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Volume 1, Urban Management¡¯s American Strategy Chapter 136, Death Light Over Kyushu Island

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    In the Seto Inland Sea under the deep night, the waves are roaring, the sea breeze is roaring, and the stars are falling down, reflecting a faint silvery glow on the waves.

    A cruiser flying the Navy's flag is cutting through the waves in this narrow sea area.  The rounded bow of the ship undulates and cuts into the dark sea, with dizzying white waves splashing on both sides. The three twin 203 main battery towers arranged in a series of echelons on the front deck of the cruiser look particularly majestic surrounded by anti-aircraft guns on both sides.  .  The thick, tall, and extraordinary pagoda-shaped bridge is like a towering mountain. It can easily be mistaken for a battleship. Its displacement of up to 15,500 tons when fully loaded makes it proudly majestic and the most powerful in the world.  The leader of cruisers.

    This is the latest and most powerful Takao-class heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet - Atago.

    Every time he stands on the deck and admires the majestic appearance of the cruiser Atago galloping across the sea, Moritaro always feels a sense of heroism.

    ¡ª¡ªHe is confident that he has met a great era. The empire is rapidly moving towards unprecedented glory. As a glorious member of the imperial navy, he will be honored to contribute to the empire's hegemony. How can this be possible?  Doesn¡¯t it make every patriotic person feel excited and full of ambition?

    What is hateful is that the narrow-minded and stubborn Chinese people across the sea still cling to the outdated ideas of the big country and are hostile to the Japanese Imperial Army. This has wasted the empire's kind and painstaking efforts to promote the common prosperity of neighboring countries. It has not only hindered itself from becoming an East Asian civilization.  The progress of the country is also hindering the empire's strategy of conquering the world Although the Japanese Navy has always felt that it is superior to the army, it is concerned about the recent setbacks suffered by its army colleagues on the Jiangnan battlefield.  The naval officers on the Atago, including Moritaro, were also deeply anxious.  Because it concerns the supreme interests of the empire.

    However, after lamenting the glory and splendor of the empire, Sentaro could only return to the trivial reality of a small person. He got into the cabin door again, put on his chef hat, and prepared to start his work tonight, making midnight snacks for the sentries on duty¡ª¡ª  He was one of the cooks on the battleship.

    Next.  After a while, the aroma of grilled salted fish and rice wafted through the Atago cruiser's kitchen.

    ??In a cylindrical military pot.  The miso soup with seaweed, dried shrimps, potatoes and salted radish strips was being cooked on the electric stove on the other side.  The fresh and fragrant salted fish is grilled.  Finally, on a large tray, there were dozens of rice balls that Moritaro had just kneaded.

    Under the bright electric light, looking at the fruits of his labor, Sentaro wiped his sweat with the white towel around his neck, took a piece of hot dried salted fish, happily put it in his mouth and chewed it gently - although  The daily tasks in the army are very hard, and the year-round life at sea is also very lonely and boring.  How could a country farmer like him, who came from a poor background, have such luxury to eat fish every day?

    ¡ª¡ªThe invincible imperial army of the Empire of Japan conquered China and conquered the mainland in glorious victories.  Although the Japanese people of this era cheered with joy and burst into tears with excitement, they felt deeply honored, but after shedding their excited tears, they still had to continue to work hard in the fields and pay 60% to 70%.  With so much tax and rent, it is rare to eat meat even once a year; or in noisy and hot factories, working hard for 12 or even 14 hours a day, with no vacations, no labor insurance, and even wages are so meager.  Endless sweat, unable to straighten their backs - this is the miserable life of most ordinary workers in the Japanese Empire during the era of militaristic war.

    There is no way. The war machine that has expanded crazily with victory requires more resource investment to continue to operate. With the little capital accumulated by the Japanese Empire from conquests and plunder, I am afraid that it will be gone without even a splash of investment, so it is only  can continue to desperately squeeze the blood and sweat of the working people to supply the consumption of the war machine - in this way, compared with Western countries that have begun to transform into welfare states, the exploitation of their own people by Japan's plutocrats, landlords and militaristic governments is still less  To be more cruel and bloody.  The lives of most Japanese people are also extremely "simple".

