Chapter 581: Unconventional War

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What is an extraordinary measure?

No one else knows, but Barton knows it very well.

A year earlier, Roosevelt had been in danger of defeat. The Chinese Imperial Army and the Cleveland Government Army launched seven large-scale battles one after another, dispatching 250,000 sorties, more than 3,000 tanks, more than 1,000 combat vehicles, and more than 14,000 artillery pieces, with as many as 2 million troops in the vanguard.

As a result of Roosevelt's strategic mistakes, seven large-scale battles were defeated one after another, and more than 2 million American troops were killed in battle, so that the government of the Confederate States of America, which occupies three and a half continents in the western part of the United States, completely lost the ability to turn over, and the remaining tens of thousands of people were forced to push into the Nevada desert.

From then on, Roosevelt was plotting something unusual.

Because after the shelling of a chemical plant during the Battle of Washington State, the canister containing chlorine gas leaked, resulting in a large number of deaths for Roosevelt's troops and local civilians.

That time directly led to the direct defeat of Roosevelt's army in the Battle of Washington, but it also gave Roosevelt an inspiration that chlorine can also be used to kill, especially when suddenly released on the battlefield, and can be taken by surprise to achieve victory.

Roosevelt blamed the failure of the Battle of Washington State on a chlorine leak, so he withdrew his troops by taking away a large amount of chlorine-making equipment from the chemical plant and stockpiling chlorine in the strategic rear, in Las Vegas.

Later, when the war became tight, Roosevelt transferred a large number of chlorine storage tanks to the underground caverns of Death Valley*** ready to play a huge role at a critical moment.

But Patton had always believed that the use of chlorine was against humanity because he had seen firsthand the tragic deaths of guerrilla soldiers and civilians in the event of a chlorine leak, and he objected to Roosevelt's use of such things against the enemy.

Because in Patton's eyes, in addition to the Chinese Imperial Army, there is also the Cleveland puppet government army, which is also the Americans, every battle, the Chinese Imperial Army is behind, and the Cleveland government army is in front as cannon fodder, if you use poison gas to counterattack, it must be the Cleveland government army that dies first, and it is the Americans who die.

However, Roosevelt no longer had any scruples, and the loss of more than 5,500 elite soldiers at once dealt a heavy blow to Roosevelt's plan to defend Death Valley, and he believed that not using extreme weapons was no longer enough to turn the tide of the war.

At this time, Patton's persuasion was also useless, because Roosevelt would not listen to him at all.

"If you have to use poison gas, then I want to use it only on the Chinese Imperial Army, and avoid the puppet army as much as possible!"

Barton finally persuaded that he had made a huge concession.

Roosevelt agreed: "Well, I accept your offer!" But the premise is that the puppet army doesn't hit the muzzle of the gun themselves, otherwise I can't guarantee that I won't hurt them! You know, if we fail this time, we're completely finished! ”

Barton nodded and said, "I'll do it myself!" ”

Roosevelt hesitated, but finally chose to trust Patton and left the matter to him with full authority.

The cannon roared outside, and the entire Death Valley trembled and shook violently.

There was a violent shock, and even above Roosevelt's command post, stones and sand began to fall. As for the tunnels where other ordinary soldiers were, there were constant landslides, and a large number of guerrilla soldiers were buried alive.

This time, the Chinese Imperial Army shelled for an hour, and more than 50,000 tons of shells poured into Death Valley. The entire valley of death was once again reduced by an average of one meter, the rocks were shattered, the sand melted, and everything on the ground that could be burned was vaporized.

Thousands of corpses that had been dumped everywhere were burned in the raging fires.

The temperature of the entire Death Valley has risen sharply, by hundreds of degrees.

One by one, the Roosevelt soldiers in the tunnel were like entering a steam room, sweating profusely, their mouths were dry, and they kept drinking the drinking water they carried. The pit is dusty, the soldiers breathe the dust, the sweat is stuck by the sand, one by one like a clay man, if this time to do another job, the cliff can burn them all into a human shape Tao Yong, just like the terracotta warriors and horses in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

Seeing the plight of the soldiers, Patton knew that if he was not cruel to his enemies, he was cruel to his own people, so he finally made up his mind to use poison gas.

"Prepare for the Pandora Plan!"

The so-called Pandora Plan refers to poison gas, and only some of the henchmen in the lineage know about this plan.

The cannon fire outside was fading out, and Patton could guess that the enemy was about to attack without looking.

"Everyone put on gas masks and get ready to fight!"

"The wind is southeast!"

"All the people in the downwind direction obeyed the order, immediately sealed the entrance and exit of the pit and all the vents, leaving only the vigilance force, and all the others evacuated! Right away! ”

With the strength of Roosevelt's guerrillas, it was difficult to even make weapons and ammunition, let alone gas shells, and they didn't even have artillery.

