Chapter 50: The Bombing of Tokyo
On a green island in the heart of Tokyo, there is a complex of Japanese and Western traditions, which is the imperial palace of Japan and home to Emperor Hirohito's family.
Hirohito, who came from the military system and was a militarist through and through, liked to take pictures of the Russo-Japanese battlefields and the ruins of Verdun as early as his youth to express his desire for war.
As the emperor of Japan, Hirohito's aggressive ambitions eventually led Japan to embark on the path of foreign expansion and aggression, bringing bitter disasters to the people of Asia.
On Zhang Meng's blacklist, Hirohito ranked first and was the target who must be removed.
The Tang Army's bomber group went to Tokyo, and the first target was the Japanese Imperial Palace, killing Emperor Hirohito. This is followed by the Yasukuni Shrine.
Built in 1869, the Yasukuni Shrine was originally known as the "Tokyo Spiritualist Shrine" to commemorate the soldiers who died fighting during the Boshin War, Japan's civil war, during the Meiji Restoration, to restore the power of the Meiji Emperor. In 1879, the Tokyo Spiritualist Society was renamed Yasukuni Shrine, and "Yasukuni" came from the 23rd year of the Zuo Chuan Gong "I take Yasukuni also", which means to stabilize the country. After the Meiji Restoration, the shrine is dedicated to the memorial tablets of Japanese soldiers who died in battle, including the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the future World War II.
When the Tang Army bombed Tokyo, Zhang Meng gave special instructions to blow up the Yasukuni Shrine, which was intended to smash the soul of the Japanese army, completely deter the Japanese psychologically, and let them know that the consequences of offending the Tang Empire were very tragic.
In addition, there are Ise Jingu Shrine and Atsuta Jingu Shrine, which symbolize the imperial power of Japan, and it is said that Yachiya mirrors and grass-shaved swords are enshrined there. It is a symbol of the Japanese imperial family's steady control of Japan for thousands of years.
The Japanese base camp received information that Tang Army bombers had taken off from Shanghai, thinking that they were bombing Taiwan. For this reason, the Japanese army strictly defended Taiwan, and as a result, there was never a shadow of the bomber group of the Tang Army.
On the morning of 18 September, a group of Tang bombers suddenly appeared over Tokyo Bay, and the Japanese destroyer Edomaru, which was on patrol, spotted the group of Tang bombers that were descending in altitude, and immediately sent a notice to the Japanese Navy's Command Department.
By the time the Japanese Military Command Department confirmed it, and then notified the Joint Staff Headquarters and various Japanese departments to prepare for the Tokyo Metropolitan Air Defense, the bomber group of the Tang Army had already flown over Tokyo.
Hirohito is playing in the garden with his queen and children. There was a sudden deafening roar in the sky. When I looked up, I saw a group of black and oppressive planes covering the sky.
"Bastard! Whose troops are this, it's getting more and more unlikely! ”
Hirohito was annoyed that the airspace around the palace was a no-fly zone. However, since the May 15 Mutiny, the military has become more and more presumptuous, and even drafted the abolition of the emperor system. If it weren't for the emperor's deification education in Japan for thousands of years, I'm afraid it would really be wasted.
At this time. Rapid air raid sirens were already sounding over Tokyo. This is the first time that the air defense siren has been sounded in Tokyo since Shijie had an airplane, and it is undoubtedly quite shocking.
"It's ......"
Hirohito didn't hear it for a while that it was an air raid siren, or thought that it was another military exercise in Kyoto, after all, the Tang Army's wild rumors that it was going to land in Japan had already frightened the entire territory of Japan.
"Bixia, it's the bomber of the Tang Army, hide!"
More than a dozen of the emperor's guards hurried towards the garden. Hirohito stood on the spot for a moment, slowly looking at the group of planes in the sky. An expression of disbelief.
The fact that the bomber group of the Don Army was able to fly over Tokyo was tantamount to a hot slap in the face.
Hirohito was stunned, but the Tang Army bombers were rapidly descending in altitude.
In the cockpit of the long plane, the co-pilot took out a photo album, and when he opened it, it was full of photos from all over Tokyo, including the Imperial Palace of Japan. He looked around, comparing the photographs for a reference.
"Report to the captain! Here's the little devil's palace! ”
"Look carefully, don't blow up the wrong trip!"
"Don't worry, I'm sharp-eyed, I'm sure I'm right!"
The captain nodded, and immediately picked up the walkie-talkie.
"Attention machines, the target has arrived, get ready for your lumps!"
Tuotuo means, and along the way, the pilots of the Tang Army have already named these aerial bombs, and they are called Tuotuo, which is specially fed to the Japanese devils.
"Altitude 2500 meters!"
"Open the hatch!"
The Thunder bomber opened the belly bomb door, which was a railway-like double track, on which six 500-kilogram aerial bombs were lined up.
"Targeted! Get ready to drop the bomb! ”
A set of high-altitude photoelectric aiming device, which can be used by bombardiers to clearly aim at ground targets at a distance of about 2,500 meters, and the bomb throwing error does not exceed 70 meters.
"Eight seconds countdown ready!"
"Activate the fuse and start dropping the bomb!"
The order was given, and one aerial bomb after another was drawn out of the cabin.
"Babble-babble-babble-"
A sharp whistle pierced the sky, and a 500-kilogram aerial bomb was thrown into the Japanese Imperial Palace with a wound of death.
Hirohito and his family fled as fast as the guards froze, but not as fast as the bombs fell.
"Boom-boom-boom-"
The aerial bombs exploded violently, shaking the mountains in an instant, rolling air waves, splashing earth and rocks, and the sound was deafening.
The civil structure of the Japanese Imperial Palace could not withstand the fierce bombardment of the 500-kilogram aerial bombs, and every explosion of the waterway would cause dozens of palace houses to be blown up, and the Imperial Palace, which was less than 20,000 square meters, was razed to the ground in the blink of an eye.
Where did the Hirohito family experience such a scene, the earth shook, and they were all flashed to the ground. A few guards were about to lift them up when another aerial bomb fell near them.
With a loud bang, the Hirohito family and the dozen or so guards were suddenly torn apart by the explosion, and the stumps and severed arms were swept away hundreds of meters away by the air waves.
Hirohito hung up like this, and his bones were gone.
The entire palace was afurnished with a monstrous fire, which lasted for three days and three nights.
At the same time, two Thunder bombers flew over the Yasukuni Shrine and dropped 12 500-kilogram aerial bombs, but the hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers could not keep the shrine, and only huge craters several meters deep remained, as if they had been hit by a meteorite.
Before the Tang Army's bomber group entered Tokyo Bay, the 18 Thunder bombers of the 2nd Squadron turned to Ise Bay, leveling the Ise Jingu and Atsuta Jingu Shrines, which symbolized the Japanese imperial power, into a sea of fire.
The bombing went very smoothly and all the set objectives were accomplished.
Still, one Thunder bomber left behind an aerial bomb that was dropped near the Japanese Joint Staff Headquarters building in Shinjuku Ward on its way back.
Although it did not hit the target, it blew up a third of the building, killing and injuring hundreds of Japanese military personnel and causing considerable damage.
When the group of bombers of the Don Army was about to leave the skies over Japan, hundreds of fighters of the Japanese Army Aviation arrived.
Seeing that the Japanese Imperial Palace and the three major shrines were all destroyed, the Japanese pilots were so angry that they screamed one by one, and even vomited blood, and they frantically drove fighter planes to pounce on the Tang Army's plane group, vowing to shoot them down. (To be continued......)