"Ah, what's that?" The soldiers of the Guards Division, 500 meters from the palace, were in a panic, for some of them noticed that metal cylinders were being projected from inside the palace, and that the people who appeared on the walls of the palace and projected them were wearing gas masks on their heads. "It's not good, it's a gas bomb, it's a gas bomb, retreat, retreat." As the Guards Division defending Tokyo, they were not equipped with gas masks, and all they could do in the face of metal cylinders capable of spewing red smoke was to retreat in a swarm.

Zhang Hua and the others projected at least 40 metal cylinders from the wall of the palace, and red smoke immediately appeared in all four directions of the palace, and the red smoke was not poison gas at all, but smoke bombs used by Zhang Hua and them to guide the bombers and airborne troops. The red smoke erupted from the metal cylinder and dispersed slowly through the air, and the textured red smoke decorated the palace in the middle like a dream world.

The soldiers of the Guards Division, who had fled far away, looked at each other, and found that they and their companions did not seem to show signs of being attacked by poison gas, and some of the bold ones planned to turn back, after all, the emperor and their division commander were still in the palace. A terrible scream suddenly fell from the sky, and the veterans who had experience in the battlefield were already scattered in search of a place to hide, because they were familiar with the sound of the air being heard in the air, which was the bomber dropping bombs, and the place where they were sheltered was where the bombers dropped the bombs.

More than a dozen American bombers appeared in the air, and when a large number of Japanese fighters were entangled in the waters of Tokyo Bay by US fighters, there was nothing in Tokyo that could pose a threat to these bombers. Of course, the anti-aircraft fire placed on the ground by the Japanese is not counted among them, but these anti-aircraft positions were attacked by unknown sources before the US military carried out a major bombing of the Gulf of Tonkin.

Tokyo, which has lost air superiority and has no anti-aircraft fire, is like a bomber that has been stripped naked and has swooped down from mid-air to bomb as much as it wants, and if the Japanese can rely on their light and heavy machine guns to shoot down these bombers, then it can only be said that the luck of the American pilots is too bad, but this kind of thing with a very small probability will hardly appear here. "Boom" "Boom" The bombs dropped by the US bombers exploded one after another along the places where the red smoke appeared, and the accuracy of the bombs dropped at low altitude was extremely high, and all the US pilots were able to ensure that the bombs they dropped appeared within a range of 500 to 1,000 meters outside the Imperial Palace, and absolutely would not harm the Imperial Palace.

Zhang Hua took such a big risk and called the bombers, how could they just let them throw some aerial bombs and be done, after all the bombers had dropped a round of aerial bombs, the bombers circling in the air circled back again, and this time it was a powerful incendiary bomb of Thunder that was thrown out of the cabin. The fire that raged in the sky cut off the connection between the Guards Division and the Imperial Palace, and no one could pass through a sea of fire with a length of more than several hundred meters and remain unscathed, not even the medium tanks of the Japanese army.

After throwing all the ammunition they brought, the transport plane began to return home, and before the Japanese troops on the ground could breathe a sigh of relief, more than a dozen US fighter planes appeared in the sky, and the large-caliber cannons kept chasing and beating the Japanese troops on the ground, and the Japanese troops on the periphery of the fire ground complained bitterly and could only flee farther away. Powerful fighter jets circled back and forth in the air, and more than a dozen transport planes descending from the clouds began to appear in the sight of the Japanese soldiers, and the bald eagle pattern on the wings of the transport planes reminded them that these transport planes belonged to the United States government.

The alarm of the "doodoo tutu" transport plane sounded, and the small red lights that represented the preparation of the airdrop were lit up in the cabin, and the thunder airborne troops sitting in the cabin got up and sat down for the final preparations. If it is to cover up the traces of the aircraft, the airborne troops generally carry out the airdrop at an altitude of several thousand meters, and the loud sound of the aircraft will attract the attention of the enemy. However, there is no anti-aircraft artillery fire in Tokyo now, and the transport planes transporting the airborne troops have been reduced to only 600 meters in height, so that the airborne troops will descend faster, and the relative danger will be much smaller.

According to the training outline given by Zhao Zhi, the 1st Airborne Division had already carried out a minimum airborne landing of 500 meters in Burma long before returning to China to participate in the war, and the height of 600 meters was nothing to them. The 300 people who participated in this operation all carried the most sophisticated equipment of the Thunder, tactical vests, bulletproof vests, night vision devices, and they were armed to the teeth and had two transport planes full of ammunition as a backup, and even the Thor revolver machine gun, they also brought four.

The transport plane circled again, the green signal light in the cabin finally turned on, and the commander who led the team jumped out of the cabin first, and the airborne troops behind him also jumped out. "Look, it's paratroopers, they're using paratroopers." The umbrella flower that appeared in mid-air attracted the attention of the Japanese troops on the ground, but unfortunately the destination of the airborne troops was the Japanese Imperial Palace, which was surrounded by fire, and the Japanese army, which was already hundreds of meters away from the fire, had no time to stop the Thunder Airborne troops who were airborne from a height of 600 meters.

