The reminder of the first staff officer made Togo Heihachiro shudder violently, if all this is true, then ......

Heihachiro Togo didn't even dare to imagine the consequences of all this, but reality forced him to think about the possibility of such a situation. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Theoretically speaking, if 60 artillery pieces are fired together, only about 50 shells will explode, which is an extremely abnormal phenomenon, although it may also be a dud, but the fact is that if the shells manufactured by a country have a dud rate of one-sixth, then no one dares to use this kind of shells, and they will never be allowed to be equipped with troops.

Any country with a slight industrial base will choose to remake new shells, or buy shells from other countries directly, except for the kind of countries that are restricted, they cannot get other shells from the outside and have to use such shells.

And Togo Heihachiro has also dealt with the Chinese for many years, not to mention some things since the founding of the Chinese Empire, that is, in the pre-Qing period, the dud rate was not so terrifying.

So, subconsciously, Heihachiro Togo ignored the possibility of a dud.

Then in addition to the duds, there is only another possibility, the Chinese want to use the effect of the shell explosion to cover up their real purpose, and this purpose is to let the Japanese focus on dodging their shells, and ignore the real killer, poison gas bombs.

Gas bombs can also explode, but the sound of a gas bomb explosion is not much louder than that of a grenade.

This sound can be heard in extremely quiet conditions, but in a bombing field full of explosions, such a small sound is hardly heard. Before that, the explosion of countless shells basically reduced the hearing of the personnel in the area to a certain extent, and it was difficult for them to hear the movement caused by the explosion of the poison gas bomb at this time, unless it was very close.

If this is the case, then in these four hours, the Chinese have almost delivered thousands of gas bombs to Kagoshima City, which is not large, because of the presence of a port, so it is larger than inland cities, but compared to places like Tokyo, Kagoshima is really not on the table.

And thousands of poison gas bombs are enough for the poison gas to completely cover the entire Kagoshima, and the wind direction at this time is also very unfavorable to the Japanese army, at least now when Togo Heihachiro is breathing, he can feel a burnt smell, as well as some faint smell of gunsmoke.

But then again, if it was really a gas bomb, why didn't they get a report at this time? Heihachiro Togo felt that since he had already smelled the smell from Kagoshima, if it was really poisonous, he should have been poisoned at this time, but on the other hand, not a single soldier in the entire fleet showed signs of poisoning.

Japan does not have poison gas bombs, but this does not prevent Japan's senior generals from understanding the current mainstream poison gas bombs in the world, the tear gas ethyl bromide used by the Germans is a colorless and odorless gas, but the reaction time of this poison gas bomb is particularly short, basically when you smell it, you will feel uncomfortable, but the reaction is fast, and his effect is not as terrifying as imagined.

In the face of this kind of gas bomb, only a gas mask, or a towel moistened with water to block the breathing passage, can almost filter out a certain amount of toxicity and prolong its stay in the poison field.

The poison gas bombs used by the Entente are generally pale yellow in color, which is easy to see, and poison gas also has an obvious characteristic, that is, pungent.

If, in a time of uncertainty, you smell this pungent and choking smell again, it is almost certain that it is a poison gas bomb.

Togo Heihachiro took a deep breath, in addition to the burnt smell caused by the burning fire, there was also a faint sweet garlic smell in the air, which seemed to be a little pungent, but Togo Heihachiro had never heard of any country that could disguise poison gas as garlic flavor.

Of course, another reason why Togo Heihachiro didn't want to believe it was that when he was leading the fleet into Kagoshima, he also smelled the smell of garlic, and after asking, he learned that it was a boatload of garlic that had just been shipped, and because there were some problems during transportation, a large amount of garlic was damaged, and the air was filled with a strong smell of garlic.

However, the smell of garlic seemed to have dissipated a day ago, and now it suddenly appeared again, and Togo Heihachiro still maintained a high degree of vigilance, picked up the binoculars, and looked towards the city, through the strong firelight, Togo Heihachiro did not see any colored gas, except for the black gas produced by the fire.

