UGB #289 - Destroy two cities in one day, who is more ruthless?
#289 - Destroy two cities in one day, who is more ruthless?
In a hubbub of noise, the Japanese headquarters continued their meeting to discuss this thorny issue.
The hardliners among the Japanese were clamoring for a counterattack, demanding retaliation against the Eighth Route Army.
"Counterattack? With what are we going to counterattack? Just with words? We're already experiencing a major collapse in North China! Even our air force can't enter North China's airspace without being intercepted."
The Japanese officer advocating compromise said with a sneer.
Indeed, when the idea of a retaliatory plan was mentioned, even the hardliners were dumbfounded. As things stood, in both North China and the Northeast, they couldn't even defend, let alone counterattack. And from where would they launch a counterattack?
After the previous few large-scale counterattacks, they had already lost North China. Now, even the Northeast, the empire's core, was teetering on the brink of collapse, facing the imminent danger of being lost.
The Japanese headquarters had panicked after the Kwantung Army's elite forces were annihilated. This gamble on the nation's fate had resulted in a complete and utter defeat, leading to the collapse of North China. Now, the Northeast was facing its most perilous moment in history.
Before the headquarters could come up with a new plan, it was especially important to delay the Eighth Route Army's advance on the key points of Pingjin (Beijing and Tianjin) for two or three months. This would give the Japanese time to produce more weapons in the homeland and the Northeast, and to recruit more soldiers to send to the Northeast!
According to the headquarters' latest assessment of the situation on the North China battlefield, they needed to reinforce with at least 500,000 more troops to amass a 700,000-strong army capable of mobile warfare, establishing layered defenses in the Northeast to fight a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army!
However, after one mobilization, the Northeast's potential had been almost completely exhausted. Now, to recruit so many troops and send them to the Northeast, they needed time to recruit from the homeland and the Korean peninsula.
However, the number of recruits needed this time was enormous. Everyone had their own ideas about which regions to recruit from, so the headquarters held meetings late into the night to discuss countermeasures, but a decision remained elusive.
Now, with the Eighth Route Army's ultimatum, the Japanese plans were thrown into disarray.
The little devils at headquarters were racking their brains!
Yanjing (Beijing).
Shimomura Sadae certainly received the situation report about the attack. The old devil was both shocked and terrified, so angered he was about to vomit blood. He truly hadn't expected the Eighth Route Army to be so decisive, acting without the slightest hesitation.
Moreover, the strike's effectiveness was unexpectedly precise, destroying a city as soon as it was mentioned, without the slightest deviation.
To have a city destroyed by the enemy without even seeing them in a single day was simply terrifying.
Remaining in the operations command center, Shimomura Sadae's face was pale. Looking at the map before him, he suddenly felt that everything had become a joke.
His deployments, his struggles, were all useless. The only outcome left for him was destruction.
Originally, he had been thinking of dragging the Eighth Route Army and countless Dragon Clan (Chinese) civilians down to hell with him. This was something Shimomura Sadae could do. When it came to the final battle, he would even be willing to set fire to the entire city, perishing together with the Eighth Route Army!
However, the Eighth Route Army's actions made Shimomura Sadae waver in his insane idea.
In the past, they bullied the Dragon Clan people because they had no way to retaliate. No matter what he did, they could only rage impotently. What did it matter if he died for the empire? What did it matter if 100,000, 200,000, or 300,000 Dragon Clan civilians died?
They were just a bunch of struggling ants that could be crushed underfoot.
Even if they killed tens of millions of Dragon Clan civilians, what could they do? In the end, wouldn't they still obediently become submissive people!
Thinking of this, Shimomura Sadae slammed his fist hard on the table, startling the other Japanese officers in the command center. They knew about the threat issued by the Eighth Route Army, but they didn't know the latest information about their own nest being destroyed. They looked at Shimomura Sadae with puzzled expressions.
"General Shimomura," the chief of staff of the North China Area Army wanted to say something, but Shimomura Sadae waved his hand to stop him.
He didn't dare to announce the latest news yet, lest it cause unrest in the military.
But Shimomura Sadae knew that he was deceiving himself. There was no way the Eighth Route Army would do nothing.
Sure enough, in less than an hour, the Eighth Route Army once again sent a telegram and broadcast to the world that, according to the ultimatum, the Japanese had failed to respond positively to the ultimatum. The Eighth Route Army had destroyed Xiongben as punishment. If the Japanese insisted on using the civilians of Pingjin as shields and refused to withdraw from residential areas to fight honorably, the Eighth Route Army would destroy one Japanese city every day as retaliation!
The next city would be Tomioka!
The announcement was broadcast on a loop. The lower and middle-ranking Japanese officers nearly exploded on the spot upon hearing this news. However, Shimomura Sadae, upon receiving the news, immediately ordered all company and platoon leaders to strictly control their subordinates to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control and causing even greater losses to their homeland!
Regardless of their production capacity, even if it was only three or five rockets a month, but given the current situation, as long as they couldn't destroy the Eighth Route Army, the Dragon Clan people could continue playing this game of destroying a city a day!
