February 14, 1936, around 2 p.m.

The shocking scene was staged at the same time at dozens of military airfields in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, and one after another, huge and small warhawks, one after another, soared from the runway, and the huge roar pierced through the Korean Strait in the south, and more than 3,000 planes formed a dozen huge groups in the sky, whistling and flying southward.

Less than 10 kilometers from the port of Busan, Taejongdae on the shores of the Joseon Strait was originally a scenic spot and is said to have been named after Kim Chung-chun, the 29th king of Silla, who used to play archery here. And now a row of tall "iron frames" has been erected here, and a forward radar station under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Air Force has been built.

At this time, Chang Ruiqing was standing on the roof platform of this radar station with his big fat chief of staff Zhao Zhen and Minister of National Education Sun Yuexun, Chang Ruiqing was wearing an earthy yellow Wehrmacht uniform with the rank of colonel. Sun Yuexun wore the uniform of a female lieutenant officer of the National Defense Army, she also graduated from the sixth phase of the Central Military Academy, and is still a lieutenant in the National Defense Army Reserve. Zhao Da Fat did not wear his conspicuous field marshal uniform, but wore a military uniform of a reserve colonel of the Wehrmacht. Clustered around them were a handful of officers of the Chancellery's Guard, all of whom were low-key ordinary Wehrmacht army uniforms. Obviously, Premier Chang Da is a "micro-service visit" this time, and it did not alarm too many people.

At this time, Chang Ruiqing was holding a telescope and watching batch after batch of bombers and fighters flying over his head in neat formations of different scales, rushing towards the Japanese mainland on the other side of the strait.

"Huh!" Look at the fleet of planes that cover the sky and the sun. Chang Ruiqing, the supreme commander of the Chinese National Defense Forces, was very excited. He put down the telescope in his hand, and then said loudly to Sun Yuexun: "Xiaomei, do you see it?" Our air force is so strong, it seems that it won't be long before you can return to Japanese soil again. ”

Listening to Chang Ruiqing's words, Sun Yuexun showed a sweet smile, nodded at Chang Ruiqing, and then also raised the binoculars to look south. She didn't see planes in the air, but the sea in the south, and wondered if she wanted to find traces of the Japanese archipelago? Although she has long regarded it as her mission to assist Chang Ruiqing in unifying Greater East Asia. But now seeing so many planes full of bombs flying towards their homeland, there are always some mixed feelings. Chang Ruiqing didn't know what to say to this woman at this time, so he turned his head sideways. whispered to Zhao Fatzi, who was standing next to him: "Youlin, how many planes did we send to participate in the battle this time?" ”

Listening to Chang Ruiqing's question, Zhao Fatzi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly took a notebook from the staff officer beside him. After opening it, I read it slowly: "Prime Minister." According to the latest report of the Air Force and Naval Aviation, we are preparing to dispatch a total of 3,080 aircraft to carry out 6,160 sorties of air strikes against targets in northern Kyushu, western Honshu, Tsushima Island, Jeju Island, Goto Island, and Yitai Island in today's air raid operation. Among them, 1,060 J-3D and J-4E fighters were dispatched, 1,780 He-111 and Ju.88 medium-range bombers were dispatched, and 240 H-7 long-range bombers were dispatched. Speaking of this, Zhao Zhen put away his notebook, and then looked at Chang Ruiqing and Sun Yuexun.

"The enemy must be trembling at the sight of so many planes, right?" After listening to Zhao Zhen's introduction. Sun Yuexun's complicated mood seemed to have been swept away, and she tilted her head and looked at Chang Ruiqing with affection. And Chang Ruiqing, the invader whose hands would soon be stained with the blood of the Japanese people, raised his head and looked at the black pressure in the sky, which was like a dark cloud. He muttered to himself, "I think so too, I really want to see Takeda Heng's face now, it must be exciting, right?" ”

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"Comrade President, a large number of bombers have been spotted over the Korean Strait!"

With the loud roar of Sugiyama Moto, commander of the Japanese Red Army's army aviation, the atmosphere in the Japanese Red Army's home air defense headquarters located in the basement of the Miyake Saka Nichig Military Commission Building in Tokyo suddenly became extremely tense. However, Takeda Heng, the great leader of the Japanese G, who came to sit in the town in person, still had a calm and calm look on his face.

