readx; Because the bomber group dominated by the 38th Wing entered after the 27th Wing, it was not intercepted by the dense air defense fighters like the 27th Wing, although it was also intercepted by the fighters several times on the way, but the number of intercepted fighters was not large, which allowed the 38th Wing to maintain more strength, and before reaching the skies over Tokyo, not a single bomber was lost, only two bombers broke down and were forced to turn back. The F5 fighters www.biquge.info its escort did not suffer much either.

After the 38th Wing, which maintained its almost complete strength, entered the skies over Tokyo, it was intercepted by relatively few fighters, because at the beginning, two of the four flying teams called "Ben" were used to intercept the 27th Wing, and the other two were used to intercept the 31st Wing. By the time the 38th Wing arrived, although there were dozens of fighters going to intercept it, the scale of the interception was not as large as the 150-odd fighters that had been intercepted by the 27th Wing.

The 38th Wing, which had suffered less attrition and interference, did not suffer much interference except for some ground anti-aircraft fire, and this made the bombing operation of the 38th Wing extremely smooth.

After a series of incendiary bombs were dropped, another area of Tokyo was turned into a sea of fire!

Looking at Tokyo at this time from the air, then you can find that Tokyo seems to have turned into a sea of fire at this time, billowing smoke almost fills the entire city, and the fierce fire continues to penetrate the smoke and appear in people's sight, and those B16 bomber pilots in the sky seem to feel the blazing temperature from the ground even if they are above 10,000 meters in the air!

"This should be considered a massacre!" Colonel Liu Ping looked at Tokyo, where there were flames and billowing smoke behind the plane, and muttered to himself, and there was a hint of sigh in his tone.

But the navigator major next to him didn't care at all: "It's better to be burned in Tokyo than in Shanghai!" ”

Liu Ping heard this, and his face showed an embarrassed look, but Liu Ping had to agree with his words: "It's better for the enemy to die than to die for yourself!" ”

Liu Ping is just an ordinary soldier, although he also joined the National Socialist Party, but in today's China, if he wants to achieve something in his career or military career, joining the National Socialist Party is already a necessary choice, and a one-party system in China does not allow the emergence of another party or even a high-ranking officer or senior official without party affiliation.

However, although Liu Ping joined the National Socialist Party, he was not a fanatical member of the National Socialist Party, and even though he had expectations for the rejuvenation of China, he still regarded himself more as a professional officer, and this was also an idea of most professional officers in China's three armed forces.

So he still has the slightest conscience, and there is still considerable resistance to the massacre of the people, but as a career officer, he must choose to obey orders, even if it is to slaughter hundreds of thousands of Tokyo civilians.

On the way back, Liu Ping's mood was not as excited as the major beside him, the bombing of Tokyo was just a combat mission for him, but he did not have too much excitement or joy because the bombing was extremely successful and could burn hundreds of thousands of people to death.

As the B16 bomber groups of the three wings returned one after another, the escorting F5 fighters also got rid of the entanglement of the fighters and accelerated out of the skies over Tokyo.

After the departure of the Chinese bomber group, what was left behind was Tokyo shrouded in flames!

The fire, caused by thousands of tons of incendiary bombs dropped by more than 400 B16 bombers, lasted for three days and three nights, and almost the entire Tokyo and surrounding areas were shrouded in soot emitted after burning, and a large amount of dust floated in the air, accompanied by the smell of barbecue, making the air quality in Tokyo look like Yanjing in later generations!

After the bombing, although the fire department and the military in Tokyo dispatched a large number of manpower to extinguish the fire and rescue, there was still nothing to do in the face of the fire that spread almost all over the city, and those who survived found that their homes were nearly reduced to ashes, and the rubble was littered with charred corpses, and the moans of people who were burned countless times more could be heard!

"It's a massacre!" Hirohito, who came out of the air defense palace, looked at Tokyo almost with a blank face, and let out a cry of grief and indignation in the emperor's characteristic crane voice!

Since the Meiji Restoration, a group of senior generals said, "This has gone through the First Sino-Japanese War, Russia, World War I, the First Sino-Japanese War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and then the Pacific War that is still going on, and there have been victories and defeats here, but the homeland has never been so badly damaged, but today China has brought the greatest pain in the history of the Ben."

"We must fight back, since they bombed our Tokyo, we will bomb their Shanghai!" Hirohito turned around and looked at the group of generals in front of him.

Hirohito did not say that he would bomb Nanjing, the capital of China, because for China, ten Nanjings were not as important as one Shanghai. Nanjing in 1944 was at best a political center, but Shanghai was China's economic and industrial center, and if you want to bomb Nanjing, you have to break through China's coastal air defense network and go hundreds of kilometers into Chinese mainland, so the possibility of successful bombing is very small.

He said: "Up to now, the air force has been very weak, and in fact it is very reluctant to even bomb Shanghai, and if we want to say that we want to cross Shanghai and bomb Nanjing, it is almost a fool's dream."

