The general resignation of the Japanese cabinet appeared in the newspapers along with China's ultimatum, and the eyes of the whole world were attracted by this sudden change in the situation in the Far East, but will the Sino-Japanese war start in the near future, will China seize the Kwantung Prefecture first, or will Japan use its naval superiority to loot the rich coastal areas of China first? As for Taiwan, not many foreigners will think that China will be able to solve the difficult problem of crossing the sea, and without the escort of battleships, can it be that the Japanese Combined Fleet can connect with the skills of targeting at sea with hundreds of thousands of junks?

Sure enough, the expiration date of the ultimatum on October 10 passed without any movement, and it was quiet for five consecutive days, except for the solemn representations on the left and the strong protest on the right by the protest department of the Republic, even the bigwigs of the Japanese military department decided that China was bluffing. On the contrary, many middle- and lower-level young and strong officers plan to engage in some Sino-Japanese friction, which may be a good opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune.

"Ishihara-kun, what do you think of the current situation? Do you also believe that China is bluffing? Kenji Ishihara, who has a simple face, is on vacation in Sendai, and he finds Ishihara Waner, who has returned to Japan, to discuss the current situation together.

"Of course not, I think war is imminent, and with the usual style of China's chief Wu Chenxuan, he is not the kind of person who pins his hopes on intimidation. When they sent troops to the European War, almost everyone thought that the Chinese were cannon fodder for Britain and France, but after the First World War, even Germany had to admit that China had the world's strongest air force and rapid armored forces, and under the same force conditions, Britain, France and Germany were not sure of winning, and in their eyes the imperial army was just a backward army that relied on the number of soldiers to fight for their lives like Tsarist Russia, and belonged to a lower level than them. In addition, in the years after the war, the Yuan Kei cabinet basically reduced military spending, so that the Imperial Army was no match for the Chinese National Defense Forces not only in terms of quantity but also in terms of quality. China is not doing anything, they are just waiting for an opportunity that they see fit, perhaps just when we are all letting our guard down. The only thing I haven't figured out is how China will deal with the Combined Fleet, their navy is far inferior to the Empire. ”

"Ishihara-kun, it seems that we see something in common. I think China probably hopes that their air force can effectively protect the coast, you must know that the intelligence of the General Staff Headquarters indicates that the Chinese army is building a large number of coastal airfields, probably trying to use the kind of aircraft tested by the United States Navy last year to carry large aerial bombs to bomb ships, if the Imperial Combined Fleet does not have anti-aircraft firepower, I am afraid it will really land, after all, although the aircraft is thin, but the range and speed are not comparable to warships, even if the bomb load is low, but if there is a sufficient advantage in numbers, How long can the fleet hold out without being beaten back? A sad look appeared on Tu Feiyuan's smiling face.

"Dohi *Hara-kun, why didn't you give those guys from the Navy Command Department..."As soon as the words came out, Ishihara knew where he was wrong. Relying on the bad relationship between the Japanese army and navy, Tu Feiyuan, who is subordinate to the army, and himself may be the opposite, and the ridicule of those oysters will be incomplete.

"Are we going to sit down? If the Imperial Navy fails, Taiwan will be left alone overseas, and there will really be no luck. And when our army encounters the Chinese armored forces, which have an advantage in fire protection, there is no certainty of victory, in which case the empire will be very passive. The worst thing is that we can't suggest that the empire strengthen the deployment of forces in Taiwan and Kwantung Prefecture, otherwise we will give the other side the truth and allow China to deploy troops without any scruples...."

"Oh, oh, oh" There was a hectic sound of clogs, the screen door was recklessly opened, and Tohi Yuan and Ishihara tacitly picked up the teacup together, as if they were leisurely tasting tea. A young man wearing a captain's military uniform ran in outside the door, and it was Ishihara's newly recruited younger brother - Hideki Tojo. Before Ishihara could open his mouth to reprimand, Tojo had already stammered.

"Ishihara-senpai, the war has begun... The Kyushu region and Kanto Prefecture, as well as Samhan, Taiwan, and even Hakodate were bombed by Chinese planes, and that was six hours ago. ”

"Huh?" Now Ishihara and Dohira couldn't pretend to be forced anymore, they never thought that the war would come so without warning. The two of them didn't care about wearing kimonos, Tu Feiyuan immediately rushed back to his residence, he wanted to report to the staff headquarters quickly, and Ishihara Waner belonged to the military attaché stationed abroad, he took his younger brother Tojo to go to Lu University, and the instructors and juniors there probably also got the news, he wanted to organize people and horses to prepare to enter the Kanto Prefecture or Sanhan (the blessing of the three fats, Chao * Xian is a sensitive word, and it probably doesn't matter if it is changed to Sanhan) to participate in the war. The room at this hot spring inn is a mess of cups and plates, and the page on the calendar hanging on the wall is the date of today's "October 29, Taisho 9".

But what about the real situation? In the middle of the night the day before, two B4 bombers that had taken off from Rongcheng Airport had already flown out of the mainland and out of China's territorial waters. At 2:45 p.m., we entered the Japanese mainland.

For nearly 100 years, the Chinese army has been hiding behind their own door frames, being chased and bullied by foreign powers at will, and on this day, the Chinese soldiers bravely broke out of their own gate (not counting the expeditionary force), in the tens of thousands of meters of clouds, high on the ground to have a bird's-eye view of the enemy's land.

