My Head of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force

"Ah? But sir, there are still more than 200 shells here."

The artillery battalion commander was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, the remaining shells could be fired in 10 minutes. He expressed his puzzlement at this juncture of retreating.

"Leave some people in the rear, set explosives on the shells, and destroy them all. The rest will withdraw from the position immediately, and the speed must be fast."

The repeated fights in the past have made Krupp quite familiar with the laws of the Japanese navy. The enemy can counterattack within 20 minutes after his own fire at the earliest.

Moreover, the 203mm naval gun has a very long range and great power. It is difficult to protect your own side from being affected under a saturated strike.

The Japanese army has artillery observation points outside the city of Yangon, and their own artillery positions are too close. According to the ballistic analysis and the movement of the firing, it is easy to quickly locate the approximate position.

You must know that the 203 naval gun can flatten a small mountain with one shot, and resist the attack of the three heavy cruisers on this unsheltered slope. If you think about it, you know what the result will be. If you are cheap, you will die in a daze here.

The Japanese army has artillery observation points outside the city of Yangon, and their own artillery positions are too close. According to the ballistic analysis and the movement of the firing, it is easy to quickly locate the approximate position.

He also remembered Li Liansheng's last explanation verbatim. It is best not to shoot for more than 15 minutes. When the time comes, no matter whether the shells are fired or not, they must evacuate immediately.

A few minutes passed in the blink of an eye, because the artillerymen quickly withdrew from their positions in an orderly manner, and placed explosive packages next to the ammunition boxes one by one.

After everything was settled, the commander of the artillery battalion commanded the soldiers who stayed behind to release the fuze.

The burning fuze was whistling with green smoke on the ground. The battalion commander took one last look and heaved a sigh of relief. Just as they were about to retreat, they vaguely heard the roar of artillery fire from the direction of the harbor in the distance.

"Damn! Run!" The battalion commander screamed, turning around and running away without thinking about anything else.

Seeing that their officers had all been put down, the soldiers also ran down the mountain recklessly.

About three or four seconds later, a huge explosion sounded on another hill not far away, and countless shells fell on it, splashing a lot of dust in an instant.

The ground under their feet seemed to be trembling uncontrollably. Seeing this scene, the eyes of the retreating artillery battalion were full of horror.

Especially those people in the back of the palace, seeing that they had just brushed shoulders with death, they ran down the mountain even more frantically, only regretting that they had lost a pair of legs.

The impact point was not in a fixed area, and soon the second wave of shells crossed the sky, hitting the artillery position behind them.

Those ninety-two infantry artillery were rolled into the sky like a kite with a broken string, blown to pieces, and the wreckage parts scattered all over the ground.

The explosives planted by the soldiers were also detonated together with the remaining poison gas bombs, and the scene became quite explosive, but the phosgene emitted by the shells' detonation seemed a little insignificant in the flames.

The artillery battalion commander who just ran out of the shelling range looked back, and saw that the position he was in just now and a large area nearby had become the targets of the Japanese attack. The confession is there.

The Japanese warship gunfire area covered a large area of ​​land north of Yangon City, and one round after another lasted for more than ten minutes.

Although the counterattack was fierce, it seemed to be of no use. Except for the destruction of a dozen [-] infantry guns and the remaining gas bombs, basically no casualties were caused.

At this time, the little devils in Yangon City were unlucky. Krupp and the others fired nearly three tons of gas bombs, and the poisonous fog gradually spread to the entire city under the blessing of the wind direction.

The nearby positions were also affected, and a large number of Japanese soldiers who did not wear gas masks at the first time suffered greatly.

Strictly speaking, phosgene bombs are not lethal biochemical weapons. If they are only slightly inhaled, the symptoms of respiratory tract irritation are not obvious. The early reactions are mainly nausea, dizziness, coughing and chest tightness. In severe cases, there will be shortness of breath and shortness of breath. Coughing up bloody phlegm etc.

However, the lethality of phosgene mainly exists in the later stage. There is an incubation period from the inhalation of phosgene to the occurrence of alveolar pulmonary edema, usually six to fifteen hours, and sometimes two hours or less, depending on the inhaler's physique and concentration. .

However, the concentration of these phosgene bombs produced by the little devils is very high, especially at four or five o'clock in the morning, when most soldiers are still asleep, many devils inhale a large amount of poison in a daze, and it is too late for them to react. Night.

At the center of the spread of the poison, the Japanese soldiers died of reflex respiratory failure and cardiac arrest within minutes of being poisoned.

More people coughed up blood and had difficulty breathing. Although they didn't go to see their Amaterasu immediately, they could only wait for the end of their lives on the ground.

For a time, several Japanese defense positions were strewn with corpses. Within half an hour of the attack, at least [-] Japanese soldiers died under the attack of phosgene bombs.

The garrison in the city was not feeling well either. As the wind fluttered, more and more people were affected. Excluding those who died directly, more little devils showed moderate acute toxicity reactions, and pulmonary edema and hemoptysis became a common phenomenon.

It's a pity that, in addition to using a gas mask, you can also use a wet towel to protect your mouth and nose with phosgene, an inhalation gas bomb. The effect may not be that good, but it can provide some protection.

Now the field hospitals of the Japanese army are overcrowded, and a large number of devils who inhaled poisonous gas were sent here to wait for treatment, but they have so many doctors and medicines, they can't be cured at all, most of them are sent here to die.

Maybe these are not fatal for the time being, but what awaits them is the more painful follow-up symptoms after a few hours.

In order to stabilize the overall situation, the mid-level and high-level officers of the Devils could only go to the front lines and various strongholds in person, replace a large number of troops, and reorganize the soldiers to do a good job in defense.

At around six o'clock, a huge airship took off from Yongsheng Town and slowly sailed over the frontline position of the expeditionary force.The silver-white hull is chubby like a big balloon, with the US NAVY logo imprinted on it.

This is a K74 airship borrowed from the Yankees. It originally belonged to the U.S. Navy. I don’t know how Stilwell got a lot of it.Not long ago, Liao Mingyu borrowed one from him, and it is very good for artillery ballistic correction when he has air supremacy.

At this time, Liao Mingyu was standing on a high ground, looking vigorously at the battlefield that was about to fall into chaos.

The slightly raised corners of his mouth seemed to be sure of success. There was no trace of fatigue on his face, and some of them were full of ferocious light like a tiger, as if he was waiting for the prey to fall into his mouth, full of murderous aura.

Right now, the three artillery regiments of the Heavy Artillery Brigade are in place one after another. The artillery regiments of the 200rd Division, [-]th Division, and the New [-]th Division have also completed their positions. Japanese defense line...