"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The three triple-mounted 380mm Main Guns aboard the battlecruiser Mackensen were the first to open fire. One shell after another, each weighing over a ton, screamed down upon Tokyo's urban districts.
When the violent explosions rang out across Tokyo, it meant that the city had begun its march toward destruction.
The German Expeditionary Fleet's other battlecruisers and Light Cruisers also joined the bombardment of Tokyo. Shell after shell whistled through the air toward the city.
Dense explosions rose and fell throughout Tokyo. Building after building was destroyed in the blasts, including no small number of cultural landmarks and famous structures within the city.
"Amaterasu Omikami! The Germans have really come! Run!"
Countless Tokyo residents fled desperately from the city. The government's earlier evacuation order had already caused panic, yet many residents had still been unwilling to leave their homes and the places where they had lived their lives. But when the German Expeditionary Fleet's shells began to fall, they had no other choice but to run. Compared with leaving their hometowns, preserving their own lives was undoubtedly more important.
Tokyo residents crowded onto the roads leading out of the city suffered devastating losses under the German Expeditionary Fleet's fierce bombardment. Often, a single shell exploding amid the crowd would claim countless lives.
"Boom!" A 380mm Shell struck a street. At that moment, the road was packed with Tokyo residents carrying bundles and dragging their families along. The shell's enormous explosive force killed all those Island Nation people at once. Severed limbs flew everywhere. The entire scene was like hell itself.
"God! What sin have we committed? Why must we suffer such pain?" cried an elderly Island Nation man whose legs had both been blown off.
No one could answer him. Thus, they could only continue to endure