Chapter 50 Skirmishes

"Whoosh ......"

After a loud explosion, the tall palm trees were blown away, and sawdust and dirt flew in all directions, smashing heads and faces from the air. More shells flew overwhelmed everything with a strong screech of the shells, followed by a deafening loud bang, and the loud explosions of the shells that came at them continued to boom, boom, boom.

The soldiers in the trenches dressed in yellow-colored uniforms heard the sound of "whooshing" in the air and hurriedly stuck their bodies in the trenches and buried their heads in them. Rows and rows of shells were exploding, the ground was shaking, and the sky was dusty. The trenches were filled with the smell of choking fire and smoke.

"Gas bombs are going to be used in the gas bombers...... Quickly put on gas masks, everyone has to wear gas masks"

In the trenches piled up with sandbags, every few minutes a sergeant or officer shouted to the soldiers, as soon as the soldiers in the trenches heard that they were going to use poison gas bombs, they immediately did not care that the shells were still falling, and hid in the trenches as if they were riding a small boat rocking on the sea, and hurriedly took out the gas mask from the iron barrel behind the belt and put it on their faces. Light machine guns sat in the trenches waiting for a gas attack.

In the past ten years, through the efforts of dozens of chemists, tear gas gas, vinyl chloride, arsenic chloride, and mustard gas, which are harmless to the human body, can be said to have the most complete varieties of poison gas in the whole Shijie.

During the Sino-Japanese conflict, the result of the massive use of poison gas was that on the one hand, poison gas became a new weapon that the first team scrambled to develop, and secondly, various anti-poison facilities were constantly developed, but this could not change the fact that the first squadron had the most abundant experience in the use of poison gas and protection experience, and in the same way, the army had also accumulated a complete set of poison gas use processes.

One of the processes is the wearing of gas masks by the front-line troops before firing gas shells, in order to avoid possible additional damage.

"It's good for these guys to fight wars, and it's good to use gas bombs when they fight."

In the trenches, the soldiers felt very uncomfortable huddled in low bunkers, squatting in bunkers with their rifles in their hands, and constantly cursing the artillerymen who fired gas bombs.

Since their landing, the artillery has been accustomed to using poison gas bombs, perhaps this is not unrelated to the special climate of the Middle East, the climate here is dry, most of the time the battlefield is either windless or breezy, it can be said that it is the most suitable battlefield environment for the use of poison gas bombs, and most of the Ottoman Turkish troops do not have gas masks, and the Turks as a counterattack poison gas and phosgene, in order to reduce the casualty rate commanders are naturally willing to use poison gas bombs.

"Whoosh-tom, whoosh-tom"

Large-caliber chemical shells are very different from ordinary shells in terms of the sound of breaking through the air or exploding, accompanied by the sound of "tom" shells that resemble the low roar of a locomotive, and several very slight explosions are heard in the distance, and then dozens of pale yellow "color" smoke slowly rises on the desert, and then seems to slowly spread around.

"War is like this, everyone can do whatever it takes to shengli, not to mention that if the Ottomans were more civilized, we wouldn't have come all the way here to teach these barbarians...... Damn, suffocate me"

The crowd around Shao Zhenhua just wanted to make fun of the enemy, but as soon as he said too much, he immediately felt that the oxygen was not enough, and the whole person felt panicked.

Most of Dasa belongs to the tropical desert climate, many areas of China in January are still enduring the severe cold of winter, cotton clothes, leather jackets are the choice of most Chinese in this cold winter wax moon, but in the desert of Dasa, the weather here is hot and breathless, in this hot and suffocating environment, wearing gas masks, naturally feel more stuffy, many people crowded in the trenches, not long time people sweat, suffocation of course will become more and more intense.

It is precisely because of this that they do not like gas bombs, and they would rather get on their bayonets and carry their rifles towards the Turks, and start "hand-to-hand" combat with guns and knives, rather than put on gas masks and endure the suffocation that can suffocate people. …,

Breathing air through a gas mask made of rubber, and when the air is inhaled through the living charcoal, it only makes me feel my heart pounding, my head dizzy, and people are about to suffocate, and it is so difficult to breathe in a breath of air at this time, how can I speak?

"Damn, I'm going to suffocate ......"

So the troops landed in Dasa Yijing for five days, as China's expeditionary force to participate in the Shijie War, the troops that took out their hands naturally could not be too bad, so the first corps of the Guards Army was the first to go to the battlefield as the vanguard of the expeditionary force, whether the corps or the corps level was only a temporary establishment in the Guards Army, the largest establishment of the Guards Army was a division, an army was usually composed of three infantry divisions with an artillery division, and the establishment of the corps was very flexible, which could be composed of corps or divisions. It's just that what is unexpected is that although the division he is in is only a new unit, it is still recruited into the expeditionary force.

However, he felt reassured that since the landing in Dassa, he did not seem to have encountered any strong enemies, and it is also true that the Turks only had a total of a few thousand troops in Dasa, and even the attacks of small Arab countries such as the Kingdom of Najd could not be stopped, let alone the powerful guards.

