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Chapter 79 Big Bombing (2)

Inside the consulate in Shanghai, there was a knock on the door.

"Your Excellency, Hsinchu Airport and the aircraft of the Third Fleet are ready."

Lieutenant Admiral Kiyokawa, the commander of the Third Fleet, punched the city of Nanjing marked on the map, "Immediately issued a notice to the consulates stationed in Shanghai that China and Japan have entered into full-scale war, and the Japanese Imperial Army will attack the surrounding areas of Nanjing at noon in two days' time." Military bombing requires embassy personnel and nationals of various countries to move to "safe areas", and ships of various countries must evacuate from the Nanjing River."

Then Kiyoshi Hasegawa came to the radio station, and the telecommunications soldiers immediately stood up and saluted.

"Order! Hsinchu Air Force and the Air Force of the Third Fleet, take off immediately! Indiscriminately bomb the scheduled Nanjing City Airport, arsenal, power plant, water plant and other important facilities!"

Under the order of the telegram, a dive bomber, a horizontal bomber, and a Type 96 fighter jet manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries roared up from Hsinchu and the deck of the aircraft carrier, rushed towards the thick clouds, and plunged into the vast morning fog.

At this moment, the city of Nanjing has just slowly woken up from the mist, and on a new day, the anti-Japanese supplies on the boatman's wharf began to be transported to the boats to support the front-line anti-Japanese war.In the noodle stalls and duck blood vermicelli shops scattered in the corners of the city, the shopkeeper asked the staff to remove the door panels and polish the tables to prepare for the diners of the new day.In the police station, the chief of the bureau and the big captains finished their routine training, and then the big captain called the small captains to show off his prestige, and finally the small captain went back and pointed his hands at the younger brother.
Under the haze of the front-line war, as the capital, life in Nanjing City is still living in an orderly manner, although since the end of August and the beginning of September, the pace of life has been interrupted by the shrill sirens from time to time.

"Chairman, an urgent telegram!" Chen Bulei, the director of the Second Attendant's Room, walked in, and the Second Attendant's Office uploaded and sent all kinds of confidential documents and letters and telegrams here.

In the Nationalist Government, the Chairman watched the telegram sent by the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai informing the embassies of various countries in Nanjing. His anger rose, and he slammed his crutches against the wooden boards on the ground.

"The Japanese are bullying us that there is no one in the air in the Republic of China! Tell Zhou Baifu that as long as the Japanese military planes dare to come, all the military planes in Nanjing will take off, even if they desperately want to shoot down the Japanese military planes! Get rid of their arrogance!"

"Yes, Chairman!" Chen Bulei hesitated for a while, but still said, "The Japanese soldiers are cunning, will they deliberately set off smoke bombs, so Chairman, do you want to move ahead?"

"Well, your reminder is very important. Starting from the three provinces in the Northeast, the Japanese have always been untrustworthy. Let all departments be notified and take strict precautions now!"

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In the Whampoa Military Academy, students from various brigades are attending classes in classrooms.

"Beep! Beep! Beep~" The emergency assembly whistle sounded, and all the students and instructors immediately left the table, hurried downstairs, and lined up in the open space in front of the teaching building. The whole time took less than a minute.

Chen Chengji, the dean of education, said with a serious face, "I have received urgent news that the Japanese Air Force will bomb our surrounding areas of Nanjing in the near future. All students and instructors need to be vigilant at all times. Once you hear the siren, immediately evacuate to the bunker!"

No one knows when the shells will fall, there is no fear, these cadets in the military academy have been carefully selected and have undergone nearly a month of hellish training in the military academy, the temperament of the past is dissipating, and the style of the soldiers is forming. The spirit of sacrifice has begun to seep into the flesh and blood.It's just this feeling of being unable to look up at the sky that makes the students in the military academy who are determined to kill the enemy clenched their fists.

Many students feel that in the past month, they have been reborn, and they feel that they are powerful, but when they hear the news that the enemy plane is about to bomb, the feeling of powerlessness comes to their hearts again.Airplanes high in the sky cannot be swept down by themselves with a submachine gun or a light machine gun.

"Students, don't look up at the sky, you are so sad! Take heart, see the gap, study hard, and when you graduate from Whampoa, you will avenge the shame of this nation!" Chen Chengji looked at the students' angry faces and encouraged the students.

The news brought by the superintendent made the trainees feel heavy in their hearts, and so did the NJ citizens.Knowing that the planes of the Japanese devils are going to bomb the city of Nanjing, seeing the foreign devils in the city rushing out of the city, the newly opened western food restaurant puts a sign of "Closed today" because the French chef hired by the restaurant said that he will not work All kinds of things cast a shadow over everyone's mind.

Outside Nanjing, the anti-aircraft artillery battalions began to work in three shifts around the clock after receiving a telegram from the Lieutenant General Zhou Baifu who was actually in charge of the national aviation, staring at the white cloudy sky.

At military airports such as Dajiaochang Airport and Sanchahe Water Airport, all aircraft began to add auxiliary fuel tanks, and machine guns began to be loaded.

In an anti-aircraft artillery battalion in Qixia Mountain, the battalion commander Liu Shengtian, who was born in Huangpu and was from Xihua, Zhejiang, came out of the battalion command post in the underground air-raid shelter. Although he was only the battalion commander, he was not the general rank of major. The rank of lieutenant colonel, here is one of the ground air defense battalions responsible for the air defense of the whole city, and it is an important part of Nanjing's defense.

After Liu Shengtian received the telegram from Commander Zhou and finished mobilizing for the war, he wrote a letter from home at the desk of the headquarters and asked his adjutant to bring it back to the city. Never misfire!

Over the Jiaxing area not far from Nanjing, with the help of thick clouds, various horizontal and dive bombers and Zero fighters that took off from Hsinchu and the Third Fleet began to mix, and formed two batches before and after, heading straight for Nanjing. !

An hour and a half later, when smoke was rising from house to house in Nanjing City, suddenly air defense sirens rang out throughout the city!Before the grass handle in his hand could be stuffed into the stove, he looked blankly through the window to see the sky.

There are still white clouds, and there is no movement in the sky.But outside the city, the voices of "Da! Da! Da!" were clearly audible.

"Mom, big iron bird!" A little girl in the gatehouse pointed to the national army planes soaring in the sky.The surrounding crowd reacted from the bleak air defense siren, hurriedly packed their valuable bags from home, carried them on their backs, and ran to the nearest air-raid shelter.

"Ninny, come back quickly and go into the cellar with mom!" The woman in the cheongsam looked into the distance with worry on her face, because her husband was on the battlefield right now.Although she looked worried, the woman kept holding the girl in her hands and feet, and pushed her mother-in-law and father-in-law into the cellar.

In the Whampoa Military Academy, benefiting from the uninterrupted emergency assembly, all the cadets assembled in less than a minute. With their packages on their backs, everyone stepped on the truck, came out of the military academy, and drove into a specially built air-raid shelter nearby. This kind of treatment was common to all officials in the Republic of China Among the military ranks, apart from the chairman and other core staff of the government, only the teachers and students of the Whampoa Military Academy have such treatment.

And other people in the city can only resign themselves to their fate!

(End of this chapter)