On this battlefield, Han Shaofeng has been reduced to a supporting role at this time, but he is not a general who is willing to play a supporting role. In his opinion, the battle on the island is always the main battle, no matter how hard the fleet fights, no matter how hard the two sides fight to the death, isn't it for the capture of the island in the end? Therefore, no matter how important the naval battle is, in the end, it is for victory on the ground, so the Marine Corps is the protagonist on this battlefield.

In the eyes of the Navy, the Marine Corps is the tentacle of the fleet extending to the land, but in the eyes of the Marine Corps, the fleet is just a means of sea transportation and bodyguards of the Marine Corps. Regardless of which of these views is more reasonable, every recruit will be instilled with this set of ideas when he joins the Marine Corps, which in addition to strengthening the sense of honor of the officers and men of the Marine Corps, is also one of the ways to improve morale, or make the Marine Corps appear more noble.

About an hour and a half before dawn, the battle on the northeast corner of the island was over, and all but a few of the divided American troops were annihilated, at least more than 1,000 American officers and soldiers were killed, more than 2,000 American officers and soldiers were captured (almost all of them were taken prisoner after being wounded and incapacitated), and the rest of the American troops were buried alive in the underground fortifications. In order to annihilate this force of American troops, Han Shaofeng's attacking marines lost more than 1,500 casualties, and nearly 2,000 wounded, and only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers were finally able to strengthen to the southeast front (including nearly half of the lightly wounded).

The night battle also ended before the arrival of the American bombers, and the most casualties were the officers and men on the isolated line. Of the more than 500 "daredevils", only 8 were carried down, and all of them were carried out of the line by medical soldiers or comrades. More than 400 bodies were found on the battlefield. The bodies of dozens of people have not been found, some of them may have been blown to pieces, and some of them may have been captured.

Han Shaofeng arranged two companies of troops on this line of defense (in fact, there were no more than 120 men combined). This was the maximum number of troops that Han Shaofeng could send at that time). The rest of the troops were reinforced to the southeastern defensive line. After receiving the telegram from Liao Hanxiang, Han Shaofeng immediately ordered the entire line to be turned into defense.

At the time of the arrival of American bombers. Cooks are delivering steamed buns, steamed buns, rice balls, or canned food to the front. Most of the officers and men had not eaten for a whole day. When Han Shaofeng gave the order to conceal himself, some officers and men did not even have the strength to climb into the air defense concealment point. As you can imagine. How fierce the battle was before that. If Han Shaofeng did not give the order to stop the attack, these officers and soldiers could hold on with perseverance, but when they knew that they didn't need to continue the attack, all the energy generated by burning their lives disappeared. Many people were dragged into anti-aircraft shelters. And when the food was delivered, almost all the officers and soldiers ate the mud, sand, blood, and smoke and dust all over their bodies. At this time alone, more than a dozen cooks fell on the battlefield and fell under the bombardment of the US army on the way to deliver food to the combat troops!

The battle didn't end there. The relevant defense orders were also conveyed at the same time. In the few minutes of the bombing by the American army, the front-line officers and soldiers were full. What many officers and soldiers of the Tang Empire did not expect was that the US bombing lasted only a few minutes! All have participated in battles. Officers and men of the Marine Corps who have been bombed by the enemy know very well that a group of bombers will hover over the battlefield for at least 20 minutes in order to ensure that the bombs are dropped on the most important targets and the best bombing results can be obtained. And this time. Most of the U.S. bombers were dropping bombs blindly. Maybe the battlefield is full of Tang Empire marines, and there are no targets worth focusing on, so the US bombers can drop bombs at will, but those US fighters did not strafe the Tang Empire soldiers on the ground after dropping the bombs, but quickly flew away, which is indeed too abnormal!

