9.175 In the midst of heavy rain

When it was almost dawn, it suddenly began to rain heavily in the sky, and the people who poured it could not see each other clearly face to face. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIt's like knowing that the 6th Division will be wiped out after dawn, and God has come to cool down the people and horses that both sides are fighting each other!

Looking at the secret rain line in the sky, the two military commanders, Shen Lao Er and Wang Shankui, scolded their mothers in their respective military departments!

"Thief God! If this is done, won't the remnants of the 6th Division be out of breath! Are you a bodhisattva of Chinese or foreigners? ”

In the midst of the torrential rain, the footsteps of the 99th Division and the armored column had to be temporarily stopped. It is obviously very unwise for the infantry to fight under such heavy rain, and although the chariot is not afraid of water, if it loses the accompanying infantry, it can easily become the target of the Japanese army's "meat bullets", so they also wait for the rain to stop.

And just like that, the sound of gunfire in the night sky gradually stopped, and all that remained in the wilderness was the sound of violent raindrops falling on the ground.

Of course, not everyone hated the rainstorm, for example, the commander of the 6th Division, Shiro Inaba, and his officers were happy to encounter the rainstorm.

It's nice to have escaped death!

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the failure of the airdrop operation will not only replenish our enemy, but will also expose the fact that our 6th Division is weak! Just based on the amount of Western medicine received, Huang Haoran can easily calculate the actual combat strength of our 6th Division at the moment! Tonight's attack is by no means accidental, Huang Haoran is going to launch a general attack on our Kumamoto Division! ”

Although the analysis of the chief of staff, Shigeta Shigetoku Daisa, is reasonable, but the commander of the Inaba Shiro Division does not want to listen to these words now! He has not yet recovered from the barrage of blows. First, the airdrop of supplies was sent to the opponent, then the heavy firepower of the 6th Division was blown up by the Imperial Army's own army aviation, and finally the sudden attack of the 25th Army!

Powerful armored clusters, ferocious artillery fire, and brave soldiers overwhelming like a sea of mountains, when has the Empire's army been so comprehensively suppressed? Even Ryosuke Isoya, who is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops in Taierzhuang, may have never seen such a sharp offensive!

Shiro Inaba can't help but think of a four-character idiom: "Destroy the withered and decay!" "That's right! The attack power displayed by the 25th Army tonight gave him such a feeling!

In just over an hour, the tank units of the 6th Division were completely wiped out! The 99th Brigade Regiment blocked in front of the 11th Division also lost more than half! What's even more terrifying is that the offensive momentum of the 99th Division of the Chinese army at that time has not weakened even a little bit! It's horrible! It's horrible! Thinking that the 99th Division was only one of the many units under Huang Haoran's command, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba broke out in a cold sweat on his back!

Shigeta Shigetoku's words sounded like nonsense to the head of the Inaba Shiro Division, isn't it obvious what Huang Haoran wants to do? Since the day Huang Mei was recovered by Huang Haoran, this general attack is something that will happen sooner or later!

Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba didn't care why he lost to Huang Haoran now, he just wanted to know how the 6th Division could have escaped this catastrophe!

"Gentlemen, who of you can stop Huang Haoran's 99th Division?"

Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, who has always been arrogant, actually said such words that were almost pleading, which made the main officers of the 6th Division feel very incredible, but when they thought about it, they were all relieved.

yes, it's almost over, what are you doing with an empty shelf? If you can't block the sharp knife of the 99th Division, which Huang Haoran shows, then it's really all over!

"Who can stop Huang Haoran's 99th Division? Who can ......? ”

Seeing that the officers did not answer, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba began to repeat the question over and over again, his voice getting smaller and lower, and after repeating it five or six times, he couldn't even make a sound.

What a kind of despair! You must know that there are still more than 10,000 capable soldiers in the 6th Division, but the main general has shown such a decadent spirit, which is really the darkest scene in the history of the Imperial Army!

