Chapter 46: Taiwan Strategy (2)

In fact, most of the Japanese soldiers who were woken up by the officers did not know what was happening, and they only reacted according to the usual training habits. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "Quick, aim at the sea, and fire immediately." "The shouts of the officers sounded in the pillbox, and the rapid-fire guns quickly raised their muzzles under the operation of the Japanese artillery, and immediately after, Cheng Liang's shells were pushed into the breech." Fire... As the roar sounded in the Japanese pillbox group, the shells quickly erupted from their muzzles and fired at the landing craft on the sea two kilometers away.

The explosion of the shells soon came from the sea, perhaps because of a problem with the line of sight, or perhaps because it was only the first round of fire, and the Japanese artillery had not yet found a sense of it. The shells fired from the Japanese rapid-fire guns did not hit the target, but instead told the landing force on the landing craft that they had completely leaked under the artillery fire of the Japanese coastal positions.

Sure enough, at the same time as the sound of shell explosions sounded, dozens of landing craft, which had just formed a straight line, dispersed in an instant. Like an infantry charge, they formed a simple 'three-three' formation and quickly rushed to the beach that was getting closer and closer. "Baga, continue to open fire, once the enemy enters the firing range, the heavy machine gun will open fire immediately, we must annihilate the enemy on the surface of the sea, and give me a hard blow...."The Japanese commander with a shocked face brandished his command knife in his hand in the fortress and roared loudly.

However, to the surprise of the more than 1,000 Japanese troops on the position, while they were panicking and preparing to open fire again, the warships that had already been ready for battle on the sea a few kilometers away also received the order to open fire. With a series of sharp whistling sounds sounding in the air, the first round of dozens of large-caliber naval artillery shells, as if they had eyes, smashed into the middle of the pillbox group of the Japanese coastal position in Xiangshan.

Immediately after that, a series of orange-red fireballs, like fireworks, rose into the air in the middle of the bunkers, illuminating the coastal positions of the Japanese army. After the sound of artillery, huge craters appeared in the Japanese position. At the same time, all the bunkers within the range of the crater, without exception, fell into a deathly silence, even if they were not blown into ruins, and not a single bullet or sound was fired.

Everything in front of him made the face of the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army's Xiangshan defensive position, Muramoto Goro Daisa, instantly turn pale, and then turned to his subordinates who were also stunned behind him, and roared loudly. "Baga, how is it possible, how can it be a naval gun, the cunning Shina people actually have naval guns to provide artillery support. Hurry, immediately ask for help from the Governor's Palace, ask for artillery support, aircraft support, hurry, the position is almost impossible to hold...."

"Ha Yi....", the combat staff officer, who also had a pale face, quickly rushed to the telecommunications room built several meters underground. Looking at the combat staff officer who was leaving quickly, Goro Muramoto knew that he was a ragtag infantry brigade that could not block such a sharp attack from the other side. After sighing secretly, Goro Muramoto, who was still holding a fluke mentality in his heart, quickly raised the telescope in his hand and began to observe the battle situation through the lookout of the black hole in front of him. I don't know if I don't know it, I was startled when I saw it..... just less than a minute later, my defensive position was once again hit by a new round of dozens of large-caliber naval guns from the opponent.

Under the illumination of the fireballs generated by the explosion of shells, this familiar and unfamiliar position clearly appeared in the eyes of Muramoto Goro. A few minutes ago, it was a defensive position lined with bunkers and barbed wire. But now it can only be described in one word, and that is extremely tragic. The huge craters with a depth of several meters, the bunkers that were blown into ruins, the corpses that were blown up to the point of missing limbs and broken arms, and the countless stumps and broken arms that were thrown into the sky by the air waves, all told Muramoto Goro without exception that his position had become a hell on earth and into ruins.

Just when the shells of the ship's guns kept falling and exploding, clearing the way for the infantry that was about to land. Dozens of landing craft carrying a whole infantry regiment were carried. It had already chopped through the waves and washed to a distance of less than twenty meters from the beach. Look at the waist-deep sea in front of you, and then see a hundred meters away. Under several rounds of naval artillery strikes, the Japanese beachhead, which had fallen completely silent.

A flash of excitement flashed on the face of Li Sheng, the commander of the Pioneer Regiment, and he immediately used a walkie-talkie to shout loudly to his officers scattered on other landing ships. "There are less than 20 meters left, the infantry, immediately launch a charge and seize the beachhead....." As he spoke, Li Sheng, who was the head of the regiment, had already pulled the bolt of the submachine gun in his hand and was the first to jump into the waist-deep seawater. Along with Li Sheng's first launch, the other landing ships distributed over the two-kilometer width also jumped into the sea one after another like dumplings.

