Lieutenant General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, commander of the Haneda Instructor Regiment of the Japanese Army Aviation, was now sitting in the passenger seat of a Me264, and he would not have had to attack himself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Because today's operations are sporadic sorties, there are no formations at all, and there is no need for an air commander.

However, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, as one of the few people in the army who knew Europe and the United States, knew deeply what the consequences would be if the United States, an industrial giant, would exert its strength. So he was worried that his 42 crews would become gods collectively in this operation...... At that time, he will be the head of the light pole division.

And he was also the commander of the division who was wiped out in the first battle! If it really turns out like this, he will not lose the face of one person, but the face of the dignified Tokugawa family! Even Tosho Daiken (Tokugawa Ieyasu), who became a god hundreds of years ago, will have no face in the sky, and may be laughed at by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

In order not to embarrass the ancestors and ancestors, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi resolutely flew the plane to fight...... It's a big deal to die in battle on American soil, so it's not a shame to see the power of Tosho Jingu, at least not the unscrupulous descendants of the Tokugawa family.

However, thinking that it would be possible to leave this world forever to see Daequanxian, the good boy of the Tokugawa family, Comrade Kotoshi, was not happy at all, and his face was ugly as if he was getting dizzy.

However, the captain next to him, Lieutenant Yaichiro Hayashi, a farmer from Osaka Prefecture, had a fearless expression on his face, and there was a little excitement.

"Ichiro," Tokugawa asked calmly, "I'm about to enter American airspace...... Most of us have already been detected by the radar of the Americans, aren't you afraid? ”

In order to save fuel, this Me262 flies at cruising altitude, so it cannot avoid the radar of the US military.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, I'm not afraid!" Hayashi Yaichiro replied with a smile, "It's only an honor for Ichiro to be able to become a god in the United States and be with the division commander!" ”

Of course you're honored! Tokugawa Yoshitoshi thought to himself, your son of a farmer died with Shimizu Yoshitoshi (another name of Tokugawa Yoshitoshi), and most of them will be able to see the great power after becoming a god, which is really a blessing from several generations of cultivation.

"Your Excellency Division Commander, Captain," just when Tokugawa Yoshitoshi felt that Yaichiro Hayashi was really lucky, Taro Sato, the navigator on the plane, suddenly shouted, "The radar found 1 enemy plane, in the direction of 8 o'clock, the distance is 30, and the altitude is 7000 ......."

Now I'm going to become a god!

Tokugawa gasped, his heart pounding. The Me264 he was riding on didn't even have a machine gun for self-defense, and he could only stand up to it when it encountered an American fighter.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, we are now going to raise the altitude to 10,000 meters." However, Yaichiro Hayashi appeared calm, "and then rushed to the mainland of the United States at full speed." ”

"Captain, can you get rid of the enemy plane?" Taro Sato, who was now watching the radar, asked—his tone sounding calm.

Ashamed of his shame, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi tried to suppress his fear, holding the sword that had been passed down from generation to generation in both hands, and sat still.

"Yes," Hayashi Yaichiro replied affirmatively, "our plane is very light, and there is an eastward air flow at 9,000-11,000 meters to accelerate the plane." ”

Tokugawa Yoshitoshi only then remembered that the Me264 was a very fast heavy bomber, which could reach a top speed of 690 km/h. And it also has a turbocharged engine, which the P51 can't catch up with at extremely high altitudes above 10,000 meters.

In addition, heavy bombers and transport aircraft can use air currents to accelerate. In the Pacific Ocean, there is an eastward upper-air current...... Those balloon bombs relied on this air flow to go to the continental United States.

And as long as the bomber is pulled up to the corresponding height, it can also borrow force. So that Me264 can rush towards the United States at great speed. Unless that plane in the sky right now is a P47, the Me264 that Tokugawa Yoshitoshi is flying on will definitely escape.

After 10 minutes, Taro Sato reported loudly: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, that plane disappeared from the radar screen. ”

In fact, they encountered a B-24 reconnaissance plane, which was not as fast as the Me264 and could not fly more than 10,000 meters.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, we are going to lower the altitude." Hayashi Yaichiro reported loudly at this time.

"Why?"

"To avoid P47." Hayashi Yaichiro replied, "The plane just now is probably a reconnaissance plane with radar installed, and it should have spotted us, and it will report our position and altitude." Soon there will be a P47 to intercept it, and if we meet a P47, we will become gods. ”

"But there will be P51 at low and medium altitudes."

"Wait until you meet it," said Hayashi Yaichiro, "and the P51B/C can't catch up with Me264 at an extremely high altitude of 10,000 meters." ”

Although Tokugawa Yoshitoshi was the founder of the Japanese Army Air Corps, he retired before the outbreak of the Pacific War, and all the knowledge he knew about aviation was outdated.

