Chapter 473: The Great Tunnel Tragedy

Lei Yunfeng heard the deafening roar of the plane in the sky, and he was so frightened that he leaned out of the car and looked at the sky.

Several bombs landed and exploded in front, and the affected car bounced violently and fell to the ground again, and the nearby buildings were completely destroyed by the bomb explosion, and the flames rose into the sky.

Lei Yunfeng shouted at Fang Shichao: "Stop immediately, everyone stay in the car and don't move, the Japanese army has sent at least eighty bombers to bomb the capital, our current position is in the western suburbs of the capital, as long as we don't continue to move forward, it should be safe." ”

"Boss, if we just stop on the street and don't move, won't the Japanese bombers in the air quickly lock on to the target and drop bombs to blow us up?"

"Don't be afraid, you must trust my judgment, the enemy sent a large number of bombers to bomb the capital suddenly, and we must make arrangements in advance to eliminate the target at a fixed point, and I analyze that the bombing target of the Japanese fighter plane should be in the central area of the city.

However, with so many bombers dispatched today, the bombing targets will certainly be expanded, that is, Ciqikou, Shapingba, Jiangbei Airport, and key facilities and large public and civilian buildings in the city.

We are in the western suburbs of the city, so we will not be the target of the Japanese fighters bombing, and besides, the direction in which the Japanese fighters are flying is from Wuhan, and the western suburbs should be considered a safe zone. ”

As he spoke, Lei Yunfeng watched the Japanese fighters drop batches of bombs all over the world, exploding at the main targets in the city, and not only thought of some information about the bombing of the capital by the Japanese bombers in his previous life.

According to records, in order to deal with the all-out war of resistance in China, the Japanese army, after careful study and analysis by the military department and the cabinet, believed that it was necessary to completely change the aggressive policy of a quick victory.

This change is a new strategic policy that focuses on political offensives and is supplemented by military strikes.

In order to bring the government to the negotiating table under the simultaneous political and military attack, it is necessary to adopt a new strategy to shake the will of the government to resist the war, force it to comply, and force it to compromise with Japan.

The Japanese base camp ordered the Road Airlines and the Navy to carry out a powerful bombing campaign against the command center of the capital and bomb all the targets, whether military or civilian, in order to coordinate the military offensive and expand the aggression and take the major action to achieve this strategic goal.

The Japanese bombardment of the capital lasted from 1938 to 1942 for six years, the most serious of which was from 1939 to 1941.

Beginning in May 1939, the Japanese naval and road air bombers launched more and more brutal indiscriminate bombing of the capital.

On 3rd, 4th, and 12th May, Japanese bombers successively dispatched nearly 100 bombers to drop bombs and incendiary bombs to carry out indiscriminate bombing of the capital.

In just two days from May 3 to 4, according to incomplete statistics, the Japanese army deliberately and brutally dropped 176 bombs and 116 incendiary bombs on densely populated areas, killing 4,572 people, wounding 3,637 people, and leaving as many as 20,000 homeless refugees.

Under the bombardment of many batches and large numbers of bombers by the Japanese army, dozens of main streets were blown into ruins, and dozens of streets were blown into flames, and the raging fire was extinguished for three days.

In the past few years when the Japanese bombed the capital, the most tragic air raid was the 'Great Tunnel Massacre', which was listed as one of the three major tragedies in the rear during the Anti-Japanese War

At around six o'clock on June 5, 1941, the light rain of the day finally stopped.

The citizens who were preparing to eat and enjoy the cool suddenly heard the piercing air raid siren, and those citizens who were eating and enjoying the cold threw down their rice bowls and carried some urgent packages on their backs, and quickly rushed to the 18-ladder public air defense tunnel.

At this time, there were many people who had already poured into the tunnel, and the refugees who had heard the alarm were still rushing in quickly.

The large tunnel, which was already saturated, was very crowded, and there were many people sitting on the benches on both sides of the tunnel, and the aisles were full of people.

At about nine o'clock in the night, 80 Japanese bombers suddenly appeared again in the sky over the capital and carried out indiscriminate bombing of the city of the capital.

At this time, the people crowded in the big tunnel, due to the limited space of many people, and then the entrance of the cave was closed, and many people in the cave were due to lack of oxygen.

Because the Japanese bombers on the ground kept dropping bombs from the air, the fireworks set off by the explosion rushed into the big tunnel from time to time, which caused more discomfort to the people in the cave, and the oxygen became thinner and thinner, so that the lights in the cave were weak, and finally the lights were extinguished due to lack of oxygen.

Originally, the people in the cave were crowded and the heat was unbearable, and the lack of air circulation caused a lack of oxygen in the cave, but now the lights have also been turned off, and the atmosphere is suddenly tense, and some people are irritable due to the lack of oxygen, and their behavior begins to be abnormal.

One survivor later described that 'in the cave, at first I felt only a dull head and sweating profusely, but gradually my body became weak, as if the salt was in hot water, and the temperature under my feet was unusually high, and the people on the left and right involuntarily tore their clothes to shreds, as if they were insane. ’

Another survivor said, 'I began to feel hot and panicked, my heart seemed to be about to fall, I was suffering from a sudden illness, I wanted to drink cold water, I was pulled by someone when I went out, I couldn't walk, someone pulled my hand and bit it in the dark, my hands and back were bruised everywhere, and my clothes were torn.' ’

Due to the severe lack of oxygen in the cave, it was very difficult to breathe, and the crowd felt extremely uncomfortable, and in the face of the torture of near death, they could no longer hold back their irritability and began to desperately crowd the entrance of the cave.

But the door of the big tunnel is closed outward, and the more the crowd squeezes towards the door, the more it can't open the door.

The gendarmes and security personnel guarding the entrance to the tunnel were very dedicated and only knew that during the attack of the planes, as long as the people hiding in the tunnel did not revoke the air raid siren, they were absolutely forbidden to go out of the bomb shelter, and they did not know anything about what was happening inside the tunnel.

The people standing in front of the wooden fence door wanted to open the cave door, but they were so crowded by the crowd that roared and cried out like crazy inside that they couldn't move, how could they still open the cave door?

The oxygen in the cave became thinner and thinner, and the people in the cave became more irritable, and they crowded together with each other, causing a terrible trampling, some people in front fell to the ground, and were suffocated by the people who rushed up from behind.

When the door of the cave was suddenly knocked open, the people in the cave rushed out of the cave like a flood from a dam burst, and a small number of people were dizzy and were held hostage by the flow of people and climbed step by step from the stairs to the ground, and finally survived and saw the light of day.

The people who escaped breathed the air, fainted and fell to the ground, and when they woke up again at some point and saw that these people around them were still alive, the people who were stunned at this time not only hugged their heads and cried.

It was late at night, but the Japanese bombers were still bombing, and there was a sea of fire in front of them and in the distance, and at this time the people in the cave didn't care so much, and they were still frantically struggling and shouting to squeeze out.