Sorry, it's cold, it's time to wake up, it's late for the update. The other was even more later, and the soldiers were in a hurry to go to the meeting! It's around ten o'clock!

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Just as the Japanese opened the ammunition box and prepared to fire poison gas bombs at the location of the engineer regiment, they only heard a series of loud "booms...... The entire hilltop position was blown up into the sky.

This time the Japanese army suffered......

Originally, the hilltop position of the 159 Heights was relatively small, and could only accommodate about one company of more than 100 people. The same was true of the Japanese army, most of the more than 300 Japanese troops were not actually on the hilltop position, but on another slope. So, if it's just the explosion of explosives, it won't kill many people.

But now it's not just about explosives.

The Japanese army had just carried a few boxes of poison gas bombs to the hilltop position, and those boxes also contained more than a dozen poison gas bombs, and as soon as the explosives in the mountaintop position exploded, those poison gas bombs were immediately blown up in the direction of the Japanese army.

Although these Japanese soldiers were wearing gas masks, the shock wave and sand and flying stones set off when the explosives exploded were knocked down, only to hit the Japanese soldiers one by one, and most of the Japanese gas masks were shocked or dropped or damaged, so the poison gas penetrated into their gas masks.

Even more powerful are those that blow up far away...... Several poison gas bombs were carried high by the shock wave, and when they fell, they hit the Japanese military camp near the foot of the 159 Heights and "snorted" green smoke. What's even more terrifying is that in the dark night, they didn't know that the poisonous gas bomb was smoking near them, and there was a lot of gunpowder smoke in the air, and they couldn't distinguish the pungent smell of the poisonous gas for a while, so they didn't notice it after a long time.

By the time they found out, it was too late to put on gas masks...... Patches of Japanese soldiers had already fallen to the ground, foaming at the mouth, convulsing all over their bodies.

At this time, Zhang Chi and the others on the other side did not know the situation on the other side, and they were all afraid that when the Japanese army reacted, they would hit the poison gas bombs at them, and they didn't see any situation, and they saw that a long time had passed, and the poison gas should be dispersed at this time, so they climbed up to the 159 heights with trepidation.

When I went up to take a look, I was stunned to find that the high ground was full of Japanese corpses, and these corpses were all hideous, their faces were black, their eyes were like dead fish, and their deaths were very terrifying.

Looking at this, the soldiers couldn't help but get goosebumps all over their bodies, because they thought that if they hadn't prepared to plant explosives on the 159 Heights in advance, then they might have died in front of the position.

The most depressed of them should be Masao Watanabe.

Originally, he thought that if the "deadly weapon" of poison gas bombs was put on the battlefield, the 56th Division should easily pull out the hard nail of Tangji and continue to intersperse with Lashio, but he didn't expect it to be a "boom...... Everything was in chaos, and it was not the Chinese who fell in the poison gas, but their own subordinates.

What made him even more depressed was that there was still a relatively closed valley near the barracks, and the poisonous gas had been in it for a long time, and now they couldn't even attack the 159 heights...... Because that means that they have to attack with gas masks, and it is conceivable that the poisonous gas on the 159 heights has already dissipated due to strong winds and air circulation, so it means that the Japanese army will attack the enemy's high ground with gas masks in this dark night, which is almost suicide.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" The staff officer walked into the headquarters and reported: "The casualties are counted, and a total of 535 people died of poisoning, including those we sent to attack the 159th Heights, a total of 873 people died. In addition, 456 people lost their combat effectiveness due to poisoning. ...... of uncomfortable symptoms Countless! ”

"Hmm!" Watanabe Masao's face was pale, even if he was mentally prepared, he was still a little unacceptable after hearing this number, just an explosion...... The 56th Division lost more than 1,000 people, and in addition to that, there were also a large number of mildly poisoned people, although these poisoned people still had combat effectiveness, but they would undoubtedly weaken the combat effectiveness of the 56th Division to a considerable extent.

The 56th Division was originally exhausted from a long journey, and originally thought that they could rest for a while to recover some vitality, but now it is the opposite vitality.

"And ......"

"What else?" Masao Watanabe couldn't stand it, especially since he made this mistake himself.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" The chief of staff handed over a telegram with some trepidation, and said: "I just received a telegram from Lieutenant General Mu Tianguchi of the 18th Division, the 200th Division of the Chinese Army has broken through the resistance of the 18th Division, and is rushing all the way to Tangji, and it will arrive in two hours!" ”

"Bastard!" Masao Watanabe slammed his fist the table.

This meant that the 56th Division had only two hours to spare.

After thinking about it, Masao Watanabe gritted his teeth and ordered: "Pass the order on, let the 146th Wing immediately launch an attack on the enemy's high ground, and be sure to capture Tangji within two hours!" ”

"But Your Excellency the Lieutenant General...... "The staff officer wanted to say something, but he was stunned by Masao Watanabe's eyes.

Watching the chief of staff leave, Masao Watanabe sat back in his chair in distress.

Although he knew that the current situation was not suitable for an offensive, and that the poisonous gas in front of the position would undoubtedly cause great trouble to the attacking troops, he had to do so, otherwise interspersed with Lashio would become an impossible task.

I hope that the 146 United team will not let itself down, and Masao Watanabe can only comfort himself like this at this time.

Masao Watanabe looked at the map on the table with some distraction, and the map still drew the offensive route that he had drawn a few days ago, and everything had gone very smoothly before, and it could even be said that it was more smooth than he expected. But today, his troops were blocked to the death in Tangji, not only were they blocked, but they also suffered heavy casualties.

"How did the Chinese know that explosives were planted on high ground?" Masao Watanabe asked himself over and over again, "What kind of force is that?" To be able to defeat the 56th Division again and again? ”

At this time, Watanabe Masao didn't know that the only engineer corps stationed in Tangji was an engineer corps, an engineer corps with no more than 1,000 people. And it was only a coincidence that the explosives on the top of the hill were loaded and the gas bombs were blown back to the Japanese army's own barracks.

But fortunately, he didn't know, and if he knew, he was afraid that he would spurt a mouthful of blood to the ceiling on the spot.