The big explosion at the Caochangmen arsenal not only nearly knocked down the Type 96 land bomber driven by Xu Rui, but also alarmed a number of senior Japanese generals in Fanghuayuan.
Deputy Chief of Staff Shun Nakamura, who happened to be on duty tonight, was the first to rush to the operations hall.
The second person to arrive was the workaholic Shozo Kawabe. As soon as he entered the hall, he asked: "Nakamura-san, what was that big explosion just now? What happened?"
Nakamura Shun said: "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, I have ordered someone to investigate."
As soon as he finished speaking, the phone on the desk began to ring.
Toshi Nakamura, with quick eyes and quick hands, grabbed the phone and asked: "Mashi Mashi?"
Kawabe Shozo came over and stared at Nakamura Jun's face with his eyes wide open. Then, he noticed that Nakamura Jun's eyes began to widen gradually and his face began to turn livid. In the end, he couldn't even hold the microphone.
His right hand began to tremble slightly uncontrollably. Looking at his expression, he seemed to have heard terrible news.
Finally, Kawabe Shozo couldn't bear it any longer, so he grabbed the phone and shouted: "I am Kawabe Shozo, who are you?"
"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff!" A panicked voice immediately came from the other end of the phone and replied, "I am Kawakami Soma, the captain of the Souma Gate Guards."
"Kawakami Cangma?" The captain of the city gate garrison was just a small captain. Hebian Zhengsan was the chief of staff of the Central China Condemnation Army. Naturally, he couldn't have an impression. He immediately asked, "What was that big explosion just now?
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Kawakami Soma said: "Chief of Staff, something happened, something big happened. Five minutes ago, the Caochangmen Arsenal was bombed by an unidentified bomber..."
"What did you say?" Hebian Zhengsan was shocked when he heard this. He was so scared that his farts came out. He said in a trembling voice, "You mean, the Caochangmen Arsenal was bombed by unidentified bombers? In other words, what happened just now
Explosion, explosion, that explosion, is it the explosion of ammunition from the Caochangmen Arsenal?"
"Hai." Kawakami Soma paused and said, "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, the Caochangmen Arsenal has been razed to the ground. The thousands of tons of ammunition and large amounts of weapons and equipment stored in the arsenal have all been reduced to nothing.
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"Baga!" Hebian Zhengsan cursed in a low voice. Then he loosened his hand and the phone fell down with a clatter.
"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, Your Excellency, Chief of Staff..." Kawakami Soma's anxious shouts were still heard from the microphone, but Kawabe Shozo could not hear them at all. Now there was only one voice left in his mind, Caochangmen Arsenal has already
It's over. The five thousand tons of ammunition stored in the Caochangmen Arsenal are over...
It's over, it's all over, the entire raid plan is in vain!
"Baga!" Kawabe Shozo let out a low curse again, and then his body shook twice, and he fell down on the big chair behind him. In an instant, Kawabe Shozo felt like he was being slapped.
After all the energy was gone, the whole person began to become exhausted, and even his eyelids were so heavy that he could hardly lift them.
How could this happen? How could this happen? Kawabe Masami kept asking himself.
After painstakingly designing a trap like the Caochangmen Arsenal, Hebian Zhengsan firmly believed that even if he couldn't catch a big fish like Xu Rui, he could at least keep this batch of arms. However, he never expected that not only would he not be able to catch it in the end,
Xu Rui, a big fish, couldn't even save this batch of arms. He couldn't even save the arms!
Kawabe Shozo thought about Wolf Ya coming to sneak attack, thought about force attack, thought about surprise attack, and even thought about digging tunnels. At first, Kawabe Shozo and Hatota Hiroshi thought of almost all the attack methods that Wolf Ya might use, but unfortunately
Unfortunately, they did not expect that the Caochangmen Arsenal would be bombed by bombers!
No, thinking of this, Hebian Zhengzo suddenly had a thought in his mind, where did Langya get the bomber?
At that moment, Hebian Zhengzo jumped up and shouted: "Nakamura-san, call Ziyuan Airport immediately to see if there is anything wrong with them..."
"Hai!" Nakamura Shun nodded solemnly, walked over and was about to make a call, but the phone rang first.
Nakamura Jun grabbed the phone and said, "Mashi Masi, this is Nakamura Jun, where are you?"
A panicked voice immediately came from the other end of the phone: "Your Majesty Colonel, this is Koi, the adjutant of the Airport Guard. Fifteen minutes ago, a bomber was stolen from our Ziyuan Airport, a Type 96 land bomber."
"Baga!" Nakamura Jun was furious when he heard this, "Fifteen minutes ago, why didn't you report it until now?"
The adjutant Koi on the other end of the phone immediately fell silent, because it was not that he did not want to report immediately, but that the captain of the airport guard, Kawara, did not allow the report. After Xu Rui and the others took off in the 008-96 bomber, Kawara had already
He realized that something was wrong, but at the time he thought it was just an isolated attack.
Then, there was an explosion at the Caochangmen Arsenal. The huge mushroom cloud could be clearly seen from Ziyuan Airport more than ten miles away. It was only at this time that Major Kawara finally realized that Langya had stolen the Nine-Sixth Style.
