Chapter 41: Japanese rapists enter Tokyo Bay, Yokohama Port, seat of the "Provisional Government of Japan" It was another early morning after indiscriminate bombing.
Many bombed buildings were still burning with open flames, and gray-black smoke pillars curled up and dispersed in the blue sky.
A large group of crows were circling in the sky, corpses and wounded people were lying scattered on the street, and from time to time there were sporadic explosions tearing the air.
They were time bombs that were delayed in detonation, or unexploded bombs that were blown up by clumsy rescuers. .
Standing on the streets of Yokohama and looking around, you can see charred telephone poles, twisted steel bars, rising black smoke everywhere, as well as women digging for belongings among the ashes like walking zombies, or crying in sorrow holding the corpses of young children.
Mother Several volunteer citizens organized by the neighborhood committee of the town, as well as uniformed police and firefighters, tried their best to put out the remaining fires among the rubble, search for survivors, and bury the bodies.
Since the entire city had been cut off from power and water supply, the fire hydrants had lost their function.
These people could only push the temporarily modified large-wheel fire trucks and rely on small hand-operated water pumps to extinguish the fire.
Once the water in the car runs out and there is nowhere to replenish it, they can only use sacks to put out the raging flames, use fire axes to cut off the burning beams, and then take out the burnt people from the smoky house. of survivors.
On this miserable and cruel scorched earth ruins, you can occasionally see some American officers and soldiers, mainly black, but they just stand around with their arms folded, with no intention of intervening to help, and they act like they have nothing to do with them.
Looks tired.
The U.S. fleet at the Yokosuka garrison was bombarded day after day, and the "Japanese Provisional Government" was stationed there.
Yokohama Port, where "Japanese traitors" were said to gather, also became a key air raid by the Japanese resistance armed forces.
Target.
In fact, long before the first bombing of Yokohama, planes from the Hokkaido Soviet government had dropped leaflets here many times advocating "protect the country and fight against traitors", forecasting the bombing in advance, and advising Yokohama citizens to evacuate out of the city as soon as possible and not to Together with the "traitors and traitors", they will perish together.
But the problem is that after the nuclear explosion in Tokyo and the landing of US troops, all the US military-occupied areas in Japan were a picture of purgatory with scorched earth and desolate lives.
The social order completely collapsed, and various massacres and looting incidents continued to occur.
Only at Yokohama Port, where the provisional government is stationed, there is still a little bit of order.
Considering the face of the provisional government, the US military was able to maintain military discipline at least in urban Yokohama and was relatively restrained.
Thanks to wartime hoarding and relief from the US military, current Yokohama citizens can still receive food rations of four taels of brown rice, flour or grains per person per day intermittently.
As long as you leave the city of Yokohama, you can see that the Allied forces are implementing a scorched earth policy throughout the Kanto Plain.
Ordinary people have no way to survive.
Therefore, even though they had been warned by airdrop leaflets and knew clearly what hardships they would encounter if they stayed in Yokohama, there were still many Yokohama citizens and refugees who did not have the courage to cross the line of fire and escape to the other side of the battlefield, and were even more afraid of losing The only food rations were available, and they had to endure hunger from then on.
In the end, he still stayed on the ruins that smelled of burnt and dead bodies, refusing to evacuate to the crisis-ridden countryside.
Amid the lingering smoke, a sophisticated-looking black car honked its horn, surrounded by dozens of guards on motorcycles or bicycles, led by a "Bean Chariot" mini-tank.
Driving slowly through the still messy streets of Yokohama.
The Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister of the "Japan Provisional Government", Kijuro Shitahara, was sitting in the back seat of this bulletproof car.
He frowned and looked at the street scene outside through the car window.
He saw broken walls and horizontal lines everywhere.
The corpses are scattered on the pillows, and the passers-by are all sallow and thin, and their clothes are torn, and they look like people who have died of hunger.
From the outbreak of the Pacific War to the present, the Japanese people have been suffering in extreme embarrassment and deprivation for more than four years.
Countless people have racked their brains to fill their stomachs, but in the end they inevitably fell into chronic hunger. middle.
