The warning was issued immediately by Yu Xiancheng.
Yu Xiancheng, who had been silently observing the battlefield outside the West Gate with his binoculars at the security post of the West Gate City Wall, saw the green-skinned infantry of the security regiment lining up on Zhongshan Road Street fighting with the Japanese infantry squad. He even saw the green-skinned infantry throwing Molotov cocktails from the second floor.
The whole process of igniting the 94 tank and rescuing the wounded soldier from the security regiment whose survival rate was probably far less than one percent from the flames.
The Chief of Staff of the 152nd Regiment, who accompanied Yu Xiancheng to the guard post, had no idea why the Colonel of the Independent Regiment in front of him breathed a sigh of relief and put down the strange rifle with a scope in his hand.
Shooting one's own comrades personally is not an easy decision to make. The difficult decision is not the distance of more than 550 meters, but the target itself. No one in the 152th regiment knows that this tall, slender and fair-faced man is quite intelligent.
What the Army Colonel Chief of Staff is best at is actually not making plans, but charging into battle.
Yu Xiancheng rarely shoots, but any veteran of the Independent Regiment knows that this special battalion captain's marksmanship ranks at least among the top three in the Independent Regiment. Even the recognized sharpshooter of the Independent Regiment was once in trouble in private.
It was also said on the occasion that among the thousands of people in the Independent Regiment, except for the Bull Demon King and Mo Xiaomao whose accuracy was almost despairing, Captain Yu, who rarely used a gun, was not sure of surpassing him because he had seen him in the past.
On the battlefield in eastern Shanxi, Yu Xiancheng used his 38-inch rifle without a scope to hit a Japanese soldier, Captain Cao, who was rolling in a ravine 400 meters away and using the terrain to cover his body.
Viewed with the naked eye from a distance of 400 meters, a human body that is not too small will never be bigger than an apple. However, this is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that those who can be Cao Zhang must have been in the Japanese army for more than five years.
For the veteran above, the standard of his tactical movements when he was running away was so standard that Zeng Shuidu was extremely amazed. He was even cautious enough to avoid running away even after escaping from the maximum effective range of his rifle, but he still could not avoid being killed by a single shot.
Although Yu Xiancheng's shot did not hit his head, the improved bullet of the 38-year-old Gai passed through the back blade and flipped violently, forming a large hole in his chest. The wound that could not be blocked became his most fatal
cause of death.
Zeng Shui might have been able to do such an amazing shot, but he couldn't guarantee a hit, but Yu Xiancheng did it, and he only fired one shot.
Yu Xiancheng, who silently observed the battlefield with a telescope, was never a superior commander. He was also a soldier. The faces of the wounded Chinese soldiers in the telescope were full of sadness and despair. Although he could not see clearly even with a telescope, he could imagine those who were trying to attack.
The tragedy and helplessness of the Japanese security regiment officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives in 94 tanks. Facing the Japanese trap, they made their own choice.
The battlefield is cruel. It is a process that the officers and soldiers of the security regiment must go through if they want to become soldiers. Sometimes, they must choose to give up, not for their own lives, but for victory.
Yu Xiancheng watched all this through the scope. When the 94 tank exploded, he was determined to help the wounded Chinese soldier end all suffering. Even though that decision also made his extremely tough heart flash with pain, but reason told him,
The pain of being burned alive by a fire was far greater than being killed by a single shot. He had to make this unknown comrade leave this world without pain. He believed that the wounded soldier thought the same.
Fortunately, the security regiment soldiers were much braver than he thought. At the moment when he was about to pull the trigger, at the risk of being hit by the fleeing Japanese soldiers, someone rushed into the burning flames of the tank...
..
At that moment, Yu Xiancheng was undoubtedly relieved. In the morning, he had stood in front of a group of rabble. Now, that group of rabble was transforming after experiencing the cruel battlefield. Although they could not be said to be iron-blooded warriors right away, they did not abandon themselves.
Their comrades and comrades were far stronger than the Japanese troops who fled away from their wounded.
The regimental commander is right, the Japanese are just paper tigers who are strong on the outside but hard on the inside. As long as they are beaten until it hurts and their faces are bloody, they have to kneel down and hold their legs and shout "Daddy". This is a typical bitch personality. Yu Xiancheng once again said
Liu Tuanzuo has a very deep understanding of the definition of Japanese. Wasn't the Sixth Division, known as the "strongest division on the surface", beaten by a group of security forces and fled in panic?
The suddenly silent battlefield left the soldiers licking their wounds and waiting for the next round of battle, but what was left to the commanders was a silent contest. Both sides were not guessing, but
Consider the opponent's next move.
A telegram came from the front line of Cangcheng. The main force of the Japanese army was gathering, but there was no intention of entering the battlefield. Unlike the fierce battlefields in the two southeastern cities, the silence here in the West City was eerie.
If normal procedures were followed, even if the Japanese army did not reorganize their forces to attack, they would definitely use this spare time to carry out shelling, destroying houses and trying to kill the enemies hidden in the houses. But they have been silent for too long.
More than 15 minutes, unless they are waiting for something.
Yu Xiancheng, who had been looking into the distance for a long time, his pupils shrank suddenly, turned his head suddenly and said to Lieutenant Colonel Wang Kejun, chief of staff of the 152nd Regiment: "Brother Kejun, I'm afraid the Japanese are going to make a big move. Please order Brother Kejun to fire three red flares, and command the warehouse.
