The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China - Chapter 1051

   Many later sources show that the “Chongqing Bombing” lasted from February 1938 to August 1943. In fact, until 1944, Chongqing was still bombed, but the city was no longer bombed, and the Japanese invaders aimed at factories and military facilities.

   Even in December 1944, Japanese planes were still bombing Liangping, Wanzhou, Kaixian and other areas around Chongqing.

  At the same time that Japan ended the bombing of Chongqing, the United States began the bombing of Tokyo!

  November 24, 1944, the US military sent 88 bombers to attack Tokyo. The effect of the bombing was not obvious, only a Japanese aircraft factory was slightly injured, but it opened the prelude to the Tokyo bombing.

  The U.S. military used daytime precision bombing tactics in Europe, specifically to blow up important German military targets. But this bombing tactic was unsuitable in Japan, where the weather was so bad that it was difficult for pilots to pinpoint targets at high altitudes.

  So, the Yankees, who suffered heavy losses in the Pacific battlefield, began to carry out night-time carpet bombing of big cities in Japan. This tactic is targeted for reasons. First, many Japanese military components are produced in small workshops scattered in residential areas. Second, Japanese cities are mostly wooden buildings, which are very suitable for barbecues.

In the following nine months, the US military launched 33,000 sorties on 98 cities in Japan, dropping 160,000 tons of bombs, killing or burning 230,000 people and injuring or burning 350,000 people. Twenty-four percent of the houses in Japan were in ruins, 1,600 planes were destroyed, and 1,650 ships were sunk and damaged.

  Why is it called the Tokyo Bombing?

  Because Tokyo was bombed the worst, only three bombings in 1945 killed 140,000 people in Tokyo, burned down more than 50% of the city’s houses, and left more than 1 million Tokyo residents homeless.

  Compared with the “Tokyo Bombing” that lasted for nine months, the damage caused by the two atomic bombs to Japan was negligible. Incendiary bombs are so cool to blow up. Take the air raid on March 9, 1945, for example, more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs were thrown, and an area of ​​41 square kilometers in the center of Tokyo was directly burned to rubble, and nearly 100,000 Tokyo citizens became mobile. torch.

   Many times, Tokyo people are not burned to death and bombed to death, but suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen. Even if they can find a safe place to hide, all the surrounding buildings are burning, the flames have evacuated the oxygen in the air, and they can only wait for death wherever they flee.

   Honestly, even if Japan were victorious in the Pacific, just a few months of the bombing of Tokyo could make them unsustainable. 24% of the country’s houses were burnt down by incendiary bombs. How can Japan fight wars?

   This series of air raids, also known as the “Li Mei Fire Attack”, was the most fire attack in the history of human warfare, and the fire burned all over Japan.

   Until the 21st century, there are still many Japanese elderly people who came forward and complained about the inhumane behavior of the US military. They completely ignored the brutal aggression of the Japanese army against the people of Asian countries, and kept saying that the Japanese civilians were innocent, while the US military imposed the wounds of the war on the Japanese people.

Ha ha!

   If it weren’t for the countless small workshops scattered in Japanese houses, which were continuously providing spare parts and prefabricated parts for Japanese military enterprises, would the U.S. military change its tactics to catch the crazy bombing of Japanese urban areas?

  Let’s turn the calendar to 1945-

  In January, the Soviet Union occupied Warsaw, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Chinese army stationed in India successfully joined forces.

   In February, the US army occupied the capital of the Philippines, the Soviet army occupied Budapest, and Finland officially declared war on the Axis powers.

   In March, Hitler ordered the whole of Germany to self-destruct, and the Soviet army occupied the Austrian capital.

   In April, Roosevelt died, and Truman became president. The Soviet army surrounded Berlin, the US army captured Leipzig, the Soviet army and the US army joined forces at the Elbe River, and then the Soviet army occupied Berlin. Mussolini was executed, Hitler committed suicide. The Preparatory Conference for the Founding of the United Nations opens in San Francisco.

  In May, the Canadian army occupied Amsterdam, Germany surrendered unconditionally, and Germany was destroyed.

   On the Chinese battlefield, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army have already gone crazy. They fought more than 20,000 battles last year, annihilated nearly 200,000 Japanese and puppet troops, recovered more than 20 county towns (the previous chapter was about conquering county towns, and some were captured and lost), liberating more than 17 million compatriots. This kind of offensive against Japan continued until the summer of 1945, and the Japanese invaders in the battlefield behind the enemy were unable to stop them.

  The war hit this point, Japan’s economy would have collapsed long ago. The treatment of the Japanese soldiers in the battlefield behind the enemy was not much better than that of the soldiers of the national army. Some Japanese soldiers even began to learn how to play straw sandals from the Chinese.

  The reason for this situation is that the Japanese army transferred most of the materials in the occupied area to the front line to fight the decisive battle with the national army – just like Stilwell transferred the materials from the Chinese theater to the Burmese battlefield.

   These series of situations are all chained together. Stilwell’s counter-offensive for Burma resulted in the emptiness of China’s frontal battlefield materials and troops, and was defeated by the Japanese. In order to realize the “Operation No. 1” plan, the Japanese army was empty of materials and personnel in the Japanese-occupied area, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army took the opportunity to counterattack for more than a year.

   At the same time, Chang Kaishen shouted the slogan “One Hundred Thousand Youth One Hundred Thousand Army”, created 35 new infantry divisions, and formulated a plan for counterattacking Southwest and South China in February 1945. In the spring of the same year, the Supreme Command of the Chinese Theater Command formulated the “White Tower Plan” and decided to carry out a general counterattack against the Japanese invaders in the autumn.

   In the spring and summer, the national army simultaneously carried out the Battle of North Hubei and the Battle of Western Hunan, which opened the prelude to China’s frontal battlefield counter-offensive.

   In the face of the Chinese army’s attack on the frontal battlefield and the battlefield behind the enemy, the Japanese invaders kept retreating and could only make this plan: “Even if the situation has reached the last minute, we must ensure the important areas around Nanjing, around Peking and around Wuhan.”

   In other words, the Japanese army was very pessimistic about the situation on the Chinese battlefield. Except for the northeast region, they only wanted to hold the areas of Peiping, Nanjing and Wuhan.

Last year’s defeat of Henan, Hunan and Guizhou, the Japanese army seemed to have won a great victory, but its logistics materials in the Chinese battlefield have been consumed countless, and it is difficult to provide follow-up support under the bombing of the US military in the country, and most of the search supplies in the battlefield behind the enemy are cut off by the Communist army .

  The Japanese army in China in 1945 was in a very difficult situation, whether it was behind the enemy or in front of the enemy, and could not resist the joint attack of the National Army and the Communist Army.

   As of August, the national army has recovered some of the territory of Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan and Suiyuan provinces on the frontal battlefield. In July, Lao Jiang even formulated a plan to counterattack Guangzhou, wanting to take back Guangzhou by force, trying to get through the sea supply route for international support.

   Therefore, even if the United States did not drop the atomic bomb, even if the Soviet Union did not send troops, the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party could drive out the Japanese aggressors on their own.

  Because, Japan has run out of fuel, and the sun is dying.

   In July, U.S. President Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb, and another old friend of Zhou Hexuan, Attlee, was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

  Under the constant urging of his cheap father-in-law Ornis, Zhou Hexuan finally set off for the UK, because his signature is required for the listing of pharmaceutical companies. At the same time, he also brought his daughter Zhou Chunxi with him, and Ornis roared in the telegram to see his granddaughter…