Chapter 260: An Unavoidable Hurdle

As the commander-in-chief of the 18th Group Army, the main person in charge of the party's military, and in fact the boss of the commander-in-chief of the whole army, his memory can be described as amazing. He remembered that the telegram received from the Guisui Daqingshan guerrilla detachment and sent it to the Jinsui Military Region and forwarded it to the Central Committee.

All the ammunition and materials seized in Guisui City, except for gasoline and some food, were handed over to the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment. However, all the Japanese poison gas shells and bombs in Guisui were transported, as well as all the chemical weapons, and not even a single smoke bomb was left.

Despite how many chemical weapons the Japanese army had stockpiled in Guisui, the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment was not very clear. However, according to the limited information, judging from the scale of the chemical weapons warehouses specially used by the Guisui Japanese army to store these chemical weapons, as well as the shape of the surrounding areas of the Guisui and Baotou lines, this number will definitely not be in the minority.

According to the judgment of the detachment commander, the number of shells and bombs should be around tens of thousands. Not counting the large quantities of gas canisters, smoke canisters, smoke bombs and other spreading equipment, as well as piles of canned liquid poison gas. Consider that these gases, once drained, pose a huge threat. The detachment leader, who thought that this matter was very strict, reported the situation to the headquarters as soon as possible.

The detachment commander, who had suffered from the poison gas of the Japanese army during the previous anti-sweeping operations, was very worried about what the Anti-Japanese Federation wanted to do with these poison gas bombs. The basic morality of being a human being, as well as the bottom line of being a regular soldier, made him a little worried that the Anti-United Nations would use these gas bombs on the battlefield.

During the interspersed period of cooperation with the anti-United Nations, he knew that the anti-drug tools were very complete. When you use these gases on the battlefield, you don't have to worry about the damage you cause. Although he was very disgusted by the Japanese army's use of chemical weapons on the battlefield, and even hated it.

But as a soldier, he said that he should have the morality and bottom line, and still told him that although these chemical weapons are also weapons, they should not appear on the battlefield. Both the Japanese army and the Chinese army should stay away from this demon. It was only a few times that he asked, because he didn't know where the headquarters was going to use these poison gas bombs, and Chen Hanzhang couldn't give a reply.

It is precisely because he has a very detailed grasp of these situations that the boss is very worried that Yang Zhen will return the favor with his own way in the situation of breaking the kettle and sinking the boat, and use the poison gas bombs in his hand to cover the withdrawal of troops outside Taiyuan City in a desperate way. The boss still knows very well what a poison gas bomb is.

Although it is not yet known that there is a weapon that is far more lethal than chemical weapons, it will be introduced in a few years, and it will be put into combat immediately. The Japanese, the only country that used chemical weapons on a large scale on the battlefield of World War II, and only used chemical weapons against the Chinese, became the only actual combat object of this weapon that could destroy the earth.

I only know that Yang Zhen is secretly engaged in something called an atomic weapon in the Northeast, but because of the limited knowledge he has in contact, he does not know how lethal this atomic weapon is. The boss, who only thought that it was similar to the elastic nature of poison gas, always thought that the poison gas bomb was a weapon that only a beast army like the Japanese army would use.

He was really a little worried in his heart that under such a difficult situation, Yang Zhen, who could make up his mind to spend a lot of money to develop new weapons, would use these poison gas bombs at a critical moment in the battle. As the boss of the old generation of soldiers, he still pays attention to the moral bottom line between soldiers. He hated this kind of unscrupulous approach on the battlefield.

However, the severe enemy situation around Taiyuan City, a large number of wounded and sick people waiting to retreat, machine equipment, and the few remaining troops in Yang Jicai's hands made him finally suppress his doubts. After all, the battle situation came first, and if there were a large number of reinforcements, he would definitely not allow Yang Zhen to use these chemical weapons on the battlefield. But at the moment, the battle situation is at a delicate moment, and the boss is not good to say.

Not to mention that this batch of industrial equipment is of great importance to the development of the military industry in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region. The troops around Taiyuan City are now in the semi-encirclement of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army is constantly attacking the surrounding area of Taiyuan City with heavy troops from the east, west, and south.

At this time, as long as the troops around Taiyuan City can be rescued, all those machines and equipment can be safely transferred. If Yang Zhen really takes some necessary measures at a critical moment, the boss himself doesn't want to interfere too much, after all, the shape on the battlefield is now compelling.

In fact, the boss is a little worried. Although there were also many seized poison gas bombs in the Anti-Japanese Alliance, especially in Guisui, chemical weapons were seized enough to completely envelop the entire Taiyuan battlefield in poison gas. But even if the current situation around the Taiyuan battlefield is very dangerous, Yang Zhen will not give orders to use it.

In Guisui alone, the Anti-Japanese Union seized more than 2,000 rounds of 100 and 50-kilogram aviation gas bombs that had been loaded with mustard gas and Louis morale, as well as tens of thousands of poison gas shells and a large amount of poison gas dispersing equipment. If it is all used on the Taiyuan battlefield, it is enough to cover the area within a radius of dozens of kilometers around Taiyuan City. Their own troops can completely use the cover of this batch of poison gas to evacuate smoothly.

The anti-coalition troops who participated in the war had a complete set of gas masks, and the Japanese-style gas masks captured from Taiyuan City by the brother troops in the war could be made to each person. This time, the troops participating in the war in Kannai were able to hold out for such a long time under the situation that the Japanese army was reinforcing by unscrupulous means. These Japanese-made gas masks captured from the Japanese army in Taiyuan can be said to be indispensable.

