Great time travel

1 Chapter [-]: A Christmas Story During World War III ([-])

PS: The order of the last chapter is wrong, it should be [Chapter 1, A Christmas Story During World War III ([-])], I am correcting and apologizing here.

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At the western end of the Eurasian continent, the light of civilization that originally shone on the British island was gradually extinguished in hunger, chaos and fighting; at the eastern end of the Eurasian continent, people on the Japanese archipelago were also dying and destroying on an unprecedented scale. Among them, the Scarlet Dawn of the new era was ushered in ignorantly.

Late night, December 24, [-], Tokyo Bay, Sarushima Fortress
Sarushima, a small island with an area of ​​about five square kilometers, is located at the exit of Tokyo Bay, only a little over a kilometer away from the bustling market on the shore.Standing in Mikasa Park in Yokosuka, you can see it from afar.Surrounded by sea water on all sides, it is the only naturally formed island in Tokyo Bay.The island is lush with green trees, inhabited by insects and birds, and has a pleasant beach. In another world, it is a leisure resort full of tourists.

But in this era, Sarushima is a heavily guarded military base—since Sarushima guards the exit of Tokyo Bay, it is the first checkpoint for Tokyo's coastal defense, which is equivalent to Humen to Guangzhou, Wusong to Shanghai, and Incheon to Seoul.Therefore, as early as the Edo period when the country was closed to the outside world, the Tokugawa shogunate ordered the construction of the first modern coastal defense fort in Japanese history on Sarushima in order to prevent foreign ships from entering Edo Bay (Tokyo Bay).

Since then, Sarushima has guarded Tokyo Bay as a "fortress island" to protect the safety of the imperial capital. From the end of the Bakuma, Meiji, Taisho to Showa, the successive governments that ruled Japan have spared no expense in building fortifications on the island and placing giants. Cannons eventually turned the entire island into a huge immovable battleship. Tunnels built of red bricks meandered across the island, and there were small doors in the tunnels leading to hidden places deep in the mountain. With independent generators and deep water wells, the troops guarding the island can store ammunition and supplies in the caves on the mountainside, station soldiers, and fight for a long time.

However, although the Japanese Empire spent huge sums of money and overcame many technical difficulties to build the Sarushima Fortress in order to defend the capital, Tokyo, the Sarushima Fortress was never destroyed in any way until the capital Tokyo was turned into a radioactive wasteland. What positive role did it play in the war.

On the contrary, when Sarushima Fortress ushered in the first offensive and defensive battle, it became the last stronghold of foreign invaders in Japan...

——The pungent gunpowder smoke filled the sea breeze, and the sound of rumbling guns echoed on the sea surface... Large and small bomb craters devastated the island.The dense vegetation that originally covered the entire island has been burned to the point where only charred wooden stakes remain.On the beach that was being beaten by waves constantly, mutilated corpses could be seen here and there.In the shallow water around the island, you can still see the wreckage of many bombed amphibious tanks and landing craft.But despite this, a tattered Stars and Stripes Banner, blackened by gunpowder smoke and pierced by bullets, was still fluttering in the wind above the Sarushima Fortress.

When the calendar turned to December, after the "anxious" Soviets dropped twelve atomic bombs on their heads, the more than 30 Allied forces guarding the Boso Peninsula had collapsed, and most of them had not yet The officers and soldiers who were killed in the bombing surrendered one after another in a state of despair.As for the rest of the people, they wandered around like ghosts, or hid in some desolate, remote and unobtrusive corner for their last days, unable to form an organized resistance anymore.Of course, the Japanese army who regained lost ground was also very afraid of nuclear radiation, and did not dare to go deep into the area near the epicenter for a short time, which virtually gave the Allied stragglers a certain amount of breathing room.However, no matter how long these small groups of remnants of the Allied forces who have been defeated can linger in the ruins and barren hills full of nuclear pollution, for today's large-scale Third World War, it is completely impossible. It doesn't make sense anymore.

