"Oh, what do you mean?" Seeing that Junzuo's expression was relaxed, Secretary Wu couldn't help but slow down his face, and even had the mood to say a word in Chinese.

"The main purpose of the Japanese army in launching this battle is to capture the city of Quzhou and destroy the airport in Quzhou! The devil's attack on our 500 army is just to contain our army and leave us free to support Quzhou. ”

"Isn't Quzhou City dangerous?"

"It's up to Mo and Shuo." Gao Quan's face finally became a little dignified, "I hope the 86th Army can withstand the crazy attack of the devils." ”

Just when the units of the 500th Army were fighting fiercely with the Japanese army, the 32nd Division concentrated its forces to attack the positions of the 16th Division of the 86th Army of the defending army at Maowu and Kongjiashan. On the night of the battle, the frenzied Japanese army fired poison gas bombs! Gray smoke filled the battlefield. Due to the lack of effective means of dealing with poison gas, a large number of poisoning occurred among the soldiers of the 16th Division. Bullets can be dodged, shells can be prevented, but how can you prevent the pervasive poisonous gas?

People always have to gasp, as long as you inhale, what you inhale is poisonous gas! The unpleasant smell makes people can't help but want to cough when they take a breath, as long as they cough for the first time, they can't stop going down until they cough the mouth and nose of the person, cough up the lungs and spit it out of the mouth, and cough the person to death! Seeing the painful and tragic death of their comrades-in-arms, the soldiers swelled with boundless anger in their hearts, they wanted to fight, and they wanted to tear the little devils who caused all this evil results into mud!

But where is the enemy? The evil devils are wearing gas masks and hiding behind the poison gas, and they are waiting for the poison gas to poison all the soldiers of our army before they come up! The enraged warriors could not find the enemy, and after firing a burst of shots into the gray poisonous gas, the poisonous gas did not dissipate at all. When the anger is over, fear inevitably arises! The air is full of poison, and if you stay here, you will die! I can't see hope, let alone win, I can't even see the slightest hope of living, there is only one way to hold the position, and that is to be slowly poisoned, like the comrades around me who have died, poisoned and coughed to death!

When you become a soldier, you are not afraid of death when you go to the battlefield, and the soldiers have long been prepared to die. Being killed by a bullet is not the same as being poisoned and dying slowly, no one wants to suffer all kinds of pain before dying! This way of dying is also terrifying!

As a result, deserters inevitably appeared, first one by two, then ten or eight, and slowly the whole squad, the whole platoon, and the whole company of soldiers left their defensive positions, and fled towards the city of Quzhou behind them, towards the endless fields around them. The soldiers on the positions of the 16th Division were rapidly decreasing.

"Cao Xingyuan, take your soldiers to supervise the battle for me! If you find a deserter, you will be punished on the spot! At the critical moment, Cao Zhenduo ordered his guard company commander to go to the position to supervise the battle.

"Yes!" Cao Xingyuan agreed, and ran out with the guard company.

"Little Japan on Dog Day!" Cao Zhenduo looked at the gray fog on the front position and scolded fiercely.

At that time, there was basically no gas mask in the equipment of the national army, and the vast number of national officers and soldiers did not have any effective means of defense against the poisonous gas released by the Japanese army except for covering their mouths and noses with soaked towels. Cao Zhenduo also held a pistol in one hand and a wet towel in the other, and even he, a major general, did not have a gas mask, let alone an ordinary soldier.

Even towels are not available to everyone, and sometimes the soldiers on the battlefield can't even find a towel, so they have to tear a piece off their shirts, soak it with the little water in the carry-on kettle, and cover their noses to prevent poison gas. The protection effect of this method is a little stronger than that of nothing. More than one soldier was poisoned while covering his nose with a wet towel.

"Report to the division, deserters, there are too many deserters, you can't shoot them!" After a while, Cao Xingyuan ran back to report in disgrace.

"What about the people you brought out? What about your guard company? Why are there so many people left? Is the devil coming up? "When the guard company went out, there were more than 150 people, and in less than half an hour, there were not even 100 people when they came back, Cao Zhenduo took it for granted that the guard company went out and met devils.

"I didn't meet a devil." The guard company commander looked ashamed, "When the soldiers saw the deserters, not only did they not go up to stop them, but they also joined the ranks of the deserters, and they also ran away as deserters!" I shot five or six, and when I saw that the situation was not good, I quickly ran back with the rest of the people. "If he doesn't come back, it's hard to say if he can bring people back!

"Holy shit!" Cao Zhenduo scolded, and he didn't know whether he was scolding the Japanese soldiers who released poison gas or the soldiers who escaped from the battle, "Withdraw, withdraw with me into the city and join the 64th Regiment!" "The 64th Regiment of the 16th Division is deployed in the city, since the position in the north of the city can no longer be held, Cao Zhenduo plans to take the remnants of the defeated army into the city, and then rely on the city wall and the houses and other buildings in the city to fight street battles with the devils.

The 40th Division and the 67th Division of the 86th Army fought fiercely with the 15th Division, the 22nd Division, and the Kono Brigade of the Japanese Army for a whole day, and by the evening, the 40th Division and the 67th Division had withdrawn to the west bank of the Wuxi River. The 15th Division of the Japanese Army then followed closely, and some of the devils crossed the Wuxi River on foot, and the 40th Division retreated to Tangtangwu and was assigned to the command of the 49th Army by the theater on the north bank of Jiangshan Port.

The battle situation has been rolled out, and all the units of our army arranged near Quzhou City have engaged in fierce battles with the Japanese army, and Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, found that the time had come, and immediately issued an order to all units in the theater and ordered all the armies to counterattack on all fronts! Destroy the stubborn enemy under the city of Quzhou!

The 74th Army was originally preparing for battle south of Quzhou, but after receiving the order, with Zhang Lingfu's 58th Division as the vanguard, it rushed north to Quzhou City! Halfway through, he encountered the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, which was fighting ghosts in the south of Quzhou City, and Commander Zhang led the troops to pounce on it and started a fierce battle with the Japanese army!

The 74 th Army is the main force and elite of our army, with neat soldiers and well-equipped, while the 15th Division of the devil has just been blown up and killed division commander Naoji Sakai on the outskirts of Lanxi City, and the newly replaced division commander is still in the stage of familiarizing himself with his post. Zhang Lingfu, who has long been accustomed to bloody and vicious battles, will let go of such an opportunity? After the 58th Division was bombarded with heavy artillery, eight or nine thousand officers and soldiers went up and played with the devils!

The reason why the 74th Army was able to win in every battle was that there was nothing else, advanced weapons were one thing, and the soldiers were not afraid of death was the most important aspect! In several major battles in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as long as the 74th Army went into battle, it often suffered heavy casualties and casualties. After a battle is fought, more than half of the casualties are lost at every turn! These cold numbers are all composed of heroic soldiers with living flesh and blood! Tens of thousands of soldiers of the 74th Army died on the battlefield fighting the Japanese army.

The reason why the five main forces of the Central Army were regarded as great enemies by the Japanese army was that they exchanged blood and victory after victory on the battlefield!