627: Bad landing
'Da Da Da ......'
Bullets flew everywhere on the battlefield, rifle bullets, machine gun shells, mortar shells, and dense firepower nets everywhere, and although it was daytime, you could still vaguely see the traces left by bullets in mid-air. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder, and a thick smell of blood came to the face, tightly wrapped around the body. On the beach, the part where the sea water and the sand are combined, the sea water has been faintly rendered reddish, and a large amount of blood has gathered into a stream, which is flowing towards the lower sea, and continues to contribute to the red sea.
The firepower of the Japanese army was much more fierce than when they landed in Kaohsiung before, and now they don't have to prove anything, the facts have already told them everything.
About forty machine guns were deployed on the defensive line about six or seven meters high, with two layers above and below, to make up for the lack of firepower to the greatest extent and fill the gap of three-dimensional attack, which would be an insurmountable gap for them.
The Japanese attack caused the landing troops to suffer a head-on blow, and of the 2,000-strong landing force, only about 1,23 were able to get off the landing craft completely, and many more were hit by a dense number of bullets the moment they left the landing craft.
If you're lucky, you'll fall in the shallows, or just fall on the sand. The unlucky ones were directly in the waist-high seawater, and the injuries on their bodies and the large amount of blood lost made them unable to move their bodies anymore. And at this time, everyone also forgot to hold their breath, and even forgot to find a way to get out of here.
Chen Peng saw a lot of wounded soldiers who were struggling in the shallow sea area, and he wanted to go up and pull them up, but even if he pulled them ashore, it would only ensure that they would not be drowned, and the enemy fire above would still take care of them, but the order would change slightly.
Moreover, Chen Peng was not sure that he would save everyone, and he did not even dare to guarantee that when he left the cover of the landing craft, he would not be the next person to fall and struggle in the sea.
The Marines, each of whom is familiar with the nature of the water, can dive underwater for more than three minutes without any equipment. But even so, they were still going to be drowned in the shallows, the depth of the water that could not submerge their chests even when they were kneeling......
The bare sand, about forty or fifty meters long, has an unobstructed view from above, and it is difficult to find even a slightly larger pothole.
I don't know when the original anti-sea dam was flattened by the Japanese, perhaps because of the tight construction period, or because the Japanese were worried that after the dam was demolished, the enemy had not yet come, but the sea water helped them first.
Therefore, the sea-defying dam here has been renovated by the Japanese in an ingenious way, as far as possible to create a dam with a small slope, to put it bluntly, the original dam of nearly 90 degrees has been changed to a dam of less than 10 degrees.
In this way, after landing, the enemy could not rely on the angle of the dam as a cover, so as to hide from the Japanese attack on the beachhead. In addition, the beachhead was rebuilt, piled up on flat ground, and the lowest was three meters high, and in this position, unless they re-blasted the anti-sea dam that the Japanese had leveled, it was absolutely impossible to escape the attack of the beachhead.
And it doesn't matter even if they dodge, this just gives the firepower point behind them to annihilate them, which in turn saves the Japanese soldiers on the beachhead.
Judging from the current situation, the Japanese are becoming more and more elite in their research on anti-landing operations, and when they were in Taiwan, they did not even know how to arrange firepower points, but now they have learned to attack in three dimensions.
The air forces did not seem to have had any effect on the attacks there, and the enemy's firepower on the beachhead did not appear to have suffered any losses at all. But the air force still remembered the situation behind this beachhead, as if there was something more terrifying hidden behind this position, so it forced the air force to devote all its energy to dealing with them.
However, there was no cover on the beachhead to hide, and the Japanese were hiding in the trenches, and there was only a firing hole left in the trenches, so it was obviously not so easy for other arms to hit the Japanese troops in the fortifications, unless they were snipers.
Looking at the traces of the beachhead being bombarded by naval guns, because the distance was too far, the number of shells that directly hit the beachhead was not many, and the marines had already gone up, so the navy also stopped bombing.
Chen Peng knew that this time they had hit a hard bone, and moreover, this battle only relied on their group of landing troops, and they could not attack the enemy's beachhead at all.
The Japanese also had the advantage of having set up this position, which was that even if the troops managed to leave the beach, they still had to face a gradient of more than 60 degrees, and then climb a height of three meters before they came into contact with the enemy's first position.
