If the Praetorian Guard is the son of Emperor Li Yongji, then the secret army is the most favored son, which can be called the pro-army of the pro-army.

Generally speaking, no matter what kind of army or what establishment, the Praetorian Guard will have a common symbol, that is, the moon-white plum blossom logo, which is Li Yongji's family emblem, representing the royal family, and using this mark, it means that it is a royal army.

Relatively speaking, the general symbol of the Wehrmacht is the five-star red flag, without plum blossoms, which is quite different from the Praetorian Guard.

Therefore, if you want to distinguish between the Praetorian Guard and the Wehrmacht, you should not look at their outfits and weapons, but mainly look at their markings.

The moon white plum mark and the five-star red flag mark are already widely known, but there is another kind of army mark that is not widely known, and only a few people have seen it, that is, the secret army.

As long as it is of a top-secret nature, the troops that only obey the command of Li Yongji alone belong to the secret forces, such as the Flying Dragon Special Combat Team, the Hidden Dragon Special Combat Team, and the White Dawn International Column. And among these various secret troops, although the symbols are different because of their different natures, they all have the same common identification mark, that is, black plum blossoms.

That's right, the black plum mark, this is the same style as the moon white plum mark, but the color is completely reversed, with the pure black black plum blossom as the mark of the special troops, as long as it is the army wearing this mark, then it means that this is the emperor's secret army, with independent executive power, not subject to any laws and regulations.

Although it is nominally directly under the emperor, it only means that the emperor is only responsible for the transfer of one person, but the management, training and maintenance of peacetime are still in charge of the General Staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so what is the approximate composition of this army, how many types of troops there are, and what is the combat effect. Not only Li Yongji himself is very clear, but Zhou Shengjun, who is also the chief of the Operations Staff Department of the General Staff, is also very clear.

Of course, as the price of knowing this, Zhou Shengjun's daily life is strictly controlled, he can only eat and live in the General Staff, and he can't go out alone at will, he has to go out alone, he must report to the emperor in advance, the emperor approves it, and then go out surrounded by a large number of CIA security guards and many staff officers.

Do so. In addition to ensuring its safety, there is also the intention of strictly controlling the other party, after all, Zhou Shengjun knows too much, once he escapes, the damage to the empire will be very great.

However, Zhou Shengjun didn't mind much about this, because if he ignored the little bit of unfreedom, his life would still be quite good, after all, the treatment was very good. I don't know how many times better than my previous life.

In addition to having a worry-free life, Zhou Shengjun also had a lot of power, although he was nominally only the head of the operational staff office, because he could mobilize all the military operations of the entire empire. As far as military power is concerned, it can be said that it is the third in command in the country.

How is it the third in command? It's very simple, this first leader is naturally the emperor's majesty, and the second in command. is Yin Susu, the head of the Internal Affairs Office and the queen of the empire, and the remaining third in command is Zhou Shengjun.

Strictly speaking. Zhou Shengjun does not have a high military rank, but his current position is a bit like a cabinet member of the Ming Dynasty, nominally just a staff officer of the staff department to assist the emperor or empress in formulating battle plans, but because the master is too good, so after a long time, his master's secretary will also be bullish.

In other words, no matter how many tricks Li Yongji does in military and political affairs, and how many departments he makes, but in a country dominated by this rule, the amount of power does not depend entirely on your official position, but also on your intimacy with real power figures, and in an autocratic imperial country, the key to a person's power depends on whether the emperor favors you or not.

is like Zhou Shengjun, who was originally just an ordinary staff officer on duty, but because he responded appropriately and appropriately in front of the monarch several times, and at the same time his personality was neither humble nor arrogant, and he was likable, so he was promoted to the director of the Operations Staff Office, and originally just let him be responsible for processing the military information gathered from various places and formulating the battle plan for dealing with it.

Later, when Yin Susu was the head of the Internal Affairs Office and the chief of the General Staff, because he was not familiar with military affairs, many things relied on this Zhou Shengjun, which slowly and slowly, the Operational Staff Office also changed from a simple department to a department that made combat plans, and gradually became a department with real power second only to the general chief.

However, just like at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, because the outside world does not know much, Zhou Shengjun's power actually comes from the emperor, and his own authority has not yet been established, more like the secretary of the imperial family or the Qincha, it is by virtue of the emperor's favor that he has great power, once he falls out of favor, the power will fall rapidly, and in this regard, there is a clear difference from other official positions at all levels that are officially written into the law.

In other words, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Minister of Defense, the Commander of the Military Region, and so on, are all serious official positions, and the powers and obligations are written in the form of law. This is a great righteousness, even if the emperor is suddenly gone, because there are provisions of the law, these official positions are still valid, and everyone will still follow them.