Without any experience in landing operations, more than 1,000 people of the vanguard rushed to the beach close at hand with difficulty in waist-deep water. "Boom" "Boom" ....., a series of mortar shells with a huge whistling sound fell in the middle of the dense formation. In an instant, dozens of soldiers of the New Fifth Army who were staggering forward in the sea water were unconscious and collapsed in the sea under the blow of artillery shell fragments.

"Little devil of dog day, I must let you pay for your blood debts....disperse, scatter them all for me, and disperse them according to the infantry 'three-three' offensive formation. Machine gunners, responsible for fire cover, covering artillery rushing to the beach to arrange artillery positions. Li Sheng, who was also walking in the sea with difficulty, knew that if he delayed in the sea for one more minute, there would be more casualties in his troops, so he could only grit his teeth and continue to move forward and rush to the beach as soon as possible.

Semi-automatic rifles, light machine guns, submachine guns....Along with Li Sheng's order, the soldiers immediately fired hot bullets at the Japanese beachhead that was still shrouded in gunsmoke with their fastest rate of fire. Of course, while firing alternately, more than a thousand shouting soldiers of the New Fifth Army continued to move forward without any slowdown. Finally, after the entire vanguard regiment had suffered almost a company of casualties, Li Sheng and the others finally stepped on the solid sand.

Looking at the corpses of more than 100 comrades-in-arms floating on the sea behind them, the surviving soldiers were very sad. However, each of them knows very well in their hearts that on the beach with almost no shelter, a moment of pain and confusion may kill them in an instant. Amid the shouts and cheers of the officers, the artillerymen of the New Fifth Army who rushed to the beach did not stop at all, and quickly assembled more than a dozen light mortars on the beach.

The mortars of the vanguard regiment of the New Fifth Army opened fire one after another, and the mortar shells that sprayed out the muzzles quickly smashed into the Japanese positions where gunfire was blooming one after another, while more soldiers of the New Fifth Army were carrying light and flexible rocket launchers and were walking forward quickly. Several chains of fire suddenly erupted from the already dilapidated Japanese position, and more than a dozen soldiers of the New Fifth Army who were caught off guard suddenly fell to the beach covered in blood. The blood that kept pouring out of the body also instantly dyed the beach around his side red at the first time.

"What are you doing... What about bazookas? Immediately reload Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is going to blast the devil bunker in front of him...."Seeing his soldiers lying in a pool of blood again, Li Sheng's heart ached like blood, and he roared loudly and snatched a bazooka from the hands of the soldiers next to him.

"Yes, Commander....." The bazooka ammo man who followed Li Sheng next to him replied loudly with the same grief on his face. After a few breaths, the ammunition hand who had completed the loading reached out and slapped it on the steel helmet of the regiment commander Li Sheng, "Shh "Boom, boom, boom....", a distance of less than 100 meters, which is not worth mentioning at all for a new type of individual rocket launcher with a range of 200 meters.

As the regiment commander Li Sheng expected, five violent explosions came from the Japanese position dozens of meters away. "Okay, good fight, just hit Lao Tzu like this, and blast all the remaining bunkers of the little devil to Lao Tzu. Without the cover of the bunker, Lao Tzu wants to blow all these little devils to pieces, and let these damn little devils sacrifice their brothers to be buried together...."The head of the regiment, Li Sheng, finally flashed a trace of excitement on his solemn face.

"Boom, boom, boom....", accompanied by a series of explosions, began to sound on the Japanese beachhead, and the Japanese pillboxes, which were lucky not to be destroyed by the naval guns, turned into ruins in an instant. As for the Japanese soldiers in the pillboxes, they were either buried directly in the rubble, but were killed in the dense mortar shells that followed.

In five minutes, in less than five minutes, the Japanese pillboxes blocking in front of the vanguard regiment of the New Fifth Army were cleared by the dense raindrops of rockets. As for the Japanese troops stationed on this beachhead, except for the hundreds of people who were directly killed in the naval shelling, the remaining Japanese officers and men were already stunned and were drowned in the charge of the vanguard regiment before they could fully react from the shock.

Looking at the beachhead where fire was constantly blooming amid the rumbling of artillery, Zhang Lingpu, commander of the New Fifth Army, was standing on the bow of the warship with a solemn face, waiting for the forward regiment to send back the good news. A minute, two minutes....as time goes on, day. When the sound of gunfire faintly heard from the military beachhead gradually turned from dense to thin. Zhang Lingpu knew that the result he was anxiously waiting for was about to come out. While nervous in his heart, a pair of eyes also turned to the location of the warship's telecommunications room.