"Captain, the little devil is so cruel. He even used poison gas bombs on a large scale against the attacking troops. If Xiao Huang hadn't issued the retreat order in time, not one of the two thousand attacking troops would have come back... This revenge must be avenged. Let the little devil retaliate in kind.
Blood for blood!" Chief of Staff Li Wensheng cursed with indignation when he returned to the headquarters.
"Have the losses been calculated?" Kong Jie asked with a solemn face.
The angry expression on Li Wensheng's face instantly turned into grief, and he lowered his head and reported with a heavy expression.
"The first battalion sacrificed 439 people... The second battalion sacrificed 458 people... The third battalion sacrificed 402 people... There are 51 soldiers who were seriously injured after being poisoned and have been taken away by the field hospital. No one knows whether they can be rescued in the end.
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Kong Jie immediately ordered: "Tell Director Tang of the field hospital that we must rescue them at all costs..."
"There are already enough soldiers who have died due to poisonous gas. If we can save one less, then one less will die!"
"The field hospital should use this opportunity to sum up its experience and learn how to quickly rescue soldiers seriously injured by poison gas..."
"If the Sato Division dares to use poison gas bombs against us once, there will be a second or even third time. We must be prepared in advance."
After finishing speaking, he stared at Li Wensheng and continued to ask: "How is the morale of the troops?"
"Very depressed!" Li Wensheng replied with his head lowered.
"There are even many cadres who are full of doubts about our subsequent counter-mopping up! They feel that the Japanese have poisonous gas bombs, and no matter how powerful we are, we cannot be a match for the gas bombs!"
Kong Jie did not answer and asked again: "I remember we seized gas masks before!"
"Have you ever counted... how many gas masks are stored in the logistics warehouse?"
"If Sato's division continues to use gas bombs against us, the soldiers must wear gas masks to fight, otherwise we will have to retreat!"
Li Wensheng shook his head and replied helplessly: "Our Eighth Route Army is not equipped with gas bombs, and the Japanese soldiers who fight against us basically do not carry gas masks!"
"The last anti-sweep operation seized a batch from the Japs Wing Headquarters. The previous raid on Yamamoto's special agent team seized some, and the rest were one or two. It's impossible to win..."
"After learning that Lieutenant General Sato used poison gas bombs on us, I immediately contacted the logistics department and asked them to count the number of gas masks..."
"A total of 429 bodies have been found and are on their way..."
The expression on Kong Jie's face became more and more solemn, and he sighed and said: "Too few, these gas masks are not enough to equip a battalion!"
"When we went to the battlefield, we couldn't even stop Zuotou's division from attacking for half a day!"
Huang Yu suddenly interjected: "Captain... I don't think the troops can pin all their hopes on gas masks..."
"The poison gas bombs used by the Japanese are fired from mortars. They also have fifty or sixty mortars. Once they are divided, they can launch a poison gas war against us anywhere and at any time!"
"Unless all the soldiers of the Independent Regiment are equipped with gas masks, we will be unable to defend ourselves!"
Kong Jie knew Huang Yu so well that he asked directly: "Speak out your thoughts!"
"Find a way to prevent the Japanese from using gas bombs against us!" Huang Yu blurted out the method he had just thought of.
Kong Jie was confused when he heard this, and shook his head and said: "Except for the superiority of artillery fire, we have almost nothing in our hands that worries the Zuotou division. How could we not dare to use poison gas bombs against us!"
"What if we also have poison gas bombs?" Huang Yu asked in response to Kong Jie's incredulous gaze.
Li Wensheng seemed to have thought of something and suddenly interrupted: "Captain, maybe Xiao Huang's method is really useful!"
"The combat supplies carried by Sato's division were basically destroyed by the assault battalion, even if they wore gas masks, they were gone!"
"If we had poison gas bombs in our hands, Sato would be worried that we would retaliate in kind and would have to give up using gas bombs!"
Kong Jie was not optimistic about this method and immediately raised his concerns: "Yoshio Iwamatsu can airdrop poison gas bombs to the Sato division, and he can also airdrop gas masks to them!"
"As long as each of them has a gas mask, it will be useless no matter how many gas bombs we equip!"
"Furthermore, poison gas bombs are prohibited weapons all over the world. Our Eighth Route Army has discipline. Even if there are really poison gas bombs, we cannot use them rashly!"