But Zhou Shengjun is different, he is only a division-level officer on the surface, and the Operations Staff Office is only a division-level unit in name, and the powers and obligations are not written into the law, to put it bluntly, it is a temporary institution set up by the emperor by his own authority, and it is completely dependent on the emperor for existence, and in this regard, he is even inferior to the CIA.

You must know that although the CIA is also directly subordinate to the emperor, the powers of the CIA are also written into the law.

In other words, the privilege of the CIA comes from two aspects, on the one hand, it is naturally the exclusive favor of the emperor, and on the other hand, it comes from the laws of the country, and the privilege of the CIA, which is independent of the judiciary, is a privilege granted by the laws of the country.

In any case, it is precisely because of this uniqueness that Zhou Shengjun attaches great importance to the emperor's will, and for his own powerful position, he also serves the emperor wholeheartedly, and as for other people's orders, he completely ignores them. deliberately turned himself into the emperor's sole minister.

Of course, he also got a considerable reward for doing this, and some secret and private military operations that were inconvenient to disclose to the outside world were all handed over to him by Li Yongji, just like poison. Due to the special nature of the plan, the combat operation of the Qi attack could only be handed over to Zhou Shengjun to deal with personally.

Actually, the so-called poison. The gas troops, too, have appeared recently, of course, externally. This unit is nominally only the guard unit of a chemical pesticide research institute in base 110, and since the number of this research institute is 741, this research chemical unit is also called Unit 741.

A long time ago, Li Yongji thought about establishing a poison . The gas force mainly wanted to be used on the heads of the Russians, and for this reason, he also asked Zhang Xinda to find a way.

But when Zhang Xinda actually asked, he didn't know that even in modern society, he wanted to engage in drugs. Anger is also a nuisance. This is different from ordinary arms, it is a very sensitive matter, and if one is not done well, Zhang Xinda will be regarded as supporting the terrorist elements. Then they joined forces to extinguish.

Therefore, in the end, Zhang Xinda never got a ready-made modern poison for Li Yongji. gas, but put the relevant poison. The technical information of Qi was passed on to Li Yongji and asked him to figure it out by himself.

Li Yongji is also as good as a stream. I found a group of people to set up a research group to study this, but in order to hide it. It was deliberately set up as a chemical pesticide research institute, claiming to be researching chemical pesticides such as pesticides.

As early as half a year ago, these people had already produced mustard * * gas according to the records of technical data, but at the beginning the production of the quantity was too small, and could only be produced and synthesized in the real room, and the products produced could only be used for experiments, and could not be made into weapons, so there was not much actual combat value.

Later, by the time Li Yongji inspected the 110 base last time, this 741 unit had been able to achieve large-scale industrial preparation, and had successfully produced mustard * * air fried. ammunition, which already has real combat value.

Except for mustard. Child. In addition to gas weapons, CS tear gas weapons can also be prepared in large quantities, and what is even more surprising is that they actually perfected the mustard * gas weapons at the same time, but also successfully produced dichlorvos, a broad-spectrum insecticide, which is truly worthy of the name of the Chemical Pesticide Research Institute.

In any case, the successful trial production of mustard * * gas and tear gas allowed Li Yongji to finally master a big killing weapon, although it has not been tested by personnel, but after testing with animals such as pigs, cows, sheep and even monkeys, the effect is remarkable, and it is considered a very effective chemical weapon.

At the beginning, Li Yongji originally wanted to bring this weapon to the United States first and use it in the American Civil War, but this time, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty was so difficult to handle, it was not bad to use it on them first and accumulate combat experience.

Lee Yong-gil does not think of use-oriented. There was no problem with learning weapons to deal with the Manchus, because he believed that the ultimate purpose of these weapons was to kill people, and since it was impossible to forcibly capture the few fortresses of the Qing army in a short period of time, it was not a good idea to try chemical weapons.

In this era, even the most powerful fortress has not yet learned how to prevent the attack of chemical weapons, and against the Manchus, even if it is not necessary. Child. Gas weapons, just using tear gas, I believe the effect can also be quite good.

Of course, in order to adapt his troops to the chemical attack, Li Yongji specially ordered more than 30,000 gas masks from Hyundai, and if he wore this, he believed that it would be much easier to attack the Qing army that suffered from the chemical attack.

However, unlike in the past, this time Li Yongji did not fully and directly intervene, but let Zhou Shengjun be fully responsible, and let him be fully responsible for the debut of Unit 741, the main purpose of this is to train Zhou Shengjun and let him have the ability to handle operations independently, so that when Li Yongji goes to the United States, Zhou Shengjun can control the domestic army for himself.