All people outside the city and the west gate and inside the west gate, except for leaving guard posts, hid in the underground pipes. At the same time, they ordered the Cangcheng defenders to withdraw into the city through the underground pipes if they felt they were outnumbered. Their resistance
The enemy mission has been completed very well."
"Chief of Staff Yu, the three red flares are the highest alert. What do you think the Japanese will do?" Wang Kejun, the chief of staff of the 152nd Regiment, was slightly startled. You must know that the Japanese army previously shelled more than 3,000 artillery shells, and the military headquarters only fired them.
Just 2 red flares.
"The Japanese artillery regiment has not fired artillery shells for a while. With their artillery shell reserves, they will never fire until their infantry have withdrawn for a long time, unless they are waiting for special artillery shells that they are not equipped with.
For example, poison gas bombs." Yu Xiancheng replied with a hint of coldness on his face.
"Will the Japanese use poison gas bombs?" Wang Kejun took a breath. "That is something that is strictly prohibited internationally. There are many international observers in Songhu."
Of course there is some truth to what Wang Kejun said. On the Songhu battlefield, due to the presence of the concession and military observers from Britain, the United States, France and the Third Reich, the Japanese army did not use poison gas bombs. To be more precise, they did not use poison gas bombs on a large scale.
Gas bombs euphemistically called "chemical weapons".
In fact, Wang Kejun, who had never been on the battlefield, did not know that the Japanese troops who landed in Songhu did not use poison gas bombs on a large scale, not because of the presence of those blond international military observers, but because the windy and rainy weather in the south of the Yangtze River was not suitable
, when the wind blows or rains, the effect of poison gas bombs is not great. Those Westerners have never regarded China as an equal existence, so how can they sanction a country whose military strength is already comparable to theirs for a small poison gas bomb?
What about the Japanese?
Speaking of which, they were the initiators of the use of poison gas bombs. On the battlefield of World War I, those foreigners had no scruples about the "Geneva Convention". If you bring one ton, we will throw away two tons. Verdun is known as the meat grinder.
During the battle, poison gas bombs killed at least tens of thousands of people on both sides. It was also the first time that poison gas bombs were used on a large scale on the battlefield of World War I. From then on, the generals on both sides of the war were out of control, and the types of poison gas bombs began to be diverse.
There are more than 40 kinds of poisons including chlorine, phosgene, diphosgene, chloropicrin, diphenylchloroarsine, hydrocyanic acid, mustard gas, etc. In just four years, the amount of poisons used on the battlefield reached 120,000 tons. Therefore,
The resulting casualties were approximately 1.3 million.
War is not a boxing ring. There are no conventions or rules. The final victory is what the human beings who launch the war need most. This is a bloody fact throughout the thousands of years of development history of human society. Even when civilization is highly developed
In the future, it will be the same. The great powers shouting human rights will use laser-guided bombs to blow up civilian areas into white fields, just to eliminate one or two armed enemies.
Any soldier who expects his opponent to abide by the rules in a war is ridiculous. The rules themselves are made by the strong ones who actively provoke the war.
"When the Japanese massacred the entire Jinshan County, did they care about the existence of Western war reporters and military observers?" Yu Xiancheng asked with a sneer.
Yu Xiancheng, who had had many dealings with the Japanese, knew the ferocity of the Japanese invaders very well, and he had never had any luck with the Japanese army.
Fortunately, Yu Xiancheng, who had made several suggestions that were adopted by the 43rd Army Headquarters and the 152nd Regiment Headquarters, had already proven his excellence. Wang Kejun did not have much time to be indecisive. Two minutes after three red flares hit the sky, the Japanese artillery group
Started to roar.
Balls of orange-red flames bloomed in the houses in Xicheng District, and at the same time, an unpleasant smell wafted around, making people sick to their stomachs.
Although the air was very humid, the houses that were hit by the artillery fire still quickly and violently burned. With the continuous roar of the Japanese artillery group, houses were constantly being set ablaze. Looking over the top of the city, the entire area outside the west gate was extremely dense.
The houses seemed to be burning, and the flames, black smoke, and yellow smoke soaring into the sky seemed to have blocked the entire sky.
The Japanese army not only used incendiary bombs that can support combustion, but also used a large number of poison gas bombs, just as Yu Xiancheng guessed. If there are people hidden in the houses, even if the deflagration fire does not burn you to death, the dense gas produced by the wet wood will
The smoke won't kill you, but the pervasive poisonous gas will definitely poison you.
If there were not three red flares representing the highest alert shot into the sky, I don’t know how many of the security regiment soldiers hiding in every corner of the houses would have survived. Looking out from the shooting hole in the city wall, Xie Guji felt the scorching heat wave and was filled with shock and anger.
This time the Japanese bombardment was more determined and clear than the previous bombardment from Cangcheng to the entire city of Songjiang. The focus of the bombardment was the residential buildings outside the west gate wall. The bombardment lasted for a full hour, and more than 60 cannons poured down shells.
It was even more than the previous time. At least 5,000 shells were poured into the residential areas in the outer city of Xicheng.
For the first time, the power of the shell explosion played a supporting role. The terrible burning and poisonous gas that could kill if you inhaled too much were the protagonists of this round of shelling.
The raging fire caused by incendiary bombs also burned for two to three hours. A large number of residential buildings were burned down, leaving only blackened ruins.
However, Tokutaro Sakai outside the fire scene was not very satisfied. He used more than two thousand rounds of incendiary bombs, but did not burn down the densely packed Jiangnan residential buildings in China. This was really unscientific.