The emergency press conference issued by the political axe of the Republic overnight announced to the world the major incident of the large-scale use of poison gas by the Japanese army.

In response, the Republican Axe also announced that it would retain all possible means of war counterattack.

What is intriguing is that the Chinese political axe does not explain that the political axe used poison gas just to create a poison gas isolation belt, after all, from the level of the people's common sense and understanding, the role of poison gas is to kill the enemy on the battlefield, as for Yue himself may want to explain that he just wants to create a poison gas belt for the [***] team in isolation, maybe even he will not believe it.

In today's world, gas warfare is not uncommon. Even on the Soviet-German battlefields and the Far Eastern battlefield, poison gas warfare is even more common, but on large-scale battlefields, a small amount of poison gas is difficult to play a role in turning the situation, and large-scale aircraft sorties may not even fly over the Chinese-controlled areas and are shot down by the Chinese's extremely powerful air force.

In the Far East, poison gas bombs are often used in the form of artillery shells and airdrops from the front line to attack or recapture positions, delay the enemy's movements, create more wounded for the enemy, and can also play a strategic role.

Although the army's large-scale use of poison gas this time is not aimed at killing and injuring the [***] team, after all, it is much more difficult and may not be able to achieve the goal, but at least, the poison gas warfare barrier link in this plan has a strategic effect.

It's just that no matter how good he is at conspiracy and ruthless, it is difficult for him to think that his plan will be exposed in advance, so that the squadron will mobilize a large number of poison gas bombs to the front line, so as to treat others in his own way, create a new isolation belt, and completely prevent the Yue army from boarding the ship.

At this time, it was already 9:40 p.m., and more than an hour had passed since I used poison gas to block the attack of the [***] team.

In order to prevent the Chinese Air Force from discovering the abnormality and thus provoking the perverted high-intensity bombardment that does not distinguish between night and day, the Japanese army does not even dare to use lights and fires, and can only shine their flashlights on their work.

On the top of the mountain, in the darkness of the night, a group of senior generals of the Chinese army were looking at the direction of the dark sea.

"General Yamashita, the fleet just reported that they are only 30 minutes away from Vagnino."

A staff officer whispered from Yamashita Bongwen's side.

Yamashita Fengwen nodded, signaling that he understood, and then looked up at the pitch-black sea, where the hope of the Far Eastern army would come from.

As the supreme commander of the Far Eastern Battlefield, he did not lead the imperial team to win a decent war, but unwittingly fell into a situation of inevitable defeat under the wave of China's general offensive.

He had a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart, and he did not know whether the defeat on the battlefield was to blame on the strength of the Chinese, or on the incompetence of the Soviets, or on the carelessness and vacillation of the military department.

As the supreme commander of the Far East, Yamashita realized the seriousness of the problem soon after the launch of the general offensive in China, and China, which had concentrated an unprecedentedly large army, was likely to divide and encircle the Far Allied forces in one fell swoop. In an army with millions of troops, thousands of advanced tanks, thousands of fighter planes including jet planes, and more than 10,000 large-caliber artillery pieces, it is completely impractical to rely on less than 2 million troops to resist.

In the face of a super-large-scale war operation, and facing the extremely bad situation of a narrow battlefield and depth, if we do not decide to flee early, we should unite our allies and avoid falling into the tragic situation of being divided and cleaned up one by one.

However, the lack of smoothness in the command system of the Allied forces in the Far East, the faint estrangement between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviet army, which was weakened to the extreme, the US army, which was timidly fighting to preserve its strength, and the Chinese army, which was forced to take a remote corner, constituted a great contradiction.

The military department's high degree of control over the Far Eastern battlefield and remote command were another major reason for the defeat in the war.

Proceeding from the so-called strategic interests of the empire, the military department repeatedly changed orders, and most of these orders were proved to be wrong, and even some orders were clearly opposed when they were issued, but it was still difficult to disobey them.

Even if he was the supreme commander of the Far Eastern Battlefield, when the military headquarters ordered to sit and watch the tiger fight, the army he mobilized to support the Soviet army was only three divisions, which was the largest force he could urgently mobilize, although they were blocked by the blocking troops of the [***] team, and later when the military headquarters changed its decision and ordered to rush to help, the follow-up troops and the troops in front were blocked together, and the rescue of the Komsomolsk defense line finally became empty talk overnight.

As a general of the Great Empire, he knew that he would eventually take responsibility for the defeat of this war, and the military department would never be wrong, at least in front of the people.

Perhaps, what awaits him when he returns to Yuben will be the most ruthless trial, maybe even the death penalty, but he doesn't really care.

