Chapter 387 The Third Sino-Japanese War Breaks Out(1/2)
Piao Tianwen [I went out today, I lost 2,000 words in updates, and I will make up for it twice tomorrow.]
The blue sky is cloudless.
The roar of the sky in the distance ranged from far to near. A group of H1n1 bombers composed of the Imperial Chinese Air Force Shanghai Air Force, Ulsan Air Force, Shandong Air Force and other air force bases around the Yellow Sea were flying through the sky and rushing to Jeju Island.
The Supreme Command of the Chinese Empire has made a decision to start a war against Japan, on the grounds that Japan captured Jeju Island and announced the occupation of Jeju Island, which invaded the territory of the Kingdom of the Joseon Kingdom, a subsidiary of the Chinese Empire, and was a blatant military provocation to the Chinese Empire.
Of course, the Chinese Empire's combat plan against Japan had already been launched, and this was just an excuse.
Originally, the first battle against Japan should have been completed by the Imperial Navy, and the initial plan of the base was also formulated. But on the one hand, Japan has strengthened the defense of naval bases in view of the historical lessons (the Battle of Incheon Port), which made the Imperial Navy unable to reuse the same trick. On the other hand, the rapid rise of the Imperial Air Force and the European war have made countries around the world attach great importance to the development of air force, which has given the Imperial Air Force the Imperial Air Force a voice in front of the decision-making level of the General Staff. This time, the General Staff allowed the Air Force to fight the first battle, which was the result of the strong demand of the Air Force Minister General Liu Xiang.
Of course, this is not the entire reason. The reason why the General Staff decided to put the Air Force to fight the first battle was that the Japanese army invested more than 100,000 troops in the three months of the battle of Jeju Island. At present, only the wounded soldiers were evacuated, and the main force of the Japanese army stranded on Jeju Island was more than 90,000. Considering that in the future, the General Staff would face 20 Japanese divisions against Japanese territory, in order to reduce the resistance of the army to land on the Japanese mainland, the General Staff decided to eliminate the 7th Division, the 10th Division, the 13th Division and the 18th Division under the jurisdiction of the 6th Army on Jeju Island at the beginning of the war. As well as the **39th Mixed Brigade.
At the beginning, the Navy demanded a direct blockade of Jeju Island. The Japanese combined fleet was defeated and more than 90,000 Japanese troops trapped on Jeju Island. The Army also vowed to ensure that the Japanese troops on Jeju Island were eliminated within one month. But in the end, the General Staff listened to the Air Force's advice. Although the terrain of Jeju Island was dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the Japanese army guarded Jeju Island, they would have sufficient troops and could rely on the German fortifications to defend. The landing operations of the Chinese Emperor's team would be huge. It would be very easy to attack Jeju Island from the air. Jeju Island was hanging alone on the sea, and the whole of a volcano was formed. The forests of Hanna Mountain were dense. If a large number of white phosphorus bombs and incendiary bombs were dropped on Jeju Island, the entire Hanna Mountain would be ignited soon. More than 90,000 Japanese troops would have established their footholds on Jeju Island and would destroy them in one fell swoop.
Since the Air Force's plan is the most feasible and effective, the General Staff also wanted to see the power of the Air Force bomber group in order to summarize the air force's tactical and strategic experience, it finally approved the Imperial Air Force to complete the first battle against Japan.
On Jeju Island, the 6th Japanese Army commanded the defeat of General Shangdao. They were all immersed in the great joy of defeating the German army and conquering Jeju Island, and they were completely unaware that they would soon be in trouble.
At the same time, the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet was also anchored in the waters near Jeju Island, and they did not celebrate with the army. Because the Japanese Navy lost a battleship, the Yashima, and was sunk by a German torpedo boat, which was undoubtedly a huge shame for them.
The warship of the Japanese Joint Fleet flagship, the USS Fusang, was on the tower alert for duty, and discovered a large number of aircraft in the air.
"Soldier Commander, a large number of aircraft were found in the northwest direction. It seemed to be transport aircraft of Imperial China Airlines."
The sergeant took the telescope and saw that the fuselages of the aircraft were not air flight numbers. Instead, they were painted with the unique "Flying Dragon in the Sky" logo of the Imperial Air Force of China. The pattern was a winged dragon flying high, which represented the aircraft as a combat aircraft and was in a state of combat. (The navy's combat flag and combat painting were painted with dragons playing in the water, the army's combat flag and combat painting were the most domineering, and it was a frontal photo of a Tyrannosaurus rex whose nostrils were on fire, and there were also several struggling jackals, tigers and leopards in the cracks on the toes).
"They are not transport aircraft, they are painted with the flying dragon logo unique to the Imperial Air Force, which is a combat aircraft."