They were already battered and bruised, not hesitating to repay blood with blood. But could the Empire, could the Empire withstand such damage?
Shimomura Sada couldn't believe what would happen if such a blow landed on Tokyo!
The same things were happening in Tianjin and elsewhere. The higher-ups of the Japanese devils were terrified, and they began to restrain their subordinates.
When the Eighth Route Army issued its ultimatum, almost all the middle and lower-level Japanese devils thought the Eighth Route Army was joking!
Destroy it just like that?
Even the most powerful rogue, the Eagle, didn't have this ability. Despite having the most powerful air force on the planet, and bombing cities with great difficulty, they wouldn't dare say they could directly destroy a city.
However, the opponent's announcement, and the strong control from superiors, made most of the Japanese devils realize that this was no simple matter.
The Dragon People were not making empty threats; they were serious! And their homeland, Honshu, was really destroyed by them.
Otherwise, the higher-ups wouldn't have failed to come out and refute the rumors. This was an obvious reality, but many Japanese devils couldn't accept it!
The lower-level Japanese devils couldn't all be controlled, so after the announcement, some crazy Japanese devils caused new killings, and some Dragon People civilians were harmed in some places.
Ren Chong could imagine these things, so he had to be even more ruthless than the Japanese devils to suppress their ferocity!
Therefore, that evening, after collecting some conclusive evidence through underground organizations, he once again telegraphed and broadcast to the world that, due to the Japanese devils' multiple killings of civilians, the Eighth Route Army had decided to avenge these innocent people!
Next, they would destroy two Japanese devil cities in retaliation! In addition to Fukuoka, Shingu would also be added as a burial object!
This time, in the early hours of the third day, Ren Chong's side fired three shots at Fukuoka, but the second target of attack was changed to Kokura!
Ren Chong's side was of course deliberately doing this. Shingu was just a small city, and for the Japanese devils, the lesson might not be profound enough. They couldn't experience that feeling of being in unbearable pain, which wouldn't work. The rockets in Ren Chong's hands weren't Chinese cabbage, so he couldn't keep playing with the Japanese devils.
So in this attack, Ren Chong actually played a trick, but he was ruthlessly giving the Japanese devils a big one.
After this big move was sent out, the losses on the Japanese devils' side were more than just a little bit.
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Fukuoka and Kokura were both densely populated large cities of the Japanese devils, and their area was an order of magnitude larger than the previous Honshu!
The population density of the city was also a bit higher. Even if it was impossible to set the entire city on fire, the resulting urban fire was completely different from Honshu. Because it was night, the rescue would not be carried out. After more than 20,000 Japanese devils were directly cremated on the spot, the spreading fire burned through most of the city, directly burning to death and injuring more than 500,000 Japanese devils, while also causing more than 300,000 people to become homeless!
Of course, the final statistics of the losses from the attack would take several days to come out.
But when the news of the attack on Kokura reached the Japanese devils' headquarters, the previously endless debate suddenly became silent. Even the most stubborn Japanese devils didn't dare to talk nonsense now.
However, Ren Chong unexpectedly attacked two cities in one day, clearly telling the Japanese devils that he was serious! And he wouldn't necessarily play according to common sense. Occasionally jumping around and attacking a big city was also possible!
This was much more effective than empty threats from afar.
After a moment of silence, the Japanese devils' headquarters started to boil again. They didn't know how the other side would play next, but now that three cities had been destroyed, causing millions of casualties and homelessness, the Japanese devils had to admit that they simply couldn't afford to play anymore!
No one at the Japanese devils' headquarters knew where the other side's limit was?! No one dared to gamble that the next city wouldn't be Tokyo! Would they aim at the Imperial Palace?!
If they aimed at Tokyo and did this, setting the entire Tokyo on fire, then there was no need to fight at all. The entire homeland could sink, and everyone would be destroyed!
Moreover, what made the Japanese devils very aggrieved was that they currently had no means to deal with the Eighth Route Army's large-scale city-destroying attacks!
This time, the Japanese devils' headquarters quickly reached a consensus. They couldn't and didn't dare to pretend to be deaf and mute anymore.
Soon, they completed the final telegram statement, stating that the Imperial Army never targeted civilians and would not use civilians for street fighting. The Japanese devils expressed their position by telegram, and at the same time criticized the Eighth Route Army for not being moral and directly attacking Kokura, which was inconsistent with the statement!
The Japanese devils' headquarters had no choice but to succumb now. The Eighth Route Army was too scary, not giving them any chance to delay.
The Japanese devils' headquarters even ordered the Japanese devils in Pingjin overnight to withdraw from the city and break through!
Even some of the original decisive battle plans in the northeast now ordered the Kwantung Army to stop using civilians as shields for street fighting!
They were already scared. If they really encountered urban street fighting in the next battle, causing a large number of civilian casualties, they could imagine the Eighth Route Army's revenge with their toes.
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