Chapter 196 Lin Fan's Bold Idea

The upper echelons of the Japanese were only discussing how to plunder and continue the war, but Lin Fan was now considering how to blow up the Kobe Naval Base!

Their one-way trip this time was 250 kilometers. According to the fighter's maximum range of more than 800 kilometers, they would have a full hour and a half of combat time after reaching the target.

This was enough for the fighter group to perform, and the bombers had no problems. The problem now was that they didn't know how many planes the Japanese had left at the Kobe Naval Base.

Flying at the front of the entire fleet was Pan Yongshan's aviation brigade, with Yan Gaofei in the lead. This time, they didn't have to conserve fuel while flying in the air, and they were flying at the highest speed all the time. It only took them less than thirty minutes to cover the 250 kilometers.

Yan Gaofei excitedly reported, "Japanese naval port found, full of warships!"

Mao Wenxing immediately ordered after receiving the report: "Attack!" There was no hesitation.

As the vanguard of the entire fleet, Pan Yongshan's brigade of thirty-three fighters immediately began to dive down, and the First Aviation Bombing Brigade closely followed behind.

Sergeant Noguchi Yuta, an observer from the Kobe Naval Base's anti-aircraft brigade, heard the sharp whistling sound of the planes diving and threw away the cigarette in his hand before looking up at the sky.

He only took one look, and the impression was fixed in his mind: the sky was full of planes, many planes.

He didn't react immediately. He didn't realize that these were the planes of the Special Operations Brigade. In the minds of these Japanese devils, they simply couldn't believe that anyone could invade the empire's mainland, let alone attack Kobe without warning.

The sound of machine gun fire and exploding bombs reverberated through the clouds, finally waking Sergeant Noguchi Yuta.

He shouted in horror, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" At the same time, he sounded the surprise attack alarm.

The piercing sound of the surprise attack alarm rang over the Kobe Naval Base. The completely unprepared Kobe Anti-Aircraft Brigade had not even had time to enter its position before it began to be bombed.

More than two hundred bombers simply flew at low altitude, and the first round of bombing crippled the Japanese anti-aircraft fire.

When Lin Fan led the bombers to bomb the Japanese warships parked at the pier, he found that Yan Gaofei had exaggerated somewhat.

There were indeed hundreds of warships docked in this naval port, but there were no large warships at all. They were all small warships, and the largest warship didn't even have anti-aircraft guns, let alone carrier-based aircraft.

The first round of bombing sank at least one-third of these warships, but the Japanese high-射 machine guns on these warships also began to fire back.

The Special Operations Brigade's fighters were originally escorts, preparing to fight the Japanese fighters, but when they arrived at the Kobe Naval Base, they realized that no Japanese fighters were coming to meet them.

Mao Wenxing ordered a fighter squadron to spread out and patrol the high altitude as a warning, and the remaining fighters joined the attack on the entire naval port.

When Zhu Qingmao's fighter squadron was patrolling at high altitude, they soon discovered an airport 20 kilometers north of Kobe Naval Base, and planes were taking off.

While reporting, he ordered two squadrons to attack the planes that were taking off, and another squadron continued to patrol and guard in the air.

Mao Wenxing immediately sent a bomber squadron to bomb the airport. The Special Operations Brigade was now very experienced in bombing airports.

Runways, oil depots, and buildings were all targeted.

The Kobe Naval Shipyard was next to the Kobe Naval Base, and both places were important targets for this bombing. More than one hundred bombers repeatedly bombed the area.

Without anti-aircraft fire, the Kobe Naval Base was now like a fish on the shore, without even the strength to struggle. It could only lie flat and wait to be bombed to smithereens.

Without a resisting target, it was very easy for the Special Operations Brigade to bomb. The originally planned hour and a half of combat ended in less than an hour.

When Mao Wenxing issued the order to return, all the bombers had already dropped all their bombs.

This time, not a single plane was lost in the bombing of Kobe Naval Base.

On the way back, Lin Fan was thinking about a question: the Japanese are now fully launching a war of aggression. Do they not have much military strength in their homeland?

This idea was very exciting: should we send a team to directly invade the Japanese mainland?

This idea was still very attractive!

On the way back, the pilots' laughter never stopped throughout the entire flight. Captain Pan Yongshan started it first.

He said with emotion: "I also studied at a Japanese military academy. I never thought that I could actually fly a warplane into their homeland.

According to Japanese tradition, if they suffer such an attack, someone within the organization must take responsibility. The person responsible must commit suicide to apologize."

Lin Fan said with a smile: "If they don't invade and don't engage in military expansion, we are friends. Now they are invading our territory and harming our people. We are enemies, irreconcilable enemies.

The invasion will not stop for a day, and the bombing like today will not stop for a moment."

