Chapter 120 You will be in the history books for doing this
Yang Zhen took the Imperial University in Tokyo as the first batch of bombing targets and tried his best to destroy the backbone of the Japanese post-war revival. This was his truest idea for air raids on Tokyo, and his ultimate goal was not only to Tokyo Imperial University, which was later renamed the University of Tokyo, among his series of air raid targets, were several other Japanese Imperial Universities except Taipei Imperial University.
Tokyo is the center of Japanese education. In addition to Tokyo Imperial University, almost all famous Japanese universities, including Tokyo Institute of Technology, Keio University, Tsukuba University, Hitotsubashi University, Waseda University and other world-class universities are concentrated here. Tokyo.
What he wants to do most is to take advantage of the fact that Japan has not yet fully entered the war situation and these universities are still in Tokyo and have not been evacuated, to completely destroy these famous Japanese universities and completely destroy the talent base for Japan's post-war revival. After Tokyo was bombed, can these universities still exist?
Since the Japanese were able to blow up even the Commercial Press to the ground in order to weaken the cultural inheritance of the Chinese nation, then Yang Zhen, in order to avoid leaving any hidden dangers to the future development of the Chinese nation, used bombers to send the Japanese back to the Meiji Restoration. Before the era, it was just tit for tat.
As for the excuse, Yang Zhen had already thought of it. The word "accidental bombing" is easy to explain. Tokyo is so big and the Anti-Japanese Alliance does not have detailed maps. I know where your factory area and military area are. How about you, the Japanese, provide one? A military map showing all your military deployments in Tokyo, so that I can avoid this accidental bombing.
And these two words were also mentioned in all the press conferences of the Anti-Japanese Alliance after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Regardless of any reporter, the bombs that Japanese universities and scientific research institutions suffered during the war were even several times more than those of Japanese military factories. How to ask a question to get the most answers.
It's just these things and ideas that he absolutely cannot say. There are many reasons for bombing Tokyo, so why put all the reasons on the table? Some things are said too much, and it is difficult to explain. Today's meeting, It was to unify his thoughts and understanding on the issue of bombing Japan, not to cause trouble for himself.
If there are reasons that can be put on the table, there is no need to explain the others too clearly, and these so-called reasons he said have obviously played a certain role. Although there are still people who still don't understand it very well, but before However, no one mentioned the objections again.
After Yang Zhen told the reason why he finally decided to bomb Tokyo, and heard that he actually targeted civilians for the bombing, the two veterans advancing in the army frowned deeply. It was obvious that they were dissatisfied with Yang I don’t have any big objections to the earthquake bombing of military targets in Japan, but I am very dissatisfied with this approach of placing targets in civilian areas, just like the Japanese bombing of China’s rear areas.
Especially after hearing Yang Zhen's words about burning Tokyo, the two veterans disagreed. Most of the houses in Japan are made of wood. If you drop a few napalm bombs, it will cause a huge fire. , and Tokyo is located by the sea, and the winter monsoon will increase the power of the fire. You are not burning Tokyo, you are trying to completely destroy Tokyo.
There are indeed Japanese military headquarters and other fascist institutions in Tokyo, but most of them are civilians. If you continue the fire, how many innocent people will be killed or injured. The initiators of Japan's invasion of China are those fascists and imperialists. Not those innocent people.
By targeting civilians for bombing, aren't you putting the cart before the horse? Killing innocent people indiscriminately and targeting peaceful residents is something only the brutal imperialists can do. In doing so, you are at odds with those who lead beasts and cannibals. What's the difference between the imperialists?
Among the two commanders who knew Yang Zhen's inner thoughts very clearly, if the commander could still hold back and didn't say anything, then he had personally rescued and raised two young men during the Hundred Regiments War. A political commissar who was a Japanese war orphan could not bear it any longer.
After looking at Yang Zhen, who was still standing in front of the map and looking at everyone present with a stern expression, the political commissar said: "Comrade Yang Zhen, you want to launch an air raid on the Japanese mainland. We know that you have your strategic intentions. The commander and I cannot object to this, after all, it is the wish of our whole party and the whole army to bring the war to the enemy's territory."
"But should you reconsider the target you chose? The original intention of our air strikes against Japan, as you said, is to fundamentally weaken Japan's war potential. Then we should place the target of the bombing on Japan's military industrial enterprises and local military bases should not be targeted at cities where a large number of ordinary innocent people gather."
"Comrade Yang Zhen, you should know that Tokyo is the largest city in Japan, with millions of people gathered in it. If you use these napalm bombs, the casualties will be more among the civilians who have no air raid shelters and no guards. Those fascists and big capitalists who live a good life and are protected by strong bunkers."
