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Chapter 417: Decapitation Operation (Medium)

[Today's second update]

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Just as the General Staff of the Chinese Empire was preparing to carry out a large-scale landing operation in the Bay of Tonkin, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire also helped the military at this time as part of the entire war against Japan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗^//^

Beginning on March 15, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Imperial Republic of China repeatedly expressed its intention of reconciliation to Japan through the U.S. ambassador to China. The Chinese Empire proposed that as long as Japan was willing to compensate the Chinese Empire for the losses of the war and stop the struggle of the Japanese people, the war against Japan would be stopped.

This has to be said to be a huge decoy, because Japan no longer has the energy to fight the Chinese Empire. Japan's sea life supply lines were cut off by the Chinese Empire, and there was no outside support, and trade was completely interrupted. Japan's coastal ports and cities were bombarded by the Imperial Chinese Navy and air raids by naval aviation, causing heavy losses and almost all coastal heavy industrial cities and developed trading cities. The long-term economic blockade and war attrition aggravated the collapse of the Japanese economy. Japan's achievements over the past 10 years, with the help of the United States, have been burned, inflation is serious, and the yen has depreciated more than 100 times.

The destruction of heavy industrial cities caused the Japanese army to replenish weapons and equipment at a much slower rate than the rate of war damage. Although the military industry has been fully accelerated due to the stimulation of the war, Japan's lack of resources, especially the capture of Kitakyushu by the Chinese Emperor, which is Japan's only steel production base (Yawata Iron Works), which makes Japan's steel shortage and makes it impossible to produce many Japanese weapons and equipment.

Although the Japanese army still had 240,000 standing armies and 780,000 reserve troops in Honshu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido, it was completely defenseless in the face of the powerful naval power of the Chinese Empire due to the total annihilation of the combined naval fleet of the Navy and the large number of ports in the Japanese archipelago. The Air Force produced several batches of fighters on a limited basis, but they were soon completely annihilated by the Imperial Chinese Air Force. Although the army is confident that it will continue to fight, it will not be long before it will not be able to produce a single bullet due to lack of resources and economic collapse.

Japan was politically isolated by the Chinese Empire, and although the United States briefly supported Japan for a few months after joining the Entente, the United States abandoned Japan again with the signing of the Sino-American Hawaiian Treaty, causing Japan to fall into political isolation again.

In the face of this situation, there are many contradictions in Japan, and the number of people demanding Japan's surrender has continued to rise, and even many high-ranking Japanese officials have said that they should choose to give in, and only hard-line right-wingers continue to demand that the holy war be carried out to the end.

At this time, the Chinese Empire suddenly threw out its intention to negotiate peace, which immediately pleased a considerable number of Japanese officials and citizens, and demanded a response from the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet.

Faced with the tragic situation, the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet had to make a positive response, saying that it was willing to negotiate peace with the Chinese Empire.

On 18 March, under the mediation of the United States, the Chinese Imperial Ambassador to the United States, Wang Zhen, and the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Kokeikatsu, held talks in Washington. ╔╗The Chinese Empire put forward the conditions for ending the war, Japan compensated the Chinese Empire for the loss of 2 billion US dollars in war expenses, ceded Kyushu Island and its affiliated islands to the Chinese Empire, demoted the Japanese emperor to king, and Japan was not allowed to have an offensive army.

The conditions put forward by the Chinese Empire were very harsh, and Japan could not accept any of them. However, Xiao Jingsheng was full of illusions about the peace talks, and under the mediation of the United States, he believed that there was still room for bargaining with the Chinese Empire, and no matter what treaty was signed, it was better than the destruction of Japan.

Xiao Jingsheng, who was looking forward to the peace talks, was exactly in line with the political purpose of the Chinese Empire, and provided the best cover for the large-scale landing operation that the Chinese Emperor was about to launch next.

In order to ensure that there were enough landing ships, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire decided to postpone the landing date until March 21, and to postpone the landing operations in Sunma Bay, Sagami Bay, Chiba Bay, and Kashima Bay, which were scheduled to be on both sides of Tokyo Bay at the same time, until March 24.

