Rise of Australia

Chapter 941 Exploding Toilet
"What's the situation at the front line?" The first thing the island nation's Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe did when he woke up in the early morning of August 8 was to ask the guards questions about the front line.

"Everything is normal at the moment, Your Excellency," the guard replied quickly.

Today is the deadline that Australasia has warned non-islanders to evacuate the island nation.

Although the island government and Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro probably feel that it is impossible for Australasia to possess another such weapon, there is still some concern in their hearts.

After hearing the reply that everything was normal, Konoe Fumimaro finally breathed a sigh of relief, nodded slowly, and instructed the guards: "Notify the cabinet to hold a meeting. The time will be set at the government building in half an hour."

The purpose of this meeting was very simple, which was to discuss how to resist the attack from Australasia as much as possible in the following period of time.

Half an hour later, with the arrival of the island country's Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe in the conference room, the meeting of the island country's cabinet government officially began.

At the beginning of the meeting, Konoe Fumimaro, with a visibly relaxed expression and a slight smile, said, "Ladies and gentlemen, it seems that we guessed right. Australasia does not have more weapons. They only have one powerful weapon like this."

Then, Konoe Fumimaro looked at the Minister of the Army and asked, "When will our new recruits' training be completed?"

The impact of the atomic bomb on the island nation was enormous. In the military alone, the island nation had lost nearly 40 soldiers.

We are also fortunate that the island nation placed its military bases and training grounds on both sides of Hiroshima. What was bombed was the island nation’s military base, while the training ground where a large number of recruits were stationed did not suffer too much damage for the time being.

But this is also quite painful. More than half of the 40 troops lost were Type A and Type B divisions. These troops were prepared to support Kyushu Island. After losing these troops, Kyushu Island will find it difficult to get additional support in a short period of time.

If given a choice, Konoe Fumimaro would rather lose nearly 70 new recruits than lose 40 veterans.

It will take some time to train the new recruits, and what the island nation lacks right now is precisely time.

"It will probably take about three months." The island nation's Army Minister Sugiyama Hajime immediately replied.

"Too slow, still too slow." Konoe Fumimaro shook his head, looked at Sugiyama Moto, and said in an unquestionable tone: "I will give you one and a half months, and I hope to see at least millions of new soldiers ready to be deployed on the battlefield.

If you missed the opportunity, I believe you understand your responsibility."

"Hi!" Sugiyama Gen could only nod helplessly and replied with standard words.

Although there is a tradition of the lower ranks over the upper ranks in the island nation's military, it depends on the situation. In the island nation's cabinet government, the most powerful person is the prime minister, and this will never change.

Unless the Prime Minister has lost the Emperor's trust, but judging from the current situation, Konoe Fumimaro is still a subordinate whom the Emperor trusts more.

After looking at the current situation map of the island country, Konoe Fumimaro frowned, feeling helpless about the current bad situation.

In Konoe Fumimaro's view, the reason why the island nation's army was defeated was not because the island nation's army's combat effectiveness was relatively weak.

On the contrary, the combat effectiveness currently demonstrated by the Army is still relatively good, and is not inferior to that of the European and Australasian armies.

But the problem is that in the military branches that require greater investment, such as the navy and the air force, the island countries obviously have greater disadvantages.

Especially the air force, there is a huge gap in both quantity and quality, which has created the embarrassing situation that the island country has never gained air superiority on its own territory since the beginning of the war.

Enemy planes are flying recklessly over the sky above their own capital, but the island country's capital has not fallen yet under such circumstances, which is already an extraordinary performance of the army.

Let's talk about the navy. Although the island country has invested a lot of money in the navy, after all, the island country itself is a country with a relatively poor economy.

In addition, due to the scarcity of domestic mineral resources, the speed of building the navy naturally cannot match that of Australasia.

At present, the island nation can only rely on the army for defense, temporarily dragging the Australasian army to less important areas such as Kyushu Island and Hokkaido to ensure that large tracts of land on Honshu Island will not be occupied.

