Chapter 129: Landing on Treasure Island (Part II)
Under the offensive of the vanguard troops, the Japanese beachhead was quickly taken.
Armored units bypassed those slopes and also climbed over the beachhead. Not far away, in a concrete trench, the surviving Japanese troops and armed expatriates were already waiting there under the mandatory orders of the officers. I want to use this territory to block the attack of the Marines.
The fighters of the pioneer battalion also arrived, and looking at the position in front of them, the battalion commander did not immediately order the troops to attack.
"Call in naval artillery support and implement fire coverage on coordinates xxxxxx." The pioneer battalion commander said with a murderous face.
Soon the news reached the fleet from the walkie-talkies of the pioneer battalion, and two minutes later, the arm's guns had been adjusted. In addition to the main guns of the battleships, the other secondary guns and the main guns of the cruisers and destroyers roared again.
The soldiers of the pioneer battalion lying on the ground looked at the Japanese soldiers who were caught in the shelling in front of them, and everyone sneered.
The time for the shelling quickly passed, and armored vehicles and tanks were arrayed for attack.
With an order to "attack", the vanguard began to attack. Under the cover of heavy machine guns and mortars, the armored units began to charge, and the infantry followed closely.
The Japanese troops who had been bombarded by the shelling could not stop the attack of the pioneer battalion at all, and some Japanese soldiers who survived and tried to counterattack were quickly killed. The reaction of those who survived was much simpler, hiding in the trenches, regardless of how quickly the officers' command knives were wielded. When the fighters of the pioneer battalion attacked the trench, they directly raised their hands and surrendered. At this time, the armed expatriates had completely lost the courage to resist, not to mention that they were either soldiers, or soldiers, and many of them surrendered.
After the vanguard attack reached a distance of five kilometers from the coast, they began to build defensive positions, at which point they had to cover the landing of the remaining army troops.
A regiment of marines also attacked the port of Keelung Harbor, where the best place for the soldiers and troops to land quickly, this pier can directly dock troop carriers and ro-ro ships, and then the army can directly disembark here, and some heavy equipment can be better unloaded.
However, this place is also the focus of the Japanese defense, and the bombing and naval artillery just now are not too aimed at this place. Because this pier is still used, it is still very safe except for the necessary bombing targets. And if it weren't for discipline, it would be crowded with armed expatriates scattered around.
By the time a regiment of marines arrived, the Japanese had already spotted them from a distance and were organizing their troops to defend. This place is not easy to defend, a large open space, originally a lot of goods, Kawamura Takeji did not want the property of these empires to be destroyed, so he ordered people to transfer it urgently. The Japanese troops who were defending were covered with large stones on the ground of the pier, and they could not dig for a short time, and now they could only build defensive positions with sandbags. There were a large number of Japanese troops here, and they wanted to make up for the quality with quantity.
Although large-caliber naval guns cannot bombard here, there is no problem with a caliber of no more than 200mm.
The commander of the attacking regiment, while instructing the soldiers to prepare for the attack, transferred the armored vehicles that were still in the rear, and at the same time began to call for naval artillery support. The reply from the command made him even more happy, originally he only wanted small-caliber naval artillery support, but he didn't expect that the planes for the second round of attack had already arrived, and the command specially dispatched two squads of fighters to help them take the dock.
At this time, there was a sound of artillery being discharged from the rear of the Japanese army, and according to the sound of the cannon, the soldiers of the Marine Corps hurriedly dispersed. However, there were still more than a dozen fighters who did not dodge in time, and fortunately they were only injured. However, this made all the Marines very unhappy.
Before the second round of Japanese shelling, the naval guns had already begun to shell here. Although they are all small-caliber naval guns, they are calculated relative to naval guns, and if they are calculated according to the army's artillery, there is no one that does not belong to the ranks of heavy artillery. Calibers ranged from 120mm to 170mm, and the Japanese at this time had no trenches and were completely unable to withstand the attacks of these naval guns. Those Japanese artillery that exerted only one round of power were directly wiped out by the naval guns, and only one shot was fired from beginning to end.
The dock was very large, and many Japanese troops survived, but it is not clear how many of them still have combat effectiveness. The sandbags that had already been rolled up had been blown up in the shelling, and at the same time as the sandbags were blown up, there were also some broken corpses that were scattered along with the explosion.
After the shelling, the fighters also reached the skies over the pier, and the armored vehicles that had reached the front line of the attack joined the attack. Although there were no tanks here, armored vehicles were much more lethal than tanks in terms of lethality against infantry. On the roof of the car, the two heavy machine guns did not stop for a moment, and maintained the highest rate of fire all the time. With the combination of more than a dozen armored vehicles and fighter jets, the surviving Japanese troops were quickly eliminated one by one.
