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The U.S. troops did kick the iron plate, and the attack on the beachhead caused them to lose a large number of soldiers. The apex update is the fastest, but this counterattack is the highlight that they have been brewing for a long time, so they naturally won't give up easily.

Just nine hours after the start of the Battle for New Guinea, the fourth batch of U.S. Army troops was sent to the island of New Guinea.

The battle continued until it was dark. The Japanese side is good at night battles, and the US military has no intention of giving up the night advance, but the dark night is still full of deep malice towards the US ** team.

By the light of the moon, the American ** team was consolidating their defensive line near the beachhead when a huge shell whistled over their heads.

The earth-shattering explosion made the soldiers of the American ** team even forget to dodge, they looked at the fire like a pillar of heaven, and stood there dumbfounded, at a loss.

Before the atomic bomb was developed, it was probably one of the most terrifying explosions, after all, the explosion of a cannonball fired from a naval battleship was indeed beyond many people's imagination.

After a long day of silence, the Japanese Navy's battleships finally had no worries and entered the Torres Strait.

The landing fleet of the US Navy, fearing the artillery battle of the Japanese Navy, withdrew from this sea area after nightfall.

Even if there were small warships such as torpedo boats and destroyers left behind, hoping to hold back the Japanese Navy, the quality of the Japanese Navy's night battles at this time was indeed higher than that of the United States.

With that, a naval battle that was not symmetrical at all unfolded near the Torres Strait, and the Japanese Navy won a resounding victory in an hour.

In the ensuing artillery bombardment of the land, the battleship invested by the Japanese Navy was the famous battleship Yamato.

Before the launch of the U.S. Navy's super-aircraft carrier, the battleship Yamato was the largest naval weapon ever built.

The Yamamoto 56-seat flagship blasted the U.S. Marine Corps landing ground at night with its terrifying 460-millimeter cannon.

The shells fired by three 460 mm heavy guns whistled towards the American position, and set off fireworks that obscured the moonlight.

Before the American defenders could react, the second round of three 460-caliber shells fell, once again allowing the American soldiers to experience what it means to destroy the world.

"Yes! Yes! Japanese shelling! From the sea! My God! Definitely a battleship! On the beach, General Holland Smith grabbed the phone and asked for reinforcements.

He was a commander in the 1st Corps of the U.S. Marine Corps, and his command had just been hit by a shell fired by the Japanese Army.

A jeep was blown into the air, and at least 30 people in the military headquarters were seriously injured or killed by the shell.

No sooner had he crawled out of the improvised fortifications than General Hollandsmith began to mobilize his troops for defense, and after such a terrible shelling, the Japanese defenders were sure to carry out a massive counterattack.

But before he could mobilize his troops, the terrible 460 mm heavy guns of the battleship Yamato began to attack the American positions.

Because the range was so long, the American ground observation posts could not see the fire from the Yamato's fire at all, so they didn't even know where the enemy was.

Those terrible shells had to fly a distance of 30 kilometers before they hit the ground, and the American soldiers were horrified to find that the previous Japanese artillery attack was really a very polite welcome ceremony......

The good news is not without it, because the soil near the beach is loose, so the howitzer shells of the battleship Yamato hit it too deep into the ground, and the power of the explosion is not fully exerted.

But even then, just by virtue of the shock wave and shock of the explosion of a 460-mm caliber shell, it was possible to kill the surrounding American soldiers.

Even if these soldiers have cat ear holes to hide, even if these soldiers have craters that can be used as cover, they will not be able to withstand the damage caused by the explosion of giant shells around them.

Some soldiers were killed in the crater, and some did not recover their hearing until the next morning......

What's worse is that it was only eleven or twelve o'clock in the night, and there were still a few long hours of night waiting for the US Marines, as well as the landing Army soldiers.

Major General Charles Thompson, commander of the US 1st Army, who had just come ashore in the afternoon, was also overwhelmed by the night shelling by the Japanese army.

Although the U.S. Army suffered heavy losses when it landed in New Guinea, most of the losses were made by Marines, not the 1st U.S. Army, which landed later.

Therefore, for the soldiers of the 1st Army, the main force of the US Army, in fact, the fierceness of the battle for the islands of New Guinea is not much.

Now, they really realized the brutality of this war: a single shell fell, and an entire infantry platoon lost contact......

"Call for naval warship support! If this continues, we will all be prisoners of the Japanese early tomorrow morning! Major General Thompson commanded in a depressed voice.

His chief of staff, Brigadier General Clovis Biles, also had a solemn expression: "I just sent a telegram...... The navy may not be able to do anything for a while. ”

The fleet of the US Navy was used to pin down the Japanese naval fleet, and the positions they deployed at night were not at all near the Torres Strait.

By the time the main fleet of the US Navy arrives near the Torres Strait, it may be dawn, and that is not to deliver food to the Japanese naval aviation?

You must know that Yamamoto fifty-six and others are the US fleet exposing its position, and in turn using the tactics of the Battle of the Solomon Islands to give the US Navy a ruthless blow.

But the battle in the Solomon Islands itself was drawn up by the US Navy, so how could Admiral Halsey, the commander of the US Navy fleet, be the commander?

Judging from the time and the situation of the war, the US Navy will not appear in the Torres Strait this night.

So the U.S. Marine Corps, as well as the 1st Corps of the U.S. Army, could only rely on themselves to face the frantic shelling of the Japanese.

They were trapped near the beach, but they didn't know that in fact, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese front, Yamashita Fengfumi, did not plan to put troops into a counterattack at night, he planned to eat the landing American ** team in one go during the day.

In any case, this was good news for the American landing force, at least they did not have to fight hard all night, facing both Japanese shelling and Japanese infantry.

However, they also did not know what kind of welcome ceremony the Japanese Army would prepare for them after dawn the next day.

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