On the night of April 27, 1630, on the flagship gunboat 705 of the Second Fire Support Squadron of the First Fleet of the Baathist Navy, the chief gunner looked a little frightened as he watched the artillery soldiers carefully fill the cannons with shells marked with red skulls. [Full text reading]

He said to the gunners of the ship with such a little bit of fear: "Comrade Dongsheng, do you really want to use that thing?" ”

Powerful weapons always have a huge impact on people. This effect is not only directed at the attacked side, but if the power of the weapon is great enough, the attacker who uses the weapon will also have a great deal of fear against the weapon itself. Li Zhaoxu, the deputy gunner of the No. 705 gunboat, who had fully seen the power of the white phosphorus bomb, was reluctant to mention the name "white phosphorus bomb" directly because he knew the power of the white phosphorus bomb and was afraid of the power of the white phosphorus bomb.

In the case of the revival navy, the power of conventional shells loaded with high gunpowder and using smokeless gunpowder as a propellant may have become accustomed to them. Even some commonly used special shells, such as picric shells that had been used in the army, they didn't think that kind of shells were great.

However, both from the cautious point of view of the artillery soldiers and from the look of horror on the face of the deputy gunner, the power of this special shell painted with a red skull was enormous.

In the Baath Party, the pace of development of the military industry and the pace of development of the basic industry were equal. The development of the metal smelting industry not only brought high-quality barrels that could bear high boring pressure to the Baath Party, but also provided conditions for the development of the chemical industry of the Baath Party.

Hubei Province itself is relatively rich in phosphate rock resources, and the Baath Party, which attaches great importance to fertilizer production, will certainly not give up the mining and use of these phosphate rocks. The exploitation and use of phosphate rock allowed the Baath chemical industry to develop further. The appearance of white phosphorus shells was nothing more than one of the ordinary achievements of the development of the chemical industry of the Baath Party.

Zhao Dongsheng, the gunnery commander of the 705 gunboat, knew a little more than his deputy. At the party committee of the fleet, he himself once questioned the issue of the use of white phosphorus shells. However, it was clear that neither the general instructor of the second squad nor the fleet commander of the second squad felt that there was any problem in using the remaining white phosphorus shells, which were originally intended to be used exclusively against the Japanese and Koreans, in this mission.

The chief of staff of the fleet even directly said that the Jurchens are not Chinese, and the Jurchen people are not such radical words as the Chinese masses.

And the general instructor of the fleet also told Zhao Dongsheng from a very rational perspective, "Because the Eight Banners system of the Later Jin Jurchen is a system of integrating soldiers and the people, all the Jurchens are enemies of the Fuxing Army and are all benefit sharers of the policy of national oppression and national exploitation adopted by the Later Jin Nuzhen regime." ”

In the Baath Party, in the army and in any other department, the matter of political correctness is a very serious matter. Anyone who did not take a firm political stance and had an ambiguous attitude was basically sent to work or expelled from the party in the successive rectification movements. Even if there are a very few fish that slip through the net, the Discipline Inspection Committee and the Yama Lords of the Discipline Inspection Committee and the Suppression Committee will definitely find them to talk, and then they will go to study classes endlessly.

Unlike the other cadres of the fleet, the mother of Zhao Dongsheng, the gunnery commander of the 705 gunboat, was once a Buddhist. Although the sect was now banned by the Baath Party as an illegal religion because it preached the idea of the afterlife, Cho Dongsheng's mother no longer believed in this religion. But Zhao Dongsheng's experience when he was a child still made him seem to have a little more "compassion" than ordinary people.

There is no room for the party of feelings to survive in the revival party. In the army, which emphasizes discipline, a guy with a bit of feelings like Zhao Dongsheng actually belongs to a very small number of outliers.

Unlike his deputy, Li Zhaoxu, who was originally from a family of Tanka in Zhejiang, Li Zhaoxu was worried that the use of powerful white phosphorus bombs might injure army comrades who were on duty on the shore. And Zhao Dongsheng, who has a bit of religious feelings, feels that the use of white phosphorus bombs is a bit "hurtful to the peace of the world".

