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- "Be careful, there may be survivors"
In the jungle, an officer who was completely wrapped in protective clothing spoke to his subordinates with caution. But when he said this, it was obvious that even he didn't believe it.
Because on the way just now, they have seen many shrimp-like
"Woo"
However, when a group of people entered a place that looked like a Japanese camp, looking at the corpses scattered all over the camp, a soldier suddenly covered his mouth and bent down.
"Really, haven't you vomited enough"
Shaking his head, the officer patted the soldier on the back. However, when he saw a Japanese soldier curled up like a shrimp, the officer's face became a little ugly. What's more, the camp is full of such things now. Although the officer can be regarded as crawling out of the dead, he still feels a little uncomfortable in such a place.
Fortunately, the soldier had vomited many times along the way, so this time it was just retching and there was no need to take off the mask, otherwise there would be some trouble.
In fact, they don’t need to be so cautious, because almost a week has passed since the bombing by the Air Force bombers. Although VX poison gas is a continuous poison gas, its killing effect only lasts from a few hours to a few days and nights.
In other words, even if there is still poisonous gas left in the jungle, it is basically in a harmless stage.
It’s just that VX gas was only discovered by the National Socialist Government two years ago, although it has been tested countless times in the past two years. It has even been tested in the jungles of Southeast Asia. However, due to the alarming lethality of this poisonous gas, basically even skin exposure is likely to cause death, so the National Defense Forces have to be cautious.
Why is vx so much more famous than other nerve agents in later generations? It is because in the late 1960s, there were several "embarrassing" incidents related to VX poison ammunition.
In March 1968, the U.S. Army conducted a series of tests with nerve agents at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. At about 6 p.m. on March 13, an F4 Phantom jet roared over the base, and tanks hanging below the plane sprinkled VX liquid onto an unmarked ground. One of the canisters malfunctioned. Most of the poison had been spilled at the intended height, but about 9.07 kilograms of poison remained in the failed tank. As the jet flew off its course, VX agent leaked from the canister. At that time, the plane was still high in the sky, and the wind speed reached 56 kilometers per hour. Nerve gas hangs in the air. Finally it drifted to the floor of the Skull Valley.
This place is located about 32 kilometers away from the test site. A few hours later a large number of sheep grazing in the valley were poisoned and died. Local photographers and television workers rushed to the scene after hearing the news and witnessed 6,000 dead sheep being thrown into hastily dug trenches. In the words of the US military press release officer: Domestic and international publicity reports from on-site witnesses dealt a fatal blow to the US chemical and biological warfare program.
In the summer of 1969, bad news came unexpectedly. U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan. VX nerve agent leaked from a container, poisoning 23 soldiers and sending them to the hospital. This makes the incident doubly serious, because it not only makes people more uneasy about the security measures of the chemical weapons base, but also makes the Japanese government know that chemical weapons are still stored on their soil.
Therefore, the national socialist government is very fond of this amazingly powerful poison gas. But it is also very cautious in terms of use.
If it were not for the offensive on the Nanyang Islands and the casualties were too great, the National Socialist Government would not have decided to use VX poison gas on the battlefield——This is probably similar to the United States using atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bar.
Before Nazi Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, the Allies had already planned Operation Downfall. Prepare to attack the Japanese mainland. Operation Downfall consisted of two parts, Operation Olympic and Operation Little Crown. First, use Operation Olympic to capture Southern Kyushu and secure the air base. Kyushu would then provide air support for Operation Little Crown, expected to begin in October 1945. The goal of Operation Olympic was to attack Kyushu, the southernmost region of the Japanese archipelago. Operation Little Crown was scheduled to begin in March 1946. The U.S. Army's First Army would land on the Boso Peninsula, and the Eighth Army's attack location would be Hiratsuka City in Sagami Bay. After landing, the two armies headed north separately, and finally met in Tokyo. The Allies would send European troops to support them.
From the geographical point of view of Japan, there are almost no beaches suitable for landing in the Japanese archipelago, so it is very difficult to formulate a combat plan. The only landing sites are in southern Kyushu and the southern Kanto Plain of Honshu Island. The situation is obviously beneficial to the Japanese army. The Japanese army proposed a decisive battle defense plan and made every effort toTo defend Kyushu, in March 1945, four divisions were dispatched from the Kwantung Army stationed in Manchuria to support it. Japan had 45 divisions at its disposal at that time. Most of them were for the purpose of defending the coastline and could not move with them. However, 16 of them were highly mobile. The Japanese army has a total of 2.3 million soldiers, 4 million navy and army reserve personnel, and 28 million national volunteer soldiers ready to defend Japan's mainland. Estimates of the number of casualties in the attack on the Japanese mainland vary, but the numbers are all quite large. Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Headquarters predicted that the death toll in Japan would reach 20 million.
