"Blizzard!" A corporal paratrooper crouched behind a large tree with his submachine gun and shouted in a deep voice at the bushes opposite. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After a burst of sounds, a "Tempest!" was heard from the other side. ”

The corporal breathed a sigh of relief, slowly got up and waved behind him, and the more than a dozen paratroopers who followed him immediately relaxed their guard and walked forward. After a foliage shook in the grove not far away, a large group of paratroopers approached.

The paratrooper regulations make it very clear that when you are in the rear of the enemy, you should automatically gather with friendly forces, whether they belong to the same formation or not. Don't look at the fact that there are only a dozen paratroopers here, but they belong to three different paratrooper regiments, and two paratroopers are soldiers of the 3rd Airborne Division.

After the two sides converged, the strength of the troops had exceeded 100, and the supreme commander on the scene was a second lieutenant of the 1st Airborne Division.

"Of the 3rd Airborne Division? How did you get here? Sure enough, the second lieutenant was immediately surprised when he learned that soldiers from the 3rd Airborne Division were there.

"We don't know." The two soldiers of the 3rd Airborne Division had obviously explained it many times, and the expressions on their faces were very helpless: "At that time, there was a lot of chaos in the sky, explosions and shrapnel everywhere. Our transport planes have not had their skydiving lights on. Then the engine caught fire, and the platoon commander told us to jump off immediately. ”

"Oh." The lieutenant nodded, but said nothing more. It's all paratroopers, it doesn't matter which division. After all, they are still fighting behind enemy lines, and everyone is their comrades-in-arms.

"We're going to Omura now." The second lieutenant lifted his raincoat and put away the map, and said in a deep voice: "There is a train transfer station from Sasebo to Nagasaki, we must cut it off and prevent the Japanese marines stationed in Sasebo from rushing to Nagasaki by train to provide support. Everyone's okay, right? ”

"Nope." A low echo rang out.

"Let's go."

Scenes like this continue to play out throughout the Nagasaki Peninsula. With all kinds of bullets flying around, the Ming paratroopers who parachuted and landed began to gradually gather and move towards their respective goals. They will destroy everything they see along the way, and they will also destroy all resistance they encounter along the way. The Japanese army, which had never suffered such a powerful blow, soon fell into disarray.

In the underground command post on the outskirts of Nagasaki, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General and Nagasaki Garrison Commander Toshio Tani was desperately shaking the phone. But the phone never worked.

"Bastard!" Gu Shoufu slammed the phone in his hand on the table, and angrily shouted to the staff officer on the side, "Go and send a telegram!" Let the Sasebo Town Guard immediately transfer the marines! ”

Since the failure of the North Korean army, the post. Although Gu Shoufu, who was not so hard, escaped the punishment of defeat, he was transferred to the reserve. He thought that his military career was over, but he did not expect that as the war situation gradually deteriorated, a large number of troops were lost one after another, and the militia continued to be formed, he, a reserve officer who had returned to the countryside of Okayama, was taken out and thrown to Nagasaki as the commander of the garrison.

Gu Shoufu had been praying to the gods before, and the main direction of Daming's attack was not his own here. Unfortunately, it backfired, and the target chosen by Daming was Nagasaki, where he was stationed.

Not to mention, under the powerful blow of the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't hold it at all. The important thing is that once the battle is defeated, even if the one who escaped death is not killed on the battlefield and escapes, he will inevitably be sentenced to death as a commander. Now it's a time of crisis for local combat, and even those who have a background can't protect themselves.

Even if Gu Shoufu was hiding in the underground fortifications before, he could hear the deafening roar of engines in the sky. At this moment, the telephone line was cut off, and there were reports of attacks by the Ming troops in all directions, all of which made Gu Shoufu have a bad premonition in his heart. He felt like he was going to be worse this time.

The number of defenders in Nagasaki was about 100,000, but most of them were armed with old-fashioned rifles and even knives. with the militia forces. This kind of militia is nothing more than delivering food.

The only thing that can really be called the backbone in the hands of Gu Shoufu is the Sixth Division, which was reorganized after the defeat in the Korean battlefield, with the reserve forces of the divisions and regiments that remained in the country. This standing division, with a total strength of more than 25,000 men, was the core force defending Nagasaki.

The 6th Division, which was rebuilt with the left-behind troops as the core, was not as strong as the original, and of course their strength was not weak.

In addition, the officers and men of the 6th Division, codenamed Ming, were basically recruited from Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu and other places, and their determination to defend their hometown was very strong. As one of the 17 standing divisions, the 6th Division's combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the newly formed garrison divisions and independent divisions. Standing troops.

It's a pity that the opponent opposite them is too strong.

