The night of the 9th, Baghdad.

The 11th Division is organized into regiments and is scattered in southern Baghdad.

On the night of August 9, the entire 11th Division was in a tight formation, as if facing a formidable enemy. However, the only enemy of the 11th Division, the Mesopotamians in Baghdad, showed no reaction.

Han Fei is located in the southeastern suburbs of Baghdad, only 1 kilometer away from downtown Baghdad. He is sitting boredly by a phone, chewing a piece of grass.

"Captain, we received the airship signal!" The staff officer opened the tent and walked in.

Han Fei stood up suddenly and spat out the grass in his mouth:

"Has it been reported to the superior?"

"It has been reported to the brigade headquarters and is being confirmed."

"Order, the entire regiment enters chemical defense level 3 combat status, and strict chemical defense requirements are followed. Political Commissar, please go and supervise the inspection." Han Fei took out the gas mask from his waist.

"Okay!" The political commissar took the gas mask and hurriedly left the tent.

The 11th Division had no experience in chemical warfare. The only times they used chemicals in Arabia were with No. 2 gas, which was an advanced version of chlorine.

No. 2 gas enhances the degradation ability. When used in a non-enclosed area, it usually only takes one night to degrade.

But this time it is obviously different. The Special Military Operations Command, the General Staff Headquarters of the Sixth Army, and the two combat command centers are paying special attention to it.

In particular, the latter was only responsible for group army and strategic mission command, and sent telegrams to the 11th Division several times, requiring the 11th Division to strictly complete its biological and chemical drill tasks.

Under the pressure, everyone in the 11th Division was filled with curiosity and confusion.

"Brigade headquarters order! Start Operation Storm." The telegraph operator stood up and shouted.

"Light the torch, whole group, turn on the searchlights." Han Fei picked up the phone.

"Quick, pour it on." Eight soldiers took 4 barrels of gasoline and poured it on a pile of dry firewood. Farther away, there were two places doing the same thing.

"Okay. Get out!" After pouring the gasoline, the leading soldier dared to say.

He took out the torch that he had prepared long ago - a rag strip dipped in a little gasoline.

Use a lighter to do this.

feng~(4 sounds)

Gasoline will produce a deflagration effect. To ignite a pile of dry firewood soaked in gasoline, it must be ignited from a distance. The power of gasoline deflagration at close range is not small.

Seeing that his teammates were at a safe distance, he calmly took out a cigarette, lit it with a torch, and took a puff.

"Huh..." After blowing out the smoke, he threw the torch fiercely from a distance of more than ten meters.

The moment he let go of the torch, he turned around and ran wildly with a cigarette in his hand.

boom!

There was a heat wave in the air, along with a roar. This was the sound and temperature of gasoline deflagrating.

Similarly, torches were lit in the other two places. From the air, the three fires were arranged in a triangle shape. When they were connected, they formed a triangle.

The bottom of this triangular shape is relatively short, only 300 meters, but the length of the two hypotenuses is 600 meters. This is used to indicate the direction of the airship.

If the triangle is regarded as an arrow, then the position pointed by the scissors is the direction of the center of Baghdad.

At the same time, there were 6 such torches in southern Baghdad. From the map, if lines extend in the direction of the arrow, the intersection locations are all around the central area of ​​Baghdad.

This can reduce the difficulty of night bombing, at least it will not drop bombs in no-man's land, or even on one's own head.

The searchlights are modified from car lights and metal plates, and the effect is very limited, but better than nothing.

The 11th Division has searchlights, but they are all in Oman or Kuwait.

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Over Baghdad, airship support group.

Ma Cang looked at the busy people in the airship and then looked at his watch.

It's already ten o'clock in the evening.

"Where are we now?" Ma Cang walked to the driver's seat and asked.

"According to the route, we are close to Baghdad, but we don't know the specific location because there is no reference object," the driver said.

During the day, you can also adjust your course according to the river. At night, you can only rely on the compass and you can't even see the stars.

Especially today there is no moonlight and there is a dark cloud overhead. Originally, we could confirm the position of the airship through the shadow of the airship, the shadow of the river or the reflection, but now we can no longer do it and we can only fly blindly.

With a compass, the general direction will not deviate, but small-scale yaws are inevitable, such as now.

"We have contacted the ground and asked if we should take action." the liaison officer said loudly.

There was silence in the airship at first, and then a series of breathing sounds could be heard, which was the sound of them breathing a sigh of relief.

They all know what the airship is carrying. Although they don't know the specific power, if they cannot complete the mission, the frontline attack may be delayed because of them.

"Send a telegram and start Operation Storm." Ma Cang tidied his clothes.

"On the left, there is a torch burning."

"There are also?...two places on the right side."

"According to the torch coordinates reported from the ground, we deviated by about 16°, almost 1 o'clock." The political commissar took the calculation results and shouted lucky.

Another 20 minutes later, they flew over from the southwest corner of Baghdad. Turning around in the airship formation in the dark night was a troublesome task and took 1 to 2 hours. The ground battle started at 45:00 in the morning.

