Chapter 41, Japanese Rapists (Part 1)
Tokyo Bay, Yokohama Port, the residence of the "Japan Provisional Government"
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. Large flocks of crows were circling in the sky, corpses and wounded people were lying scattered on the street, and sporadic explosions tore through the air from time to time - they were time bombs that were delayed in detonating, or unexploded bombs that were blown up by clumsy rescuers. Explosive bombs.
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 association (Japanese neighborhood committee), 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 by with their arms folded and have no intention of helping. They act as if the matter has 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. It was said that the Yokohama Port, where "Japanese traitors" gathered, also became a base for Japanese resistance forces. Focus on air strike targets.
In fact, long before the first bombing of Yokohama, planes from the Hokkaido Soviet government came here many times to drop leaflets promoting "protect the country and fight against traitors", forecast the bombing in advance, and advised 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, and 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 exuded the smell of burning and corpses, 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 pillows, and the pedestrians are all sallow and thin, with torn clothes, and they look like hungry people
——From the full-scale 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 In hunger. 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 no one even knows whether their relatives are dead or alive!
"...It's really terrible...Why are those soldiers so stubborn? If this continues, when will the country be safe?"
Seeing a naked woman crying and laughing while holding her dead child, apparently crazy, Kijuro Hadohara couldn't help but sigh.
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——Kishiro Shitahara, a famous Japanese diplomat, was born in a long-standing wealthy family in Osaka Prefecture. He was recruited as his son-in-law by Mitsubishi Zaibatsu founder Yataro Iwasaki. He is brother-in-law with former Prime Minister Kato Takaaki. He can be called a powerful family member. , a powerful person among the powerful, known for his 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.
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 attempt to seek peace 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 "Provisional Government of Japan" "The operation of "...but it also allowed Kijuro Shitahara to gain the reputation of a "white barbarian lackey", and was even charged with being suspected of "collaborating with the enemy and killing the king". From then on, he became a person that the majority of Japanese patriots wanted to eat. Qi Pi was the "chief culprit of the country's calamity" and his 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 his 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 and bear the burden, considering the country and the country", stop resistance, seize weapons, seal ammunition, and wait for the US military to take over... ...This is also a last resort!
In Kijuro Shitahara's view, 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. And 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 because of 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... In this case, other than kneeling down to the US military and asking for help, what else can be done? Are we going to wait for the madmen in the military department to drain the entire country of its last drop of blood and squeeze out the last bit of money from my family? Or should we let the red heads of the Bolsheviks jump up in rebellion and divide my company and land?
No matter which choice he chooses, it is absolutely intolerable to His Excellency Kijuro Shitahara who is sitting on the side of the chaebol power!
Remember, the late Mr. Wang Jingwei, a friend of Nanjing’s China, invented a phrase called “curves to save the country”? The reason why I advocate unconditional surrender is to save the country in a curve, and to prevent the spread of disaster in Japan, I want to use American soldiers 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! Just thinking about it makes me feel that I am really great! Alas, you humble common people who have been brainwashed by the erroneous ideas of militarism and Bolshevism, why can't you 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 instead of chatting and chatting!
"...Kill him!" "...The traitor will be punished by heaven!" "...Go to hell! Qiyuan!"
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 driving on the road ahead quickly applied the emergency brake when it saw this. 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.
But at the next moment, there was another shout like a reminder, sounding from a corner not far away, "...Quick! 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. ——More than 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 maker, 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 longer than a month - shouts of death, explosions, rising flames, splashing blood... The bean chariot's turret spit out strings of deathly flames, and the roaring assassins and dutiful guards were splattered with blood one after another, twitching and falling down... A certain assassin sacrificed his life. He desperately 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 strong bulletproof body blocked the shock wave of the grenade. 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 dropping 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. Whistling, turned around and ran wildly along the streets and alleys...and passed again 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... - Anyway, as the leader of the Japanese traitors, Kijuro Shitahara finally He escaped once again from the blade of the "treacherous righteous man".