In the early morning of June 7, the city of Kagoshima was in a terrible situation, and less than half of them were able to stand up, and none of them had any symptoms on their bodies. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yesterday's position, there were no warships on the sea in sight, but in their place, a few kilometers away, five warships were in close contact with each other in a shameful posture, or were kissing fiercely with the land, and none of the officers and men on the ships knew whether they were dead or alive.

It is not unreasonable for mustard gas to be called the king of poison, during the first war in history, because of the awesome performance of mustard gas, so countries have rushed to follow suit, and as a result, in World War I, mustard gas directly killed about 1.3 million people, and the casualty rate accounted for more than 80% of the total casualties of poison, that is, at least eight out of ten people infected by mustard gas will die.

This mortality rate was extremely horrific, and at that time, soldiers were only equipped with improvised gas masks, with a focus on gas masks, which, instead of being able to filter out the poison gas well, affected their breathing, making them more susceptible to poisoning due to poor breathing.

In the same way, the reason why the Japanese army appeared in this miserable situation after only one night is that the focus is on the gas masks, uh, sorry, the Japanese army does not have gas masks.

You just put a soldier wearing a gas mask in this dense poison field for one night, and he may not come out safely the next day, let alone those Japanese soldiers who do not have any gas masks and have not been able to do anything in time within a few hours after the gas is released?

Garrisoned in Kagoshima was the 77th Division of the Japanese Army, which was also a brand-new division urgently formed by the Japanese Army in the near future, with soldiers from Kagoshima Prefecture and veterans of a wing transferred from the 21st Division as the backbone.

In Japan, there are still a large number of divisions and regiments in this configuration, mainly because the war broke out too suddenly, and the Japanese government did not have any preparations at all, so that after realizing the outbreak of war, it began to hastily form an army.

Even so, the First Battle of Hokkaido also killed four veteran divisions of the Japanese army, and the veteran here refers to the troops that have been established for more than two years and have undergone complete training and running-in.

In addition, the eight divisions in Taiwan and the East China Sea, in less than two months after the start of the war, Japan lost nearly 20 divisions and regiments, and the speed of this loss is terrifying.

In the early stage, a large number of veterans who had undergone complete training were lost, which also led to the uneven quality of the soldiers in the Japanese army, low combat efficiency, and poor tactical awareness.

Of course, according to the current trend, even if the Japanese army is all well-trained veterans, it can only be delayed for a while at best.

And what about the most elite Guards divisions in Japan? In addition to the huge losses inflicted on the Marines by the first wave of landings, was it not in a matter of hours that the follow-up forces were wiped out? Don't say anything, without the air force, they would not have been able to fight so smoothly at all, because they have an air force, so this assumption is not valid at all.

Compared with the tragic situation in Kagoshima Castle, the 51st Division not far away on the opposite side was much calmer, and the weather was beautiful, and the wind direction was favorable to the 51st Division all night, and not a single trace of poisonous gas was blown onto the position of the 51st Division.

Before dawn, the 51st Division retreated five kilometers in turn, took off its gas masks, hastily ate breakfast, and then returned to its position to take over the friendly forces.

For the 51st Division, today's breakfast is particularly hearty, and the gruel of the past is gone, replaced by rice, a combination of two meats, two vegetables and one soup.

After breakfast, the cooking squad did not give the soldiers a day's combat rations, for them, after eating this meal, there would be no chance to eat again today, if the battle did not go well, they would not have the opportunity to eat today, maybe tomorrow.

Once you enter the poison field, unless you can clean up the toxins on your body, you will not be allowed to enter the non-regulated area at all, perhaps because you know what may happen next, so many soldiers at this meal are also appetizing, as if they have forgotten the tragic situation they may see next.

Of course, for the veterans, what kind of tragedy have they not yet seen? Are you still afraid of these things?

At seven o'clock in the morning, the fifty-first division, two brigades, six regiments, one regiment was sent to protect the artillery, one regiment was left behind to receive it, and to protect the soldiers returning from the poison field from enemy attacks, and the remaining four regiments were all sent up.

The scale of Kagoshima City is not large, such a terrain, there is simply no need for so many troops to attack, the reason why the Japanese army stuffed a division to Kagoshima is only for the purpose of surprise, they hope to create a false impression to the Chinese, so that they mistakenly think that there are not so many enemies here, and then only send a small number of troops to attack.

