Chapter 626: Surrender and Riot
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At the speed of a tank, a distance of several kilometers will not take more than a few minutes, and the 24th Division of the US Army at this time has finally restored a little order, and where is it still in time to build an anti-tank position? Without positional cover and blocking the enemy's advance speed, in the face of high-speed galloping tanks and armored vehicles, the division was equipped with a large number of recoilless guns and anti-tank rocket launchers did not play a big role, especially the proportion of new recruits in the division was too high, and it was inevitable that they would be flustered when shooting, and the accuracy was really difficult to guarantee.
Seeing that the 24th Division was in danger of being overwhelmed by the Japanese armored forces in the blink of an eye, the garrison on Oahu was forced to use super-large caliber mortars (there were dozens of them in total, the largest caliber reached 406mm caliber, and the smallest was 305mm) that had not been exposed even in the air raid before, and it must be admitted that the defense of the US imperialists on Oahu was indeed impregnable) to bombard the Japanese and try to repel them. However, the trajectory of the mortar is extremely large, the flight time of the shell in the air is very long, and it is difficult to accurately aim at high-speed moving targets, and Xizhuyi adopts the armored cavalry tactics learned from China, and the tanks and armored vehicles under his command are constantly changing direction and maneuvering, which not only cuts the 24th Division of the US Army to pieces, but also greatly reduces the probability of being hit by the US army.
It's just that the power of large-caliber grenades is too great, and even if they don't hit directly, as long as the Japanese tanks are within a radius of several meters or even larger, they will be blown up and injured and lose their effectiveness (the crew is stunned by a shock, or the tank is shocked out of a mechanical failure, etc.). )。 And armored vehicles with relatively weak armor are even more infrequent. Even the brigade commander Nishitakeichi was slightly injured, if it weren't for the fact that he was riding Japan's most advanced "Type 1 Medium Tank" (which is equivalent to the historical "Type 4" in terms of design, and has better performance), after all, Japan's production management in this time and space has made great progress, and it has also received advanced technology and process formulas transferred by the United States and Germany. The armor protection was much stronger than that of its prototype Type 98 medium tank, and Xizhu was afraid of his life
Although some success was achieved, the artillery support of the US garrison on the island did not save the fate of the US 24th Division, because the Japanese armor-piercing units penetrated into the US 24th Division and caused a large number of accidental injuries (the defense of the infantry was far inferior to that of tanks and armored vehicles, so the US heavy artillery killed many more of its own men than the enemy). But it's not the first time they've done this. Don't say. In the meantime, dozens of Japanese tanks and armored vehicles arrived on the battlefield, quickly making up for the empty strength of Nishitakeichi, and the huge fleet of Japanese aircraft also visited Oahu again, and these unprotected oversized mortars were not as impregnable as coastal batteries. It was soon blown up by Japanese bombers who heard the news. American artillery suffered heavy casualties.
At this time, the casualties of the 24th Division of the US Army had exceeded 5,000 (nearly half of them were caused by their own men). It was also disrupted by the constantly interspersed Japanese armored units, and this new recruit, which accounted for the vast majority of the troops, could no longer hold on, and the division commander saw that defeat was a foregone conclusion. It was also clear that no further reinforcements could arrive until the 24th Division was wiped out by the Japanese, so in order to avoid needless sacrifices, he ended up leading the remaining six or seven thousand men (15,000 were not all brought out, and most of the remaining thousands of men were used to guard against the Japanese population taking advantage of the riot). Surrender to the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Marine Corps. Although this surrender complied with the relevant regulations of the U.S. military, it put the U.S. government in an extremely difficult situation in the subsequent war, and paid huge losses that are difficult to describe in numbers
It is reasonable for the U.S. military to worry about the Japanese inhabitants of Oahu rioting, and the success of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in history is thanks to the help of these insiders, and this sneak attack is inseparable from their assistance. Long before the operation, more than 100 Japanese elite special forces, including Wang Zicai, came to Oahu to lurk on Oahu under the guise of civilians for reasons such as provincial relatives and tourism. Due to the proliferation of civilian guns in the United States, the local military police will not arrest the arrivals when they see the calluses on their hands, not to mention the small number of people brought by the prince and the arrival in batches, so they have not attracted the attention of the US military.
If they carry out combat missions, no matter how powerful these more than 100 people are, they will not want to stir up much of a storm in the face of tens of thousands of US troops stationed on Oahu. The prince naturally knew this, so the first stage of his task for his subordinates was to reconnoiter the deployment of the island, and to mark the key areas of the island one by one in consultation with the Yamaguchi fleet in advance, and when the Japanese launched an air raid, they brought them into Oahu in the form of small radio stations (in the form of civilian electronic devices [pre-ordered]), and when they arrived in a safe place, they were disassembled and assembled into small radio stations. Guided the bombing, otherwise the air attack on Pearl Harbor would never have achieved such an astonishing result.
In addition to providing guidance to the HNA planes, Wang was tasked with mobilizing a riot by the Japanese inhabitants of Oahu in anticipation of the landing, but the task was far easier than he thought. Although like the rest of the United States, most of the local Japanese Americans have become yellow-skinned and white-hearted "banana people", but after all, Japan has long become one of the great powers, and the centripetal force is therefore stronger, so there are still many Japanese residents in the local area who still have their hearts towards Japan, plus Japan has been preparing for this for more than half a century, and I don't know how many hidden lines are lurking, so the prince doesn't need to publicize and agitate at all. However, this also made him feel more and more how terrible the forbearance of the Japanese nation was, and further strengthened his determination to completely destroy Japan
It is not difficult to launch, but if you want to rely on these mobs who have no formal training and no standard weapons and equipment to fight against the US troops stationed on the island, it is undoubtedly difficult to reach the sky. Fortunately, neither the Japanese Navy Staff nor the prince who is directly in charge is so crazy, all they want is to let these cannon fodder more or less contain the strength of the US military. What really poses a huge threat to the U.S. military is Wang Zicai and more than 100 special forces under his command, they frequently attack the American military and police under the cover of countless Japanese mobs, if the number is small, Wang Zicai and they will kill people with their own hands, as long as they kill officers and superintendents, the morale of the garrison will drop sharply, and it will be difficult to stop the tide of mobs, well, it should be said that the Japanese special forces under the cover of the mob. Among them, the prince alone hid behind the crowd under the cover of the mob and shot a black gun to kill many American military police. And when the special forces and even the mob seized military weapons, the destructive power they caused was even more amazing (to be continued......