Great time travel

Chapter 21. The Islands Dyed Red
Japan, Kyoto

Masanobu Tsuji, with dull eyes, was wearing a dirty military uniform and staggered on the streets of Kyoto after the US air raid.

At this moment, the entire urban area of ​​Kyoto has completely changed its appearance: it is almost the same as Tokyo, which suffered a nuclear explosion two months ago!
Surrounded by ruins and ruins after the fire, the air was filled with a pungent burnt smell, and a thick layer of ash lay on the ground.Burnt trees and telephone poles fell on the road like matchsticks.Occasionally, a few severely burned women, holding their children who had been gassed to death or burned to charcoal, staggered among the ruins, their expressions dull and numb, like walking corpses.

If we say that Kyoto a week ago was still so delicate, unrestrained, and quaint, with light clouds and mist, and glazed mist, like a sleeping beauty covered in tulle, with a nostalgic ancient style.So today's Kyoto has become a horrible scorched corpse, all good things no longer exist, only the rotten and ugly wreckage, and the gloomy haze of death and destruction are left.

Those checkerboard-shaped grid paths, antique cardboard houses, verdant pines and cypresses, the Heian Shrine commemorating Emperor Hengwu, the "back stage" on the cliff of Kiyomizu Temple, Ninna Temple full of cherry blossom forests, women in elegant kimonos... Everything disappeared in the fire and poisonous gas!
As long as he closes his eyes, that nightmarish night scene will involuntarily appear in front of Major General Masanobu Tsuji.

Just when he went to Hiroshima to ask for help and failed—before he had time to meet His Excellency Umezu Yoshijiro, Commander of the Kwantung Army, he was bombarded indiscriminately by American bombers, so he had to grab a military vehicle and escape.Then he returned in vain with exhaustion and frustration. Just when he drove the car to the outskirts of Kyoto, another wave of overwhelming American bombers flew over the Japanese capital at a speed of more than 300 miles per hour. of the old capital.

In response, the Japanese in Kyoto did not organize any counterattacks, because they did not even have a single anti-aircraft gun, let alone a night fighter.

——In the planning of the wartime base camp, Tokyo is the imperial capital, and priority needs to be guaranteed in terms of anti-aircraft firepower.The focus of air defense in the Kinki region is Osaka, where the essence of heavy industry in western Japan is gathered.But Kyoto, a famous historical and cultural city in Japan, was abandoned by the wartime base camp, because the green mountains, clear waters and historical sites were of no use in the war years, and it would be okay for Yankees to come to such a place to waste bombs and fuel, right?
However, this unexpected thing finally happened, and it was so bloody and cruel.

In the first wave of air strikes, the U.S. military dropped tons of Soman gas bombs, a kind of nerve gas with a faint fruity aroma. Just one gas bomb can poison or kill a living person within a radius of one kilometer. Moreover, it can directly penetrate into the human body through the skin and mucous membranes, even wearing an old-fashioned gas mask is useless... The unsuspecting citizens of Kyoto were immediately smoked, and the firefighters who were waiting in battle were the first to suffer.

It took more than an hour after the first batch of bombers dropped dozens of tons of Soman gas bombs, and the next batch of U.S. bombers that came later began to drop napalm incendiary bombs on Kyoto one after another.As a traditional Japanese-style ancient capital, houses in Kyoto are mainly made of paper and wood structures, which are excellent fuels.Right now, the citizens were too smothered by the poisonous gas to put out the fire, so the wind soon helped the fire, causing the raging flames to spread rapidly. After the fire, the tiles became brittle and fell like black snow, and one house after another was like gas. The furnace exploded like an explosion, and a raging fire broke out.

In the blink of an eye, the fire became more and more intense, turning into a vast waterfall of flames.Huge fireballs jumped from one building to another in a violent storm, forming white-hot fire waves with a temperature of over a thousand degrees Celsius!Burning as hot as the sun.Bursts of smoke rolled into the air, and the fire below was reflected orange.Thousands of people huddled in the simple air-raid shelters, their faces turned pale with fright, thinking that they would be roasted to death soon.

