Chapter 69: The Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang (15)
"Tick tock!" The trumpet blew out, and the flag bearers of the Overlord Brigade jumped up and spread their battle flags." Brothers! Come on! The officers of the Overlord Brigade shouted loudly and squeezed towards the Japanese array.
Nearly 3,000 soldiers of the Overlord Brigade dressed in yellow-green camouflage combat uniforms stood up from the wheat field, and they fought bravely onto the main road.
The officer of the 27th Division who commanded the battle in the woods was a regimental commander named Ma Yiming. When the trumpet sounded, Ma Yiming waved his gun and shouted: "Brothers, rush with me!" We're going to capture Kei Seya alive! β
The slogan of "capturing Seya Kai alive" obviously won the hearts of the people and was full of appeal, first the officers and soldiers of the 27th Division in the woods in ambush shouted in unison, and the students and soldiers of the Overlord Brigade also shouted loudly, and the momentum was so majestic that the Japanese army did not know how many enemies were ambushed around the road.
The Chinese army attacked from three sides, and the Seya detachment was caught off guard, and the front team suffered heavy losses when it landed, and the more than 1,000 people of the vanguard brigade were at least halved. Seya Kai drank away from the few subordinates lying on his body, raised his head to observe the battlefield, and recognized that it was the student soldier army who rushed up from the wheat field, and couldn't help but grit his teeth with hatred. Seya Kai learned Chinese well, and when he heard that the Chinese soldiers wanted to capture him alive, he couldn't help but tremble with anger - "Stupid China pig, since you are looking for death, I will make you regret coming to this world later!" He said hatefully, gritting his teeth and giving the order to retreat.
The Japanese fled without a fight, which boosted the morale of the ambush troops. Huang Qiaosong saw that the ambush troops on both sides of the road had rushed onto the road and started a desperate fight with the Japanese army, and the main force of the Japanese army retreated without a fight.
"Setani Kai ran away?" Liu Shurong couldn't help but feel very sorry when he watched the main force of the Japanese army quickly withdraw from the battlefield.
"Seya has run away, brothers! Kill! Liu Shurong's self-talk was heard by the soldiers around him, and he was immediately given a special meaning, as soon as such a slogan was shouted, the morale of the ambush party was even stronger, and the devils who were surrounded were heartbroken, and their hands and feet were softened by three points unconsciously.
"Your Excellency Detachment Leader, why do you want to retreat?!" Kei Seya's retreat order made many devils feel strongly dissatisfied, and several junior officers surrounded him and asked.
Seya Kai glared at them coldly and shouted, "What? Do you question my commands? β
"No, no, but Your Excellency, the Akino Brigade in front of the sudden ......"
Kei Seya ignored them, and when the troops withdrew about a thousand meters away, he shouted in a deep voice: "Ikeda-kun, pass my order, fire poison gas bombs!" β
"Hello!" Ikeda ran to the left and turned to the mountain cannon that the Seya detachment had received from Ryosuke Isoya.
The generals were stunned, and one asked, "Your Excellency, do you want to use poison gas bombs?" β
"Yes. Is there anything wrong? β
"And the Imperial soldiers thereβ"
"So what? Isn't it a good thing that they dedicated their lives to the great cause of His Majesty the Emperor and that their souls found a home? β
The evacuated Japanese army built a defensive line thousands of kilometers away, which made Liu Shurong faintly feel uneasy. At this time, he was already standing with Huang Qiaosong, and he said, "What does the little devil want to do? β
Huang Qiaosong looked at him and asked, "You said before that there was no artillery in the Seya detachment?" β
"Yes."
Liu Shurong had just finished speaking, when suddenly there was an empty sound, and his face changed instantly. After a while, he was stunned again, looked at Huang Qiaosong and said, "The Japanese only have one cannon? β
Huang Qiaosong was also puzzled, judging from the sound of artillery, the Japanese army did only have one cannon, so what is the significance of this retreat before Seya Kai? Could it be that he was cowardly before he fought, and now he just wants to hold on?
A few minutes later, he learned the answer. The first shell hit the fiercest white-knuckle battle between the two sides, and although the explosion was slight, the yellow smoke that followed immediately brought down all the soldiers on both sides of the battle.
Liu Shurong immediately woke up, he saw the soldiers curled up on the ground, and some of them scratched their throats with both hands, and they were shocked to change color, and exclaimed: "Poison gas bomb!" It's a gas bomb! Quick, retreat, let everyone retreat. Others, hurry up and put on gas masks. β
"The Japanese dare to use gas bombs!" Huang Qiaosong's eyes widened.
"Dog's day little devil!" "I'm CTN!" "Despicable Wako!" β¦β¦ Around the two of them, there was a lot of scolding. And when everyone saw the tragic sight of the soldiers in the yellow smoke, their first reaction was a cool breath rising from their psychological faces.
Not only on the Chinese army's side, but also on the side of the Seya detachment, when they saw this scene on the battlefield, except for a very small number of people who behaved extremely crazy and shouted loudly, most of them were silent and frightened, for fear that they would one day be treated like this.
