The fire was finally controlled by the river. The troops of the Eastern Military Region were dispatched urgently. About 50,000 officers and soldiers rushed to Tokyo from all over the place to clear a 300-meter isolation belt around the fire and isolate the entire fire. The residents on the other side of the river were mobilized to clear an isolation belt along the river bank.

By noon, the fire gradually went out, and everything that could be burned was burned. There were only a few lonely telephone poles on the street that were still smoking. Except for cement walls, iron frames, and stone sculptures, the rest of the burn had been burned. The entire area had been burned into a piece of white land and there were no complete buildings.

Takanosuke Wadabe followed the flow of people toward the home. There were corpses everywhere along the way. The bodies were naked and charred. The bodies were in various shapes. Some were shrinking into a ball, some were spreading their limbs, and they seemed to be struggling hard, while others were sitting by the wall, with their hands folded, as if praying for the protection of Amaterasu.

The crowd passed by an elementary school, and there were more corpses in one elementary school. As a large number of young and middle-aged people were enlisted in the army, parents had to work over night, so they boarded their children at school: a team of soldiers were moving the bodies out of the ruins, and the bodies were piled up on the school playground, and the thin corpses were covered with straw mats, emitting foul smell.

The officer in charge of the Apple team was once a subordinate of Tanabe, and the two started chatting at the school gate.

"They are so cruel that they don't even let go of children." The officer sighed.

The field was speechless. Looking around, the entire area was covered with ashes of smoke everywhere. Everyone around was silent. The people who found their home were silently searching for the ruins for unburned goods, broken clay pots, dark basins, half a bag of smoked food, and everything was carefully placed on the ground.

An old lady suddenly lost control and sat on the ground and cried loudly. A young woman next to her was also crying silently. No one tried to comfort her. Now everyone's situation was the same, and the family had become ashes.

When Ritakanosuke returned home, the entire yard had turned into ashes. Mrs. Nakamura rushed into the smokey home silently, rumbling around the ruins a little crazy. Ritakanosuke said nothing, and walked under the tree. The tree had burned down, and only the remaining stakes were still smoking.

The stone slab was covered with several burnt branches, and the branches were swept away. The stone slab was still a little hot. He lifted the stone slab and let Takanosuke breathed a little relieved, and the things inside were still intact.

"The great luck in misfortune, the thing is still there, call Mrs. Nakamura back." Ritakanosuke's tone was obviously relieved.

Tanabe was sad. He always thought that Ritakanosuke was a bit extravagant to digging this hole. After the previous several air strikes, he did not put anything in. Now all his belongings were in the burned room, including his meager retirement money and food, so his life suddenly lost its source.

Mrs. Nakamura did not come back and was still searching in the ruins frantically. Mrs. Nakamura joined in and soon found two bags of food from the ruins. Mrs. Nakamura found a few pieces of jewelry from the ashes. Seeing this, Ritakanosuke said nothing, but just sighed softly.

"What should we do?" Mrs. Shi 11 held the child's hand tightly and looked at Ritakanosuke blankly.

In a fire attack, one-fifth of Tokyo was burned to ashes, houses were gone, clothes were gone, nothing was left. Now hundreds of thousands of Tokyo people need housing, food, and cloth.

The losses were quickly counted. Suzuki Kantaro took the list and his scalp was numb. The list clearly stated that the twenty-four square kilometers of urban area was completely burned down, about 110,000 people died in this air strike, more than 1,000 family workshops and small factories were completely destroyed, and more than 300,000 people became refugees.

"Your Majesty asked, the army and the Navy have no way to do it? Just let the Chinese Air Force bombard it?" Kido asked anxiously.

Neither Suzuki nor Nishio Suzuno Mitsumasa could answer, and the conference room was in an awkward silence. Suzuki Kantaro muttered to himself: "I have let down Your Majesty's trust, I have let down Your Majesty's trust."

"What's the use of saying this now!" Foreign Minister Dongxiang stood up angrily: "No one wants to hold anyone responsible! The question now is, is there a way to stop the bombing of the Chin people? If not, then you should seek a ceasefire immediately!"

"Is there any news about Uesugi?" Suzuki Kantaro asked hurriedly. Uesugi was the ambassador of Japan and Togo ordered him to secretly contact the allies and test the allies' attitude towards peace.

Togo shook his head bitterly. Since Suzuki Kantaro approved the secret action, he ordered the Swiss and Turkey ambassadors to take action and test contact with the allies, but neither of them responded. Instead, the ambassador to Germany Oshima called to ask whether the government was in contact with the allies. He reported that the German government was already protesting to them and accused Japan of deviating from the Three Kingdoms Axis.

Togo paid close attention to the accusations against Oshima, and called back to tell Oshima that there was nothing like this, and then told Uesugi and Ambassador to Turkey Lin Quan to continue looking for opportunities to seek contact with Britain and the United States.

"Did Chongqing react?" Suzuki Kantaro asked again, staring at Nishio Shouzuo. Chongqing work was carried out by the Chinese dispatched troops. The dispatched troops had long grasped that some senior officials in the Wang Jingwei government had secret contacts with Chongqing. However, the war situation was not good, and the dispatched troops turned a blind eye and even secretly assisted. It can be said that during the entire war, Japan had contact with Chongqing.

Nishio Suzusaki smiled bitterly. When he was still the commander of the Chinese Blue Army, he held a secret verdict with Chongqing in Hong Kong.

