Chapter 41: The Japanese Traitors (I)

Tokyo Bay, Yokohama Port, the seat of the "Provisional Government of Japan".

It was another early morning after the indiscriminate bombardment, and many of the buildings that had been bombed were still burning with open flames, and gray-black plumes of smoke rose in the blue sky. www.biquge.info Flocks of crows hovered in the air, corpses and wounded lay on the side of the street, and sporadic explosions tore through the air at occasional blasts – delayed time bombs, or unexploded bombs blown up by clumsy rescuers.

Standing on the streets of Yokohama, you can see blackened telephone poles, twisted steel bars, black smoke rising from the ashes, women digging through the ashes like walking dead, or grieving mothers holding the corpses of young children......

A number of volunteer citizens organized by the town's association (Japan's neighborhood association), as well as uniformed police officers and firefighters, worked to extinguish the remaining fires, search for survivors, and bury the bodies among the rubble. Since the city has long been without power and water, the fire hydrant has lost its effect, and these people can only push the temporarily modified large-wheel fire board truck, relying on small hand-pressed water pumps to extinguish the fire. Once the water on the car ran out and there was nowhere to replenish it, they had to use burlap bags to extinguish the scurrying fires, cut off the beams and pillars of the fire with fire axes, and pick up the burned survivors from the smoky house.

On this miserable and cruel scorched earth ruins, you can occasionally see some American officers and soldiers who are mainly blacks, but they just hold their arms and watch from the side, and they don't mean to help at all, and they look lazy that they don't care about themselves.

-- The U.S. fleet guarding Yokosuka was bombed day after day, and the port of Yokohama, where the "Provisional Government of Japan" was stationed and where "Japanese traitors" were said to be gathered, also became a key target of air raids by the Japanese resistance forces.

As a matter of fact, long before the first bombing of Yokohama, planes of the Soviet Government of Hokkaido had come here many times to drop leaflets preaching "protecting the country and fighting traitors," predicting the bombing information in advance, and exhorting the citizens of Yokohama to evacuate from the city as soon as possible and not to burn jade and stone together with the "traitorous traitors."

However, the problem is that after the atomic bombing of Tokyo and the landing of US troops, all the US military occupied areas on the Japanese mainland were a picture of purgatory with scorched earth and devastated lives, social order completely collapsed, and various massacres and looting incidents continued to occur. Only in the port of Yokohama, where the provisional government is stationed, there is still a little order. However, considering the face of the provisional government, the US military was able to barely maintain military discipline at least in the urban area of Yokohama, and it was relatively restrained. Thanks to wartime hoarding and relief from the U.S. military, the current citizens of Yokohama are still receiving food rations of four taels of brown rice, flour, or grains per person per day.

And as long as you walk out of the city of Yokohama, you can see that the Allies are implementing a scorched earth policy throughout the Kanto Plain, and ordinary people have no way to survive at all.

Therefore, despite the warnings of the airdrop leaflets and the fact that they knew what it would be like to stay in Yokohama, there were still many Yokohama citizens and refugees who did not have the courage to flee across the line of fire to the other side of the battlefield, and were even more afraid of losing their only food rations and had to starve. In the end, he remained on the ruins that smelled of burnt paste and the smell of corpses, refusing to evacuate to the dangerous countryside......

In the smoke that has not yet dissipated, a well-looking black sedan honks its horn, surrounded by dozens of guards on motorcycles or bicycles, and led by a "bean chariot" mini tank, slowly driving through the streets of Yokohama, which are still in disarray.

Kishigero Bihara, foreign minister and acting prime minister of the "Provisional Government of Japan," sat in the back seat of this bulletproof car, frowning and looking at the street scene outside through the window

-- Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese people have been suffering from extreme embarrassment and deprivation for more than four years, and countless people have racked their brains to fill their stomachs, but they have inevitably fallen into chronic hunger. Most Japanese people have not seen fish and meat on their tables for a long time. There are also death notices that come with the war, which plunges one family after another into endless grief. And now, with the collapse of the government, no one has even sent death notices, and everyone can't even know whether their relatives are dead or alive!