The Japanese army, which originally wanted to win by quantity, was useless in the face of powerful firepower. For half an hour, there was not a single living Japanese on the entire dock, and all of them were annihilated. Here, at least one brigade of Japanese troops and several thousand expatriates were killed. The blood of the corpse slowly pooled and slowly flowed into the sea, and the water around the dock was stained a little red.
After taking the dock, the fighters left, and a regiment of Marine Corps units began to set up a defensive line outside the dock.
The fleet is slowly approaching here, and troop carriers and logistics baggage ships are slowly leaning against the dock. One by one, the Army soldiers stepped off the troop carriers and formed companies to help the Marines defending outside to expand the defensive circle. The engineer unit also disembarked as soon as possible, and the ro-ro ship opened the opening, and trucks drove out of it, loaded with the tools of the sappers, and there were excavators and other excavation machines in the back.
Once the tools were all available, a battalion of sappers began to construct strong fortifications along the perimeter of the pier with their own equipment and with the help of infantry and marines. Rows of iron fences were erected, and some iron horses were placed in front of the fortifications.
The troops on the dock moved quickly, a battalion of troops began to pick up the dead bodies, and the infantry of a regiment gradually gathered on the dock. There are not only truck excavators in the ro-ro ship, but also a lot of Chinese Tiger tanks, which are the trump cards of the army, and the trucks full of shells and artillery have also driven off the ro-ro ship.
Chen Shao doesn't have many ro-ro ships now, and in order to speed up the attack, Chen Shao has gathered all his ro-ro ships. However, ro-ro ships need a wharf to unload, and fortunately, the wharf in Keelung Port meets this standard.
If there is no strong transportation volume of ro-ro ships, I don't know how long it will take to take Taiwan. In today's war, the time for preparing for combat is n times longer than the time for real engagement. Chen Shao didn't want to limit the speed of the attack because the logistics couldn't keep up. Only by destroying the defenders of Taiwan in one breath and making the Japanese side fearful, then the Japanese side will negotiate according to his wishes. He wants to grasp the initiative in the negotiations, and if the Japanese side still does not give in, then he will move Japan's main nerve, the DPRK. If the Japanese side does not want to negotiate after even North Korea is taken, then Chen Shao can only revise his strategy and implement a policy of completely blocking Japan. The main force did its best to destroy the Japanese navy, using aircraft carriers to carry out all-weather bombing of Tokyo and other coastal cities, until it landed in Japan, and completely smashed Japan's bushido with absolute force. A day later, the troops of the two armies were completely landed, and Keelung was completely under the control of the KPA. In one day, the People's Army killed more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers and overseas Chinese, and captured more than 20,000 Japanese.
In the evening, in the Governor's Mansion in Taipei, Takeji Kawamura sat alone on the roof of a building pouring Japanese sake. In the past, he liked to drink on the roof of the building alone, looking at Keelung Harbor in the distance, to satisfy his vanity. At this time, he is no longer the same demeanor as he used to be, his body in his fifties, and his hair that was originally neatly cut does not know what is going on, and it is spread out and draped on his head. I don't know what I'm talking about while drinking, and I look like I'm wearing a cloak, and it looks like a horror movie in the dark.
"Someone! Bring me wine. Takeharu Kawamura, who wanted to pour the wine, saw that the bottle was empty, and uttered the first sentence since nightfall, but the hoarse cry sounded even more terrifying. He's deaf, bring wine."
A woman cautiously walked over with a bottle of wine, and when she put the wine in front of Kawamura Takeji's eyes, the latter quickly grabbed it, and did not pour it on the glass, but just grabbed it and poured it. When the woman was about to leave, Takeharu Kawamura had already stretched out a hand to grab her clothes and said, "Am I that terrible?" What are you doing in such a hurry? ”
"No, no, the Governor is not terrible." The woman was pulled by him, with some heart palpitations, and she looked weak. She wasn't the maid who served Takeharu Kawamura. In the evening, Kawamura Takeji's maid died under his butcher's knife, because he accidentally poured a little more tea, and because of this thing, he was slashed by Kawamura Takeji, who was in an extremely bad mood. Now this woman is just an ordinary Japanese woman, her husband was forced to take up arms and go to the front, and because of his good looks, he was favored and chose to be Kawamura Takeji's new maid.
I don't know if it's because of alcohol, or the weak appearance of the woman in front of me, which makes Kawamura Takeji, who is in his fifties, have the urge of youth. And the urge is very strong. He hadn't felt this feeling in years, but it made him excited, and he felt a little dry for a while.
Faced with such a rare impulse, Kawamura Takeji didn't want to suppress his impulse, but he also knew that he wouldn't live long. finally felt like a young man, how could he suppress it!
He overturned the small table with the wine glasses and pulled the woman in his hand into his arms.
For a moment, the screams of women, the tearing of clothes, and the heavy wheezing of men came from the rooftop.
(To be continued)