In the temporary headquarters of the Third Guards Army of the First Line of Defense of the Imperial Chinese Army in the Ural Mountains, the commanders of the 4 field armies couldn't help but laugh when they heard Ni Fan's words, but the laughter of the 4 commanders was not a mockery, if the battle pattern continued in the previous 7 days, maybe it could really be relied on with the first line of defense in the Ural Mountains to exhaust the 5-nation alliance of Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and Turkey with more than 7 million troops.

In the previous 7 days of offensive and defensive battles, the Third Guards, the Third Field Army, the Fourth Field Army, the Ninth Field Army and the Tenth Field Army of the Imperial Chinese Army had a combined casualty of less than 40,000 casualties, but the five main forces of their five main forces eliminated at least more than one million of the five-nation coalition troops, and the difference in the battle loss ratio between the two sides was very alarming.

Deng Zichao, the commander of the Third Field Army, said with a smile: "If our five main forces wipe out millions of coalition troops, the commanders of the second and third lines of defense and the reserve will only be able to stare dryly!" ”

"That's good! It's a big deal, a few of us, after this battle, invite the other 12 to have a big meal! Hu Desheng, commander of the Fourth Field Army, said with a smile.

The Imperial Army of the Chinese Empire gathered 17 main armies on the front line of the Ural Mountains, in addition to the 5 main armies of the first line of defense, the second line of defense, the third line of defense and reserves, and 12 main armies were waiting for them.

Yu Lichen, commander of the Ninth Field Army, said at this time: "If the five-nation alliance forces of Germany, Russia, Italy, Austria and Turkey continue to attack our first line of defense in such a strong way, it is really impossible to say that relying on our five main forces will take the more than 7 million troops of the coalition army into a spoonful." But I'm afraid that the 5-nation coalition won't be so stupid, and that they won't give up attacking our defenses here in the Urals. ”

Ni Fan said indifferently: "Russian Tsar Nicholas II tried his best to regain the Russian lands east of the Ural Mountains. German Emperor Wilhelm II also for this war, almost took out the vast majority of the strength of the German Army, gathered on the front line of the Ural Mountains, these two countries have made such great efforts, it is absolutely impossible to end the attack on our Ural Mountains defense line in such a hurry, that is, the German, Russian, Italian, Austrian, and Turkish 5-nation coalition forces really can't attack our Ural Mountains defense line, and I expect that it will have to be after the German-Russian-Italian-Austrian-Turkish 5-nation coalition army loses another 2 or 3 million. ”

Ni Fan expects the coalition forces to continue the offensive. It was still very accurate, on the evening of May 2, that is, after the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire stopped bombing. The German, Russian, Italian, Austrian, and Turkish forces still launched a full-scale attack on the first line of defense of the Imperial Chinese Army in the Ural Mountains, and the Russian Army and the German Army each captured a small forward position of the Imperial Chinese Army, and then the Russian Army and the German Army gathered heavy troops to them, wanting to hold these two small positions after dawn. Even the Italian Army, the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Ottoman Imperial Turkish Army. Some armored units were also sent into the captured 2 small positions to help the Russian Army and the German Army jointly resist the counterattack of the Chinese Imperial Army.

Unfortunately, before 8 o'clock in the morning of May 3, a small piece of the position of the Imperial Chinese Army occupied by the Russian Army and the German Army was once again recaptured by the counterattack forces of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.

With the Chinese Imperial positions occupied last night were not saved. In the underground headquarters of the 5-nation coalition in the city of Zwutoust, the face of the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Hindenburg, became even more gloomy. The faces of the commanders of the four national armies, including the commander of the Russian army Sonokopsky, the commander of the Italian army, Hannaved, the commander of the Austro-Hungarian army, Gloria, and the commander of the Ottoman Turkish Imperial Army, Bajirja, were also ugly.

In order to keep the positions of the two small pieces of the Chinese Imperial Army that were captured again at night, the German, Russian, Italian, Austrian, and Turkish allied forces even used their strength to feed, and on the two small positions occupied, more than 50,000 troops were deployed each, as well as a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, but they still did not stop the Chinese Imperial Army with air support.