In this way, the ancient Kyoto became a purgatory, the glass was melted, the river was boiled, the fire consumed all the oxygen, and almost no one survived in the center of the fire zone. In the small river, I thought that water could avoid the fire, but after only a moment, the terrible flames boiled the river instantly, and the people in the water turned into cooked dumplings... The only benefit this fire brought to the citizens of Kyoto , perhaps to evaporate the poisonous gas that was originally diffused, but this is meaningless, because the thick smoke caused by the fire is also deadly.

When Major General Masanobu Tsuji came to the edge of the fire scene in Kyoto with the hot wind and flames, he saw a fiery storm that seemed to be ejected from the hearth, engulfed in violently burning particles of sparks, and spread rapidly along the streets.Adults and children were running for their lives, sprinting around like rats.The flames chased them like living creatures, knocked them down, and then died hundreds of thousands in front of Major General Tsuji Masanobu. "

It was not until dawn that Major General Tsuji Masanobu dared to lead people into the still smoking downtown area of ​​Kyoto, and found that except for stone statues, concrete pillars and walls, iron frames, and sparse telephone poles, the entire thousand-year-old capital had been destroyed. Burnt clean.A few telegraph poles were still smoking like small candles.Most of the tiny rivers are clogged with corpses, and even the river itself has evaporated almost dry, clogged with bloated corpses and household debris.The ground on the banks of the river was still emitting heat.Dead bodies can be seen everywhere in painful positions: some are naked and black, some are praying with their hands clasped, some are standing in strange shapes, as if they are about to run, and some are sitting there as if meditating.One corpse had its head shrunk down to the size of a grapefruit.Mothers who tried to protect their children became charred together, and couples melted together in the heat of their last embrace.Those who survived left messages on the walls and sidewalks with coke, trying to find their relatives... Even the forests in the suburbs were on fire at this time, and no one could organize manpower Going to fight the rescue, I can only watch the trees and the ancient temple burn to ashes together.

The "thief-seeking army" that was brought from Nagoya to Kyoto by Major General Masanobu Tsuji and other radical officers to "fix the country to punish traitors" and "put order out of chaos" also suffered heavy casualties in the bombing of the US military. The entire army collapsed. As the supreme leader, Lieutenant General Ishihara Waner has also disappeared, and it is estimated that most of them have already been buried in the flames.Major General Tsuji Masanobu managed to gather more than 100 people, and then retreated in despair to Mount Takao in the southern suburbs of Kyoto.Although the place is equally smoky and smoky, at least there are still some complete houses to live in.But after barely settling down and breathing for a while, looking at the burnt-to-white capital in the distance, everyone was disheartened and discouraged. They deeply felt that the current situation was at an impasse and their future was bleak, so they collapsed completely soon.

Some people cursed the American devils while guzzling some soju they got from nowhere.Some people watch the radio all day, but what they hear is one bad news after another.Even as the backbone of this group of people, Major General Tsuji Masanobu's mood is just as bad.He is very clear that the Japanese Empire today is not without the power to fight. The millions of imperial troops and the invincible combined fleet are still intact. They have all received military training since childhood, and there is no need to worry about not having qualified soldiers for fighting in the local area.

But the problem is, after losing the only operator, this huge war machine has been reduced to scrap iron in an instant, and it can no longer be started!

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As we all know, the advantages of the Japanese are seriousness and diligence, and the disadvantages are rigidity and rigidity. They often go all the way to the dark and turn themselves into perverts.

