"Bullets! Bullet! Hurry up and get the ammo box! His slightly reddened face was turned dark by the smoke of gunpowder, and the deafening sound of gunfire echoed in his ears, and Song Tieniu, who had reached a state of euphoria, pressed his shoulder against the butt of the machine gun. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info turned his head and shouted behind him. Beside him was already covered with yellow-orange-orange bullet casings.

The division headquarters of the 9th Marine Division of the Ming Dynasty was set up in Xiluo, and the first regiment and the troops directly under the division headquarters were arranged in the permanent fortifications behind Xiluo Beach. When the Americans launched a tidal wave, the fortifications that had been built for many years immediately erupted with deadly tongues of fire.

The island of Hawaiʻi is a large island and there are plenty of beaches to land on. Moreover, the Ming Navy attaches far less importance to the Big Island than to Oahu. However, when the defenders received the telegram, they immediately entered the fortifications.

The Ming Navy has been investing heavily in Hawaii for many years, and even in some fiscal years the investment can be close to one-tenth of the entire navy's military expenditure. You must know that this is the military expenditure of the Ming Navy.

Over the years, all the islands have been fortified in suitable places for landing. And in places as important as Oahu, those fortifications would be renovated every once in a while. However, the last time the fortifications on the island were renovated was more than twenty years ago.

In the morning, the U.S. convoy and the remnants of Fletcher's Task Force 59 sent artillery bombardment fleets close to the coast. Fierce artillery fire was launched at various targets on the coast. From the time of sails, the guns used on naval warships were one word, big.

The 155 mm caliber gun, which is already considered a heavy artillery standard in the army, is only the most common secondary gun in the navy, and is generally used by destroyers of the lowest level of warships. In the navy, light cruisers, which are also only small people, are generally equipped with main guns of about 200 mm caliber, and if this caliber of artillery is placed in the army, it is a proper big killing weapon.

At the level of heavy cruisers, the caliber of artillery rises to about 280 mm, which is already a devastating force. If a heavy shell of 280 mm caliber falls in the middle of the fortifications, it is completely easy to destroy a platoon at once. However, compared with the Navy's battleship firepower Ultimate Monster battleship, the guns of this caliber are somewhat outdated.

With the exception of some specially built super railguns, naval battleships have the largest caliber guns ever built by mankind.

The caliber of the main guns of the navy in this era was basically about 400 mm, and if that shot hit the fortifications, not to mention that a company of people could be defeated. It can also leave a huge crater up to 10 meters deep. The power is absolutely unmatched.

Fletcher's Task Force 59 was previously heavily attacked, and the aircraft carrier was completely destroyed. However, most of the battleships, which were regarded as secondary targets, survived due to their thick skin.

These battleships, together with the old dreadnoughts who served as escorts for the landing fleet, led a group of light and heavy cruisers and destroyers to smash about twenty nautical miles from the coast and launched a heavy artillery bombardment of the Ming fortifications on the beach.

For many years before the war, the Americans had been committed to collecting intelligence on the Ming army, and extremely important places such as the Hawaiian Islands were the focus of intelligence work. The approximate location of those fortifications had long been known by the Americans, and they were attacked.

The 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 9th Marine Division, where Song Tieniu belonged, was stationed in a large group of fortifications directly opposite the US landing site. It was subjected to intensive shelling by the US Navy. Especially after the shore fire prevention points on the big island were suppressed by the confrontation with the American fleet, hundreds of artillery pieces of artillery shells were still here.

The dark castle where Song Tieniu was located had been opened for more than half of it, and fragments of reinforced concrete were everywhere. Song Tieniu, who came up as reinforcements, still had many corpses of the Ming army on the ground who were shocked to death by the huge shock wave.

The soldiers whose internal organs were ruptured and bleeding from seven holes were in a very miserable state. Unfortunately, the bunker was hit directly by a shell that came into the battleship's main gun. Although it was not completely destroyed, the damage was still very heavy.

Hurried footsteps sounded, and He Dazui, whose head was wrapped in white gauze, rushed over with a dark green ammunition box.

"Wow~~~" He Dazui, who lost his balance because he stepped on the twisted steel bar, still put the ammunition box on his shoulder on the ground, and the yellow-orange bullet chain was suddenly thrown out.

Ignoring the severe pain in his legs, He Dazui, who was sweating profusely, gritted his teeth and got up, limped forward and picked up the long bullet chain and came to Song Tieniu's side to serve as an ammunition operator for him.

Their battalion has lost more than half of its strength since the beginning of the battle. And most of the losses came from the brutal artillery fire of American warships.

"Zi~~~" The MG42 machine gun with the tripod down made a unique sound, and the long chain of four bullets mixed with a tracer bullet swept through the air like a flying fire. Even in broad daylight, you can clearly see the traces of those bullets flying.