    Especially in most rural areas of Japan, ordinary farmers can only eat beans, grains and radishes, and they can't even eat serious rice. They can only eat some brown rice and fish during festivals. As for fresh meat, eggs and polished rice, it's simply  It is like delicacies from mountains and seas.

    The food standard of Japanese soldiers is significantly higher than that of ordinary Japanese, and is basically equivalent to the level of a well-off Japanese citizen. Even the army, which has poor food, has enough white rice, meat every day, and non-staple food.  Rich, at least for lunch and dinner, you can eat salted fish, fresh meat, eggs or canned meat. It also provides pickles and miso suitable for Japanese tastes, as well as toffee, fruit candy, caramel, chocolate, jelly, persimmonPancakes, canned fruits, condensed milk, yokan and other sweets were extremely luxurious in the eyes of Japanese people at that time.  As for the Japanese navy, which is known for its "aristocracy", its daily diet is even more luxurious. Even the lowest-class recruits can often enjoy foreign vegetables such as butter chicken, curry beef, miso soup, fish,  Japanese dishes such as pickles, and occasionally some "good ingredients" such as lobster and sea bream can be obtained for toothpaste - thus making the vast number of poor people eager to join the army, and also giving rise to the militaristic idea of ??getting rich by looting from neighboring countries.  , widely popular among the people.

    After a while, several sailors on night watch poured into the hatch, happily carrying today's particularly rich supper from the kitchen to their posts to enjoy.  The chef Moritaro, who was temporarily free, walked to the deck again, facing the cool sea breeze, smoking a cigarette leisurely while admiring the sea view under the moonlight - it was his turn to work the night shift today.  After finishing the two batches of late-night snacks, I had to work with several other cooks who got up early to cook breakfast for all the officers and soldiers on the ship before I could go back to my hammock to sleep.

    The cruiser Atago is currently passing through the Kanmon Strait at the western end of the Seto Inland Sea, also called the Shimonoseki Strait - which connects Honshu Island and Kyushu Island.  Since ancient times, it has been a hub of land and sea transportation in Western Japan and the location of many famous historical events.  In the Battle of Dannoura during the Genpei War era, the famous swordsman Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi had a decisive battle on Gemryu Island.  All occurred near this strait.  The Treaty of Shimonoseki, which ended the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War and symbolized the decline of the Qing Dynasty and the rise of the Japanese Empire, was also signed and sealed on the Chunfan Tower facing the strait.

    However, although it is an important maritime traffic artery, the strait itself is quite tortuous. The narrowest sea area is only about 600 meters wide, and it is famous for its fast currents.  Coupled with the heavy traffic and numerous ships, I wanted to sail through this strait at high speed in the shadowy night.  It is not an easy task Fortunately, with the Japanese Navy's year-round arduous training, high-speed night navigation in its own waters is not a problem at all.

    ¡°At the same time, Moritaro was holding the railing with both hands and a cigarette in his mouth.  Looking at the sparse lights and dark mountains on both sides of the strait.  And when he saw the warship gradually sailing out of the narrow strait and about to enter the vast open sea, a spectacle from the horizon made him unable to remain calm and calm anymore.

    "Nani? It's dawn? No! What on earth is that?"

    Looking at the blue sea and sky that suddenly became brighter, Moritaro first rubbed his eyes. After confirming that this was not an illusion, he was stunned for a while, and he didn't even notice that half of the cigarette in his mouth fell to the deck.  And the screams of the soldiers on duty at night.  It also came faintly from not far away.

