Chapter 658

Just when the admiral of the big island vowed to live and die with the lovely island, the artillery of the U.S. fleet began to land on the lovely island. A dozen cruisers and destroyers opened fire from all directions, pouring hundreds of tons of shells into the Japanese positions on the lovely island.

The shells hit the beach and raised several stories of smoke. The Japanese soldiers tried their best to dig the trench, which was destroyed by these large caliber guns. The so-called large caliber guns of the Japanese, compared with those of the Americans, are too small.

Most of the support guns of the Japanese army are 75mm caliber mountain guns. For other larger caliber guns, the Japanese army does not have many. Because it is a cross sea landing operation, it does not carry them at all.

As for this legendary 75mm caliber mountain gun, it is the important support firepower of the Japanese army on lovely island. However, in the face of the uniform 155mm caliber artillery of the United States, the larger caliber cruiser gun and the battleship gun, these Japanese small guns really have no room to fight back.

What's more, Japan has not systematically replenished its ammunition these days. The large caliber ammunition in its hands is really limited. In the face of the overwhelming firepower attack by the US Navy and coastal artillery forces, the Japanese artillery can only hide in the bunker and pray that all this will pass soon.

General Oshima is not like the Japanese general kurilin Tadao when he was holding Iwo Jima in another time and space. He did not have a good study of the mechanization degree and combat mode of the United States, and even held the unrealistic idea that Japan was strong and the United States was weak. He felt that Japan was only temporarily partial passive, rather than losing the initiative in the battlefield.

As a result, the Japanese soldiers on lovely island did not carefully build underground fortifications, nor did they have support from tunnels. Most of them were trenches and simple bunkers. In the face of us coverage, casualties rose sharply. When big island decided to reinforce fortifications, it was too late.

With the bombardment of American cannons, American landing boats and barges appeared in the sight of Japanese soldiers on the sea near Oahu Island. At the time when Japanese soldiers were least willing, American marines appeared in the position where they should be.

"Boom!" With the US ships getting closer and closer to the beach of lovely island, the Japanese position has ushered in a new round of firepower coverage. Because of bad luck, a machine gun bunker was hit by a U.S. artillery shell. With everyone's attention, all the machine guns and shooters on the machine gun position were blown into the sky and became pieces after pieces.

In the Japanese soldiers' frightened eyes, the first U.S. Marines landing boat close to the beach lowered the cabin door, and the U.S. soldiers inside rushed into the slightly cold water with guns high. The sea water above the waist line immediately slowed down the speed of American soldiers. They could only move forward slowly and could not escape at all.

"Bang!" A Japanese soldier pulled the trigger, more Japanese soldiers began to fire madly, machine guns began to roar, bullets hit in the sea like small shells, splashing small water column.

The first American soldier was soon knocked down by the bullet and fell into the sea with a tremor. However, the Japanese machine gun was still shooting. Soon the bullet flew into the open landing boat cabin door. The American soldiers who had not jumped into the water were knocked down one by one. The fresh blood flowed down the deck into the sea and dyed a large area red.

As the Japanese forces defending the shore opened fire fiercely, the casualties of American navy soldiers were also increasing. After all, this was different from the German landing in Britain. At that time, Germany had to face a small number of British coast guards, because the British judged that the German landing site was in other areas. On the lovely island, the Japanese successfully guessed the attack route of the U.S. Army, and the troops were more than enough to defend an island, so the losses of the U.S. landing forces rose sharply.

But when another round of gunfire 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 obviously dispersed. The sparse firepower made more American soldiers rush to the beach safely, and began to attack more far-reaching places.

"Ammunition! Give me the ammo A Japanese soldier holding a machine gun in both hands stared at the distance and called out his companion, but the machine gun co shooter could only look down at the empty ammunition box and sigh. The American soldiers on the opposite side are getting closer and closer, and the artillery fire is hitting the Japanese positions round by round, because more and more American soldiers land on the shore, the coordinates are more accurately transmitted to the nearby US Navy, and the artillery fire has changed from coverage to accurate firing, and the Japanese defense positions begin to collapse rapidly.

