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High-tech Warlord Volume 1 (746) After "Sakura" there is "Plum Blossom"

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    The Speaker of the Privy Council waved his arms angrily, "Even if it succeeds, how many can be produced under the current conditions? To take a step back, assuming that everything goes well and we drop the atomic bomb on the mainland of China, have you ever thought about how the Chinese people would react?  Really? How many atomic bombs will they drop on Japan? Do you want Japan to disappear completely from the face of the earth?"

    "Whether the Chinese have atomic bombs is still unknown! You can't just say you're scared after hearing some rumors!" The Minister of War seemed a bit arrogant, but everyone in the audience could hear that the Minister of War's confidence was obviously lacking.

    "The Chinese army has already used it against us once! Isn't the explosion on Ogasawara Island a warning given to us by the Chinese people?"

    "Alright! Alright! There is no need for the two ministers to quarrel. Now is not the time to quarrel!" the emperor said as he sat there. The Speaker of the Privy Council and the Minister of War stopped quarreling and sat down. Surprisingly, they did not glare at each other like a cockfight.  .

    ¡°I would like to hear the Prime Minister¡¯s opinion.¡± The Emperor turned his gaze to Prime Minister Ishihara Kanji and asked.

    "Your Excellency the Speaker's opinion is very correct. The urgent task now is to end the war as soon as possible under conditions favorable to Japan and make peace with the U.S. and China." Ishihara Wanji replied.

    After hearing what Ishihara Wanji said, everyone in the military was shocked.

    "The current domestic situation is already very urgent. If there is a decisive battle on the mainland, Your Majesty will move the capital to Siberia. Although the Siberian Expeditionary Army and the Kwantung Army intend to return to the mainland, their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced due to repeated deployments, and  At present, the main force of China's army in the Soviet Union has the tendency to move eastward. Once the China army launches a large-scale attack, it will be difficult to hold on." Ishihara Wanji said concisely and comprehensively, "And if the capital is moved, it must go through the sea. At present, the sea control has been lost, and Admiral Yamamoto will be trapped first.  The British and American navies are unable to defeat the main force of China's navy when they return to support the homeland, so the only way forward is to negotiate peace."

    "At present, the Soviet Union has moved its capital to Leningrad and wants to fight a decisive battle with China. If the main force of the China Army is transferred eastward at this time, our Kwantung Army and the Siberian Expeditionary Army will attack together with the Soviet and German armies. There may be a turn for the better." The Minister of War still does not give up.  , but when talking to Ishihara Wanji, he no longer had the confidence he had just now.

    "The collapse of the Soviet army is imminent, and the attitude of the Germans is unclear. There is news that Germany is privately negotiating peace with China in order to end the war as soon as possible." The Foreign Secretary said, "We can no longer count on the Soviet Union and Germany."

    "The conditions proposed by China are too harsh. It requires Japan to surrender unconditionally, which is unacceptable." said the chief of the General Staff Headquarters.

    "In this case, it is better to survive in death and still prepare for a decisive battle on the mainland. The subjects all have the determination of 'one hundred million pieces of jade'. If we can make the Chinese army pay a huge price when they land, I can find an opportunity and then propose peace."  , at least a conditional peace can be obtained." The Minister of War also said, "If the occupying troops are not allowed to land in Japan, the imperial troops abroad will not withdraw unconditionally in the form of unconditional surrender but will withdraw automatically. The investigation of those responsible for the war will be based on  Japan will handle it independently."

    Hearing that the military chief had changed his mind, the emperor was relieved. He stopped talking and listened intently to everyone's discussion about the terms of the peace talks.

    The meeting lasted for more than two hours. Although an agreement was reached on "peace talks to end the war," the "unconditionalists" and the "conditionalists" were still arguing about the specific conditions.

    at this time.  An attendant hurriedly walked in and handed the two reports to Prime Minister Ishihara Kanji. Ishihara Kanji looked at them and his face suddenly turned pale.

    "What's the news? Can the Prime Minister let me know?" An ominous premonition arose in the emperor's heart.  asked immediately.