“…… It's terrible...... Why are those soldiers so stubborn? If this continues, when will the country be at peace? ”

Seeing a woman naked, crying and laughing while holding her dead child, obviously crazy, Kishigero Bihara couldn't help but sigh.

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-- Kishigero Bihara, a famous Japanese diplomat, was born in a famous family with a long history in Osaka Prefecture, and was recruited as his son-in-law by Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, and was a brother-in-law with former Prime Minister Takaaki Kato. After the Washington Conference, Kishigero Bihara served as foreign minister in five consecutive cabinets, so he was known as the "Bihara era" in Japanese diplomatic circles.

Although as the Japanese Empire gradually slipped into the orbit of war, the military gradually squeezed out politicians and took sole power, Kishigero Bihara is not an ordinary person after all, and with the background of a chaebol family and the profound qualifications of serving as foreign minister for a long time, he still has a great say in Japanese political circles. Last year's secret attempt to make peace with the United States and the establishment of the "Provisional Government of Japan" in Kyoto in October were all the work of Kishigero Bihara and the Mitsubishi zaibatsu behind him. As for Konoe Fumima, who was elected as the prime minister of the provisional government, it was just to see that his noble blood was easy to convince the public, and he was brought out as a façade.

Therefore, when Kyoto was occupied by the Japanese resistance forces in the late autumn of last year, and the provisional government hastily moved to Yokohama to join the US military, because Prime Minister Fumima Konoe disappeared in the process of moving out of Kyoto, Kishigero Bihara served as acting prime minister as foreign minister, and actually led the operation of the "provisional government of Japan...... But it also made Kishigero Bihara sit on the infamy of "Baiyi lackey", and was even charged with the crime of "collaborating with the enemy and killing the king", and since then he has become the "head of the country" that the vast number of patriots in Japan are eager to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin......

In this regard, Kishigero Bihara personally felt very aggrieved, in his opinion, until Emperor Showa died in a mushroom cloud, he had never betrayed His Majesty the Emperor. In the past, he tried to conduct secret diplomacy and peace talks with the United States, but he carried out it "in accordance with his intentions", and he did not collude with enemy countries in private, and he did not disclose any key information. At least the black cauldron of the Tokyo nuclear bombing and the destruction of the imperial family could not be thrown on his head.

As for the subsequent establishment of the "Provisional Government of Japan" in Kyoto, on behalf of Japan, it announced its unconditional surrender to the US military, and demanded that all the military and civilians "bear the burden of humiliation and take the country's social welfare as considerations," stop resisting, and collect weapons, seal up ammunition, and wait for the US military to take over...... This is also a last resort!

In Kishigero Bihara's view, after the death of the emperor, the duty of loyalty on his shoulders will be over, and it is time to think about himself and the country. What is the situation in Japan at this time? The government is paralyzed, the military is dominant, the civilian party is weak, and the social contradictions are extremely intensified, all relying on the wartime system to force it. At the same time, the red ideology had spread dramatically among the military and among the people, and the signs of revolution were gradually emerging.

As a representative figure of the zaebol and civilian forces, Kishigero Bihara naturally did not like the militarist fascists, and still less the Bolsheviks, but he was very envious of the American consortium that could control the country behind the scenes, and very much hoped that Japan's political structure would also develop in that direction.

However, with the military dominating power in Japan, the threat of mobs outside, and the state in a wartime system, the Japanese chaebols are destined to not be able to rely on their own strength to subdue the army, overthrow the government, suppress the workers and peasants, and seize real power...... In this case, what else can be done except to kneel and lick the US military and beg for help? Do you want to sit back and wait for the madman of the military department to drain the last drop of blood of the whole country and squeeze the last bit of money out of the old man's family? Or let the red brains of the Bolsheviks jump up and rebel and divide up the company and land of the old man?

No matter which choice it is, for His Excellency Kishigero Bihara, who is sitting on the side of the chaebol magnates, it is the same, and it is absolutely unbearable!

