Section 430 Strategic Bombing March
In the early morning of April 12, the 14th year of the Republic, the Sino-Japanese war entered a completely new stage, the traditional army and navy had become beyond the reach of the whip, and the mode of war became the struggle between strategic bombing and territorial air defense. โThree months later, the Wehrmacht changed to the eight infantry divisions and armored divisions of the Ninth and Tenth Army to confront each other, in the rugged area around Busan, without the cooperation of the mountain division and the fast reaction division, these huge mechanized corps became extremely clumsy, the limited offensive roads were destroyed by the Japanese army in various ways, and the war became dull and tasteless, except that there would be some fierce exchanges of fire between China and Japan in the salient on the other side of the river, The other areas are not places where the infantry can fight at all, so you can't spit on each other across the Nakdong River. The destroyers of the Chinese Navy had already set sail in formation, or three or four or seven or eight ships in a detachment, hunting Japanese merchant ships and fishing boats everywhere, and when they encountered those old guys from the combined fleet coming out to pursue, they would randomly release a batch of torpedoes and then turn around and run, relying on their speed to bully those former dreadnoughts of the Uncle class.
In addition to the destroyers of the Chinese Navy that could not escape, there were also Chinese submarines that could not be seen, and the Japanese garrison brigade on the Taiwan side suffered even more, and all the transport ships became the targets of the South China Sea Fleet, and even the torpedo speedboats could openly and openly cruise to the coastal waters of Kaohsiung and Keelung, and the pleasing target was to send them to Haiti with a torpedo. At night, the torpedo boat worked as a smuggling ship, and a large number of munitions, ammunition, and all kinds of materials were sent to the island; with the infiltrated Wehrmacht special forces as the core, the Taiwan resistance movement finally changed its guns, and sometimes a squad went out on patrol, and it turned out that encountering 180 resistance movements was equivalent to a hunting feast, but now encountering three or five special forces as machine gunners and snipers with 20 or 30 resistance movements carrying Qin crossbow rifles is basically a rush to deliver food. In particular, as soon as the ruler's machine gun sounded the chainsaw, the Japanese army's scalp was numb, and the rate of fire was much higher than that of the Hatch Chase heavy machine gun, but it could run all over the mountain by one person, and there were gun grenade launchers like straight barrels, which were all played in the hands of those special forces, and they just let the 40 mm grenade explode in the air, and a piece of steel ball was scattered all over the ground, even if they lay down, they were blind, often a squad could be completely wiped out in ten minutes, and a squadron could carry it for thirty minutes, even if Aunt Amaterasu had no relatives to visit today. In less than a month, when Major General Shimatani Masao sensed that the situation was not good, he summoned the garrison brigade to Taipei, Kaohsiung, Keelung, Hualien, and Taichung, only to find that one-third of his troops had been eaten alive.
However, if these are still scabies, the group of ballistic planes that come every day from time to time is a nightmare for the whole of Japan. In order to support the construction of Japanese empire, China's standard air force diligently dropped thousands of tons of steel over Japan every day, helping Japan eliminate their backward production capacity, preventing the risk of nail households resisting demolition, in addition to sending two-thirds of Japan's scientific and technical personnel to the shrine, China is almost all in the unremitting efforts for the construction of new Japan. Deeply moved, the Japanese people invented the air defense warning system, and once they found out that the Chinese bombers were coming to deliver steel, everyone knocked on the basins and smashed the bowls to express their welcome, and then dragged their families to avoid the drilling, so as to show their reverence. The Japanese Government also specially organized a salute artillery team to desperately fire fireworks* shells to express a warm welcome at the risk of being hit by the steel sent to them, completely ignoring the fact that the 4,000-meter shooting altitude could not reach the group of planes that were diligently carrying out the Tokyo Express mission at an altitude of 7,000 meters.
Infected by the enthusiasm of the Japanese government and the Japanese people, the Standard Air Force visited the island country twice a day even more diligently, sometimes even adding a night shift to wake up the Japanese people who had slept too much in the manhole during the day. In order to carry forward the noble internationalist spirit of the Chinese side, which is not self-interested and exclusively benefits others, the Japanese government has invited diplomats and reporters from the European and American powers to go to the site of China's steel gifts and free demolition to conduct interviews and reports. Of course, the Chinese side also made euphemistic criticisms of the mistake of the Japanese side in prematurely completing the family planning quota due to the large number of incendiary bombs used in the process of demolition and relocation, and the Chinese side expressed its gratitude to Britain, France, the United States and Italy for their praise, and at the same time said that everyone is welcome to introduce these kinds of Chinese express delivery tools, so that all countries in the world can share the great technology of supporting steel for their neighbors. China also humbly accepted the euphemistic criticism of other countries and immediately improved it. Sure enough, from the fifth day onwards, China's internationalist aid express never dropped incendiary aerial bombs over Japan, but instead used high-explosive aerial bombs to selflessly eliminate backward production capacity for the Japanese government and carry out preparations for industrial upgrading. Although the depletion of stocks of various types of incendiary bombs is the main reason why China's standard air fleet has stopped dropping such bombs, listening to the opinions of various countries, especially the Japanese government, is also an important reason, at least according to the Chinese Ministry of National Defense.
