Chapter 393: Conquering Oahu
In response to the strong fortifications of the Hawaiian Islands, 500 tons of solidification ****** were sent to Kauai by transport, and the bombs with bright red paint were installed on bombers to support front-line operations, and the first real-world application was amazing.
The US military has arranged a small-caliber anti-aircraft gun on this position, in fact, the air defense weapons on the entire Oahu island are very dense, and after the Yokosuka incident, the Americans urgently sent a batch of anti-aircraft guns here, and the performance of this small-caliber antiaircraft gun is backward, and it can still cope with one or two in the face of low-altitude and slow-flying biplanes, and it is powerless in the face of the high-speed piston-colored propeller planes of the Chinese army. Moreover, the Americans were still rookies of war, and before the battle began, they either stuffed most of their artillery into closed batteries, and then bombers blew them up one by one, or arranged artillery positions in the open air, which were easily found by Chinese aircraft. The same was true of the anti-aircraft artillery positions, which, without any camouflage, disappeared without a trace shortly after the start of the bombardment by the Chinese troops.
One of the anti-aircraft guns here belonged to the survivors, and the continuous bombardment gradually made the American soldiers grow up, and they covered the anti-aircraft gun with canvas and covered it with grass, successfully evading the subsequent bombardment of the Chinese army.
A Chinese plane flew overhead in the sky, and in this concealed anti-aircraft gun firing position, several American artillerymen looked at the sky through the gap between the canvas and the grass, how they wanted to tear off the camouflage and hit the invaders fiercely, but because of their strength, they could not do it.
They were given orders to save themselves as much as possible, and then to give a surprise return fire when an aircraft threatened an important facility such as a pillbox, and to salvage their own artillery as much as possible after shooting down enemy planes. However, looking at the two fierce Chinese planes in the sky, these young American artillerymen really did not have the courage to shoot their own shells at the enemy.
They saw with their own eyes that an American soldier running in the trench was hit by a 20 mm cannon, his arm seemed to be torn apart by something, and he flew out for a long distance at once, and then the soldier's body swelled out, his intestines sprayed all over the ground, and the whole person fell into the trench, blood sprayed on the faces of the soldiers around him, and they screamed in fright.
It is a pity that these frightened American soldiers who shouted incessantly could no longer scream after only a few seconds, because the second dive-down Dreadnought attack aircraft once again poured ammunition into this trench, and in an instant, the flying ammunition hit the trench with chickens and dogs, and there were almost 30 soldiers full of trench men, and in an instant only single digits remained.
An American veteran in the trench was lucky enough to escape the bullets, and as he turned and fled, he struggled to crawl out of the collapsed rubble, he was in a good position, and a few unlucky guys blocked the flying debris and the debris from the roof. So he survived, and although his ears were buzzing and he didn't seem to be able to hear anything else, he was still glad that he could continue to breathe.
He saw a soldier waving to him in the hidden anti-aircraft gun position not far from the trench, and he looked around and saw that he was the only living man still kneeling by the rubble, and below his knee was the chest of another American soldier. He crawled forward with hands red with blood of unknown people, pulling his feet out of the rubble. Stepping on the dead, he crawled into the anti-aircraft gun position, leaning on several ammunition boxes and gasping for air.
He himself didn't know what others had said to him, because all he could hear was the buzzing of his ears. But after catching his breath for a while, he felt the pain in his body, raised his arm to look at it, and then he realized that there was a piece of metal stuck in his arm, and he didn't know where it came from.
Before he had time to pull out the damn shrapnel, he looked up and looked around, where the soldiers on the anti-aircraft gun position were lifting the canvas with all their hands and feet, and the grass on it was falling.
The view got better, but the good luck also ended there, the planes of the Chinese army were dropping bombs one after another, and huge flames were rising everywhere, and everything seemed to be burning. He remembered that he had never seen such a bomb before, and that an arteryman next to him had his entire arm engulfed in flames, and his face was melted by the flames.
To tell the truth, this American veteran is just a poor farmer, he doesn't know what science and technology and what advanced weapons and equipment he has. In his opinion, the Chinese people invented these terrible things, which are similar to Satan the Devil. Normal humans shouldn't have used such cruel methods to wreck their own kind, but these weapons are now on the battlefield, harvesting people's lives like the terrible scythe of death.
