1219 Heights
"No backsucking is allowed! Yes! Hold on! You just have to hold out for another 10 minutes and the reinforcements will arrive! General Joseph Stilwell, commander of the 2nd Army of the U.S. Army, yelled loudly into the telephone microphone.
He hung up the phone receiver vigorously, and then hurriedly asked a division commander standing beside him: "Damn! How far are the reinforcements from Heights 3? ”
"They're already on Heights 3! The Japanese also attacked them on the flanks, and their advance was slow. The division commander, who had sweat on his face, replied with some embarrassment.
He couldn't help but be embarrassed that a battalion of his combat unit was intercepted on the periphery of Heights 3, less than 500 meters away from the main peak that needed reinforcements, but it couldn't be attacked.
The Japanese laid out a defensive line in the path of his troops, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers fought to the death and had been fighting there for almost 20 minutes.
"Hell! Let them attack quickly! I've transferred all the artillery to you, and it's so difficult for you to break through a position? Stilwell raised his voice and snapped a scold.
President Roosevelt repeatedly emphasized the concept of time at yesterday's meeting, and he ordered all American combat units to hurry up and catch up with the Germans!
What does it mean to keep up with the Germans? This means that they have slowed down and have been left behind.
This is something that all American officers cannot tolerate, and it is something that none of them are willing to admit.
In their view, the United States is the most powerful country in the world, they won the last war and are destined to win this war.
Therefore, all the American troops fighting on the islands of New Guinea were given death orders by their superiors, ordering them to break through the Japanese defense lines as soon as possible.
Just this morning, the U.S. forces captured a high ground codenamed 3 and were preparing to continue their assault on the crumbling Japanese positions in front of them, when they were met with a fierce counterattack by Japanese soldiers.
The 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which had been recuperating for a long time, finally returned to the battlefield again at the critical moment of survival.
Countless Japanese soldiers launched a Banzai charge with bayonets, and at one point the Americans retreated in disarray.
Taking advantage of the confusion of the retreat of the American soldiers, the Japanese surrounded Heights 3 and surrounded a battalion of American infantry on the heights.
The U.S. troops, who came to their senses, began to fight back desperately to save their comrades, and the positions were full of corpses of soldiers on both sides, but the Japanese encirclement on Heights 3 still had not been unraveled.
"Let the commander of your 1st regiment personally go up and command! Put the 2 battalions on top too! Within 10 minutes! I want your troops to take Heights 3! General Stilwell, who was holding back his breath, pinched his waist with both hands and ordered in a hurry.
Originally, his battle plan for today was to capture the other two heights behind No. 3 Heights. But now it seems that when it comes to nightfall, he can only stabilize the No. 3 high ground at most.
Before the attack, he was confident that the fighting in New Guinea would be over in two days at the latest.
Because the U.S. military has hoarded a large amount of ammunition this time, and let the 1st Army and the 2nd Army launch an attack together, the purpose is to divide the victory and defeat in New Guinea as soon as possible.
But the battle had been going on for almost a day, and most of the U.S. combat units were still struggling near the front they had previously controlled, with no sign of a large-scale breakthrough at all.
I have to admit that the Japanese army's ability to dig holes is innate, and their combat effectiveness in the mountains is at least five times bonus.
After almost a day of hard fighting, both the American and Japanese soldiers were extremely tired, but both sides were still constantly throwing in new troops, trying to finally divide the victory here.
On the No. 3 height, grenades from Japanese grenadiers fell one after another, and the American soldiers felt the strength of the enemy's fire for the first time.
At such a close distance, the supporting artillery fire was no longer effective. Both sides huddled in the same trench, using bayonets and teeth to distinguish between the winners and losers.
The U.S. infantry battalion stationed on Heights 3 had suffered heavy losses at this time, and what supported their refusal to surrender was the hatred of the country at Pearl Harbor.
These American GIs were not as squeamish as they might think, they used the terrain to set up machine gun bunkers, and used all the weapons they could find to stop the Japanese troops who were storming up the mountain.
A few minutes earlier, the U.S. infantry battalion, which had a full strength of more than 760 men, had lost less than 500 men due to the frantic attack of the Japanese army.
They cowered on the commanding heights and deployed a ring defensive position, stubbornly resisting the Japanese counterattack.
Unfortunately, reinforcements were nowhere to be seen, and the American troops guarding the positions suffered more and more heavy losses, and they were running out of ammunition.
Less than 600 meters away, another infantry battalion of the American army was desperately approaching friendly troops stationed on high ground.
They were stubbornly resisted by the Japanese army, and they paid a heavy price of 40 dead after only advancing one trench.
But the attacking American infantry battalion did not give up, and still tried to move forward, and just after General Stilwell gave the order to increase the number of troops to continue the attack, more American troops joined the offensive sequence.
On the front of the narrow position, the American army threw in tanks, and added a full infantry battalion in one go, and a full 800 men continued the attack.
The Japanese soldiers were strapped with grenades and dying with explosives bags and American tanks. The Japanese soldiers, who had run out of bullets, were unwilling to take a step back in hand-to-hand combat with the American troops who had stormed the trenches with bayonets.
The two sides fought bloodily on the periphery of Heights 3, and in the end, the American troops under Stilwell's command were not able to attack Heights 3 to save their comrades within 10 minutes.
After 40 minutes, the U.S. troops finally broke through the Japanese defense line and once again attacked the No. 3 height. There they did not manage to see their comrades, who were waiting for them were more than 100 Japanese soldiers.
Once again, the battle for Heights No. 3 was not fierce, because many of these Japanese soldiers were without bullets and could only desperately abandon their sons with bayonets.
Under their feet were the soldiers of the American garrison stationed on Heights 3 who had been killed by the Japanese troops on the positions after running out of ammunition and food, and nearly 800 American soldiers stationed on Heights 3, and the Japanese did not take a single prisoner.
The corpses were piled up, and after the American soldiers rushed to the high ground with their weapons, they did not leave a single Japanese alive, and the red-eyed American soldiers and Japanese soldiers had already thrown the word "humanity" out of the clouds.
Genius one second to remember the address of this site:. Mobile version reading URL: m.