Chapter 833: Gas Mask
With just that, Yang Mingzhi suddenly realized. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Oops! Ah! I really forgot! We've seized at least 5,000 cylinders, and we'll have to have 5,000 full sets of gas masks! I always thought this thing was useless, I never expected it! ”
Joshua's expression returned to calm, and she suddenly had a new idea, so she stretched out her right hand and pointed to several large wooden houses on the north side of the mine: "Sir, look, this is the rest room for our comrades overseer, and the female soldiers who assist in oversight. Please also be mentally prepared, as our men, both men and women, work with gas masks and may make you feel a little uncomfortable. ”
The scene was really embarrassing, Yang Mingzhi pouted and said, "Where will there be some discomfort?" During the First World War, soldiers in various countries had to defend themselves against enemy gas bombs, so gas masks and matching respiratory systems were necessary for soldiers. The current German army also inherits this habit, but our Soviet army has not activated the arsenal of poison. ”
The Soviets have always kept a lot of chemical weapons, such as chlorine, which is very easy to prepare.
During the Weimar Republic, the Soviet Union and Germany cooperated closely, including the military gas factories built by Germany on the territory of the Soviet Union, especially the three large chemical weapons factories built for the Soviet Union in Ryazan and Kazan. Kazan is located east of Moscow, and the war did not affect here at all, so it was easy for the Soviet Union to mass-produce chemical weapons such as chlorine.
The Germans used chemical weapons only sporadically, and quickly put an end to them. After all, the war did not become a chemical warfare like World War I, when the magnificent gas that obscured the sky and the sun passed through and took away all the lives of animals and plants.
Hitler asked to quit smoking, but he still ordered a steady stream of cigarettes to be delivered to the soldiers, because it calmed the soldiers.
Hitler was almost blinded by chlorine gas in World War I, so he ordered the Germans not to use chemical weapons?
Yang Mingzhi is inclined to believe that these are the main belligerents, and they all know the strength of the other side's chemical weapons arsenal, that is, in the current mode of total warfare, whoever uses chemical weapons extensively will also encounter the other side's crazy retaliation. At that time, the thick chlorine gas will not float on the field positions, but the cities will fall into the green sea of death!
Therefore, the German army knew that the war was like this, and the possibility of the Soviet Union using chemical weapons could be ignored, and the Wehrmacht was still fully equipped with this! Wouldn't it be nice that they carried a large iron bucket on their backs and threw away their masks to put more ammunition, or more rations?
Perhaps this stems from the rigidity and persistence of the German character, or from Hitler himself.
The faint smell of rotten eggs in the air, these hydrogen sulfide gases are the smell of rotten eggs in small doses. Prisoners of war work in such an environment for a long time, and their bodies are harmed......
Yang Mingzhi thought about it again and realized Yelenkina's other idea in addition to venting her anger. That is, these prisoners of war breathe small doses of toxic gases for a long time, and their bodies will be weakened, and the weak people will be powerless to resist.
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Joshua noticed that her commander seemed to be in a little thought, was it about her female soldiers? They were on duty at the mine and wore gas masks all the time.
Joshua knew very little about chemical weapons, and it seemed that the deputy division commander obviously knew a lot, so he didn't need to say more.
She urged, "Sir! We went to the rest ground, where we all put on our masks, and then went down to the inside of the mine. ”
"Okay! Let's go! I don't like the smell of these rotting eggs. ”
Yang Mingzhi just kept moving forward with his hands behind his back. He continued to look sideways at the prisoners of war in the distance, and looking at their appearance, they would definitely not make any more waves, but only dig in the mines filled with poisonous gases like slaves in ancient times.
He knew that these Belarusians had a genuine hatred for the Germans, and that the order forbade them not to starve to death without food, and that they were not to be beaten humiliatingly, and that he did not consider the fact that they were sent to the mines to dig for sulfur.
For the mistreatment of these invaders, Belarusians decisively used the power of nature. These prisoners of war were sharply weakened by the toss of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide gas, and their weak bodies died of illness. Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but feel a trace of hypocrisy, not only Yelenkina, but also himself.
For the mercy of the prisoners of war, it is cruelty to his own people, Yang Mingzhi is ruthless, and simply doesn't care about anything.
These prisoners of war loved to die, and the German army invaded other countries and slaughtered their people, and they themselves had to be mentally prepared to be counterattacked with all their might.
Yang Mingzhi cares more about his female soldiers, and there is really no way to let them be soldiers. It was better for them not to go to war, even where supervising prisoner of war miners was dangerous. So, what about them wearing gas masks?
As for why the prisoners of war did not wear gas masks, Joshua saw that the commander was interested, so he talked as he walked.
Everything is basically in line with Yang Mingzhi's speculation, and he sighed meaningfully: "In the end, it is Yerentina's revenge, and it is also the revenge of the majority of Belarusians......"
There were only about 200 prisoners of war, and every 10 people were arranged in small groups, usually supervised by two or three overseers. The faces of the prisoners of war were naturally familiar to the overseers, who worked without masks and with their faces exposed, so that the overseers could keep an eye on them, and if anyone escaped, the overseers could immediately notice it.
These slave laborers are generally considered consumables, and Yang Mingzhi is also very clear that many Soviet prisoners of war were escorted to the mainland by the German army, and they were also engaged in various mining work. Compared to those hapless Soviet soldiers, these German soldiers were lucky enough!
Yang Mingzhi waved his hand and did not listen to Qiao Shuya's report again. Soon, the group arrived at the rest stop.
The area of the sulphur mine is actually the size of a football field, and the area of smoke transpiration is even smaller. The rest stop is in a good location, it is not disturbed by smoke and the smell of sulfide is much lighter.
Some of the soldiers were stationed there, their size and uniforms revealing their identity as female soldiers, as they were all wearing black gas masks, and no one could see their handsome faces.
The German M30 gas mask was designed in the thirties, and its modernity has become very strong, and various gas masks in later generations are also of this type. It's just that in this era, the Wehrmacht is not fully equipped with this one, it is more like a special energy supply mask. A large, heavy, replaceable filter hood with a knob attached to the mask.
The female soldiers wore it with a slight steampunk style, like a crow holding a large rock.
Yang Mingzhi counted, and there was probably a squad of soldiers stationed here. There were also men who wore face masks, who did not carry firearms, but who each had a short stick at their waist - they were overseers.