Chapter 51

A large number of Japanese fighter jets came in full force, but what made them sad was that the Tang army's JF-11 bomber was equipped with powerful defensive firepower. Several machine gun bunkers opened fire violently, forming a series of fierce firepower networks, and shot down dozens of Japanese fighter jets in the blink of an eye.

Japanese fighter jets rolled and fell from the sky like turkeys. The Japanese in Tokyo could see clearly and sighed. So many fighter jets could not beat them with more than twenty bombers, which was really embarrassing to Mars.

The Japanese fighter jets were slow and had weak firepower. Although they had the advantage of quantity, they could not take any advantage.

The Tang army bomber group had no time to deal with them and was eager to return. The JF-10 bomber ignored the entanglement of Japanese fighter jets and continued to climb upwards.

Most of the Japanese fighter jets had a ceiling of less than five or six thousand meters. Soon after, the Tang army bomber group flew to the altitude of ** kilometers. The Japanese fighter jet group was stunned and had to watch the Tang army group leave.

Tokyo was bombed by the Tang army, and not to mention that the Hirohito family was killed, the three shrines that symbolized the Japanese imperial power and all the artifacts were blown up, which made the Japanese people, who were originally frightened, panic, and the whole country was filled with sorrow, as if they had reached the end of the world.

In the following days, the Tang army took advantage of the weak air defense firepower in Japan and continuously bombed many prosperous cities in Japan. Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and other places were all bombed in key areas. Most of the cities were destroyed, tens of thousands of people were killed and injured, and millions were homeless.

Saito Mi couldn't help but sigh as she looked at the ruins. It was several times more destructive than the Tokyo earthquake, causing heavy losses to Japan.

The Tang army bomber group also focused on bombing Japanese Yokosuka, Sasebo, Wugang and other places, and focused on damaging the Japanese major shipyards and other related industrial facilities. This caused serious losses to the Japanese army and delayed the speed of the Japanese army's reconstruction of the joint fleet.

The steel and shipbuilding equipment prepared by the Japanese army spent hundreds of millions of yen were blown up together with the dock, and thousands of outstanding workers and technicians in the shipyard were killed, causing the Japanese Navy to beat their feet and stamp their chests, and they were so angry that they vomited blood.

The Japanese military urgently mobilized a large number of anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns to defend important military facilities and cities. At the same time, the local government has stepped up the production of anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns. The Japanese have never experienced such panic. It was a huge shock from the bottom of their hearts.

"The Tang army is so terrifying, they are devils."

In just a few months, such words were spreading everywhere in Japan. Japanese people became terrified when they heard the word "Tang".

As the Japanese army deployed anti-aircraft artillery on a large scale, the threat faced by the Tang army's bomber group became increasingly greater, and many JF-11 bombers were shot down by Japanese artillery fire. At the same time, Longhua Airport was repeatedly attacked by Japanese spies because it was too close to the public concession. The defense there was a lot of trouble. The pro-Japanese forces in the State Government secretly made trouble, causing the airport's defense to be full of loopholes, giving Japanese spies the opportunity to sneak attack the airport, causing the airport runway to be destroyed, the oil depot ammunition depot was blown up, and more than a dozen bombers were lost.

Although the Tang Empire solemnly protested to the government, demanding a thorough investigation and arresting traitors and traitors. However, the government had complicated relations and finally found some irrelevant scapegoats and left it alone.

The Tang Empire demanded the garrison at Longhua Airport. However, Chiang Kai-shek was determined to fight foreign countries and must first settle the country. He had reached a ceasefire and settlement agreement with Japan and did not want to go to war with Japan anymore. Therefore, he not only rejected the demands of the Tang Empire, but also demanded that the Tang Empire stop using the mainland airport to attack Japan and stop massacring innocent Japanese on the grounds of national security and humanitarianism.

Zhang Meng was very angry about this and immediately terminated all assistance to the government. However, it still could not change Chiang Kai-shek's determination.

Since the Tang Empire still needed to continuously introduce talents and population from the mainland, it could not completely get into the country's government and soon resumed aid, but the amount of aid was greatly reduced. On the other hand, the government did not dare to really offend the Tang Empire, and both sides stopped the quarrel tacitly.

However, Zhang Meng did not give up, and air strikes on Japan became the basic tactical strategy of the Tang Empire in the next few years.

