Chapter 124: The Mad Militia (Part II)

As a small group of Junkers Ju-2F flew low into the battlefield, the ambushers' continuous attack attempts were abruptly halted, and the German officers and men who had been ambushed quickly gathered and retreated to the edge of the woods with their wounded. However, their enemies soon discovered that the German carrier-based aircraft in the sky were not capable of carrying out effective aerial bombardment without harming their ground forces, especially with the formidable incendiary bombs, and they quickly resumed their once aborted attack, and the dwarf, obscene figures around the retreating German soldiers were once again multiplied.

After throwing the last grenade on his body, Francis had to face the imminent running out of ammunition - the continuous battle consumed 4 M24s and more submachine gun bullets than 7 full magazines, which meant that if he ran out of bullets from the last magazine on his body, he would have to use his pistol or even a dagger to contend with the swarming enemies.

While making these simple calculations, in order not to get too close to the enemy, Francis pulled the plate machine in his hand twice in a row at short intervals, which not only meant that the ammunition on his body continued to approach the number zero, but also told people that the Japanese who did not know whether they were alive or dead were already very close!

Francis turned his attention to his partners for help, but his best friend was the first to "attack":

"Hell, Francis, do you still have bullets there?"

"No, just ask Graff!" As Francis was talking, two white-gray shadows suddenly flashed out of sight, and he reflexively moved the muzzle of the gun slightly, and then clicked a shuttle of bullets, and saw two targets fall down one and retract behind the tree, and he had an indescribable feeling in his heart. Afterwards, he recalled:

"In the beginning, we were confronted with adult men with rifles, and it was clear that most of them had not received long-term formal military training, but there must have been two or three professional soldiers in command behind them. They put us under a lot of pressure with their reasonable angles and attacks, but when these people were killed, it was women and half-grown children who picked up their weapons and continued to attack, and at the end of the day, I had to shoot at the underage opponents, and I didn't know if it was a boy or a girl, and their screams still make me feel terrified! Luckily, just as we were about to run out of ammunition, two 'little devils' appeared over the woods. They saved us with rockets! It was later learned that we were confronted by a militia of the Japanese, numbering more than 200 people, and that we were almost prey in their mouths because of the careful deployment there! ”

This is not the first time that the Breguet-Igor single-rotor tail rotor aircraft, that is, helicopters, code-named "Little Devils", have shown their close-range support capabilities on the battlefield, but their sudden appearance still makes desperate opponents lose an inch. Although the German Navy only began to equip these two-person small helicopters this summer, it attaches great importance to their reconnaissance and support role on the battlefield, especially in amphibious operations - the "Little Devil" usually has a pilot and a co-pilot responsible for communications and weapon maneuvering, and the equipment on board is also very simple, a walkie-talkie with an effective communication distance of about 15 kilometers. An MG17 light machine gun half-fixed to the co-pilot's side. The Iron Fist 2 bazookas, which are positioned at the top of the two skids, are considered to be "ahead of their time" and are fired via a button on the driver's joystick, which can neither be reloaded nor accurately aimed. But it is clear that such "monsters in the air" still frightened the so-called "militias" who did not have combat qualities at all.

When the follow-up troops arrived to help, Francis and the others were able to return to the woods to sweep away the remnants of the enemy, but unfortunately the remaining Japanese had long since fled, but the German soldiers still harvested something - there were still hundreds of Japanese corpses in the woods and the dead that the Germans had not had time to take with them when they retreated, and they also found two seriously wounded and unconscious Japanese women, and learned something useful from them.

Francis and his companions were horrified, and on the same day, several smaller German ground forces were similarly ambushed in other directions, and although the scale and intensity of the battles varied, the Japanese side was invariably commanded by a very small number of professional soldiers. Hundreds of Okinawan civilians fell victim to the war in a battle in which the casualties of the ambushers far outnumbered those of the ambushed, and in which the equipment and quality of the two sides were unequal.

"I can't believe it! 14 or 5-year-old children, 50-year-old people, and powerless women, the Japanese commander, the command is no longer available? And their commanders. That must be a guy with no humanity, scum among the military! Disgrace! ”

After getting first-hand information from the front, Rundstead, the guy who left the table in anger due to disagreement at a meeting attended by the Kaiser, is also a "hot" topic of conversation in the entire German ** high-level in recent days, and rarely roared in public in the command headquarters.

The whole command was thus static, and in the eyes of the people, there was probably no second one in Germany who could offend the Kaiser in public, and his boss was not only "cattle", but also "cattle" thoroughly, and when most people were worried about his position and future, he did not care to put his mind on the front-line war.

"Well said!" A loud voice came from the direction of the gate, and when people turned their eyes there, the action froze again - it was none other than Kaiser Wilhelm III, who everyone thought must be in a very "unhappy" mood at the moment.

"Your Majesty!" "Your Majesty!" ……

The generals of the navy, army, and air force in the headquarters raised their hands and saluted at the gate, including Rundstead.

After returning the salute, Chen Tian said loudly: "The Japanese commander in Okinawa is indeed crazy, but he is by no means without soldiers, but after the plan to defend the beach fails, he vainly tries to use this militia tactic to consume our army's strength and destroy our army's logistics, and when our army's main force is exhausted, they will fight with us with regular troops!" This tactic is insidious, but they ignore the huge gap in combat effectiveness between the irregular troops and the regular troops, and distort the meaning of the people's war! They are forcing and driving civilians to die on the battlefield, and they are putting up futile resistance! ”

At this moment, the headquarters was so quiet that after Chen Tian's words fell, people's ears still echoed his righteous and solemn speech.

However, Chen Tian didn't want this atmosphere to continue, and he then said:

"Alright, everyone get on with their work! General Rundstead, I would like to talk to you alone! ”

The command regained its vitality, but the corners of dozens of pairs of eyes seemed to be curiously watching Chen Tian and Longdstead's side, is the emperor going to dismiss the general? Or came to the showdown? Or a verbal warning?

As Chen Tian and Rundstead walked into the independent office one after the other, people's curiosity rose to the peak, and this curiosity continued until half an hour later, the door reopened, Chen Tian walked out of the room with an indifferent expression, followed by Rundstead with the same expression, neither of them said anything about it, so people's curiosity was still not satisfied.

On behalf of the German government and military, however, Sir Torsten von Bauer, spokesman for the German Foreign Office, announced the news that the Japanese army was driving civilians to fight on the battlefield in Okinawa, and promised to publish the movements and photographic evidence of the Japanese army in this regard, and at the same time announced that Germany would open the authority of some foreign media reporters to cover the battlefield in Okinawa. Some called for an early end to the war through peace negotiations between the warring parties, while others alluded to Germany as the "culprit" in the media.

Three days later, 2 million Japanese leaflets were carried by five Dornier 3 ultra-long-range bombers to Okinawa It was cruel and inhumane, and there was no prospect, and the next was the German army's preferential treatment of prisoners of war and non-aggression and harassment of enemy civilians, and at the end it demanded that the Japanese military and civilians, especially civilians who did not have the conditions to fight, not get involved in a brutal war.

After that, the German side announced that it would suspend the use of chemical bombs in Japanese towns and areas where there were no important military targets, but by this time, more than 1 million Japanese soldiers and civilians had died directly or indirectly from the chemical bombs dropped by the German army, and a leaflet and a notice obviously could not completely shake the determination of the Japanese government and military department headed by the emperor to carry on the war, but when a country's ability to withstand war was reduced to a critical point, the situation of forcing its own government to withdraw from the war by abnormal means would occur. Looking at history, there are two most common methods, one is revolution, and the other is assassination!