Chapter 1122: Landing on Qiong Island
"Koga, even though His Majesty has ordered it, I still insist that letting the Combined Fleet leave the mainland is the worst option......" Yamamoto Isoroku's identity is now embarrassing.
He had been ordered to retire after the Battle of the Philippines, and Koga had no idea what he was going to do about the battle on Iwo Jima. In desperation, he could only get Yamamoto Isoroku back to the navy as an "adviser".
Let Yamamoto fifty-six come and personally participate in this operation. Hirohito knew about the situation, but now Wake Island has been conquered. Midway is at stake.
The U.S. military is getting closer and closer to the Japanese mainland, and Hirohito can only acquiesce to Koga Mineichi's approach. No comment was made on this. At the same time, he also hinted that the army should not be allowed to discuss the matter.
"Your Excellency, I didn't know that this was the worst?! But this is an order from His Majesty himself, do we have a choice as soldiers?! Koga Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly, they actually didn't have the right to choose at all.
Hirohito has made it clear that he wants the navy to go to Iwo Jima, and if Koga does not go, someone will naturally take his place. The Navy still has to go to Iwo Jima.
And if it weren't for the people from Koga Mine, no one dared to guarantee what would have happened. In order to reduce the loss, Koga Mineichi could only accept the order, and then hired Yamamoto Isoroku as a consultant.
Led the Combined Fleet to Iwo Jima, preparing for battle against the American forces.
"I said a long time ago that we only had one to two years to attack Pearl Harbor. If we don't have the strength to rival the U.S. Navy by then, then our advantage will be completely lost......"
Yamamoto Fifty-six Iron blushed. Said: "It's a pity that no one in the base camp listened to me. The army manure swore that they would get enough resources from Southeast Asia to develop our navy. ”
"But now?! These idiots have lost the battlefields of China, and even Southeast Asia! What else do we have to compete with the US military?! Yamamoto took a deep breath. Said: "Koga...... To be honest, I wasn't sure about this fight at all......"
Koga Feng was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly: "Your Excellency, don't you even have the certainty of retreating......
Yamamoto didn't speak, just looked out the window and didn't say a word. When Koga Feng saw this appearance, he could only sigh and say no more.
At this point, Iwo Jima was only a few hours away. The ship fell into a dead silence.
"This may be my last battle. If I'm lucky, I'll probably survive until after the war. If you are unlucky, then it may be a blessing to die in the waters of the Empire as a member of the Imperial Navy......"
At this time, Shen Honglie of the Leizhou Peninsula was ready to go. I've been looking forward to it for a long time. The Navy's aircraft carrier was launched after all. Shen Honglie didn't have time to be moved or excited, he urged the sailors and pilots to familiarize themselves with the new warship as soon as possible.
Then he began to wait for news from Iwo Jima. I have to say that the work of several departments of the General Staff Department has really been done very well. They were able to contact the opposition forces within Japan.
Subsequently, a certain number of personnel were placed in various areas. The existence of these people allowed the General Staff of the Wehrmacht to grasp the movements of the Japanese army to a certain extent.
Although the decision of the top management may not be available to them. But they can still find out a thing or two about the movements of the army.
It was only less than a week of intensive training. The General Staff sent an order to them to enter combat mode. All training was cancelled, and all fleets were rebuilt pending orders.
Shen Honglie knew that the war was about to start. Whether the Wehrmacht Navy became famous or gloomy in the First World War depends on this war.
The entire navy was staring, and Chen Shaokuan's palms were sweating. This was the first time he commanded a landing operation, and at the same time, it was also the first time that the entire Wehrmacht carried out a landing operation.
This war has a direct bearing on the comprehensive strategy toward Japan formulated by the entire National Defense Force. If it fails, months or even years of hard work by the entire Defence Force will be in vain. To say that you are not nervous is a lie.
No one in the room said a word. The Marines have been waiting on the dock for a long time. They need to wait until the fleet has set sail before they depart.
The Navy has been busy with the production of warships lately, and simply does not have the time or energy to produce landing ships. All landing ships. They are all purchased from the fishermen on the spot.
Knowing that the Japanese were going to attack Qiong Island, most of the fishermen were willing to lease their fishing boats to the navy as landing ships, and with the coordination of local officials.
In any case, the magistrate had promised that in the event of damage to the ships of the landing operation, the Wehrmacht would compensate according to the price. If there is no damage, a certain amount of rent and wear and tear will also be paid.
