Vol 3 Chapter 409: All Japanese Army (7): Attacking with poison

The emergency press conference released by the Government of the Republic overnight announced the world's major incident of large-scale use of poison gas by the Japanese army.
In response, the government of the Republic also announced that it would retain all possible means of war counterattack.
It is intriguing that the Chinese government did not explain that the Japanese government only used poison gas to create a poison gas barrier. After all, from the perspective of the common sense of the people, the role of poison gas is to kill the enemy on the battlefield. As for the Japanese, they may want to explain themselves I just wanted to create a gas belt to isolate the Chinese army. Perhaps the Japanese would not believe it.
In today's world, gas wars are not uncommon. Even in the Soviet and German battlefields and the Far East battlefield, gas warfare is not uncommon, but in large-scale battlefields, a small amount of gas is difficult to reverse the situation, and large-scale fleets may not even fly to the Chinese control area. The sky was shot down by the Chinese Air Force.
In the Far East battlefield, the use of gas bombs is often in the form of artillery shells and front-line airdrops, which are used to attack or regain positions, delay the enemy's actions, create more wounded for the enemy, and can also play a strategic role.
This time, the large-scale use of poisonous gas by the Japanese army was not for the purpose of killing the Chinese army. After all, it was much more difficult and not necessarily able to achieve the purpose, but at least, the planned gas-gas battle blocking link had a strategic effect.
However, even if the Japanese are no longer good at conspiracy and extremely fierce, it is difficult to think that their plans will be exposed in advance, which will mobilize a large number of poisonous gas bombs to the front line for the Chinese army, so as to remedy their own lives. , To create new isolation belts, to completely prevent Japanese troops from boarding.
At this time it was 9:40 pm. It had been more than an hour since the Japanese used poison gas to block the Chinese army's attack.
In some ports temporarily cleared by the sea east of Vanino, you can see that many Japanese troops are busy. This is to prepare the Japanese army for the retreat. In order to prevent the Chinese air force from finding anomalies, it caused the abnormal completeness. Regardless of the high-intensity bombing of night and day, the Japanese army did not even dare to use lights and fires, and could only work with flashlights.
On the hilltop, shrouded in darkness, a group of senior Japanese generals were looking out at the dark sea.
"General Yamashita, the fleet just reported that they were only 30 minutes away from Vanino."
A staff officer whispered beside Feng Wen under the mountain.
Fengwen at the foot of the mountain nodded, signaled to know, and then looked up at the dark sea, where the hopes of the Far East Japanese Army would come from.
As the supreme commander of the Japanese army in the Far East battlefield, without leading the imperial army to win a beautiful and decent war, he was unknowingly defeated in the wave of China's general offensive.
There was a deep sense of weakness in his heart. He did not know whether the defeat in the battlefield was blamed on the might of the Chinese, or the incompetence of the Soviets, or on the intent and swing of the military.
As the highest commander of the Japanese Far East, Fengxia Yamashita realized the seriousness of the problem shortly after launching a general offensive in China, and China, which has gathered an unprecedentedly large army, is likely to divide and surround the Far East Alliance in one fell swoop. In an army with millions of troops, thousands of advanced tanks, thousands of fighter units including jet aircraft, and more than 10,000 large-caliber artillery, it is completely unrealistic to rely on less than 2 million Japanese troops to resist of.
In the face of ultra-large-scale war operations, they also face extreme conditions in the depths of the narrow battlefield. If it is not decided to run away early, they should unite their allies, so as not to fall into the tragic situation of being divided and cleaned up.
However, the imperfect command system of the Far East Alliance, the faint separation between the United States, Japan, and the Soviet Union, the weakened Soviet forces, the US forces that were timid to save their strength, and the Japanese forces forced to be in a corner, constituted a great Paradox.
The military ’s high level of control over the Far East battlefield and remote command are another major cause of war loss.
The military ministry repeatedly changed orders in the light of the so-called strategic interests of the empire, and most of these orders proved to be wrong, and even some orders were clearly opposed when the order was issued, but it was still difficult to disobey the order.
Even if he was the highest commander in the Far East battlefield, when the military ordered to sit and watch tigers, the Japanese army he had mobilized to support the Soviets had only three divisions. This was the greatest force he could mobilize, although they were The Chinese army's obstruction force blocked it. Later, when the military department changed its decision to order assistance, the follow-up forces were blocked together with the troops in front. The rescue line of the Communist Youth League eventually became empty talk overnight.
As a general of the Great Japanese Empire, he knew that he would eventually bear responsibility for the defeat of this war, and the military was never wrong, at least in front of the nationals.
