The landing craft that the Japanese got from the Germans were not original German products, but also "OEM products". They are called German, but they are actually made in Shanghai, China, and the Germans are just a second-hand dealer who takes a cut from them. The purpose of the Chinese side in producing these landing craft is to prepare for the liberation of the island of Taiwan in the future.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, before the Beidaihe Conference, the Chinese high-level had privately reached a strategic policy with the Germans in advance to support Japan and induce it to compete with the United States. Therefore, at that time, this batch of landing craft that had just been produced and was still in a brand new state was directly labeled as made in Germany, and then loaded on a German cargo ship in Shanghai and sent to Japan, and soon participated in the operation of attacking the Hawaiian Islands.

For New China, this is also a good opportunity to test the performance of "semi-domestic" ships in actual combat.

Japan's home-grown landing craft can carry 50 soldiers ashore at a time, while the number of Chinese-German landing craft is higher, reaching 60 people. ）

A total of six crew landing craft participated in the operation to land on Kauai, in addition to two tank landing ships sold by Germany to Japan before the war.

Tank landing ships of German production, with a total displacement weight of 1100 tons when fully loaded, can carry five or six amphibious landing vehicles of medium tanks. Before the outbreak of the European war, Germany built three of these tank landing ships, and also participated in the landing in the Norwegian port of Narvik. When the Japanese and German military were in harmony, the Japanese procurement group in Fude took a fancy to this tank landing ship suitable for the operation of seizing the island. So he paid for two of them and was able to obtain the relevant production licenses at a very good price. By the time of the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese produced two more tank landing ships of this type by themselves through the way that the Germans provided some of the parts and produced some of the parts themselves. Later, these warships participated in the preliminary operation to land in the Philippines, and the performance was very satisfactory.

At the time of making this deal. The German side also sold 10 amphibious tanks to the Japanese on the basis of buying five and giving five free. Since the buyer was the Navy, these tanks were included in the Japanese Marine Corps and became the treasures of the hands of the heart.

One of the tank landing ships involved in the attack on Kauai Island. Although the Americans laid some mines off Kauai Island, they were guided by the ship's spirit. The Japanese landing force avoided the mines very lightly and easily stormed the beach and landed successfully under the cover of naval guns.

The tank landing ship imported from Germany, only two kilometers from the coast, opened the front hatch and released the five amphibious tanks in the belly one by one.

According to the design idea of the German Navy, this type of tank landing ship should take advantage of the high tide to rush and run aground, and then open the hatch closest to the coast and directly release the tank for charging operations. But where can Japan, which has a small capital, use tank landing ships so "luxuriously". They used the compromise idea of "defending the ship first", using amphibious tanks for a floating charge.

After releasing the tank on board. The tank landing ship immediately turned away, and it would not only stay away from Kauai Island, but even temporarily away from the battlefield to avoid being bombed by US planes after dawn. There were too few tank landing ships in the Japanese Navy to withstand losses even more than cruisers.

A little farther away, on a transport ship, two cranes, one in front and one in the back, were working with a clatter, and he was helping with the rails. Four 40-ton heavy landing craft were laid down, and the surging waves they stirred up as they rushed into the sea. So that those who witnessed it couldn't help but worry about whether this big guy would just sink into the water and never float again.

The landing craft were also equipped with tanks, but they were a variant of Tank 2 and a 18-ton assault gun. A tank landing craft is accompanied by a combat vehicle of less than twenty tons and a dozen soldiers.

This technology, which does not rely on tank landing ships, but directly launches tank-loaded landing craft into the sea through guò cranes and slide rails, is not yet very mature, and capsizing accidents can easily occur in the process. The Germans offered it to the Japanese who took the bait. It is precisely the idea of guò to test this idea in actual combat.

However, the luck of the Japanese tonight was good, and the four landing craft were "roughly" slipped into the sea, and no unusual accidents occurred.

The landing craft carried the No. 2 tank assault gun and fifteen soldiers.

This No. 2 assault gun, and the famous German Type III assault gun in history, was the product of an idea to remove the turret of the tank. Then a caliber 75 mm cannon was installed on the body, which was the product of taking the idea of the trolley anti-cannon to the extreme.

The U.S. artillery positions on the shore were destroyed, and the four tank landing craft rushed to the shore after the amphibious tanks and successfully survived, and as the hatch opened, four II assault guns with more than a dozen Marines with G32 rifles poured out of the boats and cooperated with the attack on the remaining U.S. strongholds on the shore.

