At ten o'clock, the Indian Ocean left Wake Island and galloped eastward.

It has been a full seven hours since the battle began, and the Japanese army should have reacted a long time ago. As for the Japanese troops at the Truk base, the Naval Resistance Army had no way of knowing the composition of its fleet, nor did it know how the Japanese would react.

However, one thing is for sure, the little devils will never sit idly by and watch Wake Island fall. Seven hours passed, and the Naval Resistance Army did not find the Japanese reconnaissance planes and bombers, which was already an unexpected luck.

If the Japanese army in Truk had sent troops immediately after the battle, the Japanese fleet would have to sail about 1,300 kilometers to reach the submarine interception line of the Naval Resistance Army, which is 400 kilometers southeast of Wake Island, and even a 30-knot high-speed warship would take 20 hours. It takes at least nearly thirty hours to reach Wake Island.

In other words, the landing force of the Naval Resistance Army was almost absolutely safe before the early morning of the 21st. At ten o'clock in the afternoon on the 21st (Note: Wake Island is four o'clock in the morning, and it is dark at six o'clock in the evening, and ten o'clock is almost noon.) It's also relatively safe.

However, this inference is based on the fact that the Japanese army immediately dispatched troops when the naval resistance army began to attack the air. In fact, it was simply impossible for the Japanese army to move so quickly, and the preparation of the battleships for sailing was very troublesome, and it could not be completed in three or five hours.

According to the analysis of the staff officers of the Maritime Resistance Army, the most likely time for the Japanese troops to arrive at the sea area intercepted by the submarine of the Naval Resistance Army should be at 10 o'clock at noon on 21 July.

Before that, She's army had to occupy Wake Island. The Naval Resistance Force cannot fall into the crisis of fighting on two fronts.

On the naval side, by 10 p.m. on the 21st, the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier must also complete its replenishment and return to the best combat area.

In other words, the preparation time of the aircraft carrier INOCEAN is almost twenty-four hours. It seems to have plenty of time, but it's actually quite stressful. You know, the Indian Ocean needs to gallop four hundred kilometers to the east. to begin resupplying.

The scheduled assembly point is neither on the ship route nor on the air route, although it is safe, but it is helpless, and the naval resistance army can only replenish in the sea. Under such conditions, even if the weather is still as calm as today, the blue sky is like a wash, and it will take more than 10 hours for the midway supply operation of the Israeli Naval Resistance Army.

Combined with the sailing time of the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean, twenty-four hours is not enough.

On the other hand, the staff officers' assumptions were reasonable. It is also the most likely scenario. However, no one knows if the Japanese army will have a fleet already at sea to Wake Island.

Within 24 hours of the departure of the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier, the force that could protect the She Jinsong detachment of the Wake Island Maritime Resistance Army and the three high-speed merchant ships was extremely weak.

On quantity. Maybe not less. However, it is difficult to estimate the combat effectiveness: one aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon, one destroyer Pingwa, and four air defense destroyers. Six battleships is not a small thing to say. But the real combat effectiveness is afraid that even a Japanese heavy cruiser can hardly resist. (Wildcat fighters of the Naval Resistance Army.) Due to the addition of rocket assistance, the ability to carry bombs was seriously insufficient, and only one sixty-pound bomb could be carried, which did not pose much threat to heavy cruisers. ）

If the weather is worse and the fighters on the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier cannot take off, maybe the Japanese army can destroy the escort fleet by dispatching three or two destroyers.

For specific battles. Li Guang actually didn't spend too much energy, and the officers under him were competent. But the 'accident' is something Li Guang has to consider.

With the existing strength of the Naval Resistance Army, as long as the weather conditions are good, the Japanese army will dispatch aircraft carriers and battleships. Li Guang was not afraid at all. But once the weather turns bad, then the naval resistance army will immediately fall into a critical situation. This crisis is not only for the navy, but also for the She Jinsong detachment that has landed.

Thinking of this, Li Guang's disgust towards France and the United States for stirring up the situation and seizing the battleship Atlantic of the Maritime Resistance Army increased even more.

If the battleship Atlantic had been in hand, why would the naval resistance force walk a tightrope to calculate the time and give up battlefield support at the height of the battle.

What's more, most of Li Guang's energy has been consumed on the weather, and looking up at the sky has almost become Li Guang's most frequent action in the past few hours.

At half past ten, Li Guang made a decision --- lie about the military situation. A telegram immediately flew to the U.S. Pearl Harbor base: The Naval Resistance Force had captured Wake Island and was waiting for the U.S. military to receive it.

You must know that the Naval Resistance Army has just landed on Wake Island, and although the battle is quite easy, it will take time to completely wipe out the Japanese troops on Wake Island.

In the telegram, Li Guang specifically explained that the Maritime Resistance Army had only "one" aircraft carrier, and no battleships or cruisers.

In any case, Midway, the closest base of the US military, is 1,950 kilometers away from Wake Island, and Pearl Harbor is 3,500 kilometers away.

