Chapter 926: The Great Bombing!
At the beginning, 32 bombers of the Eighth Route Army flew over the Japanese mainland.
But since the bomber flew at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters.
The ground devil unit in charge of the vigilance thought that its own plane was conducting training, so it did not report the situation.
But.
When the planes of the Eighth Route Army landed over Tokyo and began to descend altitude.
The devil alert troops on the ground soon discovered that something was wrong and sounded the air defense alarm.
Woowoo woo –
Sharp and piercing air raid sirens sounded throughout Tokyo!
On the streets, Japanese teenagers who were participating in the training, Japanese students in schools, and Japanese people on the streets were stunned when they heard the sound of air raid sirens.
Looking blankly at the planes whizzing in the sky, the sound of 32 bombers stirring could be heard clearly by the Japanese on the ground.
This is an air defense exercise?
Most of the Japanese did not dodge in the first place.
Although the Japanese army was defeated in North China and Midway, in order to deceive the people, the Japanese government publicized the news of the Japanese army's victory to the people: the troops of the Eighth Route Army of the Republic of China were heavily damaged, and the Pacific Fleet of the United States was severely damaged.
He said that a situation like the last time a plane bombed Japan would never happen again.
The Japanese people have a strong sense of security, and although they have lost the war, the Japanese government has gained more and more support from the people.
When the real enemy planes flew over Tokyo, the Japanese people thought that they were conducting exercises.
Until the hatch under the belly of the bomber opened...
But the air defense forces of the devil's homeland knew that this was not an exercise, and Tokyo was bombed by enemy aircraft.
"Tom tom tom..."
"Da Da Da..."
When the bombers of the Eighth Route Army began to drop bombs, the anti-aircraft fire of the devils began to operate at almost the same time on various air defense positions in Tokyo.
A dense rain of bullets was fired at the bombers of the Eighth Route Army high in the air.
Even the Japanese on the ground could see the orange-red bullet chains in the air.
It was only at this time that the Japanese people realized that this was not a drill, and they scattered into bomb shelters or rooms to take refuge.
But it's a pity that most of the devil's anti-aircraft guns are 20 mm and 25 mm, and the bombers of the Eighth Route Army are at high altitude, and the devil's small-caliber anti-aircraft guns can't reach them.
Although the Devils also have Type 88 75 mm caliber, as well as Type 99 88 mm anti-aircraft guns, they are few in number, and they pose little threat to the "flying fortresses" in the sky.
The Devil's Type 3 120-mm anti-aircraft gun can effectively threaten high-altitude bombers, but the Devil has not yet developed it at this time.
Bombing Tokyo during the day, the flight formation of the Eighth Route Army did its homework.
In good weather, dropping bombs at an altitude of 7 kilometers can ensure the safety of all bomb crews to the greatest extent, although some of the bombing accuracy is sacrificed.
And if you bomb Tokyo at night, you can lower some altitude appropriately.
Moreover, this time Li Yunlong's order was to set Tokyo on fire, not to bomb the devil's locust palace, nor to bomb the devil's arsenal, just to set Tokyo on fire.
So you don't need any precision, you just need to drop an incendiary bomb into a densely populated area of Tokyo.
Even if the bomb misses its target, it only needs to land on the devil's residential area.
Flying fortresses quickly dispersed, dropping dumpling-like incendiary bombs on Tokyo's residential areas.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
A series of dull but huge, overwhelming explosions rang out on the ground.
The captain of the bomber number 002, Zheng Shaoqiang, looked down through the plexiglass by looking back.
I saw countless huge fireballs rising from the dense residential area of Japan on the ground.
Zheng Shaoqiang, who saw this scene, looked extremely excited, and his face showed a hint of revenge.
When the devil's plane was wreaking havoc on Chinese territory, it bombed Chinese civilians, and the Chinese soldiers and civilians killed because of the bombing of the devil's plane were more than hundreds of thousands?
Until now, the devil's plane is still bombing China's mountain cities.
Not only Zheng Shaoqiang, but every pilot of the National Army and the Eighth Route Army, as well as the crew of the Eighth Route Army, were all full of excitement.
To deal with the Japanese devils, you have to be like this, tooth for tooth, blood for blood!
"Prepare to drop the bomb."
At this time, the Devil's anti-aircraft shells exploded around the bomber, and some explosion smoke continued to rise around the perimeter.
But.
Zheng Shaoqiang is also a person who has seen strong winds and waves, so he quickly calmed down and calmly ordered in the channel.
Since the planes 001 and 002 were flying at the front of the bomber formation, some of the planes had already dropped bombs, and their planes had not yet started dropping bombs.