Therefore, when Zhao Dongsheng put forward the so-called "whether the use of white phosphorus bombs in China is a bit 'hurtful to the heavens'" at the party committee of the fleet. The Fleet Party Committee, which was originally designed to discuss and study the spirit of the new document, was turned into an ideological education meeting specifically aimed at Zhao Dongsheng's erroneous thinking in an instant.

The commander of the second squad, Han Yinghan, who had a big temper, said to Zhao Dongsheng with a mocking face: "When we shelled the North Korean official army with white phosphorus shells, you Zhao Dongsheng didn't say anything that hurt Tianhe, and when we shelled the Japanese Daimyo army with white phosphorus bombs, you Zhao Dongsheng didn't say anything that hurt Tianhe." What's the matter, this time we are going to use white phosphorus bombs to bombard the reactionary regime of the Houjin Jurchen, which adopted a policy of national exploitation and oppression, split the country and provoked ********, but you, Zhao Dongsheng, ran out and said something hurtful to the peace of the heavens. According to what you say, those Koreans and the people of the country are not very wronged, and they have no class hatred and national hatred with us Chinese. ”

Strange stories may be an effective means of relieving pressure on the navy that has been adrift at sea for a long time. Anyway, as soon as Han Yinghan said this, those staff officers, teaching directors and other guys from the second squad who participated in the meeting began to talk nonsense. One by one, they threw all kinds of strange words and crooked reasoning at Zhao Dongsheng. In the end, the general teacher came forward to speak.

He first emphasized the power of Zhao Dongsheng to speak at the party committee meeting, and then criticized the incorrect ridicule of everyone. In the end, however, he changed his tune and criticized Zhao Dongsheng, believing that Zhao Dongsheng's speech violated the materialist position of the Baath Party.

He said to Zhao Dongsheng at the time:

"What does it mean to hurt the heavens and harmony? What kind of day is heaven and what is called heaven and harmony? What is the basis for your words? What is the evidence? If you have evidence and evidence, just take it out and talk about it, and the party committee will not deprive you of the right to speak. ”

Zhao Dongsheng just said it in passing, he is also a person who has received a materialist education, and he can still correctly understand the view that the theories that cannot be falsified are nonsense. So naturally, after the general teaching asked, he was speechless.

The general teaching of the second squad is the kind of political work cadres trained by the Baath Party in batches, but his rich practical experience has allowed him to master a complete set of mature political work methods, so after seeing Zhao Dongsheng speechless, he did not grasp this problem and pull his pigtails. In order to complete the work smoothly, the general teacher ordered Zhao Dongsheng to write an examination and hand it to him, and conduct a written self-criticism of himself. This allowed Zhao Dongsheng to avoid the embarrassment of a very likely self-examination at the party committee.

However, Zhao Dongsheng also knew that this was just a matter of the party committee trying to avoid interference with the upcoming military operation. After the operation is over, I am afraid that I will still be unable to escape.

So when he heard his deputy, Li Zhaoxu, who was from the Tan family who he had always looked down on, ask about the use of white phosphorus bombs, he said to him with a cold face: "All actions are under command!" Don't you remember the three major disciplines! The higher-ups told us to use whatever shells we wanted! ”

Li Zhaoxu didn't know if his leader ate sea fish and ate bad stomach, so his temper was so weird. So after receiving a basin of cold water, he immediately left the leader who was steaming in anger and went to inspect the various gun emplacements.

On the night of April 27, 1630, with an order, the entire city of Gaizhou was set ablaze by a covering shelling by the Second Squadron of Fire Support of the First Fleet of the Baathist Navy.

From a distance, the entire Gaizhou City looks like a huge torch. Even the Provisional First Brigade and the Provisional Second Brigade of the First Army Corps of the Southern Liaoning Army of the Reconstruction Army, two kilometers away, seemed to be able to feel the hot power of this huge torch