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The ceasefire has lasted for more than 24 hours. According to William Childs, the head of the US military advisory group, although the ceasefire is only verbal and temporary, both sides have abided by the agreement, and the armistice negotiations have also started smoothly.Taipei and even the entire northern part of Taiwan have not been hit by precise glider bombs, which reassures Charles and the entire advisory group. Charles even plans to move his residence from the 7th floor underground to the ground tomorrow. At least a breath of fresh air.
Anyway, the work at hand should be almost over...
"General!" A staff member of the advisory group entered the room, "General Marshall is on his way back to Taipei. He is calling you on the car radio and wants to talk to you."
The radio line was connected to the communication device in Childs' office, and he listened to Marshall through earphones, with only occasional "yes and no" words in his mouth.
The call is over.Childs put down the communicator and took off the earphones.
"President Lee has betrayed us!" Childs said, "The Republic of China has betrayed us! Now we are in big trouble, we have to get out of here quickly! Call the numbers of all the team stations, no, you go and call their numbers one by one, and prepare for emergency Evacuate. I radio myself."
Before the words fell, there were faint footsteps from the basement. It was many pairs of feet wearing military boots walking quickly up the stairs and walking through the corridors.
"Hello, General Charles." President Li Zongren's chief of defense staff, former second-level general of the national army, and backbone of the Xingui faction, Tao Jun walked into the room behind a dozen soldiers with live ammunition, "according to the agreement signed by the president and Beijing. According to the latest agreement, the mission of the military advisory group sent by the United States to China has ended. We guarantee the safety of your personal and property, but your actions will be restricted before returning to the United States. Ah, Defense Minister Guo, hello."
Tao Jun saw Guo Jiqiao.
"General Charles, what happened?" Defense Minister Guo Jiqiao rushed out from another room and asked inexplicably.
"Mr. Guo, you are too close to the Americans. We will temporarily take compulsory measures against you."
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William Hodgson was responsible for leading the Air Force's reconnaissance technology and psychological warfare team in the military advisory group of the US military stationed in Taiwan, instructing the National Army Air Force to use various types of reconnaissance aircraft, and instructing the National Army Air Force how to drop propaganda bombs.
During the Korean War, his team was called the U.S. Air Force Psychological Warfare Department. On the surface, the main job was to throw propaganda bombs.Actually... Propaganda bombs have drogues, and there are many small compartments that can be opened when they are about to hit the ground.Who knows if the leaflets that fly out of it are still carrying the protozoa?
William Hodgson's team is not in the presidential palace, but in Luzhou, west of downtown Taipei.The communication staff officer in charge of the telephone duty is relatively lax today and is not on duty.When he came back from the house, he found that the phone had been dinging.
The communications staff officer picked up the receiver and turned pale with shock after listening.Looking out the window, a group of troops from Annan's army was approaching the small building of the advisory group.
The communications staff put down the receiver, went out and knocked on the door next door: "Colonel Hodgson! Colonel Hodgson!"
Calling William Hodgson out, the communications staff said: "General Charles is personally spreading the word that President Li Zongren has betrayed the United States, and he and his Republic of China have surrendered to the Communist Party! General Charles ordered us to destroy all Take away the documents, gather in the car and prepare to retreat to the airport!"
In the corridor came the shouts of soldiers and the clatter of rifles rubbing against belts.William Hodgson strode out of the room and almost collided with a soldier of Annan's army.He pushed aside the soldiers and turned abruptly towards the other end of the corridor, two or three soldiers chasing after him.While running and shouting, William Hodgson took out a ZIPPO lighter from his pocket.At the end of the corridor, he slammed open the door of the room with one shoulder, and was pressed tightly to the ground by the chasing soldiers.At the last moment of being handcuffed, he threw the Zippo into the room with all his strength, and the lighter fell on a stack of documents, roasting the first few pages into a burnt-yellow spot, and then went out.
Chapter 64, the intercepted documents have serious information
On the Korean battlefield, the Volunteer Army found a lot of indirect evidence in the first half of 1952, suspecting that the US military had dropped bacterial weapons in North Korea.Tang Hua was in Beijing at the time, and he paid special attention to these circumstantial evidence and intelligence.
The first thing that attracted attention was the report of the intelligence system of the Korean People's Army in February 1952, saying that Shiro Ishii, the leader of the former Unit 2, had secretly appeared in North Korea.This information is very powerful, but there is no hard evidence such as photos as support.
Then, from January to February 1952, volunteers successively found fungus-carrying insects in Cheorwon, Pyeongkang, Jinhua, and Yichuan.It was also found that there was a small-scale outbreak in the residents of central North Korea, but the number of infected people was not large and it did not spread.
The Volunteer Army interrogated the captured U.S. pilots and found that some bomber and fighter-bomber pilots performed some strange missions. The biggest doubt was that in several missions, they were told before flying that they were throwing propaganda bombs, but they were asked to go to Throw off the beaten track.
However, Shiro Ishii, infected insects, and inexplicable propaganda bombs are all circumstantial evidence.
It’s okay to use it for media warfare, but if you want to say what sanctions will be imposed on the United States, you need to find stronger evidence.
So at that time, Tang Hua also felt that it was almost enough to appeal and expose internationally.Unless it is lucky, such as shooting down a bomber with a germ bomb, the Soviet Union stole US military intelligence, and so on.
Unexpectedly, after a year and two months, I really hit the big luck.
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Taipei, Luzhou.