"Boom!" The poison gas bombs were still exploding, and although Liu Shurong and Huang Qiaosong gave the order to retreat in time, the ambush troops were still dealt a heavy blow. Among them, more than 700 people fell on the spot in the Overlord Brigade, and more than 500 people were injured to varying degrees.
"Oh, oh, ......" Many soldiers coughed uncontrollably, their faces flushed from the lack of oxygen, and their hands scratched their throats vigorously, desperately longing to open a gap from there so that fresh air could penetrate - the same was true for the Japanese soldiers, who at this moment had become the same victims, and could no longer care about killing the enemy.
The most vicious part of mustard gas does not cause immediate death except for inhalation of high concentrations of blocked airways that cause suffocation and immediate suffocation. However, because of skin erosion and injuries to the respiratory tract and cornea, this kind of life is more terrible than death. Because with the current level of medical skills, there is no way to rescue mustard gas poisoning.
Seeing that more and more soldiers were injured due to inhaling mustard gas, Liu Shurong was so anxious that his eyes were about to split, and he shouted loudly: "Withdraw!" Retreat, run back! In such a hurry, he ran straight to the battlefield.
"Hold him on! Brigade Commander Liu, it won't help if you go, brothers, you can only withdraw now! After all, Huang Qiaosong has more knowledge than Liu Shurong, and after weighing the pros and cons, he suggested.
The order to retreat reached the battlefield, and the soldiers looked at their comrades and brothers who were struggling in pain not far away, and left the battlefield with tears in their eyes.
"This, oh he, this is mustard gas, oh he, brothers, oh he, it's death anyway, I, oh he, let's rush-" Although Gu Changyou was wearing a gas mask, the poisonous gas he had inhaled before had seriously damaged his respiratory tract, making it difficult for him to even speak now.
Gu Changyou was the commander of the Third Regiment of the Overlord Brigade, and at this time he also became the backbone of this group of injured soldiers who were hit by mustard gas.
Except for those who were immediately incapacitated or died directly due to an overdose of poisonous gas, more than 300 people ran out of the mustard gas shrouded area, because they were seriously injured, they gave up their escape, and decided to regret the large army of devils who were waiting on the opposite side and die solemnly.
"Fight!" Those who can speak, they are born to echo immediately, and those who can't open their mouths anymore nod, look at the devil opposite with hatred, and make up their minds in their hearts: Killing one is enough, killing two to earn one - fight!
There was no charge trumpet, and there was no exhilarating shouting of killing, and more than 300 soldiers, including more than 50 officers and men of the ambush unit of the 27th Division, did not withdraw from the mustard gas, but resolutely launched a charge against the Japanese army!
"Let go of me, let go of me! How can I explain to Master Huang and them when I go back?! Liu Shurong was carried out of the battlefield by two soldiers, he looked at the backs of more than 300 unhesitating, struggling and leaving tears. Huang Qiaosong understands his distress, he is just temporarily commanding the Overlord Brigade, if the Overlord Brigade loses too much, it is really difficult for him to explain it when he goes back.
This battle is a wretch!
Kai Seya, ruthless enough!
Ge Zengfu and Zhou Tai watched the more than three hundred brothers rush towards the Japanese array, and the two of them tidied up their clothes, stood upright, and solemnly raised their hands and saluted. The gunfire of the 38 cover and the Type 92 heavy machine gun rang out, occasionally mixed with a few explosions, and more than 300 men fell down like a mountain from time to time, and the two people watched and watched, and they couldn't help but shed tears in their eyes.
"Send your comrades-in-arms and embark on a journey...... naturally, Ge Zengfu sang the song "Camel Bell", and in the distance, the figures of his comrades-in-arms were becoming blurred.
The First Battle of the Yellow Forest ended with the death of 300 brave soldiers, although their most relentless Japanese soldiers were limited, but their tall backs have been deeply reflected in the pages of China's anti-Japanese history. Ryosuke Isoya and Kei Seya could never imagine what kind of evil consequences their indiscriminate use of poison gas bombs would bring to Japan. And Seya Kei, who has studied Buddhism, also forgot the saying that evil is rewarded with evil and good is rewarded with good at this time.
When the news reached Tongshan, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi took off their hats to mourn, and personally drafted a text to ask for credit from the heroes in Wuhan; When the news reached Guangzhou, Ouyang Yun sat quietly in his office for three hours, and the first thing he did when he stood up was to issue an order to the R&D Institute to let Hou Debang organize people to develop biological and chemical weapons. Then he ordered that in order to express the highest respect and condolences to the heroes who died in the Yellow Forest, all the people in Minyue Qiong brought filial piety to mourn for three days.
Subsequently, in a conspicuous position in the "Renqiu Times" and "Guangzhou Daily" and "Xuebing Daily" the next day, an article written by him appeared in a conspicuous position, openly saying for the first time that the Xuebing Army would deal with the Japanese army at all costs and by all means.
And when the Battle of Taierzhuang was about to end in mid-July, the First Division and the Mountain Division proved with practical actions that Ouyang Yun was capable of releasing such cruel words. In the last few battles, the Xuebing army used three kinds of poison gas bombs, including mustard gas, the most powerful of which can cause death instantly, which directly led to the failure of the Japanese army's strategy in Taierzhuang, thus delaying the decisive battle of Xuzhou for more than three months.