There is an airport on Leyte Island, because there is not much flat land on the island, in fact, there is only a large area of flat land on the estuary by the sea, and this airport can only be here. And a large area of flat land is also one of the most suitable locations for landing, so the landing site of the Americans is naturally close to here. In this case, such an airport has naturally become a target. Although there were not many planes left on the airfield, (all of which had been consumed in the previous naval battles off the coast of Taiwan), the US Navy's carrier-based aviation units seriously plowed the airfield with bombs. Later, when the US Navy fleet was supporting the landing force with artillery fire, it suspected that there were mortar positions of the Rì army in the vicinity of the airfield, so it washed the airfield from head to toe with the 203-mm guns of heavy cruisers, the 152-mm guns of light cruisers, and the 127-mm guns of destroyers. If it weren't for the Army's need for airfields, it would be more accurate to say that the Navy wanted to be freed from the task of protecting the landing sites as soon as possible, and the Navy might even simply use the 406mm guns of the battleships to do the same.

Although it was not ravaged by the 406-mm cannons, by the time the landing force finally captured the airfield, it had been completely destroyed. It took more than a week for the Army to clear the area of the airfield, and then it was finally time to start repairing the airfield.

It was at this time that Ron first arrived at the airport. When he arrived at the airport in a jeep, there were no more buildings than two meters tall on the airfield. Barracks, hangars, and towers were all reduced to rubble, and the ruins reeked of corpses. Even though it's already November, you can still see green-headed flies flying around.

"General, there may be the body of Rì himself buried in these ruins. The weather in the Philippines was hot and humid, and the bodies were decomposing very quickly, so we had to clean it up and then disinfect it thoroughly. Otherwise, infectious diseases will occur. An Army captain officer explained to Ron. At this time, a tracked shovel truck drove over and shoveled up a large piece of rubble, and Ron saw that half of the dead body was hanging on the big shovel and dangling, and some dark sè ** pieces of flesh fell from it like mud, revealing the half-black and half-white bones of the corpse. A gust of wind blew, and the stench forced Ron to take several steps back.

Ron was a battle-hardened man, but as an air force, he didn't really have much chance of seeing something like that. When he was still fighting the enemy as a pilot on the front line, it was difficult for him to even see what his opponent was like; And when he took the commanding post, he had no chance to see such a scene.

The forklift dumped the half of the carrion, along with the rest of the rubble, onto a dump truck, which would carry the items to a flat area a few hundred meters away. The Army's bulldozers pushed out a deep trench there, and the dump trucks would pour all of these things into it, and when it was almost full, the Americans would bulldoze and bury them.

"After the rubble is cleared, we will do a thorough sterilization here. Every inch of the place is soaked in carbonated stone. The captain went on to explain to Ron, "and then the building can be rebuilt. ”

"How long will it take?" Ron asked.

"Soon, General. It will take another three days to clean and disinfect thoroughly, and then a week at most, and we will be able to erect the barracks and hangars. The tower is a little slower, and two weeks is not too much. And then, um, you're ready to go. But you know, these buildings are in a hurry, and you can't compare them to the villas in Manhattan, they won't take long. ”

"Oh, we don't need him to run for long." Ron said, "Let's go over to the runway." ”

The runway destruction wasn't as bad as Ron had expected. It can be seen that Rì himself was very serious when he built the airfield, and the concrete of the runway was poured very thickly, except for the 500-pound bombs dropped by some fighter jets of the HNA that left a little less damage, and other shells such as 127, 152, and 203 caused much less damage. According to Ron's estimates, the two main runways could be restored to the point where they could take off and land aircraft in a day at most.

Compared to the two main runways, the dirt runways on either side of them were in worse condition, and the dense artillery fire turned the dirt runway all over, and after they enthusiastically turned over the dirt, Ron felt that he could directly plant potatoes on them. However, Ron knew that dirt runways were as quick to destroy as they were to be repaired. Press hard with a roller and you're almost ready to use.

Now that the main runway is fine, Ron is sure that in three weeks at most, the airport will be operational.