He, Yamashita Fengwen, may have been cold-blooded and ruthless, and he may have been very cruel to the enemy, but in the face of more than a million imperial soldiers, in the face of the entire Great Empire, he has his own fears.

"The fortune of the empire may not be as good as they imagined, and the greatest feeling I have about the war in the Far East is the strength of the Chinese, which is likely to be unstoppable even by the Americans." And for the Empire, the root of everything is that we are too close. Will the so-called counterattack on Europe and the concentration of the world's forces against China really occur......

Yamashita was very worried, even if the Allies could really succeed in counterattacking Europe, dismantle and eliminate the Nazi Alliance, and then concentrate their forces to force China, even if there was such a day, would it be possible to hold out until that time?

While he was pondering, a senior officer of the Yue Army walked up to him and whispered, "General, the plan for the separation zone has been carried out very smoothly, the squadron has been successfully blocked ten kilometers away, and our plan is already halfway successful. ”

"Really? I hope so! ”

Suddenly, Yamashita had a strange impulse, he longed for 30 minutes to pass immediately, and then watched the more than a million Japanese soldiers board the ship and return to China as quickly as possible.

Although this is just a delusion, judging from the distance of the evacuation of the Yue army and the ships used, it will take at least three to five days to remove all the Yue troops east of the separation zone near the sea! This is why the gas barrier only detonates one-third of the gas bombs, and in order to maintain the effect of gas isolation, it is necessary to continuously detonate the gas bombs in the next few days to form a continuous gas barrier.

In fact, the coastal area where Vanino is located is opposite Sakhalin, and as long as they land on this island, the Japanese army can quickly flee south, and then cross an exit in the Tatar Strait and return to Hokkaido, one of the four islands of Yuhon.

The reason why it only took a few days for more than one million troops to finish was that the Far East, where Vanino was located, was only more than 30 kilometers away from Sakhalin, which was a shorter voyage than the dozens of kilometers that the British and French troops had to retreat to, and the nearest place was even only a dozen kilometers of straits. However, it is precisely these more than ten kilometers of the strait that are densely monitored by the air force of the [***] team, and the air above this is also an area where air battles are very fierce, and the retreat route can only choose the relatively safe section of the strait.

The convoy departed from the direction of Hokkaido, and made a detour from the North Pacific Ocean east of Sakhalin Island to enter the Tatar Strait from the north, and then reached the Far East to receive the officers and men. Normally, these fleets do not dare to park in the small port of Sakhalin, otherwise they can be bombed and sunk more than a dozen times a day.

…… At this time, more than 20 front-line airfields in the Far East, responsible for assisting Unit 201 to carry out the poison gas anti-blocking operation, aircraft are ready, in addition to the huge number of bombers transporting poison gas bombs, there are also a large number of jet fighter groups, in order to ensure that the operation is foolproof, the escort group dispatched this time can ensure worry-free even during the day, when the air battle is the most intense, not to mention, the Allied air force at night has less time to dispatch, because they must fly from the southernmost part of Sakhalin Island or even from the direction of Hokkaido to participate in the battle, And it is not as easy to attack as the Chinese Air Force.

"Commander Huo, Commander Xu, the fleet is all ready, and the special operation of Unit 201 can start at any time."

An operational staff officer reported to Huo Weiguo and the commander of Unit 201, General Xu Geng.

"Lao Xu, don't worry, this time the Air Force dispatched are all absolute elites, and even all the Tianlong 2 jet fighters that can be called in the Far Eastern Theater are concentrated, and the night combat capability is very good, which is enough to protect the safety of the fleet.

According to the plan, the bombing of the airfield in the southern part of Sakhalin and the Hokkaido area to cover the operation would also be carried out at the same time, which would greatly contain the Allied night fighter group and ensure that the plan was foolproof. ”

Huo Weiguo assured Xu Geng again. The mission of Unit 201 may not be known to other generals, but he knows that this plan, which has so far been highly secret, is to keep all the troops in the Vanino area, so as to create conditions for their total annihilation in one fell swoop.

"Then Commander Laujo will finalize the order with me."

Admiral Xu Geng stood up, motioned to a major next to him to take a box, and opened it, and inside was a remote command authorization system often used by the confidential department of the National Defense Forces.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing, and the fighters of the Wehrmacht are about to be loaded with countless high-ranking poison gases to go to the sky above the army.

According to the plan, the Wehrmacht Air Force will assist Unit 201 in airdropping a total of about 1,500 tons of poison gas bombs, which will be completed in multiple batches, and at least two batches of 700 tons of poison gas will be completed before dawn, which is a relatively difficult task, even if the bomb load of the Wehrmacht bombers is very large, but compared with dropping a one-ton bomb, the effect of throwing a ton of poison gas bombs is much stronger.

(To be continued)