"The fascists and militarists who invaded China and massacred our civilians have nothing to do with the civilians. They are all innocent. We hope you will carefully consider your goals and direct the war against innocent civilians. Then This is something that only fascists and militarists would do, and we absolutely should not do it."
"We must pay special attention to the preferential treatment of prisoners who lay down their weapons on the battlefield, not to mention those hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Napalm bombs were invented by you yourself. The lethality of this bomb is... You should know in your heart that steel can melt into molten iron, let alone those houses without any protection."
"If you use these napalm bombs, it will be a disguised massacre. If you do this, what difference will there be between us and those fascists who kill innocent people indiscriminately? Comrade Yang Zhen, I hope you can be careful and prudent." Think again and don't let yourself be criticized by thousands of people like those militarists."
"You want to carry out air strikes on the Japanese mainland to weaken Japan's war potential and ability to wage war. Again, as long as you have this ability, we do not support it, but we still hope that you will focus your bombing on Japan's military industry. Come on, Comrade Yang Zhen, killing innocent people indiscriminately will go down in the history books. We cannot turn ourselves into a beast army like the Japanese army, which relies on massacre to win."
The political commissar's words were very serious, so serious that even the commander felt that they were too much. The commander believed that no matter what Yang Zhen's starting point was, in the final analysis, the purpose was to consider the war situation. Can any different opinions be reserved? Why bother? Say it so bluntly.
Although your brother has a strong party spirit and strong principles, do you have to speak according to the occasion? Although he is young and has little qualifications, he is still a regional military chief, with hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and generals under his command, and he controls the whole country. He is the most powerful man in the major strategic areas of the army. If you criticize him in front of so many of his subordinates, shouldn't you change the occasion?
However, compared to the somewhat dissatisfied commander, Yang Zhen shook his head at the political commissar's words. After being silent for a while, he still explained his original intention, but he did not explain directly, but said: "Old man Chief, when I was studying in Peking, I once heard something about the Japanese people’s thoughts on China. Although I don’t know whether this thing is true, I think that since this statement can appear, it may not be true. "
"This story is about a teacher who was supposed to teach and educate people. After eating a few apples for his students one day, he asked his students if these apples were delicious. When the students replied that they were delicious, the teacher Tell his students that these sweet and delicious apples are produced in China."
"China is rich, but the Chinese people are inferior. When you grow up, fight bravely for the empire, kill all the despicable Chinese people, and completely occupy the entire China, then you and your descendants will eat more delicious apples. , you will truly become rich and will not live in poverty like you."
"Although I don't actually believe it, or don't want to believe the authenticity of this rumor, but from some of the things we have experienced, I have to believe that this rumor is just groundless. Years of indoctrination and education have made Japan People at all levels, including women, children, the elderly and the weak, have formed a deep-rooted concept of the invasion of China, and we are fully aware of this."
"In previous battles, we captured a large number of comfort women who performed special services for the Japanese army. Among these comfort women, except for Koreans and Chinese who were forced, most of them were Japanese women. Some of them are active and voluntary, and apart from a few prostitutes, most of these Japanese women are normal housewives."
"Not only do they not feel it is a shame to do this kind of thing, many people even think that it is serving their so-called holy war and making meritorious service to the emperor, which is a glorious thing, and there is no such thing as It only includes those rural peasant women who are illiterate, and a large number of people who have received secondary education or above."
"As well as the hundreds of thousands of old and weak members of the so-called Manchuria Pioneer Regiment that we captured, no one thinks that the war launched by the Japanese is an unjust war. They cheer for every victory of their so-called imperial army. , some of them treat the Chinese even more cruelly than the Japanese soldiers who have received a beast-like education."
"There are also Japanese scientific and technical personnel we encountered at the Japanese military germ warfare base. They are all top medical students from prestigious Japanese universities. Many of them even have experience studying in the West. As people with high IQs, these people are very They know what they are doing, and not only are none of these people forced to come, most of them are even proud of it."
"Old chief, these people are ordinary Japanese people. Many of them have not actually changed their poor lives because of Japan's war of aggression against China, but they still fanatically believe that Japan's war of aggression against China has The war between China and China is a just war, but those sober people who oppose this unjust war have become national traitors in their eyes."
"As a poor island country with frequent earthquakes, numerous volcanoes, narrow terrain, and almost no resources, the development of the Japanese is certainly due to the unity of the country's people, but it is mostly based on the continuous efforts to suck the flesh and blood of the Chinese people. On the other hand, the barren Japanese archipelago cannot provide many resources to build modern industry."
"The education and industry of the Japanese can reach this stage precisely because the Qing government's land cession and indemnity payments laid the foundation for Japan to develop into a modern industrialized country today, providing them with the development of modern industry and education. Without sufficient funds, and without the huge funds gained from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 and the Gengzi Incident, the Japanese would have been unable to establish modern industry."