However, although the troops brought by Su Yingqi arrived in time, Duotou intercepted the Japanese troops who were running wildly along the way. But at this moment, his men were extremely tired. Since they set out to participate in the night attack last night, most of the troops had not even eaten dry food.
.Facing the Japanese army, whose heads were filled with the desire to survive at this moment and were already looking like crazy tigers, they were somewhat unable to resist and could only fight and retreat.
Fortunately, he slowed down the retreat of the Japanese army and bought enough time for Gou Zaihe, who was pursuing behind him. Just when the Japanese army was almost breaking through Su Yingqi's interception, Gou Zaihe commanded the three companies and finally made a decisive move at any cost.
After a fierce battle, they broke through the interception of a small group of Japanese troops and arrived in time.
This time, Gou Zaihe finally did not make any low-level mistakes, nor did he hesitate at all. Faced with the current crisis, he immediately threw all three companies in his hands into the battlefield. The troops were divided into three groups, and one company was assigned to carry them.
All nine heavy machine guns of the Japanese army detoured to the front of the Japanese retreat route, preparing to be used as a second blocking line.
He personally commanded the troops of the two companies, concentrated all the submachine guns and light machine guns into the first echelon, launched a fierce attack from behind the Japanese army, and together with Su Yingqi adopted a pincer attack tactic against the Japanese army in front of them. The two of them worked in tandem, one behind the other.
They tightly entangled the retreating Japanese troops.
With the timely arrival of Gou Zaihe, and with the arrival of stragglers one after another, on this small battlefield, it was the first time since the Japanese army forcibly crossed the Siramulun River that the anti-alliance troops occupied
When it comes to the advantage in military strength, this advantage in military strength is not very obvious.
Of course, as long as no new Japanese troops join this battle, the outcome can be said to have been decided. Su Yingqi arrived in time to hold back the retreating Japanese troops, and Gou Zaihe entered the battlefield in time, completely establishing the situation and allowing
Yang Jicai breathed a sigh of relief.
Compared with the exciting and changeable battle here, which even fell into a melee, the Japanese troops who stayed there were the easiest to deal with with the help of poison gas bombs. These Japanese troops did not wait for the possibility of the next anti-alliance, or
There should have been a fierce attack, but what was waiting for them were poison gas shells manufactured by their own country and used to massacre the Chinese. This result was undoubtedly a self-defeating result for the Japanese army.
More than a thousand poison gas shells hit the small position controlled by the Japanese army. In a short period of time, the Japanese army's position was shrouded in white smoke. If there are any survivors of the retreating Japanese army, they are still there.
Try your best to survive under attack from two sides.
Then there is almost no way out for this group of Japanese soldiers except death. There is almost no possibility of even becoming prisoners. Because no one can survive such a high concentration of suffocating gas without wearing a gas mask.
survived.
Although the actual lethality of these mixed phosgene and mustard gas shells is not too high, it is somewhat less powerful than the corrosive mustard gas. Ordinary gas masks are completely protective. After use, they do not even require special cleaning.
, the power of disinfection cannot be compared with the soman, sarin and tabeng of later generations.
However, the high concentration of phosgene produced after the explosion of more than a thousand poison gas shells far exceeded the lethal dose, coupled with the mustard gas produced by the mixed phosgene and mustard gas shells, it was the Japanese troops who were holding on to the ground in the shortest time.
lost combat effectiveness within a short period of time.
These more than a thousand rounds were mainly caused by the large amount of phosgene produced by the phosgene shells. Inhaling a large amount of this suffocating poisonous gas that only passes through the respiratory tract in a short period of time quickly caused the Japanese army to lose their combat effectiveness. Even if it was temporarily
It was not fatal, but the high concentration of phosgene on the battlefield put most Japanese soldiers into shock and coma.
At present, the Japanese army believes that the Anti-Japanese Alliance is simply unable to launch chemical warfare against them, and because the Anti-Japanese Alliance has already equipped the Anti-Japanese Alliance with complete gas masks, their poison gas shells are basically unable to have the effect they expect. Therefore, the 7th Division's participation in the battle this time is basically impossible.
He did not carry any chemical weapons.
Because these chemical warfare equipment cannot play the expected role because the opponent's protective equipment is complete, it has become a disguised burden for the Japanese army. Not only cannot it play a role in killing the enemy, but it also needs to be carried with care and caution.
.Because this thing is not only lethal to the enemy, but also to our own people.
Not only does it require specialized storage personnel and equipment, but if the battle fails, if these things are seized by the enemy, they will pose a threat to themselves. As for the large-scale use of poison gas, will it arouse international public condemnation? For Japan
People don't care at all.
Moreover, in the eyes of the Japanese, the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not have its own chemical industry and could not produce poisonous gas on a large scale, which was considered the most powerful weapon by the Japanese army. This made the Japanese army extremely contemptuous of the Anti-Union's ability to launch chemical warfare. They believed that even if they had
A small amount of captured chemical artillery shells will not do much harm to your own troops.
Moreover, after the Battle of Lianjiangkou the year before last, in order to prevent the Anti-Japanese Alliance from using their captured poison gas shells against themselves again, the Kwantung Army had already strictly ordered all divisions to waste their lives in tomorrow's unfavorable situation.
All chemical weapons must be released even though they know they will have no effect.
They are not allowed to keep a single artillery shell or a smoke can. They are worried that these chemical weapons, which they consider extremely powerful and used as a trump card, will be captured by the Anti-Japanese Alliance again and used on themselves. It is certainly necessary to use poisonous gas on the enemy.
It makes the battle comfortable and easy. But if the unlucky target changes to you, it will not be good.
