Great time travel

Chapter 87. The Earth under the Mushroom Cloud

Indonesia, Java Island, Jakarta

After a daily rainstorm in the afternoon, the air in downtown Jakarta, also known as the "Coconut City", became exceptionally fresh.

Looking down from the air, the old city of Jakarta, which was built in the [-]th century with Fata Hela Square as the center, is presenting an elegant and cultural atmosphere of a modern European city.And even the originally chaotic slums seemed to have become much cleaner after being washed away by a heavy rain.

Of course, overall, the city is a lot busier.Many shops on the street are closed, and there are fewer cars on the road than in the colonial era.There are also traces of being bombed on some buildings... However, for the freedom and independence of the country, this is a necessary price.

Sitting on the balcony of the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Indonesia, which was converted from the old Governor's Palace, President Sukarno, the "Father of the Nation", thought so confidently.

——After the Japanese army withdrew from Indonesia, Sukarno and his henchmen took over the control of this vast country of thousands of islands.

Although the territory of Indonesia is still separatist, the territory that President Sukarno and the father of the nation can actually control is quite limited. A bunch of Sudanese chiefs in Sumatra and Borneo occupy land and rule the country, and refuse to obey the orders of the central government.The British army who had just returned to Singapore also came to take advantage of the fire and dispatched fleets and marines to seize the Palembang oil field. Sukarno, who lacked naval fleet and air power, could only stare blankly at this... But in any case, most of the situation was in the Moving in a good direction.At least the Java Island, where the essence of all Indonesia is gathered, has been controlled by Sukarno's republic government.And as long as they gain a firm foothold on the island of Java, then as long as they rest and recuperate a little, it is only a matter of time before the country is leveled.

——Although Indonesia has a vast territory, most of it is tropical rainforest that is difficult to develop, and there are not many lands that can really accommodate a large number of people.Only on the island of Java, because of the many volcanoes, a large amount of volcanic ash is deposited, which is like natural fertilizer, making the land on the island very fertile. A small island of 13 square kilometers can actually house hundreds of millions of people, and the population density is higher than that of Japan. Much higher.

Relying on such sufficient human resources and the munitions left over by the Japanese army before their retreat, Sukarno's government of the Republic of Indonesia pulled up a large-scale army in a very short period of time.Although the attacking ability of this mob has yet to be tested, at least the size of this force is enough to bluff people.

During the defense of Jakarta not long ago, Sukarno took command in the presidential palace and mobilized 18 troops to easily defeat [-] British marines who crossed the sea to attack. Thousands... Well, this exchange ratio is indeed embarrassing enough, but Sukarno has also shown great strength after all, fully proving that he cannot be overthrown by just a few gunboats and a few thousand miscellaneous troops.However, the current Western European and American colonial powers have long since run out of fuel, and at most they can only use this little power to invest in the East.

——The Netherlands, the former owner of the Indonesian colony, its European mainland is now the Dutch Socialist Republic, and the Queen of the Netherlands who lives in London has no soldiers.The British have wiped out a whole generation of young people in this war, and they are still fighting endlessly in Europe, and they are going to fight India, Burma, Malaya, Vietnam, and China in Asia at the same time, and they can invest thousands of people to intervene The Indonesian colony has reached its limit.

Not long ago, in an interview with reporters, Sukarno once said pitifully: "...after being repelled by the Japanese, Britain should fully understand the limits of its own strength and stop trying to return to the East. It will lead the already exhausted British people into one wrong war after another, until at the same time, they will go to war with countless peoples throughout East Asia... I think that when Prime Minister Churchill was thinking about entering East Asia, he didn't think about how to be decent at all Withdrawal. As a result, after the British have been killed for a generation, this war is still far away, even if the expenses of the war are paid by others, every day and every moment. There are British soldiers bleeding and dying in battle. This kind of strong mental pressure It will crush the confidence of the British army to continue fighting."

