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9:10 a.m., Komatsu Island in the eastern part of Shikoku Island.

Two American-made DC-3 transport planes landed at the field airfield on time, and after the hatch opened, several senior naval officers such as Isoroku Yamamoto and Nagumo walked out. They quickly got into the sedan and hurried to the docks.

As we all know, during the Saudi statehood crisis, China's long-range air force has attracted widespread attention from countries around the world, when China has begun mass production of Y-5 tactical transport aircraft similar to the DC3. In order to balance the situation, the U.S. Congress made a far-reaching deal during this period, which was to make a P-26 fighter jet and a DC-3 transport plane. Although the engine models were all replaced, it also bankrupted Yang Qiu's previous plan to influence the design of the engine through a white-shouldered fighter plane during the Sakhalin crisis. Rì also tried to imitate it itself according to the introduced model, but it was not successful because the technology was not up to par. Even so, the DC-3 was introduced as a landline for high-ranking officers such as Yamamoto because of its reliability.

Soon after the car arrived at Komatsushima Port, it was diverted to the southern mountains. After crossing a hill, a huge battleship appeared in the bay, and this was the Musashi, the second ship of the Yamato-class battleships. Construction of the Musashi began in Nagasaki at the end of 1937, and outfitting began in the early 40s. With the outbreak of the Sino-Chinese War, especially when Sasebo and the cities of Kyushu were bombed, the Rìmoto Navy moved it here to continue outfitting in order to avoid losses.

The Battle of Wake Island not only made the world aware of the strength of the Chinese Navy, but also recognized the new type of naval battle, the amazing achievements of the battleship Yamato and the scene that caused chaos in the US fleet at the last moment, but also made the world's naval powers once again set off a discussion about the status of battleships. With China's Shandong-class No. 2 ship commissioned at the end of May, and the No. 3 and No. 4 ships were launched and 80 percent completed, Admirals, including Yamamoto Isoroku, believed that the Yamato and Musashi could form a perfect two-ship pair, regain sea supremacy and reverse the war. Therefore, in the case of successively obtaining three modified escort aircraft carriers, the Dragon Phoenix, the Flying Eagle and the Hayabusa, he still has great enthusiasm for the Musashi.

At this time, the Musashi had already installed the second turret, and the installation of the third turret and the ship island was underway. Taking into account the lethality of the aircraft, a large number of improvements were also made in the outfitting, a lot of anti-aircraft guns were installed. "How long will it take?" Yamamoto fifty-six ** took the gangway and climbed to the deck step by step.

"Report to the Admiral, in six months, the Musashi will be completed." The Mitsubishi designer, who was in charge of outfitting, briefed the officers on the progress.

"Six months?" Knowing that it would take another six months, Yamamoto's eyebrows slowly twisted together. Truk is finished, Wake Island is not defended, and Marshall and Gilbert certainly can't hold on. Under these circumstances, the Chinese Navy's attacks on the Okinawa Islands and Malacca have become clear. Since the end of last year, the Chinese Navy has gathered troops and supplies to Fujian, Hangzhou Bay, and other places. So far, a total of more than 1,000 ships of various types have been assembled, including more than 400 landing ships/boats alone. The four Běijīng-class battleships and one Shandong-class battleship have all been transferred to Qingdao and Shanghai, the second Shandong-class battleship will be commissioned at the end of May, and the four main aircraft carriers that attacked the Marshall have also returned to Guam, plus the second batch of four escort aircraft carriers have been delivered one after another, and the two aircraft carriers under repair have also been re-commissioned, so that there are actually five battleships, six main aircraft carriers, three escort aircraft carriers, 10 heavy cruisers, and 15 light cruisers around Okinawa.

