Chapter 338: Crisis in the Air Force
"According to our intelligence and estimates, at least more than 50,000 houses have been burned down, hundreds of large and small factories and enterprises, many old and ancient buildings have also been bombed, and about 200,000 people have been left homeless, which will cause great pressure on the Japanese government to provide disaster relief."
However, Wu Erzhu did not say how many people were killed in the bombing, one was not easy to estimate, and the other felt that saying those somewhat cold numbers made his troops inhumane, so he avoided it.
After reading all the information, Wu Dazhu said: "When His Majesty came, I explained that this time we are not just a simple retaliatory action, but a battle, if we fight well and achieve our expected goals, this war can definitely go down in history and make the abyss that the Japanese will never fall into, so please don't be negligent." ”
"Your Majesty confessed, take out our 100% strength, the lion will fight the rabbit with all his strength, defeat him once, so that he will never be able to turn over, so the bombing intensity must be increased, take out all the strength, don't be petty, how much strength you have."
"So I decided that starting tomorrow, all the fighters will be divided into two formations, take turns to go into battle, and start bombing missions on target cities, and we will also have the ability to fly at night, and the Air Force must carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and tiredness, so that the enemy can always live in fear, so that we can achieve our strategic goals as quickly as possible."
"As for the details, the staff will come down and make a detailed and thorough plan, and the operation will start tomorrow, do you have any problems?" Wu Dazhu said in a stern tone.
The people below responded with a bang and resolutely carried out the commander-in-chief's orders.
Wu Dazhu continued, "The navy should not look at the excitement, disperse all the warships that can be transferred to Japan, and block all the sea lines of communication in Japan. We must not allow Japan to have any possibility of communicating with the outside world, completely block it, and even merchant ships will not enter or leave. ”
"For other foreign merchant ships, the policy of expulsion was directly adopted, and it was a time of war. The Japanese seaports were blocked militarily, a qiē trade would be canceled, and merchant ships from other countries would not be allowed to go ashore. Wu Dazhu said to Lin Haichao.
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, the Navy will definitely do the task of blocking Japan's maritime communications." Lin Haichao is also familiar with this, and he guarantees to resolutely complete the task.
"This time with the fleet. There are also more than a dozen large transport ships, all of which are materials and ammunition needed for the war, and the logistics department should seize the time to sort them out, and must ensure the amount of ammunition used by the air force; if there is a shortage, they must promptly notify the country, and the country will replenish it in time. Wu Dazhu continued.
"Although the army has no mission at the moment, it must be ready to fight on the Japanese mainland. In the end of the war, the task of occupying positions still has to be completed by the army. And His Majesty's goal is to take full control of Japan, so the army will not run out of things to do. ”
As Da Zhu finished speaking, the army generals who had been unable to lift their spirits for many days all showed smiling faces, and they were all combat troops. Who wants to watch the lively fighting of the brothers' troops, where to play with their lives to earn credit, and they can only keep training at home.
Now that the commander-in-chief has personally assured that it is still a task set by His Majesty himself, then their army will definitely not be idle. Naturally, these generals were pleased.
After that, a more detailed discussion began in the meeting, mainly focusing on air force bombing, naval sorties, army preparations, etc., and trying to think of things as much as possible.
War is an art and the result of wisdom, but in the final analysis, it still depends on strength, and the current Japan is no longer comparable with Nanhua in terms of military strength, and all they have left is to hold on and consume their war potential.
As for whether Nanhua will run out of ammunition in the end, or whether Japan will not be able to hold on to the bombing, it depends on who can hold on more, but the initiative is on the side of Nanhuaguo, and there is Guo Yu, a guy who is used to making money, if you want to consume Nanhuaguo's materials and let Nanhua withdraw by itself, it is estimated that it is impossible.
With the arrival of Wu Dazhu and others, the command system of Nanhua was officially formed, and next, a larger-scale bombing of Japanese mainland cities began.
On 26 May, the Huafu Air Force dispatched 50 large bombers, 50 small bombers, and 30 fighters to form a huge group of fighters and go straight to Osaka, an important industrial city in Japan.
Osaka and Kobe are both satellite cities of Kyoto City, Japan, and the distance between them is only more than 40 kilometers, and later generations of the two places were directly connected to the train, and at this time, Osaka and Kobe were also the main cities of Kyoto's industrial development.
Osaka is home to heavy industries such as iron and steel, machinery manufacturing, and metal processing, as well as light industries such as textiles, printing, food, papermaking, and chemicals. There are more than 30 large enterprises, more than 10,000 small factories and enterprises in the city, as well as a large number of various stores.
At this time, Osaka, or Japan at this time, was already under the clouds of war, Osaka, as one of Japan's major industrial cities, was no exception, a few days ago Kyoto was bombed, which can be described as heavy losses, because the two cities are close, Kyoto because of the bombing caused by the fire, even in Osaka can be faintly seen rising smoke.
After the incident, the Japanese government has already reported on the incident, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Fukuoka were bombed, and other cities in Japan should be prepared to protect the safety of the people and protect Japan's property from heavy losses.
The mayor of Osaka City and a number of officials, after hearing Tokyo's order, all scolded their mothers in private.
Now that Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka have been bombed, the government has no choice, and the order issued is to ask the local government to prepare for war and reduce losses.
But there is no way, I have received an order, I have to do my best, Osaka has entered a state of war, factories are suspended, schools are closed, the government requires people to store a large amount of water at home in case of emergency, to put it bluntly, it is bombed, the house is on fire, so that they can put out the fire themselves.
This is all a helpless move, to meet the swords and guns with flesh and blood, and in the end it is not these ordinary people who are injured.
However, these are not what Hua Fujun should consider, Japan has been sucking blood from the Chinese nation in the past few decades to feed itself, who can say that these ordinary people have not benefited from it, they are also part of the executioner's hands.
Don't say that they are innocent, there are no innocent people in this world, being born as a citizen of a country determines many things about you, is it possible that among these people who were killed by the Huafu Army, there were no people who later participated in the war of aggression against China, and those dead children are likely to participate in the Nanjing Massacre when they grow up, so no one is innocent.
The huge group of planes flying in the sky was "buzzing", and because of the large number, a huge formation was formed, and the huge roar of the aircraft engines spread far away, and Hua Fujun flew directly over Osaka in such blatant daylight.
Due to the protection of Tokyo, the Osaka garrison was transferred from the 4th Division, and only one permanent infantry regiment remained, with no more than 2,000 people.
However, in the permanent infantry regiment in Osaka, there is one thing that was not valued at all, but now it is given high hopes: anti-aircraft guns.
Speaking of which, during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, anti-aircraft guns in the original sense appeared, of course, at that time mainly to shoot manned balloons.
The real anti-aircraft gun should have appeared in 1906, the German Ichhardt Arms Company, that is, the predecessor of the Rheinland Arms Company, according to the characteristics of the aircraft and airships, improved the original balloon anti-aircraft gun device, made a gun specially used to shoot aircraft and airships. This marked the official appearance of the world's first anti-aircraft gun.
The designers mounted the gun on the car and adopted protective armor similar to that of modern ship guns. The caliber of this gun is 50 mm, the barrel is about 1.5 meters long, the muzzle velocity of the grenade can reach 572 meters per second, and the maximum fire height is 4200 meters.
And in 1914, Germany also made 77-mm anti-aircraft guns. In 1915, Russia developed the 76mm anti-aircraft gun, which was an anti-aircraft cannon that could also be used to fire at targets on the ground or on water. During this period, anti-aircraft guns were also made in industrially developed countries such as France and Italy.
Before that, Japan did not attach importance to the study of anti-aircraft artillery, that is, last year, the Japanese military department introduced a batch of anti-aircraft guns from Germany, a total of 10 pieces, as well as a batch of ammunition, for the study of imitation and realization.
The Osaka Division is one of the main divisions of Japan, of course, this is talking about the Fourth Division, which was also issued by the military headquarters with 4 anti-aircraft guns and 300 rounds of ammunition, and the Fourth Division was transferred, but due to the urgency of the dispatch to deal with the Huafu Army that may threaten Tokyo at any time, many things were not brought, including these anti-aircraft guns.
Now Ryusuke Koizumi, the commander of the Osaka Defense Infantry Regiment, had the idea of these four anti-aircraft guns, and after discussing with the mayor of Osaka, he took the artillery company of the infantry regiment and brought the anti-aircraft artillery to an open space in the city, and directly set up the anti-aircraft guns, hoping to create a miracle.
The air force units of the Huafu Army were indeed a little careless, and the previous bombing operations had achieved satisfactory results and did not encounter any resistance, which also caused many air force soldiers to subconsciously believe that Japan did not have any resistance at all.
A huge fleet of planes obscured the sky and quickly approached the sky over Osaka City.
"The teams pay attention to the implementation of the operation in accordance with the previous formations and the divided areas, and now the operation begins." With the captain's order, the group began to disperse, forming small formations and flying towards the bombing area that had been divided before.
The crisis of the mission begins to press the head, reducing their flight altitude and speed in order to achieve the best effect of bombing. (To be continued......)