Smoke rose from Seoul as sirens blared across the distance. The Imperial Japanese Army Air Corps had been mustered and was in the sky. Its planes spiraled toward the earth below at terminal velocity.
And those were the ones not disintegrated before their smoldering wreckages crashed into the city's streets. Artillery rocked the world, and those who lived within it.
Gunfire raged, fiercer, and fierce, and then softer. Until. Finally, only a few crackles here and there could be heard. Like the pitter patter of a storm in its final moments.
Then finally silence. The spring of 1932 brought with it a fierce offensive by the Russians in the North, who had spent the last year mobilizing 250,000 additional men to support what remained of the initial 100,000 who crossed into the Korean peninsula in the fall of 1929.
