Ninety-nine: Preset battlefield
Ninety-nine preset battlefields
When Van De Rift found Kane, he saw that this guy was digging in a wooded field seven kilometers away from the river with the engineer battalion, "Kane, what are you doing here?" Do you want to open another airport? ”
Kane pointed to both sides and said, "Old Fan, didn't you notice that the terrain here is very good?" The hills on both sides are so high that no heavy artillery can bombard them, and we just need to repair this valley to make it a natural airfield. As for the naval guns, this place has always been very secretive, and I don't believe that the devils will run here without bombing the airfield."
He pointed to the twelve 92 guns in front of him, "Although this thing is not big, it is more than enough to block the mountain pass in front" Van De Venture looked in the direction he pointed, indeed, as long as it is blocked by artillery fire, the enemy will not fly from the mountain.
"Kane, the Japanese army has 30,000 men this time, how many offensive routes do you think they have? We think he might attack from the Crocodile River as well, so we've arranged strong artillery fire over there, but will your side be able to withstand it? ”
Kane smiled, "Don't worry, I won't fight a positional battle with them, I have planted a large number of mines in front, and once the Japanese army breaks through the mine array, I will retreat to the river with my personnel." Besides, it's useless for them to grab this airport, it's always within the range of our army's artillery, and the devils won't land their planes here. ”
"Alright then, you be careful, once things are inviolable, retreat as soon as possible, our defense line behind the mountain has been built, don't worry!"
After sending Lao Fan away, Liu Jun quietly came over and said, "Head, found a few mice" Kane nodded and said, "Do it according to plan, are those fresh corpses ready?" Liu Jun replied, "It's all done, but it's a pity that there are a lot of military uniforms!" ”
Liu Jun returned to the avant-garde post and said loudly, "Keep your eyes wide for me, this airport is the most secret place, and it is also the foundation of our counteroffensive!" Don't forget not to lose face with our Canadian Chinese group! ”
Not far away, two thin men covered with branches looked at each other, "It's them, their military uniforms are different, burned to ashes, I also know, it turned out to be the Canadian Chinese group, but you never dreamed that I could understand Chinese, right?" One of them said in a barely audible voice: "Go back immediately, we have to report this news as soon as possible"
In order to deliver supplies to the island, Imamura, who had just taken over power, used a destroyer to load 1,500 iron drums with half a barrel of grain and use the tide to wash it on the beach. In addition, he also transported a total of 13,500 men from the most elite 6th Division and the 38th Division to Kuah Island by ship, ready to fight to the death.
It's a pity that they ran into Rear Admiral Li, who is known as a fox, and the devils have always thought that the US Navy has the courage to fight them at night, so they are bold and vain, plus Abe got the news from the island, and the American and Canadian Chinese regiment opened a new airport in the valley where they were preparing to march.
So Imamura split his forces in two, using four destroyers to shell the new airfield, while the other ships continued to transport troops and supplies.
After all calculations, Abe's fleet did not expect that the Li fleet was a huge fleet led by two battleships, and it was also equipped with the latest artillery radar, so it was not afraid of accidental damage at night. As a result, a night battle of bayonets at sea in the North Sea of Kuah Island unexpectedly started for him.
Although the U.S. fleet lost more ships, the Patton and the Monson were sunk, and the cruiser Juri was also hit and sunk by a submarine during the retreat, but Abe was not much better, Yutachi and Akatsuki were sunk, and the other ships were injured to varying degrees, and even their own flagship battleship Hiei was also hit and sunk, so that there was no command ship to sit. In the end, it was the USS Fletcher who was unscathed, and the Japanese army still left behind the immortal legend Yukikaze! The most amazing Yukikaze!
The most unfortunate are the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division, who were extremely majestic in the past, the city gate caught fire, and the pond fish were affected, they helplessly hid in the transport ship, and were sunk by the huge naval artillery, and many people jumped into the sea water, waiting in despair, but fortunately, the Xuefeng could not fight, but the level of saving people was not as it should be, and they took other ships to salvage desperately, and more than 13,000 people were rescued and more than 3,000 points.
