Liang Gensheng turned to the wide-faced major squadron leader beside him: "I'll leave it to you here." ”

The squadron leader's name is Wang Yuhan, a typical Shandong man, and he is one of Liang Gensheng's most relied on subordinates.

"Yes - listen to my orders, the first detachment and the sniper No. 4 will outflank the right of Lu, the second and fourth detachments will be deployed here, Zhou Yanjian, you are responsible here. Detachment 5 and Sniper 3 went to the left to stand guard, and Detachment 6 was on standby in the rear...... The machine-gun detachment came to the front, the first and second groups went to this side, and the third and fourth groups went to that side; The grenadier detachment came over, looked there, aimed at the car; Snipers No. 1 and No. 2 randomly enter the position and aim at the officers. The teams listened to my signal and prepared a salvo. ”

The teams quickly moved into position, and in just one minute, 30 submachine guns, several Mauser pistols, four Jinling light machine guns, three grenadiers and three sniper rifles were simultaneously aimed at the enemy on the road.

A small group of American soldiers armed with M1903 Springfield (Springfield) rifles cautiously approached the sugarcane fields, led by an officer holding an M1911 Browning automatic pistol—a young man from the searchlight from the bridgehead.

A gunshot rang out, and before the soldiers' tense nerves could react, a bloody hole opened in the center of the officer's eyebrows, and then the gunshot—the interval between which would not exceed a tenth of a second—erupted from the sugarcane fields with dense dazzling flames, and the bullets poured out like a torrential rain danced wildly on the flesh wrapped in military uniforms, and the blood sprayed out instantly formed a bright and elegant blood mist, and before the blood mist subsided, several trucks not far away bloomed into brilliant fire flowers almost simultaneously......

"Prepare for the assault! The fireteam concentrated on firing at the bridgehead, Bankson, you take five detachments across the road and outflank from the left, Zhou Yanjian, you take a detachment through the woods to outflank from the right. Detachments 2, 4, and 6 are moving closer to me! ”

Squadron Leader Wang Yuhan gave the order, and the searchlight on the bridgehead was first shattered by a single shot from the sniper, and the machine gun group and grenadier group quickly adjusted the direction of their fire, and with the help of the fire of the enemy's machine gun counterattack, the dense guns and grenades were accurately poured over -- after two or three rounds of grenade firing, the enemy's machine guns were dumb.

"Detachment 2, 4, 6, forward!"

In half a minute, 30 soldiers jumped up with Wang Yuhan, threw bombs while strafing, and launched a charge at the bridgehead, rushing through the open road of more than 100 meters within half a minute, bypassing the blazing cars, jumping over the barricades and bunkers made of sandbags, and after joining up with the 1st and 5th detachments that had detoured from the flanks, they crossed the bridge with lightning momentum and rushed into the enemy formation on the other side of the bridge from behind......

From the first gunshot to the end of the battle, Fan Wenrui pinched his watch, less than four minutes! With almost no chance to return fire, seven American troops, including an officer, surrendered at gunpoint with their hands raised, leaving about 40 bodies and more than a dozen wounded soldiers at the scene.

Liang Gensheng asked Fan Wenrui to assist in interrogating the prisoners, but the captured American soldiers did not answer any questions except for their own names and ranks.

"In this case, did the Education Bureau of your Reference Office teach you what to do?"

Liang Gensheng raised the Mauser pistol, commonly known as the box cannon in the army, and gently deducted the safety with his thumb.

Fan Wenrui rolled up his sleeves: "It's very simple, try to make them worse than dead." ”

"I don't have much time." Before he could finish speaking, Liang Gensheng shot him obliquely, opening the head of a captive two meters away, and the brain burst into the face of another small captive behind him, causing him to scream like a pig.

