Chapter 247: The Bombing of Tokyo
Tada Jun lay on the car window and stared vigilantly outside, the small southern pistol in his hand made him hold a cold sweat, saying that Commander Tada also had blood on the battlefield, it is said that he would not be so nervous, but now it is not good, as the so-called people are old, Diao is small, even Sister Kawashima doesn't like to play with him in recent years, he has drunk alcohol in Haiguang Temple for almost two years, and he has already polished the sharpness of the year, and he is now thinking about how to save his old life.
In fact, if he hadn't vaguely heard that the Japanese captured by Yang Feng were all sent to Chongqing to open mines, he was not so resistant to surrender, and he naturally understood what the so-called mining was all about, and those laborers who were deceived to Hokkaido from Northeast China and North Korea were basically equivalent to humane destruction, so this road was resolutely not taken, and if he really wanted to be tortured to death like that, it would be better to cut his stomach with a knife! In that way, you can still earn a good reputation, of course, the most perfect escape to the Italian concession, and then the country will definitely have to find a way to get yourself out, a major general is also a very humiliating thing, the War Department will not let this kind of thing happen.
At this time, a scream outside made him shudder.
"It's Yamaguchi-kun!" The driver of the car said indignantly, and then the car stopped suddenly, and the guards next to him also pulled out their pistols, apparently ready to go down to rescue their compatriots.
"Leave him alone and move on!" Commander Tada shouted loudly, and after saying that, he looked at Yamaguchi who was dragged out of the car with sympathetic eyes, and the two fools hesitated for a moment and seemed to have come to their senses, and hurriedly started the car again.
"Yamaguchi-kun, it's not that I don't save you, it's that the Chinese are too cruel, and besides, you have sold opium in Tianjin for so many years, and how many Chinese families have been ruined, and now it's time to pay a price." Commander Tada was in the midst of a scream from outside. Silently praying that Yamaguchi-kun would escape this fate.
Poor opium dealer Yamaguchi, punched and kicked by dozens of Chinese, soon screamed quieter and quieter, and soon became inaudible, and then his new wife, who had just married this year, was also dragged out of the car. He was carried into the crowd by four strong Chinese men, and he didn't know what he was doing.
However, this also gave Commander Tada a wake-up call, he quickly closed the curtains, and then left only a slit to peek out, and the further he went, the more similar things happened, and he even saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child rushing out with a revolvol, and then shining a shot at a Japanese man in the chest.
"It's so brutal, it's too violent!" Commander Tada couldn't help but shudder, he found out for the first time that the Chinese could be so terrible.
The fleeing Japanese turned a blind eye to such things as he did. Now it would be good to be able to save their lives, and many people also took out valuables from themselves like flattery, pouted their butts and sent them to those Chinese who did not have good intentions towards them, and even one seemed to have met an acquaintance, and pushed his wife into the other party's arms with his own hands.
Commander Tada's little Nissan hid in the flow of refugees, and finally slowly moved to the south end of the Jintang Bridge, which was separated by a river between the Italian Concession and the Japanese Concession, but at this time there were three bridges on the Haihe River. The Jingang Bridge is too far away, and the nearest Wanguo Bridge is in the French Concession. The French have already sealed the concession, so in addition to taking a boat or swimming over, they can only take this Jintang Bridge, countless Japanese expatriates and Chinese gangsters who took advantage of the fire to rob the water here are blocked, of course, it is not safe to take a boat or swim over, and there are small boats on the river to wander again. Looking at the boatman's hand not a penny, but a spear, you can see what they do.
The situation here is even more chaotic, from time to time in the crowded crowd you can see a Japanese being pressed to the ground and beaten violently, and even gunshots are heard from time to time, as for things being robbed and women being dragged away, it is not worth mentioning. Commander Tada even saw a man struggling to be dragged away, and the entire bridge was filled with the wails and screams of the Japanese, and from time to time there was even a Japanese corpse running under the wheels.
"General, what should I do?" The driver's face turned white with fright, and he turned his head and asked Tada Jun tremblingly, even the guard's hand with the gun was trembling.
Tada Jun was also stupid, but at this time he suddenly saw an acquaintance, at the bridge head of the Jintang Bridge, a young gang boss who had a good relationship with him was sitting comfortably on a chair with a small teapot, and dozens of loaded men next to him blocked the bridge, all the fleeing Japanese had to pay the road money first, and this guy was also the culprit who caused the congestion at the bridgehead.
Tada Jun gritted his teeth, looked at a Japanese corpse outside, quietly opened the car door a crack, and then dragged the guy into the car, quickly took off his clothes and changed them himself, and then opened the car door and walked out of the car under the stunned eyes of his two companions, and quickly got into the crowd with his head down.
This guy, a dry old man who was almost sixty, was not interested in him, so he quickly slipped to the bridge, and then approached the boss of the Green Gang, bowed and said, "Yuan Jun!"
The boss of the Green Gang looked at him in astonishment, and after seeing this guy's face clearly, he immediately whispered: "General Tada, why do you dare to come out now?"
His attitude moved Commander Tada to tears.
