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- Thanks to the British, the Japanese military operations in India went smoothly, even far more smoothly than the military operations in China in history. After all, the length of China's railways at that time was not as long as India's.
On the other hand, although the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore, has been occupied by China, the Strait of Malacca is not the only way from Japan to the Indian Ocean. At least it is no problem to go through Jakarta, and Australia is also an accessible route. , so the Japanese don’t need to worry about any logistical problems.
Therefore, those who are worried about logistics are the National Defense Forces who have begun to advance towards Myanmar and even Bangladesh.
Indeed, there are indeed many railways in India. If nothing else, the length of the 60,000 kilometers of railways alone is not comparable to that of the Republic of China in history. Even at this time, after nearly twenty years of railway development, China After development, the railway length was barely extended to more than 60,000 kilometers.
But India’s infrastructure is good, but it does not mean that Myanmar’s infrastructure is also good.
In a later real-time strategy game called [Hearts of Iron 3], if Myanmar's infrastructure level is 4, then India and Bangladesh are 8, and the full score is 10
Of course, these are nothing to the Japanese. After all, with the British navy concentrated in the Atlantic Ocean, the Japanese can completely transport them through waterways. When the Japanese army advances to Bangladesh and India, they can even carry out transportation directly at the port. Supplies, and India itself had a fairly developed railway network in this era, and it could easily deliver Japanese supplies everywhere.
But obviously, the National Defense Force does not have this condition
“I’ve long heard that the roads in Myanmar are impassable, but I didn’t expect them to be so inoperable…”
With that said, Ru Yun yelled at the soldiers on the side.
“Work harder!!!”
Of course, his hands were not idle, and he also helped push the jeep out of the mud pit.
After pacifying the entire Thailand through the influence of King Rama VIII and the powerful military power of China, the national defense forces gathered in Thailand and Yunnan began to march towards Myanmar, which fell into the hands of the British.
?? Let’s not mention the Japanese reaction to the Chinese actions. At least the British reaction was huge, because the British knew very well that if Japan entered India, they might be expelled. Then they have nothing to do with the Chinese.
For this reason, Churchill even approached Roosevelt. However, to Churchill's surprise, Roosevelt did not come forward to help Britain. Instead, he remained silent about the incident, which also made Churchill doubt what agreement the United States and China had reached.
However, Churchill had nothing to do about it. After all, without Russia, the United States and China, Britain alone would probably not even be able to support its own country. As for the matter in India? Churchill really couldn't control it. I don't have the ability to take care of it
However, domestic pressure cannot be ignored, so Churchill once asked the ambassador to China to negotiate with the National Socialist Government.
This negotiation is naturally confidential, but the media still reported on it to some extent.
"On x, x, x, x, the Imperial Ambassador to China had a 'cordial and friendly conversation' with the Chinese Foreign Minister Gu Weijun. During the conversation, both parties were very 'frank' and 'fully exchanged views' and 'enhanced the "The talks were beneficial," but Prime Minister Churchill still expressed "regret" at the outcome of the talks. He also expressed "great indignation" at China's military actions in the Indian and Burmese colonies."
After the negotiation is over. The British Times published the above article.
Although this article is full of slang, some people can still get the news they want from it.
However, just as the slang says, the UK now really has no way to deal with China.
The reason is very simple, because not only does Britain not have the strength to interfere with China's actions - in fact, it does not even have the strength to interfere with Japan.
Not only does Britain not have the power to interfere with China, but importantly, China is not a member of the Allied Powers. So the UK can't say anything in this regard.
It must be mentioned that the Allied Powers today are indeed the strongest organization in the world.
The current allies. There are three very powerful franchise countries, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia, and there are also many small countries participating around the world. Almost everyone in South America, the back garden of the United States, has participated.
Therefore, today’s allies are by no means comparable to China’s Central Alliance in terms of gold content.
