The Rise of the Third Reich

Just a dozen hours after Marine Colonel Minoru Genda felt that the Japanese Empire was really unable to defeat the behemoth of the United States, on the island of Oahu, which is more than 11,000 kilometers away from Palembang, Japanese Army General Tomofumi Yamashita now felt the same way.

As the commander of the Japanese Army's Hawaiian Front, he felt for the first time that the Hawaiian Islands might not be able to hold. Because thousands of American fighter planes taking off from aircraft carriers and Niihau Island also roared towards Oahu at this time. Unlike the ammunition dropped in many previous air strikes, the Americans used unconventional ammunition-mustard gas bombs and anthrax spore bombs in the bombing on June 4, Hawaii time (the Japanese are not yet aware that the US military dropped Anthrax spore bombs) were dropped by hundreds of B-24 and B-17 bombers taking off from Niihau Island.

Regardless of the objections of his staff, General Yamashita insisted on standing in a shelter on the top of the command post inside the mountain. Wearing a gas mask, he looked steadily at the ground-to-air battle outside with a telescope from the inside-out observation port. Although the American air strikes were violent, they could not overwhelm the firepower of the Oahu defenders, and the infantry were all hidden in well-established fortifications. Even if the opponent dropped tens of thousands of tons of bombs, there would not be too many casualties. But what the Americans are dropping now is not an ordinary bomb, but a poison gas bomb that emits yellow poisonous smoke!

General Yamashita has received reports that mustard gas bombs dropped by American aircraft have caused damage to some unsuspecting anti-aircraft gunners, causing heavy casualties due to poisonous smoke. Now in the Army Hospital on Oahu, there are all the wounded who were burned by mustard gas. They are covered in blisters and wailing in pain. Some are even blinded by the poison. They are extremely hopeless and helpless.

Yamashita Fengfumi, who had considerable knowledge of the poison gas warfare on the European battlefields in World War I, knew that the current poison gas attacks were just the beginning! The real climax of the gas war will occur after the landing operation officially begins.

The poisonous smoke of mustard gas will shroud the Japanese positions day and night (the poisonous smoke often lingered for several hours in World War I) until the Japanese officers and soldiers wearing gas masks suffered heavy casualties...

Moreover, the U.S. military now completely ignores the threat of Japanese bacterial weapons in large cities on the west coast and brazenly used chemical weapons on Oahu. This shows that the Americans have now made the greatest determination to use all means to defeat the enemy in the shortest possible time. Defeat or force Japan to make peace.

Of course, the samurai of the Japanese Empire are not afraid of anything! Even if the Americans have terrible nuclear fission weapons, the Japanese samurai can defeat them.

But... what does such a war mean to Japan?

General Yamashita Tobumi is the core figure of the Japanese Army. Of course he knows that the Americans have now sued for peace with Japan, and the conditions are not bad, but they only want to take back the Hawaiian Islands.

Is it worth sacrificing the lives of more than 200,000 army officers and soldiers for the Hawaiian Islands, which are 6,000 kilometers away from Tokyo?

The current Japanese Empire is no longer a small country with only more than 300,000 square kilometers, but a huge country occupying more than 5 million square kilometers. Why bother fighting endlessly for the Hawaiian Islands and the Americans?

Thinking of this, Yamashita Fengfumi turned his head and said to a former staff officer of the Front Army Headquarters who was wearing a gas mask: "Go and send electricity to the military headquarters and tell the Americans that they used mustard gas on the imperial officers and soldiers of Oahu... Now Pearl Harbor and Honolulu have Covered by the mustard gas from the US military, our Imperial Army soldiers suffered heavy casualties!”

Just when Oahu was attacked by biological and chemical weapons from the United States, night was already falling on the sea in the northern part of Kyushu, thousands of miles away from Oahu. A sea beast made of steel quietly surfaced from the water under the cover of night and slowly sailed towards the sparsely lit direction in the distance.

This is an American "Little Shark" class submarine with an underwater displacement of 2,424 tons and a floating displacement of 1,526 tons, which is almost equivalent to a small destroyer.

Since the U.S. Navy, which operates on two fronts, has long been at a disadvantage, this "Little Shark" class submarine has been manufactured in large quantities and has become a powerful equipment for the U.S. Navy to conduct break-up operations and attack its opponents. Especially in the Pacific battlefield, because the Japanese Navy's anti-submarine and anti-mine capabilities are seriously insufficient, American submarines have an opportunity to show their talents. Either attack with torpedoes, lay mines, or simply float to the surface and attack with deck guns, which will always cause heavy losses to Japanese ships and make them difficult to prevent.

However, the American submarine that has now quietly sneaked to northern Kyushu, Japan, near the densely populated coastal area of ​​Fukuoka Prefecture, is not here to break the relationship. They are a secret weapon used by the US Navy to attack the Japanese mainland!

