Artillery fire swept like a wind across the U.S. defensive positions to the east, south, and west of Kansas City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In an instant, high and low plumes of smoke soared into the sky at the same time above the US military front. This shelling is the third artillery preparation since November 23. After the first two shifts of artillery fire, the Chinese launched two infantry attacks. Obviously, the Chinese army's attack on Kansas City has begun! And this time the shelling was twice as large as the previous two times, and at least 1,296 cannons of twenty-four artillery regiments were thrown into this chorus of death, which immediately turned the American position into a sea of fire!

And the response of the US military is also very timely, all their communication lines are shouting wildly, and the general attack of the Chinese army on all fronts is just around the corner! While the Americans' artillery groups remained silent to conserve ammunition, reinforcements that had long been ready braved artillery fire and moved forward from the rear along the dense communication trenches that looked like cobwebs. As soon as the artillery fire was extended, US officers and men who had long been accustomed to this kind of defensive operations poured out of their shelters into the trenches, and some sappers even risked their lives to repair the bombed-up obstacles under the threat of Chinese artillery fire. Rifles were erected, and water-cooled machine guns or old Jason multi-barreled heavy machine guns were put into firing positions. Braving the rain of bullets, the U.S. military quickly put on a posture of resistance! All of them were convinced that the reason why the Chinese army was attacking so fiercely was because their reinforcements were approaching!

On an American position east of Kansas City, an observation officer directing long-range artillery fire, George Brown of Virginia, was an observer officer directing long-range artillery fire. William. Captain Patton stood guard at the observation post, looking through an artillery mirror at the positions in the direction of the Chinese troops, as long as the Chinese infantry came forward. He was to guide the ammunition-starved U.S. artillery group in the Kansas City encirclement to shoot covering. While within Kansas City. The U.S. military still has a few hundred artillery pieces and tens of thousands of shells left. Save some and hold on for a while. A strange, slightly greenish-yellow cloud suddenly appeared in the eyepiece of the artillery mirror, slowly attacking the American position.

"Ike, look, what is this?" The U.S. artillery observer gave the artillery mirror to his partner.

"It's ...... Is it the cloud? Yellow, not green clouds? The officer named Ike shook his head, "Could it be that the Chinese are covering their infantry with smoke?" ”

"Perhaps." Captain Patton nodded blankly.

"Behind the smoke must be the Chinese infantry!" The front-line officers of the US army in the trenches also came to the same conclusion, which is probably the only reasonable guess...... Or what's behind the smoke?

"All in place! Quick, get into the firing position! ”

"The yellow race is coming! Let them see how good we Virginians are! ”

The officers shouted loudly. pushed all of his subordinates to the front line.

The U.S. artillery observer, surnamed Patton, finally came to his senses. Picked up the phone and shouted loudly: "In front of the Independence City position, in front of the 41st Regiment of the 5th Division of Virginia, there are Chinese infantry in Area 3!" Hiding behind the yellow-green smoke, they are charging at our position! Artillery fire immediately began to block the shooting! ”

The somewhat strange content of his report made the artillery commander on the other end of the phone wonder, "What yellow-green smoke?" Are you sure infantry is following? ”

"I can't be sure now, the smoke is so thick that I can't see what's behind it!"

"Bastard, can't be sure how to fire? Don't you know that there are not many shells left now? Wait until you see it clearly! Check it out! But he had already scolded him back.

Captain Patton hung up the phone, cursed "damn" and walked out of the cover, his eyes wide and his binoculars looking at everything on the other side. A long front is above. Yellow-green smoke billowed along the ground with a slight easterly wind. There seems to be nothing behind the smoke. Apparently not to cover the infantry impact. But what is it? In the blink of an eye, this cloud of smoke had floated in front of him, enveloping him entirely.

"Ahem......"

"Oh God! I'm out of breath! ”

"This smoke is poisonous!"

"My eyes, ah......"

The sound of coughing and screaming immediately resounded throughout the entire front, because the chlorine gas was almost three times heavier than air, and when it floated to the line of the American trench, it immediately "sank", and the poisonous gas filled the entire trench.

'Poisonous smoke! It's poisonous smoke! Captain Barton, who had only taken a small puff and felt the burning pain in his nose and throat as if he had been burned by an acidic substance, came back to his senses at the first time, and hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his hands and rushed back to the shelter. Poison gas was pouring in through the doors and observation windows of the shelter, but before the small shelter could be completely filled, his partner Ai Kou had been tricked and was lying on the ground foaming at the mouth.

Captain Patton picked up the phone again, and his voice was already a little more desperate, "The Chinese are attacking us with poisonous smoke!" Toxic smoke has poured into the trenches, there is no way to do it, we can't breathe anymore, Ike is dead, I'm going to die too, everyone is going to die! ”

"Poisonous smoke! What poisonous smoke? What's going on? The person on the other end of the phone was also anxious, and asked anxiously.

