Chapter 159: Sarin Poison Gas (Four Watches, Ask for a Monthly Pass!) )
The power of the sarin gas bomb in later generations can make an area within a radius of 1.2 kilometers into a no-man's land, but now due to technical problems and other reasons, the power of the sarin gas bomb is at best a range of several hundred meters, but a sarin gas bomb within a range of two kilometers mentioned by Su Dao can definitely be called a supersaturated bombing.
Now that the air is blowing from the west, it can be said that as long as the sarin gas bomb takes advantage of the wind, it will not take long to fill the entire battlefield, and with the density of one in the range of two kilometers, it is estimated that not even an ant in the entire area will want to survive, because the density of the poison gas is enough to make it drill into every small space.
"Third child, is it really that miserable ahead? Even our guards are going to be transferred? A young corporal with a piece of grass in his mouth turned to a soldier who was carrying a cannonball as he adjusted the angle of the muzzle.
"Who knows, but I heard that the front line was poisoned by the little devils, and more than 7,000 brothers died in the 766th Division in the poison gas, and I heard that the military seat was shouting in the military headquarters to let the little devils return blood for blood and tooth for tooth." The young man, known as the third child, with a pair of senior rank on his collar, responded as he shoved a cannonball into the chamber.
"Seven thousand people lost? The total casualties in the whole battle should be more than 10,000, right? Damn, when has our 99th Army suffered such grievances since its founding? You have to fuck it back, or this fight will be too fucking a shit. The corporal was full of swear words and helped the third child stuff the shell into the chamber.
Of course, unlike in the past, when the soldiers of the 99th Army learned the news that the front line was attacked by gas bombs by the Kwantung Army, the first thing they thought of was not to run away or make trouble, but to think about how to get their face back, and this may be the only difference between the essence of the 99th Army and other troops.
"The latest news, the military department has informed that after the end of this campaign, a new welfare plan will be announced, and the soldiers killed in this battle will be implemented in accordance with the pension system in the new welfare." While the two were talking, an officer with the rank of captain ran to the position and shouted loudly, when Tang Pingyao came back just now, he called all the officers above the rank of captain away, mainly talking about these two things.
New benefits? After hearing this news, the entire artillery position was boiling, what kind of thing is the military seat going to do? The soldiers below were completely at a loss, and the commanders of the troops tried their best to deduct some military salaries, but the 99th Army was good, and the military salaries had never been deducted, and they were even higher than the military salaries of the Central Army.
At this time, a division-level unit of the Central Army had 12,000 people (11,500 soldiers, 500-600 officers. The monthly military salary is only 250,000 yuan, minus the necessary office expenses of about 10,000 yuan per month, which is converted into 8-12.5 yuan for each soldier, a total of 12-130,000 yuan per month, the captain and company commander are about 100,000 yuan per month, and the officers add up about 9-100,000 yuan, and basically 250,000 yuan after removing the food allowance and so on.
At present, the 99th Army implements a high military salary, and the number of people in a division is more than three times and less than four times that of the Central Army, but the number of military salaries is a full 1.5 million every month, and the monthly military salaries of newly enlisted soldiers start at 15 yuan, which is higher than that of the soldiers in the Central Army.
Fortunately, they don't know where Su Dao's money came from, in fact, Su Dao is also very poor now, and the money he got from fighting the local tyrants before is basically running out, and it won't be long before he can figure out the local tyrants again. The Ninety-ninth Army has traveled thousands of miles along the way, and the local tyrants alone don't know how many they have defeated, and the money is basically obtained from those local tyrants, and the other part is mainly obtained through Zhu Shaoliang and some warlords in China through the sale of medicines.
Of course, in order to prevent those warlords from hoarding a large amount of medicines and reselling them, everyone who wants to buy medicines must find Su Dao, and Su Dao sells them regularly and quotas according to the number of troops under their personal command, and does not say that I will give you as much medicine as you have.
But this money can only be used to maintain the normal expenses of the Ninety-ninth Army, and as Su Dao has gradually disappeared in the eyes of everyone in the past few months, there are not many people who can contact him, so in recent months, Su Dao has basically been gnawing at his old roots, and it is really not good to continue to bring this army if he doesn't hurry up to find a way to make some money.
"Company commander, what's the benefit? There is no leakage of any news on it? The third child walked forward with a smiling face and asked in a gossip style.
