Chapter 1018: The Sorrowful Japanese (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Ma Zheng re-examined the strength of China and Japan, and before the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japan's total economic output reached 28.3 billion US dollars, making it the sixth largest economic power in the world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, before the Lugou Bridge Incident, there were only four fully equipped divisions in Japan, with less than 200,000 men. At the same time, the army of Lao Chiang's Nationalist government alone reached more than 2 million.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japan began to expand its military strength in large numbers, and by the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, there were 110 divisions and regiments in China, with a total of more than 2.5 million people. At this time, China's total strength in all aspects had also expanded to nearly 4.5 million people, so in terms of military strength, the Eighth Route Army still had an absolute advantage.

However, as far as the quality of the soldiers is concerned, both the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army are constantly declining. Compared with China's population of more than 400 million, Japan, which has only more than 76 million people, is already overwhelmed.

However, it is worth mentioning that although China has a population of nearly 400 million, China's economy is even more dilapidated and tired than Japan's, and the two sides are about to run out of oil.

However, now with the emergence of Ma Zheng and the early entry of the United States into the war, Ma Zheng believes that Japan, which has basically no potential to tap, will not be able to compete with China, the United States, and Britain in the entire Asian battlefield.

Japan's military and economic growth peaked before the start of the Pacific War, which meant that if Japan could not use its existing forces to quickly destroy its opponents, it would surely lose a war of attrition.

Now the strength of the Japanese army in North China has dropped to less than 300,000, and the puppet army is already less than 450,000, and it has also lost a large area of territory in North China, so it can only shrink back in Shandong, Henan, and northern Jiangsu.

The most important thing is that after so many years of hard fighting, the gap between the quality of Chinese and Japanese soldiers has also changed significantly.

The previous Japanese soldiers were sharpshooters fed with a large number of bullets, but now the time for their ordinary soldiers to enter the battlefield has been shortened by more than ten times, and a soldier consumes less than 50 rounds of training ammunition, so the quality of Chinese and Japanese soldiers is also about the same, and Ma Zheng is even more passionate about the next battle.

At the beginning of the new year, the Japanese in Tokyo encountered a bad situation, and just last night when they were celebrating the New Year, several Chinese fighter planes suddenly arrived in Tokyo. To their surprise, in addition to dropping dozens of incendiary bombs, these Chinese fighters also dropped some messy things, dozens of tons of food packed in small bags, and even the corpses of some people and animals.

Since only three fighters arrived, and the time spent in the air was no more than fifteen minutes, Tokyo's losses were not large. However, it had a huge psychological impact on the Japanese, and it was the first time that the Chinese had attacked the Japanese mainland since the outbreak of the war.

Although in 1938, the Air Force of the Nationalist Government also made a one-day trip to Tokyo, Japan, but in view of the range of the plane, the plane was not loaded with aerial bombs, but anti-war propaganda leaflets.

But this time it was different, but it was a real bomb, and a bomb dropped it was a huge fireball that burned many neighborhoods of Tokyo to the ground.

When the news came back to China, the morale of the Chinese people naturally increased greatly, and Ma Zheng's name once again occupied the most conspicuous position on the front page of the domestic media.

What is even more unexpected is that not long after the bombing, large-scale plagues broke out in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan, and the Japanese authorities quickly sent chemical experts to conduct sampling and analysis, and found that this was very similar to a new virus mentioned in the report submitted by the Ishii troops to the base camp.

So the Japanese government was in a hurry, and immediately transferred Shiro Ishii and others from the puppet state of Manchukuo back to Japan to investigate the matter, and finally confirmed that this sudden outbreak of the plague was the "cholera" virus they had researched themselves!

At the same time, the Japanese base camp quickly linked the incident with the Chinese fighters that appeared in these cities two days ago, and finally came to the conclusion that the Chinese used the virus cultivated by the Imperial Japanese Army against the Japanese Empire.