However, this does not mean that the gunfire on the Japanese battlefield has completely subsided-although the Allied forces on the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture have indeed collapsed and disintegrated and no longer pose a threat, and the Allied forces in other places are here. He had already voluntarily withdrawn before, and even the commander-in-chief, General Patton, escaped in a submarine.But in late December, there were still about [-] Australian troops still guarding the Sarushima Fortress at the entrance of Tokyo Bay, continuing to resist stubbornly.Since the Sarushima Fortress guards the key strategic position of the Tokyo Bay exit, if this nail cannot be pulled out, ships entering Tokyo Bay from the open sea will be at risk of being bombarded, and it cannot be ignored.Therefore, after distributing leaflets to the defenders of Sarushima and broadcasting broadcasts to persuade them to surrender failed, the Japanese wartime base camp launched the "last battle to regain the mainland" against Sarushima. , It's hard to get off!
——Different from the low-lying coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, Sarushima, which guards the exit of Tokyo Bay, is a hilly terrain, and the entire island has been fortified. Instead of building an airstrip, it is completely covered with artillery fortifications. It's even a permanent fortification that is as strong as Gibraltar!
Therefore, the Japanese wartime base camp used all the power of the local fleet, dispatched four light and heavy cruisers and nine destroyers, and conducted continuous bombardment of the Sarushima Fortress for two days and nights, and also dispatched a large number of bombers to attack this fortified island. More than 1000 sorties of bombing were carried out, causing trees and rocks to be rotted everywhere on the surface of the island, and bricks and soil burned.But this fortress island built by the Japanese Empire with huge sums of money is indeed worth the huge cost. In the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of aircraft and naval guns, it is as hard as a walnut.Although every inch of land on the island has been completely plowed by artillery fire, and every step you take can step on a bomb crater, not a single decent tree is still alive-the endless flames of artillery fire are like volcanic lava. Go straight and burn the whole island to nothing.However, those Australians hiding in the tunnel work still survived and resisted desperately.

The Japanese Marine Corps, which was ordered to seize the island, tried three times to forcibly land on the island, but they were all repulsed by the allied forces who were defending the island, with as many as [-] casualties.Even the Japanese fleet, which provided fire cover for the landing force, had two destroyers and one heavy cruiser, which were sunk by the Sarushima Fort controlled by the Allied forces. , It can be said that it is a traumatic injury and a heavy loss.

In this way, the coastal defense fortress built by the Japanese Empire to defend the capital has become the biggest obstacle to the Japanese army's complete recovery of the country.

After failing to land on Sarushima three times on the beach, the Japanese army had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​a quick battle and just dispatched warships to cruise near the fortress, bombarding a few shells from time to time, but due to the insufficient caliber of the naval guns and the fragility of the hull itself , It was very disadvantageous in the confrontation with the coastal defense guns of the fortress-all the battleships of the Japanese Navy are currently not in the mainland, and the only heavy cruiser has also been sunk by the fortress defenders.

Therefore, several Japanese destroyers and light cruisers that were urgently transferred to take charge of the Raiders of Sarushima had to wander outside the range of the fortress guns, occasionally getting closer to fire a few shots, and then quickly retreated like a cat touching a red-hot coal. , its real destructive effect can only be said to be better than nothing at best.

At the same time, Japanese planes continued to carry out bombing and bombing missions, blasting new bomb craters on the already riddled island.

And the Japanese army on the shore also found a position where they could see the fortress of Sarushima. They set up artillery of various calibers by the sea, and carried out saturated bombardment of Sarushima day and night-after all, this island is only [-] meters away from the sea. A little more than a kilometer, even a mortar can hit it.

Moreover, it is still shooting fixed targets on land, and the targets are still so big. If it fails to hit again, then the entire artillery crew can apologize.

Although the counterattacks of the Australian artillery in the fortress were equally fierce, blowing up the Japanese army's artillery positions in Yokosuka several times in a row, but now the Japanese army has an absolute advantage on the battlefield. Will be able to rally again soon.

As a result, shells of various calibers and bombs of various weights roared repeatedly on such a small island of only five square kilometers, playing an uncoordinated but absolutely murderous war symphony.After half a month of shelling and bombing, the topography of Sarushima Island has been seriously changed. Looking down from the air, there are densely packed bomb craters everywhere, and the counterattack of the shore artillery has become weaker and weaker, and several forts have misfired one after another.

