Chapter 89, The Earth Under the Mushroom Cloud (End)
Southwest of the Indian peninsula, the port city of Goa
Standing at the entrance of the air raid shelter on a hill on the outskirts of Goa, looking at the mushroom cloud rising over the sea in the distance with complicated eyes, Congress Party Chairman His Excellency Chandra Bose suddenly had mixed feelings. He didn’t know what to say, and at the same time he felt All the clothes on his body were soaked with cold sweat.
Is this the power of an atomic bomb explosion? It is really brighter than a thousand suns! ! !
If this nuclear bomb was not thrown in the open sea, but was thrown on top of one's head, then no matter what bunker fortifications were built, it would not be able to withstand it!
——According to the U.S. Pentagon’s plan, this wave of global nuclear strikes should be carried out on the same day as much as possible to ensure its surprise.
Unexpectedly, due to the Indian nature of procrastination, mistakes, and mistakes, the frontline airport located on the outskirts of New Delhi did not complete the repair, maintenance and lengthening of the runway until three days before the nuclear attack. Then, because of Indian engineers and workers' random and illegal operations actually triggered a panic that spread throughout the airport the night before the nuclear bomb was scheduled to be dropped. The huge fire not only ignited the oil depot and ammunition depot, but also detonated dozens of aircraft on the runway and apron, triggering a series of horrific explosions, completely paralyzing the entire airport... thus leading to the B-29 strategy of carrying atomic bombs. The bombers were forced to stay at the military base in Singapore, unable to refuel and transfer midway. It really cost the lives of people.
To make matters worse, ever since Gandhi and Nehru publicly renounced their independence claims and welcomed the return of the American and British allies to India in order to change their skin and protect themselves, the loyalty of their groups has plummeted like an avalanche - before , Gandhi led the Indian people to carry out independence and revolution through hunger strikes and food hunger. The fate has been troubled for so many years. Although the form is a bit strange, after all, no country in the world was built on starvation, but at any rate, the slogan and proposition of independence have never changed, and thousands of Indian aspiring young people have surpassed The boundaries of caste and nationality are broken down, and the blood boils for it.
Who would have thought that now, after so many years of bloody fighting, and 99% of the land in India has been liberated - although it is torn apart, at least the British have been driven away, Gandhi actually changed his tune. I want everyone to re-loyal to the Emperor... Are you an old man who has been deceiving us? ! ! Anyway, today's Gandhi is no longer a Mahatma in the eyes of most Indians, but the biggest liar and hypocrite in the world. Basically, he is similar to Wang Jingwei, who rebelled against the country and surrendered to the Japanese invaders. His popularity was completely ruined.
A considerable number of fans and revolutionary youth who originally followed Gandhi and others felt a certain despair of having their idols shattered, as well as a certain anger of having their beliefs betrayed and their feelings deceived... Of course, they still continued to persist in armed struggle in western India. Two people who insisted on national independence and liberation The leaders, Bose of Goa and Jinnah of Karachi, suddenly grew taller in their minds - and within a short time the organizations of Gandhi and Nehru were infiltrated by their opponents. It was so riddled with holes that even Gandhi’s secretary became an informant of Chandra Bose.
As a result, while the US military and its "Indian allies" were still arguing over the repair of New Delhi Airport, the nuclear strike action plan for the entire Indian battlefield was sent to the hands of Chandra Bose and Jinnah, as well as countless others. The mole tried his best to delay the airport's repairs and buy time.
In short, it took five days until the nuclear explosions in Hanoi, Madrid, Jakarta and Shanghai occurred one after another, and the global news media were in an uproar. Only then did New Delhi's frontline airport complete preliminary repairs and be able to accommodate B-type bombs carrying atomic bombs. -29 strategic bombers took off and landed safely... Taking advantage of this buffer time, as the most likely next target of a nuclear explosion, Congress Party Chairman Chandra Bose and Muslim League Chairman Jinnah tried their best to strengthen the air defense forces of their respective base camps, and deployed them as quickly as possible. Important personnel were evacuated to the countryside to prevent them from being wiped out by the US imperialist atomic bomb.
