Yama Prefecture Youtomo and other Japanese elders just helped Emperor Taisho up, before they had time to send someone to find a doctor, they heard a scream all around, a few seconds later, there was a huge explosion in the palace next to it, a heat wave rushed over and kicked up a cloud of smoke, Yama Prefecture Youpeng and others were frightened, Okuma Shigenobu shouted to the waiter who served the emperor next to him: "Is there a place in the palace in the secret room underneath?" Say it! ”

"Yes, yes!" The waiter was so frightened that his face turned pale.

Okuma Shigenobu shouted: "No one knows if the next bomb will fall on our side, quickly hide His Majesty in the secret room under his back, and never let His Majesty come out before the bombing of the group of people in China is over!" ”

"Yes, yes, Prime Minister!" The waiter said yes, picked up Emperor Taisho on his back, and walked out quickly.

Yama Prefecture Youpeng immediately said to the others: "For the sake of the future of the Japanese Empire, everyone, we will also hide with His Majesty, and come out after the bombing is over, Okuma Shigenobu, the outside affairs will be handed over to you, and you must do your best to stabilize the situation outside!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Okuma Shigenobu saluted.

"Boom!" As soon as Youpeng and other elders left in Shanxian County, this palace was hit by an aerial bomb, and the explosion overturned more than half of the palace, and several waiters who had no time to leave were buried inside.

Youpeng and others in Shan County hid in an underground secret room, the secret room was more than ten meters underground, and ordinary aerial bombs could not blow up so deep, unless it was a ground-penetrating warhead, but there was obviously no such aerial bomb in this era.

"Your Majesty was just a little frightened, I believe that you will wake up after a rest, and you will be fine, don't worry, adults!" A doctor examined Emperor Taisho and said to Yama Prefecture Aritomo and other elders.

"Thank you, doctor!" A waiter thanked the doctor, and Youpeng waved his hand to signal that the doctor could go, but the doctor could only step aside, not leave the secret room.

At this time, Katsura Taro was indignant and said, "Hey, how miserable we were when we beat that person? Not only captured Korea, but also occupied Liaodong. annihilated the Beiyang Fleet, and finally forced the Qing State to cede the Bay Island, paying hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and the strength of our combined fleet was inferior to the Beiyang Fleet at that time. Why is it that now, we have been beaten by the people of China and hid in this underground secret room, like rats who can't see the light? You say, "Why is that?" ”

When everyone thought about it, they all sighed in their hearts. yes, what the hell is going on? The fall of the Qing Kingdom has only been three or four years since now, how can China change so much? Is it capable of launching an attack on Japan?

Youpeng in Shanxian was depressed in his heart, and said: "I think about what kind of scenery we were back then, who dared not bow and salute when the Qing officials from the emperor, the queen mother, and the ordinary people saw us?" Our diplomatic envoy is in the capital of the Qing Kingdom, who of the Qing people dares to show him a face? I didn't expect us to fall into this step now, hey! ”

After Youpeng finished speaking, his face fell, and the whole person was like an instant old man over ten years old, he was already very old, and now he looked like he was in his last years.

Circumstances and roles change too quickly. It was so fast that these once majestic Japanese elders were a little at a loss, and they didn't know how to deal with the current situation.

At this time, the warplanes of the Chinese country outside were still bombing, the palace and the surrounding buildings were about to be bombed into ruins, and there was a vibration everywhere.

Throughout the morning, the planes came and went, and the bombing did not stop until two o'clock in the afternoon, and each bomber in the Huaguo fleet dropped at least a ton of bombs here, and most of them were incendiary bombs. After the fire spread over an area of up to 3,000 square meters, a fire whirlwind appeared over Tokyo for several hours. In total, about 1,000 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped, and nearly 20 square kilometers were burned, mainly to the east of the Imperial Palace, and about a quarter of Tokyo was razed to the ground, of which 20% was industrial and 60% was commercial. The rest are residential areas. All 20 planned industrial targets were destroyed, more than 215,000 buildings were burned, millions were left homeless, more than 80,000 burned to death, and 100,000 were burned or choked. Not a single aircraft was lost in the air raids, 5 bombers broke down and the rest of the bombers returned safely to the fleet and landed safely.

At this time, the main force of the Chinese naval fleet was anchored here off the coast of Yokosuka Port, and the fleet had just carried out several rounds of artillery bombardment on the Yokosuka military base, which had already been bombed into ruins, causing heavy losses to the remaining Japanese naval officers and men who were trying to put out the fire.

