124: Chapter 124 Poison Gas Unit
They were sent out with the primary goal of delivering a fatal blow to the Little Devils at a critical moment.
Ideally, they would catch the Little Devils off guard.
The situation on the main battle line was not currently critical, so they did not need to rush for the time being.
Time arrived at the next day's dawn; the Little Devils had not continued their sneak attacks last night.
After all, one sneak attack had already failed.
Attempting a second sneak attack would have a low probability of success.
The success rate would be even lower than the first.
At dawn, the sky was faintly brightening.
The Chinese Soldiers on night watch were feeling sleepy.
This was not to be blamed on them.
Having fought for long hours during the day, they were already quite exhausted.
Not to mention having to stand watch at night.
Although they employed a system of sleeping half the night and standing watch the other half, the lack of sufficient sleep still made them drowsy.
Just as the Chinese Soldiers on watch were dozing off, the sky suddenly began to rumble.
The sound traveled from afar, growing clearer and louder.
When the sound came from overhead, the Chinese Soldiers on watch were all jolted awake.
Before they could even poke their heads out to investigate, a violent explosion rang out.
A Chinese Soldier on watch saw the planes streak by and was instantly alert.
Seeing the planes, he did not need to think to know what was happening; the Little Devils had arrived for an air raid.
"The Little Devils are conducting an air raid, everyone take cover!" the Chinese Soldier shouted immediately.
He was not the only one shouting; the other Chinese Soldiers on watch, upon hearing the roar of the passing planes, also rushed in a panic to wake the Chinese Soldiers who were fast asleep.
However, faster than their shouts were the explosions of the bombs dropped by the Little Devils.
The sound of these bombs exploding was deafening, which showed just how powerful the ordnance was.
In the observatory basement, General Huang Wei was also jolted awake by the sound of the bombs dropped by the Little Devils' aircraft.
He immediately got up, left the room where he had been resting, and went to a conference room inside the basement.
This fortification had been built to military standards from the start, and it was originally intended to serve as a defensive position.
Although the 250kg bombs dropped by the Little Devils were formidable, they were still unable to cause damage to the observatory basement.
While the fortifications here were sturdy, the other surface fortifications suffered a miserable fate.
They had just suffered a round of shelling yesterday morning, and today came the aerial bombardment.
The Little Devils dropped a total of 50 of the 250kg bombs.
The bunker complexes that had been hidden on the hillsides and slopes were suddenly exposed.
The camouflage covering the bunker complexes was caught in the shockwaves of the explosions and was completely blown away.
The bunkers that were originally hidden in the shadows were also exposed.
Not only that, but the explosions also caused numerous casualties among the defenders inside the bunkers.
Many of the tunnels hidden beneath the surface were also blasted open, exposing the tunnels within.
After this wave of bombing, the Little Devils did not launch an attack.
This somewhat exceeded General Huang Wei's expectations.
Logically speaking, the Little Devils usually launched their attacks after shelling or bombing.
After all, the defenders were highly likely to be in chaos following such bombardment.
Yet today, they did not.
Just as General Huang Wei and his men were waiting, the Little Devils finally launched their offensive.
The Chinese Soldiers on the front line saw the Little Devils attacking and immediately began to counterattack.
Just as the Chinese Soldiers and the Little Devils were locked in fierce combat, red smoke suddenly began to permeate the mountain.
A Chinese Soldier saw this and immediately shouted.
"Oh no, there's poison gas!"
The red smoke was very conspicuous.
Seeing this smoke, the Chinese Soldiers scrambled to take cover.
The view in the livestream room was now an aerial shot, showing Zijin Mountain below permeated with red smoke.
This red smoke was spreading outward in patches.
The smoke was mostly concentrated on the main peak, with little red smoke outside of it.
The red smoke spread rapidly, enveloping the entire main peak in just over ten minutes.
Viewers in the livestream room immediately recognized what it was.
"Damn, that's poison gas!"
"What's happening? They're actually using poison gas?"
"These Little Devils are truly resorting to any means necessary to capture Zijin Mountain."
"Duh, since they're called the Little Devils, they certainly aren't doing anything human."
"These Little Devils just used poison gas on the Shanghai battlefield, and now they're using it again. This is truly maniacal and heartless!"
The Netizens in the livestream room were immediately filled with righteous indignation.
Many of the viewers were seeing this for the first time; they hadn't expected that these Little Devils would actually resort to using poison gas.
Although a real battlefield would certainly be even more brutal than this, that did not make this behavior acceptable.
Zhou Yang watched as the viewers were so enraged.
He felt the same sentiment in his heart; the maniacal nature of the Little Devils went far beyond this.
The poison gas was developed by the Little Devils' Unit 516, which was the Kwantung Army's chemical department.
But poison gas was not the most maniacal thing.
The most maniacal were biological weapons.
Among them, the most notorious was naturally Unit 731.
If the Netizens of this world were to see the evidence of Unit 731's crimes, Zhou Yang had no doubt that they would be unable to accept it.
Because even he had needed a long time to recover after seeing it himself.
Furthermore, what enraged Zhou Yang the most was that most of the members of these notorious biological warfare units were ultimately spared from punishment.
Some of the masterminds were even shielded, exempted from trial, and then poached away.
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On the battlefield, the red poison gas continued to spread.
At one position, the red poison gas had already enveloped the area.
The Chinese Soldiers on the position covered their mouths and noses with cloth, attempting to escape the range of the poison gas.
Inside the tunnel, Company Commander Lin Zhi quickly ordered people to bring quilts and soak them in water.
He then immediately used these soaked quilts to block the tunnel entrance, attempting to isolate the red poison gas outside.
After more than ten minutes of blocking, they finally managed to keep the red poison gas outside the tunnel entrance.
However, those ten-plus minutes still caused massive casualties.
Many Chinese Soldiers inhaled the poison gas, causing their lungs to swell, making it impossible to breathe, and they died of asphyxiation.
This sensation of being unable to breathe filled these Chinese Soldiers with despair.
Seeing that a large number of his Chinese Soldiers had become casualties, Lin Zhi's eyes turned red.
Hatred for the Little Devils rose in his heart.
"Brothers, the Little Devils used poison gas to kill our brothers. If we do not avenge this, we will not rest until death!"
Lin Zhi growled lowly.
At this moment, he had forgotten that he was still in a game.
The surviving Chinese Soldiers heard Lin Zhi's words and all tightened their grip on their guns.
At this time, the camera in the livestream room kept switching, showing the situation at various positions engulfed by the poison gas.
On the screen, the ground was covered with the remains of Chinese Soldiers who had died from the poison gas.
Besides that, there were many Chinese Soldiers wailing; these soldiers had inhaled less of the poison gas, so while it was not fatal, it was excruciatingly painful.
Seeing this, many of the viewers' eyes turned red.
They gritted their teeth.
"The Little Devils are such animals!"
"Seeing our Chinese Soldiers in such pain makes my heart ache."
"We cannot let these Little Devils off!"