On April 8th, 1942, the U.S special squadron 16 B25 medium bomber led by doolittle took off from the aircraft carrier Bumblebee escorted by 16 special mixed fleet, and bombed Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and other places, and then flew to China, Zhejiang, Quzhou and other airports.
This sudden bombing has caused great shock to the Japanese government and local Lu Haijun, and raised doubts about the national air defense capability: 16 bombers can fly over major Japanese cities in broad daylight without being shot down, and they begin to feel that the local land is no longer safe.
In order to prevent the Chinese and American air forces from using the airports in China and Zhejiang to carry out "shuttle bombing" on the Japanese mainland, the Japanese base camp decided to destroy the air base and Qianjin Airport on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line in China on the same day.
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The strategic attempt of the Japanese army to launch the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign was originally to "annihilate the enemy forces in Zhejiang Province, sabotage their anti-Japanese war attempt, and capture their main flight bases at the same time, so as to crush the intention of British, American and China aviation to bomb the imperial mainland from this area", so it was originally stipulated to withdraw troops before mid-July.
However, in the battle, Tanabe Shengwu, the second chief of staff of the Japanese army, informed 13 Army: "In this battle, the materials most expected by the central government are fluorite and railway equipment"; After the occupation of Shangrao, the Japanese base camp added the task of "destroying and confiscating enemy military facilities and munitions resources and weakening the anti-Japanese war capability of enemy materials" to the 13 Army.
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