The sun finally sets over the mountains, and night begins to rule the land.
The gunfire that lasted all afternoon finally subsided.
Facing the crazy attack of the Japanese army, the independent regiment that held its position suffered very serious losses. Now there are less than 300 people in the entire regiment who can still fight. The church is also filled with wounded people. The situation is already very urgent, but more importantly,
Suri's laptop has almost run out of power, which is what worries Suri.
The amount of weapons and ammunition consumed in these days of fierce fighting was staggering, especially the consumption of 7.92mm machine gun bullets used by the MG34 and the shells used by the 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun. The consumption was simply a bottomless pit.
The originally full room of ammunition was now running low and could no longer support tomorrow's high-intensity battle.
Therefore, no matter what the reason, Suri had to choose to break out, because if he did not break out, there would be only a dead end.
Suri and Bai walked smoothly on the floating soil covered with bullet casings and countless shrapnel, walking with one foot high and one foot low. The position here was full of abandoned guns and ammunition boxes, and they could grab a handful of floating soil.
A few pieces of metal shrapnel.
Suri walked to a hidden corner of the position, raised his telescope and looked into the distance. Not far away, more than 400 meters away, was the Japanese position. Now he could see nothing except a dark thing, but Suri
But he knew very well that there was definitely more than one regiment of soldiers watching over here.
Putting down the telescope, Su Rui sneered: "Humph, it seems that the Japanese will not let us leave no matter what. They really think highly of us!"
Bai Jingran remained silent. His personality was more of a warrior and he was not good at making suggestions. However, due to the intuition of a warrior, he knew very well how unfavorable the situation was to his own side.
Bai Jingran said softly: "Sir, do we really want to break out tonight?"
"Of course!" Su Rui said with a trace of determination on his face, "If we don't break through tonight, we won't have a chance tomorrow, so we must give it a try!"
Bai Jingran frowned: "But I'm afraid that the Japanese are also very aware of our situation. They will also think that we are not willing to sit back and wait for death, and will definitely break out overnight."
Su Rui nodded: "There are still sensible people among the Japanese, so naturally they won't be without some arrangements."
"Then you still have to break through, isn't this a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?" Bai Jingran gave him a strange look.
After listening to Bai Jingran's words, Su Rui just smiled slightly and said: "Of course I have a way, you come with me..."
Half an hour later, the two returned to Su Rui's room on the second floor of the church. Su Rui walked to a pile of things covered with green canvas, stretched out his hand and opened the canvas, revealing dozens of neatly packed boxes.
ammunition box.
"This is..." Bai Jingran looked at Suri strangely.
Su Rui smiled slightly and said, "Would you know if you open it yourself and take a look?"
With his curiosity aroused, Bai Jingran pried open an ammunition box, revealing the shells covered with straw inside.
"Hey... isn't this a 120 mortar shell? Is it a high-explosive bomb or a smoke bomb? These signs are... hiss... this... is this a special bomb? This is something prohibited by international conventions.
!Where did you get it?" Bai Jingran's voice rose several times in vain.
On the cannonballs in the box, skull marks were painted solemnly, with a yellow circle underneath.
"Yes, it's a poison gas bomb!" Su Rui's voice suddenly turned cold, "You don't have to ask where I got it. As for international conventions? Let him go to hell! The Japanese don't like to use them the most.
These things? Then let's throw these things on their heads tonight and let them have a taste of it. Now we should also gather the officers."
At four o'clock in the morning on December 17th
This time period is when people sleep the most and are most sleepy. Dozens of bonfires are burning on the bank of the Yangtze River behind Yijiangmen. The blazing bonfires can not only illuminate the surroundings, but also
Dispelling the chill from the Japanese soldiers.
There were still more than a dozen patrol boats of various sizes parked on the riverside. Night was not a good time for patrols. The Japanese soldiers did not want to stay on the boat to drink in the cold wind, so they all docked the boat at the dock.
Except for a few sentry posts, some of the soldiers and crew members disembarked from the ship to warm themselves by the fire on the shore, while others stayed on the ship to sleep.
From the perspective of the Japanese army at this time, the lone army on the opposite side surrounded by tens of thousands of imperial troops was already a turtle in the urn. As long as they work harder tomorrow, they will be able to completely wipe out this lone army. However, to be on the safe side,
Major General Yamada Hiroshi of the Yamada detachment still sent a squadron of soldiers to ambush the position near Yijiang Gate to monitor the movements of the Chinese all night long.