Although Wang Chenhao was very dissatisfied with the procrastinating style of the General Staff, after reading the explanation of the report submitted by Feng Guozhang, Wang Chenhao was also relieved.

It turned out that Wang Chenhao blindly emphasized the modernization of the equipment of the Chinese Emperor's first army, and urged various military departments to continuously provide advanced weapons and equipment for the military, but Wang Chenhao ignored the most important point, the human factor.

Feng Guozhang asked for the postponement of the action plan, the main reason for which is to formulate a military plan that hits the target, and the specific landing time and time requirements are extremely high, which is a complex coordination problem, and each branch of the military puts forward different requirements according to its own needs, and the army requires that the army land on the ground to reduce the time that the troops are exposed to the beach. The Navy demanded to go ashore at low tide in order to minimize damage to the landing craft by obstacles. The Air Force requires moonshine to facilitate the identification of ground targets by the Airborne Forces.

Finally, after careful consideration, we scientifically drew up a plan that suited all branches of the armed forces, and landed between ** and low tide. Since the tides at the five beachheads in the landing area are not the same, five different landing moments are prescribed. The landing day is scheduled on the day of the full moon, and the airborne landing time is 1 a.m. In March 1915, there were only two sets of three consecutive days, March 15-17 and March 21-24, and finally the first day of the first group, March 21.

Because Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, believed that Japan was not a nation that easily yielded, and did not want to spend time with Japan, a war would only be a waste of money, and it was very likely that it would fall into a quagmire and not be able to extricate itself. Besides, Japan's threat to the Chinese Empire comes from the sea, and now that the combined fleet is completely destroyed, the threat to the Chinese Empire is close to zero, and the United States participates in the European War, and every moment may undergo turning changes, Wang Chenhao hopes that the Chinese Emperor will turn his energy to Europe, instead of spending on small Japan. [].

Therefore, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire had only one chance, and it was even more careful.

According to the actual situation around Tokyo Bay, Feng Guozhang revised the original landing operation plan drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters. ╔╗

The purpose of the campaign was to take Tokyo before Taisho moved the capital, prevent Taisho from escaping to Nagano, the capital of Nagano, capture the Taisho Imperial Family and members of the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet, and force Japan to surrender. On the third day of the landing, the landing field was expanded to a width of 100 kilometers and a depth of 50 kilometers, so that the main force of the Chinese Emperor could spread out its formation, exchange fire with the main force of the Japanese army guarding near Tokyo, and contain the main force of the Japanese army.

On the fourth day of the landing, the Chinese Imperial Airborne Forces will be airborne in Tokyo and behind the Japanese defense line, one to capture the Taisho Imperial Family and the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet members, and the other to turn around and attack the rear of the main Japanese army, destroy the Japanese defense line and supplies, and provide support for the main force to tear through the Japanese defense line.

On the seventh day of the landing, the Chinese Emperor ** will occupy Tokyo, defeat or completely annihilate the main force of the Japanese army, capture the Taisho Imperial Family and the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet, and thus force Japan to surrender.

Feng Guozhang's revised plan was approved by the General Staff, and at the same time, at Feng Guozhang's request, the General Staff provided Feng Guozhang with an additional 300 bombers from the Air Force and Army Air Force, which were transferred to Oshima Airport at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. As a result, Feng Guozhang had 1,300 fighters and 730 bombers from the Air Force, Army and Navy, including 320 H2 long-range large bombers, which greatly enhanced the strength of the landing operation.

The southern part of Tokyo Bay is surrounded by the Miura and Bosso Peninsulas, leaving only a small opening, which enters the Pacific Ocean from the Kapu Strait. It is 80 kilometers long from north to south, 20-30 kilometers wide from east to west, and the mouth of the bay is only 8 kilometers. Most of them are about 30 meters deep, and Kurihama is about 100 meters deep. The Tama River, Sumida River, Edo and other rivers are fed, and the estuary forms a delta. The depth of the coast is about 10-20 meters. There are two major industrial zones of Keihin and Keiyo on the shore of the bay, which are the only remaining industrial zones in Japan, and once the Chinese Emperor ** lands here, these two industrial zones will be razed to the ground, and Japan will have no industrial base at that time.