"How did the fighter jets of the Chinese Empire appear here?"
The sergeant was reminded by his subordinates and was shocked: "Oh no, the Chinese Empire is going to start a war against us!"
As he said that, the sergeant immediately picked up the phone and informed the bridge command room.
General Hirahachiro Togo, the commander of the Japanese Joint Fleet, who was holding a summary discussion for the sank of the Yashima warship, was stunned when he learned the report.
"Are you sure it is an aircraft belonging to the Imperial Chinese Air Force?"
Major General Tomosaburo Kato, chief of staff, replied: "It has been confirmed! At least a hundred large Imperial Air Force aircraft, it is judged that their course was heading towards Jeju Island."
Commander of the First Team, Misu Sotaro (Lieutenant General), said: "The Commander, during the 1912 military exercise held by the Chinese Empire last year, it is said that a bomber used to bomb ground and sea targets appeared, which is very powerful."
Fleet Staff Makoto Nakasa Akiyama added: "Didn't our reconnaissance plane also test the grenades from the air to the German fortress not long ago?"
Togo Hirahachiro frowned and said, "If the Chinese Empire requires us to withdraw from Jeju Island, we will withdraw. There is no need to use force against us!"
Misu Sotaro snorted coldly: "It seems that the Chinese Empire has become a habit to fight undeclaredly. We should be careful of sailing ten thousand years of ships, so it is better to be careful."
Togo Heihachiro nodded, so he issued the entire fleet "" and entered a second-level alert state.
The ships of the Japanese Joint Fleet quickly started and moved, not providing bombers with stationary attack targets to the Imperial Air Force bombers.
At the same time, Togo Heihachiro also sent people to Jeju Island to inform Dapo Sangdao, commander of the Sixth Army of Jeju Island. However, Dapo Sangdao did not pay attention to it and continued to celebrate the victory with his subordinates.
At this moment, the Imperial Chinese Air Force fleet flew over the Japanese Combined Fleet.
The commander of the air strike against Jeju Island was Major General Xie Jin, the captain of the Imperial Chinese Air Force Third Wing (Shanghai Air Wing). He originally wanted to drop a few white phosphorus bombs on the Japanese naval warships. However, when he found that the Japanese Navy had left maneuvered, he gave up the idea.
"The captain of the wing, the Japanese are quite smart." The voice of the captain wingman came from the radio call.
"Are they lucky, ignore them this time."
"Report to the wing captain. Our aircraft fleet is close to the airspace of Jeju Island and is expected to be airlifted in 5 minutes."
Xie Jin took out his telescope and looked at Jeju Island that had entered the field of view. The lush forests and interlaced waterfalls and rocks were undoubtedly a beautiful place.
He screamed in his heart, which was a pity. Then he ordered: "The team leader of each regiment is taken care of. Please follow the Shanghai Aviation regiment to act from north to south, and do not bomb repeatedly."
"Ulsan Air Wing understand!"
"Busan Air Wing understands!"
"Jiaozhou Air Force understands!"
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After receiving the reply from each regiment, Xie Jin said, "Boom as much as possible! Don't let the navy and army see us!"
As he said that, Xie Jin shook the joystick violently, and his bomber immediately rotated the lower right and began to lower the flight altitude. At the same time, the Shanghai Air Wing bombers group performed the same overturning action with the long aircraft and lowered the altitude.
At 12:13 noon, the Imperial Chinese Air Force appeared at an altitude of about 2,200 meters above Jinning Bay in the northern part of Jeju Island. All operators in the bomber set the fuse of the white phosphorus bomb to automatically detonate in fifteen seconds.
At 12:16, the bomber group arrived over Chaotianyi, the northernmost end of Jeju Island, at a height of 1,000 meters. At this time, the operators in each bomber opened the belly bomb drop hatch door.
"Start bombing!"
With Xie Jin's order, two operators pushed a white phosphorus bomb along the slide rail to the bomb drop hatch. One of the operators pulled out the bomb fuse, and the other operator released the brake brake to make the bomb fall from the bomb drop hatch.
“Yi~~~Yi~~Yi~~Yi~~~”
White phosphorus bombs were doing free fall movements, whistling as they fell, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
About fifteen seconds later, white phosphorus bombs exploded at a height of 100 to 200 meters from the ground. In an instant, the white phosphorus bombs weighing 500 kilograms exploded into countless pieces, turning into an extremely huge white cloud in the air. Then, high-speed fragments burned in the air, bursting out countless white lines, like a celestial girl scattering flowers, falling to the ground.