Perhaps the most ruthless trial and possibly the death penalty will be waiting for him after returning to Japan, but he doesn't care much.
He, Yamashita Fengwen, may have been cold-blooded and merciless to the enemy, but in the face of more than one million empire soldiers and the entire Great Japanese Empire, he has his own fear.
"The empire's fortunes may not be as good as they think. The biggest feeling in the Far East War is the power of the Chinese people. This power is probably beyond the reach of Americans. As far as the empire is concerned, the root of everything It is because we are too close. The so-called counterattack of Europe, the concentration of the world's power against China, will it really happen ... "
Fengxia Yamashita was very worried that even if the Allies could successfully counterattack Europe and disintegrate and destroy the Nazi alliance, then concentrated their forces on China, even if there was one day, but could Japan persist until then?
While he was meditating, a senior Japanese officer came to his side and whispered, "General, the plan for the separation zone has been carried out very smoothly. The Chinese army has been successfully blocked ten kilometers away. Our plan has been half successful. "
"Really? Hope so!"
Suddenly, there was a strange impulse in Fengwen Yamashita. He could not wait for 30 minutes to pass immediately, and then watched the more than one million Japanese troops board the ship and return to the country at the fastest speed.
Although, this is just a delusion. According to the evacuated voyage of the Japanese army and the vessels used, it will take at least three to five days to remove all the Japanese troops east of the separation zone near the sea! This is why the gas isolation belt has only detonated one third of the gas bombs. In order to maintain the effect of gas isolation, the gas bombs need to be continuously detonated in the next few days to form a persistent gas barrier.
In fact, the coastal area opposite Vanino is Sakhalin Island. As long as you land on this island, the Japanese can quickly escape to the south, and then pass through an exit of the Aya Strait to return to one of the four islands in Japan. Hokkaido.
The reason why more than one million Japanese troops can only spend a few days is that the Far East side of Vanino is only 30 kilometers away from Sakhalin, which is shorter than the dozens of kilometers of the British and French coalitions that were to be withdrawn. In general, the nearest place is only a dozen kilometers of strait. However, it is these tens of kilometers of straits that are under high-density surveillance by the Chinese army ’s air force. This area is also a very fierce area where air combat broke out. The retreat route can only choose a relatively safe strait segment.
The transport fleet departs from Hokkaido, detours from the North Pacific Ocean east of Sakhalin Island and enters the Strait of the North from the north to reach the Far East to receive Japanese officers and men. Usually, these fleets dare not park in the small port of Sakhalin Island, otherwise they could be blown up a dozen times a day.
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At this time, more than twenty front-line airports in the Far East were in charge of assisting Unit 201 in carrying out the gas counter-barrier operation. In addition to the large number of bombers transporting gas bombs, there were also a large number of jet fighter groups. In order to keep the operation foolproof, the cluster dispatched this time will be worry-free even during the day when the air battle is the most intense, not to mention that the Allied Air Force will spend less time at night because they must be from the south of Sakhalin Island. Even Hokkaido flew into the war, not as easy as the Chinese Air Force to attack.
"Commander Huo, Commander Xu, the fleet has been fully prepared, and special operations of Unit 201 can begin at any time."
A combat staff officer reported to Huo Weiguo and Commander 201 of General Xu Geng.
"Lao Xu, rest assured, this time the Air Force dispatched are absolutely elite, and even concentrated all the Tianlong 2 jet fighters that can be used in the Far East Theater at present. The night combat capability is very good enough to protect the safety of the fleet.
According to the plan ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The bombing of the southern Sakhalin airport and Hokkaido region to cover this operation will also be conducted at the same time, which will greatly restrain the Allied night warfare fleet and ensure the plan is foolproof. . "
Huo Weiguo reassured Xu Geng. The general mission of Unit 201 may not be known to other generals, but he does know that this highly confidential plan so far is to keep all Japanese troops in the Vanino area, thereby creating conditions for annihilating them in one fell swoop.
"Then Commander Laujo finally confirmed the order with me."
General Xu Geng stood up and motioned to a major next to him to take a box and open it. Inside was a remote command authorization system often used by the Defense Department ’s key departments.
Everything is ready, only due to the east wind, the National Defense Forces fighter planes are about to carry countless high-performance gas to the Japanese army.
According to the plan, the IDF Air Force will assist Unit 201 in airdropping a total of about 1,500 tons of gas bombs in multiple batches. At least two batches of 700 tons of gas injections must be completed before dawn. This is a relatively difficult task. The bomber carried a large amount of bombs, but compared to dropping a one-ton bomb, a ton of gas bombs was much stronger.