By this time, the chlorine gas had filled the entire shelter and poured into the lungs of Patton's throat, and the American captain used his last strength to reply: "The whole trench is full of dead people, we can't hold it, all of them are going to die...... God, ahem...... I can't breathe...... My God! Help me......"

Of course, it is impossible for poison gas to kill all people, because this is a battlefield, not a death penalty gas chamber, and chlorine gas is not particularly lethal. But when the American officers and soldiers understood that they were encountering new weapons that they could not resist at all, panic and collapse ensued, and the surviving soldiers threw away their weapons, screamed and grabbed their throats and fled from the trenches, leaving a gap of more than 15 kilometers unguarded, and the brigade of Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks poured in like a tide - those panicked American soldiers could not resist the organized massacre of the Chinese army!

The bad news from the front was the first to reach the Confederate Army General Headquarters in Kansas City (they still fly the Union flag), and the generals and staff officers who had just seen a glimmer of hope were almost all dumbfounded. Their first line of defense to the east was thus captured by the Chinese - there were no repeated infantry charges, no heavy losses in a sea of corpses, not even close hand-to-hand combat and fierce exchanges of grenades. Just a billowing puff of poison gas...... The 15-kilometer stretch of defense line and the tens of thousands of officers and men of the two infantry divisions were thus non-existent - in fact, most of them were not poisoned, but killed by the Chinese soldiers who then rushed in. Still, the fear of poison gas inevitably spread throughout the siege of Kansas.

The phone in the war room was still ringing, and bad news was coming one after another.

"The Fifth and Sixth Divisions of Virginia were attacked by the Chinese army with poison gas and suffered heavy casualties? Two regiments of the 1st North Carolina Division were also gassed...... So what's going on at the front now? Can the reserve position be held? ”

"What! The Chinese army has invaded Independence City? And what about the artillery positions placed in the city of Independence? …… Occupied by the Chinese army! What's the matter, why not transfer in time?! ”

"What!? The 1st Georgian Division was also gassed? They're in the second line of defense! How could the Chinese army break through to where so quickly? What the? Is it a gas shell? And ...... such weapons? ”

"What? There's a small boat on the Missouri River flying the Roman eagle flag asking to dock? Don't fire, don't fire. ”

Thomas, who now calls himself commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army of the United States of America, is now the commander-in-chief of the Confederate States of America. Admiral Jackson sat there in a daze, listening to his subordinates report news that could not have been worse. His mood at the moment was as if he had fallen from the clouds above the nine heavens to the abyss below the nine earths. As the commander of hundreds of thousands of armies, and a famous general who fought in the First North American War, Thomas . As soon as Jackson heard the news of the Chinese army's poison gas offensive, he knew that no, the whole of America had fallen into the trap of King Donghua, and that he would really live up to his reputation.

That poison gas must not have been invented and produced just yesterday! Chinese must have possessed this terrible murderous weapon a long time ago, and if it had been used earlier, hundreds of thousands of troops within the encirclement of Kansas City...... I'm afraid it's already gone! But the king of Donghua didn't need it, and waited until Castis. Admiral Lee's million-strong army advanced to a few dozen kilometers from Kansas City!

This is a clear encirclement point to send reinforcements! It's about swallowing all the essence of white North America in one bite!

"Admiral, Duke Juarez, tribune of the Western Roman Empire, has arrived outside Kansas City, on the north bank of the Missouri River, and he wants to come into the city to discuss with us...... Discuss the question of our way out. ”

Thomas. Admiral Jackson's chief of staff, Charlie. Lieutenant General Yule put down the telephone receiver and said to his immediate boss in a tired voice.

"Admiral, let's meet the Duke of Juarez...... We have done our best, and there is no need to sacrifice in vain. ”

"Charlie, you mean to surrender to the Chinese!" Thomas. Jackson jerked his head up, his bloodshot eyes glaring at his chief of staff.

"Admiral, the Confederate States of America to which we owe allegiance no longer exists......" Charlie Murphy said. Jule looked at Admiral Jackson, "The representative of the Duke of Juarez said on the phone, His Majesty Caesar is ready to give us a new America, a new United States of America!" ”

"A new United States of America?"

"Yes, Admiral...... You can be the Father of the Nation, just like President Washington! ”

Thomas. Jackson was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "What if I refuse?" ”

Charlie. Yule shook his head, "Admiral, you won't, because you have to be responsible for us, for half a million (after nearly a year of siege, Jackson's troops are no longer 600,000) to follow your officers and soldiers, please give us a country!" Please! (To be continued.) )