Great time travel

Chapter 41. The Rapees

Tokyo Bay, Yokohama Port, "Interim Government of Japan" resident

It was another early morning after the indiscriminate bombing, and many buildings that had been bombed were still burning with open flames, and gray-black smoke columns curled up and dispersed in the blue sky.A large flock of crows hovered in the air, corpses and wounded lay on the side of the street, and sporadic explosions tore through the air from time to time—it was a time bomb that was delayed to detonate, or a future bomb that was blown up by clumsy rescuers. Bomb.

Standing on the streets of Yokohama and looking around, you can see charred electric poles, twisted steel bars, black smoke rising everywhere, and women digging household items among the ashes like walking corpses, or crying sadly holding the corpse of a child Mother……

A number of volunteer citizens organized by the town's association (neighborhood association in Japan), as well as uniformed police and firefighters, tried their best to put out the remaining fire among the rubble, search for survivors, and bury the bodies.Because the whole city has long been without electricity and water, the fire hydrants have lost their function. These people can only push the temporarily modified large-wheeled fire trucks and rely on small hand-pressed water pumps to put out the fire.Once the water in the car is used up and there is no place to replenish it, they can only use sacks to extinguish the flames flying around, use a fire ax to cut off the burning beams, and then carry out the burns from the smoky house. survivors.

On this miserable and cruel scorched-earth ruins, occasionally some American officers and soldiers, mainly black, can be seen, but they just fold their arms and watch beside them, without any intention of intervening to help, as if the whole thing has nothing to do with them The tired and lazy look.

——The American fleet in the Yokosuka tutelary fort was repeatedly bombed day after day, and the "Interim Government of Japan" was stationed there. It is said that the port of Yokohama, where "Japanese traitors" gather, has also become a place for Japanese resistance armed forces Key air strike targets.

In fact, long before the bombing of Yokohama for the first time, the planes of the Hokkaido Soviet government came here many times to drop leaflets advocating "protecting the country and punishing traitors". Together with the "traitors and traitors", they will die together.

But the problem is that after the nuclear explosion in Tokyo and the landing of the U.S. military, all the U.S.-occupied areas in Japan are a picture of a purgatory full of scorched earth and devastated lives. The social order has completely collapsed, and various massacres and looting incidents continue to occur.Only in Yokohama Port, where the provisional government is stationed, there is still a little order.However, considering the face of the interim government, the U.S. military can barely maintain military discipline at least in the urban area of ​​Yokohama, and it is relatively restrained.And with wartime hoarding and relief from the U.S. military, the current citizens of Yokohama can still intermittently receive food rations of four taels of brown rice, flour or miscellaneous grains per person per day.

And as long as you walk out of the urban area of ​​Yokohama, you can see that the Allied forces have implemented a scorched earth policy throughout the Kanto Plain, and ordinary people have no way out.

Therefore, even though they have been warned by the airdropped leaflets and know what hardships they will face if they stay in Yokohama, after all, there are still many Yokohama citizens and refugees from other places who neither have the courage to cross the line of fire and escape to the other side of the battlefield, and are even more afraid of losing their lives. With only food rations, he had to suffer from hunger.In the end, they were still stuck on the ruins exuding the smell of burnt and corpses, and refused to evacuate to the dangerous countryside...

In the lingering smoke that has not dissipated, an elegant black car honked its horn, surrounded by dozens of guards on motorcycles or bicycles, led by a "bean chariot" mini-tank, Slowly driving through the streets of Yokohama, which is still in a mess at this moment.

The foreign minister and acting prime minister of the "Interim Government of Japan", Kijuro Kishihara, sat in the back seat of this bulletproof car, frowning and looking at the street scene outside through the car window. There are corpses lying on the pillow, and the passers-by are all yellow and thin, with torn clothes, and they look like starving people.
——From the full-scale outbreak of the Pacific War to the present, the Japanese people have suffered from extreme embarrassment and deprivation for more than four years. Countless people have racked their brains to fill their stomachs, but they have inevitably fallen into chronic illness after all. in hunger.It has been a long time since most Japanese people have seen fish and meat on their tables.There are also death notices that came with the war, which plunged one family after another into endless grief.And now, with the collapse of the government, no one has even sent death notices, and everyone can't even know whether their relatives are dead or alive!
"...It's really horrible...Why are those soldiers so stubborn? If this continues, when will the country be safe?"