Huang Yu immediately explained: "I didn't plan to use gas bombs on the Japanese, I just threatened them!"
"As for Yoshio Iwamatsu air-dropping gas masks to the Sato division, that's just right!"
"Don't we have enough gas masks in the regiment?"
"The important thing is that the Zuotou division has a pair of gas masks. We just happened to capture them and use them for my use..."
"If the independent regiment is equipped with one or two thousand gas masks and the troops use them in rotation, there will be no fear that Sato's division will use gas bombs against us again!"
The more Li Wensheng listened, the more he felt that what Huang Yu said made sense, and he immediately supported it: "Captain, Xiao Huang's proposal is indeed a bit risky, but it is better than us holding four to five hundred gas masks and fighting Zuo Teng's regiment!"
"I think I can give it a try!"
Kong Jie nodded, looked at Huang Yu and asked seriously: "How do you plan to get poison gas bombs?"
"The poison gas bomb is Zuotou's last trump card against us, I must guard it like a treasure!"
"Our attack just now didn't even break through their outer defense line, let alone break into their base!"
"Even if I agree to this plan, we still can't get the gas bombs!"
Huang Yu thought for a while before replying: "The special forces can give it a try! If supported by a heavy artillery battalion and a cavalry battalion, the chance of winning is at least 70%!"
Kong Jie's face was more serious than before, his eyes were fixed on Huang Yu, as if he wanted to see through him, and he asked seriously: "Are you sure you didn't lie to us just now?"
Huang Yu answered firmly: "Captain, don't worry... I, Huang Yu, will definitely not speak out loudly about things that I am not sure about!"
"Okay... let's give it a try..." Kong Jie no longer hesitated.
At two o'clock in the morning, the Japanese military station that had experienced a major battle became quiet again.
The more than fifty soldiers of the special force were like a group of ghosts, slowly disappearing from Kong Jie's field of vision.
Ten minutes later, the scream of artillery shells streaking across the sky echoed across the battlefield again.
The little devil was suddenly awakened from his sleep and had to pick up weapons in the lost lake and enter the position...
Lieutenant General Sato was so frightened that he jumped up from the bed, grabbed his binoculars and armed belt, rushed out of the tent, and climbed to the high ground nearby...
"Are the Independent Regiments crazy? They just lost more than a thousand people and they are still attacking. Aren't they afraid that they will lose more than a thousand people?" Lieutenant General Sato panted and asked the chief of staff as he climbed up the high ground.
"Division commander...there is something different about the independent regiment's attack this time..." analyzed the chief of staff who climbed to the high ground first.
"All the artillery fire was concentrated to the east and south of us. There was no attack from the northwest and the northwest, and not even the shadow of the Eighth Route Army was seen!"
"The Independent Regiment should have seized gas masks...but the number will not be too many. After all, our combat troops rarely distribute them when operating in the field!"
"I suspect they don't have enough gas masks, so they have to concentrate their troops and firepower to launch a focused attack from one or two directions!"
"I think we should gather heavy troops to defend the southeast and southeast directions, and send them more mortars and gas bombs..."
Lieutenant General Sato was much calmer, shaking his head and analyzing: "This is just a possibility!"
"The independent group has gas masks, but not many... I agree with this!"
"But the independent regiment may not launch attacks from the southeast and two directions!"
"Maybe what we saw was an illusion!"
"Are you saying that the independent regiment is attacking in the east and in the west? The bombardment in the southeast is fake, and the northwest and northwest are their real attack directions?"
Lieutenant General Zuo Teng nodded: "This possibility cannot be ruled out!"
"But as long as the independent regiment does not launch an attack, no one can determine their true main attack direction!"
"All troops will enter their positions immediately and strengthen their vigilance..."
"No troops can be mobilized rashly without my order..."
"The artillery tactics remain unchanged... As soon as the independent regiment enters the artillery fire coverage area, poison gas bombs will be used immediately..."
To the northwest of the Japanese army's station, the cavalry battalion was divided into two and slowly moved towards the Japanese army's station...
When the blocking position was still 300 meters away, more than 20 mortars suddenly joined the battle...
Compared with mountain artillery, the density of shells fired by them is higher...
After a while, the Japanese blocking position was bombarded with artillery fire and filled with smoke...
