The Japanese army and the ROK army had only about 150,000 troops in total, and they were attacked by the Huaxia Army with two chemical weapons, more than 70,000 people lost their combat effectiveness, and more than 10,000 people were killed.

What is even more difficult is that most of the 70,000 Japanese soldiers who have lost their combat effectiveness are blind in their eyes and do not even have the ability to live on their own, so someone must take care of them, so they have to pay a large number of medical personnel, and the ratio of military doctors and nurses in the Japanese army is not high, and now it is even more stretched, and the Japanese army has no choice but to gather all Japanese women in Mukden City to serve as temporary nurses.

Seeing the appearance of the troops, Nogi Noshinori was anxious, and immediately sent a telegram to the Japanese army stationed in South Korea and the Russian army stationed in the northeast asking for help.

The Japanese troops stationed in Korea had already prepared their troops and supplies, but the Fengyi Railway was sabotaged by Huaxia agents, and Yiju was bombed by the Monkey King's airship.

Since the first bombing of Yizhou, the Monkey King airship has carried out uninterrupted bombing of Yizhou, every day and every night there are bombs falling in the city from time to time, the railway station is the key bombing object, many workers at Yizhou railway station are Koreans, they have not been brainwashed by the Japanese army, they cherish their lives very much, see the Huaxia army bombing the railway station, have quit their jobs.

Railway workers are also considered to be skilled jobs, and doing this is not like mining in a mine, just coolies, so they cannot be forced by means of slavery, and the Japanese army can only watch their vacancies unfilled.

The operation of the Euiju station was extremely difficult, all of which made it difficult to transport troops, so the Japanese troops stationed in Korea could not come to support them in a short time.

After all, the Japanese army has just fought with them, let them rescue their enemies, they will inevitably have resistance, the Russian army does not understand the truth of cold lips and teeth, not to mention that they have the outer northeast as the rear, and they are confident that the Chinese army will not dare to attack them.

The reinforcements of the Japanese army stationed in South Korea and the Russian army stationed in the northeast could not catch up for a while, and Nogi Noshinori was facing the difficulty of insufficient troops, and the 60-kilometer perimeter defense line, 150,000 people stationed was not much, and now the strength of the troops has been sharply reduced to 70,000, and it is no longer possible to hold the position, and Nogi Noshinori has only one way, that is, to increase the troops.

There were more than 60,000 Japanese civilians in Mukden City, most of them workers, technicians and family members, men between the ages of 13 and 50, about 30,000.

Despite this, the number was still too small, so the Japanese army conscripted women between the ages of 15 and 40 into the army, and cobbled together another 20,000 men.

The Japanese army still had a shortage of 40,000 people that could not be filled, so Nogi Noshinori ordered his subordinates to recruit soldiers among the Qing people, but Nogi Noshinori only dared to "recruit" and did not dare to "forcibly conscript", because they did not believe in the Qing people, once the Qing people were shot, what should they do if they defected?

There are more than 200,000 Qing people in Fengtian, but few of them have joined the Japanese army, and fools understand that the Japanese army must have insufficient troops to recruit troops on such a large scale, and it will be over, who will run to be a traitor at this time, and the matter of the yellow gas bomb of the Huaxia Army was also known to the people of the Qing country, and the people of the Qing country had no one to apply.

Nogi Noshinori recruited 50,000 male and female civilians, and pieced together the number of troops to 120,000, and the defensive position was barely enough, but Nogi Noshinori didn't expect that bigger problems would follow.

Because the combat effectiveness of female soldiers is not as good as that of male soldiers, the Japanese army did not dare to put them alone on the position, so they mixed them with male soldiers and stationed them on the position together, which gave male soldiers the opportunity to have fun.

The relatives of the female soldiers were also pulled into the army, and when they learned that their wives, sisters and daughters had been bullied, they were furious, and they found the Japanese soldiers who did the things of the beasts to settle accounts, and often fought hard, and even used guns to kill people, which made the Japanese army disheartened and unmotivated.

These things were trivial matters, and what really dampened the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was that the Japanese army still did not know the details of chemical weapons and did not know how to protect them, and the Japanese soldiers muttered in private: "If you see the mysterious yellow gas, just run away." "The Japanese army, which was not afraid of death, was also frightened by the chemical weapons of the Huaxia Army.

The Huaxia Army did not use chemical weapons again after using them twice, not because the Huaxia Army was humane, but because the Huaxia Army used up all the chemical weapons, and although the lethality of mustard gas was strong, it was not easy to manufacture, and the output was quite low, and the focus of Huaxia's military industrial production was not on chemical weapons, so the chemical weapons were wiped out in the two battles.

On May 1, 1901, the Huaxia Army continued to attack the Japanese positions, and although the Huaxia Army did not have chemical weapons, the Huaxia Army fired ordinary smoke bombs as chemical bombs.