Zhu Qingmao said with a smile: "I don't care about those things. If anyone bullies us, we will fight back. I was happy when I saw all the warships in the naval port sink into the sea just now."

After the bombers replenished their ammunition, they also needed to replenish fuel. According to Mao Wenxing's idea: the warplanes must always be kept fully fueled.

When they took off again, it was already 1:30 in the afternoon.

At this time, the emergency meeting convened by Prime Minister Hiranuma Kiichirō had not yet ended. They discussed in detail and extensively how to strengthen domestic economic control so that all domestic production must be prioritized and concentrated on military production.

Just as their discussion was not over, a subordinate with a tense expression suddenly delivered a telegram: "Kobe Naval Base and Naval Shipyard suffered a devastating blow!"

When he saw this information, Prime Minister Hiranuma Kiichirō stood up all of a sudden: "Did the Westerners join the war?"

What he was most afraid of was the participation of the Westerners. Only the Westerners could have launched a surprise attack on Kobe Naval Base.

"It's not the Westerners, it's the Special Operations Brigade Air Combat Team. The tiger under their warplanes is very easy to identify."

Naval Vice Minister Yamamoto Isoroku finally relaxed a little: "Special Operations Brigade? Let's go to the war room!"

These Japanese devils walked together to the war room. A huge map of the country was hanging on the wall.

Yamamoto Isoroku used a ruler to measure the distance between Saga Airport and Kobe Naval Base on the map and said, "They did not return to their country, but took off from here and attacked Kobe Naval Base."

"What to do?" For this group of people who held the highest power in Japan, what they were most concerned about now was what to do.

"Send an army to retake Saga Airport!" Yamamoto Isoroku said.

"We only have the First Division in the country now, guarding Tokyo. We don't have regular troops in Saga."

"Then organize the local military police and the reservists who are receiving training. No matter what, we must retake the airport immediately!"

The plan formulated by the highest decision-making level of the Japanese was immediately implemented.

In fact, Saga Prefecture at this time already knew that the airport had been occupied by a team of unknown origin.

However, the airport was originally for military use and was built in the suburbs more than ten kilometers away from the county seat. As long as those people did not rush into the county seat, no one would care.

The Saga Prefecture militia even set up roadblocks on the road leading from the airport to the county seat, preparing to intercept the team that might appear.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, they could no longer remain still. Instructions from the highest level: order them to gather all the forces that could be mobilized in Saga Prefecture in the shortest possible time to take back the airport.

The reason was that this group of people who seized the airport were extremely vicious and would launch a bombing raid on the heart of the empire, Tokyo.

This made Saga Prefecture's Garrison Commander Yoshimi Kota unable to continue to implement the plan to defend the county seat.

Commander Yoshimi Kota immediately issued an emergency conscription order: he not only had to urgently conscript all the reservist Japanese soldiers, but also conscript all the motor vehicles in the county seat.

The teams that could be assembled most quickly were the military police, the replacement soldiers who were being sent to the front lines, and the students from the schools.

Cars suddenly rushed into all the junior high schools and above in Saga County.

All the students in the school were assembled. Starting with the senior students, they were called out by name to receive guns and ammunition, and then they lined up on the other side.

It must be said that Commander Yoshimi Kota's actions were very rapid. In just one hour after receiving the order, he had already organized a team of five thousand people.

Among them, there was a military police squadron, a replacement soldier battalion that was receiving seven days of training. These were the first teams to set off.

Behind them were a battalion organized by the reservists in the county seat, and then two battalions organized by the students in the schools.

When Lin Fan led the Special Operations Brigade Air Force Brigade to Wuhai Naval Base, Saga Prefecture's Garrison Commander Yoshimi also led more than 5,000 hastily assembled mobs to set off from Saga County.

All the cars, buses, sedans, motorcycles, and bicycles in Saga County were conscripted to send off these 5,000 Japanese devils.

The Japanese devils in the entire county were celebrating this moment like a festival. The citizens who had not been conscripted were also crowding on both sides of the road to see off these Japanese devils.

Commander Yoshimi Kota was not in this expeditionary force. He was still continuing to gather reservist Japanese soldiers in the county seat. He wanted to make a name for himself in this emergency mission so that he could add wings to his path to promotion.

The four battalions that he first sent off to attack the airport were led by Military Police Captain Kamijima Haruhito, who led the first battalion. This battalion had the strongest combat power. They were composed of military police and replacement soldiers who had been trained for five days.

The Second Infantry Battalion was led by Retired Army Colonel Nakatake Masami. The Japanese soldiers under his command were all Japanese soldiers who had retired for various reasons and public officials from Saga Prefecture. They all regularly participated in military training, which was also a very powerful fighting force.

The Third Infantry Battalion was led by Principal Gokaido Shinichi. This team was mainly composed of high school and junior high school students. They had only undergone simple training after starting school.

