Chapter 1284: 60 million and 600 million
The event that took place on May 28, 1945, which had the most profound impact on the history of this time and space, turned out not to be the victory parade of the Germans, but the more than 100 tons of anthrax spore bombs and plague bacteriological ceramic bombs dropped by the Americans in Tokyo, the capital of Japan!
That's more than 100 tons of bacteriological weapons! Except for surgery and a small amount of explosives and fillings, they are all deadly bacteria and Chinese fleas carrying bacteria -- American bacteriological warfare experts are worried that American fleas will not be accustomed to sucking Japanese blood, which has no blood lipids, so they specially imported flea varieties from China to carry plague bacteria from bacteriological bombs dropped by Japan (bacteriological weapons have this shortcoming, and they can easily be copied by opponents and thrown on their own heads). Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Because a few B-29Cs carrying napalm had set fire to a large area of the city and pointed the way to other B-29Cs in the sky, thousands of various bacteriological bombs were scattered everywhere in the center of Tokyo, probably the most densely populated city in the world! Although according to the order of Yamamoto Isoroku, the Japanese Defense General Army had already deployed an anti-biological and chemical team in Tokyo. However, the number and equipment of these anti-biological and chemical units are very limited, and it is simply impossible to cleanse the entire urban area of Tokyo in a short period of time.
Moreover, napalm dropped by several B-29Cs that were ignited earlier also set dozens of fires in the center of Tokyo. The burn was not severe, but it caused panic among the citizens -- the Japanese government did not immediately announce that Tokyo might be hit by bacteriological bombs in order to avoid panic among the people. At that time, Yamamoto and others believed that the "Moonlight" night fighters deployed on the Noto Peninsula and Niigata Prefecture in the north could at least force the B-17s to abandon bacteriological bombs in the Sea of Japan and coastal areas.
So everyone is afraid that the fire will spread to their dilapidated houses. So many people were in a hurry to put out the fire and save that little bit of belongings, and as soon as the air raid sirens stopped, the streets of Tokyo were full of people.
As a result, the germs immediately spread uncontrollably in the city of Tokyo, and a short time later, a large-scale epidemic was caused in Tokyo.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, according to the statistics of the Tokyo Defense Command, as of June 5, more than 75,000 citizens and military personnel have been confirmed to be infected with anthrax in the epidemic area of Tokyo. More than 73,000 people have been infected with the plague, of which more than 20,000 have been infected with both anthrax and plague. In addition, there are more than 100,000 suspected patients...... This time it's really a big loss! ”
In Kyoto, Japan, an emergency meeting is being held in a campus building at Kyoto University, near the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, where the Japanese Cabinet has just moved from Tokyo, which has become an epidemic area. War Minister Yuki Anami is shaking in a voice about the "disaster" situation in the epidemic area of Tokyo.
At present, there are more than 100,000 people who can be diagnosed with the disease, and more than 100,000 are suspected, and countless people are still in the incubation period. According to the estimation of experts from Unit 731, even if the treatment is timely (in fact, it is not timely, and there is no medicine), there is no problem with the death of tens of thousands of people in Tokyo this time.
"Baga!" The Minister of War Anan Yuji, who was reporting, suddenly put a pile of documents in his hand and shouted loudly. "Unforgivable! The Americans, the Lu Guo and the Shina must not be spared! Definitely, let them understand the power of the empire......"
"Anan-kun!" Yamamoto Fifty-six let out a snort, interrupting the Minister of War who was barking, "What are you talking about?" Is it scolding the streets like a shrew, or does the army have some way to turn the tide of the war? ”
"Army ......" Anan Weiji gritted his teeth, "The army is also preparing to attack Shanghai and Guangzhou with the bacteriological weapons of Unit 731!" ”
The Japanese Army had long used bacteriological weapons in the Far East, but it was not able to stop the enemy's offensive. Now Anan seems to be carried away by his anger and clamoring for a bacteriological weapon attack on the big Chinese cities of Shanghai and Canton -- now the Japanese planes cannot reach the mainland of the United States, not even the Hawaiian Islands. As for Vladivostok, the population there was largely evacuated after the outbreak of the war in the Far East, and after the defeat of the Japanese army from under Vladivostok, there was not even a large garrison. Attacking with bacteriological weapons probably won't have much effect.
Therefore Chinese seems to be the only person Anan can vent his anger...... But the consequences can be quite serious!
"Bastard!" Yamamoto Fifty-six was not dizzy yet, and immediately scolded, "Anan, do you want the Yamato nation to be exterminated? ”
"Prime Minister's Cabinet, where do you start with that?"