Han Shaofeng's front-line headquarters was also bombed, but it was not seriously threatened. Several bombs fell in the vicinity, and not even the guards were injured. When the news of the withdrawal of the American bombers came, he was also very incomprehensible. Are those U.S. pilots rushing back for Christmas? But it's still early for Christmas. It's impossible to rush back to get married, and it's impossible for hundreds of pilots to have a group wedding. The only explanation is that the bombers did not have enough fuel on them, so they had to rush home, and their mission was only to drop bombs. Of course, this was good news for Han Shaofeng, and as soon as the US bombers flew away, he ordered the officers and men of the Marine Corps to launch an all-front attack and fight against the enemy while the US troops launched a counterattack and left their hideouts and trenches. In addition, he had the communications officer send the message to Task Force 2.

When the US bombers dropped their bombs, the US officers and men on the defensive line also cowered in the air-raid shelters. Because the two sides were too close together, and the pilots on the bombers would not carefully discern the personnel on the ground (the basic colors of the combat uniforms of the two marines were very close, and it was extremely difficult to distinguish them in the air), they also had to hide.

The order to attack was given by the front commanders of both sides almost simultaneously, and the officers and soldiers of both sides rushed out of their hiding places almost simultaneously, and the result can be imagined. When the American army saw so many officers and soldiers of the Tang Imperial Marine Corps also rushing out of the trenches, they were immediately shocked. The officers and men of the Imperial Marines were not surprised, they had long known that the Americans would launch a counterattack after the bombing.

At least hundreds of US officers and men fell in the rain of machine-gun bullets in the first place.

The battle immediately entered a white-hot state, and the officers and men of the US Marine Corps who received the order could not retreat, and they would not retreat. After fighting with the Tang Imperial Marines on Midway for so long, many American officers and soldiers have become numb, and some even charge only according to orders. When the commander of the US army found out that the opponent was also attacking, he immediately ordered to switch to defense, but it was too late, and in the middle of more than ten minutes, the officers and men of the Imperial Marine Corps had already made a surprise attack of more than 100 meters and penetrated deep into the US defense line. The situation on the battlefield began to change rapidly.

If the U.S. troops had been in the trenches, Han Shaofeng's arrangement of this offensive operation would undoubtedly be sending the officers and men of the Marine Corps to death (he would not have given the order to attack at this time, because he had no reserves in his hands). The machine guns deployed on the front line alone were enough to drive the officers and men of the Tang Imperial Marines back. But as a result, almost all the American officers and soldiers on the front line left the trenches. It became the target of the submachine guns in the hands of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Imperial Marine Corps. At this time, the density of troops on the front has reached more than 1,500 people per kilometer, and if these people are lined up in a row (which is practically impossible), the distance between people and ground is only a few tens of centimeters. The U.S. charge, on the contrary, limited the use of their own machine-gun firepower. Comparatively speaking, it is always much easier to take out an enemy without cover than it is to take out an enemy hiding in cover.

The battle lasted just over ten minutes. The U.S. military began to crumble. The commander of the US army in the panic let the troops retreat to the third line of defense (two lines of defense have already been breached), but the result is that all the American troops crowded on the front line positions began to retreat, and this retreat could not be effectively organized in the panic, and the Tang Imperial Marines killed dozens of meters away, and the rain of bullets from submachine guns, rifles, and light machine guns flew over, and the retreat directly evolved into a rout.

When Han Shaofeng learned that the front-line troops had made a major breakthrough and the US army had retreated on all fronts. He left only two communications officers, as well as five guards, to hold the headquarters, and then ordered all the staff officers of the headquarters to take up arms (this had already been prepared). Han Shaofeng had already asked all the officers and soldiers who could afford to hold weapons to be equipped with a submachine gun or rifle), and took all the surplus weapons with them and rushed towards the frontline battlefield.

Along the way, Han Shaofeng asked those staff officers to stand up to each one.

The officers and men, who were fairly able-bodied, were concentrated, and each was given a rifle, two grenades, and a few spare magazines. In addition, he arranged for more than a dozen officers to go to the field hospital on the beach on the west side of the island to organize the wounded and even the medical officers who were able to move, and each of them was given at least one rifle and several magazines. Anyway, there is no shortage of firearms now, many of the guns of the fallen officers and soldiers have been left, and there are also a large number of firearms of the US army, and there is no shortage of ammunition, at least not ammunition for small arms, and a few bullets can be found almost everywhere on this small island.

