Bright Sword Military System

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There is no doubt that the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are fighting the devils desperately.

But war itself is a desperate struggle with the enemy, and the current desperate struggle is fundamentally no different.

If there is any difference, it is that the moment the soldiers rushed into the gas zone, they knew that their lives were going to be frozen here... Whether they won or lost this battle, it was basically impossible for them to go back alive.

It has even entered the countdown state: this depends on the concentration of the poisonous gas, and the situation is slightly different. If the concentration is high, half of them will die within 10 minutes, and if the concentration is low, they can survive longer or even be injured.

However, it was precisely in this way that the soldiers fought more fiercely.

Because they knew that they would either die or be injured, they eagerly wanted to drag a few devils on their backs, so they were in a state of rampage. Some soldiers felt that the wet hair covering their mouths and noses was in the way, so they simply tore them off and chased the devils at full speed. .

This can’t even be called chasing and killing. There were many soldiers who inhaled the poisonous gas and the toxicity started to take hold. Wanting to end the pain, they rushed into the crowd of devils holding explosive packs and cluster grenades.

On the other hand, for the devils, it is not a good experience to fight in the dark wearing a gas mask. Although there is a fire when the house is burned, the light of the fire is more to illuminate the devils than the Eighth Route Army soldiers.

This caused the devils to be out of standard whether it was long-range shooting or close-range hand-to-hand combat.

As a result, the Eighth Route Army used only one company of troops to destroy nearly 200 devils in two squadrons. Among them, more than 100 devils were killed on the spot and left in the city, and the remaining more than [-] devils fled in a hurry. The reason turned out to be that the gas mask was torn off by an injured Eighth Route Army soldier!

The Eighth Route Army soldiers did not retreat after repelling the devils, because their task was not only to repel the devils but also to fight fires.

Fighting the fire is actually not that difficult.

What the soldiers have to do is to evacuate the people in the house in time, and then blow up the house with explosives to stop the fire from spreading to other places in time.

This is the best way to put out a fire under poisonous gas. It is almost impossible to get water to put out the fire, and it will only cause more casualties.

In the end, Meizu Meijiro's seemingly perfect battle plan was cracked by the Eighth Route Army.

Originally, the Eighth Route Army was supposed to be caught in a dilemma. They couldn't put out the fire if they couldn't.

Now Umezu Yoshijiro is caught in a dilemma:

Continue to attack with poisonous gas and fire?
Under the Eighth Route Army's desperate style of play, it can't play a very big role, and even the imperial army lost more... Because the imperial army wore gas masks, which affected their combat effectiveness, so many times their strength was scattered and fled by the Eighth Route Army.

But if you don't fight like this, what other tactics can you take to win Siping?

The hysterical Umezu Yoshijiro ordered the imperial soldiers to only attack with incendiary bombs and not to contact the Eighth Route Army.

This seems to be a solution, because the devil's incendiary bombs can be launched with a grenadier. They continue to draw the fire forward a hundred meters away. Fire blocked it.

However, the reality is much more complicated than Yoshijiro Umezu imagined, and this tactic cannot be effectively implemented in actual combat.

The first reason is that the streets in Siping are straight. Once the devils set fire and advance along the fire, they are actually exposing themselves to the guns of the Eighth Route Army... The Eighth Route Army can find them from a long distance and kill them one by one. At this time, I don't even know where the Eighth Route Army is.

The second is that every house in Siping may hide Eighth Route Army soldiers. It is almost impossible for the devils to avoid close combat. From time to time, a few soldiers and even ordinary people and devils with wooden sticks will rush out of the burning houses. Desperately.

There is a saying that "a trapped beast will still fight".

Poison gas and fire attack did make some areas lose hope of life.

But just because they lost their hope of life, it is possible for them to throw away all their burdens and make a final effort, and the potential that this last effort can bring out cannot be described as "amazing", it can even be called terrifying.

Because there was one commoner, an old man in his sixties, who rushed out of the house with flames on his body. He stabbed a devil to death with a military stab given to him by a soldier of the Eighth Route Army. After getting down, he still used his last bit of strength to take out two grenades from the devil's corpse, ignited them and threw them out...

Therefore, smart commanders will never drive the enemy to a dead end, they will give the enemy a plausible way of life, and let the enemy go to perish in anxiety and hesitation.

From this perspective, Yoshijiro Umezu was not a smart commander.

But it was the tanks of the Eighth Route Army that completely defeated the devil's tactics.

Ding Wei soon discovered the advantages of tanks on this kind of battlefield.

"The only equipment we can use normally is the tank!" Ding Wei said: "The space of the tank is relatively closed. If the protection is done well, the poison gas can hardly enter the tank cabin!"

The political commissar said: "But the tank is also unable to fire. Once fired, the tank cabin is full of smoke, which makes the tank cabin that lacks oxygen worse. In addition, poisonous gas will also pour into the tank cabin along the gun barrel!"

"Then don't fire!" Ding Wei made a decisive decision: "They can fight with machine guns!"

As a result, a dozen "Sherman" tanks were sent to the streets to fight the devils.

Because there is a thick tank armor cover and the gaps are filled at the same time, there is no fear of poisonous gas, and the devils who are setting fire are in the open, so the tanks can safely use parallel machine guns and heading machine guns to fire at the devils.

The strings of bullets flew out, there was no protection and no cover, and the devil who was wearing a gas mask and doing tactical maneuvers clumsily screamed.

After several rounds throughout the night, the devil didn't take advantage of it at all.

However, the casualties of the Eighth Route Army were also very heavy. There were more than 2000 people lying on the street who failed to return, and more than [-] people were injured by poison gas inhalation or their skin was burned.

You must know that the total strength of the Eighth Route Army in Siping is only three regiments of more than [-] people, and the number of casualties that night was close to half.

However, this is not a problem at all for the Eighth Route Army.

Originally, the people in Siping were still hesitating. They didn't know whether they wanted to support the Eighth Route Army or stay on the sidelines... Most people chose to wait and see.

This is not to say that they do not support their own army, but they are wise to protect themselves. They are worried that the Eighth Route Army will not be able to defeat the disaster that the devils will eventually bring to them.

But now, after last night's battle, they understood that the devils wanted to put them to death and the Eighth Route Army was risking their lives to save their lives.

So there is nothing to hesitate, of course we have to unite with the Eighth Route Army!
(End of this chapter)