Faced with a decisive battle that was likely to break out in a few weeks, the Musashi was anxious to wait six months.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the ** naval attack on Okinawa is about to begin, do you have any strategy?" Yamamoto walked over to the railing, his hands propped up on the railing, his face worried. Vice Takeshi Toyoda secretly rolled his eyes, what is the strategy at this time? It's nothing more than a desperate fight. But since Yamamoto asked, he still replied first: "Okinawa is the southern barrier of the empire, and the army has sent Umezu Yoshijiro as the commander of the garrison, with a total of 320,000 imperial soldiers stationed there. Among them, Okinawa and Anmi Oshima have the most, with 200,000 and 80,000. ”

Although Vice Takeshi Toyoda is a first-class senior general in the navy, Yamamoto dislikes him very much because he is too "rap", that is, he talks too much nonsense. Therefore, since the beginning of the war, Toyota's main job has been to manage logistics in Kure Town, almost the same as Ozawa Jizaburo before the Battle of the Marianas, belonging to the "pension worker". Now, despite the victory at Wake Island, which has kept the United States out of the Southwest Pacific and Northeast Asia, and has eliminated the need for Rìmoto to be attacked on his back, Yamamoto still has no intention of using him. So when I saw him, I started to "rap" again, and interrupted dissatisfiedly: "Toyoda-kun, I'm asking about our navy." ”

"I don't think it's okay to be pessimistic." Unlike Toyota, the open Tsukahara became famous in the Battle of Wake Island and is already a well-deserved pillar of the navy. So as soon as he spoke, everyone's eyes were on him. "We also have six aircraft carriers and six battleships (Yamato, Nagato, Mutsu, Kongo, Hiei, Haruna. The Kirishima was docked for repairs due to serious injuries on Wake Island, not calculated), and still has the power to fight! The most important thing now is to get Haruna back as soon as possible.

I believe that the empire has been ruling Okinawa for decades, and after the last war, we saw it and Korea as the forefront of the confrontation, and built a complete shore artillery and fortress. So although ** gathered a large number of troops, they also had a lot of difficulties, the most difficult is the distance! Ladies and gentlemen, from the ** coast to Okinawa, close to 700 kilometers, at the speed of the landing ship, the time exposed to us is one day and one night! Not to mention the fact that there are many islands in the Okinawa archipelago, we can take advantage of the speed of small ships. ”

Tsukahara exuberantly analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the Okinawa defense battle in detail, and the key to distance was repeatedly raised by him. Yamamoto's fifty-six eyes turned, the width of the ocean of 700 kilometers, if you can make good use of the speed of the destroyer and the concealment of the submarine, with the numerous fortress guns and aircraft on the island, plus the main force of the fleet, it is indeed a fight. If you can beat it here, no! As long as you sink three or four aircraft carriers of the Chinese Navy, the forces of the enemy and the enemy and the tide of the war can be turned in an instant. If the allies can finally drag out the war for two years and win in Europe, they may be able to bring big surprises.

Therefore, the top priority is to transfer back the Haruna battleship that is out and gather its fists. So he asked, "Where is the Haruna now?" ”

"Supporting Marshall in Nauru, going to Rabaul next week to refuel and then leaving for home." Nagumo said.

"Let them come back quickly, time is running out." After Yamamoto finished speaking, he looked at the blue sea again, and there was always an indescribable worry in his heart, but he couldn't think of a loophole there. Just as he was about to continue to inquire about the specific battle plan, a rumbling motor sound came into his ears. Leaning over, an officer was climbing up the gangway from the motorboat to the deck. "Your Excellency, General! The Tokuyama Garrison reported that ** spy and reconnaissance aircraft were found. "Yamamoto took the telegram casually, is there still less spy and reconnaissance planes in Rìmoto? So he and the others didn't pay attention at first, until they read the full text of the telegram, and their faces changed greatly: "Not good! It's time to bomb the Tokuyama refinery! "Tokuyama is the largest "oil house" of the Rìmoto Navy, and its strategic value is extremely great. So when they heard that the Chinese Air Force was going to bomb Tokuyama, Tsukahara and others were also shocked. But he was not too nervous, because the refinery and storage tanks exposed to the surface were only a small part of the "oil house", and even if the refinery was bombed, as long as the underground oil depot was fine, the crude oil could be transported to Yokohama and other places for refining and processing. Can underground oil depots be in danger? They didn't believe this, because the shallowest part of the underground oil depot was several meters from the surface, and it was reinforced with cement and steel to protect against the armor-piercing shells of the battleship Yamato.

