When the fire was finally brought under control along the river, the troops of the Eastern Military Region rushed to Tokyo, and about 50,000 officers and men rushed to Tokyo from all over the country to clear a 300-meter isolation zone around the fire site and isolate the entire fire site, and the residents on the other side of the river mobilized to clear a separation zone along the riverbank

By noon, the fire was gradually extinguished, everything that could be burned was burned out, and there were only a few lone smoking telephone poles on the street, except for the cement walls, iron frames, and stone carvings, all that could be burned had been burned, and the whole area had been burned to a white ground, and there were no complete buildings.

Tatetakanosuke and Tanabe followed the flow of people in the direction of their home, and there were corpses everywhere along the way, the corpses were all naked and blackened, and the corpses were of various shapes, some shrunk into a ball, some with their limbs spread out, as if they were still struggling, and some were sitting by the wall, their hands folded, as if praying for the protection of Amaterasu.

The crowd passed by a school, and there were more corpses in the first school, and because of the large number of young and middle-aged people who had been conscripted into the army, parents had to work overtime and board their children at the school: a group of soldiers were moving the corpses out of the rubble, and the corpses were piled up on the school's playground, and the emaciated corpses were covered with straw mats, emitting a foul smell.

The officer in charge of the Ping team used to be Tanabe's subordinate, and the two chatted at the school gate.

"They are so cruel, they don't even spare the children." The officer sighed.

Tanabe was speechless, looking around the whole area without shelter, everywhere was smoke-filled ashes, the people around were silent, the people who had found their home were silently searching the ruins for the unburned belongings, broken clay pots, pitch-black basins, half a bag of still smoking grain, everything was heartily placed on the ground.

An old lady suddenly lost control, sat on the ground and cried loudly, and a young woman next to her was also crying silently, no one tried to comfort her, and now everyone was in the same situation, and the house had become a complete dust.

When Tachitakanosuke returned home, the entire yard had been reduced to ashes, and Mrs. Nakamura silently rushed into the still smoking house, some frantically rummaging through the ruins, while Tachitakanosuke had nothing, and walked under the tree, the tree had been burned, and only the stumps were still smoking.

The slate was covered with a few branches that had been burned out, and the branches were swept away, and the slate was still a little hot in the hand, and when the slate was lifted, Tachitakanosuke breathed a sigh of relief, and the contents were still intact.

"Fortunately in misfortune, things are still there, so let's call Mrs. Nakamura back." Tatsunosuke's tone was visibly relieved.

Tanabe was crying, he had always thought that it was a bit of a mistake for Tachitakanosuke to dig this hole, and after the first few air raids, he didn't put anything in it, and now all his belongings were in that burned room, including his meager retirement money and food capital, and now his life was lost. (//c/o/m update super fast)

Mrs. Nakamura did not come back, she was still frantically searching in the ruins, Mrs. Nakamura also joined in, and soon two bags of food were found from the ruins, and Mrs. Nakamura found a few pieces of jewelry from the ashes, and Tachitakanosuke saw that there was nothing, just sighed softly.

"What are we going to do?" Mrs. Shi 11 held the child's hand tightly and looked at Tachitakanosuke blankly.

A fire attack, one-fifth of Tokyo was burned to ashes, houses were gone, clothes were gone, nothing was left, and now hundreds of thousands of Tokyoites need housing, food, and cloth.

The losses were quickly counted, and Kantaro Suzuki took the list, and his scalp immediately went numb, and the list clearly stated that the twenty-four square kilometers of urban area were completely burned down, about 110,000 people died in the air raid, more than 1,000 family workshops and factories were completely destroyed, and more than 300,000 people became refugees.

"Your Majesty asked, is there nothing the army and navy can do at all? Just let the Chinese Air Force bomb it? Kido asked anxiously.

Neither Kantaro Suzuki nor Mitsumasa Nishio Mitsumasa Yoneuchi could answer, and there was an awkward silence in the conference room, and Kantaro Suzuki muttered to himself: "I have betrayed Your Majesty's trust, I have betrayed Your Majesty's trust." ”

"What's the use of all this now!" Foreign Minister Togo stood up angrily: "No one is going to hold anyone responsible!" Now the question is, is there a way to stop the bombing of the China!? If not, then an armistice should be sought immediately! ”

"Is there any news from Uesugi-kun?" Kantaro Suzuki hurriedly asked, Uesugi was the Japanese ambassador to Switzerland, and Togo instructed him to secretly contact the allies to test the allies' attitude towards peace.

Togo shook his head bitterly, since Suzuki Kantaro approved the covert action, he gave instructions to the ambassadors of Switzerland and Turkey, secretly ordering them to take action and try to contact the allies, but there was no response from both places, but the ambassador to Germany, Oshima, called to ask the government if it was in contact with the allies, reporting that the German government had already protested to them, accusing Japan of deviating from the center of the Triple Axis.

Togo simply ignored Oshima's accusations, called back to tell Oshima that there was no such thing, and then told Uesugi and the ambassador to Turkey, Hayashizumi, to continue to look for opportunities to seek contacts with Britain and the United States.

"Is there any reaction from Chongqing?" Suzuki Kantaro asked again, staring directly at Nishio Shouzo, the work in Chongqing was carried out by the Chinese dispatch army, and the intelligence department of the dispatch army had long known that some high-ranking officials in Wang Jingwei's government had secret contacts with Chongqing, but the war situation was unfavorable, and the dispatch army also turned a blind eye and even secretly assisted, so that during the entire war, Japan had contacts with Chongqing.

