As soon as the plan for the bombing of the islands was decided, the powerful military force of the Republic began to operate frantically, and the plan for the bombing of the islands was directly named 'Burning Yamato,' and the name of the previous plan was continued.

Zhang Shusheng explicitly demanded that such a major strategic bombing plan must set up a special temporary department to assume overall responsibility, so the base camp hung up a sign against the bombing headquarters.

Jiang Baili came to the Führer's office early in the morning with the list and handed over the proposed list to Zhang Shusheng.

"Chairman, this is the preliminary structure of the bombing command and the list of candidates for the selection of responsible personnel, and the selection of the commander-in-chief must be approved by you, the chairman."

"I'll see who you've all recommended, hehe."

In this shortlist jointly provided by the three departments, there are four candidates for commander-in-chief, all of whom are from the Air Force.

Air Force Lieutenant General Fan Chaoping, currently the commander of the Far Eastern Theater of the Air Force.

Air Force Lieutenant General Ni Nan is currently the commander of the Northeast Theater of the Air Force.

Air Force Lieutenant General Wei Ran, currently the commander of the East China Air Force.

Air Force Lieutenant General Qin Zibin, former commander of the Northwest Air Force Region, is currently the deputy chief of staff of the Air Force General Staff.

Zhang Shusheng nodded secretly, these four people have overall command experience in the Air Force Theater, and the overall situation is very good, especially Fan Chaoping, who had performed well in Mongolia before, and then successfully organized a butcher plan for himself in the Far Eastern Theater, and in the next half a year, he fought with the Allies for air supremacy in the Far East Theater, and suppressed the Allies, making it impossible for the Allies to cross the border line close at hand and attack China Mainland.

The other three have their own advantages and disadvantages, some have more experience in organizing the air force in the big battlefield, and some have work experience in the general staff, such as Qin Zibin, and on the whole, Zhang Shusheng still likes Fan Chaoping, the commander of the Far Eastern Theater.

"I am more optimistic about this Comrade Fan Chaoping, but he is responsible for commanding the Far Eastern Theater of the Air Force, and if he is temporarily transferred, will it affect the situation in the Far Eastern Theater?"

Zhang Shusheng asked.

Jiang Baili pondered for a moment and said, "At present, the overall situation in the Far Eastern Theater is relatively stable, the allied forces are accumulating strength, and it is expected that a large-scale battle will break out after the beginning of spring. ”

The Far Eastern Theater is certainly of the first rank and one of the most important, and if there is a problem with air supremacy among more than one million troops, it will be a great disaster, but since there is no major war, it is best to let such a general, who knows the air force very well and has rich experience in commanding large-scale operations, be in charge of the overall situation.

Zhang Shusheng also knew very well that the bombing could not go as smoothly as imagined, and that the Allied forces had a considerable number of night combat planes in the Far Eastern Theater, and relying on the United States as a godfather, the army's air force upgrade plan was also carried out in an orderly manner; even if the bombing in the early stage went well, it would evolve from a simple bombing into a strait-style air battle in the future, and it was even possible that a protracted air battle would break out over the middle sea of China and the Middle Sea.

"In this way, let Comrade Fan Chaoping be in charge of this large-scale bombing plan, which may later evolve into a British-German-style strait air battle, and a strong and excellent commander is needed to control the overall situation. The command of the Far Eastern Theater of the Air Force was temporarily handed over to Comrade Liang Yuanguang, deputy commander of the Far Eastern Theater of the Air Force. ”

Zhang Shusheng thought for a moment and made a decision, it was appropriate for the deputy to temporarily take over the air force affairs of the Far Eastern Theater.

...... "Tick Bell ......"

Lieutenant General Fan Chaoping's telephone rang at the Far East Air Force Headquarters of the National Defense Forces in Jiamusi, and the red internal phone, he was slightly stunned, and picked up the phone, as the war in the Far East gradually calmed down, on the eve of the storm, this phone has not been remembered for a while.

"Hello, I'm Fan Chaoping of the Far Eastern Theater Command of the Air Force."

"Chaoping, I'm Fan Siran. You will temporarily hand over the work of the Far Eastern Theater to Deputy Commander Liang Yuanguang for a while, and when you return to Beijing, there is an important task to be handed over to you, and the task will take a relatively long time, and you may not be able to take care of the work in the Far Eastern Theater, and the detailed order will be telegraphed to you soon, so you must seize the time to hand over the work......

The voice of Senior General Fan Siran, Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht Air Force, came from the phone.

Fan Chaoping was stunned when he heard this, could it be that which war zone was tight? Or is it that the Southeast Asian theater needs to allocate manpower to organize a major air battle?

Guess is guess, he still picked up the phone and called the deputy commander, Lieutenant General Liang Yuanguang.

"Commander."

"Lao Liang, it's been going well in work and life recently, right? The war was busy before, and my main job rarely cared about your right-hand man, hehe. Fan Chaoping motioned for him to sit.

"The commander is polite, the allies are not making trouble, no large-scale war has broken out between the enemy and us, and now there are some small fights in the sky, I am still bored and panicked, this is not good." Liang Yuanguang said with a smile, he didn't know that he was about to resist the banner of the air force command in the Far Eastern Theater.