The Chinese naval fleet then left a cruiser to monitor the sea near the harbor, and the other ships all headed for the depths of Tonkin Bay, and they had to arrive at the port of Tokyo before dark.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet arrived in the waters near the port of Tokyo, and the approach of the huge Chinese fleet frightened the Japanese in the port of Tokyo, and the entire port area was in a state of chaos.

Shen Shoukun stood on the side of the ship and held on to the railing and said with emotion: "In the past, we only saw Japanese warships and warships of foreign powers rampage back and forth on the Huangpu River, and as long as the Japanese warships fired a cannon at Wusongkou, the entire Shanghai Beach trembled with fear. If it weren't for the president, we might still be enduring the humiliation of the great powers, so why would we be proud today? Just like the president said, some people in the country are too small to see the vastness and excitement of this world, and they just want to fight bravely and fiercely on that one-third of an acre of land. The fiasco of the First Sino-Japanese War was actually not a crime of war, but was caused by the struggle of those bigwigs in the imperial court who disregarded the supreme interests of the country, and the generals' greed for life and fear of death! ”

Cheng Biguang, who was next to him, was silent for a while, patted Shen Shoukun's shoulder, and said: "Fighting is omnipresent, it is inevitable, we can only control the danger of the struggle within the smallest range." Things are in the past, what we have to do now is not to repeat the mistakes of the past, to be able to follow the president, is the greatest luck of our generation of soldiers, in my opinion, that position only the president can sit, if others want to sit, I am the first to disagree! And if we want to twist the strength of the whole country into a rope, the only way is to unite, unite the people who can be united, there are many issues that can be discussed, but it does not mean connivance and unprincipled compromise, the reason why we have the current pattern and success today is because the president has done this, unite the forces that can be united in the country, and fight against complete opponents, and the facts have proved that if our people are united, they can do what anyone can think of." 。

Shen Shoukun nodded, thought about it and said with a smile: "It's just a feeling for a while, it's far away, let's talk about what to do next, during the day we only bombed the Shitamachi area, mainly destroyed the commercial area in the Shitamachi area, and some industrial areas and residential areas were destroyed, what to do next, do you have any ideas?" Now we don't have a lot of bombs, less than 600 tons, and there are no incendiary bombs, and only a small part of the shells of the ship's guns are used! ”

Cheng Biguang thought for a while and said: "Since we bombed the Upper Town area today, then if we continue to bomb the Upper Town area tomorrow morning, why do we have to make those noble lords in Tokyo suffer a little, right?" There are also industrial zones to take care of, and tomorrow we will strive to destroy all the industrial zones. The detachment that escorted the prisoners and the fleet is about to return home, right? Let them come with ammunition when they come, lest we have to run back to resupply."

Shen Shoukun nodded and said, "I'll see it!" After speaking, he picked up the binoculars and looked at the Tokyo port area in the distance, and hurriedly said: "Lao Cheng, look, there is an army that has entered the port area to set up defenses!" ”

"Oh?" Cheng Biguang hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked at the port area, and sure enough, he found that a large number of Japanese troops had entered the port area and began to deploy defenses, probably because the Japanese side thought that the Chinese fleet might land, so it sent troops to the port wharf to deploy troops to prevent the landing of the Chinese naval fleet.

Cheng Biguang said while observing: "Send two reconnaissance planes to take off to reconnoiter over there, and by the way, even around Tokyo to reconnoiter and see if there are any military facilities and whether there are troops rushing over!" ”

Shen Shoukun turned his head and said to a staff officer behind him: "Go!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

The reconnaissance plane completed its reconnaissance before dark, obtained detailed information, and the pilot filmed the reconnaissance with his camera on the reconnaissance plane.

After dinner, the aerial photographs were developed, and after some discussion, Cheng Biguang and Shen Shoukun decided to shell the military facilities and military camps in and around the Tokyo port area overnight, and if they were within the range of the naval guns, they would shell them, and if the naval guns could not hit them, they would shoot bombers tomorrow morning to bomb them.

The shelling lasted for more than an hour, and many military installations in the port area and its surroundings were shrouded in flames, and there was not a single flame coming out of the port area, which was sent out by the explosion of artillery shells, and the Japanese troops sent in this afternoon to defend the port area were almost completely wiped out, and under the bombardment of large-caliber naval guns, the fortifications temporarily arranged by the Japanese were completely vulnerable.

On the morning of the next day, the group took off again to bomb, this time bombing the Uemachi area and the industrial area, during the day the line of sight is good, it is easy to find the target, the whole morning, Tokyo once again fell into a sea of fire, many high-level buildings in the Uemachi area were destroyed, many rich people and high-ranking Japanese officials died under the shelling, under this kind of Cheng dù bombing, there is no difference between the level of identity at all, and the shells will not distinguish between identity. (To be continued.) )xh118R1052