Chapter 965: Bacteriological Warfare - Pandora's Box (Fourth Update)

"Onboard! Breaking into U.S. airspace! We're in the skies of the United States now, and we don't have any regrets even if we die! ”

At 5:31 a.m. Western Time on December 25, 1943, a Me264 long-range bomber piloted by Tokugawa Yoshitoshi and Yaichiro Hayashi carrying 50 ceramic bacteriological bombs burst into U.S. airspace from near Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Because the ceramic germ bombs on the plane were filled with the blood of rats infected with the plague, the first target was the suburbs of Los Angeles, the suburbs of the big city.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Clusters of fire then burst into the sky near the Me264 bomber, which was firing from 127mm anti-aircraft guns on the ground. Although it was dark now, the American anti-aircraft artillery that relied on radar guidance could still find a general direction in the sky, but Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's plane was not shot.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, we should find the right direction." Taro Sato, who was in charge of piloting, said loudly to Tokugawa Yoshitoshi at this time, "The anti-aircraft fire below is very fierce, and Los Angeles must be nearby!" ”

"Amaterasu blesses, Tosho Daquan blesses now!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi prayed silently in his heart, and his nervous mood relaxed a little.

Los Angeles is nearby, and it's finally done!

"Can you orient yourself downtown?" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi asked again after praying.

"It's too dark down there to see clearly." Taro Sato replied.

The United States is not at peace before December 7, 1941, the war has been going on for two years, and the whole country has entered a state. So after the radar of the "destroyer cordon" detected the approach of the Japanese plane, all the cities and towns in California sounded the air defense alarm.

The first people who heard the air raid sirens went into the fortified bomb shelters, which had been built since the fall of the Hawaiian Islands, and which were immediately accelerated in early 1943 when the Japanese began to attack the United States with windboat bombs. By December '43, the West Coast states had bomb shelters that could hide all the people and soldiers underground.

Therefore, if the Japanese had bombed the West Coast of the United States with ordinary bombs or white phosphorus incendiary bombs, it would have been almost impossible to cause any serious casualties.

Ceramic bacteriological bombs are indeed the only means that can push the Americans into a hurry...... Of course, the sequelae of this approach are also very obvious.

"Boom!"

Just as Tokugawa Yoshitoshi was thinking about releasing the dehumanizing plague germ into the heart of a major American city, his plane shook violently with a loud bang, accompanied by a howling cold wind. The air pressure in the cabin also dropped sharply, making it very difficult to breathe.

"Division commander, we were hit!" The navigator Taro Sato shouted.

"Baga!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi also roared, "Put on an oxygen mask and prepare to drop a bomb!" Lin Mijun, no matter what, you have to stabilize the plane! ”

The plane must not crash now, or it may cause a fire to burn His Majesty's heroic fleas to death!

"Hay!" Hayashi Yaichiro agreed, put on an oxygen mask, and tried to control the plane - the plane's injuries were not serious, it should have been pierced through the cabin by shrapnel.

But when they were trained in Germany, German instructors told them that the American large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery system, like the German one, had radar fire control and radio proximity fuses. The combination of the two can pose a greater threat to the aircraft at an altitude of less than 11,500 meters, and once the aircraft is hit by anti-aircraft shrapnel, it can basically be determined that the radar fire control is locked, and the altitude must be immediately raised...... But now, Hayashi Yaichiro can't pull it up right away, because the ceramic bacteriological bomb hasn't been dropped yet.

"Prepare to drop the bomb, put it!" Taro Sato, who was in charge of the bomb dropping, did not let Hayashi wait too long, and less than a minute after the plane was hit for the first time, he pressed the bomb button and dropped 50 evil ceramic germ bombs on the land of the suburbs of Los Angeles in the United States -- in fact, on the land of Hollywood. The hundreds of thousands of fleas in these ceramic bacteriological bombs later made great contributions to His Majesty the Emperor, so much so that there were fleas in the Yasukuni Shrine later!

However, after these moments of delay, another deadly American anti-aircraft shell exploded less than 15 meters to the right side of the plane's fuselage, and a huge blast wave swept over the fuselage and right wing of the Me264 bomber with sharp shrapnel. A BMW-802 engine was fired on the spot, and blue-black smoke came out.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General," Hayashi Yaichiro glanced at the engine that caught fire, "one engine is on fire, and there may be a fuel leak, I'm afraid we won't be able to fly back to the Hawaiian Islands!" ”

This time I'm really going to become a god!

The destruction of one of the four engines, and the fuel leak, is almost a death sentence for the people on the plane.

