"God, what the hell is going on!!"

Standing beside a ruin, watching the people around him who were still fighting the fire, the mountain village, who worked as a teacher at a nearby school, looked at the sky that had been burned red by the fire, and said sadly.

More than 1,000 tons of napalm carried by more than 150 H-40 bombers burned Tokyo into a sea of fire, but the Japanese did not fall short in the face of this bombing.

However, it is no wonder that in the past half century, Japan has not been attacked on the mainland, and although Japan has been in a state of war for a long time, the local people are not very vigilant about war.

As for air strikes and bombings or something?

If it was an H-3, it might not be enough to bomb the Japanese mainland, but it would be too reluctant to bomb Tokyo, and in the past, the bombers of the National Defense Air Force have not bombed Tokyo, not even Nagasaki once, so the Japanese naturally did not think that there would be such a day.

In addition, at this time, Japan did not have such equipment as radar, and it was simply unable to provide sufficient early warning, so this time something happened...

In the face of the bombing of the H-40 group, the Japanese felt as if they had been hit with a wooden stick, but they were dizzy for a while but did not even react at all.

On the other hand, in the face of the losses suffered in the air raids, both Hideki Tojo and other cabinet members were crying without tears. After all, Japan had only more than 80 million citizens during this period, and more than 100,000 casualties were suffered at once.

In fact, in the history of U.S. air raids on Japan. Conventional incendiary bombs inflicted even greater losses than atomic bombs.

At the same time, although the Japanese side has not yet counted the losses from the air raids, looking at the current situation of Tokyo, several other warring powers are also surprised by the power of strategic bombers and incendiary bombs.

Even the Americans, who have already developed the B-29 and are preparing for test flights of the B-29. I didn't expect that the power of strategic bombers would be so great.

But it's no wonder, after all, the B-17 bombers equipped by the United States in the past were inferior to the B-29 in terms of range and bomb load, but more importantly, in the years that the B-17 was developed, the world. In particular, there has never been a large-scale war in the neighboring regions of the United States, and under such circumstances, the Americans naturally have no chance to test it in actual combat.

Of course, the fact that the H-40 fleet can exert such great power has a lot to do with the fact that the buildings in Tokyo are all made of wood, after all, the combination of wooden buildings and napalm can fully match the degree of adding fuel to the fire.

However, it is surprising that the Japanese architectural pattern has not changed.

Be aware of the Great Kanto Earthquake that occurred in 1923. But it has caused more than 100,000 deaths. At that time, the earthquake occurred at noon, and many people were cooking with fire, which led to large fires in many places after the earthquake, increasing the number of injuries and deaths. In addition, strong winds brought by a typhoon off the coast of the Noto Peninsula in northern Japan caused the fire to spread rapidly. Some fires gradually swept through the city. Many people died because their feet got stuck in the molten asphalt road, and the largest single casualty disaster occurred at the site of the Army Headquarters' clothing factory, when about 38,000 people squeezed into an empty field in central Tokyo and were burned to death by a whirlwind of fire that would later be caused. Due to the rupture of water pipes caused by the earthquake, the fire was not extinguished until the morning of September 3, almost two full days later. Many citizens who fled to shelters or bomb shelters died in the fire.

In addition to the large number of civilian casualties, the earthquake also killed many members of the imperial family, including the 17-year-old Prince Kanin Miyakihito's fourth daughter, the second son of King Minoru Higashikurenomiya in Fujisawa City, King Shimasa, and the second daughter of King Kayonomiya Kunitun in Kamakura, King Saki, who were killed by the collapse of their houses. …,

As for Emperor Taisho and Empress Sadaaki. Because both of them were in daylight at the time, they were not in any danger.

Yan Guangguang thought that the Japanese would learn the lessons of the earthquake and at least rebuild the wooden buildings in the area after the fire into other structures, but after the earthquake, the Japanese continued to use wooden buildings in Tokyo.

Maybe it's because the Japanese think it's an earthquake like the Great Kanto Earthquake. I can't do it a second time...

Perhaps it was precisely because of this thinking that led to the later bombing of Tokyo...

As for Yan Guang...

Since the Japanese themselves do not learn their lessons. Yan Guang could only unceremoniously ask the Air Force people to prepare incendiary bombs.

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The air raid on Tokyo dealt a great blow to the morale of the Japanese military and civilians, because it was the first attack on the Japanese mainland in half a century, and it was such a devastating attack that many Japanese people had even begun to doubt whether Japan could win.