As a result, as soon as the U.S. military's nuclear attack strategic bomber formation took off, someone from New Delhi used the radio to notify Goa and Karachi urgently. When the formation of B-29 "Super Flying Fortress" strategic bombers carrying atomic bombs roared in, the Indian National Army Air Force in Goa had long been ready - facing the fear of nuclear bombs hitting the top, Goa almost All the planes that could take to the sky were gathered here, and even the trainer planes were equipped with machine guns to make up the number. All pilots were strictly ordered to knock down the enemy planes even if they collided, otherwise everyone would be dead!
In the end, after an extremely brutal aerial battle, the B-29 bomber carrying the atomic bomb was beaten so hard by the Indian pilots who were like mad dogs that it disappeared in thick smoke before it even reached Goa. Come down. At the last moment before the crash, the American engineers on the plane resolutely detonated the atomic bomb, causing a bright mushroom cloud to rise over the sea about 20 kilometers away from downtown Goa...
——Looking at the mushroom cloud rising from the sea in the distance, Mr. Chandra Bose could not help but let out a long sigh of relief.
Indeed, watching a mushroom cloud rising into the sky at close range is really scary, but given the limited power of atomic bombs in the early days of this era, the actual damage caused was not serious - after crossing a distance of twenty kilometers, the atomic bomb's The shock wave is no longer enough to destroy any building stronger than a hut, and the light radiation and foehn heat waves produced by the nuclear explosion only make people feel hot at this distance.
Then, the huge sea waves caused by the atomic bomb explosion will certainly hit the port of Goa, but first of all, the distance of twenty kilometers has greatly attenuated the energy of the waves; secondly, Chandra Bose, who has been fully warned, has Residents in coastal areas were evacuated before the war, so the number of casualties should not be very large. At least in today's world war era, when at least tens of thousands of people die on the battlefield every day, it is completely unworthy of mention.
However, according to interviews with nuclear physics experts reported by Soviet radio stations, there will be troublesome radiation contamination next. At least the fish, shrimp and shellfish in the sea below the mushroom cloud will be inedible for a long time. And because Goa citizens have endured excessive radiation under the mushroom cloud, their chances of contracting cancer will also increase greatly when they get old and frail... However, in the opinion of Chandra Bose, this should not be the case. What a big problem, given the current average life span of Indians, most of them may not live past the age of forty or fifty.
Of course, this does not mean that he himself is willing to set an example and continue to stay in this possible nuclear contaminated area.
"...It seems that the speed of relocating the headquarters to Mumbai must be further accelerated!" He murmured.
At the same time, after learning that the nuclear strike plan was leaked and the nuclear bombing of Goa failed, another US military nuclear strike bomber group targeting the Muslim League on the Indian battlefield temporarily changed its bombing target - instead of going head-on to the heavily guarded and heavily trooped Instead, they turned around and bombed the important town of Rawalpindi on the upper reaches of the Indus River in the north. Since Jinnah had mobilized almost all his aircraft to the port of Karachi, Rawalpindi's air defense force was extremely empty. The US military easily dropped an atomic bomb in the city center, blowing the former British Indian Army headquarters into rubble...
So far, the two nuclear explosions carried out by the US-British Allied Forces in the Hindustan region have caused a total of about 300,000 casualties. However, they failed to scare any local indigenous resisters. Instead, they aroused more widespread anger and agitation, and guerrilla warfare that spread throughout India.
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Hong Kong Island, Central, Government House
Accompanied by the rattling sound of Sten submachine guns and the blasting roar of engineer explosives, a group of black soldiers wearing US or British uniforms first killed several local Hong Kong guards who were still standing at their posts, and then blew open the gate of the Hong Kong Governor's Office. , broke into the empty Hong Kong Governor's House...