Therefore, when conducting poison gas warfare, Patton could only use the power of nature and the wind to blow the poison gas to the enemy in the downwind direction to meet the combat requirements.

However, there is a great risk in taking advantage of the wind direction, and if you accidentally change the wind direction, you may shoot yourself in the foot.

It seemed that Roosevelt's army had run out of options, and he had no choice but to use this unconventional tactical means to reverse the defeat.

After the shelling, it was still the same as usual, with the Cleveland government forces taking the lead, the Imperial Chinese Special Forces providing cover on both sides, and the Imperial Chinese Divine Army in the second echelon.

A squadron of tanks opened the way ahead, meeting no resistance along the way.

Nioh, Duan Qirui, Cleveland and others, who were watching the battle in the rear, all felt strange.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!"

Duan Qirui then reminded.

Cleveland was not a fool, understood the meaning of this sentence and immediately gave an order.

"Order the forward troops to pay attention to vigilance, fire search and advance!"

This time, it was the Cleveland Fifth Army that was in charge of serving as cannon fodder.

However, this army had suffered great losses in previous battles, and although it was still an army, it had less than 30,000 troops, at most the size of a division.

The Cleveland chicken thief, anyway, is cannon fodder, the more you get on it, the more you die, so you can do less.

Nioh and Duan Qirui both saw it, but they didn't ask Cleveland because of this, in the previous attacks, they had already pitted Cleveland's tens of thousands of troops, and they really didn't want to stimulate him anymore, they had to know that things must be reversed, dogs jumped over the wall in a hurry, and rabbits would bite people in a hurry.

"Report, has penetrated deep into the interior of Death Valley, and has met with no resistance! The enemy forces seem to be gone all at once! ”

What's going on?

Nioh, Duan Qirui, Cleveland and others all had question marks on their faces, not understanding what Roosevelt was going to do.

"Be on guard, send scouts to search and advance, minesweepers are stationed!"

Based on Duan Qirui's experience, Roosevelt should be able to bury the radium in the ground, deliberately withdraw, bring them in, and then have a radium tactic such as a goddess scattering flowers, which is enough to cause heavy damage.

"Report, minesweepers found no anomalies! The only strange thing is that some of the enemy tunnels we found earlier are now all sealed! ”

At this moment, Nioh and the others were completely confused.

"Roosevelt, what's going on?"

"It's not like you want to run away!"

"Impossible! We still have hundreds of thousands of troops outside, surrounded by regiments, and Roosevelt wants to run out, absolutely impossible! ”

"So what does he want to do? We've already occupied almost half of Death Valley, and their living space is getting smaller and smaller, so how can they fight us! ”

"How's the aerial reconnaissance?"

"Report, aerial reconnaissance aircraft did not find any signs of activity!"

"Reconnoitre!"

"Yes!"

When encountering such a strange thing, everyone was at a loss in their hearts, and they felt that there must be fraud in this out of the intuition of soldiers.

It's just that what Roosevelt wanted to do, no one can guess.

"Zhuge Liang burned the vine armor soldiers?" Duan Qirui said suddenly.

Nioh smiled: "This place is very similar to burning vine armor soldiers, but it's a pity that Roosevelt didn't leave a lot of ignition in Death Valley, and they don't have cannons and flamethrowers, even if they do, we still have fighter planes in the sky, once they find it, they will attack immediately, and they will burn themselves!" ”

"Yes! Unlikely! Duan Qirui suddenly smiled bitterly, this only possible tactic seems unlikely now.

However, the more you can't do it, the more dangerous it feels!

Duan Qirui then secretly issued a warning order to the Chinese Imperial Army, and asked to slow down the pace and ensure that the whole army could quickly withdraw in case of an emergency.

"It's getting dark!"

"Yes! The day is coming to an end so soon! ”

"Is Roosevelt going to play a night war with us?"

"It's possible! Don't forget, there are tunnels all over the area, and if Roosevelt's soldiers suddenly emerge from the tunnels at night, there is a real chance that we will be attacked! ”

Nioh, Duan Qirui, Cleveland, and the generals of the Chinese and American armies gathered together to study the battle plan for the evening. Apparently they guessed that Roosevelt most likely launched the raid at night.

But they never imagined that the reason why Roosevelt and Patton chose the night was because they didn't want the Chinese Imperial Army to see chlorine gas appear.

Because if it is daytime, you can see yellow-green chlorine gas wafting over, so that the knowledgeable people in the Chinese Imperial Army will see that something is wrong at the first time and will immediately evacuate, then the poison gas war will not work.

In order to wait until the evening, in order to allow more Cleveland troops and the Chinese Imperial Army to enter Death Valley, Roosevelt and Patton deliberately ceded most of the Death Valley positions, so that both Cleveland and Niwang would send more troops to occupy these positions, and the more people, the greater the killing effect of poison gas at night.

