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Chapter 126, Poison Gas, Fierce Battle and Consent

August 23.

After repeated battles and defeats in the past two days, Major General Yamasho Taro had no choice but to request aircraft support from Taiyuan.

This was by no means a face-lifting thing. After sending the telegram, he felt his face was on fire.

Thinking that the Lieutenant General might look down on him because of this, Yamasho Taro became even more ashamed.

His anger could not find an outlet, so he almost ordered the troops who were disadvantaged in combat to die.

"If there is someone who dares to back down today, if he can't take Lion's Brain Mountain, he will die."

In the morning, under the cover of fierce artillery fire, the Japanese army launched several attacks on Shinao Mountain.

This time there is not only the support of ground artillery fire, but also the support of air fire.

The power of aerial bombs is not comparable to that of small-caliber mortars and infantry artillery.

The lightest one weighs thirty or forty catties, and the heavy one weighs one or two hundred catties.A large amount of charge makes it extremely powerful.

The air waves of the bomb lifted all the stones, dust, branches, etc. on the ground into the sky, and then fell down like rain.

The soldiers of the [-]th regiment had long been hiding in the artillery pit, and the casualties were not too great.

However, the fighters in charge of the observation found that some of the bombs dropped from the plane did not explode,
Instead, it "hissed" and smoked, and after smelling it, I was still a little dizzy and nauseous.

He quickly reported the situation upwards.

Head Liu of the Fourteenth Regiment saw that the devils were dropping poison gas bombs again. He immediately ordered the troops to wet the towels and cover their mouths, and quickly prepared for anti-virus.

During the war of aggression against China, the Japanese imperialists flagrantly violated public international law and used biological and chemical weapons against Chinese soldiers and civilians thousands of times.

Carried out inhumane germ warfare and poison gas warfare, killing tens of thousands of our soldiers and civilians.

As early as August 1937, during the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army used tear gas, sneeze gas and vomiting gas.

Since the beginning of the Wuhan Campaign in August 1938, they have become more reckless and lazy, launching poison gas bombs on the Chinese army in an organized, large-scale, and massive manner.

And began to use highly toxic erosive gas (Qizi gas) and Lewis gas.

The type of poison gas used by the Japanese army in China is generally tear gas phenyl chlorophenone.Vomiting biphenyl arsenic chloride, and biphenyl arsenic nitrate.

Erosive mustard and Lewis gases, and asphyxiating phosgene, picoline, and acid gases.

The so-called "red" refers to asphyxiating gas, and "yellow" refers to blistering (erosive) gas.

The "red bullets" and "yellow bullets" were fired by artillery or dropped by aircraft.

The "red canister" is fired with a catapult or a diverted cartridge,
The "yellow agent" is to directly spread the mustard gas stock solution.

During the battle of Shinao Mountain, according to the symptoms of soldiers' poisoning, the Japanese army should use asphyxiating gas.

At that time, some people did not have towels, so they tore off their clothes and covered their mouths and noses when they got wet.

Some soldiers drank up all the water in their kettles and couldn't put water on the spot. Although there was a smell, they couldn't care less.

The enemy rushed up, and the soldiers took up arms and fought bravely with the enemy.In one morning, five enemy attacks were repelled abruptly.

The little devils were all scared of being killed.

Especially those Japanese overseas Chinese with poor psychological qualities, they came here to make a fortune, not to fight.

I watched too many companions fall down in one morning, and many people's tight pants were wet.

There are even a small number of people who are heartbroken and do not want to work hard.

When organizing the sixth attack, there were two Riqiaos who did not move their legs and flinched.

The conspicuous two were naturally picked out by the supervising team and brought to Yamasho Taro.

"Bastard, do you know what this is?" The general asked sternly.

This is simply a deserter-like behavior. If the two retreat, if they are not severely punished, then others will learn from it.

There is no way for the army to take it.

"Forgive me, General, we are only citizens of the empire, not soldiers!"

"General, please forgive me..."

The two expatriates held back, overwhelmed by the fear of death, but that didn't mean they didn't understand the rules of the army.

Now he came to his senses, crying and begging for mercy.

late!

Yamasho Taro pulled out the pistol at his waist, and personally shot two Japanese who flinched.

His eyes swept across the crowd, and everyone lowered their heads one after another, no one dared to look at him.

He reiterated his order again: "If you don't take Lion's Brain Mountain, everyone will die."

After the sixth barely organized attack was repulsed, even Taro Yamasei had to admit that the morning's attack had hardly achieved any results.

The eight roads on the top of the mountain are really too tenacious.

Staff Officer Morita came from the city and brought a hot meal: "General, it's time to eat, let the soldiers rest for a while."

The weather is still very hot in late August, and it is unwise to attack under the sun at noon.

What's more, after a morning's attack, the soldiers' physical strength has been exhausted, and there is no point in continuing.

Taro Yamasho followed good advice and announced that the entire army would have meals and rest for two hours.

During this period, he said to Morita: "The army formed with the heavy soldiers, the medical soldiers, the artillery, the imperial association army and the expatriates is simply a pile of garbage.

The fighting power of these hundreds of people is not as good as that of an infantry squadron.If we want to win Lion's Brain Mountain, we still have to count on the plane from Taiyuan.

Send a message to Taiyuan requesting more air support.Even fighter jets can, and the low-altitude strafing of machine guns can provide effective fire suppression. "

After two and a half days of fighting, Yamasho Taro's opponents were disappointed.

Instead, they hope that air support can crush the Eighth Route Army on the mountain.Make them unable to bear the casualties and force them to retreat.