You must know that on the night of May 2, the five nations coalition seized two small pieces of the forward positions of the imperial Chinese army are not large, and more than 50,000 troops are deployed on one of them, and the number of coalition forces per unit area is very amazing.

However, in order to hold these two small positions, the commanders of the coalition forces knew that after dawn, the bombing of the Chinese Imperial Air Force would bring great casualties to the coalition troops in these two small positions, and they still gritted their teeth and ordered more than 100,000 troops to hold the positions that the two small positions had been difficult to occupy.

But in this way, not long after dawn, the two occupied positions still did not hold, and the coalition troops guarding these two small positions suffered shocking losses, and basically not many of the coalition officers and soldiers who held the two small positions could escape back to the coalition's own forward positions, which made the five coalition commanders feel distressed and frustrated.

The distressing thing is that in the attack last night, the army units of the five countries lost at least 250,000 troops, of which the number of dead and missing must be more than 200,000, and the frustration is that last night's attack and this morning's perseverance, the five countries coalition forces have used their strength to eat, and the result is still a feather in the feathers, and the five coalition commanders really don't know how to fight this battle!

The commander of the Italian Army, Hannaverde, saw the other four commanders who were silent, and said with a long sigh: "After last night's attack and this morning's defense, I can see that it is basically impossible for us to overcome the three lines of defense of the Chinese Imperial Army in the Ural Mountains with the strong attack at night, I think ...... Do we suggest that the domestic defense line of the Chinese Empire should be temporarily ended and planned for the future? ”

Russian Army Commander Sonokopsky snorted coldly and said: "We must not stop this attack on the defense line of the Ural Mountains of the Chinese Imperial Army, and now Britain, France, and the United States have withdrawn from this war." The Japanese Navy has just suffered heavy losses, and now the hope of turning the tide of this war is on us. Our five countries have gone all out to mobilize heavy troops to gather here, and if we give up here, then this war, our five countries will not be able to continue, which many people do not want to see and will not agree. Our Tsarist Majesty of the Russian Empire would not have agreed, and I believe that the German Emperor was not willing to let this battle go. And so it ended hastily. ”

The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Hindenburg, nodded with a sigh and said: "Our Majesty Wilhelm II of Germany will never agree to us ending this battle like this, and the defeat of this battle is almost equal to the defeat of this war." ”

The commander of the Italian army, Hannaverd, said with a wry smile: "I am also not willing to end the attack on the defense line of the Chinese Imperial Army in the Ural Mountains like this. But with the attack we added last night, we have been attacking for eight days, regardless of casualties, and the army forces of all countries have suffered very heavy losses, and the Russian army alone has lost more than a million troops. And such a large casualty. But it can't get any results, and if we continue to fight like this, no matter how many troops our 5-nation coalition army has, it will not be enough to consume it like this! ”

After a pause, Hannaved continued: "Unless we can have other tactics, we can only rely on such a strong attack, with all due respect, our five-nation alliance army will be exhausted, and it will not overcome the defense line of the Chinese Imperial Army in the Ural Mountains." ”

Hannawade finished. Hindenburg and Sonokokowski looked at each other with a look of helplessness and frustration. What Hannawade said was all the truth, but if they stopped attacking the defense line of the Chinese Empire, their Tsar Majesty and the German Emperor would definitely eat the two of them alive.

The commander of the Ottoman Turkish Imperial Army, Bajirya, who was on the side, hesitated for a moment and said, "Since we have almost no way out now, can we consider using poison gas against the troops of the Chinese Empire?" ”

"Gas!" Hearing Bajirya's words, the commander of the Russian Army, Sonokopsky, slapped his thigh, stood up excitedly and said: "That's right! How did I not think of poison gas! We can use poison gas to attack the armies of the Chinese Empire, and our Russian army has stockpiled some chemical shells filled with chlorine and phosgene near the city of Zwutoust, and perhaps these poison gas bombs are the key to opening the door to victory for our 5-nation coalition army! ”