Just when tens of thousands of Ming airborne troops were messing up the rear of the Japanese army, the Ming landing force from ports such as Jeju Island and Busan was about to arrive.

"Fire!" Wang Haibo, who was promoted to admiral because he had successfully commanded the naval battle of Ryukyu Island and destroyed the combat strength of the Japanese Navy in one fell swoop, pursed the corners of his mouth, covered his ears with both hands, and felt a slight shaking of the battleship under him. That's the tremendous force of a 400-millimeter cannon firing.

When it was slightly light, a huge artillery fleet of large groups of battleships, cruisers and destroyers began to launch a heavy artillery bombardment of the Japanese defensive positions in the predetermined area.

The various fortifications built by the Japanese were hardly spared under the heavy shelling of naval guns. A heavy armor-piercing projectile of several hundred millimeters caliber is enough to destroy any kind of strong fortification, whether it is a permanent fortification or not. What's more, Japan, an island nation that has been strategically bombed and brutally blockaded, has found it difficult to come up with any decent steel and concrete to build super fortifications.

Countless cannonballs pierced the pre-dawn darkness like meteors, slamming into the ground with deathly greetings and heart-wrenching horrors. The destruction of the fortifications also took the lives of countless Japanese soldiers.

Many Japanese officers and soldiers who had been blown up by the heavy shelling had blood running wildly near the coastline with blood dripping from the corners of their ears, noses, and eyes, and howls in their mouths that no one could understand, until they were knocked to the ground by shrapnel or the shock wave from the explosion.

At least 100 Ming warships rained shells on the coastline near Nagasaki with thousands of guns of various calibers they were equipped with. The Japanese army's fortification personnel and equipment were restored to the state of parts. Before dawn, the Japanese positions were baptized in hell.

October 6th, weekend, early in the morning. As the sun rises in the distance, warplanes from aircraft carriers and airfields cover the entire Nagasaki Peninsula. Huge groups of planes swarmed the bombs on the heads of the Japanese to provide the last wave of fire support for the large-scale forced landing.

At 7:30 a.m., more than 10,000 officers and men of the advance contingent who had had breakfast on the ship packed their bags one after another, and under the command of officers at all levels, slowly climbed along the rope net along the edge of the ship to the landing craft that had already been prepared.

These soldiers had already received initial training, at least knew how to do it, and there would not be a situation where they couldn't even fiddle with it at the end of the day.

Amid the noise of men and horses, a large number of officers and soldiers boarded hundreds of landing craft and rushed to the predetermined landing sites, Seto Beach and Kourori Beach in the morning light. Among them, Seto Beach is the main point of attack that is predetermined.

These two beaches, as well as several other beaches that serve as auxiliary attack points, are located on the choke point between the port of Nagasaki and the Sasebo town guard. Once this chain of beaches was taken, the Ming army could attack the port of Nagasaki in the south and Sasebo in the north. And it can also cut off the connection between the two places, and the location is extremely important.

Daming can see the importance of this place, and there is no reason why the native-born Japanese can't see it. The Japanese not only built various strong fortifications here, but also reorganized the 11th Brigade of the 6th Division. Stationed here. Although the previous shelling and bombardment had caused huge losses to the Japanese, they still had a good strength.

Seto Beach, which is the main direction of attack, is about 10 kilometers long from north to south, and is a relatively gentle sandy beach. Behind the gravel beach is the Japanese seawall and sand bank, which have been damaged after the bombing, but there are still many usable seawalls and Japanese fortifications.

Behind the seawall is a coastal road that connects Sasebo to Nagasaki. Behind the beach was a hilly area where the Japanese had set up concealed artillery positions and numerous fortifications. The entire terrain is a complete example of how easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This beach is very long, but the suitable places for attack are basically concentrated on the gentle beach of about five or six kilometers in the middle. Most of the rest of the place is a number of towering cliffs that are almost impossible to climb by hand.

The Japanese army was originally prepared to place metal barriers and mines under the high tide water. It's a pity that because of the shortage of materials caused by the bombing of the Ming Dynasty, and these things are needed everywhere, there are very few people who can be distributed here, and basically they don't play a role.

Major General Tokutaro Sakai, commander of the 11th Brigade of the Japanese Army, once thought of organizing local laborers to cut down logs and put them into the sea water as an obstacle after being stationed here, but it was not completed because of the short time and the non-stop bombardment of the Ming air power.

Garrisoned in the front-line positions were more than 3,000 soldiers of the 13th Infantry Wing, with about 30 guns of various calibers and hundreds of light and heavy machine guns. And as a reserve, the 47th Infantry Wing and the brigade headquarters were stationed behind the beach. Okumura, the artillery positions for fire support are in the hills behind the coastal road.

These Japanese troops were about to receive a powerful attacking force. (To be continued.) )