Kagoshima is a prefecture, and the prefecture units in Japan are the same as those in Japan, and each has several cities under its jurisdiction. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The scale of Kagoshima is not small, including the landing site, Akune, also belongs to Kagoshima Prefecture, and at this time, the 51st Division is attacking Kagoshima City, which is equivalent to the provincial capital of the country, and is the seat of a prefecture.

Kagoshima at this time, basically no longer see the prosperity of the past, originally as the most lively, the most prosperous, the most populous, the largest flow of people in the entire Kagoshima Prefecture, at this time Kagoshima is a little quiet, the streets are quiet, occasionally can only see a group of Japanese troops hurriedly shuttling through it.

On the wharf, several warships docked there helplessly, Leng Sensen's muzzles were tightly aimed at the direction of the west side, and the Japanese Navy on the warships was waiting for them, and everyone stayed in their positions.

Not far away, on the periphery of the harbor, there were also several warships parked there, their guns still aimed to the west, the only difference was that these warships were not docked at the dock, but in the center of the channel outside the harbor.

"The situation of the Japanese troops in the city was not able to be explored clearly, the Japanese army's defense was relatively tight, and the situation in the city was also a bit special, so our scouts could not leave safely, so they did not enter the reconnaissance. However, according to the reconnaissance on the periphery, at least one infantry wing was deployed in Kagoshima, but based on our experience with the Japanese and the unverified information we received from the Japanese, we did not rule out the possibility that there was a division of imps inside.

In addition, there are four warships docked in the harbor, and there is no smoke above the warships, so judging by the fact that their boilers are not activated, theoretically, we have a maximum of half an hour to capture it from the moment the battle starts.

But on the other side, in the channel outside the harbor, there were five warships cruising there, their boilers always in operation, and judging by the position where the warships were docked, they should have been ready for battle and ready to evacuate at any time.

To sum up, to sum up, the enemy army on the surface of the city may have only one wing, but there are no civilians in the city, and in such a large city, there is no problem in hiding the strength of three wings, and the Japanese army is likely to hide most of their forces, waiting to fight with us in close combat, hand-to-hand combat.

Although the four warships docked at the pier were towed back to the port by the Japanese, it was very likely that they had lost power, and the five warships cruising around the periphery could either provide fire support for the pier and even the entire city, and on the other hand, it could not be ruled out that the Japanese navy would destroy the four warships on the pier before evacuating when the Japanese navy thought that the defeat of Kagoshima was a foregone conclusion.

Therefore, when boarding the ship, we have to be careful, the Japanese may use the outside warship to attack, or they may have laid a lot of explosives inside the hull, just waiting for us to get on board. Pan Shi, chief of staff of the 51st Division, said with the reconnaissance intelligence.

And now there is another question in front of them, the sun is about to set, should they immediately start a fight? On the one hand, they did not want to give the Japanese Navy more time, and on the other hand, they were really not very good at night battles, and if they rashly launched night battles, the losses of the troops would be very large.

Battle damage, this is one thing that every commander has to worry about so far.

Hua Chunyong frowned tightly, his head spun rapidly, nine warships, one of which was a battleship, two cruisers, and six light cruisers, if these nine warships could be handed over to the Chinese Navy for use, the shipyard could save at least a year's time, on the other hand, as long as these nine warships were captured, it was basically equivalent to allowing the shipyard to build twice as many ships in a year.

But if you don't get these nine warships, in fact, the overall impact on the Chinese Empire is not great, after all, the main combat mode of the future navy has begun to change to aircraft carriers.

However, Hua Chunyong did not know about these circumstances, and the navy hoped to get these nine warships, the purpose of which was to use these nine warships to replace the nine warships of the local coastal defense fleet, so that they could transfer nine new warships to supplement other fleets and directly enhance the strength of the navy.

Therefore, no matter from which point of view, the capture of these nine warships is very important for the navy, although it has nothing to do with the army on the surface, but China is not Japan, they do not need to fight for some resources, the army's equipment has been constantly innovating over the years, but the navy has not stopped.

In addition, Wang Sirui has always been very disgusted with internal strife within the army, in other words, legitimate competition is okay, but once vicious competition appears, then it can only be sorry.

Because of these potential consciousness invasions in the past few years, even if Hua Chunyong encountered a problem at this time, he still hoped to capture these nine warships before he completely denied it.

