Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 603 From Heaven to Hell
Amid the growing panic in Tokyo, it was not until the morning of December 12 that the Beiyang Fleet came to the waters 16 kilometers away from the Izu Islands, only about 30 kilometers away from Tokyo.This time Deng Shichang played a game of cat and mouse with others. In fact, he could have reached the attack area yesterday, but he wanted the fleet to cruise slowly to the east of the Kii Peninsula and dispatch more than 300 sorties of reconnaissance planes. Fly over Tokyo.The air raid siren sounded more than a dozen times a day, and every time it sounded, there would be chaos in the city of Tokyo, and the nerves of officials and Tokyo citizens were about to be broken.

At 08:30 in the morning, Deng Shichang gave the order to attack.The first wave of thirty carrier-based aircraft took off and flew towards Tokyo.This time their bombing target was the spiritual core, the Emperor's Palace.

The Imperial Palace is just to the east of Tokyo Bay, only a few kilometers away from Tokyo Bay. It is surrounded by important targets such as the National Assembly and the Prime Minister's Office. Moreover, compared with Tokyo, where most of the surrounding areas are low-rise bungalows, the large green space of the Imperial Palace, In the eyes of pilots at an altitude of several thousand meters, it is too eye-catching.Of course, the pilots didn't dare to take it lightly. According to the news just now, people had set up a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns around the palace. It seemed that this was an extremely difficult task.But everyone is very excited, because what they are rushing to is the core target of the war against Japan, and it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for everyone's career.

At around 09:30 in the morning, the attack aircraft group arrived over Tokyo.They were lucky, the weather today was very fine, with no clouds in the sky, and a clear line of sight, they found the palace without much effort.

The pilots yanked the nose of the plane and headed straight for the palace. 7000 meters, 6000 meters, and when they dived to a height of 5000 meters, clusters of artillery fire suddenly burst out around the palace, weaving a fire net in the sky.

Lanxiang fighter planes nimbly shuttled through the fire net while carefully observing the situation below.Commander Lin Jiannan immediately shouted to the intercom: "Attention all teams, there is a lot of energy down there, hurry up and throw away the bombs, then climb up and leave immediately."

At the same time, shells passed by the plane one after another. Lin Jiannan was concentrating on trying to find gaps in the firepower net, when he suddenly heard someone calling on the intercom: "Captain, three of our planes have been hit."

Lin Jiannan was so anxious that his eyes were about to burst, and he cursed fiercely: "Damn, I'm fighting with you!" He suddenly accelerated the speed of his dive, and rushed towards the palace. After passing through countless bullets, the house in the palace gradually became clear. When he got up, he could even see the people shuttling back and forth on the ground.Lin Jiannan gritted his teeth and pressed the red button heavily. Forty bombs weighing 25 kilograms were thrown to the ground, carrying the potential energy of the plane, and smashed on the palace in the center of the palace.Lin Jiannan hurriedly pulled the plane to a high altitude, looked down, and saw that the inside of the palace was already in flames, with thick smoke rising into the sky.

At the same time, he saw a Lanxiang fighter plane falling with thick smoke billowing from its tail. When it was about to hit the ground, the pilot pulled the nose of the plane violently, barely raising the plane a little. Then adjusted the direction and slammed into an anti-aircraft artillery position.After a loud noise, the position with more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns was immediately shrouded in thick smoke and flames. The 7 kg bombs carried by the plane that were not dropped in time immediately razed the anti-aircraft gun position to the ground. Killed instantly.

Lin Jiannan felt sore and almost cried. He remembered that in the naval battle of Jeju Island, his comrade Zhuang Cheng used his fighter plane to block the human torpedoes in order to protect the warship.He knew very well that in fact, when the pilot raised the nose of the aircraft just a little bit higher, he had every chance to escape by parachuting, but he chose to die with hundreds of people. "Extremely confused! Are people as valuable as your life? Is it necessary to die with them?"

Seeing the loss of a fighter plane and a pilot in the first attack wave, Deng Shichang immediately adjusted his strategy, requiring the pilot to maintain an altitude of 6000 meters in the next attack.When dealing with land targets, it is strictly forbidden for pilots to attack by diving in order to improve the hit rate unless it is a last resort.The training of a pilot is not an easy task. How much does it cost? Deng Shichang doesn't want to exchange the precious pilot's life for greater results.After learning the lessons of the first wave of attacks, the pilots became more cautious in the next attacks.Every hour or so, a group of thirty planes flew over Tokyo, dropped five tons of bombs at an altitude of 6000 meters, and then circled away without any loss.Anyway, Deng Shichang explained in advance that he only needs to drop the bombs in the city of Tokyo. He doesn't care about the hit rate, and he doesn't need to worry about bombing civilians by mistake.For such a nation, there is actually not much difference between civilians and soldiers. One less person will bring peace and tranquility to the world.

