It took almost half an hour for the Japanese army to understand that the People's Party was releasing poison gas. It's not that the Japanese officers didn't know about poisonous gas, but that Japan's backward industrial capacity made it difficult for them to understand how much poison gas could be put in such a small cylinder.

The way poison gas was released during World War I was quite backward, especially when chlorine gas was released in the early days. The Germans carried a huge pile of canisters to the edge of their own positions and enemy positions, and when the wind was blowing against the enemy, they opened the valves and released poison gas to the enemy with the help of the wind. Of course, the Germans also used a technology similar to rocket artillery when they used phosgene, and after the People's Party obtained the artillery steel technology, in addition to using this technology in the high-temperature and high-pressure ammonia reactor, it also used this technology in the high-pressure gas storage technology.

The poison gas cylinders fell all over the fortress at three o'clock at night, and it was dark and dark outside, and nothing could be seen. The Japanese did not dare to shoot flares over their homes, and illuminating themselves on the battlefield was an act of seeking death. Cylinders with a length of more than 80 centimeters and a diameter of less than 20 centimeters are not easy to find in such a night.

Many Japanese soldiers saw the iron guy on the ground, but they all thought that it was a dud warhead that did not explode, and they did not dare to approach it at all. Not only did they not get closer, but they also warned the rest of the Japanese army that it was not easy to approach. It wasn't until a large number of Japanese soldiers were stunned that the Japanese army roughly understood what the People's Party had done.

"Poison gas! The Chinese have released poison gas! Although it was very different from the tutorial of setting up a row of large cylinders on the battlefield, when faced with a life-and-death situation, the Japanese junior officers completely threw out the habit of respecting their superiors, and they shouted hysterically.

Gas masks are needed for gas gas, which the Japanese army does not have at all. The officers knew about the method of gas warfare, but for the first time they really faced poison gas warfare, the Japanese army did not know where the poison gas came from, let alone how to deal with it. The point of fire of the Lushun fortress was not a high turret, but a continuous bunker with a firing port close to the ground, and many Japanese soldiers inside were dizzy, extremely uncomfortable in their lungs, and their breathing became more and more difficult. Those ventilation devices designed before the First World War had no poison gas filtering function at all, and some poison gas bombs fell near the ventilation facilities, and the phosgene went down the ventilation pipes directly into the fortress, which overturned many people. By the time the Japanese found themselves under a poison gas attack, many ventilation operators themselves had lost their combat effectiveness due to phosgene-induced emphysema. The entire Arthur fortress was completely in a panic.

The characteristic of phosgene is that it does not directly kill people, and in an environment where the concentration is not high enough, it takes a while to have an effect after absorption. By 4:25, Mifon ordered the second shelling to begin.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was able to determine that phosgene had already worked, since there was clearly a big problem with the firing of the Japanese fortress artillery group. Whether it was the density of the shots or the various landing points, the observing artillery staff officers felt that it was a reaction that only a panicked gunner would have.

So after the second shelling began, Mi Feng and Mu Husan simply left the headquarters and went out to see the scene covered by indiscriminate fire. The headquarters was not located on high ground, and all the two commanders could see was a dense web of neat flames in the distance in mid-air that was denser than the stars. The sound of shell explosions faintly heard in the distance was not clear at all, and the rumbling thunder did not stop for a moment, as if it was a landslide and tsunami.

"War is really a gold-eating beast." Mi Feng sighed. In the current Lushun campaign alone, more than 2,000 rounds of rockets and artillery shells have been fired out of the three covered shells that have been organized, and if one shell is calculated at 1,000 yuan, this is more than 2 million yuan. In order to develop rocket artillery, conventional artillery shells and chemical artillery shells, 20 million yuan is only a fraction of the research and development costs. More than 300,000 troops have been mobilized for land, sea and air operations, and more than one million troops from the entire northeast, northeast, north, and south military regions, as well as coastal military regions such as Jinan in Hebei. According to the calculation of 1.5 million troops, calculated according to the average salary of 50 yuan a month, the monthly salary of 1.5 million troops alone will be 75 million. Not to mention the huge new Chinese industrial system behind this army. It was already an astronomical unit of money that Mi Feng couldn't even calculate.

Such a figure made Mi Feng feel a heavy feeling in his heart, and the responsibility he was bearing was not only the troops that had been engaged in the war in front of him, but also the pressure of direct or indirect support from the Chinese people, which was calculated in hundreds of millions. So Mi Feng was in high spirits, with the support of so many people, he did not think that the war would be lost.

