"Sir! You have to leave! An officer stood behind Bradley and saluted.

A rubber raft docked on the shore of Midway, the retreating American submarine, at this moment is still on standby at periscope depth.

"Let me leave all the soldiers behind and leave alone?" Bradley frowned and looked at the Navy captain who was in charge of the retreat.

"Sir! According to the pre-war arrangement, you and Rickman? Kelly? General Turner, all on the evacuation list......" The captain was also embarrassed, and opened his mouth to admonish General Bradley.

Midway was originally a small island, and more than 2,000 soldiers could be accommodated on this island.

The United States has strengthened the strength of division after brigade, with a total strength of more than 40,000 troops, and it is impossible to place all of them on Midway.

Most of the soldiers are still in Hawaii, and not all of them are on Midway.

If you really want to transport 40,000 people to Midway, it will be so dense that it is estimated that even the beach will be full of people.

Therefore, in fact, the US military is deployed here with 2,500 soldiers, which can be regarded as very dense.

It also includes 500 pilots and their commanders, a radar and water supply station, and more than 200 officers and men at the power station – the total number is already more than 3,000.

The fortifications on the island were densely packed, and although the Japanese artillery bombardment was very fierce, it did not hurt the American troops.

More than 200 soldiers were killed by the density, and more than half of the island's defensive positions were still available.

In this case, Commander Bradley abandoned his men and chose to flee, where did this put his face?

Bring the soldiers yourself, watch them die, and then pat yourself on the ass and leave? What is this called?

"I'm here with them, and if I can't leave with them, I'll die here with them......" Bradley said, looking at the ensign in front of him.

The second lieutenant was obviously reluctant to leave, and continued to persuade: "Sir! Your command is no longer needed here, you have completed your mission! By order, you must leave! ”

There's really no need for Bradley here, because there's really nothing to command here.

The Japanese would soon land at Midway, and the American troops on the island would have to surrender to the Japanese after desperately resisting.

They existed to prevent the Japanese from jumping over the wall to attack Midway after the victory, but the navy had been defeated and they had no chance of winning.

Bradley was here to lay out the entire operational action plan, and he was responsible for arranging the deployment of troops, and he was responsible for working with General Turner to develop the operational tactics of the anti-landing counterattack.

Now that the overall arrangement has been completed, on an island of less than 3,000 people, there is no need for two generals to command the battle.

"Boom!" In the distance, on the runway of the airport, another cloud of black smoke was raised, and the damage caused to the island by the Japanese large-caliber artillery shells was more serious than anyone could have imagined.

"This is an order from the president! If you don't, I'll order the soldiers to forcibly take you away. The second lieutenant was also a little flustered, he didn't want to die in such a ghost place for no reason.

He was only ordered to follow the submarine to pick up all the important officers on the island. If it was killed by a Japanese shell, it would be really unlucky.

Bradley looked at the gendarme standing at the door, nodded helplessly, and followed the second lieutenant out of the headquarters.

The sun shone on his face, and the passage connecting the trenches outside the door was filled with grizzled American soldiers.

The American soldiers, armed with Springfield rifles in their arms, waited for the Japanese to rush onto the beach and attack their preset defensive positions.

The Springfield rifle, also known as the M1903 rifle, has quite good long-range accuracy, but if you look at the years, you can see that this weapon is actually very old.

At present, the US army has not been massively equipped with the later world-famous M1 Garand rifle. A large number of American troops, still using old-fashioned Springfields.

This weapon, like the Mauser 98K rifle, is a bolt-on rifle that can only shoot one round at a time.

The advantage is that it has good air tightness, so the long-range shooting accuracy is high. However, the shortcomings are also very obvious, there is no fire continuity, and it is impossible to suppress the opponent with continuous fire.

The Mauser 98K rifle, as the name suggests, is an improved version of the 1898 German Mauser rifle. The Springfield 1903 rifle was born in 1903...... The rifle weapons of the World War II era actually have a very long "revolutionary history".

Boarding the dinghy, Bradley saw the island he had just been on, crumbling under the bombardment of the Japanese battleships.

General Turner was already waiting for him in the dinghy, and it seemed that General Turner had been carried away from his headquarters by the soldiers. Turner's face was not very good, and it was obviously his stubborn personality that made him do some unnecessary resistance......

Bradley's dinghy was bouncing in the waves, but fortunately the Japanese air raiders had left, and it was still a very safe place.

At this time, Nagumo Tadaichi was busy saving his three wounded aircraft carriers, and he had no time to pay attention to Midway, which had no ability to fight back.

What's more, Midway now has the main guns of 6 battleships suppressed, and there are no tricks.

If such a palm-sized place could still take off planes to fight under the bombardment of more than 40 heavy artillery pieces of more than 300 mm caliber, then the Japanese Navy would not have to fight and retreat directly.

It was under such circumstances that the US submarine dared to approach the vicinity of Midway Island and launch a retreat plan.

Bradley arrived at Midway on a transport ship, and now he can only leave on a submarine...... This is definitely a great irony for a general.

MacArthur left in defeat, leaving behind the famous phrase I will be back, and Bradley left quietly, without saying a word himself.

Waves splashed on the calm sea, and then the submarine's control tower surfaced, and the soldiers inside eagerly lifted the hatch and let the water left on the hull fall into the submarine.

Bradley, who was visiting the submarine up close for the first time, climbed the conning tower of the submarine with the help of sailors and got into the cramped interior of the submarine.

As the hatch of the submarine was closed, the interior of the submarine suddenly became dark. The sunlight that was still fierce just now was completely isolated from the iron shell at this moment.

Bradley squinted, adjusting to the dimness of the submarine. The diesel engine began to roar, the submarine began to dive little by little, and soon the sea surface returned to calm, and there was no more waves.