On the afternoon of December 9, 1941, Imperial Palace, Tokyo.

Within the grand Thousands of Eccentrics, Showa Emperor Hirohito was wearing military uniform and sitting upright on a Western-style throne, listening to Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Chief of Staff Headquarters Sugiyama Moto and Navy Commander Nagao Slim Self-Study Report the latest battle situation.

Unlike the general impressions of people after World War II in another time and space, Showa Emperor Hirohito was not a vase that was not concerned about the world, but Japan's actual leader in World War II. The three major culprits of Japan's war, Tojo Hideki, Sugiyama Moto and Nagano Cultivation were actually selected by Showa Emperor.

First, Sugiyama Moto, who was promoted to the throne of the chief of the General Staff and became the number one figure in the army, was "stupid", although this person, "stupid", was able to understand the holy will. As soon as he came to power, he actively prepared for the war against Britain and the United States, and led the comprehensive transformation of French Indochina and the infiltration of the Siam Kingdom.

Then, with the intervention of Emperor Showa, the head of the Shanghai Army Command was Nagano's self-cultivation general, who was one of the few Japanese Navy who advocated war against the United States. At that time, it was possible that the royal family's chief, Prince Fushimiya Miyaki Hiroki, could be replaced by the royal family as chief, and let the royal family retreat from the chief position. In fact, it was Hirohito's plan. Among the three candidates who were candidates to avoid the responsibility of the war, Homoto Gengo and Minamasa Yoneuchi were both evading wars against the United States. If they came to power, there would be no way to fight.

After becoming the Minister of Military Order, Nagano immediately submitted a report. Under the current situation, the Imperial Navy should adopt an attitude, advocating to march to Thailand and southern French Indochina today Vietnam to ensure the oil resources of Dutch Indochina today Indonesia, and publicly advocated the war against the United States at all costs. He also put forward the argument that "even if the United States has a certainty of victory, this kind of grasp will become smaller and smaller as time goes by. It will be difficult to hold on to the conflict. Since it is inevitable, the later the time becomes more and more unfavorable", and advocated the start of war as soon as possible.

In the end, the emperor was led by the throne of prime minister by the emperor. Hideki Tojo, who had only the rank of lieutenant general at that time, in order to enhance Tojo's prestige, Emperor Showa also promoted Tojo to become a general.

After Tojo took office as Prime Minister, all the military and political power of Japan was controlled by the hardliners who advocated the war against the United States. During the two imperial meetings on November 2 and November 30 and the palace entrance report on October 5, Tojo, Sugiyama and Nagano reported to the emperor the combat plan and preparations for the war, and also analyzed the changes in the strength of the United States and Japan, as well as various situations that Japan might face. Of course, it also included the time and outline of the combat plan for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

Today, Tojo, Sugiyama and Nagano entered the palace happily early in the morning and began to report to Emperor Showa that the navy achieved unprecedented victory on the first day of the war.

"From the current situation, the battleship units of the US Pacific Fleet have been paralyzed. Five of the nine battleships either sunk or completely destroyed and cannot leave the port. One of the remaining four ships is undergoing overhaul on the ground. Three other ships fled Pearl Harbor early this morning, but the First Mobile Fleet will definitely sink them all.

In addition, bombers taken off from Taiwan also carried out devastating bombing of US military bases in the Philippines! Clark Airport has been completely bombed."

Navy Command Minister Nagano Cultivation and Chief of Staff Sora Sugiyama have completed the report, and now it is Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's turn to summarize.

Although Japan's start in the Pacific War in this time was not smooth at all compared to another time and space, in some places, such as Saipan, Guam, and Taiwan was bombed. The losses of the 5th Corps of the Army Air Force and the 11th Air Force at the Naval Base were severely damaged. However, Hideki Tojo still felt that victory was in sight. After all, Pearl Harbor has now turned into a sea of ​​fire, and the US Pacific Fleet will not be able to use the base for at least the next 12 months.

This means that Japan will have at least 12 months of initiative, which is enough to establish an absolute national defense circle including Southeast Asian resource production areas and many important Pacific islands!

Just as Hideki Tojo shook his head and said that after the establishment of the absolute defense circle, the Japanese Empire would become a world-class power. Suddenly, a rapid footstep came from the Qianqian. Walking so loudly was obviously contrary to the court etiquette. The small inner minister Kido, who was serving the Emperor, frowned, and bowed to the Emperor, and walked silently to the Qianqian.

About 2 minutes later, Kido's screams suddenly sounded: "Baga! How is this possible? Are the army and the navy all fools?"

Hearing this, the Emperor, Tojo, Sugiyama, Nagano and a god in the world were stunned. What medicine did this Kido take wrong? He dared to openly insult the invincible Japanese Navy and Army in the palace? Are you not afraid of being punished by heaven?