Why is this so?Because since ancient times, Japan has been a country with strict hierarchy. The powerful and powerful families rule everything, and the common people are muddle-headed and humble for generations.In order to maintain harmony and stability, the entire Japanese traditional society is advocating the ideological principle of "each person has his own place". In the work within, each has its own position and performs its own duties.Only in this way can we be accepted by the society and recognized by our own group.This sounds a bit similar to the collectivism of socialist countries, but the problem is that the Japanese principled concept of "each in his own place" needs to add a key prefix: hereditary!
In other words, farmers should farm for generations, thinking about how to grow crops better, instead of changing their careers to work in the city-although there are still many such people, and they cannot be restrained at all.Samurai should have thought about how to kill people more efficiently for generations, and if they change their careers to do business to make money, it is tantamount to degrading themselves
Although actually looking deeper, this so-called principle of "everyone has his own place" has been broken and subverted more than once.For example, the Warring States Period in the Middle Ages in Japan was simply an era of subjugation.Before and after the Meiji Restoration, it was also a group of lower-middle-class vassal warriors who usurped the power of the lords and generals.But despite this, the modern Japanese ruling class after the Meiji Restoration still tried their best to promote this set of ideas, whitewashed the emperor who had been useless for hundreds of years, and put him on the throne, making the Japanese people regard the emperor as a living person. God in the world, the most basic duty of citizens is to do their best for the emperor, and everyone lives for the emperor.And everything done in the war, including war atrocities, is also in the service of the emperor.

This is really a day POI!Is there such a way of leaving Asia and entering Europe?Although in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, there were various regimes ranging from a republic to a monarchy, there was absolutely no one that made the monarch a god, and then turned itself into the people of the kingdom of God.Even the divine right of kings in the Middle Ages, even the caliphs and sultanates in the Arab world, but Jesus or Muhammad only claimed to be a prophet. How can they claim to be gods?

However, it is not entirely true that the gang of heroes in Zhiweixin are all idiots.The reason why they wanted to launch this gimmick that "Japan is a kingdom of God, and the emperor is a living god" was also a last resort in order to unite people's hearts with the highest efficiency under the circumstances of Japan's overall backwardness at that time: the more a nation is in In adversity, the less confident you are, the more you need some kind of superstition as spiritual opium, so that you can produce enough self-paralyzing spiritual illusions to satisfy your empty and inferior heart.However, such peoples also become more sensitive and inferior, and equally arrogant.

If this gimmick can be played well, it will become the source of national cohesion and the great slogan of striving for strength and marching towards the road of empire, just like the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States of America and the "Jihad" of the Arabs.But it is a pity that the modern Japanese are obviously playing off...

Year after year of brainwashing in this way, except for a few rebels, ordinary Japanese people have become fools who only know how to obey their superiors.The status quo that there are no poor families in the upper class and no noble families in the lower class can also be accepted in concept: at least when class conflicts are not intensified.

And what is the state of the children of the powerful family who wield great power?Basically, it is similar to the Wei and Jin gentry in China and the Eight Banners in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.Because he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, everyone around him praised him all day long, so he naturally didn't know that the world was difficult.Then because of the noble family status, generally speaking, it is inevitable to be promoted, and the level of quality is not important, so these guys naturally don't bother to use their brains.When encountering things, they always talk about it on paper, and when there is a problem, they find a relationship to shirk responsibility from each other. Even if they want to do things well, because they have basically never stayed at the grassroots level, they can only take it for granted.

For example, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who launched the Pacific War, was ridiculed all day long since he took office, saying that he was "Private Tojo".The most famous achievement is to go door-to-door to search trash cans to see if the common people have violated the government's call for thrift and thrift, and secretly drink and eat meat in private.Then personal morality is also very corrupt, calling on all citizens to die for the emperor, and women enter the comfort team to reward the imperial army.Is it my turn?All three sons escaped military service, and none of them went to the battlefield. Mrs. Tojo also stayed at home, and she was unwilling to do voluntary labor.So angry that many survivors of the soldiers who died in the war called Tojo Hideki, scolding him and his son why didn't they die for the emperor?What's more interesting is that many veterans also called Mrs. Tojo and asked her when she would join the comfort team?These imperial warriors have been waiting for a long time!In the end, even Hideki Tojo's daughter had to arrange bodyguards when she was going to school, in case she was dragged into the grass by an exasperated and disabled veteran on the way to school, and she took her turn to engage in "self-help comfort".

But the question is, since Hideki Tojo is such an unreliable guy, why should he be prime minister at a critical moment in history?There are two reasons. First, in the small circle of high-level officials, any old fox can see that the situation is difficult and dangerous. Being the prime minister is like sitting in a fire pit, and everyone pushes others to top the tank.Second, among the stunned youths other than the old fox, Hideki Tojo is relatively the most reliable one, and others are not as good as him!
In short, although modern Japan has put on a westernized shell, it is still a feudal aristocratic society, and it can even be said to be an ignorant society ruled by theocracy. Rigid.At that time, China faced the crisis of survival of civilization and race, at least from top to bottom were thinking about the way out, regardless of whether they found the right way, at least no one could stop all Chinese people from thinking.