"Hello, I'm Sun Zhenquan, deputy battalion commander of the First Battalion, First Division, and Regiment of the Marine War."
Sun Zhenquan brought two cadres who could speak English to the small building of the US military advisory group in Luzhou.
"Hello, sir. I am... Wu Lianqi, second lieutenant and platoon leader of Company D, First Regiment of the Annan Army." Seeing Sun Zhenquan salute, Wu Lianqi also replied with an American military salute, "William Hodgson's resistance was particularly fierce when we searched this building , rushed out of the encirclement and ran to the document archive room, and tried to set fire to it, but we stopped it."
"Well done, thank you." Sun Zhenquan said, "William Hodgson has a special status among the more than 30 military advisers of the US military. We must control him and search the documents and archives of his group."
"This way please." Wu Lianqi led Sun Zhenquan's team and asked as he walked, "Is there any secret about this Hodgson?"
Sun Zhenquan: "At the end of 1951 and the beginning of 52, bacterial weapons were found thrown at many places in North Korea. Hundreds of people were infected and dozens of people died. We suspect that the U.S. military violated public international law by using bacterial weapons on the Korean Peninsula. The biggest suspect is this William Hodgson, he was in charge of that directly in the U.S. Air Force."
Walking into the narrow archives room, William Hodgson’s advisory team included only 6 people in total, but this was a department that moved to Taiwan as a whole, and taught pilots of the national army by the way, so the archives room was full of documents .
Sun Zhenquan first picked up the diaries and documents of the advisory group in 1953. He and two cadres looked through the stacks, but found nothing valuable.
The officers and soldiers of Annan's army were trying to pry the safe with bayonets, hacksaws and gun butts, and soon opened the first one.
This is a work log from 1952.William Hodgson's advisory group moved to Taiwan in May 1952, so Sun Zhenquan first moved out the logs from May to the end of 5, quickly browsed through them, put them aside, and then checked the files in early 1952.
"What is this?" Sun Zhenquan flipped through the stack of documents in his hand and saw a cover:
Plan13-53 plan
Sun Zhenquan conveniently looked through the files below it, and found that the last two files were related to it:
Plan13-52 plan
Plan13-51 plan
Browsing these documents, Sun Zhenquan's eyes gradually widened.
"Battalion Commander! I also found something here!"
A cadre surnamed Xiao held up a document in his hand.
"AFOAT-BW, M115/E73R Bomb Storage and Mounting Manual"
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"It is normal for the U.S. military to keep germ warfare strictly secret. If there is evidence to prove that the U.S. has launched a germ warfare, then in the eyes of most countries, this is equivalent to the U.S. committing a serious international war crime. But on the other hand, the U.S. I especially want to test the effect of germ weapons on the battlefield, and then improve and upgrade my own germ weapons.”
Three and a half hours have passed since the Taipei operation was successful, William Hodgson was captured, and his team's files were preliminarily judged to be "containable".Seeing the briefing sent by Xiamen, everyone in the War Information Center was not only excited, but also had the joy of the truth being revealed.
Nie Shuai: "Bacterial weapons mainly attack civilians in the rear. This is worse than the atomic bomb. It doesn't target your regular troops, it just makes trouble behind you."
“The U.S. military itself is also trying to convince itself,” Tang Hua said, “Since 1946, some public reports and speeches of the U.S. military have claimed that bacterial weapons are also very effective when used on the frontal battlefield, such as weakening the morale of the enemy and shaking them before attacking.” The enemy's position, isolation of the battlefield, blockade, etc., especially in the enemy's assembly area or the effective transportation network of the front line, the effect will be better. But in order to prove that bacterial weapons can really work on the frontal battlefield, They're using North Korea as a testing ground for new germ weapons."
The germ warfare in North Korea is such a strange situation.On the one hand, it is true that the Volunteer Army found clues to the release of bacterial weapons, but on the other hand, the losses caused by the US military’s bacterial warfare can be described as slight—a total of several hundred people fell ill.
And there is also a strange phenomenon, that is, the U.S. military spread fungus-carrying insects to the Korean battlefield during the coldest winter in North Korea. From the end of 1951 to the beginning of 1952, the low temperature of minus 20 degrees was often seen in the field of North Korea. At this time, flies and fleas were sprinkled on the ground in North Korea. What kind of operation is this?
This is where the US military is testing the hardy insects they have bred.
However, the first generation of cold-resistant insects they bred must have failed. Most of these insects were frozen to death when they were spilled from the propaganda bombs.However, Tang Hua had read reports from the volunteer army's frontline, and the insects spread by the US military seemed to be slightly more cold-resistant than ordinary natural insects.In an environment of minus 20 degrees, all ordinary insects would have died long ago, and there would not be a single one alive.When the North Korean Volunteers searched a suspected bacterial weapon drop area of several hundred square meters, while finding tens of thousands of dead fleas, they were able to catch dozens of temporarily surviving fleas.
If these dozens of temporarily surviving fleas were kept and continued to reproduce, it would be continuous selection and breeding, evolving from generation to generation, and might become more and more cold-resistant.But now the United States certainly does not have this opportunity for selective breeding.
The U.S. military also found little effect of disseminating bacteriological weapons in North Korea, and they admitted in a September 1952 internal report that the test had failed.The original words of the report are "failure to deploy biological weapons that are efficient, stable, feasible, easy to disseminate, low-cost, and capable of producing infectious diseases."