However, Hayashi Yaichiro has participated in the South Pacific round battle in this time and space, and has fought with the P51 deployed by the United States in the South Pacific, knows the characteristics of the P51B/C, and also knows how to deal with this excellent American fighter - if Hayashi Yaichiro is flying a Japanese plane (he previously flew a Type 1 fighter and a Type 2 fighter), when encountering the P51B/C, there are usually three response plans: diving to an ultra-low altitude to escape, parachuting to escape, and Kudansaka Narigami.

"What if we meet the American P47 when we pull it up?" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi asked again.

Lin Yaichiro smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency the division commander, if you encounter P51 and P47 at the same time...... Then let's go to Kudanzaka to become a god. ”

If it's no joke to go to Kudansaka Seigami, just when Tokugawa Yoshitoshi and Yaichiro Hayashi were lucky enough to avoid the interception of P47 and P51 and fly to the mainland of the United States. There have been quite a few Me264s that have unfortunately encountered the P51 and P47 in the United States.

The Japanese pilots trained by Germany basically responded by pulling to a height of more than 10,000 meters and trying to escape with the help of high air currents and the high speed of Me264.

Unfortunately, the Americans had already learned this tactic in the Guyana-Caribbean aerial tug-of-war - where the Americans encountered the Ju288, which had better high-altitude performance and was faster. So they have long summed up a set of coping methods, that is, to coordinate with 4 P51B/C and 4 P47, P51B/C at medium and high altitudes, and P47 at extremely high altitudes. When Ju288 is caught up by P51B/C at an extremely high altitude, P47 immediately dives and attacks! However, the German Ju288 usually had an Fw-190C or Fw-190D escort during daytime operations, and both series of Fw-190s were high-altitude types.

Among them, the Fw-190C is equipped with engines from the DB603 series of Mercedes-Benz, while the Fw-190D series is equipped with liquid-cooled engines from the Jumo-213 family. Both aircraft can fly at an altitude of 11,300 meters at an altitude of 704 km/h, and the firepower is strong enough to fight the high-altitude P47.

But the Me264 that attacked the mainland of the United States today did not have any escort, as long as it was caught by 4 P47s, it was certain death!

According to later statistics, 16 of the 42 Me264 long-range bombers that carried out the hair germ bomb were shot down by the P47s that came to intercept them without even seeing the coastline of the United States. So what really broke into the airspace of the United States, there were only 26 Me264s.

The 26 Me264 bombers were equipped with different types of bacteriological weapons -- although Japan's Unit 731 produced many kinds of bacteriological weapons, only three bacteriological weapons were selected to attack the US mainland, namely Yersinia pestis, Bacillus anthracis, and Vibrio cholerae. And every Me264 bomber has only one type of bacteriological weapon on board.

The reason for this is that, firstly, in order to facilitate the delivery, according to the requirements of Unit 731, different types of bacteriological weapons should be dropped in the corresponding areas.

Bacillus anthracis spores, for example, should be stocked in densely populated or livestock intensive areas (small towns are preferred, followed by pastures).

Yersinia pestis is dropped on the outskirts of large cities as much as possible - it is certainly better to drop them in the city center, but given the density of 127mm (which can use radio proximity fuse shells) anti-aircraft guns and 40mm anti-aircraft guns, it is undoubtedly a waste of time for a single machine to penetrate the large cities on the West Coast of the United States.

Vibrio cholerae is spread by being released near rivers and through contaminated water.

The second reason is to prevent germs from infecting the crew members of the aircraft, Unit 731, while developing bacteriological weapons, has also produced corresponding vaccines. Moreover, these vaccines were developed after many human trials, and they are also the most targeted (for the strains used by the Japanese). Therefore, the crew members responsible for the delivery of a certain germ were injected with the corresponding vaccine before setting off for the expedition.

And the Me262 long-range bomber piloted by Tokugawa Yoshitoshi is loaded with plague bacillus called "the king of bacteriological weapons" by Shiro Ishii, the commander of Japan's Unit 731! However, these plague bacilli were not released in the form of bacteria, but were found in rat fleas, which were taken from rats infected with plague and deposited on cotton with rodents (that is, the special smell emitted by female mice to find their husbands) and stuffed in ceramic bacteriological bombs. These ceramic bacteriological bombs are equipped with time-delay fuses, and when they are dropped from an altitude of 3000-4000 meters, they will explode before touching the ground (only a small amount of explosives are needed to burst the ceramic shell, and will not endanger the fleas inside), so that the "flea cotton" contaminated with rat trap will attract rats in the United States.