Chapter 1076: The Beginning
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Explosions rumbled in Niigata Prefecture, and heavy artillery shells and rockets from the sea rained down with impunity. In the sky, the kamikaze suicide plane painted with chrysanthemum patterns was swept down one by one before it approached the shoreline, pulling black smoke straight to the ground. Houses were destroyed, trees were broken, trenches were flattened section by section, four- and five-story reinforced concrete buildings collapsed in the shock wave, and blood and flesh flew in the fields on the road, and broken earth and rotten trees were .......
This picture is absolutely disgraceful in the military history of Japan. The escort aircraft carrier "Li Guang", the escort aircraft carrier "Huo Quai", the heavy cruiser "Changsha", the heavy cruiser "Taiwan Island", the light cruiser "Xijiang", the fire support ship "Foton", the fire support ship "Putian", the French battleship "Dunkirk", the battleship "Strasbourg", the Korean Navy "Han River" (formerly the Yangtze River of China, ' Naval Adjustment', this ship has been sold so it has been modified) The Japanese Sea artillery bombardment formation, consisting of light cruisers and twelve destroyers, carried out a fierce and destructive shelling of the entire city from a sea surface 20 kilometers off the coast of Niigata.
In the skies above the fleet, a high-altitude and long-range early warning reconnaissance plane commanded more than 60 Air Force Jian-8 "Tianquan" fighters and Navy "Lightning" fighters to freely hunt and kill all kinds of kamikaze planes flying on the island. A kamikaze with no landing gear and only one-way fuel was shot down like snowflakes with inexperienced young pilots.
The Japanese kamikaze attack team has been frequent since the beginning of the Ryukyu Campaign, and has also achieved the record of seriously damaging escort aircraft carriers, damaging nearly 100 ships, and sinking dozens of ships. But after a brutal war of attrition in the sea and air that lasted for half a year, it was already difficult for them to achieve results. Especially after the Wehrmacht introduced new air defense tactics in response to kamikaze attacks, such images are now common. The navy's shipborne long-range anti-aircraft radar and long-range early warning reconnaissance aircraft are the command core. The Air Force's J-6 "Double-Headed Jiao" and "Tianquan" fighters set up a long-range interception defense line, the Navy's "Lightning" mid-level killing, a large number of 120 mm and 85 mm anti-aircraft guns used VT shells to protect the inner ring, and finally the multi-layer tactics supplemented by a large number of 40 mm anti-aircraft guns are very effective, even China's own sea and air ace pilots said. In order to continuously break through the two radar networks of the sea and the sky, it is really difficult to have a four-layer fire defense line.
In this new tactic, which is called "long-range interception," the Navy's three Y-9 long-range early warning and reconnaissance planes have played an important role, and it is precisely they that provide a guarantee for the fighters' long-range interception. Although the anti-clutter capability of the radar needs to be improved, the efficiency of air defense interception has increased by dozens of times, so that long-range air superiority fighters can take off in advance and lay in ambush for a long time. And unlike before, when they arrived on the battlefield, many enemy planes had already fled. Since the new tactics were activated, they have provided hundreds of early warnings and helped shoot down nearly 1,500 Japanese aircraft of all kinds. For this reason, the Air Force also regretted giving them to the Navy, so it restarted bidding for a new generation of early warning aircraft that integrated radar early warning and air command functions, and even the Navy began to develop carrier-based early warning and command planes ahead of schedule.
The sea and air strangulation against Japan did not stop for a day after the end of the Ryukyu Campaign. So far, the Air Force's two long-range fighters, the "Double-Headed Jiao" and the "Jian-8," have flown more than 40,000 sorties over the Japanese archipelago, with an average of 200 per day, proving to the world who is the king of air combat in Asia!
The powerful long-range interception capability ensures that the kamikaze suicide plane can be shot down in the first place, and it also allows the navy to give full play to the advantages of artillery bombardment and roam around the Japanese archipelago. To strike at Japan's war potential and confidence. The Navy worked out a detailed artillery bombardment plan long before the Battle of the Ryukyus, not only forming several aircraft carrier shelling formations, but also using more than 70 fire support ships converted from old destroyers or small high-speed civilian ships. Equipped with several or even a dozen 32-barrel rocket launchers, these ranger-style fire support ships took advantage of their fast rate of fire to fire hundreds of incendiary bombs in a short period of time and burned villages and towns into pieces, and by the time the Japanese defenders reacted, they had already disappeared without a trace.