Even at the beginning of 1942, in order to make better progressDuring the Anti-Fascist War, after joining the Allied Powers, Russia even disbanded the [Hammer and Sickle International] one year earlier than in history, which greatly strengthened the Allied Powers' camp.
Therefore, there is currently a situation in which three major forces, namely, the Axis, the Alliance, and the Central Alliance, jointly carve up the entire world.
Nowadays, almost the whole world has participated in this war. If there is any region that has not been involved in the war, it would only be the Eskimos in the Arctic
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Of course, just because the British can't cause trouble doesn't mean there won't be other troubles.
“At least the National Defense Forces encountered a lot of troubles after entering Myanmar. The most important point among them is the infrastructure issue just mentioned.
The military operations in Myanmar were still going very smoothly. After a considerable number of Thai troops defected to the new government because of their relationship with King Rama VIII, due to the help of these Thai troops and the sudden rebellion of friendly forces, Due to reasons such as declining morale, the National Defense Forces that pushed into Myanmar quickly defeated the Japanese blocking force together with the Thai Army.
But when they planned to pursue the Japanese, they were unable to do so due to geographical reasons.
There is no doubt that Myanmar’s infrastructure is terrible.
For the Japanese who have no idea what the highest level is motorization or mechanization, Myanmar’s infrastructure is very terrible, but it is not very terrible. After all, many Japanese troops are used to marching on foot.
But these are somewhat fatal to the National Defense Forces.
Of course, this does not mean that the National Defense Forces cannot march on foot. Although the National Defense Forces are in line with the US military in history in terms of equipment and logistics in all aspects, five kilometers a day is still a compulsory course for the National Defense Forces.
Therefore, even the lowest level of the National Defense Army is motorized. But it is not difficult for them to get there on foot.
The real trouble is that the National Defense Forces are a force that attaches great importance to equipment, especially heavy equipment. Today's National Defense Forces are not only equipped with a considerable number of heavy machine guns. A considerable number of other equipment such as light machine guns, rocket launchers, and mortars are also equipped. As for heavy artillery, not to mention heavy artillery. You must know that today's National Defense Forces are even equipped with a considerable number of self-propelled artillery! ! !
So much heavy equipment is used in jungle areas with poor infrastructure. It was truly a disaster, especially after it rained. Even light vehicles like jeeps were on their knees in Myanmar. There was no way, no matter how light the vehicle was, plus a caliber heavy machine gun and attachments. The ammunition will also become heavier after using it.
And the biggest enemy of these national defense officers and soldiers is not the Japanese. It’s Myanmar’s complex geographical situation…
“Bang!”
Okay, I made a mistake
"Enemy attack!!!"
After a gunshot, a shout suddenly came from the front, and then Ru Yun heard dense gunshots ringing around him.
“Damn!!!”
Hearing the gunshot, Ru Yun didn't care to continue pushing the cart, and hurriedly hid behind the jeep to observe the enemy situation around him. After confirming that there were no enemy troops around, Ru Yun jumped to the machine gunner's position. Aim the large-caliber heavy machine gun mounted on the jeep in front. Provide fire support to the forward line.
This time the Japanese were coming with great force. Not long after, the sound of gunshots and artillery resounded through the sky. Ru Yun even saw many of his companions die at the hands of the Japanese. Even he himself had to get out of the jeep. Jump down————No way, the position of the machine gunner is too conspicuous. Especially the posture when the large-caliber machine gun fires continuously is hard not to attract attention. Therefore, although there was a shield at the machine gunner's position, Ru Yun still jumped down in the end.
A normal attack lasted about half an hour. Ru Yun's convoy paid a heavy price during this attack. At the same time, the Japanese seemed to have brought a lot of anti-armor weapons, so the armored vehicles in the convoy did not play much role.
Especially the 20mm anti-tank gun (of course it can also be called a gun) and the 30mm small-caliber anti-tank gun used by the Japanese.
Although these weapons cannot pose any threat to ordinary tanks, they are at least enough to deal with ordinary vehicles or armored vehicles. After all, even early models of tanks cannot resist 30mm-caliber artillery.
