660: The fall of the Seventy-seventh Division
One by one, the white bayonets turned into a blood-red color, and then turned dark red again, and some places at the roots even formed blood slag, and the soldiers could only endure the earth-shaking stomachs one by one, and continued to walk on the battlefield, stabbing the bayonets into the enemy's body again and again, and shooting bullets into the enemy's body one after another. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The soldiers' bodies were already red with blood at this time, with some dark yellow pus, and the smell of garlic was still very choking, but fortunately, they had relatively complete defense measures, so they didn't smell the smell outside.
The thick smell of garlic, the smell of fresh blood, and some I don't know what it was, a variety of flavors mixed together and flooded the entire battlefield.
The soldiers still overestimated their own receptivity, even though they had experienced actual combat on the battlefield many times before, but this time, when they stepped onto the battlefield, there was a feeling of restlessness in their hearts, and as the distance into the battlefield became deeper and deeper, this feeling became much stronger.
The appearance of the battlefield is like entering hell, scratching your limbs, gouging out your eyeballs, piercing your throat, and all kinds of corpses are endless here, and you will never imagine what the next corpse waiting for you will look like.
But even so, the fighters still keep their heads up and chests, even if they want to vomit, they will never bend down, or squat down, even if they are uncomfortable, they will keep their heads as far away from the ground as possible.
The density of mustard gas is lower than that of air, which means that the closer to the ground, the greater the density of mustard gas, especially in some crevices, such as brick joints and soil cracks, where mustard gas is definitely the most poisonous place on the entire battlefield.
Strange scenes also began to appear on the battlefield, but all the fallen Japanese soldiers would soon die, while the standing Japanese soldiers could live longer, and the Japanese troops who were higher than the ground, even if they fell to the ground, as long as the height exceeded the Japanese troops on the ground, then these fallen Japanese soldiers would live longer than the Japanese troops on the ground.
But the Japanese don't know about it, and they don't even know what kind of poison they have been poisoned in. However, at this moment, there are only a few Japanese troops standing on the battlefield, and none of them are unaffected.
After a night of fermentation, the mustard gas directly took away half of the Japanese army, and the next morning, the remaining Japanese troops were basically in a state of severe poisoning.
In just one morning, four infantry regiments had already swept the entire city of Kagoshima, and there was not a single living creature left on the battlefield. Whether it is a corpse or a wounded, they can only die in the end by bayonets, or by bullets.
Nearly 20,000 Japanese soldiers and thousands of Japanese civilians were all killed, which was the easiest battle the Chinese Empire had fought in years, but it was also the least easy.
In the eyes of others, the 51st Division was able to solve a Japanese division and regiment with zero casualties, just going around the battlefield, and it was also the annihilation of the entire system, not only that, but the entire 77th Division of the Japanese Army was completely wiped out, and all the soldiers and officers of the entire division were killed.
All the officers, the commander's bushido were also captured, and the military flag, which symbolized the highest glory of the 77th Division, was also captured intact by the 51st Division, the wing flag of the whole four wings. (Note: Only formed infantry wings and cavalry wings are eligible to award military flags, which is the reason for the name of the wing flag.) )
In order to cultivate the sense of honor and responsibility of its soldiers, Japan has even done a completely new trick in an ingenious way.
In the past, the Navy always liked to say that the ship was in the people, and the ship was dead. The Army likes to say that people are in position. These slogans, which represent the vast number of soldiers, have become a very empty and ethereal verbal slogan in the Japanese army.
Japan's practice is that the military flag is in the establishment, and when the military flag is dead, the establishment is dead.
Only combat units above the wing level of the Japanese army are eligible to be awarded military flags, and these military flags are personally handed over to the wing commander by the Japanese emperor, so the military flag also symbolizes the existence of the emperor.
In every wing of the Japanese army, there will be a flag protection team, and the flag guard team must be the best second lieutenant officer in the entire wing, and the soldiers under its banner must also be the best soldiers in the entire wing.
According to the regulations of the Japanese army, when the troops won a big victory, the flag guard team needed to hold the wing flag high and walk with their heads held high, and when the battle was defeated, the military flag should be burned.