But what Yang Zhen was worried about was not what kind of political impact the use of captured poison gas weapons in this battle would bring. As the largest users of poison gas in the entire World War II, the Japanese are not qualified to make irresponsible remarks on this. The reason why Yang Zhen did not order the use of this large number of seized chemical warfare weapons was because of the long-term and subsequent effects it might bring.

After the war, under the condition that Taiyuan could not be effectively controlled, the Anti-Japanese Federation was unable to send professionals to remove the unexploded poison gas bombs, and it was unable to remove the poison gas from the poison gas contaminated area. If any of these gas bombs are not exploded, they will cause severe damage to the local people.

And after passing through the area where the poison gas is spreading, the toxicity will remain for a long time. This huge follow-up impact, Yang Zhen can't help but consider. Around the battlefield, there were not only Japanese troops participating in the battle, but also a large number of ordinary people. Moreover, the Jinzhong Basin around Taiyuan is also the main grain producing area in Shanxi. Once infected by poison gas, it will be impossible to farm for a long time.

Poison gas bombs, especially mustard gas, bring great damage, not to mention the Chinese who lack medical treatment now, even in China decades later, it will be difficult to cure. If the Anti-Japanese Federation can firmly control Taiyuan after this battle, Yang Zhen can send anti-chemical troops to completely clean up the battlefield. But the problem now is to abandon Taiyuan, not to finally control Taiyuan.

Shanxi is also an area with severe soil erosion, and once these gas bombs were not cleaned up in time, they were covered by sand. The danger will last for decades. These chemical weapons of the Japanese army have poisoned the Chinese enough. Decades later, China is still suffering from the chemical weapons abandoned by the Japanese army from time to time. Now the Chinese, don't poison themselves.

What's more, the battlefield is so close to Taiyuan City, and now that it is spring, it is a southerly wind, and the damage caused by these poison gas bombs to the Japanese army may not be too great. But the entire Taiyuan City will suffer a catastrophe. At this moment, the number of Japanese troops and Japanese in Taiyuan City is not large, and more are Chinese.

These Chinese don't have any gas masks, and they don't even know what poison gas is. After being poisoned, the Japanese would not give them any first aid. Even if it is not a south wind, no matter which wind direction, it is not suitable to use these things under the current situation around Taiyuan.

The Japanese army's poisoning of the Chinese with poison gas bombs has deepened the suffering of the Chinese at present. Yang Zhen will not take these weapons made by the Japanese to slaughter the Chinese to slaughter his own flesh and blood compatriots. Although I also know that the effect of using poison gas bombs at this time must be much better.

But Yang Zhen didn't have any plans at all, using these things around Taiyuan City. They would rather use the only dozen air-fuel bombs in the entire Suiyuan battlefield that are stored at Guisui Airport. The boss's worries are actually a bit superfluous. Of course, since the boss didn't take the initiative to ask about this kind of thing, Yang Zhen wouldn't be idle and take the initiative to explain this matter himself.

The air-fueled bomb, which was somewhat like the gas canister that would be used decades later, was much more powerful than that. This kind of high-tech weapon of this era seems to be very simple, but in fact it involves a complete scientific structure, physics, chemistry and other aspects of the knowledge system.

For professional questions in this regard, let the professionals answer the boss's questions when the boss goes to the Northeast to inspect after the battle. With this half-scoop of water, it's better not to be clumsy and clumsy to go to the class gate to get an axe. As for what the boss thinks now, hehe, don't worry about it for the time being.

Yang Zhen and the boss were both deploying troops for the general retreat of Taiyuan at this time, and Yang Zhen risked being suspicious and used the necessary means to cover the safe evacuation of the troops around Taiyuan City. It's not just about the battle situation, it's also about his brother's safety. Many times, family affection is an unavoidable hurdle.

At this time, in Taiyuan, it has entered the last moment, and the general retreat is being arranged. Yang Jicai, who didn't know that his eldest brother was in Waixing County, which was more than 200 kilometers away from Taiyuan, and he didn't know that his eldest brother had arranged an errand for him, and he didn't have time to think about his work arrangements after returning to northern Jinbei.

The director of the political department of the eighth sub-district of Jinsui is still a man of his word. Just eight hours after entering the final countdown. While the equipment of the last dismantled Northwest Steelworks, the German-made converter, had been unloaded and placed on the flatbed car of the last train, Yang Jicai began to carry out the general retreat.

He knew that in the current situation of being very close to the Japanese army, if he wanted the whole army to retreat safely, it was almost impossible to evacuate safely by alternating cover alone. Once bitten by the surrounding Japanese troops, 100 percent of the troops that served as the last cover for the general retreat could not be withdrawn at all.

After several days of hard fighting, a reinforced regiment of the Anti-Japanese Union that originally participated in the war has almost lost casualties and embers, and now there are not many left. You can't fully undertake all the retreat cover tasks, at least one regiment must be drawn from the brother troops in the battle to partially make up for the shortcomings.

Considering the relationship between the two armies and the future and development of the fraternal forces in Guannai, Yang Jicai could not but carefully consider the retreat plan. And this is not only for the future, but also for the safe evacuation of these dismantled equipment, as well as a large number of wounded, the last group of technicians and workers who assisted in the disassembly, and of course, all the Japanese technicians in the entire Taiyuan City.