However, although armored vehicles are no match for Japanese anti-tank weapons, even destroyed vehicles can always be used as support. After all, the Japanese do not have the weapons to blow these vehicles into the sky, or they do have them but cannot bring them over. , plus the National Defense Forces?It has a great advantage in terms of firepower.
Therefore, although the Japanese army that attacked this time had an advantage in strength, they had to retreat in the end.
Of course, this is not to say that they can't eat up Ru Yun's convoy, but after half an hour passed, the National Defense Air Force at the nearby air force base had sent fighter planes and dive bombers to provide support. In addition, there were also a considerable number of National Defense Forces in the nearby area. existence, if it continues to be delayed here, the only ones who will suffer in the end will be the Japanese themselves.
So even though Ru Yun’s convoy seemed to be able to eat them all within about half an hour of arriving, the Japanese still gave up on this seemingly fat mouthful of meat in the end.
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Just as the Japanese suspected, when the air force base received the request for help and dispatched military aircraft, the nearby National Defense Forces also began to move closer to the location of Ruyun's convoy after receiving the request for help.
If the Japanese had stayed for another twenty or thirty minutes, there might be no problem eating Ruyun, but it might not be that easy to escape.
But at this time, the Wehrmacht was somewhat in the same predicament that the German army was in Russia.
But on the other hand…
"Have everything been checked?"
At the Air Force Base in Wendeng, a National Defense Force general with the rank of lieutenant general said to the base commander beside him.
"Don't worry, everything has been checked"
Hearing the lieutenant general’s question, the base commander quickly responded respectfully.
"That's good."
The lieutenant general nodded.
"These soldiers have to cross the ocean. If something goes wrong, it will be a disaster"
The commander nodded and said nothing more.
At this moment, the phone in the control tower suddenly rang, and the commander quickly picked up the phone and asked.
"What's up?"
After listening for a moment, the commander hung up the phone and said to the lieutenant general.
"General, it's time to take off!"
"good…"
"Then let's take off"
After getting permission. The planes on the airport runway began to rotate the engines on the wings, and the behemoths also began to slowly accelerate on the airport runway, and then flew away from the ground
h40. Currently, China's largest fixed-wing aircraft, and also the world's largest fixed-wing aircraft, are taking off from several airports in Shandong, and their destination is Tokyo, thousands of kilometers away from Shandong
"Bombing"
This is their mission
At present, the National Defense Forces are mainly equipped with two types of strategic bombers. One is the H3 bomber that has bombed Bangkok, Penghu and Taiwan, and the other is the H40 strategic bomber that has recently entered service.
Among them, the performance of the H3 bomber is quite good, but it is somewhat reluctant to bomb Tokyo. First of all, the h3 has a range of only 3,000 kilometers when carrying 3 tons of bombs, but if you forget to return, it will take about 3,200 kilometers. On the other hand, it is also the most important point. If horizontal bombing is used, the performance of h3 cannot guarantee its own safety.
You must know that unlike later generations, the Japanese attach great importance to air defense.
And the h3 is only equivalent to the level of the b17. If a bomber of this level goes to Tokyo, the loss will be too great.
Therefore, in the end, the Air Force chose the H40 bomber.
The h40, which has the same performance as the b29, is obviously more suitable for this task than the h3.
On the other hand, the National Defense Air Force has also equipped the H40 with a considerable number of incendiary bombs. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the accuracy of horizontal bombing at high altitudes. After all, incendiary bombs are fully capable of burning Tokyo into a sea of ??flames.
At the same time, the National Defense Forces also transferred more than 150 H40 bombers from the nearly 200 H40 bombers already in service, which somewhat made up for the lack of accuracy in high-altitude bombing.
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Under the command of the lieutenant general, more than 150 H40 bombers quickly took off from the airport and began flying towards Tokyo at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters.
