Due to the destruction of the Combined Fleet, coupled with the fact that the Sasebo Naval Base and the Kure Port Naval Base were bombed the day before yesterday and the day before yesterday, the Japanese people fell into a panic in just a few days, and the Japanese people, who were very confident a few days ago, now seem to have bent over one by one, and the Japanese Okuma Shigenobu Cabinet originally wanted to block the news, but this kind of news spread too fast to prohibit the spread of the news at all.

Seeing this situation, Okuma Shigenobu wanted to resign from Emperor Taisho, and wanted to get out of it, otherwise if he, the prime minister, continued to be the prime minister, once Japan was defeated, he would definitely have to bear the greatest responsibility for the defeat.

However, contrary to his wishes, Emperor Taisho, who was still sober-minded, did not accept Okuma's resignation under the hint of the nine elders, but instead comforted him, telling him not to have a psychological burden and to continue to take on the burden of the cabinet. Okuma Shigenobu was originally a chess piece pushed to the front desk by the nine elders to carry the "Siemens incident", and now this chess piece wants to pick a pawn and quit, how can this work? The senators were furious, and after Okuma Shigenobu came out of the palace, they sent someone to find him and warn him severely, and Okuma Shigenobu who was warned wanted to cry without tears, so he could only return to the cabinet and continue to sit in the prime minister's position to endure the torment.

The taste of enduring the torment is not pleasant, there are several bad news coming every day in the past few days, the day before yesterday was the Sasebo military port was bombed by the Huaguo aircraft group, and it was destroyed in one fell swoop, and yesterday the Kure Harbor naval base was also bombed into ruins, except for the Fuso battleship that was about to be completed in the dock was well preserved, the other factory facilities were almost blown up, the scene was full of flames, thick smoke billowed to the sky, when he received the report, he felt bad, if the Huaguo aircraft group bombed like this every day, It won't be long before the whole of Japan will be bombed into ruins.

Just after Shigenobu Okuma was nervous and in a trance, his secretary opened the door and hurriedly came in and reported in a panic: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister." Something bad happened, I just received a telegram that the Yokosuka naval base was bombed by a group of Chinese planes, and the telegram said that the bombing would start at 9 o'clock. An hour has passed, all the buildings in the base and all the ships in the port have been blown up, and the casualties are extremely heavy. The Chinese fleet is shelling naval hospitals, schools, shipyards, etc."

"W-What? Are you telling the truth? Shigenobu Okuma's face changed dramatically when he heard this, and he got up from his office chair and asked sharply.

When the secretary saw him like this, he was a little frightened, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, Prime Minister, this is a telegram from the Yokosuka Town Guard!" As he spoke, he respectfully handed over the telegram in his hand.

Okuma Shigenobu snatched a little bit of it and hurriedly looked at it, his face suddenly turned extremely pale, and his hand holding the telegram was constantly trembling. The three major naval bases of Sasebo, Kure Port, and Yokosuka were all bombed one after another, and the Japanese Navy was completely finished. Moreover, even the port of Maizuru in the northern part of Kyoto Prefecture was not spared, so the whole of Japan was left with the port of Tokyo and the port of Muroran, two relatively large ports, which still survived, but now that the port of Yokosuka can be bombed, then the port of Tokyo and the port of Muroran will not be able to keep it for long.

Okuma Shigenobu suddenly thought of something, his body was shaking more than his hands, and he muttered to himself: "Yokosuka is adjacent to Yokohama to the north, choking the mouth of Tokyo Bay, and it is the gateway to Tokyo, and it is not far from Tokyo. Since the Chinese can bomb Yokosuka, they must have the ability to bomb Tokyo ??????."

After talking to himself, Shigenobu Okuma's eyes suddenly bulged, and he pointed at the secretary and yelled, "Quick." Tell all the cabinet members to come to the meeting in an hour, and prepare a car for me, and I will go to see His Majesty the Emperor and the senators immediately! ”

"Yes! Your Excellency the Prime Minister".

The streets of Tokyo are crowded with people, and everyone looks nervous, which has not been the case before, but only in the last week. It was all because of the destruction of the main forces of the Japanese naval fleet and the bombing of several major military bases and ports that caused the current situation.