When the three of them were wondering, they saw Yuki Kido running in as soon as he spread his feet. He did not bow to His Majesty the Emperor for admitting his mistake of missing the ritual before the journey. Instead, he pulled the Emperor's arm and wanted to pull him to somewhere. He said incoherently: "Not good! No! The Americans sent planes to bomb Tokyo."

American planes bomb Tokyo!?

How is this possible!

As soon as the three words "Impossible" appeared in the minds of Tojo, Sugiyama and Nagano, the terrible sound of the bomb explosion sounded.

"The bomb was dropped! After the bomb was dropped, the bomb was thrown on the emperor's head!"

"Wow, I saw the bomb explode, right in the Japanese capital, this scene is so beautiful!"

"This time, I will definitely kill many Japanese people!"

The sound of paging came from Colonel Doolittle's headphones, which were shouting for the captains of the b17 bomber that had just finished dropping the bomb.

The 35 b17 bombers commanded by Colonel Doolittle took off from Guam Airport at 3 a.m. today. The cabin of each aircraft was filled with fuel tanks. In order to reduce the weight as much as possible, the self-defense machine guns were removed, and the crew members were reduced to 4.

The plane immediately adopted radio silence after the plane took off, and then flew at the most economical speed and altitude for 10 hours, and it only broke into Tokyo from an altitude of more than 10,000 meters at around 1:20 pm.

At this time, Japan had already had practical air-to-air search radars because it introduced technology from Germany. So these b17s were detected by Japanese radar as soon as they entered Tokyo Bay. However, because Japan's self-made radar technology was still relatively backward and the detection distance was relatively close. Therefore, the interceptor aircraft did not give enough time to take off, and these b17s flew to an altitude of nearly 11,000 meters, and it was difficult for the single-type fighter jets deployed near Tokyo to fly that high.

Moreover, the Japanese did not expect that their capital city would be bombed so quickly, so they did not deploy many heavy anti-aircraft guns that could shoot shells to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters in Tokyo.

So 35 b17s flew over Tokyo almost unstoppable and dropped more than 70 tons of high-explosive bombs!

Seeing a bunch of "little" fireballs rising from the Japanese complex on the ground. Doolittle's mood suddenly improved and said loudly to the radio operator on the plane: "Generate power to Manila: the air strike was successful, and the Japanese Emperor's palace is being bombed!"

"What? A bomb actually landed in the imperial palace? How dare the Americans do this?"

In the "Yamato Hotel", Yamamoto Iroku trembled after hearing this bad news. Although in Europe, the capitals of all participating countries were bombed by planes, no one dared to imagine that one day the bombs produced by the United States would fall into the Japanese Emperor's palace.

This evil deed of trying to kill the "Heaven God" is simply claiming to be against 100 million Japanese citizens, but in fact there are not so many enemies!

"Unforgivable!"

"American ghost beast deserves to die!"

"Kill all American ghost animals!"

"Hang Roosevelt!"

The staff of the joint fleet who were attending the meeting in the commander's office all shouted as if they were blown up. Chief of Staff Ugaki coughed, and glanced at everyone with a stern look, but no one continued to shout.

Ugaki told Yamamoto Izuru: "The air strikes against Tokyo were b17, and they should have taken off from Guam."

"Guam?" Yamamoto Izuru frowned, "But Guam is nearly 2,500 kilometers away from Tokyo, and it is 5,000 kilometers round trip to B17, which is such a large voyage?"

"The telegram says that these b17s flew straight north after bombing Tokyo and disappeared over the Japanese Sea."

"Going to the Soviet Union?" Yamamoto Iroku immediately thought of where these planes were going.

Ugaki Chan nodded and said, "The Minister of Foreign Affairs has urgently made an appointment with the Soviet ambassador and asked the Soviet Union to hand over all the B17 pilots landed in its territory to us for disposal!"

"What did the Soviets say?" Yamamoto Izuru asked hurriedly.

"The Soviet ambassador said no b17 aircraft landed in the Soviet Union"

Yamamoto Izuru was stunned, and then he let out a long sigh, "It's pretty good."

Ugaki looked at Yamamoto with a slight smile, Yamamoto said with a wry smile: "My empire has provoked a giant now. Can we still provoke the Soviet Union again? If the Soviet ambassador said that the American planes have arrived in Vladivostok, the Soviet Union decided to send them back to the United States. What can the Minister Togo say? Do you dare to declare war? Now the Soviets say that there is no B17 landing, which means Stalin doesn't want to fall apart with my empire."

At this point, his face turned gloomy. "But the position of the Soviet Union and the United States in the same camp is very clear. If our empire cannot achieve an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Hawaii, the Soviet Union will most likely take a more hostile stance against our empire." To be continued.
Chapter completed!