Chapter 436: "The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb" (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) ）

Ma Zheng, the conspiracy of the Japanese army, guessed the beginning, but did not guess the result. He knew that this plague must be inseparable from the Japanese, and he was sure that it was directly related to Shiro Ishii's Unit 731, after all, with Ma Zheng's familiarity with history, he was completely equal to a player in the game in this era, which was a more rebellious existence than RMB players, even if he hit a few garbage monsters casually, it was possible to explode the artifact.

However, Ma Zheng did not expect that the Japanese army did not take the opportunity to launch an attack on the Suicha Military Region, although Ma Zheng also knew that the Japanese army might watch the fire from across the strait because he was worried that the soldiers would be infected with the same germs, but after all, this possibility was not very large, because compared with the current passive situation of the Suicha Military Region, the Japanese army that had mastered the treatment method of the plague obviously had more advantages.

Coupled with the fact that the Japanese army suddenly used bacteriological warfare against the Suicha Military Region, this had to make Ma Zheng think that this was a conspiracy that the Japanese army had been planning for a long time. Since this is a long-planned conspiracy, it is difficult to guarantee that the Japanese army did not vaccinate their soldiers in advance, and once the Japanese army really has a unit that is not afraid of infection and launches an attack on Zhangjiakou, then the consequences are unimaginable.

First of all, the troops in Zhangjiakou City suffered a lot of losses because of the plague, and the remaining soldiers were also panicked and demoralized because of the plague, and their combat effectiveness was probably not even one-third of the original. If a division of the Japanese army takes the opportunity to attack, it is very unlikely that the Chanan Military Division will want to hold Zhangjiakou with the current strength of the Zhanan Military Division.

The second is that the plague is raging now, even if he knows that Zhangjiakou needs reinforcements, Ma Zheng does not dare to send troops from other regions to reinforce, after all, they have not yet mastered the method of curing the plague, and no matter how many troops come, the result will be either wiped out by the Japanese or eliminated by the plague, and the end result is inevitable death, so the situation is extremely passive.

However, although the Japanese army has now assembled a lot of troops to Zhangjiakou and Datong, and it is said that there are more follow-up troops being assembled, the Japanese army did not immediately launch an attack, but concentrated more energy on strictly preventing the residents of Zhangjiakou and other places from fleeing to the Pingjin area.

Ma Zheng immediately realized that the Japanese army's use of plague germs in the Suicha Military Region might have been a temporary idea, and there was no detailed plan in advance, let alone so much time and energy to inject vaccines or take drugs to prevent infection with the virus to the troops on the front line. To put it bluntly, the Japanese army was not iron-clad, and although the plague was a vicious germ created by them, it did not mean that their soldiers were not afraid of infection.

In this way, things are much easier, since everyone is the same in the face of the virus, then Ma Zheng is not afraid of what the Japanese will do to him. You must know that the plague is not something that can be controlled by man, and once it gets out of control, the Japanese will also suffer heavy losses.

What's more, there are only a few Japanese troops in North China now, and there are only 200,000 or 300,000 people when they are full. And how many Chinese there are, conservatively estimated not to be 100 million, or even more.

If a third of the Chinese in North China die, there will still be 70 million, and the Japanese, even if the death rate is calculated at 100:1, if the Chinese die 30 million, the Japanese army in North China will not even have one person left, and it is commonly said that if Japan fights with the Chinese for population, China can dump them for several streets, so the Japanese army is now a little worried that Ma Zheng's troops will go the opposite way and bring the plague to the Japanese-occupied areas.

After confirming that the Japanese army really would not launch a full-scale attack on the Suicha Military Region, Ma Zheng devoted all his energy to the prevention and control of the plague. But soon came the disheartening news from Wuhan that Dr. Wu, who had been held out with great hope by Li Lanqing, had left China.

According to a telegram sent by the Military Command Bureau, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Liande's residence in Shanghai was blown up in the Battle of Songhu. He then left Shanghai and returned to Malaysia via Hong Kong.

Moreover, Chen Jiaying also conveyed Chairman Jiang's personal promise that they would actively contact Wu Liande at all costs and do their best to find it.

