Chapter 526: Tokyo Massacre
"Hurry up. Protect His Majesty the Emperor! ”
Anan Yuji and Hideki Tojo jumped up almost at the same time, and the words fell, and the guards had already swarmed in. Protecting Emperor Hirohito and hiding in the underground bunker, Hideki Tojo accompanied Emperor Hirohito to hide in the underground bunker of the Imperial Palace, but Anami, as the chief of the General Staff of the Army and Navy, had to return to the General Staff immediately.
When Anan Weiji rushed out of the Changyu Palace surrounded by attendants, he saw that a group of Chinese people had appeared in the sky in the southwest, including smaller twin-engine fighters and huge four-engine bombers.
"Quick! Back to the military department! Anan almost rushed into the car.
Amid the terrible sound of air defense sirens, about dozens of Zero fighters roared from the northwest airspace.
Seeing this scene, Anan Wei couldn't help but look miserable, the current situation in Japan is actually not much different from the Kwantung Army a few months ago. Strategic resources such as oil, iron ore, coal, rubber, and timber have been nearly exhausted, and arsenals in Hiroshima, Daling, and other places are close to stopping.
Due to the lack of steel, the supply of firearms to the Japanese army was seriously insufficient.
Although Anan Weiji urgently organized hundreds of infantry divisions into the two major general armies on the mainland, these divisions were basically only equipped with old-fashioned rifles, with few bullets and only a dozen light and heavy machine guns. There is basically no heavy equipment, which is far from the 17 permanent divisions and regiments in the past, and it is even more different from the finished Kwantung Army.
Even more deadly. Due to fuel shortages, most of the air force's warplanes had to be parked at airfields. I watched as the bomber groups of the Chinese Air Force wantonly bombed the Japanese mainland.
Almost at the same time as the Zero fighter group appeared, hundreds of Mustang fighters separated from the huge "Chinese" aircraft group, and immediately launched a fierce struggle with the Japanese aircraft group, while the remaining 100 bombers and more than 500 Mustang fighters loaded with napalm and rockets drove straight into the sky over Tokyo.
Suddenly, the belly doors of more than 100 bombers were opened, and immediately one after another napalm fell down like dumplings, and the screaming sound of the bombs' tail fin rubbing against the air suddenly resounded in the sky, and the citizens of Tokyo who were running around on the ground suddenly fell into unprecedented chaos.
"Boom!" A napalm landed heavily on the street" and then burst into a rain of fire, and the people, objects and buildings at the center of the explosion were instantly plunged into a sea of fire, and even in front of the concrete floor on the street, hundreds of Tokyo citizens were engulfed in flames in an instant, including the elderly, children, and even women, who lay down in the flames, struggling, moaning, wailing, and crying for help. In a matter of moments, a woman was charred, along with the infant baby she was carrying.
A hundred meters away, an old man's sleeve was unfortunately stained with a little spark, and he quickly stretched out his hand to pounce, "Unfortunately, it was originally just a very weak flame, but it didn't hit a few times, but it quickly spread to the whole body, and in less than a moment, the old man was swallowed up by the flames, and he died after two convulsions."
Farther away, "a flame was also stained on the lintel of a private house, and the owner of the house hurriedly brought a bucket of water, which was splashed on the lintel with a loud noise, but to despair, instead of extinguishing the flame, which did not look fierce, it only fueled the fire." In the blink of an eye, the red flames rushed up to the eaves, and by the time the owner of the house reacted and wanted to rush in to rescue the guy, it was already too late.
Around the corner, a truck roared in with the roar of its engine.
Suddenly, "a napalm fell from the sky." Kankan slammed into the top of the truck, and then heard a pop, "Raging flames flew in all directions."
As the citizens of nearby Tokyo fled one after another, they saw "burning men" jumping frantically from the blazing truck compartment and running around blindly and frantically. As they ran, they wailed and begged for help, judging from the batons they were holding, they should be police officers who maintained law and order.
When Anan returned to the General Staff at the risk of death, he found that the entire building had already been enveloped in flames.
Although the building where the General Staff Headquarters is located is a reinforced concrete structure, it also cannot stand the napalm thrown by the Chinese Air Force, which can not only burn the soil into porcelain powder, but also melt the steel bars into molten iron! When Anami looked around through the window of the armored car, he found that the entire city of Tokyo was completely covered in fire and smoke.
In the sky, Colonel Wang Wei drove his own Mustang car. First, he picked a densely populated area and dropped the two napalm bombs on it, then quickly pulled it up and flew back in the air in a large circle before flying back over Tokyo and looking down from the air. I saw that the whole of Tokyo was already in flames!
