Chapter 1249 60 Million and 600 Million

The event that occurred on May 28, 1945, which had the most profound impact on the history of this time and space, turned out not to be the Germans' arrogant victory parade, but the more than 100 tons of anthrax spore bombs and plague bacteria ceramics dropped by the Americans in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. bomb!

That's more than 100 tons of bacterial weapons! Except for surgery and a small amount of explosives and fillers, they are all deadly bacteria and Chinese fleas carrying the bacteria. American germ warfare experts are worried that American fleas cannot tolerate Japanese blood with little blood lipids, so they specially imported flea species from China. To carry plague bacteria from bacterial bombs dropped by Japan (bacterial weapons have this shortcoming, they can easily be copied by opponents and thrown on their own heads).

Since several B-29C aircraft carrying coagulant bombs ignited large urban areas in advance and pointed out the direction to other B-29Cs in the sky, thousands of various bacterial bombs may be on the world's population. The densest center of Tokyo is everywhere! Although according to the order of Yamamoto Isoroku, the Japanese Defense Army has already deployed biological and chemical defense teams in Tokyo. However, the number and equipment of these anti-biochemical forces are very limited, and it is impossible to clean the entire urban area of ​​Tokyo in a short period of time.

Moreover, the solidified bombs dropped by several previously ignited B-29Cs also set dozens of fires in the center of Tokyo. The burn was not severe, but it aroused panic among citizens - in order to avoid public panic, the Japanese government did not immediately announce that Tokyo might be attacked by a bacterial bomb. At that time, Yamamoto and others believed that the "Moonlight" night fighters deployed in the northern Noto Peninsula and Niigata Prefecture could at least force the B-17 to abandon bacterial bombs in the Sea of ​​Japan and coastal areas.

So everyone is afraid that the fire will spread to their dilapidated houses. So many people were rushing to put out the fire and save their little belongings. As soon as the air raid siren stopped, the streets of Tokyo were filled with people.

As a result, the germ immediately spread uncontrollably in urban Tokyo, and a short time later, it caused a large-scale epidemic in Tokyo.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, according to statistics from the Tokyo Defense Command, as of June 5, the number of citizens and soldiers confirmed to be infected with anthrax in Tokyo's epidemic areas has reached more than 75,000; the number of people infected with the plague has reached There are more than 73,000 people, and more than 20,000 of them are infected with anthrax and plague at the same time. In addition, there are more than 100,000 suspected cases... This time it is really a heavy loss!"

In Kyoto, Japan, in a campus of Kyoto University near the Kyoto Imperial Palace, the Japanese cabinet, which has just moved from Tokyo, which became an epidemic area, is holding an emergency meeting. Army Minister Anami Yuiki is using a trembling voice to describe the "disaster" situation in the affected areas of Tokyo.

Currently, there are hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases of the disease, more than 100,000 suspected cases, and countless more who are still in the incubation period. According to the estimates of experts from Unit 731, even if treatment is received in time (which in fact cannot be done in time, and there is no medicine), there is no problem that tens of thousands of people will die in Tokyo this time.

"Baga!" Army Minister Anan Weiji, who was making a report, suddenly piled up the documents in his hand and shouted loudly. "We can't forgive! We must not spare the Americans, the Chinese, and the Chinese! We must, we must let them understand the power of the empire..."

"Anan-kun!" Yamamoto Isoroku shouted, interrupting the barking Army Minister, "What are you talking about? Are you scolding like a shrew, or does the Army have some way to turn the tide of the war?"

"The Army..." Anan Wei gritted his teeth, "The Army is also preparing to use the bacterial weapons of Unit 731 to attack Shanghai and Guangzhou!"

The Japanese Army has long used bacterial weapons on the battlefield in the Far East, but it did not stop the enemy's offensive. Now Anami seems to be carried away by anger and is clamoring to use bacterial weapons to attack China's big cities Shanghai and Guangzhou - now the Japanese planes cannot reach the mainland of the United States, not even the Hawaiian Islands. As for Vladivostok, the population there was basically evacuated after the outbreak of the Far East War. After the Japanese army was defeated under the city of Vladivostok, there were not even many garrison troops left. Attacking with bacterial weapons will probably have no effect.

So the Chinese seem to be the only people Anan Weiji can vent his anger on...but the consequences will be quite serious!

"Bastard!" Yamamoto Isoroku was still stunned and immediately cursed, "Anan, do you want the Yamato nation to be exterminated?"

"Prime Minister, where do you start talking about this?"

