Chapter 402: Self-Inflicted Consequences

The army is resolutely not using the navy in the development of weapons. The navy resolutely does not use the army, even if the performance is good. The same weapons of the army and navy, except for light weapons, bullets must not be universal. Aviation machine gun bullets of one caliber are used separately and must not be universal.

The Navy's radar was put into actual combat earlier than the Army, and its performance surpassed that of the Army's radar currently under development. But he would rather watch the army being bombed, and absolutely not provide any information, and even the shadow of the radar will not be seen by the army. The navy is deployed on alert ships in the Sea of Japan, and all intelligence passes through the navy.

As for the current situation, the navy will not give intelligence to the army, and the division of labor between the army and the navy is that the army is responsible for the defense of the ground air and has nothing to do with the navy. The main energy of the army aviation and the army's antiaircraft artillery was attracted by the anti-online group that appeared in the urban area of Hiroshima. The plan to attack the east and west was carried out very smoothly.

After breaking up with the main group northeast of Hiroshima, the group under Dawn's personal command did not encounter any interception. But upon arriving on this inconspicuous island, Dawn did not immediately rush into bombing. Rather, after circling along the island at maximum speed, after determining the location of the buildings on the island.

He commanded all forty-two B-24 bombers before slowly opening the magazine. All of the 168 tons of high-explosive bombs to be carried were dropped on the northwest side of the island, where the buildings were most concentrated. Even in order to achieve the highest bombing accuracy, the bomber group under his command entered from a low altitude of one thousand meters.

It is not until after the bomb is dropped that it begins to climb away at maximum speed. Behind him, all the buildings on Okunoshima had been completely razed to the ground. The poisonous gas ignited by the explosion caused a huge column of smoke in the windless winter weather of the Seto Inland Sea. The poison gas emitted from the destroyed gas factory shrouded the entire island in a demonic spirit created by the Japanese themselves.

Because at this moment, the poison gas factory on Okunoshima, which is currently producing at full capacity, has a full reserve of more than 2,000 tons of mustard gas, dozens of tons of hydrogen acid, and a large amount of Louis morale and phosgene. At the same time, there are large quantities of chemical raw materials used to make poison gas.

And this batch of poisonous gas produced and being produced was all under the condition that the Japanese army was in a tight position. It is planned to be used on the Chinese battlefield to replace the Japanese divisions and regiments that are scheduled to be transferred and make up for the lack of combat effectiveness of the supplementary troops. The battle of '42 was too great a loss for the Japanese army.

Take advantage of the opportunity when the North China Front suffered heavy losses in the previous battle. Now that it was hit hard last year, it has withdrawn to the mountains to recuperate and recuperate, and there is a trend of reactivating it. The Japanese occupation zone in North China was facing an increasingly unstable situation.

In order to restore law and order in the so-called North China and ensure the safety of the Japanese occupation forces on the Jinpu Line, the main artery of China. Unable to significantly increase the deployment of troops, the Japanese base camp has decided to increase the number of poison gas bombs in North China. The command of the use of poison gas bombs was delegated to the division commander and the commander of the independent mixed brigade.

In order to carry out this plan of the Japanese army base camp, the poison gas factory on Okunoshima is now operating at full capacity for 24 hours. And in order to expand production, the island also hoarded a large number of raw materials. The entire island can be said to have become a super-large poison gas warehouse.

Originally, in addition to this Okunoshima poison gas factory, the Japanese army also had several large poison gas factories in northeast China. However, as the war situation in Tohoku took a turn for the worse, the Japanese moved the original poison gas factory in China back to Okunoshima in order to ensure safety and cover up secrets. In other words, at present, this poison gas factory is responsible for eighty percent of the poison gas supply of the Japanese army.

As a result, the more than 100-ton high-explosive bombs of the Anti-United Nations not only razed all the buildings on Okuno Island, but also allowed a large amount of poison gas to leak out before it was finished in production. The high-explosive bomb also ignited the highly toxic raw materials in reserve, and the sky-high smoke caused by the burning of hundreds of tons of highly toxic chemicals could be clearly seen dozens of kilometers away.

It was not until the bomber group led by Dawn had left that the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire deployed around the island began to fire aimlessly in the sky as if they had just woken up from a dream. And within half an hour, the poisonous gas emitted from Okuno Island made the Japanese air defense forces on the surrounding islands shut up directly.

There was no way that the amount of poison gas stored on this island was too large, and almost all the storage facilities were destroyed by air raids, and the amount of poison gas emitted was quite large. Coupled with the violent combustion of raw materials and highly toxic products such as hydrogen acid, it is said that the production of highly lethal gases. The poison gas emitted throughout Okunoshima was even more lethal than the Japanese army's deadliest chemical weapons.

These poison gases alone may not be so lethal. But when you put it all together, it's absolutely amazing. Even once there is poisoning, even time is not given for rescue. The Japanese ground air defense forces on the surrounding islands were themselves smoked to a single piece, and there was a large-scale poisoning of poison gas.

No matter how tenacious the Japanese are, they cannot resist the threat of such a large area of poisonous gas. In particular, the ground air defense forces are basically not equipped with gas masks because they are fighting on the ground. After the poisoning of a large number of anti-aircraft artillery, the Japanese had to urgently evacuate all the gunners from the anti-aircraft batteries.