What's even more terrifying is that in the face of Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba's extreme gaffe, none of the Japanese officers in the division headquarters stood up to speak, but all desperately lowered their heads, which was clearly an attitude of resignation.

Think about when the Kumamoto Division has been so miserable since the founding of the army?

All this is because of one person, the famous general Huang Haoran! The man who left countless wounds on the Japanese Army!

The chief of staff, Shigeta Shigetoku Daisa, knew that he had to stand up and cheer up the officers, otherwise, before he was fatally attacked by Huang Haoran's troops, I am afraid that the fortress of the 6th Division would be crushed from the inside!

"Division Commander! Don't be discouraged! In fact, we still have hope! We... We still have a decisive gas! ”

Hearing the words 'decisive gas', Shiro Inaba's eyes lit up, but then they dimmed again.

The so-called 'decisive gas' is actually a new type of poison gas called 'red cylinder' used in accordance with the instructions of the Japanese army's base camp in 1938.

The history of the use of poison gas by the Japanese army can be traced back to the early 20th century. As early as 1918, the Japanese army secretly set up a 'Temporary Poison Gas Committee' in the Army Ordnance Bureau, and began the overall planning, research guidance, and production coordination of poison gas and its combat use.

After the occurrence of poison gas warfare in the European theater during World War I, Sakumura Soshu, a Japanese army artilleryman known as the so-called "father of poison gas," could not wait to go to the field to investigate and understand it, and on the basis of the investigation, he submitted a report to the Japanese military top brass on the basis of the existing research results. The report said that Japan's level of chemical weapons research has lagged far behind that of Europe and the United States, and for this reason, it was explicitly suggested that "one of the keys to winning wars in the future lies in surprise scientific warfare." If such a means of confrontation are delayed by one day, there may be losses ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of compatriots. The production of poison gas is an urgent issue at present. ‘

The poison gas warfare, a means of mass destruction, was precisely in line with the needs of the Japanese war decision-makers who were eager to expand aggression on a large scale, and Hisaka's proposal to plant trees was fully affirmed, and special funds were quickly allocated and forces were organized to start actual combat research, production, and training preparations.

From the beginning of 1931 to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, in just a few years, mustard gas, Lewis gas, phosgene, phenylcyanide cyanide, phenyl bromide, ethyl chloride and other poison gas varieties with different characteristics came out one after another, and the supporting poison gas weapons such as various types of poison gas cylinders, poison gas shells, poison gas bombs and poison spreaders installed on armored combat vehicles or aircraft have also been successfully developed.

Because poison gas warfare is a new means of warfare with strong technology and high requirements, which requires a large number of personnel to be used and supported, for this reason, the Japanese army spared no expense and established the Army Narashino School in Chiba Prefecture in 1933, which is a professional training base for poison gas warfare personnel, and is a "chemical warfare education institution for the whole Japanese army", mainly training grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers. Cultivating the backbone of the chemical forces and the chemical warfare officers of all units'. The vast majority of the cadets who graduated from this army school were ordered to go to the Chinese battlefield and became the executioners of the barbaric massacre of Chinese soldiers and civilians.

In this way, with the vigorous support of the Japanese base camp, it seemed that overnight Japan became a major country in the world in poison gas warfare at that time, and it was among the first-class in terms of technical level, specialized personnel, and combat strength in the military establishment.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, whether it was the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Taiyuan, or the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army repeatedly ignored the strong condemnation of world public opinion and brazenly used tear gas and vomiting poisonous gas 'red agent' against our soldiers and civilians to resist the enemy.

When the Battle of Wuhan broke out, after summing up the so-called 'experience and lessons' gained from repeated actual battles on the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army was extremely vicious and even more ferocious when formulating a combat plan for the use of poison gas in the battle.