Obviously, this was a mutiny, or a self-rescue operation by these abandoned black soldiers.
——After the Red Army won the Battle of Guangzhou and wiped out 300,000 enemies, the entire reactionary forces in Guangdong Province immediately collapsed. The remnant soldiers of the party and state fled to eastern Guangdong one after another, and settled in Chaozhou to continue to hold on. After losing 20,000 troops, the U.S.-British coalition forces that "helped the war in friendship" also fled to Hong Kong in an extremely embarrassed manner.
According to common sense, there will be a fierce or short defense battle for Hong Kong just like when the Japanese army attacked Hong Kong in 1941. At the beginning, the commanders of the US-British coalition forces in Hong Kong did indeed arrange it this way - while the Red Army, which had just concluded the Battle of Guangzhou, was still resting and clearing out the remaining enemies in the villages of the Pearl River Delta, and did not continue to attack Hong Kong for the time being, the Hong Kong Governor's Office While receiving broken troops and rebuilding the establishment, a large number of laborers were recruited to work day and night to repair the drunken bay defense line that had been abandoned since the Japanese invasion, as well as the Stonecutters fort, Jardine's Hill fortress and other fortifications.
At first glance, it seems that they are determined to fight another battle to defend Hong Kong - and the situation this time seems to be better than that in 1941, because the Allied forces have control of the sea in Hong Kong and can continuously send in Reinforcements and supplies, instead of sitting in sleepy city like last time.
But not long after that, the situation gradually changed subtly - first, the project to rebuild the Drunken Bay defense line was inexplicably abandoned halfway and became an unfinished building; the British Royal Navy's Eastern Fleet, which was originally stationed in Victoria Bay, suddenly weighed anchor late one night. Withdrew, and also took away a large number of soldiers and expats. Next, more and more military officers, expatriates and wealthy people fled by boat overnight, and the entire Hong Kong market was filled with panic.
By the beginning of October, there were still about 30,000 troops stationed in Hong Kong, but all the white Americans and British people in the traditional sense were gone, leaving only blacks, Indians, Arabs, Indians, Vietnamese, and Mexicans with mixed Indian ancestry. of ethnic origin, plus a motley crew of South American cannon fodder and Nepalese mercenaries, as well as The Kuomintang troops that had just fled to Hong Kong were defeated. Except for a few people who were placed on the defensive line, most of them were in a very strange state of herding sheep. No one gave them orders or took care of their daily lives. The Hong Kong Governor's Office just Let them go to the port warehouse to receive food supplies once a week...
As a result, these motley soldiers who were placed aside actually enjoyed a rare leisurely vacation in the midst of the smoke and bombs.
Since they have nothing to do now, after eating and drinking, these shocked and defeated soldiers couldn't help but start thinking wildly - the situation in Hong Kong seems to be obvious now, those noble white gentlemen are running away, and then We are going to throw these second-, third- and fourth-class people into Chinese prisoner-of-war camps... In the eyes of these tired, war-weary alien soldiers who have no good impression of the US and British governments, this seems to be a way out.
——I heard that the slogan of the Chinese Red Army has always been to treat prisoners of war preferentially... No matter how much water is mixed in, as long as it is not the same as the death concentration camps in Nazi Germany, then at least it is better than dying in a foreign country, and it is better at least. There is a chance to go home alive...
All in all, some of them chose to change their identities and escape from the team, while most of them waited numbly to raise their hands and surrender as prisoners of war - even the senior officials above were obviously not prepared to fight another battle to defend Hong Kong. Why should they, the abandoned hapless ones, rush to die?
However, in October, as detailed news of the nuclear explosion in Shanghai came one after another, these motley American and British soldiers of color, who had originally decided to resign themselves to their fate, could not help but feel a shudder in their hearts: those white people who had already fled. Man, before leaving, did he also leave an atomic bomb for self-destruction somewhere in Hong Kong? Damn it! God bless! We have never thought of dying for you white-skinned bastards!
