The casualties were extremely high.

But the Japanese army was obviously mentally prepared for all this, they forced those cannon fodder Imperial Allied troops to block the bullets in front of them and rushed up, and they themselves rushed up against the rain of bullets, desperately trying to get close to a few heavy machine gun formations.

There were no shooting dead ends, the county town was built for two whole years, and on those reinforced concrete house fortresses, there were shooting holes everywhere, and there were no shooting dead ends left for the Japanese army at all.

Each house was the strongest bunker and a killing tool built specifically for the Japanese army!

They want to occupy every house, every bunker, and they have to pay a sufficient price!

Ahh......hhh

Seeing the Japanese puppet army in front of them fall like dry grass and don't want money, many Japanese soldiers were afraid, wanted to retreat, and wanted to escape.

They are indeed not afraid of death, but they do not want to let their lives die as worthless as dry grass.

"Woo Woo ......"

In the successive gunshots, dozens of retreating Japanese puppet soldiers were killed on the spot, and they were forced to continue the attack, because Toneoka Kanji gave a death order to break through Trojan County as soon as possible at all costs!

Not only because the army has been fighting in the field for more than half a month in this cold weather with wind and snow, and it has reached the verge of collapse and needs to be repaired urgently, but also because their food is already pitiful, and if they don't break through Trojan County as soon as possible to find food, he is afraid that the army's heart will collapse directly because of the lack of food!

"Fighting like this, the casualties are too great......"

The staff officer looked at the battlefield like a grinding disc of flesh and blood, and said with a pale face, he had seen a battlefield that was much more tragic than this, and a battlefield that had more casualties than this.

It's okay to go, it's those who die, but this time, it's their own people who die!

He was sure that if the attack continued like this, ten or twenty Imperial soldiers would not necessarily be able to kill a single person from Trojan County, because those guys were all shrunk in those turtle-shell-like houses and fortresses, and they did not rise at all, while the brave Imperial soldiers had to use their flesh and blood to go up.

Just breaking through the outer defense line of Trojan County, in one day, they paid the price of more than 5,000 people, and now it seems that if they want to completely occupy Trojan County, it is impossible to take it down without killing five or six thousand people!

"Can't I see it?"

Toneoka Kanji said with a hideous face: "The more we attack Trojan County, the more crazy the resistance of the Chinese pigs becomes, indicating that all their main forces are also in this county, not to mention, Trojan County is like faith in the hearts of these Chinese pigs, as long as they take the county seat, it is equivalent to destroying their last insistence, then the Sichuan Army Independent Regiment in Trojan County still has some remnants of the soldiers, but they also exist in name only - we are not only occupying Trojan County and eliminating the elite force of the Sichuan Army Independent Regiment, but also destroying their beliefs, as long as we can do this, Then no matter what the cost, it's worth it! ”

The staff officer nodded thoughtfully, but still proposed: "Your Excellency Lieutenant General is reasonable, but we still need to reduce casualties as much as possible!" ”

Toneoka Kanji nodded and smiled: "Do you think that if you shrink in a turtle shell, you can't do anything?" With poison gas - with mustard gas! ”

"Hey!"

The staff officers also began to laugh cruelly, in many battlefields, they rely on this thing to decide the outcome of the battle!

Mustard gas, erosive poisonous gas, extremely toxic, can penetrate into the human body through breath, skin, eye film, etc., will not only cause large-scale skin ulceration, but also can cause lung function loss and death, the end is extremely poisonous.

In the previous Battle of Changsha, in the Battle of Xinqianghe, Guan Lin's expeditionary troops were attacked by mustard gas, and six or seven hundred soldiers lost their combat ability under the poison gas, and were stabbed to death with bayonets by the Japanese army like killing pigs and sheep!

It can be said that no matter which battlefield, as soon as they see the Japanese military poison gas, the soldiers may immediately collapse because the lethality is too great!

The Japanese began to retreat, the mortars were empty, one after another poison gas bombs fell into Trojan County, and pale yellow smoke filled the room, from those windows, through the shooting holes, and constantly seeped into the room.

"Hahaha, the empire will win, the empire will win!"

"Die, that pig!"

I don't know how many Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks and chemical protective suits are screaming excitedly and waiting, just waiting for the poison gas to completely spread, they will storm the city!

"The Japanese army has used poison gas!"

In the distant headquarters, Su Yan gritted his teeth.

"Tell Xu Yun Ma pole to do what they planned - tell those soldiers that I have a long way to go, for the people of the whole county and the people of China, thank them!" Lu Yuan said sadly.

Su Yan nodded, turned around and asked the liaison officers to send a report.

On the houses and fortresses in the county town, at the moment when the Japanese army fired poison gas bombs, the small doors and windows were quickly sealed with thick wet quilts in order to temporarily resist the poison gas.

In each room, two or three soldiers or militiamen wore gas masks and rubber gloves, which were part of the supplies that had been seized from Tianjin.

In addition to these, they also bandaged the exposed skin with bandanas and strips of cloth as much as possible to reduce the absorption of toxic gases by the skin.

The soldiers and militia in the room, one by one, took turns saluting and saying goodbye to these soldiers who were armed like cyborgs, and their voices were full of choked voices.

"Brother, don't cry—although we will die if we stay here, but each of us can at least get rid of a few devils, isn't that better than anything else?"

Those cyborg-like warriors laughed and were arrogant, they knew very well that they would only die if they stayed, but they still did it without hesitation, because they knew that these buildings in the city were the most advantageous strongholds in the county at present, and one person could often block dozens of devils and effectively kill the Japanese army.

Only by consuming enough devil troops in the city, when the Japanese army knows that they want to break out of the city, can the pressure on the anti-encirclement troops be relieved!

Although in the past few days, they have successfully eliminated a large number of Japanese troops, and the number of Japanese troops has been reduced to almost 20,000, but even if they take advantage of all the terrain advantages, the strength of Trojan Horse County has also been reduced by nearly 3,000 people, and Lei Ming and others have taken away nearly the remaining more than 1,000 people, and now, the available strength of Trojan County is less than 5,000 people!

Five thousand, to twenty thousand!

Only by using all the advantages and forces they can use to destroy the Japanese army can they accomplish this impossible task!

"You go first, and we'll be there!"

Xu Yunwang Ma Zhu and the others shook the hands of the soldiers who stayed behind, and then turned around and got into the underground passage, some of them continued to stay in the labyrinthine passage, while most of them went around the long passage to the encirclement of the Japanese army, and got into the hidden tunnels and hidden castles that were densely packed in the mountains one after another!

(End of chapter)