Chapter 693: The beautiful and brilliant mushroom cloud (Part 1)

"Has Lingfu left too?"

Zheng Yong asked a little lonely.

"Yes, but Lingfu has been promoted." Tao Ping nodded and said:

"This time he was transferred to serve as deputy commander of the 74th Army and was awarded the Baoding Medal, which is also a commendation for his heroic battle some time ago. I think this is what you are willing to see."

Zheng Yong nodded and sighed slightly: "Yes, my subordinates are all promising. The talents produced in our war zone must be loaded with a car. My Zheng Yong's face is radiant and radiant!"

Tao Ping smiled. The commander-in-chief didn't look very happy when he said this.

"Tell Lingfu, I won't see him away in person, but I must not forget the words I have said to him before, I must not forget them, I must not forget them, thousands!"

Zheng Yong seemed very worried and repeatedly reminded him

"Lingfu, if one day you encounter such a situation, what would you do?"

"Bail, treat yourself as bait!" Zhang Lingfu hesitated without hesitation: "If one day I encounter this situation, then I will treat myself as bait. I will hold myself tightly in a certain position, and then ask friendly troops to reinforce to annihilate the enemy. Just like this battle! Attack inside and outside, the center will bloom. Commander-in-chief. Fight according to your method, I think I will definitely win!"

"Lingfu, listen. Sometimes the same tactics are used in different places and will produce completely different effects. Just like this battle, each department needs to resolutely execute orders and make continuous progress regardless of casualties and fatigue to achieve strategic attempts.

If, what I am talking about is that if, in the future, if you encounter such a situation, once the reinforcements and encirclement troops cannot achieve their goal, the troops you command will encounter a very terrible situation, and may even destroy your entire army.

You must find ways to jump out, the only way is to jump out. Lingfu, remember every word I said today, when you really encounter this situation, you must jump out anyway..."

After the battle with Zhang Lingfu ended, what he told Zhang Lingfu once again came to his mind.

Lingfu, if the civil war breaks out, if you encounter Menglianggu, you must not use the so-called "internal and external attacks, the center blossoms", and you will kill yourself!

However, I couldn't say these words to Zhang Lingfu.

It is better to grasp some things yourself.

It has been 1945, now it has been 1945.

The War of Resistance Against Japan has reached its last year...

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In April 1945, Italy announced its withdrawal from the war.

On April 12, 1945, US President Roosevelt died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in a hot spring in Georgia. Vice President Harry S. Truman took over and became the 33rd US president.

After Hitler learned this news, he remembered the fate of the Prussian king Frederick the Great in the Seven Years' War. He suddenly had hope that the war would turn. This atmosphere of hope continued until April 20, Hitler's birthday.

On April 22, Berlin was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, and only then did Hitler wake up from his dream. He said wailingly: "The war has been defeated...I will stay in Berlin. As long as the moment comes, I will end my life with a pistol."

But at the same time, he also scolded the Chinese:

"The armed forces abandoned me, my generals were all fools, my orders were not implemented, everything was over... Germany failed to complete the task I put for the entire nation."

On April 27, the entire Berlin was completely surrounded by the Soviet army. On April 28, Hitler's wartime ally Mussolini, Italy, was captured and executed by the guerrillas.

On the same day, Hitler learned that his deputy Himmler attempted to negotiate with the Western powers; at this point, Hitler was completely deflated and felt that his future had come.

He began to dictate his political will, but he still wanted to scold the Jews, demanding that his successors "have to do their best to abide by the racial laws and ruthlessly resist the poisoners of all ethnic groups in the world."

Not long before midnight on April 28, 1945, Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun officially got married and received baptism.

On April 29, Soviet tanks advanced toward the zoo near the railway station.

On April 30, after fierce fighting, the Soviet army finally captured the Capitol. At this time, Hitler's Prime Minister's Office was within the range of artillery fire. At 3:30 pm, Hitler returned to the bulletproof room in the basement and shot himself.

Eva Braun swallowed poison at the same time. The bodies of the two were wrapped in a military blanket by the servants and carried them to the garden of the Prime Minister's House, poured with gasoline, and turned into ashes in the raging fire. The ashes were buried in a cannonball crater.

On May 5, Germany announced unconditional surrender.

World War II ended with the victory of the Allies in Europe, and the focus of the people of the world shifted to the battlefields of Asia and the Pacific, and Japanese imperialism had fallen into the dilemma of being at a loss.

In July 1945, the heads of the United States, Britain and China and the foreign ministers held a meeting in Potsdam southwest of Berlin and issued the "Potsdam Proclamation" on the 26th.

Announcement by leaders of the United States, Britain and China:

(I) Yu et al.: US President, Chinese National Government Chairman and British Prime Minister Yu and other hundreds of millions of citizens, discussed and agreed to give Japan an opportunity to end the war.

