Chapter 5: Blood and Fire (29)

The 6th Brigade and the 7th Wing of the 7th Brigade had a bad day today, people slept in the house, and disaster came from the sky, and last night they really knew what this Chinese proverb meant, it turned out that China had known that this kind of thing had happened, but the Japanese did not know, and they were stupid to experience it with their lives.

Today, the 7th Wing of the 6th Brigade kept getting the news, who is dead, who is dead, the seriously wounded last night kept wrapping white cloth and carrying it out of the infirmary, in order to burn the corpses, all the fuel of the armored car unit was used up, tonight, the whole barracks will no longer have lights, can only pray under the moonlight and starlight, hoping that no more poison gas bombs will fall.

Last night's two tea No. 1, the number of dead people has reached 300, and there are still many wounded still waiting for death, the chief of staff of the 7th Wing, Watanabe Yukinakasa, is the highest-ranking officer killed in this attack, originally only seriously injured, and there is still salvation, the devil got out of the only manpower rail car at the Mingguang Railway Station, and wanted to risk sending it to the hospital of the 13th Division in Tuzhou for treatment. As a result, he was robbed by bandits in Shahe, and he died so much that he didn't have any scum left, and the handcart stopped in Shahe Station, where four handcarts from Tuzhou had been concentrated.

The commander of the 7th Wing, Nakagawa Osa, is a very shrewd soldier, and he told his subordinates that in order to be prepared tonight, it is necessary to combine the virtual and the real, and arrange the barracks into two layers, the inner layer is guaranteed to be brightly lit, but there is no one, although the outer layer is black and linen, it is the garrison area. His subordinates immediately understood Nakagawa Daisa's intentions, even if there was an enemy attack tonight, the target must still be the inner layer, and it would be safer to stay in the outer layer, and they all agreed that Nakagawa Daisa's move was clever.

After more than half a month of attack and defense, the Seventh Wing is no longer full, from more than 3,400 people to 2,200 people, last night's attack, the biggest loss, not only killed more than 300 people, but also wounded more than 600 people, among these 600 people, how many people can be transformed from the wounded to the dead, I still dare not say. The wounded were all concentrated in the medical department, making the medical department the largest unit of the whole regiment and the greatest burden. Except for this large burden, which is placed on the inner layer, the other units are all scattered on the outer layer.

Nakagawa Osa never dreamed that his opponent did not plan to attack his barracks dormitory again, but set his sights on his cafeteria. One wing has three infantry battalions, each with four infantry squadrons and one heavy machine gun squadron, and each infantry squadron has a canteen. The 7th Wing, which originally had seventeen canteens, had only eleven left yesterday, and today, because of the chance of eating porridge, it was simply reduced to seven. One at the wing headquarters, two from each infantry brigade, and meals were concentrated.

Now, the two canteens of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 7th Wing have been targeted by Lan Shiyuan, and everything is ready, just waiting for the Japanese army to eat.

Sitting on the hillside, Lan Shiyun was wearing a full-body protective suit, just a ghost shell on his head, he hung a cigarette in his mouth, and said to the other soldiers: "Just two cannons, leave after two cannons, if you have enough time, put two more cannons, I can't see clearly last night, and today during the day, I really want to see what the Japanese look like after being poisoned." ”

The soldier next to him stretched out his hand, stuck the distance, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid I can't see it during the day, it's so far away, although it is not three kilometers, it is already more than two kilometers." Captain, I'm a little worried, what if I can't hit the devil's canteen? ”

"If you don't hit, you can't hit, and you don't have to hit, you will die wherever you hit." Another soldier said that he was holding a brown cannonball in his hand and was gently wiping it with cotton yarn, rubbing it very carefully, but he did not dare to use it too hard, for fear that it would explode with force.

"Try your best, if the first shot doesn't hit, adjust it and put the second shot, whether the second shot hits or not, we have to leave, in broad daylight, there will be gunsmoke when our mortars are fired, even if the Japanese can't catch up, the infantry artillery in their hands will come over, don't put yourself in it and you won't be able to row." Lan Shiyun said: "When we set off today, the regiment commander repeatedly explained that even if we can't kill the enemy, we can't lose ourselves, and we must let ourselves live before we can let the enemy die." ”

Everyone nodded yes, the head of his own family couldn't see the brothers of his regiment killed, every time there was a casualty, he would be mad, every time he was mad, he would not end up if he didn't vent.

"The Japanese army has opened dinner!" The observer shouted.

Lan Shiyun then shouted, "Everyone is in place." "One buckled the gas helmet on his head and rushed at the mortar.

The two mortars were already aimed at the target, and just waiting for the main gunner to stuff the shell into the barrel, as the main gunner let go of his hands, the shell slid into the barrel, and then roared out of the muzzle, flying into the distance at a speed that could be reached by the human eye.

Medium! The observer shouted.

Lan Shiyun shouted, fired again, raised his right hand, and waved heavily.

The two main gunners took the tea No. 1 gun very standardly, and stuffed the shell into the barrel in a half-crouching position. As the shell smoothly took off into the air, Lan Shiyun pulled down the protection on his head, inhaled a breath of air with a "whew", and shouted, "Quickly retreat." ”

The barrel of the cannon is still hot, and the four fighters do not dismantle the cannon, tie it with a rope, lift it and run, and when it is cold, dismantle it again.

