Chapter Seventy-Two: The Landing Succeeds
The paratroopers parachuted in and occupied the Imperial Palace, and the news that almost all the cabinet ministers, as well as many princes and high-ranking generals who had taken refuge in the Imperial Palace, were all captured, made Tojo Hideki stunned for a while, and what Tojo wanted to do most at this time was to grab someone and ask him what to do. After receiving the report of paratroopers landing in the sky above the palace, Hideki Tojo had already guessed that the attack on the palace was inseparable from Thunder, and he even thought that even Zhao Zhi might be in the palace, and Thunder mercenaries were very good at lightning raids.
The scheming Hideki Tojo sent a messenger to ask for negotiations with the people who captured the palace, and at the same time asked someone to secretly inform the relevant people and departments about the matter. At the same time as informing Prime Minister Konoe, the military department also got the news at the same time, Sugiyama Mototo and Nagano Shushu They were almost not scared to drop their jaws on the ground, many people said that the emperor was actually a puppet, this is not true, although now the emperor's rights are almost divided by the military department and the cabinet, but the emperor is still a symbol of God, no one dares to refute what the emperor said, and the rights of these ministers are parasitic on the emperor's body.
It's like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who has not been in court for decades, but Yan Song does not dare to replace him, because the minister is parasitic in the hands of the emperor, the emperor has been 124 generations, and when the emperor is at his most down, it is when the shogun is in power, even when the emperor is the most down, the shogun does not dare to abolish the emperor and ascend the throne himself, because of an inner fear, in the hearts of the Japanese, the idea instilled since childhood is that the emperor is the representative of God and the spokesman of Amaterasu in the world.
When Emperor Meiji died, Nogi Noshinori, an important minister of the Japanese God of War and the military department, took his wife to self-sacrifice can show that in the body of the soldiers, they must be absolutely loyal to the emperor. Whether the Japanese are cutting themselves or charging in front of the battle, the slogan is Long live the emperor!
Capturing the emperor is also the lifeblood of the Japanese, even if someone wants to usurp the throne, but they will not save Emperor Hirohito in front of everyone.
When Konoe Fumiro arrived at the outer blockade of the palace, he had already seen Sugiyama Moto, Nagano Shushen, these important military ministers gathering together to discuss something, and everyone's faces were very anxious, although the anxiety on some people's faces was faked, but at least they were pretended. "Lu Xiang, how is the situation now?" Fumiro Konoe walked over and asked Hideki Tojo, who was silent.
"I've sent someone over, but there has been no request inside, but I guess that the people inside are likely to be Thunder mercenaries, when the bombing around the palace caused a fire, the retreating troops said that they saw paratroopers airdropped into the palace, I think maybe Zhao Zhi will also be in the palace, but I don't know why they did this." Hideki Tojo whispered his guess to Fumiki Konoe, and the latter was also frightened by Hideki Tojo's guess.
"No, Zhao Zhi should be in Yamaguchi Prefecture now, and besides, he is the head of the Thunder, and a person like him shouldn't risk parachuting into Tokyo." Konoe Fumiro's face was full of doubts, regardless of whether Zhao Zhi was in the palace or not, judging from Tojo Hideki's inference, the person who attacked the palace was indeed suspicious, and the only explanation could only be that Thunder did it. The anxiously waiting high-ranking officials were worried, the people sent by Hideki Tojo to negotiate had changed three times, but no one was able to enter the palace to find out, the gunfire on the other side of Tokyo Bay became more and more intensive, and Hideki Tojo and Fumiko Konoe both knew what it meant for the emperor to be captured.
Thousands of Thunder's mercenaries and mercenary units from the United States had already begun a landing operation in Tokyo Bay, and Halsey, who had received an order from the Ministry of Defense, also sent a 2,000-strong Marine Corps to participate in the landing operation. The naval guns of the U.S. fleet have long been replaced by various Japanese fortification bunkers in Tokyo Bay, and with the coordinates and directions provided by the lurker squad, few Japanese shore fortifications can escape the bombardment of naval guns.
Hundreds of Japanese and American planes fought fiercely in the sky, and the pilots of both sides used all their skills, and from time to time fighters with black smoke trailing their tails fell from the sky, while other fighters had no time to care about the fierce fighting. Thanks to Zhao Zhi's raid on the Japanese mainland airport with the infiltrator troops in the early stage, those infiltrators not only regarded the Japanese fighters as targets, but even those Japanese pilots were also unlucky. At present, less than 30 percent of the Japanese pilots who have fought with US fighters can be called veterans, and the rest are flight cadets who have not yet graduated, and some are even flying airplanes for the first time.