They are indeed confident, and even General Li Mei in the parallel world has no way to take the Deshan oil depot. But if Rìmoto's intelligence can be extended to Central Asia, perhaps it will not be optimistic. "Toyoda-kun, please help contact the Army. Let them dispatch all the fighters in the Seto Inland Sea, Shikoku and Kyushu, and be sure to protect Tokuyama! After Yamamoto was nervous, he also calmed down and asked Deputy Toyoda to contact the Army. A trace of dissatisfaction flashed on Toyota's round face, the whole navy knew that he and the army were the most incompatible, but let him contact the army, this was not deliberately embarrassing! However, for the sake of Deshan's oil depot, he still nodded, and he was not afraid that the army would not help, after all, the reserve oil army of Deshan's oil depot also had a share.

After Toyota informed the Army that the Chinese Air Force was going to bomb the Tokuyama oil depot, the Rìmoto Army Air Force near the Seto Inland Sea was almost completely mobilized. In less than an hour, 400 97 Marine, Falcon, and Zero Battles were gathered, and even the Wu Zhen Guard Mansion of the Navy mobilized 38 Zero Battles to meet them.

At 11:30 a.m., when the naval zero battle of Wu Zhenfu arrived over Deshan, the 111 Squadron led by Gao Zhihang drilled into the Bungo Waterway at the same time.

"Protect the bombers! The hussar brigade follows me! ”

Almost as soon as the rì aircraft was discovered, the 78 Jian-8 "Tianquan" protecting the 111 Squadron swooped down from the altitude in batches. As a cutting-edge fighter of the Air Force, the "Tianquan" has participated in many battles, but because the performance of the "double electricity" is too good, and the equipment time is short, it does not have too outstanding performance. However, as an air supremacy fighter similar to the famous P51 Mustang fighter, the "Tianquan" has been developed with the goal of seizing air supremacy, so whether it is speed or ability, it is no less than dual electricity, and the high-altitude Xìng energy is even better. The only drawback was that the laminar wing limited the use of large-caliber cannons, so only six 12.7 mm machine guns were installed.

The scene of the Truk air battle reappeared, and the "Tianquan", which used the new tactics of multi-layer 44 in one domain, quickly defeated the rì aircraft and isolated the bombing channel for the 111 squadron. "Hammer calls the hussars, Hammer calls the hussars, help me cover for three minutes!"

"The hussars understand, the hussars understand."

After Gao Zhihang called the fighter to cover, he led the wingman to speed up and rush towards Deshan first. The number of anti-aircraft guns of the Rì army in Deshan was large, but most of them were small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and after climbing to 6,000 meters, this type of firepower could no longer threaten bombers, and only the 75 and 105 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns were threatening. However, these two types of anti-aircraft guns were few in number, and they were almost not powerful in the face of bombers in a mere 8 scattered formations.

"Prepare to drop the bomb!"

After the bomb bay door opened, the air flow caused the bomber to shake violently, and Gao Zhihang and his comrades worked hard to stabilize the plane and gave the bomb dropping order. "Number one out of the cabin! Start tracking. "The radio navigator lay in front of the nose bombing sight, while loudly giving feedback on the bomb leaving the plane, while looking at the red signal light at the tail of the bomb, and using the radio joystick** to control the radio-guided ground-penetrating bomb named No. 25.

The No. 25 radio-penetrating bomb is actually a combination of the No. 20 ground-penetrating bomb that made a big splash in Tashkent and the "Rolling Thunder" radio-guided bomb used during the raid on Sasebo. It is also modified from a captured Soviet-made 203-mm barrel, with a sharp special tungsten alloy warhead in the head and a radio-guided control component of "Rolling Thunder" in the tail. The total weight of the bomb was 3370 kg, the maximum drop height was 6500 meters, the distance was 4000 meters, and the hit radius was 20 meters. It is theoretically possible to penetrate up to 30 meters of soil or 6 meters of solid concrete fortifications, and the H-7 bomber can carry one at a time.

