The commanders of the Tang and Japanese armies battled wits and courage, and finally met on the 27th.

At three o'clock in the morning of the 27th, the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group arrived on time in the ocean east of South Tarawa, about 400 kilometers from the Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

At 3:10 a.m., the four aircraft carriers of the Tang Army began to prepare for sailing. Twenty-five minutes later, all the navigation lights on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier were turned on, the Raptor heavy carrier-based fighters began to take off, and all the cruisers, destroyers, and submarines of the surrounding Tang Army entered a first-class combat state, formed a defensive circle within 50 kilometers around the aircraft carrier, turned on all sonar detectors, prevented the enemy's submarines from approaching the aircraft carrier, and ensured that the four aircraft carriers would not be affected in any way within the 25 minutes that they sent out all the planes participating in the battle.

At four o'clock in the morning, when the Zuihou heavy carrier-based bomber of Zuihou that took off from the aircraft carrier Duowen Tianwang took off to complete the formation, the huge group of 288 fighters let out a huge roar and rushed straight towards Majuro.

On the bridge of the aircraft carrier Zhiguo Tianwang, Zhang Meng and Li Haichen personally watched the Tang Army's fighter group go away, and the new trend was surging.

Li Haichen couldn't help but say: "Your Highness, if it goes well today, we will definitely destroy or capture the Majuro supply depot, the fuel and food on the Japanese ships may still be enough, but their fresh water will definitely be left." As long as we hold them back for a week or so, they will inevitably panic. ”

Zhang Meng smiled slightly and said: "Destroying their supply depot is just an insurance policy for our victory, in fact, with our naval aviation, there is no need to wait at all, as long as the Japanese combined fleet enters our bomber combat radius." Death awaits them. ”

Li Haichen said: "But you also said that although our fighters are far more advanced than the Japanese fighters, there is still a certain gap between our pilots and the Japanese pilots in training!" ”

Zhang Meng nodded. "Yes, that's our only weakness right now!" However, I believe that our Tang Army pilots will grow up quickly in this battle. In the future, they will be the air supremacy of the entire Pacific Ocean, the air supremacy of the entire shijie! ”

When Zhang Meng said this, he was suddenly full of pride, and Li Haichen beside him was also deeply infected, and he couldn't help but feel full of confidence.

By this time, the aircraft carrier flight deck lights had all been extinguished. In order to prevent detection by Japanese submarines operating nearby, the four aircraft carriers quickly left the area, but in order to recover the fighters. The aircraft carrier is still sailing in a straight line in the direction of Majuro Atoll.

At the same time, in the Majuro Atoll, the 1st Marine Division of the Tang Army had completed the goal of landing all heavy equipment.

Division Commander Zheng Shaoqiu ordered the special forces to continue to advance in silent combat, successively taking four of the eight islands in the Majuro Atoll. All four were guarded by a small number of Japanese sentinels.

Zheng Shaoqiu has been waiting for dawn. Because he needed the bombers of the naval aviation to raze to the ground several Japanese fortified artillery positions and machine-gun bunkers guarding the Majuro Atoll, otherwise the other side would be unable to open the door and the Tang army would come back to pay a huge price in casualties.

"Report, our planes have departed, and will arrive on time before dawn, and the commander-in-chief has telegraphed us to prepare ground guidance to ensure that the bomber group can destroy the enemy's key targets at the first time."

"Great!"

Zheng Shaoqiu suddenly showed joy, and immediately ordered all special detachments to reconfirm the location coordinates of the Japanese fortress artillery positions and machine gun bunkers. Be prepared for terrestrial radio guidance, and at the same time, in order to prevent accidental injury to your own people. In the open area, the Tang Army's engineering units used eye-catching red canvas with a certain fluorescent function to form a huge and incomparable attack arrow icon, and the arrows pointed at the enemy troops on the opposite side. Even if you look down at an altitude of 10,000 meters, you can clearly distinguish between friend and foe.

The reason for this arrangement was due to the bloody lessons learned during the bombing of the Fijian natives, when the Tang Army's fighters sometimes did not have time to distinguish the position of the enemy when diving, so that they mistakenly injured their own people many times. At the post-war work experience summary meeting of the Tang Army, some front-line combatants from the army raised this issue, which was immediately taken seriously by the top level of the Tang Army, and arrangements were immediately made to avoid accidental injuries.

The various units of the Tang Army spread out their formations and advanced in a dragnet-like manner, leaving no living holes in the places they passed, so as to prevent the other side from warning the Japanese.

A Japanese immigrant farmer's house was built right next to the road where the Tang army was advancing, and the family's dog suddenly barked, and not long after, a Japanese man with a shotgun suddenly rushed out.

The Japanese man thought that the local natives had come to steal things, but he saw a group of Tang soldiers with loaded guns, although he had never seen the Tang army, but he at least knew that this was Japan's territory, and it was naturally ill-intentioned for foreign troops to suddenly come in.

"Bang!"

"Da Da Da!"

When the gunshots rang out, the Japanese man did not dare to shoot at the Tang army, he fired a shot into the sky to warn the Japanese army. But the soldiers of the Don Army subconsciously believed that the Japanese men were shooting at them, and they opened fire one after another.

A machine-gun bullet swept past, and the Japanese man was instantly beaten into a meat sieve.

A group of Tang Army special combat personnel who were lurking towards the Japanese outpost on the top of the hill suddenly cursed secretly, and at this time, several Japanese soldiers in the outpost had already heard the sound of gunfire. For a long time, they could hear that one of the gunshots was a shotgun, and although the other gunfire could not be heard from the M1 submachine gun, they believed that it was a warning sign that a large number of unknown enemy troops had come to the island.

"Fire!"

