This is the front line of Fort Kiba, the headquarters of the Japanese army, where Japanese Army Major General Yoshiko Akiyama sits and commands, and the Japanese "Kanto Governor" Fukushima Yasumasa has just left here.

Just before Fukushima Yasuma left this headquarters, a military meeting had just been held here, and the whole meeting process was accompanied by the cannon sound of the squadron, Fukushima Yasushi left the headquarters with a gloomy face, and didn't say much nonsense before leaving, only walked to Akiyama and said "Please Akiyama-kun"

It was this sentence that made the atmosphere in the headquarters extremely depressing, because the subtext in Fukushima Yasumasa's sentence could not be more obvious, that is: no matter what, the defense line of Kiba Fort must also be held, and no matter what, it cannot retreat to the south. If you retreat again, the Arthur fortress will be exposed under the guns of the squadron, then. The face of the Japanese Empire is gone, it doesn't exist.

It's true that you can't retreat any further, this point, Akiyama Yoshiko knows it very well, but at the same time, whether you can hold this Kiba Fort defense line, Akiyama Yoshiko is not sure at all, after Fukushima Yasumasa left the Command Department, Akiyama Yoshiko has been sitting in this anti-artillery bunker of the headquarters, looking at the military map on the conference table without saying a word, and the other officers can only sit with His Excellency the Commander like this, and they are also silent without saying a word, no one is interested in talking, no one is interested in suggesting, because this battle has been fought until now, There is basically only one tactic of the Japanese army, and that is to "hold on"

In order to hold the Kiba Fort defensive line, Akiyama Yoshiko not only withdrew all the Japanese troops on the defense line of the Qingniwa Railway Station, but also all the Japanese troops in Dalian in order to gather his forces. Hit the ** team at Fort Kiba.

However, it was not an easy task to hold on, and if the squadron had come from the north, then Akiyama Yoshiko was fully confident that he would hold out at Kiba Fort for at least five days in order to delay the war as much as possible and ensure that Japan continued to occupy Lushun at the beginning of the peace talks, which would help the Japanese government save some face.

However, the offensive of the squadron is very rapid, and the will of the Chinese attacking forces will not change from where and when, or what attack tactics will be used, depending on the will of Akiyama Yoshiko or the Japanese government.

Now, just behind the Kiba fort line, on the southern coast, a task force of the Chinese Army had set up an assault position and engaged in fierce battles with the Japanese troops, and in fact, the reason why Akiyama Yoshiko had ordered the retreat from the Qingshiwa railway station was to deal with the task force of the Chinese army.

The Chinese Army's task force suddenly intervened between Fort Arthur and Fort Kiba, which not only cut off the South Manchurian Railway, but also caused the Japanese troops in the fortress of Arthur to panic and panic like a worm in their throats.

In this case, Akiyama Yoshiko was not very sure that he would hold on to the defense line of Fort Kiba for five days, and he had no confidence in Fukushima Yasumasa's "please", and because of this, Akiyama Yoshiko was silent and did not speak for a long time.

I don't know how long it took for Akiyama Yoshiko to move his gaze from the military map on the conference table to the entrance of the anti-artillery bunker, and only then did he appear, and the shelling outside seemed to stop.

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"When did the shelling of the squadron stop?" Akiyama asked a staff officer sitting next to him.

"It stopped five minutes ago." The staff officer replied cautiously.

"Is our army fighting back? Let the people of China see the artillery line of the Imperial Japanese Army," another staff officer suggested.

"As long as the squadron does not launch a large-scale attack, our army does not have to use artillery fire to suppress it, and must use artillery shells where they are most needed, and in defensive battles, they can consume a large amount of the squadron's vital strength."

Yoshiko Akiyama established the basic tactics of defensive operations. However, so far, he has not made up his mind whether to concentrate his forces to open up the railway line to the south before the squadron launches a full-scale attack, so as to ensure the land connection between Lushun and Kiba Fort and ensure the transportation of troops in the rear.

The key is that the number of troops is insufficient, since the Chinese army task force landed on the coast south of Fort Kiba, Fukushima Yasumasa because he was worried about the safety of Lushun, he ordered the Japanese army in Lushun to defend on the spot, not to attack, and only sent a small force to harass him, so as to prevent the Chinese army task force from attacking Lushun in the south, so that the troops that Akiyama Yoshiko could directly command could not achieve absolute superiority in troops.

With the existing strength of Fort Kiba, it is still uncertain to hold on, how can it be possible to free up troops to attack a Chinese army task force that is no worse than the Japanese army in terms of strength and fighting spirit?

The current Akiyama is in a dilemma. No matter what he decided, it seemed that it would not be beneficial for the Japanese to defend Fort Kiba.

In the final analysis, this does not blame Akiyama Yoshiko's improper command, but should blame the Japanese government and the military department, if the commander of the "First Army" Oshima Yoshimasa agreed to Akiyama Yoshiko's suggestion and placed the main force on the front line of the Shahe River and Jinzhou in a position, then the squadron would not have killed Lushun City so quickly, so Akiyama Yoshigu would not have to face this dilemma.

Just as Akiyama was pondering who was responsible for this disastrous war, he suddenly heard the explosion of shells outside the headquarters.

The explosion of these shells sounded particularly dull, not like field artillery, but like the shells of heavy mortars equipped by the squadron.

The kind of heavy mortar had a short range, and it was impossible to hit the headquarters at all, so Akiyama Yoshiko was relieved, so he began to plan with his staff officers to attack the Chinese army task force in the south, and he had made up his mind that no matter what, he would first relieve his worries.

