Others show their swords, I show my missiles!

The 98th Army is small in number, only about 2 people.

On the afternoon of the 8th, more than 9 people were killed or injured; on the morning of the [-]th, more than [-] people were killed or injured. Casualties have reached a quarter.

But the Japanese were not allowed to move forward.

What puzzles the 98th Army is: the Japanese have never used the air force.

In fact, how did they know that the two main airports of the Japanese had been taken over by independent brigades.

At noon on the 9th, the Japanese used poison gas bombs in Meiping.

At that time, our soldiers could not distinguish in detail what kind of poison gas bombs the devils used, and they were all collectively called poison gas.

In fact, the poison gas only achieved a certain effect when it was first used, and then the effect has declined.

Later, more powerful poisonous gases were used.

Most of them are not fatal, but just make people feel uncomfortable, such as vomiting.

It's not that the Japanese are so kind and don't use lethal gas.

The vast majority of Japs have nothing to do with kindness. If they have anything to do with it, it has something to do with the antonym of "mercy".

And they also used a large amount of highly toxic gas such as mustard gas.

Even now, mustard gas barrels buried by the Japanese before they surrender are often dug up.

Most people don't know what it is, which can easily cause widespread poisoning.

Once at a construction site in the Northeast, workers dug out several jars, sent them to a scrap station, cut them up and sold them for money.

As a result, many people were poisoned.

After local officials learned about it, they immediately tracked down the jars. But he forgot where to dig out the jar.

The soil from the burial site was also contaminated when the jars were dug up.

One family brought the soil home, and two children who played with it were also poisoned.

Mustard gas has a notorious reputation as a putrid poison.

Once a person is exposed to mustard gas for a long time, abnormalities will occur in the human body, including erythema and edema, and in severe cases, erosion and cell necrosis.

It causes great harm to the human body and the wounds are difficult to heal.

And even now, there is no good way to treat this kind of poisonous gas poisoning.

The reason why they did not use mustard gas in this battle was because they felt that its onset was too slow, with an incubation period of 2-12 hours.

Unlike sneeze gas or vomiting gas, the attack occurs immediately after inhalation.

Most sneeze gases are not fatal.

Troops with a strong will to fight can still continue to fight, but their combat effectiveness will definitely be affected.

The 98th Army is the Qin Provincial Army. "Qin soldiers have endured hard battles since ancient times." Moreover, Jin Province is only separated from Qin Province by a river. If Zhongtiao Mountain is lost, his hometown will be exposed to the iron hoof of the Japanese.

Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the 98th Army fought extremely tenaciously.

Even though he kept sneezing, even though he vomited again and again, and even though he was dizzy, as long as he could still hold the gun, he would persevere against the poisonous gas.

The one in front fell, and the one behind immediately made up for it; the injured soldier gritted his teeth, covered his flowing intestines with one hand, and was still pulling the trigger with the other hand.

Under such extremely difficult conditions, he still blocked two Japanese attacks.

But after all, they were affected by the poisonous gas, and all the soldiers on the position were poisoned.

Moreover, the ammunition was exhausted.

Under the third Japanese attack, the Meiping garrison of the 98th Army withdrew and retreated to Huanglonggou.

Yue Ren led his troops on a forced march for more than a day and a night, covering 200 kilometers.

Encountered several groups of puppet troops on the road and were quickly repelled;

When encountering an important stronghold, stop and fire a few recoilless artillery shells to clear out bunkers and gun towers.

The remaining puppet troops were ignored. While they were stunned, various types of tanks rushed over at full power.

Some of the puppet troops who had lost their strongholds inexplicably worked together to kill the Japs and headed north to find our troops to surrender; some simply disbanded.

Only a few continued to follow the Japanese to do evil.

After arriving in Gaoping. The Japs in Gaoping thought that our army was going to attack the city, so they were fully prepared.

As a result, Yue Ren made a false shot, passed around the city, and ran west towards Qinshui. The devils in the city were completely confused.

The Japs from Gaoping quickly informed the Japs from Qinshui:

"Hundreds of military vehicles of the Heavenly Army are passing by the edge of our city and heading towards your direction. I hope you are ready to meet the Heavenly Army!"

As a result, the Yue Ren tribe did not even see Qinshui City, so they turned again, turning southwest from Huangjiazhuang and heading towards Yang City.

Mainly because Yue Ren and the others didn't bring much ammunition, and the logistics troops were thrown away by them for more than a hundred kilometers. Otherwise, they wouldn't mind giving Gaoping and Qinshui hundreds of shells.

When Yue Ren's troops arrived in Gaoping, there were very few cases of puppet troops surrendering. The Japanese and puppet troops here have not yet seen the power of the Independent Brigade.

