151: Chapter 151 Acquaintances Everywhere
"That's right. If they hadn't dropped the mushroom bomb, given the brainwashed Bushido spirit of Japan, they certainly wouldn't have surrendered so easily," Zhou Yang nodded.
Japan was capable of shouting about 'one hundred million shattered jewels,' which shows just how severe the brainwashing was.
They were all militaristic fanatics.
At that time, very few in Japan were innocent.
Without the support of its own citizens, Japan could not have sustained its attacks on all sides.
Moving west into China, attacking Southeast Asia in the south, confronting Soviet Russia in the north, and then launching a sneak attack on America's Pearl Harbor in the east.
Basically, the majority of Japanese citizens supported the war.
If not for the two mushroom bombs scaring the Japanese leadership, these people might have truly defended the Japanese islands to the death.
After all, the Emperor of Japan didn't view the Japanese people as human, although they indeed weren't human.
However, in front of the 'equalizer of all living things,' the Emperor of Japan was just the same.
If they hadn't surrendered, the next one would have been dropped on the head of the Emperor of Japan.
"That's true, the power of the mushroom bomb is just too great."
"Zhou Yang, tell me, if this mushroom bomb were dropped on a place like a city, what would that place become? How many people would die?" Yang Ruoxue looked at Zhou Yang, asking with curiosity in her heart.
She had seen what a mushroom bomb explosion looked like; of course, not in person, but in recorded videos.
The dust and smoke produced by that explosion were like a mushroom, shooting straight into the sky.
Just watching the video felt incredibly shocking.
However, she didn't understand just how powerful the mushroom bomb was.
She only knew that after the mushroom bomb existed, nations around the world became more restrained.
Large-scale wars had basically ceased; there were more small-scale frictions and conflicts.
Each conflict resulted in a few deaths, happening hundreds or thousands of times a day.
Accumulated over time, the number of people who died was actually quite significant.
It was just that there were no large-scale battles.
Most of it was combat similar to guerrilla warfare.
Hearing Yang Ruoxue's question, Zhou Yang suddenly thought of a funny meme.
"Dropped on a city? Well, that would mean acquaintances everywhere, wouldn't it."
As he said this, he couldn't help but smile.
"Acquaintances everywhere?" Hearing this, Yang Ruoxue murmured, not understanding what Zhou Yang meant for a moment.
After a good while, she finally understood what Zhou Yang meant.
"Pfft, no, Zhou Yang, you..." Yang Ruoxue burst into laughter, not knowing what to say.
This dark joke wasn't hard to understand; unless one didn't know about the mushroom bomb, anyone who did would basically understand it.
"A dark joke, right?"
"No, I didn't think that way. Forget it, fine, it is indeed quite dark."
It took a good while for Yang Ruoxue to stop laughing.
"Zhou Yang, the way you said that, I have a mental image now."
Yang Ruoxue spoke the truth.
Originally, in her mind, she was imagining the city in ruins after a mushroom bomb explosion.
As a result, once Zhou Yang's words entered her ears, the city ruins in her mind suddenly had a whole bunch of 'acquaintances' added to them.
It made her unable to keep a straight face for a moment.
"It's okay, I can understand."
Zhou Yang waved his hand.
Some memes from his past life were hard for people in this world to understand.
After all, without having experienced those events, people in this world simply couldn't get the humor of these memes.
Subsequently, Zhou Yang started chatting with Yang Ruoxue again.
They continued talking about the Pacific War they hadn't finished discussing earlier.
Zhou Yang told Yang Ruoxue about the details regarding the Pacific War.
"Sister Yang, if we're talking about the most tragic battles of the Pacific War, they would have to be the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa..."
A slight glimmer appeared in Yang Ruoxue's beautiful eyes as she watched Zhou Yang speak endlessly about these two battles.
Zhou Yang spoke very smoothly, as if he had a well-thought-out plan and had prepared his material in advance.
These contents were already deeply imprinted in his mind.
As long as he thought about it slightly, he could blurt it out.
It was hard for Yang Ruoxue to imagine that this was something Zhou Yang could come up with.
If it weren't for the fact that they really didn't have this history, Yang Ruoxue would have thought this was something that had happened before.
"Could there really be a parallel world?" Yang Ruoxue couldn't help but think to herself.
After finishing the discussion about these two battles, Zhou Yang stopped speaking.
He picked up the water glass on the table, took a sip of water, and moistened his throat.
"Sister Yang, that's all for today. We'll talk more when there's time later," Zhou Yang said with a smile, looking at Yang Ruoxue.
"Okay," Yang Ruoxue nodded slightly.
Subsequently, Zhou Yang stood up and walked toward the bedroom on the second floor.
Yang Ruoxue watched Zhou Yang's retreating figure, her mind filled with a thousand thoughts.
Once, she had been attracted by Zhou Yang's appearance.
Now, she was once again attracted by Zhou Yang's talent.
At this moment, Zhou Yang was not aware of what Yang Ruoxue was thinking; if he knew, he would feel ashamed.
Because he really didn't have much talent; he was just using a cheat.
Upon returning to the bedroom, Zhou Yang entered the virtual pod once again and then started working.
On the other side, the results of the Four Major Military Regions' competition were also out.
Inside the virtual meeting room of the Eastern Military Region, a group of high-ranking generals was celebrating, as they had once again won first place in this military region competition.
"Major General Huang, your performance in this military region competition was excellent. On behalf of the military region, I express my commendation to you," the Supreme Commander said with a smile, looking at General Huang Wei.
At this moment, the smile on General Huang Wei's face was very bright.
The difficulty of this military region competition was not small.
Over a hundred thousand troops entered the game.
Although they ultimately didn't defeat Japan and suffered heavy losses, they avoided the massacre of Jinling.
The citizens of Jinling all evacuated the city of Jinling.
The city was lost, but the people were still there.
As long as the people were still there, they could continue to fight back.
The disparity in troop strength was already a disadvantage, and they were on flat terrain, with backward equipment, no heavy weapons, and unable to cope with the enemy's armored units.
The probability of being able to win was very low.
However, General Huang Wei never thought about winning from the very beginning.
His goal was only one: to delay time.
To prevent the tragedy of the Jinling Massacre from happening again.
As long as Jinling didn't repeat the previous tragedy, it was a victory for him.
Obviously, he did the right thing.
And he had perfectly accomplished this goal.
The other Three Major Military Regions also had the same thoughts as him.
It was just that they didn't perfectly accomplish this goal.
Meanwhile, in one of the servers of the large-scale battle mode.
In the suburbs of Jinling.
In a mountain hollow, a complex of factory buildings was emitting billowing white smoke.
People were coming and going here, constantly transporting supplies.
Inside this factory complex, a young man was holding a fully automatic rifle in his hand.
His face revealed an extremely excited smile.
"It's a success, finally a success! It took a full six days, but it's finally a success," the young man's voice could not hide his excitement.
At this moment, a few more people walked in.
One of the middle-aged men saw the rifle in the young man's hand, and his face also revealed joy.
"Can this be used?" The middle-aged man was overwhelmed with emotion, his voice trembling slightly, unable to hide the excitement in his voice.
"It can be used, but the drawbacks are also very obvious."
"It's just that we are very short on ammunition right now."
"Guns are easy to make, but bullets are very hard to make."
After his excitement, the young man stated what was currently lacking.