Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 895 Target Hiroshima

After Wang Meng and Lin Shubing confirmed it, they reported the plan to the Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense. Li Yunlong felt it was troublesome and directly convened a joint meeting.

The Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense and the three-member panel held meetings at the same time.

After about three hours of discussion, the launch plan was finally approved.

For the next three consecutive days, China repeatedly dropped leaflets to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Wakatsuki and Kokura, demanding that irrelevant personnel quickly evacuate the relevant areas.

In the early morning of October 1945, 10, the lights were on at the Quzhou Military Airport in Zhejiang Province, where the Special Operations Brigade of the Chinese Air Force was stationed.

In order to deploy Miss Qiu, Wang Meng and Lin Shubing specially formed a special operations brigade, including a B-17 bomber squadron, a maintenance brigade, a guard battalion, and technical experts temporarily transferred from the 101 Institute.

After the finalization, Miss Qiu is 4 meters long, 0.91 meters in diameter and weighs 6 tons.

"Miss Qiu" contains 60 kilograms of uranium-235 in her body. The energy released by the nuclear explosion is about tons of (TNT) of high-energy explosives. The most suitable explosion height is 400 to 750 meters.

The targets of the first bombing were Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Kokura.

The first priority target is Hiroshima, and the key area is their army headquarters, a total of Japanese devils.

At 3 a.m., three weather observation planes took off, one to Hiroshima, one to Kokura, and another to Nagasaki.

At 3:15 a.m., a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber carrying an atomic bomb took off.

At 7 a.m., the first weather observation plane arrived at Hiroshima. The crew immediately contacted and reported the situation through careful observation:

"The weather over Hiroshima is very good, with a visibility of more than 10 kilometers, an altitude of 4500 meters, and cloud cover of 1/12."

Therefore, Wang Meng and Li Yunlong in the Beijing Command Center gave orders at the same time that the first "Miss Qiu" missile would target Hiroshima.

After the B-17 bomber arrived over Hiroshima, the atomic bomb was automatically dropped at 8:15:17.

After the drop, the crew members counted silently in their hearts. These 43 seconds seemed like a century, and probably the longest 43 seconds in their lives.

Finally, a huge explosion was heard over Hiroshima, accompanied by a huge fireball that blinded people.

At this time, it was the rush hour for those who were determined to go to work regardless of their lives, and people immediately disappeared.

After completing the bombing mission, the crew returned to Quzhou Airport and were immediately protected by heavy troops, and everyone was quietly waiting for the casualty report.

In order to seize the initiative, China People's Broadcasting Station broadcast the news to the world in multiple languages:

"Today is October 1945, 10. Because the Japanese Emperor and the authorities were extremely irresponsible for the lives of the Japanese people and refused to surrender unconditionally, we dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the main island of Japan, at 15:8 this morning in order to stop the war, force militarism to lay down its butcher knife, and save more innocent people.

This is a warning to the Japanese locusts and militarists who are optimistic about the outcome, to give up their illusions and not try to drag the entire Japanese people into the quagmire of war.

If we continue to resist, more lives will be lost in the war. And all the consequences will be borne by the Japanese locusts and the military!"

In the bedroom of the Emperor of Japan in Tokyo, Hirohito still refused to believe that Hiroshima had suffered an unprecedented attack.

Although the casualty data has not yet been counted, judging from the photos taken by reconnaissance aircraft, Hiroshima has become a ruin.

Hirohito and Chief of Staff Yamamoto remained silent in the conference room. What they were facing now was not only the obvious losses, but also an unprecedented despair.

If the Great Air Raid on Tokyo was like using flames to repeatedly burn the nerves of the Japanese islanders, then this mushroom cloud was like a sharp blade that severed their nerves.

Militarism and Bushido will all be shattered under a mushroom cloud. After all, humans are carbon-based creatures, and under the huge impact, no matter what kind of spirit they have, they will be shattered.

"General, what is the mood in the country right now?"

"Your Majesty, the overall situation is under control. A small number of people are beginning to fear the battle, but the majority of the rest are still angry and want to fight the Chinese to the death!"

In fact, Shanshan Yuan reversed the two emotions. How could one fear war if one had never seen the cruelty of war? When the ignorant islanders saw the people around them disappearing one after another, they would realize how horrible the war they supported was.

Hirohito remained silent, and the Chinese did the first step as advertised: bombing Hiroshima with weapons of mass destruction.

What's the next step? Nagasaki, Kokura, or Tokyo?

But when he met with the Navy and Army General Staff, almost no one, without exception, agreed to surrender, and they concluded that China only had one atomic bomb.

"Your Majesty, our Sakura Special Forces are ready! They can defend Japan!"

The Japanese Sakura Special Forces implemented the Japanese "must kill, must die" attack strategy, using human flesh to fight against enemy warships.

In fact, this was a helpless move due to the Japanese's lack of resources. They had no well-trained pilots, no reliable aircraft, and no warships to engage in naval battles with enemy warships.

Therefore, a batch of aircraft with no power or limited power were urgently produced. They were hung on the belly of transport planes or bombers and detached after entering the battlefield.

The "cannon fodder" locked in the cockpit flies a plane full of explosives towards the enemy's warship. Either it dies or it dies with the enemy's warship, but the success rate is extremely low.

Each time, one rookie pilot and one iron plane are consumed.

"Your Majesty, our navy's Kaiten torpedo task force is also ready! We can launch an assault when the enemy approaches the sea!"

The Japanese Kaiten torpedo was an even more bizarre weapon. It had a diameter of one meter and could carry one crew member inside. The crew member could use a small periscope to confirm the position of the enemy ship and manipulate the torpedo to increase the hit rate on the enemy ship. The amount of explosives loaded was three times that of an ordinary torpedo.

The early Kaiten torpedoes were equipped with a crew escape system, which was set to allow the crew to eject from the torpedo before the final attack acceleration phase of the torpedo was activated. However, there is no record of any crew escaping from a successfully released torpedo and returning to a submarine or other vehicle. After all, unless you can fly into the sky, you will be shocked to death by the detonation of such a large amount of explosives.

Later Kaiten torpedoes simply gave up the crew escape system. Once a torpedo attack failed, a self-destruct system allowed the crew to manually destroy the torpedo, resulting in a true fight to the death.

Hirohito seemed to have taken two reassurance pills, and his heart, which had just felt as dead as ash, suddenly rekindled the hope of victory.

"Okay, everyone, please do your best to defend the main island of Japan!"