Chapter 1263: Strategic Level
Xinchang, Tianmu Mountain.
Because the Japanese army occupied Shengxian County, Xinchang County and the main traffic arteries, Zhong Yi and the accompanying special operations team chose to take a small road.
Tianmu Mountain is the only way to go.
At this time, Zhong Yi was standing on the top of Baiyunjian Mountain looking out to the northeast.
An Zhenyuan walked up to Zhong Yi and asked, "Counselor, what are you looking at?" ”
"I'm looking at Shanghai." Zhong Yi stretched out his hand and pointed to the northeast where Shanghai is located, and said, "Xiao Anzi, look, is the night sky in the northeast brighter?" ”
An Zhenyuan didn't pay attention to it at first, but after Zhong Yi said this, he found that it was true.
At that moment, An Zhenyuan sighed softly and said, "Really, the night sky in the northeast is really brighter?" ”
"You also think the night sky in the northeast is brighter?" Zhong Yi's face immediately showed a burst of joy, and said, "It seems that Jianwei and they should have succeeded." ”
"Jianwei?" An Zhenyuan didn't know about the Dunhuang plan, and asked, "Jianwei, what did they do?" ”
Zhong Yi said: "More than half a month ago, I drew up a Dunhuang plan for Jianwei and them, the purpose of which was to blow up the war-ready oil depot in Pudong and make it impossible for the little Japanese air force to go to the sky!" ”
"Really?" An Zhen was overjoyed and said, "That must be the movement that Jianwei and the others made." ”
As soon as the words fell, Xu Chao hurried over and reported urgently: "Attendance, Shanghai emergency electricity!" ”
"Here's the news!" An Zhenyuan took a step forward to take the telegram, and after reading it in a hurry, he said to Zhong Yi, "Attendance, sure enough, the Dunhuang plan has succeeded, and the war-ready oil depot in Pudong has been bombed!" ”
"Good!" When Zhong Yi heard this, he clenched his fists hard.
The bombing of the combat oil depot in Pudong, not to mention the direct losses caused to small Japan, only indirectly made the air force of the Japanese army and navy unable to take off in a short period of time, and it was already a great support for the defense of the Yinjiang River!
Of course, for little Japan, the losses caused by the bombing of the war-ready oil depot itself are only afraid that they are even greater, and it is no exaggeration to say that this is absolutely strategic for Japan's losses!
At another time, the Japanese Navy successfully attacked Pearl Harbor, causing the US Pacific Fleet to lose more than 40 ships and more than 200 combat aircraft, but unfortunately, the Japanese Navy made a fatal mistake in the end, canceling the third wave of attacks because it was too cautious, and as a result, it failed to blow up the combat oil depot at Pearl Harbor.
If the Japanese Navy blew up the war-ready oil depot at Pearl Harbor and detonated the more than 4 million tons of oil stored in the oil depot, the entire port infrastructure would be razed to the ground, and the strategic materials accumulated by the US Navy would also be completely destroyed, and the US Navy would have no choice but to retreat directly back to the west coast.
Naturally, the combat oil depot set up in Pudong by little Japan cannot be compared with the combat oil depot set up by the US military at Pearl Harbor, and not only is it inferior in status, but also the amount of oil stored cannot be compared, because the oil stored by little Japan in Pudong is less than 100,000 tons, while the US military stores more than 4 million tons of oil in Pearl Harbor.
But even so, this is a strategic loss for Japan!
Because Japan is a barren island country, 100,000 tons of gasoline is very important!
To give an example, little Japan's Type 96 land attack aircraft can be refueled about three tons at a time, and 100,000 tons of aviation gasoline means that the Japanese army can dispatch more than 33,000 sorties of Type 96 land attack aircraft!
For example, during the eight-year Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army flew about 9,000 sorties of bombers to bomb Chongqing.
In other words, the amount of aviation gasoline stored in the Pudong oil depot by little Japan was more than three times the amount of aviation gasoline they used to bomb Chongqing in eight years!
Such a loss, not even strategic?
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Such losses, of course, are strategic!
Upon learning that the war-ready oil depot in Pudong had been blown up, the Japanese Navy's commander Fushimi Miyahiro was about to explode his lungs and immediately drove straight to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
It is necessary to explain that the combat oil depot in Pudong is not for the Japanese Army, but for the Navy.
As early as three years ago, just after the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese Navy began to build a combat-ready oil depot in Pudong.
Fushimi Miyahiro, the commander of the Japanese Navy, was a well-known southward faction who resolutely advocated a war against the United States and Britain and the occupation of the entire Southeast Asia in order to seize the strategic resources of Southeast Asia.
On the other hand, the chief of staff of the Japanese Army, Miyajihito, was a northward faction, and he advocated a war against the Soviet Union, and the occupation of the Far East in the north could also obtain strategic resources such as oil and timber.
The so-called struggle between the south and the north is actually a struggle for sea power and land power.
By the way, at this time, the Battle of Nomenkan had been fought for several months.
Judging from the situation, the Soviet army has already gained the initiative in the battle of Nomenkan, and the Japanese army has fallen into a complete passivity, and if there is no major accident, Japan will soon sue for peace with the Soviet Union.
This is undoubtedly a strategic setback for the Lu Quan faction, that is, the Beishang faction.
Then, on the other hand, it is a victory for the sea power faction, that is, the southbound faction.
Therefore, Fushimi Miyahiro is already gearing up to sweep the whole of Southeast Asia, and he has even asked the naval staff of the Military Command Department to formulate a battle plan to invade Southeast Asia.
And once the military operation to invade Southeast Asia begins, the 100,000 tons of aviation gasoline stored in the Pudong combat oil depot will play an important role.
Just two days ago, Hiroko Fushimi was still secretly happy about his "rainy day preparation".
Because if we wait until the military operation to invade Southeast Asia begins, and then find a place to prepare for the construction of a combat oil depot, it will already be too late, and the fighter plane will be delayed.
However, less than two days after Fushimi Miyahiro was happy, he was slapped in the face.
The 100,000 tons Chinese of aviation gasoline stored in the combat oil depot turned into a huge gasoline bomb, blowing up the entire combat depot and even the naval port in Pudong, as well as the two cruisers, six destroyers, and more than 10 patrol boats moored in the port!
Even the military airfield in Pudong was affected, and more than 50 attack planes were damaged by the bombing!
What makes Fushimi Miyahiro even more intolerable is that these more than 20 attack planes are all dive attack planes!
According to the concept of Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Navy, the most crucial factor in determining future naval warfare is the dive attack aircraft of the Japanese and US navies!
But now one guy has lost more than fifty dive attack aircraft!
Although the initiator of all this is Chinese, the inaction or blind actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are also factors that cannot be ignored! Fushimi Miyahiro had to ask for an explanation.