The plundering artillery chariots fired shells as before, and the shells exploded in front of the trenches, raising puffs of thick yellow smoke and drifting towards the Japanese positions, frightening the Japanese soldiers to flee with screams, and the predatory artillery chariots immediately strafed with machine guns behind them, and the infantry also fired, and the HP-2 75mm howitzers and HP-3 105mm howitzers in the distance followed suit, and the Japanese soldiers were quickly knocked down in large areas.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, more than a dozen modified Marauding artillery chariots rushed to the edge of the trench, and these Mardden artillery chariots were equipped with bulldozers in front of the hull, known as "bulldozer artillery chariots".

The bulldozer blades of the bulldozer are filled with sandbags, and when they get close to the trench, they will dump the sandbags, and then dozens of soldiers jump down the trench and pile up two slopes with sandbags, with the help of which the plundering artillery chariot can rush down the trench and rush up again.

If the Japanese trench death squad was still there, the slope would be extremely difficult, and the Huaxia army would need to pay considerable casualties to pile up the slope, but the Japanese trench death squad was scared away by the smoke screen, and the Huaxia army quickly piled up the slope, and the invading artillery and chariots rushed through the trench.

As for the infantry, who accompanied the charge of the artillery chariots of the plunder, a ladder was set up on the edge of the trench and passed directly from the ladder.

Behind the trench were Japanese minefields and special barbed wire, but the marauding artillery and infantry did not penetrate the minefields and barbed wire, because they found the trenches and the communication trenches in the trenches behind.

If the Japanese army did not escape, they would have guarded the communication trench to the death, preventing the invading artillery chariots and the infantry of the Huaxia Army from passing, but now the Japanese army had fled without a trace, and the Huaxia Army smoothly entered the trench from the communication trench, leaving the minefield and barbed wire behind it, and began to attack the second line of defense of the Japanese army.

The fortifications of the second line of defense of the Japanese army were much simpler than the first, only deep trenches, and the Japanese soldiers of the second line of defense were also frightened by chemical bombs, and fled one after another, and Fengtian City was exposed in front of the Huaxia army.

Nogi Noshinori in the city heard that the Japanese soldiers had retreated one after another, and the Huaxia army had approached the city of Fengtian, his face was bruised with anger, and his whole body trembled, and it took a while for his mood to calm down, and he said in a deep voice: "Order all troops to immediately approach the Huaxia army that broke through the defense line and encircle and annihilate it." ”

"General, never!" A clear voice came, Nogi Noshinori followed the sound and looked, only to see that the voice came from a young man, the young man looked only in his thirties, but he had already hung up the rank of Dazuo, the Japanese military ranks are divided into second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, junior lieutenant, lieutenant general, major general, lieutenant general, general, in the Japanese army that is extremely particular about seniority, it takes a lot of time to climb up the first level, and it must be forty or fifty years old to climb to Dazuo, and Dazuo in his thirties is extremely rare.

The identity of this young man is very mysterious, except for Nogi Noshinori, no one knows his details, and Nogi Noshinori trusts him very much, and will take him with him wherever he goes.

It turned out that this young man, named "Kengawa Yasunosuke", was the commander of Japan's future artillery chariot unit, and this kind of thing was still too novel for the Japanese army, and the older guys couldn't play it, so they were handed over to the young man, Kenkawa Yasunosuke came to the Mukden battlefield this time, mainly to inspect the use of the main artillery chariot.

Nogi Noshinori asked in a deep voice, "Why not?" ”

"General, if our troops still have an advantage, there is no problem at all, but we no longer have an advantage in our troops, if we surround the surrounding troops, then the other troops of the Huaxia Army will take advantage of the weakness to enter, and when the time comes, our Fengtian will face attacks from many sides, and we will definitely not be able to hold it."

Nogi Noshinori said helplessly: "Of course I know, but the Huaxia army that attacked has invaded artillery and chariots, and we can't stop them if we don't transfer our troops over to besiege them." ”

Kengawa Yasunosuke sighed lightly and said, "General, with all due respect, what we need to do now is to retreat as soon as possible, Mukden, it can no longer be defended." ”

Kengawa Yasunosuke actually said what everyone wanted to say but didn't dare to say, and the staff officers and officers of the command headquarters persuaded Nogi Noshinori one after another: "General, Kengawa Yasunosuke Daisa is right, Fengtian really can't hold it, while our current forces are still intact, let's retreat immediately." ”

Nogi Noshinori was silent for a long time, when he was silent, there was a violent explosion on the city wall, it was the invasion of artillery chariots bombarding the city wall with high-explosive grenades, the city wall of Fengtian was built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it has a history of more than two hundred years, it was bombarded by a cannonball, and the broken bricks fell down in a hurry, and basically a cannon could blow up a hole.

Nogi Noshinori sighed heavily, reached out and slapped it heavily on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, order the troops, all retreat." ”