Chapter 242: Reaping the Consequences

However, after the driver who took over the trucks transporting chemical weapons, he found that although the cars were riddled with holes, the engines could still be plugged in, so he did not change the cars but went directly to the cars. didn't expect that when starting the truck, he detonated the thunder set by Li Ziyuan, which was enough to blow the entire car into the sky.

With a loud bang, the entire car that had just started was blown into the sky by this extra-large mine with a charge of nearly 20 kilograms, along with the poison gas shells on the car. The violent explosion not only destroyed the truck, but also detonated the front and rear trucks.

Almost at the same time, other trucks, which were either towed or started by the driver, also exploded violently in succession. The artillery shells and chemical weapons loaded on these trucks were also killed in the violent explosions. A large number of bombs and chemical weapons were detonated, and Li Ziyuan, who was more than ten kilometers away from the skyrocketing smoke, could be seen clearly.

Some of the shells that were blown up even hit a few hundred meters away, killing the Japanese puppet troops around the vehicle and causing heavy casualties on the spot. A truck loaded with reinforcements was directly affected by the detonated shells. None of the Japanese troops in the entire truck escaped the catastrophe.

At the same time, a large number of chemical munitions transported by several trucks also exploded at the same time. Thousands of poison gas shells of various calibers, plus a large number of poison gas canisters, were detonated almost at the same time, and the poison gas produced in an instant was enough to kill all living creatures within a radius of several miles.

If we say that a large number of shells were detonated, the scattered shrapnel brought only part of the damage to the surrounding Japanese puppet army. However, the killing range of these martyred chemical warfare weapons is not as simple as a few hundred meters. A large amount of poisonous gas dispersed quickly, and the range of the wave was far from being as simple as a few hundred meters.

Fortunately, in this location, it is still more than ten kilometers away from Pingchuan Town. The wind is not strong at the moment, and the site of the explosion is downwind again. Otherwise, the casualties would not only be the Japanese puppet army, but also the common people in Pingchuan Town. You must know that when the mine was set up, because it was only more than ten kilometers away from Pingchuan Town, Li Ziyuan was also very hesitant.

However, although Pingchuan Town is a large town in the eastern part of Hubei, the number of people is far less than that in the mountainous areas of eastern Hubei. Even if the explosion here affects the town of Pingchuan, it is better than the fact that more people in the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei will suffer from the poison gas. Crying all the way, how can it be like a family crying? Despite a brief hesitation, Li Ziyuan finally made up his mind.

Compared with Li Ziyuan's hesitation at the beginning, the scene of the explosion at this moment can be used to act tragically. When the explosion fell, almost no Japanese puppet soldiers could stand. If it weren't for the surviving sporadic Japanese troops, seeing that the explosion started first from under the car, I would have thought that it was under artillery shelling.

Before, when the Pingchuan defenders heard about the battle here, they thought that they had been defeated. A major general officer was also killed, which was almost an earth-breaking loss for the 36th Division.

Even if the Japanese soldiers did not die on the spot, they died one after another after suffering greatly. None of the Japanese puppet soldiers who remained at the scene were able to escape. As for the Major General Yamauchi Masafumi, he died on the spot because he inhaled too much systemic toxic gas, and he did not even have a time to rescue him.

And the only remaining Japanese chemical corps squad was also contaminated with a large amount of erosive poisonous gas, which made the military doctor helpless, and after the poison gas attack, his whole body was eroded and died. In fact, even the Japanese themselves who have opened Pandora's box do not have many ways to counter the poison gas warfare, a beast that they have unleashed.

In the fierce battle during the Spring Festival, Li Ziyuan basically threw out tear gas and suffocating poison gas. Resting on it decades later, that is, at the level of a tear gas canister. So even though the whole army was wiped out and could be released back into captivity, most of them had damaged lungs and could not participate in the battle as soldiers, the number of deaths was basically negligible.

But this time it was different, and the new poison gas that I wanted to test on the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians would let the Japanese know what it meant to lift a stone and shoot itself in the foot. A large amount of erosive poison gas and poisonous poison gas throughout the body made it impossible for the Japanese to enjoy it all by themselves.

The death of a major general, or the death of a poison gas made by himself, was undoubtedly a serious blow to the Japanese army's idea of preparing for the large-scale use of chemical weapons during this sweep, and it also caused the Japanese army to withdraw all chemical weapons. And in the following years, in the sweeping operation of Taihang Mountain, the use of chemical weapons was much more restrained.