Nishio Shouzo smiled bitterly in his heart. When he was also the commander of the Chinese Blue Army, he had a secret sentence with Chongqing in Hong Kong.

At the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek offered to restore the situation before the Lugou Bridge Incident, and China did not pay compensation or remove the commander, in short, it was Chiang Kai-shek's conversation on Lushan.

However, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the imperial army was victorious, Chongqing was heavily bombed, and Chiang Kai-shek's offer was raised, demanding that Japan withdraw from all Chinese territories, including Manchuria.

Before the Battle of North China, China sent troops to seek contact with Chongqing again, but this time Chongqing did not send anyone at all, but only told Zhou Fohai, who was in charge of contact, Chiang Kai-shek's offer was that Japan withdrew from the Northeast, Korea, Mengu, the Soviet Russian Far East, Taiwan, and the Ryukyus, and compensated China for war losses, and the war criminals must be tried by the allies, and all the conditions are equivalent to the Cairo Declaration and the Tehran Declaration. Nishio Shouzo broke off contact with Chongqing in a fit of rage, and after the Battle of North China, Itagaki Seishiro was ordered to contact Chongqing again, this time Japan took the lead in making an offer, and Japan agreed to give up Northeast Jiangnan, hoping that Chiang Kai-shek would agree to negotiate on this basis, but to Itagaki Seishiro's disappointment, Chongqing did not react at all.

Nishio Shouzo's expression made everyone understand that there was no hope for this, Kantaro Suzuki sighed heavily, and the venue of the emergency meeting fell silent.

"Your Majesty hopes that the cabinet will strengthen the peace work" Kido came out again to break the peace: "The empire is getting more and more difficult now, even if the Combined Fleet defeats the Pacific Fleet in Operation A, how much will it help the situation of the empire to improve?" "If we can win Operation A, the United States will know the determination of the Empire, and their attitude will change!" Umezu Yoshijiro's resolute expression, and the growing preference for peace talks in both the cabinet and Hirohito, must change, and Japan's destiny must be in the hands of the fight, not in the hope of peace.

No one refuted Umezu Mijiro, and Kantaro Suzuki turned his head to look at the Quartermaster Toyoda Sadajiro: "How much impact this bombing has on production, please find out as soon as possible." Toyota nodded and agreed: "Please rest assured, Prime Minister, I will be as soon as possible." "According to the division of labor in the cabinet, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry is in charge of industrial production, but Japan has a Minister of Munitions, and in wartime, the state of industrial production is under the overall control of the Ministry of Munitions, so Suzuki Kantaro asked Toyota.

But Toyota frowned again: "If we can't stop the air raids on China, then it is conceivable that the air force in China will come frequently to carry out air raids, and production will be severely hit, Your Excellency, at this rate, it will only take half a year to destroy the entire Japanese industry." 、，

Suzuki looked at Nishio Shouzo and Yonechi Mitsumasa very helplessly, Yonechi Mitsumasa was sitting precariously, staring intently, his opinion had already been put forward, and the combined fleet would attack the Jiaodong Peninsula after returning victoriously.

Nishio Shouzo had to stubbornly reply: "We are deploying anti-aircraft guns, we don't have a lot of aircraft, we must strengthen aircraft production, and we have the strength to fight the China Air Force." ”

"And how long will it take?" Togo immediately asked.

"This needs to be answered by Toyoda-kun."

Nishio Shouzo threw the ball to Toyota, and a trace of anger flashed in Toyota's eyes, but he couldn't avoid it, so he could only owe it: "According to the plan, the empire will produce 50,000 aircraft per year, but due to the shortage of raw materials, it can only produce 13,600 aircraft per year." (The aircraft production figures are incorrect and are hereby corrected.)

Before launching the Pacific War, Hideki Tojo had asked the Planning Institute to investigate and count all Japanese aircraft factories, Japan has 13 aircraft factories, and the production capacity can reach 50,000 aircraft per year, and the base camp estimates that the United States can produce 7-80,000 aircraft per year, but the United States has to support the two theaters, and the planes assigned to the Pacific theater are only about 50,000, or even lower, so in terms of air power comparison, Japan and the United States are equal, and can even have a slight advantage.

But this is only the literal production capacity, in 1937, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, Japan's annual output of aircraft was only 2,000, to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the aircraft production capacity expanded to about 10,000, and then reached the highest peak in the next two years, about 18,000 aircraft, from 1943, the US military strengthened the attack on the sea transportation line, Japan's steel production, copper production, pot production began to decline, which directly led to the decline of ship, tank and aircraft production capacity.

When it comes to airplanes, the problem is even more serious, and pilots who have fought in China have reflected,

The Zero aircraft has begun to lag behind in performance, and the new P41 fighter jet put into service by the United States has surpassed the Zero in terms of firepower and protection, but it is not yet flexible enough.

In addition to performance, there are also pilots, most of whom have so far lost most of their highly trained pilots in the early days of the war, and most of the pilots are now cadets who have just graduated from flight schools, and their flight time is less than ten hours, which is simply not comparable to those old birds in China and the United States.

"With so many planes, we should be able to protect Japan." Kido suddenly interjected, his expression was very confused, more than 10,000 planes, nearly 1,000 planes can be produced every month, and the planes that the people came to bomb were only a few hundred, why can't they protect Japan?!

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