"Yuan Jun, please, as long as you can escort me to the Italian Concession, there will be a good reward in the future." He pouted.
"Oh, this, this is a big risk, if people know about it, I don't want to continue to mix in Tianjin Wei." The boss of the Green Gang said in embarrassment.
Tada gritted his teeth, looked at a Japanese girl who was being carefully searched next to him, and then pulled out a key.
"This is the key to my Citibank personal safe, and with the key and my signature you can take out the contents of it." His heart was bleeding as he spoke, and it was full of antiques.
"How embarrassing is that!" Boss Yuan rubbed his hands and said with a smile, of course, he was just habitually polite, and soon Commander Tada, who had paid enough protection money, went to Jintang Bridge.
Looking at his back, Boss Yuan behind him suddenly frowned, and then exchanged glances with a dog-headed military advisor-like guy next to him.
The dog-headed military advisor made a movement to wipe his neck, and Boss Yuan nodded slightly.
Commander Tada didn't know anything about the situation behind him, and just as he breathed a sigh of relief and celebrated in his heart that he had finally escaped, the two Green Gang minions who were supposed to escort him suddenly grabbed his shoulders one by one.
"Yuan Jun, what do you mean by this?" Tada Jun looked at Boss Yuan and said in amazement.
"Nothing. I just want to regret it. Boss Yuan said with a smile, and then pushed him into the Haihe River, and then took out the fast and slow machine, and a box of bullets hit him in the back.
At the same time as Commander Tada's screams of grief and indignation rang out, the street lights that had been on suddenly went out, and not only the street lights. All the lights in Tianjin were extinguished at once, and even the Italian and Japanese concessions were instantly darkened.
"The moon is dark and the wind is high, killing people and preventing fire!" Boss Yang of Beiping said with a wine glass like a poem.
The city's blackout was a trick, and as soon as the power went out, the special brigade under his command, which had long been changed into civilian clothes, immediately rushed into the Japanese concession and began a large-scale raid.
"I'm afraid that this will easily cause bad effects, right?" Liu Haining said a little puzzled, he really couldn't understand why his prospective son-in-law had such a strong interest in robbing the Japanese.
"Influencing this thing doesn't need to be considered at all for the truly strong. Only when the weak are hiding their cowardice, will they take out this thing as a shield, and we just want to use tonight's events to tell the world that in this place of Pingjin, we can do whatever we want, and no one is qualified to say anything else. Besides, if you talk about the impact or something, isn't it just propaganda? A million smashed down, I said black is black. When I say white, I'm white!" Boss Yang said arrogantly.
How many Japanese died and how many disappeared that night. Many years later, many historians still believe that the so-called Tianjin incident was nothing more than a lie made up by some Western countries with ulterior motives to sow discord between China and Japan. This view is still very popular in Japan.
The next day, after 24 hours, the Pingjin SAR Government officially announced that it would take over the Japanese concession in Tianjin, and all property owned by the Japanese, except for the Japanese consulate and diplomatic personnel, would be confiscated. At present, all the Japanese who are still stranded in the Pingjin Special Administrative Region are imprisoned in concentration camps, but the SAR government will not be responsible for their lives, if the Japanese government cannot send money to buy food and drink for them, then these people will be sent to Sichuan to build a railway, and all the original Japanese garrisons in the Pingjin Special Administrative Region have very wisely chosen to disarm and surrender after the ultimatum of the security division, and Major General Tadajun, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in North China, is missing.
As for what happened last night, the SAR government will not give an explanation, and some Chinese people with a strong sense of justice are just overly emotional and have committed some understandable acts because the former Japanese concession openly shielded illegal businessmen and traffickers and forced them to act as chang.
"You can't let those opium dealers take the hard-earned money they cheated from the Chinese and bring it home in such a grand manner, right? Give me back what I take, and spit it out if I eat mine!" Yang Feng, chairman of the Military Committee of the Upper House of the Pingjin Special Administrative Region, made such a blatant clamour.
Just as he was saying this, a merchant captain on the Haihe River, looking at the floating Japanese corpses in the reddened river, shouted at his son: "Go home and tell your mother that you are not allowed to buy fish for two months."
The Tianjin incident completely detonated the atmosphere of war between China and Japan, all the Japanese newspapers clamored to punish the tyranny, and the same large-scale expulsion of the Japanese occurred in various parts of the north one after another, but Han Fuyu, who was Yang Feng's ally, did not follow suit, this point was actually discussed by Yang Feng and him, Song Zheyuan, Fu Zuoyi, these people can do whatever they want, but Shandong can't, and the retaliation of the Japanese Navy must be taken into account.
The southern skinheads are still arguing with Japan, anyway, there is only one principle, we can't control this matter, and if we are in a hurry, we will complain to the Japanese, and you must also understand our difficulties, and it is not a day before these places are disobedient to the central government, if you see that they are not pleasing to the eye, you can teach them a lesson yourself, and we will not interfere.
Of course, the latter point is expressed in a very subtle way in private.