"How many enemy planes are there? What are the models? ”

Although Japan does not have radar, it is not possible to detect enemies from the air with radio waves. But that doesn't mean they don't have other means of reconnaissance. In fact, long before the invention of radar, the Japanese Red Army had established an "air defense monitoring system" along the western and northern coastlines of the Japanese archipelago. Hundreds of air defense monitoring points have been set up, using a large air defense monitoring system designed and manufactured by Japan -- a few large loudspeakers aimed at the sky, plus a few sets of stethoscopes and a few listeners with particularly sensitive ears. In addition, the Japanese set up numerous observation points along their coastal areas, allowing people to use high-powered telescopes to search for enemies from the air. Finally, they also dispatched a large number of reconnaissance planes (mainly Type 96 land medium attack aircraft equipped with radios) to conduct patrol flights along their western and northern coastlines. Therefore, the intrusion of the Chinese plane could not escape the close surveillance of the Japanese at all.

"About 1,200 enemy planes have been spotted north of Kyushu Island, and they are flying in dense formations towards Nagasaki, Sasebo, Fukuoka, and Kitakyushu! About 1,000 enemy planes were spotted in the airspace north of Yamaguchi Prefecture, and the targets of the attack could be Shimonoseki, Hiroshima, and Kure-gungang! Jeju Island is being attacked by enemy aircraft, numbering more than 300 aircraft. Tsushima Island was also attacked by air raids, and the number of enemy planes exceeded 400...... "Sugiyama received a report from the staff officer, and began to report the enemy situation with a sad face.

"So many, how many!" After listening to Sugiyama Moto's report, Takeda Heng's face was a little ugly, although he had long been mentally prepared to be bombed, but he never expected that the Chinese would press over a huge fleet of 3,000 planes as soon as they made a move! At present, there are less than 1,000 combat aircraft of the Navy and Army deployed on the Japanese mainland, of which only about 600 are fighters, and more than two-thirds of them are still outdated Type 93 ......

"Comrade Sugiyama! How is the Native Air Defense Headquarters going to disrupt the invading stormy aircraft? Looking at Sugiyama, who was sweating profusely in a hurry, Takeda's eyebrows were twisted. asked in a deep voice.

Hearing the great leader's question, Sugiyama Yuan shook his head with a wry smile: "There is no way, there is no way...... The enemy threw 3000 aircraft. Among them, there are at least 1,000 fighters, all of which should be J-3D and J-4E series with excellent performance, and our most advanced Type 96 fighters are not opponents at all, and as for Type 93, flying out is completely sending people to death...... Therefore, all can only be resisted with ground anti-aircraft artillery. ”

"Baga!" Takeda Heng stood up abruptly and looked at Sugiyama with gloomy eyes: "The country has invested so much money in the development of aviation, is it just to use anti-aircraft guns to defend the country's airspace?" ”

Sugiyama Mototo, wiping a handful of cold sweat that kept dripping from his forehead, muttered, "But, but the army and navy aviation only have 600 fighters on the mainland. Once you attack, you will be wiped out...... In this way, when the Chinese army lands, there will be no planes available. ”

Takeda snorted coldly, and just as he wanted to open his mouth to continue the reprimand, Terauchi Shou, the chief of the General Staff of the Japanese Red Army on the side, reminded in a low voice: "Comrade Chairman." The enemy's landing fleet has not yet been dispatched, so the real decisive battle has not yet begun, and now is not the time to throw aviation. ”

Takeda glanced at the temple: "Sasebo and Kure Port's steel mills and shipyards don't care?" There are still two unfinished Soryu-class aircraft carriers in the dockyard of the Kure Port Naval Shipyard! ”

Hearing this, the temple smiled bitterly and did not answer. Instead, he set his sights on the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Nagano Shusei. Takeda understood what the temple meant. also looked at Nagano and said, "Comrade Nagano, Kure Harbor and Sasebo are the territory of the navy, do you want to defend it?" ”