The anti-Japanese environment in the Yangcheng area was not good, and the puppet troops were quite loyal to the Japanese. And our anti-Japanese organization was severely damaged.

This was mainly due to the events of December 1939.

In 1939, after Emperor Yan Tuhuang stabilized the situation in Jin Province, he regarded the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese forces in Jin Province as a thorn in his side and wanted to get rid of them quickly.

On the surface, Yan Tuhuang fought with our army against the Japanese, but in private he kept making small moves, instructing his confidants to create friction around the base area.

In the autumn of this year, Emperor Yan Tu, in the name of the commander-in-chief of the 2nd War Zone, ordered that Jin Province be divided into four administrative regions, and the directors of the regions were all served by generals of the Shanxi-Sui Army.

Yan Tuhuang tried to use this method to squeeze out the Eighth Route Army in Jin Province.

In the 3rd Administrative Area in the southeastern Shanxi area, Yan Tuhuang appointed Sun as the director of the Administrative Office. The main goal was to deal with the 1st, 3rd and 4th Columns.

At this time, in the southeastern Shanxi area, there were more than 2 people in the desperate column, which was the main anti-Japanese force in the area;

The Jinsui Army, which passively resisted the Japanese, only had more than 2000 people.

In 1939, it became increasingly clear that Yan Tuhuang was determined to part ways with us.

This year, he had many private contacts with Zhuo Huo, the commander of the Japanese 41st Division stationed in Linfen, and sent representatives to negotiate with the Japanese many times.

Its intention was already in Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone on the road knew it.

Basically, a plan was formed to achieve a compromise with the Japanese on the condition of resisting our army.

In early November, Yan Tuhuang sent Sun Mou to lead more than 11 stubborn troops to station in Dongfengyan Mountain Village.

At the end of the month, Sun secretly held a joint meeting of county-level and above cadres from the third and fifth special offices in Yanshan, and arranged for one of his own to be the main person in charge.

Colluded with the local Jiangyan garrison and local forces, and agreed to take action against our army and the Sacrifice League starting on December 12 to destroy the anti-Japanese regime in one fell swoop.

After the meeting, more than [-] people from various reactionary forces held another meeting and decided to adopt a level-by-level approach, that is, counties against counties, districts against districts, and villages against villages, and they would attack at the same time at the specified time.

In order to destroy the anti-Japanese regime at all levels in one fell swoop.

At the same time, Mr. Sun designated the specific person in charge of the siege sacrifice alliance and anti-Japanese cadres in each district and village.

In mid-to-late November, Mr. Sun implemented martial law in Yangcheng County and formed a headquarters to secretly station in Pingtou.

The 83rd Division of Jiang Yan's Army conspired with Mr. Sun to set up the "City Defense Headquarters" regardless of the county government. Soldiers with guns and live ammunition were scattered about 20 miles around the county seat, approaching Sanhuali of the county seat.

Sentries of the 83rd Division are guarding each city gate, and checkpoints have also been set up on nearby traffic arteries to strictly check pedestrians passing by.

The 83rd Division also conducted a live-fire exercise on the south river beach of the county on the order of Sun, firing continuously into the air to threaten and intimidate our Shanxi-Henan Prefectural Committee, the Shanxi-Henan border guerrilla detachment, and our Yangcheng County Committee and County Government.

On the night of December 12, Sun ordered his subordinates to lead key elements of the Three Youth League, and cooperated with a section of Jiang Wufa's 4rd Army Corps, to break into the "Xinsheng Daily" (formerly "Struggle Daily") located in the south garden of the city and stole all the machinery and equipment. , and secretly kidnapped the editor-in-chief Wang Liang.

On December 12, local die-hard forces such as the Sanqingtuan League commanded by Jiang Wufa and Sun launched a full-scale armed attack on the village sacrifice alliances and the anti-Japanese regime in various districts.

They arrested, beat and killed members of our organization and anti-Japanese cadres.

On this day, almost all anti-Japanese regimes and sacrificial alliance organizations in all districts and villages in the county were attacked and persecuted by die-hard forces.

Our army's anti-Japanese organization suffered heavy casualties.

In the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Japanese were able to advance smoothly, which is inseparable from the root of the disaster laid in 1939.

Many puppet troops and pro-Japanese troops acted as the Japs' lackeys, providing the Japs with information on the defense situation of the defenders.

When the Japanese attacked, they also acted as guides, leading the way for the Japanese.

Some even took up arms and killed our Chinese compatriots together with the devils.

Therefore, when Yue Ren turned south from Huangjiazhuang, the puppet troops and the stubborn troops reported the movements of our troops to the Japanese in Yangcheng.