Since mid-March, Tokyo has been in the rainy season. Japan has a typical maritime climate, and in March, Beijing is still icy and snowy, while Japan has entered the spring season.

On March 20, at 7 o'clock in the morning, a rice shop in Hase-ting, Tokyo, had already discharged several human queues hundreds of meters long at the door. The queue started last night. People queued up all night to buy rice – high-quality rice from the Philippines and Kalimantan.

In the city of Tokyo, there are several rice shops with royal backgrounds, which regularly supply rice from Nanyang to the common people of Tokyo at a "low price" every week, and the common people of Tokyo can buy 10 catties per month. However, the amount of rice invested in Tokyo is not large, and the quantity is limited, and when it is distributed among people, it is impossible to guarantee a portion for each civilian in Tokyo.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan fell into a strange circle on the issue of "wealth distribution": The big capitalists frantically squeezed and exploited the people, and no matter how many slogans the political parties on the stage put forward and how many bills they voted on, Japan's national interests were basically seized by the big capitalists, and the Japanese people did not get the benefits.

The state propaganda needs to expand and plunder outward in order to make the people live a good life, but in the face of the wealth and profits plundered by external expansion and plunder, more than 90% of the conglomerates and chaebols eat cleanly, while the civilians can only endure the huge burden of war in agony. The rice riots were a drama that was often played out in Japan before the end of World War II.

At seven o'clock in the morning of the 20th, Kuroshima of the Hase-Ting Rice Shop Factory ordered the clerk to open the door, and a few seconds later, the counters of the rice store were crowded to buy rice. The Tokyo police have been prepared for a long time, wielding batons to maintain order. In the past few months, there have been stampedes of rushing to buy rice, and even deaths. In order to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy, every time the "parity store" opens. The Tokyo police will come and maintain order.

In 1938, when Li Huamei successfully went undercover in Japan and appeared in front of Emperor Chongren as the "guardian saint of the gods", the only request she made was to let Japanese civilians also enjoy the "dividends of war".

In response, Emperor Takahito opened similar "affordable rice shops" in Japan's major cities, including the Southeast, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Once a week, the civilian population is regularly supplied with necessities such as rice looted from overseas colonies.

The rice shop is hung on the name of Emperor Chonghito, and the specific executor of the affordable grain supply, but it is the "new favorite" of Emperor Chonghito's Royal Marines. This method of selling Nanyang rice to the common people at a low price is also to buy people's hearts for Chongren.

Emperor Noshihito, who had experienced the mutiny and forced of the palace by the Imperial Dao faction, and had also experienced the dominance of the ruling faction and was overthrown, was still young and vigorous, and strongly wanted to have a real army that was loyal to him alone. The newly formed 1st and 2nd Royal Marine Divisions were directly under his direct command. After the end of the Hawaiian War. The 1st Royal Marine Division, which participated in the Hawaiian Raiders, has also returned to Tokyo for repairs after completing the "gilding".

In order to speed up the sale, the Nanyang sold to the common people is to use a special spoon as a tool to take rice, but the table, a flat spoon is exactly ten catties, and the purchase and payment of rice are divided into two counters, so the speed of selling rice is extremely fast, and the average transaction time for a customer is only two or three seconds.

The speed of selling rice is fast. However, this rice shop only supplies 10 tons of affordable rice to the common people at a time, including the whole country. It supplies 60 tons a week and about 250 tons a month. For Japan, which has a population of 60 million, this supply of affordable rice is just a drop in the bucket, and it is not enough to see at all.

"Will this supply be enough to meet the requirements of Her Highness the Holy Maiden?"

The manager of the rice store, Ren Kuroshima, was originally a naval officer who retired from the army after the Battle of Guam due to injuries. He is also a devout believer in Yamato Nadeshiko...... In the Battle of Guam, the Japanese Navy suffered minor losses, but Kuroshima Ren was extremely unlucky in that naval battle, and was seriously injured and disabled by a five-inch shell, and had one of his right hands amputated and became disabled, so he had to retire from the Navy.