This was further evidenced by the effortless unhindered landing, which seemed to have met little resistance for the past five days, apart from a small Turkish counterattack.

Danshi's troops today encountered unprecedented resistance when marching, in this desert town, they could still be taken without any resistance as in the past, but the Turks guarding the town not only did not retreat, but used the lanes to fight a decent street battle with the six battalions, if it were not for the second and third companies while desperately "shooting" at the enemy with various weapons, while covering the retreat of the first company, maybe the first company of the advanced town would have been lost in this desert where birds don't.

After the attack was blocked, the 6th Battalion then began to dig fortifications on the spot, and built field fortifications in a very short time, and after 10 minutes, after getting in touch with the division headquarters, the 6th Battalion was taken by surprise and immediately called for a burst of artillery fire, regardless of the 3721 leading the artillery bombardment, blowing up the town inside and out, but the attack was still blocked.

The two attacks were blocked, and the battalion commander's face fell, so he called "special bombs", preparing to launch a counterattack after the special bomb attack, and then seize the town.

"Vinyl chloride chloride and arsenic gas are effective in half an hour......"

Looking at the town that was razed to the ground with a telescope, Wu Shijun's heart was calculating the time when the gas bomb would take effect, looking at his watch from time to time, and counting the time to attack.

Taking off his gas mask, Wang Ze took a deep breath, and at this moment the officers' whistles sounded.

"Upper bayonet...... Rush with me."

Before Wang Ze could take a few breaths of fresh air, he heard the company commander shouting beside him, and the friendly troops in the other trenches rushed out shouting. Wang Ze hurriedly stood up, put on his gas mask again, loaded his rifle with a bayonet, and almost unconsciously followed the captain towards the town that had been razed to the ground and covered in poison gas for half an hour. Everyone chanted the slogans they had shouted during the bayonet fighting training at the training camp.

"Rush-kill"

Charging makes people's blood boil, and for soldiers, charging is the most enjoyable release after the depression of life and death. Holding a rifle in his hand, the bayonet at the head of the gun was shooting against the sun, Wang Ze followed the platoon commander as fast as he could, rushing towards the town defended by the enemy, he felt that he had reached the fastest speed, but there were still people around him who overtook him from time to time and rushed forward, and when he charged, he only felt that his lungs seemed to be burning, even if he was breathing desperately, but the air was still not enough.

At this time, the bullets in the air flew overhead, and from time to time there were people running around them stumbling and falling, obviously the poison gas bomb did not take everyone's "sex" life, and the effect of vinyl chloride and arsenic chloride would not be so fast, but the resistance was very weak, and finally a group of wolf-like warriors rushed into the town that was still shrouded in poison gas.

Almost as soon as they rushed into the town, the soldiers rushed into the defenders' positions with their bayonet rifles in their blood-red eyes, stabbed them with bayonets, and the soldiers charging with submachine guns and light machine guns immediately seized the highest point and swept "fire" at the Turks. For a time, the battlefield was full of the screams of dying Turks who had been stabbed into the body with bayonets. Not only the screams but also the crying, and finally someone took the lead and fled. …,

Wang Ze, who met a Turkish soldier head-on, almost instinctively blocked the man's rifle, and then stabbed the bayonet into the man's "chest" with all his might, the man let out a desperate howl, the rifle was released from his hand, his hands waved weakly in the air, and a black and shiny black and shiny mass appeared in the khaki uniform in front of the "chest", and the black mass quickly became larger, and the red "color" blood seeped out of the khaki.

This is the blood of the enemy

Like him, they are all red and colored, and Wang Ze, who had some poets' "sexual" personality, will not have a trace of pity this time. The bayonet stabbed into the enemy's body as if it was stuck in the ribs, and pulled it back forcefully only dragged the enemy over, but did not pull out the bayonet, and while turning the gun hard, Wang Ze raised his left foot wearing military boots, stepped on the enemy's body fiercely, and then pulled out the bayonet that had been stabbed into the body.

At this time, Wang Ze's comrades-in-arms around him all rushed up, and he fell behind. Wang Ze walked up to the Turk who had been stabbed by himself, and crouched down curiously with his gun, wanting to see what the first enemy he killed looked like.

The enemies of the Confederates had often talked about them since Wang Ze had been forced to join the army, imagining what they looked like, and even before the battle just now, they were so far away from him, and now the mysterious, invisible enemy was lying at his feet.

This is a typical Turk, lying on the ground with cloudy eyes and staring blankly at the sky, the muscles and flesh of his face are very hideous because of extreme pain, his appearance is very similar to those Arabs seen in the landing town, and he is different from the white people, compared to the German professors in the university, these people have dark skin, the same big nose, this person has a short small beard on his lips, very thick, very dark. Blood was dripping from his mouth and nostrils.

"I killed someone, oh my god I became a murderer"

Looking at this unfamiliar face, Wang Ze suddenly felt an endless sadness in his heart. He felt like a murderer, his rifle slipped from his hand, and he cried weakly with his hands over his face, even though as a teenager, like many teenagers, looked forward to the day when he would be able to kill the enemy on the battlefield and serve his country.