When the Japanese officers and soldiers who were celebrating on the ground heard the harsh roaring sounds made when the bomb fell, they all looked at the sky with a confused look on their faces. Some of the agile Japanese soldiers shouted bombs and quickly dodged, but most Japanese soldiers did not have the awareness of this, and just stared blankly at the unknown things falling from the sky.
When white phosphorus bombs exploded, white clouds bloomed, and the Japanese army immediately cheered, thinking that this was a celebration firework for them.
However, after a few seconds, their smiles came to an abrupt end. Countless pieces of falling white phosphorus bombs, accelerated by the explosion energy and gravity, pierced into the Japanese army like sharp daggers, and began to corrode the flesh and blood. The contact part was like a fiery red soldering iron, and the flesh immediately burned, emitting a roasted meat smell.
Anything on the ground, as long as white phosphorus fragments fall, it will immediately cause severe corrosion. Some flammable things, such as houses, dry firewood, trees, clothes, etc., immediately burn, and even the soup of the Japanese dinner party meals will appear blue flames.
In a moment, the pain of distance made the Japanese soldiers cry and howl one by one, trying every means to prevent their flesh and blood from being corroded and burned, but they had no experience with this kind of thing, and no measures could be helpful. The fragments of white phosphorus bombs scattered in the sky splashed onto the Japanese army's head or vital parts of their bodies, and the Japanese army's life would be killed in less than ten seconds.
The Imperial Chinese Air Force looked down at the ground from a height of more than 1,000 meters, and saw fires igniting everywhere on the ground, which soon spread out and formed a sea of fire. The sound of Japanese troops crying and howling in the fire on the ground of Tianyi seemed to be able to reach the ears of the Imperial Chinese Air Force.
However, the bombers of the Imperial Chinese Air Force would not stop in the air to appreciate the results of the battle, and would soon fly to the next target, and you would not hear the Japanese howling.
Two hundred H1n1 bombers of the Imperial Chinese Air Force advanced southward along Chaotianyi, north of Jeju Island, and successively dropped white phosphorus bombs in key bombing areas such as Old Zuoyi, Chengshanyi, Biaoshanyi, Jeju City, Nanyuanyi, Yayueyi, Hanlinyi, Hanjingyi, etc., causing the entire Jeju Island to fall into a sea of fire, and the fire could not be extinguished. The entire Hanna Mountain was soon ignited.
The Imperial Chinese Air Force dropped all 400 white phosphorus bombs weighing 500 kilograms, as well as a large number of gasoline incendiary bombs. Within the first time (10 minutes), more than 20,000 Japanese troops died on the spot and more than 30,000 Japanese troops were injured to varying degrees.
Then within an hour, the entire Hanna Mountain, which was more than 1,900 meters high, was ignited, and Jeju Island was trapped in a sea of fire. About 1,000 Japanese troops (including wounded) near the sea jumped into the sea to escape, and most of the Japanese troops were trapped on Hanna Mountain.
The fire is burning and the sun is covered by thick smoke.
Three hours later, the entire Jeju Island seemed to have returned to the volcanic eruption era 1.2 million years ago. The lush color of the entire Hanna Mountain was no longer visible, and it was completely red. The fire burned from the sea level to the top of Hanna Mountain, more than 1,900 meters. The thick smoke soared into the sky, reaching 10,000 meters high. The residents of the Korean Peninsula opposite the sea and Kyushu Island in Japan could clearly see it.
The fire lasted for a whole week, and the entire Jeju Island became a hell on earth. The 6th Army of the Japanese Army had more than 90,000 people, but only more than 1,000 people who escaped immediately survived, and the rest were buried in the sea of fire. Among the more than 1,000 people who survived, more than 800 were burned to varying degrees, some lost their eyes, some lost their ears and noses, and more than half of them had few arms and legs.
At the same time, more than 2,000 German troops captured on Jeju Island were also buried in the sea of fire and could not escape.
It was not until the fifth day that it started to rain heavily, extinguishing the fire on Jeju Island, which had become a hell on earth.
During this period, the Japanese joint fleet tried to rescue, but the fire was too big. A day later, Hirahachiro Togo gave up the rescue operation because he had learned that the Chinese Empire had declared war on Japan. At the same time, the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Empire had stopped them on their way back. Hirahachiro Togo immediately gathered the Japanese joint fleet, while preparing for war, and tried to break through the blockade of the Chinese Empire Navy and withdraw back to the country. Because he knew that with the power of the Japanese joint fleet, he could not compete with the Chinese Empire Navy at all, and he needed to wait until the US Navy intervened before he could fight.
On September 18, 2013 (October 15, 1913), the Chinese Empire declared war on Japan on the grounds that the Japanese army openly invaded Jeju Island, the territory of the Korean Kingdom, the vassal state of the Chinese Empire.