But at this time, Zheng Shaoqiang and Li Shaorong's bombers had already come to the sky above the dense population in the southeast area of Tokyo.
A few hundred meters away, the bomb compartment door under the belly of Li Shaorong's bomber also slowly opened.
The napalm in the bellies of the two bombers broke away from the bellies of the planes one after another and fell down like dumplings.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
As the incendiary bomb landed and exploded, a dense burst of explosive fireballs suddenly rose on the ground in the southeast corner of Tokyo City, leaving behind a ball of flames after each explosive fireball rose.
Although viewed from high in the sky, the flames left behind were very small.
But in reality, there were clusters of flames on the ground, and each flame covered a large area.
These clumps of flames exploded and did not extinguish, but continued to burn, turning everything they had burned into ashes, like maggots on tarsal bones, and the fire began to spread.
The crew of the bomber, carrying a video camera and a camera, recorded the spectacle.
……
Just when the bombing was raging.
Ground.
The Prime Minister's Office, the base camp of the Japanese army, in the bomb shelter.
"Yaga!"
"All fighters took off at once, all anti-aircraft guns opened fire at once!"
In the bomb shelter, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was angry and hysterical:
"Shoot down all the enemy planes, and leave not a single one!"
At the moment when the air raid siren sounded, Tojo Hideji was put into the bomb shelter by the guards.
The Prime Minister's Office is not only architecturally splendid, but also extremely complete in facilities such as air-raid shelters on the ground.
Tokyo was bombed!
Is it a bomber from the United States, or a bomber from the Soviet Union, or a bomber from the Republic of China?
No matter which side the plane is, damn it!
At this time, Tojo Hideji was sitting on pins and needles, like a man's back, and the defeat in the North China Battlefield of the Republic of China and the Battle of Midway Island had already put him under a lot of pressure.
Now that Tokyo has been hit by an air raid on its homeland, Tojo Hideji is even more furious.
Once the locust is angry, his position as prime minister is very likely to be lost.
"Call the Locust Palace immediately and ask if His Majesty the Locust is safe."
Thinking of the locust, Tojo Hideji's scalp was even more numb, if His Majesty the locust was shattered in the bombing, it would definitely be a great morale blow to Japan.
"Hey."
A major general's staff officer quickly bowed his head.
Picking up the telephone, he took the lead in calling the Locust Palace and learned that the Locust had entered the bomb shelter.
After that, the staff officer of the major general gave the Tokyo Air Defense Command an order for the fighter plane to take off.
The order was given quickly.
In fact, there is no need for Tojo Hideki's order at all.
The Tokyo Air Defense Command of the devils reacted quickly, all the anti-aircraft guns were firing, and fighters from military airfields near Tokyo quickly took off.
……
It took less than half an hour before and after.
All the bombers, carrying 10 tons of napalm, dropped on Tokyo.
Some of the bombs missed their targets because they were delivered from high altitudes, but because they were targeting an entire city, most of the incendiary bombs hit their targets.
And the biggest advantage of high-altitude bombs is that they make the 20-mm and 25-mm anti-aircraft guns of the devils out of reach.
The large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the devils are powerful and crotch-pulling, and there are not many of them.
There was little threat to the bombers of the Eighth Route Army.
Two months ago, 16 U.S. B25 bombers came to Tokyo to bomb, and the bombing altitude was even lower, and the devils failed to shoot down even a single U.S. bomber.
After that bombing, Tokyo's anti-aircraft firepower increased, and more fighters were deployed around the perimeter, but it was impossible to increase the air defense force several times at once.
At this time, the first bombers dropped incendiary bombs, and the fire had already begun to spread.
Many buildings in Tokyo, especially private houses, are traditional wooden structures, and the heavy bombardment of incendiary bombs has caused a number of fire house whirlwinds, that is, huge fireballs caused by high temperatures and air currents.
The fire cyclone is capable of generating temperatures of up to more than 1,000 degrees Celsius and creates a powerful wind force that sucks everything around it into the flames.
Due to the appearance of the fire whirlwind, the fire spread rapidly to the surroundings at a faster rate.
"001, I'm 021, southwest direction, found devil fighters."
The captain was calling Li Shaorong on the radio.
"Attention to all units, attention to all units."
Li Shaorong will control the steering rudder of the aircraft while making a radio call:
"Enemy planes rise into the air to intercept, enemy planes rise to intercept, raise planes to an altitude of 10,000 meters, and raise planes to an altitude of 10,000 meters."
In order to give the order more clearly, Li Shaorong spoke twice.
As Li Shaorong's order was issued, the pilots of each crew quickly controlled the elevator and pulled the plane upward.
With the huge roar of the four bombers, the bombers quickly climbed upward.