Yamamoto snorted: "Does Anan-kun know that the Chinese now also have bacteriological weapons and long-range bombers?" ”
"Those are all given by American ghost animals...... "Anan said with hatred.
"Anan-kun, do you know how many people China has?" Yamamoto asked again.
"More than 600 million, maybe 700 million soon......"
Today's China has not experienced a brutal war of resistance and has been basically in peaceful development since 1928. The Second Northern Expedition of 39 years was also devastating, and 2 million GC fighters swept through most of northern China in one month. So there was no loss of population. Moreover, the agrarian reform carried out in the south equalized the means of subsistence, which greatly contributed to population growth.
So in 1945 there were more than 600 million people!
With a snap, Yamamoto fifty-six slapped the conference table sharply: "Anan Weiji, you also know that there are many Chinese!" The Chinese were about 10 times the size of the empire (all Koreans would soon be no longer Japanese), and they lived more dispersed, mostly outside the reach of our bombers. And we Japanese are very concentrated, almost all of them live within the range that the B-17 and B-29 can cover. In such a situation, isn't it self-defeating to compete with China for the ability to withstand bacteriological weapons? ”
In retaliation against Japan, the Americans have already provided China with biological factories that produce anthrax weapons and plague weapons.
Compared with putting bacteria, the Chinese will not lose! Moreover, there are many Chinese, the birth rate and growth rate of the population are higher, and a Japan can be born in a few years. In addition, China's urbanization rate is also very low, just over 10%, and large coastal cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou do not have much population because of "war preparations". If you want to fight bacteriological weapons, the Japanese will really perish!
"But, but...... The empire can't let the Chinese and Americans go so far! Anan Weiji roared angrily.
"What if you don't let it go?" Yamamoto Isoroku's eyes were red, and he glared at Anand, "All the B-29s that attacked Tokyo on the 28th flew to Vladivostok...... More than 100 of them! If these planes were to strike from Vladivostok, they would be able to carry 10 times more bacteriological weapons than from Hawaii! When the time comes, Japan will become a hell of a nose!
So, in order to avoid the destruction of the empire. Now the official will go to the emperor and ask for an end to the war. ”
"No," Anan yelled, "this officer asks to resign from the post of Minister of War!" ”
At present, Japan implements the military attache system of the Minister of the Navy and Army, which means that the Cabinet can only be established if the Navy and Army have an active general or vice admiral as the Minister. And as soon as the Minister of the Navy and Army resigns, and there is no one to succeed him, the cabinet will fall.
Anami's resignation was to force the resignation of the Yamamoto cabinet.
"If Anan wants to resign, then this officer will ask the army to immediately send personnel to serve as land minister." Yamamoto Fifty-six also-for-tat, "Otherwise, the Navy will not be able to send active personnel to serve as the Minister of the Navy!" ”
Anan was stunned when he heard this, although the military attache system on active duty is also useful for the navy. But the Japanese Navy has never coerced the cabinet to fall by not sending officials as ministers. I didn't expect Yamamoto Fifty-six to break the routine this time...... If the army and navy face off over the issue of the choice of ministers, wouldn't the Japanese Empire have no cabinet?
Isn't it a laughing stock for the ages if the cabinet is gone?
Just when the scene was embarrassing, an adjutant of the army suddenly broke into the conference room in a panic and bowed to Anan Weiji: "Your Excellency, the Kwantung Army (guarding in South Korea) headquarters reports that the defense line in the central part of Korea is now under heavy artillery bombardment by the enemy!" Enemy...... At least 5,000 artillery pieces were concentrated, and there were quite a few rocket artillery, and the front of the imperial army was already a sea of fire! ”
It turned out that the Chinese and Soviet troops launched a general offensive on the Korean Peninsula!
Everyone in the room suddenly forgot that there was an impending cabinet crisis, because the Japanese Empire was now on the verge of collapse - it was really going to collapse! Not only because of the onslaught of the Chinese and Soviet forces on the Korean Peninsula, but also because of the American bacteriological weapons attack, which turned Tokyo and neighboring Yokohama (the two cities are actually connected to the city) into an epidemic zone, where military production has stalled. Tokyo and Yokohama are also important industrial centers in Japan, and once they shut down, Japan's military production immediately fell into a huge crisis.
On the one hand, there was a crisis in the production of the military industry, and on the other hand, there was a huge attrition in the Armageddon at the front, and once the supply of arms was not enough, the Japanese Empire would collapse.
