Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the western part of central Kyushu, on the border between North Kyushu and South Kyushu. For geographical reasons, Kumamoto has been the political center of the Kyushu region since ancient times.

The excellent sea and airport near the Ariake Sea and the unique geographical advantages make Kumamoto convenient and economically prosperous. There is Mount Aso in the northeast of Kumamoto Prefecture and the volcano Kando (Yatsushiro Sea) in the southwest. Because of these two land volcanoes and sea volcanoes, there was a saying of "fire country" in ancient times. Kumamoto's local dialect has a word called "stubborn Ichitoru", which is said to encapsulate the personality of Kumamoto himself. The nature of the Fire Nation makes the locals particularly rebellious and critical. For example, the famous Amakusa Rebellion in modern Japanese history, and the Kamikaze Rebellion that emerged after the Meiji Restoration, were all provoked by Kuma himself.

Kumamoto is well known in China because of the Ming Division, the Sixth Division. Because it was formed and supplemented by Kumamoto Prefecture, it is often commonly referred to as the Kumamoto Division.

In 1937, after the war of aggression against China began, the Sixth Army Corps, under the leadership of its division commander Gu Shoufu, forcibly crossed the Yongding River and caused the Baoding and Zhengding massacres.

In the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, it was the 6th and 18th Divisions that landed in Hangzhou Bay, crossed the Huangpu River, cut off the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, and caused hundreds of thousands of elite troops in Chongqing to retreat, which later turned into a rout.

In the Battle of Nanjing, it was the Sixth Division that first broke through the Zhonghua Gate and created the Xiaguan Bloody Case.

"The corpse is washed by the waves like drifting logs; On the shore, the bodies piled up on top of each other stretched as far as the eye could see. These corpses could be thousands, tens of thousands, a lot of them. ”

This passage is excerpted from the diary of an officer of the 6th Division in Nanjing.

Subsequently, the Sixth Division participated in the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan, and in the face of the army in Chongqing, it won successive battles and was invincible, and the stubbornness and ferocity in Xiong's character were completely stimulated.

Until the Han declared war on Japan, and General Wang Yizhe commanded the Southern Group Army to land in Hong Kong, capture Guangzhou, and defeat the Japanese South China Front Army, the Sixth Division still arrogantly threatened to "go head-to-head" with the Han Royal Guards, as if it was the first army in the world.

However, in the Battle of Changsha, the 6th Division defending the northern front was attacked by the 15th Group Army in Chongqing, and the 1st Royal Guards Division of the Han Dynasty also completely annihilated the 3rd Tank Division of the Japanese Army on the southern front. In the Battle of Changsha, the Japanese army was defeated on both sides of the Allied forces, and the Sixth Division also retreated to Nanjing in a panic.

To this day, the 6th Division is still struggling to support the Songlu battlefield in China, but their hometown of Kumamoto Prefecture has been occupied by the Allies. After the Japanese defense line at Akina Town was breached, the Isu Army and the commander of the 3rd Nanyang Army Corps, which landed later, drove straight in, and the Japanese only put up effective resistance at Kagoshima City and Kawauchi Castle. It was thought that with popular support, dragging the Allies into brutal street fighting would greatly increase the casualties of the Allies. However, from the very beginning, the order of the commander-in-chief of the whole country was not to fight with the Japanese army in the streets, and all the places that were difficult to capture were to be called to the air force and incendiary bombs were solved. Where it can't be burned...... "You pig?" If you can't burn it, you can't change it? ”

The commander of the Third Army Corps of Nanyang, who went to ask for instructions, was scolded by the loudspeaker. After returning, the original simple commander of the Third Army, the Moro General Ma Jing, has fallen, and the black-hearted Muslims are even more terrible than demons. At the initiative of Ma Jing, the first chemical unit of the Han Dynasty was constructively established in the Nanyang Army. But there was no way to solve the equipment, and General Ma Jing, who had just been scolded, asked the headquarters for support again. This time, the national Lin had a good attitude and patted Ma Jing's shoulder, "There is a future!" ”

The commander-in-chief has a slip, and the logistics troops have opened the door of convenience, and the needs of the chemical troops of the Third Army Corps in Nanyang will be given priority supply. There were already a lot of gas masks to prevent the little devils from causing damage, but the Japanese artillery was destroyed at the first time, not to mention the planes! The devil has lost the ability to strike from a distance. With a stroke of his pen, the commander set up a 731 chemical military factory in Taiwan to specialize in the production of poison gas bombs. The name is a bit strange, it was given by His Majesty, and the level of His Majesty's name is ...... It's obvious to all, everyone is no longer surprised, 731 is 731, it's good to read and remember.

As a result, the Yizhou Army and the Third Army opened the way with tanks, and the incendiary bombs of the strategic bomber unit paved the carpet for them, and attacked the city and plundered the land with luxurious pomp and circumstance all the way, killing all sides. Occasionally, after a few days of delay, it was also the Nanyang natives of the Third Army who had itchy hands and plundered everywhere and caused a lot of harm. This is the privilege given by His Majesty to the Nanyang Legion, if such a thing happens in the 13th Legion of the Han Dynasty, it is a violation of discipline and will be investigated by military law, but the Nanyang Legion is not among them, as long as the battle is brave, other aspects can be appropriately relaxed.

His Majesty's words are so, but when it comes to the commander of the specific execution, this appropriate relaxation becomes "three days of looting for attacking a place, and five days of happiness for slaughtering a city."

"Your Majesty prefers monkeys!" Looking at the monkeys burning, killing, raping and plundering, and doing all the bad things, some soldiers of the Yizhou Legion said this sourly. However, Han commanders at all levels were strictly forbidden to participate in these activities, and every time they went to the city, the imperial army was stationed in the suburbs early, and the work in the city was left to the Nanyang Legion.

