

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On the other hand, this unprecedented catastrophe that occurred in the northern part of Kyushu Island naturally attracted the attention of the entire Shijie news media. The news organizations of Shijie's major newspapers and periodicals stationed in Tokyo, Japan, as well as the news media of the Japanese Empire itself, organized special correspondents one after another to rush to the disaster-stricken areas of Kyushu Island by various means, in an attempt to grasp first-hand information in the fastest possible time...... Then, the reporters were shocked to find that they had gone headlong into hell!

“…… Although I have interviewed the French trenches that were full of artillery and blood during the Shijie War, visited the fortress of Verdun that was razed and charred by German shells, and witnessed the tragic ruins of the landing in the Dardanelles, it is still far less shocking than what I saw on the Japanese island of Kyushu, and the black death seems to have become the master of this land, making the humble mortals tremble......"

A British journalist wrote in his notebook, "...... According to the accounts of several eyewitnesses on the night of the incident, they saw that the sun seemed to rise in advance in the night sky, but it was 10,000 times brighter than the real sun, and she rose into the sky in the night, bursting into an incomparably dazzling light, reducing the cities, woods, and manors that illuminated it to ashes, with a power comparable to the heavenly fires used by God in the Bible to destroy the two sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...... Then, a huge cloud of smoke rose into the air, and a hot wind swept in, destroying everything on the earth, like a flame from hell, turning the earth into lava in an instant, and it was bright red. What is even more terrifying is that rivers, lakes and seas are boiling, forests and crops are all on fire, boiled fish and shrimp are floating on the water, and cities are destroyed one after another. The people covered in fire roared and screamed, running in fear, but one by one they fell to the ground and died, their corpses strewn all over the field, and even reduced to ashes.

Zuihou, everything on the ground was burned to the ground, showing a tragic scene after the catastrophe of the fire. Black ash fell from the sky, pouring on the bodies of the survivors, burning their skins, and people were terrified as they watched the end come......"

“…… At a first-aid post thirty kilometers away from Sasebo, I interviewed a Japanese policeman covered in burns, and according to the recollection of the policeman who was patrolling the streets of Kashima City at the time, a terrible heat wave and dry winds brought fires at the first moment of the disaster, and then ignited a large fire in a narrow, crowded street. In those overturned and collapsed houses. Flames burned everywhere. Only those who were able to move around could escape from the fire, and those who were broken or crushed under the house could not escape.

At that time. The policeman was also trapped in a collapsed piece of burning rubble and bruised, but fortunately at least he was able to move. As he struggled and wandered through the fire to find a way out, he saw a child let out a groan of pain, and his burned face swollen like a balloon, and he fell on his stomach and spasmed. When he fled with staggering steps, he saw the skin on the face and body of an old man next to him. They all fell off like potato skins, but the old man's mouth was still muttering silent prayers. There was also a familiar neighbor who was clutching a bleeding wound. He staggered through the rubble, calling out the names of his wife and children as if he had gone mad, until he collapsed from blood loss - he grieved every time he remembered it. I felt like my hair was standing on end. ”

“…… A junior high school girl on Hirado Island also recalled. Whenever she remembered the scene of that night, she couldn't help but tremble...... On her way to escape the flames and ruins, she saw a soldier desperately trying to jump from the fire into the river to escape, only to float on the river with a swollen belly. The blackened streets were lined up with strangely shaped dead people. Farther through the ruins, she saw a woman pinned down by a beam, unable to escape, and had to cry out hoarsely to passers-by for help. But no one had the strength to help her......

All in all, the whole town burned that night. Toxic smoke was billowing, and explosions could be heard. The familiar streets of the past have become especially terrifying in the midst of the burning fires. There was a strange smell everywhere. Blue-green, golden-yellow, and all sorts of strange colored fireballs floated around, like the resentful ghosts of the dead. Even if they managed to escape from the town, the mountains and forests outside were also on fire, and many people were smoked to death...... zuihou, she also cried to me and said, '...... At that time, I felt a terrible sense of loneliness in my heart, as if everyone else on this shijie was dead, and only I was alive. Hopefully this doesn't come true. And until now, this middle school girl has not been able to find her family, so she can only hope that the gods and Buddhas will bless them and bless them from leaving this shijie...... Every refugee settlement is filled with the smell of cremated bodies. Too much sorrow has turned the dearest into numb strangers, and in spite of the great grief in their hearts, they cannot cry out loud......"

Then, despite the unanimous dissuasion of disaster responders and fellow Japanese journalists, the intrepid British journalist insisted on going to the heart of the disaster and going to Sasebo to find out...... But in the end, they stopped three kilometers from Sasebo, because there was no way to go - not to mention the houses, even the plants and insects were swept away, revealing bare sand, and even leaving traces of melting on the rock surface. The British journalist was very confused: "...... Almost every stone was sintered and cracked into pieces. The hillside is covered with a layer of sparkling light, and you don't need a telescope to see the brilliant light reflected by them, like a glass mirror. But it's unbelievable that a normal fire would never have caused such heat......" he wrote in his notebook...... After staying in this land of death, I felt as uncomfortable as a pinprick all over my body, and from time to time I felt nausea, dizziness, and prostration, and I could barely eat anything, as if I had been in the trenches of the Shijie battle for a month...... It seems that after returning to Tokyo after completing this interview, I will have to take a leave of absence to go to Karuizawa or Izu Onsen to recuperate for a few days, and I hope to see the press release published when I return from the recuperation......"

