Great time travel

Chapter 22. The Islands Dyed Red
December [-], Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido Island

In the light snow in early winter, the streets and alleys of Sapporo City are full of parading and shouting crowds, holding various banners and singing various melodies.It looked as lively as a temple fair and festival, but there was no joy at all, only the actual sadness and misery.

Many Japanese army officers and soldiers in khaki uniforms, as well as young students in black uniforms, held banners with slogans such as "Defend the country and punish traitors", "Loyalty fills the bone marrow", "Better die than kneel" and other banners. Under the command of the little sergeant with a saber, he sang "Showa Restoration Song" with tears streaming down his face:
"...the powerful only know about the proud family, and there are really few people among them who worry about the country;
...... Showa Restoration under the spring sky, men unite for justice!There are millions of soldiers in the chest, and thousands of cherry blossoms will be scattered when they die!

The rotting corpses passed by, and the body was swaying and floating clouds.Youguo stands up and moves forward, and the man sings from here on!
The sky was furious and the earth shook, and there was a very loud roar.Those who sleep forever cannot sleep, and Japan is awakening today! ..."

And more workers and citizens have already publicly unfurled the red flag, hung the badge of sickle and hammer, and sang the "Internationale" loudly: "... Arise! Slaves suffering from hunger and cold! Arise! Suffering people all over the world! My blood is already boiling, I want to fight for the truth!..."

All of a sudden, "Showa Restoration Song" and "Internationale" came and went, and the red flag and the sun flag were the same.Veterans of the Russo-Japanese War with sabers and medals hung shoulder to shoulder with Japanese communist propagandists waving party emblems. One shouted to avenge the emperor, and the other shouted to overthrow U.S. imperialism.

——At this moment of national subjugation and genocide, Japan’s most stubborn militarists and most radical Bolsheviks have reached a consensus very subtly: the state system and other things have been ignored, and the most important thing is the survival of the nation. It is to fight to the death with the American ghosts and animals!

Um?The Bolsheviks have no father and no king, are they rebellious?But where is there any king in Japan now?It's nothing to have no father and no king!
If it was in normal times, seeing so many "non-citizens" rioting in the streets and agitating, the police and military police would have rushed up to suppress them viciously with sticks in hand.But at this moment, the police and gendarmes are hiding away, not daring to embarrass the parade on the street.Even if some fool dares to intervene occasionally, the opposite party immediately greeted him with sticks and fists, and yelled and scolded while beating: "...you bastard! Now even the emperor and the empire are gone! What are you talking about non-citizens? Are you a bastard?" Do you want to seek refuge with American ghosts?"

Although they were disgraced, these policemen and military police could only hide their faces and flee in desperation in the face of the raging crowd.In the final analysis, the reason why they were able to dominate in the first place was because of the backing of the state machinery behind them.But now?The law is gone, the country is gone, and the emperor is gone. These seemingly majestic gendarmes and policemen are actually like the "family elders", "wakonen", "servant generals" and "cho mahogany" of the Tokugawa family after the fall of the shogunate. It is already a waste that is about to be eliminated by the times. How can it be tough in the face of the common people and soldiers who are being stabbed?

Besides, after learning the news of the "Osaka Massacre" and discovering that they would be massacred even if they surrendered, even the most foolish and loyal policemen and military police were also frightened out of their wits: the so-called "Japanese Provisional "Government" is simply trying to trick all citizens into hell!Before the military department asked everyone to die for the emperor, it was more or less reasonable, but it wants us to die for the wealth and wealth of you few chaebols... Why?

——The burning, killing, and looting of the Anzacs in downtown Osaka was not, strictly speaking, a planned massacre of the city, but an out-of-control military discipline triggered by an unexpected incident.Although there is no clear statistics on the number of deaths caused before and after, it should not exceed 15 at most.

However, the citizens of Osaka, who fled in all directions, spread false rumors all the way, exaggerating the matter more and more, and some people with good intentions took the opportunity to add fuel to the flames, referring to the "great achievements" of the Imperial Japanese Army in the Nanjing Massacre in the past year, and the "great achievements" of Unit 731. Human body scientific research achievements", just fabricated a lot of horrific horror rumors, such as massacre of 300 million people, "Australian Cup" killing competition, charcoal roasting of babies, skinning of people alive, rape and murder of female students, scalping Recorded merit, practiced guns with living people as targets, experimented with poison gas and incendiary bombs with citizens, disemboweled pregnant women, made Japanese prisoners and tired Japanese women line up and beheaded by the river, tens of thousands The headless corpse of the city clogged the Yodogawa River outside the city...

In order to increase his persuasiveness, Wang Qiu, one of the masterminds behind the scenes, opened his mind again and collected a lot of short videos and pictorials of modern Japanese bloody horror-hunting horror movies (later Japanese are very good at shooting this kind of subject matter), select After some content was edited, it was remade into black-and-white movies and black-and-white photos, and handed over to Comrade Sophie, the ship's mother, and then she spread it widely through the way of the Japanese Republic and Navy.And the purpose of the above-mentioned material selection is to make people vomit for three days, or have nightmares for a week...

So, under such an unprecedented wave of "ghost and animal screams and massacres", the Japanese who were caught off guard were suddenly stimulated and went crazy!

You must know that the Japanese at this moment in 21 were not the fat house cute creatures of the "peaceful dementia country" in the [-]st century, but ferocious jackals who had received militaristic education since childhood.Not to mention that since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the wartime base camp has continuously indoctrinated the people with the concept of "American and British ghosts and animals are murderous, cruel, perverted, sinister, and extremely vicious", and have tried every means to smear them.Now there are two nuclear bombs in Tokyo first, then the burning of Kyoto, and finally the massacre in Osaka, which immediately matches the demonized propaganda of the past with the bloody reality.

Many Japanese veterans themselves have engaged in various activities of burning, killing, prostitution and plundering in China and Nanyang battlefields. Now they feel that American ghosts and animals will do the same in the Japanese archipelago.Therefore, these exaggerated propagandas are naturally believed to be true.Especially some retired veterans who participated in the "Nanjing Raiders" used to laugh at these "inferior ethnic groups in China" and they were really insensitive. What a bunch of trash that doesn't deserve to live in this world.Unexpectedly, Feng Shui will take turns, but now it is the turn of the warriors of the imperial kingdom, who are about to line up and be slaughtered!But why?Obviously everyone has not lost, they have guns, cannons and planes in their hands, as well as the poison gas bombs of the U.S. military!Why put down your arms and let the United States and Britain kill ghosts and animals for fun?Even killing ghosts and beasts aesthetics and perverted art?
And it's not that I will die alone, but the whole family will be tortured and killed by various tricks!How can such a thing be tolerated?
Well, I see, it must be the fault of the chaebols of the provisional government!It was they who colluded with the U.S. military to bomb Tokyo, killed the emperor, and overthrew the government!Now we are taking the bones of our imperial army and ordinary people to please the Yankees!What insanity, what treason!
For example, the Fourth Division of Osaka, which was waiting to be reorganized and disbanded in Shanghai, learned of the embellished news of the "Osaka Massacre" and saw a bunch of fake and highly simulated photos of the massacre. He would also suffer the fate of being massacred, and immediately took advantage of the opportunity before being disarmed to openly raise the flag to rebel in Shanghai, relaunching the "Great East Asia Jihad", declaring that he would overthrow a certain "puppet regime supported by the United States and Britain."

Chairman Jiang received this bad news, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and dispatch troops in an attempt to encircle and suppress. Unexpectedly, the troops that can be mobilized in the Jiangnan area are basically puppet troops that have just been recruited. Just the soft-legged type.Although it is said that they already have the support of the invincible American father, after all, they have not seen even a hair of American aid—all of them were intercepted by the Halsey Fleet and Marshal MacArthur to fight.

On the contrary, those "receivers" of the Chongqing government who came down from the air have been trying their best to instigate charges against the incorporated puppet troops in recent days, extorting blackmail and scraping the ground, which made the puppet troops complain: not only the long-term salary owed No money was handed out, but even the food ration was cut off, and the soldiers of the puppet army were asked to find food for themselves. Even weapons and ammunition were sold by the "receiver officers" for more than half, and the morale was extremely low for a while.

As a result, 20 "former puppet troops" lacking guns, ammunition, hungry bellies, morale, and eating an unknown amount of money were defeated by the Fourth Division in the outskirts of Shanghai.Immediately, these bloody Osaka soldiers mobilized the Japanese surrendered soldiers and expatriates scattered all over the place, while continuing to advance triumphantly, heading straight to Nanjing, invincible along the way.Poor Generalissimo Jiang had just "returned his capital to Nanjing" for more than a month. Facing the counterattack of the dying Japanese army, he had to flee again on a riverboat, announcing the urgent relocation of the national government to Nanchang... It became a public opinion in the world for a while. A big laughing stock.

Closer to home, on the other side of the Chinese battlefield, how the national government was beaten by the Japanese army that had already surrendered, and the absurd scandal of losing the capital Nanjing again, is not mentioned here for the time being.In the mainland of the empire of the Japanese archipelago, there is also a surge of wind and clouds, like a volcanic eruption.Especially in Hokkaido, which is far away from the main force of the U.S. military, it has received the worst degree of red propaganda, but it also has the most troops stationed and hoarded materials. From top to bottom, they are unwilling to stand still.

For a while, no matter what military discipline or martial law was, no one took it seriously.All kinds of "concerns about the country" regardless of their political ideology are left or right, all rushed to the streets and shouted slogans, declaring that "the whole country will be broken", even if they are beaten to death standing up, it is better than being tortured to death kneeling down.

While marching and shouting slogans, the men were collecting explosives and guns, the old man began to polish his treasured samurai swords, and the women practiced bamboo guns and slingshots with unprecedented seriousness... Originally, they only knew how to obey The boss and the Japanese who had no idea of ​​their own seemed to have turned from fools to lunatics in an instant, and they wanted to fight with the American ghosts and animals who landed with red eyes.

At least Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the head of the Seventh Division at the Sapporo City Headquarters, knew very well that as long as he issued an order to obey the Provisional Government and surrender unconditionally, there would be a large group of red-eyed soldiers holding rifles behind him. Rushed into the headquarters and gave myself "Heavenly Punishment" by Chaos Sword!

What's more, in Lilin Zhongdao's heart, how could you be willing to lay down your arms and let others slaughter you?

——During the Pacific War, because all battlefields were far away from the mainland, when the upheaval broke out, the elite of the Japanese Empire’s army was basically overseas, and there were only four regular field army divisions remaining in the mainland.Among them, the most elite guard division is the emperor's personal soldiers, stationed in Tokyo, the result was first hit by a super-explosive combination of sarin gas, incendiary bombs and atomic bombs, and was broken up, and then listened to that The flicker of the Japanese provisional government put down their weapons and surrendered to the U.S. military in a daze. Now they are being sent as free coolies to build airports and barracks for the American conquerors.

The No.20 Fifth Division in Osaka was just wiped out by the U.S. Army in the New Zealand battlefield last year. Today’s No.20 Fifth Division is a new unit that has just been recruited this year. It has not been trained and formed in Osaka yet. In a daze, he was ordered to disarm and surrender, and then he was massacred by the hostile Allied ANZAC in one breath, leaving only a few fish that slipped through the net and wandered around the world, looking for people to cry about them. It was a tragic experience, and I deeply regret that I surrendered to the enemy without firing a shot, and ended up in such an unseemly end.

Then there is the No.60 Fifth Division in Nagoya, which is now under siege by tens of thousands of U.S. troops day and night.But looking at the isolated and helpless appearance of this army, it is estimated that the destruction of the entire army is not far away.

Therefore, apart from the Kwantung Army, Korean Army, and North China Front Army that had just withdrawn from Hiroshima, only the Northeast Heavy Army Group headed by the Seventh Division of Hokkaido remained among the regular troops of the local army on the Japanese archipelago.Its core is the Seventh Division permanently stationed in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, and then the Soya Fortress Garrison Team and Tsugaru Fortress Garrison Team stationed at the north and south ends of Hokkaido Island, guarding the Soya Strait and Tsugaru Strait leading to the Sea of ​​Japan respectively. In addition, there are a bunch of miscellaneous The defense team, guard team, transport team, etc., have a total strength of about 10 people, which is not a small force.

But the problem is that these armies deployed in the Hokkaido area are in a state of disarray just like the Japanese Empire today. Before that, there was no commander-in-chief or military and political chief to control the overall situation, but they were directly under the wartime power of Tokyo. The base camp is now completely independent of each other.

Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the current commander of the Seventh Division with the most troops in Hokkaido, was previously the commander of the defense of Iwo Jima, an island belonging to the inner guard of the "absolute defense circle" of the Japanese Empire.Therefore, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, who originally belonged to the Kwantung Army, was ordered to lead his troops to Iwo Jima to build fortifications and deploy troops.

Unexpectedly, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi built a bunker at the foot of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima for a while. The situation in the Pacific War is still far better than the most optimistic expectation before the war. And Australia, under such circumstances, the strength of an entire division is left to do nothing on Iwo Jima, more than 4000 kilometers away from the US military, which is a great waste no matter how you look at it.So, in the summer of this year, the wartime base camp ordered the dismantling of the Iwo Jima garrison and transferred them to the Australian battlefield in batches to replenish the field divisions that suffered heavy losses on the front line.

Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, who had not fought for several years, was transferred to Hokkaido as the commander of the Seventh Division. It is said that there is a series of underground smuggling cases with army background.

Unexpectedly, on the day Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi took over the military affairs of Iwo Jima and came to Hokkaido to take office, he encountered a nuclear explosion in Tokyo, and the entire wartime base camp was blown into radiation dust.Next, before he could control the troops, that so-called "Interim Government of Japan" spread notices of unconditional surrender everywhere, completely messing up the morale of the army and the people... Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi was also confused now, the empire was gone, and what What kind of military discipline is being cleaned up?

Next, the Soviet border guards crossed the border southward, and the border guards and Zongya Fortress surrendered without a fight.The reconnaissance troops of the Soviet Army advanced all the way to Asahikawa in the central part of Hokkaido, and were blocked by Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi personally commanding the Seventh Division... But then, the further development of the domestic situation in Japan, as well as the complete loss of control of the military and the people, Let this professional soldier who lacks sufficient political acumen soon be completely at a loss.

At this moment, he was sitting in his office, looking at the lobbyist on the opposite sofa, Lieutenant General Takashi Tanaka, commander of the Tsugaru Fortress, his expression was unpredictable for a while, "...Senior Tanaka, you mean, the red elements in Hokkaido and The Soviets on the opposite side intend to nominate you as the commander-in-chief of the Hokkaido Soviet Republic? This... how can this be done? If you count by seniority, it is clear that you, who have served as the chief of military affairs, are more suitable!"

"...Hey, Kuribayashi-kun, why don't you refuse. The position of the great commander, in today's Hokkaido, belongs to you! A person like me who has just been released from a mental hospital, even if I sit Who would be willing to accept that position?" Takashi Tanaka explained with a wry smile.