Far away on Iwo Jima, the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy could already be seen from afar. A fisherman dressed in a kimono appears obscure in the crowd.
Like the others, he watched the arrival of the warship with curious eyes. After cheering with the crowd, he turned and left and went back to his liquor house.
In the back kitchen of the sake house, the cupboard was removed and the wall was visible. This wall can be moved with a push, revealing a small door behind the wall.
The middle-aged man in a kimono entered the door with a short body, pulled the cupboard shut, and closed the door as well. Then he walked down the stairs to the basement.
He lit the lighter, went to the basement in the dim light, and lit the candles. At this time, I saw that there was a radio station in this small basement.
The man expertly put the headphones on his ears and began to slowly send a message into the distance......
'Report!' Feng Shaoyu's call, the squid has arrived in front of the fire. Request next instructions! Su Zongzhen took the telegram when he heard this, and read it hurriedly and carefully.
After confirming the code, he handed the telegram to the staff officer and said: "Send electricity to the navy!" Act now! ”
"Yes!!"
Not long after, Shen Honglie received a telegram from the imperial capital. Writing this telegram, Shen Honglie stood up and said only one sentence to the admirals who were looking at him: "Anchor, action!" ”
Nothing grandiose. There was nothing impassioned either. Shen Honglie and his fleet slowly lifted anchor in silence, and the order was transmitted to every corner of the entire fleet.
All the naval soldiers began to enter combat positions, and the marines also boarded the ship quickly and silently under the command of their respective commanders.
Months of hardship. This is when the efforts of the Defence Force for several years became apparent. Everyone was silently preparing, and the soldiers in charge of the artillery were checking the ammunition and artillery for the last time.
The ground crews on the aircraft carrier inspect the fighter planes and fuel for the last time. The pilots closed their eyes and waited quietly for the delivery of the battle order.
The fighters of the Marine Corps held steel guns and did not say a word in the cabin. Only the waves gently lapped against the body of the battleship, and the seagulls watched the fleet ride the wind and waves in the sky.
It was a good day, especially for the Wehrmacht Navy. Although the warships have been modernized, the troop transport ships still have to rely on the natural wind.
And at the same time. The Qiongzhou Strait is one of the highest current speeds in the world. Attacking here was not inconvenient for the Wehrmacht, which was conducting the actual landing operation for the first time.
Today was a good day with a north-easterly wind blowing in favour of the Wehrmacht. The wind blows the sailboat. Slowly paddling towards the opposite strait.
Lingaojiao, this is the destination of the Wehrmacht to attack today. Adjacent to Qiongkou on the Leizhou Peninsula, the Japanese army was too tightly defended. And in order to prevent the Wehrmacht from landing operations, the Japanese army laid a large number of mines on the beach.
At the same time, a large number of fortifications were built. Shen Honglie and the staff officers of the Navy thought after research. This is not a suitable place for landing operations. And their gaze. It was placed at the high angle where the Japanese army's defense was weak.
There are a lot of shallows, suitable for small sailing ships to land and fight. And because it was not close to the Leizhou Peninsula across the strait, the Japanese army did not have any extra troops to garrison except for a part of the garrison.
At the same time, they did not plant a large number of mines on the beach as Qiongkou did.
Fighters aboard the "Buzz ......" began to roar, and they targeted the few Japanese army aviation units on the island. The Japanese did not pay special attention to the defense of Qiongdao.
Perhaps they felt that the Wehrmacht was temporarily incapable of launching a landing operation, or perhaps it was due to a lack of fuel. In short, they did not send their own reconnaissance aircraft to conduct reconnaissance.
With the roar of "Woo ......," one after another fighters and bombers took off from the aircraft carrier! Flying towards the distant island, the fleet's battleships and cruisers began to gradually adjust their gun ports.
About the coordinates of the fortifications of the Japanese army on the beach. All of them have been discovered by Chen Zhaozao, the chief of the guerrilla forces on the island, and sent back. To put it simply, everything about the Japanese army was exposed to the fire of the Wehrmacht Navy.
For this landing battle. The Wehrmacht prepared too much.
In Lingao County, a middle-aged man dressed like an old farmer is selling glutinous rice bananas in a corner. The man selling fish on the side turned around from time to time to look at the middle-aged man selling glutinous rice and bananas, looking a little anxious.