After the Wehrmacht's previous victory in the War of Three Koreas, the area north of the Nakdong River was captured, and it became the base camp for B4 bombers to bomb the Japanese mainland. On the afternoon of 11 April in the 14th year of the Republic of China, the first ballistic bomber was aptly named the "Tokyo Express" -- it went to the skies over Tokyo, the capital of Japan, to conduct its first high-altitude reconnaissance activity. Over the next week, three-quarters of the bombers took off and landed at a series of airfields south of Samhan to bomb the Japanese archipelago. Even B3 bombers, with their shorter range, dropped hundreds of tons of high explosives over several military airfields on the west coast of the Japanese army, almost completely destroying the Japanese fighters on these airfields preparing to support the front line on the Nakdong River. On April 24, an extraordinary day, a group of photojournalists recorded the daunting sight of 120 B4 bombers departing for a massive bombing of Yokohama.
On 24 April, the ballistic bomber group, led by Brigadier General Kuang Xingtian, Wing Commander of the 36th Wing, roared south across the narrow Tsushima Strait, intending to wipe out the Manshima Aircraft Factory north of Tokyo. The harsh climate and dense thick clouds hampered the attack. The attack was carried out with the help of the monitoring system of a powered airship on duty at an altitude of more than 9,000 meters. Because the planes flew very high, groups of B4 fighters watched coldly as 24 Japanese "Nakajima" 4 fighters jumped up and down at an altitude of 5,800 meters. The Japanese "Nakajima" 4 fighters rushed upwards in an attempt to intercept the B4 bombers, but with little success. Three days later, the B4 bombers bombed the target a second time, but it still did not achieve the desired effect, because the target was covered by thick clouds, which could not be effectively attacked, but when the 36th Wing revisited the original place for the third time.
Although the Wehrmacht's B4 bombing of the Majima aircraft factory north of Tokyo was not satisfactory, the 10-day high-intensity bombing in mid-April still forced most of the Japanese military enterprises to be in a semi-shutdown state, and the B4 planes came over Japan, which was a new disaster for the densely populated residents living in the crowded Tokyo area. It was a time of great suffering for Tokyo. With the basic interruption of overseas trade and the continuous bombing of the Chinese Air Force, the necessities of life in the Japanese mainland became increasingly scarce, and the activities of the Wehrmacht Navy's submarine and destroyer hunting teams caused huge losses to Japan, and a military defeat in the Pacific Outer Circle was imminent. Although the Wehrmacht's high-altitude bombardment caused little damage to most of the Japanese factories scattered in residential areas, the casualties and damage caused by the rain of hundreds of tons of explosives wrapped in free steel shells rained down on Japan's overcrowded urban areas. Along with the frequent air raids by the National Defense Forces on urban areas, the Japanese Government and citizens have also heightened their vigilance and stepped up air defense. In the backyards of every house and in the flower beds along the middle of the main road, rudimentary air-raid trenches were dug. As in other aspects of Japanese wartime life, morale-building and propaganda played an important role, and the common people vowed to "do a good job in air defense and achieve victory." The fire drill was intensified to the sound of military music. To compensate for the lack of fighter defense, a large part relied on searchlights and anti-aircraft guns. When the Japanese General Staff Headquarters slowly issued its comprehensive air defense plan and instructions to control the lights throughout the country, only one unapplicable professional fire brigade remained. The burden of dealing with IDF air strikes fell on volunteers drawn from township councils and neighborhood clubs. Sirens are honking so often that people are beginning to "hope for silence." By early May, the Japanese government had to call on parents to evacuate school-age children to the countryside en masse. In the autumn of the 14th year, according to the government's regulations, the Japanese citizens planted hundreds of thousands of sunburners, and they pitifully wanted to make the citizens' increasingly monotonous life more pleasant. But they soon discovered that the Wehrmacht bombing had put citizens on the front lines of the war.
From the beginning, China's bombing was not favored by the major powers, thinking that it would last only two or three days at most, but when the bombing of the same intensity lasted until the fifteenth day, even the bankers who opened the market could not believe that the small Japanese archipelago had dropped a total of 17,000 tons of aerial bombs, which was also too nonsense. However, in the following month, the Standard Air Force gave them a thorough understanding of the essence of strategic bombing, and the Japanese archipelago smoked during the day and burst into fire at night, becoming a living fossil for various countries to examine the consequences of strategic bombing. โ