Fish and meat have not been seen on most Japanese tables for a long time.
There are also death notices that come with the war, which plunges one family after another into endless grief.
And now, with the collapse of the government, no one even sends death notices, and everyone can't even know whether their relatives are dead or alive.
"It's really terrible.
Why are those soldiers so stubborn?
If this continues, how long will it take for the country to be safe?"
Seeing a naked woman crying and laughing while holding her dead child, apparently crazy, Kijuro Hadohara couldn't help but sigh.
Kijuro Shitahara, a famous Japanese diplomat, was born in a wealthy family with a long history in Osaka Prefecture.
He was recruited as his son-in-law by the founder of Mitsubishi Zaibatsu Yataro Iwasaki.
He is the brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Kato Takaaki.
He can be called a powerful family member.
The powerful people in China are famous for their closeness to Britain and the United States.
After the Washington Conference, Kijuro Shitahara served as foreign minister in five consecutive cabinets, so he was known as the "Shigehara Era" in Japanese diplomatic circles.
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Although as the Japanese Empire gradually slipped into war, the soldiers gradually squeezed out the politicians and took over the power.
After all, Kijuro Shitahara was not an ordinary person.
With his rich background in the chaebol family and his long-term qualifications as foreign minister, he still remained in Japan.
The political class has a huge say.
Last year's secret peace attempt with the United States, as well as the establishment of the "Japan Provisional Government" in Kyoto in October, were all the work of Kijuro Shitahara and the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu behind him.
As for Konoe Fumima, who was elected as the prime minister of the provisional government, he was only promoted as a facade because of his noble blood and his ability to convince the public.
Therefore, when Kyoto was occupied by Japanese resistance forces in late autumn last year, and the provisional government hurriedly moved to Yokohama to join the U.S. military, Prime Minister Konoe Fumima disappeared while the provisional government moved out of Kyoto, so Kijuro Hatahara served as Foreign Minister.
Acting Prime Minister, actually leading the "Japanese The operation of the "Provisional Government of the Country" also allowed Kijuro Hakahara to gain the reputation of a "white barbarian lackey", and was even accused of being suspected of "collaborating with the enemy and regicide".
From then on, he became a figure that the majority of Japanese patriots wanted to eat.
The "chief culprit of the country" who slept with his skin, his whole life's reputation was completely ruined In this regard, Kijuro Shitahara personally felt very aggrieved.
In his opinion, he had never betrayed His Majesty the Emperor until Emperor Showa died in a mushroom cloud.
In the previous secret diplomacy and peace talks with the United States, he conducted them "in accordance with his superior intentions."
He was definitely not colluding with the enemy in private, and he did not disclose any key information.
At least he can't be blamed for the Tokyo nuclear bombing and the destruction of the imperial family.
As for the subsequent establishment of the "Japan Provisional Government" in Kyoto, it announced unconditional surrender to the US military on behalf of Japan, requiring all military and civilians to "bear the humiliation, consider the country and the country", stop resistance, seize weapons, seal up ammunition, and wait for the US military to take over.
It's also a last resort.
In the view of Kijuro Shitahara, after the death of the emperor, the obligation of loyalty to the emperor ended on his shoulders, and it was time to think about himself and the country.
What is the situation in Japan at this time?
The government is paralyzed, the military is domineering, the civilian political parties are weak, and social conflicts are extremely intensified, all due to the pressure of the wartime system.
At the same time, red ideas have spread rapidly among the military and civilians, and signs of a revolution are gradually emerging.
As a representative figure of the chaebol and civil servants, Kijuro Hatahara naturally disliked the militaristic fascists and the Bolsheviks.
He was very envious of the American consortium that could control the country behind the scenes, and he very much hoped that Japan's political structure would be improved.
Also moving in that direction.
However, with the military seizing power within Japan, threats from mobs outside, and the country in a wartime system, the Japanese chaebols are destined to be unable to rely on their own strength to overwhelm the military, evade the government, suppress workers and peasants, and seize real power.
The risk of perishing with the empire in the flames of war is such that If you come, what else can you do besides kneeling down and licking the US military and asking for help?
