This is a bunker on his island. It is a temporary reinforcement of a residential room. It is converted into a dimly lit room, but it is still durable. The last box of American canned goods from the day before yesterday has been eaten by Oshima. These days, he has pathetic dough to fill his hunger, which makes him look very ugly. The whole person is as ferocious as a spectre.
"Ga ah road! These fucking navy bastards! Send a message saying that several submarines were sunk. Who knows if it is true? They’re playing us! The Americans killed the army generals! " The Japanese officer who succeeded Lieutenant General Fukuda as chief of staff picked up the article from the table and swore at it.
They are now at the end of their rope. It seems that the Americans have no intention of releasing a Japanese soldier from Koai Island. Their plan is very simple, that is, starvation to torture all Japanese troops invading Hawaii.
On the other side of the wall, there is a small cupboard where things are moved in. There is a radio on the counter. Inspirational songs are being played 24 hours a day in Japan. Most of them are sung by children to encourage frontline soldiers to fight bravely against the enemy children in Australia. It is very inspiring to listen to, but the lyrics are not at all the same as their own.
The more the staff listened, the more angry they were. They reached out and dropped the source and continued to complain, "Australia, Australia! Do they remember Australia? Aren’t we Japanese imperial soldiers here? Do any of them remember us? Does anyone remember the lovely island? Lieutenant General Fukuda … Did he die in vain? "
"honk! Shut up! Are you an idiot? Be cautious! " Oshima will frown and yell at his hand. "We are all the most loyal soldiers of the Emperor! Even if we are the emperor, all Japanese will stick to this place until the last person! "
He gritted his teeth and said, "Send a message to the soil! Code transmission! Just say that Lieutenant General Oshima is determined to die together with Cute Island! I would rather die here than take a step back! Long live the Emperor! "
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Chapter 65 65 The Second Battle of Lovely Island
Just as Lieutenant General Oshima vowed to die with Keai Island, the artillery of the American fleet came to land on Keai Island, and more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers poured hundreds of tons of artillery shells from all sides into the Japanese positions on Keai Island.
Shells hit the beach and set off a smoke screen several stories high. Japanese soldiers tried their best to dig trenches, and these large-caliber guns quickly collapsed, while those so-called large-caliber guns in Japan seemed too childish compared with Americans
Most of the Japanese army’s supporting artillery are 75 mm caliber mountain guns, but the Japanese army doesn’t carry much of its larger caliber artillery because it is the root of the cross-sea landing war
In this sense, the 75-mm mountain artillery is an important supporting firepower of the Japanese army’s lovely island, but there is no room to fight back against the American uniform 155-mm artillery, cruiser guns with larger caliber and battleship guns.
These days, there is no uniform replenishment of ammunition, and the large-caliber ammunition in hand is limited. In the face of the overwhelming fire attack by the US Navy and shore artillery units, Japanese artillery can hide in the bunker and pray that all this will pass soon.
Lieutenant General Oshima is not like another Japanese general, Li Linzhong, when he stuck to Iwo Jima. He didn’t study the mechanization degree and war mode of the United States very well, and he still held the unrealistic idea that the United States was strong and weak. He felt that Japan was temporarily partially passive rather than losing the initiative in the battlefield.
So the Japanese soldiers in Keai Island didn’t build fortifications carefully, and they didn’t have tunnels and other support. Most of them were trenches and simple shelters. Facing the coverage of the US military, the casualties soared. By the time Oshima decided to reinforce the fortifications, it was already too late.
As American artillery bombarded the sea near Oahu Island, American landing craft and barges appeared in the sight of Japanese soldiers. When Japanese soldiers were the least willing, American marines appeared in their most desirable positions.
"Boom!" With the American ships getting closer and closer to the beach of Keai Island, the Japanese position ushered in a new round of fire coverage. A machine gun bunker was hit by an American shell because of bad luck. Everyone watched the machine gun position. The machine gun and the shooter were all blown into the sky and turned into pieces.
Japanese soldiers’ frightened eyes were the first to approach the beach, and the US Marine landing craft released the hatch. Inside, American soldiers held their guns high and rushed into the already slightly cold water, which was above the waistline. The seawater immediately slowed down their actions, and they could slowly move forward to avoid it.
"bang!" A Japanese soldier pulled his trigger, and more Japanese crazy fire machine guns launched roaring shells and hit the sea like small shells splashing tiny water columns.