But before Akiyama Yoshiko and the staff officers could formulate a battle plan, a field phone at the headquarters suddenly rang, and a staff officer hurriedly went to answer the phone, and someone from the front line came out of the microphone

"China""Weird shells! , the position is lost! ”

Although he sat far away from the field telephone, Akiyama Yoshiko still heard the shouts of the front-line commander clearly, so he picked up the katana on the conference table, then stood up, walked out of the anti-artillery bunker, climbed the dirt slope at the top of the bunker, raised the binoculars, and looked at the position to the north.

In the northwest direction, on the first-line position near the sea side, there is artillery fire in the sky, and the artillery of the squadron is pouring fire on Naguo, but the difference is that the position there is not only black smoke, but also a strange yellow-green smoke, because there is no wind, the smoke on the entire position has not dispersed for a long time, and the scene is very strange.

Akiyama Yoshiko was very vigilant, and the staff officer brought a map of the distribution of the position, indicating the direction, which was the flank of the position that the front-line commander who had just reported to the headquarters by field telephone, and his main position was in the direction of the right flank of the position shrouded in yellow-green smoke.

This is just what Yoshiko Akiyama saw from the rear of the position as the supreme commander of the battlefield. In fact, the scene on the front line is even more terrifying, but Akiyama Yoshiko can't see it with his own eyes.

The only people who were able to witness the horrific scene on the front line were those Japanese army soldiers and officers who were within range of the Chinese artillery, and they not only witnessed the horrific shelling with their own eyes, but also experienced the tremendous lethality of the shelling, which was not only physiologically but also psychologically.

As a member of the Japanese trenches, Captain Matsui Ishine experienced the horror of this lethality.

After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, he interrupted his studies and joined the Japanese Army, served as a squadron leader, and was wounded in the war, after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Matsui Ishine returned to the Army University to continue his studies, and after graduation, he entered the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters as a member of the Chinese class, and was later transferred to Guangzhou, China, as a military attache in the consulate, and stayed in Guangzhou until the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War.

After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Matsui Ishine reported to his superiors and asked to join the war, and his request for war was approved, so Matsui Ishine boarded a Japanese merchant ship from Hong Kong and went to Dalian, where he joined the Kwantung Army and served as a squadron leader with the rank of infantry captain, although the position was very low, but Matsui Ishine was very excited, and he couldn't wait to give the Chinese a little color.

However, since arriving on the Liaodong Peninsula, Matsui Shigen realized that the Chinese Army was far more real than he imagined, and the Kwantung Army on the front line was defeated one after another, and he was guarding Dalian, but he could only stare dryly.

After Jinzhou was occupied by the squadron, Matsui Ishine led the troops to rush to the Qingnewa Railway Station to set up defenses, but only for one day, the Japanese defense line was broken through, and after receiving the order to retreat, Matsui Ishine hurriedly led the remnants to retreat to Fort Kiba, because it was a defeated army, they were arranged in the first-line position of Fort Kiba, ready to meet the first wave of attack of the first team.

Matsui Ishone never thought of it. The first wave of the squadron's attack turned out to be an attack he had never seen before.

The explosion of the shell that fell on the position of Matsui Ishine's troops was very powerful and almost could not directly kill the human body, but after the shell exploded, there was a strange smoke near the point where the shell landed, the smell was very pungent, the color was strange yellow-green, in addition to this shell, there was also a kind of shell, after the explosion also released a gas, but it had no color, it smelled a little like some kind of spice with a pungent smell, but once it was inhaled into the lungs, it immediately made people cough, and the more these gases were inhaled, The shorter the time for a person to lie down and roll, the more his eyes and respiratory tract stinged like fire, as if the whole person had fallen into a pool of acid, and it was useless to cover his mouth and nose, and those gases were everywhere, just like the poisonous mist released by the legendary monsters.

What frightened the Japanese soldiers even more was that this deadly gas was heavier than air, and once dispersed, it would gather low along the terrain, so the Japanese officers and soldiers hiding in the trenches suffered more severe damage.

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Now, Matsui Ishone's eyes were as painful as fire, and his lungs were so uncomfortable that he kept coughing, and the violent coughing made him almost breathless, and gradually, his lungs stinged like fire, and every time he breathed, it was like rubbing a whetstone, and the pain was unbearable, so he could only lie in the trench and roll back and forth, trying to call for help, but nothing else came out of his throat except for the roar of a beast.

Just as Matsui Ishone's consciousness was gradually blurred, he heard the sound of people running, and desperately opened his eyes, but what he saw was a man with a strange mask on his face, holding a rifle with a bayonet, wearing a military uniform, judging by the color of the uniform, it was obviously a Chinese infantryman.

The Chinese infantryman jumped into the trench and appeared as Captain Matsui Ishine, who was facing the sky on his back. When he was still in his breath today, he raised the rifle with the bayonet on it, aimed it at Matsui Ishone's chest, and stabbed it hard.

Matsui struggled, a whimpering howl coming out of his throat, and then he rolled his eyes and died.

The Chinese soldiers quickly tore off Matsui's epaulettes and ran down the trench to one side, just as more Chinese infantry jumped into the Japanese-defended trench, all wearing the same pig-faced gas masks.

This was the first poison gas warfare in the history of human warfare, and although it was extremely brutal, it was very efficient, and by the evening all the front-line positions held by the Japanese army had changed hands. , If you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the heart, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!