The Japanese government was extremely sad. Yamamoto's Cabinet held an emergency meeting. At the meeting, Yamamoto's Cabinet called the Chinese Empire's shameless government. It had clearly acquiesced to Japan's attack on Jeju Island, but in turn it falsely accused Japan of invading North Korea. Not only did it attack the Japanese army again, causing the losses of the elite troops of the four Japanese divisions to be on Jeju Island, but it also made a righteous choice to Japan, and all the responsibility was put on the head of Japan.
"Damn it! This is a huge political plot!"
At this moment, Yamamoto Kobe finally understood why the Chinese Empire was very happy and actively supported Japan to attack Jeju Island. It turned out to be the best reason to start a war against Japan. Yamamoto Kobebe hated that he did not discover the conspiracy of the Chinese Empire at the first time and was confused by huge interests.
Hirobuki Ito asked: "Does the US have any attitude?"
Foreign Minister Lin replied for Yamamoto Honbuya: "The United States is discussing urgently. I don't know the attitude of the United States at the moment. I guess I will support us!"
Hirobuki Ito asked again: "What about the British side? Didn't they promise us that they could join the Allies as long as they declare war on Germany?"
Director Lin smiled bitterly and said, "It was originally like this. However, the Chinese Empire seemed to have put pressure secretly. The British side rejected our request yesterday because we were not able to participate in the Allies' war against Europe."
Hirobuki Ito frowned and said, "Damn British, they are just as untrustworthy."
Yamamoto Honbuki turned his head and asked Prince Chihito, the Chief of Staff, and said, "What do you think, what should we do?"
Prince Chiren also frowned. The Chinese Empire suddenly changed its mind to start a war against Japan, which caught him and the entire Japanese military headquarters off guard. They have always believed that the Chinese Empire would not start a war against Japan before the Ming-class battleship was completed. For this reason, they even hoped to pry open the mouth of Britain by declaring war against Germany. As long as they joined the Allies camp, the possibility of the Chinese Empire going to start a war against Japan would be even smaller.
However, after falling into a trap, the British shamelessly used Japan to destroy the German base on Jeju Island and kicked Japan away.
However, what Prince Chiren is most worried about is not this aspect. It is because the Japanese joint fleet is blocked by the main force of the Chinese Empire's navy at this time and cannot return home. Once it is attacked by the main force of the Chinese Empire's navy, the Japanese joint fleet's wealth will probably have to be brought in. The US Pacific Fleet is far away in Hawaii and is not ready to go to war. What is even more passive is that the American citizens have restrictions on the Japan-US security treaty. Unless the Japanese mainland is attacked, the United States will not intervene in military affairs. However, the Chinese Empire is making a fuss about the Jeju Island issue, which has led to the US Congress being unable to declare war on the Chinese Empire in accordance with the Japan-US security treaty. At least without excuses, it is impossible to convince the American citizens to support the US intervention.
In addition, the US Navy has more than one's own offense and lacks sufficient attack. Compared with the Chinese Empire Navy, no main battleship in the US Navy can compete with the Chinese Empire's Yuan-class battleships. Therefore, the US Navy is aggressive on weekdays, but if it really starts a war with the Chinese Empire, the US Navy is not mentally prepared.
Based on these reasons, Prince Chiren was very confused, so he sighed: "No matter what, the Chinese Empire attacked Jeju Island. More than 90,000 soldiers from the Great Japanese Empire were buried there, and we have no way out."
Chiren's words made Yamamoto's Honbuki and other ministers and officials very nervous, which showed that the military was not sure to win the war.
Yamamoto Honbuki said: "If we lose this time, the Chinese Empire will cost more than 50 million pounds, which will probably make us completely subsidized by them."
Shirin understood Yamamoto's concerns and comforted him: "Don't worry, although the Navy is not sure, this time our Imperial Army's 20 divisions are enough to stop the Chinese Emperor** team from boarding the Japanese mainland."
Prince Nojiu, who had not said anything, suddenly said: "Our four divisions have already lost on Jeju Island, and now there are only 16. Whether it can be defended is still unknown. You must know. Once the Chinese Empire has obtained the power to control the sea, we will be trapped to death like we did against Britain, for three months, three months."
Kashitaro, the inner auspicious scholar, sighed: "If we go to capitalism and do not develop industry, we can probably implement the strategy of closing the country to the country now. Our workers will not have to worry about unemployment if they go to farm."
"What is this?" Hirofun Ito was dissatisfied and said, "No matter what, we cannot go back."
Director Lin said: "The only way is to wait for the United States to rush to help us!"
Yamamoto's Honbuki nodded and said, "That's right! If the United States does not come to help us, then we will really be destroyed."
To be continued...