The interior of the b-17 is like a lightweight aluminum cigar tube. The aluminum ribs of the aircraft are tightly arranged and fixed with thousands of rivets, which gives it aerodynamic strength and durability, but the aluminum skin attached to these ribs is so thin that you can poke a hole in it with a screwdriver.

The thirty-meter wingspan made the plane look big, but ten crews squeezed into this claustrophobic space, making it narrower than the inside of the submarine. Especially the two shooters at the waist of the plane, when they opened fire out through the open porthole, their backs were almost stuck together. The tail shooters needed to bend over and face back, stay under the towering tail, in the painfully small compartment. The windowed compartment was so narrow that his dual machine gun could only be sent through one track, and ammunition could only be stored in the middle of the cabin.

The top turret machine gunner, the radio operator, the lower abdomen machine gunner, the navigator on the port side of the nose cabin behind the cockpit, some bomb throwers in front of him... Captain Paul Tibbets is used to leaving every post on the comfortable cockpit patrol aircraft before approaching the target, greeting everyone, and even helping them put on electric suits and parachutes, then returning to the cockpit located on the top of the bomber.

While he was patrolling, the co-pilot Lieutenant Lockhart had an indescribable tension in the cockpit with more than 150 switches, dials, cranks, handles and meters. Any of them could save or destroy the entire aircraft and crew. It was fine when flying directly, if you encountered clouds, sometimes the clouds would extend to a height of 23,000 feet, forcing many aircraft to fly blindly above the clouds. The clouds were dark, and even if both pilots were there, they would often lose their direction. The result was that the plane collided with other bombers, and the consequences were catastrophic.

Fortunately, this flight was safe. After entering the mainland from a hundred miles west of Macau, the sky was blue. Although the sun was still hanging in the sky, it had already fallen deep. Because the clouds blocked the sunlight and the sunlight filtered into an attractive golden orange color, which plated the entire bomber formation with a layer of gold. But what was even more beautiful was the clouds below the plane, which were like pieces of golden orange cotton, stretching into the distance.

When Captain Tibbets returned to his seat, he was worried about whether there were such thick clouds above the target, gunfire sounds came from the middle of the plane. This was the prepared machine gunners testing the guns. When they opened fire together, the whole plane was trembling, the sound of shooting was deafening, and the pungent smell of gunpowder filled the entire cabin. After that, everything calmed down again, and the only sound was the low and monotonous roar of the engine.

"Have you arrived?" Twenty-five minutes later, the captain asked his co-pilot Lieutenant Gene Lockhart loudly.

"Yes. Maybe, I think..." Lieutenant Lockhart was a little incoherent and extremely nervous. Before this mission, no one had thrown real bombs. During the training in the Mojave Desert, the only experience of the shooters in the moving target was to use pistols to deal with the rattlesnakes. The target assigned by the 49th and 20th squadrons was Guangzhou Airport protected by anti-aircraft guns. Not only did there be dense anti-aircraft gun arrays, but the squadron might also be intercepted by enemy fighters... Although the intelligence is very detailed, the more detailed the pilots are worried. Just as the captain was about to comfort Lockhart, the anti-aircraft guns started to fire.

"Damn it!" The captain with an oxygen mask shouted. As the anti-aircraft gun sounded, the entire plane began to vibrate slightly, and the smoke from the explosion of the anti-aircraft gun shells also spread into his oxygen mask with the wind. Fortunately, the altitude of the aircraft was set at 23,500 feet, which was just outside the range of the anti-aircraft gun, so these anti-aircraft gun shells eventually turned into black high-altitude fireworks. But even so, the crew was still frightened and froze. They sat on thick lead plates to protect their **** and genitals. But after a while, they found that these anti-aircraft gun shells could only cheer when the soles of their feet exploded.

"Have you reached the target?" The captain asked the bomb dropper loudly to the internal intercom. Although the Liberty can only drop bombs with the pilot plane, he still wondered if he should open the bomb bay now.

"Yes, sir." Harlock, the bomber on the intercom, said loudly. "We are above the target."