Although these students had not been trained for a long time, they were passionate.

The Fourth Infantry Battalion was led by Miyagi Reiya, who was also the principal of another school. The main members of the team were also students.

After these four infantry teams, Yoshimi Kota also organized a medical team, led by the director of the county hospital. The members included not only doctors and nurses from the hospital, but also all the female students from two middle schools.

This was a medical team of nearly two thousand people.

Kamijima Haruhito jumped from being the military police captain in charge of more than 150 people to becoming the battalion commander in charge of more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers.

Looking at the mighty team in front of and behind him, his heart was filled with pride. He knew the risks of this mission, but he also knew how important an opportunity this was.

As long as he could get the team to rush into the airport, this battalion commander position would definitely become a reality.

Standing on a truck, Battalion Commander Kamijima commanded imposingly, "Set up the machine guns on top of the trucks."

There were already more than a dozen trucks in front of his truck, and there were also three motorcycles clearing the way at the front.

This mighty team was discovered by the patrol fighters in the air just as they were driving out of the county seat.

When Zhen Jianshu received the information from the pilot, he was also a little confused: what was wrong with these Japanese devils? The Special Operations Brigade had occupied the airport for a full four hours, and they were sending infantry to attack at this time?

Listening to Jiang Yuanwu report that there were many Japanese soldiers in the team, but they were not wearing uniforms.

After hearing this, Zhen Jianshu understood: these were the Japanese devils' militia!

"How should we fight?" According to Jiang Yuanwu's idea, they should just use the fighters to strafe them.

The more than ten kilometers of road was enough for them to defeat these Japanese devils.

Company Commander Zhen Jianshu originally wanted to let these Japanese devils come over and set up an encirclement to wipe them out. Thinking that his main task was to ensure the absolute safety of the airport.

The current Saga Airport was the lifeblood of the entire aviation brigade, and there could be no mistake.

Thinking of this, he could only reluctantly say: "Then I'll have to trouble Captain Jiang."

Jiang Yuanwu laughed heartily: "Company Commander Zhen is too polite, it's just a small matter. After this time, I'll treat Company Commander Zhen to a drink!"

Then he immediately issued an order: "Tao Wen, Hua Xiao! You two continue to patrol at high altitude, guarding against Japanese planes sneaking in.

The rest of you, follow me to attack the Japanese convoy from east to west!"

After issuing the order, he was the first to dive down. Ten fighters strafed the Japanese team on the ground, which was equivalent to ten rounds of strafing.

The machine guns strafed from the tail to the head. With just this one strafing, the team that Yoshimi Kota had carefully organized was scattered.

After being strafed, these mobs immediately ran off the highway and fled in panic towards the fields on both sides.

Whether they were the students or the most elite military police, they had no power to resist the strafing from the air. Faced with such an attack, they had no way to do anything but to dodge.

Battalion Commander Kamijima Haruhito, who had just been complacent and fantasizing about the future, was shot down in the first round of strafing. His infantry battalion, which had just been established for less than an hour, was like a hornet's nest that had been blown apart.

The Japanese devils ran around everywhere. Looking down from the air, many black dots suddenly appeared on both sides of the road. These black dots were quickly spreading out towards the distance.

Captain Jiang Yuanwu did not stop after only one round of strafing. These Japanese devils, who had already taken up arms, were now unable to fight back. But when they had the opportunity, they would definitely point their guns at him and fire fiercely.

The ten fighters had already dispersed in this airspace, constantly reaping the fleeing Japanese devils.

The battle did not actually last long. From the time Jiang Yuanwu discovered them to the time when these Japanese devils collapsed, it took less than half an hour in total.

Battalion Commander Nakatake Masami jumped out of the car in a panic. He did not issue any orders, but just looked coldly at the subordinates who were running even faster than him.

He also strode into the fields, but the only difference was that he stopped at a ditch and hid there.

With just that one strafing, he had already discovered: all the planes that came to attack were fighters, not a single bomber.

Then he didn't need to run too far. He just needed to hide here and wait patiently for these fighters to leave after strafing.

In the roar of the planes, there was not only the "哒哒哒" sound of machine gun fire, but also the screams of the injured Japanese devils.

Those unlucky ghosts who had just received five days of training had no idea that real war was so cruel. When they were at the training base, they were still talking and laughing, fantasizing about how they would make contributions on the battlefield.

They had not even left their homeland before they had seen the real battlefield.

Principal Gokaido Shinichi was a fanatical militarist. He had always been actively encouraging students to go to the front lines in the school to do their best for the empire and be loyal to the Emperor.

After the first round of machine gun strafing, he was still standing on the car and said to the students: "Accept the baptism of war! You have passed a test.

The real battlefield is nothing more than this. You see, we are still alive."