The captured soldier* who claimed to be Captain Hudson raised his hand tremblingly in protest: "You guys...... You can't do that, we have the right to be prisoners of war! You are trampling on the Hague Convention, and I will accuse you to your superiors. ”

"Okay, whatever you want." Liang Gensheng replied with a sneer in English, twisting his neck and strolling to the side of another prisoner who had been shot in the chest and had just bandaged his wounds—a young man who looked no more than twenty years old, with a pale face and a look of fear and pain in his eyes.

"NO, NO, please......" The young man twisted desperately, retreating little by little, I don't know if the wound was too painful or too scared, tears fell straight out.

"Captain Hudson, you're not captives, you're dead."

At the same time as he said this, Liang Gensheng's heavy leather boots stepped the young man's wound, and the young man made a muffled sound in his throat, and spat out a large mouthful of blood, and then his eyes rolled white, his head tilted to the side, and he passed out with a mouth full of blood foam.

"Sir, this is too ......" Fan Wenrui was a little frightened, even as an intelligence officer of the Intelligence Department, he couldn't accept the obviously coercive torture for a while - if you don't answer the question, you will kill your companions until you can't bear it.

Liang Gensheng kicked the face that seemed to be dead: "It seems that the people in the Counseling Department are just like this, Wu Haisong's kid is really useless——"

When Fan Wenrui heard the name Wu Haisong, he casually asked, "Do you know our instructor?" ”

Liang Gensheng handed him the pistol: "Not only do I know, I have a deep friendship with him - don't worry about this, now you go and ask the Captain Hudson again, if it still doesn't work, just do what I just did, it doesn't matter if you kill them all." ”

"Really...... Much stronger than the martial arts instructor, what a cold-blooded demon! Fan Wenrui muttered secretly in his heart.

Captain Liang's method really worked, and this time Captain Hudson finally opened his mouth honestly, and he was really a good dog who answered all questions.

According to the information provided by Captain Hudson, the bridge guard troops contacted the Hawaii Defense Command by telephone at any time, and three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, a car patrol would pass the bridge, and the car parked at the bridge just now was the patrol that passed at night.

"What will the base do if the patrol can't get back to the base on time? Will you call here and ask? Liang Gensheng asked.

"Yes."

"Then I would like you to answer honestly: the patrol's car is broken down and is being repaired about a mile north of the bridge. Don't play tricks, or - remember what just happened? ”

"Yes...... It's ......"

Liang Gensheng stood up with a little ease, summoned Squadron Leader Wang Yuhan, and instructed him not to let his subordinates destroy the wires casually, protect the telephone, and at the same time bury ZHA medicine under several telephone poles so as to cut off the enemy's wired communications if necessary.

"If all goes well, we'll have eight or nine hours to deploy our defenses before the patrols come in the morning—officer Fan, there's enough guns on the ground to arm your guerrillas, right?" Liang Gensheng said, picking up a Springfield rifle and throwing it into Fan Wenrui's hand.

Fan Wenrui could hear the over-the-top voice and put on a aiming posture: "Don't worry, they are all the most reliable fighters, and my vision will never be wrong." ”

"I hope so, hum, it won't take long, after dawn everything will be known."

Fan Wenrui glanced at the cold-blooded and suspicious co-captain strangely, he didn't know what happened to Lu Dao in this person, but he vaguely felt that this person was not simple, and his body seemed to exude a strange aura that did not belong to this world......

The next day, just before sunrise, all three fleets approached Oahu at the same time.

Approaching Wikiki Beach southeast of Oahu was the 3rd Support Force under the command of Vice Admiral Gao Long, which included 4 battleships of the 3rd Battleship Squadron, the Falcon Jellyfish, 2 Leopard light cruisers, 4 Yang destroyers, and several motorized minesweepers.

Approaching Eva Beach southwest of Oahu was the 2nd Support Force under the command of Vice Admiral Liao Shengzhen, which included 4 battleships of the 2nd Battleship Squadron, the Sea Eagle Jellyfish, 2 Leopard light cruisers, 4 Yang destroyers, and several motorized minesweepers.

