655: Mustard gas
Special operations are no stranger to every Chinese soldier, of course, those who have just entered the new barracks and have been in the military for less than two years say otherwise. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
China is not like foreign armies, first equipped with tear gas ethyl bromide, but directly equipped with more advanced, more difficult to prevent mustard gas, and for mustard gas prevention and treatment, the Chinese have basically mastered the method, if it is a large amount of inhalation of mustard gas, then it is another matter, with the current medical means, it is far from being able to solve such a problem.
And as combat soldiers, they have also learned how to deal with such methods on the battlefield. For example, what should I do if someone accidentally cuts my clothes while fighting in a battlefield full of mustard gas, leaving my skin exposed and coming into contact with mustard gas?
The Chinese side has long been fully prepared for what to do with the soldiers who have finished fighting on the battlefield full of mustard gas.
At the same time as the order was issued, Hua Chunyong also sent two battalions of troops to a small river about five kilometers to the rear to carry out the later treatment work, in fact, it was to set up tents, and then build several water supply channels, and first introduce the river water into a large reservoir, and then add a large amount of grass and wood ash to the reservoir as the first cleaning procedure.
Then you go into the second pool, which has a lot of soapy water, followed by a third pool, which is kerosene, and the fourth is alcohol, and you can stay in these four pools for twenty minutes, and then you can go to the lower reaches of the river, and take a good bath in it.
As for their clothes, etc., this will naturally have a special pool to clean, although the gas war is very cool to use, but the protection after the war is also very important, otherwise, the soldiers on their side will also suffer from mustard gas.
Yin Jia finished building the position, and then began to check the protection of his squad soldiers one by one, with a hat under the steel helmet, which is to prevent mustard gas from reaching the scalp through the ventilation holes on the steel helmet and the gap between the head and the head, and also protect the back of the head from the influence of mustard gas.
Then there is a fully enclosed gas mask, which is protected from the entire face, head, and jaw, except for the lower part of the back of the head. The lower part of the back of the head is handed over to the hat that is put on the inside, and then put on a steel helmet, and tie a special scarf around the neck, which is actually a thick scarf, the material is not pure knitting, but some special raw materials are added to make the fabric as impermeable as possible, it is said that the principle is to use the production method of oilcloth, covering three layers inside and out, to prevent one of them from breaking and causing disaster.
Then the clothes must be neat, the buttons must be buttoned, with special long gloves, one end up to the elbow below the black gloves, which are inlaid with five layers of the same material as the scarf, and the outside is knitted, and then the cuffs are lowered, and the cuffs are fastened to prevent air from entering the cuffs.
Needless to say, the military boots can protect the feet from being affected, and the trouser legs are all tucked into the inside of the military boots, and then tightly tied with leggings at the junction of the boots and the legs.
At this point, a fully armed anti-poison warrior has been armed, and then he can confidently and boldly walk onto the battlefield filled with mustard gas.
After checking the equipment of the entire squad and confirming that it was correct, Yin Jia put on his own equipment with the help of the squad soldiers, this kind of equipment can actually be worn by himself, but the inspection must be done by others, especially those places behind him that cannot be seen, in case it is not checked, then it will really suffer.
It only took less than ten minutes, and all the more than 10,000 soldiers who stayed on the front line were already 'fully armed', and I have to say that in such weather, dressing up like this makes people feel very weird, and under such a surroundment, in just a few minutes, there is a feeling of heat all over the body.
You must know that it is already June, and the temperature in Kagoshima, which is the same latitude as Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, has reached nearly 256 degrees at this time, and of course, the temperature in Shanghai and other places at this time is almost close to 30 degrees.
The reason for the low temperature in Japan is that it is surrounded by the sea, and the temperature on the sea does not rise so quickly, so the low temperature in Japan is completely brought down by the temperature on the sea surface.
But even so, this kind of armament has been very uncomfortable for a long time, originally they were just wearing a single long sleeve, but now even the two sets of single long sleeves in the backpack are directly put on. In addition, wearing a gas mask, the vision is also greatly affected, during the day, let alone at night.
But in order to save their lives, no one will say anything even if they get a few quilts for them and put them on.
