Chapter 434: The Destruction of the Bacterial Warfare Unit
After hearing Kimura Hyōtaro's report, Umezu Yoshijiro, who had the ominous premonition in his heart was confirmed, almost didn't suffer the blow and fainted on the spot. If it weren't for Kimura Hyōtaro next to him and the person who rushed to the scene after hearing the explosion.
The adjutants and guards who came over rushed to help him, and this majestic general commander of the Kwantung Army was afraid that he would fall to the ground.
And when he woke up from this huge blow, he could no longer hold his breath. Not to mention the so-called general demeanor he had just claimed, he slapped the luxurious palace in front of him of the Kwantung Army Commander's residence.
Pushing everything on the desk to the ground, he said angrily: "Baga, the person in charge of Xinjing's air defense should all commit hara-kiri to apologize to the emperor."
"And the damn Special Intelligence Department and their group of intelligence officers who are stupider than pigs are all a bunch of losers. The enemy is equipped with so many bombers, but they don't even notice it. With such a large number of bombers, how can they all
Didn't they just emerge from the ground overnight? They are just a bunch of losers. The empire spent precious military funds to raise them, which is worse than raising a bunch of pigs."
No wonder Umezu Yoshijiro is so angry. Let’s not talk about what troops are stationed on the front line of Mengjiatun and how important they are. Just say that when Xinjing encountered an air attack, the entire Kwantung Army deployed anti-aircraft artillery and fighter units around Xinjing.
The bomb actually landed on the top of his head and he didn't react at all.
From the moment the first explosion was heard to the present, the entire front line of Mengjiatun has become a sea of fire, and there is not a single sound of anti-aircraft artillery fire in return. How can Umezu Yoshijiro remain calm? Could it be that the Imperial Army equipped the Kwantung Army with eight
The Type 8 75mm anti-aircraft gun, as well as those expensive listening devices and searchlights are all just for display?
Today, the front line of Mengjiatun is under air attack. Who can guarantee that bombs will fall on the Kwantung Army headquarters tomorrow? There are also industrial bases in South Manchuria that are needed to maintain the war against Japan. Who can guarantee that bombs will not fall on them that day?
Overhead? The Empire has always bombed the Chinese. When did the Chinese planes turn to bomb the Imperial Army? What’s even more annoying is that the anti-aircraft artillery and aviation forces around Xinjing didn’t even fight back.
If the reaction speed of the Imperial Army is this slow, then not only myself, the commander of the Kwantung Army, but even the heads in the Tokyo base camp will not be relieved. The bombs will fall on my head.
, the counterattack troops seemed to be mute, who else could suppress their anger?
And those idiots in the Intelligence Department don't even know that their opponents are equipped with strategic bombers. Let alone what type of bombers they are, how much bombs they carry, how large their combat radius is, and what kind of channels they obtained the bombers from. Domestic
Is it possible that it is also within the combat range of their bombers?
You must know that their so-called base area is not far from the mainland of the Japanese Empire. If the bomb can fall on Xinjing today, who can guarantee that the bomb will not fall on Tokyo that day? Today, his army commander is bombed, who can guarantee that that day
Will the Emperor in Tokyo be bombed?
The bombing of Xinjing was very embarrassing for Umezu Yoshijiro, but it was not completely unacceptable. What was most difficult for him to accept was the special force of the Kwantung Army stationed on the front line of Mengjiatun. Except for a few people from the Kwantung Army Headquarters
In addition, most Japanese officers and soldiers did not know the importance of the troops.
He knew more clearly what it would mean to the Kwantung Army and even the Empire of Japan if something unexpected happened to this force. This not only meant that the Empire became a target of public criticism internationally, but also for the Empire of Japan, in the face of
When the United States, Britain and other countries are far more powerful than Japan's opponents, it also means that they will lose their last trump card.
The 100th Unit of the Kwantung Army based in Mengjiatun was the only large-scale germ warfare unit left by the Kwantung Army and even the Japanese Army after the loss of Harbin and the total destruction of the 731st Unit.
.The entire Japanese army, from the Emperor of Japan to the army leaders, attaches great importance to it.
Just three days ago, the Chief of Staff and the Army Undersecretary had teamed up to send a telegram to the Kwantung Army to discuss whether, if necessary, they could use bacterial weapons on a large scale in order to eliminate the so-called bacterial weapons in the shortest possible time.
Manchuria was the anti-Japanese base for the cancer. Moreover, in the telegram, the two men vaguely revealed that this was the emperor's decision.
Stabilizing the Manchuria and Mongolia regions as the lifeline of Japan as quickly as possible is the top priority of the Emperor and the Tokyo base camp. Manchuria and Mongolia are unrest, and the lifeline of the empire's survival is threatened. His Majesty the Emperor has trouble sleeping and eating. Without the provision of Manchuria
With nearly free resources, energy, agricultural products, and a vast market, it is difficult for Japan to compete with European and American powers based on its own strength alone.
Therefore, for the Japanese military, how to eliminate the cancer of public security in Manchuria as quickly as possible and restore the empire's rule over the entire territory of Manchuria has become the top priority of the Tokyo base camp in addition to strategic resource issues. Moreover, the emperor has repeatedly asked
, has brought great pressure to the Tokyo base camp.
