"Your Excellency Prime Minister, the Noto and Sado Island tele-reconnaissance stations have reported that a large number of incoming enemy planes have been discovered, and the number exceeds 200!"

At 9:55 p.m. Tokyo time, Vice Admiral Takijiro Takenishi, Vice Admiral of the Japanese Navy's Command Department, who hurriedly walked into the conference room on the ground floor of the Prime Minister's Office, loudly reported the discovery of two radar stations affiliated with the Navy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

By the way, Onishi Takijiro's report is also quite Japanese. Ever since Japan was threatened by the U.S. imperialism on its homeland, it has set up a general defense force subordinate to its base camp. Theoretically, all defense forces in Japan should be under the control of the General Defense Army Command.

However, the Japanese Defense Army was dominated by the Army, and when the General Army was established, it was Hideki Tojo who was in charge of the country in Japan. However, how can such a sacred mission as defending the homeland and defending the emperor be monopolized by the army red deer? How can the Navy be convinced? Therefore, the navy led by Yamamoto gambled with Tojo at that time and refused to hand over the "Moonlight" night fighter unit in the hands of the navy to the General Defense Army.

And the "Moonlight" is the only more reliable night fighter in the hands of the Japanese army and navy. Not only are there cannons that can fire upwards, but there are also high-power searchlights and prototype radio wave detection machines (meaning very unreliable radars).

Without "moonlight", relying on the waste of the Japanese Army, which installed a searchlight on a twin-engine bomber to make do with the night fighters, could not help the night bomber group of the United States, China and the Soviet Union. Not only could it not deal with the B-17, but there was also an even more embarrassing thing, that is, Tojo Omarka's "night fighter" actually made the B-17 defeat a lot.

It turns out that the American B-17 also has an air combat version - this is a very immoral design, and it looks no different from the ordinary B-17 on the outside, but the plane is not loaded with bombs, but the fuselage is full of cannons, and it is specially reinforced, and of course radar and searchlights are installed for night battles. This kind of B-17 tends to circle around the bomber group and engage in "fishing-style" air combat, and the kind of stupid Japanese "night fighter" (in fact, it is also a bomber) will definitely be killed or injured if it gets together!

As a result, after several months of night air battles, the Japanese Army's "night fighters" were shot down by B-17s by hundreds of planes. And it did little to protect the city, and napalm was everywhere in major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Kobe, and Kyoto. The fires destroyed countless houses and small workshops and factories hidden in low-rise residential areas made of wooden buildings, and unlike the large factories that prevailed in Europe and the United States, Japan's industrialization relied heavily on small workshops and factories. Large factories often do the work of final assembly, and the factories that produce parts are small factories the size of sesame mung beans. Of course, these small factories do not have decent factories, and they are often opened in densely populated residential areas. Ordinary bombing threatens them, but napalm fires can burn down the entire neighborhood on which these small factories and workshops depend.

Therefore, the Chinese Red Army and the Soviet Russian Red Army, which were very familiar with the situation in Japan, did not "take a detour" on the issue of bombing Japan. Although the intensity of the bombing was not large, it burned for several months, and it also dealt a great blow to the industrial production of the Japanese mainland.

In addition, it seems that God also has trouble with the Japanese. In December 1944, when the major cities of Japan were suffering heavy losses from enemy fire, an earthquake struck the Southeast China Sea in December 1944, which destroyed Mitsubishi's aircraft engine plant and greatly delayed the production of many new models. Among them was the "Asahiko" night heavy fighter, which was highly anticipated by the Japanese Army.

Without serious night fighters, the Japanese Army had no choice but to compromise with the shameless navy and have the Navy set up a native air fleet (a fleet without ships) to be responsible for night air defense on the Japanese mainland.

However, the Japanese Navy's home air fleet, which has the "Moonlight" night fighter, did not perform much better, except that the "Moonlight" fighter was not so easily shot down by the B-17. And it is also difficult to shoot down the B-17, because the Americans have sent the F-13 AWACS aircraft again. With the command of the AWACS aircraft, the B-17 bomber could easily avoid the "moonlight", which was not fast.

Therefore, after discovering that Japan had a more usable night fighter, the B-17s of the United States, China, and the Soviet Union immediately changed their tactics, from fighting to dodging, avoiding the interception of the "moonlight", and throwing the incendiary bombs down to finish.