Due to the strategic deception of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire before, the Japanese high command made a mistake in its judgment and thought that it could have a longer time to prepare for the anti-landing operation, which resulted in the suddenness of the landing operation of the Chinese Imperial ** and the smooth progress of the subsequent series of battles, which had a significant impact on the entire campaign.

Through the fruitful feints of the navy and air force, the Chinese Emperor ** released a series of false news, which caused the Japanese high command to make an erroneous judgment for a long time about the possible landing place and time of the Chinese Emperor ** in Honshu.

At dawn on March 21, the Chinese Emperor officially launched the landing campaign. But strictly speaking, it should have started at 1 a.m. that day.

Just after the early hours of the morning, more than 500 members of the Third Special Operations Brigade of the Imperial Imperial Forest Army of the Chinese Empire, under the leadership of Colonel Liang Junru, assembled at the Oshima Airport and stood by; their combat mission was to carry out airborne landing in the rear of the five landing zones, to clear and destroy the logistics, communications, electric power, oil depots, barracks, and other key targets of the Japanese coastal defense troops, and to assassinate the commanders of the Japanese coastal defense fortifications, heavy machine gunners, and artillery, and to cooperate with the actions of the Chinese Imperial ** landing force. ╔╗

At one o'clock in the morning, Feng Guozhang personally went to the Oshima Airport to give a lecture to Liang Junru and other special combat members of the Royal Forest Army.

"Stand upright!" Liang Junru shouted an order, and all the officers and men of the special operations brigade were immediately purged, and all the steel-soled leather boots slammed into the ground at the same time, making an incomparably neat sound.

Feng Guozhang glanced from left to right and saw the neat military appearance and military appearance of all the officers and men of the Special Operations Brigade of the Royal Forest Army, as well as all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

"Report to the commander, the Third Special Operations Brigade of the Royal Forest Army has been ordered to assemble here, please instruct, Liang Junru, the captain of the Special Operations Brigade!"

"Please take a break!"

"Yes! At ease! ”

"Brethren!" Feng Guozhang shouted, and all the officers and soldiers immediately stood upright.

"Please take a break!" Feng Guozhang continued: "It's time for you to behave! This battle is about the outcome of the whole war, and your importance as the first wave of attack force cannot be overstated. ”

"Resolutely complete the task!" All the officers and men shouted in unison.

"Good!" Feng Guozhang nodded, listening to this voice, he knew that these soldiers were full of morale, so he said, "Your Majesty ...... you"

As soon as Feng Guozhang mentioned the word His Majesty, all the officers and soldiers immediately stood up again, and they were extremely solemn.

Feng Guozhang nodded, then shouted for a while, and then said: "You are Your Majesty's personal guard of the Imperial Forest Army, I hope you will live up to the title of the Imperial Forest Army." ”

"Use me in the first battle, use me to win!" All the officers and men immediately shouted loudly, and their morale was full.

Feng Guozhang nodded and said, "Okay! Listen to this voice to lift your spirits! I won't say more nonsense, I have prepared a shower car for you, and I am waiting for your good news! ”

Then Feng Guozhang nodded to Liang Junru, Liang Junru understood, and immediately ordered: "All of them!" Boarding! ”

"Use me in the first battle, use me to win, one, two, three, four!"

All the officers and men shouted slogans and marched in orderly steps to start boarding the plane one after another.

They flew in large transport planes based on the H2 bomber, each capable of transporting 40 heavily armed special operators.

