On April 29, 1900, the Battle of Jiangyin officially ended, and the battle ended in a great victory for Huaxia, which sank 30 Jianglong-class steam gunboats and 50 torpedo boats of various types of the Qing army, killed more than 2,000 Qing soldiers, captured more than 50,000 people, and the rest of the Qing soldiers fled and their whereabouts are unknown.

This battle marked the opening of the Yangtze River defense line of the Qing Dynasty, and the Huaxia army was about to drive straight into Zhenjiang and Nanjing.

On 30 April, Wei Zelong was about to continue his march to Zhenjiang, when Lin Fei suddenly sent a message, asking Wei Zelong to adopt a new tactic when attacking Zhenjiang.

Wei Zelong then went to find Lin Gecheng, at this time Lin Gecheng had already stopped the eight Monkey King airships in Jiangyin, Jiangyin did not have an airship garage, and it was too late to repair it, so he parked the airship in the open air.

When Wei Zelong came to the Monkey King airship station, he found that Lin Gecheng was receiving a batch of aerial bombs, which looked very light, because the huge body of the bomb only needed one person to carry it.

Wei Zelong couldn't help but ask Lin Gecheng: "Why does your bomb look so light?" ”

Lin Gecheng smiled mysteriously, "Because it's empty inside." ”

"Empty?" Wei Zelong exclaimed, "How can it be empty inside, if it is empty, then how can you kill the enemy?" ”

Lin Gecheng laughed, "This is the brand-new tactic prepared by His Majesty. ”

Wei Zelong was confused, "What new tactics?" I came to you for this new tactic, and His Majesty said that I should come to you to discuss this latest tactic. ”

"Hmm...... Your Majesty said a word to me, called strategic bombing, I don't know much about what it means, anyway, Your Majesty let us Monkey King airship directly bomb Zhenjiang City, whether it is the Qing army or the people, all of them will be bombed. ”

"How can this work?" Wei Zelong shook his head again and again, "Why does Your Majesty want to bomb the people, isn't this a move to lose the hearts of the people?" ”

Lin Gecheng smiled and patted the light air bombs, "These bombs are empty, before the bombing, we will load leaflets in them, tell the people the time and place of the bombing, let them go out of the city in advance to hide, if the Qing soldiers do not let the people out of the city, then the people will resist under the threat of death, and then Zhenjiang City will be self-defeating." ”

"If the Qing soldiers let the people out of the city, then let the Qing soldiers be bombed, we also threw incendiary bombs this time, the houses in Zhenjiang City are all wooden, and it will be miserable when they encounter incendiary bombs, speaking of wooden houses and incendiary bombs, hehe, there is also a country where the houses are wooden, that country and our China are feuding, it is said that His Majesty is already preparing a plan to bombard that country with incendiary bombs."

The more Lin Gecheng spoke, the happier he became, and he laughed, but Wei Zelong frowned, and asked worriedly: "If the Qing soldiers go out of the city with the people, won't you be able to bomb anything?" ”

"Commander Wei, why are you confused, if the Qing soldiers and the people go out of the city together, isn't it in your hands, and you will take Zhenjiang City by chance."

"That's right." Wei Zelong smiled embarrassedly, and then began to deploy the march to Zhenjiang, while Lin Gecheng began to load leaflets for propaganda bombs.

There were 100,000 copies of the leaflets, and so many leaflets could not be written by hand, so Lin Fei printed all these leaflets in the printing factory in Huaxia and transported them.

Lin Gecheng led his subordinates to put the leaflets into the propaganda bombs, the propaganda bombs are actually very technical, it needs to explode in mid-air, so that the leaflets can be thrown more widely, when they explode in mid-air, the leaflets cannot be ignited by explosives, otherwise they will not throw leaflets, but scatter paper ashes.

100,000 leaflets, Lin Gecheng and his subordinates with the help of the infantry, loaded it all morning, then loaded the leaflets, then took off, rushed to Zhenjiang, Jiangyin to Zhenjiang is less than a hundred kilometers, Monkey King airship only needs more than an hour to fly, as for target identification, it is not a problem, because Zhenjiang is a relatively prosperous city, you can see a large number of buildings from the sky.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of 29 April, eight Monkey King airships flew to Zhenjiang, causing a huge commotion in Zhenjiang City, and the Qing people only heard of the airship by its name, but did not see its shape, and looked up one after another, while the Qing soldiers were like facing a great enemy, raising their guns and shooting, but as a result, none of the bullets hit, and the Qing soldiers wasted a lot of bullets in vain.

Lin Gecheng saw that the time was ripe, and ordered his subordinates to throw propaganda bombs, and as soon as the bomb door opened, one after another propaganda bombs fell from the Monkey King airship, these propaganda bombs looked like a string of black spots on the ground, and the people of the Qing Dynasty had heard that the Huaxia airship could drop bombs, and when they saw that there were black spots falling, they were so frightened that they scattered and fled, hid in the house, and closed the door.