Without the help of mainland airports, the Tang army's JF-11 bomber's range was not enough, so Zhang Meng needed to seize a base close to Japan.

The Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific belong to the southern islands of Japan, about 1,200 kilometers away from Tokyo, Japan, and are composed of more than 30 large and large islands, from north to south, divided into three groups: the Son-in-the-dao Island Island, the Father Island Island Island, and the Parent Island Island Island Island Island. The total area is 71.4 square kilometers. Once the archipelago is captured, not only the range of the Tang army's Xiaolong bomber can easily cover the entire Japanese island, but even the Tang army's short-range bomber can also be put into bombing operations.

At the same time, if a supply base is established on the Ogasawara Islands, the Tang army's aircraft carrier battle group can easily threaten the Japanese archipelago.

In Zhang Meng's heart, in his huge combat plan, seizing the Ogasawara Islands was an important link.

However, the Japanese also knew the key points here. The Tang army's aircraft was too powerful, which made the Japanese stand up and no longer dared to underestimate the power of the aircraft. The Tang army's aircraft carrier battle group was even more afraid of the Japanese army. Due to the heavy blow of the joint fleet, the Japanese Navy was no longer competent for defending the local area. Therefore, the Japanese Joint Staff Headquarters had to strengthen prevention to prevent the Tang army from landing on the Japanese mainland.

The Ogasawara Islands are the gateway to the southern part of the Japanese archipelago. Once lost, it will expose the entire Japanese archipelago to the threat of the Tang army aircraft carrier battle group. Therefore, the Japanese army vigorously strengthened the defense force there.

The Ogasawara Islands are an active volcanic archipelago, with only one of the islands inhabited by people, with a population of only more than one thousand, half men and half women, all of which are Japanese. However, the real military center is not this island, but Iwo Jima in the southwest.

Iwo Jima is also an active volcanic island, which is about 1,200 kilometers away from Saipan and Tokyo to the south and north. Its strategic position is extremely important. To seize the Ogasawara islands, Iwo Jima must be seized first.

There was no one living on Iwo Jima. In order to prevent the Tang army from approaching Japan, the Japanese army deployed more than 10,000 people in Iwo Jima. They did not have naval and air force support, nor did they have heavy support artillery, only pure infantry armed forces and bunkers and other defensive fortifications.

The Tang army aircraft carrier battle group arrived in the waters near Iwo Jima in early August. Hundreds of aircraft took off from four main aircraft carriers and multiple escort aircraft carriers and carried out violent bombings on Iwo Jima in turn.

The five hundred kilogram aviation bomb fell, like a meteorite hitting a sky. In an instant, the earth shook, the rocks collapsed, the trees broke, and the flying sand and stones filled with smoke.

The surface fortifications built by the Japanese army were successively blown up. The fierce bombing for half a month made the entire Iwo Jima turn into a sea of ​​fire, just like a terrifying and tragic side of the volcano eruption. Two-thirds of the Japanese defenders were killed, and the remaining Japanese troops were forced to dig tunnels and turn underground.

The Japanese army dug tunnels in the mountains, and for a moment, the Tang army's aviation bombs were helpless.

After mid-August, the Tang army aircraft carrier battle group went through a series of anti-submarine operations, sunk thirteen Japanese submarines and cleared out a safe channel close to Iwo Jima, and the Tang army fleet was able to approach Iwo Jima.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

The sound of cannons roared.

On the sea, Tang army warships lined up in a row, and large caliber naval guns violently bombarded the small volcanic island less than 20 square kilometers.

The Tang Army's First Marine Division was on more than 500 landing crafts and began to carry out beach landing operations on Iwo Jima.

The Tang army divided the beach head into three places: A, B, and C, and used the SRA tanks as the pioneer. As a result, they were all attacked by landmines buried earlier by the Japanese army, losing more than a dozen tanks.

The Japanese army no longer had ground bunkers and fortifications, but there were a large number of underground castles hidden. The flames spurted and blocked the beachfronts, which once left more than a thousand Tang soldiers trapped behind the beach rocks for more than an hour. It was not until the Tang army called for naval aviation support that more than a dozen Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers arrived and destroyed several Japanese beachfront bunkers.

The Japanese army's castle near the beach was destroyed, and there were more castle behind it. Those castles were hidden in extreme secluded, and the Tang army would have to pay a great price every time they went further.
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