June 1, 1935, Shanghai, Chongming Island

As soon as the rainy season begins, dark clouds cover this alluvial sandbar at the mouth of the Yangtze River, rolling and brewing in the gloomy sky, getting thicker and heavier...... until it turned into a torrential rain and poured down. The soybean-sized raindrops, carrying the angry wind, mercilessly whipped the low-lying and damp ground, and then flowed rapidly into the surging Yangtze River along the gullies that were washed out, and at the same time set off countless empty turbidity waves.

If anyone could come to the river in the torrential rain, he would be shocked to find countless mutilated corpses drifting on the river. Some opened their eyes and stared at the sky empty, while others opened their stiff mouths and poured into the turbid river. They drifted slowly and silently among the turbid waves, although the blood and life had dissolved into the vast Yangtze River, their bodies were still stubbornly floating and sinking......

And behind this river full of corpses, bright scythes, hammers, and red flags are fluttering proudly in the storm.

-- After a whole month of bloody fighting, the unprecedentedly tragic battle for Chongming Island finally came to an end with the victory of the Red Army.

For the traverser with Shanghai as the main base, Chongming Island, which is within the administrative planning of Shanghai and is only separated by half of the Yangtze River from Shanghai, is a battleground for "the side of the couch does not allow others to sleep soundly".

However, for the Kuomintang comprador regime and the imperialist powers, which needed to rely on the Yangtze River waterway to transport arms and supplies, once they lost Chongming Island, which held the throat of the Yangtze River estuary. Let the red brains of the Bolsheviks cut off the Yangtze River route, and it is also an unbearable pain for the lives of digging out their hearts and lungs.

So, despite the heavy losses in the Sasebo nuclear explosion. Having lost all their capital ships, Britain, France, the United States, and Japan searched the vast expanse of the sea, from Korea to the Philippines to Singapore, and gathered all the water liliang they could find in the Far East -- gunboats, gunboats, destroyers, cruisers, seaplane carriers, armed merchant ships...... Rushing to Chongming Island one after another to support the stubborn resistance of the Japanese and Kuomintang troops.

The Shanghai Soviet Government, which did not have a deep understanding of this, soon suffered a terrible blow -- Jin Qina originally wanted to take a stepping stone for the Northern Expedition to cross the Yangtze River, and by the way, let her descendants see the blood and plat a layer of gold by the way. Who knew that it fell into a dirty, bloody, and inextricable quagmire on Chongming Island. Japan's "South China Dispatch Army" first invested the main force of the Fifth Division on Chongming Island, and then successively dispatched the 13th and 14th Divisions to cross the sea from China to help, totaling three Japanese standing divisions. Eight regular Kuomintang divisions and a number of miscellaneous security regiments, plus a number of American and British ground troops, totaling more than 200,000 troops, fought the Red Army on this narrow island.

Thereupon. Only 3,000 troops were invested in the Shanghai Chengguan Brigade. In an instant, he stepped into hell and was "nailed" to a small shallow beach, and no matter how much fire he poured, it was difficult to make an inch. Then, the battle quickly turned into a battle of fire and blood, leaving the soldiers on both sides in great pain. And the constant flow of warships of the great powers to break diplomatic relations also made it difficult for the Red Army's reinforcements and ammunition supplies to be transported to the island.

However, the navies of the imperialist powers, which hastily drove warships into this narrow water, were soon also in the face of the frenzied saturation blows of the traversers. It paid an unbelievably heavy price: through just one month of shelling, bombing, mine-laying blockade and missile attacks, from the Jiangyin fortress to Changsha and Hengsha Island. More than 300,000 tons of ships from various countries were sunk by the Red Army in the narrow waters of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and thousands of steel reefs were created, which eventually completely blocked the Yangtze River channel south of Chongming Island -- and the traversers also used up all the old shore-to-ship missiles they could collect, and also made the Northern Heavy Industries, which sells all kinds of "high-power 'firefighting' rockets," make a lot of money.

The immature Chinese Red Navy, which had just been born, was also fully tempered in the terrifying and monstrous flames of war, and competed with the maritime powers of Britain, France, the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal at their doorstep. In such a high-intensity battle, the Red Army fleet was of course heavily wounded, except for the flagship cruiser "Pinghai", which was easily not dispatched, all of them were sunk; However, through heavy blood and death, they have gained valuable experience in naval warfare and have established the conviction and ambition to defy a strong enemy and fight when they see the enemy -- after all, if they start a war at their doorstep, a stone's throw away from their back, they will be able to make the Red Army sailors have a little more courage.