The pilots of the Type II fighters and Type Zero fighters, who had received orders to intercept them, could only scold the enemy planes at an altitude of 10,000 meters and were helpless.
The devil's fighter can't fly that high, and even if he can fly that high, he loses his combat ability.
After the bombing, the bomber group of the Eighth Route Army did not leave immediately.
Instead, they went around in circles and came back in circles, as if they were provoking the devil pilots, and as if they were returning to admire their masterpieces.
This scene made the devil pilots even more angry.
……
"Retreat!"
The bomber group circled in the sky for about 10 minutes.
Li Shaorong calculated the time, the 2nd formation of bombers, should be about to arrive at the Yokosuka military port of the devil at this time.
And the devil fighters around Tokyo should all be coming to Tokyo at this time.
So, Li Shaorong decisively ordered a retreat.
The wind howled.
With his order, 32 bombers assembled in the air, formed a flying formation, and flew in the direction of the motherland.
Because it was a high-altitude bombing, the devil's anti-aircraft fire pulled the hips, and the devil's fighters couldn't reach it, so the bomber formation had almost no losses, only 2 bombers were grazed by shrapnel from the devil's air defense guns, and they were all minor injuries.
There is little to lose.
……
Disappeared with the roar of the huge bomber engine.
Only the devil's fighter jets were left in the sky, moving back and forth looking for the sound and shadow of the bomber.
At this time, more and more devil fighters arrived, and there were hundreds of them densely, like locusts.
However, the bombers of the Eighth Route Army had already taken off their clothes at this time.
Where can the devil's pilots still find enemy planes?
And on the ground, it's like purgatory on earth.
More than 300 tons of napalm were thrown from all directions and positions into the dense construction area on the ground, and with the appearance of the fire whirlwind, wooden houses were set on fire, and devils were engulfed in flames.
The devil fire brigade and the people on the ground are extinguishing the fire.
As the political, economic, and cultural center of Japan, Tokyo and most of the cities are made of wooden buildings, and Tokyo's firefighting facilities are very good.
But to no avail, this is napalm, not a little water can extinguish.
In the process of fighting the fire, many devil firefighters stuck to the spark and were directly ignited.
Even water splashed on the fire whirlwind, which was used as fuel and fueled the fire.
The fire grew stronger and stronger.
……
Prime Minister's Office.
Inside an underground bomb shelter.
"Quartet-kun."
"What about the losses?"
"How many enemy planes were shot down?"
Seeing the captain of the Tokyo gendarmerie, Major General Shikata Yuji, walking in quickly, Tojo Hideji looked at Shikata Yuji and asked with a gloomy face.
Hideji Tojo has seven cronies and is known as the Three Traitors and Four Fools.
The three traitors are Lieutenant General Suzuki Sadachi, a class-A war criminal, Lieutenant General Kato Hajiro, commander of the North China Military Police, and Major General Yuji Shikata, captain of the Tokyo Military Police.
The four fools are Class-A war criminals Senior General Hyotaro Kimura, Lieutenant General Kenri Sato, Major General Kiichiro Sanada, Director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Army, and Mazuo Akamatsu, Chief of the Military Affairs Section of the Ministry of the Army.
Quartet Yuji reported to Tojo Hideji with a solemn expression.
"Your Excellency, the losses are still being counted."
"According to the air defense department, not a single enemy bomber has been shot down so far."
"The enemy bomber dropped an incendiary bomb, and the fire was still spreading at this time."
Due to the short period of time, the Quartet was unable to learn the full picture of the current bombing.
"Nani?"
"Yaga!"
Tojo Hideji was suddenly furious, and his right hand tightly grasped the hilt of the Emperor's Imperial Saber, and at this time he really wanted to practice a wave of sword skills.
But soon, Hideji Tojo took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed his anger: "Have you found out, which country's bomber bombed Tokyo?" ”
"The enemy is from China!"
Major General Quartet lowered his head and replied very quickly:
"When Tokyo was bombed, our radio listening department heard a lot of Chinese mixed in the radio channels."
The Japanese mainland was actually bombed by Chinese planes, and Tojo Hideji's face became more and more ugly: "In what direction did the enemy plane fly?" Immediately order fighter planes along the way to take off and intercept them, and be sure to shoot down all enemy planes! ”
"Your Excellency the Prime Minister."
The expression and tone of the Quartet are extremely helpless:
"The enemy's bombers flew at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and our fighters could not reach this altitude."
"Yaga!"
Hearing this, Hideki Tojo couldn't hold back any longer and pulled out the war knife in his hand...
At the same time.
Just when the first bomber formation of the Eighth Route Army returned.
Southern Japan.
Twelve "Flying Fortress" heavy long-range bombers have arrived in the skies above the Yokosuka military port.