417 "Gift" Vic Island's Bloody Battle

With 200 casualties, the Maritime Resistance Army occupied a small area of 500 meters deep on Wake Island. And these 500 meters are only one-sixth of half of the 'human' herringbone Wake Island, and one-twelfth of the entire Wake Island.

After two hours of fighting, She Jinsong gradually figured out the devil's methods.

In the open space between the two runways, the little devil secretly built countless grave-like bunkers on the beach outside the two runways. Some bunkers have been destroyed by naval fire, but many more are still spraying bullets and shells.

On the other side of the inner lake, on the other half of Wake Island, the same is true of the dense bunkers of the Japanese army. Shells were constantly sprayed out of the remnants of the bunker, forming a fire suppression of the landing force of the Naval Resistance Army.

Although the Japanese tanks were destroyed one by one, they often launched a death charge. Although not a single Japanese tank broke through the blocking line of the Naval Resistance Army during the two-hour landing battle of the Naval Resistance Army, it was inevitable that some fish would slip through the net after a long time. As long as one vehicle crosses the blocking line, the threat to the Naval Resistance Force will be fatal. You must know that flat coral islands are the most suitable for armored combat.

The devil has just three methods, but it's really hard to deal with. She Jinsong is known as a wise general by Li Guang, but there is no simple means in the face of the situation in front of him. This kind of battle is something that any commander wants to avoid, and the whole process of the battle is completely gnawing bones.

Thirty-six plans can only be attacked if they think about it again. You must know that in the first two hours of fighting, the results of the Naval Resistance Army were actually only five Japanese bunkers. The losses of the assault can be imagined.

Against the Japanese artillery on the other side of the lagoon inland sea, the naval resistance army could be suppressed with infantry artillery and field artillery. Although the effect may not be very good, as long as you are willing to shell, it will be effective after all.

To deal with Japanese tanks, the anti-tank artillery infantry guns of the Naval Resistance Army were sufficient. And there is no shortage of infantry anti-tank means. Blasters and anti-tank grenades were well armed.

However, although the infantry has many means to deal with bunkers, the cost of either means is extremely heavy.

Before the war, the Naval Resistance Army also had plans to deal with bunkers.

During the two-hour battle, the Naval Resistance Army brought in six 40-mm anti-tank guns. This thing must be a weapon against the Bunker. However, in actual combat, the anti-tank artillery was powerless to use the bunkers built by devils like turtle shells, and almost every time a bunker was destroyed, the naval resistance army had to lose an anti-tank gun. And weapons such as mortars can only blow up a thin piece of concrete in the bunker and have little effect. In fact, how can the little devil have such a luxury and build so many reinforced concrete bunkers. According to the custom of the Japanese army. Reinforced concrete fortifications must be present, but most of them should be civil fortifications. Wake Island can be built on such a scale and so strongly, and the little devil is a blessing to the Americans. The Japanese captured a large amount of building materials from the U.S. Army during the occupation of Wake Island.

In fact, the shelling of the Naval Resistance Army was not without effect. The Naval Resistance Army could only see that the Japanese bunker fire was still alive under mortar and anti-tank gun fire. But they didn't know the situation inside the Japanese bunker, and the devils who were killed by the shells were all over the place. There is almost no place to put your feet in the cramped bunker. But due to the passage under the bunker is connected. The devil can constantly replenish his troops, so as long as the bunker is not completely destroyed, the devil's firepower can be continuous.

This was a real tough battle, and the sharp weapons prepared before the war did not work, She Jinsong did not dare to hesitate at all, and began to adjust the plan.

The battle of the Naval Resistance Army was due to the transportation capacity. IN ADDITION, THE TIGER TANK WAS TOO HEAVY TO CARRY TANKS, ONLY EIGHT 122MM TANK DESTROYERS. These eight-door tank destroyers are not only the fire support of the Naval Resistance Army, but also the armored fighting vehicles of the Naval Resistance Army. And now. The eight tank destroyers were deployed on Peel Island.

As early as the battle of Somalia, the Naval Resistance Army summed up an experience in attacking fortifications, and the Soviet-made 122 howitzer was the nemesis of the fortress.

Although She Jinsong and the staff officers of the Naval Resistance Army were well aware of this, they believed that the 122 tank destroyer was more conducive to fighting as fire support. Now, it was not very effective against the Japanese bunker anti-tank guns, and She Jinsong immediately decided to use tank destroyers.

The landing craft began to transfer tank destroyers, while the fighting of the naval resistance forces could not be stopped. Due to the transfer of four tank destroyers, the fire support for the battlefield was greatly reduced, and one tank of the devil actually rushed through the blocking line.

The battle intensified as a result.