In just two hours, 2,200 tons of ammunition were poured on the heads of the Niigata people, and after the reconnaissance planes reported that they could not see any valuable targets, the fleet quickly withdrew with the wounded destroyers under the protection of the fighters. Such an unruly coastal shelling operation. It made Tu Feiyuan very annoyed. Drilling out of the shelter and looking at the destroyed city and docks, his eyebrows were full of helplessness. Because the intelligence network is basically paralyzed, it is often the case that a city hundreds of kilometers away is blown up just after the coastal defense heavy artillery has been deployed in one place.
For the sake of coastal defense, the army and navy have quarreled. If this continues, I am afraid that if we don't wait for the landing, there will be a civil war with our own people.
"General, losses...... It's big, do you want to notify the base camp immediately and let the navy send warships? β
On the way into the city, there were corpses and wailing wounded people everywhere, and the stretcher team had no time to transport them, so they had to move to a prominent position on the side of the road, hoping that the passing troops would be able to save the wounded. When the adjutant saw this tragic scene, his voice trembled. "To be informed, of course. But the Navy, huh! Do they have a role other than defending a few warships? Kenji Tsuchihara cursed and continued to walk towards the defense headquarters bunker.
He had come here to investigate the Kokusha and the riots, and the contradictions that had been building up in Japan had reached a critical point due to the ongoing blockade, and now the base camp was like a crater that could erupt at any moment. As the eyes and ears of the base camp, it is naturally the duty of the special high school to find out those rebels in advance, so as not to create an uncontrollable situation.
As soon as he walked to the door, Kumayoshi Harada, the commander of the official defense of Gunma Prefecture, who was covered in mud, walked out of it. "Tufeiyuan-kun, you're so good to come, I'm about to send someone to find you."
"Is something wrong?"
"Look at this, it's from the base camp. Last night, the garrison of Neshima Prefecture discovered that someone was secretly transporting Shina submachine guns, and when the troops intercepted them, they were met with fierce fire and fled. β
Harada Kumayoshi's words made Dohehara's face change, and what he was most worried about was coming. You must know that the control of firearms in Japan is very strict, so it is difficult for underground organizations such as the Japanese National Agency to become a climate, but now because of the coastal defense problem, even submachine guns with powerful firepower have flowed in, which shows that the situation is already very dangerous. "Please arrange a car as soon as possible. I'm going to Nejima Prefecture. "Kenji Dohihara didn't choose a plane, because heaven is equal to death. But then he regretted this choice very much, because if it weren't for the slow speed of the vehicle, maybe the disaster that would not have happened later.
By the time he was rushing to Neshima Prefecture in the starry night, Okayama was already filled with an indescribable tense atmosphere.
In front of the underground warehouse on the north side of the city. A high sandbag wall was erected. A machine gun, which was supposed to be used in battle, was aimed at the ragged and numerous hungry people outside the wall. Inada Chang stood behind a sandbag, looking out at the bare gray-black city in the distance. He is a reserve captain, and he was ordered to garrison this military food warehouse a year ago, and because of this enlistment, he was lucky to avoid the tragic bombing. To this day, he still remembers the scene of that night, thousands of incendiary bombs falling from the sky. Okayama, with a population of 500,000, was instantly reduced to ashes, with tens of thousands of dead and tens of thousands injured ....... When he held a baby in his arms and watched his parents being burned to charcoal, he realized how cruel war was.
The bombing not only destroyed Okayama, but also destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people. Then Chinese bombers began to drop small bombs like butterflies. These bombs spread all over the mountains and farmlands, and every day people have broken their hands and feet, their cattle have been injured, and they dare not cultivate rice fields, or even cut wood and firewood. The famine began to spread, more and more hungry people gathered in front of the warehouses, and there were even many attempts to steal food across the blockade.
"Be vigilant. Yaga! Paddy field. What are you still doing here? A military officer rushed up from behind: "Hurry up and load the car!" We're about to go. β
"Hey!"