On the narrow deck of this "Baby Shark" class submarine, a twelve-unit MK.51 rocket launcher - actually a rocket launcher - is installed.

The ammunition used by this rocket launcher is 5-inch high-speed self-rotating rockets with high accuracy. It has four rockets with different ranges: 2500 yards (2286 meters)/5000 yards (4572 meters)/10000 yards (9144 meters). In addition, the warheads of this 5-inch rocket can also be selected. There are 4 types of warheads to choose from, namely high-explosive warheads, white phosphorus incendiary warheads, anthrax spore warheads and mustard gas warheads!

Before the Japanese used bacterial weapons to attack the West Coast of the United States, there were no plans to install the MK.51 rocket launcher on submarines. This weapon was originally intended to be installed on a landing ship to support the US military's landing on the Hawaiian Islands. Moreover, the Americans did not design mustard gas warheads and anthrax warheads for rocket launchers at that time.

However, after Japanese bacteria invaded the United States, an angry Roosevelt was determined to take revenge by all means.

As a result, various bizarre "revenge weapons" were designed by the military industry department. Among them, the strange combination of submarine + rocket launcher attracted the most attention. Because submarines are the only weapons in the hands of Americans that can get close to the Japanese mainland, and the power of 5-inch rockets is not small, at least much more than 3-inch deck guns. Moreover, the speed of releasing ammunition is also fast, firing 12 rockets at a time. After one or several rounds of volleys, it immediately floats away and the opponent does not even have time to counterattack.

In order to increase the power of 5-inch rockets, the frantic U.S. Naval Operations Department put aside ordinary charge warheads from the beginning, and only equipped a few experimental "rocket launcher submarines" with white phosphorus warheads, anthrax spore warheads and mustard gas warhead.

The one preparing to launch a sneak attack on the coastal areas of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan tonight is one of several test boats, the "Babu". This submarine with an underwater displacement of more than 2,400 tons is now carrying 120 rockets filled with incendiary agents, anthrax spores and mustard gas!

When the "Babu" rocket launcher submarine surfaced and began to approach the attack target. The hatch on the rear side of the submarine island was pushed open, and the submarine's first officer, Lieutenant William Walker, came out with several sailors wearing life jackets and helmets, carrying 5-inch rockets on their shoulders, and shook the Taking three steps and two steps at a time on the swaying submarine deck, I soon arrived at the MK.51 rocket launcher fixed on the deck facing the port side.

"Quick, quick, quick!" Lieutenant Walker shouted loudly, while checking the launcher quickly with his hands and feet, and then turned the handle to adjust the launch angle a few times himself - because the space on the submarine deck was limited, it was installed on the The MK.51 rocket launcher above can only adjust the shooting angle, but cannot adjust the left and right. Therefore, before launching rockets, the submarine must aim its port side at the target. Of course, this method of attack is not very accurate, but it is enough to attack densely populated coastal towns.

"Okay, load the ammunition quickly! Let the Japanese know how powerful the United States is!" Lieutenant Walker adjusted the launch angle and immediately asked the sailors to load the ammunition.

The target of their attack this time was Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, which is a densely populated seaside city. The submarine will launch rockets from a distance of 8,000 meters from the coast (almost the city). It's impossible to miss. The question is, can we play for a few more rounds?

4 white phosphorus incendiary bombs, 4 mustard gas bombs and 4 anthrax bombs were quickly loaded. Lieutenant Walker and his men quickly ran back to the submarine's island. The captain, Major Frachi, who was watching the loading of bombs from the observation platform on the ship island, immediately gave the order to fire.

As the electric current activated the rocket propellers, 12 rockets roared into the air for the first time, dragging orange tail flames across the night sky and flying towards the coastal city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, about 8 kilometers away. After just ten seconds, balls of orange and white fire suddenly shot up among the wooden houses where the Japanese lived!

The first to fall were four white phosphorus incendiary bombs. The individual cells contained not only flammable white phosphorus, but also a large amount of viscous agent that could stick to human bodies and wooden buildings and burn, quickly igniting a large area of ​​houses.

What followed were even more terrifying mustard gas bombs and anthrax bombs! Yellow poisonous smoke and anthrax spores that were invisible to the naked eye filled the air. The Japanese people, awakened by the sudden explosions and fires, rushed out of their wooden houses and rushed into the poisonous air...

In the early morning of June 5 (Japan time), more than one "bazooka submarine" launched a surprise attack on the Japanese mainland. Almost at the same time, cities and towns along the coasts of Fukuoka, Kochi, Aichi, Shizuoka and Miyagi Prefectures in Japan became targets of American revenge. And this is just the beginning of America's revenge!