At that time, most of the houses in Japan were made of wood, and the houses in Tokyo were especially dense!
Colonel Wang Wei originally wanted to make a dive and fire a few more rockets, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he immediately dispelled this idea, and in fact he could not continue the bombing at all, because the entire sky over Tokyo was already covered in thick smoke. Colonel Wang Wei immediately summoned the entire air force to roar towards the coastal defense fortresses on both sides of Tokyo Bay, and since Tokyo City no longer needed these rockets, it should be left to the coastal defense fortresses in Tokyo Bay.
On April 11, 33 years of the Republic of China, the Air Force of China carried out a large-scale bombing of Tokyo.
Tokyo is densely populated with houses, and most of them are made of wood. In addition, the use of napalm by the Chinese Air Force eventually led to a fire of unprecedented scale. The fire lasted for seven days before it was extinguished, and in fact it was not extinguished at all, because by the time the fire was extinguished, most of Tokyo was reduced to rubble, and there was almost nothing left to burn.
The fire took a heavy toll on civilians, with Tokyo's chief cabinet secretary at the time, Takeo Inukai releasing preliminary casualty statistics the day after the bombing, claiming that at least half a million innocent civilians, including tens of thousands of children, had died in the bombing. Millions more have been left homeless as their homes have been burned.
In the post-war Japanese history books, this unprecedented scale of fire and the heavy damage caused are called the Tokyo Massacre, while in the history books of China, it is called the Tokyo Incident.
The government immediately filed a complaint with the League of Nations, demanding that the Chinese people's anti-human acts be severely punished.
The media in Germany, Russia, Italy, and other Axis countries immediately began to condemn them with great intensity.
Some newspapers and periodicals in the United States, Britain, and other countries also bluntly pointed out that the large-scale use of napalm by the Chinese people during the military campaign to bomb Tokyo was an irrational and dangerous act, and called on the Chinese government to restrain its armed forces. Bombs are being dropped more on military targets than on a large number of Japanese civilians.
It was the day after the fire in Tokyo was extinguished. That is, on April 19, General Yue Weihan, commander-in-chief of Siye, was interviewed by Miss Avril, the chief correspondent of Reuters in Asia, at the Qingdao headquarters.
Miss Avril's words were as sharp as ever: "Your Excellency, I heard that the previous bombing campaign of the Shiye Air Force killed at least half a million civilians in Tokyo, including tens of thousands of children. What do you think about the homelessness of millions of people? Do you think the bombing behavior of the Chinese Air Force is appropriate? ”
Yue Weihan looked straight at Avril. He said calmly: "War has its own laws of war, and war has always only won or lost." Seven years ago, when the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou ravaged the land of China, "causing the blood and sacrifice of tens of millions of my descendants of Yan and Huang", may I ask Miss Avril, where is the justice you uphold and advocate? ”
Avril blushed slightly. When Japan invaded China, Britain pursued a policy of connivance.
Yue Weihan paused, and then continued: "There has never been love for no reason in this world, and there has never been hatred for no reason. Today, of course, it will be repaid by the civilians of the [Japan]! I believe that as early as after the 918 incident. Since the Japanese army had just set foot in our four eastern provinces, the Japanese himself had already been mentally prepared enough! ”
"Your Excellency the Admiral means to say. Will the Chinese Air Force conduct similar bombing operations in the future? Wu Weier tilted her head slightly and asked seriously, "Can I understand this?" ”
"Of course." Yue Weihan is undoubtedly authentic. "Similar bombing campaigns will continue until the Japanese fortifications on the ground have not been completely destroyed and the will of the Japanese themselves to resist. If I insist on resisting to the end, I don't mind completely blowing up the entire day into ruins, and I don't care how many civilians die in the bombing! ”
Yue Weihan spoke in a very calm tone. The expression was also gentle, but the words that came out made Avril shudder.
It's different from other Brits. Avril also knows a lot about the history of China, and she knows that most of the long history of China has been at the top of the whole world. All of them are leading the trend of the entire world civilization. It was not until the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs more than 300 years ago that the country began to become ignorant and backward, until it was driven off the top of the world by the British Empire with strong ships and cannons a hundred years ago. And yet now......
The reborn Chinese Empire seems to be about to rise again.
At least the five-star admiral in front of him already has the domineering spirit of a great general, when will this Eastern Empire, which once trembled as long as he heard the cannons of the British Imperial fleet, now no longer cares about the criticism of the Western media, and the almost naked bloody revenge of the Japanese nation shows that two thousand years ago, the iron-blooded warning of the once incomparably powerful Han Empire will be punished even if it is far away!