After another two hours of fierce fighting, the Naval Resistance Army used all its strength to advance less than 100 meters, and the advance became more and more difficult, and the casualties of the Naval Resistance Army also rose rapidly, and the two-hour battle lost 200 troops.

With such a rate of casualties, the Naval Resistance Army simply cannot bear it. You must know that due to the limitation of transportation capacity, the Naval Resistance Army has a total of only 4,000 army troops. At this rate, they will occupy Wake Island, and I am afraid that they will be completely disabled.

However, She Jinsong could only resist a hard attack--- tank destroyer encountered trouble in transporting and landing, and the progress was extremely unsmooth.

Wake Island, although the Maritime Resistance Army has the experience of landing, there is an intuitive impression. However, nautical chart and tidal data are incomplete. Even four submarines spent more than a month surveying the tides, which turned out to be extremely irregular. The tide rises and falls several times a day, and every day is different.

Therefore, the timing of the landing of the Naval Resistance Army was not easy to choose, so I had to try my luck. Fortunately, the tank destroyer landed on Peel Island in the morning without any trouble and went extremely smoothly.

But luck is such a thing, it's really ethereal. Now four landing craft are in trouble. There was no tide for more than an hour, and the infantry landed to be able to wade through the sands and reefs. But such a big guy as a tank destroyer could not go ashore, and could only do it in a hurry in the sea.

The predicament of the Navy's resistance lasted until 5 p.m., when the tide rose again, and the tank destroyers were able to land.

By this time, the Wake Island landing force had suffered more than six hundred casualties. The battle was fierce. She Jinsong wiped out a Japanese search wing with a battalion in Ceylon, and the battle was fierce enough, but there were no heavy casualties to such an extent.

The war has reached this point, and both the Japanese devils and the naval resistance army have already turned red-eyed. As soon as the tank destroyer landed, it rushed directly to the Japanese bunker and opened fire less than 200 meters away.

This is the real cannon on the bayonet. FOR A HEAVY ARTILLERY OF 122MM CALIBER, FIRING AT A DISTANCE OF TWO HUNDRED METERS, AND EVEN THE SHOCK WAVE OF THE EXPLOSION OF THE SHELL CAN AFFECT ITSELF.

One thing descends one thing.

The effect of 122 guns at close range is amazing. Three or two cannons can destroy a bunker. And the small-caliber artillery of the Japanese counterattack could only jingle on the front armor of the destroyer, which was of no use at all.

The elite of the Kwantung Army is indeed resolute enough to fight and crazy enough. The Naval Resistance Army is in the process of advancing. The devils who did not find a single bunker took the initiative to retreat, and all of them stubbornly resisted to the end until they were eliminated.

Tank destroyers move slowly, and they need to stop before the gun fires and have a hoe at the rear of the vehicle. Only with the help of the hoe can the tank destroyer not be damaged by the strong recoil of the artillery.

However, no matter how slow the tank destroyers were, the Japanese bunkers were destroyed one after another. In less than half an hour, more than a dozen bunkers were reduced to ruins and became graves for Japanese soldiers.

The battle has come to this time. She Jinsong still didn't know that the Japanese army had actually lost its supreme commander, and Major General Toshiichi Sato had already become a strangely shaped corpse in the main fortress.

However, the command system of the Japanese army was scrapped, but the battle of the Japanese army was not affected in the slightest, and the performance of the devils became even more crazy and tenacious.

The devil quickly saw the threat of tank destroyers. So the Japanese tanks showed madness.

Like a death charge. It's more like a moth throwing fire, rushing out of cover one after another. The devil tank desperately fired at the tank destroyers of the Naval Resistance Army.

But narrow islands. The maneuverability of the Japanese tanks was not brought into play at all.

That's five or six hundred meters wide. Four tank destroyers easily blocked all the offensive routes of the Japanese tanks.

At the height of the battle, a Japanese tank of the 97th Revolution saw that its small cannon was useless against the tank destroyers of the Shanghai Resistance Army, and frantically drove full horsepower to get close to the tank destroyers of the Shanghai Resistance Army. The two steel monsters literally collided together, bursting into a dazzling fire, and both sides perished.

Wait until the sky starts to get dark. Flares began to shine in the air. The Naval Resistance Army had already fought the position of the main fortress of the Japanese army, and half of Wake Island had fallen into the hands of the Maritime Resistance Army.

In the fierce fighting for eight hours, the naval resistance army paid the price of nearly 800 casualties, an average of 100 casualties per hour. In total, only three kilometers were advanced.

For the brutality of the battle to seize the island, She Jinsong has a deeper understanding. This is the experience of the blood and lives of the warriors.

While directing the battle, She Jinsong began to arrange for the officers and soldiers to take turns to rest and recuperate, eat and drink to replenish their strength. The battle has reached this point, and She Jinsong has already been sure of victory. He estimated that before dawn on the 21st, the Maritime Resistance Army would be able to take Wake Island completely.