Approaching Sunset Beach northeast of Oahu is a huge group of ships including the landing transport force, the landing escort force, and the 1st support force, of which the landing transport force is commanded by Admiral Shen Xingyi, the escort force is commanded by Admiral Liu Guanxiong, and the 1st support force is commanded by Admiral Sa Zhenbing. The landing transport force consisted of 54 large landing ships and troop carriers, the escort force consisted of 42 large and small combat ships, and the 1st support force consisted of 4 battleships of the 1st Battleship Haizi, 2 seaplane carriers, 4 Leopard light cruisers, 8 Wolf destroyers and several motorized minesweepers.

At the same time, within 400 nautical miles east of Oahu, the 1st and 2nd Alert Forces, the former was composed of the 1st Patrol Squadron and the 2nd Light Patrol Squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Yang Tianzhi, a total of six cruisers, and the latter were 18 ocean-going submarines under the 6th Fleet, and the two alert forces formed three cordons to prevent the US fleet from attacking and harassing from the west coast of its homeland.

To the west of Oahu, the 1st Mobile Force under the command of Vice Admiral Liang Shuming cruises, four fleet aircraft carriers, and 28 escort ships form a huge wheeled formation, and the more than 200 carrier-based planes that the mobile unit is still usable will provide sufficient air support for this landing operation.

On the side of the Lashana anchorage, 50 supply and auxiliary ships of the main force and the landing force were moored, and the 3rd Alert Force under the command of Vice Admiral Yuan Feng was cruising around: including 2 Thunder Cruisers of the 1st Combat Patrol Team and 2 Squadrons, a total of 16 Wolf destroyers.

Shortly after sunrise, three seaplanes flew over downtown Honolulu and flew east to the vicinity of Wikiki Beach, slowly circling at an altitude of about 1,500 meters.

At around 6:30 a.m., several seaplanes also flew over Sunset Beach and circled around it.

At 6.50 a.m., another group of planes flew near Eva Beach and dropped bombs on the town of Eva behind the beach.

General Scowley, who was sitting at the defense headquarters in the northern suburbs of Honolulu, was woken up early in the morning by his adjutant, and learned that enemy planes had been spotted in three directions.

"If the judgment is correct, the most likely direction of the enemy's landing should be Eva Beach, and reconnaissance, bombing, and artillery bombardment in other directions are all trying to disrupt our hearing and hearing to conceal their true intentions. Taking a step back, even if the enemy lands in other directions, he will certainly not have a good life. ”

Scauley's confidence was certainly not based on ignorant self-righteousness, in fact, he was well aware of the landing battles of recent decades, from the Crimean War to the American Civil War, from the Sino-Japanese War to the Asian-Russian War—and after a thorough study of more than a dozen of them, Sculley concluded that landing operations would become more and more dangerous and difficult as the army's firepower and mobility improved.

Originally, there were many difficult problems in landing warfare that were not found in simple land warfare and navy: First, the organization and coordination were complicated, and in a short period of time, various branches of the military, various tasks, and various action steps were intertwined and mixed together, and chaos was extremely likely to occur. Second, it is greatly affected by meteorological conditions, and the fickle weather and tides give it a strong restriction. Third, it was difficult to get on the beach, and the landing force could not carry heavy firearms when it went to the beach, so it could not get strong fire support. Moreover, when going ashore, the movement route is single and exposed, and it is very easy to be killed by the fire of the defender. Fourth, the beachhead is difficult to control. The initial place of operation of the troops ashore was very cramped, and a large number of personnel and materials poured in, and it was very easy to fall into chaos. Fifth, it is difficult to supply materials, and all the support materials needed by the troops need to be transported to the beachhead by boat, and then taken out and distributed to various units. In an adversarial environment, the landing party often does not have sufficient time to carry out this work calmly.