At two o'clock in the morning, fifteen transport planes took off on time. Feng Guozhang watched them take off at the airport until he knew that he couldn't see each other. ╔╗

Chief of Staff Wu Changchun said: "This is the beginning, I hope everything goes well." ”

Feng Guozhang nodded and said, "We will meet at four o'clock and take action at dawn." Once the fight starts, it is estimated that there will be no rest for a few days and nights, so you should hurry up and squint for a while! ”

Wu Changchun smiled bitterly: "How can I sleep at this time?" ”

Feng Guozhang thought about it, so he said: "I can't sleep either, so let's kill it?" ”

Wu Changchun smiled: "Okay! ”

At four o'clock in the morning, the 3rd Special Operations Brigade of the Royal Forest Army flew over Yamato City. At this time, the sky had just brightened, and the visibility could barely meet the airborne landing of Liang Junru's special operations team.

When the red indicator light in the transport plane turned on, the commander in charge of the airborne landing of the various special combat personnel in the transport plane immediately stood up, clapped his hands and said: "Five minutes of equipment inspection!" ”

Then, the various special combat personnel checked their airborne equipment and side-worn weapons and equipment. At this time, the commander will help each special combat team member check one by one, and when the inspection is correct, he will pat the special combat member on the shoulder, and then give a thumbs up and shout "yes".

Five minutes later, when all team members had checked their equipment, the yellow indicator light came on and the wing hatches opened.

The commander shouted: "Divide into two groups and prepare to leave!" ”

Since the Airborne Forces of the Chinese Empire were formed only four or five years ago, the structure of the Airborne Forces transport aircraft was also different from that of modern times. The skydiving hatches were not in the tail, but on the sides, next to the wings. The special operators were divided into two groups and moved outward with their wings on each side. Although it may seem dangerous, the transport planes of this period were not fast, so this type of skydiving is still acceptable.

Of course, under the instructions of the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao, the Imperial Air Force Equipment Research and Development Center has begun to design a transport aircraft for parachuting from the rear hatch. However, the imperial side does not attach importance to the role of the Airborne Forces, just as they did not attach importance to the aircraft carrier battle group at the beginning. Therefore, the rear hatch transporter was designed, but it was put on hold and not mass-produced.

"Jingle bell!"

The bell rings inside the transport plane, and the green indicator light cools down.

The commander immediately ordered: "Start parachuting!" ”

The order was given, and the special operators on both sides of the wing hugged the equipment bags and weapons on their chests, bent their legs, and jumped off the plane. At the same time, the hook rope was pulled away the moment he jumped off the plane.

In the drowsy sky, the parachutes of the special combat team members opened, like huge dandelion flowers, floating down in the air. ╔╗

The airborne area is located between Yokohama and Yamato, which is close to the three landing sites of Kawasaki, Yokosuka and Yokohama, and can provide support at the same time.

The active direction of the landing of the Chinese Emperor ** was not in Tokyo, because there was a defense of 4 divisions of the Japanese army. Feng Guozhang chose the Miura Peninsula, which is the longest in depth and the narrowest in width, as the main landing point, so as to bypass the heavy counterattack of the Japanese army and quickly complete the landing.

Yamato was the rear transit point of the Japanese army in the defense line of the Miura Peninsula, and the Japanese army deployed the strength of 6 main divisions along the 200-kilometer coastline of the Miura Peninsula, and the only railway was Yokohama Shindo, and the supply depot was in Yamato City.

Liang Junru and his 3rd Special Operations Group landed here in order to cut off the supply of the Yokohama Shindo Railway Line to the Japanese troops on the front line, and at the same time to destroy important military facilities behind the Japanese defense line on the Miura Peninsula.

At half past four o'clock in the morning, Liang Junru and his Third Special Operations Group completed the airborne landing, and because they knew that the weather forecast for today's wind speed was very low, the airborne landing was very smooth, and the scattered point of more than 500 people of the special operations group did not exceed five square kilometers. However, the landing area is close to the remnants of Mt. Takao, resulting in many special combat team members being hung on trees, because the parachute line is very strong, it is difficult for ordinary daggers to cut it in a short time, and most of the special combat team members need the support of nearby teammates.