Hearing the Great Leader's question, Nagano Shushen swallowed his saliva, and then replied hesitantly, "This...... Comrade President, here's the thing, in addition to having a strong air power, their navy is also very powerful. In particular, the submarine forces of the Storm Branch are very strong. Long before the outbreak of the world revolution, they had the most powerful submarine force in the western Pacific, and with the help of British engineers, they developed P-class submarines for ocean-going operations and S-class submarines for short- and medium-range operations. The total number is likely to exceed 200 ships! And the anti-submarine warfare capabilities of the Red Navy were very weak, so ...... Without the iron ore of the South Seas, the steel mills of Kure Port and Sasebo would not be able to maintain normal production at all. ”

Hearing this, Takeda couldn't help frowning and asked, "Isn't there still stock?" Didn't I instruct a long time ago to increase the reserves of strategic domestic resources? ”

Nagano hesitated and said: "There are some reserves, as of November last year, various ores can maintain the needs of heavy industry for six months, and oil reserves are enough to support more than a year." However, since December last year, relations between Japan and China have deteriorated rapidly, and the authorities of the province have issued an order banning the export of strategic materials to our country, and they have not allowed us to use the ports and merchant ships of the province to transport strategic resources in the South Seas. At that time, we were fully preparing for the implementation of the battle plan to go south to Australia, so there were no extra ships to use for shipping in the South Seas and the mainland, so since December last year, all material imports have been suspended, and domestic production has been maintained by stocks......"

"What? It has been 2 and a half months since I imported supplies from Nanyang? Takeda Heng looked at Kato Hiroshi who was beside him in surprise, and Kato nodded heavily. In December, Takeda was bedridden, and in order to lighten his workload, all the less important government affairs were handled by Hiroshi Kato and Takeda Ran, and the import of Nanyang materials was not particularly important at that time.

"Even then, the steel mills in Kure Port and Sasebo can last for three and a half months, right? How can you let the bombing of the riotous planes? Takeda knew the importance of the two major steel factories of Sasebo and Kure Port to the Japanese military industry. At present, there are only four large steel bases in Japan, and there is one large steel mill each in Kure Port, Sasebo, Yokohama and Sapporo, among which the steel mills in Kure Port and Sasebo are left over from the old Japanese Empire, mainly serving the military industry and shipbuilding industry. The steel plants in Yokohama and Sapporo were built with the aid of the Soviet Union after the victory of the revolution, and although the scale is not small, the main products are construction and civil steel. In other words, once the steel mills of Kure Port and Sasebo were destroyed, Japan's production of weapons, especially heavy weapons, would be basically paralyzed.

"Chairman, if they can't repel the landing force, it's hard to say whether Kure Gang and Sasebo will be able to hold out for three and a half months, so the key now is the anti-landing operation. The key aviation forces should have been put into operation at that time. ”

Shouichi Terauchi took over the topic and continued: "Moreover, the limited combat power of the air force is still used to defend Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka, which are the most important industrial centers of Japan, and there are thousands of military industrial enterprises in the world. 100% of the Red Army's aircraft, 90% of its ammunition, 100% of its rifles, machine guns and 80% of its artillery were produced in the arsenals of Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka...... Although the loss of the supply of special steel from Kure Port and Sasebo Iron and Steel Works will greatly affect the production of heavy weapons, the production of ammunition and aircraft can be maintained, and the production of machine rifles can be maintained by the steel plant in Yokohama, which can produce guns and sticks. Chairman, at this point in the war, it is impossible to keep everything. There has to be a trade-off! ”

Takeda Heng's throat seemed to be blocked by something, and Terauchi's words were obviously very reasonable, the strength of the Japanese Red Army was not capable of keeping the Japanese mainland at all! At that time, I am afraid that even the local land will have to give up. What are a few tiny steel mills and shipyards?

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The Japanese Red Army's home air defense headquarters made the trade-off of preserving their extremely limited air force, so that the massive air raid launched by the Chinese Air Force on February 14, 1936, became a one-man show.