According to the new operational policy, the Japanese army's more brutal and inhumane poison gas warfare was launched on a large scale against the Chinese military and civilians defending Wuhan. According to post-war statistics, the Japanese army used more than 32,000 poison gas canisters, fired more than 9,000 poison gas shells, and launched more than 370 poison gas attacks in the battle. According to the Japanese army, '80 percent of the gas attacks were successful'.

But this move did not have the slightest effect on Huang Haoran's 25th Group Army! Because Huang Haoran's 25th Army was the only group army at the level of the Wuhan government group army with all personnel equipped with gas masks, more than one Japanese unit tried to use poison gas against Huang Haoran's troops in previous operations, but the results were all in vain.

Under the tremendous pressure exerted by Huang Haoran's department, even the always steady Shigeta Shigeta made such a low-level and fatal mistake, which made Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro feel even more desperate!

After such a reminder from Shigeta Shigetoku, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba suddenly found that he still had one more thing to ask, that is, how to deal with the 'decisive gas' carried by the 6th Division!

According to the Japanese Army's secrecy regulations, poison gas bombs cannot be exposed!

The Japanese Army was not only brutal, but also hypocritical.

On the one hand, they use it frequently and intensively on the battlefield, and on the other hand, they know the depth of their sins and are bent on covering up their crimes, so they adopt strict blockade measures against gas warfare. In a document signed in April 1938 by Prince Zaihito, then Supreme Commander of the Japanese Army, it was clearly instructed that subordinates should pay attention to the use of poison gas bombs in smoke screens as much as possible, and strictly keep the fact of the use of poison gas strictly secret, so as not to leave any traces.

Within the Japanese Army, this 'style' of wanting to be a bitch and building a torii has a historical tradition.

Even before the outbreak of the war against China, Japan had been unusually 'active' in participating in international activities against and banning chemical gas weapons.

Since chemical gas weapons far harm people more than conventional weapons, the international community attaches great importance to this and has successively formulated a number of important international conventions and agreements, including the first Hague Convention in 1899, which prohibits the use of projectiles whose sole purpose is to disperse asphyxiating or poisonous gases; In the Second Hague Convention of 1907, the provisions on 'the use of poisons, poisoning weapons and projectiles or other substances which are likely to cause unnecessary suffering'; In the Treaty of Brussels of 1919, there was a special clause 'prohibiting the manufacture, trafficking, use and import of poison gases into Germany'; In the 1922 Washington Treaty, the provisions on 'the manufacture and use of asphyxiating and poisonous gases and similar liquids or materials', and in the 1925 Geneva Protocol, 'the prohibition of the use in war of asphyxiating or poisonous gases, and all similar liquids or other substances', etc.

In the process of studying and formulating the above-mentioned international conventions, Japan participated in the entire process in a big way, not only ratifying the first four treaties, but also signing the 1925 Geneva Protocol.

Not only that, but Japan had clearly expressed its opposition to chemical gas weapons on various international occasions before the war, and its attitude was particularly clear compared to that of other countries. The most typical example of this occurred at the 1932 International Conference on Disarmament, when the representatives of other countries were secretly surprised by the clarity of their attitudes, the fervor of their rhetoric, and the firmness of their 'determination', even though they were expected by the participating countries. The representative of Japan expressed the need to 'prohibit the use of all types of chemical weapons by the strictest means; It is necessary to prohibit not only the use, but also the usual training, education and preparation. ‘

However, only one year later, the Japanese army officially established the Army Narashino School for the training of poison gas warfare personnel. What an irony!

Even in 1925, when the Geneva Protocol was openly signed, Japan abolished all the funds of the two divisions that had been saved in accordance with the agreement of the Washington Conference on Disarmament, and went so far as to increase all of them to the research and development of chemical poison gas weapons, so that the relevant forces could be rapidly increased.

Japan's secrecy is exhaustive. In order to cover up the fact that it had manufactured chemical weapons, Japan also created an "island that disappeared from the map." It was Okunoshima Island, where the Japanese army set up the most important chemical weapons factory, the Chungkai Weapons Factory.