The streets of Tokyo are crowded with people at the door of the grain, oil and food points, almost all of the streets are congested, the consciousness of the merchants and the common people is very keen, after the destruction of the fleet and the bombing of several major military bases and ports, there have been shrewd businessmen who have begun to realize that Japan may be in chaos, and the Chinese are afraid that sooner or later they will come to Japan, so the businessmen began to hoard grain, oil and other daily necessities, and the prices of grain, oil and other daily necessities throughout Japan have begun to rise sharply in the past few days. After hearing the news, the Japanese people were worried that the price of grain and oil would continue to rise in the future, so they rushed to buy it so that the yen would not become waste paper in the future.

At the door of a grain and oil store, Japanese civilians who were waiting in line to buy grain and oil anxiously stretched their necks to look at the sales point in front of them, and everyone hoped that the people in front of them would soon have their turn to buy, because the price of grain, oil and other daily necessities had risen by several times every day in the past few days.

At this time, the owner of the grain and oil store came out, and this short guy took down a sign hanging at the door, hung up the row in his hand, and then turned around and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the price of rice has risen by one yen and the price of flour has risen by one yen today."

"Ah, how can this be? Does this make us live? A Japanese aunt screamed with a sad face.

Seeing this, the others immediately coaxed, "Yes, the price of this rice has risen too fast, boss, your heart is too dark!" ”

The grain and oil store owner's face changed, and he snorted: "Why is it too expensive?" If it's too expensive, you can not buy it, I can tell you, our Japanese food is not enough to eat for ourselves, China has begun to cut off trade with Japan due to the war with our country, the United States is an ally of China, and has also begun to impose a material embargo on us, so we Japan can only import grain from those neutral countries now, but now Sasebo, Kure Port, Maizuru and other major ports have all been blown up, that is to say, even if you can buy grain from neutral countries, you can't transport it in, you can only eat our own grain, In the future, the price of food will only get older and higher, so if you don't buy it now, try it tomorrow? After speaking, ignoring the faces of these Japanese civilians outside, he turned around and entered the store.

"I'll buy it, give me fifty pounds, hurry up!"

"I'll buy it too, give me a hundred catties!"

"Give me a hundred pounds too!"

The owner of the grain and oil store suddenly changed his face, according to the purchase of this amount of the citizens, the stock in the store was afraid that it would be sold short in a morning, this is not good, he still wants to make more money, so he turned around and shouted: "I'm really sorry." Ladies and gentlemen, each person is limited to two catties! ”

At this time, there was a sudden rumbling sound in the sky, and the pedestrians on the street and the people who bought goods couldn't help but look up at the sky, only to see a flock of black and crushed big iron birds flying in the sky in the distance.

"Airplanes, airplanes. That's a Chinese plane! Someone realized something and immediately screamed in panic.

Ordinary Japanese citizens were not aware of the danger posed by this large iron bird, and they all stared blankly at the planes flying overhead, one by one.

At this moment, a hole opened under some planes. "Bird eggs" fell from the façade of the cave entrance, and the speed of these eggs became more and more severe, and soon there was an extremely harsh sound, and many Japanese people on the street could not help but cover their ears.

"Boom", "boom", "boom??????

After the eggs fell, there was a violent explosion, but after the explosion, the gas in the area where it was blown up was raging, and these fires became more and more intense, and the wind began to spread around, and people on the street saw with their own eyes that a nine-story building was blown up beyond recognition. Soon collapsed.

A fighter jet lowered and began to fly towards the street, it swept over the street, and saw two terrifying tongues of fire sprayed out from the nose of the plane, forming a black torrent on the street, and the Japanese who were fleeing in front of them suddenly flew flesh and blood, and were torn to pieces by these two metal storms, and the plane flew from this end of the street to the other side of the street, it only took a few seconds, but after it disappeared, the street was like being ploughed by a big iron plow, and there were countless corpses lying on the street. Each corpse was mutilated, and blood soon stained the street red.

But when the planes arrived and began bombing and strafing, the whole of Tokyo was in chaos, and the citizens were scurrying around like headless flies. Citizens who were still sober hurriedly ran to their homes to find their loved ones.