This was the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 7th Wing of the Japanese Army, and when the shells exploded not far from the canteen, they did not attract the attention of the Japanese due to their extremely small explosive yield, and when a faint smell of almonds permeated, the Japanese knew that it was a poison gas bomb. It was dinner time, and the whole team was basically gathered here, waiting for the distribution of their own bowl of gruel. Once it was determined that it was a poison gas bomb, the Japanese immediately blew up the battalion. At this time, a second gas bomb exploded nearby, and the smell of almonds became stronger. The Japanese army was completely crazy, most of them didn't know how to deal with poison gas bombs, some people stood stupidly, overwhelmed, and some people actually inhaled the almond-smelling air deeply, which was pleasant and fascinating. Some Japanese soldiers were more sophisticated, holding their breath, soaking their military uniforms in the water tank of the canteen, covering their mouths and noses, and then began to run out with all their might, and the dishes and chopsticks porridge in their hands had long been thrown away. However, after running a few steps, they felt that their breathing was getting faster and faster, and it was getting harder and harder to breathe, and they fell headlong to the ground. They knew about the poisonous gas, but they didn't know that it was hydrocyanic acid, which was much more toxic than the poisonous gas, a fast-acting poisonous gas, and no one who smelled almonds would escape death.

As soon as they heard that the 1st Infantry Brigade had been hit by poison gas bombs, several other brigades hurriedly left the area, and no one dared to enter the camp of the 1st Infantry Brigade, let alone do anything to save people, but some people thanked Amaterasu in their hearts that they could live another day today.

The losses of the 1st Infantry Brigade were the heaviest since the beginning of the war, because it was dinner time, the personnel were very concentrated, more than 800 people were either killed or wounded, the camp was a hell on earth, and the people outside did not dare to enter, but could only watch the people inside gradually die in the struggle.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke was so angry that he scolded and slammed his head, the papers in the office had already been swept to the ground by him, and finally, he brandished his command knife and smashed the desk to shreds to finally calm down the anger. It's too despicable and shameless, and it actually uses this method to carry out sneak attacks again and again, which is too lacking in the spirit of war. He had completely forgotten that he had brought this thing into China from the East thousands of miles away, and that his troops had been attacked by his own drugs, and that he had completely inflicted on himself. Yoshizumi Ryosuke once again sent a telegram to Shunroku Hata in Nanjing, and the telegram twice a day hurt his self-esteem very much, and he was unwilling to make such a decision if it was not for the fact that he really couldn't find a solution.

Shunroku Hatata, who received the telegram, was also taken aback, isn't the Chinese military really afraid of an escalation of the war? After raising this question, Shunroku Hata himself couldn't help laughing, for the Great East Asian Holy War, the Japanese Empire has already taken out his full strength, even if it is upgraded, how much can it rise, occupy the other party's capital, kill the other party's people, and fight a poison gas war in Taiyuan, the poison gas in Shanxi is thicker than coal gas, and the upgrade is just to scare those boring politicians in China.

I really didn't expect that there would be people in China who were desperate and dared to defy the world's great disobedience and fight a poisonous gas war, which was completely unexpected, and it seemed that the Ninth Division must be withdrawn, otherwise, the entire division and regiment would be cleaned up by this wicked man with poison gas bombs.

The 9th Division was ordered to hold out all night today and withdraw to Tuzhou early tomorrow morning.

On this night, it was not easy for the Ninth Division to hold on!

Because Huang Tianhua deepened Mo Di's requirements, he was instructed by Mo Di, no longer hid his strength, and decided to use poison gas bombs to catch a night of hiding with the Ninth Division, for his idea, Xu Ping, Li Baicheng and Wei Zhigao unanimously agreed, and actively asked for unanimous participation, and Huang Tianhua's suggestions were optimized as a whole.

At the same time as Lan Tianyun set off, the other three squads also set off, each squad this time there were a lot of people, consisting of a 20-person engineer team, a 10-person artillery team and 30 special combat personnel, and the level was not low, one was led by Xu Ping himself, one was led by Li Baicheng, and the last supreme commander was Wei Zhigao.

The farthest was Xu Ping, whose target was the 18th Wing of the 19th Brigade, a few kilometers farther than the poison gas brigade that had been cleaned up the day before yesterday.

The fastest to go is the engineer team, they have to make a hidden fortification in the shortest possible time, to be able to hide the artillery squad in it, not only not to be discovered by the enemy, but also to be able to withstand the enemy's shelling, the protagonist of this evening, is this artillery team.

The most important thing for the artillery squad was still a 90 mortar, for which the squad actually used two pack horses. When the engineer team was repairing the fortifications, Xu Ping took the soldiers of the special service company to observe the Japanese barracks, which was backed by Shimen Mountain, with higher terrain and a wide field of vision, and the Japanese barracks were in full view. From a distance, the railway has a slope on the top of Shimen Mountain, which falls straight into the Japanese barracks, and on the other side of the railway, the Japanese tanks and field artillery are neatly arranged, which makes people very hot.

When the time for dinner came, Lan Shiyun's blow in the 7th Wing did not have much impact on the 19th Wing in front of him, those who should eat and drink porridge should drink porridge, maybe it was a communication problem, and the news of the attack on the 7th Wing did not reach this side. Seeing the Japanese eating, Xu Ping also felt hungry, took out the sauce beef specially customized for them in the room, and sent down the cold rice balls, this moment, it really makes people miss the hot pot in their hometown.

It was beginning to get dark, and the sappers had already repaired the fortifications, retreated to a distance of about five hundred meters from the fortifications, and stayed with the soldiers of the special service company, and the gas bombs, no matter who they were, were full of terror. The artillery squad lived in fortifications specially designed and made for them, although it was not slight, but it was enough for ten people, and most importantly it was very strong, and it was topped by a large root of wood, and on top of the wood was a layer of earth packed with hemp, and on top of a thick layer of earth were branches and sand. With such fortifications, there are no problems at all against ordinary 70 infantry guns, and even the large-caliber field artillery of the Japanese will not collapse as long as it is not a long-term positional bombardment.

The next thing is to wait, and when the Japanese go to sleep, it's our turn to do it.