"How many Japanese soldiers came out of the radar station?"

"In front of them were two armored vehicles, two trucks, three sidecar motorcycles, and at full load, there should have been a squad, fifty or so people. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThere is also a group marching on foot behind it, and it is estimated that it is also a small team. ”

"Half of the defenders in one go? Hmph, it seems that their commander has a bit of eyesight. ”

Second Lieutenant White immediately turned to his soldiers and said, "Cheer up, guys, the enemy has sent two squads over, and the good news is that they are in one team in a car and one in a team, and we have a chance to break through each one." Dick, you take your group and Major Gonzalez's men to the front to fight the attack, the fire is fierce at the beginning, it is better to make it difficult for the enemy to move an inch, and then fight and retreat at the same time, and lure the enemy's advance team over. ”

A burly U.S. non-commissioned officer got up and smiled: "Ha, I like this job!" Group C guys, take the guys and follow me. ”

"Mons, you lead the artillery crew to support in the rear, the target is the enemy's two armored vehicles, as soon as you destroy them, retreat immediately."

"Understood!" Another sturdy U.S. non-commissioned officer responded.

Second Lieutenant White then told Major Gonzalez: "Major, let your men not fall in love with battle, otherwise, we will have to deal with two enemy squads at once, and although the result will be victory, it will inevitably increase unnecessary casualties." ”

"There is nothing wrong with it." Major Gonzalez replied confidently.

In this way, six soldiers of the US amphibious special operations team followed the 14 fighters of the Philippine Resistance Alliance's Paternaugan Island Detachment to quickly move eastward and set up blocking positions more than a kilometer from the hill where the beacon was located. A gun crew of four special operations soldiers was also in position behind the blocking position, and their leader, Non-commissioned Officer Mons, squatted in the bushes and scanned ahead vigilantly, carrying a square battery box and holding a telescope with infrared night vision in his hand.

"Attention! The enemy convoy is coming! Let's attack the one at the head of the platoon first, and reload the armor-piercing shells! Mons commanded in a low voice.

The ammunition hand took out a shell from the portable ammunition box, expertly loaded the 80 mm recoilless gun, and then reported in a deep voice: "Armor-piercing shells reloaded!" ”

Mons moved to the recoilless gun and lay down, placing his infrared telescope in front of the visual scope of the improvised gun, allowing the shooter to pinpoint the vehicle within 1,000 meters of the start-up vehicle.

At the same time, in the machine-gun tower of the second Japanese armored car, Captain Nakata held on to the handle of the machine gun with a heavy face. Between returning to his own radar base and searching for the enemy's radio signal source, he finally chose the latter, because with his rich combat experience, he knew very well that the air defense weapons in his own base could not withstand the fierce bombardment of the enemy's aircraft group at all, and now leading the team back is nothing more than increasing casualties, although the cost of electronic reconnaissance equipment is expensive, but after all, it is manufactured in batches, and it is easy to replenish after the loss, but it is more positive to find out the enemy's radio signal source -- that is probably the key to getting out of the current predicament!

Suddenly, a flash of fire flashed in the distant field, and a cannonball flew in with a strange screech, hitting the first armored vehicle with unerring accuracy. This six-wheeled armored car is the Japanese army in the first Haraha River conflict after the development and production of battlefield experience, its off-road ability has been greatly improved compared with the past four-wheeled armored vehicles, their own protection ability has also improved, they were used in the Chinese battlefield and the Indian civil war, the performance is more eye-catching, but during the Japanese-Soviet War, their poor penetration ability, weak armor defense shortcomings were exposed, and were abused by the Soviet tank units and attack aircraft countless times, The Japanese base camp had to send them out in advance a sequence of first-line equipment and distribute it to the troops in the occupied areas to suppress the population in the occupied areas and to deal with the poorly equipped guerrillas.

Seeing that there was a violent explosion from the inside out of the car in front, the driver of the second armored car hurriedly turned, as a result, the body of the car was crooked and fell into a sand pit on the side of the road, and in the process of making a sharp turn, Captain Nakata was almost thrown out.

"What's going on?" He shouted.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see the way." The driver replied apologetically, unaware that he had actually saved the lives of everyone in the car with this turn. A moment later, the strange scream was heard again, and the truck that followed closely behind was hit by direct artillery fire, and the more than twenty soldiers in the compartment were either killed or wounded!

With two explosions in quick succession, the ground battle on Patnaugan Island began.

