Thanks to the British, the Japanese military operations in India were carried out smoothly, even more smoothly than the historical military operations in China, after all, the length of the Chinese railway at that time was not as good as that of India.

On the other hand, although the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore, has been occupied by China, Japan does not only have a route to the Indian Ocean, such as the Strait of Malacca, at least Jakarta, and Australia is also a possible route, so the Japanese do not need to worry about any logistical problems.

Therefore, it is the IDF that is worried about logistics and has begun to advance into Myanmar and even Bangladesh.

Indeed, there are indeed a lot of railways on the Indian side, not to mention that the length of the 60,000-kilometer railway alone is not comparable to that of the Republic of China in history, even if China at this time, after nearly 20 years of railway development, it is only barely repairing the length of the railway to more than 60,000 kilometers.

However, India's infrastructure is good, but it does not mean that Myanmar's infrastructure is okay.

In a later real-time strategy game called [Iron Ambition 3], if the infrastructure level of Myanmar is 4, then India and Bangladesh are 8, and the perfect score is 10...

Of course, these are nothing to the Japanese, after all, when the British navy is concentrated in the Atlantic, the Japanese can be transported by water, and when the Japanese advance to Bengal and India, they can directly supply at the port, and India itself is a fairly developed railway network in this era, and the Japanese supplies can be easily sent everywhere.

But apparently, the Wehrmacht does not have this condition...

"I've heard for a long time that the roads in Myanmar are not good, but I didn't expect it to be so bad..."

Saying this, Ru Yun yelled at the soldiers on the side.

"Work harder!!"

Of course, his hands were not idle, and he was also helping to push out the jeep that had fallen into the mud.

After pacifying all of Thailand through the influence of King Rama VIII and the great power of China, the National Defense Forces assembled in Thailand and Yunnan began to march on Burma, which had fallen to the British.

For the time being, we will not mention how the Japanese reacted to the actions of the Chinese. At least the reaction of the British was great, because the British knew very well that if Japan had entered India, they might have been expelled. Then they have nothing to do with the Chinese.

For this reason, Churchill even approached Roosevelt, but to Churchill's surprise, Roosevelt did not come forward to help Britain. Instead, he remained silent about the incident, which also made Churchill wonder what agreement the United States and China had reached.

However, Churchill is also helpless about this, after all, without Russia, the United States and China, it is very likely that Britain alone will not even be able to support the mainland, as for the affairs of India? Churchill really couldn't do it. I don't have the ability to care...

However, domestic pressure cannot be ignored, so Churchill also asked the ambassador to China to negotiate with the national government.

Naturally, the negotiations were confidential, but the media still reported on them.

"On the X day of the year, the Imperial Ambassador to China and the Chinese Foreign Minister Gu Weijun had a 'cordial and friendly conversation', in the course of which the two sides were very 'frank', and 'fully exchanged views' and 'enhanced mutual understanding'. The talks were beneficial', but Prime Minister Churchill still expressed 'regret' at the outcome of the talks. At the same time, it also expressed 'great indignation' at China's military operations in the Indo-Burmese colonies. ”

After the conclusion of the negotiations. The British Times published the above article.

Although the article is full of black words, some people can still get the news they want from it. ..., however, as the black saying goes, the current Britain does not have a way to take China.

The reason is simple, because Britain now not only does not have the strength to interfere with China's actions―――――― in fact it does not even have the strength to interfere with Japan.

Not only does Britain not interfere with China's power, but it is also very important that China is not a member of the Allied Powers. So Britain can't say anything about it.

It has to be mentioned that the Allies today are indeed the strongest organization in the world.

The current allies. There are three powerful member states of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia, and there are many small countries around the world participating. For example, the backyard of the United States, South America, is almost all involved.

Therefore, today's allies are by no means comparable to China's China Alliance in terms of gold content.