On June 15, 1945, a Joint War Commission study report sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff stated that Operation Olympic would cause 130,000 to 220,000 U.S. military casualties, with the death toll ranging from 25,000 to 46,000. U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall and five-star General Douglas MacArthur later signed documents agreeing with the Joint War Commission's casualty estimates.
Politician Quincy Wright and physicist William Shockley estimated that an Allied attack on the Japanese mainland would cause 1.7 million to 4 million U.S. military casualties, with the death toll ranging from 400,000 to 800,000. Japanese casualties ranged from 5 million to 10 million.
Later, George Marshall began to consider the use of a weapon that "could clearly and reliably reduce U.S. military casualties." Therefore, the Allied forces transported chemical weapons (including phosgene, mustard gas, tear gas, cyanogen chloride, etc.) from Australia to Luzon in preparation for Operation Olympic. Five-star General Douglas MacArthur determined that the chemical troops had been trained to use these weapons.
In the end, the United States decided to use a weapon that could effectively reduce Allied casualties.
this. It's the atomic bomb.
When the atomic bomb was used on Hiroshima, the Allies heard a statement from a Japanese broadcaster
"Almost everything alive, including humans and animals, was burned to death"
Therefore, for the National Socialist Government, the use of chemical weapons is also very necessary, as long as it can effectively reduce the casualties of the National Defense Forces.
Of course, there is another thing that can make the National Socialist Government make up its mind.
That is, chemical warfare started a long time ago, when the war between China and Japan broke out. Faced with its own retreat, Japan began to use balloons and bacterial weapons to attack enemy countries as it had done historically.
Among them, China, which is closest to Japan, is naturally the main target.
“ Let’s not mention for the moment how many balloon bombs dropped on the United States successfully reached their destination and were dropped on China. But almost all arrived.
In the end, the National Socialist Government had no choice but to build as many radar stations as possible and increase the density of air patrols. As soon as such bombs were discovered, the balloons would be shot down.
But even so. There will still be fish that slip through the net from time to time.
Historically, the balloon bomb was a weapon used by Japan during World War II. It is believed to have been designed by Hidetoshi Arakawa in 1942. As a result, he himself was convicted as a war criminal by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and sentenced to 7 years in prison.
At that time, a total of about 9,000 balloon bombs (according to some information, 16,000) were released within 6 months. The United States suffered minor damage, resulting in some civilian casualties. and frequent forest fires.
But because the United States has adopted news control measures to prevent the leakage of information. This prevented the Japanese army from confirming the results of the battle through American media reports. At the same time, the US military analyzed the contents of the recovered balloons. The composition of the gravel in the sandbags they carried was used to estimate the approximate location of the balloon manufacturing factories. The bombing of these factories was intensified, forcing the Japanese army to move the balloon factories around.
The Japanese side later suspended the plan because they did not know how effective it would be and because their local war industries suffered heavy losses from U.S. air strikes.
But things are different now. Japan and China are simply separated from each other across the sea, and Japan has a large number of spies lurking in China. Although most of these spies can't detect any secrets, they can detect the effects of balloon bombs, so now you can see a lot of balloon bombs floating over from Japan almost every week or so. ——————Anyway, this thing is cheap and easy to make.
"But compared with bacterial bombs, VX poison gas is still too overbearing after all, so there were some concerns within the government before using it. In the end, it was the matter of reducing casualties that allowed this resolution to be passed
And now, after using VX poison gas, the National Defense Forces sent a considerable number of troops, wearing protective clothing and entering the jungle where the poison gas was used, to see the actual effect——Of course, Dai Anlan and others People are not only worried that the effect of poison gas bombs will be ineffective, but they also have a considerable understanding of the power of VX poison gas.
What they worry about is that after using poison gas, they will appear in the jungle when the poison gas cannot be automatically eliminated.?? situation.
If that were the case, things would be in big trouble.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????: One or two gas bombs did not explode. Eventually, these gas bombs fell to the ground and ended up unknown. The National Defense Forces also need to find and recover them as soon as possible.
Otherwise, if these bombs go off one day in the future, things will be in trouble
So, these soldiers were sent out, and in addition to determining whether the jungle was dangerous, their task was to confirm the actual effect of the VX gas.
After all, in the past, the subjects of poison gas experiments were all animals, but this time it was humans
"It's really a miserable death"
Squatting down, he used a knife to peel off the clothes of a Japanese who died from poison gas. Looking at the Japanese man's almost melted skin, the military doctor who was wrapped in protective clothing said calmly.
