The Japanese Navy has deployed hundreds of suicide motorboats and man-operated torpedoes on Okinawa and its nearby islands to carry out surface and underwater special assault operations against the US military. And the remnants of the Combined Fleet's warships will also be dispatched at the right time to make a final decisive attack.

On 1 April, the weather was clear, and the landing of US troops began, and US landing formations from San Francisco, Seattle, Hawaii, New Caledonia, Espírito Santo, Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Leyte arrived in the waters off Okinawa at dawn and began to transfer.

At four o'clock, Turner issued: "Start landing!" The warships of the US artillery support formation immediately began firing to cover the landing force to rush to the beach.

The 2nd Marine Division first landed on the southeast coast of Okinawa Island and made a feint in order to attract the attention of the Japanese troops, disperse the Japanese forces, and create favorable conditions for a real landing.

At 8 o'clock, the main attack force of the US landing landed from the landing ship along the rope net on the side of the landing ship to the landing craft, which lined up in five attack waves and rushed to the shore in a neat formation, and the 1st Marine Division, the 6th Marine Division, and the 7th and 96th Divisions of the Army landed about 9 kilometers from north to south on the west coast of Okinawa.

At 8:28 a.m., the US planes finished their last strafing fire, the naval guns also stopped firing, and the first wave of landing craft was only 70 meters away from the beach at this time, and the sea and air coordination was perfect.

At 8:32 a.m., the first wave of landing troops rushed ashore.

At nine o'clock, the sun rose, the sun dispelled the faint morning fog, and you could see the tracked landing vehicles and landing craft on the sea in a neat formation, wave after wave, the river flowed endlessly, in good order, the whole landing process was smooth and unusual, and the Japanese army did not put up any resistance at all, which made the American army quite inexplicable and did not know why.

On April 2, the first division of the American army began to advance eastward to cut off the Japanese lines.

On April 4, two U.S. Marine Divisions crossed the entire island to Midtown Bay on the east coast, occupying the central part of the island and splitting the Japanese defense line in two.

The mission that the US military originally planned to complete in 15 days was successfully completed in only four days.

On 6 and 7 April, the Japanese army dispatched 462 naval planes and 237 army planes, a total of 699 aircraft, including 355 suicide planes, with the Fifth Air Fleet and the Sixth Air Force in Kyushu as the main forces and the First Air Fleet and the Eighth Flying Division in Taiwan and the Ssenshima Islands as auxiliary forces. They sank three US destroyers, one tank landing ship, and two 10,000-ton munitions ships, and damaged one battleship, one aircraft carrier, one frigate, one minelayer, and eight destroyers, causing hundreds of US casualties.

Although the U.S. military had predicted that the Japanese army would launch a suicide attack before the war, the frenzy of the Japanese attack and the heavy losses of the U.S. military still terrified the U.S. military.

The Japanese called the two-day battle "Kikusui No. 1" operation, and a total of 335 Japanese planes were shot down, accounting for about 48% of the total number of sorties.

In the ensuing period, Japan organized ten such "Kikusui *" operations.

The U.S. troops who landed in Okinawa were met with a frantic attack by the Japanese army.

The Japanese army fully demonstrated its tenacious will to fight, and every hill, every pillbox, every tunnel, and even every rock, the American army had to go through many bloody battles before it could be captured.

In this situation of a large number of US casualties, the US White House ordered Zhou Lin to lead an anti-Japanese mercenary group to support the battle to liberate Okinawa.

On the evening of June 15, Zhou Lin's mercenary group arrived in Okinawa and was officially incorporated into the battle queue.

The next day, the lieutenant general of the US army gave Zhou Lin an order to fight.

The mercenary regiment will take over from the US military, which has suffered heavy casualties, as the main attack.

Zhou Lin said to everyone: "When we come to this place, there is only one main road, and we are all exhausted in the sea of corpses and blood, and we happen to be high-spirited, so we must play the name of the mercenary group." ”

Everyone knows that in this case, there is only one result: "the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road".

On June 17, the anti-Japanese mercenary group led by Zhou Lin waved the red flag of "the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road" and entered the battle.

A division of the mercenary regiment landed near Cape Kiyatake, at the southern tip of Okinawa Island, and coordinated with two mercenary regiments on the front and flanks to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army.

Zhou Lin's troops, which had high morale, soon rushed to Okinawa.

After a battle, the mercenary group won a complete victory, the situation of the Japanese army was very passive, and it was only a matter of time before it was completely annihilated, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Zhou Lin used clear code telegrams and broadcasts to persuade the Japanese army to surrender.

The Japanese general was not moved at all and replied with gunfire at all.

On June 19, Ushijima sent a final farewell message to Tokyo in the cave tunnel numbered 89, and then instructed his subordinates to make a final decisive attack.

On June 22, the mercenary group led by Zhou Lin broke through the last line of defense of the Japanese army, attacked the southernmost Aragasaki of Okinawa Island, and divided the remnants of the Japanese army into three parts.

At four o'clock in the morning on June 23, Ushijima knew that the U.S. troops were about to occupy the Morbunin Tunnel where he was located, so he took off his military uniform, changed into a kimono, toasted with the staff officers around him one by one, drank the last farewell drink, and then committed suicide by caesarean section.

His chief of staff followed him to commit suicide by caesarean section, and a number of officers also committed suicide en masse.

The Battle of Okinawa ended in the defeat of the Japanese army. The Japanese lost more than 90,000 dead and 7,400 captured, about 100,000 inhabitants of the island died, 7,830 aircraft were lost, 16 ships were sunk and 4 were damaged. The U.S. military suffered more than 70,000 casualties (including 26,000 non-combat attrition), lost 763 aircraft, sank 36 ships, and damaged 368 ships.

This was the largest, longest-lasting, and heaviest and last battle between the US and Japanese forces in the Pacific islands.

After the US military occupied Okinawa, it opened the door to Japan and achieved the goal of establishing a strategic base for attacking the Japanese mainland.

The Battle of Okinawa and the recent Battle of Iwo Jima have made the US military deeply understand what kind of frenzied resistance it will face if it were to land on the Japanese mainland, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army estimated that the US military would pay one million casualties for the landing on the Japanese mainland.

In order to reduce casualties and deter the Soviet Union, the United States finally decided to use the newly developed atomic bomb against Japan in order to end the war as soon as possible.

In the Battle of Okinawa, although the mercenary group was the last to participate in the battle, their momentum of charging into battle and not fearing death was still photographed by a reporter accompanying the US army, and it was accompanied by words.

In particular, the ten battle flags of "the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road" are eye-catching.

This photo has been reproduced all over the world, even in Japan. The caption in the Japanese newspaper said: "This force will be the great enemy of the Imperial Army." ”

For a time, the people of the world knew about the mercenary group and knew that there was a force that could fight.

After the battle of Okinawa, Zhou Lin led the anti-Japanese mercenary group to be stationed in Okinawa.

In Chongqing, the old man looked at the words and pictures in the newspaper, and couldn't help but say to the people around him: "Why does an army that has been organized for less than a month have such great combat effectiveness and the spirit of not fearing death, you must know that these soldiers used to be soldiers of our national army." ”

No one on the side answered, and no one who knew the reason answered.

The old man himself replied: "Because the soldiers in that army have passed through our national army, but the officers are not officers of our national army." Because one soldier bears a nest of bears. The generals of our national army are not ordinary bears. ”