It was in this situation that Zhou Shengjun took an airship and came directly from Nanjing to the 110 base, and specially watched the situation of Unit 741.

The airship that Zhou Shengjun is riding on is a small passenger-carrying airship that belongs to the Feitian series. One of the distinctive features of this series of airships is that they are all locally assembled.

That is to say, the main components of the Feitian series airships, including engines, helium cylinders, airship airbags, etc., are purchased from modern society, but in modern society, they are all purchased parts, and the specific assembly is completed locally, and local skilled workers are also used. Even some of the components that are not very important are produced locally.

In other words, the Feitian series airship is an assembled airship with its own brand and processed by incoming parts, and its main purpose is to carry passengers.

However, due to the limited production of the Feitian series of airships, and the fact that flying is still dangerous and subject to many restrictions, this airship is currently only a military patent. It is not completely open to the private sector, but according to the plan, after the airship with more self-made parts is produced, especially after it can produce a large amount of helium by itself, the civil aviation field will be gradually liberalized, so that the airship will officially enter the civilian era.

Gossip aside, the airship that Zhou Shengjun took this time was Feitian No. 6, which belonged to a ninety percent boutique assembled with modern parts. With a maximum speed of 100 km/h and a capacity of up to 12 people, it is also a pretty good airship.

All airship units are currently under the direct management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition to special forces in the empire, only important ministers can ride, so Zhou Shengjun took an airship to the 110 base, which in itself shows that his status is special.

However, Zhou Shengjun did not feel particularly honored about this. Because he had ridden the airship more than once or twice, he had long been used to it, so he rushed to Unit 741 this time. He did not greet each other and immediately began to inspect the actual combat results of this unit.

After some inspection, Zhou Shengjun was quite satisfied, especially mustard. Child. Explode. Bounce, the effect is remarkable, although the real object is just some monkeys and the like, but he still looks thrilling.

"I wonder if the chief is satisfied with the results?" Ouyang Yun, the commander of Unit 741, who was wearing a white coat, asked Zhou Shengjun with a smile.

"Very good." Glancing at the dead body of the monkey inside the glass wall again, Zhou Shengjun nodded, and turned his head to look at the smiling Ouyang Yun, "How many of these bombs are there here. Play? ”

"Although we are already working on full production, the output is still not very high." Ouyang Yun said, "This kind of bombing like the one that was opened in the glass room today. At present, we have produced a total of 1,200 pieces, and on average, we can only produce 3 pieces a day. Of course, this is mainly due to the lack of manpower and equipment, and we need to do other research, if we are provided with enough equipment and manpower, the production capacity will be greatly increased. ”

"Only 1,200 of them." Zhou Shengjun nodded, "Every chemical bomb. Are the bullets all the same? ”

"Yes, the proportions are all the same, so the effect is all the same." Ouyang Yundao.

"That's right." Zhou Shengjun touched his chin, "Although the number is a little small, it is just to fight Liaoyang, and it seems that it is barely enough." ”

"What, you want to use this to fight Liaoyang?" Ouyang Yun asked, "Are you going to throw it in Liaoyang City?" ”

"That's not what you're supposed to ask." Zhou Shengjun frowned.

"Of course I have to ask." Ouyang Yun raised his voice and said, "As you can see, this kind of thing is an indiscriminate attack, and it is subject to many restrictions, such as wind power, etc., if you want to hit the city at will, it will kill and injure many innocent people." But at the beginning, His Majesty Xià said, this is mainly used to deal with foreign devils, you can't use these against us Chinese! No, I'm going to call Majesty, and I'm going to ask Majesty in person if he meant it! ”

"Lord Ouyang, don't be impatient." Seeing the other party's sudden excitement, Zhou Shengjun had no choice but to persuade him, "Actually, I came this time, and I really received the emperor's name, otherwise, how dare I come over to transfer your soldiers?" I have a holy decree, and you don't see it! ”

"Hmph, that's because the Holy God has a lot of opportunities and doesn't know the danger of this thing, so he was deceived by you." Ouyang Yun said, "In short, if you want to use it against foreigners, I don't care, but if you use it against us Chinese, then it will definitely not work." ”

"No, no, no, you really misunderstood, my lord." Zhou Shengjun said, "Actually, I do want to use this in Liaoyang, which is indeed the meaning of His Majesty." However, I can guarantee that there is not a single common man in Liaoyang City now, all of them are Qing troops, and they are all Manchus and Mongols, and there are no Han Chinese. ”

"Really?" Ouyang Yun said suspiciously.

