"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Four battleships and battle cruisers moored offshore, with full fire from their main guns. A total of thirty-six main guns, long-range shelling began.

Orange-red flames shone in the muzzle of the cannon, and with a loud thunderous sound, high-explosive bombs weighing more than 200 kilograms flew quickly in the direction of Tokyo. The huge recoil caused the battleships to translate on the water.

The 305-mm gun, with fifty times the caliber, has an extremely long firing range, and the maximum firing range can reach more than 20 kilometers. The distance from Kamakura to Tokyo is about 20 kilometers. Of course, firing at this distance, the accuracy of the hit is not guaranteed. However, this is mainly to fire at a big city like Tokyo, as long as the shells are fired and fall to Tokyo.

The salvo of the main guns of four battleships and battlecruisers, such a scene was undoubtedly quite spectacular. The achievements of the human industrial revolution are vividly reflected in these 10,000-ton giant ships.

Although, four battleships and battlecruisers, with only five salvos, also flew one hundred and eighty shells to Tokyo. Of course, the sum of the distances of these shells over more than twenty kilometers will be very large, and there will be no accuracy at all.

"Lao Sa, how many Japanese can you say these 180 high-explosive bombs can kill?" Admiral Cheng Biguang asked with a smile.

"What the hell? It didn't matter how many Japanese were killed, just lure out the Japanese destroyers and torpedo boats. Admiral Sa Zhenbing said. These more than 100 shells are not small. But the distance is too far, the spread is too big, and I don't know how many hits Tokyo will be able to make.

In fact, neither Admiral Sa Zhenbing nor Admiral Cheng Biguang thought that the 180 shells fired this time could deal much damage to the Japanese. However, the end result was not what they expected.

Six o'clock in the afternoon. As the sun sets, Tokyo is immersed in the glow of the setting sun, and it looks quiet and peaceful, as if it has not been affected by the war between China and Japan. Of course, rising food prices and growing shortages of daily necessities still remind these Japanese that war is just around the corner. Moreover, Japan was already at a serious disadvantage in this war.

This is the time when Japanese people go home and make a fire to cook. Smoke came out of the chimneys of every house. Even though life is getting harder and harder, you have to get by. The majority of Japanese are still willing to endure oppression.

"Whew! Shout! Shout! ”

Suddenly there was a sharp whistling sound in the sky, and many Japanese people looked up blankly and looked at the sky, they didn't know what was happening. After all, war is a very distant thing for ordinary Japanese. After the First Sino-Japanese War. Japan has gradually become a world power. The war never reached the Japanese mainland. Of course, this time the war is an exception.

"Yaga, this is the sound of heavy artillery!" A middle-aged Japanese man's complexion changed dramatically. He was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, and of course he knew very well the sound of heavy artillery shells cutting through the air. However, this is Tokyo, the capital of the Japanese Empire! How could there be an enemy shelling Tokyo?

Small black dots appear in the eyes of many Japanese people. Subsequently, these little black dots get bigger and bigger. Turned into a black iron guy.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

One shell after another hit the ground and exploded. Tens of kilograms of explosives filled with high-explosive bombs. It exploded. Orange-red flames spread in all directions. The shock wave generated by the explosion spread in all directions. Countless Japanese were torn to shreds in the first place. The surrounding buildings were easily destroyed. Most of the houses of the Japanese people are made of wood. It's easy to get ignited.

In addition, it is late in the evening, and many Japanese families are cooking on fires. After the house was ignited, they were simply unable to control the fire, which directly led to the fire getting bigger and bigger.

A series of explosions resounded throughout the city, and the whole of Tokyo was thrown into chaos. Firefighters were assembled. Desperately trying to put out the fire. However, that is simply in vain. As the fire spreads, the Japanese wooden houses become the best fuel for the fire to spread. In addition, the southeast wind is blowing at the moment, and the fire is burning more and more vigorously by taking advantage of the wind.

Although, this time the Imperial Navy fired only a little more than a hundred shells. Less than 100 of them actually fell into the city of Tokyo. Most of them fall into the southern edge of Tokyo, and they don't fall into the city center. However, it still took a heavy toll on Tokyo.

When the first shell fell, Emperor Meiji was having dinner. As the Emperor of Japan, he will set an example for all the people. So, his dinner was very simple. A small bowl of plain white rice, followed by a small fish no more than three inches long, and a small plate of pickles.

When the cannonball exploded, Emperor Meiji was stunned. He quickly put down the dishes and chopsticks and came to the outside of the palace.

"What's going on? Where did the explosion come from? Emperor Meiji asked anxiously. Unlike ordinary people who knew nothing, Emperor Meiji knew that the warships of the Chinese Navy were clustered outside the Bay of Tokyo.