The good news is that the island nation’s two allies in Europe currently have a huge advantage.

If they could delay until Germany won the European battlefield, the island nation would still have a chance of victory, and could even counterattack Australasia and control Australia's developed mineral resources.

Just as Konoe Fumimaro was fantasizing about delaying the war until his allies won the war and supported him, and then controlling Australasia's mineral resources, 20 atomic bombs were already being prepared in Australasia.

Among them, 10 atomic bombs will be used in the form of ground explosions, specifically to attack the island country's military bases, bunkers and important facilities on the mainland and colonies (only the Korean Peninsula!!!).

The remaining 10 atomic bombs were used in the form of air-blasts to kill a large number of the island nation’s population and destroy its industrial bases and cities.

The weight of nuclear materials in the 20 atomic bombs varies according to the explosion method. However, no matter how small the atomic bomb is, it will not be worse than the one dropped on Hiroshima. After all, Australasia's current atomic bomb technology can be said to be ahead of the United States when it bombed the island country.

Whether the islanders like it or not, they will become the first in human history, that is, the first country to be dropped with an atomic bomb and the country with the most atomic bombs dropped on it.

Because this operation is so large-scale, it is estimated that at least 500 million islanders will be killed or injured.

Therefore, before dropping the atomic bomb, necessary diplomatic preparations must be made.

At 1937 o'clock in the morning on August 8, 28, Australasia held another diplomatic press conference and repeatedly asked foreigners who were still staying on the island to leave as soon as possible.

If you really cannot leave the island country, you should go to sparsely populated rural areas and suburbs, and try to stay away from densely populated large cities like Tokyo.

The media were excited. Although they didn't know when Australasia would take action, such warnings made them understand that there would definitely be action and it would not be too late.

The island government was terrified. Konoe Fumimaro had just finished the meeting when he received this frightening news. He didn't know whether Australasia had more terrorist weapons, but judging from Australasia's action of holding another diplomatic press conference, the result might not be what they expected.

No matter how diverse the reactions from the outside world are, the reactions within Australasia are relatively stable.

The people were not too averse to dropping atomic bombs on the island country. In fact, because the island country had previously taken the initiative to attack Australasia ports, resulting in the deaths of a large number of soldiers and civilians, the Australasians applauded.

For Arthur, the reaction of the people is what he needs to know most. Can the islanders be considered human beings? I'm afraid not. Although the course of the world has changed a lot because of Australasia's participation in the war, the islanders' current actions have not improved at all, and some of their cruel experiments are still ongoing.

Why do we need mercy for a species that cannot even be considered human? Even if mercy is needed, it should be God who has mercy on them.

As for Arthur and Australasia's mission, it is to send all the damn islanders to see God.

Before the operation, Arthur also saw a detailed report on the entire operation and approved all the contents of the operation.

Arthur had not thought about the bombing of the island colonies, but if you think about it carefully, the peninsulas in the future are not good people, so they will be bombed.

What's more, according to intelligence from the Military Intelligence Agency and the Royal Security Intelligence Agency, the island country does have a considerable number of troops deployed on this peninsula.

In this way, the bombing was justified, and Arthur hesitated for only a few milliseconds before quickly approving the plan to bomb the island colony.

At 8:28 a.m. on August 11, the Australasian Diplomatic Department notified all foreign ambassadors stationed in Australasia and made the only request, which was to warn these foreign ambassadors to contact all their citizens in the island countries and persuade them to return as much as possible.

During the conversation with the British and French ambassadors, the two countries finally couldn't help it and kept asking about the technological means of the weapons used by Australasia to bomb the island countries, and asked Australasia to share the technology with them.

In response to such a request, Foreign Secretary Wellington smiled and said: "No way."

Not by any means, that’s the attitude in Australasia.

Not to mention that the current relationship with the British has deteriorated a lot, even the close relationship during the Victorian era was not enough for Arthur to share the atomic bomb technology with the British.