"I'm the chief of the combat staff office, I can't lie to you." Zhou Shengjun pretended to be disdainful and said, "Let me tell you the truth, in order to stop our army, the Qing army has long been mad and turned Liaoyang into a fortress, not to mention, in order to facilitate defense, but also forcibly moved the Han people in the city, in order to be afraid of the Han people making trouble in the war." Now, this fortress has caused a lot of casualties to our army, so His Majesty thought of you. Therefore, we use this to deal with the mad Manchu lackeys, not to kill and injure the people, and His Majesty is compassionate. How could it be possible to do such an unwise thing. ”

"This ...... That's right. Ouyang Yun nodded, "However, I still have to call and ask His Majesty ......."

"I said Lord Ouyang." Zhou Shengjun frowned, "Why are you so ignorant?" Your Majesty is now a great opportunity, and the queen is pregnant again, don't you think it will cause your majesty's unhappiness to disturb your majesty at this time? The key for us to be courtiers is to share the worries of the Lord, not to ask for instructions on everything, otherwise. What else do you want us to do? ”

"But it's a big deal......

"Lord Ouyang." Zhou Shengjun accentuated his voice, then clenched his fists and arched his hand in the direction of Nanjing, and then continued, "I came here on a special order by the emperor, there are holy decrees, official documents, complete procedures, and they are all stamped with the emperor's seal. According to the rules, you should be in my moderation. Listen to my orders, and you should not pass me to report to the emperor.

Now if you don't listen to me, you have to report to the emperor past me, it doesn't matter if you don't trust me. It would be wrong not to trust the Holy One. If everyone is like you, who doesn't read official documents or listen to holy decrees, and has to call the emperor directly for everything, then are there any rules? Do you want the royal law?

I can say that. Actually, I can force you to obey, if you have doubts, you have concerns. You can appeal afterwards, but before that, in the face of His Majesty's decree and the official documents of the General Staff, you must unconditionally carry it out, otherwise, I can punish you for disobedience at any time, do you understand what I say? ”

“…… Yes, Lord Chow. Ouyang Yun stopped talking, which was a tacit acquiescence to this fact.

After such intimidation, Zhou Shengjun finally mastered this chemical special operations force with the holy decree and the official document of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Learn. Military. After the power of the weapon, Zhou Shengjun quickly formulated an offensive plan based on the characteristics of this weapon, and prepared to implement it as quickly as possible in order to live up to the trust of His Majesty the Emperor.

In just three days, Zhou Shengjun personally selected a group of backbones of Unit 741, and then in the name of the General Staff, he mobilized 3 large combined cargo airships and 12 Feitian-type airships, carrying a group of personnel and supplies, and flew directly to Liaoyang City.

As for the 1,200 mustards. Child. Gas. Explode. There were also 2,000 rounds of CS tear gas, all of which were transported to Jiaxing Port by guò carriage, and then transported to Yingkou by guò cargo ship.

The reason why this batch was not transported directly by airship. Learn. The weapons were because of safety factors, because Zhou Shengjun felt that these weapons were too ferocious, and he was afraid that if the airship had problems in the air, such as an explosion or something, and then fall below and cause damage, he chose the way of shipping.

Although the method of shipping is slower, it is better to be safe, even if there is an accident on the road, it can be dealt with in time, unlike airships, in case of accidents, there is no time to remedy.

In this way, in a hurry, it took ten days for this batch of chemical weapons to be transported to the temporary military port of Yingkou, and then these weapons were transported to the periphery of the camp of the Second Route Army outside Liaoyang City by means of transportation such as guò mules and horses, where the airship troops had been waiting for a long time.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of the battle, Zhou Shengjun personally led people to the outside of Liaoyang City, and after arriving here, he observed the weather, and finally started a formal chemical operation on the third night of arriving outside Liaoyang City.

The arrival of the airship troops has already caused an uproar, but the airships themselves cannot frighten the Qing army in Liaoyang, so the main purpose of these airships here is to carry out bombing.

At three o'clock in the morning, all 15 airships equipped with night vision devices were all equipped with mustard. Child. Gas. Explode. The bombs lifted off and flew directly towards Liaoyang City, and after flying over Liaoyang City, these airships reduced their engine power and began to descend slowly.

It was only when they were only 300 meters away from Liaoyang City that these airships dropped chemical bombs like beer barrels one after another.

That's right, just throw it, because due to technical problems, these bombs can't be made into shells, so they can only be made into large bombs like beer kegs, and then thrown directly by airdrop.

In order to get the most out of the battle, these kegs are made into two kicks, which means that they are divided into two parts, the lower half is the fuse and explosives, and the upper half is mustard. Child. gas as well as explosives.