"Open the bomb hatch!" The captain said loudly again. With the operation of him and the co-pilot, the bomb hatch of the plane was opened, and a stronger pungent smell of gunpowder rushed into the cabin with the cold wind. This not only made people feel cold, but also made people feel uncomfortable. At this moment, the pilot plane in the front dropped a bomb. Even though it was a long distance away, the captain seemed to hear the 500-pound bombs like raindrops roaring towards the earth with the god of death.

"Prepare to drop bombs!" The captain shouted again, and all the worries in his heart were met at this time.

The engine still roared low and monotonously. After reaching the position above the target, the bomber pressed the bomb drop button. The bombs were like raindrops before the planes. Everyone could clearly feel the fuselage suddenly lightening the mission.

One after another, the bombs dropped, and the ground exploded continuously, but no one was interested in looking at the target more. Everyone was thinking of returning as soon as possible. However, returning was a dangerous action, which meant that all aircraft had to turn around without any fault. If there was a slight turmoil, the formation of the entire formation would be chaotic. Once the chaos lacked intensive three-dimensional firepower protection, a single bomber would be very likely to be shot down by the enemy plane.

Fortunately, no one has seen the new Chinese Air Force fighter called "Fengqi Ghost" mentioned in this mission. Perhaps as the intelligence said, because the radar warning time is insufficient, these planes that did not have time to take off have been blown up to the ground more than 23,000 feet below.

After continuing north for five minutes, under the leadership of the pilot plane, the entire bomber formation began to turn clumsyly, and it was difficult to control such a huge plane to turn. Just as Captain Tibbets and his co-pilot Lieutenant Lockhart tried their best to control the plane to make it turn smoothly, the sun in the west was flashing cold light, and it was impossible to see that the number of enemy planes were dividing into three directions toward the group of bombers that were turning, one of which rushed straight towards the Liberty Man he was flying.

Like light, the flames emitted by the fighter shot straight into the cockpit. The Chinese Air Force's 20mm artillery shells easily shot through the porthole on the right side of the cab. Half of the instrument panel was blown away. As countless metals flew, Captain Tibbets felt that his right cheek and shoulder were hit so much that he felt that several shrapnel were embedded in the oxygen mask he was carrying.

In Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Shantou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Taipei, Taichung, and the emergency telegrams were sent to the General Staff one by one, but the Chief of Staff's office was unmoved and deserted. After Weng Wenhao approved everyone to resign, everyone sat in the room without saying a word. Yang Rui was said to be not in Tonghua at this time, and was bombed by US bombers in front of him. For a moment, everyone began to feel a little discouraged. While everyone was silent, only Huang Zongbing was constantly wiping the gun. He dismantled his gun into parts over and over again, and then assembled it into a gun.

After a long time, he coughed heavily, and Guo Bi looked at him and asked, "Didn't you shoot Weng Wenhao with this?"

"It was a chance to die just now. Now the Imperial Guards surrounded Wenhua Palace, and there was no chance." Huang Zongbing replied in a muffled voice, his hands were still moving, and his speed was not slow at all.

"Let's think of a solution." Lieutenant General Chen Honglie, who had been sitting for a long time, felt that his blood was cold all over his body, said. "Can you bypass Weng Wenhao and dispatch troops? I don't believe that without him, you can't fight."

"What's the matter with that bastard Guan Weng and Wenhao!" Lieutenant General Fan An, who did not go to Wenhua Palace, but also sat with everyone here. "The problems are all in the Jiyi Academy! I heard that the Jiyi Academy held a vote in the afternoon. Among the 626 representatives present, only 297 voted for the declaration of war, and the other 313 voted for the challenge, and there were 16 abstentions."

Today, Guo Bi and others have been waiting in Wenhua Palace since 8 o'clock. When they saw Fan An talk about the scammer, the Air Force Commander Qin Guoyong immediately said, "Why do those turtles have to come up with a fight? Can't they declare war directly?"

"Attack the battle is to fight and talk while declaring war, and then talk after the battle is finished, and there is no even preparation for the talk." Fan An explained, "The soft men in the Institute of Juyi thought that after declaring war on the United States, Britain would declare war on us. They felt that this battle had no chance of winning, so they thought of staying on the front line in life and waiting for the future to meet each other. They chose to face the challenge. If not, Weng Wenhao would step down this morning.

