Beiyang reactionaries

China not only interrupted the trade between China and Japan, but soon Korea, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vientiane, and Champasak of the Chinese Federation jointly announced the suspension of trade with Japan.

Military trade between China and Japan was interrupted before, but this time even non-governmental commercial trade was interrupted.

Don't underestimate the commercial trade between China and Japan.

Because this trade includes grain, petroleum, coal, tung oil, and a lot of daily necessities.Japan's current industry can operate, but it would be completely impossible without the support of Chinese materials.

As China led several countries of the Chinese Federation to interrupt trade with Japan, it was tantamount to directly paralyzing Japanese industry.And without the grain exports from these countries, Japan would not have enough to eat.

Trade was disrupted, paralyzing the functioning of Japanese industry.After that, China began to withdraw its diplomatic personnel in Japan, and dispatched transport planes and transport ships to evacuate the Chinese in Japan, and things became more and more serious.

Even in Southeast Asia, overseas Chinese in places where the Japanese army was located began to leave.

This is to completely decouple, and it is also a method that everyone used before the war.

With the implementation of these measures in China, the news of the war between China and Japan has spread in the Far East, or most people have already understood that there will be war between China and Japan.It is no secret that Duan Xun participated in the Tehran Conference and the Almaty Conference before.Entering 1944, China's cooperation with Britain and the United States can also be seen.It is a certainty that China will fall to Britain and the United States.

It's just that everyone is guessing when China and Japan will go to war and when China will declare war.

The Japanese government is also very nervous.

After all, China is completely different from North Korea and Thailand before.China is a real big country, a big country with a military size of 600 million all the year round.China's every move directly affects the situation in the Far East.

But when everyone is paying attention to China, it is the United States that is getting louder and louder.

After the Battle of the Marianas, the U.S. Army and Navy began to attack some islands in the Marianas.The Japanese army here is very tenacious. They are truly not afraid of death and are willing to sacrifice themselves for the emperor.The U.S. military captured Saipan and Guam one after another, and the casualties were very large.In order to capture these islands, the U.S. military paid more than 4 casualties, and more than 1 people died in battle.Of course, it also wiped out 12 Japanese troops.

After controlling the islands of Saipan and Guam, Japan's absolute defense circle was completely broken.What is the absolute defense circle, that is, the places that can protect Japan's mainland are the places in the absolute defense circle.Why are Saipan and Guam an absolute defense circle, because this place is too close to the Japanese mainland.Taking off from Saipan and Guam, American planes could directly bomb the Japanese mainland.Sure enough, after the US military occupied Saipan and Guam, the bombing of Tokyo has not stopped.

However, on July 1944, 7, the U.S. military suddenly changed its bombing method and began to use incendiary bombs.It is really because the US military's previous bombing of Tokyo was too ineffective and the target hit rate was too poor.

The bombing for two consecutive months dropped thousands of tons of aerial bombs almost every day, but the effect was limited.

Even the biggest target of the U.S. military, the aircraft factory in Tokyo, has been bombed for two months without completing the mission.Japan still produces aircraft here, but the output has dropped a lot.

Therefore, the US military began to reflect on why such a large-scale bombing effect was so poor.

The result of reflection is that if such bombing continues, the effect will remain the same without any change.The American B-29 bomber flew too high, and the weather conditions over Japan have been unfavorable for bombing, so it is difficult to change the bombing effect in a short time.

At this time, the U.S. military thought of another way.

Incendiary bomb.

Houses in Japan are mostly made of wood, many of which are wooden houses, and the biggest fear is fire.Moreover, Japan's industry is not the same as that of Britain and the United States, including that of China.

The industries of big countries like China, the United States, and the Soviet Union all take advantage of scale.

Just like China's arsenal, the Sichuan arsenal is in Chengdu.An arsenal is almost a small city, with a radius of tens of miles all being the site of the Sichuan arsenal.This is not only the case with the Sichuan Arsenal, but also with the Hanyang Arsenal, Taiyuan Arsenal, Fengtian Arsenal, and Jiangnan Manufacturing Plant.These arsenals are not only their arsenal, but are surrounded by supporting factories that serve the arsenal. Everyone basically gathers together and becomes a very important industrial base.

In addition to the arsenal, this is the case in any aircraft factory or automobile factory.Later, China implemented industrial standardization, which slightly changed the situation.But at present, many large factories in China are still in this mode.

But Japanese factories are somewhat different.

Many supporting factories in Japan are similar to workshops, distributed in every corner of Japanese cities.If you just blow up an airport, it's actually not very useful.Because Japan can change to another place and continue to assemble the aircraft with those spare parts.

