Chapter 1 Tomita Yuya's Idea

Tomita Yuya, as an ordinary employee of the shipyard, his thoughts were not important.

The needs of the Empire were paramount. Therefore, he had to get up angrily amidst his wife's gentle calls.

Opening his bloodshot eyes, he cursed a few times, not even knowing who he was cursing at.

Then, reluctantly, he climbed out of bed, dressed, washed up, ate the breakfast carefully prepared for him by Noriko, and grabbed two lunch boxes.

This was his lunch and dinner, and he hurriedly walked towards the shipyard.

As he walked, he thought with some malice: when would be a good time to set fire to this shipyard? Only by burning this shipyard would he be able to find relief.

He could only entertain such crazy thoughts; the timid Tomita Yuya wouldn't dare to do anything to damage the factory.

When he entered the factory, it was almost five minutes to eight. Tomita Yuya quickly stored his lunch boxes and put on his oil-stained work clothes.

Seeing the foreman staring at him with red eyes, Tomita Yuya quickened his pace. Although the foreman didn't operate the welding machine every day, he still had to accompany them for sixteen hours, and his eyes were bloodshot too.

Sparks flew everywhere, and Tomita Yuya's hand was not steady, so the weld was not perfect. In fact, his current skills were only those of an apprentice; the quality of his welds was enough for making farm tools.

It was not good enough to be used for the decks of ten-thousand-ton giant ships. The foreman knew this, so he assigned him the task of welding stairs, railings, and other less important positions.

In this way, even if the quality of the welds was not high, they could still be used. As for the entire warship, the quality of what was being built now could not be compared with the quality of what was built before the war.

Tomita Yuya started working and quickly got into the rhythm, his movements becoming faster and faster. He even forgot about the time.

At this time, the special forces brigade's long-range assault aircraft group also arrived in Nagasaki.

According to the plan: the first round of strikes and bombings against the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions was carried out by a mixed formation of fighters and bombers.

After the fighters knocked out the Japanese anti-aircraft fire, their task was to protect the safety of the bombers in the air.

Mao Wenxing gave the order: "Attack!"

More than three hundred aircraft immediately dived towards their respective targets. When they began to dive, the Japanese on the ground finally discovered them.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The shrill air raid siren rang over the city.

After they were bombed in the middle of the night last time, the Japanese specifically established new air raid sirens in various cities, and also built new air raid shelters.

When the air raid siren sounded, a group of Japanese soldiers hidden in the distant mountains immediately sent a telegram to the Central China Expeditionary Army Headquarters: "Several hundred aircraft from the special forces brigade's air group have appeared over Nagasaki!"

Commander Yan Junliu, upon receiving the telegram, immediately issued an order: "Attack!"

The four Japanese divisions, 250,000 puppet troops, the Third Fleet of the Navy, the Fifth Air Brigade, and various prepared air groups, all began to move at the same time.

The first to arrive at the battlefield were, of course, the Japanese air groups. Kobayashi Yuto, the commander of the Fifth Air Brigade, personally led the fighter group this time.

His fighter group departed from Nanjing, and their target was Jurong Airport. An air brigade had four fighter groups, a total of one hundred and forty-four combat aircraft, not including reconnaissance planes, seaplanes, and other aircraft for other purposes.

Not only the Fifth Air Brigade set out this time, but also the aircraft from four army divisions, who simultaneously participated in the attack on Jurong Airport.

The Japanese aircraft took off from Nanjing, and more than two hundred aircraft, a dark mass, pressed directly from Tangshan to Gaqiaomen.

The anti-aircraft artillery deployed by Lord Yang in Tangshan began firing, and at the same time immediately reported to Jurong Airport.

The anti-aircraft unit stationed at Jurong Airport was the Ninth Regiment of the Special Forces Brigade, an artillery regiment led by Hui Jianming.

When the Special Forces Brigade was established, there were two artillery regiments. The Eighth Regiment, led by Feng Junya, had been fighting in the north and south for the past two years, running all over the place.

The Ninth Regiment, however, had always been in Jurong and had never moved. It would be a big mistake to think that the combat effectiveness of the Ninth Regiment was poor because of this.

Most of the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Regiment had studied at the National Army Artillery School, and they were all artillerymen who had come out of the Jiangyin Fortress.

Hui Jianming was even a blockhouse commander, but at the last moment when Jiangyin Fortress fell, he dragged the cannons out with Lin Fan, and then Lin Fan never let him leave.

This was how he stayed in the Special Forces Brigade, and the soldiers he brought out were all in the Ninth Regiment. In the past two years, the Ninth Regiment had never lacked artillery shells for training.

They used live ammunition for all their training. In Lin Fan's words: the Ninth Regiment was the foundation of the Special Forces Brigade, without the Ninth Regiment guarding Jurong.

The construction of the Jurong base area would be out of the question.

In order to protect the city of Jurong and its enterprises, the Special Forces Brigade had also invested heavily here.

From the blockhouses built on Tangshan to the blockhouses established at Jurong Airport and the blockhouses built in Chunhua, each anti-aircraft blockhouse was built according to the drawings provided by Lin Fan. The reinforced concrete outer walls of the blockhouses were three and a half meters thick, as was the top.

The anti-aircraft guns on each blockhouse were combined to form a complete anti-aircraft network.

Now, Kobayashi Yuto was leading the Fifth Air Brigade straight into this anti-aircraft network.

The First Air Group under his command infiltrated from the Tangshan direction, and Captain Yamada Tomoya led the air group to force its way in.

After paying the price of five aircraft, they broke through the air defense line of Tangshan, and the Japanese on land were moving rapidly towards Tangshan.

Captain Yamada Tomoya did not expect that his air group would lose five aircraft just by flying over Tangshan. He felt a little heartache at such a loss.

After passing Tangshan, he could already see the iconic building of Jurong in the distance: a building nearly fifty meters high...

This was not the end. The commanders of the four division air groups were also calling out the names of the bomber crews under their command, as if they were organizing a wave of suicidal building-crashing competitions.

All the bombers still flying in the air received orders to launch suicidal attacks.

What could the named Japanese pilots do?

Pilot Onodera Tada hesitated only for a moment before Commander Kobayashi Yuto's voice came out: "Gentlemen! May Amaterasu Omikami bless you.

Time is tight, every second there is sacrifice, act quickly!"

His words were very soft, but his tone became more and more stern.

Commander Kobayashi Yuto was burning with anxiety, and he couldn't help but be anxious: just in the time it took to issue the order, several more bombers and fighters had been shot down.

Rather than have these aircraft destroyed, it would be better to crash them into the turrets!

Commander Kobayashi Yuto continued to order: "All wounded fighters, crash into the turrets, crash into the turrets!"

When he issued this order, Onodera Tada had already steered his bomber towards the turret and began to dive.

The initial idea of these bombers was to bomb from above, so the altitude was naturally above the turrets. Now that they needed to crash into the turrets, they could only dive.

Such an operation was not difficult for Onodera Tada, who had already made up his mind to die, and all the Japanese in the entire crew had made up their minds to die.

They had already opened the safety catches on the aerial bombs to ensure that the bombs would have a higher probability of exploding when the bomber crashed into the turret.

Commander Hui Jianming was inside the turret at Jurong Airport. The turret had a total of seven floors, the bottom three floors were anti-aircraft facilities, which could accommodate ten thousand people to hide from the Japanese bombing.

It could also allow the airport's aircraft and cars to be driven in to avoid the Japanese attacks.

From the fourth floor onwards, it was the position where the artillery regiment was stationed. There were artillery pieces on each floor, including anti-aircraft artillery, as well as large-caliber cannons and howitzers for attacking infantry.

However, the higher the floor, the more anti-aircraft artillery was deployed, and the top floor was full of anti-aircraft artillery.

Commander Hui Jianming already knew from the reports coming from various places that the Japanese were heading for Jurong Airport. Unfortunately, all the fighters that were usually at the airport were out on missions, and it would be at least a few hours before they could return.

"This is a trap!"

Commander Hui Jianming knew that Lin Fan was leading the team on a cross-sea expedition. Judging from the time of the Japanese attack, it was exactly the time when the brigade commander and the others were launching a bombing raid on Nagasaki.

It seemed too coincidental, so he reported his speculation to Commander Yang.

Lord Yang was in a state of great anxiety. He was only responsible for the defense of the entire Jurong area for a few hours after Lin Fan left.

However, in these few hours, both Jurong Airport and Guangde Airport received reports of attacks by Japanese aircraft, and that was not all.

There were also many Japanese gunboats sailing from Taihu Lake, attacking Wuxing, Changxing, and Yixing at the same time.

At the same time, Japanese infantry were also attacking Tangshan, Chunhua, Moling Pass, Jintan, Yixing, Changxing, and Wuxing.

The timing of this large-scale Japanese attack was too coincidental. The Special Forces Brigade had only left ten fighters and twenty refueling aircraft in Guangde, which were originally scheduled to take off now.

Under these circumstances, these aircraft could not take off at all. Lord Yang immediately sent a telegram to the overseas air group, reporting the current situation.

For the fighter groups still on a mission in Nagasaki, they would need to refuel at least once on their return journey, and without the support of the second batch of refueling aircraft.

The Special Forces Brigade's fighter jets could not operate over Nagasaki for more than an hour.

After receiving the telegram, Mao Wenxing only reported the situation to Lin Fan.

Such news, which could easily disturb the morale of the army, should not be reported to the whole team!

Lin Fan also understood: Nagasaki was a flaw deliberately revealed by the Japanese, and the Japanese's purpose was to attack Jurong and annihilate the Special Forces Brigade's air group.

This was a trap!