Next is overseas Chinese, with nearly 10 million overseas Chinese, and the United States is fine. Once Britain declares war on us, if these nearly 10 million overseas Chinese cannot retreat, they will be thrown into prisoners of war camps. Therefore, the vast majority of overseas Chinese representatives choose to fight instead of declaring war; finally, foreign trade. Once we declare war, all countries are neutral, the Persian Gulf and the Asia-Europe Canal will be blocked, and foreign trade business will not be done. Therefore, as long as the representatives involved in foreign trade business choose to fight, there are many representatives in Shanxi who choose to fight, but strangely, the representatives in Shanghai choose to declare war, and the two foreign representatives vote to declare war."

"A group of snobs!" Huang Zongbing picked up the equipped gun and cursed. "These people should be pulled to the shooting range and shot them one by one!" After cursing, he smashed the gun on the table and shouted: "If this continues, I will not be able to help it. I might as well just transfer troops into the city to take over the cabinet and the silence house. Please come out and forget about it! What are the silly silly silly silly silly silly thrifts!"

"Then what?!" Guo Bi stared at him, "Then after the war, we became the Supreme Emperor. Are we fighting to take the position of the new emperor? Don't say that this is impossible, once we don't follow the rules, the people below will not follow the rules. Instead of doing anything, it's better not to do anything. I know that you are angry when you see Weng Wenhao and those who are angry. But is the problem really with Weng Wenhao and those who are? It's not there at all! What's the problem? The problem is with the representatives of the Jiyi Academy!

They pushed Weng Wenhao to the position of prime minister! They were the ones who were desperate to withdraw from the East Asian Alliance! They were the ones who never repent and wanted to negotiate with the Americans even if they threw bombs on their heads!

But is the only question on the representatives of the Scripture Academy? It’s not there either! The question is really about the gentry and merchants under them, and most of the people in the country. These people are afraid of going to war with Britain and the United States! They are worried that we will lose! They are these people who want to stay on the front line in their work and work so that they can meet each other in the future!

Mr. I have said before that, except Shanghai, other places in China have basically no autonomy. I didn’t believe it before, and I still don’t know how to manage myself as a person. Isn’t this saying that they are still three-year-old children? But now things are obvious, they really can’t manage themselves. When death is coming, what I think is still peace talks in my mind, and what I think is still peace and peace is the most important thing..."

"But we just stand by and watch without doing anything?" What Guo Bi said may not be unreasonable, but Huang Zongbing was just angry but could not bear these losses. He could have bombed the Philippines first, but now he did nothing and was completely passively beaten. His lungs, the Minister of Operations, were about to blow up!

"Oh!" Guo Bi sighed, "Zong Bin should read more historical books. Think about the Northern Song Dynasty court sent his princess and concubines to the Jin people to ravage them; think about the Southern Song Dynasty was driven to the sea by the Mongol Yuan and committed suicide by jumping into the sea; think about the Qing soldiers in Zhili and Shandong in the late Ming Dynasty allowed the Qing army to enter the pass to attack Caogu, and no one dared to stop them; and the Army collapsed from Pyongyang in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and the navy's ironclad ships were actually sunk by their fortress artillery. Today's these are nothing at all!

We can save a moment, and we can save a hundred generations. What is important is not what we should do, what is important is whether the people can show their blood and backbone in the life and death. Otherwise, what is the point of winning? Today is America, and in a few hundred years, it may be ugly and in a few hundred years. If you don’t teach the people how to be independent, you will still lose in a few hundred years. People at that time will definitely say that if they had known this, it would be better to lose in this battle. If you lost and suffered the suffering of enslavement, everyone would reflect. At that time, the battle might have been won."

Guo Bi is not young anymore, and his teacher-like teaching in private school actually made everyone feel calm. After breathing a few sighs, the most intense Huang Zongbing said, "Then let's just watch now?"

"Do what we can do." Guo Bi replied. After saying that, he added, "Don't forget that it's summer vacation now!"

The term summer vacation made everyone present lit up, but it made Weng Wenhao's face turn black. Today was his day of great joy. The Notice Academy actually rejected the request of the Revival Society to overthrow the cabinet. He is still the Prime Minister of Greater China. Although he also added a task of self-defense and anti-Japanese war, the main task of the new cabinet is to negotiate with the United States.