One of them, a second lieutenant named Li Cheng, usually likes to play with daggers, and made a row of serrated teeth on the back of the dagger issued to him by the special combat team. As a result, he was hung from a tree during this airborne landing, so he immediately cut the parachute line with the serrated side and came down smoothly.

Liang Junru happened to be next to Li Cheng and was about to help, but found that Li Cheng had solved the problem by himself, so he was very interested.

"This is your knife?"

Li Cheng nodded and said: "An airborne exercise fell on a tree in a villager's house, and the villager saw that it was difficult for me to cut the parachute rope with a dagger, so he took a saw and broke it at once, so I changed the dagger." ”

Liang Junru played with it and realized the importance of this dagger, so he said: "Okay, go back and give you a credit, we will also use this dagger to cut the parachute rope in the future." ”

"Captain Xie!" Li Cheng didn't expect that he would be able to make meritorious contributions in this way, and he was overjoyed.

Liang Junru asked: "Even if it is something you invented, it must have a name, right?" Maybe you'll get royalties in the future! ”

Li Cheng scratched his head and said: "Captain, we don't have much culture, and we finally went to night school to make up for two years, how dare you show off, you can give it a name!" ”

Liang Junru thought about it, so he said, "Just call him the paratrooper blade!" ”

In this way, the world's first paratrooper blade was born, and since then it has become the standard dagger of the Chinese Imperial Airborne Forces. As a result, Li Cheng also obtained the third-class merit of scientific and technological invention and obtained a large amount of patent fees.

With a "bang," a white signal flare was lifted into the air, which was the gathering signal of the special operations group after it parachuted, and all squadrons and squads quickly approached it according to the direction of the signal flare.

At five o'clock in the morning, Liang Junru's Third Special Operations Brigade was all assembled, and except for the three of them who were slightly injured in an accident when they landed, the airborne landing was very successful.

Opening the map, Liang Junru quickly determined his location, and then led the special operations team to quickly rush to the Asahi District Railway Station at the eastern foot of Takao Mountain, 20 kilometers away from Yamato City.

"A squadron was responsible for attacking the train station, demanding a silent way of killing."

"Yes! The first squadron understands! ”

"The second squadron is responsible for dismantling the railroad tracks."

"Yes! The second squadron understood! ”

"The third squadron is on guard."

"Yes! The third squadron understood! ”

Liang Jun gave the order, and the squadrons quickly carried it out.

The first squadron and the first squad were responsible for storming the dispatch room of the railway station, the second squadron was responsible for attacking the security room, and the third squad was responsible for planting bombs.

The Japanese army never expected that the Chinese Emperor ** would fall from the sky, and there were only about 20 Japanese soldiers guarding the railway station in Xu District, and they were defenseless and were quickly killed by the special combat team members in a silent way.

The whole battle lasted no more than 12 minutes, but Liang Junru was still not satisfied, which was much slower than their usual training subjects.

If it was a normal training, he would definitely have to reprimand a squadron, but now that it is a war, it is inevitable that the soldiers have no psychological impact, and many special combat team members are usually ruthless enough, and it is another matter to really kill people. At the beginning, he was the first in everything he trained, but the first time he killed Russian soldiers during the Sino-Russian War, he was cowardly and almost slaughtered. Liang Junru understands this very well, and only after truly experiencing the actual combat and life and death tests can he truly become a qualified soldier.

At about half past five in the morning, the Xuping railway station was flattened after a violent explosion, and the railroad tracks were destroyed in hundreds of places, and there was not a week to open for traffic.

The tactical goal was achieved, and Liang Junru immediately arranged the remaining tasks. The second task of the 3rd Special Operations Brigade is to destroy important military facilities behind the defense line of the Japanese army on the Miura Peninsula and cooperate with the Chinese Emperor to carry out landing operations.