Even at the beginning of 42, in order to better carry out the anti-fascist war, after joining the Central Powers, Russia disbanded the [Hammer and Sickle International] even one year earlier than in history, which greatly strengthened the camp of the Central Powers.

As a result, a situation has been formed in which the three major forces, namely the Axis, the Alliance, and the Central Alliance, jointly divide up the entire world.

Today, almost the whole world is involved in this war, and if there is any region that has not been involved in the war, it is the Eskimos of the Arctic...

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Of course, just because the British can't cause trouble doesn't mean there aren't other troubles.

At least the IDF has had a lot of trouble when it entered Burma. One of the most important points is the infrastructure issue just mentioned.

After a considerable number of Thai troops defected to the new government because of the relationship of King Rama VIII, the National Defense Forces pushing into Burma quickly defeated the Japanese resistance due to the sudden defection of friendly forces due to the help of these Thai troops and the decline in morale due to the sudden defection of friendly forces.

However, when they planned to pursue the Japanese, they could not move an inch because of geography.

Myanmar's infrastructure is terrible, there's no doubt about that.

For the Japanese, who don't understand what it is, the infrastructure in Myanmar is very fatal, but it is not quite fatal, after all, many Japanese troops are also used to marching on foot.

But these are somewhat fatal for the Wehrmacht.

Of course, this does not mean that the Wehrmacht cannot march on foot, although in all aspects, both in terms of equipment and logistics, the Wehrmacht is on par with the US military in history, but five kilometers a day is still a compulsory course for the Wehrmacht.

Therefore, although the Wehrmacht is motorized even at the lowest level. But it's not enough to get on foot.

The real trouble is that the Wehrmacht is a force that attaches great importance to equipment, especially heavy equipment, etc. Today's Wehrmacht is armed with a considerable number of heavy machine guns. Other equipment such as light machine guns, rocket launchers, mortars and other equipment are also equipped with a considerable amount, not to mention heavy artillery or something, you must know that today's Wehrmacht is even equipped with a considerable number of self-propelled artillery!!

So much heavy equipment, used in jungle areas with fairly poor infrastructure. It was a disaster, especially after the rain, and even light vehicles such as jeeps were kneeling in Myanmar―――――― there was no way to do it, even the lightest vehicle would become heavier with a 12.7mm heavy machine gun and attached ammunition.

And at the moment, the biggest enemy of these Wehrmacht officers and soldiers is not the Japanese. It's the complex geography of Myanmar...

"Bang!" ..., well, I was wrong ...

"Enemy Attack !!"

After a gunshot, there was a sudden shout from the front, and then Ru Yun heard a dense burst of gunfire around him.

"Damn !!"

Hearing the gunshot, Ru Yun didn't care about continuing to push the cart, and hurriedly hid behind the jeep to observe the surrounding enemy situation. After making sure that there were no enemy troops around, Ru Yun jumped to the position of the machine gunner. The 12.7mm large-caliber heavy machine gun mounted on the jeep was aimed in front. Fire support to the front line.

This time the Japanese can be described as menacing, not long after, the sound of gunfire and artillery has already resounded in the sky, Ru Yun even saw many of his companions die at the hands of the Japanese, and even he himself had to jump off the jeep―――――― no way, the position of the machine gunner is too conspicuous. In particular, it is difficult not to attract attention when the 12.7mm large-caliber machine gun is fired continuously. Therefore, although the Heavy also had a shield in his position, Ru Yun jumped in the end.

The normal attack lasted about half an hour. In this attack, Ru Yun's convoy paid a lot of price, and the Japanese also seemed to have brought a lot of anti-armor weapons, so the armored vehicles in the convoy did not play much role.

In particular, the 20mm anti-tank guns (of course, they can also be called guns) and the 30mm caliber small-caliber anti-tank guns used by the Japanese.

Although these weapons do not pose any threat to tanks of the average level, they are at least enough to deal with ordinary vehicles or armored vehicles. After all, even the early models of tanks could not withstand 30mm caliber guns.