The land bombers were not an isolated incident, but part of the overall bombing plan.
Only then did Major Kawara allow him to report to the headquarters.
Nakamura Shun roared angrily: "Where's that idiot Kawara? Tell him to answer the phone!"
On the phone, Koi said sadly: "Your Majesty Colonel, the captain has committed seppuku and committed suicide."
If only one Type 96 land bomber was lost, Kawara would still be able to save his life. He would not be able to escape being sent to a military court for trial, but he would not necessarily be sentenced to death. But now not only is the loss unreasonable,
He killed a valuable Type 96 land bomber, and also caused serious consequences such as the bombing of the Chochomon arsenal and the destruction of 5,000 tons of ammunition. Kawara knew that there was no mercy, so he decided to commit suicide by committing seppuku.
"Nani, Kawara committed seppuku and committed suicide?!" Nakamura Shun was so angry that he threw the phone.
At this time, chaotic footsteps were heard again outside the combat hall, and then the Commander of the Central China Condemnation Army Nishio Hisashi hurried in, surrounded by a large group of senior generals.
As soon as Nishio Juzo came in, he asked: "Kawabe-san, what happened with the explosion just now?"
"Your Excellency, General." Kawabe Shozo stood up feebly, bowed deeply to Nishio Juzo, then turned to Nakamura Shun and said, "Nakamura-san, it's up to you to speak."
"Hai." Nakamura Jun paused and said to Nishio Juzo, "General, the matter has been found out. The explosion just now was caused by the explosion of ammunition after the Caochangmen arsenal was bombed."
"Nani?" Nishio Juzo said, "The Caochangmen arsenal was bombed?"
"Bombing?" He Zhongji, the commander of the Third Flying Regiment of the Central China Condemnation Army, who was standing behind Nishio Hisao, shouted, "This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible. The Chinese government's air force has been completely destroyed by our Third Flying Regiment."
Eliminate, especially now that the China Air Force no longer has a single long-range bomber, how can it bomb Nanjing?"
"Hai, your Excellency General, you must be clear." Nakamura Shun paused and said, "The China Air Force indeed has no long-range bombers. However, it was not the bombers of the China Air Force that bombed the Caochangmen arms depot, but the Third Bomber Squadron stationed at Ziyuan Airport.
A Type 96 land bomber with fuselage number 008."
"What?" Shiga Zhongji asked, "The No. 8 aircraft of the 3rd Bomber Squadron?"
"What?" Nishio Juzo said in shock, "Did the 3rd Bomber Squadron bomb the arsenal?"
The next moment, Shihe Tadashi jumped up like a kitten whose tail was stepped on: "Nakamura-san, you can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense. You can slander the pilots of our Third Flying Group as having low quality, but
I will never allow you to doubt the loyalty of our warriors of the Third Flying Regiment to His Majesty the Emperor and to the Empire of Japan!"
"General, please be patient." Nakamura Jun said calmly, "The one who bombed the Caochangmen Arsenal was indeed the No. 008 bomber of the 3rd Bomber Squadron. I have already obtained this from Shion Airport.
However, it was not the crew of the 3rd Bomber Squadron who flew the No. 008 Fighter to carry out the bombing operation."
"Isn't he a crew member of the 3rd Bomber Squadron?" Zhongzhi He heard this and breathed a sigh of relief.
"If it's not the crew of the 3rd Bomber Squadron, who could it be?" Nishio Hiszo asked.
"It's Langya!" Hebian Zhengzo sighed and said sadly, "General, we lost this battle again."
"Lost again?" Nishio Shouzou's expression changed drastically and he said urgently, "Hebian-san, are you saying that all the weapons and ammunition stored in the Caochangmen arsenal have been destroyed?"
"Your Majesty, General, I would like to say that it is not true." Hebian Zhengzo shook his head sadly and said, "However, the facts are facts after all. We carefully set up a trap using the Caochangmen Arsenal as bait. We originally wanted to catch Xu Rui.
It was a big fish, but in the end, instead of catching Xu Rui, we lost more than 5,000 tons of arms!"
"Baga Yalu!" Nishio Shouzou said angrily, "The more than 5,000 tons of arms that were just shipped from the empire, and the weapons and ammunition prepared for the second raid on Damei Mountain, were all bombed?"
"Hai!" Toshi Nakamura said after a heavy pause, "More than five thousand tons of arms were destroyed. The arsenal and all the buildings within a five-mile radius of the arsenal were all razed to the ground by the explosion of ammunition. As for the casualties,
The statistics are still being compiled, but it is completely foreseeable that the infantry brigade guarding the arsenal must have been collectively shattered."
"Baga." Nishio Shouzou shouted angrily, "Without these weapons and ammunition, how can we sweep Damei Mountain?"
Kawabe Shozo said sadly: "I'm afraid we can only send an emergency call to the base camp and request the base camp to urgently allocate a batch of weapons and ammunition. However, even if the base camp urgently allocates weapons and ammunition, from the time the weapons and ammunition leave the factory, to loading on the ship, and then to transportation
It will take at least a month to reach the Chinese battlefield, and the second raid on Damei Mountain may have to be postponed."