Chapter 335 Gas Mask

Charles didn't take the "uniform incident" too seriously.

He knew that it would be resolved sooner or later, because it did not infringe too much on the interests of capitalists, but it would cause strong resistance from society, so why didn't they do a favor?

And it can be predicted that the replacement of military uniforms will not only pass, but will also be on the "fast track", after all, MPs also need to win people's support to secure their positions.

Therefore, Charles always focused on dealing with the "gas war".

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Tijani's headquarters is on the second floor of the office building.

This four-story office building did not originally exist. Before this, the office area was connected to the teaching building because the training of the police did not require an independent, large and clearly divided headquarters.

After Tijani came with the 105th Infantry Regiment, he immediately used his own funds to start building the building.

"How can a training base not have a headquarters?" Tijani said: "Especially my headquarters!"

When the 105th Infantry Regiment was still fighting in Gallipoli, the building was completed.

Everything here is new and fully equipped: lounge, telecommunications room, operations department, logistics department... Each department is equipped with telephones and radio stations.

A regimental command is even more luxurious than Gallieni's city defense headquarters.

The command center is clean and bright, and the crackling of firewood burning in the fireplace adds a bit of warmth to the room.

Tijani made a cup of instant coffee for Charles and brought it to him. He also took a cup for himself. He frowned and took a sip, complaining: "I'm worried that I can't adapt to the taste on the battlefield."

Tijani was referring to instant coffee. He thought it was a sacrifice, but he didn't know that many people at that time couldn't afford this processed instant coffee.

"We should make some preparations." Charles said.

"What?" Tijani looked up at Charles: "Are you talking about changing uniforms? This requires preparation?"

"No, Tijani." Charles replied: "I'm talking about the war. I think it will be new."

Tijani said "Oh": "Are you talking about Gallipoli?"

If the Gallipoli battlefield had won, the situation would indeed be somewhat different. Tijani unconsciously cast his eyes on the map on the wall.

But Charles shook his head: "No, I mean the gas war."

"Gas war?" Tijani turned his head and looked at Charles, looking confused.

Charles told Tijani the cause and effect, and finally emphasized: "Although it is just a guess, once it comes true, there will be a huge gap in our defense line, and it may even collapse because of it."

Charles is not actually worried about this.

In history, the Germans did cause heavy casualties to the Allies after launching the gas war, and a huge gap of 10 kilometers and 7 kilometers deep appeared in the defense line.

But because the German army had to face both the eastern and western defense lines at the same time, it only had very limited forces to penetrate through this gap, and was eventually blocked by the French reinforcements.

What Charles was really worried about was that more than 70,000 Allied soldiers died in this battle. If one of them was the 105th Infantry Regiment and Charles was among them, what should he do then?

"I can't convince them." Charles took a sip of coffee and put it back on the tray, with a helpless tone: "No one thinks this is true. They are even worried that my remarks will shake the morale of the army."

Tijani said with certainty: "They are wrong. If you think there is, there must be!"

Charles was a little surprised. He thought Tijani would at least ask a few questions, such as whether there is a deeper investigation or other intelligence evidence, but he didn't ask anything.

Tijani's only question was: "How should we prepare? I mean, if the enemy releases poison gas, we may not be able to do anything!"

They shouldn't doubt Charles, Tijani thought, because Charles has never made a mistake. Everything Charles said and did was proved to be correct afterwards.

Those idiots always think they are smarter than Charles!

Charles was stunned. He had prepared some arguments, such as "We can take precautions before it happens" and "It's better to be prepared than not to be prepared". He hoped to use these to convince Tijani, but now none of them were useful.

Charles shrugged his shoulders, ignored all of them, turned sideways to take the briefcase, opened it, took out a gas mask and handed it to Tijani.

That was the sample that Charles asked Steed to produce. It was not complicated. To put it bluntly, it was a device that covered the face and breathed air through the gas filter canister. It had no technological content.

Among them, Charles also avoided a trouble:

The gas filter canister, which was first invented during World War I, contained cotton soaked in sodium percarbonate solution. It would react with chlorine and absorb it to achieve the effect of filtering the gas.

But if this method of filtering the gas is used, Charles needs to answer a question: it is only effective for chlorine. How can you know in advance that the gas used by the Germans is chlorine? And produce a gas mask for it in advance?

Therefore, Charles uses more advanced activated carbon particles, which are effective for all poisonous gases and can make breathing smoother.

"What is this?" Tijani asked in confusion, playing with it in his hand for a while.

"Gas mask." Charles took it back and put it on his head, looking at Tijani through the two eye windows of the mask.

Tijani found it interesting for a moment, and tried to wear it on his head, then suddenly realized something, and looked at Charles in shock when he took it off:

"You mean, if you wear it, you don't need to worry about the enemy's poison gas?"

"Is this your new invention?"

Charles nodded and admitted: "This is the preparation I'm talking about. If we can't convince them and let them prepare, the only one who can prepare is the 105th Infantry Regiment..."

However, Tijani is not interested in this, he is interested in the "art of war"

"Colonel!" Tijani interrupted Charles: "How did you come up with the idea of ​​inventing such a thing? Does it really work?"

Ciel couldn't answer.

The gas mask was invented because after the Germans used poison gas, people discovered that a large number of wild animals, including birds in the woods and even frogs and insects stinging in the soil, were not immune. Only wild boars were unharmed. .

Scientists have discovered through experiments that the wild boar has a very sensitive sense of smell. When it smells a pungent smell, it will habitually stick its nose into the soil and remain motionless. It uses soil particles to filter poisonous gases in the air.

At this time, the Germans had not yet used poison gas, so of course this experiment could not happen.

Charles could only say perfunctorily: "I just thought of it, I can't say why."

Tijani laughed: "That's right. Who can tell the reason?"

Then his eyes lit up:

"If it works and the Germans think we've been poisoned in our positions."

"Then they are the ones who are the unlucky ones!"