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From early in the morning, the entire fleet began to enter the most tense phase. The eight submarines of the Maritime Resistance Force can only guarantee that there are no Japanese fishing boats within 100 nautical miles, and for the US-Tang joint fleet, if it is closer to the Japanese mainland, the bombers will be safer. But aircraft carriers are even more dangerous.

The commander of the air raid, Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle, tied the medal sent by Japan to the bomb early in the morning to make final preparations.

Doolittle was an anti-war activist before Pearl Harbor, and even a friendly faction to Japan. He had many exchanges with Japanese pilots and taught many flying skills to the Japanese air force. But this time, the master and apprentice are at odds, and Doolittle will lead the group to bomb the Japanese mainland, so Doolittle hung the medal given to him by Japan on the bomb and returned it to Japan, which is considered an end.

The American pilots on board the Hornet also began to hold some commemorative activities, and all members took a group photo. On the Liberty Dragon, Liu Guobang and his pilots and crew members took the same photo photos.

Originally, the Maritime Resistance Army prepared 24 pilots, but unfortunately, the Liberty Dragon could only carry eight B25 bombers, so only 16 pilots and 24 crew members were able to participate in this operation. The remaining eight pilots had to stay aboard the USS Liberty Dragon to see off their brethren.

In this operation, if the bombers were not discovered by the Japanese before they took off, then the danger of bombing should not be very great, but the difficulty of the bombers getting out was not low, and it was even more difficult to return home.

All the crew members understood well, but they were in high spirits, and it was everyone's desire to be able to bomb Tokyo.

The iron hooves of the Japanese army have wreaked havoc on the land of China for many years. Now these best sons and daughters of China have the opportunity to drop bombs on the heads of devils, which is an exciting thing.

Blood for blood, tooth for tooth.

After breaking through the outermost reconnaissance and defense circle of the Japanese army, the voyage of the American-Tang fleet was extremely smooth. By the time it was close to twelve o'clock, the fleet was less than five hundred and fifty nautical miles from the Japanese mainland.

As the distance got closer, the atmosphere of the entire fleet became more and more tense. At one o'clock in the afternoon, five hundred and twenty nautical miles from the Japanese mainland, Rear Admiral Halsey did not continue to venture ahead, he ordered the aircraft carrier to accelerate against the wind. All bombers are ready to take off.

The wind is roaring, the sea is roaring, the blue water bursts into clusters of waves on both sides of the aircraft carrier, and the time has come to strike.

On the deck, Li Guang said goodbye to the brothers of each crew member one by one: "One day." We want to set foot in Tokyo, and raise the Han flag at the top of Mt. Fuji. You are the front station of tens of thousands of brothers in our naval resistance army. ”

The pilots and the officers and men on the aircraft carrier shouted one after another:

"Mt. Fuji raises the Han flag."

"Horses in Tokyo."

"Burn little Japan."

Half past two. The first bomber of the Naval Resistance Force took off smoothly from the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon. Li Guang breathed a sigh of relief.

You must know that the length of the runway on which the first plane took off was about two and a half meters shorter than the 140 meters of the US experiment, which was the most dangerous.

As long as this fighter takes off smoothly, the take-off of the remaining seven fighters will not be a problem. At three o'clock, all eight fighters on the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon took off smoothly.

At half past three o'clock, a total of 24 bombers of the Naval Resistance Force and the US Army successfully took to the air. After a simple formation in the air, they began to pounce on the Japanese mainland.

Twenty-four B-25 bombers formed a formation in the air, and for the first hour or so, these bombers flew at an altitude of 3,000 meters. When approaching the Japanese mainland, the formation of fighters began to lose altitude.

The pilots of the twenty-four bombers showed a high level of maneuvering skills, and all the fighters flew at a low altitude of one or two hundred meters, and from a distance, the planes seemed to be flying close to the water.

As the roaring warplanes skimmed the shoreline, the fleet rose again and sank above the clouds.

All the procedures were planned by the U.S. military before the war, flying low to avoid being caught by Japanese air defense radars, crossing the coastline, and pulling up again to avoid being seen by the Japanese.

After flying for more than three hours, the 24 fighters successfully arrived in the airspace over Tokyo, and at this moment, the fighter formation again switched to ultra-low-altitude flight, and the entire formation did not fall behind in the process of penetrating the defense. This is thanks to the navigation system of the Naval Resistance Force, and the radio station in Tokyo, Japan, is the best guide.

Doolittle's No. 1 plane flew into the suburbs of Tokyo and encountered two groups of nine Japanese fighters, but fortunately none of the Japanese planes found the American planes flying at an ultra-low altitude.

When the US plane flew into Tokyo at a low altitude, it was getting dark. Many devils still saw the fighter planes, and the air defense exercise held by the Japanese army had just ended that morning, and many Japanese civilians waved and cheered at the US planes, because the US planes were still the old aircraft emblems with a blue circle, white stars and red hearts, and in particular, the red center in the middle looked very much like the sunburst mark of the Japanese planes from a distance, making them mistakenly think that they were Japanese planes.