"Turn on the indicator light, keep a safe distance between the boats, adjust their posture, use formation No. 6, and enter the battlefield in batches according to the numbers of each boat." Ma Cang said calmly.

"Calculating the heading, the preliminary result is 23..."

The dark night is too dangerous, especially since the twelve airships have long been out of formation. Formation at this time is not only time-consuming, but also very dangerous.

Under dark night conditions, it is difficult to determine the opponent's specific position. In the event of a collision, it is a trivial matter for the airship to fall, but it is a big matter for poisonous gas to fall on one's own position.

Even if chemical defense preparations are made and no large-scale casualties are caused, the army can only retreat after the materials are contaminated, and all pollutants must go through a series of complex treatments before they can continue to be used.

It is also limited to vehicles, weapons, etc. As for food, medical supplies and other things that may seem ordinary but are actually crucial, they cannot be recycled.

As a result, the airships separated each other and flew to the target area one by one.

At 10:31, the airship entered the city through the guidance of the torch and sent a message requesting guidance.

On the ground, four 762mm cannons that had been deployed long ago were equipped with illumination bombs and continued to fire illumination bombs at low trajectories towards Baghdad.

In order to avoid the airship, the ballistic trajectory was very low, and the muzzle velocity was too fast. Each illumination bomb could only provide ten or even a few seconds of light. Moreover, the projectile was low and the lighting effect was mediocre.

The Mesopotamians were awakened by the sound of cannons and looked at the flares flying in the sky with some fear and confusion.

"What is this?" Someone found the burning flare on the ground and watched from a distance.

Some flares fell into piles of firewood and caused fires.

Some of them fall directly on people who have just gone out. The mixture of barium nitrate, magnesium powder and Lu powder burns, and its temperature is completely worthy of its brightness.

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"Discovered target building, mosque, confirmed target, about 4,500 meters to the left." The observer found the target.

"Received, heading adjustment, turn left..."

101:07.

"Arrived over the target, confirm the target again." Ma Cang took out a cigarette, put it under his nose and kept sniffing.

Fireworks are strictly prohibited on board the airship. You can smell them but you can't light them.

"Confirm the target angle again." By observing the torch, as long as the observer can see 3 complete torches, that is, 9 ignition points, their position is correct.

"Confirm target." The entire airship could only hear the roar of engines and artillery, and everyone looked at Ma Cang.

Ma Cang looked at the looming mosque in the dim light and couldn't help but smile.

"My first mission was also the first bombing mission of the South China Air Force, and I also passed the mosque..." Ma Cang said with a smile.

"What are you waiting for? Throw incendiary bombs to mark the location. Everyone puts on gas masks. After the location is marked, the battle begins." Ma Cang sat back in the commander's position.

"After the throw is completed, proceed straight ahead, leave Baghdad at full speed, turn around after half an hour, and each boat will return on its own after completing its mission."

"Calibrate the location... release it!" The bombardier relied on experience and took advantage of a certain balance point to release an incendiary bomb.

Incendiary bombs are specially equipped for night operations. Their main function is to calibrate the target location. Subsequent airships only need to use these as coordinates to perform tasks without repeatedly calculating their own positions.

Boom!

The incendiary bomb landed, and after the explosion, it ignited the gelled gasoline, and the gunpowder burned fiercely, accompanied by bursts of thick smoke.

"Prepare No. 1 Warehouse." The bombardier wiped the sweat from his palms.

"Get ready... let go!"

Bang!

As the bombardier pressed the bomb release button, dozens of steel bombs fell off. There was a parachute behind the bomb, which opened automatically when it detached.

Fifteen seconds after the bomb fell, when it was still 1 or 200 meters away from the ground, the timer fuse was triggered, and the explosive inside the steel shell of the bomb exploded. After a delay of 0:00 seconds, several kilograms of bombs inside exploded, pushing out the liquefied gas.

Far away.

No. 4 gas is in a gaseous state at normal temperatures. When the liquefied gas comes into contact with high temperatures, it evaporates violently. Soon, the surrounding area of ​​nearly 100,000 square meters will be filled with the gas, and it will continue to spread outward.

The airship was ignited and operated at full power, and a few minutes later, it reached the next throwing area.

"Get ready for No. 2 warehouse," the bombardier shouted as he watched the indicator light turn green.

Seeing that everyone had grasped the handle, the operation was repeated again.

As the bomb left the airship, the airship rose higher and higher. After the drop was completed, it headed north.

Subsequent airships used the burning point of the incendiary bomb as a reference and dropped it once at a distance.

It only takes one minute of exposure to No. 4 gas to cause physical discomfort, and five minutes to cause irreversible damage to the organs.

If not treated in time, pulmonary edema will appear in ten minutes, and 20 minutes later, shock will occur due to inability to breathe.

Poison gas bombs have been used continuously since their emergence because they are powerful, cover a wide range, and are cheap.
Chapter completed!