Chapter 1 Some People

Some people are wholeheartedly trying to get close to Lin Fan, while others are single-mindedly trying to understand him.

Lin Fan didn't know that so many people were painstakingly trying to get to know him. These days, he was thinking about a new plan.

The Special Operations Brigade's airport in Huidong was repaired, and the planes from Jurong were also in place.

This was a major event, especially for Lin Fan's plan.

For this big event, the Special Operations Brigade had transferred all of its best pilots to Huiyang Airport. When Pan Yongshan saw Mao Wenxing, he asked in a low voice, "Captain Mao, what is the mission for gathering us here this time?"

Everyone knew that Mao Wenxing was the pilot most valued by Lin Fan, so he would definitely be the first to know about any mission.

Mao Wenxing said with a wry smile, "It's not really a secret, I really don't know what the brigade commander has called everyone here for.

But looking at the lineup today, the eighteen *luohan* (arhats, referring to the founding members) from the beginning of the Special Operations Brigade's flight team are all here.

And those experts we've cultivated who have surpassed us, they've all come too. This mission is probably not a small one."

"Not a small one? Could it be..." Pan Yongshan had a guess in his mind.

"Could it be what? Captain, don't be so mysterious. You all know me, I'm straightforward and can't guess," Guan Yangping said loudly.

Pan Yongshan said, "So many of us here are already all the elites of the entire Special Operations Brigade's flight team.

This is definitely not a small matter like fighting an air battle with the Japanese devils or bombing their fleet. I think there's only one possibility.

The brigade commander wants to *gao ba da di* (stir up the earth), bomb the Japanese mainland."

"Bomb the Japanese mainland!" Everyone stopped in their tracks.

Guan Yangping immediately became excited: "I'll take this mission, don't fight with me! Damn it, all these years the Japanese devils have been bombing our positions, bombing our cities and people.

This time we have to go and mess with the Japanese devils' backyard, and let them know that we are not to be trifled with."

Meng Hongzhuang laughed: "Bombing the Japanese mainland, this must be done by our bomber squadron. This is our specialty, we've always been flying bombers. Old Guo, Old Yin, wouldn't you agree?"

Guo Yingwu and Yin Hongyi immediately said, "Yes! Captain Guan, you guys fly fighters, just wait for the news of our victory on the coast!"

Guan Yangping still wanted to argue, but Pan Yongshan said, "What are you arguing about? We don't even know what the specific mission is yet? We're already arguing among ourselves, what's that supposed to be?"

He had been the captain of the flight team since the beginning, and his prestige had always been there. When the captain spoke, everyone shut up.

They walked into the operations command room, where Lin Fan was already waiting. He smiled when he saw forty or fifty pilots coming in at once.

Lin Fan said with a smile, "Everyone's here, sit down first! I heard what you were saying outside just now.

Let me reveal the secret to everyone: I'm preparing to organize a flight team to go to the Japanese mainland, so that those Japanese devils who support the invasion can also taste the taste of being bombed."

Captain Pan Yongshan asked, "Brigade commander! Bombing the Japanese mainland, it's much closer to take off from Guangde Airport."

Lin Fan said with a smile, "It's nine hundred and fifty kilometers from Guangde to the Japanese mainland, and it's even further from Guangde to Huiyang, one thousand and fifty kilometers.

Let our bomber squadron practice once from Guangde to Huiyang first.

When we depart, we'll still take off from Guangde Airport. The reason I asked everyone here is to determine how to do this bombing of the Japanese mainland?"

Pan Yongshan immediately said, "Brigade commander! President Chang has already dropped millions of leaflets on the Japanese mainland in May.

Are we still dropping leaflets this time?"

Lin Fan sneered, "Is dropping leaflets useful? Otherwise, there wouldn't have been the Battle of Wuhan. This time, no matter what, the leaflets we drop must be real bombs.

For the Japanese devils, it's like playing the lute to a cow to reason with them. To deal with them, you have to treat them like wild dogs. Only by hurting them will they be afraid."

"In that case, using bombs with little power won't have much effect, and with a long-distance raid, we have to leave enough fuel to return, so the bomb load won't be too much," Mao Wenxing said.

"Yes! It would be great if there was a powerful bomb that could destroy a city with one blast," Guan Yangping said with infinite longing.

"There will be! But not now!" Lin Fan said with a smile.

"Now we have to think within our capabilities."

Meng Hongzhuang suddenly said, "Brigade commander! I went to the Japanese devils' non-commissioned officer school, and I've also been to their various counties and cities.

Their place is prone to earthquakes, and all the houses are built of wood. I think we can use napalm bombs to bomb them."

As soon as he said this suggestion, everyone present's eyes lit up. Lin Fan said with a smile, "First, give Old Meng a first-class merit, this is a good method. Everyone, think about whether there are any other ways."

Everyone's expressions became excited, and they were all thinking about how to set fires.

Seeing that no one had any more ideas, Lin Fan smiled and decided, "It's settled then, we'll use fire. In order to maximize the effect of the fire, and also for the safety of our bomber squadron,

We need to depart at night and return before dawn. And when bombing, try to find a good target. Next is the matter of confirming the target."