Midway is close, but it is unlikely that there will be a decent fleet. Nimitz's Pacific Fleet had to start from Pearl Harbor if it wanted to draw troops. No matter how fast the U.S. military moves, it will take more than four or five days to reach Wake Island.

Li Guang sent this telegram, which meant that She Jinsong had to take Wake Island even within 24 hours, and the Maritime Resistance Army would have to help the Americans hold on to Wake Island for four days.

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It was the right time for Li Guang to brief the United States on the war situation.

Eleven o'clock.

Six U.S. B17 bombers happened to arrive in the waters near Wake Island, which was a routine bombing of Wake Island by the U.S. military. As long as the weather conditions are good enough, the US military will not let the little devils live too comfortably.

However, today is different.

The six B17s of the US military had not yet reached Wake Island when they were discovered by the radar of the USS Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier reconnaissance plane. Immediately, twelve Wildcat fighters intercepted the six B17s, and the American pilots were immediately in chaos.

This was the first time that a reconnaissance plane of the Maritime Resistance Force had spotted a fighter other than its own on the battlefield, and the radar technology had achieved initial results.

However, due to the interception of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army, coupled with the timely contact of the US military, these six B17s were stopped in time, and there was no tragedy in which the bombs fell on Wake Island, nor was there a situation in which the Naval Resistance Army attacked the US bombers. Immediately, the U.S. bombers obediently returned home.

It was only two or three days after carrying the fighter planes that the role of the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier began to appear on the battlefield, and the performance of the captain Huang Zhonghua was very satisfactory to Li Guang.

Around the same time, a detachment of submarine submarines of the Maritime Resistance Army sank a Japanese supply ship. In fact, this supply ship is the same one that supplied Wake Island a few days ago. At that time, although the ship was discovered by the radio sonar buoy of the Maritime Resistance Army, it was too far away from the submarine for the Maritime Resistance Army to catch up with it. This time. The little devil was unlucky, and in the vast ocean, he happened to pass less than a kilometer away from the Fox No. 2 submarine.

This was a good opportunity that could not be found with a lantern, so the Fox 2 immediately presented two torpedoes. However, the high-speed supply ship of the little devil was too fast, and only one torpedo hit. The battered merchant ships, emitting wolf smoke, did not lose power, and could still flee crookedly.

The submarine of the Maritime Resistance Army did not continue to refire, and a supply ship of two or three thousand tons was not worth wasting precious torpedoes again. In order to ensure the integrity of the early warning line, the submarine No. 2 did not pursue. Anyway, if there is a torpedo in such a ship, unless luck goes against the sky, it is absolutely impossible to return to the Japanese Truk base in general.

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Wake Island.

The flames of the main Japanese fortress were still burning into the sky.

The landing craft of the Maritime Resistance Army have washed up on the beach. As soon as the hatch of the landing craft opened, the fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army swarmed out like a tide.

The fighters quickly rushed to the beachhead in shallow water, the strength of two amphibious companies. Split into two teams and rush to the beach from both sides.

She Jinsong led the personnel of the command headquarters to quickly land in the middle of the team. The soldiers hurriedly looked for cover to hide, and She Jinsong leaned on a reef to hide his figure. Raise your binoculars and judge the situation on the battlefield.

Wake Island in the shape of a "human". One by one, they make up the entire island. On the side of Wake Island, where the Naval Resistance Army landed, was the Japanese airfield. The long peninsula with a length of about three kilometers and a width of only five or six hundred meters has been built in parallel, one long and one short, and occupies almost the entire peninsula.

The artillery fire of the Maritime Resistance Army was fought according to the plan, on the two affiliated islands. The artillery group of the Naval Resistance Army formed a crossfire network, which was able to hit every corner of Wake Island.

THE 122MM HEAVY ARTILLERY ON PEEL ISLAND WAS CURRENTLY SHOOTING INTERDICTION, AND THE DENSE EXPLOSION OF SHELLS CUT OFF THE RUNWAY. Put the landing area of the Naval Resistance Army. An area of 500 meters square was cut off by fire.

The deployment of the Naval Resistance Force was as follows: an amphibious company was prepared to lay a defensive line in the middle of the airfield, that is, in the center of the peninsula, in accordance with the established tasks. Another amphibious company immediately began to clear the area of the remnants of the Japanese army.

Commander She Jinsong had just leaned over behind a reef, and most of the fighters were still wading in the shallow water. Mutation was born.

In the area that had already been ploughed by artillery, the Japanese light and heavy machine guns opened fire intensively.

She Jinsong experienced an extremely dangerous scene, he had just taken out his binoculars to observe the battlefield, and a machine gun bullet hit the telescope. The delicate telescope was immediately shattered by a bullet, and the violent vibration made She Jin's hands wooden, and it took a long time to feel pain.

Just a blink of an eye. Machine gun bullets whipped like whips across the sea, on the beach, on the reef. Intensive Japanese fire blocked the entire landing beachhead.

