The air raid sirens over Tokyo did not stop all night.

It was not until dawn approached that the bombers of Huaxia had completed the third round of bombing missions and left.

The fighters deployed by the Japanese in Kyushu and at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula immediately took off at the dawn of dawn, intending to intercept them halfway.

A few days before Huaxia landed on the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese air force stationed on the Korean Peninsula had already been defeated. This allowed a large number of air forces in Japan to support the past, and only then did they withstand the gallop of the Chinese air force on the Korean Peninsula.

And it was precisely this transfer of troops that made Japan's air defense empty and made the bombing of Tokyo easier.

In order to make up for some obsolescence and to save the last face, the Japanese even ignored the escort of the airspace over the Korean Peninsula that could barely reach a local area, and dispatched a large number of elite pilots on the Korean Peninsula overnight. The one Taeho-class aircraft carrier that remained in Sasebo in Kyushu and the other Daeho-class aircraft carrier that rushed to support the Korean Peninsula and stayed in Pusan also set sail at night and sailed to the East China Sea, intending to intercept them halfway after dawn.

"As long as you see the bombers in Huaxia, even if you hit them, you have to knock them down!" Ichiro Ogawa yelled directly in the communicator.

For this interception, the Army Aviation dispatched nearly 200 fighters. Because of the recent loss of the Zero on the Korean Peninsula, some pilots' mounts have also been replaced by Type 1 fighters, that is, Hayabusa Army fighters, which have been phased out by the Zero and Super Zero.

This Oscar light fighter is obviously too weak in firepower, and after improvement, there is only one 7.7 mm and one 12.7 mm machine gun each, although the flexible Falcon fighter with an altitude of 11,700 meters can also volley at high altitudes, but it is still a little difficult to shoot down the Super Flying Fortress. As a result, Ichiro Ogawa, who was supposed to die in an accident in Mudanjiang in 42, shouted the instructions of his superiors.

Such instructions from superiors also sounded in the ears of the pilots of the two aircraft carriers of the Taiho.

Although the final losses have not yet come out, just some of the damage data collected before dawn has made the entire Japanese top brass crazy.

The Japanese are already planning to do whatever it takes, even if they want to die together. It is also necessary to hit the murderers of this bombing of Tokyo hard.

This is just the first step.

Hirohito quickly agreed to Hideki Tojo's plan to use the Japanese's own heavy bombers to counterattack mainland China before dawn.

After being threatened by the Huaxia bombers, in 41 the Japanese began to create the Nakajima G5N "Deep Mountain" heavy bomber.

In the previous life, this deep mountain bombardment, which was somewhat similar to the American B24 Liberator, was not taken seriously by the Japanese, and because the cost of heavy bombers was too high, only 6 were produced, and then stopped. And these 6 have always been used as transport aircraft for long-distance transportation.

However, in this time and space, the Japanese have always wanted to fight back against China. The emphasis on heavy bombers has increased.

Not only did the production of the deep mountain bombardment increase fivefold, reaching 30 aircraft. Moreover, after the capture of the B17 from the Americans in the South Pacific, the development of a more powerful Lianshan heavy bomber began in advance.

Originally, the Japanese wanted to accumulate a few more planes to leave a painful lesson for Huaxia, and even when dealing with the Americans, I am afraid that these still thin-skinned heavy bombardments will be damaged, and they have never attacked. But this time, the Japanese couldn't resist using their so-called hole cards.

"It's too far to bomb them, I'm afraid they will be intercepted early. It's better to bomb Shanghai. Blow up their number one city in Asia! "The Japanese were a little self-aware, and chose Shanghai as the target of their bombing retaliation.

"All fully loaded with special bombs, even if shot down. Make Shanghai a dead city! Someone shouted.

"No, absolutely not! This will provoke even more fierce retaliation from Huaxia! Don't you see how fragile the defenses over our heads are? Do you really want to watch Huaxia also turn our Kyoto into a dead city? At this time, we must endure! Bear with it until we can actually stop their high-altitude bombers! "The vast majority of the top brass still prefer limited retaliation.

If the bombing of Huaxia in Kyushu surprised them before, the bombing of Tokyo this time scared many of them.

The insecurity of Kyushu, which is close to China, and the insecurity of Tokyo, which is full of powerful people, are definitely two different concepts.

According to the guess of the time the Chinese bombers stayed in the air, I am afraid that the entire mainland will not be safe.

At a time when the air defense facilities were not perfect, and there were not even many bomb shelters. The only way to preserve strength is to swallow this breath and endure until the shadow of Huaxia's danger is removed, and then you can do whatever you want.