I remember that Mr. Wang Jingwei, the deceased friend of Nanjing, didn't he invent a word called "curve to save the country"? The reason why this official advocates unconditional surrender is to save the country on the curve, and it is to prevent the spread of the red scourge in Japan, so he wants to use American soldiers to suppress the people!

In order to save the country, to maintain the national system, and to prevent Japan from being polluted by the evil red ideology, this official has lost his face and reputation, and has surrendered and served the US army, what a huge sacrifice he has made! I feel great when I think about it! Alas, why can't you, lowly commoners, who have been brainwashed by the erroneous ideas of militarism and Bolshevism, fully understand and appreciate the painstaking work of this master?

However, in this country, neither the superstitious and violent Japanese samurai nor the ordinary people whose families were destroyed by the massacre of the American military could understand the thinking of this diplomatic elite. Moreover, the real Yamato samurai preferred to talk with knives and bullets instead of gushing nonsense and pestering with tongue warfare!

“…… Kill give! ”“…… Heaven punishes the thief! ”“…… Go to hell! Bihara! ”

With these two loud shouts, a long chain of fire suddenly burst out from the dilapidated street, which seemed calm a second ago.

The light machine gun hidden in the corner window of the street let out a fierce roar at the convoy, and the bullets swept over the guards' bodies like hailstones, and the next moment, hot blood gushed out from the holes in the uniforms, staining patches of blinding red on the body and the ground.

In a hoarse howl and curse, the guards on motorcycles or bicycles were swept over, and a string of sparks splashed from the bulletproof sedan in which Kishigero Bihara was riding. Seeing this, the Japanese "Bean Chariot" mini tank driving in front of the road hurriedly made an emergency brake, but before the tank could stop, the bulletproof sedan behind it crashed headlong by surprise, making a deafening loud noise.

Despite this, the guards who were attacked quickly reacted, using tanks and cars as cover to shoot at the attackers hiding in the street windows, and the machine guns on the bean chariot slowly turned an angle and spat out tongues of fire at the assassins, pressing them so that they could not raise their heads.

But in the next moment, another shout like a talisman sounded in a corner not far away, "...... Fast! Throw the bottle! ”

Suddenly, several ronin assassins disguised as homeless people on the side of the street lifted their worn-out coats full of patches, picked up the "cocktail bottles" in their hands, and threw them at Kishigero Bihara's car and the "Bean Chariot" mini tank - a dozen black bottles flew along the parabola from all directions on the side of the street to the target, but due to the poor craftsmanship of the makers, less than half of the bottles exploded and burned after hitting the ground.

Despite this, these raging flames with a "hula" still caused great confusion and trouble to the guards. Next, the ronin assassins who threw out the "cocktail bottles" shouted "Heavenly Punishment" with all their strength, brandishing pistols, rifles, and katanas......

For Kishigero Bihara, who was sitting in a bulletproof car, the few minutes after the attack seemed longer than a month—shouts of killing, explosions, rising flames, and splatters of blood...... The turret of the Bean Chariot spewed strings of dead flames, and the roaring Assassins and dutiful guards fell in convulsions with blood splattered from their bodies...... One of the assassins threw the grenade to the side of the car, less than two meters away from Kishigero Bihara, and he could even see the sparks of the fuse through the glass, but the sturdy bulletproof body finally blocked the shock wave and fragments of the grenade, and did not hurt him in the slightest, except for his heart beating so violently that it seemed to jump out of his chest......

Eventually, after leaving behind five or six corpses, but still making little progress, especially with the bean chariot, the "Heavenly Punishment" assassin finally gave up the operation, and with a whistling as a signal, turned and ran down the streets and alleys...... After a while, a group of American soldiers who had been ordered to "assist in the defense" of Yokohama arrived belatedly and casually asked what had just happened......

-- In any case, Kishigero Bihara, who was the head of the Japanese traitors, finally escaped again in front of the blade of the "righteous man who begged the traitor".