Chapter 551: The devastated Sasebo

Since 1883, when Captain Heihachiro Togo of the 2nd Chou Ship entered the port to survey the Sasebo Naval Base, it has gradually been regarded as an important military port, and has developed from a small fishing village in the Edo period to an operational base and shipbuilding facility for the Imperial Japanese Navy. In 1889, the Sasebo Town Guard House was established here, making Sasebo the center of defense for western Japan and a base for military operations on the Asian continent. In the Battle of the Tsushima Strait in 1905, Togo, who had become a general, commanded the Combined Fleet from Hong Kong and defeated the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Empire. The location and geography of the Sasebo site were one of the decisive factors.

At its peak during the Second World War, more than 60,000 workers worked here every day. Multiple ships, submarines and military aircraft can be built and assembled here at the same time. It is one of the four major heavy industry bases in Japan.

At the time of the attack on Nagasaki Airport, the attack on Sasebo had already begun.

In line with the usual style, in the face of the air defense positions laid by Sase, the Black Hawk fighter group did not show the slightest politeness, and began to uproot these unstable factors outside the defense area of the Japanese air defense positions.

The dense YJD ground attack missiles soon turned the air defense positions in Sasebo into ruins.

"Run!" The mill was in chaos, all the people were howling in terror, scurrying around like headless flies with their heads in their hands, and the wreckage of the blast furnace disintegrating was constantly whirring from the air to the ground, and from time to time people were knocked down.

"What's going on!?" Your company, who has been working overtime overnight in the office until now, has bounced up like a spring, and the steel has been urging in a hurry these days. Even your company, as the CEO, has to work overtime in person. The deafening explosion shattered the windows of the office, and a retired veteran fell to the ground without saying a word, his face full of shards of glass, describing horror. Your company hurriedly rushed to the window, and was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him, the entire Kuril Iron Works in front of him was already a sea of fire, the original rows of blast furnaces have long been unrecognizable, some are leaning on other buildings, some have long been turned into fragments, and the craters on the ground the size of two football fields are particularly eye-catching. There are all kinds of wreckage and mutilated corpses scattered all over the side.

And in the sky. There are Chinese fighters everywhere, and when they pass by at low altitude, you can still see the golden figure flashing under the fighters.

"Me, my ironworks!" Your company was so frustrated that he almost cried. Although the Kuril Steel Works is not personally owned. But after many years of operating here, I have long developed feelings.

"President. Get out of here! "Two sand turners broke in, set up your company and left.

"Hurry up and report to Your Excellency the Prime Minister! Go and send the report! "Your company was hit hard and shouted while being driven away, but now everyone is in danger. No one paid any attention to him anymore.

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"Well played!" Yu Zhicong looked at Sasebo, who began to fall into the sea of fire below, and couldn't help shouting, these days, the blocked chest suddenly feels hearty.

"Haha, it's good, let's do it again!" The pilot inside an intruder fighter-bomber watched as the two bombs dropped by the gunner behind him just now hit the target accurately, causing great damage. Said very pleasantly.

Two aerial bombs, one of which landed on the factory area of the steel plant, almost leveling the blast furnace area, and one fell to the nearby residential area, and the powerful explosion instantly leveled a block and ignited a skyrocketing fire. Japan is a country with many earthquakes, and in order to prevent earthquakes, ordinary houses are almost always made of lighter wooden structures, which have excellent earthquake resistance effects, but they are good conductors of fire.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! With the sound of a huge explosion, the office building where your company was hit by a high-explosive bomb just now, and the majestic building just now directly turned into a crater the size of a football field. The rest of the rounds exploded around the ironworks, and the fire brigade that arrived in a hurry happened to be caught up in them, and together they made the funeral goods of the ironworks.

At the same time, some of the other intruders also began to attack the shore batteries. At this time, the so-called precision-guided missiles were not yet popular, and the most important equipment for defending against enemy warships was shore artillery, and Japan was an island country with poor resources and a long coast, so it was impossible to fortify an inch like China built the Great Wall.

Sasebo is a key defense object of Japan, and the coastal defense artillery here is naturally not less arranged. But under a powerful precision strike from the air, these batteries were quickly uprooted one by one.

One after another the planes whizzed down from the sky, dropped bombs, rolled again into the clouds, and then suddenly lowered their altitude, like a juggler, once again clinging to the ground towards an important target on the ground. Everything that follows becomes the show time for the invaders, or rather, Sasebo has lost the opportunity to stand in front of his opponent.

