The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

The air was filled with smoke, blocking out the originally dazzling sunlight. The ground was covered with unsettled yellow dust, filling the field of vision. The smell of blood and burnt food, coupled with the thick smoke, formed the smell that the soldiers were most familiar with.

"Division Commander, the Japanese are coming in a fierce force this time. Have they deployed all the mortars and other weapons?"

Jiang Dengxuan's chief of staff Yang Sitong lay on the sandbags in the command post, holding a telescope and observing again and again.

Apart from weapons, the military equipment they used were almost all American, including the telescope in his hand - it had better magnification than the Japanese ones, and had a clearer and wider field of view.

He was always observing before speaking, but he gained nothing.

The position was completely shrouded in thick smoke. Yang Sitong couldn't see the situation clearly at all, and even his brothers couldn't see clearly.

"No, I think... it's just a tentative attack."

Jiang Dengxuan turned around and looked at the position still filled with smoke. Although he felt something was not right, he still ordered the entire army to be on alert and sent out scouts to survey the surroundings.

"Yunwang!"

He turned around and called his adjutant, telling him to immediately report the battle situation to the Hunchun Command and copy it to the Fengtian General Staff Headquarters.

"Captain Jiang, this is really interesting. The number of people in this group of Japanese soldiers is too small. They just run away after getting beaten, right?"

Having gained nothing, Yang Sitong finally put down the telescope, turned around and walked towards Jiang Dengxuan, and continued, "Before, we were running out of food. We have been besieged here for so long..."

Jiang Dengxuan stared at the map and continued, "If there were no supplies from the port, the Japanese in the military port would have been short of food long ago—"

"Under such circumstances, it's not surprising that they would take some extreme actions and attack us viciously..."

But after all, they are Yoshiichi Tanaka and Yasumasa Fukushima, these two guys can be considered important figures in the Japanese military.

With their mental abilities, they are obviously able to remain calm and composed at all times.

"Could it be... some of my subordinates who are impatient?"

Jiang Dengxuan, who had studied in Japan, knew very well that these little devils had a unique "ancestral skill" of overthrowing their superiors.

It is possible that under extreme conditions such as starvation, they might lead their troops out of the port garrison...

However, when these Jilin army generals were looking at the military map and wondering about the attack by this small group of Japanese devils, a strange noise suddenly came from their position.

Like a cough, or like clearing the throat...

At first the officers didn't take it seriously, but soon more and more people were making such strange noises, and they were getting louder and louder.

Almost all the brothers on the battlefield began to cough violently and gasp...

Jiang Dengxuan was secretly surprised and couldn't help but look back: some people began to have serious breathing difficulties, and some even fell down!

"Medic! Medical..."

Someone shouted, but it was clear that the brothers were in a state of panic;

Jiang Dengxuan and his companions just turned around and were about to go over to take a look, but at the same time they smelled an extremely pungent odor!

"Cough cough..."

Adjutant Yun Wang had just run back from the communications platoon, panting, when he was choked and bent over, almost falling to the ground.

"No!" Jiang Dengxuan's hands and feet suddenly felt cold, and he immediately understood what was going on from the situation in front of him.

"It's poison gas - damn it, it turns out that the Japanese who attacked us were throwing poison gas bombs at our position!"

The other Jilin army generals were all confused, but they didn’t know about poison gas bombs. How could Jiang Dengxuan, who had studied at the Japanese Army University, not know about them?
As early as the Crusades, in order to undermine the morale of the enemy, Western Christians dismembered corpses and threw them over the city walls with catapults.

This disgusting tactic was common at the time... Other sieges were described as involving besiegers throwing garbage, corpses and rotting flesh into the city to spread disease and plague, an early form of "chemical warfare".

Later, with the emergence of trench warfare, countries began to research various effective weapons in order to break this annoying stalemate.

Poisonous gases that can cause harm to the human body soon became the most direct and useful method - their types also changed from the initial short-term drug stimulation to harmful and even quickly lethal poisonous gases.

In April 1915, the German army used chlorine gas bombs for the first time in the Battle of Ypres. They burned the respiratory tract, caused severe coughing and vomiting, and even suffocated and caused coma. They drove the Allied soldiers out of the trenches, leaving them with no ability to fight back.

Jiang Dengxuan had heard of it but had never seen it. Faced with the poison gas warfare launched by these desperate Japanese troops, they certainly could not stay where they were.

He immediately ordered everyone to wet thick cloth such as towels, cuffs or military caps (or use urine if water is not available), and then cover their mouths and noses and evacuate quickly... Because chlorine is soluble in water, this simple, almost rough method is the only way to deal with it at present.

After the team withdrew from the area where the poison gas bombs were attacking, Jiang Dengxuan immediately ordered the entire army to break camp and retreat.

“Yun Wang, quickly report the situation here… cough cough cough, cough cough, everything to Master Jiang!”

Jiang Dengxuan gave an order to his adjutant, and without caring about the burning sensation in his throat, he quickly took two staff officers to find a high ground for observation.

In order for the throwing of poison gas bombs to be effective, it requires the "cooperation" of many factors such as wind direction and temperature... Especially the high requirements for environmental conditions, which also greatly affect its function and effect.

"The troops must be stationed upwind!"

After saying this and assigning orders to his two subordinates, Jiang Dengxuan rested his hands on his knees, breathing heavily and looking very weak.

His throat seemed to have swallowed a ball of fire, and the more he gasped, the more he felt a sense of suffocation coming.

"Master, what are you doing..."

Just as a staff officer realized that he was seriously unwell and approached him to ask about his concern, the former army's highest commander suddenly fell to the ground and lost consciousness.

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"What? These little devils actually used poison gas!"

General Jiang's extremely angry voice was heard from the frontier command post in Hunchun.

The telegram arrived half an hour ago. The translator was delayed for some time, but when Jiang Cheng received it, he was still furious.

But in an instant he regained his calm as a commander, but he was summoning

The second telegram that arrived made his face turn green.

The former supreme commander of the army, Jiang Dengxuan, was poisoned and in a coma, and now the command falls to the staff officer Yang Sitong.

"They have never seen poison gas before, and who could have imagined that the Japanese had this thing."

Seeing that everyone, including Jiang Cheng, was extremely angry, Sun Zhengnan quickly added, "Master Jiang, it seems that we need to send reinforcements, especially medical troops!" (End of this chapter)