Chapter 340: Air Raid on Fukuoka
Within more than an hour that followed, a total of more than 230 aircraft including a Zero fighter group and a He111 medium bomber group from the First Division of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force arrived at Pingcheng Airport.
The ground crew had already arrived at Pingcheng before them.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to refill the plane with fuel, Gao Zhihang summoned Liu Cuigang, Zhang Xinghua and others to discuss specific actions.
After informing Liu Cuigang and others of all the air strike targets selected by Zhang Xinghan, Gao Zhihang ended the temporary meeting.
Liu Cuigang and Gao Zhihang went to inspect the formation of each brigade, and Zhang Xinghua came to Zhang Xinghan's side excitedly.
"Brother!" Zhang Xinghua saluted first, then came over and hugged Zhang Xinghan.
"Xinghua, long time no see, you have become much stronger." Zhang Xinghan looked him up and down, punched his chest and said with a smile.
"Hehe." Zhang Xinghua scratched his head with a silly smile.
"How are Weiguo and his siblings doing now?" Zhang Xinghan asked.
"The two of them live in Harbin now, and everything is fine." Zhang Xinghua replied.
"Oh." Zhang Xinghan nodded and said, "Xinghua, this air strike on the Japanese mainland is dangerous and unpredictable. You must be more careful."
"I will." Zhang Xinghua said.
At this time, Gao Zhihang and Liu Cuigang walked over hand in hand wearing flight suits.
At the same time, he saluted: "Commander, the troops are all ready. Can they set off?"
Zhang Xinghua looked up and looked around and saw that all the pilots were in place and the ground staff had also moved aside. He nodded and said: "You represent the entire Chinese nation. What you do today will go down in history. Brothers, take off and use us."
The aerial bombs declared to the Japanese that those who offend China will be punished no matter how far away they are!"
"Yes!" Gao Zhihang, Liu Cuigang, and Zhang Xinghua agreed at the same time, and then turned and left.
Other pilots also boarded the plane quickly, and then one after another Zero fighters and bombers took off one after another, divided into three groups, and flew away from Pingcheng one after another, towards the Japanese mainland.
After watching the planes go away, Zhang Xinghan, Jiang Baili and others left the airport with unyielding emotions and took a bus to Seoul.
As soon as the convoy left the airport, a cavalry communications soldier rushed from the front.
When he arrived, before he could get off his horse, the communications soldier panted and said: "Report to the commander-in-chief and chief of staff. Urgent call from the front line in Busan!"
"Quickly tell me how the situation is!" Jiang Baili ordered hurriedly.
"The terrain of Busan is steep and the Japanese army is well prepared. Our Northern Route Army cannot attack for a long time. The former enemy commander-in-chief Gao Chu asks the commander-in-chief to make a decision!" the communications soldier quickly took out a telegram from the document bag he carried and read.
"Decision? Decision is nothing. If we can't win Busan, all our results these days will be in vain!" Zhang Xinghan suddenly became anxious when he heard this, turned to Jiang Baili and said: "Chief of Staff, this kid Gao Chu must have hit an iron plate.
No. No, we have to rush to the front line of Busan. This battle is of great importance and I must personally command it."
"Well. Let's go right now." Jiang Baili nodded.
"Let's set off immediately, cross the Han River first, and then go straight to the Busan front line, hurry!" Zhang Xinghan waved his hand.
The driver did not dare to neglect. He quickly started the car and drove away from the airport as quickly as smoke.
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Fukuoka is located at the northernmost tip of Kyushu Island in Japan. It has been the political, cultural and economic center of Kyushu Island since ancient times. It is known as the gateway to Kyushu.
This is the city with the largest number of Japanese on Kyushu Island.
In order to support the tense war situation on the Koryo Peninsula, the strategic mobilization that had just been lifted across Japan has come back, and Fukuoka is no exception.
The streets were filled with recruitment offices of the military headquarters. Recruited reserve soldiers were driven away in carloads, and fanatical Japanese people occupied both sides of the street to practice for their relatives.
At this time, the entire country of Japan was brainwashed by the spirit of militarism and bushido. The entire country, men, women, old and young, as well as the military and civilians, were in an extremely crazy state of fanaticism.
They dream of opening up territory for their nation and building the dreamy Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Back in time a few days ago, there was a Japanese family named Onii in the south of Fukuoka City.
The original head of the household, Kamei Kazuki, was a soldier during Japan's Meiji Restoration. He died during the Russo-Japanese War. He left behind two sons and a wife.
Two sons, Kamei Juichi and Kamei Juji, work in a food company and an electric power company respectively.
In the room, a Japanese woman in her fifties, wearing a kimono with a dull expression, held a recruitment letter from the military department. She took this recruitment letter and came to the portrait of her husband Kamei Kazuki and stared at it for a moment.
The Japanese woman turned around and took out a pen and paper. After writing a few lines in Japanese, she took the saber in her hand that was placed in front of her husband's portrait.
This combat knife was awarded posthumously by the Japanese government after Kamei Kazuki died in battle and martyred his country.
The Japanese woman took a closer look, pulled out her saber, and committed suicide on the spot.