Japan is a maritime power, and from this point of view, he is keen on the sea, and his comprehension of sea warfare is very good. The destroyers and gunboats in the port of Sasebo had already begun to move the moment they saw the Chinese fighters. Forbidden ships are the best targets for aircraft.

In fact, many Japanese naval officers understand that even if all the warships are already in a state of high speed, it is basically difficult to avoid the attack of Chinese fighters. If it were the Americans, it is very likely that they would abandon such a move, but Japan is a different country, every warship is hard-won, as long as there is a chance to save it, then they will not give up.

No matter how slim the hope is, it doesn't mean that there is no chance at all.

Everything that followed can only be described by the naked eye, when the four intruder two-plane formations took these warships in the harbor as attack targets, quickly came to the sky above these warships, and began to input wireless guidance commands. The final outcome of this asymmetrical battle is already doomed.

When the bomb fell, the first attacked Hatsuyuki-class destroyer had already begun to tilt, and at this time he had begun to accelerate, and was about to leave this very dangerous place, but no matter how fast the warship was, it could not be faster than the plane.

Although the tilted warship was temporarily balanced by flooding, the captain had no choice but to give the order to abandon the ship, and on deck, the sailors lowered the lifeboats into the sea and slowly slid down with the ropes. However, the intruders were not destined to let them go so easily, and with the light of fire and whistling, another bomb flew through the air, hitting accurately above the waterline, and after the explosion, the sea rushed through the breach, and the whole destroyer quickly began to sink, and finally disappeared into the sea of the harbor.

The other two old destroyers, which had been turned into training ships, had no intention of letting them go, and although these two iron ships were old and could not go out to sea at all, they still became targets of attack. Two bombs went down, and these two ships were old ships that could be used as sailors' fathers on the ship, and they quickly fell silent on the sea.

There were a few offshore gunboats of about 100 tons left, and it seemed that the intruder fighters did not want to waste their bombs and dived several times. Using the six-barreled 25mm cannon under the nose, these small gunboats were directly turned into fireballs burning at sea.

On the other side of Sasebo, there are a large number of civilian vessels, including several large ocean-going freighters. After destroying the poor Japanese warship, it became the next target of the air force.

Bombs rained down from the sky, exploding in succession, and staged in the harbor. It was an asymmetrical killing, but none of the Chinese Air Force pilots on the plane had the slightest mercy. Beginning with the Japanese sneak attack on the fleet and the condolence group, this pity has disappeared in the Chinese army. In particular, regarding the actions of little Japan in the occupied areas, all Chinese soldiers have a constant killing heart when dealing with Japan. For every Chinese soldier, the Japanese did not need to have any pity.

The explosion turned the whole sea red, and the large number of ships in the harbor finally showed the clumsiness and bloat of civilian ships under the sudden attack, and the scramble to increase the horsepower will only occupy all the shipping lanes, making it even more difficult for the already staggering ocean-going freighters. Everything that follows becomes no suspense.

The dense aerial bombs released by the intruder fighter-bombers of the Air Cavalry Division are enough to be described as covering the sky and the sun, and looking at the aerial bombs that continue to fall from the sky, even if Salted Egg Superman appears, all he can do is cover his ears.

The explosion was completely unfolded, the ships in the harbor and all the surrounding facilities were targeted, and the intruder fighters did not seem to have the patience to pick and choose who was big and who was small, but with such a dense number of targets, any screening would be stupid and boring. The only thing everyone can do at the moment is to attack and attack.

What's more, many intruder fighters abandoned the use of aerial bombs, and instead used machine guns to constantly strafe the ships below at low altitudes. Sawdust flying, screaming, whistling, and exploding all converge into a post-apocalyptic tragedy.

The dense saturation attack finally made all the ships in the harbor a swan song for whales, watching as one ship after another was blown up. Many captains could only sigh and give instructions to abandon ship, even though the ship was all they had.

In front of them, the invaders attacked suddenly and fiercely, and all the ships were targeted, and then the invaders calmly departed, leaving only a wreck on the surface of the sea. But today was destined to be a day of mourning for the Japanese, and while the radio network was filled with shouts and ambulances, the sound of explosions was heard again in the port.

This time the explosion came from the shipyard, and the intruder fighters finally targeted the shipyard. At this time, the whole of Sasebo, except for the shipyard, has become a sea of fire. Because the fighter plane carrying a special bomb brought the last fire of death to Sasebo, which was already devastated. (To be continued......)