"There must be a ceasefire!" Yamamoto Fifty-six gritted his teeth and looked at Anan, "I can't fight anymore...... Now that the war is being armistic, the Empire can still retain most of the fruits of victory, and the Empire is still the victor. If there is no stop to fight now, there is a good chance that the empire will face collapse! ”
Anan bowed his head and remained silent, he could do his best in front of Yamamoto, but there was no way to save the fate of the Guam Army's defeat - the main elite of the Kwantung Army had long been lost in the Soviet Far East and Northeast China. At present, the troops stationed in south Korea are all newly built divisions and regiments, and their personnel have not been fully trained, and their weapons and equipment are insufficient, and the Chinese and Soviet troops with high morale and excellent equipment are simply cannon fodder.
And once the Kwantung Army is destroyed on the Korean Peninsula, China and the Soviet Union will be able to switch to the elite main force to attack the Japanese Annam garrison army! If the Annam garrison was defeated, the Japanese Empire would really be finished.
In addition, the United States, China, and the Soviet Union are very likely to launch another bacteriological weapons attack! Although it may not necessarily cause Japan to lose the country, it is still possible to turn a few more industrial centers into epidemic areas, and how will Japan continue to fight when the time comes.
The Japanese Empire must now seek a truce, even if it gives up sovereignty over the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan (giving up sovereignty is actually giving up the right to govern, because the Korean Peninsula is already controlled by China and the Soviet Union, and Taiwan will be demilitarized under Chinese sovereignty, which means that the Chinese government can legally send demilitarized people's police to the island), and a cease-fire.
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"Your Excellency the Commander, the two Imperial Marshals, His Majesty the Emperor of our country has decided that His Majesty the Emperor of your country is calling for peace and a general ceasefire with the United States, Soviet Russia and China under the appropriate conditions......"
In the German Chancellery, Lieutenant General Hiroshi Oshima, Japanese ambassador to Germany and head of the Japanese delegation to the Rome Peace Conference, who had just arrived from the Rome Peace Conference, was dejectedly informing Hitler, Hersmann, and Field Marshal Schleicher of the Japanese Emperor's decision to agree to a cease-fire.
"What are the appropriate conditions?" Adolph. Hitler interjected.
"It was the withdrawal of US, Chinese and Soviet troops from the Korean Peninsula and the realization of autonomy in Northeast China ......"
"Are you kidding?" Hersman said with some displeasure, "Lieutenant General Oshima, are you wasting our time?" You put forward such conditions, how can we mediate? ”
"Tune ...... Stop? Hiroshi Oshima was stunned when he heard this, "Your Excellency, isn't Germany an ally of Japan?" ”
"From the point of view of international law, our alliance ended when you made peace with the United States alone." Adolph. Hitler noted. "Although you have not succeeded in negotiating peace with the United States, this will not change the fact that our alliance has ended."
"This ......" Hiroshi Oshima was stunned, he knew that what Hitler said made sense. At that time, Japan itself proposed a separate peace with the United States, and it also obtained Germany's consent. However, the negotiations were delayed for a while because of the question of the ownership of the Hawaiian Islands and the Aleutian Islands, and then the death of Roosevelt and the election of the United States, in which Wallace, who replaced Roosevelt's acting president, was a white-left warmonger, and the matter of peace between the United States and Japan was completely lost in his hands.
"But, but...... The U.S.-Japan peace talks did not last...... "Hiroshi Oshima still wants to argue that he is unwilling to admit the fact that the Japan-Germany alliance no longer exists.
Without the Japan-Germany alliance, Japan would have been in an extremely disadvantageous position in the peace talks with the United States, China, and the Soviet Union. Not to mention the autonomy of Northeast China and the withdrawal of US-Chinese-Soviet troops from the Korean Peninsula, even whether the Indochina Peninsula can be preserved depends on whether the Chinese Bolshevik Party shows mercy.
"This does not prevent our two countries from dissolving the alliance." Adolph. Hitler said lightly, "But we are still friends after all, and out of the traditional friendship between Japan and Germany, Germany and the European Community are still willing to mediate the war in the Far East." ”
Hiroshi Oshima's face was pale, Hitler's words had already been said to be dead, and there was no room for anything. And this attitude is understandable - Japan has been blocking the European Union from sending troops to Australia. Now that the "freedom fighters" in Australia are getting bigger and bigger, it is becoming more and more difficult for Europe to conquer.
In addition, the Aryan brothers of the Germans, England, France, the Netherlands, and Russia were all dissatisfied with Japan - the honor of Japan was a fake, but the real Aryan! Moreover, the British royal family and the Russian royal family have merged or will merge with the German Hohenzollern royal family, and the Dutch royal family is the benefactor of the Hohenzollern family when it was in trouble......