    Everyone's eyes were focused on Ishihara Kanji. Ishihara Kanji hesitated for a moment and then began to read expressionlessly, "At about 7 o'clock this morning, the main force of the Imperial Navy's combined fleet was attacked by the U.S. Army in the sea near Midway Island.  The aircraft bombarded the battleships Azuchi, Toyama, Shinano, Mino and other battleships, and all the more than 70,000 officers and soldiers under Admiral Yamamoto were killed"

    This unfortunate news was like a bolt from the blue, and everyone was shocked.

    "How is this possible?" the Minister of the Navy murmured.

    "Is it an atomic bomb?" The emperor was the first to react and asked in a hoarse voice.

    "Yes" Ishihara smiled and suddenly seemed much older.

    "Where's the other news?" Unlike the Japanese Prime Minister, the Emperor felt relaxed.

    "The German fleet was bombed by British atomic bombs, and the battleship 'Grossdeutschland' and the aircraft carrier 'Zeppelin' were destroyed. Germany carried out retaliatory atomic bombing that day, destroying four British battleships and three aircraft carriers"  Ishihara smiled and said.

    "I think that if the war continues, is no longer possible.  The emperor stood up and said in a tone that could not be argued, "End it!"  "

    China, Dalian Port, Naval Aviation Base.

    Yang Zhaozhong walked into an interrogation room and saw Jiang Yunna at first sight, which made him dream.

    At this time, even if the two of them have all kinds of tenderness and affection, they can only keep it in their hearts.

    "General Yang is here, you can continue." After seeing Yang Zhaozhong come in, an officer nodded and said to a Japanese pilot sitting on the chair.

    This pilot is Akonori Asano, the former "Sakura" unit pilot who was lucky enough to survive the battle.  In order to avoid the fate of becoming a "meat bomb" again, he resolutely flew a "Galaxy" land attack aircraft with "Sakura" on it and flew to China to surrender.

    According to his confession, he and his teammates had received training on the tactical modification of the "Sakura" suicide aircraft in the Japanese Navy's 721 Air Force (the "God Thunder Attack Team") and participated in combat.

    "Volunteers for the "Sakura" combat mission were recruited from the Naval Air Force. In August 1944, posters "Recruiting volunteers for special attack missions" were posted on the streets of Tokyo. Applicants lined up in a long line.  The final selection was made on October 1, 1960. Before the initial kamikaze force was formed, the 721st Air Force, the 'Kamikaze' force, was formed at the Baili Air Base in the center of Honshu. The commander was  Lieutenant Colonel Motoharu Okamura. Subsequently, the training base of the 'Shenden' unit was moved from Baili to the Konochi training base, which is closer to Tokyo."

    "The 'Shenden' force consists of 4 'Sakura' teams. Each team includes: 10 'Sakura' aircraft and 40 'Kamikaze' special attack aircraft, each equipped with 250 kilograms of explosives, for a total of 5 years and May,'  The prototype of the Kamikaze special attack aircraft was changed from the 'Zero' type to the A6M7 type, and was changed to carry 500 kilograms of explosives, called the 'Sword' bomber. The newly formed 708th and 711th flying teams included 18 carriers  A land attack aircraft of the 'Sakura' aircraft. In addition, the 306th and 308th flying groups serve as escorts, each equipped with 36 'Zero' fighter jets."

    "At the Konochi training base. The Sakura team members received the education of 'loyalty to the emperor and dying generously'. Vice Admiral Toyoda and others accompanied Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yoneuchi to inspect the 'Shinden' troops, cheering the team members and teaching the 'Sakura team members'  A dagger with his name engraved on it - 'Guokoku Sword'. In early January 1945, the 'Shenden' troops collectively visited the Yasukuni Shrine. His Majesty the Emperor sent an adjutant to meet him to cheer up the 'Sakura' team members and march forward. The 'Sakura' team members thus  The crowd is excited, waiting for the upcoming expedition to the point of no return"

    "On March 21, a reconnaissance plane detected the presence of your fleet 320 nautical miles southwest of Kyushu. This was a God-given opportunity. The Navy's 5th Air Fleet issued an order to attack the "Shenden" troops"

    "Due to the tight war situation and the shortage of equipment, each pilot who modified Sakura can only experience flying for a total of about 2 minutes once." Asano said.  "It can be said that the modified flight of Sakura aircraft is the 'most economical' in the world. According to this rule, as long as you fly Sakura K-1 once, it seems that half of your life has entered the Palace of Hell. From then on, your own  My name has been listed in the special attack plan, and I am just waiting for the day I finish drinking rice wine and be ordered to attack and die."