Okuno Island is a small island with an area of only a few tens of hectares, but since the beginning of the 20th century, it has been under the control of the Japanese army and has gradually become an important military base.

In 1927, the island was designated as a special island for poison gas production plants, and the only few local residents on the island were relocated, and various professional factories, storage houses, power plants, material transfer yards, living ancillary facilities and other supporting buildings were soon built. In 1929, the factory was officially completed, and high-ranking figures in Japanese political and military circles, including the younger brother of the Japanese emperor and the Minister of War, visited this remote island, which shows the importance of the factory. After the outbreak of the war, Japan further strengthened the secrecy of the 'Chungkai Arms Factory', and even completely erased the existence of Okuno Island from the Japanese map published during that period, thus leaving the name of a 'lost island on the map'.

This shows how taboo the Japanese government is about their troops being labeled as using poison gas bombs! If Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba can't properly eliminate these incriminating evidence, then even if he can have the luck to escape, I'm afraid that he will be asked by the military department to cut his stomach!

"Chief of Staff Shigeta, immediately order the troops to bury the 'decisive gas' on the spot! These things must not be left to the Chinese! ”

As soon as Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro said this, the heads of the Japanese officers in the division headquarters were buried even lower. This is because in their dictionary, burning military flags and burying poison gas bombs mean a very terrible result, that is, the troops are about to carry out the "jade shattering" operation!

In previous records of the Imperial Army, "Jade Crush" was the last choice for some small units below the brigade level! Now the commander of the Inaba Shiro Division wants to take the entire 6th Division to "jade shattering", which has to be said to have created history again!

It's a pity that it's still a dark history! Not glorious at all!

"Division Commander! Let's go all out to break through! The 27th Division is in the area less than five kilometers east of Huangmei, and we still have hope! ”

Chief of Staff Shigeta saw that he couldn't make a plan, so he immediately came up with another plan, for him, as long as the 6th Division was not completely wiped out and he himself did not die, no matter what the outcome was, it was acceptable. According to the practice of the Japanese Army, the responsibility for the failure of the battle will be borne by the military attache who is the commander of the division and regiment, and he, who is the chief of staff, can completely change the division and regiment and continue to work.

Therefore, Chief of Staff Shigeta still prefers to concentrate his forces to break through a little to join the 27th Division, and his situation is indeed not as desperate as Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro.

"Hope? Look at how many days it has been since the 27th Division attacked Huangmei, but they still haven't been able to make a breakthrough! Do you think that such a defensive line that the 27th Division could not take down in a hard battle would be easy to break through? Now Huang Haoran's strategy has been put on the table, he is going to use the defenders in the direction of Huangmei to block the 27th Division, and then use his 99th Division to carry out a flank attack on our Kumamoto Division from the south! When we go to Huangmei, aren't we throwing ourselves into the net? Give all the right flank to Huang Haoran's 99th Division? Don't forget, Huang Haoran's 100th Army hasn't appeared yet? ”

At this moment, it was the turn of Chief of Staff Shigeta to be surprised, and the idea he had just made to attack Huangmei was based on the basis that Huang Haoran sent 100 troops to hold Huangmei. If the 6th Division, the 99th Army and the 100th Army engage in frontal combat, then they don't have to beware of Huang Haoran's usual surprise attacks!

It can be inferred from the words of the commander of the Inaba Shiro Division that the Chinese army guarding Huangmei is actually not the 100th Army! Which army in Huangmei City is facing the 27th Army and will not retreat?

"If the troops blocking the 27th Division in Huangmei are not Huang Haoran's other ace 100th Army, then now that the 99th Division is in the south, does Huang Haoran still have a unit in his hands that is similar in combat effectiveness to the 99th Army and the 100th Army?"

