readx; As the Northeast Theater continued to send reinforcements to the Liaodong Peninsula, especially several Reading Artillery Brigades previously deployed in the Korean region were also transferred to the Lushun front, which greatly increased the ability of Liang Xunqin's Third Army to attack fortifications. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On September 6, the 27th Division of the Third Army launched a general attack on the Erling Mountain Fortress, an important stronghold on the periphery of the Lushun Fortress, that is, the 203 Heights in the ordinary population. In fact, the final general attack was a kick at the door, and what the 27th Division had to do was to completely kick this fortress, which had been almost smoothed out of the sharp corners.

In this campaign, the 27th Division was accompanied by an artillery battalion under the direct jurisdiction of the State Military Commission.

This reading artillery battalion is completely different from ordinary artillery, although they are also equipped with artillery, but the shells they use are a little strange, all of them are painted in the style of skeletons, this style may not be seen by ordinary soldiers, but most of the officers who know a little about the development of military equipment in the world can recognize it, which is a sign of poison gas shells.

The unit, officially known as the Sixth Artillery Battalion, is a chemical unit that uses poison gas bombs as its main combat equipment.

Even Liang Xunqin, commander of the Third Army, commander of the Lushun Campaign, complained about the State Military Commission's decision to use poison gas, believing that the use of poison gas bombs was an insult to the soldiers on both sides. However, in the face of the new heavy casualties caused by the attack on Lushun, even Liang Xunqin had to admit that it was also a helpless move to be forced to use poison gas bombs in order to conquer Lushun.

Poison gas warfare, this thing is not a new thing, as early as the early World War I in the European battlefield has been used on a large scale, in 1915 the German army took the lead in the use of chlorine, and then the British and French forces also used poison gas to fight back, the poison gas war between the two sides from chlorine to phosgene and then to the king of poison gas mustard gas, it can be said that relying on the spring breeze of World War I, not only made tanks, aircraft these new weapons become an important combat force, but also made chemical warfare a pivotal force, In World War I, the warring sides used at least 100,000 tons of poison gas, more than 40 types, causing at least 100,000 deaths and nearly a million injuries. Its combat effect can be regarded as second only to the power of the heavy machine gun.

When there was a gas war in Europe, China naturally followed up in a timely manner, but the development and production of this gas bomb has not been smooth due to the domestic chemical industry, otherwise Chen Jingyun would have used it in the Russian civil war a few years ago, and as for humanitarianism, Chen Jingyun has never cared about it.

Both have started a war, and the two [***] people are fighting to the death with bullets and shells, is it possible that they are still clinging to a false name of humanitarianism, and they don't use poisonous gas? In Chen Jingyun's opinion, this poisonous gas is no different from a machine gun and rifle, it is just a weapon, if he has it, he will definitely have to use it, otherwise he will be moldy at home and sit back and watch the soldiers in front of him fight to the death.

After several years of domestic development, this poison gas is also on the right track, although the production is not good, but it also hoards thousands of tons of mustard gas, the reason why the Korean campaign is useless is because the Korean campaign is based on movement warfare, basically relying on armored clusters to break through quickly, detour, and then annihilate, to put it mildly, there is no time to even launch poison gas bombs for the chemical troops, and it is also to protect the sudden surname, if it is used in the Korean battlefield, the army has a guard, Then the effect of using it in Lushun will be greatly discounted.

And if poison gas is to be used, the best place to use poison gas is to use the enemy's fixed positions, such as the Western Front trenches during World War I, and then to the fixed fortress such as Arthur. And this is why poison gas was rampant in World War I, and poison gas was rarely used in World War II, not because the humanitarian spirit of politicians and generals in World War II was stronger than in World War I, but because poison gas was very effective in the trenches during World War I, but it was extremely effective for the armored forces of World War II and the war based on mobile warfare. A simple gas attack is unlikely to achieve much success.

Speaking of humanitarian factors, those napalm, thermobaric bombs, nuclear bombs, neutron bombs, and infrasonic bombs are all more ruthless than poison gas, but I haven't seen them ban it. Don't talk about these things, let's just talk about machine guns in conventional weapons, all weapons in the world, including nuclear bombs and poison gas, there is nothing more than machine guns killing people, poison gas and machine guns are pediatrics compared to them, but why don't countries include machine guns in the scope of prohibited use? It's very simple, it's just that the machine gun kills people enough, and kills enough!

To talk about humanitarianism in war is basically nonsense!

In order to make the capture of Lushun smoother and the casualties received by the soldiers smaller, Chen Jingyun endured until the general attack before putting the chemical unit of the Sixth Artillery Battalion into the battlefield. According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department, although the military has also conducted research on biological and chemical prevention in recent years, and the army itself has developed poison gas, it has not paid much attention to poison gas, and the number of gas masks is very limited. And this is because there has not been a large-scale gas war in the Asian theater, in fact, not only the army, but even the Chinese army itself has not been equipped with gas masks on a large scale.

When the 6th Artillery Battalion of Reading Power fired poison gas bombs at the 203 heights of the Yue Army, a large amount of mustard gas began to permeate the fortress of the Yue Army, in order to avoid accidental injury to their own gas bombs, the attacking front-line infantry was already equipped with gas masks, in addition, because mustard gas also hurt the skin, so the 2713 Battalion, which served as the front-line attack, was all wearing protective clothing, and basically the whole body was shrouded.