But now that a living person was stabbed to death by him, and his body was at his feet, Wang Ze's heart was full of a strong sense of guilt. Maybe this man has a wife and children in his family, and his parents are looking forward to him coming home, but now he is dead at his hands, and he died without even leaving his surname. Will his family know about this sad news?

He suddenly had a feeling of deep disgust with himself.

As a soldier, he knew that maybe he shouldn't have thought about it at all, but he couldn't make himself want to open it up, after all, he had taken a life.

Finally, Wang Ze raised his head, he looked around, and could see that the brothers were cleaning up the battlefield, and not far away several brothers were playing with those Turkish soldiers.

"You must be hungry, come and eat the meat, eat the meat, eat the meat......"

It was Lee Eun-kwon, who was holding a box of canned "meat" in his hand.

The field food of the Guards was only canned pig "meat", which was obviously to "play" with these Turks, the Turks are Muslims, as we all know, Muslims do not eat pig "meat", but Danshi Lee Eun Ze was there with canned "meat", yin*, no, it should be "forced" to force them.

"Lee Eun Quan, if they don't eat, they will hit them until they eat"

A sergeant said with a smile as he smoked a cigarette.

"Don't let them think we're mistreating prisoners of war"

"These people ......"

With the idea that more is better than less, Wang Ze just shook his head, and then walked to the other side, he saw Xu Fulin standing next to a bombed earthen house, at this time, he and the other brothers Yijing took off their gas masks, obviously Yijing was not threatened by poison gas, standing there motionless, Wang Ze walked over curiously.

As he walked, he felt the heavy gas mask on his face, making it difficult for him to breathe. Wang Ze tore the gas mask off his face, took off the gas mask, and while breathing heavily, the air he inhaled was "mixed" with a large amount of fire "medicine", the bitter apricot smell that did not completely waft away, the strong smell of blood, the pungent smell of burning wood, and the unpleasant smell of burnt "meat".

What does it taste like?

Puzzled, he took another deep breath of the mixed air, and suddenly it dawned on him that the smell of burnt "meat" was the stench emanating from the burnt human "meat". …,

Just when he felt disgusted in his heart, the person walked to the side of the collapsed earthen house where Xu Fulin was standing, and then followed his line of sight, the vomiting feeling under the original pressure could no longer be bearable, the whole person only felt that his legs were weak, lying on the ground and vomiting, when he vomited the food he ate at noon, he raised his head again and looked at more than a dozen corpses in the earthen house, several of which were children, and even babies.

Obviously, these Arabs were not killed by them, they Yijing died for a long time, and their corpses Yijing was a little stinky, which made Wang Ze's heart feel more comfortable, if these people died in the previous shelling, I was afraid that the guilt in his heart would only be stronger.

"Is this war?"

Looking at those corpses, Wang Ze thought so in his heart.

"This is war"

Hearing the voice behind him, Wang Ze looked back, and at some point an officer wearing a Chinese-style military uniform and an Arab-style turban appeared beside him, fortunately, it was Chinese.

"For the past two years, the kingdom of Najd has been attacking Dasa, so for those Turks, Bedouin towns like this are the supporters of Najd, so the Turks will massacre the tribes that support Najd, the inhabitants are slaughtered, the "women" and "women" are defiled by "rape", the houses are set on fire, both living and dead. I have heard from many tribesmen here that the cruel penchant for Turkish ways of war shocked all of Arabia. For the first rule of war of the Arabs is that "women" and "women" are not to be blasphemed; The second is that the lives and honors of children who are too young to fight with the "Cheng" people should be forgiven; Property that is impossible to take away should be left undamaged. ”

When this officer, who didn't know when he came here, spoke, Wang Ze saw that there was some mockery on his face.

"But what about the Arabs' way of warfare? They will likewise kill all the men, and as for the 'women' and 'women', they must not be desecrated, that is against the same faith, if they are pagans or not, they will also desecrate, and as for the children who cannot fight against the 'Cheng', they will turn them into slaves of the tribe, and even be castrated,"

A mocking smile resurfaced on the officer's face.

"Whether it is for the Turks or the Arabs, the rules of war do not exist, compared to the Arab tribes, the Turks are still particular about the rules of war, at least they pay attention to certain rules of war on the battlefield, but the Arabs are different, there are no rules of war at all in their eyes, if one day, fight with such people, as a pagan, if you face difficulties, unless you are willing to be castrated......"

The officer's gaze glanced at Wang Ze's lower body, and Wang Ze's crotch was cold.

"Therefore, to fight with such people, it is necessary to respect their rules of war, for those desert tribes, words are not as sharp as knives, mercy is just a coward's choice, only the strong are respected here"

Stunned as he watched the strange officer leave, Wang Ze felt that his words were more like telling him what war was and what was ......

"Who is he?"

"Maybe it's someone from the Intelligence Agency."

Xu Fulin glanced at the man.

"I've heard that a lot of intelligence officers have arrived here."