The first American soldier was quickly knocked down by the bullet and fell into the sea with a quiver, while the Japanese machine gun continued to shoot, and soon the bullet flew into the landing craft door. Before jumping into the water, the American soldiers were knocked down one by one, and the blood flowed down the deck into the sea, staining a large area red.
After all, this is not the same as Germany landing in Britain. At that time, Germany had to face a small number of British coastal defense forces, because the British judged that the Germans would land in other areas, and the lovely island Japanese successfully guessed the attack route of the US military, and it was more than enough to defend an island. The loss of American landing forces soared.
However, when another round of artillery fire hit the Japanese garrison position, more American landing craft rushed to the soft beach. When groups of American soldiers entered the beach, the firepower of the Japanese garrison was dispersed, so that more American soldiers rushed to the beach safely and attacked further.
"ammunition! Give me ammunition! " A Japanese soldier with his hands holding a heavy machine gun stared at the distance and shouted for his companion, but the machine gun assistant shooter could look down and sigh. The American soldiers on the opposite side were getting closer and closer, and the artillery fire hit the Japanese positions round by round. As more and more American soldiers landed on the coast, the coordinates were more accurately handed to the nearby US navy, and the shelling changed from covering to precise shooting. The Japanese defensive positions quickly collapsed.
"There is no ammunition! Retreat! " The assistant shooter obviously didn’t want to die in this foreign land. He watched his partner wake up and he ran out of ammunition. On the other side of the machine gun shooting hole, American soldiers even pulled the Grenade safety ring.
"Ga ah road! Fight with these Americans! " The machine gun shooter fiercely picked up the rifle and put it aside, but he was still one step late because the Grenade in the hand of the American soldier had already flown, and the front of his machine gun bunker exploded, and dust and shrapnel poured into the bunker and the heavy machine gun was blown over, and the machine gun shooter had fallen into a pool of blood at this moment.
"…" It seems that the Emperor’s position and what kind of things can really ensure his life. The deputy shooter hurriedly held the helmet and climbed out of the simple machine gun bunker that had collapsed by half.
Not all Japanese are fierce and not afraid of death. cold-blooded killer Americans are completely brainwashed by the bushido spirit. There are still many Japanese soldiers who want to escape in the face of absolute firepower, but their opponents have not given them a chance to escape, not even a chance to surrender.
When the assistant shooter emerged from the half-collapsed machine gun bunker, he saw American soldiers not far from the flank with semi-automatic rifles and carbines blazing at the flank of the Japanese trench, and the Japanese soldiers screamed one after another.
The massacre is still going on, but now the roles of both sides have changed. Just now, the Japanese soldiers were violently fired at the American soldiers. A dozen Japanese soldiers left their trenches and ran to a place not far behind them. As a result, they were shot by American soldiers halfway and fell to the ground without moving.
On the day of narrow escape, the assistant shooter was shocked when he saw the distant scene. He was so scared that he quickly climbed out of the trench with his helmet, hoping to avoid the fierce attack of the Americans and fled to the back row of trenches. After all, he saw that the Japanese soldiers there were still fighting back and seemed to be able to resist for a while.
"bang! Boom! Hey! " Before he ran three steps, he was found by an American soldier. The other side raised the Garland 1 rifle in his hand and fired three rounds in one breath. Obviously, in the face of such firepower density, no one could avoid the Japanese vice shooter. Immediately, he felt something hit his back, and then he threw himself down and blood flowed out of his mouth and twitched and stopped breathing.
"A line position has been lost! The Americans have landed! Artillery ammunition is out! The death squad is ready. Do you want to fight back immediately? " On April 4th, the Chief of Staff of the 4th Division let go and stared at the map. Lieutenant General Oshima said heavily, "About 11 soldiers lost contact at the front line, and the fighting continued. The Americans have broken through some of the second line of defense."
"Put three people here to fight back and try to drag the battle into the night. At that time, we will try our best to drive the Americans to the sea!" Oshima still believes that Japanese soldiers have a stronger fighting spirit and are more effective than weak American soldiers, but he has also seen the terrible power of American firepower, which is definitely not that Japanese soldiers can defeat the enemy by relying on faith.