However, the brave British journalist did not see the press release he had written published in the magazine until Zuihou.

Because, before that, he was lying in a hospital bed in Tokyo, Japan, and died of radiation sickness in agony!

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-- At the same time that the U.S. expeditionary fleet was turning into an undead fleet in Guam, Japan's nuclear radiation zone was gradually turning into a dead wasteland.

When the first group of doctors organized by the Japanese government rushed to the disaster area, the injuries they saw were relatively normal burns, scalds, fractures, and so on, although the scene was very miserable. But in the eyes of Japanese doctors who have seen a lot of fires and battlefields, it is nothing. But then, even the most experienced doctors. They were also puzzled by the strange symptoms of the patients:

“…… In addition to skin burns, many people in the affected areas have experienced hair loss, nausea, and vomiting...... The doctors at the first-aid station were unimpressed, believing that those who had been burned would recover quickly if they were given the usual routine treatment. However, this is not the case - hundreds of patients died in the first few days, and the mortality rate has since decreased. But it didn't take long for those who were clearly recovering. But there are other strange and fatal symptoms...... The fact that so many patients have died for reasons they cannot understand is a source of despair for doctors...... What's even more terrifying is that even the Hiroshima area, which is about 300 kilometers from Sasebo. Similar cases have emerged. ”

An urgent report from the Japanese Red Cross Society to the Tokyo Cabinet described the terrible "plague" that broke out on the island of Kyushu and summarized some of the patterns they had concluded: "...... The most prevalent prevalent pre-symptoms in these patients are anorexia, diarrhoea, and hair loss. And according to blood samples taken at the scene. The number of white blood cells in their blood tends to be abnormal...... In advanced stages, massive bleeding is the most common cause of death in all cases. In addition, according to an autopsy by a pathologist, it was found that the corpses were black in color, most had a peculiar smell, and each organ had undergone strange changes. Some of them have rotted their internal organs even when they are alive, giving off a very unpleasant and terrible smell......"

- Common Sense: When you are exposed to radiation that exceeds safety standards, your intestines and stomach are most likely to be injured. Within a few hours, you'll feel nauseous and vomiting. This can be followed by diarrhea, hair loss, headache or fever. After the initial symptoms have passed, people with radiation sickness may experience a brief period of false recovery, but at most a few weeks later, more severe symptoms will appear.

At higher radiation doses, these symptoms appear faster, more pronounced, and more deadly: almost incurable!

Unfortunately, in Japan in 1935, the vast majority of people had almost zero knowledge of radiation sickness, but they still remembered the Spanish flu that swept the world more than ten years ago and claimed tens of millions of lives...... In particular, when those disaster relief workers from other places who were contaminated with radiation dust also fell ill one by one, it further "proved" its "strong contagiousness", so the isolation and lockdown of the Sasebo disaster area became more and more strict......

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Although the 20 million-ton hydrogen bomb dropped on Sasebo and the terrible nuclear contamination it spread, it succeeded in destroying the imperialist powers' interference in the Chinese revolution at sea, leaving millions of Japanese and Westerners to die of radiation sickness. But the problem is that the destruction of the Japanese Combined Fleet and the purgatory of the area around Sasebo do not seem to have affected the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army in Chinese mainland.

Therefore, while the mainland suffered a radiation catastrophe, hundreds of thousands of invading Japanese troops in Chinese mainland were still launching new attacks.

On 12 April, after the first round of attacks on Suzhou and Yixing in the Taihu area was declared a complete failure, another Japanese army invading China changed the direction of breaking through the Red Army's defense system, crossed the Yangtze River from Nantong in the north of the Yangtze River, landed on Chongming Island, and then occupied Changxing Island, built artillery positions on the island, and cooperated with the gunboats of various countries to fiercely bombard Wusongkou, posing a serious threat to the Shanghai Soviet Government from the north.

On 15 April, 3,000 Japanese troops smuggled across the Yangtze River at night and landed in the Waigaoqiao area on the east bank of the Huangpu River. The sound of guns and cannons and fighting between the two armies in the Pudong area, as well as the firelight that reflected the sky, were clearly visible even in the downtown area of Puxi.

Although after a night of fierce fighting and rocket artillery bombardment after dawn, the Red Fifth Front Army almost completely annihilated this fierce enemy, but its own losses were also quite heavy, and the Pudong Power Plant, which had just been half built, was also blown into ruins in the street fighting. Let the leaders of the Red Army and the future time-travelers of this time and space be filled with righteous indignation for a while-they are all so arrogant after being hit by a hydrogen bomb, this Japanese devil is too crazy!

In addition to this, the Japanese forces in North China, after receiving support from the Manchurian Kwantung Army and the Korean Army, also launched an attack on Yan Xishan in Shanxi.

Therefore, on 18 April, Vice Chairman Jin Qina delivered an important speech at the Shanghai People's Radio, announcing that in view of the stubbornness and repeated indoctrination of the Japanese army invading China, in order to punish the invading Japanese army for a new round of harm to the Chinese military and civilians, and to completely dispel Japan's delusion of annexing China, the Shanghai Red Army decided to once again use the "powerful secret weapon" that had just been used in Sasebo to carry out the "extermination order" on Tokyo, Japan, on 1 May. It is hoped that the Japanese side will wake up in time and turn back to the shore -- "do not go further and further down the road of self-destruction"! (To be continued......)