The plane slid rapidly, the engines groaned in vain, the fuselage shook violently, and the flames had already reached the fuel tanks of the wings.1 If the plane was not abandoned, the plane was in danger of exploding at any time.

Giving up the plane and skydiving is certainly a wise choice, after all, it is at the doorstep of one's own home, and the pilot will be fully rescued by the coast guard as soon as he parachutes. Destroyed airplanes can be remanufactured or bought, but people cannot be resurrected after death, and lives cannot be recreated once.

In this sense, people are more precious than airplanes.

The problem is that throughout the ages, almost all Eastern peoples, including the Japanese and Chinese, have refused to see themselves and others in this way. For example, the Japanese "jade shattering" and "loyalty to the emperor", the Chinese's "selflessness" and "loyalty to the country", the Arabs' "holy war", and so on, the values of the Eastern nation determine the meaning of the soldier's life.

At the very moment when the bomber was sliding, Lieutenant Kono, a twenty-six-year-old lieutenant in the Air Force, made a decision with a high content of "heroism" almost without selectivity. He did not heed the call of the life instinct, but was driven by the traditional culture and dedication of the "bushido" that came from the ancient and glorious nature of his people. , death is secondary, but the quality of death is divided between Mount Tai and Hongmao. In fact, this situation is the same as the great inertia of the plane falling, and the tremendous impetus formed by the long-standing cultural tradition of the Yamato nation has long forged the martyrdom complex and tragic fate unique to generations of Japanese people.

Lieutenant Kono, while battling the runaway plane, ordered his deputy to parachute.

"Sir...... What do you do? The deputy cried out in despair.

"You go back alive! …… I'm going to crash and sink ...... Shina warship! When Lieutenant Kono uttered this remark, which was in no way inferior to any of the pretentious rhetoric that would later appear on the screen, his mood calmed down, and he concentrated on maneuvering the less agile plane, and no longer bothered with anything else.

“…… Sir! I am determined to follow you, and I will not be greedy for life or afraid of death! "The twenty-one-year-old second lieutenant co-pilot Otori finally overcame his fear and achieved soul sublimation after a short ideological struggle. In fact, in any sense, it is an unnecessary waste for two people to die on the same plane, the problem is that if one person goes to be a hero, heavier than Mount Tai, and the other survives but is lighter than a feather, compared to the two, who wants to accept this unfair social judgment? For a Japanese soldier, the destruction of life is not terrible, but the shattering of spirit and reputation.

If the dead are a scourge on the soul of the living, then it is better to be spiritually immortal than to be scourged. The ancient spiritual tradition of "bushido" of the Yamato nation is once again at work here, realizing the eternal transformation of the soul and body of young soldiers.

So the bomber, which was emitting billowing smoke and twisting crookedly, broke out of formation and rushed to the nearest medium ** ship that was hiding from artillery fire on the sea with indomitable and selfless fearlessness. The observation post of the Chinese ** ship spotted a Japanese bomber in the sky. Immediately raised an air raid battle alert, but when they saw that it was a plane falling in smoke, they let their guard down. Therefore, the No. 209 bomber corrected the target for the last time in the gap between the enemy's defense and non-defense, and smashed into the vital parts of the enemy ship......

There was a loud "boom", and a high column of water rose into the sky. The enemy ship was seen exploding and catching fire, and it quickly tilted and sank, and the suicidal attack of "one machine for one ship" pioneered by the Japanese was a great success. It's a pity that this medium ** ship is a small-tonnage cruiser and not a large aircraft carrier, otherwise the record of the 209 bomber will be written in a big book. Later, the Japanese "kamikaze" carried forward this glorious tradition of oriental soldiers who were not afraid of death, and they flew thousands of planes of various types, including passenger planes, transport planes, and wooden planes, to rush to ram the Chinese and US aircraft carriers and die together with the powerful enemy. …,

But just now, the Japanese have understood that it is not only the aircraft carriers of the Chinese that are their biggest threat.

At this time, the fog on the sea had dissipated, and Vice Admiral Chu Yangwei, commander of the 1st Task Force of the Chinese Navy, who was standing on the bridge of the "Fuxi" super battleship, held a telescope and looked at the port of Nagasaki, which was already shrouded in smoke in the distance, and asked: "Have you found the 'Yamato'?" ”

"The reconnaissance aircraft has not yet found the target," replied one officer, "and it is very likely that the 'Yamato' is not in the port of Nagasaki." ”

"Looks like we can't wait for it to show up this time." Chu Yangwei put down the binoculars and said with a sneer, "Let's start attacking!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, the medium-** ships on the sea began shelling the port of Nagasaki.

The "Fuxi" super battleship is known as an unsinkable steel fortress, the pinnacle of the battleship era, the witness of the crazy shipbuilding era, the legendary battleship full of mystery in the construction process, and the living signboard of the Chinese Navy. However, as for the die-hard supporters of the "theory of victory in aviation," Chu Yangwei believes that this class of super battleships is nothing more than the biggest product of strategic deception in the 20 th century, confusing the world's "dream battleships" and spending huge amounts of money on naval toys.

Chu Yangwei has always wondered why his adoptive father Yang Shuoming would allow this kind of monster that costs a lot of money to appear in the battle sequence of the Chinese Navy, and he also pointed out to his adoptive father the disadvantages of building a super battleship in person, but his adoptive father just smiled and never gave him an exact answer.

The battleship "Fuxi" was a huge mobile sea battery.

Compared to any land artillery, naval artillery is a giant in the artillery family. The squadron has always attached importance to the development of artillery, such as the Chinese-made "king of the battlefield" army 155 mm self-propelled gun, the caliber of which was the largest in the land artillery of Asian countries at that time, as early as the First World War, the largest caliber of artillery used by the squadron reached 180 mm. And the caliber of artillery in the Navy has always surpassed that of the Army.

At this time, the main guns on the battleship "Fuxi" had a caliber of 460 mm and a firing range of tens of kilometers.

After the Japanese Navy stormed the port of Truk, the "Fuxi" was damaged by a Japanese plane, but the injuries were slight, and its combat effectiveness was not affected in the slightest. However, at this time, it was rumored that the Japanese Navy wanted to send two super battleships, the "Shinano" and the "Azuchi," to attack the Chinese mainland, so the Admiralty transferred the "Fuxi" back to the mainland for repairs. This attack on Nagasaki was the first battle of the "Fuxi" after returning to China for repairs.

At this time, the Chinese fleet gathered in the waters of Nagasaki, with more than 120 ships of various types and more than 4,000 naval guns, covering most of the urban area of Nagasaki. The total strength of the Japanese army defending Nagasaki was 20,000 and more than 1,200 artillery pieces of various types, and many of them were determined to put their lives on the line when the Japanese officers and men were waiting for each other at their posts. This was a battle between the Japanese Army and the most powerful fleet of the Chinese Navy that had ever appeared off the coast of Japan, and the Japanese officers and men did not know that their willpower, skills, and tactical thinking would be subjected to an unprecedented severe test.

As the first shells fell, a huge column of smoke rose from the direction of Nagasaki Port. The medium-** ship quickly corrected the impact point, and then hundreds of large-caliber shells with a heart-rending scream smashed into the heads of the Japanese troops hidden in the fortifications. Huge fires broke out on the Japanese positions, and fireworks continued to be a prominent target for guiding warships to shoot. The shelling lasted twenty minutes. When the smoke from the explosion of the cannonballs was gradually blown away by the river wind, the people watching the battle from the mountains saw it impressively; There were many shocking craters in those positions where the Japanese troops were hidden, and the shells wiped the fortifications from the ground along with the defenders. It was a jaw-dropping scene.

In previous wars, the battlefield experience of the Japanese army was only infantry confrontation, and the tactical principles they followed were movement warfare, positional warfare, blocking warfare, and concealment. Destroy the enemy. But now for the first time, they encountered a real difficulty, that is, they could not hide themselves in front of the cannons of the medium ** ship. …,

Despite the fact that the positions of the Japanese army were fortified in depth. The Japanese army also had the ideological preparation and experience to build deep fortifications. But the problem was that the Japanese army, which was on the task of defending the homeland, had never encountered such terrible artillery fire.

Several observation planes of the Chinese Navy flew over Nagasaki to make low-altitude observations of Japanese positions. A few minutes later, the medium-** ship, guided by the aircraft, began a test launch. The first large-caliber shell, like a black, stupid crow, swept over the city with a sharp scream, and then exploded behind the vault of a Japanese fortress with a "boom". The blow was so terrible that the top of the fortress was immediately overturned by the scorching air waves, leaving a huge crater on the ground with a diameter of more than ten meters.

The second shell was corrected and hit a battery, splitting the Japanese artillery and gunners who were hiding in the battery, and blasting them all into the air.

That afternoon, the mighty Chinese naval fleet concentrated its artillery fire on the port of Nagasaki and fired thousands of shells, all of which were precisely calculated and struck at the Japanese positions as accurately as if they had eyes. The sturdy fortifications built by the Japanese officers and soldiers could not withstand the bombardment of the Chinese ** ship at all, especially the more they hid in the building in the hope of concealing themselves, the more heavy the casualties became.

The massive shelling of the Chinese fleet continued until the evening.

Under the bloody sun, the counterattack of the Japanese defenders was already very weak, and less than half of the 20,000 Japanese officers and soldiers were still alive and fighting. Wing Commander Shigeda struggled to get up from the collapsed rubble and raised his pistol to stop the retreating soldiers. Just a few minutes later, a beam of fireworks rose and a high-explosive bomb dropped by a Chinese carrier-based aircraft hit him head-on, and the sky was immediately filled with a mist of pink blood. The captain of the Magta Wing was killed on the spot.

After learning of the news of Nagasaki's emergency, Matsui Ishine led the Japanese army to urgently reinforce the positions of the Nagasaki defenders.

“…… Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to remind you in particular that Tokyo has informed you that our reinforcement fleet is already on the way! The enemy's attempt was to destroy the port defenses by shelling, to prepare for the landing! Our army must hold its ground and form a group defensive front that supports each other's horns......"

As soon as Matsui Ishone, who had just arrived at the headquarters, finished speaking, a string of bright flares rose up, illuminating the dark night sky as bright as day. The naval guns of the Chinese Navy sounded again. Rows and rows of accurately calculated shells exploded like ploughs on the Japanese positions, the earth was turned up deeply, and those flesh and blood lives were thrown into the sky and into the abyss of death by the scorching waves of air along with the reinforced concrete. This thrilling spectacle sank forever into the minds of the survivors of the Japanese army like a sudden exposure of the negative light emitted by the bright light emitted by the flares.

Since the observation planes of the Chinese Navy had already calculated the firing elements in the open area during the day, the artillery fire was fixed in a fixed position, so that even at night, it could repeatedly bombard any area of the Japanese position. Matsui Ishine and the reinforced Japanese officers and soldiers unfortunately became the first victims of this fire net.

A giant shell that tore through the air blew Matsui Ishone's fragile thigh into oblivion. At that moment, he only felt that he had been hit to the ground hard, and his face was pressed against the cold concrete floor that exuded an icy aura, and his body could no longer stand up. His hearing began to fade, the flames of the cannonballs flashing before his eyes like silent movies, and the blood gushed like tap water down the broken arteries. He opened his mouth, but could not make any sound, so he had to watch as his men were swept away in the violent dance of death, struggling in vain in the wind like dead leaves. He sighed softly, the fantasies in his mind began to blur, and the stream of life gradually flowed away, so he tried to keep Ji Yi, and keep the impression of his hometown, his parents, and his wife and children. But he didn't work out. That attachment to life is like a broken wind, and finally drifts away, disappearing into the boundless darkness of the universe. …,

The next day, when the sun rose red, the bodies of thousands of Japanese officers and soldiers were lying on top of each other on top of each other on the position, less than 10 kilometers from the city of Nagasaki, and they were exposed under the smoke of gunpowder. The scene was so horrific that the Japanese, known for their strong nerves, did not dare to collect the remains of the war dead.