    "I am a pilot student in the 13th phase of preparatory training (equivalent to junior aviation school). Before graduation, I received training on the Type 93 intermediate trainer aircraft, which is the kind of aircraft called the 'Red Dragonfly'. After that, I was sent to the 721  We served in the Air Force. In order to improve our flying skills and become familiar with tactics, we went directly to the Zero 21 fighter for flight training. This is the oldest modification of the Zero, but for those of us who have never been exposed to high-speed aircraft  , It¡¯s like reaching the sky in one step. Therefore, everything depends on your own understanding and luck. According to the training syllabus: after each pilot undergoes one month of modified flight, he will switch to the compulsory dive training for suicide attacks. "

    "The instructor asked us to dive from an altitude of 1,500 to 2,000 meters. In order to simulate high-speed flight, the throttle was not allowed to be retracted. I turned right and aimed directly at the extension line of the runway. There was no need to build any network cables. The aircraft was like a big tree.  It pounced on the ground like a bomb, and when the belly of the aircraft was only 1 to 3 meters above the ground, it pulled the lever and climbed to enter the go-around. Because the action was too thrilling. Sometimes the skid would leave a mark on the road surface."

    "I only flew the Zero fighter in January 1945, and we were usually allowed to fly for one hour a day. This lasted until April or May, so most of us flew an average of  120 to 150 hours. One day in May, it was finally my turn to sit in the cockpit of the 'Sakura'. This was also the only time I flew it into the air."

    "The 'Sakura' K-1 is a single-seat glide trainer with a low lift-to-drag ratio. I watched people busy hanging it on the belly of the 'Galaxy' land attack bomber with a thick fuselage and a bald tail. At this time,  The belly of "Sakura" has almost touched the ground. If you sit in the cockpit of "Sakura" K-1 and look up, you will see a rather primitive simple ring standing on the outside of the front windshield.?The sight, and further forward is the only hook for hanging the 'Sakura'.  In order to prevent the 'child aircraft' (referring to the Sakura aircraft) from swaying laterally during flight, a U-shaped hoop was used to tighten the fuselage firmly against the belly of the mother aircraft, just like how the 'Galaxy' land attack bomber usually holds a torpedo when going to sea.  .  When the mother machine dropped me and the slave machine, the explosive bolts ensured that the hoop was released in time.  "

    "In the morning, the weather was gloomy, and the mother aircraft's two 1,500-horsepower 'Mars' engines roared. I hurriedly got into the bomber's cabin and waited silently for the final instructions. The mother aircraft quickly rose into the air holding the child aircraft, and there was a shout from under my feet.  The sound of the wind. A small door 1 meter square was specially dug on the door of the bomb bay. 1.5 meters directly below it, it happened to be aligned with the cockpit entrance of the 'Sakura'."

    "Ahead is the airdrop area. I opened the small door, stepped on the door handle, bent down, and used a small iron rod to open the canopy of the 'Sakura', and then carefully climbed into the narrow space of the 'Sakura' K-1  The cockpit. At this time, the wind howled into my neck."

    "In order to prevent the slave aircraft from subconsciously swinging during flight due to the control surface swinging, resulting in an unstable attitude and collision with the parent aircraft, the control column and pedals are fixed with four strings before takeoff. Therefore, the top priority before free fall is  Quickly untie these constraints that restrict normal flight, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous. In addition, there is another rope hanging vertically from the center of the front windshield frame. The lower end is tightly wrapped around the grip of the control column. It will ensure that the sub-machine is dropped after  The control column continues to remain upright for a short period of time, which is another 'earth measure' to prevent the nose of the aircraft from tilting up and ensure safe separation."

    "I closed the canopy and fastened my seat belt so that I could leave the mother aircraft. Then I stretched out my left hand and pressed the button of the Morse code transmitter on the left side of the instrument panel, first sending out a (Japanese) '¤»' letter,  In this way, the crew on the bomber knew that I was ready. When the plane approached the drop coordinates, I sent out four short and one long Morse signals one by one in accordance with the regulations.  , the red signal light will flash at different lengths at the same time as confirmation. When the last 'beep' is issued, the bombardier of the mother aircraft releases the hook and drops the 'Sakura' K-1 carrying me."