As for the Americans?If they want to interfere in Indonesia, let's wait until when the Pacific Fleet overturns the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy!
Although Sukarno basically does not have his own naval fleet, Sukarno is currently unable to regain the Palembang Oilfield occupied by the British army in the distance, and he is also unable to cross the sea to fight against the separatist forces on Sumatra, Borneo and other outer islands, but at least in the It is no problem to walk sideways on Java Island.

In his view, as long as they continue to persist for a while, those imperialist powers that are cruel and inward will have no choice but to retreat in desperation.

However, just as President Sukarno was looking up at the clear blue sky after the rain, and stretched out on the balcony a few times, he was about to go back to the office to continue reviewing documents and drafting a speech for tomorrow's mass rally. Suddenly a sharp air raid siren sounded!
——With the sound of the air raid siren, the original calm and lazy atmosphere in Jakarta suddenly disappeared.Pedestrians on the street ran to avoid, shouting and screaming.President Sukarno was also carried into the air-raid shelter of the presidential palace by two big-armed guards.

A moment later, several B-29 "Super Sky Fortress" bombers roared from afar. The four powerful engines on the fuselage pulled out four white atomized trails, and the rumble of the engines resounded through the sky.Its frequency is low and its intensity is very high, which brings a heavy sense of depression to people's hearts.

On the ground, the few anti-aircraft artillery began to fire "boom-boom", but unfortunately they couldn't reach the enemy plane at an altitude of [-] meters, so they could only embolden themselves.On the other side, many bold citizens ignored the air raid siren, but stood on the roof or climbed the big tree, looking curiously at the huge plane overhead-in general, due to the several previous campaigns organized by the British and Americans. This small-scale air strike did not cause serious damage to Jakarta, not even as many people died as a major typhoon. Citizens were not too nervous about such a small-scale bombing, and thought it was nothing more than that.

However, this time they were completely wrong! ! !

A few minutes later, a golden light erupted from the sky over Jakarta, a fireball volleyed in the sky, and a mushroom cloud rose into the sky—ah!It's an atomic bomb attack! ! !

At the last moment before death, many citizens of Jakarta saw a tumbling fireball going straight into the sky, getting bigger and bigger, constantly changing colors, from violet to orange, like Buddha holding a gemstone and turning, colorful and brilliant Dazzling.The fireball and the huge smoke column below turned into a strange green mushroom cloud, rose into the blue sky, and finally disappeared at an altitude of [-] meters.

Unfortunately, the Fatahirah Square and the Presidential Palace, which were located near the epicenter of the nuclear bomb, were all wiped out in the heat comparable to the surface of the sun.Concrete turned into dust, gravel and pebbles were melted and re-solidified into purple glass balls, trees turned into charcoal, human bodies were turned into ashes, the artillerymen on the anti-aircraft emplacements were fused with their weapons, and the shadows of people and objects were printed. On the ground and on the remaining walls... Even if you hide in a solid underground air-raid shelter, you can't escape the butcher's knife of death.At the same time, a terrifying shock wave also rampaged through the urban area, knocking down most of the buildings within a five-kilometer radius in an instant.In a few seconds, the trees on the street and thousands of citizens who had no time to hide in the bunker were scorched by the extremely dry and hot foehn.Many were burnt to death at once, and many others rolled on the ground half-dead, screaming in agony as they burned.

Minutes later, another rain of sticky black radiation fell from the sky, delivering a deadly fallout to the terrified survivors.

Then, in those urban areas that were far from the center of the explosion and had not been directly destroyed by the nuclear explosion, fires were ignited because of the high temperature and heat wave of the atomic bomb explosion—the terrifying nuclear explosion scorched the air to a level exceeding that of wood in an instant. With the temperature above the ignition point of the cloth, there is no longer any need for kindling, and wherever this terrifying high-temperature airflow blows, it will start to burn!The cloth is burning, the wood is burning, the house is burning, and the living and the dead are starting to burn—first the hair, then the clothes, and then even the skin and subcutaneous fat, and the dead are lucky because It is impossible for them to die again.Those who are alive and burned are equivalent to being doused with gasoline and lit on sky lanterns. The burning pain that is like falling into the flames of hell is really miserable and indescribable.At the same time, they have to suffer from suffocation caused by the high temperature.