Not long after, there was a rush of footsteps outside the house, followed by a knock on the door: "Mom, Mom!"
After calling several times and getting no response, the door was pushed open.
Two Japanese men in their twenties walked in one after another.
The two were shocked by the scene in the room and exclaimed, "Mom, run over quickly.
"Brother, mom, she's dead!" Kamei Juuji looked at the blood on the ground and said in horror.
Kamei Shuichi put down his mother's body and suddenly saw the recruitment letter on the table and the last words written by his mother.
"Chongyi, Chonger, your father is a hero of the Yamato nation. Mom hopes that you can serve His Majesty the Emperor like him and expand the territory of the Japanese Empire..."
After reading the last words, Kamei Shuichi and the two buried their mother in tears, then packed their luggage and went straight to the military recruitment office. (The above plot is excerpted from historical facts and the national conditions of Japan in the 1930s and 1940s.
Just like this, the whole country is fanatical and the people are warlike, ruthlessly inflicting war on other countries and nations. It is definitely not like some articles claim that most of Japan is just blinded and beguiled by militarism.)
The two brothers Kamei Juichi and Kamei Juji were successfully reinstated because their father was a hero who entered the Yasukuni Shrine. In addition to their age and physical fitness, and they had also served in the military, they were successfully reinstated.
Enlist in the army.
The military arranged cars to send them away along with more than a hundred other recruits who came to sign up at the same time.
Feeling the excitement in the streets and the enthusiastic farewell crowd, all the Japanese recruits, including the two Kamei brothers, were also affected. They were all excited and wished they could fly to the front line immediately to fight with the Chinese troops.
At this moment, among the clouds thousands of meters above the ground in the distance, Zhang Xinghua was driving a fighter plane and leading a mixed fleet approaching the Fukuoka Expressway.
"Commander, we are less than ten kilometers away from the target!" Among the fleet, a squadron leader said to Zhang Xinghua through the radio device.
"Well, all units should pay attention and prepare for battle. The targets are Fukuoka city and the port. All aircraft bombs carried by all fighters and bombers must be dropped within five minutes. Then the fighters will escort from behind and the bombers will return immediately!" Zhang Xinghua held the controls.
The palms of Zhan's hands were slightly sweaty, and he ordered with excitement in his heart.
"receive!"
"Copy that!" came the responses from the officers of each squadron on the intercom.
Immediately, Zhang Xinghua piloted the fighter plane and began to lower its altitude under the escort of two wingmen. As the altitude dropped, Fukuoka city and the port were already vaguely visible.
Zhang Xinghua gave an order, and the entire fleet quickly divided into two groups and rushed towards the port and urban area of Fukuoka respectively.
Zhang Xinghua personally led a group of fighter planes straight into the city of Fukuoka, and their whereabouts were soon discovered by the Japanese air defense forces.
Air raid sirens quickly sounded throughout the Fukuoka area.
The sudden and piercing sound of air raid sirens shocked the dense Japanese crowd on the street and the new soldiers they were transporting.
No one would have thought that their safest homeland would be attacked by enemy air strikes?
Kamei Juichi and Kamei Juuji were shocked and couldn't help but think, where is our combined navy fleet? How could they let the enemy's planes fly to Kyushu Island?
Japan's combined naval fleet has indeed deployed a certain amount of vigilance at sea, especially now that the situation on the Koryo Peninsula has suddenly changed. It can be said that the Korean Strait is basically full of Japanese material transport ships and various warships.
But at this time, the Japanese were not equipped with radar, and the air raid forces of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force were flying at almost the highest altitude. Unless it was a coincidence, the air defense troops and carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet would naturally not be able to detect this group of uninvited guests.
Without prior warning, the Japanese air defense forces and various emergency personnel in Fukuoka were unable to respond at all.
Before the people and recruits on the street had time to evacuate, and before the air defense troops were fully in place, Zhang Xinghua and his men swooped in like eagles.
During the dive, the Zero fighter jet spotted the dense crowd on the street and immediately pounced on them like a shark smelling blood.
"Da da da... da da da..." After diving to a certain height, Zhang Xinghua's plane and two wingmen opened fire first.
The machine guns and aircraft-mounted machine guns fired a dense rain of powerful bullets, instantly setting off a bloody storm on the streets, with Japanese soldiers and civilians wailing everywhere.
Wherever the dense rain of bullets hit, the bricks and tiles of the houses shattered with a loud sound.
The wooden wall was also penetrated, smoke filled the air, and screams could be heard endlessly.
Other fighter jets also opened fire, and the Japanese on the street fell in pieces.
Before the dive and strafing was completely over, an ear-splitting scream sounded in the sky.
"Boom, boom, boom...boom, boom, boom" huge explosions sounded one after another, and the entire urban area of Fukuoka soon turned into a sea of fire, and thousands of Japanese soldiers were buried in the sea of fire.
At the same time, in the direction of the port, another group of air forces also launched a surprise bombing. The Japanese dock that was busy loading supplies and personnel was bombed into thick smoke and caused heavy casualties.
The bombing lasted less than ten minutes, and all the bombers returned one after another. At this moment, several Japanese planes jumped up and took off.
Chapter completed!