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We inform the Japanese government to immediately announce the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces and implement appropriate guarantees with sincerity in such actions. In addition to this path, Japan will soon be completely destroyed.

The declaration has solemnly warned Japan that if the Japanese army still did not put down its weapons, the Japanese armed forces would inevitably be completely eliminated, and Japan's territory would inevitably be transformed into scorched earth.

The Japanese did not realize what this declaration meant at that time, nor did they expect a huge and terrible shadow that was hitting them.

In fact, Japan was already in a quagmire at this time and could not extricate itself. On the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese military and civilians had already turned into offensive operations, and the restoration areas were constantly expanding. The Japanese army had to resist and had no power to fight back.

In the Pacific battlefield, the Allied forces have captured important islands such as the Philippines, Iwoo Island, and Okinawa Island, and the war is increasingly approaching the Japanese mainland.

At the same time, the Soviet Union was also actively preparing for the war against Japan. However, Japanese militarists ignored the Potsdam Proclamation and tried to rely on the remaining more than 4 million troops to make a final struggle.

The Japanese military's desperate young master mobilized wars at home, collected cannon fodder widely, and prepared to use Chinese territory and Japanese mainland to fight the final decisive battle.

Faced with Japanese militarists who were still fighting with trapped beasts, the anti-fascist allies believed that in order for Japan to truly accept the Potsdam Proclamation, they must fight the final decisive battle with the Japanese fascists on the battlefield.

However, although the US military achieved certain victories on the Pacific battlefield, it also paid a huge price under the tenacious resistance of the Japanese army. If a landing war was to be carried out on the Japanese mainland, the price would be even heavier, and the war might not end until the end of 1945, which is difficult for the United States to accept.

Moreover, the Soviet Union's participation in the war is just around the corner, and the United States is unwilling to share the results of victory with others in the final stage of the war.

Therefore, the United States actively planned to defeat Japan at the lowest cost in the shortest time and force it to surrender. At this time, the Americans placed their hopes on the two atomic bombs "little boy" and "fat man" who had just been successfully experimented.

On December 6, 1941, the United States formally formulated a top-secret plan code-named "Manhattan".

Truman, who was a member of Congress at the time and later succeeded to US President, heard some rumors about the "Manhattan" plan. In order to find out whether the taxpayer's money is worth it, he tried to investigate what was done in the mysterious huge buildings in the engineering area?

But the answer I got was:

"Mr. Truman, it's better to stop your investigation so that we, including President Roosevelt, will be very happy." Truman, who had hit a soft nail, had to give up. He later served as the Vice President of the United States and still knew nothing about this.

But one person told him, "What are you doing in those huge buildings?" The person who told Truman's top secret information was Zheng Yong, the first-class Chinese general.

After Truman took over as US President, the final decision to deal with Japan with an atomic bomb was also a secret letter from Zheng Yong to Mr. Truman, who was still vice president at the time.

What exactly is written in this secret letter? No one except Zheng Yong and Truman knows. This is a secret, a secret that Zheng Yong and the US President must keep for a long time.

One day in July 1945, the US Department of Defense building was still as busy as usual, but the smiles on people's faces seemed to see hope for victory in the war.

Army Secretary Stinson came to the conference room on the second floor, and the delegates who attended the meeting were already waiting there. Among them were the Ministry of Defense, the State Council representatives, the military mainly the Air Force representatives, and several atomic bomb experts.

The meeting was held at the instruction of President Truman, Stimson, and was responsible for the institution of Army Secretary Stimson, which mainly studied the specific matters of airdropping atomic bombs in Japan. A lieutenant recorder listened carefully to every sentence of the delegates in a corner of the rectangular conference room.

American bombers visited almost all large and medium-sized cities in Japan.

Tokyo is a possible target, but it has actually been blown up all over, and except for the palace courtyard still intact, Tokyo is already covered with rubble.

The reason why cities such as Shinto, Sasebo, Hiroshima are well preserved is because the Air Force has obtained information that the Japanese army imprisoned a large number of prisoners of war in the city, and the US military does not know the exact location of the prisoner-of-war camp.

Finally, the representatives finally set three principles: First, the target size must be a medium-sized urban area with an radius of more than three miles, and there are important goals;

Second, it must be effectively destroyed by the shock wave of the atomic bomb;

Third, it is unlikely that it will be bombed by the Air Force before August.

The recorder's pen ruthlessly circled the four cities of Hiroshima, Okura, Shinto, and Nagasaki.

Hiroshima is an important military base and departing port, and Okura has several important Japanese arsenals.

Moreover, none of these four cities have suffered massive damage.
Chapter completed!