Chapter 159: Peeling off the cocoon and revealing the true face of the devil

Early the next morning, Xiao Xiong and Bai Yu came to the headquarters, Xiong Qiang and Li Ran were already there, looking at Xiong Qiang's bloodshot eyes, Xiao Xiong knew that they must not have slept that night.

"Li Ran, Bai Yu, hurry up and bring all the telegrams and materials about the devil to the water class, and our action will start from looking for 'Ma Lu Da'."

"'Big road'? What is 'big road'?" the two of them asked suspiciously.

"Bai Yu found that recently, the devils in Nanjing have sent a lot of telegrams to the devils in Jiujiang to the water class, and we suspect that the activities of the devils are a little abnormal, so Bai Yu asked to immediately analyze the telegrams of the devils that we have intercepted in the past year or so, hoping to see if we can find something valuable."

"Okay."

So, everyone began to be busy checking the telegrams of the Jiujiang devils one by one in chronological order.

After everyone's identification and synthesis, an astonishing conclusion was reached, that is, the devils began to set up a defensive water supply unit in Jiujiang in the spring of 1940.

On the surface, this unit is nominally only a squad, but judging from the rank, the rank of its commander should be at least Zhongzuo, that is, at least the rank of wing commander. In other words, this extremely high-level unit was secretly hiding in Jiujiang in order to hide people's eyes and ears.

So why doesn't it show it for what it is? Is it hiding something, and has some ulterior purpose?

So, what exactly does this unit do? Where exactly is he. What is its connection with the "Jiujiang Detachment of Rongzi 1644 Troops"? And what kind of thing is that "Rongzi 1644 Unit Jiujiang Detachment". What does it do?

And also. Why are there two "Tongren Hospital" signs on the map seized from the devil? And why do the devils at the west gate and Xiaochikou have epidemic prevention water supply classes?

A series of questions were raised, but no one in the room could answer them and give a reasonable explanation.

After repeated research, everyone drew up a specific plan of action, and decided to target the Tongren Hospital, Xiaochikou, and Ximenkou areas, focusing on the water supply squad of the reconnaissance devils, and trying to find out as much as possible what the mysterious "Jiujiang Detachment of Rongzi Unit 1644" was.

Xiong Qiang spread out the map of the devil's defense in Jiujiang on the table and made an analysis of the deployment situation in the urban area.

After the devil occupied Jiujiang. On January 15, 1939, the so-called "Second Jiujiang Revival Conference" was held. At the meeting, it was decided to divide the urban area into six districts: the first, second, and fifth districts are the mixed Japanese and Chinese residential areas, the third district is the Japanese special area, the fourth district is the foreign and Chinese mixed residential areas, and the triangle facing Gantang Lake is the entertainment area.

Dazhong Road extends to the west gate, east to the octagonal stone, south to the Catholic Church, Garden Hotel, and north to Jiuhuamen (around the four wharves), which is an area where Chinese live and do business (that is, the "West Garden" commonly known as Jiujiang locals).

To the west of the west entrance is the residence of Japanese merchants, and to the west of the Longkai River is the Japanese military base, where there are the Japanese naval mooring yard (Pipa Pavilion warehouse), the flight field, and the weapons factory (Sanma Road). To the east of the octagonal stone is the Japanese barracks and warehouses, and to the south of Meifeipo there are Japanese artillery barracks and military horse farms.

The regimental headquarters of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army was set up in Tongwen Middle School, and the regimental headquarters of the 57th Brigade and the engineer team of the division were located in Nengren Temple. The Navy Headquarters and Consulate are located in the vicinity of the wharf, and the official residence of the Ordnance Department is next to Nengren Temple. The headquarters of the gendarmerie is on Sanma Road, the field hospital of the 68th Division is in the Living Water Hospital, and the devils also occupy Danford Hospital and rename it Tongrenhui Hospital...... The Japanese army also built a shrine by the Gantang Lake to summon the spirits of its dead.

Everyone was very familiar with Jiujiang, but since the Theater Command sent a telegram to thoroughly investigate the specific situation of the devil's bacteriological warfare plan and development and production in Jiujiang, everyone seems to suddenly feel a little unfamiliar with this city, and feel a little ignorant of it.

The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear. Because he has been dealing with the devils, he may have really ignored the enemy's other conspiracies, so he did not discover the bacteriological warfare carried out by the devils in Jiujiang.

In fact, just as Xiao Xiong and the others discovered, the devil secretly established a bacteriological warfare unit in Jiujiang in the spring of 1940, and its name was called "Jiujiang Detachment of Rongzi 1644 Unit".

The level of this unit in Jiujiang is very high, second only to the headquarters of Nanjing Rongzi 1644 troops, which is equivalent to the wing level of devils.

The public identity of the bacteriological unit of the Japanese invasion of China is the epidemic prevention and water supply unit of a certain front army or division. In the system of the Japanese field forces, each front army has an epidemic prevention and water supply headquarters, each division has an epidemic prevention and water supply department, and each epidemic prevention and water supply headquarters also has a branch.