Seeing that the Japanese army was about to call and report, several special combat personnel did not have time to attack in close quarters, and launched attacks one after another with rifles, submachine guns, sniper rifles, and other weapons.

Unlike the Tang Army of the Marine Corps, which used the M1 submachine guns, the special combat personnel were only required to use the most convenient weapons, some liked to use long guns, some liked to use submachine guns, some liked to use sniper rifles, and even if some people thought that their throwing knives were more powerful than firearms, they were also allowed to use flying knives as their main combat weapons.

In short, special combat personnel are allowed to use different weapons in order to exert greater combat effectiveness and perform various tasks.

Under the fierce attack of several special combat personnel, several Japanese sentries were quickly shot and killed, although the Japanese sentries were unable to say a word, but the phone was dialed. The sound of gunfire had already indicated to the Japanese that the area was under attack.

"Woo......"

Rapid sirens sounded over Majuro Atoll, but only three islands sounded the alarm, as the other five islands had already been occupied by the Don Army.

Tomomi Inada was awakened by the sound of an alarm and a hurried knock on the door. When he learned that the outpost had been attacked, only three of the eight islands were connected, and the other five had lost contact, he was immediately nervous.

"It's the Tang Army! They touched it! ”

"Damn, are they immortals? How can we not be aware of it at all? ”

Tomomi Inada was in a hurry, losing five of the eight islands in one night, and although the three most important islands were still in his hands, the occupation of the other five islands by the Tang army was enough to put the entire Majuro Atoll in danger. But last night, Kobayashi had already reminded him to strengthen his defense. Tomomi Inada knew that his military career was over.

"Shaozuo, are we going to report the situation here to General Kobayashi Tatsuzo?"

Tomomi Inada thought for a moment and suddenly ordered, "Don't send a report yet." The 1st and 2nd squadrons were ordered to set off at once, to recapture the lost islands, to drive the Don troops into the sea and to destroy them. After we have recaptured these five islands, we will report to General Kobayashi Tatsuzo. ”

"But we don't know how many Tang troops there are. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to attack rashly? ”

"How many Tang troops can there be? The Don fleet is still far from us. They also did not bring a large number of landing troops, so we could only see the harassment of a small group of Tang troops. We have a large battalion of troops, and it is enough to leave a squadron for defense. ”

Since it was still dawn, Tomomi Inada was sure that only a small number of Tang troops would attack, so he hoped to recapture the five lost islands and report to Kobayashi Takuzo.

There was still more than half an hour before dawn, Zheng Shaoqiu saw that the Tang army was exposed, and no longer waited for the support of the Tang army's aircraft, and immediately ordered all units of the 1st Marine Division to attack the Japanese army according to the original Jihua.

The three islands of Epney, Jarit and Daipra were the focus of the Japanese army's defense. There were airfields, oil supply depots and material supply depots built on it, and it was also the place where the Tang Army really wanted to destroy or occupy.

In the coconut groves south of Kalalin Island. The 18 80-mm cannons, 18 105-mm mountain guns and 18 155-mm heavy howitzers of the Tang artillery regiment were concentrated, and the guns were aimed at the Japanese anti-slope pillbox positions on the opposite island of Epney.

"Correct the Yuan!"

"Reload the shell!"

"Target 7 heights, coordinates 2-2-4!"

"Three rounds of rapid fire! Prepare - fire! ”

When the command flag of the commander fell, the 54 guns of the Tang Army artillery regiment opened fire one after another.

With a shrill whistling sound, a fiery red mushroom cloud rose from the No. 7 highland opposite, and in an instant, the mountains shook far away, the earth and rocks fell and splashed, and the violent blast wave of the explosion smashed the trees and the fallen leaves flew away.

The Japanese pillboxes were more than a meter thick and not easily destroyed, but the fierce shelling of the Tang artillery regiment was aimed at suppressive, and the smoke and dust raised in the sky obscured the sight of the Japanese army.

The roar of the tanks of the Don Army rang out, and ten SRA tanks ran through the beach bushes and waded across a shoal to the opposite island.

Because Majuro is an atoll structure and it is at low tide in the morning, the shoal between the two small islands is less than 0.3 meters deep, which is just enough to meet the conditions for the Tang Army's chariots and infantry to swim across.

The Japanese artillery fire on the opposite island was mainly placed on the side facing the sea, and they saw that the Tang army tanks in the direction of the anticline were swimming across, but they could not adjust the muzzles to attack.

The machine gunners in the Japanese pillboxes pulled the trigger, and the machine guns spewed out flames, trying to block the armed swimming of the Tang Army. It's a pity that the Japanese machine-gun bullets hit the Tang army's chariot and were all bounced away, and they couldn't hurt the Tang army behind the chariot.

"Knock knock!"

The artillery regiment of the Tang Army suppressed the fire again, the Japanese pillbox was bombarded by 155-mm heavy howitzers, a large area of concrete was blown off, and the Japanese troops inside were either killed by the explosion fragments, or were overturned by the violent blast wave and fainted.

Several times, the machine guns of several Japanese pillboxes suddenly fell silent.

As the artillery fire of the Don Army extended, the machine guns on the SRA tanks opened heavy fire, covering the charge of the Tang infantry, and soon captured the Japanese anti-slope machine-gun pillbox positions on the east side of Epney Island.

The Japanese artillery squad on the top of the hill lacked individual combat weapons, and they were forced to detonate the ammunition depot.

"Boom!"

There was a violent explosion, the ground shook, the Japanese coastal artillery positions were blown up, and then the Don Army captured the commanding heights of Epney Island.

The Tang army looked down from the top of the hill, and the Japanese army Majura airfield was unobstructed.

At this time, the eastern horizon was already white, and it was dawn. (To be continued......)