When the propaganda bomb fell to a height of 100 meters, the explosives in the bomb detonated, and the propaganda bomb exploded, and the leaflets in the propaganda bomb fell like snowflakes.

The Monkey King airship threw all the 100,000 leaflets down, and then returned to Jiangyin, the people in Zhenjiang City did not hear the explosion, they were very surprised, they opened the windows one after another, looked outside, and saw a snow-white between heaven and earth.

The people looked up to the sky and found that the airship was gone, so they came out of the house, and when they came out, they found that the snow-white things were all pieces of paper, and when they picked them up, they found that there were still words written on the pieces of paper, and as for what those words were, they didn't know them, and in the Qing Kingdom of this era, 99 percent of the people didn't know words at all.

There are also one percent of people who can read and write, so the people take leaflets to find people who know how to read, these people know how to read in every street and alley, usually people want to write letters to their relatives, let these people help them write, receive letters from relatives, let these people help them read, the government posted notices, and let them read to everyone.

The people gathered around the literate people, and the literate people picked up the leaflets and read aloud: "I am the Chinese Emperor Lin Fei......" The literate people said this sentence and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

"I am Lin Fei, the Emperor of China, I will send the Monkey King airship to kill Zhenjiang City in the next few days, I will throw an incendiary bomb from the sky, what is an incendiary bomb, that is, as soon as it falls, your house will be burned to the ground, and people will be burned to death......" When the people heard this, they panicked.

"Don't worry, I told you about this in advance, just to let everyone flee for their lives, as for the loss of property, when Huaxia overthrows the Qing court, it will naturally be compensated." After the literate man finished speaking, he threw away the leaflet and said in a panic: "Neighbors, Huaxia is coming, let's hurry out of the city and take refuge in the countryside." ”

The people were frightened, hurriedly went home to pack up the gold and silver, ready to escape from Zhenjiang, the news of the people's escape was reported to the Zhenjiang defenders, the generals were Liu Kunyi and Tan Sitong, who were defeated from Jiangyin, Liu Kunyi did not express his position for a while, Tan Sitong stood up, and said solemnly: "General, the people of Zhenjiang are the people of the Qing Dynasty, and they must not succumb to the snitch, and we must not let them go out of the city." ”

Liu Kunyi nodded lightly, "Exactly, my Qing garrison still needs these people to transport ammunition, so they must not be allowed to escape, come here, block the city gate, and not let anyone out." ”

This time Zhenjiang City was in chaos, and the people tried their best to get out of the city, some bribed the soldiers who defended the city, some risked their lives to climb the city wall, and some risked their lives to break into the blockade line of the Qing army, and were shot and killed by the Qing soldiers.

Four hours passed, the first batch of Monkey King airships carrying incendiary bombs, flew to the sky above Zhenjiang City, aimed at the city and dropped incendiary bombs, the entire city fell into a sea of fire, although the ammunition depot and granary of the Qing army fell into a sea of fire, but many people were burned to death by the fire.

The Huaxia agents who had already infiltrated Zhenjiang City began to fan the flames, instigating the people to snatch the weapons of the Qing soldiers and flee from the city.

The Qing soldiers were busy fighting fires, unable to curb the people from escaping, many people fled out of the city, although the people escaped from Zhenjiang City, but there was no food, no clothes, many women were unclothed, at this time there was sporadic light rain in the sky, the people were wet, the river wind blew, extremely cold to the bone.

In the eyes of the Qing army, the people are a group of people, so they killed the people, and the Qing army thought that the people would carry a large amount of gold and silver, so they began to rob, and at the time of robbery, rape and other crimes also occurred from time to time.

After a chaos, more than 3,700 people died, including the people who were burned to death in Zhenjiang City, more than 10,000 people died.

Although a large number of people died, but the Qing army's ammunition depot and granaries were also burned down, the Qing army experienced a great chaos and no longer had the fighting spirit, when the Huaxia army attacked, the whole army retreated without much resistance, the Huaxia army did not take much effort, and took Zhenjiang City.

As soon as the Huaxia army entered Zhenjiang City, they were stunned by the scene in front of them, Zhenjiang City was full of corpses of ordinary people, many of them were scorched black, and it rained lightly in the sky, and the corpses of the people were soaked in blisters, which was miserable.

The Huaxia army immediately collected the corpses and buried them, and the originally prosperous Zhenjiang City turned out to be a dead city......

When the news was reported to Lin Fei, Lin Fei couldn't help but shed tears, this is not to fight Japan, why should he kill so many civilians, it seems that he should not use the means of strategic bombing...... (Welcome to join the Canghai Reader Group QQ Group 423214695)