The laws of war are cruel. In just a short time, the corpses of the soldiers of the amphibious company were floating everywhere in the water near the shore, like a piece of wood floating in the river, and the blood immediately stained the sea red.

The beach where She Jinsong and a small group of people are located is about 50 meters long and less than 20 meters deep.

Everyone was nailed under the sand bank by the Japanese fire, and they couldn't raise their heads at all, let alone fight back.

She Jinsong reacted quickly, and immediately yelled, "Grenades, smoke bombs." ”

In the fierce gunfire, his voice could not be heard far, but soon more officers and soldiers of the command joined in the roar.

The officers and men of the Maritime Resistance immediately dropped bombs one after another. Grenades don't hit devils, and smoke grenades don't kill devils. But the explosions of grenades and smoke grenades prevented the Japanese machine gunners from seeing their targets.

Hundreds of grenades and smoke grenades were spent, but they didn't kill even a single devil, but they bought the landing force a few precious minutes.

When the smoke and smoke cleared, the Japanese machine guns were still superior, but they could no longer wreak havoc. The fighters of the Naval Resistance Army have landed and found their own hiding places.

In just a few minutes, the Naval Resistance Army suffered nearly 100 casualties. She Jinsong commanded the battle and had never suffered such a big loss. At the beginning, Li Guang repeatedly stressed the difficulty of offensive warfare on the islands. Li Guang learned from the cruel impression of the island offensive war from later movies and books, and Li Guang has seen several movies such as Iwo Jima's family letters.

Although She Jinsong was mentally prepared, he did not have such a deep understanding, you must know that the landing area of the Naval Resistance Army has been carefully and carefully ploughed by artillery boys several times, but the devils in the underground tunnels and hidden bunkers still survive a lot like cockroaches.

This is the lesson of blood. She Jinsong's distressed blood dripped, and nearly 100 people were killed and injured in the blink of an eye, all of them were elite officers and soldiers of the amphibious force. At this time, She Jinsong's eyes were on fire, and he ordered again and again.

Directly in front of this section of sand bank were five Japanese bunkers, some intact and some had been blown into ruins. But now, the little devils in these five bunkers are all firing wildly.

Forty or fifty meters away from She Jinsong, there is a hidden fort. This bunker is the most right, and it has the most powerful suppression of the Maritime Resistance Army, and a heavy machine gun is spewing fire, so that the Naval Resistance Army fighters cannot raise their heads within a range of several tens of meters.

It was this bunker that caused the heaviest casualties to the naval resistance army just now. The Bunker's firing hole is less than a foot wide, hidden in the middle of the reef, and is barely recognizable if you don't look closely.

She Jinsong saw clearly: a soldier wanted to crawl forward to the vicinity of the dark fort, but as soon as he climbed out of the sand bank, he was killed, and the blood immediately stained the white sand.

The Japanese army's fire network is impenetrable, and the devil may have been stimulated by the burning of the fortress, but at this time, it was unusual, surprisingly generous, and did not spare bullets at all.

She Jinsong hurriedly stopped the senseless attack. Quickly adjusted their tactics, and soon the Naval Resistance Army organized several squads.

The composition of each squad was about the same, one light machine gun and several Bobosha submachine guns, several M1 rifles. The fighters began to fight back hard, blocking the Japanese firing holes with all their might. This tactic, which She Jinsong has used many times in mountain warfare, is very effective. However, there is a premise, the fighters must have good marksmanship, and they must be able to hit the target when they raise their hands.

The Naval Resistance began to block the shooting holes, and the shooting level of the fighters was revealed, and almost every rifleman was able to hit the shooting holes with ease. At best, the Devil's heavy machine gun was disturbed and the rate of fire decreased, but gradually it became difficult to maintain a coherent fire.

In front of She Jinsong, a naval anti-Japanese demoman carried a blaster canister and quietly crawled towards the dark fort like a snake. He climbed very low, his nose arching a furrow in the sand.

The bullets of the devils and the bullets of the Naval Resistance Army were chirping around him, and the dust was splashed everywhere.

As soon as the gunfire of the Naval Resistance stopped, the Demoman leaped forward and violently shoved the blaster into the hole of the bunker.

There was a muffled sound, a choking yellow smoke came out of the bunker, and the Japanese firepower point was scrapped.

In the ensuing battle, the naval resistance army's submachine guns and grenades tactically blocked one tunnel exit after another, and the flamethrowers were like a dead god knocking on the door, and the tunnels where the remnants of the Japanese army were entrenched were attacked by hellfire one by one.

The first wave of landing troops led by She Jinsong, two amphibious companies with more than 500 men, suffered more than half of the casualties in two hours.

Although the casualties were heavy, She Jinsong not only firmly controlled the landing site, but also established his own battalion headquarters. After the chain of command was restored, the Naval Resistance Forces began to land one after another. (To be continued......)