"What? The 54 brigade was ambushed by the enemy? Hosokawa stood up in surprise: "How is it possible?" Where did the enemy come from?! ”

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Hongo Counselor replied with sweat on his forehead: "Probably...... They are parachuting! ”

"Parachuting!" Hosokawa replied: "Send reinforcements immediately!" ”

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Hongo Counselor replied helplessly, "Already...... There is no need for reinforcements! ”

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"No!" Hongo Counselor hesitated and replied, "Rather...... The 54 Brigade has been completely wiped out! ”

"Annihilation?" Hearing this, Hosokawa Tadayasu couldn't help but widen his eyes: "How is it possible?" That's seven thousand men in two wings, and even if they are ambushed, a few thousand will escape! ”

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Hongo staff lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at Hosokawa Tadayasu's eyes that wanted to kill: "Chinese army...... They used the 'Red No. 1' and 'Green No. 1' poison gas bombs, which immediately caused the 54 Brigade to lose its combat effectiveness......

"What?" Hosokawa Tadayasu grabbed Hongo's staff officer by the collar: "What you said is true?" How many people fled back from the 54 brigade? ”

"Altogether...... Only three hundred and thirty! ”

"Bastard!" Hosokawa Tadayasu pushed Hongo Staff Officer to the ground fiercely, pulled out his command knife and was about to go to Hongo Staff Officer, but at that thought, he realized that it was not Hongo's fault at all, so the blade turned and slashed at the chair next to him, and with a "boast" he split the chair in half.

"Bastard!" Hosokawa Tadayasu yelled, "Fetch me Haraguchi......"

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Hongo's staff officer got up from the ground trembling and replied, "Haraguchi Daisa, he has died heroically!" ”

Hosokawa Tadayasu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and after a long while, he let go of his hand, and the command knife fell to the ground with a clang.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Seeing Hosokawa Tadayasu like this, Hongo staff officer persuaded and comforted: "We can also transfer the 63rd Division back for reinforcements......"

"There's no hurry!" Hosokawa Tadayasu shook his head: "The 63rd Division...... Now that the town of Xingren has passed, it will take at least a few days to return, and Qiqihar ...... We are already badly damaged, and now that the enemy has one more reinforcement, we will soon launch a counteroffensive! ”

"Then we ......"

"All means are useless!" Hosokawa Tadayasu interrupted Hongo's staff officer: "Once Shenyang is lost, our army's largest supply base will be gone. As soon as the towns and villages are in chaos, the scattered reserves of our army will be reduced exponentially. Now Qiqihar is about to be cut off by the Chinese army again...... This meant that there were no more supply routes from the Manchurian-Mongolian border. In this way, the supply of all our armies is cut off, even if there are more troops...... There is no ammunition and no food, so you can only fight the enemy with your teeth! ”

Hearing this, Hongo's staff officer couldn't help but be silent.

The current situation is indeed as Hosokawa Tadayasu said...... Hongo Staff couldn't help but sigh secretly, why did it become such a situation when it was supposed to be a stable battle? He really couldn't figure it out!

In the American direction, Halsey's method of bombing at low altitude at night suggested by Zhang Chi soon worked...... This time, the US military sent more than 100 B29s, which flew over Tokyo under the escort of P51 fighters and "Mustang" fighters, and then bombed at a low altitude of 1,500 to 2,000 meters, and the US military even removed the machine guns on the tail of the B29s, thus increasing the bomb load by 2,700 pounds.

Many U.S. generals opposed this approach, believing that it was too dangerous to dismantle the tail guns and carry out low-altitude bombardment, and that if the enemy intercepted and attacked from the tail, the B29 would hardly have the ability to fight back and would be beaten passively.

In this regard, Halsey also discussed it with Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi's reply to Halsey was: "General, first of all, we have to consider how many fighters the enemy has the ability to intercept our bombers at night. Second, it is necessary to consider how much time and opportunity the enemy has to intercept us. ”

Halsey couldn't help but pause when he heard this, so he said to the American generals who opposed this at the meeting: "Gentlemen, if you oppose the removal of the tail engine department, then please look at the documents on the table...... The first is the investigation report of our intelligence forces on Japanese fighters, the Japanese can barely go out at night to intercept our fighters have 'Moonlight', 'Zero', 'Hayabusa', etc., but our B29 has a maximum speed of 574 kilometers, and the fastest among our opponents is the 'Zero', and its maximum speed is only 530 kilometers, do you know what this means? ”

The American generals couldn't help but talk a lot, and one of the colonels got up and said: "General, I understand what you mean, you mean that once the B29 is intercepted by the enemy's fighters, we can escape at high speed, but you must know that our B29 is a big thing, it is easy to be hit by the enemy's machine guns, not to mention that we still have the threat from the enemy's anti-aircraft guns!" ”

"I agree with you!" "But please look at the second document first," Halsey said...... That's the road map for our bombing! ”

The US generals couldn't see why they looked at it for a long time.

Halsey held up the road map and explained, "Gentlemen, you can see...... Japan's terrain is made up of several narrow islands, especially Tokyo that we want to bomb is still close to the ocean, so we can choose a route so that the B29 flies over the ocean most of the time, and then cut in from any direction in just a few minutes to complete the bombing, and then quickly cut out of the land and into the ocean to return.

Gentlemen, in other words, our B29s are likely to be exposed to enemy anti-aircraft fire for only ten minutes, and in these ten minutes, what kind of interception preparations can the Japanese prepare for and how many shells or fighters will they send to intercept? ”

When the opposing US generals heard this, they were speechless for a moment.

In the end, Halsey concluded: "There are always risks in war, and if you are not willing to take any risks, then you will not be able to get a good return!" So do it, gentlemen! ”

So the U.S. B29 was quickly refitted and loaded with bombs and flew to Tokyo.

Of course, there is no need to fly at low altitudes during the flight, so there is no need to escort with fighters on the way, only when the B29 fighter arrives near Tokyo and lowers the altitude, it is necessary to escort the fighter, so it is necessary to be able to run over a long distance and carry out the escort mission for the bomber, this fighter is the P51 "Mustang" fighter.

(To be continued.) )