    "During the first 300 meters of descent, 'Sakura' K-1 fell to the ground almost horizontally. I quickly untied the last rope around the control column, pushed the control column forward, and let the aircraft turn.  Enter the dive state. The next thing is to find the way home early. Of course. If the Sakura 11 is performing an offensive mission, then it will be looking for targets on the sea."

    "The 2,000-meter runway at Hongchi Base is specially used by bombers and fighter jets. The Sakura K-1 can only use another grassland emergency landing runway parallel to it. We call it the 'second airport'."

    "The mother plane turned right shortly after takeoff, taking me to an altitude of 3,000 meters. After flying west for a while, you can see a 5-meter-diameter concrete round altar on the ground, which is the throwing point mark. K-1 from  Free gliding begins here. It only takes about 2 minutes to land on the grass. In other words, each of us only has this short 2 minutes of practical training opportunity before he sacrifices his life for the country!"

    "It's not easy to play 'Sakura' well. When you are close to the ground, you have to sweat all over. At this time, you have to free your right hand and shake the damn crank used to lower the flaps as hard as possible.  The speed slowed down. The aspect ratio of the 'Sakura' aircraft was too small, and its gliding performance was extremely poor. If the flaps got stuck, it would most likely rush out of the airport. While pedaling the rudder, I had to keep pressing the stick with my left hand.  , in order to maintain the slope of the wing and maintain the correct heading. Some teammates crashed the plane because they were in a hurry when landing, focusing on one thing and the other."

    "I didn't pay attention to the speedometer at all and lowered the plane based on my feeling. If I fly the Sakura 11 again in the future, I won't need to worry so much. I just need to find the target and rush down and it will be over."

    "In fact, since mid-April, our base has been subject to air attacks by carrier-based aircraft of your country's navy. At one time, the ground was filled with gasoline barrels and bombs, and the chain detonations made the airport a mess. 30 'Zero' type aircraft  The aircraft has been repaired, and only part of it can be reused. The 'Sakura' K-1 is luckier. They are hidden in the large hangar and suffered little damage."

    "While waiting for the official launch, one day I witnessed the ground test of the Sakura 11. Someone stuffed three solid propellants with a diameter of 10 centimeters into the engine, and used pine poles to drive ground piles in front of the wings to prevent  After driving, the plane rushed forward. The Type 1-20 rocket engines worked one by one. Although it only took a few seconds, I still felt its shocking power."

    "In addition to our 'Sakura' force, which was established on October 1, 1944, there is also a special attack team called the 'Tatsumaki', which was formerly the 722nd Air Force of the Navy. The 'Tatsumaki' special attack team was originally planned to be equipped with  'Sakura' 22 aircraft, but due to delayIt was not built, so we had to use the same model and training methods as us.  "

    "At the end of July 1945, I was transferred to the Navy's 725th Air Force. The takeoff base was located on the top of a hill, where a 60-meter-long takeoff runway had been laid. We could fly the Type 43B into the air from here.  Then we flew to Kii Suido. Of course, we never saw this kind of aircraft until we were defeated. However, someone made a fake Sakura and successfully shot it into the air with gunpowder. In order to maintain our flying skills, we used Yamashita  The open space on the playground of the 'Shiga Sora' Junior Aviation School was used for final training with a dozen 'Zero' aircraft and a dozen 'Red Dragonflies'"

    "Japan has also developed another type of man-operated bomb, the 'Meihua' special attack aircraft. Because it was developed by the Western Sichuan Aviation Opportunity Company, it is also called the 'Sichuan West Plum Blossom' aircraft. It is based on the German 'V-1' missile.  It is a low-wing monoplane modified from the basics and can carry one person. It is powered by a jet and is arranged on the fuselage. It can produce a maximum thrust of 3528 N, with a wingspan of 6.6 meters and a length of  7 meters, with a maximum speed of 740 kilometers per hour, and 250 kilograms of explosives installed in the head. It can fly short distances under its own power without the need for a mother aircraft. It should be said that because the maneuverability and maximum speed of the 'Meihua' aircraft are better than those of the 'Sakura' aircraft,  The possibility of being shot down during flight is less than that of the 'Sakura' aircraft. However, only 10 'Meihua' aircraft were produced and have not been used in actual combat."

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