"The benevolent Yamato Rennadeshiko" can't bear to see Hitoshi Kuroshima living helplessly after being disabled and retiring. At her request, the officers and men of the Navy who were wounded and disabled in the Battle of Guam were all officially assigned to work in a lighter and more leisurely manner to ensure their future lives.

In order to tell the civilians who bought rice that this "welfare" was a "gift" from His Majesty the Emperor and the Navy, the managers and clerks of these affordable rice shops deliberately wore the uniforms of the navy when selling cheap rice to the citizens.

It's been three months since they were selling rice here, and Kuroshima knew very well that the Japanese upper echelons had simply not taken seriously their promise to the Holy Maiden and Nadeshiko: to let the civilians also enjoy the dividends of the war. Two hundred and fifty tons of cheap rice per month is a means that they have come up with to deceive and deal with the "merciful Lord Nadeshiko". It was these 250 tons of rice stolen from the South Seas, and a large amount of old rice was also infiltrated by the black chaebols who handled it.

"These greedy chaebol capitalists even dare to deceive the gods."

Looking at the long queue of people outside the rice shop, Kuroshima cursed the greedy chaebols above in his heart. These disabled retired sailors are now all the most devout followers of His Royal Highness Yamato Nadeshiko. As early as when the Combined Fleet was in service, Li Huamei constantly "appeared" and gathered a large number of sailors in the Combined Fleet into her own followers.

The supernatural events that once happened on the two sister ships of Shane were also constantly staged after the Yamato and Musashi were commissioned: the plate fell to the ground and could not be broken, the sailor fell from the mast and landed unharmed, the miraculous integration of the steaming duct pipes, and the maintenance squad that was almost idle.

Relying on the repeated tricks of the Shane sisters, "Her Excellency Yamato Nadeshiko" easily won back the hearts of most of the officers and men of the Combined Fleet Navy, and after the "epic" victory in the Battle of Guam, the whole ship became her fanatical followers.

Although the Americans announced a huge shipbuilding plan after the war, the entire joint team was full of confidence in achieving a major victory in the next naval battle.

Before leaving the warship, each Navy sailor who retired due to injuries received an order from Yamato Nadeshiko, the content of which was to investigate whether the official upper echelons had distributed the war dividends to the lower echelons, and the lives of the people, after taking the Philippines. In the end, there is no improvement.

"No, not at all!"

As a devout believer in the gods, in the six months after his retirement, as long as he had time, Hitoshi Kuroshima would walk around Japan and conduct detailed research among the people. One qiē has hardly changed compared to what it used to be, and is even getting worse.

In order to deceive Li Huamei, in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and many other ports and shipyards where warships would dock, there is no longer a single beggar to be seen on the streets, not for nothing, but because they have long been forcibly taken away by the local police and sent to Nanyang, so as not to "affect the appearance of the city." The last time the Yamato returned to Tokyo to rest, when Her Excellency Nadeshiko returned. During her days in Tokyo and Yokohama, the government sold a large number of "cheap" supplies in Tokyo in advance, using the method of whitewashing the peace to fool the gods.

But this kind of trick, how can you deceive the "benevolent His Royal Highness Nadeshiko", Kuroshima Hitoshi and those retired colleagues have accepted the instructions of His Excellency Nadeshiko in the past few days and started the "sacred mission" of secret investigation.

"Her Excellency Nadeshiko said that her existence zài meaning. It is the happiness of all the people of the Yamato nation. If this is violated, it will be met with resentment from the people. You greedy thieves"

Looking at the crowds of people buying rice outside the door. Kuroshima thought hatefully in his heart. If it was possible, if he could return to serve on the battleship Yamato, he would like to operate the cannon himself, turn the 460 mm cannon, and fire a cannon at the Tokyo Diet Building, and punish the thieves who dared to deceive the gods.

When Hitoshi Kuroshima cared about (crab) adulteration and turned into Ultraman to kill the Quartet. Suddenly, there was a chirping sound in the sky.