The rice field nodded and quickly slipped into the thick cement door. After entering the underground warehouse, I saw soldiers carrying bags of rice onto trucks to be transported to Matsuyama on the west coast to hand over to the front-line troops. "Inada-kun, where have you been?" When he walked to the last car, his friend Qinglong, who had only been transferred a few days ago, poked his head out and pulled him into the truck.
"It's right outside."
"Hurry up and help." Qinglong piled rice buns on the car as he leaned in and asked, "How is it outside?" I heard that Kuroda was defeated by the guerrillas last night. Qinglong is a well-known broken mouth, and as soon as he opened the conversation, he kept chattering: "Rice field, do you think we really defeated?" I've heard that the people of China have brought a lot of short guns to the guerrillas, and they are very powerful. β
In the past few days, there have been wild rumors in and around Okayama about China's delivery of submachine guns to the Japanese opposition. The rumors are still being said vividly. In fact, Inada and everyone understand in their hearts that the war has been lost, otherwise how could there be more and more Chinese planes overhead? But no one dared to say it, so he hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't talk about this matter again, Jun Cao will be in trouble when he hears it." β
"But ......." Qinglong looked around and no one was paying attention. Quietly took out a flyer dropped by the plane from his pocket and handed it to him: "Inada-kun, look at this, I picked it up last night." β
"You don't want to die!" Seeing this, Paddy was so frightened that he hurriedly put the flyer into his arms: "Work quickly." β
"I'm just curious, don't worry, I won't say it." Qinglong also knew that he would be shot if he secretly hid the leaflets, so he quickly closed his mouth and concentrated on his work. In a few moments, more than a dozen trucks were filled with food bales. After the roll call, both Inada and Qinglong were selected to escort the grain and get on the last truck.
Tens of thousands of hungry people poured into the road from all directions, but the machine guns and guards on the roofs of the cars kept them from approaching, and many had to kneel on the ground and beg the soldiers to throw down a few handfuls of rice for them to boil porridge. Many soft-hearted soldiers threw their day's rations, a rice ball mixed with a large amount of rice bran, to the hungry with children, and Inada and Qinglong also threw out the rice ball bags. They would starve for a day, but at least tomorrow they would have something to eat, and many of these hungry people had not even eaten bark and wild vegetables for days.
Seeing that there were more and more hungry people around, the convoy drove slowly, and the fierce face of the military Cao yelled and scolded, and beat those hungry people who wanted to get close with a bamboo whip. "What a goddamn guy!" Qinglong looked at him, his teeth chattering. When he turned his head to chat with his good friend, he found that the rice field secretly pulled out a bayonet, pierced a rice bag, and then secretly dug a hole under the car and let the rice flow out of the hole little by little.
Qinglong was taken aback: "Inada-kun, this is going to be shot!" β
"Shhhh Inada hurriedly covered his mouth and pointed to Qinglong Nunu under the truck in front of him. Following his fingers, Qinglong saw a finger-thick stream of white rice flowing down the wheels of each truck onto the road. The soldiers in the car were not seen at all. "What's going on?" Qinglong was only transferred a few days ago, and I don't understand why every car leaks. "It's the only thing we can do to help everybody." Inada didn't say much, sat up straight like the other soldiers, and pretended not to see this "transportation loss".
Looking at the slowly flattened rice bag, Qinglong somewhat understood. The military rations at the base cannot be stolen out to support the victims. So everyone came up with this method, anyway, after it was transported to the troops, they didn't account for the "loss" of one or two packs, after all, it was good to eat in this year. The convoy moved slowly, and the hungry people behind him began to coax the fallen rice grains, and Qinglong felt sad as he watched some people fight over a few grains of rice stained with mud. But they also know that as soldiers, they can't do anything. Looking at the military cao at the front of the convoy with his teeth and claws waving his bamboo whip, compared with the silent soldiers around him, Qinglong sighed: "Does the military cao know? β
"He? Hum! Inada snorted coldly: "He should have gone to North Korea to be killed, not here!" β
"I think so too, if a bullet hits him in the head, I'm sure I'll ...... Syllable! "Qinglong was just about to curse Juncao. A crisp gunshot suddenly hit my ears. And the military cao who was cursed by him turned his head even more, and then fell under the car with blood spurting.
