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The impact of the Eighth Route Army's bomber group on the Japanese mainland was enormous.

That night, news of the bombing of Sasebo, Hachiman, and Nagasaki by an unknown air force reached Tokyo.

Because the Eighth Route Army did not shoot at civilians, the merchants and passengers at the Nagasaki harbor saw clearly that it was the fighters of the Great Japanese Army and Navy that bombed Nagasaki, and the fuselage was sprayed with bright red sun patterns.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe urgently convened a meeting of Hideki Tojo, Minister of the Sea and Shiro Kawako, Foreign Minister Sadajiro Toyoda, Chief of the General Staff Sugimoto, and Minister of Commerce and Industry Tsukinji Shomasa to study and judge the situation.

Fumima Konoe asked Minister of Commerce and Industry Shozo Sakon to quickly investigate the damage caused by the Yaman Iron Works and the Nagasaki Trading Port to see if production could be resumed as soon as possible.

The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shozo Sakon, had not yet received a detailed account of the damage, except that the Hachiman Iron Works was in ruins, and that all the steamers in the Nagasaki harbor had been burned or sunk. As soon as His Excellency the Prime Minister asked him to find out the damage caused by the Yawata Iron Works and the Nagasaki Commercial Port, he immediately asked him whether he should resign and take responsibility, and asked the Chief of the General Staff, Sugi Sugimoto, whether the army and navy were capable of defending the Japanese mainland. Today Nagasaki, Sasebo, and Hachiman were bombed, will the enemy bomb Tokyo tomorrow? Is it necessary to ask His Majesty the Emperor to move the capital?

Zuo Jinsi Zhengsan was originally from the navy, but he was unsuccessful when he was in the navy, and the bombing losses tonight were too heavy, and someone had to be responsible for this, so he made a disrespectful statement. The goal was to let Konoe know that it was the Army and Navy, not his Ministry of Commerce and Industry, that was responsible for the bombing.

Chief of the General Staff, Shanshan Yuan, ignored Zuo Jin's questioning. Said slowly, "Anyway." You have to figure out who the enemy really is and where they flew from. ”

Yes, was it the Chinese Air Force or the Soviet Air Force that attacked the mainland?

Shanshan Yuan is a representative of the theory of quick victory, and once threatened to destroy China in three months. He also served as the commander of the North China Front. As soon as he said this, the eyes of the people attending the meeting were fixed on him. That's pretty obvious. Do you need to ask this question? It must have been done by Liu Yimin of the Eighth Route Army, who made His Excellency Shanshan Yuan suffer repeated defeats. His air force bombed the aircraft carrier formation of the Ryuka in the Great Japanese Empire, and the airfield of the Provisional Air Corps of the North Japan Front was also bombed by his air force. Liu Yimin's air force was accustomed to camouflage the sneak attacks of imperial fighters, except for him. Who else could there be?

Several people looked at Shanshan Yuan with a little more disdain in their eyes. I feel that His Excellency the Chief of the General Staff is too shameless and treats everyone as fools.

Shanshan Yuan saw that a few people looked at him unkindly, and immediately understood what was going on, his old face was slightly red, and he said slowly for a long time: "It should be the air force of Liu Yimin of the Eighth Route Army, Liu Yimin's air force is equipped with fighters produced by the Japanese Empire." Easy to camouflage. However, most of the fighters of Liu Yimin's air force were Type 97 bombers produced by Mitsubishi. With a range of only 2,500 kilometers, isn't he afraid that he won't be able to go back? I think that the suspicion of the Soviet Russian aviation cannot be ruled out. Because Soviet Russia had long-range bombers, perhaps the remnants of the Soviet Russian air force in the Far East came to bomb for the purpose of retaliation. ”

Shanshanyuan, this guy began to be ambiguous again.

Hideki Tojo, the prime minister of the land, said impatiently: "The airfields in the Far East of Soviet Russia have basically been destroyed, and there is no air power left. On the contrary, the air force of the Eighth Route Army was never completely wiped out. ”

Shanshan Yuan was still unhurried: "The Far East is so big, how many Japans can withstand it, can His Excellency Lu Xiang ensure that the aviation of the Soviet Russian Far East is completely annihilated?" Probably we destroyed their fighters, light bombers, and most of their heavy bombers, so that their concealed long-range bombers lost their fighter cover and did not dare to take off to meet the enemy, but quietly came to attack the homeland. Moreover, will ** and the Eighth Route Army be willing to risk the only air force for Soviet Russia? ”

This is also true, the Far East has been controlled by the Soviet Red Army for so long, and it is reasonable if they dig underground hangars like the Japanese and save some long-range bombers that they do not usually need.

Foreign Minister Sadajiro Toyoda did not want to listen to their quarrel, so he hurriedly said: "The question is how to face reporters from various countries early tomorrow morning, the mainland of the Great Japanese Empire has been bombed, and it is really difficult to handle this time, and the image of the Great Japanese Empire has been ruined." ”

This statement woke up everyone present, and Shanshan Yuan did not take the lead at both ends, and immediately said: "Your Excellency the Foreign Minister should hold a press conference to severely condemn the Soviet Russian Air Force for its frenzied attack on the industrial, commercial, and other civilian facilities of the Great Japanese Empire, demand that Soviet Russia compensate for the losses, and warn Soviet Russia that if it dares to bomb civilian facilities again, the Japanese Army and Navy Air Force will retaliate with a tooth for a tooth and resolutely retaliate!" ”

A few people immediately came to their senses, saying that it was not a shame for the Soviet Air Force to bomb the Japanese mainland, that it was too embarrassing for the Eighth Route Army Air Force to bomb the Japanese mainland, and that the Eighth Route Army was bombing Japan with captured Japanese-made aircraft, and that it would be a shame to throw it to grandma's house! After all, the Soviet Union was an industrial power, and China was the sick man of East Asia. It seems that His Excellency Shanshan Yuan has a quick mind and deserves to be the chief of the General Staff.