Hindenburg shook his head and said: "If we could use poison gas bombs, our coalition forces would have used them a long time ago, first of all, the army of the Chinese Empire occupies the advantage of artillery fire, it is very likely that our poison gas bombs have just been fired 1 or 2 rounds, and our artillery positions have been bombarded by the large-caliber artillery of the Chinese Empire, in that case, the poison gas bombs on the artillery of our coalition army are likely to be tasted by our own troops, and secondly, according to various intelligence, the army of the Chinese Empire also has poison gas bombs, otherwise the Chinese Empire would not have advocated it in the past few years." In the war, it is forbidden to use poison gas bombs and other chemical weapons, once we fire poison gas bombs at the army of the Chinese Empire, the army of the Chinese Empire will definitely retaliate by carrying out poison gas attacks on the troops of our coalition forces, in addition, the soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army are equipped with gas masks, and the chlorine gas shells and phosgene shells possessed by our countries are not a great threat to the Chinese Imperial Army. ”

In fact, as Hindenburg said, the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire already had poison gas as early as its predecessor Dingbei Army, and it was Lin Daxin who purchased a set of equipment for the production of chlorine gas in the future time and space, so that the Dingbei Army had poison gas bombs filled with chlorine gas, but Lin Daxin has always been very cold about this very cruel weapon, and has never ordered the troops to use it, but in order to deter the enemy, Lin Daxin asked the Military Intelligence Bureau to take the initiative to leak the information that he has poison gas bombs, and promised the world, The armies of the Chinese Empire were never the first to use poison gas in war.

As soon as the countries that were hostile to Lin Daxin knew that Lin Daxin's army had poison gas bombs, they immediately stopped thinking about using poison gas bombs when fighting against Lin Daxin's army.

This is also a number of previous wars, Lin Daxin's enemies did not consider using gas bombs, after all, everyone knows the power of gas bombs, and other countries are not like Lin Daxin's army, almost everyone has a set of gas masks, if gas bombs occur on both sides, maybe Lin Daxin's army has nothing to do, Lin Daxin's enemy's army will definitely suffer heavy losses in the gas war.

The commander of the Russian Army, Sonokopsky, suddenly said: "General Hindenburg, our intelligence services of the Russian Empire have received news that you Germany have developed an even more powerful poison gas?" ”

Hindenburg's brows frowned slightly, and after thinking about it, he said: "We in Germany have indeed developed a poisonous gas called mustard gas, the chemical name is dichloroethyl sulfur, because of the taste of mustard, so it is called mustard gas, which is erosive poisonous gas, eyes, respiratory tract and skin, contact with mustard gas can be poisoned, but if you want to die, you need a certain dose, in general, mustard gas will cause great damage to the human body, even if you have a gas mask, you can't block mustard gas, unless you wear a full-body protective clothing." ”

Sonokokopski said urgently: "Then why don't you Germany come up with it to deal with the army of the Chinese Empire?" ”

Hindenburg smiled bitterly and said: "According to our German intelligence, the army of the Chinese Empire has long had mustard gas, and the number of mustard gas shells owned by the army of the Chinese Empire is very huge. ”

Sonokopsky immediately said: "But now our five-nation coalition army has no choice, maybe the Chinese Imperial Army in the Ural Mountains did not carry poison gas, you must know that the railway from the Ural Mountains to Novosibirsk City, but all of them have been completely destroyed, the logistics supply of the Chinese Imperial Army is not easy, maybe they are not willing to waste their capacity to transport those gas shells that have been stored in the warehouse." ”

The commander of the Italian army, Hannawade, gritted his teeth and said: "Why don't we give it a try, it's better than fighting it all out like this!" ”

The commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army, Gloria, also said: "If there are German mustard gas shells, we might as well give it a try, we will not see any hope of victory if we continue to attack it so strongly." ”

The commander of the Ottoman Turkish Imperial Army, Bajirya, nodded and said, "You can take the risk and give it a try!" ”

Hindenburg, who had been forced by the terrible war situation, was silent for a long time, and then said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "I will send a telegram to His Majesty Wilhelm II, requesting that all the mustard gas shells from Germany's domestic reserves be shipped to us, and I can only make a desperate bet." (To be continued.) )

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