Chapter 419: Hainan's Fierce Attack
The scene of dozens of multiple rocket launchers firing at the same time was so spectacular that Jin Sanpang, who had never seen such a scene, and his machine gun battalion, were dumbfounded, and even the artillerymen who fired the rocket launchers were surprised to close their mouths.
Everyone was thinking, "My good boy, it turns out that our Hainan Escort Army has such a weapon that has been harmed by the past, if this thing can be shot hard, then how many Japanese soldiers there are will not be enough for us to blow up." ”
However, all the Chinese and Japanese soldiers on both sides did not know that such a fierce attack was just an appetizer for the Hainan escorts, and the real feast came from the air and under the sea.
When hundreds of powerful rockets were uncontrollably bombarded all over the beaches of Sanya, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, which had just landed successfully, collapsed.
This large area of shells was so harmful that not only the people killed were torn apart, but even the soldiers in the distance were also killed.
The soldiers who were lucky not to be killed by the bombing were also frightened by the tragic scene in front of them. It's not that I haven't seen Chinese cities that have been bombed by the Japanese army.
Whether in Northeast China or North China, not to mention Shanghai, Nanjing, and even Wuhan and Guangzhou, which have just finished fighting, these battle-hardened Japanese soldiers, who do not have a few Chinese lives in their hands.
No one has ever bombed a Chinese house or slaughtered innocent Chinese people, but even if they have seen countless Chinese cities that have been blown to pieces by Japanese planes and artillery, they have never imagined that one day, they will be blown up by equally powerful bombs.
Now, in just a few minutes, more than half of the tens of thousands of men and horses of the landing force have been lost. This is thanks to the fact that the Japanese troops who landed earlier advanced by thousands of meters, otherwise there would have been more Japanese casualties.
Looking at the stumps and severed arms all over the beach, the red blood stained the entire beach, there were wails everywhere, and there were all kinds of weapon parts that had been blown apart.
The commander of the Iida Brigade was the first group to land on the beach, and he was the first group of commanders to advance a few hundred meters to the beachhead. He narrowly escaped being blown into powder by rocket artillery.
But he was also shocked to the point that his head was confused, and he ordered all the soldiers who were alive to leave the beach as quickly as possible, and all the soldiers to go as deep as possible, and he wanted to ask the commander-in-chief whether it was necessary to continue this landing operation.
Because he saw that the soldiers of the 104th Division in front of the beach had scrambled to climb back onto the troop carrier that had just docked on the shore, and left the beach with a lot of urine.
At this time, the fierce battle in the air also kicked off, hundreds of fighters began to strangle in the air non-stop, and nearly 300 Hainan Air Force rushed murderously towards the Japanese fighters.
These Hainan Air Force did not know if there were too many machine gun bullets, and they did not know how to save at all, so they began to shoot outside the range.
Just as the air battle in the air had just begun, the 104th Division, which had just landed on the beachhead, had to return to the sea again because it had received an order for the whole army to retreat.
At this time, dozens of empty troop carriers had to move closer to the beach from the sea, and after the fierce rocket artillery attack on the beach was over, countless shells came from all directions in the distance.
It turned out that among the mountain peaks and farmland in the distance, hundreds of mountain cannons hidden in the shadows were all brought out, and everyone bombarded them in turn according to the pre-arranged shooting elements.
Hundreds of artillery pieces bombarded the beach of Youda, and many Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the rocket artillery attack were again attacked by unknown mountain artillery.
Just when the naval guns on the warship were preparing for air defense and preparing to counter the artillery bombardment on land, more than a dozen troop carriers and warships of various types were suddenly attacked from under the sea surface.
"Torpedo attack!" The lookouts on the warships shouted hoarsely. Then more than a dozen ships of various categories were torpedoed.
Some of the tonnage is small, such as minesweepers, and troop carriers are directly torpedoed to pieces. Even if it is a larger destroyer, a torpedo in the middle can only wait for death.
The most tragic thing was that an aircraft carrier Akagi was hit by a torpedo, and although the injuries were not serious, it had to apply to withdraw from the battlefield.
Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Fleet, immediately received reports from various warships, seeing the boundless artillery fire on the beach, the dark air in the sky, and the unidentified submarine attack on the sea.
He immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, and the more than 10,000 Japanese troops who had already landed could not control it. The people who survive are the most important.
As a result, dozens of troop carriers, under the protection of dozens of warships, gave up shelling Hainan and gave up helping the planes in the air. I can only keep throwing depth charges down the sea while retreating frantically.
And seeing the retreat of the Fifth Fleet, the commander of the Iida Brigade, who had successfully landed, was stunned, why did they run, even if they died in battle, they had to fight with the enemy to the end, and now even the enemy's army has not seen it, Vice Admiral Kondo Nobutake actually abandoned their more than 10,000 people and ran alone, and their navy will really pull the army's thigh at a critical moment.
It is a pity that it is useless for Rear Admiral Iida to hate it, because as the Fifth Fleet retreated, the air battle over the beach continued, with 300 Hainan fighters fighting more than 100 Japanese fighters.
From time to time, planes on both sides were blown up, and pilots parachuted from time to time. However, the whole air battle has developed more and more in the direction of the Chinese army, because there are fewer and fewer Japanese fighters in the air.
The Japanese planes did not dare to retreat, they had to hold off the Hainan Air Force here, otherwise their fleet would be pursued by the planes, and their losses would only be greater.
