Zhao Changshu was surprised and said, "Retreat? Will it be a little too early?"

The original plan was to repel several attacks from the Japanese army and pretend to be dissuaded, and then withdraw the front-line troops from the position and retreat to the top of the mountain to defend. Even when the Japanese army was trying their best to attack, they could give up part of the top of the mountain to allow the Japanese army to stick together directly with the defenders.

This not only offsets the Japanese artillery advantages, but also uses its own well-connected tunnels to kill and injure a large amount of Japanese troops.

Zhao Changshu was worried that evacuation would make the Japanese alert if they would be alert.

"Yes, withdraw, and even part of the position on the Phoenix Mountain top can be withdrawn, so that the Japanese can stick to it and fight."

Seeing Zhao Changshu's reaction still turning, Meng Yuting said: "Brig Commander, look, after the Japanese attack failed yesterday, they did not take any other measures except digging the defensive positions. But today, the planes were bombed and the artillery continued to be bombarded, and so far, six feint attacks have been launched, and there must be plans among them."

"Isn't it just to paralyze and drag us down? At worst, I can transfer the 2nd Battalion to the 1st Battalion in the dark to exchange defense, so that the Japanese's plan failed." Xu Zhiqin said in confusion.

At this time, Zhao Changshu's eyes lit up and said, "Yu Ting means that the Japanese will take a real attack at night?"

"I feel that's the case, and it's a full-scale attack. It's hard to guess what tricks the Japanese would play before the attack, so to be on the safe side, I'd better withdraw the 1st battalion first." Meng Yuting replied.

It has to be said that Meng Yuting Mingrui's battlefield sense of smell saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers in the 1st battalion.

You should know that even though Zhou Wen had suggested that Yan Dashuai equip the model brigade with gas masks, since it had to be purchased from Germany and the cost was not expensive, until the Model brigade went to the front line, only the guard battalions and engineer battalions directly under the brigade headquarters were equipped with gas masks, and the front-line troops did not have any anti-virus equipment at all.

At 4 o'clock in the second half of the night, a new round of Japanese artillery bombardment began again. Although the previous artillery bombardment did not exceed 5 minutes each time, the constant roar and explosion would inevitably bring pressure on the battlefield to the defenders, and at the same time it would make all defenders restless. They always tighten their hearts and are highly nervous.

However, this time the shelling lasted abnormally for 10 minutes. What's even more strange is that there was no explosion or fire at all. Thick smoke floated on the 1st line position, almost covering all three trenches in the entire position.

Meng Yuting, who had been observing at the command center's observation post, frowned, and he instantly felt the abnormality of the Japanese artillery bombardment.

"Why didn't there be an explosion? The Japanese shells could not be all duds?" But because it was at night, there was no explosion of fire on the position, he naturally could not see the thick smoke with the breath of death floating towards the top of the mountain with the wind.

At this moment, coughs suddenly came from the top of the mountain. Meng Yuting shuddered all over and shouted loudly: "Hurry, the Japanese are shooting poison gas bombs. Let the troops retreat from the top of the mountain, and let the guard camp send people to the position to take gas masks as observation hands. Please hurry."

While yelling, he was also deeply blaming himself. He was really careless and overestimated the moral bottom line of Japan.

The scholar had already instructed him to prevent the Japanese from jumping into the wall and using poisonous gas bombs. Why did he forget this most important information at this critical moment?

In fact, it was not that he forgot, but that he knew about the Hague Convention when he was studying at Fulongzhi Military Academy, and also knew that all countries had suffered from poison gas bombs in World War I. Under normal circumstances, they would not use poison gas bombs anymore. However, they did not expect that the Japanese were so crazy and openly took the blame for the world.

At this time, Zhao Changshu, who had been persisting for a whole day, was lying on the long table and pretending to sleep. He jumped up and asked, "What poison gas bomb?"

Meng Yuting no longer cared about explanation, and immediately said to several commanders who came to hear the sound: "Order the 2nd Battalion and heavy machine gun company on the main position to withdraw from the position immediately. Everyone wet the towel and covered their mouths and noses. It should be fast."

Turning around and saying to Zhang Cheng, the battalion commander of the guard battalion who had been following him closely, he said: "Battleman Zhang, you personally lead the 1st Company of the Guard Battalion, bring a gas mask, and take over the position of the 2nd Battalion. Remember, if you find that the Japanese are attacking on a large scale, call to report immediately."

"Yes!" Zhang Cheng turned around and left. He had attended a study class specially organized by Zhou Wen for the officers of the model brigade. Of course, he knew the harm and fatal consequences of poison gas bombs.

"Order the rest of the guard battalion to bring gas masks to prepare for support at the entrance of the tunnel."

"Order every soldier of the 3rd Battalion to prepare wet towels. If the war is urgent, they will rush to the position to support even if they are braved by the enemy's poisonous gas."

This was the first time Meng Yuting had given orders before the enemy commander-in-chief, but the officers of the Model Brigade followed.

In fact, they couldn't help but refuse to follow. After all, I had only heard of poison gas bombs before, and no one had ever experienced them. At this time, I had no idea and could only follow Meng Yuting's orders to engage in it.

And the key is that behind Meng Yuting, there were several soldiers with the word "inspection" white armband standing. If they didn't obey the orders, they might be arrested on the spot by the inspection team members.

At this moment, two officers wearing steel helmets and mercenary regiments came in from outside the command center, opened a wooden box in their hands, took out several sets of gas masks from it and distributed them to the officers in the command center.

Meng Yuting took the gas mask and took it on him and said to Zhao Changshu: "Brig Commander, although the military situation is urgent at present, it may be our opportunity. I will go back to the tunnel command center first. If the Japanese really want to fight us to death tonight, maybe tomorrow will be a counterattack."

Zhao Changshu waved his hand and said, "Yu Ting, just go there, and I'll leave it here."

Meng Yuting said to the officer who gave him the gas mask: "General Instructor Miaohua, I will leave the safety of the brigade commander to you."

It turned out that Zhou Wen had said before that he would leave two masters to protect Zhao Changshu's safety. He was not just talking about it, but he really left two masters who deserved it, namely Miaohua and Zhao Xiaojin.

Miaohua is a sensible person. He knows that Zhao Changshu's current safety is related to the success or failure of the joint combat between the mercenary group and the model brigade, that is, the success or failure of the cold-mouthed defense battle, and there is no need to be careless.

What's more, Zhao Changshu is known as the White Horse General, and is used to leading his subordinates to charge. He is afraid that he will be proud of himself and lead the team to charge. Looking at the entire model brigade, no one can hold him apart from Miaohua and Zhao Xiaojin, and no one dares to pull him.
Chapter completed!