In addition, there are also a large number of Japanese military and civilians, who strongly demand that the Tojo government launch retaliatory actions against China, but unfortunately, at this time, Japan does not have bombers like H-40, and even H-3, a strategic bomber of the B-17 level, there is no retaliation.

As for the use of carrier-based bombers of the Navy, sending a combined fleet to bomb coastal cities in China ...

There are a large number of patrol aircraft patrolling China's coastline, and it is really difficult to sail into China's territorial waters without being detected by them, and if it is discovered by the Chinese, it is not impossible for the land-based air force of the Chinese Defense Air Force to sink all the combined fleet.

What's more, even if the retaliatory operation is successful, as long as they follow the carrier-based aircraft that retaliated back, they will be able to find out where the combined fleet is, and when the time comes...

It is estimated that the combined fleet will also become history.

Although the Combined Fleet is definitely a first-class fleet in this era, carrier-based aircraft cannot defeat land-based fighters after all, just like the F-35 cannot defeat the F-22, and risks the total annihilation of the Combined Fleet. Just for a revenge?

Hideki Tojo's evaluation is indeed not high in history, but at least he is not brain-dead to this point.

However, Hideki Tojo did not give permission to retaliate, which does not mean that the bombing will not continue.

In the days that followed, not only the H-40 bomber group visited Tokyo again―――――― of course, because the Japanese were prepared. And the burns were almost burned, so the losses were not as great as the last one, and in the course of the air raids a number of H-40 bombers were shot down.

In addition to the H-40 group visiting Tokyo once, the H-3 bomber group also visited Nagasaki and other cities. Although these bombers wanted to bomb Tokyo, they were somewhat reluctant. But if it's just bombing Nagasaki or something, there's no problem.

However, because the performance of the H-3 was not as good as that of the H-40, the H-3 paid more losses in the process of air raids, but these losses were nothing compared to the Japanese.

The large-scale bombing caused serious losses to Japan's already underdeveloped industry, although the materials looted from the South Seas and Australia at this time were stolen. It is still being shipped to the Japanese mainland, but Japan's ability to convert these materials into finished products is severely impaired.

On the other hand, it was also because of the bombing that Japan began to ask Germany for air defense technology.

Of course, it may not be correct to describe it as a request. It should be an exchange in the right way.

However, it is not an exchange of technology, although Japan is good in terms of technology in this era, but there is still a big gap compared to Germany, so Japan and Germany are mainly exchanging resources, that is, exchanging resources for technology. ..., in addition to some new equipment captured by the Japanese on the battlefield. It is also usually exchanged for the Germans through submarines and other means, such as automatic rifles last time...

An automatic rifle wants to exchange technology for radar. It's a little whimsical. However, considering the status of Japan's allies, coupled with the resources provided by Japan, it seems that the weight will be sufficient.

However, far from quenching the thirst of the near, while Japan was negotiating with Germany, the Japanese mainland was bombed almost every two days.

On the other hand, the commander of the bomber also improved the way of bombing.

Initially, the H-40 bombed Japan mainly at military and industrial facilities. The H-40 mostly enters from an altitude of more than 9,000 meters during the day. Precision bomb dropping using instruments. However, strong air currents often occur over the Japanese mainland, making such air strikes ineffective. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the bombers used incendiary bombs. I'm afraid there won't be any damage on a larger scale.

The new commander changed the way the air strikes were conducted, allowing the H-40s to enter Japan at night from a low altitude of 1,500 to 1,800 meters. The new commander believed that at night, the Japanese fighters were not to be afraid ...

As it turned out, he was right.

At the same time, due to the huge role played by strategic bombers such as the H-40, the Wehrmacht Air Force also became very interested in strategic bombers with jet aero engines, after all, jet aircraft far surpassed the H-40 with piston engines in terms of speed and altitude.

However, the difficulty and complexity of large bombers are higher than those of fighters after all, and the project has just been launched, so I am afraid that it will not be possible to see this kind of bomber for a while...

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Fortunately, the Japanese had long ago been very wary of the Chinese Air Force, especially the large bombers equipped by the Air Force, and for this reason they even developed in advance new fighters and interceptors capable of intercepting the H-40, such as the Type 4 fighter.

Therefore, in the course of the air raids, the Wehrmacht Air Force also lost a lot of bombers.

In addition, the performance of the H-3 is not as good as that of the H-40, and there are many fighters in the Japanese Army Aviation that can intercept this bomber, so the losses of the H-3 are more than ten times more than that of the H-40, of course, it is obvious that the number of H-3s is also ten times more than that of the H-40, and even if the losses of the bomber force are more, it is impossible to lose more than the Japanese.