So the U.S. military changed its thinking.

Instead of bombing arsenals like airports, prepare to use incendiary bombs to deal with workshops that produce spare parts.Therefore, the U.S. military prepared a large number of napalm bombs.

On July 7, 11 B-183 bombers used napalm for the first time over Tokyo.

Although the US military did not have much experience because it was used for the first time, the final result was even better than expected.

The lethality was so great that it directly destroyed those wooden houses in Japan.Just like that, the U.S. military burned down 5000 acres of downtown Tokyo.Throwing down this kind of napalm not only seriously burned the wooden house, but also seriously killed civilians.

But the United States has really seen the effect.

On July 1944, 7, after several days of preparation, the U.S. military dispatched 16 B-365 bombers, and once again used napalm bombs to carry out a three-hour carpet bombing of Tokyo.

After the first bombing, the U.S. military already has experience.

The napalm works very well, and there is absolutely no need for the planes to be clustered together like the previous bombing.Therefore, 365 aircraft were dispatched this time without any formation at all, and each aircraft acted alone.

Such a bombing is indeed astonishingly lethal.

Tokyo is on fire from napalm bombs, and Tokyo has no time to put out these fires.Soon these fires started to burn and it was impossible to stop them.On this day, the U.S. military dropped about 2300 tons of napalm bombs, burning more than 7 acres of urban areas in Tokyo, and killing more than 10 people. More than 7 mu, which is already a quarter of Tokyo.

In other words, within just a few hours, the US military destroyed a quarter of Tokyo.There are commercial areas and industrial areas, which have dealt a severe blow to Japan.

But it's not over.

On the second day after the bombing of Tokyo, on July 1944, 7, the U.S. military dispatched 17 planes to bomb Nagoya, where more than 347 tons of napalm bombs were dropped again.The result was that the aircraft manufacturing industry, led by the aircraft factory in Nagoya, was almost leveled.Half of the entire Nagoya became a sea of ​​flames.

The U.S. military, having tasted the benefits, dispatched 1944 planes again on July 7, 19, bombed Osaka, Japan's second largest city, and dropped more than 321 tons of napalm bombs.As a result, 2000 mu of the urban area of ​​Osaka was burned.

On July 1944, 7, the U.S. began bombing Kobe.Blow up Japan's shipbuilding centers to pieces in a matter of hours.

In addition to the first time, starting from the second bombing of Tokyo, the US military bombed Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe in just five days, burning down more than 14 mu of urban areas in Japanese cities, and causing 20 damage to Japan. More than 100 dead and nearly [-] million casualties.More importantly, the U.S. military bombed all Japanese industrial cities, which dealt a heavy blow to Japanese industry.

Of course, compared with the direct blow, the bigger blow is the panic caused in Japan, the real panic.Many citizens in Tokyo began to flee Tokyo and went to the countryside to hide.The result was a lack of urban population in Japan, which dealt an even greater blow to Japan's already hard-hit industries.

At this time, Japan really tasted the strength of the US military.

Koiso Kuniaki, the Prime Minister of Japan, has received unprecedented criticism because of the bombing by the US military during this period.Emperor Hirohito, including Japan, was also very dissatisfied with Koiso Kuniaki.

Just when Koiso Kuniaki was in a daze, China dealt him a fatal blow, which led to the downfall of Koiso Kunizaki's cabinet within only half a year.

On July 1944, 7, China officially declared war on Japan.

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"Chairman, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, the Republic of Burma, Laos, Vientiane, and Champasak have all declared war on Japan."

"Ah."

On July 1944, 7, when the Second World War came to an end, China finally declared war on Japan and also participated in the Second World War.Of course China did not join the anti-fascist alliance, China just declared war on Japan.Duan Xun never thought of declaring war on Germany, because China and Germany are thousands of miles apart, and China does not interfere in European affairs, so there is no need to declare war on Germany.

Moreover, at the final decisive moment of the Second World War, there are still a large number of institutions on the Chinese side in Germany.Scientists and engineers in Germany are being transferred against the clock.At this time, China does not need to completely fall out with Germany.So China just declared war on Japan.

But this is not a small matter, it is a big event of global concern.

After all, China joined the war, declaring that a country with one-third of the population on the planet also joined the Second World War.So far, basically all major countries in the world have participated in the war.

China is not alone in declaring war on Japan.Before the declaration of war, several countries in the Chinese Federation were notified long ago.

They have been waiting, waiting for China's actions.

So after China declared war, of course they followed China in declaring war.Because by this time, all Asian countries already know that Japan will not be able to survive, and Japan's defeat is a matter of time.Now American bombers have blown Japanese cities into a sea of ​​flames.