Although Chief of Staff Shigeta asked this question, he himself was not willing to believe this judgment! From the Battle of Songhu to the Battle of Wuhan, in just over a year, the ace troops under Huang Haoran have been expanded again and again! From the original 99th Division to the 99th Army and the 100th Army, it has already increased several times compared to the original divisional establishment that made it difficult for the commanders of the Japanese Army divisions to sleep!

Now, there is another one! And judging from the scale of Huangmei's war, the scale of this wrong team will not be too small!

What kind of character is Huang Haoran? Could he be magical? As soon as the Chinese army, which was originally like sheep, turned into a strong force in his hands! If the Wuhan government can have a few more generals like Huang Haoran, then the outcome of this Sino-Japanese war is really not very easy to say......

"The troops that stick to Huangmei are the 99th Army and the 4th Army, this 4th Army is the strong force of the Nanjing government's Northern Expedition, and now when it meets a general like Huang Haoran, it is naturally like a fish in water, and even twelve points of combat power have been stimulated! However, from Jiujiang to Huangmei, the appearance of this army has changed greatly...... Huang Haoran deserves to be a real famous general! ”

"Alas... Encountering Huang Haoran is the misfortune of our Kumamoto Division! ”

Lamentation, again resounded in the headquarters of the 6th Division......

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There are also people on Huang Haoran's side who like this heavy rain, and this person is Shi Jincai, the commander of the artillery column directly under the 25th Group Army.

The rainstorm can block the pace of infantry advance, can block the tracks of tank troops, but cannot block the ballistics of artillery units! Artillery is a long-range strike force, Shi Jincai feels that his opportunity has come!

"Quick! Take the gun off the towing vehicle and aim at the predetermined coordinates! Don't build an anti-artillery wall, let's leave after the fight! ”

In the pouring rain, Shi Jincai shouted loudly in his voice. The situation after the attack of the armored column and the 99th Division was put into the financial material, and the worst happened!

In the face of the 6th Division, which had been surrounded by Huang Haoran for many days and had been weak, the 99th Division, which was recuperating and recharged, was like a group of tigers descending from the mountains, and the offensive was completely unstoppable! The battle report for breaking through the Japanese defense line is basically one after another, and it looks like the 11th Brigade on the opposite side is about to penetrate all of them!

In order to dominate the battle, Shen Laoer instructed Qian Guoliang to mobilize heavy troops to block the front of the artillery, so that Shi Jincai could not use the new positions occupied after the 99th type shock to carry out artillery bombardment on the division headquarters of the 6th Division and the 11th Brigade and regiment headquarters according to the predetermined plan, and could only follow the 99th Division far behind to carry out artillery cover for Qian Guoliang's troops. For this reason, although Shi Jincai has fire in his heart, he has no way to deal with Shen Laoer, whose face is thicker than the city wall.

Fortunately, a rainstorm changed all this, and the 99th Division was blocked by the torrential rain, which meant that it was impossible to carry out a direct attack on the division headquarters of the 6th Division to achieve a fatal effect. Now the means that can get to Shiro Inaba, the only thing left is the large-caliber howitzer in the hands of Shi Jincai!

Shen Lao Er didn't dare to carry the charge of obstructing the battle, so soon after the rainstorm was about to fall, the baggage troops blocking in front of the artillery column disappeared, and the 99th Division gave way to Shi Jincai's artillery column to attack the channel!

Shi Jincai's show has finally been staged!

Because the range of the Soviet-made 152 howitzer far exceeded that of the 150 howitzer equipped by the Japanese army, Shi Jincai decided to make his heavy artillery completely undefended, deploy quickly and move quickly, and bully little Japan with its range! After a busy pass, the 18 howitzers of the 1st battalion were the first to enter the firing state.

"Hit? Commander? ”

It was a tempting suggestion, but for the sake of safety, Shi Jincai decided to wait until all the 152 howitzers were ready before launching a salvo! He's going to have full coverage of the target area! Don't even spare a mouse!

In the midst of the rainstorm, Shi Jin's fighting spirit is high! (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )