Chapter 120 You will be in the history books for doing this
Yang Zhen took the Imperial University in Tokyo as the first bombing target 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 destroy Japan during the war
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. Except for Tokyo Imperial University, almost all famous Japanese universities are concentrated here. World-class universities such as Tokyo Institute of Technology, Keio University, University of Tsukuba, Hitotsubashi University, and Waseda University are all concentrated here.
Tokyo.
What he wants to do most is to take advantage of the fact that Japan has not yet completely shifted to a 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.
Things. Tokyo was bombed, so 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 a detailed map. 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? That way I can avoid this accidental bombing.
And these two words were included in all the press conferences of the Anti-Japanese Alliance after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Regardless of any reporter, Japanese universities and scientific research institutions suffered several times more bombs during the war than 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, why put all the reasons on the table? Some things are said too much, and it is difficult to explain. Today's meeting
, to unify his thoughts and understanding on the issue of bombing Japan, and 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 some 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 who were advancing over there frowned deeply. It was obvious that they were dissatisfied with Yang
I don’t have much objection to the shock bombing of military targets in Japan. However, 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 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 fascist institutions such as the Japanese military headquarters in Tokyo, but most of them are ordinary people. If you continue this 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 that only the ferocious imperialists can do. By doing this, you are in conflict 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 bear it without saying anything, then he had personally rescued and raised two young men during the Hundred Regiments War.
The political commissar, a Japanese war orphan, really couldn't bear it anymore.
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. We should not target cities where a large number of ordinary innocent people gather.”
"Comrade Yang Zhen, you should know that Tokyo, as the largest city in Japan, is home to millions of people. When your napalm bombs are fired, the casualties will be more among the civilians without air raid shelters or guards.
Those fascists and big capitalists who live a good life and are protected by strong bunkers."
"It was the fascists and militarists who invaded China and massacred our civilians. What do they have to do with the civilians? They are all innocent. We hope you can carefully consider your goals. If you aim the war at innocent civilians, then
This is something that only fascists and militarists would do. But we should never 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. The lethality of this bomb is...
You should be clear in your mind. Steel can be melted 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 is the difference between us and those fascists who kill innocent people indiscriminately? Comrade Yang Zhen, I hope you can be careful and cautious.
Think again. Don't let yourself be criticized by thousands of people like those militarists."
"If you want to conduct 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.
Go up. Comrade Yang Zhen, killing innocent people indiscriminately will go down in history. We cannot turn ourselves into a beast army like the Japanese army, which relies on massacre to win."
What the political commissar said was very serious, so serious that even the commander felt that it was too much. The commander believed that no matter what Yang Zhen's starting point was, the ultimate goal was to consider the war situation. If you have different opinions, can you keep it? 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. He has hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and generals under his command, and controls the whole country.
He is the most powerful man in all 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 a moment of silence, he explained his original intention. However, 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, are these apples 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 nation is 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
. Only then will you truly become rich and 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. We have a deep understanding 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, the vast majority of all Japanese women
Some of them are active and voluntary. Except for 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, but many people even think that it is serving their so-called holy war and doing meritorious service for the emperor, which is an extremely glorious thing. And there is no such thing as this.
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 Corps 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 were educated like beasts."
"The Japanese scientific and technical personnel we encountered at the Japanese military germ warfare base were all top medical students from prestigious Japanese universities. Many of them even had experience of studying in the West. As people with high IQs, these people are very
They know what they are doing. 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 more based on the continuous struggle to suck the flesh and blood of the Chinese people.
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 ceded land time and time again and paid indemnities time and time again, which laid the foundation for Japan to develop into a modern industrialized country today, and provided them with the development of modern industry and education.
With sufficient funds. 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."