Mu Husan had already had such a feeling stage, and because of his personality, he had a subtle misjudgment of Mi Feng's emotions. Mu Husan replied: "Japan cannot afford to fight a long-term war, although I really hope that Japan can jump over the wall in a hurry and send the Korean army to attack the northeast region." ”

Both commanders were soldiers, and even though they knew the cruelty of war, they still deeply loved their military profession and even longed for a larger war. Mu Husan looked at the orderly rocket artillery track, and there was irrepressible enthusiasm in his voice, "If the Japanese army dares to cross the border line, we can attack North Korea immediately." After the liberation of the whole of Korea, Japan is not destined for a day of peace! ”

"Anyway, Japan has no money, and this battle is to deal with the Japanese Navy and so many 60,000 Japanese Army." Mi Feng didn't care much about attacking North Korea, that was the scope of the campaign that Mu Husan was responsible for, and Mi Feng was afraid that he wouldn't even be the deputy commander at that time. Not to mention that the Military Commission does not think that Japan will break the jar to that point.

Mu Husan quickly pulled back his train of thought, and he asked, "Can this round of shelling burn out the poison gas?" ”

Mi Feng's artillery shooting was very skillful, and he fully considered the Japanese army's rustiness of poison gas warfare, coupled with the characteristics of the night. The first round of indiscriminate covered shelling was to stun the Japanese troops, and then the poison gas bombs inflicted as much damage as possible on the Japanese troops. The last round of indiscriminate covered artillery shelling was the final destruction, not only to destroy the Japanese positions as much as possible, but also to burn and disperse the poisonous gas that permeated the positions to the greatest extent. Not only did the Japanese army have no anti-poison equipment, but the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army also did not have anti-poison equipment suitable for war. If there is such equipment and sufficient military training, then the special shells will not be filled with phosgene, but directly with sarin gas with a strange name.

The third round of shelling lasted from 4:25 to 5:10. Eighteen rocket artillery positions opened fire in turn, and front-line observers sent back information, "The entire defensive positions of the Japanese army in the Arthur area have been plowed over!" ”

"Where is the vanguard?" Mi Feng asked the staff officer.

The staff officer immediately replied: "The vanguard has seized the front-line defensive positions of the Japanese army, is clearing the roads and laying out the lines of communication. As soon as the artillery fire stopped, it was able to continue the offensive. ”

At this time, the artillery fire had just stopped, and with the experience of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's live ammunition shooting, the ground temperature at the explosion point could even exceed 1,000 degrees, not to mention that all the combustibles outside the Lushun Fortress had already been burned, even if it was iron.

At this time, the bright figure of the morning star has already appeared in the sky, and it will not be long before the first rays of light will be shining in the light of the sun that is about to leap over the horizon. The attack of the vanguard team will also be launched in the ground temperature from thousands of degrees to a temperature that is acceptable to humans. The battlefield is about to enter the cruel stage of the sea of corpses and blood.

The vanguard of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army met with little resistance, and the Russians had provided all the drawings of the Arthur Fortress in their possession, and the Russian officers who built the Arthur Fortress also provided details of the interior. Chinese migrant workers involved in the construction of the fort Arthur were also investigated and provided with information they had.

In addition to the large number of aerial photos taken by the Air Force, before the attack, a "simple Arthur Fortress" was even simulated to be built as a training site for the attacking troops. The only problem is that the shelling is dense and powerful, but the familiar "Lushun Fortress" has become unfamiliar.

The offensive line had already been ravaged by artillery and turned into a desert-like appearance, with rubble and clods, one bomb crater after another, and it took a lot of strength to discern the defensive positions that the Japanese had built. Small troops opened roads and established lines of communication like mercury. The entire perimeter line of defense was not defended by the enemy at all. It's going extremely well.

However, this did not make the troops feel easy, and even the two shellings that destroyed the surface defenses were not able to completely destroy all the Japanese firing points, especially those made of thick cement masonry. These gun emplacements are the most dangerous. Small forces are nothing, and in the event of a large-scale attack, the Japanese artillery can bombard the area where they want to open fire according to the predetermined data.

However, as the sun emerges from the horizon the first rays of fiery red color. Rows of small dots appeared in the sky. Then a sharp whistling sound slammed from the sky to the ground from far and near.