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"The people of China have come up! General, the people of China are coming! ”

The secluded and gloomy cave rammed road of Gumi Mountain was crowded with Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks and nervously preparing for war. ¤:¤A sentry, running and shouting between them, looking nervous. "Yaga! Don't panic. As he ran to the middle, shouts rang out from the crowd. Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the 36th Division, who was dressed in a mud-yellow short-sleeved military uniform, slowly stood up, listened for a while, and then walked towards the observation port.

Kuribayashi Tadamichi was originally a cavalry brigade commander, and after the French Campaign and the Battle of Central Asia showed the world the importance of armored power, the Japanese Army also sold iron to change the original cavalry to armored troops, and he had to bid farewell to his beloved war horse and came to Ryukyu as a staff officer of the Second Army. After the loss of Wake Island, he was sent by the commander of the Okinawa Front, Umezu Mijiro, to defend Kume Island.

Island defensive warfare, especially when the Navy does not have an advantage, requires great perseverance and courage. Umezu Mijiro took a fancy to his cavalry background, hoping to rely on the heroism accumulated on horseback to defend the important eastern gate of the Ryukyus. Kuribayashi Tadamichi was also very conscientious, and as soon as he came to Kume Island, he led the 36th Division to dig holes, build underground fortifications, cancel all bunkers exposed to the surface, and require all fortifications to be well covered, and must have good ventilation and fire prevention preparations. In the end, he also abandoned the traditional method of deploying troops along the coast in anti-landing warfare, because he believed that the Chinese navy would definitely repeatedly shell the landing ground along the coast for one kilometer, and instead of wasting troops here, it would be better to shrink all of them to the three extinct volcanoes and the central area.

"Open."

After Kuribayashi Tadamichi walked to the highest observation post, several Japanese soldiers immediately wrapped their hands in thick cloth and pushed the hot thick steel manhole cover outward. As the sunlight poured into the cave, a miserable scene appeared in front of them. A few weeks ago, Gumi Mountain, which had been covered in a large expanse of green shrub vegetation, was already full of gloom, all the trees were scorched and blown apart, and the bare surface was black and yellow, with dense craters, like the surface of the moon under a high-powered telescope. The originally crystal clear volcanic hanging lake has also turned muddy yellow.

"Southwest, and southeast." Under the reminder of the sentry, I saw that the dense amphibious armored vehicles and landing craft were rising and falling in the waves at the end of the waterline. "Pass my orders! The final battle (decisive battle) has begun, and the time has come to be loyal to the emperor! The officers are all going to the front line. Don't charge at random, make use of the terrain and cover. Shooting at close range, each squad is required to be able to support each other. Let the people of China know that for every soldier we kill, they have to pay for ten corpses! ”

Under his orders, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers came out of the tunnels and caves, and Kumejima, who had not seen anyone just now, suddenly became active. On the charred ground, thick steel manhole covers were propped up with wooden sticks, revealing narrow shooting windows, from which all kinds of muzzles protruded. There are also some large manhole covers after they are lifted. The sunken anti-aircraft artillery positions were exposed, and under the operation of the soldiers, three or four 20-mm Type 98 anti-aircraft guns quickly raised their muzzles. Behind some large rocks on the cliff overhang, a number of 37, 47 mm and 70 mm infantry guns also poked out.

"Three minutes!"

When the Japanese army was preparing on their side. On the landing craft, the captain raised three fingers and reminded loudly.

"Don't run around! Follow me, be careful of concealment. The Japanese soldiers have good marksmanship, remember my words, I don't want to send a letter to your family. The infantry squad leader, who protects the war correspondents, checks the helmets and life jackets of the two men. While loudly admonishing the precautions for landing. Zhang Shuisheng held the handrail and nodded again and again, as a war correspondent, he knew too well what the "send letter" in the squad leader's mouth meant. I wanted to say a few words to reassure the family, but I vomited first.

"Here, take a few more puffs, and just go ashore." Seeing this, the squad leader smiled, forced the half of the cigarette in his mouth into his mouth, and continued to care: "Remember, as soon as the hatch opens, immediately run to both sides!" Machine guns on the boat will take cover. ”

"One minute!"

Before he could finish speaking, the captain cocked a finger in the air. At this time, even the squad leader stopped talking, holding the automatic rifle tightly, taking a deep breath, waiting for the hatch to open. "Squeak." When the bottom of the boat came into contact with the sand and made a tooth sore grinding sound, the soldiers at the front immediately lowered the bridge door. At the same time, one 12.7 mm heavy machine gun on each side of the landing craft swept out regardless of whether there was anyone on the shore. "Knock knock knock." The heavy machine gun next to his ears made the faces of the two reporters pale, and the bullet casings that were bouncing around splashed down from a height, smashed on the steel helmets of the soldiers, and landed in the waterlogged cabin with a crunching sound.