When a large area of mustard gas enveloped the entire 203 Heights, the thousands of defenders inside were in trouble due to the lack of gas masks and protective clothing.

After the 2713 battalion wore protective clothing and broke into the fortress, in the face of complex fortifications in the trench fortress, the 2713 infantry battalion used the Mauser C96 submachine pistol on a large scale for the first time to obtain dense firepower in narrow terrain, the Mauser C96 pistol designed in 1896 is not an advanced product, as early as the Xinhai year, Chen Jingyun had already imported a batch of semi-automatic Mauser C96 from Germany and equipped with the guard division and his personal guard, the Mauser C96 pistol was unqualified as a pistol, Not to mention the forces of the world's great powers, even the Chinese Army can't look down on it, mainly as a pistol The price of Mauser C96 is too high, the weight and size are too large, and it is not suitable to use it as a pistol, the only army in the world's armies that is officially equipped with Mauser C96 is the German army during World War I, and the reason why the German army was equipped with Mauser C96 at that time was because the number of Germany's main pistol, Luger pistols, was seriously insufficient, and it was basically a temporary replacement product, After World War I, the existing German Army immediately threw away all the remaining Mauser C96s.

As a pistol, the Mauser C96 is unqualified, and as a rifle, the Mauser C96 is also unqualified, too little power, and a very small range are defects.

The Mauser C96, which is between a pistol and a rifle, has not been able to equip the armies of various countries on a large scale in the past two decades, and the reason why China has been equipped with Mauser C96 on a large scale in history is because these warlord troops are extremely lacking in automatic firepower in the era of warlord melee, and they need to use Mauser C96 submachine pistols to supplement automatic firepower, and another important factor is that before and after World War I, countries have so-called military sanctions against China, and they are not allowed to export high-power weapons to China, but pistols are not within the restrictions, Therefore, as a pistol, the Mauser C96 has become the favorite of many warlords when purchasing weapons.

At present, the Chinese Army is a regular army, there is no shortage of machine gun firepower, and in the fierce battle, there is no chance to shoot the pistol, often when the pistol is used, the war situation has completely collapsed, and the pistol is basically useless except for suicide, so the pistol in the Chinese Army is the same as the pistol in the army of other countries, and the use is two, one is decoration, and the other is suicide!

In this case, the Chinese Army naturally did not use the nondescript Mauser C96, and even the German Luger pistol was not selected, but the American M1911 pistol, that is, the domestic Yuannian pistol.

But the Mauser C96 is not a simple pistol, but an automatic pistol, due to its larger size, it can even evolve into a small submachine gun after adding a shoulder rest and a large-capacity magazine, this change can be used before the appearance of the submachine gun, it can be used to make the fully automatic version of the Mauser C96 a suitable weapon when engaging in short-distance narrow terrain.

And Chen Jingyun's guards, that is, the officers and soldiers of the military attaché's chamber of the presidential palace are equipped with this type of Mauser C96, which is the Nanjing Light Weapons Arsenal based on the original Mauser C96 changed part of the design, the design uses a 20-round detachable magazine, equipped with a butt and even a silencing device, the caliber is changed, Instead of the original 7.62 mm, 9 mm was used, in order to use the Chinese standard nine-mm pistol cartridge, which was not given an official number in the army, but used the name given to the C96 submachine pistol by the manufacturer.

Although the military attaché's chamber of the presidential palace nominally belongs to the State Military Commission, and the soldiers are also selected from the guard division, they actually have nothing to do with the army, and this is simply Chen Jingyun's personal guard. Therefore, this equipment is also in its own hands, and basically all the equipment is not a standard product but a modified one, such as a rifle, although the 1916 rifle is used as the prototype, but the Guard's rifle barrel is much shorter than the prototype gun, even shorter than the cavalry gun, and most of them are equipped with scopes. In addition, the Mauser C96 submachine gun was armed, and in addition to this, the pistol was chosen according to the personal preferences of the guards. In short, this equipment is varied and nondescript. However, after Chen Jingyun saw the Mauser C96 with the butt installed, he immediately wanted to use this gun directly as a submachine gun, so he casually ordered the Lushun front-line troops to equip a batch of tests to test the specific actual combat effectiveness.

The 2713 Infantry Battalion, because it was on the front line of Artisun, was one of the test units and was equipped with a large number of Mauser C96 submachine guns. If these submachine pistols are engaged at a normal distance, to be honest, they are useless at all, because the normal field combat distance is basically more than 100 meters or even two or three hundred meters, and the range of this C96 submachine pistol is not enough, but for the current offensive operations, especially when it is necessary to break into the enemy fortress, the dense firepower and short size of the C96 submachine pistol are reflected in the advantage.

In addition to gas bombs and submachine pistols, the attacking troops also used a large number of flamethrowers, which were also the first to be used on the Western Front in Europe during World War I.

In the process of conquering the 203 heights, the attacking troops basically used a lot of poison gas bombs, hand grenades, submachine pistols and flamethrowers after close combat, and the use of this series of new tactics greatly reduced the number of casualties in the process of attacking Arthur, but the speed of advance was extremely fast.

A few days later, on September 9, the 27th Division had already conquered Heights 203, and then the artillery units set up observation posts here to direct the heavy artillery in the rear to fire, and even pulled a large number of artillery directly onto Heights 203.

With the conquest of the 203 heights, the capture of the Lushun Fortress is already just around the corner!