The countermeasure of the Japanese Navy's home air fleet is to concentrate on the use of "Moonlight" night fighters in large numbers to intercept them layer by layer. Although it could not shoot down a large number of B-17s, it could force these planes to drop their bombs and flee for their lives.

This time, however, Isoroku Yamamoto, who had received the information in advance, planned to play a big game, concentrating nearly 300 "Moonlight" night fighters at airfields on the Noto Peninsula and Niigata Prefecture -- almost three-quarters of the total number of "Moonlight" fighters possessed by the Japanese Navy.

"Okay," Yamamoto exhaled softly, "it seems that the Germans' intelligence is accurate. Tell Yamaguchi-kun that this time he must beat the enemy no matter what. And...... You can't put an enemy plane in the sky over Tokyo! ”

"Hay!" Lieutenant General Takijiro Onishi nodded heavily, turned around and left the conference room.

Yamamoto then said to Ishihara, the chief of staff of the Army General Staff, who was present: "Ishihara-kun, the antiaircraft artillery units defending Tokyo must also be ready to open fire at any time. ”

Due to the concentration of large quantities of "Moonlight" on the northern coast of the Japanese island of Honshu to disrupt the B-17s flying from North Korea and Vladivostok, there are not many "Moonlight" night fighters left on airfields around Tokyo. And the various night fighters converted from bombers used to make up the numbers are not of much use at all, so the defense over Tokyo tonight can only rely on anti-aircraft guns.

However, Japanese anti-aircraft guns did not have radio proximity fuses to use, and they also did not have fire control radars. At night, you can only rely on searchlights and cat-eye skills to find targets. You don't have to think about it to know how it works.

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"Click......"

There was a rapid "click" sound in Paul. The cabin of the F-13C radar early warning aircraft in which Lieutenant Colonel Tibbetts was flying rang out.

"Roger, navigation signal received!"

Second Lieutenant Johansen, the navigator in the cabin, shouted excitedly. "Lieutenant Colonel, we've found Tokyo!"

The "click-click" signal is the sound emitted by one of the two Lorenz beams that is received by the F-13C's radio. This illustrates by Paul. The bomber group under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Tibbetts had already flown to the vicinity of Tokyo. Now as long as you follow the "click" signal (if the plane deviates from course, the signal will get weaker and stronger), and then receive another Lorenz beam, the bomber group will be over Tokyo.

"Okay, keep it high." Paul. Lieutenant Colonel Tibbetts looked at the darkness outside the cabin, "Radar attention search...... The Japanese also have radar stations, and they should be able to detect ours. ”

Paul. Although Lieutenant Colonel Tibbetts had never bombed Tokyo, he was well aware of the Japanese army's air defense capabilities. It is known that the Japanese also have radars and can detect targets at a distance of about 100 km. And the high-altitude fighters of the Japanese are not very good, above 10000 meters is basically a safe area, and if there is an F-13 command, the bomber group will not need to be escorted and will not suffer any losses.

And the reports of the Soviet Red Air Force and the American Air Force for the aid of the Soviet Union told Paul. The Japanese army in Tibbetts Tokyo had a lot of twin-engine night fighters (moonlight), and the B-17s would still pose some threat to the night aircraft. So the F-13C AWACS aircraft must remain at the limit altitude of 12000 meters and carefully conduct the search.

In addition, the Soviets reported that the lights in Tokyo were very well controlled. It is almost dark at night, because the supply of coal from Japan's power plants is so tight that it is impossible to guarantee the power supply to the city at night. So in Paul. Several B-29C bombers piloted by veteran pilots and navigators who had been to Tokyo carried napalm in the fleet commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Tibbetts, who would first set fire to houses in Tokyo and direct the rest of the B-29Cs to drop targets.

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"Your Excellency Prime Minister, Radar Station No. 21 in Chiba Prefecture has spotted an unknown group of aircraft flying from the direction of the Pacific Ocean!"

Japanese Prime Minister Isoroku Yamamoto was waiting in the basement of the Prime Minister's residence for the good news of the air battle in the direction of the Sea of Japan when an army major suddenly hurried into the conference room, bowed to Army Chief Ishihara Wan'er, and then handed over a note. Ishihara glanced at the note, immediately jumped to his feet, and loudly reported the unexpected news to Yamamoto Isoroku.