"You, like me, can't sleep if you can't hear the sound of the plane taking off and landing, haha. Speaking of which, we have been partners for several years, and I have always recognized your ability very much, and I will tell you good news, Commander-in-Chief Fan asked me to hand over the work to you, so that you can temporarily command the air force affairs of the Far Eastern Theater. ”

Fan Chaoping said with a smile, he was actually quite happy that his old partner could be in charge, he knew very well that Liang Yuanguang's ability was completely sufficient.

"Ah......h And what about you, Commander? ”

"Me? I'll go back to Beijing to report on my work and arrange another job, hehe. ”

The two glanced at each other, but they both understood a little, during this period of time, the people's call for raising the intensity of the war was very high, as the air force general who had dealt with Yue himself the most, the two of them suggested more than once to launch a strategic bombing campaign against Yue Ben, destroy the war potential of the Yue army, and provide assistance for the future war in the Far East and Southeast Asia.

"Then I wish the commander a smooth journey and make new contributions to his new post." Liang Yuanguang didn't say much, got up and saluted, and took the baton.

Fan Chaoping presided over a high-level meeting of the theater to announce the transfer of the base camp, and formally handed over the command of the air force in the Far Eastern Theater to Liang Yuanguang, who took a plane back to Beijing that afternoon and landed at the Hanjing Airport at the beginning of the lights.

Early the next morning, Fan Chaoping rushed to the base camp to report on his work.

"Report to Commander-in-Chief Fan, Fan Chaoping, commander of the Far Eastern Theater of the Air Force, report to you." Although it was already the time to go home last night, my wife and daughter were naturally very happy when they saw themselves suddenly coming home.

"Chaoping, you're coming quickly." Fan Siran put down the work in his hand, looked at the right-hand man of the dusty servant, nodded with satisfaction, picked up the document on the table and handed it to him, "Take a look, this is your new task." ”

Fan Chaoping took the document and looked at it, it turned out to be a letter of appointment.

"Comrade Fan Chaoping is hereby appointed as the person in charge of the 'Burning Yamato' plan, and as the commander-in-chief of the strategic bombing command, and is fully responsible for the bombing and the future air warfare ...... China."

Although the letter of appointment only confirmed his thoughts, Fan Chaoping was still excited, how could he not be excited that so many talents in the Republic Air Force had allowed him to hold such an important position.

"This task is very arduous, your opponent is not only Yue himself, but also the Americans behind them, the chairman of the committee asked us to blow up the book to a pulp, do you have the confidence to complete the task?" Fan Siran asked solemnly.

"Report, there is!!" Where the court stands and salutes.

At this point, the headquarters of the base camp bombing was formally established, thus opening the prelude to a large-scale bombing and air battle that had a far-reaching impact and caused huge losses to the capital.

At the same time, in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito also received intelligence from the Chinese side.

"Your Majesty, the large-scale demonstrations that have broken out in China against us have intensified, and their political axe has instigated this great march under the pretext that we assassinated Zhang Shusheng, and now it seems that they have incited public opinion, and in turn they have been strengthened by public opinion, and the prestige of the political axe has reached its peak, and they have found the best excuse for a deeper war."

Kenji Dohihara, the head of intelligence at the Ministry of Military Affairs, is a China expert who has lived in China for a considerable period of time, and has always believed that intelligence work on China should account for at least two-thirds of the Empire's intelligence tasks. Especially as China grew stronger, he tried to expand the funding and size of the intelligence department so that he could better spy on this adversary.

Hirohito's brows furrowed, and he flipped through the materials in his hand, as if he hadn't heard his words, and only then asked, "Do they really dare to attack the empire itself?" ”

"Your Majesty, this may be very small, and I think their real purpose should be to bomb us across the sea, as the Germans did to the British. The Chinese, at least for now, will never want to attack us across the sea. They were even so arrogant that they openly demanded in the newspapers that their political axe launch an attack on our homeland, or like the Germans, bomb Tokyo into London......" Kenji Dohihara saw that the emperor was a little distracted, and he couldn't help but secretly say in his heart, when the assassination plan was formulated, His Majesty was more active than anyone else, and he couldn't wait for Zhang Shu to die in Burma, but as a result, things are getting so far, and I am afraid that Chinese will turn the spearhead and focus on the main focus on the book, and even directly attack the city itself, Your Majesty's style of action is still a little crazy.

"The general trend has actually reached this point, will it really be a cross-sea bombing?" Hirohito closed his eyes slightly, but he was not angry at Kenji Dohihara's words, he seemed to see England, he saw London, bombed by hundreds of German planes, and suffered heavy losses, and it was clear that the air force of the Chinese was much stronger than that of the Germans. No country in the world knows this better than himself. "Tu Fei Yuan-kun, with your understanding of China and your views on things, do you have any suggestions?"

"I suggest that Your Majesty the Emperor contact the Americans immediately and let them help us. Once the Chinese start bombing, we need more aircraft, more advanced radars, more advanced air defense weapons. If we suffer heavy losses, the power of the Allies will also be weakened, and at this time, the Americans must help us. Only with the help of their strength will it be possible for us to protect ourselves in the face of the onslaught of the Chinese people. ”

"You pay close attention to the movements in the Chinese direction and keep me and the military department informed." The Emperor nodded, and instructed the officials on the side, "Give the military headquarters an order to come up with a comprehensive response plan, and at the same time inform the Americans of the situation, so that negotiations can be opened and they can be asked to support us." ”

(To be continued)