Since Imamura Katsuji has decided to use poison gas bombs, the soldiers in his brigade will definitely not "miss the opportunity."
I saw groups of Japanese soldiers wearing masks. They began to enter the position, and then began to load their ammunition and prepare to launch.
Yes, that’s right, these are the Japanese artillery!
These weird-looking shells are exactly shells filled with a lot of poison gas. The Japanese army is preparing to use these shells to penetrate the Chinese army's positions.
"Oh no!! Reload!!"
The officers of the Japanese army were shouting. These junior officers of the Japanese army also wore gas masks on their heads. They were fully prepared.
As the grassroots officers shouted, the Japanese troops began to refill their ammunition.
It didn't take long for the filling preparation to be completed.
"shooting!!!"
The Japanese officers were shouting, and then the flags in the hands of the commanding soldiers were waved down vigorously.
"Bang!!"
"Bang!!"
"Bang!!"
Dozens of poison gas bombs followed the sound of shelling, then crossed the sky and fell into several batches on the national army's position.
The top of the mountain was filled with smoke for a while, and the scene was very scary.
"It's poisonous smoke! It's poisonous smoke from little devils. Everyone, cover your noses!" shouted the national army officer on the mountain.
But this is doomed to be powerless, why? Because they did not prepare enough water and towels in advance, and did not conduct anti-virus knowledge drills.
So, soon, the mountain fell into silence.
After no more noise was made on the mountain, the Japanese soldiers, who had already prepared gas masks, began to march toward the top of the mountain with Sanba Gai with bayonets in hand.
This time, the Japanese army encountered no decent resistance.
Because when they arrived at the mountain, all these national officers and soldiers had already fallen into the poisonous smoke.
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the position on the top of the mountain has been captured!" the chief of staff ran in and reported to Imamura Katsuji. He read the flag message through the telescope.
Yes, at this time, there was a Japanese soldier outside the poisonous smoke, holding two flags and waving them non-stop. There were just a few back and forth movements, nothing more.
You don't need to think about it to know that the flag must be telling these Japanese troops that the mountain position has been captured.
"Yoshi, this is expected, but please tell everyone, don't be too proud. Because the Chinese army did not fall to our force, but to our poisonous smoke." Imamura Katsu On the surface, he said it in a high-sounding way, as if he was very noble, but the smile at the corner of his mouth revealed his pride.
"Hai!!" As the chief of staff of Imamura Katsuji, he is naturally not a good person. He can understand Imamura Katsuji's meaning.
Just as the Chief of Staff was about to leave, Imamura Katsuji added: "Chief of Staff, convey an order to the front line for me, telling the frontline officers and soldiers that it is best to get these Chinese soldiers to surrender, and then we will also learn from the 101st Division, go and shoot some documentaries to inform the entire empire of our bravery."
"I understand!" Imamura Katsuji's chief of staff nodded and bowed.
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While the Japanese army was proud of this, Liu Ruming, commander of the 68th Army, had his face wrinkled into a bitter melon.
"Sir, please let the humble 40th Independent Brigade go up! The 143rd Division is your old team. If you put it on this road, your vitality will be severely damaged. What are you still hesitating about?" Xia Ziming, commander of the 40th Independent Brigade, said.
It is true that the 68th Army only has one division and one brigade.
This division is the 143rd Division; and this brigade is the 40th Independent Brigade.
Like other Northwest Army units, the Sixty-eighth Army was separated from the Northwest Army's factions and then became an independent army.
The origin of the 68th Army is relatively long, starting from the Northern Expedition——
During the National Revolution, the National Revolutionary Army in Guangdong and the National Army under Feng Yuxiang in the northwest were bent on overthrowing the decadent Beiyang government.
In order to cooperate with the Guangzhou National Government's Northern Expedition, Feng Yuxiang's two guard brigades were organized into the 10th Division of the National Revolutionary Army to participate in the Northern Expedition. Until 1928, the designation of the 10th Division of the National Revolutionary Army was changed to the 30th Division of the National Revolutionary Army. Division, affiliated to the Second Army of Feng Yuxiang of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
In the 19th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1930, during the Central Plains War, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan failed in the Central Plains War against Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang, and the 30th Division was absorbed by the Northeast Army.
Until the spring of 1933, the 30th Division was reorganized into the Second Temporary Division and incorporated into the battle order of Song Zheyuan's 29th Army, with Deputy Commander Liu Ruming concurrently serving as the division commander.
It is worth mentioning that this unit of the Second Division also participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance in 1933. It intimidated the enemy with its sword and was no longer a new opponent against the Japanese army. Later it was changed to the First and Fourth Division. The third division.
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Later, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the 29th Army retreated steadily in battles with the Japanese army in Peiping. Later, when the top brass of the national army reorganized the national army, they separated the 143rd Division and the Japanese Army. The independent 40th Brigade under the 29th Army formed the 68th Army.
It is precisely because of this that Xia Ziming said that the 143rd Division was Liu Ruming's hometown. Liu Ruming had been the commander of the 143rd Division for many years, and it could be said that it was his hometown.
"The 143rd Division has been at the forefront of the Anti-Japanese War since the beginning of the Great Wall War. If not, how could I have let them defend the front line? The enemy opposite us can be the culprit of the massacre in Nanjing. If I When facing them, if I don't fight hard, what will the whole country think of me? Are you going to let me suffer injustice like Zizhong did?" Liu Ruming murmured, his voice not loud.
"Commander, don't worry, let us join the 40th Independent Brigade. Our combat effectiveness will be no worse than your 143rd Division!" Xia Ziming assured, patting his chest.
"It's too late at this time. The little Japanese has already dropped poison gas bombs. I'm afraid the position will be lost." Liu Ruming sighed.
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Then move the camera back to the mountain.
At this time, the mountain was already covered with plaster flags of the Japanese army. The plaster flags all over the mountain seemed to tell the world that this was already a Japanese army position.
Masked Japanese soldiers patrolled the field one by one. The Nationalist officers and soldiers on the ground had long lost the ability to move. They could only stare helplessly at the perpetrators in front of them.
"You! Surrender! Otherwise, you will die!"
A Japanese soldier who spoke stilted Chinese was threatening the Nationalist soldiers who had fallen to the ground, as if he never tired of it.
"Little Japan, you want your grandfather to surrender, you are thinking too much. Fuck your ancestors!!" A Chinese soldier roared with all his strength, and then spat in the Japanese soldier's face.
"ah!!!"
The Japanese soldier frantically picked up the shining bayonet in his hand and thrust it into the Chinese soldier's stomach.
"Pfft!! Chih!!"
The cold bayonet entered his belly, and blood rushed out from inside, as if it wanted to dye everything red.
The Chinese soldier lowered his arms feebly and kept chanting: "China will never perish... China will never perish..."
Similar scenes abound in the mountains. The only thing they have in common is that no Chinese will surrender!
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