The fire brigade in Jakarta had already been paralyzed by the nuclear explosion, and the panicked people scattered and fled in all directions.I don't know whether to find a place to hide or rush to fight the fire-in fact, even if they wanted to fight the fire, there was no running water to use.And it was too late to draw water slowly from the well.Soon, the rapidly approaching flames forced the remaining citizens to make a choice. They rushed out of the flames one by one, shouting in despair, trying to hide in the open space where the fire could not reach.But strong winds blowing from the Java Sea fueled the flames, and huge fireballs "seeded" with stars of cinders, leaping from building to building.The fire spread far faster than expected.

As a result, less than half an hour after the nuclear explosion, the fire had already spread to the wooden houses and bamboo sheds in the whole city of Jakarta by the wind, swallowing everything that could be burned, the metal melted, and the tiles became in the fire. Black powder, many people hiding in the air-raid shelter were roasted alive.

Fire snakes ran wildly on the street, thick smoke billowed, and there were loud crashing noises and heart-piercing screams everywhere in the fire.People ran wildly like mice, some were surrounded by flames and eventually burned to coke, some were trapped in buildings, suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen after being suffocated by thick smoke.Desperate people almost went crazy, jumping into the water desperately, the ponds and swimming pools in those gardens were densely packed with people who wanted to escape, but the high temperature quickly turned these pools into boiling cauldrons, The people in the water became cooked dumplings.

—Five hours later, the U.S. air force stationed in Singapore sent several planes over Jakarta to observe the situation after the atomic bomb exploded.After a while, they sent a report back to the airport by radio from the air, saying that the entire urban area of ​​Jakarta was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames, billowing thick smoke covered the sky, and also ignited the mountains and forests around the city. It is impossible to judge the city of Jakarta from the air. Is there still...

Although twelve hours later, a sudden torrential rain basically extinguished the flames in Jakarta, but the radioactive dust in the air and sewage is still taking the lives of survivors.What's more, due to the sudden destruction of the central government of the entire republic, the island of Java fell into anarchy in a short period of time. Jakarta was surrounded by thugs, and countless people were fighting each other for gold, silver and food.

Therefore, it was not until a week later that all parties confirmed the destruction of the central government of the Republic of Indonesia and the death of President Sukarno.

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Madrid, Spain

At this very moment, the Puerta del Sol in the center of Madrid was full of red flags flying and crowded with noisy and noisy scenes.

Tens of thousands of workers, citizens and students gathered here with excited faces, chanting various revolutionary slogans and singing revolutionary songs, celebrating the fall of Franco’s reactionary regime and the Spanish Second Republic’s government-in-exile. The "Returning the Capital Ceremony".

Accompanied by the melody of "The Internationale", Prime Minister Juan Negrín, who had just ended his years in exile, and several members of the government-in-exile of the Second Spanish Republic behind him, appeared in the temporary building amid deafening cheers. On the podium built on the side of the square.

Looking at the enthusiastic faces under the podium and the familiar street scenes around him, Prime Minister Juan Negrín couldn’t help being filled with emotion for a moment, like a dream—since the failure of the civil war and being forced to flee overseas, the domestic Prime Minister Green traveled to and from France, Mexico, and South American countries. He was displaced for many years and even thought that it was impossible for him to return to his homeland.Unexpectedly, until today, there is still a day when I will be proud and make a comeback!
Although the flames of war in the Spanish territory have not been extinguished, Franco and his direct legion are still entrenched in the Andalusia region at the southernmost tip of Spain, joining forces with the British army stationed in Gibraltar to continue to resist.The Catholic Church in the countryside continued to incite landlords and peasants to rebel, and the autonomy demands of the Basques and Catalans were also headaches, but compared to the arduous Spanish Civil War that year, all these were nothing.

At a time when the whole of Europe is about to be planted with red flags of socialism, Prime Minister Negrin does not think that he has the possibility of another failure.As long as they hold tightly to the thick legs of the invincible Soviet Red Army, no matter whether it is the British, Portuguese or Franco, there will be no hope of a comeback.

