Chapter 339: Burning Tokyo
The huge built-in magazine was opened, napalm bombs were dropped one after another, and the sky of Tokyo was filled with the whistling sound of bombs falling.
Satellite-guided bombs hit targets, and the first round of strikes focused on industrial and commercial areas in Tokyo.
The scope of this crackdown covers 70 percent of Tokyo's industrial areas and 60 percent of commercial areas.
This time, the 180 bombers also carried 11,000 tons of napalm and more than 4,000 cruise missiles.
At this time, a large number of factories in the Tokyo Industrial Zone were still working overtime, and hundreds of thousands of workers fled the factories under the air raid alert.
But compared to the speed of the bomb, it is too late for a person to rely on two legs in any case.
A large number of bombs fell accurately, and the fire after the explosion instantly covered the entire industrial area.
At an altitude of 10,000 meters, you can clearly see the flames rising into the sky in Tokyo, and soon there will be fires burning everywhere in Tokyo.
Especially in the commercial area near the residential area, the fire raged and spread, and in just a few moments, a large number of surrounding houses were set on fire.
And this was only the beginning of the bombing, cruise missiles after cruises, ready to hit military targets around Tokyo, the garrison of the Guards Division quickly turned into a sea of fire, and the exposed anti-aircraft artillery was also accurately destroyed.
Ports, batteries, military factories, radars, explosions kept coming out for a while.
Soon, the second round of strikes began, and the group of bombers, which had turned around in the air, began to attack irregularly.
In the first round of attacks, half of the bombs were used, and in the second round of attacks, the target was the whole of Tokyo, and the bombs dropped were also unguided napalm.
The 5,000-ton incendiary bombs were dropped on the city of Tokyo after all the planes were dispersed.
Tokyo's whirlwind of flames is full of death, and tonight, a gale of magnitude 5 to 7 is blowing in Tokyo, and the fire is taking advantage of the wind, and the heat is enveloping the whole of Tokyo.
This air raid is also called the most devastating non-nuclear air raid in human history, and the damage caused by any air raid since the outbreak of World War II is more serious.
This is still in the case that the group of planes did not bomb in formation, but separately, otherwise the situation of Tokyo being destroyed is even more obvious.
After all the bombs were dropped, the whole of Tokyo turned into a sea of fire, and smoke billowed into the sky, and there was no place without sparks.
The heat has turned Tokyo into a living hell.
And all the bombers have dropped their bombs, but they have not left, but continue to stay here, enjoying the fire on the ground.
This was an unprecedented disaster for everyone in Tokyo, and even the Great Tokyo Earthquake 20 years ago was nothing compared to the devastation caused by the bombing.
More than 400,000 houses in Tokyo were set on fire by the incendiary bombs, and many more were set on fire.
Two million people in Tokyo were directly affected, and the direct death toll exceeded 200,000 just after the bombing ended, and more than 500,000 people suffered burns of varying severity.
In this bombing, 42 military targets were completely destroyed, 62 industrial targets were successfully destroyed, and the commercial area was turned into a sea of fire.
In Tokyo, the number of dead and wounded is skyrocketing every minute, and a large number of people are trapped in the fire, and the smoke and heat make Tokyo feel like a crater.
In the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, where the scorching heat made the air force and specially avoid the attack, Emperor Hirohito stood at the top of the Imperial Palace, looking at the city surrounded by a sea of fire, his gloomy face hiding his inner fear with anger.
Inside the Imperial Palace, a large number of guards were extinguishing the flames that covered a corner of the Imperial Palace, which was a mistake, but it was not important.
In areas where the fire is fierce, even the heat radiation alone can ignite everything, even a living person, and it will burn up at a certain distance.
The heat is spreading, more houses are burning, and the fire is becoming difficult to extinguish.
By the time the bomber fleet returned, the fire in Tokyo had been burning for a full hour.
At the same time, the Japanese cities of Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe were all bombed devastatingly.
In this bombing of Japan, the Fourth Theater dispatched nearly 800 bombers in total, and all of them were air fortress bombers, except for the stratofortress bombers.
During the bombing of Nagoya, 200 bombers dropped 6,000 tons of incendiary bombs, and the whole of Nagoya was covered in flames.
Osaka, like Nagoya, quickly turned into a sea of fire.
The bombing of Kobe was aimed at the shipyards in Kobe, where the shipbuilding industry was severely damaged, and many ships under construction were also blown to pieces.
For Japan, this. Night is destined to be the biggest disaster in history, and the Red Guard Corps also used its strong strength to make Japan understand that Japan itself already belongs to the battlefield.
However, this was only the beginning of the disaster, and during the night, several more groups of bombers came to Japan, although they were not very large, but they made it difficult for the whole of Japan to sleep.
This bombing only kicked off the all-out bombing of Japan.
Compared with the bombing of Japan by the United States in history, the heavy bombing of the expeditionary corps far exceeded that of the United States in history in terms of scale and frequency of sorties.
The fires that burned in Tokyo lasted for a whole day. At night, by the afternoon of the next day, the last of the flames were gradually extinguished.
This. During the night, nearly one million people were killed and injured in Tokyo, with more than 300,000 people directly killed, and 700,000 people with varying degrees of burns, some of whom suffered severe burns, and it was difficult to receive timely medical treatment.
That afternoon, a bomber flew over Tokyo, dropping not bombs, but millions of notices.
The content of the notice is also very simple, and the next time it will bomb Tokyo, until Tokyo is completely destroyed.
This act of announcing the next bombing intensified the fear within Japan, and notices were issued in many of Japan's industrial and populous cities.
On that night alone, millions of people fled Tokyo, hiding in the countryside, afraid to return to the big cities.
It's just one. The night bombing caused the attendance rate of industries and factories throughout Japan to drop by half, and many factories were even paralyzed as a result, killing people and killing people, and this kind of attack on the heart was more effective than millions of tons of explosives.
It only takes a few more bombings, and I am afraid that without the Red Guard Corps using other means, Japan's economy and industry will be completely paralyzed.
The Red Guard Corps also said that three days later, Japan was again bombed on a large scale......