However, despite this, under the stormy shelling and bombing of the Japanese army, the underground fortifications of Sarushima Fortress, which cost a lot of money to build, have withstood the test and are generally safe and sound.The thousands of Australian officers and soldiers currently hiding in the underground shelter of the Sarushima Fortress are also patiently hiding in the tunnels, ready to start a new fight with the Japanese at any time.Although they already knew clearly that for them now, there was no hope of victory at all, and their destruction would be a matter of time, but when they started fighting, they were still so fanatical and fierce, and their morale was still so high.
Because these subjugated people are no longer fighting for victory, but are fighting for a vigorous death and destruction!

These Australians now know that their hometown, Australia, has now become the land of the Japanese.The cruel samurai of the Yamato nation are just like the white people who slaughtered the aborigines in the past. They are exterminating the white Australians like pests. Even if they surrender, they will be homeless, and they are even in danger of being cleaned up on the spot.Even their spiritual motherland, Britain, has now been destroyed in the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosion.

——Traveling mountains and rivers, risking life and death for four years, suffering countless hardships, and paying tragic sacrifices, the result is that everything is lost. Such a huge contrast makes these Australians who call themselves iron-blooded warriors fundamentally Unbearable: The homeland that needs to be protected by myself already belongs to others, and all the relatives who are waiting for me to go back to reunite have died.That being the case, what's the point of living?Like a dog, kneeling in front of Japanese dwarfs and licking their shoes, begging them to leave a way out for themselves?The cowards who are willing to do this have already escaped from this desperate island.The rest are hard bones that would rather die than surrender, all they want is to achieve a heroic death and live up to their name as a warrior.

And the Japanese and Soviets who were their enemies also "generously" fulfilled their wish...

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Today is Christmas Eve. I don’t know if it’s because the Japanese are also celebrating Christmas. The enemy ships that had been hovering in the nearby sea have disappeared since noon, and the Japanese artillery on the shore also stopped bombarding the Sarushima Fortress. There was also no sign of the Japanese plane overhead.

In this way, amidst the confusion of the officers and soldiers guarding the island, the Sarushima Fortress ushered in a peaceful day for the first time since the start of the war.

As the sun went down and night fell, the Sarushima Fortress, which had remained silent during the day and looked like an uninhabited island, finally began to become noisy.One after another, many dirty Australian soldiers came out from various parts of this small island, and then collapsed on the beach with no energy at all—after so many days of hard fighting , Their clothes were almost turned into pieces of cloth, their eyes were sunken, they were exhausted, their thinking was numb, and their minds were dull. They just wanted to come out to look at the night sky and stars, and take a few breaths of fresh air.

After all, life in the underground tunnel is really hard. There are so many people crowded in such a small space, and it is not breathable at all. The air is so turbid that it is as dull as the hold of a slave ship. Suffocated to death inside.Not to mention that while enduring the oppressiveness comparable to that of a train compartment during peak hours, you have to listen to enemy shells falling on your head like hailstones, shaking off piles of mud and gravel... Many unlucky Australian soldiers, They were sealed underground together with the bombed-out air-raid shelter, and died extremely painfully: they were asphyxiated, their chests and lungs were under tremendous pressure, their eyeballs protruded, and the last thing they saw was darkness—the deep cave not only protected them, and buried them at last.

Even those soldiers who survived, after spending so long in the tunnel, are all ashen and unkempt, like mummies just dug out of the grave, and the only hope in their hearts is to go out for a breath of fresh air, which is to step on the ground. I am willing to die from unexploded bombs.

Therefore, seeing that the enemy seemed to have temporarily disappeared and the battlefield calmed down, these Australians who had been forced to live in caves for many days couldn't wait to get out for some air and look at the sky.Even if you can't see the blue sky, white clouds, or sun, it's good to be able to look at the starry sky in the evening wind.

Fortunately, the weather in Tokyo Bay is good tonight. In the clear night sky, there are only a group of stars shining brightly. Thousands of stars form a milky white Milky Way. Up, down, dancing up and down with the waves, now and then disappearing... Amidst the sound of the waves, the fresh and cold sea breeze blows towards the face, dispelling the gunpowder smoke and corpse odor that originally permeated the island, making people feel refreshed for a while.

