Chapter 318: Indiscriminate Counterattack

Your palace is in flames? Emperor Hirohito, who was fished out of the ice pool by the guards, looked at the scene in front of him with a cold war? Are you dreaming?

It took a few minutes for the mournful sirens to sound, and the entire Tokyo street marchers were in a panic, set on fire by haphazardly discarded torches and fired aimlessly from anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.

Night bombing is an advanced technology that cannot be mastered by the air force units of the 10th Theater, just like the bombing of Baotou by himself, he directly dropped bombs in the general direction of the city, and Zhang Guangyu's bombing of Tokyo was also carried out in the general direction, first of all, there was no intelligence support for aerial reconnaissance of the air force units, and there was no detailed map of Tokyo, and the map that Zhang Guangyu used to carry out the bombing was a sketch of a Tokyo tour seven years ago?

Zhang Guangyu couldn't figure out where the palace and the Yasukuni Shrine were? After arriving in the brightly lit sky over Tokyo, Zhang Guangyu gave the order to drop the bomb, as for whether the bomb could be bombed or not, it did not matter whether it could be bombed, the important thing was that he dropped the bomb, this was a typical action to startle the snake, so that he himself slackened again after being nervous, and created a fighter plane for the launch of sarin special bombs in another air raid.

On February 5, 1938, it was a very difficult story for Yue himself, the cowhide of the powerful Imperial Army of the Great Emperor was blown through the sky, and when they killed people and set fire to their neighbors' homes, their own homes were also bombed on a large scale? Because a torch parade was being organized at the time, more fires were not caused by incendiary bombs, but by one's own torches, and the houses on both sides of the streets of Tokyo were mostly wooden structures, and even if they were new-style buildings, I was always willing to add some wooden sheds to them, so that when the fire broke out, the fire spread rapidly, and only eleven of the more than 300 fires were caused by bombing, and the rest were all caused by the panicked torch procession itself. The next day, the fire was still emitting smoke that covered the sky, and the whole of Tokyo was in flames.

With a bandage on his head like an Indian Ahsan, Hirohito stood with a blue face on the ruins of the Masakawa Hall with a blue face and a blue smoke on his face, and dozens of important members of the cabinet during the political axe war also stood silently behind Emperor Hirohito, and said that Tokyo, the capital of the Hon-Empire, was bombed from China? How is this possible? The fires in downtown Tokyo are still spreading, and many local fire brigades are powerless to do anything but demarcate areas to blast and artificially create fire barriers.

Emperor Hirohito looked at the ruins and was full of emotion, the accuracy of the Chinese bombing was really not flattering, only one bomb hit the palace, but the loss of only this bomb made Emperor Hirohito feel unacceptable, the Masakawa Hall became a ruin, more than ten hours ago they were still burning and looting in a foreign land with their own country's army, the people were all excited and together, not long ago someone swore to him that the sky of the empire was absolutely safe, It is impossible for Zhang Xuewu in the 10th Theater of Operations to have long-range strategic bombers, and now it seems that everything is no longer expected.

The army and naval aviation units that lacked night combat equipment could not take off to meet the enemy forces at all, and they needed multifunctional night fighters like the BF-109K equipped in the 10th theater of operations, but the hateful Germans were not willing to provide all the information for free and buy 200 at a time? It is said that the financial credibility of this political axe has long been bankrupt, and in order to support this war, it is said that all the people are tightening their belts desperately, and now it seems that the end of the war is far away, and the war has burned to the mainland, which is a fact that the entire empire from top to bottom cannot accept.

Emperor Hirohito looked at the elites behind him, who could be called the Great Empire, and said slowly: "Give me an explanation, a reason, so that I can convince the whole people, why did Tokyo suffer such a great disaster?" Where did the enemy forces that bombed us come from? When did China have a strategic long-range bomber? How many casualties do we have to pay to win this war? ”

Emperor Hirohito seems to have been a little shaken at this moment, he had always thought that the Imperial Army's attack on the city in China was just like a peer army exercise, and the military and political power had not yet been unified in China, which was vulnerable, but now it seems that he can't solve it with just one tenth theater, and now even his own palace has been bombed? It's a shame!

I want to declare war on China! Declare war on Zhang Xuewu in the 10th War Zone! Stunned to see Emperor Hirohito howling hysterically Konoe Fumiro felt extremely shocked, both the land and sea ministers lowered their heads and looked at their leather boots, at this time everyone knew very well that the emperor was angry, not the time to say good words and bold words, but declaring war on China is not in line with the national interests of the country, because once one of the two countries formally declares war, then it means that many countries in Europe and the United States must abide by the international non-war convention, Then it would have been impossible to get huge loans from the United States to buy much-needed military supplies.