The Japanese are also not mentally retarded and brain-dead.

Seeing that the Japanese Imperial Palace was not damaged, the many old fritters in the Japanese top did not know that this was a kind of retaliatory warning from Huaxia.

Wars also have their own rules. It is okay for the Japanese to retaliate to save face, but they must not step on certain bottom lines without the ability to protect themselves.

With the development prospects of the entire Australian continent in the south. The Japanese have not yet reached the despair of collective jade crushing.

They even gave special instructions to the troops in Nanyang not to use special weapons lightly. Even plans to massacre the Chinese were put on hold for the time being, and only the plundering of the wealth of the Chinese was the main priority.

Of course, for the sake of the Japanese nation's face and for the sake of giving an explanation to the Japanese people, appropriate retaliation still needs to be carried out immediately.

The second step of retaliation may require some preparation time. But the first step of intercepting the bombers had to be done successfully.

"At least 50 to shoot down!" Japan's top brass gave a hard indicator.

All night, the anti-aircraft artillery rang out all night, but only the news of the crash of a Chinese bomber was received.

The crew of the crashed Huaxia fighter found only one who had committed suicide under siege, and the others were rescued, and the crashed bomber razed a military factory that made hand grenades to the ground with a loud self-explosion.

The Japanese could not come up with a little loot that could hide their face.

This time, the Army and the Navy flew together, with more than 350 fighters, hoping to intercept the last of the evacuated bombers.

With sufficient downed records, they were able to publicize the withdrawal of the Huaxia bombers as being repulsed, and only then could they become the best subject for Japan's propaganda offensive.

It is a pity that this group of Japanese pilots who came to ambush their prey with the spirit of jade crushing were surrounded and annihilated by a group of receiving fighters flying from China.

The Huaxia General Staff has a complete set of plans, which are running normally step by step, just like the rigor of the clones.

The final evacuation before dawn was also a decoy to provoke Japanese fighters to attack.

"After being slapped in the face, the Japanese are likely to chase after them in anger and shame, so they will be slapped again, and the Japanese who have always bullied the weak and feared the hard will be completely relented." Although Meng Xiang was limited to the current situation and could only take partial action, he did not mind slapping the Japanese a little louder. A series of plans are arranged with a backhand.

It's just that there is some deviation from the plan that the Japanese did not expect that the Japanese would send so many interceptor fighters.

In fact, the receiving force of about 300 fighters composed of Thunderbolt, Mustang and Hellcat was strong enough, plus the 80 twin Mustang escorting the last batch of bombers, it was enough to deal with this ambush by the Japanese.

But Meng Xiang has always liked to fight more and fight less, emphasizing the minimum loss in exchange for the biggest victory. Moreover, this time it is rare for Japanese fighters to run so much, which is exactly the original intention of encircling and annihilating.

When the three alert Kirov airships near the Korean Peninsula and high in the East China Sea quickly sent an early warning, Meng Xiang gave an order and activated the preparatory plan.

For such a long time, China's air force has developed the most rapidly, and although the logistical support is a little worse, there are more and more pilots who are quickly fed with a large amount of fuel and a large number of fighters at any cost.

The number of pilots in the Huaxia National Defense Force has exceeded 5,000.

Although it cannot be compared with the exaggerated 3,000 aces of the Germans in World War II, the more than 20,000 flight cadets who have expanded to 11 aviation schools are growing rapidly and have become the most solid cornerstone of the Chinese Air Force.

In view of the fact that navigating on the sea requires certain professional skills, Meng Xiang could not be like the Japanese, and did not want to put some army aviation pilots who did not know about sea flying into the interception team, so he could only try to draw the Huaxia Hainan Airlines pilots whose scale had exceeded 1,000 to form the second echelon composed of 300 fighters and participate in this encirclement and annihilation operation.

The two sides met in the skies above the junction of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea.

688 against 354.

The best fighter in the F6F6 Hellcat, the king in the P47N Thunderbolt, the World War II warrior in the P51D Mustang, the mainstream Zero against Japan, the Super Zero with a little more thin skin armor in the main parts, and the Type 1 fighter that is a lot behind.

The Chinese pilots, carefully selected under the hard training and the huge population base of the Chinese people, were generally a little stronger than the Japanese pilots, and the Chinese side, which had prepared this plan in advance, drew many elites and aces from the very beginning, and once again overwhelmed the level of pilots.

From the very beginning, this air battle was an unequal tragedy for the Japanese.