Arthur would never give in when it came to national interests. If Britain and France continued to tangle, the worst that could happen was that Australasia would reconcile with Germany and allow Germany to occupy Europe.

Anyway, the world is so big that one country cannot occupy everything. By then, Germany will control Europe and Australasia will control both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and they will be able to confront each other.

Britain and France also knew that this was not the time to turn against Australasia. Compared to Australasia, they were the ones who needed help.

However, some information can be revealed from the attitudes of the British and French ambassadors. At least so far, the relationship between Australasia and Britain and France has reached a freezing point, and maintaining the alliance relationship depends entirely on this war.

In other words, once the war is over, Australasia and Britain and France may turn against each other because of their interests. In addition, with the powerful weapons Australasia has, it is very likely that Britain and France will unite to fight against Australasia.

When Arthur determined that Australasia's goal in World War II was to compete for world hegemony after the war, he already understood that the relationship between Australasia and the British would never be the same as before.

This is just like the struggle for the throne in ancient times, where even the closest relatives can turn against each other, let alone two countries whose blood ties have gradually become distant.

After rejecting the request of the British and French ambassadors, Foreign Secretary Wellington repeated his warning to the British and French ambassadors and left.

The British and French ambassadors who remained in the reception hall looked at each other with complicated expressions and exchanged glances, obviously having new ideas.

Australia could not care about these things at the moment. The bombing plan was about to be implemented and the government was under great pressure.

There must not be any problems in the dropping of 20 atomic bombs.

Especially for atomic bombs that contain a lot of plutonium, their power is unimaginable, so we must be extra cautious.

First of all, there were seven urban targets for the bombing, namely Tokyo, the capital of the island country, Sendai, Osaka and Nagoya on Honshu Island, Nagasaki and Kokura on Kyushu Island, and Seoul, the colony of the island country.

Among them, Tokyo was the main target of attack. The number of atomic bombs would be determined depending on the specific circumstances of the bombing. It was expected that 4 to 5 atomic bombs would be dropped.

The other six cities were merely incidental targets, and only one atomic bomb was dropped.

These urban targets are expected to consume about ten atomic bombs, and the remaining ten atomic bombs will be used to attack the island country's important military locations, military bases, fortresses, etc.

I don’t know about other things, but after the 20 atomic bombs were dropped, the cancer rate among the residents of the island nation would definitely increase significantly.

But the good news is that medical technology was not well developed at that time and detection methods were relatively backward.

In the future, when cancer can be accurately detected, the impact of these atomic bombs will have been reduced to relatively low values.

We can also learn from the attitude of the island countries in later generations and just refuse to admit it. What can the island countries do?

What's more, for the current island countries, their post-war fate is not in their own hands.

Although an intact island nation has the potential to become a great power, it is unclear whether it still has such potential after 20 atomic bombs are dropped.

Especially for Tokyo, which was hit by at least four atomic bombs, the surrounding area within dozens of kilometers will be in ruins for the next hundred years, with no grass growing.

This is a heavy blow to an island nation that already has limited land area. In addition, the defeated country will definitely be restricted, and even its industry, military and economy will be controlled.

Under such circumstances, the fate of the island nation will definitely be worse than in history, and it is even unclear whether it can continue to remain a country.

After seriously notifying ambassadors of various countries, the Australasia plan to bomb the island country was officially launched.

The first thing that started was the bombing of Tokyo, the capital of the island nation, where the island nation's government was located, and where the so-called emperor of the island nation was.

Since it was a large-scale bombing, it had to start with a bang. It was only right to use Tokyo as the first target of the bombing.

More importantly, there is a very famous toilet in Tokyo, formerly called Tokyo Shokonsha, and now called Yasukuni Shrine Toilet.

Arthur didn't like this thing or the name, so he could only focus on taking care of Tokyo and let this toilet and the entire Tokyo be reduced to ashes.

(End of this chapter)