But the man who sold glutinous rice bananas just shook his head with a smile and hiddenly, and continued to sell his glutinous rice bananas with the old god. The puppet army and the Japanese soldiers walking around in Lingao County didn't know that this was Chen Zhaozao, who they wanted to take the head of their head in the twilight!
The reason why Chen Zhaozao can pretend to be so similar to an old farmer is because he was originally born in a farming family. Although he studied at a private school in his hometown for a year when he was young, his mother died of illness when he was eight years old, so he dropped out of school and returned home to help his father plow the land and herd cattle. Therefore, pretending to be an old farmer is completely familiar to Chen Zhaozao.
But at the same time, what is little known is that Chen Zhaozao is also a mechanical expert! Electrician, car driving, mechanical maintenance, ship wheel repair...... Wait, he's an expert.
If necessary, Lao Chen can also make a cameo appearance as a chef and translator. He worked as a mechanic on an Englishman's ocean liner, and learned how to make pastries, make coffee, and speak English.
The navy once wanted to dig him into its own mechanical team, but helplessly, this wanderer in Qiong Province was determined to return to Qiong Island to participate in the anti-Japanese war.
In desperation, the Navy could only sigh and return. After receiving extremely rigorous training from the army, Chen Zhaozao smuggled back to Qiongdao and began to lead the local anti-Japanese armed forces in Qiongdao.
Chen Zhaozao took a puff of dry tobacco, and he thought of the "Tianhetang Pharmacy" that he once opened with his brother and fellow villagers when he was in Singapore. But I don't know how it's now.
He already knew about the fact that the Wehrmacht had captured Singapore. He's remembering it now. It was the pharmacy that I raised money with my fellow villagers. At that time, I had a good life with my brother~
You can save a large amount of money every month, and your child can eat meat at once. I can go for a coffee or something when I have time. If it weren't for these damn Japanese dwarfs to invade, I would probably have lived like this......
"Ma Di! Ma Die...... "Suddenly. The Japanese troops in the street began to panic. But I saw that their faces became extremely ugly, and they kept running towards the beach outside the city.
The puppet army was also gathered and ran out of the city.
Chen Zhaozao smiled, he began to pretend to be panicked, and cleaned up the glutinous rice bananas on the ground, and at the same time glanced at the young man selling fish beside him. The young man knowingly cleaned up the fish stall together, and then ran towards the outside of the city with the flow of people in a panic.
On the roofs of several buildings, the Japanese began to erect machine guns. At this time, everyone could already hear the roar of the fighter planes "buzzing ......". And Chen Zhaozao didn't know where to pull out a red scarf at this time. Tied to his arm. Then he grabbed two pistols from the pile of glutinous rice and bananas and "banged" at the two nearest Japanese soldiers, and "......bang, bang, bang" and started fighting!
It was like a signal, and suddenly a large group of people appeared on the street out of nowhere, all wearing red handkerchiefs on their arms. They held long and short fires, and shot at the exposed Japanese soldiers and puppet ......soldiers on the street.
The Japanese army and the puppet army were completely panicked. Some Japanese troops quickly sought cover in an attempt to counterattack. But then he was killed by a bullet from an unknown location.
The Japanese machine gunners in the high places had already been beaten into a sieve by a burst of random gunfire. The rag-like corpse was thrown from the attic to the street......
"Boom! Rumble!! Boom......" Chen Zhaozao's gunfire seemed to be a signal, and soon after he opened fire, there were bursts of explosions in the distance.
Later, he saw groups of fighters flying over Lingao. The Japanese artillery tower not far from the county seat was devastated. Several bombs hit the turret directly. The entire turret exploded directly.
"Boom, boom, boom......" In the explosion, the Japanese army screamed and was blown into the air. You can even clearly see the desperate expressions of some Japanese soldiers who are dying on the verge of death......
"Chen Zhaozao, the captain of the Qiongdao guerrilla column of the National Defense Army, is here, who dares to fight with me!!" Chen Zhaozao's roar directly shocked the hearts of the Japanese soldiers on the entire street.
For this Captain Chen Zhaozao, they are so familiar that they can't be more familiar. In the mouth of the Japanese army on Qiongdao, this is a demon who eats people and does not spit out bones.
Before Chen Zhaozao came to Qiongdao, it was a paradise for the Japanese army. It is the purgatory of the Chinese.