In addition, on the other side of the wormhole, modern China is the first industrial country in Shijie, and all kinds of obsolete old patrol boats, torpedo boats, and even missile boats are all available, and there is absolutely no problem in replenishing ten ships for every one sunk by the Shanghai Red Army, and the only thing lacking is experienced seamen. Therefore, although the various boats sank one after another, the Red Army fleet did not become weaker and weaker as the great powers imagined, but was tempered to become stronger and stronger in the stormy seas...... By the time the Battle of Chongming Island was basically over, the mouth of the Yangtze River could almost be renamed "Shipwreck Bay".

At the same time, the air battle at the mouth of the Yangtze River was also extremely fierce -- although the US Navy air force that had been put into operation in the early stage had long since lost everything, and even two aircraft carriers were bathed in radiation dust and lay on Guam as undead ships. However, the Japanese took up the ranks of the Americans and the Kuomintang, joined their own naval and army flight teams, built front-line airfields on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and engaged in fierce battles with the Shanghai Red Army flight team.

It is a pity that although the Red Army pilots who have just learned and practiced generally did not have time to fly a few take-offs and landings, and the Jishu is relatively poor, and the head-on battle is not at all the opponent of the old birds of the Japanese flying team, but relying on the unfair contest of radar and short-range air-to-air missiles, as well as the cover of ground anti-aircraft fire, has made the arrogant Japanese pilots who have come from afar suffer enough. Moreover, once the Japanese airfield was discovered, it was immediately attacked by long-range rocket artillery or cruise missiles, causing many planes to be destroyed on the ground. There is no chance to ride the blue sky at all.

All in all, both in the air and on the water, the Red Army was only after an initial slap in the face. Slowly began to gain the upper hand.

However, although the Red Army basically gained air and sea supremacy in the waters of the Yangtze River estuary about a week after landing on Chongming Island, it still could not prevent the Japanese troops from continuously projecting troops to the Chongming Island position from the north shore -- the narrowest part of the river from the north bank of the Yangtze River to Chongming Island was less than one kilometer wide, and no matter how hard the Red Army flight team tried its best, it would blow up the pontoon bridges erected by the Japanese army again and again. The ferries and wharves on both sides of the northern channel of the Yangtze River were burned, and it was not possible to completely organize the Japanese military motorboats, rafts, and rubber boats to smuggle across the Yangtze River at night to rush and reinforce the front line of Chongming Island. Just like the previous Kuomintang air force, no matter how indiscriminately bombed it. None of them could prevent the Central Red Army from forcibly crossing the Xiang River.

In this way, from morning to night, the Japanese poured shells and bullets onto the narrow Red Army beachhead, and their infantry squads and snipers repeatedly infiltrated and sneaked up on the reeds. The Japanese Marines even organized death squads four times in succession. Landing on the muddy beaches of Pudong. An attempt was made to infiltrate the hinterland of the Soviet government in Shanghai and to sabotage the airfields and docks of the Red Army, although they were all wiped out on the way.

As a result, Chongming Island was turned into a flesh and blood mill, and in the fierce battle that lasted for a month, not only tens of thousands of lives were devoured, but even the resulting ammunition consumption and weapon losses made the General Staff on the other side of the wormhole shout that the expenses were too great and unbearable.

In order to prevent the loss of their old capital, the traversers had to repeat the old trick on the one hand. In this battlefield, various new poisonous gases were widely used, and the enemy's skin was eroded and bleeding; On the other hand, the tactics of maneuvering and roundabout, which the Red Army has always excelled, were implemented. The 10,000-strong Jiangbei detachment led by General Su Yu, under the cover of the air force, crossed the river in assault boats and small steamers, attacked Qidong County on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and attacked the enemy on Chongming Island from behind.

This trick of the black tiger finally achieved a miraculous effect -- the meat grinder on the battlefield of Chongming Island had almost drained the blood of the Japanese army in the south, and there were no surplus troops to closely defend all parts of Jiangbei, while the Kuomintang army had been working as cattle and horses under the Japanese for several months, and had been poked in the backbone and scolded by the villagers for several months as traitors, and the combat effectiveness after taking a few months of waste paper military tickets...... Basically, it will fall by 50% from the original average level!

