884 Battle of Oahu

While the greatest leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, and his ruling clique were on the run, the Japanese army was attacking Oahu.

This time the tentative attack transported 1,000 soldiers to the beachhead in one go. It's a pity that these soldiers have been suppressed by the US army on the beachhead, and they can't advance or retreat.

The dense fire prevented these Japanese soldiers from looking up, and the Japanese artillery fire was no longer so timely.

Most of the warships of Yamamoto's combined fleet were resting and did not participate in this attack at all.

It is more appropriate to say that this attack was launched not so much by the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, but by the Marines themselves.

The Japanese hoped to end the Battle of the Hawaiian Islands before July 1941.

Because then the Combined Fleet should return home to renovate and then go out to the Indian Ocean to fight for sea supremacy there.

What the Japanese hoped was that after eliminating the Indian Ocean Fleet owned by the British government-in-exile behind it, they would have no worries and would come back and fight to the death with the regrouped U.S. Navy.

I heard that the United States has launched three converted aircraft carriers, and the sea trials will soon be over, and the Americans will have aircraft carriers again.

Therefore, I don't know if I was stupid, or if I was mentally prepared to make a desperate bet, the Japanese troops stationed on Kauai Island couldn't help but launch an unplanned attack operation.

Although a dozen destroyers provided fire cover, without heavy artillery and overwhelming fighters, the Japanese attack became less aggressive.

"Can't punch through the grenadiers? What are you talking about? The soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire will not emphasize the difficulties! Organize death squads! Blow up the enemy's bunkers! Inside the front line, a Japanese officer shouted with a command knife in one hand and a collar of his men in the other.

His troops had suffered heavy losses during the attack, and now at least 100 men had died on the beach, but he still had not achieved the slightest advance.

The Japanese soldiers who went forward one after another were crushed by the bullets fired by the oncoming American heavy machine guns, and they did not even dare to raise their heads again.

"Baga Ya Road! Charge me! Staying here is a dead end! Charge! Charge! The Japanese commander pulled a soldier from the ground who was reluctant to move on, shouting loudly to encourage his men to move on.

The officer's shouts finally had an effect, and some of the Japanese soldiers began to get up from the ground, staggering on.

Their shoes were covered with sand from the beach, and they walked as if they were going to fall down at any moment.

No sooner had they jumped off their newly docked boat and lifted their heavy machine guns from the boat onto the beach, when the new Japanese soldiers found themselves lying with the corpses of their predecessors lying under their feet.

It was a bloody battle, bloody to the point of suffocation from the start. The Japanese soldiers continued to come ashore from the water, and behind them, Kauai was actually only a very close distance from Oahu.

On the shore over there, there were also cannons sent to support them, and although the shells were not sufficient, they did provide valuable support!

The destroyers were also desperately pouring their ammunition, as if they didn't want money, and hit the American positions with shells.

And the U.S. military on the other side is also unwilling to take a step back. They opened fire desperately, as if shouting to the Japanese: Come and taste our bullets! Our bullets are endless!

Pearl Harbor was originally an important military base for the U.S. military, and the ammunition depot in the port hoarded a large amount of weapons and ammunition.

Even though most of them were blown up, the rest of them were still huge. For the US troops stationed here, the ammunition reserves here are simply endless.

"Fire!" The U.S. commander in the position shouted to his comrades, and they continued to fire with heavy machine guns until the barrels were red.

Immediately after that, they will replace the non-firing machine guns with other machine guns, maintaining the continuity of their firepower.

Compared with the Japanese machine guns, although the machine guns of the US army are not advanced, they are ten or even a hundred times better in terms of minor failures.

The heavy machine guns of the US army have been improved and are still in use in modern times, but the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army have a tendency to be eliminated during World War II.

With such a gap, the huge gap between the two sides in the support firepower of the medium range was enough to make the Japanese soldiers pay a heavy price.

"Sir! Let the soldiers get down! Let's get out of here! Wait for the fleet to come back and attack! A junior officer cried and knelt down on one knee in front of the Japanese officer, pleading loudly.

"Second Lieutenant Aso died in battle! Lieutenant Kumamoto is also dead! If we don't give the order to retreat, we're all going to die here! The officer cried and shouted loudly.

Bullets flew past him, and as if he didn't see it, he still knelt there, bowing his head and begging: "We are not afraid of death, but there is no point in dying like this!" ”

"Coward! The positions of the Americans are in front! As long as you keep going, you can take it and open the breach! Coward! Your Majesty the Emperor does not have a cowardly samurai like you! Carrying a command knife, the Japanese officer, who had already killed the red-eyed, pointed to the American position in the distance and shouted.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" A Japanese daredevil, who finally approached the American bunker under cover, jumped up sharply shouting slogans.

Holding the explosives bag in his arms, he screamed and pounced on the American machine-gun bunker, and died along with the American bunker that was constantly spewing flames.

"Boom!" The huge explosion helped the Japanese suppress the strafing of the American troops, and more Japanese soldiers stood up, shouting and rushing to the target in front of them.

"Phew! Bang! "They were greeted by a dense barrage of U.S. bullets. Countless Japanese soldiers fell, and the Japanese soldiers who followed behind continued to move forward.

Blood stained the sand, shouts resounded in the sky, and at that moment, the sound of cannon fire was heard on the sea in the distance.

An American cruiser, guarded by several destroyers, fought its way into the landing field. The Japanese never imagined that the US Navy would dare to start a counterattack at such a time.

"Stop those Yankees! Yaga! On the sea, the commander of the Japanese destroyer detachment, who had lowered his binoculars, was annoyed and angry, pointed to the US ship in the distance and scolded.

"Send a signal to the friendly fleet behind us! Tell them that the American fleet is coming! Give them some color and see! On the sea, the Japanese destroyers began to turn their lights and flags at each other, turning their bows in the direction in which the American fleet appeared.