Soon, Liang Junru assigned the task. The 1st Squadron was responsible for the Yokohama Landing Zone, the 2nd Squadron was responsible for the Kawasaki Landing Zone, and the 3rd Squadron was responsible for the Yokosuka Landing Zone. The squadron leaders took action on their own, while Liang Junru led more than 50 people from the brigade headquarters to sabotage important targets such as power stations, telephone and telegraph offices, oil depots, granaries, and water stations in Yamato City, and paralyzed Yamato City's supply capacity to the front line.

As soon as the squadrons entered their respective areas of responsibility, the squadron leaders assigned tasks to the squad leaders, who in turn divided into groups of two or three people to carry out their respective tasks.

The special operations brigade wreaked havoc on the battlefield behind enemy lines the Japanese army's rear electricity, communications, granaries, oil depots, ammunition depots, and other military facilities, assassinated the Japanese commander, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese troops, and the command system was attacked by snipers one after another.

Among them, Lieutenant General Komito Takayama, the supreme commander of the Japanese forces in the Yokohama landing area, was shot dead by the Chinese Imperial Special Forces snipers before the landing battle broke out, causing the Japanese army's defense command system in the Yokohama landing area to fail. The Chinese Emperor's landing force was also the first to successfully land on the beach in Yokohama District.

At dawn, the Chinese Emperor launched a large-scale landing operation codenamed "Decapitation Operation".

Forty battleships, 10 battle cruisers, 24 heavy cruisers, 42 light cruisers, and 130 hunting destroyers of the Chinese Imperial Task Force against Japan drove into Sagami Bay and Tokyo Bay one after another, and carried out fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese beachhead fortifications in the planned landing areas such as Yokosuka, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Tokyo, Funabashi, and Chiba.

"Knock knock!"

As the most powerful battleship in the world, the four Ming-class battleships of the Chinese Empire participated in the battle for the first time, and the 18-inch cannon let out an earth-shattering roar, and the shells weighing 1.5 tons drew a long parabola, with the call of hell, roaring and shooting at the Japanese fortifications that had already been calibrated by the reconnaissance planes of the Chinese Empire.

"Boom!"

Wherever the shells went, they were instantly flattened. Smoke and flames flew hundreds of meters high and soared into the sky. The violent air wave shocked everything in the vicinity, and the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard were instantly torn to pieces, and their flesh and blood flew sideways.

More than 250 warships and more than 9,000 naval guns of various calibers fired 5,000 tons of shells per minute, which was so powerful that it was impossible for any Japanese fortification to survive under such saturated artillery fire, and the shell group turned into a ruin in an instant. The violent explosion was like a mountain earthquake, and it could be felt even from a distance of more than ten kilometers.

From the first second of the battle, the Chinese emperor ** threw all his strength into fighting the rabbit with a tiger.

After the start of naval shelling, the air combat planes of the Chinese Emperor ** were also dispatched. Seventy-three bombers, armed with 2,650 tons of aerial bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and gasoline incendiary bombs, were escorted by 1,300 fighters to carry out fierce attacks on military targets within 20 kilometers of the Japanese coast.

"Babble~Babble~Babble~"

Accompanied by the long whistling sound of the bombs falling, one after another high-explosive aerial bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and gasoline incendiary bombs exploded on the Japanese positions, and huge fiery red mushroom clouds rose in an instant. The flames were raging, the earth and rocks were splashing, and the Japanese army, which was caught off guard, fell into chaos in an instant, with countless casualties.

Similarly, the reconnaissance planes of the Chinese Empire had already photographed the Japanese army's fortifications and positions along the entire Tokyo Bay defense line, and the key targets for attack had already been demarcated. The bomber flew directly towards the target, dropped the bomb on the target, and destroyed it. Because they could not find an opponent in the air, the fighters did not sit idle, and flew at ultra-low altitudes to strafe the Japanese officers and men on the positions, in the barracks, and at the headquarters.

The entire 200-kilometer-long coastline around Tokyo Bay, with a depth of 20 kilometers, was reduced to ruins in less than half an hour under the powerful firepower saturation strike of the Imperial Chinese Navy and Air Force. The fire is scorching, and the smoke covers the sky and the sun, like a hell on earth, as if the end of the world is coming.