The laxity of the Japanese on the East Coast did a considerable favor to the bomber group participating in the war. The bomber group led by Dawn not only did not encounter any interception over the Sea of Japan, but also did not encounter any interception since entering the Japanese mainland.

At the moment, the Japanese mainland, which is still sleeping, is quiet in the air and on the ground. Except for the occasional navigation machine in the radio station and receiving the Japanese ground code interrogation signal, there was almost no trouble. Even the only time I asked, I was confused by the clever answer given by the navigator who had been prepared for a long time.

At 2:30 a.m. Tokyo time on the 9th, Dawn's bomber group arrived along the Kanto Mountains after arriving at Mt. Fuji, the most visible landmark in mainland Japan. Looking under the wings, even in the night, you can clearly see the silvery white Mt. Fuji on the top of the mountain.

Knowing that he was not far from Tokyo, and that it was the dawn of the turning point on his way to Tokyo, he once again confirmed the direction of the pointer on the compass, and then led his group to lower the altitude, brushed the northeast ridge of Mt. Fuji, and flew directly to Tokyo in the northeast direction at an altitude of 2,000 meters.

However, after flying over Mt. Fuji, Dawn looked at the map and gauges very carefully. He didn't want to bomb Yokohama, which was close to Tokyo and was less than 50 kilometers away. The main target of his trip was Tokyo, the capital of Japan, not the port of Yokohama.

Before this mission, in order to better carry out this mission, Dawn temporarily supplemented a lot of Japanese geographical knowledge. The old Red Army was born, and the original level of education was not high. Except for training in the Soviet Union, he had never been abroad, and it was the first time he knew that the highest mountain in Japan was called Mt. Fuji. The capital of Japan is Tokyo, and the original capital was called Kyoto.

Japan is an archipelagic country surrounded by the sea, and its main territory is made up of four large islands. In addition to these four large islands, there are many smaller islands. Major cities include Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Yokohama, etc., and most of these large cities are concentrated on the island of Honshu.

It was because of this bad supplement that he learned that Yokohama and Tokyo are adjacent to each other, and the distance between the two places is less than 50 kilometers. Yokosuka, which is adjacent to Yokohama, is also one of the most important military ports of the Japanese Navy. That's why he kept his eyes open and kept looking at the instruments on the plane to ensure that he could correct the direction at any time and never deviate from the course and fly to Yokohama.

Fortunately, Tokyo is north of Yokohama, and once you reach the landmark of Mt. Fuji, you can reach the skies over Tokyo by flying directly northeast. Since Yokohama runs almost in a straight east-west line with Mt. Fuji, it is easy to find Tokyo if you do not go directly to the east but slightly north when you reach Mt. Fuji. As long as there is no problem with the instrument, it should not be in the wrong direction.

At 3:20 a.m. on the 9th, when the bomber group led by Dawn appeared over Tokyo without encountering any interception. In this sleeping city, he was greeted by silence. There was no anti-aircraft fire, no interception by air fighters, and it was so silent.

This city, which is enjoying the so-called great military exploits of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, and has not suffered any war trauma so far, seems so natural at this time. There are no light controls or traffic controls like those in other war-torn cities. All the qiē is still going on step by step.

The street lamps on the ground, the flashing neon lights on the surrounding high-rise buildings, and the large and small ships lining the Tokyo Bay, the Edogawa River that traverses the entire urban area, clearly tell the dawn that this large, sleepy city that appears under his wing at this moment is the goal of his trip, the political, economic, cultural, and military center of Japan, and the capital of Japan, Tokyo.

The Japanese were too careless, and even at this critical moment of war against the United States and Britain, their air defense forces at home were mainly concentrated in Kitakyushu, the main base of the steel industry, and the defense line facing the Pacific side of Honshu. In the major cities of the country, there is hardly any light control.

At this moment, Tokyo, the capital of the Japanese Empire, the political, military, and economic center, is still enjoying the same tranquility and prosperity as usual. At the moment, Tokyo on the ground, several train stations that are still brightly lit, and countless large and small snow-bright street lamps have become the best ground navigation signs.

When dawn arrives in Tokyo, the vast majority of people in Tokyo and its surroundings are still asleep, except for a few housewives who have already gotten up early to prepare for the day for their families. As if for fear of waking up the supreme god of the Japanese in the city, the whole city was silent.

A night train from Aomori at Tokyo Station is slowly approaching the platform. Passengers who are waiting to board the train to go to Osaka stand on the platform in an orderly manner and wait to board the train. This is the premier big city in Northeast Asia, and everything is so orderly at this time.

At this moment, whether it is the person driving the car, or the housewife who has already gotten up early and is busy, including the god in the imperial palace in the city, the supreme god in the eyes of the Japanese. No one could have imagined that it would be accompanied by the first of their three-and-a-half-year bombings, which would be about to kick off.

The Chinese's revenge bomb will also fall on their heads in just a few minutes. The life that starts tonight will accompany them through the entire war. The Japanese who opened the Pandora box and released the war demons. The sword of Damocles sacrificed by the Chinese is now hanging above their heads.