Hirohito said so, and a group of people below said, 'Although the generals had the intention to raise objections, they told the emperor, 'There are not enough bombers to bomb Shanghai, and there are not enough fighters to escort the bombers!'

But looking at Tokyo shrouded in flames, I couldn't say anything about the opposition in my heart.

That night, Chen Jingyun also got a detailed battle report of this bombing from Wu Shizhong!

"In this bombing, our air force dispatched a total of 478 B16 bombers from three bomber wings, and a total of 627 F5 fighters from three fighter wings to provide escort. On the way, eight bombers returned early due to mechanical problems, 12 B16 bombers were shot down, and seven bombers were seriously injured and forced to make a forced landing in the waters outside Tokyo. Thirty-three F5 fighters were shot down and more than forty wounded,! In the aerial battle, 158 planes of various types were shot down. After reaching the skies over Tokyo, the bomber group successfully dropped bombs, but two of the bomber groups failed to find the intended target, so they had to drop bombs in secondary areas and return home. The rest of the bombers dropped bombs in the predetermined area, and according to the real-time aerial photos at the time, the bombing achieved the expected effect, but the specific losses of the side have not yet been clarified, but considering the architectural characteristics of the bomb and the population density of the area where the bomb was dropped, it can cause at least 60,000 to 80,000 casualties! "Wu Shizhong's estimate of the results of the battle is actually seriously underestimated.

In the bombing of Tokyo, more than 400 B16 bombers dropped about 2,500 tons of incendiary bombs, burning an area of more than 50 square kilometers, and a quarter of Tokyo was almost completely destroyed, and there were industrial areas, commercial areas, and residential areas in the area, and more than 300,000 houses were burned down, leaving millions of people homeless, killing more than 150,000 people, and injuring more than 200,000 people.

This bombing effect is in no way inferior to the bombing effect of nuclear bombs under today's technology!

Chen Jingyun looked at the figures on the report, and said in his heart, "I have too many feelings about my casualty data, but I thought: It seems that it is not unreasonable for the Americans to choose to burn down Tokyo in history, and the effect is so good that Chen Jingyun wants to continue to bomb Tokyo several more times."

Chen Jingyun put down the report, and then said: "The results are still good, and the losses are controlled at an acceptable level." It seems that this strategy is still feasible, and the air force will continue to maintain this momentum, not only to bomb Tokyo, but also to other cities in Ben! ”

After Chen Jingyun said this, he waved his hand to let Wu Shizhong go out, and said, "Chen Jingyun doesn't need to worry about Ben's follow-up bombing operation, naturally a group of generals from the Air Force will plan it."

On July 12, the day after the bombing of Tokyo, Nagoya, another important city in Ben, was bombed by more than 300 B16 bombers, and on July 15, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed by hundreds of B11 and B17 bombers respectively, and on July 23, in late July, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed by hundreds of B11 and B17 bombers respectively. The Chinese Air Force once again dispatched more than 300 B16 bombers to bomb Osaka, the second largest city in Japan, and Kobe two days later, and on July 29, the Chinese Air Force once again dispatched up to 400 B16 bombers to bomb Tokyo!

This series of bombing is mainly based on incendiary bombs, some are used at night low-altitude bombing, and some are used daytime high-altitude bombing, which mainly depends on the influence of the weather, because the weather is far less good than that of Europe and Germany, when taking daytime high-altitude bombing, because there are too many clouds, the target will be lost, so the timing of the bombing is very related to the local weather, if the weather is bad, the B16 bomber will also take the risk of using the mode of low-altitude bombing at night.

In addition, in addition to the B11 bombers, there are also a large number of B17 tactical bombers, which are mainly responsible for the bombing mission in the 'Kyushu area and the 'China' area of Honshu Island, and the B17 tactical bombers cannot fly as high as 10,000 meters, so they can only adopt the method of low-altitude bombing at night.

This series of large-scale strategic bombing not only destroyed a large number of industrial facilities, but also caused a large number of houses to be burned down and many people to be killed or wounded, forcing a large number of people to flee the cities and take refuge in the countryside.

Of course, these are all later words, so let's not mention them for the time being!

After the bombing of Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito personally asked the military to counterattack China, and although the minds of the army and navy knew that this was unrealistic, they had no choice but to plan the bombing of some coastal cities in China, especially Shanghai.

In fact, the Army Air Force and the Naval Air Force had launched bombing of Shanghai before, but unfortunately the scale of these bombings was relatively small, and every time the bomber pilots who said, "The bomber pilots have been shot down or forced to return to Shanghai before they have even seen it."

So far, there has not been a single bomb that has fallen on the land of Shanghai!

And now they say, "I wanted to bomb Shanghai again, and even the generals of the Army Air Force did not have any hope of success!" However, despite knowing that there was little hope of success and that there were many difficulties, under the pressure of the emperor and high-ranking generals, the army air force and naval air force still gathered more than 100 bombers and more than 100 fighter planes to prepare for an air attack on Shanghai.