Yamamoto snorted: "Does Anan-kun know that the Chinese also have germ weapons and long-range bombers now?"

"Those are all given by American ghosts..." Anan Weiji said bitterly.

"Ananjun, do you know how many people there are in China?" Yamamoto asked again.

"More than 600 million, maybe 700 million soon..."

Today's China has not experienced a brutal war of resistance, and has been basically developing peacefully since 1928. The Second Northern Expedition in 1939 was also devastating. It took 2 million communist fighters one month to sweep through most of northern China. So there was no population loss. Moreover, the land reform carried out in the south has equalized the means of living, which is greatly conducive to population growth.

Therefore, there were more than 600 million people in 1945!

With a bang, Yamamoto Isoroku slammed the conference table: "Anami Yuiki, you also know that there are many Chinese people! The Chinese people are about 10 times as many as the empire (all Koreans will soon not be Japanese) ), and they live more spread out, most of them live outside the range that our bombers can cover, while we Japanese are very concentrated, almost all living within the range that our B-17s and B-29s can cover. Under such circumstances, if we compete with China on our ability to withstand bacterial weapons, aren’t we committing suicide?”

Today's China is not a country that cannot fight back in the face of bacterial weapons. In order to retaliate against Japan, the Americans have supported China's biological factories that produce anthrax weapons and plague weapons.

Compared with releasing bacteria, the Chinese will not lose! Moreover, China has a large population and a higher birth rate and growth rate, and a Japanese can be born in a few years. In addition, China's current urbanization rate is also very low, just over 10%, and large coastal cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou do not have much population at all due to "preparation for war." If we fight with bacterial weapons, the Japanese will really perish!

"But, but...the empire can't let the Chinese and Americans go like this!" Anan Weiji roared.

"What should I do if I don't let go?" Yamamoto Isoroku's eyes were red and he glared at Ananda. "All the B-29s that attacked Tokyo on the 28th flew to Vladivostok...more than 100 of them! If these planes attack from Vladivostok again, Then the bacterial weapons that can be carried will be 10 times more than those launched from Hawaii. By then, Japan will become a hell!

Therefore, in order to prevent the empire from being destroyed. Now I will report to the Emperor to request an end to the war. "

"No," Anan Weiji yelled, "I request to resign as Minister of War!"

Japan currently implements the active-duty military attaché system for the ministers of navy and army. That is to say, a cabinet can only be established if the navy and army select active generals and lieutenant generals as ministers. Once the Minister of Navy and Army resigns and there is no one to succeed him, the cabinet will collapse.

By submitting his resignation, Anami Yuki was forcing the Yamamoto Cabinet to resign.

"If you want to resign, Anan, then I will ask the Army to immediately send personnel to serve as Minister of the Navy." Yamamoto Isoroku also responded tit-for-tat, "Otherwise, the Navy will not be able to send active personnel to serve as Minister of the Navy!"

Anan was stunned when he heard this, although the active military attache system is also useful to the navy. However, the Japanese Navy has never threatened the collapse of the cabinet by not sending officials as ministers. I didn't expect Yamamoto Isoroku to break the rules this time... This will be troublesome. If the army and navy confront each other over the selection of ministers, wouldn't the Japanese Empire have no cabinet?

Wouldn't it be an eternal laughing stock to go to war and lose the cabinet?

Just when the situation was embarrassing, an army officer suddenly broke into the conference room in panic and bowed to Anami: "Your Excellency, General, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army (stationed in South Korea) reported that the central defense line of Korea , are now being bombarded by the enemy! The enemy... has concentrated at least 5,000 artillery pieces, and many rocket launchers, and the front line of the imperial army is already a sea of ​​fire!"

It turns out that the Chinese and Soviet troops launched a general offensive on the Korean Peninsula!

Everyone in the conference room suddenly forgot about the impending cabinet crisis, because the Japanese Empire was now on the verge of collapse - it was really going to collapse! Not only because of the fierce offensive launched by the Chinese and Soviet armies on the Korean Peninsula, but also because of the bacterial weapons attacks by the United States, Tokyo and neighboring Yokohama (the two cities are actually connected by urban area) became epidemic areas, and the military production there has stalled. Tokyo and Yokohama are important industrial centers in Japan. Once shut down, Japan's military production will immediately fall into a huge crisis.

On the one hand, there is a military production crisis, and on the other hand, there is the huge consumption of the decisive battle on the front line. Once the arms supply is insufficient, the Japanese Empire will collapse.