International public opinion pretended not to see this incident, and apart from a few Italian newspapers reporting it, even the German newspapers did not report it much, but now the Ming Daily, which is becoming more and more influential, has devoted almost a full page to describing the filthy places in the Japanese concession area of Tianjin, and there are more than 500 tobacco houses and more than 100 brothels in a small area alone, and it would be a shame for human civilization not to ban such places in a hurry.
Tomorrow's Daily is not an ordinary newspaper now, and although it doesn't like to talk about high-grade issues, it is extremely popular among the people in Europe and the United States with the serialization of various popular novels. In addition, if you occasionally engage in a small prophecy that usually comes true, it is also a world-wide newspaper that can go hand in hand with the New York Times, the British Daily Mail, and the French newspaper Figaro. The Japanese will not receive much sympathy.
Now that Yang Feng's torpedo boats have been expanded to 30 ships, in fact, Yang Feng does not count on them, these things are only used to strengthen the confidence of the capitalists in Pingjin, and the Japanese really want to have an attempt to land at Dagukou. It is nothing more than using mines to seal the Bohai Sea, but this method is a double-edged sword, and it cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary.
On the Japanese side, the 14th Division and the 103rd Division were transferred to the Northeast, and at the same time, the only armored unit, the 1st Tank Brigade, was transferred to the Northeast.
Of course, it was impossible for Yang Feng to wait for these troops to arrive.
Beiping, Nanyuan Airport.
At night, the airport is busy, and countless ground staff are busy nervously. Loading napalm bombs onto the plane, Yang Feng's production base on Weishan Island. Now more than 1,000 tons of napalm have been produced, all of which are stored in the arsenal in Xishan, and Boss Yang is thinking that the number is a bit too much, and he is not at ease to stay by his side! So he was going to throw it all out, and it was directly to the Japanese mainland.
He wants to use thunderous means to beat the Japanese honestly at once. Save yourself thinking about yourself every day, to be honest, this misjudgment made him feel very shameless, and he felt extremely angry that the Japanese didn't take the bald guy first, but came to him for trouble.
More than 100 pilots are now listening attentively to Boss Yang's lecture.
"We only have forty Liberator bombers, so we have to deal the hardest blow to the Japanese. Bomb their capital directly, Tokyo. Yang Feng pointed to the map with his titanium alloy scepter, and the pilots were stunned one by one.
"Boss, it's impossible for us to get fighter escorts at such a distance. One of the pilots cautiously said that they thought it was the bombing of Nagasaki! If it is to bomb Nagasaki, although it is close to the limit of the combat radius, the twin demons that take off from Muping can still provide them with escorts, and Yang Feng's version of the twin demons is actually more than 900 kilometers in combat radius because the weight of the structure is much lighter than the original.
"Escort? You don't need an escort, do you still need an escort for night bombing? Could it be that Japan still has night fighters?" Yang Feng said dissatisfied.
The pilot didn't dare to speak again, but what he said was really good, night bombing didn't need escort at all, but night bombing was also difficult to aim, unless, like the last bombing of Lushun, Boss Yang provided the mysterious guide plane again.
"This time you have no guidance, everything is up to you, because the distance is more than two thousand kilometers, so each liberator can only carry two tons of napalm, in order to achieve the maximum bombing effect, your main targets this time are the two districts of Honsho and Mukaijima, which are the most densely populated areas in Japan and the main industrial areas in Tokyo.
In order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, you will drop bombs at an altitude of 1,000 meters, all pilots will be equipped with night vision devices, and your air defense weapons will also be dismantled, so that you can bring some more bombs, so this bombing may be dangerous, I do not force you to go, if you don't want to go, you can quit. Boss Yang said.
A group of pilots looked at each other, no one withdrew, this kind of thing is exciting to think about, how can they be willing to quit, especially those who have been nurtured by Japan's travel in China over the years, they have long been eager to go to Japan to kill people and set fires, and now that the opportunity has come, they naturally can't miss it.
Besides, although this bombing sounds very dangerous, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, there is no danger at all, first of all, Japan does not have night fighters, so the biggest danger is gone, and secondly, Yang Daboss's night vision device looks at ground targets at an altitude of 1,000 meters, which is not much different from the daytime, but it is very difficult for the Japanese to see the planes in the sky on the ground, and now Japan's main air defense weapons, that is, some 25-mm anti-aircraft guns, this thing shoots at a height of 2,000 meters, and the rate of fire is so low that it makes people cry, and it is mainly a time fuse, It is a miracle that they can hit a target at a height of 1,000 meters at night, and besides, the Japanese could not have imagined that Tokyo would be attacked by air raids, so whether they can react at that time is a different matter!
"Very well, I'll give you a bonus when you come back." Boss Yang was very satisfied with this result and decided to boost morale again.
"Boss, what if I accidentally hurt the residential area?" One of the pilots asked again.
This kind of thing is indeed a great psychological burden on the pilots of horizontal bombers, and their bombing methods determine that accidental injury is absolute, especially this kind of bombing in densely populated areas, if you don't drop half of the bombs on the heads of the people, it is simply sorry for your identity.
"Houses? Our goal is to bomb Japan's land, but aren't Japan's houses on Japan's land?" Boss Yang said inexplicably. (To be continued......)