Chapter 122 declares the war

"China said that they should not have fought each other, but since last winter, they have brazenly launched a war against Britain and the United States. As a member of the world, China is a natural ally with Britain and the United States. Today's allies are in trouble, and they should lend a helping hand, so I implore the approval of the Congress, and China ** declares war on Yueben! The above is the core reason for Fang Jianxiong's speech in Congress, not talking about interests, only talking about the traditional friendship between Britain and the United States, which is very shameless and shameless. But this is definitely the style of Chinese politicians!

In parallel history, since the Russian War, the new elite intellectuals had a deep impression of the company, and it was not until after the Battle of Qingdao that this atmosphere gradually faded. In this time and space, there are many members of the ** parliament who have a good impression of Yueben, especially the younger brothers of the opposition party. Thinking that Sun Cannon was wanted by the Qing Dynasty, he forced the political axe to expel Sun Cannon from the Qing Dynasty, and the prime minister of the year, Saiyuan Temple, also gave the cannon 5,000 yuan, and the merchant Suzuki Kugoro also funded him 10,000 yuan. At that time, 15,000 yuan was definitely a huge amount of money, thinking that this money had also triggered infighting in the League, Tao Chengzhang, Zhang Taiyan, Zhang Ji, Song Jiaoren and others launched a movement to reverse Sun.

All in all, now the strength is not as good as before, although he knows that it is useless to talk about this kind of thing, the party leader Wang Jingwei still stood up and asked the president: "Yes, declare war, our army will fall into a passive situation of two battles, in the past, Germany fought on two fronts, so there was a defeat in the European war, and the major affairs of the military state should be cautious, and the art of war: the major affairs of the country of soldiers are also ,...... Don't ignore it. ”

This goods also knew that President Fangda's prestige was unstoppable, so he just stood up and brushed it up. Fang Jianxiong glanced at it lightly and said with a smile: "Congressman Zhaoming, is this going to teach me how to fight?" As soon as these words came out, the entire Capitol burst into laughter, and even some ** parliamentarians couldn't help laughing. There is no way, talking about the art of war in front of Fang Jianxiong is really humiliating! Some ashamed ** parliamentarians, hurry up and bow their heads, it's too embarrassing.

Wang Jingwei was cleaned up in one sentence, and Speaker Lin Sen struck the hammer vigorously and said, "Vote!" ”

There was no suspense about the proposal to declare war. Fang Jianxiong's expression was indifferent in the warm applause, and he didn't even need any inflammatory language, and the parliamentarians present knew that their president was a staunch nationalist and nationalist. Declaring war on the other must be for the benefit of the country.

"Distinguished Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen, I now declare in my capacity as the president of the Chinese People's Republic of China that China's political axe has officially formed an alliance with Britain and the United States, and declared war on Germany, Israel and Italy!" The news was broadcast on the radio and spread to the other side of the ocean, in the conference room of the US president's office, Roosevelt waited quietly, and after Fang Jianxiong's words were finished, his expression finally relaxed.

As soon as the Congress was cleared, Wang Chonghui came to the legation and officially submitted a declaration of war.

At 9:05 a.m., the **-17 bombers of the 10 wings and the **-29 bombers of the 29 wings of the two wings flew to the four islands under the cover of the Mustang fighters of the five wings. In other words, these planes departed early in the morning, pinching the time to appear in Yuben, but they didn't intend to give Yuben time to react.

Such a large-scale air raid will definitely not be able to hide people, hundreds of Zeros take off to intercept, and Mustang fighters will not let go of it. **-17 and **-29 put themselves in a box formation, and they can use their own machine guns to fight the thin-skinned Zero.