This issue was decided at that time, not only to report the news, including explaining to the Japanese people, but also to unify the voice, and to say that it was the remnants of the Soviet and Russian Far East air forces that secretly attacked and bombed the mainland.

This is a superficial article, although several devils have determined the caliber of propaganda for the sake of face, they still retain suspicions about the Eighth Route Army Air Force in their hearts, and even privately believe that the Eighth Route Army Air Force did it, but they don't have the face to admit it.

The next question to discuss is how to strengthen the defense of the homeland. This time, there was no further quarrel, and the consensus was unanimous, and several flight regiments that had been transferred from the mainland to the Far East to participate in the war against the Soviet Union were immediately ordered to return to the mainland, strengthen patrols and vigilance, and annihilate enemy planes that dared to take risks attacking the mainland at any time. At the same time, in view of the fact that the war in the Far East was going well, the flying regiments that had been sent from China to North China and Central China to participate in the war in the Far East were returned to their original defensive areas. The Combined Fleet dispatched three aircraft carriers back to China to assist in the defense of the mainland.

In a few moments, the air pressure on the Red Army in the Far East was much lessened.

Then there was the discussion of how to deal with the aftermath, and how the Hachiman Steel Plant had to be rebuilt, because the Japanese Empire needed a steady stream of steel to build warships, tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, weapons and ammunition; The Sasebo Naval Base must also be restored quickly, as it is the forward base of the Great Japanese Army and Navy facing China, Korea, and the Far East; The port of Nagasaki had to be rebuilt, and the Japanese Empire needed this seaport for overseas trade, to receive goods and raw materials from China, Manchuria, and the Far East, and to dump industrial goods into China, Manchuria, the Far East, and even Southeast Asia through the port of Nagasaki.

This also has to be rebuilt, that has to be rebuilt, and after a while Konoe Fumima is annoyed, because no one thinks about where the money comes from.

Konoe Fumima said, "Military spending is already intolerable, the economy is overwhelmed, and there is no way to rebuild the Sasebo Naval Base, Nagasaki Commercial Port, and Yawata Iron Works anyway." ”

Hideki Tojo, the prime minister of the land, has many methods, and directly supports Konoe, and the cost of rebuilding the Yawata Iron and Steel Plant is borne by the Japanese company, and if the Japanese company only thinks that there is overcapacity and does not need to rebuild, it is not impossible; The reconstruction of the Sasebo Naval Base was solved by issuing public bonds; The Ministry of Commerce and Industry is responsible for the construction of the Nagasaki seaport, which allows merchants who have made a fortune in foreign trade to pay unless they don't want to do business anymore.

Hideki Tojo said it lightly, it seems that the Great Japanese Empire can complete the reconstruction without paying a penny.

Konoe Fumima looked at Hideki Tojo who was running the train a little mockingly, but unexpectedly, Hideki Tojo was not timid, and further said: "This is the best way at the moment!" ”

Konoe Fumima thought about it and made sense, so he put this issue aside and began to discuss the situation in the Far East. At this time, there was nothing to do with the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Zuo Jinji Masasan, and Konoe Fumima asked him to leave to arrange the deployment of the damage investigation. As for the treatment of the wounded, officials from Atsuto Province have already rushed to Nagasaki, Sasebo, and Hachiman.

After the departure of the third secretary of the left office, the chief of the General Staff, Shanshan Yuan, reported on the progress of the battlefield in the Far East.

According to Shanshanyuan's report, after three days of fighting, the air force achieved brilliant results, controlled the air supremacy on the battlefield, and basically destroyed the ground airfields of the air force of the Soviet Far Eastern Front. The Navy also achieved fruitful results, and the surface ships of the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy were basically annihilated. However, the troops of the Pacific Fleet guarding Vladivostok and Soviet Port and other key coastal defense points were very tenacious, relying on strong fortifications and not retreating, and the marines suffered heavy casualties. However, the Marines have landed in several places and are outflanking in a roundabout way. The ground forces of the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army fought fiercely, paid heavy casualties, and achieved the result that they had broken through the front-line positions of the Soviet army in many places. The shaking of the Soviet army on all fronts was just around the corner.

Although Konoe Funma did not understand military affairs, the general truth was clear, and he immediately asked the Kwantung Army where the armored assault group composed of the two tank divisions, the second division, and the twenty-third division had arrived, and why it was not possible to quickly complete the outflanking of the front-line positions of the Soviet army in the Far East.

This is what Sugimoto and Hideki Tojo are most proud of, and they heard Sugimoto's report that the armored group has not been engaged in battle for the time being, and plans to wait for the front-line troops to tear a gap in the Soviet defense line and the Soviet army to retreat before dispatching, completely destroying the Soviet army's will to resist, crushing it, and then quickly encircling it in a roundabout way to completely annihilate the Soviet army in the Far East.

Konoe Fumima did not believe in such a plan, because the total strength of the Soviet army in the Far East was hundreds of thousands, and it was not something that could be swallowed in one bite. Therefore, he drew the attention of Sugi Sugimoto and Hideki Tojo to the need to guard against a counterattack by the Soviet troops, and to implement the guidelines set by the Imperial Council and control the scale of the operation.

Now that the war situation in the Far East is favorable to the Japanese army, Sugi Sugimoto, Tojo Hideki, and Kawakoshi are preparing to fight hard, and they hate to hear such words from the prime minister.

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