While the commander of the Fifth Fleet was running, he also asked for help from the Japanese base camp, and they were ambushed by the joint efforts of the Hainan Navy and Air Force.
They asked for reinforcements, they asked for planes from the Second Air Wing in Guangzhou, they asked for planes to be sent from the nearest Japanese mainland, and they even asked for the aircraft carrier fleet cruising near the Sea of Japan to come and support them. In short, no matter who it is, as long as they can quickly rush to the Hainan battlefield, they will all come.
Because they are surrounded on all sides, they may be wiped out at any time. What Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo said is not an exaggeration at all.
Because on the way to Guangzhou, they were attacked by submarines hiding at the bottom of the sea from time to time. What is even worse is that Hainan also sent a group of bombers, protected by dozens of fighters, to drop bombs on the heads of their fleet from time to time.
With planes above and submarines below, they simply cannot organize an effective defense.
Fortunately, at this time, the submarines did not dive in the water for a long time, and the speed was also very slow, so as long as the Fifth Fleet escaped non-stop, they could completely escape the pursuit of the Hainan submarine force.
However, how could they escape the pursuit of submarines and how could they escape the pursuit of aircraft, and it was also at this time that the people of the Fifth Fleet finally saw the horror of the Hainan Air Force.
These pilots of the Hainan Air Force often dived to ultra-low altitudes before dropping bombs. Many planes hit by anti-aircraft fire crashed headlong into nearby warships and troop carriers, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese Navy.
Fortunately, the number of Hainan fighters that came to pursue was not large, and when more and more Japanese fighters came to reinforce them, the Hainan Air Force gave up the pursuit and returned home victoriously.
At this time, more than a dozen German U-boats ambushed on the route began to surround the sea area where the Japanese army landed in Sanya, where there were still four Japanese submarines waiting for them.
However, by the time the dozen or so submarines returned to the landing area, the war was basically over. The four Japanese submarines had already been killed by the submarines that had sunk on the bottom of the sea. Compared with the German U-boats, the Japanese thought that the advanced submarines were just toys.
Everyone also doesn't want to think that after Germany gets Li Tie's latest diesel engine technology and battery technology, the performance of the entire U-boat will definitely exceed this era by more than 20 years.
And how the submarines of the Japanese are the opponents of the submarine forces of Hainan. It's a pity that this secret was impossible for the Japanese to know until the end of the war.
Because these four submarines have long been wiped out by the Hainan Navy, and at the same time, there are still thousands of Japanese troops on the beach desperately resisting.
The commander of the Iida Brigade was commanding the remnants of the Japanese army to resist desperately, and a few mortars were able to fire a few shots from time to time.
However, when they were named one by one by accurate artillery, these Japanese soldiers no longer dared to resist at will.
However, this was not enough to crush the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, when hundreds of tractor-converted tanks and armored vehicles appeared around the beach, and when thousands of Hainan escorts shouted "winch guns do not kill" in Japanese around the armored troops. The Japanese troops of the Iida Brigade were stunned.
Is this still a poor and white soldier of the Republic of China? Look at the steel guns in their hands, the steel helmets on their heads, the bulging bullet pouches and the American grenades hanging from their waists.
The soldiers of the Iida Brigade felt like a group of soldiers called Hanako, with tattered uniforms and twisted weapons burned by artillery fire.
When thousands of Japanese troops, who were not afraid of death, launched a desperate charge against more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles on the opposite side, the tanks and armored vehicles on the opposite side only fired a few shots and fired a few shuttle machine guns, and the entire 1,000-strong charging team fell in a pool of blood.
However, the death of thousands of people did not completely deal a blow to the Japanese army's determination to attack, and the commander of the Iida Brigade even thought of digging trenches on the spot and waiting for the tanks and armored vehicles on the opposite side to attack, and then they could repel the attack of the Hainan Army with human bombs.
But just when he had this idea, he saw more than a dozen huge bombers appear in the air, and these dozen bombers just wanted to dive over the beach and drop another round of bombs, which would shatter the last confidence of the commander of the Iida Brigade.
Knowing that there was no hope of turning defeat into victory, and with the incomparable disappointment of being abandoned, the commander of the Iida Brigade issued an order to the more than 1,000 Japanese troops who were still alive to surrender unconditionally.
Then he drew his pistol and committed suicide by drinking bullets. With the suicide of the commander of the Iida Brigade, hundreds more officers and soldiers committed suicide. But there were also thousands of people who laid down their weapons.
So in front of the powerful First Armored Brigade of the Hainan Guards, the first formed unit of the Japanese army was captured by the Hainan Guards. More than a thousand men surrendered to the Hainan Escort Army on the orders of their brigade commander, Shoshichiro Iida.
And these surrendered Japanese soldiers had only one request, asking the Hainan Guards to bury the bodies of their Iida Brigade commander and soldiers who died in battle.
The Hainan Guards, who have always been known for their benevolence and righteousness, of course had to agree to their requests, but there was also one condition, that is, the cemeteries of these fallen soldiers, which would be provided by the Hainan Guards, but all the work of burial would be done by the captured soldiers themselves.
The most important thing is that from now on, the burial expenses of these soldiers, as well as the various living expenses of these Japanese soldiers in the future, will all be obtained by these prisoners of war who work for Hainan.
Because their Hainan troops were only local troops, they did not have financial subsidies to raise these Japanese prisoners of war in vain. Although the captured Japanese army was helpless, they could only agree to the request of the Hainan Guard.