"There are still five minutes to reach the target in the air, and each plane is ready to drop bombs in turn!" Gao Zhihang looked down at the front and bottom of the side, and the fighter unit was engaged in a fierce battle with the intercepted Japanese plane. Through the clouds, patches of green earth could be seen, and at an altitude of about 2,000 meters, more than a dozen Japanese military planes were climbing rapidly, as if trying to intercept the bomber unit.

But it's too late!

"Open the bomb bay!" Buildings can already be seen under the fuselage, the ground is constantly shining with fire, and the anti-aircraft shells fired from several anti-aircraft positions deployed on the outskirts of Tokyo are blooming black flowers under them, and these small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns cannot pose a threat to the heavy bomber formation flying at an altitude of 7,000 meters. The Japanese deployed all their heavy anti-aircraft artillery to the west of the city, and did not expect the allied bombers to enter from the direction of Tokyo Bay in the east.

The bomber dived to an altitude of about 3000 meters.

"Go, let's go!" With a command, the bombardiers on the three guide planes in front of them pressed the switch, and a series of black bombs began to fall from under the belly of the aircraft and staggered to the ground.

Pan Wenze jerked down the control stick, and the bomber began to climb upwards rapidly, as a command plane, it needed to hover over the bombing site for a while in order to observe the effects of the bombing and take pictures of the ground.

There were several fires on the ground, that is, napalm was beginning to burn, and the follow-up bombers began to drop bombs in turn every six in a row at an interval of 30 meters. Although from a high altitude it looks like the size of a lit match when the incendiary bomb explodes, Gao Zhihang knows in his heart that such an incendiary bomb weighing 950 kilograms will definitely have a burning range of more than 30 meters at the time of explosion. Flames rose in rows on the ground, which also provided targets for the bombers behind them.

"Oh my God, all of Tokyo is on fire!" The navigator shouted excitedly.

Gao Zhihang glanced down, and the whole effect was even better than expected. Tokyo is densely populated with houses. It is mainly a wooden structure, and once a fire breaks out, it will spread quickly and become uncontrollable. The main purpose of the incendiary bomber attacks by the strategic bomber units of the coalition air force was to destroy their small workshops for the production of parts and prefabricated parts scattered in residential areas, and to deprive the inhabitants of their houses, even without destroying the enemy's factories. Displacement, and thus the impossibility of production, achieved the goal of completely paralyzing the Japanese military industry.

"Let's go home!" The last group of bombers began to drop bombs, and the atmospheric turbulence from the fire forced them to drop bombs at an altitude of 7,000 meters, and the pilots pulled the joysticks, trying to keep the planes balanced. Bomber 1201 hovered high in the air, confirming the effects of the bombing.

Almost all the industrial and residential areas in Tokyo's eastern district are burning, and at least one-fifth of the city will be destroyed in the fire. The plane made an arc and began to turn around the sea in Tokyo Bay.

The city on the ground, burning in flames, grew farther and farther behind him. The bombardment, which lasted just over half an hour, was over. But those who live below are destined to experience a miserable night's morning, and the memories of this pain and fear will stay with those who survived for the rest of their lives.

"The results of this bombing even exceeded our expectations!" At the headquarters of the Strategic Air Force in Qingdao, there was cheering in the war room, and Lieutenant General Li Zaolin, commander of the Chinese Air Force, excitedly waved in his hand several aerial photographs taken by high-altitude reconnaissance planes of several bombing targets in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Yokosuka at dusk yesterday. A large area of eastern Tokyo, which accounts for about one-fifth of the city's area, has been erased from the map and turned into black, scorched earth. Nagoya was also destroyed by a third in a single bombing.

The entire Air Force command was very pleased with such a result. Major General Kukocki pulled from the map 32 small flags representing strategic objectives, all of which represented important military factories located in places such as the eastern part of Tokyo and Nagoya. During yesterday's entire bombing campaign, the coalition forces lost a total of 16 bombers. Twelve crew members were rescued by the submarine force, a loss that paled in comparison to the significant gains made.

Facts have proved that the "incendiary bombing tactics" proposed by Major General Kukochi and Colonel Gao Zhihang have achieved amazing results. While some have questioned this largely mass killing of civilians and the destruction of civilian facilities, most have remained silent after the Chinese side cited a large number of Japanese atrocities.

It was time for the Japanese to come and bear the cost of revenge for the atrocities of the Japanese army.

"General, according to the results of the analysis of yesterday's aerial photos. The bombing leveled about 41.5 square kilometers of factories and residential areas, and we estimate that it caused a huge number of casualties of about 10 to 200,000 people, and the entire bombing caused at least more than 1 million people to be homeless and about 260,000 buildings destroyed, about 20% of Tokyo's buildings. The entire bombing campaign caused serious damage to 32 key industrial targets. It is clear that most of the factories have been destroyed...... What we need is to continue to intensify such actions and destroy the entire Japanese industry! ”

"Well done, maybe...... With the strategic air force alone, Japan will be able to completely lose its combat effectiveness! Li Zaolin waved his hand, "All troops plan to continue to dispatch, until the Japanese completely surrender, the bombing will definitely not stop, we will let that archipelago all fall into a sea of fire." We need to drop more incendiary bombs into Japanese cities! With that, he walked over to the map of Japan hanging on the wall and pointed to the targets of the bombing, Tokyo, and Yokohama and Osaka, which were not far from Tokyo.

The bombing campaign continued throughout the campaign.

On the night of 14 August, 348 heavy bombers continued to bomb Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka at night, and more than 30 square kilometers of urban buildings were completely burned down.

On the night of August 16, 416 planes bombed Kobe, dropping 2,600 tons of incendiary bombs and destroying most of the city.

As of 6 September, in less than a month, the coalition forces had carried out 17 large-scale bombing campaigns against Japan's six major industrial cities, including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Yokohama, and Kawasaki, with more than 7,500 sorties of heavy bombers and more than 46,000 tons of incendiary bombs, causing devastating damage to an area of 284 square kilometers in the above-mentioned cities, and destroying more than 50 percent of the city's buildings and factories. The coalition lost only 126 heavy bombers, with a loss rate of less than 2 percent.

As a result of the great fear caused by the "fire attack tactics" to the civilian population, more than 8 million urban dwellers fled to the countryside, and Japan's entire industry suffered a serious blow, that is, the most strictly managed military factories, and the absenteeism rate of workers exceeded 50 percent, and a large number of factories were seriously damaged in the bombing campaign, which directly led to a sharp decline in the output of the military industry -- the output of the oil refining industry fell by 80 percent, and the output of aircraft fell by 75 percent.

What made the Japanese even more desperate was that the whole of Okinawa fell, and more than 100,000 army troops and 150,000 civilians were "jade shattered". (To be continued.) )