Before, under the shelling of the enemy day and night, a considerable number of Australian officers and soldiers in the Sarushima Fortress had not seen the starry sky for a long time.At first, they just lay quietly on the beach or on the mound, silently looking at the sea and the starry sky, breathing in the fresh air, doing nothing, thinking about nothing... After a while, some Australians It seems that they have had enough rest, and they start to light cigarettes and smoke, or talk to each other in low voices.Then, someone remembered that today...it seemed...as if...it was Christmas?

Moreover, this is very likely to be the last Christmas in their lives!

As a result, Ape Island in the night became more and more noisy, and the soldiers who had given up on themselves became more and more emotional. Regardless of the constraints of military discipline, they directly looted the food storage in the fortress and took out all kinds of canned food, bacon, and biscuits , candy and wine, picnic on the spot under the stars, eat and drink-anyway, the food on the island is at least enough for them to eat for another half a year, but it is impossible for this fortress to hold for another two months.

All of a sudden, sweet tooth stuffed their mouths with chocolate candies, salty ones pried open cans of luncheon meat and ham and eggs, and alcoholics reached out and grabbed bottles full of whiskey and brandy, still drunk in their mouths. Singing Christmas carols.

After drinking and eating, they seemed to wake up suddenly, and suddenly realized the preciousness of life. Some people thought of their relatives, some thought of the pastures in their hometown in Australia, the rabbits everywhere, and the big desert with kangaroos... …Unfortunately, all of this no longer belongs to them. The southern continent discovered by Captain Cook was once occupied by the Anglo-Saxons for more than 100 years, but now it is forced to spit it out of its mouth.

After dealing with the Japanese for so many years, all Australian officers and soldiers on the battlefield have no illusions about the benevolence of the Japanese conquerors.These yellow-skinned dwarves will only slaughter the white people in Australia mercilessly like the Yankees wiped out the Indians, or expel them from the country...

Therefore, they soon became depressed again, continued to eat and drink, and seemed to intend to use overeating to imply to themselves that death and destruction are still some time away, and the joys of life are not far away... However, war is far away from them closer!

——Xi Wei's morning light just lit up from the edge of the sky, and the ominous sound of the engine came from the end of the horizon.The Australian soldiers who had played all night were also sensitive to this, and hurriedly got into the tunnel, making the beach that was still full of people a moment ago empty again.Only a few sentries ventured to stay in the camouflaged outposts to observe the enemy's situation in the sky and on the sea... However, what they never imagined was that in order to celebrate the last Christmas in their lives, the Soviets sent such a gift... A super big Christmas present!
First, an unimaginable blazing light instantly lit up on the Sarushima Fortress, causing the sentinels on the island who couldn't avoid it to feel a sharp pain in their eyes, and then, before they could react, came along with the strong light of the nuclear explosion The high temperature and blazing heat directly vaporized their entire bodies—in the deadly light and heat radiation and shock waves, the bones, muscles, nerves, and skin of all those who were hit directly at close range seemed to have been put into a microwave oven. It was quickly roasted, burned, and finally burned into inorganic substances like coke and tree roots.

At the same time, if you look down from a high altitude, you can see an extremely bright and huge fireball rising into the sky above the Sarushima Fortress, gradually rising to an altitude of more than 400 meters, turning into a tumbling crimson thick cloud of flames, In the end, a huge fire cloud in the shape of a mushroom was formed.All kinds of deadly rays, particles, nuclear dust storms and shock waves, accompanied by terrifying loud noises and shock waves, swept away in all directions.In an instant, the entire island of apes was swept away.It was really thunderous and overwhelming, like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, violently destroying everything along the way.All surface fortifications, camouflaged outposts, as well as artillery forts and piers, were blown by the shock wave of the nuclear explosion like autumn leaves flying all over the sky.

——In order to "help" Australians celebrate this Christmas, the Soviets sent an atomic bomb as a Christmas present...

At this point, with the complete destruction of the Sarushima Fortress by the atomic bomb, the war on the Japanese archipelago finally died down and the dust settled.

Over the past year or so, the 270 million Allied troops who landed on the Japanese archipelago one after another ended in annihilation.The Japanese who successfully recovered the country also paid a tragic price that the country's major cities were basically reduced to ruins and ghosts, and 600 million soldiers and civilians died in the flames of war.

However, although any country can start a war, only the real victor can end the war-even if the Japanese have halved the country's population, the war is far from over, and death and destruction are even more important. It's still going on, even... it's getting worse!