At this time, no country had the concept of air defense, no empty positions were deployed around the city, no underground bomb shelters were built in the city, and after the bombing of the aircraft group began, almost all the Japanese thought that it would be safe only to hide in their houses. And many people do the same, after some people run into the street shop pù to hide, others also follow into the street shop pù, but they don't know that this will only make them die faster.

Incendiary bombs fell from the sky, a large number of screams spread in all directions, followed by a series of explosions, and then the fire began to burn at the explosion site, and quickly began to spread, incendiary bombs are used in this era There are many houses in Tokyo that are wooden, and the lethality is almost several times that of other countries and regions, because wooden houses are very easy to catch fire, and the incendiary bombs set these wooden houses on fire after the explosion, the spacing of the houses on the street is too small, the fire is easy to spread, in a very short time, The houses on both sides of the street were burned.

Countless screams rang out in the fire, and many Japanese who were all on fire ran out of the burning houses, stumbled and ran on the street, and soon fell to the ground and were burned to death, but the fire on the corpses was not extinguished.

Before that, Japanese Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma was in the palace to meet with Emperor Taisho and the elders, he reported the news that Yokosuka was blown up by the Chinese aircraft group to the emperor and the senators, the emperor fell into fear after hearing it, and the senators were all solemn, this situation is too strict, after all, Tokyo is not far from Yokosuka, since the Chinese aircraft group can bomb Yokosuka, it can completely bomb Tokyo, thinking that the Chinese aircraft group can bomb Tokyo, the senators suddenly couldn't sit still.

"We must find a way to curb the bombing behavior of the Chinese aircraft group, otherwise if they are allowed to bomb again, the Japanese Empire will be finished sooner or later!" Xiyuan Temple Gongwang said with a solemn face.

Emperor Taisho said: "Is there any way for you?" ”

Kuroda Kiyotaka said: "I have studied it in the past few days, and I found that there are only two ways to deal with Huaguo's aircraft group, the first is to use planes to deal with aircraft, and the second is to use ground weapons to shoot at the air!" And we don't have any planes that can be used in air operations now, only a few reconnaissance planes purchased from the United States, and ground-to-air weapons, which our ordnance research department is developing, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve results in the short term! ”

Everyone else knows that neither of these methods will work, Japan does not have an aircraft industry, not even aircraft researchers, let alone build its own aircraft to fight against the Chinese aircraft fleet, and the research and development of air weapons is not so easy, even after the research is completed, it also wants time to produce, not to mention that there has not been any news from the research department.

None of the others could think of a good way to deal with the bombing of the Chinese planes, so everyone looked to Yamaguchi Aritomo, the most powerful senator in Japan since the death of Hirobumi Ito. Just now, Youpeng in Shan County didn't speak, and his eyes kept drooping.

Feeling that all eyes were on him, Shan Youpeng opened his eyes and said slowly in his old voice: "Now we have two choices: first, temporarily bear the bombardment of the Chinese man-machine group, and ask our ally Germany for help, hoping that they will provide us with the shooting drawings of the combat aircraft and the technicians who built the aircraft. On the one hand, we are withstanding the attack of Huaguo, and on the other hand, we are secretly producing and manufacturing aircraft, but we will suffer great losses before our aircraft can be scaled, and it is very likely that we will be defeated by Huaguo before we can support the manufacture of aircraft groups. Second, seek peace with China. You can discuss how to choose! ”

After listening to the words of Youpeng in Shan County, everyone thought about it, and thought that there were indeed only these two options to choose now, if Japan did not want to ask Germany for help, it would be difficult to resist the bombing of the Chinese side, and the navy was completely destroyed, so what was the use of the army no matter how powerful it was? Planes are dropping bombs on your head every day, who can hold on? It won't be long before the economy will collapse after all the big cities are bombed, and Japan will destroy itself without China coming in.

Just as everyone was weighing, roars and explosions came from afar, and the ground began to shake from time to time, and everyone was shocked, what was going on? I was about to send someone out to inquire about the situation, when an official opened the door and came in anxiously and said: "Your Majesty, my lords, it's not good, the Chinese planes are coming to bomb Tokyo!" ”

What the? Emperor Taisho was so frightened that he rolled his eyes and fell, causing the elders to scramble for a while. (To be continued.) )xh118R1052