Lieutenant-General Oshima bet all his money on night fighting, an area where Japanese soldiers are better at. After all, night American firepower law department plays and assault hand-to-hand combat is the key training strength of Japanese soldiers, and saving ammunition can better reflect the spirit of Japanese soldiers’ fear.
However, Lieutenant General Oshima’s troops were not as sufficient as he expected. Originally, there were 35,000 soldiers in his hands, but hunger and illness reduced his troops to less than 30,000, so Oshima lost five people to fight back against the reserve team, which made the problem of insufficient troops in his hands stand out.
High-intensity confrontation consumes more ammunition than you can imagine. There is not much ammunition for more than an hour. The consumption of high-intensity war has long been stretched. Many soldiers are surrounded and annihilated by Americans after they have exhausted their ammunition.
"The emperor positions soldiers! We will never retreat! Let the Americans see our Japanese imperial army! Army assault! " A commandant drew his own command knife, held it high in the sky with a vicious roar, and with a wave of his arm, hundreds of Japanese soldiers howled and rushed to the position just occupied by the US military.
"Ga ah road! Go! " With bayonets swinging, soldiers rushed to their targets one by one, but they were not greeted by American soldiers with bushido spirit and good bayonets, but by machine guns.
Chapter 659 659 bullets
The same bullets are also afraid of charging. It happened in another corner of the earth. This is the endless desert in North Africa. This is the main battlefield of the German-Italian African legion attacking the flank of Alexandria
Bullets flew over the flat ground like raindrops, hitting the German tanks. The heavy armor was like real raindrops hitting the eaves of neighbors. The German tanks moved slowly forward with wide tracks, rolled up sand bit by bit and approached slowly in the direction of the enemy.
Suddenly, the steel behemoth stopped and slowly turned in front of a trench. The slender barrel of the huge turret swung with the turret and looked at its target bit by bit, with majestic momentum. After a few seconds, the tank fired its shells.
The huge air billow set off a dusty and dry environment around the tank, and there was dust in the desert. The tank left a lot of sand. With this devastating shot, the dust and sand were shaken up and formed a smoke, but the shell had accurately flown to its target and crossed the kilometer distance in an instant.
And this shell from the 75 mm cannon of the Leopard tank actually hit through the sandbag and accumulated bunker, and penetrated a hiding bunker behind which the British team was equipped with an American-made 3lee tank, and then the tank burst into flames and emitted thick smoke.
British soldiers nearby retreated in front of the Leopard tank, and the machine gun sent out a unique tearing linen bomb, which swept at the British soldiers who had just violently fired and easily penetrated these soldiers.
After the most bloody battle, although the German team lost some troops and ammunition, it actually wiped out some British main forces entrenched in North Africa, such as a New Zealand division, which was badly hit and had to be withdrawn from the front line to rest.
After these hard peripheral defense forces have been put together, Britain has to supplement its flank. The fighting capacity is not strong. The Indian division and the Middle East hired division are still worthy of personal support when they fight against the wind. Now this kind of headwind performance is really not as good as that of the orthodox British team.
Montgomery mobilized his few armored troops into his own preset positions, and strengthened them, so the fighting capacity was not strong. The Indian division hoped to support these divisions to hold their positions.
However, when Rommel put in a new armored regiment and cut into the southern defense line of Alexandria, the battlefield situation became bright. British troops collapsed from the flank, and Alexandria was now surrounded by Germans on both sides, leaving the eastern part under British control.
"To the wings circuitous! Consolidate your position after occupying the trench! Set up observation posts on both sides Signal the battalion! Just say that we have controlled the enemy’s first line of defense! " After a German company commander jumped into the trench, he issued a big order. On his side, two machine gunners were setting up a new machine gun position, one man was carrying a machine gun chain around his neck, and not far away, two grenadiers were carrying g43 rifles and violently setting fire to their feet. The body of an Englishman was lying there covered with fine sand.
"hey! How many people can you spare to cover us if we attack the left highland? " The captain’s hatch of the Leopard tank that just caught fire at the position was suddenly pushed inside, and the captain showed his head with a telescope. He asked the infantry company commander in the trench that the enemy didn’t expect the tank to crack when it hit him.
"In order to support you, Keai Island will continue to hold on to the seventh submarine from the soil, which was sunk by the US military, and the goods can be delayed. I hope you can hold on to Keai Island and wait for the arrival of the joint fleet." General Oshima gave a wry smile and lost the desk full of documents.