Although he said it was miserable, it didn't seem so from the look on his face
Seeing how insensitive the military doctor was, the surrounding soldiers looked somewhat unhappy.
We are both soldiers. Although they would not sympathize with the Japanese, seeing these Japanese die so tragically and being treated like this after death If they felt comfortable in their hearts, that would be a damn thing.
“However, the military doctor didn’t care about this. After calling his assistant, he and his assistants put the Japanese body into a closed body bag.
"This is a very useful specimen"
As he spoke, the military doctor stood up and said to the officer who looked at him coldly.
"It seems that this is a Japanese camp in the jungle, and all the Japanese in the camp seem to have died. In this case, please ask the commander to clean up all the corpses here to avoid the occurrence of plague in the future. …”
Nodding, the officer didn’t say much. He just called his men to light a fire and burn it before finding a place to bury it. This would be much more convenient. You must know that there are hundreds of corpses in this camp. It would be really tiring to dig a hole for hundreds of people.
It would be better to burn them all into ashes. In this way, digging a hole for a dozen people would probably be enough.
And the military doctor who found a place to sit down seemed to have become accustomed to the attitude of the people around him. After a little cleaning of something similar to corpse oil on his mask, the military doctor took off his mask, revealing an extremely young face.
"Phew, I can finally breathe some fresh air"
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After confirming that vx gas will not cause any unpredictable consequences. The Wehrmacht began using VX gas on a large scale, of course. It cannot be used everywhere. The main area of ??use is jungles and other areas where the Japanese army hides. If it is a plain or other terrain, it will be pushed directly through.
Faced with this offensive method of the National Defense Force, although Japan also transported a large number of gas masks and other equipment to the Nanyang Islands, it had no effect at all.
The reason is very simple, because VX gas is simply not a piece of equipment that a gas mask can effectively protect against. As long as the skin is exposed, the VX gas can explode with extremely shocking lethality.
Therefore, if you want to prevent VX gas, you must have professional protective clothing.
And in some professional laboratories of the national socialist government, there are even protective clothing for advanced oxygen supply equipment. In contrast, the Japanese obviously do not have such conditions.
Let’s not talk about whether the Japanese have protective clothing or not. Even if they do, it will be too late in time.
So when the National Socialist Government began to use chemical weapons on a large scale on the battlefield, the Japanese army began to retreat at an accelerated pace, and the jungles and other areas that had always troubled the National Defense Forces were gradually conquered.
On the other hand, governments around the world have also adopted a ignoring attitude towards the blatant use of chemical weapons by the national and socialist governments on the battlefield.
This is not to say that they do not want to cause trouble for the National Socialist Government, but when the Russian battlefield still needs the National Socialist Government, they really do not have the courage to publicly embarrass the National Socialist Government.
In China, there are many Virgin-type guys who keep making noises.
Fortunately, in this world, there is still so-called wartime news control
so…
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Just as the National Defense Forces were making great progress on the battlefield in Southeast Asia, a fierce battle broke out between Japan and the United States in Hawaii.
Since Pearl HarborSince the incident, the United States has been on the defensive.
However, while on the defensive, the Americans are also working hard to restore their strength.
Now, after finally regaining a certain strength, the United States has officially decided to return to the Asian battlefield. The reason for this result is very simple, that is, the national socialist government is getting closer to Australia
“If the whole of East Asia, or even the whole of Asia, can be ceded to China, then Australia absolutely cannot. So after the Americans regained some strength, they began to attack Hawaii.
It is impossible to do this. Although Americans also want to go directly to Australia, it is really difficult to do so when there is Hawaii in the middle.
On the other hand, after losing a considerable number of capital ships in the Philippine naval battle, the Japanese combined fleet, which added two Unryu class aircraft carriers, was evenly matched with the Americans in Hawaii.
There is nothing we can do about this
Of course the Japanese know very well why the Americans are so aggressive, but the Japanese cannot let the Americans pass. Leaving aside for the moment whether the United States will pose a threat to Japan after occupying Hawaii, if the United States is released to Australia, then the Japanese army in Australia will most likely be attacked from both sides by China and the United States.
You must know that although China and the United States do not deal with it, their goal is Australia has not changed
Therefore, no matter what, it is impossible for the Japanese to let the Americans pass.
Not only that, Japan also wants to defend Hawaii to prevent the United States from posing a threat to its homeland.
However, at this point, more and more Japanese people are beginning to be pessimistic about the outcome.
After all, Japan today is at war with two behemoths at the same time (To be continued)
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