Wake Island.

The U.S. military discovered the atrocities of the Japanese devils -- 98 heads of U.S. prisoners of war were built into a terrifying "Kyoto Temple."

This ancient barbaric act to deter the enemy really angered the US military. Lieutenant General Spruance did not do anything to encourage him, and the American pilots had already begun to go on a rampage.

From the time the airfield was put into use, US bombers had already begun to bomb day and night. Filled with anger, the US pilots showed unprecedented bravery, and the US bombers still attacked independently at any target within the range of the US bombers, even without fighter escort. Guam, Saipan, Truk, and the Marshall Islands, in the southwest, on a fan of 120 degrees, all the islands within a radius of more than 2,000 kilometers have all become the range of US bombers.

Wake Island is not only geographically important, but also has good weather conditions. Li Guang learned from the US military that the area around Wake Island, in fact, including Midway Island, is an area of drought and little rain and little wind. In a year, there is very little time that is not suitable for the Air Force to fight.

The earth is very wonderful, there is an equatorial windless belt (between 5 degrees north and south latitude), this naval resistance army because of the perennial wandering near the equator, more understanding.

However, for Wake Island, it is located in the subtropical windless zone (near 30 degrees north and south latitude), and the wind is quite small due to the small pressure difference in the nearby area. There is not much research on this point for the Naval Resistance Force, but the US military is very clear about it.

Meteorology developed rapidly during World War II, and various theories were gradually improved. In battle, sometimes certain factors do not play a role, but sometimes they can determine success or failure.

For example, now Li Guang does not hesitate to send troops to the US army on Wake Island, but the Japanese army refuses to send troops, and the reason is being analyzed. One more was added: weather.

Because the weather was good, it was easy for the US military to exert its air superiority on Wake Island, so it immediately dispatched troops. However, because the weather was good, the Japanese fleet was not suitable for a fleet attack without an aircraft carrier escort, so the fleet was reluctant to dispatch.

However, when Li Guang was fighting, what he was most worried about was that the weather would deteriorate and the combat capability of the aircraft carrier would be limited. No culture kills people, and it's really uncomfortable to be worried for more than half a month. Since then, Li Guang's emphasis on meteorology has been strengthened again.

Li Guang stayed at Pearl Harbor for more than half a month, and the US military lost more than 20 bombers. Among them were large B17 bombers. However, the US bombing intensity has not slowed down.

The U.S. military's engineering capabilities are extremely strong, and in a short period of time, the U.S. military airfield on Wake Island has been expanded from two runways to four. The number of bombers alone amounted to more than sixty units. If Wake Island had been a little bigger, maybe Nimitz would have sent more bombers. And in contrast. The Naval Resistance Army had only twelve bombers, except for envy. What else can be said.

In the face of the bombers produced by the U.S. military like blowing bubbles. Li Guang felt a little powerless. With such strength, I don't know what the Japanese army is in their hearts, and if Yamamoto Isoroku is also so frustrated.

There are many rookie pilots in the US military, and the bombing effect is not necessarily good. But it won't take long for a rookie to become an old bird and an elite in this high-intensity fight.

Countless old birds plus advanced bombers, pilots trained at great cost plus advanced fighters. The U.S. air power was bound to quickly and completely suppress the Japanese army. The Japanese army completely lost air supremacy. It won't take long.

Fighting with the U.S. military is definitely the most stupid. This is a manifestation of the strength of the United States, and Li Guang cannot envy it.

However, the Naval Resistance Force also has a record that the US military envies. February 13. The Naval Resistance Fleet successfully attacked Tokyo.

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Zheng Xuechang led the First Task Force of the Maritime Resistance Army and left Wake Island on 3 February. Naturally, he is not here to enjoy the mountains and rivers.

The Naval Resistance Army ran all the way to the North Pacific, and the expected naval battle did not happen at all. Not only Li Guang, but all the officers and men of the navy had a feeling of being a little unsatisfied. In addition, the battleship Atlantic of the Maritime Resistance Force has already set sail from the United States, and after the fleet converges, the combat effectiveness of the Maritime Resistance Force has reached full blood.

This is the most powerful stage of the Naval Resistance Force, which has never been so powerful before. One battleship, one light aircraft carrier, one medium and large aircraft carrier, six air defense destroyers, one destroyer, one high-speed supply cruiser. Plus four submarines. A total of fifteen capital warships.

Such a fleet, even the United States at the moment, Japan at this stage, and Britain will envy it. This is a combat force that is not bound by a fixed battlefield and is purely independent and mobile. Whether it is the United States, Britain, or Japan, there are enough warships, but they all have their own useful fields, and it is very unrealistic to want to draw such a mobile strike force.

