After the air raid on Kure Harbor, Minoru Saito immediately flew to the scene.

Stepping on the ruins of the Kure Port Naval Shipyard, there is a ruined scene everywhere you look. The battleship Yamato capsized in the water, and the exposed parts of the water could see huge holes several meters in diameter, and the hundreds of millimeters of steel plates around the hole were badly deformed, twisted like the tentacles of an octopus.

Minoru Saito was shocked, and he could imagine the power of the Tang Army's aerial bomb that destroyed the battleship Yamato, and if this destructive power could penetrate the heavy armor of the Yamato, it was understandable that the surrounding facilities were razed to the ground.

On the other side, not far from the water, the battleship Gozo was moored, although it was not sunk, but it was also covered with the same huge hole as the Yamato, the entire island was razed to the ground, the 17-inch cannon was broken or twisted into twists, the 650 mm thick main gun turret was overturned, and there were traces of melting after the fire burned at high temperatures, and many equipment that could have been turned was melted into a lump of steel, and it was more difficult to remove it than to install it.

"That's ......"

Minoru Saito pointed to a battleship in the distance, which had been smashed in two by a huge iron bump.

"It was a 15,000-ton hydraulic press that the Reich bought from Germany for $9.4 million, and we were in a hurry to transfer it when the enemy plane attacked, but it was overturned by the blast wave of the bomb explosion dropped by the enemy plane, and hit a Fengfeng-class destroyer in the dockyard next to it."

Minoru Saito's face suddenly twitched, obviously his flesh hurting to death. It's hard to buy. The navies of various countries strictly control exports, and they were previously sold to Japan because Germany was short of money due to sanctions. Now that Germany has formed an alliance with Datang, it is very difficult to buy a hydraulic press of this level.

"How long will it take for the Yamato and Gozo to be restored?"

"More than 55 per cent of the damage. It will take at least three years to repair it, and it will take at least 300 billion yen, if the yen does not continue to depreciate. ”

Minoru Saito suddenly stumbled and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he had already been to the Yokosuka shipyard before he came, and the situation was similar to that of the Kure Port shipyard, and the Shinano and Hitachi battleships were basically the same result.

"Damn the Don Army! Sooner or later, I'll have to pay them dearly! ”

"The new bombers of the Tang Army have been above 10,000 meters altitude, and our anti-aircraft artillery cannot hit them. Fighters that take off also can't climb to that height. ”

Minoru Saito is well aware that this is the crux of the matter, the reason why the Tang Army was able to succeed. It is because they have always been at the forefront of jishu, and every time they rely on this advanced jishu equipment to occupy the commanding heights, which catches the Japanese army off guard.

"They won't be so lucky next time they come back!" Minoru Saito said fiercely.

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister already has a strategy for dealing with it?" A cadre of escorts suddenly came to their senses.

Minoru Saito nodded and said, "This new bomber of the Tang Army appeared on the battlefield in Spain half a year ago. So we were prepared. In a few days, we will deploy a batch of new anti-aircraft guns, which are large anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of more than 300 mm, which are enough to hit an altitude of 10,000 meters. ”

The Japanese officers and men were overjoyed and looked forward to the arrival of the new anti-aircraft artillery.

The Northern Islands of the Tang Empire, that is, the southern islands that originally belonged to Japan, and its main island, the Ogasawara Islands, have been changed to Bianjing by the Tang Dynasty, and have become the largest naval and air bases of the Tang Empire in the North Pacific region.

The whole of Bianjing is actually a huge airport, and the airstrip runs through the north and south ends of Bianjing Island. The five-metre-thick runway, which is made of a mixture of cement and steel bar, is covered with steel plates that can be replaced at any time. The steel plate is like reactive armor, which can unload most of the destructive power of the 500-kilogram bomb, and ensure the safety of the runway foundation below to the greatest extent, even if the steel plate is shattered and blown away, it is only a small part, and the engineer can re-lay the new steel plate within 20 minutes to ensure that the runway can continue to take off and land aircraft.

Bianjing Airport is capable of taking off and landing all types of aircraft listed by the Tang Imperial Air Force, including the heaviest and largest Dabaihe strategic bomber. The 48 Great White Crane strategic bombers that went to Kure Port and Yokosuka to bomb Japan did not fly back to the Yanjing Air Base, but stopped directly at the Bianjing airfield. Their combat mission is not over, and they will continue to bomb other military targets on the Japanese mainland.

In addition to the 48 Dabaihe strategic bombers, the Bianjing Air Base has assembled 300 Thunderdragon medium-range heavy bombers, and they will operate together with the Dabaihe strategic bombers, and the escort mission will be the Datang No. 2 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group stationed at the Bianjing Naval Base.

In the following month, the Tang Army dispatched more than 400 sorties of bomber groups to various parts of the Japanese mainland every day to bomb the Japanese mainland, and their main targets were the dock facilities in Japan's major ports and the Japanese warships on alert and maintenance in the harbors, followed by the Japanese naval weapons factory, which provided naval gun weapon systems, boiler power systems, armor forging and other equipment for Japanese naval warships.

After each bombing, in addition to the loss of a large number of factory equipment, the Japanese workers suffered heavy casualties, which seriously affected the service time of various warships of the Japanese Navy and had a serious impact on the Japanese Navy.

Of course, the manufacturing speed of white phosphorus bombs in the Tang Empire was still in its infancy, and soon the supply of white phosphorus bombs could not keep up, so the Tang army had to replace white phosphorus bombs with other special incendiary bombs. Although the terrifying power of the incendiary bomb is not as good as the white phosphorus bomb, but the damage to the Japanese factory lasts for a short time, often an incendiary bomb attack will cause a serious fire, the fire lasts for three days and three nights is very normal, sometimes after the Japanese fire system is blown up, the fire continues to burn for a week can not be extinguished, a large number of factory equipment was burned in the fire, so that the Japanese army suffered heavy losses.

However, the bomber group of the Don Army also ran into trouble. When the Tang Army's Great White Crane strategic bombers, which dropped bombs at an altitude of 10,000 meters, attacked the Kure-gang Naval Shipyard for the fourth time, the Japanese army used a large 305-millimeter antiaircraft gun, and the shells exploded for the first time at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and the fragments of the shells damaged the two Great White Crane strategic bombers.

Fortunately, the Tang Army's Great White Crane strategic bombers were relatively strong, and the key parts were not damaged, so the pilots finally drove the two damaged Great White Crane bombers back to Bianjing Air Base.

The Tang Army's Thunder Dragon bombers, which carried out bombing missions near an altitude of 5,000 meters, did not have such good luck, and the Japanese army's 127-mm anti-aircraft guns could hit this airspace, and with the help of 305-mm large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, more than 15 Thunder Dragon bombers were shot down, which greatly shocked the Tang Army.

In order to study countermeasures, the Datang Air Force Command suspended air raid operations in order to ensure that the advanced Jishu of the Tang Army bombers was not acquired by the Japanese. (To be continued......)