The large wooden boxes with parachutes were pushed out of the engine room one by one, which were full of supplies and ammunition, and before the ground troops landing in Tokyo Bay could not enter the city of Tokyo, the commandos and airborne troops had to rely on these ammunition to hold the palace, and the 12 tons of ammunition and supplies dropped on the two large transport planes were enough for Zhang Hua to hold on to the palace for half a month. The Japanese did not think that the purpose of the bombers and fighters dispatched by the US military was just to clear the way for the airborne troops, and if they had known about this earlier, there would definitely be guys who were not afraid of death who would hide around the palace and wait to shoot those enemy troops who parachuted down.

Unfortunately, it was too late now, and all the paratroopers who parachuted from a height of 600 meters had landed in a short time, except for a few who were too unlucky to fall into the fire, and the remaining 290 people all landed safely in the area of red smoke. "Send a report to the gentleman, and the birds are home." Zhang Hua saw the umbrella flower in mid-air fall into the safe area, and immediately came down to call back the fleet, and then asked his team members to open the gate of the palace to receive the airborne troops and supplies scattered outside.

Zhang Hua, who successfully took the Imperial Palace, set up the defenses and visited the Imperial Palace of Japan, a large traditional Japanese building with a green tile roof, white walls and brown copper pillars. Among them, the main hall is the central part of the entire palace, and the main activities and diplomatic ceremonies of the Japanese imperial family are held in the main hall of the "Matsuno Pavilion", the Chowaden is the place where the emperor receives the congratulations of the masses, there is a large banquet hall in the Toyomei Hall, and the Jogo Hall is the Emperor's Inner Palace. In addition, there are Huayin Pavilion, Waterfall Viewing Pavilion, Frost Brocade Pavilion, Tea Room, Imperial Spirit Palace, Treasure Palace, Shrine, Old Imperial Library, etc., which are composed of Zhang Hua is quite bored with the Japanese Imperial Palace. In the end, the poor family has a weak foundation and can't see the big scene, and the big pit of the thatched house dares to be called the palace, so he repeatedly made tactical deductions before the action. If there is a chance, these Japanese should really be asked to see what the inner courtyard of the imperial palace in Beijing is like.

However, Zhang Hua was quite satisfied with the Japanese Imperial City made of large stones, and with such a city wall, it was much easier for them to defend. There is also a moat around the palace, which effectively separates the palace from the city outside, and the moat is also a good helper for Zhang Hua's defense. The moat and city walls turned the Imperial Palace, which the Japanese said to be like a paradise, into an island, but this isolated city was very mysterious in the eyes of the Japanese, so it was even more decisive that the Japanese did not dare to attack the Imperial Palace with heavy weapons.

Not all of the 300 people parachuted down by the US transport plane were combat arms, and there were more than 20 of the best combat engineers in the Thunder Army, and the dozens of large wooden boxes dropped by the transport plane were not all loaded with weapons and ammunition, and there were also some tools and equipment necessary for the engineers. Zhang Hua is a lone soldier who goes deep into the tiger's den, and the slightest deviation may cause the entire commando team to die in the palace, so Zhao Zhi must do his best to provide them with the necessary support.

Before the fire around the palace was extinguished, the US transport planes helped the Thunder airborne troops to carry out two airdrops to the palace one after another, and the Japanese couldn't figure out how the American transport planes took off from the warships. In fact, this matter is very simple, all the US transport planes that helped Thunder to carry out airdrops to the Imperial Palace took off from Yamaguchi Prefecture, and when the Japanese fighters were fighting on two fronts, no one noticed a large number of American transport planes taking off from Yamaguchi Prefecture, so it was not so much that Thunder launched a surprise attack on the Imperial Palace, but that it was the Japanese themselves who caused the fall of the Imperial Palace.

1,100 people, this is all the troops in Zhang Hua's hands now, all the materials dropped by the airdrop have been moved into the palace, and in the next three days, Zhang Hua and they will rely on these materials to stick to the isolated island of the palace. "Captain, you've found something good." One of Zhang Hua's subordinate team members who served as a peripheral guard ran over, and there was no expression on his face painted with oil paint, but the joy in his eyes was obvious.

When Zhang Hua arrived at the main gate of the palace, two Type 97 medium tanks belonging to the Guards Division were being driven into the palace by the thunderous sappers. "It may be that the Japanese rushed into the building in a panic when they were bombed, and when we found these two big guys, they were still in the collapsed rubble, and we used explosives to blow up the rubble to drive them back." The Jewish sappers who had laboriously drilled out of the tank sat triumphantly on the turret and showed Zhang Hua and them, with heavy equipment such as tanks in hand, Zhang Hua and their chances of holding on to the palace were a little more significant.