As the hatch opens a little bit, the line of sight slowly widens. Just as everyone was about to step out of the bridge gate, on the charred yellow Alashan cliff on the left, two fireballs suddenly pierced into view. "Shelling! Rush out, rush rush. ”

"Run, boom! Don't stop here, go ashore, ashore! ”

"Seahorses call eagles, seahorses call eagles! Southwest mountain salient, two rapid-fire guns! ”

Before Zhang Shuisheng could see the scenery clearly, he was pushed out of the cabin by the squad leader. The waist-deep warm water made him sober for a moment, and he didn't bother to look around, held the portable camera in a plastic bag high above the top, and followed the soldiers to the shore quickly. When he approached the shore, he took a look at the neutral space, hid behind a concrete triangle, tore open the bag, and quickly turned on the camera to point behind him. In black-and-white footage, one landing craft after another opens hatches, freeing hundreds of Marines. The soldiers bent over and sprinted briskly, and the two "Sea Serpent" amphibious tanks stopped not far from him, turned their muzzles, aimed at the Japanese rapid-fire gun positions in the protrusion of the cliff, and opened fire again and again. More amphibious armored vehicles bypassed them, quickly climbed to the coast, and soldiers in amphibious vehicles jumped off to create beachheads.

Two hovering Nakshatra dive bombers let out a screech and quickly descended. "Run! Run, don't stop here! Zhang Shuisheng was about to take pictures of the heroic posture of the dive bomber dropping bombs, but the squad leader's head rushed into the camera, and he pointed in front of him and shouted, so frightened that he didn't dare to linger any longer, and got up again and ran forward desperately with everyone. In just 100 meters, all his strength was exhausted, and when he saw a mass of charred black bushes, he couldn't wait to lie down. Then he rolled over and gasped for air.

"Hurry up, if you don't want to be a target, take off your life jacket!" The conscientious squad leader didn't dare to rest, tore off the life jacket on his body, pulled out the dagger and threw Zhang Shuisheng's life jacket to the side a few times, and then lay down and observed carefully. "Squad leader, what's wrong!" The Heavy quickly rushed to the side, scrambling to tear open the plastic sheeting while mounting bullets and shaking his head loudly.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Shuisheng was puzzled.

The Heavy rolled his eyes. A comrade-in-arms who was running behind his fingers: "Look for yourself, is it really beach-grabbing?" At first, Zhang Shuisheng didn't understand, but after the squad leader explained, he found that the two-kilometer-wide landing front met almost no resistance. There were only a handful of rapid-fire guns, and they fired condescendingly from the cliffs of Owu Island and Alashan into the beach. "Last night, the company commander said at the mobilization meeting that there is almost a division on the island. But you see, there's not even a squadron here. ”

"Definitely killed by shelling and incendiary bombs." The optimistic Jing Qilun, who was Zhang Shuisheng's assistant, climbed over from behind. While climbing. He kept looking up into the depths. The squad leader hurriedly held down his steel helmet, and everyone was most afraid of this kind of hairy boy who didn't know whether to live or die. The soldiers nearby gave him a blank look, even if the fire coverage was several times more, there would always be corpses, right? You can walk by. Except that obstacles are obstacles, not even a single hair is seen.

I thought it would be a bloody battle for the beach, but it turned out to be calm, not to mention the commandos. Even the landing headquarters set up on the "Zhou Yafu" escort aircraft carrier was alarmed. Liao Changfeng, who was personally in command, dropped his homework pen and raised his head to look at the officer who came to report: "What do you mean?" "He is the Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps. is also a classmate of Long Yun and Liu Mingzhao.

"Division Commander Zhang said that there was no resistance in either direction, and no large Japanese troops were found, and the troops went ashore smoothly." The staff officer thought about it and added: "It should be too smooth!" ”

"No resistance, no Japanese army?" Liao Changfeng was stunned. To say that there were many landing battles, from Guam to the Gilbert Islands, which were still fighting, there were more than a dozen times, large and small, and that time it was not that when they went ashore, they were blocked by the Japanese army and suffered great losses. Could it be that the garrison of Kume Island has been evacuated? "Impossible, the reconnaissance ship has been staring around, and there have been basically no transport ships approaching in the past half month." Zhang Zhaoyang shook his head affirmatively, he was the commander of the 12th aircraft carrier battle group.

During the naval battle of the Bohai Strait, he was also the de-actuator of the port side guns on the deck of the battleship Anhai, and together with the current naval commander Bingwen, he proposed to Cheng Biguang the tactic of "it is better to break one finger than to hurt ten fingers", and finally severely damaged the Biei. Although in fact, the two Anhai ships were seriously injured and could not be completely repaired because of the poor technology of the year, but they still attracted the attention of the world's naval powers and pulled China into the naval agreement.

Unlike Bingwen, Zhang Zhaoyang is tall, especially those eagle eyes, which always give people a great sense of oppression. Interestingly, he and Liao Changfeng have a "deep grudge", because his son has been secretly married to Liao Changfeng's second daughter. And it was only after getting the marriage certificate that he informed the parents of both parties, so angry that Liao Changfeng almost asked the soldiers to arrest people.