However, although armored vehicles are no match for the Japanese anti-tank weapons, even destroyed vehicles can always be used as a support, after all, the Japanese do not have the weapons to blow these vehicles into the sky, or they have them but they can't bring them, plus the Wehrmacht has a great advantage in firepower.

Therefore, although the Japanese army that attacked this time had the advantage in terms of troops, it had to retreat in the end.

Of course, this is not to say that they can't eat Ruyun's convoy, but after half an hour has passed, the Wehrmacht Air Force at the nearby air base has already sent fighters and dive bombers to support, and there are also a considerable number of Wehrmacht forces in the nearby area.

So even though Ru Yun's convoy seemed to be able to eat it all in about half an hour, the Japanese finally gave up this fatty-looking fat mouthful.

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Just as the Japanese had guessed, at the same time that the air base received a request for help and sent military planes to dispatch, the nearby Wehrmacht also began to move closer to the location of the Ruyun convoy after receiving the request for help.

If the Japanese stayed for twenty or thirty minutes longer, maybe it would be no problem to eat Ruyun, but if you want to get out, I'm afraid it won't be so easy.

At this time, the Wehrmacht was somewhat caught in the predicament of the German army in Russia.

But on the other hand...

"Have you checked it all?"

At the air base in Wenden, a Wehrmacht general with the rank of lieutenant general said to the base commander on the side.

"Don't worry, it's all checked..."

Hearing the lieutenant general's question, the base commander hurriedly respectfully greeted him.

"That's good."

The lieutenant general nodded.

"These soldiers are going to cross the ocean, and if something goes wrong, then the heavens should not be called the earth..."

The commander nodded, not saying anything more.

At this moment, the phone in the command tower suddenly rang, and the commander quickly picked up the phone and asked.

"What's the matter?"

After listening for a moment, the commander hung up the phone and said to the lieutenant general. …,

"General, it's time to take off!"

"Good..."

"Then let's take off..."

After getting permission. The planes on the runway began to turn the engines on the wings, and the behemoths began to accelerate slowly on the runway of the airport before flying off the ground...

H40。 At present, China's largest fixed-wing aircraft, and the world's largest fixed-wing aircraft, are taking off from several airports in Shandong at the moment, and their destination is Tokyo, thousands of kilometers away from Shandong...

"Bombing..."

That's what they're tasked with ...

At present, the Wehrmacht is mainly armed with two types of strategic bombers. One is the H3 bomber that has bombed Bangkok, Penghu and Taiwan, and the other is the latest H40 strategic bomber to enter service.

Among them, the performance of the H3 bomber is quite good, but if you want to bomb Tokyo, it is somewhat reluctant. First of all, the range of the H3 is only 3,000 kilometers when carrying 3 tons of bombs, and it takes about 3,200 kilometers if you forget to return, on the other hand, it is also the most important point. With horizontal bombing, the H3's performance does not guarantee its own safety.

You must know that unlike later generations, the Japanese attach great importance to air defense.

And the H3 is only equivalent to the level of the B17, and if a bomber of this level goes to Tokyo, then the losses will be too great.

Therefore, in the end, the Air Force chose the H40 bomber.

The H40, which has the same performance as the B29, is obviously more suitable for this mission than the H3.

On the other hand, the Wehrmacht Air Force also equipped the H40 with a considerable number of incendiary bombs. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the accuracy of horizontal bombing at high altitudes. After all, incendiary bombs are capable of burning Tokyo into a sea of fire.

At the same time, the Wehrmacht also transferred more than 150 H40 bombers, which were already in service with the army, to some extent to make up for the shortcomings of the lack of high-altitude bombing accuracy.

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Under the command of the lieutenant general, more than 150 H40 bombers soon took off from the airfield and began to fly towards Tokyo at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters.

In the Hereafter. The B29 was capable of flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet (about 12,192 meters) at an altitude of 350 miles per hour at an altitude of 350 miles per hour, an altitude that most Axis fighters at the time had difficulty climbing. Even if they could, they wouldn't be able to keep up with the speed of the B29.

The H3 and B29 have the same performance. Therefore, the strategic bomber group, consisting of more than 150 H40s, did not take much time to fly to the Japanese mainland.

Of course, their target is not Japan, if it is only Japan, it is enough to take H3, after all, it does not take much time to travel from Shandong to Nagasaki and other places in Japan. However, if only the bombing of Nagasaki was carried out, it would not be possible to deal a heavy blow to the morale of Japan, after all, the capital of Japan is Tokyo, not Nagasaki.

On the other hand, Tokyo also has a considerable degree of Japan's industrial base, and if it can deal a heavy blow to Tokyo, it can also effectively weaken Japan's industrial strength.

At least after the Japanese brought back the resources they had looted from the South Seas and Australia, the conversion rate of the Japanese would be much slower.

On the other hand, it is fortunate that the Japanese are not equipped with radars, which may be equipped, but they are not deployed to places like Nagasaki, and even if they are, the performance of these radars will probably have considerable problems, so no one has discovered the whereabouts of the bomber group along the way.

So easily, the bomber group flew over Tokyo...

"Start dropping bombs..."

After identifying the target, a wing commander in charge of the bombing mission ordered.

After receiving the order to drop bombs, the bombardiers of the bombers pressed the buttons one after another, and the incendiary bombs in the magazine also fell from the sky one by one...

It was at this time that a terrible air defense siren sounded over ...... Tokyo, ――――――――――――――――――――

The bombing of Tokyo did not last long, after all, there were so many ammunition in the bombers, and Tokyo itself was not a safe place, not to mention the number of anti-aircraft guns alone was frightening to death, so after all the ammunition was dropped, the bomber group also flew in the direction of the Vladivostok base―――――― which was also to avoid being blocked by the Japanese interceptor force.

Although the Japanese Zero and other aircraft could not threaten the existence of the H40, new aircraft such as the Type 4 did, so the pilots had to be careful.

After all, the H40 is not like the H3, and a super flying fortress like the H40 requires a considerable amount of man-hours and costs to build each one.

On the other hand, incendiary bombs dropped by bomber groups also set fire in Tokyo.

More than 150 H40 bombers dropped a large amount of napalm in Tokyo, burning about 2.56 square kilometers of Tokyo.

Each aircraft carries six to eight tons of incendiary bombs with an incendiary area of up to 6,500 square meters. At the same time, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, each bomber bombed separately without forming a formation during the air raid, and there was even a fire whirlwind in Tokyo on the same day.

More than 150 H40 bombers, at least more than 1,000 tons of incendiary bombs, generated high enough to burn all combustibles (including human bodies) in the area, and eventually caused more than 60,000 deaths, nearly 41 square kilometers of land were burned, mainly the area east of the Imperial Palace, about a quarter of Tokyo was razed to the ground, of which 18% was an industrial area, 63% was a commercial area, and the rest was a residential area. The 22 planned industrial targets were destroyed, more than 267,000 buildings were burned, and millions of people were left homeless. In addition, more than 100,000 people were seriously injured in the course of the air strikes.

A large part of the reason why the air raids were so successful was that Japan did not improve its flammable buildings after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and of course, the most important thing is that this was the first bombing of the Japanese mainland, and it was only the first one that was extremely violent, and the Japanese who had not been attacked in this way had a great degree of panic, and the Japanese bureaucrats did not know what to do at all, and it was this panic that caused great damage to the fire after the bombing...

However, in every respect, the bombing was a great success...

On the other hand, after being bombed, the Japanese were attacked for the first time after the bombing, and while their morale was greatly affected, they began to wonder if they could win the war...

At the same time, this bombing also left a strong mark in history, and later generations also called this bombing the "Tokyo Bombing". (To be continued......)