Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 1618 The Second Episode of the Crippled Regiment Army (II)
Lieutenant General Harrison's voice was so anxious, if there was a lucky element in the shelling of the RI Benjin, there was a lucky element that could survive, but in the face of the charge of the infantry of the RI Army all over the mountains, the troops who had been beaten to the ground and suffered heavy casualties could only wait for the end of the slaughter, and the only hope was to use the firepower of the fleet's naval guns and carrier-based aircraft to gain a respite for the troops to retreat!
Lieutenant General Fallwood, whose ears were "buzzing" by Lieutenant General Harrison's roar, did not care about this, and immediately replied: "Yes, immediately carry out the commander's order, please order the landing force, and provide specific shelling directions and coordinates!" โ
This is the truth, there is no direction and target of the shelling, and your own naval guns can't be used to fight nonsense, at the end of the walkie-talkie, Lieutenant General Harrison roared like crazy: "Don't *** mention any directions and coordinates to me, hit outside the depth of the landing field!" โ
This is also the truth, with the current situation of the US landing force, how many commands at all levels can be left, even Lieutenant General Harrison does not know, only the Ninth Division can be contacted, but that is only a direction, not to mention, is playing with the retreat, how can he provide the direction and coordinates?
Lieutenant General Fallwood was stunned for a moment, and muttered, "It's all *** crazy!" "Order the main guns of all warships to take the edge of the maximum depth of the landing field as the target for shelling, and order, after replenishing ammunition and fuel, to take off immediately to cover the retreat of the landing force!"
Tens of thousands of soldiers from the four divisions of the Seventh Army of the RI Army, like hungry wolves smelling blood, roared frantically and rushed up, and the shelling of the US invasion just now gave the RI soldiers hidden in the starting point of the attack as excited as chicken blood, "Look! This is the power of the Imperial Army, the body of the American soldier has been reduced to pieces under the fire of the Imperial Army, and the sound of cannonballs flying overhead is as wonderful as the pastoral song of the homeland! โ
Every officer and soldier of the RI Army has no doubt that this battle ended with the glorious victory of the Imperial Army, closer, closer, the charging RI soldiers can already see the craters everywhere, the fragmented corpses of the US soldiers, the burning tanks and trucks, and the smell of gunpowder and blood, and the RI soldiers have only one thought in their minds, to insert the cold and snowy bayonets into the chests of the US soldiers, and the premise is that there is still a living United States to enter?
The soldiers of the RI Army who rushed up saw with regret that in addition to the corpses everywhere, they did not see the figures of the US soldiers fleeing for their lives in panic, and the few US soldiers who lacked arms and legs and were bruised all over their bodies became the objects of the RI soldiers to show their strength, and more than a dozen bayonets did not hesitate to stab into the bodies of the dying US soldiers, and the short screams were soon drowned out by the beastly roars of the RI soldiers!
If the war situation develops according to this process, more than 80,000 American soldiers, under the habit of killing prisoners of war, without exception, will become a corpse with bruises on the beach of Hawaii, but the war is full of accidents, and the reversal of form can happen at any time, and the Hawaii Island battlefield is no exception.
The soldiers of the Ri Army, who had already rushed to the edge of the US landing ground, greeted them with white spoons, and the shells fired from the large-caliber naval guns of the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy, more than 60 warships, and the naval guns with a caliber of more than 200 millimeters, the explosive power of the shells exceeded that of the Ri Army's field artillery several times, and the soldiers of the first assault wave of the Ri Army were immediately drowned in the steel of death. ,!โโ>
The same situation was played out on the battlefield of Hawaii Island, but this time the tragedy was that the soldiers of the Ri Army, the naval guns of the US ships, formed a three-dimensional wall of fire on the road of the charge of the Ri soldiers, and the shelling was extremely effective, and the momentum of the charge of the Ri Army was immediately contained, of course, the few US troops who did not have time to retreat to the landing site were also turned into a pile of minced meat like the soldiers of the Ri Army.
"Jingle bell!" In the headquarters of the Seventh Army of the RI Army, a red telephone rang like a madman, Lieutenant General Nakano Yoshiki, grabbed the phone, just listened to a sentence, and immediately changed his face, "Hani? The attacking force was shelled by the guns of the American fleet, and the attack was thwarted! Order, all attacking troops, immediately stop the attack and retreat, out of the range of the US warship shelling! Be quick! โ
The chief of staff, Major General Nobuto, asked anxiously: "Your Excellency, commander, has the situation on the battlefield changed?" Bad things for us? โ
Putting down the phone, Nakano Yoshiki sighed, "It's the damn U.S. Pacific Fleet again, hateful, sorry, isn't it true that our Seventh Army can't create a myth and annihilate all four divisions of the U.S. Army?" โ
"The layout of more than ten years, the perfect opportunity, the perfect shelling, still can't be as I want, such an opportunity, there will be no more, it's not just regret that can be expressed, Shinto-kun, I'm very sad!"