"The advance at night is not good for us, I suggest stopping the march and defending on the spot!"

Cleveland suggested that his troops were at the front, fighting at night in unfamiliar terrain and were most likely to be ambushed.

Nioh and Duan Qirui glanced at each other and had no objection to this, so the whole army stopped advancing and defended on the spot.

Cleveland personally led the patrols of the camp, especially the engineering units, digging holes everywhere in an attempt to find secret tunnels that might lead to their camp.

In the big tent of the Chinese Imperial Army, Nioh and Duan Qirui did not rest.

The two of them knew very well that it would never be quiet tonight.

The question is where the enemy will come from and what tactics it will take, none of which can be guessed, and this is where the most worrying thing is.

The more you can't guess the enemy's tactics, the more you feel the danger.

"Your Highness, please exit Death Valley first!"

Duan Qirui really couldn't figure it out, so he simply sent Nioh out first, the province was too dangerous here.

Nioh smiled and said: "The reason why this king came to the United States is to establish the prestige of the army, at this time, this king left without a fight, how do you let the millions of soldiers in the whole army think of this king?" How do you make millions of officers and soldiers of the empire think of this king? How do you want your father to think of this king? ”

"This ...... His Highness is the lord of the three armies, and he should sit in the rear, so I think ......"

Before Duan Qirui could finish speaking, Nioh interrupted him.

"Well, you don't have to persuade this king! Since this king has come in, he will not go out easily, and he will advance and retreat with the soldiers! ”

Seeing that King Ren had made up his mind, Duan Qirui did not persuade him any further, so he could only be vigilant.

Most of the Cleveland army had rested, leaving only the alert troops. But the Chinese Imperial Army did not rest, and Duan Qirui, out of caution, ordered all soldiers to sleep in their clothes and wait for the day.

In the wee hours of the morning, Roosevelt and Patton stood at the top of Death Valley, soldiers wearing protective masks and neatly stacking barrels of chlorine in the upwind vent.

With a command, all the valves opened, and streams of chlorine gas gushed out and drifted away with the wind.

If it was daytime, you might still be able to see the chlorine, but now it's the middle of the night, and the chlorine gas wafts in the air, and you can't see it clearly.

In about five or six minutes, a large amount of chlorine gas swept through the Cleveland government army camp.

The soldier on guard only felt uncomfortable breathing at first, but soon his mouth and nose became uncomfortable, and because the chlorine gas was very strong, he felt that he could not breathe well after a while, and then suffocated.

The fall of the US soldiers on alert one by one naturally attracted the attention of other US troops, who were not very aware of it, and quickly sent the fallen US soldiers to a temporary field hospital for treatment.

A large amount of chlorine gas poured in, and more and more American soldiers felt that they could not breathe, and they suffocated and fell to the ground one after another, which soon caused chaos in the entire military camp.

Cleveland was worried about something tonight, so he didn't fall asleep, and quickly got up when he heard the movement outside. When asked, he was immediately shocked.

"Mr. President, it should be poisonous in the air!"

The experienced general quickly reminded Cleveland that Cleveland woke up like a dream, always feeling that something was wrong, and he didn't expect it to be poison gas.

As the president of a country, he has dealt with chemical plant accidents many times, and he can be said to know a lot about poison gas.

"Tell everyone to hold their breath and find a damp cloth to cover their mouths and noses!"

The camp was already in chaos, and the American soldiers were already panicked and confused, and there was no way to notify everyone.

At the same time, in the camp of the Imperial Chinese Army, which kept a distance in the rear, after discovering in advance that there was a problem in the Cleveland Barracks, Nioh and Duan Qirui had already risen, and the Imperial Chinese Army was also on high alert.

It was a pillow to wait for the day, and the Chinese Imperial Army completed the assembly as soon as possible.

"It's poison gas! I can't imagine that Roosevelt actually played this hand! ”

Although Nioh and Duan Qirui were shocked, they were not afraid, because the soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army already had gas masks in their individual equipment, although they were very simple and not used at all in normal times, but at the critical moment, they were enough to save their lives.

"Inform all the soldiers that the enemy has put poison gas, all put on gas masks, and prepare for battle!"

Wearing a gas mask can only protect against poison gas, but both Nioh and Duan Qirui knew that Roosevelt would not wait and would soon counterattack on all fronts.

It will be a fierce battle for a while, but the Chinese Imperial Army has never been afraid of a vicious battle, and they are quickly ready for battle.

It's a pity that this time the artillery fire is probably gone, and the tens of thousands of Cleveland government troops in front of them are difficult to survive because they don't have gas masks on their backs.

This time, it will be the Chinese Imperial Army that will directly engage the Roosevelt guerrillas, and it is unknown who will kill the deer. (To be continued.) )