Therefore, after the landing, this roundabout force quickly won one victory after another, and the entire enemy-occupied area was scattered behind the Japanese front.

On May 28, the Jiangbei detachment of the Red Army captured Nantong Port on the other side of Chongming Island, completely cutting off the retreat and supply lines of the remnants of the enemy on Chongming Island. Although the remnants of the Japanese army still held several positions at the western end of the island, it is estimated that they will not be able to hold out for much time under the repeated washing of the ground by cloudburst bombs and the repeated bombardment of poison gas bombs.

-- In a single battle, it swallowed up three divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, and it was also a permanent division and regiment as the backbone of the elite, in addition to annihilating more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops and tens of thousands of naval officers and men of major powers, and destroying more than 400 enemy planes of various types.

However, for the victory of the strangulation battle on Chongming Island, the Red Fifth Front Army in Shanghai also paid a painful price that made people cry: 62 combat planes of various types were shot down, 16 small ships of various types were sunk, 11 armored vehicles and tanks were damaged, and the number of casualties in each unit exceeded 30,000. The Shanghai Chengguan Brigade, which initially landed on Chongming Island, gathered its troops after the battle, and there were less than 1,000 people left. Comrade Liu Chouxi, the former commander of the Red Tenth Army and the current commander of the Suzhou Military Region, was killed by enemy planes in Jiangyin, and four traverser mercenaries were also killed for various reasons.

In addition, the Japanese army retaliated after being attacked by poison gas, dropping poison gas bombs on Jiangyin, Wuxi and other cities, causing a large number of civilian casualties.

Such a tragic loss shocked everyone. Therefore, before the gunfire on Chongming Island subsided, Wang Qiu, Ma Tong, Jin Qina and other traversers put on body armor and came to inspect in armed speedboats, wanting to observe this terrible battlefield up close. And the "Into Science" film crew also came to shoot - rare battlefield footage like this can be useful in many places.

However, not waiting for them to set foot on the beachhead where the Red Army first landed. A strong stench came to the nostrils - the smell of burnt flesh from burning corpses, and the stench of rotting corpses that had not been buried before they were buried, and everyone vomited. Filth in the cramped cabin.

The traversers, who had experienced many scenes of slaughter, barely managed to resist the nausea and churning of their stomachs, jumped out of the speedboat with video cameras and digital cameras, and set foot on the land of Chongming Island - and then they realized what the poet called "white bones exposed to the wild".

Chongming Island, which is made up of sediment at the mouth of the Yangtze River, is originally very low-lying and wet, full of marshes and ditches. Now, after a month of fierce fighting. People trampled on horses, shells exploded. It has become a muddy pond, full of small black and smelly puddles. The corpses that had not had time to be burned were everywhere, and they quickly became stinking and disgusting in the hot and humid Huangmei sky. Red-headed and green-headed flies are flying everywhere. Long maggots crawled over the dead bodies...... Some of the bodies lay on the edge of the puddle, their feet on them, their heads soaked in the water; Some of the corpses were burned black, their mouths were wide open, and their faces were full of pain; Some of the corpses were buried in the trenches like tree stumps, with guns still on their chests, but their heads flew somewhere, and most of them were muddy. It's like a yellow croaker coated in cornstarch waiting to be put into the pan. The cinematographer of "Into Science" tried several times to get into the trenches to shoot, and was immediately smoked out by the stench of corpses - it was unimaginable. There are still living people fighting to the death in such places.

Commander Mao Zetan, who had been on the front line to supervise the battle, with an excited and haggard face, greeted everyone into his headquarters, a landlord's mansion that was once quite magnificent. Now it has long been battered by artillery fire, and there are dense machine gun bullet holes from the inside out. On the wall in front of Mao Zetan's desk, there is a bullet hole with an eerie mouth, which was left by a machine gun projectile of a Japanese fighter jet. On some maps, documents, and walls, even splashes of blood can be faintly seen.