Hundreds of landing craft of the Halsey fleet were loaded with soldiers approaching the harbor full of smoke and fire, the fire had been going on for more than 2 hours, and according to the data provided by Thunder, the landing force did not believe that under such heat and fireworks, there were still Japanese soldiers alive to hold on to their fortifications. Facts have proved that the judgment of the landing force was accurate, after the large number of incendiary bombs in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese defense units closest to the bay have withdrawn one after another, and the Japanese troops who want to hold their positions have all died in the fire, and the Japanese soldiers hiding in the fortifications have also suffocated to death due to the continuous high temperature.
The officers of the landing force were somewhat incredulous to the officers of the landing force who landed in Tokyo Bay without a single shot, but their military boots were indeed on the land of Tokyo Bay at this time, and the place in front of them was still emitting heavy smoke and fire was the Tokyo Bay they had seen in the telescope earlier. "Put on a gas mask and move on." The mercenaries in charge of direction guidance raised their hands to signal that the landing force that had already landed was codenamed their respective gas masks, and then began to assemble and advance inland according to the deduced steps.
In the face of the more than one million so-called Japanese volunteers who were urgently armed in the urban area of Tokyo, the landing force certainly would not be stupid enough to play any offensive and defensive battles with the Japanese, and their only task was to kill and destroy. First, let dozens of mercenary squads carry out a jumping assault, and then use bombs or hand-thrown incendiary bombs to cause a fire in the area temporarily opened up by the mercenary squad, and divide the area in front of the landing force into small areas one by one, and then concentrate superior forces and firepower to clean up these small areas surrounded by fire one by one, so as to give the Japanese the greatest damage and shock.
Under the cover of tanks and light and heavy machine guns, the soldiers of the Guards Division, who were not afraid of death, shouted and launched an active attack on the place controlled by the landing force, and in order to drive these guys who were killing people everywhere in Tokyo Bay back to the sea, the soldiers of the Guards Division did not care that this was their own home, and the houses and shops destroyed by the artillery fire of the Guards Division abounded.
Compared with the Guards Division, which had tanks and armored vehicles, the landing force did not seem to have any advantage in heavy weapons, but when the rockets fired out turned the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles into fireballs, the high-spirited Japanese soldiers remembered that the American army had Bazooka, and that thing was perfect for fighting Japanese tanks. "Move, move, drive them to the city." Thousands of Thunder mercenaries are at the forefront of the landing force, and the higher the position, the greater the pressure they will be, and the number of Japanese who can be shot by them will also increase exponentially.
In the face of the Thunder mercenaries, who had been armed to the teeth, the Japanese civilians who had narrowly escaped the bombing of the US military began to run towards the city of Tokyo according to the instructions of the mercenaries, and the fierce mercenaries fell closely behind them. It was impossible for the soldiers of the Guards Division to shoot at their own people, so they could only watch the hastily constructed defense line be scattered by their own people, and the thunderous mercenaries who followed the Japanese civilians also took the opportunity to attack the defense line of the Guards Division, and the two sides of the melee were entangled and killed in the Ota area, near the bay.
The Japanese Imperial Palace occupied by Zhang Hua and them was in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, and the Japanese Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward was located along Ota Ward all the way north, crossing Shinagawa Ward and Shibuya. Upon learning that the mixed forces of the U.S. Army and the Thunder had landed in Daejeon, Hideki Tojo and Fumiro Konoe decided to temporarily form four more volunteer divisions to intercept the enemy troops heading north on the front line of Shinagawa Ward, and if they really invaded Chuoku, the emperor and his ministers might really be taken away by them.
"Zhao, you are really a madman, you are all right." Watching the landing craft of the last landing force leave the fleet, Halsey, who was standing on the deck, couldn't help but whisper that Zhao Zhi was a madman. Facing Tokyo, which has a population of millions, Zhao Zhi actually sent a small army of 100 people to dare to raid the Japanese Imperial Palace, and he really did it. Halsey didn't know if he could be considered a crazy person, but he knew that Zhao Zhi would definitely be a madman, and in the face of Tokyo, which had a population of more than one million, Zhao Zhi actually sent only a few thousand people to land in Tokyo Bay.
"General, this is the battle plan I just received, from Yamaguchi Prefecture." Halsey's intelligence staff officer came over with a telegram from Zhao Zhigang. The landing on Halsey's side was successful, Zhao Zhi's side fought well, the Jewish troops had successfully broken through the Japanese defense line in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and the forward troops of the Jewish army were now moving towards Hiroshima.
"Great, I'll just say the battle plan shouldn't be like this." Zhao Zhi said in a telegram that the Lockman family's fleet would bring the last 30,000 Jewish soldiers from Jiaobeibei Island to Tokyo Bay, and that as long as Halsey's fleet held out for another day, a large number of soldiers and ammunition supplies would arrive in Tokyo Bay.