With the aftermath of the explosion still in his ears filled with the wails of the wounded, Captain Nakata hurriedly climbed out of the car and muttered, "Where did those damn Filipino monkeys get their artillery?" ”

At this moment, a bloodied soldier stumbled to him: "Chief Nakata, we have been ambushed, there are enemy gunmen everywhere, you must be careful, it is better to return to the armored vehicle and command the battle." ”

Although the other party was kind enough to remind, Nakata reprimanded him very dissatisfiedly: "I don't need others to tell me what to do!" Kimura-kun, I think you should hurry up and find a medical soldier to bandage it! ”

In the blink of an eye, another shell struck, hitting the armored vehicle that overturned on its side impartially, and the three crew members inside seemed to have no chance of surviving.

Seeing this, Nakata was not only glad, but furious, and he squinted his eyes to carefully observe the battle situation, and found that the ambushers were far from as many as they had imagined, and their firepower was not worth mentioning at all, except for the strange artillery.

So, he switched his pistol to his left hand, drew his command knife with his right hand and raised it high: "Emperor's warriors, your enemies are just a group of guerrillas hiding in the grass and shooting arrows, don't let them slip away from your bayonets!" Attack with me! ”

Non-commissioned officers and veterans echoed: "Attack forward!" ”

In addition to the dead and seriously wounded soldiers, more than 30 Japanese soldiers rushed forward with a roar, their attack formations seemed scattered, but in fact they were orderly, alternately covering each other, showing a good tacit understanding. Looking at the ambushers' side, when the artillery is no longer powerful, their firepower suddenly seems to be much thinner, and in the environment of night fighting, the accuracy of both machine guns and rifles cannot be compared with daylight, and it seems that dozens of bullets may not be able to kill a Japanese soldier. In this case, the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and the roar of the Japanese soldiers like wild beasts suddenly brought heavy psychological pressure to the ambushers.

According to the tactical arrangement of Second Lieutenant White, the soldiers of the US amphibious special operations team fought and retreated. Although they were not facing the first-class Japanese field troops, as the battle progressed, they quickly felt the pressure from their opponents - whether the machine guns fired short or long, more than a minute of fire would provoke the suppression of the Japanese light machine guns or the attack of grenadiers, and even without modern night vision equipment, their accuracy was surprisingly high. It was easy to withdraw to the hill where the beacon was located, and the recoilless guns that had shifted positions in advance resumed fire support, and with the condescending gunfire from the top of the hill, the Japanese skirmish line was suddenly contained.

Seeing this, Second Lieutenant White immediately sent another group of special combat personnel armed with infrared night vision devices to outflank them from the left flank of the battle line, and asked Major Gonzalez to send a group of men and horses to attack from the right flank with great fanfare, so that those Japanese soldiers who only knew how to attack and were unwilling to retreat fell into the situation of being attacked by the enemy.

After about 20 minutes of fighting, most of the Japanese troops who arrived by car were annihilated except for a few Japanese officers and men who were able to escape, and the U.S.-Philippine joint operations force had enough time to redeploy the defensive line before the Japanese squad marching on foot arrived on the battlefield. However, they did not wait for a second battle, and the guerrillas monitoring the enemy outside the radar station then received news that the Japanese infantry had hurried back to the base shortly after the bombardment began. After two successive waves of bombardment by US carrier-based aircraft, the guerrilla fighters tried to go through the road of the Japanese troops entering and exiting the radar station, and although they were blocked by the Japanese troops and could not penetrate deep into the base, from what they observed, the solid buildings used to store the radar equipment, the surrounding barracks, and antiaircraft artillery positions were bombed, and the firepower of the surviving defenders was not strong, and after the guerrillas took the initiative to disengage, they did not pursue them, which was contrary to the usual combat habits of the Japanese troops.

Since the guerrillas' reconnaissance operations brought very optimistic news, Second Lieutenant White left a team to guard the beacons with the assistance of the guerrillas, and led the team to the Japanese radar base to confirm the specific results of the battle so that he could report to the operational command. The US military has indeed several powerful killer weapons for the Japanese troops stationed in the Philippines this time, including airborne electronic equipment used to interfere with the Japanese army's ground radar, radio beacons with special anti-jamming capabilities, and anti-radar bombs developed by combining radio-guided bombs and radar wave detection and positioning technology.

Second Lieutenant White led a team to Pat Naugan Island and established and defended a temporary radio beacon site, not only to guide the US carrier-based aircraft to destroy the Japanese land-based radar stations on the island and remove the outer outposts of the Japanese defensive circle, but also to provide accurate navigation and positioning for the carrier-based aircraft to attack Manila for a long time. As Second Lieutenant White and his commandos marched toward the Japanese radar station, another group of US carrier-based planes launched an attack on the Japanese reconnaissance ships that continuously emitted high-frequency radars in the waters southeast of Luzon, while 398 carrier-based fighters and bombers that took off from eight aircraft carriers swooped down on Luzon Island in a dense formation......

(End of chapter)