The whole country panicked, and the sirens sounded throughout the Japanese archipelago, thinking that the Chinese had brought revenge bombs. However, when the inhabitants of Kyushu, Nagasaki, Fukuoka, Kurume, Saga and other cities and villages picked up the Chinese leaflets flying from the sky, they found that they were full of goodwill and civilized language:

"China and Japan have a close relationship of the same language and species, and they should cooperate with each other to maintain freedom and peace in Asia and the world. The Japanese warlords' forcible occupation of Chinese territory will lead the two countries to start a war and eventually cause both China and Japan to lose, and it is hoped that the Japanese people will wake up the warlords to give up their dreams of further aggression against China and quickly withdraw to the Japanese mainland. ”

On the two planes, two pilots, Xu and Tong, originally went to Japan to drop leaflets with apprehension, but who knew that when they arrived in the skies over Japan, they were very surprised. When they flew from city to city in the airplanes over Japan, and scattered all the leaflets, they did not hear the Japanese fire at them. I felt so strange, looked down, only to hear the alarm still screaming, and the major cities were in a panic, and they didn't even come back to their senses to implement light control. Xu and Tong couldn't help but laugh and talked to each other on the radio.

Xu said: "You see they are panicking, there are lights on everywhere. ”

Tong said: "If we really carry bombs, those cities will be bombed, and electric lights will be the target!" ”

Xu said: "You see a piece of light suddenly went out. Oh, and another piece of light went out. ”

Tong said: "They only now remember what to do!" It's really sluggish, but why didn't the little devil's plane take off, and was the pilot still sleeping on the belly of the geisha? ”

Two bombers landed safely at the airfield in the western suburbs of Jinan. When Xu and Tong walked out of the cockpit, Wang Zhongyu, director of the General Office of the Shandong Provincial Government, Lieutenant General Wei Yu, commander of the Air Force, and other military and political dignitaries were already waiting.

Wei Yu said: "Welcome, our Air Force heroes! ”

Wang Zhongyu said with a big belly: "The telegram you sent back from the plane and was patrolling over the Japanese Kou, the head office knew about it, and was very happy, and specially sent us to greet it!" ”

The car pulled the two men to the Department of Defense's meeting room.

Wu Chenxuan was already waiting at the door, he had forgotten the etiquette of being a soldier and the majesty of a commander, and before receiving the military salute from his subordinates, he stretched out his hand, so that Xu and Tong didn't know whether to salute him or shake hands with him.

Entering the living room and sitting down, Wu Chenxuan pricked up his ears and inquired about their adventures with curiosity like a child in a ravine inquiring about the latest news in a big city. When he heard the joy, he danced with his hands in a bit of a gaffe, and even said: "No, no, no, Japan's air defense is too naïve!" If Japan is not honest, our air force heroes will continue to work hard to deal a good blow to Japan's arrogance with your bombs. ”

Xu and Tong hurriedly stood up and assured that the air force officers and men would fight the Japanese invaders at all costs. Because they were the first of the seven two-plane formations sent out to drop bombs, the two became big heroes and the number one newsmakers in newspapers and radio. Representatives from all walks of life in Jinan came to express their condolences and asked them to make a report, saying that they were more tired of their work than fighting.

Although there were no losses, the Japanese army believed that this time it was more humiliating to be bombed with pieces of paper than to make a "mistake" in the border defense; The commanders of the Japanese aviation units all went to learn how to perform caesarean sections behind closed doors, but unfortunately they did not learn the suture technique well, and they went into the water and scattered on the ground.

The Japanese government is even more embarrassed, although this paper bombing is a real invasion of airspace, but not a single shot has fallen into Japanese territory, this is a bit easy to say about Japan's sudden attack by China, how to say it is a bit good to say, if Mi Ying ghost animal asked, "What casualties did China cause to your surprise attack?" How much was lost? "Japan can't answer that there are no casualties except for a few high-ranking officers of the air force who committed suicide because of face damage, and the loss is that although there are many police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department who help, many Japanese sanitation workers are busy working until noon in the early morning to clean up the leaflets spilled by China, but even if Japan has chengguan, there is no way to go to the Chinese Air Force to ask for a fine. However, Japan has dropped a few tons of good paper, and the raw stove is very useful, and it is not a loss.

At a time when Japan was still struggling with whether to gather its fleet to settle accounts with China, or whether to hand it over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest like China, China was kind enough to help them solve this problem. At half past three o'clock in the morning of November 2, at half past three o'clock in the morning of November 2, a little meteor rose into the sky with bursts of thunder in the night of Golden State, and China's heavy artillery cluster began to bombard the camp and defense facilities of the Japanese Kwantung Prefecture garrison, and at the same time, a large number of B3\B4 and these big guys took off from the coastal airfield one after another, and began to focus on bombing in the border areas of Kwantung Prefecture, Taiwan, and the three Koreas. The ironclad rumble ploughed the tranquility of the black earth, and the Chinese Defense Force's campaign to recover Kwantung Prefecture and Taiwan officially began.

Thousands of planes compete for supremacy in the air, and the submarine force of the Chinese Defense Force, which is almost the only one that can show its hands, has already completed its first phase of its mission, and when the Japanese Combined Fleet lights up and anchors after dawn and leaves the naval bases of Sasebo and Kure Harbor, there will definitely be surprises waiting for them.