In the pre-industrial era, because the equipment and skills were generally not high, and the combat was relatively simple, the superiority of the landing far outweighed the difficulty. At that time, the speed of maneuvering on land was much lower than the speed of maneuvering at sea, so the landing party could take full advantage of the mobility option to attack the opponent in an undefended area. At that time, the need for logistical supplies was not large, and the capture of one or two small ports and small bays was enough to solve the problem of supplies going ashore, so the landing warfare of that era was basically the infantry and cavalry going ashore safely in an undefended area by boat, and then going deep inland to engage in a simple land battle with the enemy.

However, all this changed with the rise of the Industrial Revolution, which from the outset seemed to favor the anti-landing side. The large amount of rapid-fire artillery and machine guns greatly enhanced the firepower of the anti-landing party, so that the anti-landing side could defend the broader beachhead with fewer troops. The advent of automobiles, trains, telegraphs, and telephones has improved the situational judgment, decision-making, and maneuverability of land-resisting parties—and for the first time, the speed of maneuvering on land has exceeded that of maneuvering at sea. Although the attacker can still choose to go ashore where the defense is weak, once the defender determines that the opponent has landed, they can quickly gather forces to the landing site and defeat the landing force before it is assembled, or trap it on the beachhead and slowly clean it up. Moreover, with the improvement of various reconnaissance and observation techniques, it is easy for the defending side to determine the possible landing site of the other side, preemptively occupy the high ground around the beach, and turn the beachhead into a slaughterhouse with machine guns, rifles, and rapid-fire artillery while the landing force leaves the troop carrier rowing to the beach or has just landed in a mess.

For the landing party, the amount of new power brought to them by the industrial revolution is far from enough to offset the advantage of the other party. The most important thing is that firepower confrontation is at a disadvantage -- the characteristic of industrial warfare is that the status of firepower warfare has risen, and the landing party, limited by the means of delivery, cannot deliver a large number of field artillery to the shore in time, and even if it is delivered, it is difficult to use it immediately under beachhead conditions. The only thing the landing force could rely on at the beginning was naval artillery support, but usually the technical performance of naval naval guns was not suitable for supporting landing operations, let alone artillery battles with shore guns, because warship guns were mainly designed for battles between warships, and their ballistics were low and straight, and they could not shoot shore guns hiding behind cover and with curved ballistics. Due to the influence of the waves, the firing accuracy of naval naval guns was significantly lower than that of shore guns. Naval guns are mostly equipped with armor-piercing shells against warships, and the explosive power of shells is much lower than that of blasting shells, and the ammunition load of warships is also very limited. In addition, the coordination of naval artillery with the landing force is very difficult in the current conditions, and although carrying radios may solve the problem, in the complex conditions of the beachhead, reliability and immediacy are difficult to say. In addition, warships cannot get too close to the beach for observation, and fire support is provided in a timely manner according to the combat situation on land, and naval guns with low accuracy are easy to accidentally injure their own side, which makes the landing side at a disadvantage in combat firepower and makes it more difficult to break through. In addition, under the conditions of modern operations, it is more difficult to coordinate command, logistical supply, and control of the beachhead, and the number of combat personnel and equipment participating in landing operations has increased, and the composition is complex, and it is difficult for the traditional mode of operation to be effectively accomplished.

In the Sakhalin landing battle in the Asian-Russian War, the Chinese army generally used carrier-based motor boats to tow sampans to transport landing troops, although the Russian army was defenseless on the beachhead, there was still a lot of confusion at first: the naval officers who operated the dinghy did not know the situation of the landing beach, and the boats carrying the landing went their own way, and there was no order, some of the dinghys were lost for a while, and some drove onto the beach outside the landing area, and the loading of all kinds of materials was even more ridiculous: the food had not been landed a day later, But the post office was built a few hours after landing; Medicines and medical equipment are placed in the bilge and take several days to take them out. This information, based on the memoirs of Chinese officers and soldiers, seems to be sufficient to corroborate Scowley's conclusion.

Accordingly, Sculley believed that if there was a certain amount of firepower on each beachhead and sufficient reserves inland, no matter which direction the enemy landed, the beachhead guards would only need to hold out for a few hours before waiting for the support of the reserves to drive the enemy with an unstable foothold into the sea.