Do you have to wait for the lunatic in the military to bleed the last drop of blood from the entire country and squeeze out the last bit of money from my family or make the Bolsheviks' red heads jump?
Rise up in rebellion and divide my company and land No matter which option he chooses, it is absolutely intolerable to His Excellency Kijuro Shitahara, who is sitting on the side of the chaebol power.
I remember that the late Mr.
Wang Jingwei, a friend of Nanjing's China, invented a term called "curving to save the country."
The soldiers came to suppress the unruly people In order to save the country, to maintain the national system, and to prevent Japan from being contaminated by evil red ideas, I sacrificed my own face and reputation to surrender and serve the US military.
What a huge sacrifice I made when I think about it.
You are really great.
Why can't you humble common people who have been brainwashed by the wrong ideas of militarism and Bolshevism fully understand and appreciate my painstaking efforts?
However, in this country, neither the Japanese samurai who were superstitious about violence nor the common people who were massacred by the US military could understand the thinking of this diplomatic elite.
Moreover, the real Yamato samurai prefers to speak with knives and bullets rather than chattering endlessly.
"Kill to give", "Heaven punishes the traitor", "Go to hell, Ji Yuan" Along with these two loud roars, a long chain of fire suddenly shot out on the dilapidated street that seemed peaceful just a second ago.
The light machine gun hidden in the corner window aimed at the convoy and roared fiercely.
The flying bullets swept across the body of the guard like hailstones.
The next moment, hot blood spurted out from the holes in the uniform, covering the car body and the ground.
It was dyed with patches of dazzling bright red.
Amidst the hoarse screams and curses, a large number of guards riding motorcycles or bicycles were swept away, and a string of sparks splashed on the bulletproof car in which Shigehara Kijuro was riding.
The Japanese "Bean Chariot" mini-tank that was driving ahead of the road opened an emergency brake.
However, before the tank could stop, the bulletproof car behind it was caught off guard and bumped into it, making a deafening sound. .
Despite this, the Guardsmen who were attacked quickly reacted, using tanks and cars as cover to shoot at the attackers hiding in street windows.
The machine gun on the bean tank also slowly turned at an angle, targeting The assassin spit out tongues of fire, making the opponent unable to lift his head.
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But at the next moment, there was another shout like a reminder, sounding from a corner not far away, "Throw the bottle!"
In an instant, several ronin assassins disguised as refugees on the street lifted up their shabby coats full of patches, picked up the "cocktail bottles" in their hands, and threw them at Kijuro Shitahara's car and the "Bean Chariot" mini tank.
A dozen dark bottles flew towards the target in a parabola from various directions on the street.
However, due to the poor craftsmanship of the makers, less than half of the bottles exploded and burned after landing.
Despite this, these blazing flames that roared up still caused great confusion and trouble to the guards.
Next, the ronin assassins who threw the "cocktail bottles" yelled "Tenchu" with all their strength and rushed forward waving pistols, rifles and samurai swords.
For Kijuro Hadohara, who was sitting in a bulletproof car, the few minutes after the attack seemed to last longer than a month.
The shouts of killing, the sound of explosions, the rising flames, and the splashing blood of the tank.
The turret spit out strings of deathly flames, the roaring assassins and the dedicated guards were covered in blood one after another, and an assassin fell twitching.
Risking his own life, he threw the grenade to the side of the car.
He was less than two meters away from Kijuro Shitahara.
He could even see the sparks of the fuse through the glass, but the solid bulletproof body blocked the grenade after all.
The shock waves and fragments did not cause him any harm at all, except for his heart beating fiercely as if it was about to jump out of his chest.
In the end, after leaving behind five or six corpses, but still making little progress, especially after being unable to do anything with the Bean Chariot, the "Tenchu" assassins finally gave up the operation, accompanied by a signal as a signal Whistling, he turned around and ran wildly along the streets and alleys.
After a while, a group of American soldiers who had been ordered to "help defend" Yokohama arrived belatedly and casually asked what happened just now.
No matter what, as the leader of the Japanese traitors, Kijuro Shitahara finally escaped from the blade of the "treacherous righteous man" again. oshow7: