During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese invaders, who were stubbornly resisted by the Chinese people, in order to make military progress, have always regarded biochemistry as a secret to turn the tide of the war.
Among the Japanese army's series of biochemical warfare activities, the "Unit 731" entrenched in the northeast of China is the most notorious, and the infectious disease that broke out in Ningbo in 1940 and the plague that raged in Changde in 1941 are all masterpieces of the Japanese army's biochemical warfare.
But after these well-known biochemical warfare atrocities, there is also a ** that killed 420,000 Chinese civilians, and it is also the world's largest biochemical warfare, that is, the forgotten "Luxi bacteriological warfare"!
What happened in 1943 about the Roussy germ war?
An unexpected discovery.
Compared with the bacteriological warfare of "Unit 731", Ningbo and Changde, the "Luxi bacteriological warfare" that occurred in China's Shandong region is not so famous, and it has been buried in the dust of history for a long time, and his reappearance stems from a coincidence.
In 1993, Cui Weizhi, who worked in the party history department of Linyi City, Shandong Province, stumbled upon the clue in one day's work.
At that time, he was participating in the compilation of the "Documentary of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shandong", and in order to obtain detailed first-hand information, he went to the Second Historical Archives of China in Nanjing to inquire about relevant materials.
In the vast sea of historical materials, an inconspicuous record suddenly caught Cui Weizhi's attention: "* In the thirty-second year (1943), there was a large-scale outbreak of cholera in the Weihe River valley of Shandong Province. ”
Cui Weizhi, who is extremely sensitive to historical years, suddenly realized that the cholera that occurred in the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War was most likely not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster! And behind the scenes, it is very likely that it is a Japanese devil who is crazy!
Cui Weizhi's guess is not surprising, because the Japanese have been engaged in biochemical research since the full-scale invasion of China.
And just two years before the outbreak of cholera in Luxi in 1943, the Japanese invaders had already brazenly launched biochemical operations in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province and Changde, Hunan, which brought huge losses to the Chinese people.
In order to verify his conjecture, Cui Weizhi went to the Beijing Archives to verify it.
Here, Cui Weizhi really found a lot of dusty old files sent by the Fushun Japanese War Criminals Administration, and in the dense text records, it was confirmed that this ** was concocted by the Japanese invaders decades ago.
Roussy germ warfare.
Cui Weizhi learned about the origin of Luxi's bacteriological warfare through the self-report of a Japanese prisoner of war named Lin Maomei in the archives.
This Japanese prisoner of war, Lin Maomei, was the chief of the 59th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in the Luxi area of China at that time, and also served as an assistant in the bacteriological laboratory of the epidemic prevention and water supply team.
The so-called "epidemic prevention water supply class" is a biochemical research unit of the Japanese army in order to hide people's eyes.
In 1943, the Japanese invaders were defeated in the Pacific Theater, and they also fell into a bitter battle in the Chinese Theater, and it was always difficult to destroy the vital force of the squadron, thus hitting the anti-Japanese confidence and sentiment of the Chinese people.
In order to break the stalemate, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army, Okamura Ninji, thought of using biochemical warfare to open a breakthrough in the war.
As a matter of fact, long before Okamura Ninji was planning to carry out bacteriological warfare in North China, Shiro Ishii, the person in charge of the Japanese army's "Unit 731," had repeatedly submitted to the Japanese military headquarters relevant plans for launching biological and chemical warfare.
However, due to the fact that biochemical warfare is attacking the first people, it is also very easy to counterattack the Japanese army, which brings a huge amount of ** to itself.
Therefore, the Japanese have always been cautious about launching large-scale biochemical warfare, and only launched small-scale biochemical warfare on some battlefields before this.
But as time came to 1943, the Japanese who had entered a chronic death no longer cared too much, and the crazy Okamura Ninji personally approached Shiro Ishii to draw up a biochemical warfare plan codenamed "Operation Eighteen Autumn Luxi".
In August of that year, the long-arid Luxi area suddenly ushered in several days of heavy rainfall, causing the water level of the local Weihe River basin to rise sharply.
Through the rapid flood, the Japanese invaders threw the biochemical ** with the cholera virus into the torrent, and with the current, the cholera virus was carried to every corner of Luxi.
Soon, a severe outbreak of cholera broke out among the affected people of Luxi.
And due to the collapse of social order caused by the floods, it was difficult for the local Eighth Route Army to organize an effective disaster relief and anti-epidemic, and countless ordinary people in Luxi could only lose their lives helplessly in natural and man-made disasters.
According to the later statistics of the Japanese invaders, the cholera, which lasted from late August to late October 1943, caused 42 in 24 counties in Luxi and southern Hebei aloneThe death of 750,000 people.
Not only that, but there were often sporadic outbreaks of cholera in these areas even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, constantly threatening the lives of the people.
A demon shielded by the United States.
From "Unit 731", to Changde bacteriological warfare, and then to Luxi bacteriological warfare, the biochemical troops of the Japanese invaders have committed countless crimes.
Ironically, most of these demonic executioners who are stained with the blood debts of the Chinese people have escaped the trial and liquidation they deserve under the protection of the United States.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the United States, which had long coveted Japan's biochemical data, took the initiative to contact Shiro Ishii, the mastermind of "Unit 731".
The Americans used the protection of his life as a bargaining chip in exchange for a large amount of information on the "human experiment data" of the Japanese invaders in Shiro Ishii's possession.
Shiro Ishii and others, who had been asylum by the United States, were mostly exempted from the "Tokyo Trial", and even after the war, most of them were invited by the United States to serve as advisers to their biochemical laboratories.
Or return to Japan and rely on the experience and experimental data accumulated over many years of human experiments, and become a tycoon in the Japanese medical industry.
For example, Masaji Kitano and Yoshiki Naito, two officers of "Unit 731", relied on the establishment of Japan's first post-war blood bank, and earned a lot of money; Toshito Yoshimura and other military doctors in the infectious disease department such as Takeo Tamiya became professors or presidents of Nippon Medical University.
The culprit Shiro Ishii lived until 1995 under the protection of the United States, and this group of inhumane demons and executioners finally escaped the post-war trial, which was a major crime committed by the United States for personal gain.
Biochemical warfare has never been far away from us, and in 2019, the "new crown epidemic" that spread around the world caused many people to speculate that it was located at the Fort Derek military base in the United States, and Shiro Ishii was one of the special advisers of the laboratory.
In the face of the turbulent changes of a century, China should also maintain due vigilance against the possible biological warfare.