"It's a false positive." Vice Admiral Takijiro Nishi, vice president of the Naval Command Department, said with great certainty, "It is impossible for planes to fly from the direction of the Pacific Ocean, and the closest stronghold controlled by the Americans to the Japanese mainland is Midway, which is nearly 5,000 kilometers away from Tokyo!" ”

Japan did not know about the existence of the B-29C ultra-long-range bomber, and according to the information they had, the maximum combat range of the B-29B was less than 6,000 kilometers, and it was impossible to fly from Midway Island to Tokyo, and after dropping the bomb, it would not be possible to go to Vladivostok. And how big Midway is, even if a runway can be built that can take off and land B-29s, it won't be able to accommodate many B-29s.

As for the take-off from Oahu, a distance of more than 6000 km, what plane can fly so far with a bomb? Now even the Germans don't seem to have bombers that can fly that far with bombs, right?

"Could it have taken off from an aircraft carrier?" Yamamoto Isoroku was still a little uneasy, although it was impossible for a shore-based long-range bomber to come from the direction of the Pacific Ocean, it could not be ruled out that an American aircraft carrier group had secretly approached the Japanese mainland.

"It's not very likely," Onishi Takijiro thought for a moment, "the navy's land attack has been carefully searching the ocean south and east of the Japanese archipelago. Moreover, there are also guard ships of the Navy's 7th Fleet that conduct non-stop patrols there, and it is unlikely that the US aircraft carrier group will get close to the mainland within 1,000 nautical miles without being noticed. ”

Yamamoto fifty-six nodded, he knew that what Onishi said was the truth. Although Japan's air power is now a little weak, it is not able to annihilate the American fleet close to the mainland from the air. But definitely not to the point where you can't even find out! Therefore, the possibility of a false alarm at a radar station is indeed quite high -- a false alarm is a normal phenomenon for Japan's self-produced radars, and the top brass of the Japanese military has long been accustomed to it.

"It can't be an aircraft carrier," Mr. Yamamoto said, "but we can't take it lightly and order the Defense General Force and the Naval Air Force near Tokyo to be dispatched." ”

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"Sir, the radar has found the target."

Tokyo time, May 28, 1945 at 11:35 p.m. The radar observer on the Thibbetts landline suddenly reported loudly: "10 o'clock direction, distance 120, height 2000, number 10-20...... Oh, they're climbing! ”

"It should have just taken off from the airport," Paul said. Tibbetts smiled coldly, "But it's okay, let's just bypass them." ”

As he spoke, he turned on the radio on the plane and began to issue orders: "Children, I'm Paul (this is his name and codename), at 10 o'clock in the direction ahead, 100 kilometers away there are rats (referring to Japanese planes), up to 20, they are climbing the mountain (referring to climbing), we go up 10 floors (climb to 10,000 meters), and go around at full speed, everyone is following. ”

The B-29C has been reduced in weight to increase its range, and its engine horsepower is higher than that of its predecessor. Therefore, after most of the fuel consumption is consumed, the speed of the aircraft can be mentioned to be very high, and it can fly more than 630 kilometers at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and even fly to a speed of 690-700 kilometers per hour if it encounters a tailwind, and there is no Japanese aircraft that can catch up at all.

Less than 30 minutes later, Paul. The group led by Tibbetts avoided the two Japanese groups and had already flown into the air near Tokyo. The soft sound of "Dididi" began to come, mixed with the previous "click" sound, and became a "didi-click" sound.

"Sir, we're in the skies over Tokyo!"

Paul, who heard the report from his men. Tibbetts immediately gave the order: "Charizard (referring to the B-29C with incendiary grenades), look at you, get me a light!" ”

"Roger, sir."

"Haha, you can finally set fire to the Japanese!"

"And the bacteriological bomb! It's time for the Japanese to know how good we are! ”

"Yes, let the Japanese know that it's great!"

Paul. Tibbetts' men cheered, but none of them felt guilty about throwing bacteriological bombs in Tokyo. After all, the Japanese themselves have not used bacteriological bombs less, and now it is just a tooth for a tooth.

As Tibbetts thought of this, the pitch-black ground in front of him suddenly burst into a dazzling fire like a volcanic eruption. Tibbetts held up his binoculars and looked in the direction of the firelight, and sure enough, he found a large number of houses.

Tokyo city has arrived!