Doolittle's No. 1 aircraft flew over the target and dropped the bomb first. A high-explosive bomb with a Japanese "Friendship" medal on its tail roared down, which in turn caused the majority of the Japanese people to cheer with joy.
Until this time, the Japanese still believed that the roaring bombs were target bombs used for practice.
However, a few Japanese felt that the falling speed of the "target bomb" and the astonishing and harsh whistling sound were contrary to common sense, but their doubts were soon drowned out by the more excited noises of the crowd.
"boom!"
The 500-pound high-explosive bomb accurately hit the target not far from the crowd and exploded.
The earth suddenly sank and then rebounded. A shock wave visible to the naked eye, accompanied by a deafening explosion, radiated around the explosion point. The sunlight became dim and swaying in an instant, and then a huge fireball rose into the sky, and thick smoke billowed like a sudden. When Yun Jing appeared, the first reaction of the Japanese was that the end of the world was coming.
The sudden disaster caught the Japanese crowd very close to the explosion point off guard. Some people were knocked to the ground by the shock wave and cried loudly.
Some people were injured by shrapnel or building debris and fell to the ground wailing, bleeding profusely in an instant.
Some Japanese people still had proud smiles on their faces, but fear appeared in their eyes.
Many people still held their arms high and waved small plaster flags, standing there stunned and at a loss.
Some people opened their mouths and shouted "Long live Tianhuang"...
Three seconds!
Those Japanese who were very close to the explosion point but were not injured were stunned by the sudden and brutal blow for three seconds. Then they forgot the defense knowledge they had learned during the exercise, like a group of people who could only scream. The flies were howling like ghosts and wolves, holding their heads and running around hastily, crying for father and mother one by one, causing chaos.
While the crowds very close to the explosion point were running around, the Japanese two or three miles away from the explosion point were even more excited. They waved the national flags in their hands and cheered, thinking that the explosion just now was a realistic performance by the Japanese Air Force to deepen the exercise. impression.
To put it bluntly, in fact it all happens at the snap of a finger.
Ten seconds later, the Japanese troops reacted and sounded a piercing air defense siren. They repeated what the U.S. military once said: "This is not an exercise, this is not an exercise. We were attacked by an enemy air attack..."
After No. 1 B-25 dropped the first bomb, it immediately dropped the 454-kilogram incendiary bomb. As a result, missiles appeared over the heads of the Japanese within a radius of 5 kilometers, which made them desperate. group.
This submunition is more terrifying than the SD 2 fragmentation bomb used by the German army on the Soviet battlefield.
The butterfly bomb weighs 2 kilograms, and its lethality is mainly concentrated armor-breaking. There are 152 3-kilogram incendiary bombs in the mother bomb. When it is in the air, the mother bomb explodes, and the 152 bullets radiate downwards in a hemispherical shape, which can Covering 5 kilometers of ground.
When each incendiary bomb comes into contact with a force-bearing object, it first explodes and kills the enemy. 3 kilograms of high-inflammation agent is evenly scattered and then burned. It can ignite everything within hundreds of square meters, even people hiding in the water. Hardly spared.
War always hurts innocent people.
Although Doolittle ordered the fleet to stay away from the crowd when attacking, there were people in the streets and alleys of East Meridian today, so an incendiary bomb was dropped, turning all living things within 5 kilometers into fire, which could not be extinguished. Heart-breaking in the fire...
Unit No. 1 continued to drop bombs, and the two 227-kilogram explosive bombs continued to roar and fall, like the scythes of death, hooking the souls of the little Japanese on the ground.
boom……
On the ground, factories were destroyed, buildings collapsed, and countless workers were killed and injured, struggling and howling in the ruins.
Then, three specially customized 225-kilogram high-explosive bombs fell in an orderly manner, setting off waves of bloodshed.
"Oh, God……"
Doolittle's co-pilot Cole made the sign of the cross again, "Colonel! The cluster bombs devoured at least hundreds of people. They were like moths rolling in the sea of fire. No matter how hard they struggled, they could not escape the fate of being burned!"
After watching a high-explosive bomb destroy a Japanese military office building, Cole made the sign of the cross again and said: "Colonel! I'm really worried that we are going to hell in the future."
When the last incendiary bomb, which was made up of hundreds of long rods tied together, was dropped and burned, Doolittle turned the plane's nose and prepared to leave in the direction of China. Hearing this, he said: "No, Cole, hell." It’s empty, the devils are all in Japan, we are just reciprocating tooth for tooth, haven’t you noticed, God has always been blessing us.”
Shortly after Doolittle's No. 1 aircraft launched its attack, twelve other bombers also flew over various military targets in the east longitude and began to drop bombs.
Just after Doolittle dropped the first bomb, more than a dozen Japanese Zero Fighters finally knew that the planes flying from East Meridian Bay were enemy planes. So the Zero Fighters immediately dispersed and went to various places to intercept the B aircraft that had already launched an attack. —25.
A dozen Japanese bombers and two Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft participating in the exercise also went to intercept the B-25.
The two Zero Fighters headed straight for Doolittle's No. 1 aircraft.
Based on Zhou Zhihan's zero-war tactics, Doolittle pushed the throttle to the bottom, accelerated it, and flew towards China.
But the bomber was too clumsy and the Zero was too fast.
Seeing the Zero getting closer and closer, the rear machine gunner of the No. 1 machine was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, but he had no choice but to hope that the black bamboo tube like the muzzle of a naval gun could scare away the Japanese. .
After a brief panic, the well-trained Japanese air defense troops quickly entered the position, raised the muzzle elevation, and fired defensive artillery. The artillery shells pushed away the airflow, leaving white and red bullet trails, and went straight to the B that had been raised to high altitude. —25.
"Doolittle and the others are launching an attack!"
Lieutenant General Hakshi, who was standing in the command room on the bridge of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, heard an explosion in the background of the live broadcast of the East Longitude exercise. His frown instantly relaxed and he waved his fist: "Well done. ! Doolittle and the others started to attack, let the dog-breeding Japanese taste the feeling of being bombed..."
Just as everyone in the command room cheered and celebrated, an intelligence officer ran in quickly: "General, the [Enterprise] released all carrier-based aircraft and retreated at full speed. The Japanese combined fleet is quickly returning to the defense column island."
"Okay!" Hakshi waved his fist again, "The Japanese were fooled by the Enterprise's attack. Yamamoto Isoroku turned back halfway and lost his best fighter. Now it's our turn to fire.
The aircraft carrier was ordered to face the wind at full speed, and after takeoff, the carrier-based aircraft retreated at full speed. We wanted to hit Yamamoto behind this old fox and avenge Pearl Harbor. "
Washington!
White House.
As the explosions blared in the background of the radio, Roosevelt smiled in triumph and the generals looked relieved.
Everyone knows that the significance of this attack is extraordinary. Even if only one bomb falls on the land of East Longitude, this will be a huge victory for the United States and all anti-fascist countries in the world. It can Directly inspire the morale of all righteous people.
Next, a noisy sound of panic appeared on the radio station. Roosevelt and the others could imagine that the Japanese announcer who was explaining the exercise on the spot must have been frightened and did not know what to say.