In the hereafter. The B29 could fly at an altitude of 40,000 feet (about 12,192 meters) and an air speed of 350 miles per hour. Most of the Axis fighters at the time had difficulty climbing to such altitudes. Even if they could, they couldn't catch up with the b29's speed.
And h3 and b29 have the same performance. Therefore, the strategic bomber group consisting of more than 150 H40s did not take much time to fly to the Japanese mainland.
Of course, their target is not the Japanese mainland. If it were only the Japanese mainland,Just bring h3. After all, it doesn’t take much time to travel from Shandong to Nagasaki and other places in Japan. But if we just bomb Nagasaki, we will not be able to achieve the purpose of dealing a heavy blow to Japanese morale. After all, the capital of Japan is Tokyo, not Nagasaki.
On the other hand, Japan also has a considerable industrial base in Tokyo. If it can deal a heavy blow to Tokyo, it can also effectively weaken Japan's industrial strength.
“At least after the Japanese transport the resources they plundered from Southeast Asia and Australia back to their homeland, their conversion speed will be much slower.
On the other hand, we should be thankful that the Japanese are not equipped with such sharp weapons as radars. It is possible that they are equipped with them, but they are not deployed to places like Nagasaki. And even if they are equipped, the performance of these radars may not be the same. Quite a problem, so no one discovered the whereabouts of the bomber group along the way.
So it was very easy for the bomber group to fly over Tokyo
"Start dropping bombs"
After determining the target, a commander in charge of the bombing mission ordered.
After receiving the order to allow the bombing to be dropped, the bombardiers of each bomber pressed the buttons one after another, and the incendiary bombs in the magazine also fell from high altitude one by one
It was at this time that a shrill air raid siren sounded over Tokyo
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The bombing of Tokyo did not last long. After all, there was only so much ammunition in the bombers, and Tokyo itself was not a safe place. Not to mention the number of anti-aircraft guns alone was terrifying, so all the ammunition was used After they were all dropped, the bomber group flew towards the Vladivostok base——this was also to avoid being blocked by the Japanese interceptor force.
Although the Japanese Zero and other aircraft cannot yet threaten the existence of the H40, new aircraft such as the Type 4 have this capability, so pilots have to be careful.
After all, the h40 is not like the h3. A super flying fortress like the h40 requires a long time and cost to build each one.
On the other hand, the incendiary bombs dropped by the bombers also ignited a fire in Tokyo.
More than 150 H40 bombers dropped a large number of napalm bombs on Tokyo, burning about an square kilometer of Tokyo.
Each aircraft carries six to eight tons of incendiary bombs, with a burning area of ??up to 6,500 square meters. At the same time, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, each bomber bombed individually instead of in formation during the air raid. There was even a fire cyclone in Tokyo that day.
More than 150 H40 bombers dropped at least more than 1,000 tons of incendiary bombs. The high temperature generated was enough to burn all combustible materials in the area (including human bodies). In the end, more than 60,000 people died and nearly 41,000 square meters were killed. Meters of land were burned, mainly the area east of the Imperial Palace, and about a quarter of Tokyo was razed to the ground, 18% of which was industrial, 63% commercial, and the remainder residential. All 22 planned industrial targets were destroyed, more than 267,000 buildings were burned to the ground, and millions of people were made homeless. In addition, during the air strikes, about 100,000 people were seriously burned and injured.
The reason why the air raid was so successful was that Japan did not improve its flammable buildings after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Of course, the final and most important point is that this was the first bombing that Japan suffered. And it was only the first one that was extremely violent. The Japanese, who had never suffered such an attack, were greatly panicked, and the Japanese bureaucrats had no idea what to do. It was this panic that caused the bombing to The subsequent fire caused great damage
However, no matter how you look at it, this bombing was extremely successful
On the other hand, after being bombed, the homeland was attacked for the first time. While their morale was greatly affected, the Japanese also began to doubt whether they could win this war
At the same time, this bombing also left a strong mark in history, and later generations also called this bombing the [Tokyo Bombing]. To be continued. .
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