"The sound of an airplane? Started flight training so early? ”

Looking for prestige, Kuroshima Ren saw a group of black presses, appearing in the northeast direction. Although he was crippled, his eyes were very good, and the sharp-eyed Kuroshima Ren could see that these planes were twin-engine bombers.

Rice shops are crowded with people rushing to buy rice. At this time, he was also like Kuroshima Ren, looking up at the sky.

"Boom, boom!"

More than ten seconds later, a deafening explosion of fire sounded in the Tokyo Temple, and many puffs of black smoke rose into the air. When the "mysterious" group of planes flew over Tokyo, it rained leaflets.

After sailing at sea for nearly a month and traversing the entire Pacific Ocean, the US Navy finally arrived at the sea about 1,000 meters away from Japan on 20 June, and 26 B-25 bombers took off from the decks of the two Essex-class aircraft carriers one after another.

For the US Army, this was the first and only time that a land-based bomber took off from an aircraft carrier to perform a mission.

On the same day, Tokyo, Yokosuka, and Osaka were all attacked by this group of American bombers.

As far as the bombing effect itself is concerned, the results of the war are minimal, and its political significance is far greater than its military significance, but it at least proves to Japan that the United States has the ability to strike Japan from a long distance.

Historically, although some B-25s were intercepted by anti-aircraft artillery fire and Japanese planes during air raids, none of the B-25s were shot down.

However, this plane is slightly different, due to the support of Britain and Germany to Japan before and during the war, the performance of the fighters of the Japanese Air Force is much higher than in history, especially the German design, the "Feiyan" with the British Merlin engine installed, is a fighter with excellent high-altitude performance, fast speed, and not bad attack power.

In the original historical plane, Japan lacked effective air defense radars, and both Britain and Germany sold large quantities of radars to Japan in this plane - the radars sold by Germany to Japan were trophies of the French campaign. Although the US bombers were negligent in the early stage, they reacted to the situation, and the air defense radars in various parts of Japan were urgently turned on, and they desperately mobilized fighters from various places to take off and began to intercept them under the guidance of the radar. As early as before the start of the war in 1942, Li Huamei absorbed the experience of the European war, and also rectified and improved Japan's domestic air defense system, improving the chain response speed of air defense in various places.

When the B25 bomber group led by Doolittle successfully bombed Tokyo, the air defense air force from all over Japan, which reacted, took off urgently, and a large number of fighter jets swarmed in. Although the main air forces of Japan are now concentrated in the direction of Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, there are less than two hundred fighters at the first-line airfields for the task of territorial air defense.

The original plan of the US Army Flying Team, headed by Doolittle, was to pass through Japan and enter China after the bombing, and then land at a Chinese airfield under the guidance of the Chinese Air Force.

As a result, this course of action, starting with the bombing of Tokyo, was like stabbing a hornet's nest. All of a sudden, they were surrounded and intercepted by a large number of Japanese fighters.

The biggest difference from the historical air raid on Tokyo in April 1942 is that it is February 1943, and the current Japanese air defense force is far greater than that of the same period in history. Since Japan only opened up a battlefield in the Pacific direction, it did not blossom at many points, and it was able to maintain a considerable amount of air defense forces on the mainland, plus it was assisted by radar. It is also easier to find the thief who has stolen into the house when chasing the enemy.

At 8:20 a.m., when the Doolittle bombing team flew over Osaka, it was first intercepted by the first batch of four Zero II fighters. Then, more planes came from other directions, and kept charging at his bombing team.

The bombing of the mainland by US planes was regarded as a great shame by both the Japanese navy and the army, and out of the mentality of making amends for the shame of the past, the Japanese navy and army, which were full of contradictions that day, both destroyed the means of the surprise attack of the US planes to wash away the humiliation.