Moreover, Konoe Fumiji is also a little confused, and it is understandable to declare war on China, but what is it about declaring war on Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater? The 10th theater of operations is nothing more than a branch of the Supreme Military Council of the Chinese Nationalist Axe? It was clear that Emperor Hirohito was stunned.

Extra! Extra! The 10th Theater Strategic Bomber Force attacked Tokyo, and Emperor Mototo's air raid was blown up! Newspaper! Newspaper!

For a time, almost all newspapers in China published photos of the bomber units that bombed Tokyo returning home, and the photo of Zhang Guangyu waving his fist was published in the most prominent position, and the specific results of the bombing of Tokyo were unknown to either Zhang Guangyu or Zhang Xuewu, and the US military used precision bombing tactics in Europe during World War II in history, but because the weather in this country was not suitable for this tactic, Zhang Xuewu, who lacked night bombing equipment, decided to throw a batch of incendiary bombs to himself first, because it was too cold in winter. Let Xiao Yuben warm up.

In fact, if Zhang Xuewu had enough strategic bombers, he would have carried out carpet incendiary bombing at night on the mainland of Yueben, which lacked night-flying interceptor fighters, and sent bombers to bomb the big cities of Yueben from a height of 2,000 meters, destroying the industrial base of Yueben, because the industrial base of Yueben is completely different from other countries in the world, and the industrial processing of Yueben is mainly carried out by small workshops scattered in residential areas, using these small workshops to produce parts and prefabricated parts, and then sending them to large factories for assembly. Therefore, no matter how to carry out precision bombing, it is impossible to destroy the small workshops scattered all over the place, and it is impossible to effectively attack the military industry.

Therefore, the use of incendiary bombs to bomb Tokyo houses is the most thorough, but Zhang Xuewu does not have so many strategic bombers, nor so many incendiary bombs, so Zhang Xuewu is ready to use sarin special bombs instead, after all, skilled workers are also indispensable general points of machinery manufacturing and small workshops, Zhang Xuewu's principle is that Lao Tzu can't blow up your factory, he will kill and injure your people, and the low-pressure climate of this is cloudy and foggy, so it is more suitable for dropping special bombs. The most important thing is that Zhang Xuewu also lacks the night combat equipment equipped with strategic bombers, and he can't talk about the accuracy of bombing at all, so he can only say that he dropped the bombs.

Zhang Xuewu did not know how much damage his so-called very random bombing had caused to him, and the preliminary statistics of the book were more than 40,000 deaths, the vast majority of whom were civilians, and in fact no more than 1,000 people died directly from the bombing, and most of them were burned to death by the fire ignited by the torch procession, and he naturally counted all the losses on Zhang Xuewu's head.

Zhang Xuewu's bombing caused great controversy, and Zhang Xuewu disdained it, because the purpose of this strategic bombing behavior was mainly to undermine Yue's ability to produce war materials and to reduce his own morale, and in the theory of total warfare, this kind of offensive was an acceptable behavior. However, there are also idiots who believe that Zhang Xuewu's indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas in Tokyo, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, violates the morality of war, and there are many people who accuse him of war crimes.

Zhang Xuewu was really surprised by his own loss? Where is the bomb load of the fifty-five battle fortresses, and unless they all gather themselves to bomb themselves, how can there be such an effect? Historically, the Americans' Tianhuo operation to bomb Tokyo only burned 100,000 people to death, and the U.S. military dispatched more than 300 B-29 Super Flying Fortress strategic bombers to drop more than 2,000 tons of bombs, and they could kill more than 40,000 people with a casual bombing. Zhang Xuewu thinks that Xiao Yue must be wronging himself and playing a pitiful card!

Zhang Xuewu didn't care about the condemnation from home and abroad, so he allowed you to bomb my school? Don't allow me to bomb your capital? Nanjing, the capital of China, is still in ruins, then? So who should we condemn to go?

On February 7, 1938, the air force units of the 10th Theater of Operations poured out of their nests to carry out an all-out attack on the field airfields of the Yue Army in North China, and began a large-scale air strangulation war with the pseudo-Xinjing as the boundary, attacking all visible military targets of the Yue Army.

That night, after reducing the take-off weight to the greatest extent, the 50 battle fortresses under the command of Zhang Guangyu loaded with sarin special bombs, divided into two battle echelons, and began to fly towards Tokyo and Nagoya, and Gao Zhihang dispatched 120 BF-109K fighters to prepare to meet them when they returned home to ensure the safety of the bomber group.

Zhang Xuewu prepared a statement for this, that is, in response to the decision of the 10th Theater to use a large number of mustard gas chemical shells in the attack on the Zhangjiakou fortress of the 10th Theater, and the decision of the 10th Theater to bombard the territory of the 10th Theater with sarin special bombs, as long as the Chinese army uses chemical weapons in China, the 10th Theater will also use chemical weapons to carry out indiscriminate counterattacks.

(To be continued)