However, when the Japanese high-level ordered Shiro Ishii and others to solve this virus, it was ridiculous to find that the researchers, inventors, and breeders of these viruses could not control this virus!

The Japanese government had to immediately mobilize medical elites from all over the country to discuss countermeasures to deal with the terrible virus, but the results were not ideal, and in just three days, more than 100,000 infected people appeared in Tokyo, and the number of infected people in two other cities also surged.

When the news reached China, the Chinese were so happy that the people of Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming and other places took to the streets to cheer. The tone of the major newspapers and magazines is the same, that is, the Japanese have caused themselves to do their own thing, and they have dug a trap for themselves that cannot be filled.

And the entire Chinese dispatch army also fell into an unprecedented panic, although the Japanese soldiers claimed to be not afraid of death, but they were also human beings and had their own families. Now that there is a great plague in Japan, these people are worried about their families, so there is an atmosphere of anxiety, fear, and uneasiness throughout the Japanese army.

After the outbreak of a large-scale plague in Japan itself, the impact on the Chinese battlefield was great. In particular, when it was learned that Ma Zheng's troops had brought the plague raging in Beiping City under control, the base camp urgently sent a report to the North China Front, ordering them to send envoys to contact Ma Zheng's troops, hoping that Ma Zheng's troops could provide Japan with medicines and methods to eliminate the plague, even if it was acceptable to pay some price.

With this telegram from the Japanese army base camp, Okamura Ningji did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent someone to contact Ma Zheng's department.

The purpose of the Japanese Ma Zheng is very clear, so Ma Zheng's reply is also very concise, it is okay to negotiate, but the Japanese need to show sincerity.

First of all, the Japanese Government and its armed forces must publicly declare that they will not use biological and chemical weapons, including so-called special cigarettes, in any way and for any reason from now on. Second, the Japanese government wants to compensate the Suicha Military Region for its losses, including penicillin drugs, totaling $30 million.

The Japanese government naturally will not agree to this, first of all, the Japanese army has a huge advantage in the development of biological and chemical weapons, which Ma Zheng's department cannot match. If it had been declared that biological and chemical weapons would no longer be used because of the plague, then there would be no need for Unit 731 to exist.

Secondly, the compensation of 30 million US dollars is too high, it is not that the Japanese can't come up with so much money, this time they have made a lot of money in Southeast Asia, but they don't want to spend so much money to buy a prescription.

However, if they refused to surrender, Ma Zheng would obviously not negotiate with them. The most important thing is that the Great Japanese Empire has received reliable information that there is indeed a miraculous medicine that can completely eradicate this terrible plague.

The situation in the country is very critical now, and if we do not negotiate and obtain the drug as soon as possible, the consequences will be unimaginable!

In desperation, the Japanese Government had no choice but to make contact with the Nationalist Government, hoping that the Nationalist Government would come forward to resolve the matter. At the same time, the Japanese government has also made a killer move, if they can't curb the spread of the plague as soon as possible, they will spread the plague virus throughout China, so that the whole of China will become a plague area.

After receiving the secret report from the Japanese government, Chongqing felt very worried. Two days ago, they were still gloating, with this plague, the Japanese were afraid that they were going to vomit blood, but they didn't expect that now the little devil dog jumped off the wall in a hurry, and threatened them with the lives of hundreds of millions of people on the entire Chinese battlefield, what a bastard.

is angry, but when it comes to this part, Lao Jiang really doesn't dare to bet on this and the little devil. The character of the Japanese Lao Jiang is very clear, and he can do anything when he is in a hurry.

It is said that 1 million infected people have been detected in Japan, and the number of deaths has been reported due to the lack of penicillin to replenish body fluids, and the number is rising. If you don't find a way to restrain yourself, the consequences will be unimaginable.

It can be said that the Japanese government was forced into a corner by Ma Zheng's department, and it is guaranteed that a dog will jump over the wall in a hurry, and everyone will suffer at that time. In desperation, Chongqing had to contact the bigwigs in Yan'an to discuss how to solve the matter.