The big explosion at the Caochangmen arsenal not only nearly rolled down the Type 96 Type 6 bomber driven by Xu Rui, but also alarmed a number of senior Japanese generals in Youth Garden.
Shun Nakamura, the deputy chief of staff 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 rang.
Nakamura Toshi, with quick eyes and quick hands, grabbed the phone and asked, "Mashi Mashi?"
Kawabe Shozo walked over and stared at Nakamura Jun's face with a pair of wide eyes. Then, he noticed that Nakamura Jun's eyes began to widen gradually and his face began to turn livid. In the end, he could not even hold the microphone. His right hand began to tremble slightly uncontrollably. Looking at his expression, he seemed to have heard terrible news.
In the end, Masami Kawabe couldn't bear it any longer, so he grabbed the phone and shouted, "I'm Masami Kawabe, who are you?"
"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff!" A panicked voice immediately came from the other end of the phone, replying, "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, it was impossible for him to have an impression. He immediately asked, "What was that big explosion just now? "
Kawakami Soma said: "Your Excellency, 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 frightened 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 Somaton said, "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, the Caochangmen Arsenal has been razed to the ground, and the thousands of tons of ammunition and large amounts of weapons and equipment stored in the arsenal have all been reduced to nothing. "
"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 no longer hear them at all. Now there was only one voice left in his mind, Caochangmen Arsenal was finished. , the five thousand tons of ammunition stored in the Caochangmen Arsenal have been used up...
It's over, it's over, the entire raid plan is in vain!
"Baga!" Hebian Zhengzo cursed in a low voice again, and then his body shook twice, and he fell down on the big chair behind him. In an instant, Hebian Zhengzo felt that 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 so? How can this be? Kawabe Masami kept asking himself in his mind.
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 would at least be able to 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 that Langya would come to sneak attack, thought about strong 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 Langya 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 paused heavily, 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, I am the adjutant of the Airport Guard, Koi. Fifteen minutes ago, a bomber was stolen from our Ziyuan Airport, a Type 96 Type 6 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 team, 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, the Caochangmen Arsenal exploded, and 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. 6 bombers were not an isolated incident, but part of the entire 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 Excellency Colonel, the captain has committed seppuku and committed suicide."
If only one Type 96 Type 6 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 Type 6 bomber, and also led to serious consequences such as the bombing of the Caochangmen arsenal and the destruction of 5,000 tons of ammunition. Kawara knew that it was absolutely unreasonable, so he decisively committed seppuku and committed suicide.
"Nani, Kawara committed seppuku and committed suicide?!" Nakamura Jun was so angry that he threw the phone.
At this time, chaotic footsteps sounded again outside the combat hall, and then, Commander of the Central China Condemnation Army Nishio Hisakuzu 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." Shun Nakamura paused and said to Nishio Hiszo, "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, is aware of this." Nakamura Shunton 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 Type 6 bomber with fuselage number 008."
"What?" Shiga Tadashi asked, "The No. 8 aircraft of the 3rd Bomber Squadron?"
"What?" Nishio Hisou said in shock, "Did the 3rd Bomber Squadron bomb the arsenal?"
The next moment, Shiga 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 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 plane to carry out the bombing operation."
"Isn't it a crew member of the third bomber squadron?" Shihe Zhongji breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
"If it's not the crew of the 3rd Bomber Squadron, who could it be?" Nishio Hiszo asked.
"It's Wolf Fang!" Hebian Zhengzo sighed and said sadly, "General, we lost this battle again."
"Lost again?" Nishio Shouzou's expression changed drastically and he said urgently, "Kawabian-san, are you saying that all the weapons and ammunition stored in the Caochangmen arsenal have been destroyed?"
"Your Excellency, I would like to say that I am sorry, but no." 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. Originally, we 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 with 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 urgent 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 the The Chinese battlefield will take at least a month, and the second sweep of Damei Mountain may have to be postponed." (To be continued.)