There is a distance of about two kilometers from the airport to the front line, and it took Han Shaofeng fifteen minutes to complete these two kilometers, and the soldiers gathered around him have reached 1,200 people, including more than 80 staff officers and guards of the headquarters when he set off, the rest are all cooks, aviation attendants, medical soldiers, and wounded people who can walk along the way, and there are even a group of seriously wounded people who are on crutches and carrying rifles! Perhaps, only in the eyes of Han Shaofeng, this is an army, in the eyes of anyone else, this is similar to a refugee team, but it is a "refugee team" with weapons that can kill.

By the time they arrived at the front line, the attacking Marines had broken through all the American defenses west of the airfield, entered the airfield, and were still on the offensive. Many officers and men who were bandaging their wounds in the rear saw that the commander had rushed to the front line, and they immediately took up arms and followed, adding another group of seriously wounded men. At this time, some careful staff officers had already discovered that there were only the corpses of American soldiers on the battlefield, and there were no prisoners of American troops! Those attacking Marines must not have taken prisoners, otherwise there would not have been not even a single prisoner!

"Keep attacking, don't care what direction you want, there's nothing wrong with attacking where there is an enemy!" Han Shaofeng didn't slow down, he pushed away and wanted to grab his guard, and then called a captain officer with a bandage on his head and a rank on his left shoulder that had been dropped, "You lead the way in front, let's go to the headquarters of the US army, damn, you must capture a general of the US army as a prisoner today, brothers, follow me!" ”

The "big army" immediately increased its speed, and as Han Shaofeng ran, everyone ran, and those who couldn't run walked quickly behind, and even some of the wounded crawled forward on the ground, but they didn't forget to bring guns and grenades.

"General, it's too dangerous, you ......"

"Get out of here, when Lao Tzu was charging at the front line, you were still wearing open crotch pants!" Han Shaofeng pushed the guards away, "Rush me immediately, everyone rushes up, kill all the enemies in one go today, rush!" ”

The guard pounced, but he was still a step too slow, and Han Shaofeng had already jumped out and rushed to the front. Han Shaofeng got up from the grassroots troops, fighting is his profession, and he also crawled out of the pile of corpses, and he has long been accustomed to the bloody wind on the battlefield. When they saw that the commander was like a skilled front-line officer in the enemy's bullet rain, moving fast and slow, starting and stopping, all the officers and soldiers were surprised, and then they followed, even the commander was killed, what were they afraid of? Even if they are destined to die here, with a general as their companion, when they arrive in the palace of the king of Hades, maybe Han Shaofeng will take them to fight against the king of Hades!

Morale can be boosted. No matter how tired the officers and men of these Imperial Marines were at that time, no matter how many injuries they were wounded, when their morale was boosted, even if they were in front of an enemy group army, they dared to rush forward and compete with the enemy. On the other hand, on the side of the U.S. military, when the battle line collapses, because there is no depth of defense, even if there is the president of the United States behind them, they will not turn around and rush back.

The fierce battle lasted from seven o'clock to eight o'clock, and in just over an hour, thousands of Marine officers and men completed the task that they had not completed in the previous 23 days and captured the airfield at the southeastern tip of the island!

Han Shaofeng was unable to catch the general of the US army, and when he rushed over, the front command of the US army had been directly insured by several grenades, and he only found more than ten corpses inside, including the bodies of two generals. There are also several high-ranking officers.

It was at this time that Han Shaofeng sent a message to the Second Task Force that the Marines had captured Midway. In fact, the battle continued until noon that day, when the last American forces surrendered on the beach at the southeastern tip of the island. At this time, there were less than 1,000 Imperial Marines still able to stand on Midway, and the others who were still alive were hundreds of American prisoners and thousands of wounded Imperial Marines!