White phosphorus bombs are an extremely cruel weapon.

Anyone who has used, seen, or directly suffered damage from such a weapon will doubt this.

This weapon has the dual characteristics of an incendiary bomb and a poison gas bomb, and can be burned alive if it is stained with a star, and inhaled white phosphorus smoke can burn the lungs and cause internal organ failure, and even getting too close can cause the risk of hypoxic suffocation. As for the victims who died from various white phosphorus bombs, as well as those who survived with painful memories and disabilities, they can only be described as "miserable".

Because of this, white phosphorus bombs have been banned by various international conventions since the first use of World War I, but if you think that this will lock this inhumane weapon into Pandora's box, you are underestimating the black intelligence of mankind. You must know that since ancient times, only countries without strength have had to abide by treaties, and the great powers either do not participate in the treaty, or find ways to avoid the shackles of the treaty, or tear up the treaty at some point - for the real powers, the superpowers, the treaty is signed in order to tear it up at some point.

For example, when international conventions banned dummy bullets, people tried to change the material of the bullet to make it easier to roll and shatter after entering the human body. For example, when the majority of countries in the international community jointly called for the abolition of cluster bombs and landmines, the major powers expressed that they attached great importance to the humanitarian problems caused by landmines, fully understood and consistently supported the efforts of the international community to solve this problem, and then immediately changed the tone and bluntly stated that after careful study, they refused to sign the convention to stop the production and use of landmines and cluster bombs on the basis of "national security", "military needs", and "security commitments to allies". When it comes to the cruel and efficient weapon of white phosphorus bombs, everyone changes them and uses them as smoke bombs and signal flares. Even if the substance of such weapons is pointed out and there is plenty of evidence that so-called "white phosphorus smoke bombs" were used not only on frontal battlefields, but also to disperse protesting crowds, and that large numbers of unarmed civilians were burned to mummified or dragged shriveled severed arms and limbs to death in hospital beds. So what? Who is unlucky because of protests and accusations? Or is the white phosphorus bomb disappearing from the world? Everything continues to be business as usual, and the sun still rises.

The Defence Force is not a compassionate humanitarian, let alone an international rescue team. They are iron-blooded professional soldiers who prioritize efficiency and results. When Charlemagne's determination to fight to the death gets in front of them, they will of course prioritize how to clear the obstacles quickly and effectively. Cluster bombs are used to kill unprotected targets to the maximum extent, and then white phosphorus smoke incendiary bombs are used to further eliminate the remaining enemy forces hiding in bunkers, and at the same time, the high temperature generated by the combustion of white phosphorus is used to detonate cluster bombs that have not exploded due to fuse failure and other reasons. When the smoke cleared, the armored forces and Panzergrenadiers worked together to break through the defensive line, and the subsequent mechanized infantry cleaned up the battlefield - this was the quickest and most effective solution they could think of.

Since this is the most effective and time-saving, there is no problem with using this tactic. As for whether it is humane...... First of all, Marshal Helmut Karl Bernhardt von Moltke, a well-known German military strategist and founder of the General Staff system, believed that the war between the two countries did not necessarily involve civilians. But even in the old gentleman's time, there was no army that took his assertions as a creed and a code of conduct, let alone after the idea of total warfare had been popularized, and secondly, Alfheim himself planned the war on the premise of general warfare. The so-called general war, to put it bluntly, is to use all means to beat you to your knees, licking your shoes and calling Dad. Since all means are exhausted, it naturally includes the targeting of civilian facilities and ordinary civilians; The world will not condemn the victors, and if someone condemns you, it only means that you have not won enough.

In summary, the use of cluster bombs and white phosphorus incendiary smoke bombs did not cause any psychological pressure on the officers and men of the Defence Forces. Even as the curses, wails, screams, and curses that sounded like the bottom of hell came from the yellow-white smoke, their faces remained the same. Officers continued to study the route of the march against the map, soldiers counted ammunition and checked equipment, the anti-chemical warfare company in charge of decontamination operations (chemical warfare is actually a side job, and the use of chemical weapons is the main business) was wearing protective clothing, and a logistics truck next to it was unloading a can of water-based fire extinguishers.

It should be noted here that there is a saying on the Internet that white phosphorus spontaneously combusts cannot be extinguished, and once it is contaminated, it will continue to burn until it is burned to ashes. This is actually a kind of false rumor that does not understand the characteristics of white phosphorus, as long as the white phosphorus is isolated from the air, it will stop combusting, if it is contaminated with the burning white phosphorus, immediately put the burn and the attached white phosphorus in the water, and after the air is completely isolated, the white phosphorus will soon be extinguished. In addition, a large number of dry powder fire extinguishers (that is, common red fire extinguishers) and water-based fire extinguishers (mostly green tanks) sold in the market can also extinguish fires by spraying and covering white phosphorus. Nowadays, dry powder fire extinguishers are gradually being replaced by water-based fire extinguishers because of their unique corrosiveness (water-based fire extinguishers can be sprayed directly on the human body and play a thermal insulation and flame retardant effect within a certain period of time, which is not possible with dry powder fire extinguishers).

After the defenders are burned or poisoned, they will quickly clean the scene with water-based fire extinguishers, extinguish the unburned white phosphorus fragments, disperse the smoke, and ensure that the troops can pass quickly. If they meet survivors who are not dead in the process, they will do their best to free the other party from pain.

Rather than die of the pain of pulmonary edema and phosphorus poisoning, it is a mercy to help them end their lives as quickly as possible with bayonets and bullets, just like the Stilett (a dagger used to relieve the pain of seriously injured and dying knights) in the past knighthood. Regardless of what others think, the soldiers of the Chemical Defense Company, who have seen the victims struggling to the last moment under various poisonous gases, think it is a mercy.

The time seemed to be almost up, the smoke began to decrease, and the voices containing resentment, regret, pain, nostalgia, and sadness had not been heard for more than 10 minutes.

It's time to get started.

The commander of the protection company raised his hand and was about to wave his hand to give an order, when a dull sound broke the dead silence.

It was a gunshot, but it was so loud that it almost caught up with the machine guns.

And the counterpart of the sound is its strong power.

Generally speaking, even if hundreds of rifle bullets hit a vehicle, no matter what angle it hit, it would only scratch the paint and bounce off. The rifle bullet in front of him was indeed helpless against the heavy armor of the Tiger Chariot, and after it bounced off, it fell helplessly into the grass on the side of the road.

But—

Obviously it was just a shot, but it actually left a 5mm deep and finger-thick ricochet mark on the frontal armor of the turret of the Tiger tank.

"The chariot troops are coming forward! The anti-chemical warfare company is retreating! The enemy has an anti-tank rifle in his hand! Repeat, the enemy has an anti-tank rifle in his hand!!"

The moment there was a roar in the headset, the commanders who showed half of their bodies from the control tower shrank back one after another, and the chemical defense company that was about to set off retreated to the starting point, and during this time, another bullet hit the front armor of another Tiger tank, and hit the driver's observation window by a few centimeters, which startled the lucky man into a cold sweat.