"Someone is grabbing rice!" Inada reacted immediately, and the bullet was loaded ready to pull out the attacker. Although everyone tacitly used the excuse of loss to secretly leak a few bags of rice to the hungry people, as a soldier, his duty was to protect the rice. But when he got up on his load, bursts of dense strafing suddenly sounded from all directions!
Hundreds of nationalist guerrilla soldiers mixed with the hungry people rushed to the truck with submachine guns and covered by the hungry people. Due to the suddenness of the attack. Again, they were all submachine guns that fired extremely fast, so the escort soldiers and drivers were quickly killed. "Yaga, you imperial ......" Before the word traitor could be shouted in the mouth of the rice field, the bullet rain fell on him, and he fell on the rice bag covered in blood. "Inada-kun!" Seeing this, Qinglong's eyes were immediately bloodshot, but in the face of hundreds of wolf-like guerrilla soldiers, he was also quickly drowned in the rain of bullets.
"Take it, this rice belongs to the people! Take! "The sudden outbreak of gunfire frightened the hungry people into fleeing. But soon after the guerrillas seized the convoy, they saw bales of torn rice thrown from the truck. Snow-white grains of rice. Countless pairs of eyes were instantly reddened, hunger overcame fear, and tens of thousands of hungry people rushed to the rice bags with shouts, snatching, stampeding, arguing and beating, and the road was crowded and smashed.
"Yaga! Someone grabbed rice. Sortie! "When something unusual was discovered at the base a few kilometers away, the officers immediately gathered a large number of soldiers to prepare to recapture the grain. However, due to the fact that there were so many people grabbing rice, they were blocked behind and could not advance at all, and when the officers were in a hurry about what to do, dozens of tongues of fire erupted from the crowd and aimed at them, beating the soldiers all covered in blood.
"Yaga! Shoot! Shoot! "Seeing that the situation was getting more and more chaotic, a squadron leader gave the order to shoot." Ho ho ho ho ....... More than a dozen crooked machine guns instantly stirred up a bloody storm among the people who were grabbing food, and hundreds of hungry people were swept to death by bullets. But the red-eyed hungry people could not stop them, and some even got into fights with the soldiers who came up to stop them.
"This is our food! We're going to starve! Take back the grain, take back the grain! "At the instigation of the guerrillas, the scene became more and more chaotic, and in an instant the situation began to get out of control. The ugliness of human nature was completely exposed in the middle of life and death, and countless incited starving people began to storm the military food warehouses, and the guerrillas who were entrapped in their midst also duly blew up the sandbag wall with grenades and mortars. The entire warehouse area was filled with shouting, cursing and gunfire, and soon the ground was covered with corpses.
Knowing that someone was robbing grain, the Gendao County Headquarters immediately mobilized tens of thousands of garrisons around it to carry out a clean-up, which made the gaffe worse. When Tu Feiyuan arrived at the granary the next day, the grain robbery incident had caused 400 soldiers and more than 10,000 hungry people to die and be injured! For a time, the entire Genjima Prefecture was filled with news that "the army did not save and killed tens of thousands of hungry people indiscriminately". In order to expand their influence, Tokuda Koichi and Nagano led guerrillas to attack the surrounding granaries and wealthy landlords. Open warehouses and release grain to create chaos. Within three days, the riots in Neshima Prefecture began to spread outward, and news came from Hyogo, Nara, and Aichi that "mobs were stealing food and killing innocents indiscriminately."
As soon as the news reached Tokyo, Hirohito asked the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of War to come up with a way to stop the riots from spreading. After consulting with Prime Minister Koiso Showa and Minister of War Motomo Sugiyama, they decided to convene high-ranking officials and generals to discuss countermeasures at the Yasukuni Shrine in Kudanzaka.
Just as many high-ranking Japanese officers and generals rushed to the Yasukuni Shrine, at the Andong Airport, ground crew soldiers also began to slowly stuff two 6,800-kilogram "Daisy Cutters" and two 10,000-kilogram "punishment" giant bombs into the bomb bay of the latest H-12 strategic bomber.
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