Soon, the little devils knew that they were not welcoming Anamesu, but the Western god of death and the Chinese king of Hades.

At 5:15 p.m., Doolittle dropped a bomb on a factory in the central industrial area of northern Tokyo, and the incendiary bomb he dropped immediately ignited a raging fire, which became a signal for subsequent aircraft bombing.

The Americans are very proud of the details, these 24 bombers, eight of the Naval Resistance Army are all loaded with incendiary bombs of the Naval Resistance Army, but the Americans refuse to load all the incendiary bombs of the Naval Resistance Army, and still insist on loading bombs. The reason is that they want to kill little Japan with American-made bombs.

However, under the persuasion of Liu Guobang, Du Little used napalm of the Naval Resistance Army, so the first incendiary bomb dropped by Du Little was produced by Haitang State.

Just a 250-kilogram napalm, after exploding, pulled out a wall of fire of hundreds of meters, directly set fire to dozens of houses, and the blazing flames became the guiding direction of all pilots.

Liu Guobang and the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army followed Li Guang's instructions and did not bomb any industrial targets, and the city of Tokyo was so large that they were looking for areas with dense housing.

Searching crowded places from the air is simple.

At this time, the lights are on, and the lights are dense, and it is the most densely populated and prosperous place. Although the area of Tokyo is not as large as in later generations, the area of the city is not small, and it is easy to find a place where the lights are not shining.

Without a specific target, the bombs were dropped quickly, and all 32 napalm bombs were dropped by eight warplanes in less than a minute.

These 32 napalm quickly became 32 fireheads in Tokyo, and then quickly turned into 32 fires, burning wildly in Tokyo's residential areas. This is the vengeful fury of the Chinese.

Liu Guobang shouted: "Little devil, this is just interest. One day, Lao Tzu will let you come with interest. ”

Japan was not a real industrial country at this time, cement production was not high, and most of the houses in Tokyo were still wood-paneled houses, which was an excellent fuel.

At this moment, there is still a slight east wind hanging in Tokyo, which is fueling the fire. The raging fire became more and more intense, and in less than half an hour, a trend of burning the prairie had formed.

For the first time, Japanese civilians tasted the direct impact of the war, crying and screaming in the fire.

In a few minutes, the whole of Tokyo was in chaos.

By this time, Doolittle had already dropped all the bombs, and the group had already turned south when the Japanese air defense forces had no reaction at all.

Liu Guobang looked at the fire in Tokyo and shouted fiercely: "Burn the little devil." "The fighter plane had already flown dozens of kilometers away from Tokyo, and at this moment the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery began to fire indiscriminately and blindly.

The U.S. military had a very tight battle plan, and they also planned to bomb Yokohama, Nagoya, and Kobe. Don't look at this bombing plan, which became famous in later generations - the bombing of Tokyo. But in reality, only Doolittle's No. 1 dropped bombs in Tokyo. The other fighters dropped only one bomb. The remaining bombs were all responsible for bombing Yokohama, Nagoya, and Kobe.

The Americans believed that having more bombing sites would have a greater impact on the Japanese people. However, Li Guang scoffed at this, and all eight fighters of the Naval Resistance Army dropped incendiary bombs to Tokyo. If the emperor's lair can be found, Li Guang doesn't mind burning this mongrel at this time.

The multi-point bombing of the Americans, after all the bombs were dropped, showed a drawback, and in a panic, one bomber was unable to keep up with the formation.

Overall, though, the situation is good. Of the 24 fighters, except for the one that fell behind, the remaining 23 fighters, only one of which had a big hole in its wing, were all intact.

After the bombing, the group jumped into the air, in the stratosphere, and flew straight to the southwest. Flying in the stratosphere, with less air turbulence and the most fuel-efficient, the Americans planned very carefully. The panicked devils hurriedly took off a lot of fighters, but the Japanese army, which did not have a perfect radar network, did not know which direction to pursue. It is simply impossible to find bombers with the naked eye in the darkness of night.

In less than half past six o'clock, the fighter plane had already escaped into the sky over the sea and was basically out of danger. The whole bombing process was unusually successful.

Liu Guobang and eight other bombers took on the pilot mission at this time.

In the waters southwest of Japan, the Maritime Resistance Force arranged two submarines, and at this moment the submarines had surfaced and began to emit radio waves into the air non-stop.

Less than 200 kilometers after flying out of the Japanese mainland, Liu Guobang had already received radio waves from the submarine.

According to the direction of the radio waves, the fleet adjusted slightly and embarked on the return journey.

In the early morning of 19 July, after bombing Tokyo for nearly 10 hours, 23 warplanes smoothly arrived over Quzhou Airport in Zhejiang.

The entire voyage was more than 4,000 kilometers, and all 22 fighters landed smoothly, except for one fighter plane that crashed after parachuting due to lack of fuel.

This result is much better than the air raid in history by Doolittle. At that time, all 16 US warplanes crashed.

The pilots and crew members were warmly welcomed by the Chinese people and soldiers, especially seeing that there were still dozens of Chinese among them, Liu Guobang and others were treated with great courtesy. (To be continued......)