In such a situation, if the Maritime Resistance Army does not hit the little devil hard, it is simply a violent thing.

Moreover, once the naval resistance fleet returns to the Indian Ocean, it will be impossible for it to return to the Pacific Ocean to fight in half a year.

There is no time to lose.

The plan for the air raid on Tokyo by the aircraft carrier of the Naval Resistance Army was perfect. Based on Doolittle's plan for the air raid on Tokyo in '42 and the combat experience of the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Army itself, the battle plan drawn up in this way can almost be said to be the highest level in World War II.

The naval resistance army attacked Wake Island unexpectedly. And the Naval Resistance Army sailed away again and killed the Japanese mainland, which was even more unexpected by Japan, and even Nimitz at Pearl Harbor did not expect.

Li Guang's explanation to Nimitz was that since there were occasional Japanese submarines on the west coast of the United States, the Naval Resistance Army fleet was going to meet the battleship Atlantic, and at the same time it was necessary to escort the merchant ships of the Haitang Kingdom.

Li Guang naturally would not disclose such information about the life and death of the Naval Resistance Army, and this has nothing to do with whether Li Guang trusts Nimitz or not, and the devil knows if there are spies lurking in the US army.

On the evening of 11 February, the Naval Resistance Army fleet successfully passed through Japan's outermost early warning line. When Doolittle attacked Tokyo, it was discovered by the Japanese army's early warning line located 650 nautical miles outside the mainland, and he had no choice but to launch an air raid in advance.

The Maritime Resistance Force: This time, all destroyers have high-frequency sea-to-sea radars. Coupled with the fact that the sky is beautiful and the visibility on the sea is not high, it is easy to find the gap in the Japanese army's early warning defense line. The huge fleet crossed the outer line of defense with such ease.

After dawn on the 12th, 12 reconnaissance planes aboard the battleship Atlantic opened the way and easily controlled a frontal area tens of kilometers wide.

The fleet adjusts its course at any time according to the reconnaissance information of the aircraft, and it is almost perfectly coordinated. During the whole daytime voyage of more than 300 kilometers, the Japanese army knew nothing about such a large fleet.

Thirteenth, one o'clock in the morning.

The Naval Resistance Fleet was less than 300 kilometers from the Japanese mainland. It is less than 400 kilometers from Tokyo.

With Zheng Xuechang's order, the fighters that had long been ready to take off from the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier in order.

At one thirty o'clock, the air formation was completed.

Under the leadership of flight captain Shao Fuxuan, all one hundred and four fighters took off.

On the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon, Liu Gensheng, the pilot captain, was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, but he could only watch. In this naval attack by the Naval Resistance Force, only one plane was produced from the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon. All the rest of the aircraft were either reconnaissance aircraft or Wildcat fighters on standby on deck.

The only fighter on board the Liberty Dragon was the captured Japanese Zero. The pilot was Qi Chang. Liu Gensheng wanted to fly the plane, but he was the captain and had to command the battle, and more importantly, he didn't know Japanese.

At 2:40 p.m., the group of aircraft of the Maritime Resistance Army began to fly at a low altitude. to evade the Japanese radar.

All fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army use luminous instruments and are equipped with gyroscopes to indicate the flight attitude of the fighters. It initially has the ability to fly at night. But since these aircraft have not yet been able to equip themselves with heavy radars. So the ability to fight at night is still seriously insufficient. However, this mission is bombing, and such a fighter configuration is enough to complete the mission.

At three o'clock, the group of planes had already crossed the Japanese coastline, and under the leadership of flight captain Shao Fuxuan, the fighters were pulled up again.

3:27 a.m. As the group descended over Tokyo, the roaring iron eagles descended like a grim reaper.

Piercing sirens sounded in the night sky, and some searchlights began to shine into the air. Due to the frequent air defense drills in Japan in the past, many residents did not pay attention to the sound of sirens.

But. This time it was at night, and many people felt a little surprised.

The most densely populated area of Tokyo, Japan is easy to identify, and it is not difficult to identify even at night. Tokyo in this era was mainly concentrated between two rivers.

Shao Fuxuan piloted an SBD dreadnought dive bomber to take the lead, dropping three 250-kilogram napalm in less than 1,000 meters in the air. Three fiery dragons immediately rose from the dark earth.

The Japanese air defense forces were fairly well trained, and the anti-aircraft gunners were quick enough to react, and most of them were already in the gun positions, but before they could turn their guns, the bombers rumbled away.

Three fire dragons suddenly soared, each of which was a kilometer long, and stood particularly dazzling on the pitch-black ground.

