When Lieutenant General Carr and Feng Dafei made the air strike plan, they made sure that the first bombing would only hit the industrial areas of Kobe and Osaka, not the urban areas. But they underestimated the power of napalm. This is a new weapon after all, and so did the US military.
The second time it was used, and the first time it was used, because Doolittle and the others were bombing at night, they had no time to take pictures and could not evaluate the actual effect of the bombing. The US military did not know the actual combat power of napalm. Moreover, this was an air raid deep into the Japanese mainland.
, the Japanese fighter jets responsible for homeland defense will soon arrive. The bomber crew must quickly drop the bombs, reduce the weight of the aircraft, and lift it up to evacuate. Otherwise, it will be bitten by the Japanese fighter jets. No matter how fierce the firepower of the heavy air fortress is, it will not be the Japanese army.
Rivals of fighter jets. In this way, neither Kobe nor Osaka can escape the fate of being bombed by napalm bombs.
Early that morning, Kobe fell into a sea of fire, and Osaka, which is adjacent to Kobe, also fell into a sea of fire. The raging fire burned for three days before it was extinguished. According to figures later released by the Japanese government, the air raid destroyed 180 people in Kobe and Osaka.
Thousands of people were left homeless and 200,000 died..
The problem is that this is just the beginning. Tomorrow it will be Tokyo's turn, because Tokyo Bay has Japan's urban agglomeration and is an important industrial intensive area in Japan. The day after tomorrow it may be Nagoya's turn, which is also one of the top three industrial cities in Japan.
It was on the blacklist for bombing by our army. Only Lieutenant General Karl and Feng Dafei knew which city it would be to sit in. How could the Japanese know?
June 26 is destined to be a day that will be written into history forever. In the early morning of this day, the beautiful island of Taiwan finally welcomed the Chinese ** team after being occupied by the Japanese army for 47 years.
Li Lingfeng led the special operations formation and arrived in the sky over Taipei in the early morning after nearly four hours of flight. The doors of the transport planes opened one after another, and the soldiers filed out and fell to Taipei in the night.
After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the Japanese invaded and occupied the Penghu Islands in March 1895. On April 17, the Qing government signed an agreement with Japan to cede Taiwan and the Penghu Islands to Japan. After hearing the news, the Taiwanese people, under the leadership of Liu Yongfu, the former leader of the Black Flag Army,
They rose up to resist, but without any assistance from the traitorous Manchu Qing government, the war of resistance finally failed after more than five months. The Japanese army also did not get any relief, with more than 30,000 casualties. After that, the anti-Japanese struggle of the Taiwanese people ceased.
It stopped until the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out in 1937, when a group of Taiwanese patriots sneaked to the mainland to participate in the Anti-Japanese War and wrote a very glorious chapter.
Of course, due to the Japanese's enslavement education in Taiwan, which lasted for 47 years, many Taiwanese were forced to cooperate with the Japanese army, and some even willingly became traitors and worked for the Japanese army. This had already happened to the Japanese army in Taiwan in the 1920s.
After the transformation, the Japanese only produced officers and technical instructors, and the grassroots soldiers were basically recruited from Taiwanese youths. Like the extremely crazy Bo Tian detachment on the battlefield of the invasion of China, which was later the 48th Division, its combat effectiveness was very strong.
, which is more powerful than the general three-unit security division and the four-unit ad hoc division of the Japanese army. These guys followed the Japanese army from the Songhu battlefield to the Wuhan battlefield, and then to the South China battlefield.
He is a veritable accomplice of the Japanese army.
It’s not just the 48th Division that was expanded from the Botian Detachment and the Ariboda Detachment. Many young people from Taiwan were recruited by the Japanese army. Historically, before the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the Japanese army recruited a total of 300,000 people from Taiwan.
, 100,000 people died on the battlefields of the invasion of China and the Pacific battlefield. In later history, the brother of Lee Teng-hui, a famous Taiwanese communist, died on the battlefield. After Japan surrendered, 200,000 Japanese Taiwanese surrendered soldiers returned to Taiwan. No.
Being willing to return to the countryside to farm, but unable to find a job in the city, became one of the important factors in the outbreak of the February 28th Uprising in Taiwan, which eventually led to the suppression of the uprising and became an extremely bitter page in Taiwan's history.
Of course, at this time, the Japanese army has not yet shown signs of decline in the Pacific battlefield. In addition, our army has now captured Taiwan. Naturally, the number of soldiers recruited by the Japanese army from Taiwan is much lower than in history. It is incomparable.
At this time, Taiwan was still under the strict rule of the Japanese army. Although the main force of the Taiwanese army had been expanded into the 48th Division and transferred to the Pacific battlefield, Taiwan also had the Keelung Heavy Artillery Regiment, the Magong Heavy Artillery Regiment, and the Taiwan Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment.
The Japanese military police force still maintains its rule in Taiwan.
The Japanese are like this, they have always been arrogant. On such a large island of Taiwan, with only this artillery force, military police, and police defense, to be honest, if the Taiwanese people launched a major uprising at this time, they would be chopped off with a knife. The problem
Yes, the Manchu Qing government ceded Taiwan to Japan and it became Japan's territory. After 47 years of enslaved education, Taiwan's young generation no longer speak their native language. They speak only Japanese, admire Japanese culture, and like to wear kimonos and kimonos.