When used, these bombs have parachutes, which land slowly, and once they land on the ground, they trigger the trigger fuse, which causes the lower part to explode. Eject the upper part out and let the mustard. Child. The gas explodes in the air about 3 meters above the ground, spreading the gas to the maximum extent.

Just in case, in addition to triggering the fuse, it is also equipped with a delay fuse, and in case the triggering fuse does not work, the delay fuse will also detonate at the end, allowing the upper half of the gas bomb to explode in mid-air.

Even, in case the ejection mechanism in the lower half does not work, the body inside the gas bomb also has a time-delay fuse. It will automatically detonate for a certain period of time, and although it is not as effective as exploding in mid-air, it still has a good killing effect.

All in all, these bombs have taken all kinds of possibilities into account, although it still cannot be ruled out that there will be some duds, but they can't bear a lot, more than a thousand bombs are dropped, and the effect is very good.

The weather was also good on this day, not much wind. Moreover, the sky was full of dark clouds and the night was dark, although the explosion of these bombs still alarmed the Qing army below, but they had no way to deal with this chemical weapon. On the contrary, the more you shout, the faster you will die.

These airships were thrown back and forth three times in this way to collect 600 mustards. Child. Air frying. After the bullet was thrown, after. It was not until seven o'clock in the morning, when the sky began to lighten, that the five thousand specially selected tentative troops, who had put on gas masks in advance, cautiously approached the city wall. After finding that the other party did not fight back, he cautiously began to climb the city wall with a ladder.

During the whole process, Liaoyang City was as quiet as death, and no one came out to resist, which was very different from the previous situation.

After waiting for the 5,000 people to continue to climb the wall cautiously, they suddenly found that the city was full of people, but they were lying in a piece, and after a little observation, they found that all of them were dead!

Moreover, most of these dead people are clutching their necks, and many of them have blisters on their faces and hands, and they look miserable at first glance, and most of them have a look of horror and pain on their faces, and it is estimated that they have gone through a rather difficult stage before they die, and they died after being tortured.

Although the death was horrific, it was good that these 5,000 people had been vaccinated in advance and received some education, so they probably knew that it was because of mustard. Child. Because of the anger, although there are still some scalp numbness, they still move forward step by step.

In the end, they opened the city gate smoothly, and searched carefully in the city, and finally found that the entire Liaoyang City had become a dead city, and even if some were still alive, they were just surviving and dying soon.

This situation also frightened the senior officers of the Second Route Northern Expeditionary Army outside the city, even if the people of Unit 741 said that after such a long time, the poisonous gas had long since dissipated, and it was no problem to enter the city, they still did not dare to bring troops into the city.

In the end, three days later, the Second Route Northern Expeditionary Army did not enter Liaoyang City, but only left the previous 5,000 troops wearing gas masks to defend the city and dispose of the corpses in the city, and the other large troops all went around the city and killed directly in Fengtian City.

Of course, for most of the ordinary soldiers, because they did not participate in the attack, they did not know what was going on in Liaoyang City, and the version they knew was the version that the propagandists told them, that is, the defenders of Liaoyang City were poisoned and overturned by Neiying, and now they have all become prisoners and have been escorted to other places.

Although many people are skeptical of this story, after all, most ordinary officers and soldiers have not seen the inside story of Liaoyang City with their own eyes, so this matter is concealed, and as for the 5,000 people, they are officially full-time and have become an authentic chemical unit.

In this way, in this time and space, the first large-scale chemical operation in human history quietly came to power and ended quietly in such a way, except for a few people, most people did not know what was happening, even in the history books, the results of the battle of Liaoyang were also recorded on the heads of those unknown Neiying, and were regarded as the second Trojan horse.

That is to say, although it is incredible, this battle of Liaoyang, on the surface, seems to be a normal internal siege of the city, a kind of strategic seizure of the city, not many people thought that it was a poison. Gas combat.

Moreover, this matter was not included in the national archives and was not seen in writing, so there is no such thing as zài decryption, so even in later generations, the world does not know much about this matter, and still regards the battle of Liaoyang as a victory in the spy war, and based on this, a series of stunned spy war films have been created.

Only a very small number of people who participated in the memoirs written in their later years at that time, after they were circulated on the market, let people know a little bit of the truth, but the subtle truth could not occupy the mainstream at all, and was criticized by later generations of scholars and various experts and scholars, but they did not know that it was these few conspiracy theorists who really told the truth.

In short, the Liaoyang fortress that the Qing court painstakingly managed fell so easily, not because of the spies, but because of the victory of chemistry. (To be continued......)