November 14th

Tokyo, the heart of the Japanese Empire

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, designed by a British designer after the Meiji 9 Tokyo Fire, is surrounded by cherry blossom trees, but due to the season, the cherry blossoms have long since disappeared, leaving only dead branches and knee-high snow.

It was already past four o'clock in the morning, but one of the offices in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building was still brightly lit. Nobuyuki Abe, who is also the prime minister of the cabinet, was sitting in his office and staring blankly at the information he had received from the base camp today.

According to the latest intelligence, after the fall of Hangzhou, Gu Shoufu led thousands of remnants of troops to retreat to Jiaxing before the pontoon bridge was built, and barely stabilized his position in Jiaxing with the assistance of a brigade sent by Nishio Shouzo, the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army.

Hangzhou is lost, and it stands to reason that the most anxious people should be Lu Xiangyan Junliu and Prince Zairen, but for some reason, Nobuyuki Abe, who is the prime minister of the cabinet, is extremely uneasy, so that he has always been on time to and from work today, but he stayed in the office for the first time today and did not go back.

Nobuyuki Abe, who had been looking through the information for several hours, rubbed his eyes, took a sip of the tea that had already cooled on the table, the cold tea entered his stomach, and a bitter taste immediately passed to his brain through the taste buds on his tongue.

He stood up, walked to the bathroom next to him, washed his face, and then sat back in his seat to review the thick stack of information, he picked up another piece of information and looked at it, with a look of surprise on his face.

"What? Su Jin threatened Japan with a clear telegram to make Japan pay? ”

He pressed the electric bell on the table, and soon a young man pushed the door and walked in, bowed to him and said loudly: "May I ask your Excellency what you want!" ”

Nobuyuki Abe raised the telegram in his hand and asked, "This telegram was dated yesterday afternoon, why don't you send it to me right away?" ”

Shaozo took the telegram and looked at it, and then returned it to Nobuyuki Abe with both hands and said casually: "Your Excellency, this telegram was sent to the War Department after dinner yesterday afternoon, and the intelligence department thought that this was just a useless telegram, and I originally wanted to throw it away, but I didn't expect it to reach you again, I'm really sorry." ”

"Yaga! This waste! Nobuyuki Abe was furious, "You fools, such important information has been treated as a useless message by you, are all the officers of the War Department now degenerated into idiots?" ”

"Hay!" Although he was scolded, this Shao Zuo still had a nonchalant look on his face, in his opinion, this was just another barking of a general, even if this general had caused a lot of damage to the empire, but so what, how could he retaliate against the empire?

Looking at Shaozo with an indifferent look, Abe Nobuyuki felt angry, but he couldn't do anything about him, so he could only wave his hand to let Shaozo out, and soon he sat down again and began to check other messages......

Fukuoka, which is more than 900 kilometers away from Tokyo, is located in the western part of the Japanese archipelago and the northern part of Kyushu, and is the largest prefecture on the island of Kyushu, as well as the political, economic and cultural center of Kyushu, with a population of more than 900,000 people, and is also one of the most populous cities in western Japan.

At four o'clock in the morning, when people were sleeping soundly, and the whole of Fukuoka Prefecture had already fallen asleep, none of them expected that a bomber with a flame of revenge was coming towards them at a height more than a hundred kilometers away from them.

In the cramped cabin of the B-29 bomber, Chu Yuan handed over the plane to the deputy to pilot, while he left as a navigator who walked behind and faced the navigator who was fiddling with the radio and asked, "Liu Xiang, how far do we have to get to Fukuoka?" ”

The navigator was lying on the small table in front of him, constantly fiddling with the map with a compass, a star map, a two-legged gauge, and a ruler, and after a while he raised his head and replied: "Team Chu, it's already fast, judging from our direction and speed, we will arrive in Fukuoka in more than twenty minutes." ”

Chu Yuan stared at him and asked solemnly, "Can you guarantee it?" ”

Liu Xiang said: "Sir, rest assured, eight * nine is not far from ten." ”

"That's good!" Chu Yuan was a little relieved, after all, flying in the sea does not have to be on land, if there is no reference, the plane will get lost, if the plane is lost, the only thing waiting for the flight crew is to crash, so in a crew, the role of an excellent navigator is no less than that of a captain.

At this moment, there was a sudden rustling sound on the radio, followed by a burst of Japanese on the radio.

“…… The first heavy snow of the year has arrived, and the beautiful snow scenery makes Fukuoka even more beautiful, and when the snow melts, Fukuoka will surely bloom even more beautiful cherry blossoms next year......"

"Team Chu, we have searched for the radio signal in Fukuoka, you wait a minute." Liu Xiang shouted happily, he said that he was also busy in his hands, since he could receive the radio signal, it was easy to measure the direction and distance of the target.

"Very good, the distance and bearing of Fukuoka are the same as what I just measured!" Liu Xiang's words completely relieved Chu Yuan, and he immediately connected to the internal call channel.

"Attention crew members, now we are twenty minutes away from Fukuoka, now everyone starts to check their equipment, the bombardier immediately checks whether the bomb dropper and the bomb are in good condition, and reports to me in five minutes!"

As soon as the order was given, the crew members immediately began to get busy, the machine gunner checked the guns and ammunition, the bombardier checked the bombing equipment and ammunition in the engine room, and the navigator reported the latest bearing and altitude of the aircraft every two minutes.

As time passed, the plane began to gradually lower its altitude, and finally flew at a speed of more than 200 kilometers at an altitude of one thousand meters.

Suddenly, the co-pilot in front shouted, "Sir, I've found Fukuoka!" ”

With the shout of the co-pilot, everyone looked down one after another, only to see many sparkling lights begin to appear on the dark ground, which indicates that the decentralization is a densely populated city.

Chu Yuan's face became slightly flushed, and he shouted into the microphone, "Okay...... Open the hatch! ”

"Understood...... The hatch is open! The sound of a bombardier came from the headset.

In the dark of night, the two hatches in the belly of the huge B-29 slowly opened.

"Bombardier...... Get ready...... The countdown begins...... Ten...... Nine...... Two...... One ......"

"Two bombs!"

"Understood, two!"

As the bombardier pressed the button, two barrel-shaped objects left the magazine and fell to the ground.

The belly of the B-29 bomber has two bomb bays in the front and rear, each bomb bay has its own hatch, and there is a timer to control the order of dropping bombs, so that the bombs are released alternately in the two bomb bays to maintain the center of gravity of the aircraft.

As the order was given, one after another cylindrical bombs fell from the hatch to the ground like dumplings...... (To be continued.) )