After determining the general goal, Dawn did not hesitate in the slightest. After firing a few flares, he took another pilot plane and flew over the target area in a cross at an altitude of 1,000 meters. At the same time, a total of six high-explosive bombs of the 250 kilogram class in the bomb magazines of the two planes were accurately dropped into the air above the target.

With a violent explosion on the ground from the cross-falling high-explosive shells, the roofs of the few reinforced concrete buildings on the ground were lifted. The two squadron leaders who followed up threw five 150-kilogram napalm bombs at an altitude of 1,000 meters and in the same way of cross-flight, igniting the buildings on the roof of the houses that had been blown off by the previous six high-explosive bombs, and accurately indicating the targets for the other bombers to drop bombs.

This tactic was proposed by Yang Zhen, using the huge impact force generated by high-explosive bombs to lift all the roofs, doors and windows of the small reinforced concrete buildings of Tokyo Imperial University in Japan, and then set fire to the university and all the surrounding buildings with napalm to achieve the goal of complete destruction.

Napalm is an incendiary bomb that produces high temperatures and flames, and does not produce shock waves. Against field fortifications and flammable wooden buildings, this thing is quite powerful. However, it is basically useless to deal with reinforced concrete buildings. Because the flames cannot penetrate the walls, at most they can only burn the exterior of the walls, and they cannot cause fundamental damage to the internal structure.

Tokyo Imperial University has many traditional Japanese wooden buildings, but after the Great Kanto Earthquake, many Western-style reinforced concrete buildings were built here. If napalm is simply used, the effect of the bombing will be greatly reduced, and it will not have the effect that Yang Zhen expects at all. After repeated deliberations and reference to the German bombing tactics of London and Coventry, Yang Zhen proposed this new tactic.

After experimenting with this tactic, it was found that the Tokyo Imperial University, which is a building with some reinforced concrete and mostly wooden buildings, is quite effective, and the effect is much better than simply using napalm. The area and results of its destruction are also much larger.

Considering that some of the bombing targets today are reinforced concrete buildings, the Anti-United Nations adopted this bombing tactic. And this bombing tactic also became the standard tactic adopted by the Anti-Union bombing Japanese factories in the next few years. Of course, when bombing those ordinary small family workshops, there is naturally no need to lang precious high-explosive bombs, napalm is enough.

After Dawn and the three vanguard crews finished dropping bombs, the subsequent bomber group did not hesitate. Under the guidance of the cross-shaped fire caused by the napalm dropped by the vanguard, the bomb compartment door was opened at the same time, and at the same time, all the high-explosive napalm with a total weight of 72 tons was dropped at the center of Tokyo, with Tokyo Imperial University as the center, and in the area of Bunkyo and Taito Wards.

The napalm used in this anti-union is an upcycled product after receiving a coagulant made in the United States. In order to save valuable rubber resources, the coagulant has been changed from rubber to animal oil with chemicals, as well as a small amount of rubber mixed products, and a lot of flame retardant magnesium has been added to it.

This new type of napalm is more powerful than the previous napalm. The most fundamental thing is that the burning area of the charge is also much larger. The total number of 72 tons of napalm is not too much, but it is enough to set the entire Tokyo Imperial University and the surrounding buildings on fire.

And as the number of napalm that fell to the ground increased, the fire on the ground grew. When the napalm finally falls to the ground, the flames on the opposite side change from the initial dots to the center of Tokyo and eventually connect into a large sea of fire that is still spreading rapidly to the surrounding area.

The bomber group was busy dropping bombs, and the bomber with three camera officers in the bomber group was constantly circling around the bomber group. Since entering the Japanese mainland, he has been busy with his hands and feet, sticking out his photographic equipment from the limited window and constantly murdering the film. Even the photographer leaned out of the turret on the back of the camera and held the camera to shoot.

At the request of several camera officers, the pilot of the German-made HE-11 bomber turned on all the navigation lights and kept the plane at an altitude of 1,000 meters. At one point, even the plane, which was lowered to five hundred meters at the strong request of three overexcited guys, almost crashed without being hit by the rapidly rising cyclone caused by the burning on the ground.

If it weren't for the pilot's excellent skills and timely response, who controlled the plane as quickly as possible to get out of the cyclone's control area, this plane would have become the only plane damaged in the bombing. The pilot, who was scared out of a cold sweat afterwards, did not dare to lower the flight altitude again, no matter whether the three guys were threatening or pleading.

When the last Il-4 bomber finished dropping bombs and detached from the target, Dawn immediately used the code to send a report of the successful raid to the base. I don't care to appreciate the sky-high fire I set in the Japanese capital, and I didn't even count the battle damage.

The electronic jammers that were hovering off the coast of Japan at this moment had received his report that they had begun to carry out large-scale radio jamming on Honshu Island, and under the cover of large-scale radio interference, they broke away from Tokyo at maximum speed and returned at full speed according to the scheduled route.