A few minutes later, Minister of the Interior Hara arrived.

"Your Majesty, the southern part of Tokyo has been shelled. The explosion ignited the house, and now we are organizing the extinguishing of the fire with all our might. Hara replied.

"Shelling? Did the people of China do it? Could it be that the Shina have already invaded Tokyo Bay? "Emperor Meiji was taken aback.

"No, Your Majesty. The Navy reported that the Shina Navy did not penetrate the Gulf of Tonkin. The Navy is working to find out the situation. Yuan Jing said.

Emperor Meiji was relieved to hear that the Chinese Navy had not invaded Tokyo Bay.

The shelling of the Chinese navy caused a raging fire in the southern city of Tokyo, and the fire was so fierce that it could not be extinguished. Countless Japanese rushed to the fire, but they could not escape, and were burned alive in the end.

"Tick! Backbite! ”

The whistle of the Japanese police kept reminding me, and the firefighters rushed to the fire with a water hose. However, in the southern suburbs of Tokyo, the streets are narrow and the firefighting facilities are outdated, so there is no way to stop the spread of the fire.

"Hey! Get it on! ”

Countless Japanese are organizing local officials to tear down the houses around the fire, forming a barrier. However, a strong wind blew, and the fire spread wildly. In the blink of an eye, those houses that had not yet burned were suddenly set on fire. The Japanese, who were going to tear down the houses, scattered and fled for their lives. Those who fled a little slower were surrounded in the fire and burned alive.

Crying, **, and screaming all come together as if you're in hell.

After all, the number of shells fired by the Chinese Navy is too small. Although, at a great cost to the unsuspecting Japanese. However, no further damage was done to Tokyo.

Thanks to the efforts of the Japanese army and police in Tokyo, as well as a large number of Japanese civilians, the fire was finally brought under control. In the middle of the night, the fire was finally extinguished.

However, the southern part of Tokyo was burned down as well. More than two square kilometers of the northern part of the city burned down, and more than 20,000 people died in the fire. The injured are numerous, and the homeless are more than 100,000. The economic losses caused are even more immeasurable.

It can be said that the losses inflicted on Japan by these more than 100 shells fired by the Imperial Navy far exceeded their estimates. So much so that after the Empire* Military Intelligence Bureau obtained relevant information and forwarded it to the Navy, Admiral Sa Zhenbing and Admiral Cheng Biguang were also dumbfounded. More than 100 shells killed tens of thousands of Japanese. In this way, it seems that it will not take many shells to kill all the Japanese!

Of course, the Imperial Navy, the initiator of all this, was only surprised, and then there was no other feeling. Isn't it just that tens of thousands of Japanese people died? So what does it matter. There are tens of millions of Japanese, and there are 108,000 deaths, and there is nothing.

However, for the Japanese, Tokyo was shelled and tens of thousands of people died, which was completely unacceptable for Japan.

Emperor Meiji convened a meeting overnight, and all the high-ranking officials and senators of the Japanese cabinet rushed to the palace, and everyone's faces were very ugly, gloomy as if they could drip water.

"Is the matter clear? Where the hell did those shells come from? Emperor Meiji asked.

"Your Majesty, it has been ascertained. This afternoon, Kamakura was shelled by the Shina people. After destroying Kamakura, the Shina people opened fire on Tokyo off the coast of Kamakura. Admiral Minoru Saito replied.

"Kamakura? It is more than 20 kilometers away from Tokyo. Can the cannons of the Chinese people hit so far? Emperor Meiji was in disbelief.

"Yes, Your Majesty. The main guns of the battleships of the Chinese people had a maximum firing range of more than twenty kilometers. Minoru Saito said.

Although, the Japanese are reluctant to admit it, but this is the case. Even if the Chinese Navy does not enter the Gulf of Tokyo, it will be able to carry out artillery shelling of Tokyo. This also means that their previous preparations seem to have been in vain!

"Your Majesty, the Chinese have brazenly launched an artillery bombardment on our capital, causing hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, such an act is nothing short of an atrocity of massacre of civilians, and we should expose the brutality of the Chinese people to the world." Japanese veteran Inoue said.

"That's right, the whole world will see the face of the Shina people clearly. When the time comes, we will have more support. Another patriarch, Masayoshi Matsukata, also said.

But even if the whole world sympathizes with Japan, what is the use? This time, the Chinese Navy's shelling of Tokyo was called the 'Tokyo Massacre', and although the Western world condemned the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire did not pay attention to it, and it was meaningless. (To be continued.) )

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