Judging from the regulations and provisions of the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply, there are four main tasks of the Divisional and Regimental Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department: one is epidemic prevention, the second is water supply, the third is the investigation of the regional sanitary state, and the fourth is machine repair. In addition to the above-mentioned tasks, the headquarters of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department of the Front Army is also responsible for the investigation and research of epidemic prevention and water supply-related issues, the provision of standard vaccinia serum for the troops, and the training of epidemic prevention and water supply.

However, after Japan launched the war of aggression against China, in order to adapt to the long-term operation and make up for the lack of troops, the Japanese army tried to defeat the Chinese army by launching bacteriological warfare when necessary. As a result, the functions of the Japanese army's anti-epidemic water supply unit, especially the headquarters of the front's anti-epidemic and water supply department, have in fact been transformed, and its main function is no longer to prevent and treat the epidemic, but to develop bacteria and undertake the task of carrying out bacteriological operations against enemy-occupied areas. Therefore, the name of the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply hanging at the entrance of these troops is just a signboard that hides people's ears.

On April 18, 1939, the headquarters of the Central China Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department, namely the "Rongzi Unit 1644", was established in the Central Army Hospital in Nanjing. Publicly called the "Central China Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department", it is actually the bacteriological test base of the Japanese army in Nanjing, which was established by the Japanese bacteriological war criminal Shiro Ishii in April 1939 with part of the personnel and equipment of Unit 731 to Nanjing.

The headquarters of the "Rongzi 1644 Unit" is located in the former Nanjing Army Central Hospital on Zhongshan East Road, Nanjing. A 4-story building in the compound is the heart of Unit 1644, where bacteriological and poison gas weapons tests are conducted.

The Japanese army's bacteriological warfare agent factory, concealed and camouflaged, was heavily guarded, and residents mistook it for a pharmaceutical factory.

The "Jiujiang Detachment of Rongzi Unit 1644" used high walls, barbed wire, and sentry posts to build a courtyard of a former Kuomintang official on Jiujiang Erma Road, which was heavily guarded.

In order to disguise and conceal, the place is falsely claimed to be a "Qing vaccine manufacturing factory", without any signs and Chinese are not allowed to enter. Residents around it thought it was just a pharmaceutical factory.

There are about 60 Shijing incubators, one incubation room, one tubular nutrient solution sterilizer, about 20-30 incubators, 20-30 steam sterilizers, and about 20~30 Keha boilers. In addition, there are large glass stills for distilling the nutrient solution.

When all the production facilities are used here, more than 5 kg of bacteria can be produced per cycle. It can be said that it is the second largest factory for manufacturing bacteria after Nanjing.

Cultivating deadly bacteria such as cholera, typhoid, and plague is a distinctive feature of the "Rongzi Unit 1644". Unit 731 mainly produces chemical gas, while Unit 1644 focuses on bacteriological biological experiments such as cholera and plague, and researches and produces a large number of plague fleas as their specialty, which can cultivate deadly bacteria on a large scale.

In addition to experimenting on animals, Unit 1644 also conducted inhumane experiments on live people. Most of the sources of living bodies are obtained from prisons or captured prisoners, vagrants, captives, etc. The inhumane little devils usually smuggle these test specimens, which they call "big roads", in the middle of the night, inject various bacteria into their bodies, and then take out the blood from their bodies, and finally kill them.

The subjects were treated entirely like animals, and the Japanese called them "logs", or "big roads", and they were experimental materials for bacteria and toxins. Once they're locked up here, they can't get out alive. After they were tortured to death during the test, their bodies were dissected by the Japanese test personnel.

Since the Japanese troops stationed in Jiujiang at that time rarely knew the truth about Unit 1644, none of the people who were arrested for the test could come out alive.

In terms of using living people for bacteriological experiments, Unit 731 is no less than Unit 1644. According to the records of the research meeting of Ishii (4) Unit (i.e., Unit 1644) on April 24, 1940, Hitoo Murakami and Taiki Yamanaka of the First Section used live humans to conduct experiments on cultivating anthrax.

In Unit 1644, there were several rooms for Chinese prisoners, each containing five or six cages like lions in a zoo, each containing a naked Chinese.

During the experiment, the captives were sent to the disposal room with black hoods. The disposal room is similar to an operating room, with an operating table and belts binding hands and feet at both ends of the table. The devil tied the captive to the bed, there was a big bottle next to it, put a label, and then the military doctor stepped forward and used the knife, cut the aorta in the groin, inserted a human catheter, released the forceps, and the blood of the captive flowed into the bottle until the blood ran out. Then the medic went to beat the captive on the chest, because the blood had been drained, the captive had a violent spasm, and finally died in the spasm. When the captives died, there was a burner next to the disposal room, and the corpses were thrown in and burned. This is done almost every day. ”

Surprisingly, Unit 1644's research was also expanded to include poisons.

They conducted human experiments to observe the effects of venom, poisonous weeds, and poisons on small animals such as centipedes, scorpions, and pit vipers. During the research period, Unit 1644 experimented almost daily with living people, therefore, at that time they were called the Devil's Troop.

After assigning the task, Xiao Xiong, Gao Qixing and Xiong Qiang led the special operations detachment and left Jiangxinzhou. (To be continued......)