At this time, the new cabinet truly grasped the pulse of the representatives of the Scripture Academy. They were all smarter and more capable of calculating. Their only purpose was to eliminate the war as soon as possible and live a peaceful life on their own. As long as the government did not implement the Bolsheviks, they could accept any political system. At worst, life would be harder, but it was better than fighting.

The representative of the Reporter Academy is like this, but the earlier assistance to college and technical school students was in chaos. Although the scale of education has not expanded after the political reform, among the students nationwide, there are nine million junior high school students, four million high school students, and 350,000 college students. It was fine if Japan and the United States had not declared war before, but now Japan and the United States declared war, and the United States issued an ultimatum to China, and these students were immediately infuriated. It was summer vacation, and according to previous regulations, college and technical school students can take trains and ships for free during the summer vacation. According to the report of the National Security Bureau, since yesterday, students from all over the world have been shouting that they will go to the capital to petition. The number of universities, middle schools, and junior college science and technology schools is extremely large. If they really want to be blocked in the capital, who knows what will happen!

Weng Wenhao's face turned black, and his secretary Wang Yunwu looked at Shi Chengzhi, the director of the National Security Bureau. He graduated from the fourth phase of the Japanese non-commissioned school. He was the 33rd General of the 17th Town, Sichuan during the Qing Dynasty. After the Dingying Reform, he was unemployed at home. After the military reform, he was hired as a military consultant of the Jiyi Academy by Zhejiang Jiyi Academy. Because of Jiang Baili's relationship, Weng Wenhao was appreciated by Weng Wenhao and finally became the director of the National Security Bureau. People who came from the Qing Dynasty were all old-fashioned and were serious and careful in their daily lives. The most important thing was that he was loyal to Weng Wenhao, who had the kindness of knowing each other. This was the real reason why he, rather than Zhu Jiahua, was appointed as the director of the National Security Bureau.

"Brother Mei, is the news accurate? Are those students really coming to the capital?" Wang Yunwu said, asking completely knowingly.

"How dare Chengzhi deceive the Prime Minister!" Shi Chengzhi started. "The students from Northeast China went to Yang Jingcheng's mansion in Tonghua in the morning. When they heard that others were not there, they seemed to hear someone say that this matter should be under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's mansion, so all the students entered the pass. Now the national train speeds up, and I think a group of people will arrive tomorrow morning. Although students from other places only went out sporadically today, as soon as the bombing incident occurred in the afternoon, the crowds were in full swing, and they would definitely come to Beijing."

"You can't... you can't let Mr. Juncheng's transportation department order all the trains and ships be stopped? Otherwise, these students will not be allowed to get on the bus." Wang Yunwu came up with a bad idea, which made Shi Chengzhi shake his head secretly. It seemed that Wu Jingchao was injured and it was not a good thing.

"Prime Minister, there are more than 10 million college students in the country. Even if junior high school does not count, there are still four or five million. If these students really don't let them take a train and take a steamer, they might have to walk into Beijing." Shi Chengzhi remembered the past of the 1911 Dingying and said again: "I remember that in the 1911, many students walked to the provincial capital of our province to help with the war. Many people became sick when they arrived at the place, but when they were sick, they pretended to be sick and guns to fight. From this point of view, the congestion was simply impossible. Besides, the transportation is now developed, and the students who are studying in high school are all children of wealthy families. Not to mention paying for tickets, it is not impossible to book a boat or rent a car to Beijing..."

"What do you think of?" Weng Wenhao remained silent, but Wang Yunwu stomped his feet a little. Last year, more than 10,000 students made the capital city a huge upset. Now four or five million students are entering Beijing, that's not bad.

"Prime Minister, now the Americans bomb us, we bomb them back. In this way, those students can go home with peace of mind when they see that the government is indeed in the war of resistance." Shi Chengzhi suggested.

However, after he said that, Weng Wenhao shook his head: "Since it is said that it is self-defense and resistance, then they are fighting us to defend, but it will never be possible to attack the Philippines. Otherwise, how can Shizhi negotiate in Washington?"

"But..." Shi Chengzhi didn't understand what the "self-defense war" meant, and he had never heard of the "self-defense war". He only knew that even the Qing Dynasty would be "undefeated and defeated" at most, and no one dared to say that he would only defend but not attack. If he was passively beaten, it was no wonder that the General Staff had to resign.
Chapter completed!