Bombing like this continued until December 12th.

At seven o'clock that night, in the Welcome Palace in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Hideki Tojo was lying on the tatami mat, with several beautiful singers lying on the Prime Minister's lap beside him.At this time, even in Wenxiang Nephrite, Tojo Hideki couldn't attract any interest, and now his heart is in a mess.To be more precise, Hideki Tojo at this time has lost the instinctive reaction of a man to a woman.

In addition to Tokyo these days, the Chinese navy has achieved remarkable results in its bombing of Honshu and northern Shikoku.Now, the daily output of anti-aircraft machine guns has dropped to about 6000 pieces, and the anti-aircraft guns are even more bleak, with a daily output of about [-] pieces, which cannot meet the needs of the military at all.However, to be honest, only Amaterasu knows how effective these desperately produced things are under the enemy's high-altitude bombing.Ever since they suffered losses during the bombing of the imperial palace, the Chinese have become more cautious. All of them threw bombs and anti-aircraft artillery shells from an altitude of more than [-] meters, and they could not hit the opponent's plane at all.However, he also knew that without these things for appearance, the loss might be even greater.

What's more terrible is that the domestic reserves of steel have been used up too quickly in this period of time. Steel is used to build reinforced concrete fortifications, steel is used to make cannons, and shells, etc. The current reserves can only last about half a year. .For such a desperately resource-poor country, this is really a fatal blow.Hideki Tojo is helpless now, and can only stare blankly. His ambition to build a military circle back then has all turned into helplessness. The best way to deal with those annoying planes is to own one of his own. A large-scale air force, but this is simply a fantasy for people today.The industrial center has long been blown upside down, and the aircraft research base in Kobe has not survived this catastrophe. The production line has been turned into scrap steel, and experts have suffered heavy casualties. Even if the Chinese stop their attacks now, there will be no three or five In a year's time, the scale of China's aircraft will not return to the pre-war level.Three to five years?Hideki Tojo smiled wryly. It was hard for him to imagine how many people there would be on the islands.

Today was originally a good day. After three days of heavy snowfall, it finally stopped this morning, revealing a ray of warm sunshine.Six days ago, the carrier-based aircraft of the Beiyang Fleet carried out a large-scale bombing of the cities of Kochi, Takamatsu, and Matsuyama in Shikoku Island. According to the usual practice, at least within three days, there will be no aerial bombs on the islands. .So, this morning, Hideki Tojo led a group of senior generals out of the Welcome Palace and the air-raid shelter, and inspected the city of Tokyo.What I saw can only be described as horrible.

In the entire city, less than [-]% of the houses that can still stand are left, and about [-]% of the houses have been bombed to dilapidated condition, and they can no longer withstand the cold wind. A pile of broken bricks.A large number of homeless people used wood, planks and cardboards to build a series of extremely simple dilapidated wooden houses connected together on the ruins and open spaces, barely resisting the biting cold wind.All the poor people live in these improvised dilapidated wooden houses. The rich have already gone to the countryside, or simply went to Hokkaido, where no bomb has been dropped. The big city Sapporo there, The living facilities are complete and the materials are relatively rich, and the hot springs there are the most suitable for rich people to spend the cold winter.

In the slums composed of dilapidated wooden houses, murders and robberies happened almost all the time. The noble sentiments of the Yamato nation were fully reflected here. Some people raised their butcher knives to their neighbors without hesitation. , just for a few hardened rice balls.The public security police in Tokyo have been engaged in the same monotonous and simple job recently, that is, carrying out frozen corpses from the ruins, from the dilapidated wooden houses, and from both sides of the street, They got together, pulled them to the outskirts with a rickshaw, and buried them in a random pit.

Tokyo, the political, economic, and cultural core of China, has been reduced from heaven to hell on earth in just one week!
After only two hours of inspection, Hideki Tojo couldn't stand it anymore. Such a heavy casualty and such a difficult situation would cause the morale of the people to collapse.

Just when Hideki Tojo was thinking wildly, there was a burst of low engine roar in the sky, followed by a few dull explosions, and Hideki Tojo subconsciously ran to the air-raid shelter outside go.This kind of explosion sounded within a few minutes, and the harsh air raid sirens immediately sounded throughout the city of Tokyo.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, please dodge for a while." The accompanying officials persuaded.

Hideki Tojo gritted his teeth and wanted to pretend he wasn't afraid of death, but his legs couldn't help walking towards the air-raid shelter. As soon as they walked more than [-] meters away, they saw flames bursting into the sky outside Yoyogi Park. The whole sky was red, and waves of heat came in, scorching everyone's eyebrows and beards.

(End of this chapter)