Directly opposite Song Tieniu's narrow shooting hole, more than a hundred meters less than 200 meters away is the coastline. Patches of the corpses of U.S. Marines were scattered across the beach, and the blue waters had turned a deep purple. It was stained red with a lot of blood.

He Dazui, who was wearing asbestos gloves, immediately stretched out his hand after seeing Song Tieniu's bullet chain run out, ready to change the barrel for Song Tieniu. Because of the long period of high-speed firing, the barrels of the machine guns were already faintly red.

'Click! Song Tieniu skillfully pulled the joint, and the hot barrel immediately bounced out. At the same time, the new barrel in He Dazui's hand was quickly placed, and the whole process only took a few seconds. The MG42 is not only good performance, but also low cost. The general-purpose machine gun is also very easy to operate.

After hanging a chain of 250 rounds again, Song Tieniu raised his bloodshot eyes and looked at the beach not far away through the shooting hole, and was a little surprised to find that a landing craft had actually washed straight up the shore directly opposite him.

After the front hatch of the landing craft was lowered, those US Marines who were about to rush out of the landing craft were almost facing Song Tieniu's gun!

'Zi~~~' Song Tieniu, who had already killed the red-eyed Song Tieniu, adjusted the shooting angle slightly, and immediately pulled the trigger. Now he doesn't care about shooting or not, he just wiped out the entire bullet chain in one go.

All 250 rounds of ammunition flew in through the narrow hatch of the landing craft. Laid down an entire platoon of American troops in a pool of blood.

'Vomit!! Song Tieniu, who was busy changing the elastic chain with He Dazui, suddenly felt sick to his stomach, and spit out sour water from his side. Soldiers are also human beings, and in such a cruel and bloody scene, normal people will react. They're not machines.

"Are you alright?" He Dazui, who was still oozing blood on his head on the side, asked with concern while changing the chain.

Among the three major irons of men, the brothers in their military careers, especially the comrades-in-arms who have been on the battlefield together and fought in the same trench are the most sincere friendships.

"I'm fine." Raising his hand and wiping the corners of his mouth, Song Tieniu showed an ugly smile, and was about to say something when there was a strange and violent sound in the air, like a heavy train passing through a cave. And the sound is very close!

"Shelling !!" The last scene Song Tieniu saw before he fell unconscious was He Dazui pounced on him and threw him to the ground, and then he fainted directly.

I don't know how long it took, Song Tieniu, who returned to his hometown in a dream and went to school again, gradually woke up.

Raising his eyelids, which seemed to be weighty, Song Tieniu gradually regained his consciousness and saw a tall and burly figure. "Are you awake? Don't move, give you an infusion. ”

It wasn't until his vision was completely clear that he could see who the person in front of him was. He had seen this man, and when he was stationed in Japan, he had an acute stomach ache and went to the medical battalion of the division, and the person in front of him was a nurse he had met at that time. That's right, a burly female nurse with five big and three thick.

"Where am I?" Song Tieniu, who felt a terrible headache, raised his hand and wanted to rub his head, but found that his head was wrapped in heavy gauze. I smelled the familiar and unfamiliar smell of disinfectant in my mouth and nose, and listened to the whispers of the wounded**. Song Tieniu understood that he was in a field hospital.

"What about my comrades?" Suddenly remembering He Dazui, who had knocked himself down during the shelling, Song Tieniu, who looked abrupt, hurriedly struggled to sit up, and asked anxiously with an anxious face.

On the battlefield, you can lose your comrades at any time. Watching the comrades-in-arms who laughed and talked in the past turned into a pile of rags and sacks, the corpses were packed into black body bags and transported away. Emotionally agitated soldiers can do anything.

The nurse who was giving Song Tieniu an infusion should have been used to seeing this kind of scene, and she didn't care about pulling Song Tieniu's hand to prick him with a needle. He said, "The stinky mouth that carried you was kicked out." He's a lightly wounded man, what are you fooling around here? ”

Speaking of this, the nurse suddenly looked at Song Tieniu with a smile and said, "You didn't have any great injuries. You were knocked down by that bastard, fell to the ground, and then knocked your head on the cement block and fainted. ”

"......" Song Tieniu, who was a little speechless, sighed, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and hurriedly looked up at the nurse and asked eagerly, "How is the front line?!" ”

"I don't know." The nurse shook her head, "You don't need to think about that now. Take care of your injuries. With that, he turned and left to take care of the other wounded.

Glancing at the wounded around him, he sniffled and smelled the smell of disinfectant mixed with the smell of blood. Song Tieniu slowly lay down on the hospital bed.

Song Tieniu, a noncommissioned officer of the 3rd Battalion and 1st Company of the 1st Regiment of the 9th Marine Division, killed and wounded more than 1,000 US Marine officers and men with a machine gun during the landing on the island of Hawaii that broke out on November 8, 1941. This record of casualties was held until the end of the war, and no one was surpassed.

Song Tieniu was later awarded a Baoding Medal to commemorate his heroic performance in the war! (To be continued.) )