Seeing a naked woman crying and laughing while hugging her dead child, apparently crazy, Kijuro Kijuro couldn't help sighing.

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——Kijuro Moshihara, a famous Japanese diplomat, was born in a famous and wealthy family with a long history in Osaka Prefecture. He was recruited as a son-in-law by the founder of the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, Yataro Iwasaki. He is brother-in-law with former Prime Minister Takaaki Kato. , the powerful among the powerful, known for being close to Britain and the United States.After the Washington Conference, Kijuro Kijuro served as foreign minister for five consecutive cabinets, so he is known as the "era of Coinhara" in Japanese diplomatic circles.

Although as the Japanese Empire gradually slipped into the orbit of war, the soldiers gradually squeezed out the politicians to take power, but Kijuro Kishihara was not an ordinary person after all. Politicians have a great say.Last year's secret attempt to seek peace with the United States, and the establishment of the "Interim Government of Japan" in Kyoto in October were also the work of Kijuro Koshihara and the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu behind him.As for Konoe Fummo, who was elected as the prime minister of the interim government, he was only raised as a facade because of his noble blood and easy to convince the public.

Therefore, when Kyoto was occupied by Japanese resistance forces in late autumn last year, and the provisional government hastily moved to Yokohama to join the U.S. military, Kijuro Kijuro served as Foreign Minister because Prime Minister Fumma Konoe disappeared during the process of moving the provisional government out of Kyoto. The Acting Prime Minister actually led the operation of the "Interim Government of Japan"...but it also allowed Kijuro Koshihara to be dubbed a "Bai Yi lackey" and even accused of "collaborating with the enemy and killing the king". The patriots in Japan who wished to eat their flesh and lay their skins on their skins were the "culprits of the country's calamity", and their reputation was completely wiped out...

In this regard, Kijuro Kishihara personally felt very wronged. In his opinion, he had never betrayed His Majesty the Emperor until Emperor Showa died in the mushroom cloud.In the previous secret diplomacy and peace talks with the United States, he conducted it "adhering to his intentions". It was by no means colluding with the enemy in private, and he did not disclose any key information.At least the Tokyo nuclear explosion and the destruction of the royal family cannot be blamed on him.

As for the establishment of the "Interim Government of Japan" in Kyoto, on behalf of Japan, it announced its unconditional surrender to the U.S. military, requiring all soldiers and civilians to "bear humiliation and bear the burden of humiliation, and consider the country's community" to stop resistance, seize weapons, seal up ammunition, and wait for the U.S. military to take over... ...This is also a last resort!

According to Kijuro Motohara, after the death of the emperor, the duty of loyalty to the emperor on his shoulders will end, and it is 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 party is weak, and social conflicts are extremely intensified, all relying on the suppression of the wartime system.At the same time, red ideology has spread rapidly in the army and among the people, and the signs of revolution are gradually appearing.

As a representative of chaebols and civil servants, Kijuro Kishihara is naturally not used to militarism and fascism, let alone Bolshevik mud legs, but he is very envious of the American consortium that can control the country behind the scenes, and he very much hopes for Japan's political structure Going in that direction too.

However, Japan has the military in control of power, mob threats outside, and the country is in a wartime system. The Japanese chaebol are destined to be unable to rely on their own strength to subdue the army, evade the government, suppress workers and peasants, and seize real power. The risk of dying together with the empire in the flames of war... In this case, what else can be done besides kneeling and licking the U.S. military for help?Do you want to wait for the lunatics in the military to coerce the entire country to shed the last drop of blood and drain the last bit of money from my master's family?Or let the red heads of the Bolsheviks jump up to rebel and divide the company and land of my lord?