Despite the dangerous environment of the headquarters, the commanders and fighters of the Red Army still stuck to this place full of artillery fire and calmly commanded the troops to attack and break the enemy. Mao Zetan also showed them a newly captured Japanese wing flag, which had been torn into silk strands by shrapnel and was covered with blackened blood, but it was still an extremely precious trophy -- according to the regulations of the Japanese Army, the wing flag was organized when it was there, and the flag was sanctioned if it was lost. Therefore, the military flag is an extremely important thing in the Japanese army, and it is necessary to select the best second lieutenant officer in the wing to serve as the standard-bearer, and set up a special military flag guard squadron to protect it. When it is judged that the battle situation is in danger of annihilation of the whole army, the military flag should be "burned".

-- The reason why Mao Zetan was able to capture this flag was because it rained heavily and the flag bearer could not burn the fire.

In short, when leaving the front line of Chongming Island, which had not completely ended the battle, everyone's mood was extremely heavy.

“…… We obviously have such an advanced jishu advantage, such powerful firepower, and even use poison gas, but we still have so many people dead. Jinchina sighed with pity, "...... How many more people would have to die if Japanese imperialism was to be completely defeated on the battlefield? ”

“…… If we do it twice, we're going to go bankrupt...... The cost of fighting a conventional war is much higher than that of a nuclear war! ”

The "cold" Wang Qiu is more accustomed to looking at problems from an economic point of view," ...... This is simply forcing us to drop nuclear bombs! ”

“…… What makes me wonder is, how on earth did the Japanese sustain this high-intensity battle? Half of the island of Kyushu became a radiation zone, and shipping between Japan and China was completely interrupted. Even if food can be collected locally, where will the ammunition, barrels and replacement parts come from? Cai Rong interjected.

“…… Hey, ammunition can also be requisitioned on the spot! In addition to a small number of large-caliber artillery shells, as well as aircraft, tanks and other jishu weapons, the Northeast Industrial Base, which was founded by Zhang Dashuai and perfected by the Japanese in the later period, can fully supply all the basic logistics of the Japanese army. ”

Wang Qiu pursed his lips and replied, "...... If we can't completely destroy the fighting spirit of the Japanese army, we don't know what a terrible price we will have to pay......"

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Late at night, in Puxi, Shanghai, Hongqiao Airport has undergone a large-scale modernization

With a loud roar, under the fearful gaze of the traversers, the Russian remote-controlled transport plane carrying a "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb spat out orange-red tongues of fire, roared into the night sky, and finally disappeared into the eastern sky.

Unlike the slow-moving airship that preceded it, this Russian jet could reach Tokyo in just over two hours - of course, this is only a theoretical setting, and as for whether this antique plane can fly to Tokyo, I am afraid that even the Russian werewolf who drummed it up has no bottom in his heart.

Fortunately, the first half of the voyage of this nuclear suicide plane was quite smooth, and it flew over the East China Sea all the way without incident, entered the skies over Japan, and then continued to advance eastward, so that the people who stayed up all night to guard the command center slowly put back the hearts that had been hanging in their throats...... However, just as the Russian hairy plane, which was in charge of patchwork and remote control, flew along the coastline of Japan's Tokaido to Tokyo, it suddenly poked a leak!

-- No one could figure out what was going on, but the two engines of the plane had stalled together!

As a result, jets, which have rapidly decreased in thrust, soon begin to become unstable, and their altitude also begins to decline rapidly...... After all salvage measures failed, seeing that the plane was about to stall and crash, Sonia quickly pressed the red detonation button!

The next moment, an unprecedentedly strong electromagnetic storm swept across the skies of East Asia, throwing radio communications within a radius of 3,000 kilometers into chaos. Almost every screen in the Shanghai command center was filled with snowflakes, and the headphones were filled with the sound of electricity.

From this, it can be judged that: first, this "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb, which is very unreliable in its delivery method, should have been successfully detonated;

Second, it can be basically determined that the unreliable "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb was successfully detonated in Japan;

Third, the only thing that cannot be determined is that this "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb was detonated in which part of Japan?

As for the further report of the results, it will have to wait for the hard-working members of the underground party to manage to collect ......

-- A few eerie days of calm followed...... A full week later, Wang Qiucai said to Sonya, who was half-awake and half-drunk, holding a vodka bottle, with a Macao newspaper newly brought to Shanghai by an underground party organization with the headline "Mt. Fuji Showa Ten Years of Great Eruption."

“…… Now you've finally figured out where you dropped the bomb in Japan -- it seems like you blew up Mt. Fuji! (To be continued......)