However, there is still a particular way to die, and as a samurai of His Majesty the Emperor and the head of the Shimizu Tokugawa family, of course, he should not be afraid of death. At this time, the only thing he should do is to order Hayashi Yaichiro to fly the plane and bravely crash into the American buildings on the ground, striving to pull a few more Americans on his back before he dies......

Thinking of this, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi took out the handkerchief produced by Kyoto Nishijin with his trembling right hand, and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead that could not be suppressed.

"Swoop to extinguish the fire, then evacuate!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi held back for a long time, and finally held back an order that surprised both Hayashi Yaichiro and Taro Sato.

"Your Excellency Division Commander......" Hayashi Yaichiro wanted to tell Tokugawa Yoshitoshi that the plane's current state would make it difficult to insist on returning to the Hawaiian Islands.

"Baga, dive!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi did not hesitate to interrupt him and said, "The plane is not finished yet, as long as we fly to the waters near the Hawaiian Islands and parachute, the rescue seaplane can find us." ”

Now the Japanese Navy has realized the preciousness of old pilots, so it is resolutely opposed to the act of not carrying a parachute, and has also organized a special seaplane search and rescue team.

And Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, Yaichiro Hayashi and others, because they had been trained in Germany, also developed a good habit of carrying parachutes on planes. Theoretically, they would simply fly the plane to within 1,500 kilometers of the Hawaiian Islands and send a distress telegram before the parachute jump, and the Navy in the Hawaiian Islands would send seaplanes to search and rescue them. Although it is as difficult to find a few overboard pilots in the vast ocean as finding a needle, the possibility of finding them is still there.

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"What? Almost no reports of human and property damage? At 8 a.m. on December 25, Lieutenant General Doolittle, commander of the 4th Air Force of the U.S. Army, was stunned for a moment after listening to the report, "Oh, I really didn't expect the boys from the anti-aircraft artillery unit to be so good......"

"No, our anti-aircraft artillery did not shoot down all the invading Japanese planes, and our fighters did not do this." Brigadier General Chennault looked at the report from his subordinates with some blankness, "At present, the total number of downed aircraft is about 30, and the targets detected by the radar are at least 40 or more. ”

"10 missed the net?" Durant shrugged, "Maybe the Japanese pilots didn't know how to drop bombs at all, and they all dropped bombs into the wilderness." ”

Chennault shook his head, wrinkled his face, and said, "Lieutenant General, I'm not that optimistic...... We have been fighting with the Japanese for 2 years, and we have not beaten them down until now, which only fully shows that the Japanese are absolutely not stupid. ”

After a pause, he added: "According to the report, these planes of the Japanese caused almost no property damage...... It is relatively normal that there were no casualties, after all, non-combatants were hiding underground when the air raids came. But it is very unusual that even the houses were not blown up, unless the Japanese dropped no ordinary bombs! ”

"Not an ordinary bomb?" Durant frowned, "What's that?" Chemical weapon? Still is...... Bacteriological weapons? ”

It is not surprising that Durant and Chennault guessed the answer in the first place, because the United States has long known that Germany has a large number of chemical weapons (which is an open secret, because Germany used chemical weapons in large quantities in World War I), so the US military has always regarded chemical defense and countering chemical weapons as an important topic since the start of the war.

In terms of chemical defense, not only were all officers and soldiers issued with gas masks (as were the case with the German army), but even ordinary residents of cities at risk of enemy air raids were given a gas mask.

In addition, the anti-chemical warfare units have also been trained in large numbers, and all servicemen on active duty, regardless of their branches, have mastered a certain amount of anti-chemical warfare knowledge.

In terms of countermeasures, the United States itself has produced large quantities of chemical agents and bacteriological weapons - the United States, like Japan, has not ratified the Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons. Therefore, the United States produced and stored a large amount of mustard gas during the interwar period, and after the outbreak of the world war, it produced it in large quantities, and now the inventory has reached tens of thousands of tons!

In addition, after the fall of the United States on the British mainland, samples and production methods of British Bacillus anthracis spores and botulinum toxin were obtained from Canada. For most of the past six months, pharmaceutical companies in the United States have received orders for the mass production of Bacillus anthracis spores and Clostridium botulinum (Clostridium botulinum is not only used for beauty, but it is actually a highly toxic substance that can damage the nervous system when ingested or inhaled, and the mortality rate is extremely high).

Therefore, the number of chemical and biological weapons that the US government now has far exceeds that of Japan.

Historically, the United States had planned to use mustard gas in its invasion of the Japanese mainland after the Battle of Okinawa, but later abandoned it because of the more powerful atomic bomb.