However, the scene that happened on Wake Island at more than eight o'clock in the night was beyond She Jinsong's expectations and everyone's expectations.

Although the flares of the Naval Resistance Force did not stop in the air, the light at night was not as good as that during the day.

The Maritime Resistance Army was steadily advancing, and suddenly, a group of devils emerged from the ground like ghosts.

The devils were naked, their heads wrapped in white cloths, and they screamed and rushed with bayonets.

The fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were caught off guard, and the 71 rounds of the Bobosha submachine gun drums instantly poured all the firepower, and they could not stop the devil's decisive charge.

The Japanese army swarmed like a tide, and in just a few tens of seconds, countless people died under the submachine guns of the Naval Resistance Army.

When the devil rushed into the inner circle of the Maritime Resistance Army, he behaved even more crazy. One by one, the devils pulled off the explosives bags on their bodies, bursting out with dazzling fires.

The forward units of the Naval Resistance Army were drowned by the Japanese army's meat bullets almost instantly. Immediately, three tank destroyers were also blown up by the Japanese in the form of meat bullets.

Although She Jinsong, commander of the Naval Resistance Army, was shocked, he was not slow to react. When the Japanese army suddenly counterattacked, he had already led the guard platoon to counterattack. He was followed by all the brothers who could carry guns.

In an instant, the two tides collided. The sound of gunfire and stabbing mingled, the sound of explosions and groans entangled, flesh flew and life dissipated.

A fierce battle in which the total casualties of the two armies exceeded two thousand men was a nightmare for both sides. The fierce battle lasted less than fifteen minutes.

In a short period of 15 minutes, a formed mountain company of the forward troops was completely annihilated. This was the first time that the Naval Resistance Force had lost troops in a formed formation.

Within 15 minutes, the Naval Resistance Army suffered more than 500 casualties.

More than 1,500 Japanese soldiers died under the guns of the Naval Resistance Army. This is the last strength of the Japanese army, the dying struggle of the Japanese army, and the return of the devil, after this short ten minutes of madness, the devil has lost almost all of its combat effectiveness.

In fact, among the more than 1,500 people, there are more than 400 Korean migrant workers, more than 600 Japanese marines, and only about 500 people in the elite army of the Kwantung Army.

But it is such a group of devils who have caused extremely heavy losses to the Naval Resistance Army. More than 500 casualties do not seem to be very large. But you must know that the number of dead in the battle exceeded 300. More than the number of casualties in a single day compared to the Naval Resistance Army.

She Jinsong was furious, and the soldiers poured blood into their pupils.

When dawn came, there was not a single devil on Wake Island, and all the more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers were turned into corpses.

There were no prisoners --- this battle.

She Jinsong greeted the dawn sun and looked around at Wake Island, where the smoke had not yet dissipated. With his red and swollen hand (during the landing, the devil machine gun hit the telescope and the hand was bruised. He slapped himself hard, and his cheeks were red and swollen.

He should have been prepared for the frantic counterattack of the Japanese army. Li Guangke has reminded many times that the Japanese army often has crazy suicidal counterattacks before the defeat comes, and this thing is the impression that Li Guang got from many aspects.

She Jinsong had this string in his head, but he didn't expect that the devil would launch a suicidal counterattack when he had just lost half of Wake Island. In his mind, the devil's suicidal counterattack should have been three-quarters after Wake Island had been occupied by the Naval Resistance.

When the Japanese army was frantically counterattacking, the deployment of the naval resistance army was steadily advancing. The elite of the Japanese army cannot be underestimated, and the grasp of fighters is quite in place. Because all the Japanese troops were killed, She Jinsong did not know who the commander of the Japanese army specifically commanded this counterattack, but this little devil's battlefield intuition battlefield judgment was very accurate, and he just seized She Jinsong's loophole, tore open the gap with countless lives, and suddenly lost a company of troops in an instant, and even several 122MM tank destroyers were destroyed.

At the end of the battle, the Naval Resistance Army suffered 475 casualties and more than 1,300 wounded, totaling 1,800 casualties. Nearly half of the casualties were inflicted, and the losses were heavy.

The heavy casualties weighed on She Jinsong's heart: if there was no air strike, the fire attack would have worked, and more than 1,000 elites in the main fortress of the Japanese army were wiped out at once. The Maritime Resistance Army wants to successfully capture Wake Island, and it is not known how many troops will be lost. You might even fail.

After all, the exercise is not a battle. Think about it before the war, the naval resistance exercise could achieve 200 casualties and take Wake Island, but the casualties in the actual battle were less than 2,000.

Ten times the difference. This gap is all blood, the blood of the brothers of the Navy. (To be continued......)