At 23 o'clock in the middle of the night, the Japanese naval guns began to bombard, and the shells blew up the valley into a shiny light, and Major General Tanaka, who was in charge of the attack, took the avant-garde troops to lie on the top of the hill to watch, and kept cheering, "Yo Xi, I still have a headache for mines and trees, how do I know that the American devils have opened an attack site for us, and now I want the American devils to taste the power of the night battle of the Japanese soldiers!" ”
After dawn, in order to cover the attack of ground troops, Rabaul's planes took off to bomb Henderson Airport, even if they were dropped one by one like turkeys, they did not hesitate, which also made the airport air force have no time to take care of the empty valley.
Tanaka looked at the pile of blown up 92 guns in front of him, as well as a hundred and ten broken corpses, and asked the skinny scout, "Are you sure they speak Chinese?" ”
"Report to the general, I vouch for my life, they are all yellow people, I have been in China, and I can understand their Cantonese dialect." Tanaka carefully checked it, these corpses are all Chinese, yes, and there are a few Caucasians, this is more reassuring, how do he know, those corpses are carefully selected Taiwanese soldiers and Korean soldiers, and a few white corpses are also British soldiers from New Guinea, but they were killed by artillery during the night battle, just to be used to fill the number.
Convinced, Tanaka stationed a saber and commanded two artillery wings with high spirits, "Takeshita Nakasa, you take your artillery past the foot of the mountain on the right side, and spread the artillery there, and give me a fierce bombardment of the airfield, so as to create the illusion that it is the main artillery of our army!" ”
This was obviously a cannon fodder operation, but Takeshita still nodded resolutely, "Hai! ”
"Ishizuo Dazuo, your heavy artillery wing is our most important firepower guarantee, whether it can be completed depends on you, I want you to put 150 heavy artillery bayonets, give me to break in from the foot of the mountain on the left and the beach junction, quietly unfold, expose the enemy's heavy artillery position to counterattack, and after succeeding, you will also destroy the airfield, do you have confidence?"
"Hai, my subordinates promise to complete the mission!" Shi Zuo Dazuo put his legs together, nodded and said loudly.
Tanaka turned back to a large group of co-captains and said, "Everyone, our hard work is for tonight's victory, tonight, we will use the snow bayonet to comfort those American young master soldiers, let them know what a real samurai is!" ”
The left and right armies waited quietly at the forward base, and once the artillery fire was ready, they would start from both flanks and penetrate the airfield fiercely, while the middle road was full of high mountains, and Tanaka only sent a brigade to climb the mountain to prevent the enemy from guarding from high heights.
Captain Xin Rongzhisuke is an old member of the 35th Division, and he has been fighting in the east and west, today, he personally led the team, one by one the soldiers swallowed the last mosquito cake, and began to climb the mountain with only physical strength, although it is estimated that nothing will be done along the way, but they still carry out the order to the letter.
The artillery advanced rapidly along the main road that the bulldozer had walked out before, and soon reached the foot of the mountain, where the two teams began to dig the ground, sweating like rain for a while, and did not dare to turn on the flashlight and light the torch.
On the top of the mountain, Liu Jun touched the black barrel, and said with a smile, "Head, this weapon is really amazing, it can be transported if it is dismantled, and the firepower is quite domineering, I really don't know which immoral thing came up with."
Kane's face was black, but fortunately it was night, he gritted his teeth and whispered, "Tomorrow there will be an article on the black newspaper column, the story that the commando battalion officer and a Canadian female worker have to tell, I promise the content is particularly exciting"
Liu Jun's face suddenly fell, "Head, you just let me go as a fart, right?" How did I know that immoral thing was you? Kane was about to stomp on it, when Liu Jun suddenly said, "Coming, head"
Kane listened intently, "It's still early, with their physical strength, we can kick down the mountain with one foot when we climb to the top." ”