With these three fire dragons as a guide, all the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army began to drop bombs freely in the direction of the three fire dragons.

The bombs dropped by the Naval Resistance Army this time were not high-altitude bombs like Doolittle, but all low-altitude bombs, and it was almost impossible to drop bombs on the open ground.

The searchlights of the Japanese troops on the ground frantically shone at the planes, the anti-aircraft guns opened fire one after another, and the tracer bullets were like flying locusts in the air, drawing bright lines one after another.

However, the anti-aircraft artillery fire of the Japanese army was still seriously insufficient. Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, there were only 700 antiaircraft artillery anti-aircraft guns in the entire Japanese mainland, and Tokyo accounted for almost one-third. After Doolittle's air raid on Tokyo, Japan strengthened its air defense, and the number of Tokyo anti-aircraft artillery pieces at this time reached almost 700.

That's not a small amount. However, with a population of five or six million, Tokyo is one of the largest cities in the world at this time, with an urban area of two to three hundred square kilometers, and it is impossible to maintain strict air defense. In addition, at night, although the flare can illuminate part of the sky, it does not play a role in finding targets. And there are a lot of searchlights for the devils, one of which cannot interfere with the bombs dropped by the Naval Resistance Army, but in fact, the interference is in vain, because the Naval Resistance Army is only bombing at will, and there is no set target at all. Second, the Japanese army soon discovered that there were too many planes of the Naval Resistance Army, and the searchlights were just colliding like headless flies, and it was almost impossible to lock on to the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army.

In the chaos, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army swept by one after another from low altitude and high speed.

None of the Japanese shells hit in five minutes. Shao Fuxuan's partner, telecommunications officer Gu Xiangxiang, cheered lightly and sent out a radio to report to the mothership: "A large area of Tokyo is on fire. The anti-aircraft artillery was not fierce, and our troops evacuated smoothly. ”

On board the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean, all the officers and men of the Maritime Resistance Corps cheered.

Once the incendiary bombs hit the ground, they burst in the tumble, scattering sticky flames in all directions.

The weather in Tokyo is not Wake Island, where the wind is strong in February, and the fire has spread to the wooden houses of the city.

Only half an hour after the start of the air raids, the raging fire had spread uncontrollably, and little Japan had given up on putting out the fire.

Gales of up to 30 knots fueled the fire, and huge fireballs leaped from one building to another with starry slag.

On the streets, Japanese firefighters and police could neither control the flames that were scurrying around, nor could they stop the frightened crowds of people running in all directions.

People scattered and ran for their lives, scurrying like rats, thunderous explosions overhead, snakes scurrying through the streets, and screams of terror everywhere in the firelight.

The flames gradually turned orange to white, and the smoke rose into the air, and the ground was reflected orange by the firelight. The flames devoured everything that could be burned, the metal melted, the tiles turned into black powder in the fire, the wooden houses became ruins, and many devils hiding in bomb shelters were roasted alive.

The Japanese went crazy and jumped into it desperately when they saw the water. The pools in parks, the reservoirs in hospitals, and even urinals were crowded with people trying to flee for their lives, but the high temperatures that seemed to be everywhere turned these pools into cauldrons, and people died in hundreds, if not thousands.

At dawn, the gale stopped, and Tokyo fell into a deathly silence.

Through the faint morning light, one can see that the Oihira area in the center of Tokyo has disappeared, and only a few telephone poles and iron shelves stand alone, and some of the electric poles are still emitting green smoke.

The river around Tokyo has turned black, and countless charred corpses float on the surface of the river, making it impossible to distinguish between men and women.

No one could have imagined, not even Li Guang, that Tokyo's fire prevention capabilities in this era were so poor. Just over 70 tons of napalm burned almost one-tenth of the entire Tokyo metropolitan area. It would never have been possible to bomb the big cities of the United States, which are already jungles of reinforced concrete, and Japan is nothing more than a "city" made up of a bunch of wooden houses.

This fire alone burned tens of thousands of Japanese people to death and left hundreds of thousands homeless.

Compared with Doolittle's air raid, this air raid by the Naval Resistance Force was not a mental blow to Japan, but a mental and physical injury. With the Doolittle air raid, Japan can easily block information from the public, because the casualties are indeed not large. This time it was different, in the last air raid, the naval resistance forces only threw less than eight tons of napalm, but this time it was more than 70 tons.

The Japanese people really tasted the pain of war, not only in terms of economic distress, but also in terms of human life.

No one is innocent, and in Japan, even women are loading bullets in low workshops.

Blood for blood, tooth for tooth.

This is just a little interest on the damage caused by Japan to China, and the Naval Resistance Army will fight to Tokyo step by step to repay the blood debt.

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