But the significance of burning the military flag is not trivial, once the military flag is gone, it means that the entire army does not exist, and there is no possibility of rebuilding it in the future. This is another strange phenomenon in Japan's military regulations, a wing with brilliant military achievements, even if they did not lose a person, but they lost the military flag, then this wing must be disbanded, and must be expelled from the military department.
And the soldiers in the army are either transferred to other wings to serve, or transferred to the reserves, but no matter where they go, they will not be welcomed, because they can't even see their own wing flags, how can this be reassuring?
And the other company, even if the entire wing has been wiped out, but the flag team ran out with the wing flag, and there is only one flag guard team left in the entire wing, so it doesn't matter, as long as the military flag is still there, as long as the rear conditions allow, this wing will be rebuilt immediately.
This time, the four wings of the 77th Division of the Japanese Army died of severe poison before they could burn their flags, and in the end they did not even have the strength to burn them.
The 51st Division easily captured the flag of these four wings of the Japanese army, namely the 63rd Wing, the 154th Wing, the 157th Wing, and the 177th Wing.
Although these four wings were made up of new recruits, they received the flag presentation ceremony of the Japanese emperor, and although they did not complete the recruit training, they were also members of the Japanese regular army.
There was a small episode when the flag was captured, and the captured soldiers felt that the ears of wheat around the flag were a little impractical, although they looked very good, but there were a lot of gaps in the middle of the ears of wheat, and if they left with this ear of wheat, they would also bring out the poison after they got outside.
So the soldier tore off the ears of wheat outside, threw the flagpole there, and left there with only the Rising Sun Flag with the name of the wing written on it in the lower right corner, and ran to ask for merit in high spirits.
But when the news was uploaded to the battalion commander, it was the battalion commander who was so angry that he couldn't pull out the whip and beat that guy hard. The Rising Sun Flag, which he regarded as the flag of the Japanese army, was actually a big road goods, and it was a lot of things.
And the ears of wheat and flagpoles that he threw away, that was the real wing flag of the Japanese army, the angry battalion commander directly led people to the location where the wing flag was found, and then put away the unseemly wing flag that had been damaged.
And the soldier who thinks he has made a great contribution, at this moment he is like a child who has made a mistake, standing aside with his head secretly bowed, under the gas mask, no one knows what he is thinking.
Near 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the first unit came out of the poison field, along a pre-determined passage, and after leaving the drug field two or three kilometers away, this unit finally met the troops of a battalion that had come to meet them.
The battalion was dressed exactly like them, but the equipment was very different from theirs, such as the weapons that had been turned into water pipes and gasoline drums.
The soldiers lined up in a long line, threw weapons, magazines, unused bullets, grenades, etc. into a large pit, and then approached the disinfection area. The gasoline canister was filled with water boiled with plant ash, and the gray-black water was sprayed on the soldiers' bodies through the water pipe, from top to bottom, including every crevice.
After completing the first part, they move on to the next one, where equally dressed warriors are waiting for them, and sharp scissors slash through them, cutting through the outermost layer of clothing, and then tearing it off and throwing it into a new pit.
About a kilometer behind, there is another disinfection area, dressed the same as the previous one, except that when you get here, you can take off the middle layer of clothing again, and then you can go to the third disinfection area.
When leaving the third disinfection area, the soldiers were naked, and a short distance further on, there was a disinfection center that was urgently established, which had a total of five links, and after such a complete set of disinfection, they had to observe here for at least twenty-four hours.
If there is no abnormality within 24 hours, then it means that he is not poisoned, and if there are red spots on his body, then the situation is not optimistic.
In the past, when encountering such a situation, there was only one way, to make an opening in the place where the erythema is located, and then release the blood inside, and then suture, disinfect, and observe.
If there is no other erythema within 24 hours, then it can be transferred to the observation stage, which generally takes half a month, and after half a month, if there are no symptoms, then you can leave, if you have symptoms, you need to repeat the first step.
In short, once you are poisoned by mustard gas, the following days will definitely be miserable, not only the pain during treatment, but also the pain caused by the poison gas itself.
Of course, in the third disinfection area, before entering the disinfection center, the soldiers will be thoroughly inspected to ensure that there are no red spots on their bodies, and then they will be allowed to enter the disinfection center, and if they appear, they will need to be disposed of separately.