Chapter 940 Bacterial Warfare VII (Asking for Monthly Votes)

Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the Haneda Training Division of the Japanese Army Air Force, is now sitting in the co-pilot seat of a Me264. He didn't have to attack in person. Because today's operations are sporadic attacks, there is no formation at all, and there is no need for an air commander.

However, as one of the few European and American experts in the army, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi is deeply aware of the consequences of the American industrial giant once it exerts its strength. So he is very worried that his 42 crews will collectively become gods in this operation... Then he will be a bare-handed division commander.

And he is the division commander who was annihilated in the first battle! If it really turns out like this, he will not lose the face of one person, but the face of the dignified Tokugawa family! Even Tosho Daigongen (Tokugawa Ieyasu), who became a god hundreds of years ago, will lose face in heaven, and may even be laughed at by Toyokuni Daimyojin (Toyotomi Hideyoshi).

In order not to bring shame to his ancestors, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi resolutely flew the plane to fight... At worst, he would die in the American land. In this way, it would not be shameful to see the Great Power at Tosho-jingu Shrine, at least he would not be an unworthy descendant of the Tokugawa family.

However, when he thought that he might leave this world forever to see the Great Power, Comrade Yoshitoshi, the good boy of the Tokugawa family, was not happy at all, and his face looked ugly as if he was airsick.

But the captain beside him, Lieutenant Hayashi Yaichiro, a farmer's son from Osaka Prefecture, had a fearless expression on his face and was slightly excited.

"Yaichiro," Tokugawa Yoshitoshi asked calmly, "We are about to enter the American airspace... We are probably already discovered by the American radar, aren't you afraid?"

In order to save fuel, this Me262 flew at a cruising altitude, so it could not avoid the US military radar.

"Your Excellency, the division commander, I'm not afraid!" Hayashi Yaichiro answered with a smile, "I am honored to be able to become a god in the United States and to be with the division commander!"

Of course you are honored! Tokugawa Yoshitoshi thought that you, a farmer's son, died together with Shimizu Yoshitoshi (another name for Tokugawa Yoshitoshi), and you will most likely be able to see the Great Power after becoming a god. It is really a blessing that you have cultivated for several lifetimes.

"Your Excellency, the division commander, the captain," just when Tokugawa Yoshitoshi felt that Hayashi Yaichiro was really lucky, the navigator Sato Taro on the plane suddenly shouted, "The radar detected an enemy plane, at 8 o'clock, 30 away, and 7000 altitude..."

This time he is going to become a god!

Tokugawa Yoshitoshi took a breath of cold air, his heart pounding. The Me264 he was riding didn't even have a self-defense machine gun, so if he encountered an American fighter, he could only stand up and become a god.

"Sir, we need to increase our altitude to 10,000 meters." Hayashi Yaichiro seemed calm, "Then we will rush to the U.S. mainland at full speed."

"Captain, can we get rid of the enemy planes?" Sato Taro, who was now in charge of watching the radar, asked - his tone also sounded very calm.

It was so shameful. Tokugawa Yoshitoshi tried to suppress his fear, holding the sword passed down from generation to generation in the Tokugawa family with both hands, and sat still.

"We can get rid of it," Hayashi Yaichiro answered with certainty, "Our plane is very light, and there is an eastward airflow at 9,000-11,000 meters to accelerate the plane."

Tokugawa Yoshitoshi only then remembered that the Me264 is a very fast heavy bomber with a maximum speed of 690 kilometers per hour. And it also has a turbocharged engine. At extremely high altitudes above 10,000 meters, the P51 can't catch up.

In addition, heavy bombers and transport planes can also use airflow to accelerate. There is an eastward high-altitude air current over the Pacific Ocean...the balloon bombs rely on this air current to reach the mainland of the United States.

As long as the bomber rises to the corresponding height, it can also take advantage of the force. In this way, the Me264 can rush to the United States at a very fast speed. Unless the plane in the sky now is a P47, the Me264 that Tokugawa Yoshitoshi is riding will definitely escape.

10 minutes later, Sato Taro reported loudly: "Your Excellency the division commander, the plane disappeared from the radar screen."

In fact, what they encountered was a B-24 reconnaissance plane, which was not as fast as the Me264 and could not fly to 10,000 meters.

"Your Excellency the division commander, we have to lower our altitude." Hayashi Yaichiro reported loudly again at this time.

"Why?"

"To avoid the P47." Hayashi Yaichiro answered, "The plane just now was probably a radar-equipped reconnaissance plane. It should have discovered us and reported our position and altitude. A P47 will soon intercept us. If we encounter a P47, we will become gods."

"But there will also be P51s at medium and low altitudes."