As the morning mist cleared, a red apple-like sun rose brilliantly over the sea, spreading its radiant light and heat generously on every inch of the war-torn soil of Nagasaki.

There was a buzzing vibration in the air, as if many bee colonies were gradually approaching and crashing into the clear air, and the surviving people raised their heads in horror to find the source of the sound. The Japanese officers quickly turned their binoculars, but he only had time to see countless small silver shavings of metallic light released from the depths of the huge burning sun, and the sun's rays immediately burned his eyes.

For a moment, the officers understood that it was the Chinese plane attacking with the help of the sun's rays.

"Air defense! Take cover! …… Evacuate! ”

But late, this time even the sun is on the side of the Chinese.

More than 400 Chinese carrier-based attack planes suddenly flew over the Japanese positions from the east with their backs to the sun, and the Japanese officers and men were horrified to see such a picture of war that they had never seen before: The huge group of planes carrying bombs was discharged in a neat formation to cover the sky, the sunlight was dim, and the heavy roar of the engines shook the earth. Many Japanese soldiers, who had seen so many planes for the first time, stared up at the sky, as if they could not understand where the swarms of steel bees were flying from.

A Japanese soldier said in an interview with reporters after the war: "...... At that time, the officers and men of our unit were not afraid of death, their morale was high, and they were encouraged by the people along the way. It should be fair to say that not a single one of our troops flinched from top to bottom during the battle. …… During the air raids by enemy planes, we did not understand air defense as we were later accused, but because of the orders from above, the troops would rather be bombed than allow infantry weapons to shoot at enemy planes, and the instructors of the troops at that time made many dogmas, such as anti-aircraft machine guns can only be used for air defense, in fact, anti-aircraft machine guns are also very powerful in flat fire. And infantry weapons are absolutely forbidden to shoot at the air, and so on. …… The problem is that the disparity between the weapons of the two sides is too great, we are all rifles, and the people of China use planes and artillery, can we just not be afraid of death? Flesh and blood can't withstand the bombardment! ”

The devastating bombing of Nagasaki brought devastating disaster to the Japanese army. More than 400 Chinese planes carpet bombed Japanese positions for more than ten hours without interruption. The sound of a violent explosion shook the sky and land of Nagasaki like the sky was cracking, and the smoke and waves of air from the explosion hung over the city like scorching rain and fog for a long time. The positions and fortifications of the Japanese defenders were quickly destroyed in large numbers, and there were broken arms and stumps everywhere on the position, and a hundred-year-old tree groaned and snapped, and the uneven branches were covered with the rags and wisps of flesh and blood of Japanese officers and soldiers.

Under the double blow of the Chinese navy's artillery bombardment and aircraft bombardment, the Japanese army's most concealed large shelter for the cantonment of reserves was not spared. Several heavy bombs hit the roof of the shelter at the same time, and with an earth-shattering loud noise, thousands of Japanese officers and soldiers who had been holding back their strength were buried alive in the ground before they could release a single shot.

"We've been fighting for two days, and the main force of the Japanese Navy just won't come out, this is not quite like the Japanese way of playing!"

Chu Yangwei, who was on the bridge of the "Fuxi", looked at the watch on his wrist and said to himself.

"Yes! The air defense system of the Japanese should not be so vulnerable. Major General Zhang Enming, chief of staff, said, "If it is an ordinary city, it is understandable, but Nagasaki is an important military port, and it is really surprising that the Japanese counterattack is so weak." ”

"Those guys in the War Department have always refused to advocate carrying out a landing operation on the Japanese mainland now, saying that the Japanese army is well defended, and our army will suffer great losses." Chu Yangwei smiled and said, "If I knew that they were such a bear, I should have brought the landing force." ”

"That's not possible," Zhang Enming said with a smile, "The main force of the Japanese navy has not been destroyed, and as long as our navy has not obtained sea supremacy, their army will not consider landing on the Japanese mainland." ”