In fact, as far as he knows, after the liberation of Spain, the reactionary regime in Portugal will become the next target of the European socialist camp.And the end of the British Empire is probably coming soon.

So, while smiling and waving his hands in response to the cheers of the crowd in the square, he leaned in front of the microphone and cleared his throat... However, at the moment when Prime Minister Juan Negrín began his speech, the square was unsightly. Suddenly the piercing air raid siren sounded!
oh!Damn Brits!Damn Franco!
His Excellency Prime Minister Neglin suddenly felt as if ten thousand alpacas were rushing out of his heart majesticly, and he almost couldn't catch his breath...

But in any case, this gathering and celebration will definitely not go on.When the Soviet Red Army fighter group stationed near Madrid began to take off to meet the enemy one after another.The crowd at the Puerta del Sol Square in the city also dispersed, running wildly in all directions, looking for air-raid shelters with vacant seats.As for the celebration of the return of the capital that the government of the Second Spanish Republic has been planning for many days, it can only be postponed for the time being.

While squatting in the underground bunker, Prime Minister Juan Negrin was still thinking about how to revise his speech for the next use.

But what happened next proved that he was completely overthinking, because he didn't need to give any more speeches in his life.

——A few minutes later, an atomic bomb with an equivalent of about [-] tons of TNT exploded in the sky above Madrid, the ancient capital on the plateau in the center of the Iberian Peninsula: first, a fireball appeared, which turned purple after a few seconds. Clouds and flames tumbling and circling upwards, the shock wave and deadly radiation comparable to a super typhoon swept across the city, destroying half of the buildings and a quarter of the population in downtown Madrid...

A few hours later, when the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army and the International Column, who heard the news, risked radiation sickness and wore simple earthen protective equipment, they entered the urban area of ​​Madrid cautiously, and found that the entire city They have all fallen into a deathly silence.

With the help of the strange faint light penetrating the cloud of nuclear radiation, the reporter of Pravda who accompanied the army was surprised to see that a large block in the center of Madrid had disappeared, only a few cement poles and iron frames stood alone, and some The unidentifiable wreckage was still slowly smoking, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of charred corpses.A few scorched survivors could be seen sporadically on the street, staggering around like walking dead.On the side of the road lay some seriously wounded who were horribly burned, moaning slightly in pain on the ground. When the Red Army soldiers tried to lift them up, their scorched black skin from severe burns fell off in pieces, like people taking off their hands. It fell off like a glove, and the scene was really horrible.

Then, places of interest such as Mayorque Square, Puerta del Sol, Cervantes Monument and Don Quixote statue in the urban area of ​​Madrid were buried under the rubble in a mess.The trees in Retiro Park were charred by the fire, and even the artificial lake was evaporated dry in the high temperature.The streets were so filled with unrecognizable garbage that it was almost impossible for cars to move.On the Manzanares River that runs through the city of Madrid, most of the bridges have disappeared, the river has turned black, and there are countless charred bodies floating on the river. It is almost impossible to tell whether it is a man or a woman. .

The Red Cross then set up a first-aid post outside the city and soon received thousands of wounded.Many people were burnt or smashed, and then began to be infected and festered because the inflammation was not treated in time. These injuries and symptoms can barely be rescued by the first aid station.But other Madrid citizens have no serious injuries on the surface, but their hair keeps falling out, and at the same time they are nauseated and vomited, and finally even vomited blood... With the medical technology of this era, there is no way to deal with radiation sickness So much so that at least hundreds of people die quickly every hour, and doctors are powerless about it.

——In short, the government of the Second Spanish Republic, which had just ended its overseas exile and moved back to Madrid, was declared dead before it officially opened.There is no doubt that this is a slap in the face from the capitalist camp of the United States and Britain to the socialist camp when the red flag is sweeping across the continent.

What's even more frightening is that the series of explosive light wave critical attacks by the United States of America to torture the world is far from over...