Bright Sword Military System

Although there was no problem with Li Changfu's command, and Wang Xuexin believed that he was doing the right thing, in the end the Hundred Battles Brigade was blocked by the Devil's 20th Division.

The reason is that the devils disregarded the casualties of their own people and fired poison gas bombs at the last moment to carry out indiscriminate attacks.

It was when the battle lasted for more than 20 minutes. Major General Songcun, the head of the 113th Division, saw that the Eighth Route Army had rushed into the [-]th Regiment and defeated it. He ordered hysterically: "Gas bombs, get ready!"

"But your Excellency, Major General!" The staff officer hurriedly stopped him, "Our troops haven't been withdrawn yet..."

"What will happen if this continues?" Major General Songcun interrupted the staff officer: "Should the Eighth Route Army continue to break through our army's position?"

Objectively speaking, Major General Songcun’s choice was correct, because if this continues, the Eighth Route Army will drive the defeated imperial army into the main position of the 20th Division, and then the entire division will collapse... The Eighth Route Army came up with half-track vehicles, whose armor, firepower and speed had an overwhelming advantage over the infantry, and the 20th Division had almost no chariots and armored vehicles after breaking out from the Fengtian Battle.

In fact, even if the devils had chariots and armored vehicles, it would not help, because the Eighth Route Army still had rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles in their hands.

When the head of the division said this, the staff officer was speechless.

So 2 minutes later, more than 113 poison gas bombs hit the 113th Regiment's position from all directions... Although the devils couldn't see the position of the Eighth Route Army, they knew the position of the 113th Regiment's defense line.

After a while, smoke with the smell of garlic filled the darkness, mixed with the panic and screams of the devils. Some devils of the 113th regiment retreated to the rear main position as soon as they found out that it was a gas bomb, but they were mercilessly shot and killed by Songcun's order!

Matsumura's explanation for this is: "They must guard their positions, and those who retreat will be treated as deserters!"

This does not give the 113th Wing a way out at all: if you stick to your position, you will be poisoned to death, and if you retreat, you will be regarded as a deserter. It seems that there is only one way forward.

But even if he moved forward, it seemed that he couldn't break out of the poison gas blockade in a short time.

Matsumura did this because he didn't want to add a burden to the troops. He knew that even if the soldiers who fled back were alive, they would suffer injuries of various degrees, such as insomnia, corroded respiratory organs, and skin ulcers at the lightest.

At this time, the empire has no extra medicine to treat them, and the best way is to completely eliminate them.

As a result, the officers and soldiers of the 113th Regiment were almost killed and injured. Among the more than 2000 people, only a dozen or so smart people buried their faces and exposed skin in the mud at the bottom of the trench at the first time to save their lives.

This method is indeed effective. The invention of the gas mask is because wild boars survived the poisonous gas by burying their snouts in the soil and using loose soil as a filter.

On the other hand, the poisonous gas floats upwards more, and it can only diffuse in a small amount to the trenches, especially the bottom, and the concentration is extremely limited.

However, this method is not recommended to try, because it is very difficult to breathe in the soil, and it cannot be done without a certain amount of perseverance.

Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army brought a gas-resistant area and made some preparations before the war. After discovering that the devils had fired gas bombs, they put on their gas masks and retreated in the shortest possible time.

When retreating, you can occasionally turn on the lights to see the road. If you turn on the lights when attacking, it is to clearly tell the devils where you are.

The Hundred Battles Brigade suffered few casualties in this battle. More than 300 people died and more than [-] people were injured. After all, they were protected by half-track car armor.

However, only a dozen of the more than 113 people in the Devil's 800th Regiment survived, and most of them were poisoned to death by the Devil's own poison gas bombs.

From the point of view of the number of casualties, the Eighth Route Army obviously won the battle, but from a strategic point of view... the Eighth Route Army failed to break through the devil's line of defense and was blocked by the 20th Division at the front desk [-] kilometers away from Tonghua.

Li Changfu originally wanted to take a detour, but found that the front desk was located at the exit of the mountain range, and this was the only way to go to Tonghua in a radius of hundreds of kilometers, so he had to stop here to build a position to confront the devils.

The failure of the Hundred Battles Brigade surprised Wang Xuexin. He didn't expect the devils to be able to do such a cruel thing. After all, it would also affect the morale of the troops. For example, other devils in the 20th Division, wouldn't they think in their hearts: Will they be the next one to be sacrificed?

If you have such thoughts, you will inevitably have a fear of fighting or feel that you are not worth fighting for the empire, just like cannon fodder and discarded after use, and the morale of the entire army will be shaken by this.

But after thinking about it, the devil can do this.

Because the devils are a group of brainwashed soldiers, they can beautify this act as loyalty to the empire and reward the families of the devils who were poisoned to death. They don't even need actual material rewards, just need a false name and publicity to cover it up easily.

Not only can it be covered up, but it may also turn the negative impact of this incident into a positive impact... Stimulated by the devil's propaganda and the so-called "Bushido" spirit, the devil may launch a suicide charge with a gas bomb in the next step.

Under such circumstances, the Eighth Route Army can't fight... If the Hundred Battles Brigade cannot break through the defense line of the Devil's 20th Division, then it will be difficult for other troops to break through as well.

This is a bit of the meaning of trench warfare during World War I. Both the enemy and the enemy have nothing to do with the other's defense.

It's just that the devils can't move because the Eighth Route Army has an advantage in equipment.

The reason why the Eighth Route Army couldn't move was because the devils threw poison gas bombs on a large scale in order to save their lives.

Do you want to continue this stalemate?
Wang Xuexin thinks this is not a good choice.

In the future, the Devils Navy will end its battle with the Yingjiang Fleet... No matter whether the Devils win or lose, the remaining forces of the Devils United Fleet will turn around and attack Dalian, which will be a great threat to the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army's coastal defense regiment was too weak, so weak that there were only five warships and the only aircraft carrier had not yet formed combat effectiveness.

If it weren't for the large number of anti-ship missiles that made the devils afraid, the coastal defense regiment would have ceased to exist long ago.

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army should break this deadlock.

Otherwise, when the Devils Navy aimed its guns at the Eighth Route Army, its infantry and navy could cooperate with each other to advance along the coast... The infantry relied on poison gas bombs to advance step by step, and the navy guaranteed its logistics and provided artillery fire and air cover for the infantry.

How will the Eighth Route Army respond then?

If there is no way to deal with it, all the victories in the Northeast will be lost!