After learning that American planes bombed Tokyo. At airports all over Kyushu, all fighter jets that can take off take off have taken off. From the most advanced Feiyan and Xunlei to the Zero, which has been relegated to the second line, even the Nakajima Company, two pilots of the new aircraft that are being tested in Hiroshima, after receiving information at half past eight o'clock, flew the Hurricane fighter that was being tested to the air to intercept the enemy, and successfully shot down a B25. This was also the first result achieved in actual combat by this fighter that could not be put into service for a long time because of engine dystocia.

The B25 bomber wing, led by Doolittle, came from after entering the skies over Osaka. It was constantly attacked by Japanese fighters from all over the country. Air battles were fought from Osaka to Hiroshima, and even in the skies over the ocean.

In order to meet the requirements of long-range bombing. The self-defense firepower of this batch of B25s was reduced to the weakest, and as a result, in the face of the approaching Japanese planes, the B25 fleet with weak self-defense firepower became the best meal.

A total of more than 100 Japanese fighters caught up with the Doolittle bomber group, and they pursued and attacked all the way, and the whole process of air combat was extremely tragic.

A total of 26 B25s entered the skies over Tokyo on the morning of the 20th, but they were shot down over Japan and at sea. The number reached a staggering twenty-two.

Only four B25s escaped the Japanese planes.

Because they were being surrounded and intercepted by a large number of Japanese fighters over Japan, the US bomber group, which had fled in a hurry, could no longer care about evacuating according to the original plan.

One of the B25s was chased by Japanese planes and forced to change course to fly in the Soviet Union, and finally forced to fly on the airfield in the Soviet Union. The pilot of the plane was seized by the Soviets. The B25 crew consisted of five people, but only two pilots on board were in "good" physical condition at the time of landing, while the remaining three were killed and seriously injured.

The fate of the three B25s, which barely escaped into Chinese territory, was also bumpy, with one of them being forced to make a forced landing at sea when it was close to the coastline of China's Shandong province, and only one of the five pilots was rescued.

When the other two B25s, one barely entered China's airspace, there were two Feiyan in hot pursuit, and the 12.7mm machine gun fired on the Feiyan fighter had already damaged the aircraft, and even the engine on the left was shot and caught fire, killing two of the five members on board, and only the co-pilot was unharmed.

Fortunately, at this time HE151 fighters from the Chinese direction arrived and drove out the Japanese aircraft.

The Feiyan fighter was originally the HE151 exported by Germany and licensed to Japan, but it met his "brother" in Shanghai, Bohai, China. Like Japan, China also introduced a production line of HE151 fighters, which was named J-5.

Under the threatening warnings of the four Chinese fighters, and the fact that the B25 was already on fire, the Japanese fighters, who were inferior in numbers, finally retreated. Then the heavily damaged B25, under the guidance of the Jian-5 fighter, barely flew to Dalian Airport and made a forced landing, and one of the remaining three pilots died in the Chinese hospital afterwards.

The last B25 was the lucky one of the tragic bombing operations at that time, and when he was in the skies over Japan, he was chased by Japanese planes to avoid a rain cloud, chased after the fighters, and although he was struck by lightning on the way, he himself was unharmed. In the end, the aircraft successfully made its first landing at Qingdao Airport in Shanshan, China.

The greatest damage suffered by this encounter was that when his master climbed down the gangway of the plane, he accidentally fell off with weak feet and broke two of his front teeth, which can be said to be a heavy loss, but in addition, the other four members of the crew on board were unharmed, which was the luckiest crew member in the tragic bombing operation that day.

In this air raid on Tokyo, the US Army Air Force dispatched 26 B25s with a total of 130 aircraft and crew members, but in the end only 10 people escaped, with a loss rate of more than 90 percent. A total of 35 American pilots parachuted out of the B25 plane shot down over Japan and were captured, and 15 of them were later executed by the Japanese side for the crime of massacring civilians.

Doolittle, who has historically become famous for bombing Tokyo, was shot down over Osaka with a bomber he piloted, and he himself was killed in the plane.

Decades after the end of the Taiping War, in order to commemorate this tragic air raid, the Americans later made a famous air combat movie, called "Death Bombing". (To be continued......)

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