Zhao Changshu said in surprise: "Withdraw? Is it too early?"
The original plan was to feign defeat after repelling several Japanese attacks, and then withdraw the front-line troops from their positions and return to the mountaintop positions for defense. Even when the Japanese army was attacking with all their strength, they could even abandon part of the mountaintop positions to allow the Japanese and defenders to fight.
Stick together directly.
This can not only offset the Japanese army's artillery superiority, but also use our own tunnels extending in all directions to cause a large number of casualties to the Japanese army.
Zhao Changshu was worried that withdrawing now would alert the little Japanese.
"Yes, withdraw. Even part of the position at the top of Fenghuang Mountain can be withdrawn so that the Japanese can stick to it and fight."
Seeing that Zhao Changshu's reaction could not be reversed for a moment, Meng Yuting said: "Brigadier Commander, you see, after the little devil's attack failed yesterday, he did not take any other measures except digging defensive positions. But today, there were another plane bombing.
It is a continuous bombardment, and it has launched 6 feign attacks so far, so there must be a conspiracy behind it."
"Isn't it just to paralyze and drag us down? At worst, the 2nd Battalion will be transferred up in the dark to change defenses with the 1st Battalion, which will make the little devil's plan fail." Xu Zhiqin said puzzled.
At this time, Zhao Changshu's eyes lit up and he said: "What Yu Ting means is that the Japs are going to launch a real attack at night?"
"I feel like this, and it's still an all-out attack. It's just hard to guess what tricks the Japanese will play before the attack, so for the sake of safety, it's better to withdraw the 1st Battalion first." Meng Yuting replied.
It has to be said that Meng Yuting's sharp battlefield sense saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers in the 1st Battalion.
You must know that even Zhou Wen has suggested that Marshal Yan equip the model brigade with gas masks, but since they have to be purchased from Germany and are expensive, until the model brigade goes to the front line, only the guard battalion and engineer battalion directly under the brigade headquarters can
They are equipped with gas masks, but the frontline troops do not have any gas protection equipment at all.
At 4 o'clock in the middle of the night, a new round of shelling by the Japanese army began again. Although the previous shelling would not last more than 5 minutes each time, the constant roars and explosions would inevitably bring battlefield pressure to the defenders, and at the same time
This made all the defenders restless. Their hearts were always tense and their spirits were high.
However, this time the shelling lasted for 10 minutes uncharacteristically. What was even weirder was that there was no explosion or fire at all. Thick smoke floated up from the first line position, almost covering the entire three positions.
All trenches were covered.
Meng Yuting, who had been observing with a telescope at the headquarters observation post, frowned. He instantly felt something unusual about the Japanese shelling.
"Why didn't it explode? It's impossible that all the Japanese artillery shells were dumb bombs?" It was just that it was night and there was no explosion of fire on the position, so naturally he couldn't see the thick smoke with the smell of death blowing in the wind.
Floating from the top of the mountain.
At this moment, coughing sounds suddenly came from the position on the top of the mountain. Meng Yuting shuddered all over and shouted loudly: "Quick, the Japanese are using poison gas bombs. Quickly ask the troops to withdraw from the top of the mountain and let the guards
The battalion sends people to put on gas masks and go to the position to act as observers, so be quick."
While yelling, he was also deeply blaming himself. He was really careless and overestimated Little Japan's moral bottom line.
The scholar had already given instructions to prevent the little Japs from jumping over the wall and using poison gas bombs. Why did he forget this most important information at this critical moment?
In fact, it's not that he forgot, but that he knew about the Hague Convention when he was studying at the Frunze Military Academy, and he also knew that all countries had suffered from poison gas bombs during World War I, and generally would not use poison gas bombs again.
, but I didn’t expect that the little devil would be so crazy and openly brazen about the disapproval of the world.
At this time, Zhao Changshu, who had persisted all day long, was sleeping on the long table. When he heard the sound, he jumped up and asked, "What gas bomb?"
Meng Yuting no longer bothered to explain, and immediately said to several headquarters staff who heard the sound: "Order the 2nd Battalion and the heavy machine gun company on the main position to withdraw from the position immediately, and everyone wet their towels.
Cover your mouth and nose and be quick."
Turning to the guard battalion commander Zhang Cheng who had been ordered by Zhao Changshu to follow him closely, he ordered: "Camp Zhang, you personally lead the 1st company of the guard battalion, put on gas masks, and take over the position of the 2nd battalion. Remember, when you find out,
There is a large-scale Japanese attack. Call us immediately to report it."
"Yes!" Zhang Cheng turned around and left. He had attended the study class specially organized by Zhou Wen for the officers of the model brigade, so of course he knew the dangers and fatal consequences of poison gas bombs.
"Order the rest of the security battalion to put on gas masks and prepare for support at the entrance of the tunnel."
"Every soldier in the 3rd Battalion is ordered to prepare wet towels. If the battle is urgent, they will rush to the position to support even if they risk the enemy's poisonous gas."
This was the first time that Meng Yuting gave orders as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, but the officers of the Model Brigade did everything they could.
In fact, they had no choice but to obey. After all, they had only heard of gas bombs before and no one had experienced them. At this time, they had no idea and could only follow Meng Yuting's orders.
And the key point is that behind Meng Yuting are several soldiers wearing white armbands with the word "inspection". If they don't obey orders, they may be arrested on the spot by the inspection team.
At this moment, two officers wearing steel helmets and mercenary regiment combat uniforms came in from outside the headquarters. They opened a wooden box they were carrying and took out several sets of gas masks and distributed them to the headquarters.
All officers.
Meng Yuting took the gas mask and put it on, and said to Zhao Changshu: "Brigadier Commander, although the current military situation is urgent, it may be our opportunity. I will go back to the tunnel headquarters first. If the little Japs really want to fight us to the death tonight,
If so, maybe tomorrow will be an opportunity to counterattack."
Zhao Changshu waved his hand and said: "Yuting, just go and leave this place to me."
Meng Yuting said to the officer who gave him the gas mask: "Chief Instructor Miaohua, the safety of the brigade commander is left to you."
It turns out that Zhou Wen had said before that he would leave two masters to protect Zhao Changshu's safety. He was not just joking. He actually left two real masters, namely Miaohua and Zhao Xiaojin.
Miaohua is a sensible person and knows that Zhao Changshu's current safety is related to the success or failure of the joint operation between the mercenary group and the model brigade, which is also related to the success or failure of the Lengkou Defense War. There is no room for carelessness.
What's more, Zhao Changshu is known as General White Horse. He is used to leading his men to charge into battle. He is afraid that when the time comes, he will become heroic and lead the charge himself. Looking at the entire model brigade, except for Miaohua and Zhao Xiaojin, no one can hold him back, and no one dares.