They have seen the mustard gas with their own eyes, and for this extremely dangerous weapon, the troops do not just rely on their mouths to tell the legend when they train, but let them personally enter the poisonous field full of mustard gas to experience it personally, and then get used to every process from the beginning to the end, and remember it deeply.
Of course, it is impossible for anyone to make specimens in the test field, there will be some pigs, cows, sheep and chickens and other animals in advance, when they enter, after seeing the miserable condition of those animals, all kinds of complaints about the previous ones will instantly dissipate away, and at this time they will hate to wear more.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the artillery of an artillery battalion was fully prepared, and at this moment, the artillery battalion was also fully armed, and although their position could not be said to be brightly lit, there were also many arch fires lit on the position for lighting, and on the periphery, there was a regiment of troops guarding it.
Because of the lack of transportation capacity, the 51st Division, which was originally equipped with an artillery regiment, could only bring this light artillery battalion over, and the remaining three artillery battalions were actually two baggage battalions and one heavy artillery battalion, which would be sent to Japan in the future, and a small number of trucks would take on the task of carrying baggage and artillery.
An artillery battalion, four artillery batteries, and 64 75 mm infantry guns fired at the same time, of which 48 guns fired normal shells, and the special operations company quietly fired mustard gas in the artillery battle to prevent the Japanese from discovering the problem.
In fact, it is normal to use poison gas bombs at this time, and the restriction of poison gas bombs is a post-World War I thing, what they are afraid of is that the Japanese will escape in advance after discovering the problem, in this case, wouldn't the gas bombs be fought in vain?
One by one, the shells crossed the heads of the front-line soldiers, sliding out of a fiery red light in the dark night, and then quickly rushed to the Japanese positions on the opposite side, and then exploded quickly on the Japanese positions.
Because they already knew where the Japanese positions were during the day, the artillerymen directly locked on the positions of the Japanese troops at night.
The tactics carried out by the artillery battalion this time were that two companies of artillery would attack the Japanese position, and one artillery company would cover and carry out scattered attacks at a position about 500 meters behind the Japanese position, and the coordinates vacated in the middle would be handed over to the special operations company to be responsible, and poison gas bombs would be interspersed with a position about a few hundred meters behind the enemy's position.
The sound produced by the explosion of the gas bomb was not as loud as expected, it was just a muffled sound, and if you were a little farther away and did not listen carefully, you would not suspect that it was a gas bomb exploding. What's more, there were three companies of artillery to cover, and the huge explosion had already drowned out the muffled sound of the explosion of the gas bomb.
And the reason why the mustard gas was not directly injected into the center of the shell explosion was actually because it did not want to be discovered by the Japanese army, so as not to run away in advance.
Theoretically, the incubation period of mustard gas is 2-6 hours in the liquid state and 6-12 hours in the steam state, and after being converted into steam at high temperatures, the mustard gas will be more corrosive, so in fact, enemies who come into contact with mustard gas will often develop symptoms within a few hours after that, and even die directly in severe cases.
Of course, mustard gas is fired in the form of cannonballs, and in fact, even without the support of other cannonballs, the temperature of the cannonballs themselves is enough for them to turn into a vapor state.
The artillery fire lasted for most of the night, almost the entire city of Kagoshima was bombed, and even the dock, the five warships docked on the water were also their targets, and the Japanese naval guns wanted to fight back, but the actual situation did not allow them to fight back, because the Japanese warships did not have much ammunition left, and they had to save the ammunition for use when the Chinese officially launched an attack.
For the Japanese, it was a complete waste to spend precious ammunition on small-caliber artillery to attack the enemy. Besides, the Japanese actually thought that they could capture these guns to supplement their firepower, so how could they easily blow them up?
As everyone knows, this idea of the Japanese Navy just killed them.
The bombing lasted for four hours, and in the eyes of Heihachiro Togo, the Chinese' bombing was completely aimless, and in one area, they often just hit one pass in an orderly manner, and then regardless of the results, they directly turned the target to the next area, which in the eyes of the Japanese army, was a complete waste of ammunition.
Therefore, even Heihachiro Togo, who already knew the location of the enemy's artillery, still did not order the fleet to open fire, but told the land army the approximate location of the artillery of the 51st Division, and asked them to send people to find an opportunity to sneak attack the Chinese's artillery, if they could get these artillery, then the next war, the Japanese would be slightly easier.