If only one regiment of troops attacked, then the strength of a division hidden in Kagoshima City would instantly teach the Chinese how to behave.

The Chinese firepower is very fierce, but in street battles, and where the number is not superior, the Japanese are using the method of one for one, and the first to fall is bound to be the attacking regiment.

Therefore, the Japanese plan was to lure only one regiment of enemy troops to attack Kagoshima as much as possible, and then the troops on the periphery would pretend to be defeated after a little resistance, and then let the enemy enter Kagoshima City, and then surround it on all sides and quickly kill this regiment.

As long as this regiment can be eliminated, then the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army will rise by two steps, which means that the Japanese will get a regiment of Chinese equipment, their firepower will be equal to that of a regiment of Chinese, in cooperation with other troops, at this time another regiment, it is simply not enough for the Japanese army to plug the teeth, even if it is two regiments, the Japanese army has the strength to fight.

But the Japanese army never expected that the Chinese would come with the strength of a division, and not only that, but also dropped more than 3,000 mustard gas bombs in Kagoshima, and more than 3,000 were placed in Kagoshima, what does it mean? This means that after the explosion of these more than 3,000 poison gas bombs, the poison gas emitted can completely cover the entire Kagoshima and not be used up.

The Japanese army chose to hide troops intensively because of tactical needs, and the final result was that the soldiers were poisoned in piles.

Yin Jia held his Type 03 automatic rifle, with a bayonet about 20 centimeters long hanging in front of him, and walked in the center of the squad team, following the large army to move forward little by little.

Yin Jia's squad is not the squad that walks in the front, in front of their squad, there is also a regiment of troops on top, so they don't need to be so nervous at this time, they just need to enter the combat state when they hear the gunshots.

And it's also very uncomfortable to be wrapped like a mummy, and it's not suitable to wear this dress for combat at all, but they are very helpless and have to dress up like a mummy.

Afterwards, even they joked that the 51st Division was a mummified unit, and this title has been widely spread and became famous all over the world after the war.

However, the fact is that Yin Jia's outfit is actually just a backup plan, these things don't take up much area, and they can be stuffed in the backpack casually.

And if China dares to allow its troops to use poison gas bombs, how can it not have any defensive measures? In fact, every unit is equipped with chemical protective suits, that is, jumpsuits made of plastic, which can cover all other places except the face, and then the face only needs to wear a gas mask to solve the problem.

However, the 51st Division, and even the entire military, did not expect that poison gas bombs would come in handy so quickly, and in addition to the fact that the 51st Division came directly from Taiwan, they had no intention of using poison gas bombs in Taiwan at the beginning.

Therefore, although the 51st Division received supplies of poison gas bombs from the marines departing from Shandong on the ship, it did not have time to transport the chemical protective suits due to transportation capacity and other reasons. Then they had to use the backup plan, although not as perfect as the chemical suits, but at least they could ensure that they were not affected, and the only unpleasant thing was that they had to stay bare for a long time afterwards.

After leaving the drug field, all the equipment on their bodies had to be thrown away, their clothes, gas masks and other things were burned, and their weapons and equipment had to be buried on the spot.

Of course, in order to prevent the 51st Division from becoming a bare-chested army, when he agreed to the 51st Division's use of poison gas bombs, You Botai had already telegraphed to the rear to immediately transport the equipment of the 51st Division, and to carry 200,000 sets of chemical protective clothing. Therefore, the 51st Division can solve the problem in two days at most.

There were bursts of gunfire scattered in front, but these gunshots came from the Chinese side, and the sound of the Type 30 rifle and Type 38 rifle equipped by the Japanese army was very distinctive, and it was easy to distinguish it on the battlefield.

And listening to these gunshots, the troops behind are even more in a hurry, this is the front troops are cleaning up those enemy troops who have not yet died, in order to prevent them from carrying grenades to die together, plus the ammunition is still brought back, it is better to use it directly to save trouble.

More than twenty minutes later, Yin Jia's squad also began to enter the battlefield, the scene here is a little scary, far more terrifying than other battlefields, here, you can see any kind of death, on each corpse, there are high bulging pus, the bloody limbs that were caught, the face is pale, there is a lot of blood hanging from the corners of the mouth, and the eyes are tightly closed.