The names on the suits are all Japanese. Their biggest wish is to go to school in Japan and work in Japanese ruling institutions and Japanese-owned enterprises. Some people even aspire to join the Japanese army and make contributions on the battlefields of the invasion of China and the Pacific battlefield. Like Lee Teng-hui,
At this time, his name was Masao Iwasato, and he was studying in Japan! Moreover, after Japan occupied Taiwan, it developed industry. Taiwan has built a modern industrial system, with a higher level of development than other provinces in the mainland. Especially among the Japanese-owned enterprises in Taiwan, there are many
There are tens of thousands of Japanese managers, technicians, and skilled workers, as well as a large number of Japanese overseas Chinese. If something happens, they can be mobilized urgently. In this case, the Japanese are confident that there will be no anti-Japanese uprising in Taiwan, and they can only use military police and police to mobilize.
Able to maintain daily security in Taiwan.
Speaking of the Japanese in Taiwanese enterprises, I have to add that in history, after the surrender of the Japanese army, Japan regained Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek sent 30,000 Communists to Taiwan, organized 20,000 Catholics to go to Taiwan to serve the Taiwanese people, and specially sent professionals to serve the people of Taiwan.
Chen Yi, who was responsible for Taiwan affairs, became the chairman of Taiwan Province, hoping that he could manage Taiwan well. After Chen Yi arrived in Taiwan, he adopted a policy to stabilize Taiwan's economy and maintain the Taiwan dollar, not pegged to the legal currency, to avoid the Taiwan dollar being affected by the depreciation of the legal currency. At the same time, he retreated from
Among the Japanese who returned to China, 8,000 Japanese technical personnel were retained in order to ensure the normal production of enterprises. However, after all, Chen Yi was a Kuomintang bureaucrat. He became a high-ranking official in Taiwan. Moreover, after 50 years of Japanese rule, the industrial level was relatively high.
Taiwan's top receptionists, relatives and friends from mainland China all come to visit, filling all departments of the Taiwan Provincial Government and even the county and city governments. Corruption and corruption are inevitable. In this way, Taiwan's elites
People cannot apply for civil service, and Taiwanese cannot be allowed to manage Taiwan. After the Japanese-owned enterprises were confiscated, they were all turned into public enterprises and were still managed by the Japanese technicians left by Chen Yi. In addition, the 200,000 Japanese surrendered Taiwanese soldiers mentioned above could not be found.
After arriving at work, the six million Taiwanese compatriots were extremely disappointed with the liberation, believing that they were still living in a colony, and strongly demanded that the National Government implement democratic politics in Taiwan. A small anti-smuggling case led to the February 28th Uprising. At that time,*
*Because of the launch of the civil war and in order to reduce Taiwan's economic burden, the troops stationed in Taiwan were withdrawn to the mainland, leaving only one division. When the uprising broke out, this division had not yet arrived in Taiwan, and there was only one regiment stationed in Taiwan, scattered throughout the country.
Warehouses in Taiwan store weapons and ammunition left by the Japanese army, enough to equip 20 divisions. Those Taiwanese demobilized soldiers from the Japanese army who returned to Taiwan actively snatched weapons, but the government had no choice but to suppress them. Since then, the hidden danger of ethnic conflict has been left in Taiwanese society.
.However, the February 28th Uprising was the product of the Taiwanese people's resistance to communist politics and their demand for democracy. It was by no means a demand for Taiwan's independence by Lee Teng-hui and his ilk.
Historically, the Japanese army re-strengthened the Taiwan Army in July 1942. That was because they realized the importance of Taiwan to the Japanese mainland and the Southern Army in Southeast Asia. However, it was already July, and the Japanese army did not have time.
The reason for strengthening the Taiwan Army is self-evident. The Kwantung Army, the Korean Army, and the North China Front Army have all been wiped out. The unorganized divisions of the Japanese Army can be transferred to Taiwan. Compared with the Southeast Asian battlefield and Taiwan Island, the Japanese Army in Central China and East China need to be strengthened more.
, even just strengthening one division will do. Unfortunately, the Japanese army currently has no redundant, mobile, and combat-tested divisions available. They are just a few new recruits who stayed in Japan to prepare for the Far East War and the Pacific War.
The formed divisions and base camps did not dare to forget about Taiwan. They had to defend the Japanese mainland. What if Liu Yimin directly landed in Japan? This possibility became more and more serious as the main force of the Japanese combined fleet was lured and annihilated by Liu Yimin.
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Umbrella flowers bloom in the dark night!
After Li Lingfeng parachuted, he found that there was no need to worry about being attacked by Japanese ground troops. The beautiful island of Taiwan was very quiet.
The telegram Li Lingfeng sent to Liu Yimin said this: "Report to the commander that the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan did not take any precautions. After our troops landed, they did not hear the sound of air defense sentry guns or air defense sirens, nor did they find anything to prevent our troops from parachuting.
Attack operation. Taiwan, liberated!”
After sending the telegram, Li Lingfeng gathered his troops and led his troops to Taipei City, the political center of Taiwan and the seat of the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan.
In special operations, to capture the thief and capture the king, Li Lingfeng wants to occupy the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan and capture the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan alive!
When passing by a village, he saw a house with lights on. Li Lingfeng went up and knocked on the door himself.
An old Japanese question came from the room: "Who is it? What are you doing in the middle of the night?"
Li Lingfeng replied cordially in Chinese: "Uncle, we are the Eighth Route Army, coming to liberate Taiwan. Open the door, I want to see you!"
The room fell silent for a moment, and Li Lingfeng said again: "Uncle, we are our Chinese *** team, and we have come to Taiwan Island. I want to see you and see the Taiwanese compatriots. We are incompetent and have made the Taiwanese compatriots suffer.
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The door opened immediately, and a 60-year-old man stood at the door and asked eagerly: "Are you really the Chinese Communist Party?"