Chapter 721: The troubled Emperor Hirohito

In order to save the face of the so-called air eagles of the Japanese Empire, the air units of the First and Third Fleets of the Japanese Navy dispatched nearly 100 or more planes every day to indiscriminately bomb all targets in Nanjing.

This outlaw-style style of fighting caused great casualties to the guarding troops, however, Tang Qiuli was secretly happy, how many planes the Japanese still had to use in this way, he ordered all the troops, at any cost, to shoot down the Japanese planes as the only goal, and were rewarded both mentally and materially, and the morale of the soldiers of the Central Army broke out with unprecedented combat effectiveness, and did not let the Japanese planes take too much advantage.

Some of the quick-witted firepower groups also invented an effective method to avoid being killed or injured by Japanese suicide planes, and several firepower groups cooperated with each other to directly blast the Japanese planes in the air, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce; the city of Nanjing spent day after night in the smoke of artillery fire and the strange roar of Japanese planes, and on the fifth day of the battle, the Japanese naval air force finally could not support it, and there were not many planes left in their hands, and even the fighters and bombers that had been replenished by the Admiralty also filled the huge hole in the airspace of Nanjing.

The Japanese aircraft air force was no longer able to organize a decent bombing operation, looking at the empty flight deck of the aircraft carrier, but more than 30 planes that were wounded and flew back by luck, the commanders of the two fleets wanted to cry without tears and were relatively speechless, and the air forces of the first and third fleets had already been disabled, and they could not believe that the city of Nanjing was still standing tall during the bombing campaign that lasted six days before and after, and there would still be shells and bullets as dense as flying locusts on the ground.

What kind of city is this, millions of ordinary citizens, facing the bombing and strafing of nearly 100 planes every day, are indifferent, when did the will of the people of China become so tenacious, and at this time, the Nanjing air defense force is also exhausted, the losses of various air defense fire groups have reached one-fifth, and the city of Nanjing, although it has not become a ruin, is also full of rubble, more than half of the city's buildings have been blown up, and more than 10,000 troops have suffered casualties, which is still the backbone of the independent division Huangyadong air defense brigade.

At the cost of this, Tang Qiuli commanded the Nanjing air defense units with the air defense units of the Central Army and the independent divisions as the main body, wringed out the last drop of blood of the air forces of the First and Third Fleets of the Japanese Navy, and shot down more than 400 Japanese bombers and fighters, more than one-tenth of the Japanese air power at that time, which was an unbearable loss for Japan, which was short of resources.

During the six-day defense battle of Nanjing, Tang Qiuli paid out of his own pocket and took out more than 100,000 yuan from the ocean to reward the soldiers and officers of the Central Army who had achieved combat achievements; the sky over Nanjing became a nightmare and a sad place for the Japanese naval air force; originally wanted to destroy the Chinese capital and bomb Nanjing to crush the Chinese's will to resist, but he did not expect that what was destroyed was his own confidence and courage.

During the air defense war, Gao Zhihang's destroyer unit asked for orders several times to participate in the air battle, but Tang Qiuli did not approve it, and he wanted to keep Gao Zhihang's unit and deal the Japanese with the final fatal blow, and the Japanese naval fleet, which was no longer able to fight, had no choice but to truthfully report to the Admiralty the failure of the bombing of Nanjing and the heavy losses of the air force.

The matter can no longer be hidden, once it is reported, it causes an uproar in the Japanese base camp*, for a time, the navy has become the object of ridicule in the Japanese military circles, Emperor Hirohito was extremely angry, the loss of more than 400 planes, so that he was so distressed that he almost vomited blood, that is a lot of silver piled up, 10,000 people's lives, can not be worth a plane, the Japanese army and navy air force, is it easy to accumulate so many family funds, in order to build these planes, Emperor Hirohito almost sold all the underwear, and sent Empress Ryoko to sell herself, Accompany those heads of state to spend the night, earn some scattered silver taels, and subsidize the treasury.

The emperor was furious, the consequences were very severe, someone must be responsible for such a fiasco, an edict came down, the commanders of the first and third fleets of the navy immediately committed suicide by disembowelment, in order to thank the countrymen, originally, Emperor Hirohito wanted to cut off the heads of these two stupid pigs, in order to take care of the face of the navy, so as not to be trampled under the feet of the army, the emperor's grace was vast, extraordinarily gracious, and gave them a decent way to die, all senior officers above the rank of rear admiral were removed on the spot, the two fleets returned to the mainland to rest, and the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of the Navy were removed from their posts and retained.

At this time, they were drifting on the sea, thinking that the navy would take the lead and the army would be able to pick up a cheap war department in Nanjing.

Without waiting for the Minister of War to finish speaking, Emperor Hirohito was in a state of rage, and the dragon's eyes shot out a beast-like cold light, approaching this guy who made him almost have a myocardial infarction step by step, and there was no place for me to worry, the war against China, it was not going well everywhere, and North China was not guaranteed, more than 400,000 troops, the troops of Tang Qiuli, the devil of China, were surrounded in the narrow area between Cangzhou and Tianjin, and the Kwantung Army went south, and was blocked on the front line of Shanhaiguan, unable to enter the customs, this is another guy who is afraid of death, Before the attack on Nanjing, the capital of China, began, he pondered the need to flee for his life.