"Well, this airfield has two main runways, as well as three dirt runways, so that at least two or three squadrons of aircraft can be accommodated. In this way, the general frame of a wing can also be erected. ”

Just as Ron looked at the airfield with great ambition, imagining that three weeks later, one P-81, P-38, and P-51 fighter jet would take off from here, killing Rì's own kamikaze plane to pieces and blowing Rì's ground troops to the ground, he suddenly heard a strange howling sound in his ears. The captain who was standing beside him immediately pushed him to the ground and pressed him the back.

"What's wrong?" Before Ron could get to his senses, he heard an explosion coming from a very close distance. It shook his ears and made his ears ring. At this time, he also heard a shout: "Rì himself! Grenadier! ”

The captain who had pounced on him rolled off him and crawled aside. He changed the M1 carbine in his hand from his left hand to his right hand and said to Ron, "General, are you alright?" Follow me, there are a couple of shell craters not far ahead! Then he took a few steps forward with him, and at this moment, from the jungle not far from the airport, several more bullets came and swooped down near Ron and the captain. Follow me for a while and run the 'z' shape. The captain said, and after that, he climbed a few more steps, then jumped up, ran a few steps in a "Z" shape, and then jumped into a shell crater. Ron followed him and jumped into the crater.

At this time, the US troops on the airport had already reflected it. Several M2-type 60-mm mortars, which were the first to react, began to bombard with maximum speed in the direction of the bullets coming out of the jungle. At the same time, an American M5 Stuart light tank also drove onto the runway, heading towards the crater where Ron was hiding. The tank drove to the crater and stopped in the middle of the forest, then began to fire at the jungle with a 37-mm gun and a 7.62-mm machine gun.

"Didn't you say that the nearby rì army had been cleaned up?" Squatting in the crater, Ron asked the captain.

"It's supposed to be clean, but in the jungle, you know, a lot of things are hard to say. Rì himself would dig a hole again, and they might have hid in the hole that we hadn't discovered, and when it was night, they would infiltrate this side, which was mostly infiltrated. Fuck little devils, playing this kind of unethical stuff twice in three days! The captain snorted hard, and then gave this explanation in a rather reluctant detail.

"Why don't you just cut down some of the jungle and set up barbed wire and machine-gun bunkers around the airfield?" Ron asked.

"That's what we're going to do next. When the general waits for your troops to pick up the phone, there will definitely be no more such a thing. The captain said. Then he muttered in a low voice: "Actually, recently, there have been a lot fewer little rì who have done this, and they are probably almost dead." I guess at that time, most of the little rìben in this neighborhood died. ”

As the captain said, the area near the airport is basically under the control of the US military. Only some of the devils hiding in the jungle have not been completely eliminated. But these guys can't stay in the jungle for too long - that kind of place is not a place where humans can stay for a long time, don't look at the Americans often scold Rì himself for being a yellow-skinned monkey, but Rì himself is neither Taishan nor Bei Ye after all, staying in the jungle for a long time, without being beaten by the Americans, is a dead end.

At this time, the gunfire outside thinned out. After a while, it stopped. Then the jeep drove up to the crater. Two men came out of the crater and saw a group of soldiers coming from the jungle, some of them dragging the corpses of their own soldiers......

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In other directions, the offensive of the American army began to turn out not very well. After the U.S. forces penetrated into the depths of Leyte Island, the resistance of the Rì Army became stronger and stronger, and the undulating terrain and dense jungle seriously affected the superior firepower of the U.S. forces. Especially the fire of naval guns, at such a distance did not dare to fire casually. Otherwise, the chance of blowing up your own people is definitely not low.

Rì himself used a variety of natural or artificially dug caves and bunkers to resist the attacks of the American troops, and sometimes, he would quietly hide in his own burrows, waiting for the American troops to walk over them, and then after the front was fired, these rì himself would emerge from behind, slam at the Americans from behind, and throw grenades. And the jungle that obstructs the view only increases the success rate of Rì's own tactics. This kind of resistance made the speed of the US army's attack suddenly drop to a turtle speed. This also made the organizer of this battle, General Big Wolf, depressed.

However, early this morning, the gray wolf finally got a good news that he had been waiting for for a long time, and the airport began to be put into use. A weapon he'd been waiting for for a long time to deal with the jungle and bunkers was finally coming in handy.