It all seems to be over, or it should be over. The veteran was dejected to find himself surrounded by flames, the breath of death swaying through his nostrils. He struggled to stand up, he saw an American soldier in the distance slapping the flames on his body, unfortunately his hands could not extinguish the flames on his body, but instead let his palms and sleeves burn, solidifying****** the burning material in it was sticky, it was easy to stick to the objects it touched, and the objects it touched also ignited.
Struggling to run, the soldier eventually collided with a man who was also covered in flames, and both fell to the ground and disappeared from the veteran's view. It is clear that the final outcome of the two of them is very clear, and no one will survive the "devil's fire".
Before the Soviet veteran could come to his senses, the air waves of the shells on the position blew him away, and his whole body was like a leaf in the wind, jumping a distance of several meters and falling heavily to the ground. In his dying, he heard the shouts of the Chinese army charging, and subconsciously wanted to resist, but the Springfield rifle not far away was so far away that it finally disappeared from the closed eye.
Major Billy, whose headquarters was outside the blast range, ran away neatly again, and after giving the order to retreat, he boarded a jeep and fled the scorching battlefield first, regardless of whether the soldiers on the battlefield could evacuate or not. The Chinese soldiers cautiously approached the burning positions of the American troops, and the fire that burned up the grass and clothes gradually subsided after half an hour, and the soldiers experienced such a horrific battlefield statistics for the first time - 243 American soldiers died, most of them could not find intact bodies, and 17 surviving soldiers surrendered.
With the cooperation of the air force and the subsequent increase in troops, the second line of defense of the US army was broken through again, and the 1st Marine Division put a large number of troops into the battle to expand the depth of the battlefield, and after the second line of defense was broken through, the US army had no better defense facilities in the back, and Raymond could only order the whole army to retreat to the Pearl Harbor area.
"General, there is a force of about one regiment of the Chinese army in the northeast, plus in the northwest, we are completely blocked in the port." Beasley pointed to the map and reported back to Raymond.
Shaking his head with a wry smile, Raymond didn't even have the strength to speak: "We were blocked in the Hawaiian Islands at the beginning, then on Oahu, and finally in Pearl Harbor, and we were simply surrounded at all." ”
Seeing that Raymond no longer spoke, the decadent atmosphere made the people in the command department crazy, as if they had made a lot of determination, Beasley was silent for a while and then raised his head firmly and said: "General, everyone, we have less than 5,000 troops in Pearl Harbor, and we lack ammunition supplies, most of the warehouses are outside the port, and they are now trophies of the Chinese army. We have lost more than half of the battle so far, and the boys of the 25th Division have shown great valor, but we can't let the boys die in vain! ”
"Boom!" Beasley's words were interrupted by a loud sound of artillery shelling beyond the Pearl Harbor docks, but Beasley's train of thought was not interrupted, and he continued: "There are 5,000 soldiers crammed into the small harbor area, and each shell will take the lives of several people, so there is no point in continuing to resist." Generals, ladies and gentlemen, I propose to surrender to the Chinese army. ”
As soon as Wesley finished speaking, a captain and staff officer chimed in: "Yes! Washington has long thrown us up, resolutely resisted until now, and is worthy of the honor of our soldiers, and cannot let the soldiers bury Washington's group of shameless officials! ”
The voices of the command headquarters demanding surrender rang out, and only Raymond was silent, and his heart was also fighting fiercely. After the start of the war, there were precedents for the surrender of American troops in Guam, Midway, Wake Island, and other places, but their low rank was negligible, and there was no argument at home about the surrender of a second lieutenant. But a general is different, and his surrender will cause an uproar at home, not to mention the impact on national morale, and even his own family will be greatly implicated -- he is well aware of the current American fanaticism for war.
This is not an exaggeration, the United States was full of foreign expansion before the war began, and after China took the initiative to provoke the war, the country was like a frying pan, and the description of smoothing out China can be seen in the newspapers every day, and isolationism does not have a large market in the United States at present.
If you don't surrender, I'm afraid that you will be torn to shreds by the officers and staff officers in the command now, in fact, Beasley and his 25th Division have done a good job, as a reserve division, they can fight to this extent without support, to be honest, beyond Raymond's expectations. (To be continued.) )