What they didn't expect was that there were many pairs of bright eyes watching them in the dark night from a few hundred meters outside the city gates of Yijiangmen.
More than 500 meters away from Yijiang Gate, groups of black figures were lurking in the dark night. In this group of people, there were men and women, soldiers and wounded, and dozens of female nurses.
They supported the wounded who were unable to move, and some even carried stretchers with the soldiers, taking care of the severely wounded who could not move. However, they had one thing in common. Even the wounded who suffered from severe pain endured it without uttering a single sound.
the sound of.
Yang Peile led several female nurses who were busy taking care of the wounded, and comforted them in a low voice that was almost inaudible, for fear that the seriously injured patient would cry out in unbearable pain. After all, in this silent night,
Ordinary speaking voices can travel very far.
But in front of them were hundreds of soldiers lurking, squatting on the ground, holding weapons and staring quietly ahead.
In front of these soldiers, Suri and Bai Jingran were quietly staring ahead.
"Sir, the Japanese army's defense is very tight. They increased their troops in the evening. It is estimated that they have at least nearly 5,000 people. But as you expected, the Japanese have parked all their ships on the shore."
Bai Jingran's voice sounded next to Suri.
Su Rui said lightly: "It's good to have a boat! As for the large number of people, what's the big deal? I'm afraid there aren't many others. The more people they have now, the more lively it will be later. I want to see what happens when those little devils see the crowds.
Will their hearts ache when they put the corpses on the ground? Now test the wind direction and strength to see if it is appropriate to release poison gas bombs, but it would be a joke if the Japanese did not poison us to death but knocked over a large area of us.
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Bai Jingran nodded, reached out and tore off a small piece of cloth and threw it into the air. He watched the cloth strip slowly fall in the air. After a while, he said: "Sir, the wind is now towards the northeast and the wind is not strong. You can order the cannon."
Fired continuously."
Su Rui took a deep breath, "Okay, order the troops to start getting ready. All personnel should put on gas masks. This thing can't distinguish between friend and foe. If you take one breath, your life will be lost!"
"yes!"
Bai Jingran looked solemn, nodded solemnly, turned around and ordered: "Order everyone behind you to put on gas masks, and the artillery battery will start shooting in five minutes!"
Bai Jingran took a deep breath before whispering to the person behind him: "The action begins!"
"The action begins!"
"The action begins!"
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As the order was passed on, the people behind, whether they were soldiers or nurses, all took out gray gas masks from their waists and brought them to the face. Even the seriously injured people who had difficulty moving were put on with the help of nurses.
These life-saving guys.
Five minutes later, there was a dull sound from further behind, and then a sharp whistling sound quickly passed over Suri and the others. After a few seconds, there were deep explosions on the riverside.
There was a sound on the pier.
Although this kind of explosion was not as loud as the explosion of ordinary high-explosive bombs, it was enough to wake up all the Japanese soldiers on the dock. For a while, there was almost chaos on the dock, and the shouts of the Japanese soldiers became a mass.
"No, the Chinese are about to break out!"
"Hurry and avoid the cannonballs!"
The Japanese crew members and weapon operators who had gone to the shore to take a rest also began to run towards the ship. The Japanese soldiers who were originally lined up by Yamada Hiroshi also began to shoot at the Yijiang Gate. For a time, there were 38-type rifles and 11-year-old machine guns.
The sound suddenly rang out. However, the Japanese soldiers who were shooting did not notice that after the explosion of the artillery shells in the dark night, they did not produce strong shock waves and metal shrapnel, but only burst out clouds of yellow gas.
But the machine gunner who was shooting a Japanese soldier felt something was wrong. There was a strange smell in the air.
To be honest, these smells are not pungent, but have a slight fragrance, which is very similar to the fragrance of apples.
"Nani? What is this smell? Why is it so fragrant?"
The Japanese machine gunner sniffed hard and took a deep breath.
"So, it smells so delicious!"
But before he finished speaking, the machine gunner felt a nauseating convulsion in his stomach, and then his head began to suffer severe pain. His whole body suddenly shrank into a ball, and he began to roll on the ground in pain.
In a daze, the soldier seemed to see that his companions around him had symptoms similar to his own, and then he knew nothing...
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