At 9:15, ignoring the continuous explosion of anti-aircraft guns outside the window, Feng Hua, who was in the midst of a **-29, trembled with excitement, and roared with the microphone: "Brothers, this day has been waiting for a long time." Now it's over the target's movement, drop the bomb! ”

Two hundred **-29 bombers are all currently equipped by the Air Force! With a command, the first napalm fell. The moment it hit the ground, a ball of flames rose. Napalm was aimed at the wooden buildings of Honda, but in just a few minutes, a large area of Tokyo was turned into a sea of desperate fire. Among them, 10 2-29 bombs were dropped late, and it took 10 minutes to find the Yasukuni Shrine, which was the target that President Fang Da demanded that it must be blown up.

On this day, the Air Force dropped 500 tons of napalm in the movement, and the consequences were desperate for Yumoto.

Also on this day, the military port in Tokyo Bay was bombed by 200 **-17s, and Mitsubishi, Mitsui, and other military-related enterprises were bombed.

The Chinese Air Force launched an unprecedented large-scale bombing, with a total of 1,200 strategic bombers dropping 500 tons of napalm and 6,000 tons of conventional bombs. The Yasukuni Shrine was burned to the ground, and a third of the building was destroyed by the bombing of the Nakajima Aircraft Plant. A few hours later, Radio Tokyo broadcast a report in which the announcer first denounced the Americans' "great **" against the people, and then described the catastrophe: "That blazing night will remain far in the memory of those who witnessed it." When the first incendiary bombs hit the ground, the smoke rose and was reflected pink by the light of the fire below. The superfortress passed through the smoke and flew at ultra-low altitude over the center of the spreading fire. Almost directly above the city center, a **-29 bomber exploded like a tracer bullet in front of our eyes. Smoke erupted from the fire, and the fiery red sky reflected the towers of the Houses of Parliament in the darkness. The whole city was as bright as the sun, and the sky was filled with smoke, black ashes, and flames blown by the wind. That night, we felt like the whole of Tokyo would be reduced to ashes. ”

The bombing destroyed 16 square miles of central Tokyo, and nearly 25 percent of the buildings - 267,171 buildings - were reduced to rubble. According to eyewitnesses, the blazing heat had already burned the entire fire line before the fire spread. The flammable materials in the concrete buildings are burned to the ground without leaving the slightest trace. The casualties were heavy, and later statistics later showed that the bombing killed about 50,000 people.

400 **-17 planes bombed Osaka, and the fire caused by napalm destroyed 134,744 civilian and industrial buildings, and more than 1,300 buildings were partially damaged. The total number of casualties was 13,135, and another 500,000 - a quarter of the city's population - were homeless.

Four hundred **-17s bombed the Yokosuka Naval Yard, causing damage to several docks and numerous casualties.

Later historians called China's strategic bombing of Yueben an unprecedented bombardment and the heaviest blow to Yueben's economic and industrial capacity. Strategic bombing has been shining since the very beginning of the war, and it can be said that the war potential of this book has been dealt a heavy blow.

The bombing of this day, the Air Force paid a heavy price, 88 **-17 were shot down, 2 -29 were shot down, and these losses were mainly caused by anti-aircraft guns on the ground. On the other hand, the fighters of the book did not play much role in the process of interception, but were defeated by the Mustang fighters escorting the escort, and the Chinese Air Force also paid the price of 33 Mustang fighters.

Almost at the same time as the strategic bombing began, near Manila in the Philippines, a fleet of six submarines was torpedoed, and eight freighters were sunk. In the waters off Palawan, 10 transport ships were sunk by submarines. Also at this time, 200 **-17 bombers took off from Natuna, escorted by 120 Mustang fighters, carpet bombed the Palembang oil field in Java. Ben painstakingly repaired a third of the oil field, and it was once again in ruins.

The bombing of the Chinese Air Force is a cruel and inhumane act that I call "demonic"! It's a vile and shameless surprise attack! This radio station issued an order from the emperor to declare war on China! On the same day, Germany and Italy declared war on China!

The bombing kicked off the Sino-Chinese War! Interestingly, the ground war has not broken out for a long time, and what the army and navy should do is not to fight back immediately, but to quarrel first. There is a quarrel within the army over whether to take the initiative to attack or to defend. (To be continued.) )