Looking up at the sky, the wind direction at this time was blowing to the east, and the wind was not too strong, it could only be said to be a breeze, this kind of weather was at night, which made Hua Chunyong think of a possibility, but he was a little uncertain.

But as soon as he thought of the nine main warships docked in Kagoshima, Hua Chunyong gritted his teeth violently: "Use T bombs!" ”

T bomb, the real name is special bomb, but in order to prevent panic from the outside world, so they were given an internal code name within the army, T bomb, which means special poison gas bomb, and if you are more specific, it is mustard gas.

In 1822, Despeuz discovered mustard gas.

In 1866, the German Meyer synthesized pure mustard gas for the first time, and the synthesis method he invented is still one of the important synthesis methods of mustard gas in modern times (in modern times). At first, he thought that the discomfort in the experiment was due to skin allergies of the people involved, but later in animal experiments, he realized that there was some kind of danger.

Historically, it was not until the end of World War I that mustard gas was widely used in warfare in order to break the stalemate on the battlefield.

Prior to this, there were only three kinds of poison gas bombs used in World War I, one was the early type of tear gas ethyl bromide of the German army, which was also the poison gas bombs that the German army was using in large quantities on the battlefield so far.

Because of the scarcity of materials, the supply in the rear simply could not keep up, so this also forced the Germans to use limited gas bombs for the most recent battles.

At present, the German side is stepping up research on an alternative, that is, chloroacetone. At this time, the British and French forces had just developed a third type of poison gas, a mixed chemical weapon of phosgene and chlorine.

In 1905, the Chinese Empire, through the embassy in Germany, secretly bought a complete mustard gas synthesis method from the hands of the German Meyer's partner at that time, and then carried out experiments in the western part of the country, and then began to secretly produce a large number of them in 1908.

Although the Chinese are unambiguous when it comes to manufacturing, Wang Sirui is extremely cautious when using it. Mustard gas is different from the poisonous gas in the past, and the poisonous gas on the market now, to put it bluntly, only needs a mask with a filtration system to defend against it, but mustard gas is different, first of all, it is colorless and odorless, and it is impossible to detect it in advance.

The second is its seamless and terrifying penetration, a simple mask alone cannot defend against it, and even hastened the poisoning of soldiers.

In the second half of 1909, after it was determined that the Japanese mainland was about to be attacked, Wang Sirui ordered the mustard gas to be distributed to the grassroots troops, but it was about ten months before they landed in Japan, and they had been exposed to mustard gas for about ten months, and during these ten months, they would conduct an average of one poison gas drill every week.

There are also extremely strict requirements for the use of mustard gas, first of all, it must be a division-level unit that can use it, and of course, only a division-level unit is equipped with a special operations company with sixteen 75-mm infantry guns.

Well, in fact, it is just ordinary artillery, but this company is specially trained, they fire ordinary shells in peacetime, and when necessary, they also have the ability to fire poison gas shells, while other artillery companies do not have this ability.

Although the use of mustard gas has been restricted as much as possible, in order to prevent division-level troops from indiscriminately using mustard gas by Germany and Russia, a new clause has been added regarding the use of mustard gas, and the consent of the theater command must be obtained before using it.

In other words, if Hua Chunyong wanted to use mustard gas against the Japanese army in Kagoshima, he had to obtain the consent of Yu Botai, the commander-in-chief of the landing operation.

After thinking about it in his heart, Hua Chunyong still did not listen to the persuasion of the chief of staff, and personally wrote the content of a telegram and asked the communication corps to send this telegram to the command headquarters.

While waiting for the response of the headquarters, Hua Chunyong's side was not idle, he knew that his application would have a high probability of being approved, and what he had to do was to prepare as soon as possible, and then wait until after dark, take the opportunity to launch mustard gas, and then wait quietly for a night, and tomorrow morning he can swagger up to receive the territory.

Therefore, Hua Chunyong issued two orders to the troops below, one was to advance the entire line to a position of three kilometers to the Japanese defense line, and the other was to prepare for a special operation immediately after dark.

This means that after dark, the whole division must prepare for poison gas warfare in accordance with the requirements of previous training.

When advancing to the first three kilometers of the Japanese position, the soldiers of the 51st Division began to build simple fortifications on the spot, which also greatly relieved the Japanese troops on the opposite side, just now they were really scared to death, and really thought that the Chinese planned to attack at night, but now it seems that at least they have one more night to prepare.

Nearly an hour after the telegram was sent, Hua Chunyong also waited for a reply from the headquarters, and the reply was only four words, which was strictly implemented!