When Chiang Kai-shek offered a price to restore the situation before the Lugou Bridge Incident, China did not pay compensation or remove the commander. In short, it was Chiang Kai-shek's conversation on Mount Lu.

However, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Imperial Army won steadily and Chongqing was bombed violently. Chiang Kai-shek's offer increased, requiring Japan to withdraw from all Chinese territories, including Manchuria.

After China recovered Wuhan, Suzuo Nishio believed that Chiang Kai-shek would definitely take the opportunity to raise prices, so he simply interrupted the secret talks between the two sides. Before the Battle of North China, the Chinese dispatched troops once again sought contact with Chongqing, but this time Chongqing did not send anyone, but just told Zhou Fohai, who was in charge of contact, that Chiang Kai-shek's offer was that Japan withdrew from the Northeast, North Korea, Méng Gu, Soviet Far East, Taiwan, and Ryukyu, to compensate China

The losses of war, war criminals must be handed over to the allies for trial. All conditions are equal to the Cairo Declaration and the replica of the Tehran Declaration. Nishio Suo was furious and interrupted the ties with Chongqing. After the Battle of North China, Seishiro Itagaki was ordered to contact Chongqing again. This time, Japan was the first to offer a price. Japan agreed to give up the Northeast Jiangnan, hoping that Chiang Kai-shek could agree to negotiate on this basis, but what disappointed Itagaki Seishiro was that Chongqing had no reaction at all.

Nishio's expression made everyone understand. There was no hope for this matter. Suzuki Kantaro sighed heavily, and the venue of the emergency meeting fell silent.

"Your Majesty hopes that the cabinet can strengthen peace work." Kido came out again to break the calm: "The empire is getting more and more difficult now. Even if the joint fleet defeated the Pacific Fleet in the A-A war, how much help will it improve the empire's situation?" "If we can win the A-A war, the United States will be clear about the empire's determination and their attitude will change!" Umezu Mijiro's expression was firm, and the cabinet and Hirohito's attitude was becoming more and more obvious. This situation must be changed. The fate of Japan must be controlled in battle, rather than praying for peace.

No one refuted Umezu Mijiro. Suzuki Kantaro turned his head and looked at the military minister Satojiro Toyota and said, "How much impact does this bombing have on production? Please find out as soon as possible." Toyota nodded and agreed, "Prime Minister, don't worry, I will do it as soon as possible." According to the division of labor in the cabinet, industrial production is the responsibility of the Minister of Economy and Industry, but Japan has another military minister. During the war, the industrial production situation was controlled by the Ministry of Military Affairs, so Suzuki Kantaro asked Toyota.

But Toyota frowned again: "If the Chinese air strike cannot be stopped, then it can be imagined that the Chinese air strikes will frequently come to air strikes, and production will be severely hit. You, at this speed, it will only take half a year to destroy the entire Japanese industry.,

Suzuki looked at Nishio Suzuo and Minuchi Mitsumasa very helplessly. Minuchi Mitsumasa sat upright and stared at him. His opinion had already been proposed. After the joint fleet returned to the voyage, it attacked the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Nishio Suzuo had to bite the bullet and replied: "We are deploying anti-aircraft guns. We don't have many aircraft. We must strengthen aircraft production so that we can have the strength to fight against the Chinese Air Force."

"So how long does it take?" Dongxiang asked immediately.

"This needs Toyota to answer."

Nishio Suzuo threw the ball to Toyota. A hint of anger flashed in Toyota's eyes, but he could not avoid it, so he could only bow down and said: "According to the plan, the empire will produce 50,000 aircraft every year, but due to the shortage of raw materials, it can only produce 13,600 aircraft of various types every year." (The aircraft production figures are incorrect in the previous article, so we will correct it hereby make.)

Before launching the Pacific War, Hidei Tojo asked the Planning Institute to investigate and count all Japanese aircraft manufacturers. Japan has thirteen aircraft manufacturers, with production capacity of 50,000 aircraft per year. The base camp estimates that the United States can produce 70,000 to 80,000 aircraft per year. However, the United States has to support two battlefields, and the aircraft assigned to the Pacific battlefield is only about 50,000, or even lower. Therefore, in terms of air power comparison, Japan and the United States are on par, and can even have a slight advantage.

But this is just a literal production capacity. In 1937, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, Japan produced only 2,000 aircraft this year. By the time the Pacific War broke out, the aircraft production capacity expanded to about 10,000, and reached its peak in the following two years, about 18,000. Starting from 1943, the US military intensified its attacks on maritime transportation lines. Japan produced steel, copper and pot production began to decline, which directly led to a decline in the production capacity of ships, tanks and aircraft.

The problem is even more serious when it comes to aircraft, and the pilots who have fought in China reported that

The Zero aircraft has begun to lag behind in terms of xing energy. The newly invested P41 fighter jet in the United States has surpassed the Zero in terms of firepower and protection, but it is not enough to be flexible.

In addition to xing energy, there are also pilots. Pilots who received rigorous training in the early days of the war have lost most of the time. Now most pilots are students who have just graduated from flight schools. Their flight time is less than ten hours, and they cannot be compared with the old birds in China and the United States.

"With so many planes, we should be able to protect Japan.

"Kido suddenly interrupted, his expression was very mihuo. More than 10,000 aircraft can produce nearly 1,000 aircraft every month. There are only a few hundred aircraft bombed by the Chinese people. Why can't we protect Japanese?!
Chapter completed!