Chapter 941 Bacterial Warfare - Pandora's Box (Fourth Update)

"Onboard! We have broken into the airspace of the United States! We are now in the sky of the United States, and we have no regrets even if we die!"

At 5:31 a.m. Western Time on December 25, 1943, a Me264 long-range bomber piloted by Tokugawa Yoshitoshi and Hayashi Yaichiro carrying 50 ceramic bacterial bombs broke into the Santa Monica Bay near Los Angeles. into U.S. airspace.

Because the ceramic bacterial bombs on this plane were filled with fleas that had sucked the blood of plague-infected rats, the targets were the suburbs of big cities—the suburbs of Los Angeles were their first target.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Groups of fire immediately bloomed in the sky near the Me264 bomber. This was the 127mm anti-aircraft gun on the ground firing. Although the sky is very dark now, the American anti-aircraft artillery relying on radar guidance can still find a general direction in the sky, but Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's plane was not hit.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, we should be looking in the right direction." Taro Sato, who was in charge of the navigation, loudly said to Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, "The anti-aircraft firepower below is very fierce. Los Angeles must be nearby!"

"Bless the Great God Amaterasu, bless the Great Power Tosho!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi prayed silently in his heart, and his nervousness relaxed a little.

Los Angeles is nearby and the work is finally done!

"Can you determine the direction of the city center?" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi asked again after finishing his prayer.

"It's too dark down there, so I can't see clearly." Taro Sato replied.

The current United States is no longer in a state of peace before December 7, 1941. The war has lasted for two years, and the entire country has entered a state of peace. So after the radar of the "Destroyer Warning Line" detected the approach of Japanese aircraft, all towns in California sounded air defense sirens.

People who heard the air raid siren also immediately got into the strong air raid shelters - these air raid shelters were first built when the Hawaiian Islands fell. In early 1943, after Japan began to attack the United States with sailboat bombs, the construction project was immediately Speed ​​up. By December 1943, the air raid shelters owned by the West Coast states could hide all civilians and soldiers underground.

Therefore, if the Japanese used ordinary bombs or white phosphorus incendiary bombs to bomb the West Coast of the United States, it would be almost impossible to cause any serious casualties.

Ceramic bacteriological bombs are indeed the only method that can drive the Americans into panic... Of course, the sequelae of this method are also very obvious.

"Boom!"

Just when Tokugawa Yoshitoshi was thinking about releasing the inhumane plague germ into the center of America's big cities, his plane began to shake violently with a loud noise, accompanied by a howling cold wind. The air pressure in the cabin also dropped suddenly, making breathing very difficult.

"Division commander, we have been hit!" Navigator Taro Sato shouted.

"Baga!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi also shouted, "Put on your oxygen mask and prepare to drop the bomb! Mr. Lin, you must stabilize the plane no matter what!"

The plane cannot crash now, otherwise it may cause a fire and kill His Majesty the Emperor's heroic fleas!

"Hai!" Hayashi Yaichiro agreed, put on an oxygen mask, and tried hard to control the plane - the damage to the plane was not serious, it was probably shrapnel that penetrated the cabin.

But when they were training in Germany, the German instructors told them that the American large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery system was the same as the German one, with radar fire control and radio proximity fuses. The combination of the two can pose a greater threat to aircraft with an altitude of less than 11,500 meters, and once the aircraft is hit by anti-aircraft artillery shrapnel, it is basically certain that the radar fire control is locked, and the altitude must be raised immediately... But now, Hayashi Yaichiro cannot pull it up immediately because the ceramic bacterial bomb has not yet been released.

"Prepare to drop the bomb, release!" Taro Sato, who was in charge of dropping the bomb, did not let Yaichiro Hayashi wait too long. Less than a minute after the plane was hit by a bomb for the first time, he pressed the bomb release button and dropped 50 evil ceramic bacterial bombs. On the land of the Los Angeles suburbs of the United States - actually on the land of Hollywood. The hundreds of thousands of fleas contained in these ceramic bacterial bombs later served His Majesty the Emperor so much that there was even a flea shrine in the Yasukuni Shrine!

However, just after these delays, another deadly American anti-aircraft shell exploded less than 15 meters away from the right side of the aircraft fuselage. The huge explosion shock wave carried sharp shrapnel from the fuselage and right side of the Me264 bomber. Sweeping across the side wing. A BMW-802 engine caught fire on the spot and emitted thick black smoke.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General," Hayashi Yaichiro glanced at the burning engine, "One engine caught fire, and there may be fuel leakage. We are afraid that we will not be able to fly back to the Hawaiian Islands!"

This time I will really become a god!