No matter which choice you choose, for His Excellency Kijuro Kijuro who is sitting on the side of the rich and powerful, it is the same and absolutely intolerable!

Remember Mr. Wang Jingwei, a friend from China who passed away in Nanjing, didn’t he invent a word called “curve 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 red disasters in Japan, I want to use American soldiers to suppress troublesome people!

In order to save the country, to maintain the national system, and to prevent Japan from being polluted by the evil red ideology, I lost my face and reputation to surrender and serve the U.S. military. What a huge sacrifice I made!Thinking about it, I feel that I am really great!Alas, you lowly commoners who have been brainwashed by the wrong ideas of militarism and Bolshevism, why can't you fully understand and understand my master's painstaking efforts?

However, in this country, neither the superstitious Japanese samurai who believed in violence nor the common people who were massacred by the U.S. military could not understand the thinking of this diplomatic elite.Moreover, a real Yamato samurai prefers to speak with knives and bullets instead of talking nonsense and playing with words!

"...Kill it!" "...Heavenly Punish the Traitor!" "...Go to hell! Coin Yuan!"

Accompanied by these two loud and loud shouts, a long chain of fire suddenly shot out on the dilapidated street that seemed peaceful a second ago.

The light machine gun hidden in the window at the corner of the street roared fiercely at the convoy, and the flying bullets swept across the body of the guard like hailstones. There were patches of dazzling bright red on it.

Amid the hoarse howling and cursing, guards riding motorcycles or bicycles were swept away, and a string of sparks splashed from the bulletproof car in which Kijuro Kijuro was riding.The Japanese "bean chariot" mini-tank driving ahead opened the road, and when it saw this, it immediately applied an emergency brake. However, before the tank stopped, the bulletproof car behind it bumped into it by surprise, making a deafening loud noise. .

Even so, the guards who were attacked quickly reacted, using tanks and cars as cover, and shot at the attackers hiding in the window on the street, and the machine gun on the bean chariot also slowly turned an angle, and the attack on the As the assassin spit out tongues of flame, the opponent couldn't lift his head.

But at the next moment, there was another cry that sounded like a death talisman, and sounded from a corner not far away, "...Quick! Throw the bottle!"

In an instant, several ronin assassins disguised as refugees on the street took off their worn-out coats full of patches, picked up the "cocktail bottle" in their hands, and threw them at Kijuro Koshihara's car and the "bean chariot" mini-tank. ——A dozen dark bottles flew towards the target along a parabola from all directions along the street. However, due to the poor craftsmanship of the creators, less than half of the bottles burst into flames after landing.

Nevertheless, the roaring flames of these "hula" caused great confusion and confusion to the guards.Next, those Ronin Assassins who threw out the "cocktail bottle" yelled "Tianzhu" with all their strength, and rushed up wielding pistols, rifles and samurai swords...

For Kijuro Kojihara, who was sitting in the bulletproof car, the few minutes after the attack seemed longer than a month—the sound of killing, explosions, rising flames, and splashing blood... The turret of the bean chariot spewed out a string of death flames, the roaring assassin and the dedicated guard were splashed with blood one after another, and fell down convulsively... An assassin threw a grenade beside the car without risking his life. Only less than two meters away, he could even see the sparks of the fuse through the glass, but the solid bulletproof body finally blocked the shock waves and fragments of the grenade, and did not cause him any harm, except for his heart. Vigorously beating as if about to jump out of the chest...

In the end, after dropping five or six corpses, but there was still little progress, especially after the bean chariot could not do anything, this group of "Tianzhu" assassins finally gave up on this operation, accompanied by a bang as a signal Hustling, turned around and ran along the streets and alleys... After a while, a group of American soldiers who were ordered to "help defend" Yokohama arrived late, and casually asked what happened just now...

——In any case, as the leader of the Japanese traitors, Kijuro Kishihara finally escaped once again from the blade of the "righteous man who seeks traitors".