On the other hand, while the homeland was being bombed, the Japanese began to consider the idea of transferring industry.

Of course, this is not to say that industry will be moved outside of Tokyo or anything. After all, such a distance is not a transfer at all, and it will not pose any threat to the bombers of the Wehrmacht Air Force.

The so-called reincarnation of the Japanese refers to the transfer of industry to newly occupied areas such as Australia...

The appearance and performance of the H-40 bomber surprised the Japanese, but if the H-40 bomber could fly to Australia, the Japanese did not believe it at all.

Today, the Japanese mainland is bombed almost daily. Rather than wasting resources in continuous repairs, it is better to decisively transfer industry to Australia, so that I believe that there is no way for the Defense Air Force, not to mention that Australia itself has a considerable degree of industrial base.

Moreover, the original intention of the Japanese government was not to consolidate its rule in Nanyang and Australia. And with the resources and depth of these regions, will they confront China and the United States?

Of course, there will be a lot of controversy in doing so, but at the same time as the controversy, a small number of industries have begun to move to Australia. On the other hand, the Japanese were not idle after the occupation of Australia, at the same time as the occupation of Australia. Work has begun on the rehabilitation and expansion of Australian industry, which has now returned to its original level. ..., and with Australia's own resource advantages, if Japan really invests manpower and material resources to expand Australia's industrial strength, then Australia may really improve a lot on the existing basis.

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The idea and action of the Japanese to move industry to Australia and then make Australia the backbone behind it. Yan Guang and the others are also very clear, but the clarity is clear, but Yan Guang and the others did not make any moves.

In other words, even if you want to do something, you can't do it.

The simple reason is that Australia is simply too far away.

And Australia itself is vast and sparsely populated. Of the 7 million people, only five or six million remained after the war, and these five or six million were concentrated in a limited number of towns and cities. The so-called resistance groups are simply pitiful, and they are simply incapable of forming an effective threat.

Therefore, even if they knew what the Japanese were going to do, Yan Guang and they could only sit there and watch, unless the H-40 could make a round trip between China and Australia...

Don't go over the facts, don't say that it's from the mainland, even the H-40 flight from Vietnam is not enough. You must know that Vietnam is more than 3,700 kilometers away from Darwin, the northernmost part of Australia, and a round trip is more than 7,000 kilometers. And the combat range of the H-40 is much worse.

What's more, Australia's industry and population are almost all concentrated in the two cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and Vietnam is also 6,600 kilometers away from Brisbane, Australia's third largest city, and 6,800 kilometers away from Sydney.

Ahem, Melbourne, on the contrary, is a little closer, almost 6,700 kilometers away.

In fact, the H-40's transport range is only 9,000 kilometers, so it's not impossible to fly to Australia, but it's really impossible to fly back if you want to fly back.

Although Japan began to transfer some of its industries to Australia, it was somewhat troublesome, at least in the future, no matter how much it bombed the Japanese mainland, it would only cause casualties to the Japanese people.

In addition, now that almost all of Japan's fronts have shifted to Southeast Asia, it may be more convenient to support them from Australia.

None of this mattered, though, because by this time the advance units of the Wehrmacht had already entered India.

"But these Englishmen really don't know each other..."

Sitting on a Taishi chair, Jiang Baili said.

"Yes, the Japanese have already reached central India, and they are still unwilling to let us enter India..."

Cai Ye also nodded.

"It's really too much to be wary."

"It's no wonder, after all, if it were us, we wouldn't have put a bunch of future enemies into our homes..."

"The problem is..."Jiang Baili smiled. If they don't let them go, won't we be able to get in? ”

They're not talking about Burma, they're talking about the other side...

Unlike later generations, China had already expanded its territory into Central Asia, where there were five countries: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Tajikistan is very close to India, and although there is an Afghanistan in the middle of the two places, this piece of Afghan land is only a thin slice, so that if necessary, the IDF can easily cross this land and go south to India.

In fact, the Nationalist government also proposed this.

After the National Defense Forces in Thailand began to move into Burma, the Communist Government also made a request to the British Government to allow the National Defense Forces to move south into India to assist the British Government in its defense.

However, it is a pity that the British government did not show any sympathy for the "kindness" of the Nationalist Government, and after receiving the request of the Nationalist Government, it not only directly refused, but even transferred some of the already very limited troops to deploy defenses on the Indo-Afghan border...

Of course, the result of this is that the Japanese have advanced a lot...