"There must be a ceasefire!" Yamamoto Isoroku gritted his teeth and looked at Anan, "We can't continue fighting... If we cease the war now, the empire can still keep most of the fruits of victory, and the empire is still the winner. If we don't cease the war now, the empire is very likely to Facing collapse!”

Anan just bowed his head and remained silent. He could show off his skills in front of Yamamoto, but there was no way to save the Guam Army's failure - the main elite of the Kwantung Army had long been lost in the Far East of the Soviet Union and Northeast China. The troops currently stationed in South Korea are all newly-built divisions. Their personnel have not been fully trained and their weapons and equipment are insufficient. They are simply cannon fodder when faced with the high morale and well-equipped Sino-Soviet troops.

Once the Kwantung Army is destroyed on the Korean Peninsula, China and the Soviet Union can then use their elite main force to attack Japan's Annan garrison! If the Annan garrison is defeated, the Japanese Empire will really be finished.

In addition, the United States, China and the Soviet Union are very likely to launch another bacterial weapons attack! Although it may not necessarily lead to Japan's subjugation, it can still be done by turning several industrial centers into epidemic areas. How will Japan continue to fight at that time?

The Japanese Empire must now seek an armistice, even if it gives up the sovereignty of the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan (giving up sovereignty actually means giving up the right to govern, because the Korean Peninsula has been controlled by China and the Soviet Union, and Taiwan will realize the illegal status under Chinese sovereignty. Militarization, which means that the Chinese government can legally send demilitarized people's police to the island) and a ceasefire.

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"Leaders, Your Majesty the two Imperial Marshals, His Majesty the Emperor of our country has decided to respond to His Majesty the Emperor's call for peace and to achieve a comprehensive ceasefire with the United States, Soviet Russia and China under appropriate conditions..."

In the German Chancellery, Lieutenant General Oshima Hiroshi, the Japanese ambassador to Germany and head of the Japanese delegation to the Rome Peace Conference, who had just arrived from the Rome Peace Conference, was dejectedly informing Hitler, Hersmann and Marshal Schleicher of the Japanese Emperor's decision to agree to a ceasefire.

"What are the appropriate conditions?" Adolf Hitler interrupted.

"It is the withdrawal of the US, China and the Soviet troops from the Korean Peninsula, and the realization of autonomy in Northeast China..."

"Are you kidding?" Hersmann said somewhat unhappy, "Lieutenant General Oshima, are you wasting our time? How can we mediate when you put forward such conditions?"

"Mediate... stop?" Oshima Hiroshi was stunned when he heard this, "Sir, isn't Germany an ally of Japan?"

"From the perspective of International Law, our alliance relationship ended when you and the United States made a separate peace." Adolf Hitler pointed out. "Although your peace talks with the United States were unsuccessful, this will not change the fact that our alliance has ended."

"This..." Oshima Hiroshi was stunned for a moment, he knew that what Hitler said made sense. At that time, Japan proposed a separate peace with the United States, and also obtained Germany's consent. However, the subsequent negotiations were delayed for a while because of the ownership of the Hawaiian Islands and the Aleutian Islands. Later, Roosevelt died and the US election occurred. Wallace, who replaced Roosevelt as acting president, was a white leftist militant, and the US-Japan peace talks were completely ruined in his hands.

"But, but... the US-Japan peace talks did not continue..." Oshima Hiroshi still wanted to argue, he was unwilling to admit the fact that the Japan-Germany alliance no longer existed.

Because without the Japan-Germany alliance, Japan would be in an extremely disadvantageous position in the peace talks with the United States, China and the Soviet Union. Not to mention China's Northeast autonomy and the withdrawal of US, China and the Soviet Union from the Korean Peninsula, even whether the Indochina Peninsula can be preserved depends on whether the Chinese Bolshevik Party will show mercy.

"This does not prevent our two countries from dissolving the alliance." Adolf Hitler said lightly, "But we are still friends after all. Out of the traditional friendship between Japan and Germany, Germany and the European Community are still willing to mediate the war in the Far East."

Oshima Hiroshi's face was livid. Hitler's words were final, and there was no room for negotiation. And this attitude is understandable - Japan has always prevented the European Community from sending troops to Australia. Now that the "freedom fighters" in Australia are getting bigger and bigger, it is becoming more and more difficult for Europe to conquer them.

In addition, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Russia, the Aryan brothers of the Germans, are dissatisfied with Japan - Japan's honorary Aryan is fake, but they are real Aryan! Moreover, the British and Russian royal families have or will merge with the Hohenzollern royal family of Germany, and the Dutch royal family is the benefactor of the Hohenzollern family when they were in trouble...