One of the four engines was destroyed and there was a fuel leak, which was almost a death sentence for those on board.

However, there are still particularities in how to die. As a samurai of His Majesty the Emperor and the head of the Shimizu Tokugawa family, of course you should not be afraid of death. The only thing he should do at this time is to order Hayashi Yaichiro to fly the plane and bravely crash into the American buildings on the ground, trying to drag a few more Americans to his back before he dies...

Thinking of this, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi took out the handkerchief produced by Kyoto Nishijin with his trembling right hand, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead that could not be suppressed, and the order that should have been the duty of the samurai family could not be issued. mouth.

"Dive to put out the fire, and then evacuate!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi finally uttered an order that surprised Hayashi Yaichiro and Sato Taro after a long time.

"Your Excellency the Division Commander..." Hayashi Yaichiro wanted to tell Tokugawa Yoshitoshi that the plane's current state would make it difficult to survive and return to the Hawaiian Islands.

"Baga, dive quickly!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi interrupted him without hesitation, saying, "The plane is not finished yet. As long as we fly to the waters near the Hawaiian Islands and parachute, the rescue seaplane can find us."

Now the Japanese Navy has realized the value of old pilots, so it firmly opposes the behavior of not bringing parachutes, and has also organized a special seaplane search and rescue team.

And Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, Hayashi Yaichiro and others, because they had received training in Germany, also developed a good habit of carrying parachutes on the plane. In theory, as long as they fly the plane to a range of 1,500 kilometers around the Hawaiian Islands and parachute, and send a distress telegram before parachuting, the navy stationed in the Hawaiian Islands will send a seaplane for search and rescue. Although it is as difficult as finding a needle in the ocean to find a few pilots who fell into the water, there is still a possibility of finding them.

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"What? There are almost no reports of casualties and property losses?" At 8 a.m. on December 25, Lieutenant General Doolittle, commander of the 4th Air Force of the U.S. Army, was stunned after listening to the report, "Oh, I didn't expect the guys in the anti-aircraft artillery unit to be so outstanding..."

"No, our anti-aircraft artillery did not shoot down all the invading Japanese planes, and our fighters did not do this either." Brigadier General Chennault looked at the report sent by his subordinates in a daze, "The total number of shots shot down so far is about 30, and the targets found by radar are at least more than 40."

"There are 10 missed?" Durant shrugged, "Maybe the Japanese pilots don't know how to drop bombs at all, and they all threw the bombs into the wilderness."

Chennaud shook his head and frowned and said, "Lieutenant General, I'm not that optimistic... We have been fighting the Japanese for 2 years, and we haven't killed them yet. Beat them down, this can only fully prove one thing, the Japanese are definitely not stupid. "

He paused, and then said: "According to the report, these Japanese planes caused almost no property damage... It is normal that there was no loss of personnel, after all, non-combatants hid underground when the air raid came. But even the houses were not blown up, which is too unusual, unless the Japanese dropped something other than ordinary bombs!"

"Not ordinary bombs?" Durant frowned, "What is it? Chemical weapons? Or...bacterial weapons?"

It is not surprising that Durant and Chennault guessed the answer at the first time, because the United States has long known that Germany has a large number of chemical weapons (this is an open secret, because Germany used a large number of chemical weapons in World War I), so the US military has always regarded chemical defense and counter-chemical weapons as an important topic since the war began.

In terms of chemical defense, not only are all officers and soldiers equipped with gas masks (the German army is the same), but in cities that may be attacked by enemy air raids, even ordinary residents have a gas mask.

In addition, chemical defense forces were also trained in large numbers, and all active military personnel, regardless of their military branches, had mastered certain chemical defense knowledge.

In terms of countermeasures, the United States itself also produced a large number of chemical agents and bacterial weapons - like Japan, the United States did not approve the Geneva Protocol that prohibits the use of biological and chemical weapons. Therefore, the United States produced and stored a large amount of mustard gas during the interwar period, and produced it in large quantities after the outbreak of the World War. The current inventory has reached tens of thousands of tons!

In addition, after the fall of the British mainland, the United States obtained samples and production methods of British anthrax spores and botulinum toxin from Canada. In the past six months, American pharmaceutical companies have received orders for the large-scale production of anthrax spores and botulinum toxin (botulinum toxin is not only for beauty, but in fact it is a highly toxic substance that can damage the nervous system when people eat or inhale it, and the mortality rate is extremely high).

Therefore, the number of chemical and biological weapons that the US government now has is far greater than that of Japan.

In the original history, the United States planned to use mustard gas when attacking the Japanese mainland after the Battle of Okinawa, but later abandoned mustard gas because of the more powerful atomic bomb.