This strict order, as well as the contempt for the industrial base of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, did not believe that the Anti-Japanese Alliance had the ability to produce high-end gadgets such as chemical weapons. Even before this battle, no one in the Japanese army believed in the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
There is the possibility of a large-scale poison gas attack.
Since we have no intention to use chemical weapons, and our opponents do not have the ability to manufacture and use them, the 7th Division will fight this battle, except for a few people who were even ridiculed as timid for carrying gas masks. Most of the people will
The gas masks they were issued were thrown away in the barracks as a burden.
Since it is useless, then why bring it? Anyway, the Anti-Japanese Alliance does not have poison gas shells. Although that thing is not heavy, it is not too light, right? With that burden, it is better to bring more field rations. The savings will be on the front line.
Are you hungry because of lack of supplies?
However, neither the senior officials of the Kwantung Army nor the Seventh Division, which was the direct victim, expected that there would be a large number of poison gas shells captured in the Anti-Japanese Alliance. What was even more unexpected was that the 23rd Division actually lost Lin Xi.
When we were in the county seat, a poison gas shell warehouse outside the county seat was also abandoned.
Linxi is a key part of the Kwantung Army's so-called border defense circle. The vast Ujimqin grassland in front of it is extremely conducive to the rapid breakthrough of the Soviet mechanized troops. Therefore, after the 23rd Division withdrew to Linxi, due to concerns about the 23rd Division,
Any attempt to use the Outer Mongolia route during the retreat would result in Soviet retaliation.
Under the relatively difficult situation of replenishing heavy weapons, and in order to restore the combat effectiveness of the 23rd Division in the shortest possible time, the Kwantung Army deployed a large number of chemical warfare weapons to the small Linxi County.
.Among them, the number of poison gas shells used by mountain artillery and mortars alone is as high as more than 20,000.
According to the requirements of the Kwantung Army, once the Soviet mechanized troops attack. When necessary, the number of poison gas shells stockpiled by the 23rd Division will ensure that the mountain artillery units in the division's artillery wing, each mortar squadron, and
The maximum rate of fire lasts for two to three days.
It's just that the Soviet Union itself has extremely strong chemical warfare capabilities that even exceed Japan's. Therefore, the Kwantung Army requires that once the 23rd Division is attacked, it must obtain approval from the Kwantung Army Headquarters when using poison gas shells. Even because
Linxi is relatively close to Outer Mongolia, and test firing of these poisonous gas shells to test their performance is strictly prohibited.
Of course, in addition to an astonishing number of various poison gas shells, the Kwantung Army also reserves a large number of poison gas canisters, poison gas spreading vehicles, smoke canisters, and even some new cyanide gas grenades in Linxi and the surrounding Bahrain Banners.
.It can be said that there are many kinds and huge quantities.
In order to ensure that these huge amounts of chemical warfare weapons can be effectively used, the Kwantung Army, in addition to replenishing a large number of chemical weapons, also increased the number of chemical troops to the 23rd Division. Not counting the chemical weapons of the 23rd Division itself.
According to the military establishment system, there are four chemical corps squadrons newly incorporated into the 23rd Division.
These reserves on the Linxi battlefield far exceed the Japanese chemical warfare weapons organized and equipped. Most of them are the most powerful and most difficult to defend erosive poison gas mustard gas shells in the Japanese chemical weapons arsenal. As well as the Japanese army in the pass
The No. 1 red bomb used most frequently on the battlefield is the highly toxic arsenic arsenic biphenyl.
The number of phosgene artillery shells stored by the Japanese army in Linxi is actually not large. There are only more than a thousand in total. However, during the battle of outflanking troops to seize Linxi County and encircle and annihilate the 23rd Division, the situation changed.
Under unfavorable circumstances, in order to destroy all the poison gas bombs that could not be transported away, the 23rd Division used a considerable part of the more powerful mustard gas and biphenyl arsenic shells during the battle.
But it is not so easy to destroy more than 20,000 poison gas shells, as well as a large number of poison gas canisters and smoke canisters. Although the 23rd Division was not slow in its movements when it lost, there were also a large number of poison gas shells.
And the spreading tools fell into Wang Guangyu's hands.
Because among the poison gas bombs stored by the Japanese army in Linxi, phosgene is not the most lethal. Compared with mustard gas, which has the largest number of reserves, there is still a gap between the actual lethality. In addition, it is easy to protect, so in
The 23rd Division basically did not use these phosgene shells during the battle, but always used them as reserves.
The most complete poison gas bomb is also the only warehouse that stores phosgene shells. These thousands of phosgene shells were stored in it. After they fell into the hands of Wang Guangyu because they were too late to be destroyed, all the phosgene shells stored in this warehouse
It fell into the hands of Wang Guangyu.
What finally fell into Wang Guangyu's hands was, in addition to more than a thousand luminous gas and mustard gas mixed artillery shells, and phosgene artillery shells. There were also more than 3,000 biphenyl arsenic artillery shells and more than 2,000 mustard gas and Lewis gas artillery shells.
, and a batch of cyanic acid gas, which is the most lethal. In addition, Wang Guangyu seized more than ten poison gas spreading vehicles specifically for mustard gas on the Linxi battlefield.
It’s just because this is the first time for the Anti-Japanese War to see the Japanese poison gas shells using arsenic biphenyl gas. We are not sure of its actual performance and lethality. Also, the mustard gas is long-term and difficult to remove. It is defensive and its use will affect the actions of our own troops.
Therefore, under the advice of the accompanying chemical defense personnel, except for the phosgene shells, no other shells were handed over to Qiu Jintang. They only handed over the phosgene shells that they knew best and were the easiest to eliminate residual poisonous gas.