At 0:34 a.m., the smell of garlic in the air was getting stronger and stronger, as if someone was constantly mashing a large amount of garlic, and it was still in the open air, a possibility that was absolutely non-existent now.

And smelling garlic for a long time finally made Togo Heihachiro highly vigilant.

Although the abnormal smell caught the attention of Togo Heihachiro, no one had any abnormal behavior so far, which made Togo Heihachiro feel that it was not quite like a poisonous gas, and the poisonous gas he learned about did not say that there was no abnormal reaction for an hour or two after smelling it.

Although there were some doubts, at 0:40 in the morning, Heihachiro Togo still gave an anti-poison order to the whole fleet. However, the Japanese army did not have gas masks, not even the army, let alone the navy.

Therefore, the anti-poison measure of the fleet is to wet the towel and then cover the mouth and nose, because most of the poison gases are insoluble in water, and the wet towels can keep a large amount of poison gases out. (It's the same thing with a wet towel covering your mouth and nose when it's on fire, so the towel must be wet, otherwise it won't do anything.) ）

Togo Heihachiro thinks that he has done a good job, even if the air really contains poisonous gas, then before the soldier has an adverse reaction, take defensive measures, then there will be basically no major problems, but his expectations are very wrong, mustard gas has an incubation time, under normal circumstances, when there is an adverse reaction, it basically means that the mustard gas in the body begins to erupt on a large scale, and relying on the modern medical level, once it recurs, it is difficult to be cured.

Even in the later generations, there is still no special medicine for mustard gas, even if the disease can be controlled, at most it can make people immortal, but it is impossible to cure it radically, and once infected by mustard gas, the whole person will live with this pain for the rest of his life.

Historically, the German mustache was a victim of mustard gas, and at that time, after smelling the smell of garlic, the mustache only thought it was ordinary poisonous gas, and then hurriedly put on a gas mask, reducing the amount of mustard gas exhaled as much as possible, and when he found that his comrades around him were dead, the mustache fled with his only remaining comrades, and if he stayed longer, the mustache would have died there directly.

The time when the mustache left was timely, and because of the timely defensive measures, the mustache finally survived, but because of the inhalation of a large amount of mustard gas, although it did not reach the fatal level, and because it left the poison field in time, the mustache still left the root of the disease, for example, after leaving the battlefield, the mustache was blind and for a long time, about a year or so.

This is what it looks like when you wear a gas mask for the first time, so what will the Japanese army be like without a gas mask?

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In Kagoshima City, in the ruins, in the houses that were not destroyed, the elderly people, still holding a grenade in their hands, are always ready to pull it and die with the enemy.

But after waiting for most of the night, they did not wait for the enemy to knock on the door, but soon after smelling the smell of garlic, they began to have symptoms of coughing, as time went by, the frequency of coughing became higher and higher, and the body also felt that something was tearing at themselves, coughing sound one after another, and soon, these old people coughed up blood one after another.

Immediately afterwards, his eyes began to blur, and even when he looked at his body, he had a double vision.

And this is not the end of it, immediately after that, the symptoms of itching began to appear on the body, first on the exposed skin, and then on the areas covered by clothing.

The Japanese who couldn't stand this itching began to scratch hard, but what they didn't expect was that the more they scratched, the more they scratched, the more they scratched, and there were huge pustules in the places they scratched, and pustules began to appear in some places that they didn't take into account, but the size was not as big as the places where they were scratched.

At this time, the location of those pustules is also countless times more itchy than before, and the Japanese who can't control it can only continue to scratch with their hands, and scratch the pustules in three or two strokes, and the sticky pus flows down the skin A large patch, and the itching in the scratched place is also slightly reduced.

The Japanese mistakenly thought that they would get better if they scratched the pus, so they continued to scratch the other pustules, but before they could scratch all the pustules, the pus-covered areas erupted with even more unbearable itching than before.

There are even many people who have scratched their skin, and their bodies are bright red one by one, and bloody scenes are filled with every place where the elderly Japanese are.

And some young people also fled in fright after seeing the tragic situation, and no one knew what was going on? Why did the good end become like this?