At the same time, the Nationalist Government also mobilized a large number of medicinal materials from the rear to prepare to send them to Guisui. The Nationalist Government has only one request, that is, it hopes that Ma Zheng will do his best to control the epidemic, and must not let the plague spread to Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, let alone spread to the entire rear. Once the plague is breaking out in the rear, the consequences are unimaginable, and China may even be completely defeated under the influence of the plague.

Ma Zheng knew very well what the Nationalist Government was worried about, and even if the Nationalist Government did not put forward this request, he would do his best to control it.

On 11 May, Yun Jian, political commissar of the Suicha Military Region, held a press conference in Guisui to expose to all Chinese and foreign media reporters present the Japanese army's crime of deliberately causing a large-scale plague by using chemical weapons, and at the same time presented some evidence.

After the Kuomintang and the Communist Party vigorously publicized this incident, it caused a huge sensation in the international community, and the eyes of peace-loving people all over the world turned to the Chinese battlefield, and representatives of Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union condemned the Japanese for going so far as to ignore international conventions and use chemical weapons in areas with dense civilian populations.

Invented during World War I, chemical weapons are weapons of mass destruction of great combat value, second only to nuclear weapons that have not yet been developed. Or, to put it this way, before nuclear weapons were on the stage of history, chemical weapons were equivalent to nuclear weapons in later generations. Because of its low technical threshold and strong lethal and destructive power, it is generally known as the "poor man's atomic bomb" and a silent killer.

Chemical warfare and chemical weapons in the modern sense should be counted from the beginning of the First World War. In October 1914, the German and French forces set a precedent for the use of irritating agents on the battlefield, when the Germans released 180 tons of chlorine gas into French positions southeast of Iber, Belgium, with the help of favorable wind directions and wind speeds. The French panicked and fell to the ground, 15,000 people were poisoned and 5,000 died.

The Battle of Yber marked the official entry of chemical weapons into the stage of history, and since then, the warring sides have developed and used chemical weapons. In World War I, chemical weapons caused 1.279 million casualties, of which 91,000 died, accounting for about 4.6% of the total war casualties.

Historically, chemical weapons have achieved unprecedented battlefield results, which is why some people called chemical weapons "the ultimate weapon" at the time.

It has been estimated that chemical munitions are 2.3 times more effective than high-explosive munitions. Second, chemical weapons are pleiological. The use of different varieties of poisons can produce different strategic and tactical effects through different physiological reactions such as respiratory poisoning and skin penetration poisoning.

At the same time, chemical weapons also have a large-area killing and infiltration effect, which can cause a large-area target or a hidden target in a region to produce a poisoning effect. In addition, chemical weapons are biologically specific in that they only kill and injure living beings, without damaging buildings and technical equipment.

However, chemical weapons, although they are not as effective as atomic bombs, have fatal weaknesses. Its use is severely restricted by natural conditions such as meteorology, topography, landform, time, and weather. There was an accident in World War I, due to the sudden change in wind direction, the poisonous gas cloud that was originally released by his own side attacked his own position instead, causing injuries.

This is one of them, and more importantly, this weapon is too uncontrollable, and has caused very painful lessons and disasters to both warring sides.

In view of the destructive power of chemical weapons and the enormous consequences that they are likely to trigger, the international community has reached a consensus after the First World War to prohibit the production and development of chemical and biological weapons throughout the world, and even more so to prohibit the use of chemical weapons in war. Unexpectedly, the Japanese government not only used it, but also used it on civilians first.

This kind of behavior is really despicable, you must know that with the development of means of transportation, the scope of the world is getting smaller and smaller, although it cannot be compared with the concept of a global village in later generations. But communication with each other is no longer as difficult as it was hundreds of years ago, and now it takes only a few dozen days for Asians to travel to the Americas and Europeans to Asia.

If the terrible virus of the plague were to be carried from the human body to other continents, it would cause an uncontrollable catastrophe on a global scale, so the actions of the Japanese would not only be irresponsible to the people of China and Japan, but also threaten the interests of other countries. (To be continued.) )