The Special Operations Brigade's self-developed Long Teng-3 bomber has a most economical flight speed of 427 kilometers per hour, a maximum flight distance of 4,200 kilometers, and a bomb load of 10 tons.

Lin Fan drew a line on the map: "We'll bomb as far as here." Pan Yongshan was a little surprised: "Brigade commander! This is the Japanese devils' capital!"

Lin Fan sneered, "They can occupy our capital, can't we burn theirs?

I want them to know: Those who offend our mighty Han will be exterminated no matter how far away they are! This sentence has never expired.

From today onwards, we will practice searching for cities in the air every night. We can fly to the Japanese mainland to stir up trouble, but we can only look at how to identify cities and how to identify directions at night from the air in our own country."

"Yes!"

The Special Operations Brigade's preparations began. All the pilots participating in the training had to memorize the star charts in the air.

Lin Fan specially drew the star charts during these days, pointing out how the plane can determine its position when the stars are in different positions.

The most difficult thing about this operation is finding the way.

Lin Fan knew that delays could bring trouble, and the Japanese devils' intelligence agencies never rested.

They were constantly sending people to inquire about the Special Operations Brigade's actions, especially about his itinerary. It's just that Lin Fan has rarely appeared in public, and even now the Japanese devils haven't gotten a single photo of Lin Fan, which is why Ke Xiangtong said that she wouldn't recognize Lin Fan even if she saw him.

Lin Fan didn't intend for this preparation work to drag on for too long.

Just seven days later, this group of pilots had already quietly flown to Guangde in the dark of night.

On this day, Guangde Airport was on high alert, and from the outside, you couldn't tell that it was any different from usual.

Only the sentries standing outside the airport gate knew: all the people with the most military power in Jurong were here.

Inside the airport operations command room, Lin Fan was speaking: "We will take off at 7:20 this afternoon, and the bombing targets are Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Yamaguchi,

Okayama, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kobe, Kanagawa, and Tokyo, ten cities.

We have a total of thirty planes taking off, with three planes as a group for each city. Follow this chart.

I will lead the team to bomb the farthest Tokyo."

Although Li Xian was not an operational personnel, he was the second-in-command of the Special Operations Brigade. He strongly requested to be able to participate in this meeting.

Hearing that Lin Fan was going to personally lead the team to bomb the farthest place, he immediately stood up and said: "I object!"

Everyone knew: this mission was very dangerous. The closest distance required flying back and forth over the sea for five hours, and the farthest distance required flying over the sea for ten hours.

Over the sea, only the stars overhead could be used to guide the way, and this was really a matter of being off by a hair's breadth and missing by a thousand miles.

The risk was real, and everyone understood Li Xian's worries.

Pan Yongshan said, "Brigade commander! You just wait here for the news of our victory. I'll take care of bombing Tokyo. I've also been to Tokyo for sightseeing.

Back then, I bought a ticket and took a boat there. This time, I'll take a plane there, without buying a ticket or applying for a visa."

The originally serious and solemn atmosphere was broken by his words, and all the pilots present laughed, and the entire meeting place suddenly became relaxed.

Lin Fan said to Li Xian, "Old Li! Things are not as dangerous as you think! Our planes have been strictly inspected, and the flight routes have also been planned.

I'm leading the team to fly, I have experience, you know me, I never do anything without confidence.

If I do it, I must be confident. Besides, I'm just a soldier in the War of Resistance Against Japan, not any remarkable person. Of course, when we came out of the Four Banks Warehouse together, who wasn't rushing to the front in battle?

We can't start hiding behind and shouting, 'Brothers! Charge!' just because a year has just passed."

When Lin Fan said this, Li Xian's face turned even more ugly: "Can this time be compared to that time? At that time, we had a total of only a hundred people in our hands.

If you didn't go, who would? It's different now. You bear the hopes of 300,000 soldiers, and the eyes of millions of people in the base area are watching you.

No matter what you say, you can't go anyway!"

Lin Fan pulled Li Xian out: "You guys continue discussing, I'll talk to Old Li alone."

"Old Li! The bigger our cause gets, the smaller your courage gets?" As soon as they went out, Lin Fan immediately rebuked.

"My courage is getting smaller! Don't you see how big this stall is, can I not be careful?"

"Old Li! To be honest! This time's mission, bombing Tokyo is the farthest place, and also the most risky mission.

I'm afraid they won't be able to complete it if I don't go! I'm naturally good at finding my way.

So this risk is huge for them, but for me, it's like the road home, I can fly back with my eyes closed."

Li Xian also knew that Lin Fan had some skills that were really incomprehensible, such as the cannons he fired when shooting down enemy planes, and his marksmanship when shooting at the Japanese devils, these were really innate.

For so long, there have been many sharpshooters in the Special Operations Brigade, but really no one has been able to be as proficient in all kinds of firearms as Lin Fan.

"What if, what if?" Li Xian couldn't help but roar.

"What if! There are times when you choke while eating, and times when you stumble while walking on flat ground, let's not consider these low-probability events.