"Wait until we encounter them and then raise our speed," Hayashi Yaichiro said, "The P51B/C cannot catch up with the Me264 at an extremely high altitude of 10,000 meters."

Although Tokugawa Yoshitoshi was the founder of the Japanese Army Air Force, he retired before the outbreak of the Pacific War, and all the aviation knowledge he knew was outdated.

However, in this time and space, Hayashi Yaichiro had participated in the South Pacific war and fought against the P51 deployed by the United States in the South Pacific. He knew the characteristics of the P51B/C and knew how to deal with this high-performance American fighter. If Hayashi Yaichiro was flying a Japanese plane (he had previously flown the Type 1 and Type 2 fighters), when encountering the P51B/C, there were usually three options: dive to a very low altitude to escape, parachute to escape, and become a god at Kudanzaka.

"What if we encounter the American P47 after we pull up?" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi asked another question.

Yaichiro Hayashi smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Commander, if we encounter P51 and P47 at the same time... then we will go to Kudanzaka Chengshen."

Going to Kudanzaka Chengshen is not a joke. When Tokugawa Yoshitoshi and Yaichiro Hayashi luckily avoided the blockade of P47 and P51 and flew to the United States, many Me264s had already encountered the American P51 and P47.

And the Japanese pilots trained by Germany basically had the same method of coping, which was to pull up to more than 10,000 meters and try to escape with the help of high-altitude airflow and the high speed of Me264.

Unfortunately, the Americans had already learned this method of fighting in the Guyana-Caribbean air tug-of-war - the Americans encountered the Ju288 with better high-altitude performance and faster speed there. So they had already summed up a set of coping methods, which was to coordinate with 4 P51B/C and 4 P47, with P51B/C at medium and high altitudes and P47 at very high altitudes. When the Ju288 was caught up by the P51B/C at a very high altitude, the P47 immediately dived to attack! However, the German Ju288 was usually escorted by the Fw-190C or Fw-190D during daytime operations. Both series of Fw-190 are high-altitude models.

Among them, the Fw-190C is equipped with the DB603 series engine of Mercedes-Benz, while the Fw-190D series is equipped with the Jumo-213 series liquid-cooled engine. Both aircraft can fly at a speed of 704 kilometers per hour at an altitude of 11,300 meters, and their firepower is strong enough to fight against the P47 with strong high-altitude performance.

But the Me264 that attacked the US mainland today did not have any escort. As long as it was caught by 4 P47s, it would be dead!

According to later statistics, among the 42 Me264 long-range bombers that carried out hair bacterial bombs, 16 were shot down by the P47s that came to intercept them without even seeing the US coastline. Therefore, only 26 Me264s actually penetrated into the US airspace.

The types of bacterial weapons carried on these 26 Me264 bombers were different - although Japan's 731st Unit produced many kinds of bacterial weapons, only three were selected for attacking the US mainland, namely plague bacillus, anthrax bacillus and cholera vibrio. And each Me264 bomber only had one type of bacterial weapon.

The reason for this is that it is convenient to release. According to the requirements of the 731st Unit, different types of bacterial weapons should be released in corresponding areas.

For example, anthrax spores should be released in areas with dense populations or livestock (small towns are the first choice, followed by pastures).

Plague bacilli should be released in the suburbs of large cities as much as possible - it is better to drop them in the city center, but considering the density of 127mm (radio proximity fuze shells can be used) anti-aircraft guns and 40mm anti-aircraft guns, it is undoubtedly a waste of time to penetrate the large cities on the west coast of the United States with a single aircraft.

Vibrio cholerae will be placed near rivers and spread through polluted water sources.

The second reason is to prevent the bacteria from infecting the crew members on the plane. While developing bacterial weapons, Unit 731 also produced corresponding vaccines. Moreover, these vaccines were developed after multiple human trials, and they are also the most targeted (targeting the strains used by the Japanese). Therefore, the crew members responsible for releasing certain bacteria were injected with the corresponding vaccines before going out.

The Me262 long-range bomber driven by Tokugawa Yoshitoshi was loaded with plague bacteria, which was called the "king of bacterial weapons" by Shiro Ishii, the commander of Unit 731 of Japan! However, these plague bacteria were not released in the form of bacteria, but existed in rat fleas. These rat fleas were taken from rats infected with plague, deposited on cotton with rat attractants (the special smell that female rats emit to find their husbands), and stuffed in ceramic bacterial bombs. These ceramic bacterial bombs are equipped with delayed fuses. When dropped from an altitude of 3,000-4,000 meters, they will explode before touching the ground (only a small amount of explosives is needed to explode the ceramic shell, which will not endanger the fleas inside). In this way, the "flea cotton" contaminated with rat attractants will attract American rats.