"No ammunition! Retreat The Deputy shooter obviously didn't want to die in this foreign land. He looked at his accomplice and reminded him that he had no ammunition. On the other side of the muzzle, American soldiers have even begun to lift the safety ring of the grenade.

"Baga! Fight with these Americans! " The machine gun shooter fiercely picked up his rifle, but he was a little late because the grenade in the hand of the American soldier had already come over and exploded in front of his machine gun bunker. Dust and shrapnel rushed into the bunker, overturning the heavy machine gun to one side, while the machine gun shooter was now in a pool of blood.

"..." it seems that the emperor still has something like a thousand people sewing, which really can't guarantee his life. The Deputy shooter quickly grabbed the helmet and crawled out of the collapsed simple machine gun castle. Not all Japanese are cold-blooded killers who are fearless of death and thoroughly brainwashed by the bushido spirit. In the face of the absolute firepower of the Americans, many Japanese soldiers still want to escape, but their opponents did not give them the chance to escape, and even the chance to surrender was not left to these aggressors. When the Deputy shooter got out of the machine gun bunker, he saw that not far from the flank, the American soldiers were carrying semi-automatic rifles and carbines to fire fiercely at the flank of the Japanese trench, and the Japanese soldiers inside fell down one by one, screaming incessantly. The massacre is still going on, but now the roles of both sides of the massacre have changed. The Japanese soldiers who just opened fire on American soldiers have become the targets of American soldiers. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers left their trenches and ran to a place not far behind. As a result, they were shot by American soldiers on the way and rolled to the ground. The Japanese deputy shooter, who escaped from death, saw the scene in the distance and was extremely frightened. He quickly climbed out of the trench with his helmet in the hope that he could avoid the fierce attack of the Americans and escape to the back row of trenches. After all, he saw that the Japanese soldiers were still fighting back and seemed to be able to resist for a while“ Bang! Bang! Bang Before he took three steps, an American soldier found him. The other side raised his garland M1 rifle and fired three bullets at a time. Obviously, in the face of such firepower density, no one can avoid it. The Japanese deputy shooter immediately felt something hammered on his back, and then he fell to the ground with blood flowing from his mouth and stopped breathing“ The front line has been lost! The Americans have landed! The artillery is out of ammunition! The death squads are ready. Do you want to fight back immediately? " The chief of staff of the 4th division of Japan put down his phone and looked at the general of Oshima, who was looking at the map. He said gravely, "the front line has suffered heavy losses. About 1100 soldiers have lost contact. The fighting is still going on. The Americans have broken through part of the second line of defense."“ Put 300 people here to fight back and try to drag the fight into the night, when we can concentrate on driving the Americans out of the sea! " Although Oshima still believes that Japanese soldiers have a firmer fighting spirit and are more effective than weak American soldiers, he also sees the terrible power of American powerful firepower, which is definitely not the enemy that Japanese soldiers can defeat by relying on their faith. So admiral Oshima has put all his bets on night fighting, a field that Japanese soldiers are better at. After all, the firepower of the Americans can not be fully exerted at night, and the white-edge assault is the strength of the Japanese soldiers' key training. Saving ammunition can not only reflect the Japanese soldiers' dauntless spirit. However, the troops in his hand were not as sufficient as he expected. Originally, there were at least 35000 soldiers in his hand, but hunger and disease reduced his troops to less than 30000. As a result, there were less than 5000 counterattack reserves in his hand, which suddenly highlighted the problem of insufficient troops in his hand. In addition, the high-intensity confrontation has consumed an unimaginable ammunition reserve, and the ammunition that has not been stored has been stretched out for more than an hour in the high-intensity war. Many soldiers are surrounded and annihilated by the Americans after they have exhausted their ammunition“ Your Majesty's soldiers! We will never retreat! Let the Americans see the power of our Japanese Imperial Army! The whole army raided A captain took out his command knife, roared with a fierce voice, and waved his arm high in the sky. With his command knife, hundreds of Japanese soldiers howled and rushed to the position just occupied by the US Army“ Baga road! Go Carrying bright bayonets, Japanese soldiers rushed to their targets one by one. However, they were not welcomed by the bushido spirit and good bayonet American soldiers, but by the barrage of machine guns.