Chapter 476: The Bombing of Tokyo (Part II)

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"You red deer, how did you shoot down the Empire's plane?" , The new division commander of the anti-aircraft artillery division turned white with anger after hearing the news, and immediately roared wildly at his subordinates.

"We obviously attacked according to the radar's instructions, huh? How did you hit your own plane? The anti-aircraft artillerymen of the devils were equally stunned. At this time, a radar soldier suddenly screamed, "Why is there no signal on the radar screen?" Our own planes have been withdrawn, but the enemy's planes are still there! ”

The division commander was stunned when he heard this, and his brain turned, and he quickly understood the reason for this accidental attack, and the enemy plane was not displayed on the radar screen for some reason, so that he had no time to think (the speed and climb speed of the H-1 are too fast, and if the devil's radar and antiaircraft artillery rub a little, it is likely that it will fly directly out of the effective range of the antiaircraft gun.) The radar soldiers subconsciously took the signal of the Japanese plane displayed on the radar screen as the enemy plane

As for why the radar provided by the Americans could not detect the 6 H-1s, the devils quickly found the answer, because they had conducted tests after receiving the goods, and found that the signals of the new aircraft were generally very clear, but some old aircraft could not be detected, after the research of Jishu personnel, it was found that the emission rate of non-metallic materials such as wood for radar waves was much lower than that of metals such as aluminum alloy, and the body of the old aircraft was mostly made of wood, As a result, the signature signal on the radar is only a few tenths or even lower than that of the new aircraft, which is basically made entirely of aluminum alloy. So much so that the current radar cannot detect it at all. Therefore, the devil quickly realized that this batch of incoming Chinese planes was likely to be wooden, but the question was "how can such an excellent aircraft be built out of wood at the level of the Chinese?" Obviously, we can't do it in the Great Japanese Empire."

When they finally succeeded in capturing these targets through optical instruments, they were shocked to find that the enemy plane had soared at an altitude of 12,000 meters, and this altitude could not be attacked by Japanese fighters or anti-aircraft guns at all (Note 1), that is, everyone could only wait nervously for the next move of the enemy plane, but could not make any counterattack. A feeling of despair and powerlessness first spread rapidly among these Japanese officers and men who were responsible for the defense of the homeland

This time. Even the most fanatical Japanese officers could only deceive themselves and comfort their subordinates. "There are only a few new planes like the Chinese, and after flying to an altitude of 10,000 meters, even if they drop bombs, they will not have accuracy at all, so you don't need to worry about it."

However, a short time later, smoke rose in the distance and spooked everyone. "Damn it. The Chinese actually used incendiary bombs! Didn't they always profess themselves to be teachers of righteousness? Weishenme actually targeted civilians? ”

The six H-1s dropped napalm bombs that Hu Weidong personally "developed." Although the content of this particular incendiary bomb is not high, it has several obvious advantages, the first of which is that water, the most common means of extinguishing fire, is ineffective against it. Only by isolating the air can the flame be extinguished, but a small flame can be extinguished by a simple method covered with a wet cloth or sand, and a slightly larger one can be extinguished with a chemical fire extinguisher, but for a sky-high fire ignited by more than 1,000 catties of gelatinized gasoline, it is impossible to completely isolate it from the air; The second is that gelled gasoline will splash around and stick to other objects for a long time to burn, if people use their hands to slap it, it will only get bigger and bigger, if it is glued to the body and rolled on the ground to extinguish the fire, it will make the whole body full of fire, and the struggle of the person on fire is easy to throw the burning gelled gasoline to others to form a secondary killing effect, so the fire caused by napalm is easy to spread; In particular, napalm is very cheap to build, even lower than ordinary bombs, and the production process is very simple, which means that even a poor country like China can use it in large quantities on the battlefield, which is very important

In addition, because gelled gasoline can be attached to the human body and burn continuously, it is actually an extremely cruel weapon, and the victim will suffer great pain that is difficult to describe in words. At the same time, there are many chemical accelerants in gelled gasoline, which are often highly toxic, and large-scale burns are difficult to deal with, so it is very difficult to treat the injured caused by napalm. If humanitarian factors are taken into account, this is undoubtedly a major disadvantage that napalm cannot be ignored, but if humanitarian factors are ignored, it is a major advantage of napalm

However, no matter how powerful napalm is, it is not a strategic weapon like the atomic bomb, and although there are many direct casualties caused by a mere 6-ton bomb itself, it is just a disease of ringworm for Tokyo, a super metropolis with a population of more than 7 million (Note 2), and the key causes of the unprecedented fire are the high and dry weather in autumn, the flammable characteristics of Japanese-style buildings, the lack of overall planning of the urban layout, and the lack of fire-fighting equipment. The lack of psychological preparation of the people of Tokyo for air raids is also an important factor that cannot be ignored, which is very different from the strategic bombing of Tokyo by the United States in the latter part of World War II. Historically, before the US imperialists used napalm bombs to bomb Tokyo, they had already carried out fierce air raids on many cities, including Tokyo, and the Japanese were psychologically prepared, and they also had some ways to deal with it; although after all, they could not resist the abundant financial resources of the US imperialists who threw bombs indiscriminately, but they still reduced some losses to some extent, but now the Japanese are being attacked by the enemy's air raids for the first time, not to mention responding quickly and appropriately, and their psychological panic alone is enough to make the bombing of the Chinese Air Force twice the result with half the effort

Note 1: Theoretically, the Japanese army's heavy anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of more than 105mm can be obtained, but in actual battles, due to the angle, it is impossible to be just so coincidental, generally speaking, the shelling of aircraft and anti-aircraft guns with a flight altitude of 10,000 meters must have a firing height of 14,000 meters in order to attack more conveniently, and the Japanese are almost helpless with the B29 in history for this reason.

Note 2: At that time, Shanghai plus the concession was less than 4 million people, and this is already the closest data between Shanghai and Tokyo, it can be seen that the so-called Shanghai was the largest metropolis in Asia during the Republic of China is completely nonsense, except for the appearance of the "ten miles of foreign market", there is no economic data in Shanghai at that time can be compared with Tokyo, unless the use of India's "100 million people, 1 billion pigs" strange algorithm (to be continued......