"A street away from this tribe, the dead bodies of the coolies were scattered outside. There are car areas and streets. Three streets away from here, the dry river was strewn with the dead bodies of twelve or three coolies and the corpses in boxes, which were gnawed by wild dogs. Not at all. ”
"Colleagues on the beach have started to stand guard and have heard that rapes are happening every day. The colleague determined by geography and language that the target of the rape was a Chinese woman, and then raped her day and night. A lot of women were raped by hundreds of men......"
"On February 6, our squadron was on guard, and received an order to kill all of them, although we had a little sympathy for the children, but after all, we killed a lot of them together!"
"Some of the 'special workers' are no longer useful, and they have no way to continue mining. We were ordered to kill them all, and this had to happen at night. And there can't be any records......"
These are some records of those years. Stained with blood and tears. But after Chen Zhaozao arrived in Qiong Province, the situation finally changed.
After Chen Zhaozao put the heads of more than 300 Japanese soldiers with their own ** on the road, the wanton killing came to an abrupt end. The Japanese finally discovered to their horror that an even more hideous demon had entered Qiong Island.
They went crazy trying to find Chen Zhaozao, but they never succeeded. On the contrary, those Japanese soldiers who tried to hunt him down would always appear in public in various forms of dismemberment.
The Japanese army was frightened, and at this time the Japanese troops in the Chinese mainland battlefield began to withdraw. At the same time, the Southeast Asian Theater of Operations transferred most of the troops on Qiongdao, and in desperation, they could only choose not to pursue Chen Zhaozao.
And Chen Zhaozao also seemed to be silent, unless the Japanese army went too far. Otherwise, Chen Zhaozao rarely took the initiative to attack the Japanese army. The two sides maintain an eerie calm on the island of Qiong. But the Japanese army did not expect that this demon that they were extremely afraid of at this juncture appeared again!
"Red Deer Noro! Kill him! Kill him!! A Japanese soldier roared loudly with red eyes, but unfortunately the next moment he was turned into a headless corpse......
"Bump!" A gunshot rang out, and the Japanese soldier's head exploded like a rotten watermelon. The white brains and blood sprayed directly on the street. His body twitched, and he still held the saber in his hand.
"Dada...... Tutu Tu ...... "The Japanese troops and the puppet army surrounded them together, gritting their teeth to kill Chen Zhaozao here." At the same time, the Japanese troops on the beach were struggling with the fire and bombardment of the Wehrmacht.
"Tom tom tom...... Rumble! Rumble!! Bombardment...... "Countless large-caliber naval guns bombarded the few Japanese fortifications on the beach to pieces, and those Japanese troops who were constantly coming in were bombarded by the naval artillery and could not raise their heads.
There were countless broken corpses of Japanese soldiers or puppet soldiers on the beach, and the blood stained the beach red......
"Tactical assistance! Your Excellency, I need tactical help now! I am sure that the Wehrmacht has set the area of the landing operation at Lingao Point, and if you do not provide tactical assistance to me, then the whole of Qiong Island will be exposed to their attack! ”
The captain of the Lingao Garrison Brigade, Kurosawa Yuki, roared loudly into the phone: "General Noda! I need support! I need it now! The air and naval units of the Wehrmacht have arrived, and I don't know if we can hold out for an hour......"
It was still possible to hold on for about an hour, because Shen Honglie planned to carry out an hour-long artillery bombardment and bombardment of the Japanese position.
The cannons on the "tom tom tom ......tom" fighters roared incessantly, and the Japanese fortifications exposed at the commanding heights were dusted by the machine guns.
Fragments of the cannon entered through the firing hole, tearing the Japanese soldiers inside into pieces of minced flesh.
Behind the battleship, a number of sailing ships with diesel engines were approaching. The marines on the ship were all given a bowl of wine, and Shen Honglie's impassioned voice came from the communication speaker.
"Brethren! Dry this bowl of wine, kill the devil!! ”
"Wehrmacht! Kill! Kill! Kill!! ”
After a bowl of wine, the ship rushed into the shallow sea. Countless Marines leapt from the ship, grabbed their weapons and roared towards the beach!
The Japanese fortifications had been blown to the ground, and the puppet troops who had come to support them fled privately. The Japanese troops who came to support were bombed to pieces.
The rest of the Japanese troops were dragged by Chen Zhaozao in Lingao City and couldn't get out, and they saw through the binoculars that the soldiers of the Wehrmacht roared and pounced on the beach, and the captain of the Lingao Garrison Brigade Kurosawa closed his eyes in despair...... (To be continued......)