At the same time, the Eighth Route Army on Lion's Brain Mountain, taking advantage of the gap, was also discussing how to deal with the enemy's planes.

The soldiers chattered and put forward their own opinions.

A soldier said: "Can we use rifles to shoot down the plane?"

This is of course possible.

The first example of the Red Army shooting down a plane with a rifle in history was one day in late July 1932.

At that time, during the exercise, the students of the Red Army University were attacked by several Cantonese warlord planes, causing several casualties on the spot.

At that time, a student named Wang Wenli was very skilled in marksmanship. He used a French rifle and hit the fuel tank of an aircraft during the second attempt. The aircraft caught fire and then crashed and exploded.

In the following days, there were also two or three cases.

However, those were all low-probability events, and luckily hit the fuel tank.

Most of them returned without success and have not been recorded.

So the conclusion is: the rifle hits the plane, and there is a high probability of wasting bullets.There is a small probability of hitting, and it is also an unimportant position to hit.

By the way, the effective range of the rifle is basically 700 meters, and the maximum range is 1000 meters.

If you want to try your luck, you only have a chance when the enemy plane is flying at low altitude.

An experienced platoon leader said: "The rifle is still kept to fight devils.

Let's set up some light and heavy machine guns facing the sky, which can be used as air defense equipment, and maybe they can shoot down enemy planes.

Even if none of them were shot down, it would pose a great threat, preventing the little devil's plane from flying so low.

If you fly high, you will lose your aim, and the threat to us will be smaller. "

Heavy machine guns have a long range, an effective range of 2000 meters, high rate of fire, high power, and are fed by belts or belts. A few heavy machine guns can form a dense firepower network.

For aircraft flying at low altitudes, there is indeed no small threat.This is the most reliable approach, and the team leader agreed at the time.

However, the number of heavy machine guns is relatively small, and they have to face the pressure of the frontal enemy.

At that time, only three or four can be drawn out to deal with the enemy planes in the sky.

The anti-pressure is still great.

A young soldier suddenly suggested: "The enemy's plane doesn't fly very high. Can we throw a grenade and shoot down the enemy's plane?"

Grenade bombing the plane?

Everyone who listened was taken aback. Didn't the child wake up?
It is of course possible to bomb planes with grenades. When the brigade commander was still the head of the regiment, he led a surprise attack on Yangmingbao Airport and used grenades to blow up 24 enemy planes.

But those planes are all on the ground, if you fly in the sky, you want to use a grenade to blow them up,

Not to mention the Arabian Nights, but that probability is less reliable than shooting it down with a rifle.

First of all, the killing radius of the grenades they used was ten meters at most.

The average throwing distance is seven to eighty meters.

Even if it is a vertical projection, the enemy's plane must descend to a low altitude, at a distance of 100 meters from the ground, before it can be reached by the thrown grenade.

There is also the issue of the amount of time the grenade is thrown in advance. Even if the fragments are exploded, is there a chance that it will reach the fuel tank of the aircraft?
Even if it is enough, it may be an oil leak, and it may not necessarily cause an explosion.

Moreover, the height of the grenade thrown is not enough, and the fragments from the explosion may fall on his head.

Trying to blow up a plane with a grenade is a wasteful and worthless thing.

After listening to the group leader's analysis, the little soldier scratched his head shyly and smiled embarrassedly.

In the afternoon, the Japanese attacked again.

Twenty planes were dispatched from Taiyuan to hover over our position and carry out low-altitude strafing and bombing.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately used several heavy machine guns to form a firepower net to deal a blow to the arrogant enemy.

Although the plane was not shot down, the bullets from the heavy machine gun still caused damage to the plane, making the enemy afraid to get too close.

Airplanes bombarded the cover wildly in the sky, and the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain attacked Lion's Brain Mountain in multiple ways.

The enemy was getting closer and closer. When the Japanese army approached the position guarded by the third battalion, the commanders and fighters of the third battalion jumped out of the fortification and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

This is a common method used by the Eighth Route Army. When the enemy and the enemy are entangled together, it is difficult for the enemy to exert their firepower.

When it comes to fighting bayonets, the Chinese are the ancestors of little devils.

The sound of guns and guns and shouts of killing rang together, and the anxious bloody battle continued until night fell. The soldiers of the third battalion drove the enemy down the mountain.

However, the Japanese army attacking the first battalion was still resisting on the mountainside, trying to cut off the connection between the first battalion and the regiment headquarters, and annihilated the first battalion.

Open the channel of Xiyuan Zhengtai Road.

Liu TuanZhang saw through the enemy's conspiracy and ordered the second battalion to serve as the reserve force to send a company to reinforce the first battalion.

The sixth company, which was ordered to reinforce, moved to the mountainside in three ways, and rushed together with the enemy. Under the joint attack of the first battalion, hundreds of Japanese invaders retreated in a hurry and fled back to Yangquan.

At night, the troops guarding Lion's Brain Mountain received a commendation order from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the [-]th regiment was greatly encouraged.

At the same time, the headquarters asked the troops to stick to Shidi Mountain, resolutely block the enemy's attempt to reinforce Zhengtai Road, and ensure the complete victory of the crackdown campaign.

And there was another line on the telegram: "After argumentation, I agree with your department to attack Yangquan."

As bold as it was conceived, the Eighth Route Army had never been that conformist.

There has to be a first time for everything!

PS: Information about gas bombs is only the tip of the iceberg.

Actually there are many.

Moreover, the soldiers and civilians who suffered from the poison gas attack were very miserable. At that time, there were no medical conditions like today.

If you want to know how crazy the devil is, you can search Unit 731.All kinds of inhuman experiments on living people.

Not much to say.

(End of this chapter)