Chapter 298: Battle by the River

"Don't shoot at the machine gun position, wait a while, wait a while, wait a little longer, wait until these Japanese get a little closer before shooting, the rifles start firing!"

An American officer shouted loudly, and the machine gunners on the American machine gun position, who had been ready to attack, immediately released the trigger and waited for a better opportunity, while the rest of the American soldiers began to shoot with their rifles in their arms. ~with~dream~small~say~щ~suimеng~lā

More than 100 rifles opened fire at the same time, killing some of the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front, and at least 50 Japanese soldiers fell, but after the shooting, the basic firepower of the American soldiers had been almost exposed, except for a few machine gun positions, most of the Americans were already exposed to Japanese fire.

"Boom! Boom! Knock ......" A few dull sounds, the Japanese grenadiers began to exert their power, more than a dozen grenades fell on the positions of the US troops, and in an instant more than a dozen American soldiers were blown to the ground.

"Damn, take out the Japanese gunners, suppress the fire, fire from machine gun positions No. 1 and 2, what about the snipers, find the Japanese grenadier group and take them out!"

When the US officers saw that the position was suppressed by Japanese artillery fire, they immediately changed their combat strategy, and if they continued to wait, all the American soldiers might be killed by the Japanese before the Japanese approached the position.

"Yes, sir!" Under the officer's order, the two machine gun positions No. 1 and No. 2 tore off their camouflage, and the two old heavy machine guns showed their hideous barrels, pouring ammunition at the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the river, and the large-caliber machine gun bullets easily interrupted the charging Japanese directly.

The machine gun positions set up by the US army were very elaborate, with enough bunkers and at the same time, there were no obstacles in front of them, and they could recklessly harvest the lives of Japanese soldiers in the open land on the other side of the river, and at the same time, two snipers in the US army began to look for grenadier operators hiding in the Japanese ranks, and these people were the greatest threat to the US machine gun positions.

The machine gun position had just raged for less than a minute before it was attacked by artillery fire, two grenades fell directly on both sides of the machine gun position No. 1, and then more grenades fell in the area around the machine gun position, the machine gun position No. 2 was much more unlucky than the machine gun position No. 1, and was directly hit by a grenade, and the machine gunner, the ammunition supplier and the observer were killed immediately.

"Kill those damn grenadier operators and kill them!" After seeing that the No. 2 machine gun position had been blown up, the US commander immediately threw the telescope in his hand to the ground in anger, and had already lost a machine gun position just after the start of the battle, and the officers no longer had much hope that they would be able to defend the No. 2 river.

The Japanese began to forcibly cross the river, a group of Japanese who were less than 1.6 meters tall rushed into the No. 2 river, the water directly overflowed the waists of these Japanese, revealing half of their bodies, slowly moving towards the other side of the river, and at the same time some Japanese soldiers moved towards both sides of the river, preparing to outflank the American troops holding the No. 2 river from both flanks.

"The Japanese crossed the river, machine gun fire, machine gun positions No. 6 and 7 were hidden, the rest of the machine gun positions were all fired, the fire was suppressed, and the connection between the Japanese in the river and the shore was cut off, and the snipers continued to look for traces of Japanese grenadiers, find them, and kill them directly!" Once again, the officer began to assign tasks.

The combat command ability of US officers is indeed much more superb than that of the Japanese, and the tactics of the US army are much more advanced than those of the Japanese, and the Japanese are still using the old tactics of World War I, the tactics of intensive charge, but this tactic has obvious effects in the face of squadrons with inferior weapons and equipment, and a charge can take down the position.

However, in the face of the U.S. military, although the Marine Corps was poorly equipped, the U.S. military's firepower configuration was very complete, but the equipment was relatively old, and the intensive charge of the Japanese turned into a death charge in front of the four machine gun positions, and the Japanese in the river were like fixed targets, and the machine guns swept past with a shuttle of bullets, and a river was dyed red.

The U.S. military still retains two machine gun positions, which are the last reserve force of the U.S. army, once the Japanese successfully cross the No. 2 river, the two hidden machine gun positions on the river bank will also let the Japanese blood spill on the beachhead, and at the same time, the U.S. army's reserve team is still guarding against the Japanese who may appear on both sides, unless someone touches the ass of the U.S. army, the Japanese will have to pay the price of blood if they want to force the No. 2 river to cross.

Time passed little by little, the Japanese lost about 300 people, still did not make a breakthrough, still trapped on the opposite bank of the No. 2 river, unable to cross, the No. 2 river was like a moat, blocking the way of the Japanese advance, with the help of the last rays of the sun, the Americans successfully repelled the first wave of Japanese attack.

However, when the night came completely, the good days of the Americans came to an end, God did not stand on the side of the Americans this time, when the night generals came back, the visibility in the jungle was already very low, and today's weather has been bad, when the sun set on the horizon, the entire Kuah Island fell into a long dark night, and the US troops could not see the target five or six meters in front of their positions at all.

The Japanese attacked again, with the help of the cover of night, the Japanese made a comeback, a large group of Japanese soldiers bent their waists, cautiously came to the position of the river again, five hundred Japanese like ghosts, in order not to make a sound, these Japanese even took off all their shoes.

After the Japanese entered the river, they began to prepare to forcibly cross the river, at this time the American soldiers did not find the Japanese, the visibility was too low, even the secret post hiding by the river did not find the Japanese, John Barons sat in front of the No. 7 machine gun position, staring at the other side of the river, always feeling that something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.

About 50 of the 500 Japanese vanguard successfully crossed the river and set foot on the opposite bank of the No. 2 river, which is also the easiest area of the whole river to cross, and the rest of the positions are either turbulent or the terrain on both sides of the river is difficult to cross, only here is it easy to cross the river, and weapons and equipment can be transported.

"The Japanese, the Japanese have crossed the river, flares, flares!"

After the Japanese crossed the river, the secret post of the American army found the traces of the Japanese, and after shouting twice, the Japanese soldiers who came out from both sides ended their lives with bayonets, but before they died, they also issued a warning to the American positions in the rear.