In such an environment of panic, all kinds of terrifying rumors can always spread as quickly as possible...
Soon, under the fear of being exposed to the divine light of a nuclear explosion at close range, a group of highly mobile black soldiers took the lead in taking action and brazenly attacked the Hong Kong Governor's Office, which in their eyes was most suspected of hiding nuclear bombs. After easily killing the stupid Hong Kong guards outside the door and breaking into the building of the Hong Kong Governor's Office, these black soldiers discovered to their horror that the entire Hong Kong Governor's Office had been filled with human beings from unknown time. Go to the empty building! ! !
Then, what was even more shocking was that after searching the empty Hong Kong Governor's Office, they actually found an atomic bomb in a secret room!
An atomic bomb has been installed with a timing fuse and has entered a countdown!
At this moment, the mouths of all the black soldiers on the scene were open and their moods collapsed.
God! Let's rain down a bolt of lightning and kill those shameless white masters!
Fortunately, the meter above shows that there is still an hour before the detonation... I'm afraid it's too late to escape. Find someone to defuse the bomb!
However, none of these black engineers knew how to defuse bombs, so they could only go out and find ways to find foreign aid.
Next, after a lot of jumping up and downs, they finally found an Indian engineer from the street outside who claimed to have learned bomb disposal.
When he learned that the European and American white man had actually left a timed atomic bomb in the Hong Kong Governor's Office, the Indian engineer who smelled of curry was immediately frightened and broke into a cold sweat. He hurriedly tried his best and used all his skills. , trying hard to recall the content of the original training, and tremblingly began to dismantle the bomb. ...It is very regrettable that the structure of the timing fuze on this American atomic bomb seems to be very different from all the timing fuzes the Indian engineer has seen before. A considerable part of the circuits and mechanisms are something he has never seen before. When Meng Dai reached the last step of guesswork, he finally got out of the trap.
——I don’t know whether it was because I cut the wrong wire or triggered some sensing device. In short, this unskilled Indian engineer not only failed to stop the countdown, but directly detonated the atomic bomb, destroying himself and everything around him. All sent to hell.
"...Boom!!!"
Therefore, the soldiers of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, whose vanguard had just crossed the Shenzhen River, were surprised to see at the end of the horizon ahead, in the direction of Hong Kong Island in the south, accompanied by a dazzling white light, a huge mushroom cloud rising from the sky to the ground. Starting...
At this moment, most of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army soldiers who had witnessed all this had dull expressions and collapsed hearts.
"...Oh my God! Shanghai Beach is already dead, is Hong Kong Island going to die too?"
Feeling the hot wind generated by the nuclear explosion in the distance, a Red Army political commissar said this in a low voice with a numb expression and a tragic tone.
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All in all, although there were various mistakes during the execution process, various mistakes, and various plans failed to keep up with the changes... But no matter what, in the face of another wave of "nuclear explosion magic power" from the United States of America, the entire earth seemed to They were all shivering under the mushroom cloud.
Next, after releasing a large number of nuclear mass murderers "containing America's divine light of hope for mankind" on all fronts around the world, killing millions of human beings and inflicting enough hatred and fear on the United States of America. , President Truman in the White House was proud of He proudly delivered a public speech, first bragging about the illustrious achievements of this round of nuclear strikes, and claiming that relying on the powerful nuclear weapons of the United States of America, the enemies of the "freedom camp" suffered an unprecedented tragic defeat and devastating defeat. Psychological shock. Then he warned a certain "anti-civilization red evil empire" not to be greedy and should give up the abuse of force and return to the track of international negotiation, otherwise there will be more nuclear explosions in the future. Finally, he also proudly announced that representatives of Japan's "legitimate government" will formally sign a surrender agreement to the United States on October 10, thus legally and completely ending World War II, which has brought unprecedented catastrophe to human civilization. , and established the United States’ status as a victorious nation...