Lieutenant General Nakano Yoshiki, in his tone, there was a sense of loneliness, and deep resentment, Major General Nobuto hurriedly comforted: "Commander, you don't have to be too angry, the US Second Army, after being hit so hard, will not do much on the battlefield on Hawaii Island, our white spoon victory is predictable, but it is just a delay!" โ
Nakano Yoshiki shook his head and said something taboo, "Fifth Admiral Yamamoto, misunderstand me and mislead the country, Nobuto-kun, immediately draft the entire process of this battle into a telegram and report it to the General Staff and Admiralty of the base camp, don't forget, give a copy to Admiral Yamamoto, and let him understand that because of the non-cooperation of the navy, the war on Hawaii Island will be delayed indefinitely!" โ
Rear Admiral Nobuto hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Commander, the telegram to the General Staff and the Admiralty of the base camp is understandable, but the telegram to Admiral Yamamoto is not necessary, you also know that the relationship between the Navy and our Army is tense, will your telegram be considered a humiliation and provocation by General Yamamoto?" Our Seventh Army, Bi Jing needs the cooperation of the Navy Combined Fleet, and the relationship is stiff, which is not good for us! โ
Nakano Yoshiki snorted coldly and said: "I just want General Yamamoto to understand what a big mistake he has made, for the navy that has always been arrogant, he needs to be strongly stimulated, and the telegram will be sent!" In addition, order all divisions and regiments to count the casualties! โ
The casualties of the RI Army were quickly counted, and the US Navy only shelled for more than 20 minutes, causing more than 5,000 casualties to the troops of the first assault wave of the RI Army, and originally, this casualty could have been completely avoided, which made Vice Admiral Nakano Yoshiki even more angry with the combined fleet of Admiral Yamamoto, if they solved the US Pacific Fleet, how could the Seventh Army have such casualties? The determination to sue is even stronger!
The night of June 25 finally came, the night sรจ enveloped the Hawaiian Islands, the mountains roared like a tsunami of the noisy battlefield, finally fell silent, the strong Pacific wind, as always, blew over the islands, skimming the coconut groves, but could not blow the heavy smell of gunpowder smoke and pungent blood.
The waves of the Pacific Ocean surged onto the beaches of Hawaii one after another, taking away a pool of blood, mottled and coagulated bloodstains, washed by the waves, gradually fading, blending into the seawater, and finally, disappearing without a trace, the corpses of American soldiers who had no time to bury and collect, under the impact of the waves, swinging irregularly, turning wounds, soaked in the sea water and pale without sรจ!
The casualties of the US Second Army have also been counted, this is a sad number, the RI Army first airplanes, and then the crazy artillery bombardment, to the Second Army, caused heavy casualties, statistics, the landing only seven or eight hours, casualties more than 30,000, of which, the number of soldiers killed in battle, reached more than 20,000, before the infantry of the Seventh Army of the RI Army has been fought, the Second Army has been reduced by more than a quarter!
Brigadier General Jeffrey Span was seriously wounded in the 9th Mechanized Infantry Division, Brigadier General Hausenwig, commander of the 10th Infantry Division, was killed, Brigadier General Jenkins, commander of the 4th Marine Division, was wounded, Brigadier General Jackson, commander of the 6th Division, had his leg blown off, Brigadier General Field, commander of the 1st Marine Division, and Brigadier General Hollakeden, commander of the 3rd Division, survived death because they were in the rear, and more than half of the six division commanders under Lieutenant General Harrison were killed or wounded.
As for the casualties of regimental and battalion commanders, more than one-third of them were, all the troops were incomplete, the tanks, artillery, and other heavy equipment that had already landed ashore were blown up to the ground, more than 200 landing craft were sunk or destroyed, and the Second Army was already disabled, and although there were still more than 50,000 troops, the morale of the troops had dropped to the lowest point.
What's even worse is that this is the main force of the Second Army, and Lieutenant General Harrison, who was picked up on the flagship of the "USS McKin", after reading the casualty statistics table, hung his head deeply, and said in a thousand voices: "Chief of Staff, immediately report the battle situation to the Joint Staff Committee, and at the same time, request the follow-up troops of the Second Army to immediately go to the battlefield on Hawaii Island!" โ
China, Guangzhou, Guangzhou Jing Bei District Headquarters, division commander Tang Qiuli's office, late at night, still lights on, chief of staff Zhao Yuhe, major general, pushed the door in, said: "Division commander, the situation on the battlefield on Hawaii Island has come out, the intelligence department intercepted the commander of the US Second Army, Lieutenant General Harrison's telegram sent to China, after the landing, the department was heavily shelled by the RI army, and suffered heavy casualties, with more than 30,000 casualties, and several generals and officers, division commander, I admire your judgment!" โ
Tang Qiuli smiled indifferently and said: "Unexpectedly, there are more than 80,000 troops, and there is only one landing site with bad conditions, which is obviously a trap for RI Ben, and it is no wonder that the US army does not suffer losses. โ
"However, it is a little strange that with the attack power of the RI Army, under the premeditated situation, the casualties of the US army should not only be this, among them, the situation on the battlefield must have changed unexpectedly, so that the RI Army cannot expand the results of the battle, but this is enough for the United States to feel uncomfortable!"
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