For such an arrangement of the military department, smart people have seen something. But this is a war in a foreign country, and it is normal for anything to happen, maybe Your Majesty can't tolerate the corruption of the military discipline of the native army!

The most brutal battle took place in Kumamoto. At the same time that the Ishu Army captured Takamori and joined up with the friendly forces that landed at Miyazaki, the Nanyang 3rd Army launched an attack on Kumamoto.

Garrisoned here is the 132nd Division of the Japanese Army, the war has been fought until now, the internal organization of the Japanese army has long been chaotic, after Ugaki took over the defense of Kyushu, its subordinate units were reorganized, the 132nd Division is one of the new divisions formed in Kumamoto, and before it can be deployed to Kagoshima, the Allies have successfully landed.

Ugaki then ordered the 132nd Division to be stationed directly in Kumamoto, presumably guarding his hometown, they can find stronger combat power, right?

And that's exactly what happened.

Relying on the superiority in the number of troops and artillery, the Third Army fought quite boldly in the battle for positions outside Kumamoto Castle, and the battalion and company level assaults after the artillery fire was suppressed. The Japanese 132nd Division relied on civil fortifications to resist desperately, but in the face of the Nanyang Army, which was several times its size, one defense line after another was broken through.

After the brutal training of the veterans of the Mosu Legion, the natives of the Nanyang Legion have now learned to behave, they are not blindly charging and brute, the group covers the assault and the squad and platoon level firepower cooperation, this set of tactics The natives play quite slippery. The Japanese army, which lacked heavy firepower, although just as brave, was far from their big brother the Sixth Division in terms of marksmanship and tactical literacy. In just two days, the Third Army broke through Kumamoto's outer defenses and pressed into the castle.

The Japanese could be beaten so badly, and the Third Army fought independently, without the assistance of the Yizhou Army. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, the junior officers of the natives were also quite accomplished, and even a little complacent, saying things like "the Japanese are just like that".

Dreams are always plump, reality is always skinny. After entering the city, the Nanyang Ninth Army of the Three Army Corps was immediately attacked head-on. Most of the soldiers of the 132nd Division of the Japanese Army were out of Kumamoto Castle, and every street and even every house here was extremely familiar to them, and even the place where they played for their childhood. The 132nd Division, which entered the street battle mode in group mode, immediately burst out with powerful combat power.

Every time the Nanyang Ninth Army took a step forward, they had to face bullets fired from nowhere, especially if they were left alone, they would be attacked by Japanese civilians. With bows and arrows, javelins, and even kitchen knives and sticks, the Ninth Army, which was proud and invincible before entering the castle, was caught in the sea of people's war in Kumamoto Castle, and was like a small wooden boat sunk in the waves. Before nightfall, the Ninth Army of Nanyang, which suffered heavy losses, withdrew from Kumamoto Castle in embarrassment.

After General Ma Jing learned about the situation, he immediately ordered the artillery brigade directly under the corps to bombard Kumamoto Castle indiscriminately. The intermittent shelling continued until dawn. The street fighting of the Ninth Army was unfavorable, and General Ma Jing was replaced by the Tenth Army. To his disappointment, the Tenth Army, having fought only a few more blocks than the Ninth Army, was still forced to withdraw from the city by the afternoon, and its commander's report to Ma Jing was that he felt that the Japanese were fighting more and more.

Hell yes! General Ma Jing, who had never experienced the People's War, disagreed, "I haven't heard that the army can fight more and more!" ”

General Ma Jing, who did not believe in evil, ordered the artillery to continue the shelling that night. At midnight, a battalion-sized howitzer unit secretly joined the shelling team. Although the artillerymen of this battalion were also wearing the grass green uniforms of the Nanyang Army, their heads were tightly wrapped in a large shield, and a tube was inserted into the gas cylinder behind their noses.

Many indigenous artillerymen approached the onlookers curiously, but were warned to leave immediately, otherwise they would bear the consequences. Later, a gendarmerie in the same costume came to clear the field.

The next day, the indigenous soldiers who had only left after the clearance gave the gendarmes cigarettes and other gifts to thank them for saving their lives.

That's right, this special artillery battalion is the first chemical unit formed by Commander Ma Jing, their howitzer is nothing special, the same is a 105 mm military-grade howitzer, but the shell is not filled with explosives, but a chemical agent - mustard gas, is a light yellow or colorless liquid erosive agent, inhalation of vapor or fog damage to the upper respiratory tract, high concentrations can cause lung damage, severe damage is manifested as necrotizing inflammation of the throat, trachea, bronchial mucosa.

Mustard gas was discovered in 1822 by the German Desprétz. In 1886, another German, Meyer, synthesized pure mustard gas for the first time, which was first used by the German army in World War I. In the early days of the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army also used it many times, causing a large number of Chinese soldiers and civilians to die.

Now, it's Japan's turn to taste mustard gas. Japanese people love seafood, and mustard gas is somewhat similar to the taste of wasabi, so they should enjoy it.

The chemical units of the 3rd Army prepared a total of 4,000 mustard gas shells for Kumamoto Castle, but only 2,700 were fired, and the sudden strong wind before dawn forced the shelling to stop. But 2,700 were enough to cover most of Kumamoto Castle, and the city was filled with the wails of the Japanese, whose howls of pain were not like human movements, but like the roar of a cow, because the respiratory tract and vocal cords were damaged by the poisonous gas. The poison gas also caused corneal ulceration, and the Japanese soldiers in the outdoor positions inhaled the poison gas the most, and the unbearable pain caused them to scratch their eyes and scratch their throats. Some soldiers who were tortured to the point of madness shot their weapons indiscriminately, and the entire fire country once again ignited a "fire", not a flame, but the fire of madness and destruction of Xiong himself.