And because Japan has gone from victory to victory in modern times, the common people feel that the government’s leadership is not bad, and they just need to be obedient. When making a decision, the lower-class Japanese are indifferent to national affairs and accept it as they come.The upper-class Japanese are children of aristocratic families, arrogant, out of society, and completely ignorant of their superiority and inferiority.

Although they can also propose various strategic plans, but upon closer inspection, one is more taken for granted, and one is more funny than the other.

What kind of mental power is better than ten thousand tons of steel, and why the people of China welcome the liberation of the imperial army, it feels like a national policy formulated by a madhouse.

In the eyes of Western observers, the upper strata of the Japanese empire were so stupid and funny that it was unbelievable, while the lower strata were ignorant and blindly obedient to the point of unbelievable.

And the whole process of the Japanese Empire falling into the pit of World War II was that a group of idiots below stopped thinking, and then aimlessly followed the funny comparisons above to die. The entire upper class of Japan actually knew that declaring war on the United States was to die and win. The hope is very slim, and the end of failure is the subjugation of the country and the extinction of the species.But no one can afford the consequences of giving in to the United States, thinking why should I be blamed?It's better for everyone to die together, if you want to be unlucky, let's be unlucky together!

In this way, under the leadership of a group of selfish and funny people who refused to take responsibility, the Japanese Empire embarked on a vigorous road to death.

Well, although the high-level Japanese who originally commanded the war were a bunch of idiots who could only shirk their responsibilities and kill indiscriminately, at least there was still a strategic leadership who was in charge of the overall situation, but now that the two nuclear bombs in Tokyo exploded, It's not even funny, just a bunch of idiots who have stopped thinking for many years.

As a result, although all the hardware foundations, manpower and material resources to maintain the war are still available, the ideological software that guides the people how to carry out the war is gone.

——In the past, we fought for the loyalty of the emperor. Now that the emperor and the government are gone, why should we fight?What should we do if there is no war?

So, in a state of confusion, the Japanese could only stay in a daze on their own land, and at the same time, they were massacred by the U.S. military as if they were eradicating rats.

In this regard, Masanobu Tsuji was also helpless. He knew where there were armaments, gold and silver, ammunition and food in the mainland, but no matter what kind of strategic materials, he had no way to get them.Even the gang of mobs around him formed a temporary fan group based on the reputation of their mentor Ishihara Waner.Now that the mentor is dead, this group of people can continue to follow me, and it is already very good if they don't disperse immediately.

It's really frustrating!Is the mighty Great Japanese Empire, which has just laid down the largest territory in history, about to suddenly collapse so inexplicably?
I remember reading history books when I was a child, and when I saw the fall of the Edo Shogunate and Tokugawa Yoshiki, the last general, "opened the city without blood", he used to laugh at the fact that there were only a few bloody men in the Tokugawa family except for the Shinsengumi.But until now, the fall of the imperial government seems to be even more ridiculous than the Edo shogunate!

What else can I do next?Listening to the surrender of various prefectures and counties on the radio, it is estimated that the local decisive battle cannot be organized. Could it be that he just took off his military uniform and went back to his hometown incognito, waiting to be arrested as a war criminal and put on trial?Or hope that you can get away with slipping through the net?

Major General Tsuji Masanobu felt very, very unwilling about such an ending, but even if he was unwilling, there was no better way.

After wandering around like this for a few days, seeing that the food and grass he collected was about to be eaten up, he finally decided to disband the team and go to the US military or the Japanese provisional government to surrender himself.Unexpectedly, before the action started, in the middle of the night one day, I suddenly saw flames and cannons rumbling in the direction of Osaka.

