Chapter 27: A Tale of a Dream (1)

On September 18, 1931, Kawamoto Suemori, the captain of the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Independent Garrison of the Japanese Kwantung Army, led several soldiers to blow up 1.5 meters of the South Manchurian Railway (Changchun-Dalian) track about 800 meters southwest of Beidaying in Mukden (now Shenyang) and east of Liutiaohu Village in accordance with the premeditated plan of the Kwantung Army. This is the famous Wicker Lake incident.

In February 1932, all three northeastern provinces fell.

In the same year, Shiro Ishii set up the "Dongxiang Force" (also known as the "Kamo Force") at the Beiyin River on the outskirts of Harbin in northeastern China and began conducting human experiments, the forerunner of the evil Unit 731.

In 1935, Shiro Ishii moved away from the Beiyin River and re-established a new facility in the bungalow area closer to Harbin, which is the site of today's Unit 731, which was called the "bungalow period" in 1935~1945

In August 1941, the unit was officially renamed the 731st Manchurian Anti-epidemic Water Supply Unit. The external name has been "Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention Department" and "Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department". At this point, Unit 731 has basically completed and begun their criminal deeds. During this period, the Japanese put living people in "special prisons" and called them "Ma Lu Tai", which literally translates to "logs", and reduced people to experimental materials. They transferred the indomitable martyrs from all over the country to Unit 731 and called it a "special delivery......

Here, Unit 731 produced countless bacteriological weapons, a total of about 3,000 Chinese, Mongols, Koreans and Russians were subjected to inhumane ** experiments, but according to the recollections of Japanese veterans after the war, the number was much more than that......

At noon on August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan issued the "Edict of the End of the War" through the radio, Japan officially surrendered unconditionally, and the evil site of Unit 731 was completely blown up before the Japanese army withdrew, and all the research materials were missing......

On the evening of October X, 1942, Shiro Ishii, the commander-in-chief of Japan's Unit 731, received an encrypted "special delivery" notice from the headquarters, which they called the code name "コヨウ輸送" (Populus euphratica transport)

In the early morning of the second day, the Japanese army invading China at the Changchun garrison sent a squadron of men and horses to secretly escort "コヨウ" on the train to Harbin.

At noon on the same day, the train arrived at Harbin Station. Shiro Ishii, commander-in-chief of Unit 731, personally led a team to pick up and escort the "コヨウ" team, and after the train entered the station, from the last carriage, nearly 50 Japanese soldiers with guns walked down first, they stood on both sides of the door of the carriage, and then, from the carriage stepped down a man in prison uniform.

The man was covered with a cloth bag on his head, his figure was very thin, and he was not very old by the skin he exposed, but he was very tall, and he stood out from the crowd of short Japanese soldiers at that time, and he was escorted off the train by the Japanese soldiers, followed by 5 or 60 Japanese soldiers with guns. At this time, an officer wearing a captain's uniform stepped out of the carriage and handed over the "コヨウ" to Shiro Ishii, who was waiting here early.

Shiro Ishii motioned to the soldier next to him to take out a file bag, and after the two sides signed the "special delivery" document, indicating that the handover had been completed. Shiro Ishii sent soldiers to escort the "コヨウ" into a car with an "iron box", and he looked at it cautiously, and after making sure that the "コヨウ" was properly placed, he got into the classic car behind the iron box car, and a team of people left the train station and drove quickly towards the 731 troop base.

When he arrived at Unit 731, Shiro Ishii personally ordered to take off the hood of "コヨウ" and send it to a high-end apartment in the headquarters building to take care of it, and then walked into the secret office in his showroom and dialed a phone number.

After about ten minutes, the door to the secret office opened. Walking in was a Japanese officer wearing a major general's uniform, and what was surprising was that the officer was 180 centimeters tall, which was rare in the Japanese army at that time.

He wore a crisp military uniform and walked up to Shiro Ishii, who handed over a document, and the officer was very excited to say something to Shiro Ishii after reading it, looking very excited. Shiro Ishii nodded, walked out of his desk, patted the officer on the shoulder and said, "この仕事は君に任せる." (This task is up to you)" The officer gave an excited salute and walked out of the secret office with the papers.

The next day, the officer took the documents and went to the headquarters building where the "コヨウ" was being held. The door was heavily guarded, the officer handed over the document, the soldier guarding the door saluted, opened the document, the document is three pages, on the first page of the document, there is a photo of the "コヨウ": a young man with an axe and a slashing face, and the man's neck, there is a very conspicuous red fish-shaped mark. The soldier turned directly to the last page of the document, where there was a place for the "trustee", on which it was written: Major General Yamamura.

The soldier read the document, so he motioned to the soldier inside to take out the "コヨウ" and hand it to Major General Yamamura.

Major General Yamamura took the "コヨウ" and the confidential document and walked to the depths of the headquarters building......

According to insiders: During that time, every night I could hear a terrible roar from the underground of the headquarters building, and Major General Yamamura led a group of Japanese military doctors, working in the secret dissection room underground every day, as if studying something, but strangely, there was no body transported out of the dissection room, and I never saw the "コヨウ" again......

Half a year later, Unit 731 secretly applied to the headquarters for the transfer of a wing of troops in the name of the "Vermilion Fish Project", and demanded that all these soldiers swear allegiance to the emperor and hold the determination to die.

A month later, a large number of Japanese "dead soldiers" were secretly sent to a train bound for Harbin.

At the end of 1943, Unit 731 finally gathered this group of "dead soldiers", and held a secret meeting for the "dead soldiers" and awarded honorary plaques.

In 1944, as the war heated up, corpses continued to be sent to the secret underground base of Unit 731. However, this time, the corpses were also a group of faceless corpses, which made people shudder, and at the time there were even rumors that they had seen faceless souls in the headquarters building.

In 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the medical team led by Major General Yamamura was ordered to evacuate Manchuria with Unit 731. In a hurry, he tried his best to destroy all the documents about the "Vermilion Fish Project", and planned to escape back to Japan with "コヨウ", but on the night of the evacuation, he opened the iron box in the corner of the laboratory where the "コヨウ" was stored, only to find that the box was empty, and "コヨウ" disappeared without a trace......

That night, Major General Yamamura urgently ordered a carpet search of the entire military base, but still nothing was found. In desperation, he had no choice but to take some confidential information and board the plane to escape back to Japan.

And the military base of the infamous Unit 731 was also blown up by the people who remained, and everything seemed to disappear into the ruins that were once full of evil with the loud explosion...... However, any sin will eventually have a day when it will stand in the sun.

(The old site of the vermilion fish rolled.) )