    Immediately afterwards, an unknown amount of time passed.  A deafening roar like rolling thunder swept across the face, as if ten million heavy bombs exploded in one place at the same time, making the entire sea seem to tremble in terror.  And a huge bright and dazzling fireball shot straight into the night sky from the distance beyond the horizon, like another sun rising from the southwest, illuminating the Atago cruiser and the surrounding sea I don't know how many people were awakened by the explosion and flash.  The sailor stuck his head out of the porthole and looked at the wonders in the sky in the distance. He was so surprised that he couldn't say a word.

    At the same time, millions, even tens of millions, of Japanese also saw this spectacle that shocked the world

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    At 3:40 in the morning on April 7, 1935, when everything was silent and the night was quiet, a bright white light suddenly burst out from Sasebo, Kitakyushu, and swept across the entire western Japan, turning the night into darkness in an instant.  During the day From Hiroshima Port in Honshu, Kagoshima Port in Minami Kyushu, Uwajima Port in Shikoku Island, and even Busan Port in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, some people claimed to have seen this dazzling light!

    ¡ª¡ªSasebo Fort, one of the four major domestic military ports of the Imperial Japanese Navy, is located at the northwest end of Kyushu Island, about 50 kilometers away from downtown Nagasaki.  Sasebo is surrounded by lush mountains and is dotted with large and small islands inside and outside the bay. To the west of the channel entrance is the Goto Islands as a barrier. It is a natural harbor for ships to gather in a concealed manner, and it is also a transportation hub between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of ??Japan¡ª¡ª  Because it strangles the Tsushima Strait, it was established as Japan's advance base for attacking Korea and entering the Asian continent as early as the Meiji era.

    During the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, the Japanese combined fleet also set sail from here, achieving brilliant victories one after another, and finally won hegemony in East Asia in one fell swoop.  At this moment, Sasebo Port is also crowded with warships, with masts like forests, and is filled with a mighty and murderous atmosphere.

    However, this military port, which embodies the glorious history of the Imperial Japanese Navy, has quietly ushered in its end.

    Because, along with a certain person hidden in the wirelessFollowing the command in the wave, a violent flash of light suddenly erupted over the Sasebo Port where battleships gathered, its brightness far exceeding a thousand suns - it was a dazzling light of death!

    In that white light that illuminated the sky and the earth, everything around the Sasebo Military Port, whether it was trees, houses, ships, people and animals, as long as it was swept by this terrible light of death, it would become violently bright.  It was scorched on the spot - people were burned to coke before they could react, Japanese-style houses were reduced to ashes like paper money on a grave, steel battleships melted quickly like candles, and trees all over the mountains and plains turned into a sea of ????fire In just a short time  Within a few dozen seconds, all the living beings in the Sasebo Military Port were wiped out in the light of death, not even a single corpse was left behind!

    ¡ª¡ªWhen a high-yield hydrogen bomb launches an attack, about 35% of the nuclear explosion energy will be converted into light, but this is not warm sunlight.  It's not a faint light, but the death light from hell!  Any object that is illuminated by this light of death at close range will reach an unimaginable temperature in a short period of time.  Rapidly carbonizing, burning, and finally turning into a pile of unrecognizable ashes.

    As this light of death, beyond people's imagination, cuts through the silent night sky without warning, a terrifying catastrophe comes to the world - centered on the detonation point of the hydrogen bomb, within a radius of 1 kilometer  Everything was reduced to powdery ashes.  The bones, teeth, muscles, nerves, skin of all people and animalsall absorbed huge amounts of radiation energy in an instant, solidified, boiled, and vaporized like meat in a microwave, and finally turned into countless atoms in a few milliseconds.  Be part of the explosion dust.  It was impossible to find any living creatures anywhere within a radius of 5 kilometers. The fragile paper-wood structure houses were reduced to ashes in an instant, and the people and animals in the houses were completely burned into inorganic matter like charcoal and tree roots.  things.  Even hiding in the strongest steel battleship or cement building.  At most, it can only delay death a little.