And in this position, the Japanese army has too many means of defense, grenades, no need to be still at all, just slide down the slope, and when you finally climb up, a bayonet will be stabbed directly, and you will roll down with a slight push of your body.
The speed at which the attacking troops climbed was much lower than the speed at which the Japanese could stab bayonets.
This embarrassing battle, from the beginning of the landing, everyone knew that they were going to be finished, this terrain was not suitable for landing at all by the Japanese, even if the Qing army ten years ago was allowed to defend and let them attack, the casualties would be less than now.
It's a complete dilemma, there's no way to go in, there's no way to go back, you're either going to die here or you're drowning in the sea.
The landing craft began to slowly fall backwards, the soldiers on the landing craft were basically able to move, and the remaining ones on the craft were either killed or wounded, there was no way to continue the landing, the first batch of landing craft delivery tasks had been completed, and they had to return.
However, compared with the previous landing mission, this time in the landing craft formation, the atmosphere is particularly dull, everything in front of them is seen by them, the soldiers of the Marine Corps have worked hard, this time their performance is even better than when they were in Taiwan before, but it is not only them who have changed, the enemy army is also changing.
'Bang Bang ......'
Chen Peng couldn't imagine what would happen next, but he knew that once the landing craft left, the soldiers here would definitely not have any good results.
When the landing craft began to retreat, Chen Peng smashed the landing craft with the butt of his gun, and then a human head quietly drilled out of the cockpit of the landing craft.
"Turn the landing craft sideways and stay as cover!" Chen Peng shouted loudly at the crew.
There is no cover, they can only try their best to find cover, and there are only two things that can be used as cover on the scene, one is their vehicle, the landing craft, 30 mm thick armor, enough to deal with any Japanese weapons, even the Makqin heavy machine gun may not be able to easily penetrate it, and the Japanese army lacks artillery, using the landing craft as a cover is undoubtedly the best choice.
The other is the corpses of comrades, which are used to pile up a human wall, and the survivors hide behind them, and then find a way to kill the enemy troops on the opposite side.
However, the casualties of this method are simply uncontrollable, and many people will die just by putting up a human wall.
The crew hesitated slightly, and finally chose to obey Chen Peng's order, leaving a landing craft will not affect the subsequent mission process, but if none are left, it is very likely that none of these people who have landed will leave here alive.
While the crew was turning the landing craft sideways, Chen Peng was also moving a little closely, and then taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army did not pay attention, Chen Peng quickly dodged into the interior of the landing craft, and then hurriedly transferred his body to the hull close to the side of the Japanese army, and quickly put away the pedals of the landing craft with both hands.
A hermetically sealed bunker has been formed, and here, as long as you don't stand behind it, even the six-meter-high position on the opposite side will not be able to hit bullets here.
As soon as the landing craft came to a standstill, the crew lowered the armor inside the cockpit.
The landing craft is different from other ships, the cockpit of the landing craft is a layer of glass on the outside, and there is a 30 mm thick armor on the inside, which is controlled by pulleys, and when the landing craft needs to move, the crew inside will pull up the four pieces of armor through the winch, and then fix it on the card slot, and when the landing craft is in place, or when it is about to be in place, the armor will be put down.
In this way, unless the shell hits the cockpit directly, even if all the people outside are dead, the pilot will not be in any danger, so as to ensure that the pilot can leave alive and avoid the landing craft becoming a one-time equipment as much as possible.
There were more than a dozen fighters lying crookedly in the landing craft, only a few of them were still wailing in pain, and while the hull of the ship had been turned, another crew member other than the driver who had been reserved on the ship was also helping them to bandage urgently.
The entire bottom of the hull was covered with crimson blood, and the smell was pungent, but no one cared about it at this time.
With a big eye, Chen Peng found a 60 mortar and a Type 08 general-purpose machine gun on the landing craft, turned his head to look at the wounded soldier who fell to the ground and groaned, and the driver who left the cockpit to help bandage it, "Do you know how to use mortars and machine guns?" ”
"I ...... I'm an artilleryman. One of the wounded said with difficulty, the bullet penetrated directly through his stomach, and he was also hit by a bullet in his thigh and left arm, although the bleeding had stopped, but at this time he was in a very bad state.