Chapter 786: Japan (30)
Okada Shinbei was stunned as he watched a spot of light slowly fly in from a distance, and those spots of light were exceptionally bright in the dark night sky.
The humming sound grew louder and louder, and it wasn't until the points of light flew to the front of the line and hovered that the Okada Shinbei and the others could see the outlines of these shining points of light, which turned out to be behemoths.
The samurai and ashigaru on the shogunate coalition defense line were shocked by these huge flying boats in front of them. They all opened their mouths wide, their faces full of incredulity, and no one knew what the origin of these behemoths was.
Although the samurai of the shogunate army, Ashigaru, who experienced the beach rout, also told others that the Far East has huge Shenzhou that can fly in the sky, and these flying boats can also sprinkle fire and rain all over the sky, as long as they are touched by the dense raindrops, they will definitely be killed or injured.
But most people don't believe these words. In their opinion, a flying boat that is more than ten feet long and can fly freely in the sky is nonsense. It wasn't until they saw it with their own eyes today that they really saw these huge Shenzhou.
Suddenly, there was a loud roar in the distance. "Everyone take refuge in the bunker, don't let the rain of fire from those flying boats get ......"
Okada Shinbei turned his head and recognized the samurai shouting in the distance, he was also a light head, but the other party had experienced the rout on the beach and seen the power of these flying boats.
The samurai and ashigaru on the shogunate defense line couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when they heard the samurai's words, and then quickly scattered in all directions, crawling into the nearest bunker.
Okada Shinbei also followed the panicked flow of people and hid in a nearby bunker. In order to learn the lessons of the last defeat, the Tokugawa shogunate's defense line built a solid top layer of the mountain castle and the earthen fort fortress, with huge logs stacked side by side on two floors, and a thick layer of soil was added on top of each layer. The main thing was to resist the powerful artillery fire of the Far East and the deadly rain of fire sprinkled by the flying boats......
The long defensive line was crowded with samurai and ashigaru of the Tokugawa shogunate army in each mountain castle, flat castle, earthen fort, and fortress. They couldn't help but rejoice that with such a strong defensive line, no matter how strong the Far East was, there was nothing they could do, and if they wanted to break through, they could only use the people to fill it slowly.
Okada Shinbei hides at the entrance to a bunker. He waited for a long time, but he didn't see the rain of fire falling from the sky, so he carefully climbed out of the bunker to go outside to see what was going on.
"My lord, don't go out......" Several of Okada's Shinbei subordinates Ashigaru hurriedly shouted to him anxiously when they saw that he was going out.
Okada's Shinbei turned around and waved at them, signaling them not to follow, and then he slowly poked his head out of the trench next to the bunker. I saw that the dozens of flying boats in the air in front of the defense line were slowly turning their huge bodies and began to fly slowly into the distance.
Seeing those flying boats fly away, Okada Shinbei couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Maybe those flying boats saw that the samurai and ashigaru in the defense line were hiding in bunkers, so they had nowhere to start, so they had no choice but to fly away. But he didn't let the people in the bunker out, because the flying boats hadn't gone far yet, so don't let them kill another one.
Because the night is dark. He didn't see that the flying boats had dropped iron cans, which were nearly a meter high. The half-meter-thick iron can, as soon as it left the airship's pod, automatically opened a small parachute and was slowly falling downward.
The various airship groups that carried out the task of dropping special weapons this time were filled with chlorine canisters under the pods of each airship. This is a second-generation special weapon jointly developed by the military factory of the Far Eastern Company and the Ministry of Chemical Industry. Compared with the first generation, the performance has been significantly improved, both in terms of power and reliability.
In order to strengthen the effect of the attack, the Far East Air Force almost mobilized Liaodong and Luzon on the frontal defense line of the Hyogozu area on the front line of Harima and Settsu of the shogunate army, and a total of more than 100 airships participated in the special weapons launch operation.
The airship formation would follow the lines of the Tokugawa shogunate. The total amount of chlorine put into the company from south to north will reach several hundred tons, and the company's chlorine reserves have been exhausted.
As the chlorine canisters slowly fell to the ground, "poof...... Poof......", the switch on the chlorine canister was opened one after another by the slight impact on the ground, and patches of slightly greenish-yellow smoke were slowly released.
Chlorine was almost three times heavier than air, and it rolled against the ground like a fog of death in a slight northwest wind. Although the speed is not fast, in the dark night, it is impossible to detect at all.
Okada Shinbei was still watching the direction of the flying boat's departure, and it wasn't until dozens of behemoths burrowed into the dark night that he could no longer see them, and his heart was finally relieved.
He let out a long breath, and just as he was about to turn around and call out the people in the bunker, he noticed that something seemed to be coming in front of him. Okada Shinbei climbed up from the trench and ran up to the top of the bunker in a few steps, carefully observing the front of the line by moonlight.
I saw that patches of thick fog were slowly attacking the defense line, and in an instant, they floated to the defense line and fell into the trenches one after another. Okada Shinbei was stunned by the scene in front of him, he suddenly had a sense of foreboding, and he turned around and wanted to shout loudly, but the thick fog had surrounded him, and he had begun to suffocate, and he couldn't shout no matter what.
He gasped in pain as the thick chlorine gas flooded Okada Shinbei, his eyes, nose, and throat burning as if they had been burned by an acidic substance, and he shook his body and slowly collapsed.
At this time, it was midnight, and the samurai and ashigaru of the entire defense line of the Tokugawa shogunate army were sleeping in mountain castles, flat castles, earthen forts, and fortresses. Only a few units on the defensive line were on alert.
Because the Satsuma feudal army on the other side of the defense line was active in the past few days, and there were signs of an attack, the shogunate army mobilized a large number of reserves from the rear and deployed them in various parts of the defense line.
A large number of people poured in at the forward position at once, and the various mountain cities, flat cities, earthen forts, and fortresses on the defense line were crowded. When the thick mist drifted over, many people were still asleep.
Even the troops in charge of guarding the line of defense had taken refuge in the nearest bunker because they had spotted the airship. There were even dozens of people crammed into a small bunker, like canned sardines, tightly packed together.
The thick fog drifted into the mountain castles, flat castles, earthen forts, and fortresses on the defensive line, and a large number of samurai of the shogunate army, as well as the civilians mobilized by the Tokugawa shogunate, were drowned in this fog of death. (To be continued......)
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