"While playing, don't you look at what time it is? It only said that the latest news would be announced after the battle, but I said the third child, you kid is okay and hurry up to move the shells, the military salary of eighteen yuan a month, if this is on the side of the Central Army, you are definitely the first soldier who can take eighteen yuan. The captain and company commander scolded with a smile, he could still laugh at this time, mainly because of another thing that Tang Pingyao said at the small meeting just now, if he didn't say that thing, it was estimated that he would be killed and he wouldn't be able to laugh.
"Company commander, is there a shortage of soldiers at the front? Why did you transfer all our guards? The corporal wasn't too worried about the salary, but he was curious about where their guards had gone, and there was no infantry protection on the artillery position.
"I only know that the guards didn't go to the front line, and the brigade seat said that they went on other missions, okay, let's fire the cannon quickly, don't let those little devils be proud for too long." As soon as the captain had said a word, he remembered the gag order at the brigade seat at the meeting, and he changed his tone instead.
At the same time, about five kilometers southeast of the artillery position, the number of troops here had increased since twenty minutes ago, and the people who had not gone out for several days because of the war looked through the cracks in the doors, but what they saw was only one soldier after another with steel guns in their hands, they were Chinese, and this could be seen from the military uniforms.
For those who have not been to school and have not seen anything on the market, as long as it is not the military uniform of the Kwantung Army, nor the military uniform of the puppet Manchurian army, it is basically equivalent to the soldiers of the Chinese army.
In the end, after the soldier specially explained that they should not go out, and that they were optimistic about children, they dared to be sure that it was really the Chinese army, they had been looking forward to the moment for a moment, and they didn't know how long they had been looking forward to it, and today finally waited for this moment, although they were forbidden to go out, but the villagers here still did it, because they thought too deeply about the motherland.
At the same time, two kilometers away, in a field, five 105-mm howitzers stood in a row with high barrels, about one or two hundred meters apart from each other, looking very powerful, they had been here for several days, because during the war, the people rarely went out, so no one has found them for the time being.
At this time, there were eight soldiers standing beside each artillery, and these eight soldiers were wearing uniform one-piece clothing, the kind that directly enveloped all the people, and each of them wore all-round gas masks, which looked very frightening, and if you had not seen them, you would definitely be frightened by their appearance.
As a flag bearer waved the yellow and red flags in his hand, the eight people entered their respective positions, and the gun commander with the flag in his hand ran directly to the side of the artillery, ensuring that the main and deputy gunners could see him, and then the bombardier, with the help of another soldier, carefully pulled away layer after layer of straw from a rectangular wooden box, and took out a strange-looking shell inside, a black warhead, but not as sharp as the usual warhead, which looked like a frightening feeling.
The bombardier carefully held the shell with both hands, and slowly moved towards the position of the artillery, which can make people laugh to death in other artillery units, and has never seen such a slow artillery, the artillerymen usually in order to speed up the firing, the bombardier is trotting all the way when transporting ammunition, which is like them, slowly swallowing.
The artillery was about 50 meters away from the ammunition storage point, and it took the bombardier a minute to deliver the shells to the artillery from the ammunition storage point, and at most more than 10 seconds at a distance of 50 meters for other troops. The loader carefully fed the shell into the chamber, and in the process the secondary gunner did not come to help, but the loader did it alone.
Due to the special nature of the unit, one of the eight soldiers was a gun commander, an observer, two chief and deputy gunners, an ammunition custodian, two bomb deliverers and one loader.
As the flag in the gun commander's hand fell, the main shooter's right foot lightly stepped on the firing pedal, and the cannon suddenly made a dull sound, and the shell in the barrel spun out at a lightning speed.
The artillery brigade artillery attack continues, if someone is careful to observe, you can hear these hundreds of artillery sounds, occasionally there will be a few dull explosions, although many people do not know why, but the air force in the sky can see clearly, there will be occasional bursts of pale yellow smoke on the ground, the air force in the air think that this is the Kwantung Army's poison gas bomb was detonated, so they didn't pay too much attention to these, just to report to the rear which area the news of the gas bomb was detonated.
But soon, the air force pilots noticed a strange sight, every two kilometers or so, there would be a burst of pale yellow smoke, and as the smoke rose, the surrounding Kwantung Army soldiers would inevitably fall to the ground and flip in pain, which seemed to have become a rule.
And what puzzled the air force pilots the most was that those Kwantung Army soldiers were obviously wearing gas masks, but under the yellow smoke, they still couldn't avoid the fate of being infected. (To be continued.) )