In accordance with this philosophy, Scauley carefully configured the island's defense system.

To the southeast, on Wikiki Beach, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 54th National Guard Regiment are deployed, with two machine gun companies and two artillery batteries. The defending forces dug trenches, erected civil bunkers, put barbed wire in front of the positions, and laid mines in some key areas.

In the city of Honolulu, next to Wikiki Beach, the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 53rd National Guard Regiment were deployed, with a machine-gun company, responsible for the defense of the city and the port. The troops erected barricades, dug trenches and artillery holes, and converted several buildings located on major traffic routes into forts.

Northwest of Honururu, in Pearl City, at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, there are general reserves: the 50th National Guard Regiment and the first battalion of the 53rd National Guard Regiment, three artillery batteries and two machine gun companies. Almost all the vehicles collected from all over the island: trucks, cars, motorcycles, horse-drawn carts, donkey carts, bicycles - all gathered here, so that the reserves could go where they were needed.

On Eva Beach in the southwest of the island, the 3rd battalions of the 51st and 54th National Guard Regiments, three artillery batteries and two machine-gun batteries are deployed. As this was the most likely direction for the enemy to attack, the defenders at Eva's beachhead took the time to dig and build as many trenches and bunkers as possible, especially for artillery and machine-gun emplacements with tree trunks, nets, and foliage.

Between Sunset Beach in the northwest of the island and Haleiwa, the largest coastal town in the north of the island, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 1st Hawaiian Reserve Regiment, together with an artillery company and a machine gun company, also constructed a large number of field bunkers near the beachhead.

The 3rd Battalion, J Company of the 1st Reserve Regiment, was stationed in Wahiawa, in the central valley of Oahu, guarding the barracks and warehouses there, while the other two companies plus several militia detachments were scattered at key points on the east and west coasts of the island as sentinels.

In addition, several infantry detachments drawn from various regiments were responsible for assisting in the defense of the Navy's coastal batteries, and some units reinforced machine gun groups in order to strengthen defensive firepower.

The goal is to hold out for more than two weeks, to inflict maximum casualties on the enemy, and to show the indomitable spirit of the United States and to safeguard the honor and faith of the US Army.

"O God, show us, shine on us, believe in us—we can do it."

Scauley clenched his fists in front of his chest and prayed silently for himself and for the more than 20,000 officers and soldiers under his command.

At 7 o'clock, Lieutenant General Gao Long's first support unit began shelling Wikiki Beach, 32 305 mm main guns thundered outside the range of the enemy's shore artillery, and the first batch of 450 kilogram huge bombs exploded clusters of tall and scattered sand pillars on the beach, and after slightly correcting the trajectory, the barrage extended to the coconut groves and hills behind the beach, and suddenly, countless broken tree trunks and coconut fruit cannonballs flew in all directions - the most beautiful beach on Oahu suddenly became the most dangerous hell of death.

Twenty minutes later, the third support unit led by Admiral Sa Zhen Bing began shelling Sunset Beach, and the two ships "Longwei" and "Fengxiang" that landed on the escort force also temporarily joined the artillery bombardment, and the 32 380 mm and 16 350 mm heavy guns on the six heavy battleships, under the guidance of the aircraft, fiercely bombarded several woodlands near the beachhead where the enemy troops were most likely to assemble. A grayish-brown clearing emerged in the orchard.

At 7:30 a.m., Vice Admiral Liao Shengzhen's second support unit began shelling Eva Beach, and this formation, despite the threat of coastal batteries, tried its best to approach the beach, and the battleships and cruisers in the formation opened heavy fire with all the main and auxiliary guns on one side, and the arrogance was extremely arrogant.

At 7:50 a.m., a large formation of 27 carrier-based attack planes dropped more than 100 bombs on the town of Eva in just two or three minutes......

At 8:05, Sculley received a report from the defense forces on the Eva side: the enemy landing force has been discovered! A large number of dinghys are approaching the beachhead!

As expected!