On the quiet beach, the unique "sudden" sound of diesel engine work soon sounded, German tanks were diesel engines during the European War, but with the end of the war, most of the tanks were replaced with diesel engines, especially the batch of tanks sold to Japan.

Before and after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese Navy received no less good things from the Germans than the Army. Because the army has too many black histories such as subordination, mutiny, solitude, and forced officials, it is full of deterioration, and it is a big loss of impression in the heart of the young Emperor Chongren. At the instigation of Li Huamei, Emperor Takahito also wanted to build his own private army, so he hit the idea on the navy, which had always been obedient and loyal, and always gave full support to the expansion plan of the Marine Corps, so as to reduce his dependence on the army headquarters.

And Japan's patron saint Yamato Fu is also very fond of the Marine Corps, and she even took out her own private money to help the Marine Corps buy high-tech equipment. The current Marine Corps has always had a presence in the Japanese Navy and Army

The emperor's new favorite.,Nicknames like the pro-guard of the gods and Nadeshiko.。

In the German-Japanese trade between Barra Island in the Philippines in exchange for arms, the Japanese military received more than 200 G32 semi-automatic rifles from the Germans. Then the new G32 rifle ordered from Germany was also preferentially equipped with the Marine Corps.

The first Japanese Marines to land on Kauai Island used all G32 rifles, and in terms of individual firepower, they were even superior to the U.S. forces defending the island - the U.S. Navy and Army are now reloading with M1 Garland semi-automatic guns and Johnson semi-automatic rifles, but the rearmament has only just begun, and the army is still using a large number of old Springfield rifles.

The battle begins in the dark and the fragrance after the rain.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese would launch an attack in this bad weather, and the garrison on the island was initially defeated.

In the fleet blessed by the ship spirit, through guò perception, it is possible to accurately judge the changes in the weather.

The rain in the Pacific Ocean comes and goes as fast as it comes.

When the Navy carried out the shelling, heavy rain poured. By the time the landing force began to move, however, the rain had stopped.

"Bang! Bang! ”

On the island of Kauai, which had just been baptized by artillery fire, a crisp and continuous sound of gunfire soon sounded, mixed with the explosion of naval artillery shells.

As the emperor's new favorite, the personal guard of Shinmei Yamato Nadeshiko, they were also equipped with Siemens transistor wireless walkie-talkies imported from Germany. With this device, you can directly contact warships at sea or nearby tanks, and call for artillery support anytime and anywhere.

In the Chinese theater of 1935, the Japanese Army had enough of the opponent's possession of the battlefield instant messaging system. But now, the emperor's new favorites, because of the traversers, have always had the opportunity to experience the taste of high-tech warfare.

Several U.S. machine-gun or light artillery positions, which were arranged in the dead corners and escaped the shelling of the naval guns, were quickly smashed by the short-barreled 75-mm howitzers on the No. 2 tank summoned and guided by the infantry. Some of the Marines who couldn't wait directly used the recoilless guns they carried to destroy the US firing points that were spitting out tongues of fire at close range.

Under the cover of naval guns and tanks, the resistance of the remnants of American troops on the island soon collapsed. The landed Japanese troops easily swept the wide beachhead on Kauai and established a solid landing site. Then more soldiers were sent to the shore in guò transport boats.

By daybreak, most of Kauai had been occupied by the Japanese, and only a few areas were still resisting weakly and stubbornly.

When Kauai Island was attacked, the U.S. Navy on other nearby islands also sent torpedo boats to support and carry out a sneak attack by the way. However, on the way, he was ambushed by Japanese battleships that had been prepared for a long time, and suffered heavy losses.

At that time, the US military airfield on nearby Oahu Island also took off night bombers to provide air support to Oahu, and by the way, they bombed the Japanese ships that were arrogantly attacking the island, but they were intercepted by the Japanese night flight units that had been prepared for a long time in the air, and suffered heavy losses but gained nothing.

That night, the White House in Washington received an urgent telegram from U.S. troops on Oahu, which read: "This is Pearl Harbor, the Japanese are attacking, and we are resisting with all our might." ”

And in order to boost the morale of the people. The personnel of the American propaganda department changed the content of the telegram to read:

"This is Kauai, and we're fighting."

Then the official propaganda part made a big move, and fabricated a large number of "heroic deeds" such as the brave resistance of a large number of US soldiers on the front line, sinking two Japanese destroyers, and destroying many tanks.

After daybreak, in order to prevent the Japanese from gaining access to the front-line airfield to attack Oahu, a larger-scale air battle broke out.

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