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Chapter 1,542: Overthrow of the Cabinet (1)

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    The bombing of the Japanese mainland is nothing new. A few years ago, Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle led people to bomb the Japanese mainland. After entering 1943, the U.S. military bombed Japan more frequently.

    But this bombing was different. First, the location of the bombing was different. The U.S. Air Force actually bombed Japan's most famous Yahata Steel Works, and this steel plant mainly produces steel needed for Japan's national defense.

    From 1894 to 1895, when the Japanese invaded China, its domestic steel production was only 19,400 tons, and it needed to import 134,000 tons to meet the military needs at that time.  In view of this situation, the Japanese House of Representatives proposed the establishment of the state-owned Yawata Steel Works in 1895 to establish a self-produced steel system for national defense needs.

    In 3 years, a total of 14 million yen was invested, and ignition production was completed in 1889.

    Because the Japanese government has taken great care of the factory, production has developed rapidly.  In the winter of 1941, when the Japanese army launched the Pacific War, most of its 210 large warships, 1,953 medium tanks, 1,448 light tanks and other heavy weapons were made of steel produced by this steelmaking company, so this place was bombed.  , which had a great impact on Japan.

    Secondly, the bomber used by the US military this time is beyond imagination. It is a new heavy bomber from the United States, model B-29.

    The Japanese army had already obtained relevant information on the development, production and deployment of the American heavy bomber B-29 to the Far East in advance, and in March 1944, an investigation team was headed by Lieutenant Colonel Takeichi Ashigahara of the Investigation Section of the Army Aviation Headquarters.  Publish the relevant information about the machine.

    The B-29 heavy bomber was designed based on the B-17, the famous flying fortress in Germany, so it is also called the Super Flying Fortress. The aircraft was designed from 1939 and completed its test flight in early December 1942. After that,  That is batch production.  In June 1943, the US military equipped the newly established 58th Bomb Regiment, and in November it equipped the 29th Air Force.

    The B-29 heavy bomber is currently the top aircraft in terms of protective firepower, bomb load, flight speed, practical flight altitude, etc., especially the double-row, star-shaped, air-cooled,  There are four high-power engines with 18 cylinders, each of which can reach 2140 horsepower at an altitude of 625 meters above sea level. In addition, it is equipped with a high-altitude variable speed supercharger. Even if it reaches the stratosphere where the air is thin, due to the air supercharger's  function, the engine still has enough air intake to ensure normal combustion and exert its function so that the aircraft can still maintain good maneuverability at high altitudes.

    The most frightening thing is that the aircraft has an ultra-long range of 9,400 kilometers and a maximum bomb load of 9 tons, making it a complete aerial beast.

    And such a long range also means that the United States has the ability to bomb the Japanese mainland at ultra-long distances. This is the fundamental reason why the Japanese are afraid.

    The last special thing is that in this bombing, American fighter planes took off from China.

    According to the investigation of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, the bombing was commanded by General Wolf of the US Army. They began to take off from the Chengdu area, with a total of 75 aircraft.

    The fleet flew toward Japan along the Sheyang River estuary and into the sea. Japan then issued an air defense warning, but at this time the B-29 bombers had already reached the sky over Hachiman and started dropping bombs.

    Although the 4th Fighter Squadron of Major Abe Yuuo of the 19th Flying Wing of the Japanese Army Air Force stationed at Satsuki Airport in Yamaguchi Prefecture, about 30 kilometers northeast of Yawata City, is a two-seat, twin-engine, equipped with 20 mm and 37 mm caliber weapons.  The gun's eight "Type II" fighter jets were divided into two layers and cooperated with ground searchlights to attack B-29s over Yawata City. Its ground anti-aircraft guns used the gaps between fighter attacks and searchlights to coordinate with the air fire.

    But 47 fighter planes still arrived over Hachiman and dropped about 400 tons of bombs.  Subsequently, the US military fleet returned to China along the original route, losing 7 aircraft and 55 pilots killed or injured.

    The bombing of Japan by the US military's B-29 fleet made the Japanese military's senior command personnel and troops generally pessimistic about the future of the war in military psychology.

    At this time, detailed battle conditions on the Chinese battlefield had been transmitted back to Japan. Although the 11th Army captured Changsha, Yiyang, Liuyang and other places and achieved major breakthroughs, the First Army and the 12th Army on the northern front also captured Luoyang and other places.  land, but the North China Front lost the entire Shanxi, so whether from a tactical or strategic point of view, both sides can only say that there is a winner or lose for each other.

    ¡°Compared with the few scattered cities occupied by the Japanese army, the Chinese army counterattacked Shanxi, but drove all the Japanese forces out of Shanxi. This triggered intensifying disagreements and contradictions within the Japanese high-level officials.

    Immediately afterwards, the U.S. heavy bombers bombed Tokyo, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Japan's internal power struggle suddenly changed from darkness to light, and even entered a white-hot stage.

    Of course, the reason for Japan¡¯s internal struggle to become public is not justIt¡¯s just China¡¯s failure on the battlefield. What¡¯s more important is the changes in the international environment.

    June and July of Showa 19 were the most difficult times for both Japan and Germany since the war began. A series of unsatisfactory events occurred during the war guidance.

    First, in Europe, on June 6, the long-proclaimed second battlefield was opened from the Normandy Peninsula in France, but the German army failed to respond adequately.  On June 15, the German army's new weapon "No. 6" suddenly attacked London, but it was not enough to become a trump card to save the war.  Up to now, the Normandy stronghold of Cherbourg has fallen, and the general trend of the landing offensive and defensive battle has been determined. The German side has completely lost the opportunity to annihilate the enemy on the sea. From then on, the fate of the German army was to be forced to gradually retreat inland.

    More importantly, the anti-war and peace-seeking atmosphere in Germany has gradually emerged, which makes Japan feel uneasy.

    ??Looking at the situation in East Asia, it is exactly the same as Germany¡¯s decline.

    Since the situation in Mariana is unfavorable to Japan, a corner of the absolute defense circle in the central Pacific has gradually been broken.  On June 16, the U.S. Air Force stationed in China, based in Chengdu, suddenly launched its first air raid on the Hatakura area, an important area in northern Kyushu.

    The defeat in the decisive naval and air battle at Mariana, and the complete annihilation of the Saipan garrison after a brave and hard battle for two decades, all happened before and after.  In this way, the evolution of the war situation on the east and west fronts formed a series of pessimistic factors that appeared in front of Japan.

    Originally, since the imperial meeting in September last year, Japan had devoted all its energy to the decisive battle in Mariana, both materially and spiritually.  Therefore, its influence is far-reaching. It casts a shadow on the future of war guidance, which is an inevitable result.

    Because of this failure, the main force of Japan's war against the United States, that is, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese navy and air force, was actually destroyed militarily.

    It can be expected that the source of Japan¡¯s national power and military power will also go downhill from the peak.

    With Germany in trouble, the Soviet Union's neutral attitude toward Japan became increasingly unreliable.  It will also be more difficult to maintain the relations of cooperation between various countries and nationalities in Greater East Asia and Japan during the war.

    ¡°Also, the uneasiness among the people about the future of war has not yet appeared on the surface, but it has also begun to sprout.

    The anti-war and peace-seeking activities of senior ministers, led by former Prime Minister Konoe Fumima, and court aides became increasingly active, and the voices of outsiders criticizing the war gradually became louder.

    Under this situation, the base camp and the government began to discuss a new war guidance plan in order to open up the situation. However, they never expected that the cabinet reversal movement was already underway step by step, targeting Prime Minister Tojo in the cabinet.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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