The city of Takehara, which is only three kilometers away from Okuno Island, suffered heavy losses in the bombing. A large number of citizens were poisoned by the leaked poisonous gas, and more than half of the citizens were poisoned. Due to the surprise and lack of first-aid medicines, a considerable number of citizens died of poisoning.

The bombing of Okunoshima led to the mass evacuation of the entire Hiroshima Prefecture and Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku across the Seto Inland Sea. The arsenal in Hiroshima had to stop all production after all workers had to be temporarily evacuated. Even the Kure Port Naval Shipyard had to stop all ship construction and evacuate all workers immediately.

These skilled shipbuilding technicians were exceptionally critical to the Japanese Navy. Kure Port, on the other hand, is only a few dozen kilometers away from Okuno Island. Once there is a little wind that day, I am afraid that Wu Gang will not be able to do it and the whole army will be wiped out. After scolding the stupid army, the navy, even if it was reluctant, could only temporarily evacuate the shipyard workers first.

And some of the navy that was involved in the grass and trees even moved the Etajima Naval Academy to Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu at the first time. The Japanese, who created so many poisonous gases and killed countless Chinese, ended up eating the evil consequences.

In this bombing, although the Anti-United Nations paid the price of 13 bombers being shot down. But these costs were not in vain, and through this bombing, the center of the Japanese poison gas warfare was completely destroyed. Eighty percent of the Japanese army's poison gas production capacity was eliminated, preventing more Chinese from being harmed by Japanese poison gas bombs again.

After this bombing, the Japanese army was no longer able to carry out chemical warfare on a large scale. We can only rely on a few small poison gas factories in China, and the poison gas bombs produced are far from satisfying our needs. The helpless North China Front had no choice but to terminate the original plan.

Whether it is a frontal battlefield or a battlefield behind enemy lines, the possibility of being killed or injured by the Japanese army's poison gas in future battles has dropped by 60 percent. The Japanese army's ability to fight gas warfare has declined even more than before. The tension of the war made it impossible for the Japanese to rebuild a poison gas factory of the same size by diverting resources.

In order to slaughter other weak and small countries, the Japanese, who used poison gas as a trump card and decisive weapon, finally lifted a stone and shot themselves in the foot under the condition of limited national strength. When Pandora's box was opened on the mainland, in the face of the poisonous gas that was spilled on a large scale, the Japanese suffered a lot, not to mention that the military production, which was already extremely tense, suffered a serious blow.

The bombing of Okunoshima weakened Japan's military production capacity in a short period of time and was almost equivalent to the power of more than 1,000 tons of high-explosive bombs and napalm. In particular, the losses caused to the Kure Naval Factory, one of the largest shipyards of the Japanese Navy, are even more incalculable.

The Japanese campaign to eliminate the after-effects of the bombing lasted for decades, but ultimately failed. Okuno Island, and the entire adjacent Geyo Islands, have long been in the aftermath. Takehara City had to abandon its entirety and move all the remaining residents to another place.

Despite the severity of the consequences, the Japanese were lucky on the whole. The Seto Inland Sea, where Okuno Island is located, is an inland sea located between Honshu Island and the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu. The island of Honshu, in particular, holds the Seto Inland Sea in its arms like folded arms. The island of Shikoku is like a barrier, firmly blocking the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

Whether it's the southeast monsoon in summer or the northwest monsoon blowing from the Sea of Japan in winter, the Seto Inland Sea is located on a windswept slope. In other words, except for typhoon days, the sea is rarely windy all year round. Therefore, although the poison gas is dispersed in large quantities, it cannot spread over a large area with the change of wind direction. The rate at which poison gases spread is not only slow, but also confined to a small range for a long time.

If the Seto Inland Sea is not an inland sea, Okuno Island also has the monsoon climate of a typical island. The Japanese need to evacuate all residents except Hokkaido and the northern part of Honshu. These poisonous gases will spread to Shikoku and Kyushu islands in a large area with the northwest monsoon climate in winter.

But while the Japanese are lucky on this point, there is another downside to being in a leeward position. That is, the volatilization of poison gas is abnormally slow, and the concentration of poison gas cannot be reduced for a long time. The leakage of chemical raw materials has also left the southern part of the Seto Inland Sea without any grass for decades.

It took the Japanese several months to clean up the white fish that covered the entire southern part of the Seto Inland Sea. The Seto Inland Sea is another inland sea, and only the Bungo and Kii waterways on both sides of Shikoku Island are connected to the Pacific Ocean. Its own purification capacity is quite poor, and the cycle of seawater renewal is even slower. In other words, the southern part of the Setouchi Sea will be in a highly polluted situation for a long time.

The consequences of the bombing were not only the huge casualties and losses caused at the time. The long-term invisible hazard has lasted for decades. Even decades later, the area around Okuno Island still has the highest birth rate of disabled babies in all of East Asia. The surrounding soil will not be able to grow any crops for decades.

Although the island of Okuno is beautiful, it has become an island of death that no one can land on for decades. The Japanese thought they had created a so-called decisive weapon, but in the end they reaped the consequences. In response to the old saying of the Chinese: "Good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil, and it is not that the time has not yet come." When the time comes, everything will be reported. ”