If the Americans had not announced an embargo on the energy and strategic resources that the empire urgently needed at this moment, the entire empire would have focused all their energy on how to obtain oil and strategic metals in order to maintain the needs of the war, and they would have been distracted.
In the second half of this year, as soon as the Kwantung Army regains its strength, it will order a full-scale attack on the so-called Anti-Alliance base areas in the north.
On the premise of not wanting to pay a heavy price like last year, the so-called 100 troops located on the front line of Mengjiatun in Xinjing became the base camp, including the Kwantung Army. It was hoped that it could effectively reduce the loss of national power caused by the war.
The secret weapon to restore the previous situation in Manchuria as soon as possible.
Now, such an extremely important force for the Holy War has not had time to play the role that the entire Japanese Army and even the Emperor have high hopes for, but it has been taken out of the air. How can this make the Kwantung Army facing this
The army attaches great importance to it. After the battle last year, the emperor, who often personally inquired about the safety of this army, made an explanation?
From the raging fire ignited on the Mengjiatun line southeast of Xinjing, Umezu Yoshijiro could think of it even with his eyes closed. I am afraid that the entire Mengjiatun line has been completely turned into a pile of ruins. As for the hundred troops, at this scale,
Under the bombing, there was almost no possibility of survival.
The 100th Unit of the Kwantung Army is the same as the 731st Unit. Except for a small number of guard troops who have received strict military training like the general Japanese combat troops, most of them are experts in germ warfare. How about these people?
They went to do some biochemical research, that was their specialty.
But if you ask them to avoid a large-scale air raid without being prepared, it may be too difficult for these people who seriously lack military training. Such a violent bombing, plus all the vigilance beforehand
, I am afraid that very few of these empire’s precious bacterial experts will survive.
The straight-line distance between Xinjing and the so-called base area of the Anti-Japanese Alliance is too close. Taking off from the north of the Songhua River, almost all bombers do not need to consider the fuel load and can carry the maximum bomb load for bombing. If a bomber carries five
One hundred kilograms of bombs, then one hundred bombers would carry a total of fifty thousand kilograms of bombs.
Umezu Yoshijiro knew very well what these 50,000 kilograms of bombs meant to the small Mengjiatun. From today on, the Kwantung Army's No. 100 Unit may only remain on paper.
As for the entire Japanese Army, the loss of the best bacteriologists in Japan after the loss of Unit 731 might have a greater impact.
The Kwantung Army's bacteriological warfare unit, which was once full of talents, may never recover after this bombing. The few small-scale bacteriological warfare units of the Kwantung China Expedition Army alone cannot achieve the results of the Kwantung Army no matter what.
. Thinking of this, Umezu Yoshijiro wanted to give himself a big mouth.
After the battle last year, Lieutenant General Iimura Rang, then chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, repeatedly suggested that Xinjing was now too close to the frontier. The several hundred kilometers from Xinjing to the Shuangcheng line was too far for a modern army.
, is no longer an insurmountable chasm.
For an airplane, this distance is less than an hour. Taking off from the north of Harbin, we can reach the current location of the Anti-Japanese Federation within an hour. Xinjing is only a few hundred kilometers away from the frontier.
, for a modern aviation force, it is simply impossible to call it an effective safety distance.
Although the bombers currently appearing on the battlefield are mainly no-name bombers and light bombers, and their number is not large. There are not many aircraft that can truly engage in strategic bombing, only twenty or thirty. Even in terms of use on the battlefield,
It also shows that they have not yet formed a complete set of bombing tactics.
But after all, the Anti-Japanese Alliance already has a certain number of bombers, which is still a big threat to Xinjing, which has a large number of Japanese expatriates and senior commanders of the Kwantung Army. For Xinjing with a large population, concentrated
For a big city with a large number of vital departments, the damage caused by a bomb would be huge.
While trying to mobilize fighter jets and anti-aircraft artillery units to protect Xinjing's air defense, Lieutenant General Iimura Rang believed that neither the Kwantung Army Headquarters nor some confidential and important departments were suitable to continue to stay around Xinjing at the moment. They should be dispatched as soon as possible or
Either move south to Fengtian, or move east to the border between Manchuria and North Korea.
The first one on Iimura Rang's list is the Kwantung Army's top-secret 100-unit unit. Just because of the special nature of this unit, once an accident occurs, it will be difficult for the Japanese to avoid it.
Next. Lieutenant General Iimura Rang repeatedly suggested that this force be transferred to Chaoyang or Fuxin area north of Jinzhou.
However, Umezu Yoshijiro considered that once the Kwantung Army headquarters was moved at this time, it might cause panic among the Japanese in Xinjing and senior Manchukuo officials. Once people were in chaos, the Manchukuo, which was established by relying on the bayonet of the Kwantung Army, would
Can it still be maintained?
After much deliberation, in order to stabilize people's hearts, Umezu Yoshijiro tried his best to mobilize dozens of anti-aircraft guns, more than a hundred fighter jets, as well as a large number of audio receivers and searchlights to take on the air defense mission of Xinjing. But he still refused.
Iimura Rang's suggestion to relocate some important departments. As the commander of the Kwantung Army, he had to think twice before making up his mind on many decisions.