"Tell Division Commander Zhang to hold the beachhead first, wait for the second batch of troops to go up, and then go deeper. Remind him to pay special attention to observation. By the way, let the heavy artillery be connected, and then let the naval cavalry squadron prepare, it may be used later. ”

As soon as he heard the deployment, Zhang Zhaoyang understood and asked, "You mean, they deliberately abandoned the beachhead?" ”

"What? Do you really think that a single cannonball can send all the Japanese to the sky? Liao Changfeng glared at this "cheap in-law" angrily. Zhang Zhaoyang laughed: "I said Lao Liao, isn't it your daughter's matter." Don't worry, when I go back, I will personally come to my sister-in-law to apologize. ”

Liao Changfeng snorted twice, picked up the binoculars and walked to the window.

Lifts began to lift the "Sea Cavalry" helicopters onto the deck. After many actual combat explorations, the Navy and the Marine Corps gradually found out some experience in the use of helicopters, and the aircraft company also made some improvements according to their requirements, such as using higher horsepower engines, reducing weight and enhancing sea take-off and landing capabilities, installing machine gun mounts, and so on.

An hour later, a second group of more than 100 tanks/armored vehicles and 6,600 Marines landed on the beach, and more than a dozen tank landing ships also headed for the narrow sandbar in the southwest in an attempt to storm the third group there. After the second group of comrades-in-arms came ashore, they were already lying in the sand, and the dizzy commandos got up one after another and began to advance inland. "Go, be careful! Pay attention. Zhang Shuisheng and the squad leader followed behind an amphibious tank company and slowly searched and advanced towards the island. To everyone's surprise, although there were many corpses of Japanese soldiers along the way, there was hardly any organized resistance to be seen. "It's not really going to be dead, is it?" The squad leader muttered in his heart.

"I'll just say, five battleships plus a dozen cruisers, how can anyone still live. Look, there's a bunker over there. The young Jing Qilun felt that the squad leader and everyone were too careful, and muttered while shooting. When he saw a bunker that had been blown open, he immediately wanted to run over and check it out. "Be careful!" The squad leader hurriedly reached out and grabbed him.

"Don't worry, no, pop." Jing Qilun straightened his waist, and was about to say that it was okay, when two gunshots rang out. When Zhang Shuisheng turned his head, a large patch of blood had already appeared on Jing Qilun's arm. "Be careful! Lie down! Before he could understand what was happening, the squad leader and several soldiers had already crushed the two to the ground. Almost at the same time, the armored company seemed to become a blind bear who had inadvertently stabbed through the hornet's nest, and when it went deeper than a kilometer, countless bullets and shells suddenly shot out on the hillside where there was not even a ghost shadow.

"Lie down!"

"Hide behind a tank!"

"In the back, there is also a machine gun in the back."

"Damn, little Japan is in depth!"

"Ahh I've been shot, I've been shot, help me! ”

Rifles, grenadiers, crooked light machine guns, 92 heavy machine guns, and more, and so on! Almost all of the Japanese light weapons that I had heard of were fired at the armored company. What's even more terrifying is that the rain of bullets is not only from the front, but from the left. On the right and even in the back, a lot of bullets were spewed. "Lizard Three call, Lizard Three call, 1200 meters east of Ifu Beach. Ambushed, ambushed for reinforcements. ”

Zhang Shuisheng's side was full of explosions and screams, and it felt like stepping into a storm, and his ears were full of the sound of chirping bullets. In order to record the real war, he gritted his teeth and held up the camera to continue filming. The single-lens picture made him tremble. I saw that the screen was full of pictures of comrades-in-arms being hit, and in just a few minutes, more than a dozen soldiers were killed, and blood sprayed everywhere on the surface. A soldier who was hit by a bomb leg was desperately rolling in the mud, and the sanitary soldier rushed up to pull him back to the back of the tank to bandage him, but the bullet that came out of nowhere passed through the middle of the health soldier's neck.

His hands shook again, his body curled up, he swallowed, and pointed the camera at the enemy in front of him through the slit. In black and white, thousands of Japanese soldiers are like hidden hermit crabs, fiercely blocking from carefully camouflaged permanent fire points, fortifications, and bunkers. Many places close to the surface of the ground have revealed cleverly camouflaged shooting holes, carefully constructed fire traps, so that the commando team suffered heavy casualties, and the tragic battle situation reminded him of the word hell on earth.

At the same time, several other units that had penetrated deep also suffered heavy losses at the same time, and in a short period of time, nearly 100 soldiers of the land battle were killed, and countless more were wounded.

"Shrink! Tanks and armored vehicles shrink, ring defense. ”

"Hold on, support is coming soon!" The company commander shouted loudly, commanded the tanks to quickly approach, protected the infantry, and then constantly fired at the Japanese with 70-mm guns. The amphibious armored personnel carrier that followed the last also rushed up quickly, using its "body" to build a temporary position. But there were too many Japanese troops, and there were still soldiers killed in the condescending position.

"The attack plane is coming, lie down!"

At a critical moment, a bombardment gunboat appeared next to the coastline...... (To be continued......)