The frightened Minister of War saw that the situation was not good, he had more than once learned the temper of the donkey of the Emperor's Majesty, which was a dog's face, and when he said that he would change, he took advantage of the fact that His Majesty's hand had not yet kissed his cheek, he first punished himself with a few loud slaps, and then, quickly withdrew, and gave an order to go down, to attack Shanghai and Nanjing according to the original plan, and the troops sent to Nanjing, so they had to continue to advance to the unknown distance.

Emperor Hirohito, of course, is absolutely right, when did I make a mistake? He has no responsibility, the responsibility is all those stupid pigs and fools under his subordinates, the emperor was scolded and slapped by the emperor and the minister of the navy, he was angry, and he was sneered at by several army generals when he went out, and the people under him were too angry, venting all their anger on their subordinates, and ruthlessly wanted major surgery in the navy.

As a result, a large-scale personnel reshuffle was carried out within the Japanese Navy, a major change of blood was carried out, power was reshuffled, and a large number of old and decayed cadres who occupied high positions were disgraced, and they went home to rely on past meetings to pass the rest of their lives, and a large number of fanatical and belligerent and ambitious young Zhuang officers climbed to high positions and occupied all major departments of the Japanese Navy, and the outstanding general of the Japanese Navy, Lieutenant General Yamamoto 56, stepped into the people's eyes and stepped onto the stage of the war of aggression.

The naval air force folded its wings over Nanjing, the commanders of the two fleets cut their bellies, and a large number of senior generals lost their black hats, and for a time, everyone in the navy was in danger, and the rumors were loud, and the blow to the Japanese navy was huge, and the senior generals of the navy had to pick up their tails and be man, and secretly gritted their teeth, in order to regain the lost dignity in the people of China, and pick up the faces that fell to the ground and were stepped on by the army a few times, and beat the arrogant guys of the army with a huge victory, a resounding slap in the face, Give His Majesty the Emperor a color and regain the prestige of the navy.

The Naval Air Force was plucked out of its wings by Tang Qiuli in the skies over Nanjing, and became a dead chicken, and the Army Air Force finally looked forward to the opportunity, and the commander of the Army Air Force stationed in Taiwan, Nishimura Ukemon, was an extremely belligerent fanatical militarist, with the rank of major general, and watched those guys in the Navy Air Force every day, tossing and turning vigorously in the skies over Nanjing, and doing things in a hurry, and the Navy just refused to let it interfere, and repeatedly asked for war, and all he got was the word "standby".

People in their forties are in a hurry, their faces are full of pimples, and an evil fire is beating in their hearts, and at night, they toss their wives all over their bodies, and their breasts are already loose and sagging, and they are so red and swollen that they are plump like a double ten girl, during the day, in addition to scolding those subordinates who don't have long eyes, beating up a few unlucky ghosts, they are sending telegrams to the base camp one after another, and their arrogance and belligerence are so arrogant and fierce that even his superiors don't look at it.

After receiving the order from the base camp, Nishimura Uemon's adrenaline rose sharply, and he first shouted in the direction of the Japanese mainland: "Long live the Emperor," and then, jumping into the Zero fighter, as if rushing to reincarnate, the first to take off, behind his plane, was the Japanese Army Air Force stationed in Taiwan 90 bombers and 52 fighters, which was the entire strength of the Nishimura Army Air Force.

The naval air force suffered a heavy defeat, Nishimura Uemon knew it clearly, the army, for the failure of the navy, has always spared no effort to exaggerate, in turn, the navy did the same, however, Nishimura disagreed, that is the navy's fools, not the Nishimura air force, according to his vision, Nanjing will soon become a ruin, if you are lucky, you can also kill the soldiers of China in other places, the aircraft group swept through the Taiwan Strait, entered the sky over the mainland, and turned north through Fuzhou, Viciously pounced in the direction of Nanjing.

Tang Qiuli walked out of the underground headquarters that had stayed for five days and five nights, the dazzling sunlight stimulated him to be dizzy, touching the stubble that pricked his hands, laughing at himself, the air outside was refreshing mixed with the faint aroma of lilac flowers, and he breathed comfortably into his lungs full of tobacco smell, and his tired nerves were shaken, the sky in Nanjing in June was blue and clear, and perhaps, there would be no more Japanese planes whistling overhead.

He knew very well that the fierce fighting in the past few days had dealt absolutely fatal blows to the Japanese naval air force, but what he was thinking about had just been received, and just as he was about to stretch out comfortably in an urgent telegram sent by Chairman Chiang from Wuhan, a communications staff officer hurriedly ran out of the underground headquarters and shouted: "Commander-in-chief, the radar has discovered a large number of Japanese planes

(To be continued)