In order to ensure the hit, the tactic of bombing one target at the same time was adopted by two aircraft. The two bombers smashed into the air 1,500 meters apart, and the tail signal lights and radio frequencies of the two bombs in each group were different to ensure that they would not interfere with each other to the greatest extent.

Approximately twenty seconds later, the two bombs penetrated into squares 126 and 127 almost simultaneously.

In the eyes of the Yamamoto and Rìmoto navies, they were disappointed by the layers of earth and concrete, which could not be penetrated even with the armor-piercing shells of the main gun of the Yamato, and the two No. 25 shells penetrated the bunker layer almost effortlessly. One exploded deep into the depot where 100,000 tons of aviation gasoline were stored, and the other exploded into the fire pumping room.

From the sky, the bomb burrowed into the soil, emitted two clouds of green smoke, and then fell for about three to five seconds, and the lens of the sight and the onboard camera gun was violently distorted. At that moment, the whole earth shook violently, the surface of the earth rose and fell like waves, and the trees and rocks seemed to flip over! Like a volcano before an eruption, the low mountain rises rapidly, then the earth and rocks are tossed by the heat wave that expands and arches, and rushes up to a height of 15 kilometers into the sky! A grayish-brown sè mud dragon is formed. Before the mud dragon could spread, clumps, strands, clumps of burning oil erupted from the ground, looking like hundreds of oil wells had been ignited and exploded at the same time. These pillars of fire were wrapped in the blast wave of the explosion, and then quickly spread out in all directions, eventually forming a smoke mass with a diameter of three kilometers. The whistling shock wave, clinging to the surface and spreading in all directions, pushed all the buildings in the harbor and the adjacent residential area, and the heavy oil gushing out flowed everywhere like magma.

If what the sky sees is only the appearance, then the "oil house" soldiers, who were hiding in the underground oil depot and were complacent and unworried before, have no chance of surviving. When the first two bombs exploded, the concrete walls of the gasoline depot burst open, and the ignited gasoline burst into countless flames, spewing out of the gaps and gaps, quickly spreading to the oil pipes, filling the aisles, and the arranging arranging fire pumps and isolation belts did not even do anything. It was only then that the "Oil House" soldiers realized that they thought they could block the most powerful bombs, and that the solid bunker they thought could defend themselves had actually become a sealed pod from which there was no escape, and wherever they fled, they would be mercilessly consumed by the flames.

"Hit! Hit! ”

"Two, follow up!"

Under the command of Yan Baohang, eight H-7s completed bomb dropping one after another. In hindsight, six of the eight No. 25 ground-penetrating bombs were in the middle of the oil depot, while the remaining two exploded at other locations in the underground oil depot. Of the total seven oil depots, five were directly destroyed, and the remaining two were also leaked and burned in the explosion.

A full three million reserves of oil! Burst out with nearly 200,000 tons of equivalent explosive power! The entire Dekushan anchorage is uprooted! Even Matsuyama and other places, dozens of kilometers away, felt trembling like a strong earthquake, and the smoke clouds continued for two days and two nights, and even there were burning fires in the nearby area half a month later.

Without waiting for the rì army and the rì himself, who was witnessing everything, to react, 236 bombers rushed out of the black smoke and carried out a second bombardment of residential areas and oil refineries! Dense bombs and napalm drilled out from under the belly of the aircraft, and countless fireballs rumbled up in Tokuyama.

Tokuyama, a small city with a population of less than 300,000 before the war, only less than 20,000 people living in the mountains survived, and the rest were choked or burned to death by poisonous smoke! Ninety-nine percent of the city's total burned and damaged area is covered! The poisonous black smoke not only completely enveloped Tokuyama, but also spread to nearby Shimomatsu, Hofu, and even the Kunisaki Peninsula across the sea.

However, this is only the beginning, and a larger bombing is already ready to set sail...... (To be continued.) )