    Within a radius of 15 kilometers, the strongest concrete buildings will be burned beyond recognition. Anyone who stays outside will be burned to the point of permanent blindness in the eyes, the skin will be blackened and carbonized, and large pieces will fall off, and then die in extremely painful ways  Unless you are lucky enough to hide in an extremely solid reinforced concrete building, a thick cellar, or a deep cave, and stay there until a long, long time later.  It is possible to escape.

    Even within a radius of 30 kilometers from the detonation point of the hydrogen bomb, all Japanese residents staying outdoors or facing the window.  They would also be instantly blinded in the flash of light, suffer third-degree burns, and then be caught in an extremely destructive fire storm because the paper-wood structure house caught fire

    At the same time, a violent electromagnetic pulse storm broke out rapidly with Sasebo as the center, breaking down the insulation layer, burning out the circuits, and seriously damaging the components of all electronic equipment Not only did the radio equipment in the entire western Japan become scrapped instantly, but also  As a result, radio communications within a radius of 3,000 kilometers were seriously interfered with, and normal telegrams could not be sent for several hours.  Its destructive power even radiated to Shanghai and Zhoushan on the other side of the East China Sea, causing at least hundreds of military radio stations to be irreparably damaged. So much so that the Red Fifth Front Army Headquarters in Shanghai was actually cut off from the frontline combat troops that night.  Contact, Wang Qiu and other instigators could not help but lament that this was simply "shooting a stone and hitting themselves in the foot."

    At that time, a war correspondent from the Washington Post was aboard a U.S. destroyer that had fallen behind due to engine failure. He was able to witness the explosion of a hydrogen bomb from a "safe distance" hundreds of kilometers away.  At this time, this dreamlike and extraordinary scene - " We didn't know what happened at the time, but we just found that the sky suddenly became brighter, even dazzlingly bright, as if we were being faced by a searchlight.  Like a direct shot, the lookout on duty on the bridge let out a miserable cry, rolled to the ground in pain, and covered his eyes with his hands"

    The war correspondent wrote in a later report, "Then, as I hurriedly got up and rushed out of the cabin door, I saw a huge fireball appearing at the end of the horizon, and in an instant it rushed high into the sky It  It emits a dazzling light, and the color is constantly changing, from deep purple to orange, spreading outwards and getting bigger and bigger, illuminating the ocean and the surrounding sky as bright as daytime

    Everyone on the destroyer was like me. They were stunned by the sight in front of me. I felt as if I was in the Genesis of the Bible again. At that moment, I seemed to hear God saying to me: Let there be light, so  There was light in the world It wasn't until much later that I realized that this was a terrifying force that had been imprisoned by nature for thousands of years, just like God's doomsday miracle of destroying Sodom and Gomorrah

    Next, an earth-shaking loud noise came from the distance, which shook my ears on the spot.??It buzzed, and my whole body bounced"

    All in all, from the East China Sea, the Sea of ??Japan to the Seto Inland Sea, in all the sea areas surrounding the northern part of Kyushu Island, countless captains, sailors and passengers of different nationalities were fortunate enough to see this cruel and beautiful miracle: darkness and depth  The night became as bright as day in an instant, and the vast sea surface was illuminated by a dazzling light that was far better than the scorching sun in midsummer. Golden, crimson, purple, gray and blue were mixed together.  , with its indescribable beauty, illuminated every sky, every sea surface, every rock, and every beach in their field of vision, making all the scenery dazzling and dreamlike  Even after the dazzling light finally dimmed and dissipated, the clouds in the distance still shone with strange colors, like fireworks on a festive night or colorful neon lights.

    Some people couldn¡¯t help but take out their cameras immediately and try to record this scene, but they didn¡¯t know that the radiation had already exposed the film in advance.

    They just admired this spectacular scene in amazement, completely unaware of the cruel destruction and catastrophe it meant, and they did not realize that this terrible disaster that had ruined countless lives was about to befall them  ¡­

    ¡ª¡ªJust as the first wave of hydrogen bomb attacks¡ªlight radiation¡ªcame to the world, the even more terrifying second wave of attacks also followed!  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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