The H-7 heavy bombers of the 3rd Bomber Aviation Division took off late and were slow. Therefore, it was the last to fly across the Korean Strait and break into Japanese airspace. The news of the successful breakthrough of several previous aircraft groups has reached the cabins of these heavy bombers through the radio waves.

"Throne. The air raids went very smoothly, there was no trace of the Japanese planes, the anti-aircraft fire on the ground was not too heavy, and the losses of the 5th and 6th Air Divisions were very small. Lieutenant Muhua Inoue, a navigator and telegraph operator who spoke fluent Chinese, reported the contents of the telegram he had just translated and reported it to Wang Shuming. Looking at his surname, we know that he was a Japanese counter-revolutionary who fled in 1924, because this group of Japanese youths generally has a relatively high level of education and is very willing to join the army, so the proportion of the technical arms of the Chinese army is also relatively high, and nearly half of the pilots and mechanics in the Wehrmacht Air Force have a He family name. If you take into account that some of the He people have changed their surnames to Han, the pilots and mechanics of the He clan in the Air Force account for at least 20%!

"The Red Army fought smartly. They have a small capital, and now they have not reached the most critical moment, so they can't take it out and fight! Wang Shuming was not happy about the victory in the first battle, because the Wehrmacht Air Force and Navy were targeting not only industrial and military targets in northern Kyushu and western Honshu, but also the weak air power of the Japanese Red Army. If they are willing to come out and fight in an air battle with the more than 1,000 J-3D and J-4E of the Wehrmacht, then their fate will inevitably be completely annihilated, and in the subsequent large-scale landing operations, the Chinese Defense Forces will no longer have to consider the threat from the air.

"Gunza, look at Hiroshima!" Inoue Muhua pointed to the lower right side of the plane and shouted excitedly. "Kure Port is just southeast of Hiroshima, and the island opposite Kure Port is Etajima!" Etajima used to be the dream of every Japanese boy, and Inoue Muhua, who was born in a wealthy merchant family, also dreamed of being admitted to the Etajima Naval Academy as a teenager and becoming a reactionary officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. And now he is actually a navigator of the Air Force of the Chinese Defense Forces, bringing Chinese planes here to drop bombs, this fate is really quite tricky.

Wang Shuming looked in the direction pointed by Inoue, through the thin clouds and mist, he saw a huge bay, the north of the bay is a medium-sized city, it should be Hiroshima City, there are several islands in the bay, the largest of which should be the Eta Island mentioned by Inoue, there is a small bay and a small city opposite Eda Island, there must be the home port of the Japanese Red Navy Combined Fleet, Kurejun Port!

"Attention, attention, we have reached the sky above the target, we have reached the sky above the target." At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from the communicator in the cabin, which should be the pilot of the H-7 aircraft in charge of piloting. "The time is now 3:35 p.m., and I have accurately reached the sky above the target, and my mission has been completed. Now hand over the command! ”

Then another voice sounded over the communicator: "I am Lieutenant General Tian Yuchen, commander of the 3rd Bombardment Aviation Division, and now all of you obey my orders." Prepare to lower the height to 6500. The guide machine is ready to throw incendiary grenades......"

According to the original air attack plan, the H-7 aircraft of the 3rd Bombardment Aviation Division were supposed to drop bombs at an altitude of 9,500 meters. However, Tian Yuchen already knew that the Japanese fighters were determined to come out as a turtle with a shrunken head, so he temporarily decided to reduce the bomb drop altitude to 6,500 meters. Don't underestimate these 3,000 meters, you can definitely increase the accuracy of bomb throwing by several times!

Soon, there were clusters of fires on the ground, these fires looked like shining points of light from a high altitude, very eye-catching, Wang Shuming knew that it was napalm burning violently. However, this time the 3rd Bombardment Aviation Division did not come to Kure Harbor to set fire, which is a modern industrial city and military fortress, and there are not many wooden buildings, so the effect of the fire attack will not be very good, and it is still necessary to use high-explosive bombs to actually destroy it. The following points of light are only indicating the direction of the bombs of more than 200 behemoths full of bombs in the air, and as long as the bombs can be dropped within the range of the distribution of the points of light, the shipyards and steel factories in Kure Harbor will be paralyzed for a while.

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