This confused Masanobu Tsuji and his more than 100 followers: Didn't those cowardly merchants in Osaka surrender to the U.S. military?Now who is firing in that direction?So Masanobu Tsuji led a group of people down the mountain to inquire about the news, and immediately saw the roads and fields crowded with refugees fleeing everywhere, and then stopped a disgraced policeman, and learned a shocking news from him : "...After laying down their weapons, the No.20 Fifth Division in Osaka was mass-executed by those hateful white ghosts! Right now they are massacring the city of Osaka!"

——On December [-], [-], three days after the Kaesong surrender was announced by the Osaka Prefecture of Japan, the Allied ANZAC landed and stationed in Osaka.Before, the Japanese Southern Army burned, killed and looted on the Australian battlefield, committing all kinds of crimes. They carried out bloody massacres on the white Australian residents many times. Forget humanitarianism.

Originally, when they were transferred to the battlefields of the Japanese archipelago, the U.S. military tried to restrain the soldiers of the Anzac Army. Unexpectedly, on the way across the Pacific Ocean, they received the bad news that Melbourne and New Zealand were hit by Japanese poison gas air strikes. The boys of the Anzac were full of hostility.

On the night when [-] officers and soldiers of the Anzac Corps came ashore one after another and entered the city of Osaka, a small group of ex-Japanese ex-soldiers, armed with petrol barrels and grenades, attempted to sneak attack on the barracks of the "white-skinned ghost animal", but were arrested on the spot.The Anzac Army, which was already full of hostility, immediately dispatched the whole army to conduct a sweep-style search of the city of Osaka. During the period, they encountered spontaneous shootings by some unknown armed men, and the search soon turned into a retaliatory massacre.

In the chaos, Osaka, the most prosperous commercial center in Japan, has completely turned into a bloody purgatory. The completely out-of-control white soldiers burned, killed and looted all over the streets, and the citizens were frightened to flee wildly... because some citizens who hid their guns Stubbornly resisting, the Anzac soldiers even used artillery bombardment, and a raging fire was ignited in the urban area with dense houses. It burned for three days before it was extinguished by a heavy rain.

The No.20 Fifth Division in Osaka, which had surrendered before, was also ordered to be executed collectively by the commander of the Anzac Army on the charge of "suspected rebellion" during the chaos, and the corpses were thrown into Osaka Bay... Only a few clever people Drilling the dog hole and fleeing in a hurry, spread the bad news.

——The most eerie and terrifying aspect of human warfare has finally been completely revealed to the once confident Japanese!

Hearing this news, Major General Tsuji Masanobu couldn't help but feel cold for a while.He knew very well that the Japanese army did not seldom do such things as slaughtering prisoners of war in mainland China and Southeast Asia, especially the massacre in Nanjing, which set a new record for the number of slaughtering prisoners of war in modern history.But now it was the turn of the imperial army to be taken to the slaughterhouse and slaughtered collectively like livestock. How could such a contrast be tolerated?
Just when Major General Masanobu Tsuji was feeling dizzy and at a loss what to do, a non-commissioned officer beside him yelled bitterly: "...that damned chaebol of the provisional government! This is the humanitarian treatment they guaranteed? They clearly want to Go to hell with all us Yamato men! At the beginning, they were greedy like vampires, forced the people to sell their sons and daughters, and tricked us into the battlefield! Now they turned around and turned into pacifists. Let's kick it away as trash, and charge us with the crime of waging war!"

Then, as if a long-sealed chatterbox was suddenly uncovered, all kinds of opinions were shouted in the mouths of the Japanese officers and soldiers:
"...That's right, the previous Tokyo nuclear explosion was probably caused by those traitors colluding with the US military to tip off the news! His Majesty the Emperor was killed!"

"...Even if Japan is destined to be defeated, these traitors cannot be taken advantage of! Otherwise, they will only enjoy the spoils of our bloody sacrifices and continue to oppress the people with the help of the U.S. military, while pointing at our bones and pouring sewage, saying that we He is the criminal who destroyed the country!"

"...We must continue to fight! Not for the emperor and those corrupt officials, but for ourselves!..."

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——Facing the butcher's knife of death, the Japanese, whose minds have been rusted for many years, finally realized and tried to think about their own destiny.

Then, they, who no longer blindly follow their superiors, began to explode one after another...