Besides, if there really is an accident, I've also made arrangements. Chen Sichuan will take over the military affairs.

Your side will remain unchanged! Don't worry! Our cause will not stop because of the absence of anyone. The world will not collapse because of the absence of anyone."

"I'm afraid our team will really fall apart by then," Li Xian said in a low voice.

"A gentleman breaks off relations without uttering harsh words! I've talked to Chen Sichuan, if someone among us really wants to break up, as long as he doesn't defect to the Japanese devils, it's easy to say goodbye.

If anyone wants to be a *hanjian* (traitor), the brothers won't let him go," Lin Fan said with a smile.

"Can't you not go?"

"I can't! Old Li! The Japanese devils are suppressing us now. Recently, they have occupied Wuhan and captured Guangzhou. If we don't give them a hard blow, these Japanese devils simply won't know pain.

This bombing of their mainland is just the beginning. I'm not Chiang Kai-shek, I won't forgive any Japanese devil. They must pay for what they've done, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

If this is successful, we can often go to their mainland and bomb them, so that those Japanese people who support the war of aggression can also know the pain of war."

When Lin Fan and Li Xian reappeared in the operations command room, Li Xian obviously looked unhappy, but he no longer objected to Lin Fan leading the team.

At 7:20 that night, thirty bombers roared into the sky from Guangde Airport and flew towards the sea at an altitude of 4,500 meters.

Along the way, all thirty planes were silent.

Guan Guohao's bomber squadron, their target was Nagasaki, which was also the closest place. It was less than 1,000 kilometers from Guangde to Nagasaki, which was half the distance compared to bombing the farthest Tokyo.

This allowed these three planes to load half the fuel and more of the same amount of napalm bombs.

Two and a half hours later, a command came over the radio: "First Task Force, depart!"

Guan Guohao immediately led two planes towards the city below, looking down from an altitude of 4,000 meters.

There were only scattered lights on the ground, and on this night, the lights in the city formed a sharp contrast with the complete darkness of the countryside.

At 8:30 p.m., Yamamoto the Blind had just arrived at the shipyard for the night shift a while ago.

Heavy industries such as shipbuilding never allowed women to work before. In the past few months, many of the men in the shipyard had enlisted and gone to fight on the opposite continent.

Women like Yamamoto the Blind were also recruited to work. She was very smart and quickly learned how to weld, and is now a skilled worker in the factory.

It's just that this skilled worker doesn't have a happy expression on her face now: all the men in her family have gone to sea to fight on the other side, leaving her and her sister at home.

Life is very difficult, especially those men in the factory who have not been drafted always like to come to her to flirt.

The radio said that the front-line operations were very smooth, and victory after victory was being won, and then batch after batch of conscripts were sent, and batch after batch of ashes in pottery jars were sent back.

In private, people always said: the empire's war over there is going very smoothly, but there are always people among the people over there who rise up to resist.

Yamamoto the Blind often thought: what's the point of leaving those disobedient people behind?

Are disobedient people still people? Then they are rebellious civilians!

Her idea was strongly supported by the workers in the factory, who believed that rebellious civilians should be eliminated directly.

Yamamoto the Blind felt a little uneasy today, could it be that she didn't eat enough tonight and was hungry again?

Guan Guohao took three planes and circled Nagasaki once, confirming the first bombing target.

Then he ordered: "Dive down!"

The three bombers dived down from the high altitude in the darkness in a triangular formation, and soon the scattered lights on the ground became more and more dense, until they flew to less than 300 meters above the ground.

Only then did Guan Guohao order: "Drop them!"

One napalm bomb after another fell from the opened bomb bay towards the bottom. The three planes had already begun to act according to the planned route.

When the first napalm bomb burned a bright flame on the ground, the city of Nagasaki seemed to have opened a Pandora's box.

Three lines of fire began to burn from the northwest of the city. With this beginning, the subsequent lines of fire were like they had come to life, constantly extending forward.

According to the pre-planned plan, keep silent as much as possible during the entire operation.

Each plane tacitly maintained its distance, but the crew members inside the planes were busy and happy.

Yang Guobing said excitedly: "Old Zhang, did you see that, it's burning! The Japanese devils' city is burning."

They had already flown half a circle along Nagasaki at this time, and the fire behind the plane had taken shape, burning half of the night sky red.

A shrill alarm had already sounded on the ground. The last time the Japanese devils were sprinkled with leaflets, they were startled at the time.

But after these few months, the National Army did not take any further action, and all the contingency plans they had made at that time were stopped.

This was not because the Japanese devils were careless, but because they were originally an island country, and if planes really wanted to come in, they could fly in from all directions, which was impossible to defend against.

Of course, the main reason was that the Japanese devils simply did not have that many planes stationed on the island to prepare for a possible or impossible bombing of the mainland.

Their planes were lost too much and too quickly on the front lines, and now they couldn't even guarantee front-line operations, so where would they have extra planes stationed on the island to prepare for a possible or impossible bombing?

On the night of November, the sea breeze blew over Nagasaki, making the already raging flames burn even more fiercely.