The shells of the 7.63mm Mauser and 9mm Pyrabrum shells scrambled out of the shell and fell into the grass with a blue-gray smoke, scalding ants or wildflowers.

Crimson blood poured from between Captain Hudson's brows, down the bridge of his tall nose, around the corners of his mouth, and to his chin, dripping and contaminating the tawny uniform or the turquoise blades of grass.

Bullet holes, more bullet holes, blooming like flowers on white skin, yellow uniforms, red bandages. Mauser and Pyra Belum's warhead march hand in hand, piercing muscles, tearing blood vessels, shattering bones, and churning internal organs......

A few drops of blood splashed on Cai Guolan's face.

More blood was sprayed on the bodies of Mauser and Jinling pistols, as well as on their owners' yellow arms, gray uniforms, and black leather boots.

"What ...... for?"

Cai Guolan slowly wiped away the blood on the tip of her nose that was still warm, and her bright eyes widened wider and wider.

"They're no longer useful."

Two empty magazines were thrown on the ground, Liang Gensheng glanced at the several American soldiers who were still moaning in front of Cai Guolan, put the gun into the sleeve, and pulled out the dagger at his waist.

"Stop! Killing prisoners of war without permission is a violation of military discipline! ”

Cai Guolan stumbled to his feet and spread her arms in front of the wounded American soldiers.

"Military discipline?" Liang Gensheng licked the blade expressionlessly, "I've got the final say here—get out of the way!" ”

Cai Guolan not only didn't move, but raised her voice: "Can a high military rank trample on military discipline?" You're going to be court-martialed! ”

Liang Gensheng shook his head, slowly approached Cai Guolan, and stood at the distance where the tip of his nose almost touched her forehead.

"You...... What do you want to do......"

Facing this cold man who was pressed over like a mountain, Cai Guolan felt irrepressible cowardice.

The man's eyes were filled with the aura of hell...... The smell of shuddering, weakness, and despair.

Is he really a human being in this world?

He......

"I know you just need a reason to be convinced."

The man's voice was slightly hoarse, but his tone suddenly became surprisingly gentle.

"People in this world are always looking for reasons...... Justification for one's actions. Sometimes we just need to convince ourselves, but most of the time, we have to find reasons for others to agree, because the justice of one person is too small after all, and the justice of the majority can wash away all evil......"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Cai Guolan bit her lip, took a slight step back, tried to stabilize her emotions, and looked up into the other party's eyes.

"All I know is that you're committing a crime now, stop the precipice, Your Excellency Captain."

"Colonel, what are you doing!"

Zheng An's voice - Cai Guolan turned her head to see that not only Zheng An, but also Fan Wenrui, Qi Bing, and Xiao Lu were here, and the airborne troops who heard the sound surrounded the riverbank.

"Look, everyone's here, it's time to announce the reason." Liang Gensheng said.

"Why?"

"yes, don't you, and them, just want a reason?"

"Nonsense, how can it be ......"

"Prick up your ears and listen."

Liang Gensheng turned around, left Cai Guolan, faced everyone, and resumed his cold and stern tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, the existence of this wing is highly confidential, in order to ensure the secrecy of this wing's future operations, under the orders of the peak, if necessary, it may be exempted from the constraints of general military discipline and implement extraordinary measures against non-friendly forces that may reveal the situation of this wing, including enemy soldiers, civilians, and soldiers and civilians of third countries. Even all friendly troops must keep it strictly confidential and not disclose anything related to the wing to anyone, otherwise once it is discovered, it will be punished as the crime of leaking military aircraft, and the punishment will not be severe. ”

"You made it all up yourself! to cover up the fact that you have violated military discipline! Cai Guolan shouted dissatisfied.

"It's true." Said a squadron leader.

"It's okay to disperse, don't get in the way of the chief's work." This was stated by another officer of the Airborne Forces.

The airborne troops scattered with expressionless faces.

"How could it be...... How so! Major Fan, Lieutenant Zheng An, you won't talk about it......" Cai Guolan was disappointed, but also looked at Fan Wenrui and Zheng An with anticipation.

"Lieutenant Cai, you don't care about this matter." Fan Wenrui bowed his head and said.

Zheng An dodged Cai Guolan's gaze and didn't say a word.

Qi Bing and Xiao Lu were at a loss, and it seemed that they hadn't figured out the situation yet.

"See, that's the justice of the majority. Strictly speaking, I am also acting on orders, and as for not letting my subordinates do this, this is the freedom of the head of this association. Liang Gensheng played with the dagger in one hand and pushed Cai Guolan away with the other, and the blood-stained military boots stepped on the twisted and tearful face of a young wounded soldier.

"What kind of bastard order is that, the Hague Convention stipulates that prisoners of war are to be ......"

"Rubbing", the sound of a dagger cutting through the roaring tube?

A large amount of blood spurted from the wounded soldier's neck, what a dazzling waterfall of blood......

"The Hague Convention? No, you don't need to memorize that kind of thing. Listen, this is war, for the supreme justice of the empire, everything that originally seemed to be evil should be regarded as the only way to justice, and do it calmly without any burden, without such awareness, sooner or later it will be eliminated by this war! For the ultimate realization of justice, unscrupulous means are a matter of course! ”

The dagger was on the neck of another wounded soldier, and the Californian young man, who was still chatting with Cai Guolan just now, stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the air: "Cai, Miss Cai, save me ......"

Liang Gensheng leaned into his ear and said softly, "Have you forgotten what I said last night?" You're dead. ”

In a flash of the knife, another human life, like an ant under Liang Gen's raw leather boots, dissipated in an instant.

Cai Guolan trembled her shoulders and shouted angrily: "Devil...... You devil! You're going to hell! ”

"Really?" Liang Gensheng crooked his neck, and inserted the dagger deep into the eye socket of the most wounded soldier with his backhand, and with a slight twist of his wrist, he beautifully brought out the opponent's eyeballs, and then inserted the dagger with eyeballs into the victim's mouth, and the tip of the dagger penetrated the throat and stabbed out from the back of the neck.

"We're all going to hell."

Stepping on the face of the deceased and pulling out the dagger, so that the eyes remained in the mouth of the deceased—Liang Gensheng did not have a satisfied expression, but wiped the dagger on the corpse's military uniform with a little sadness.

"Lieutenant Cai, what do you think war is? Is it acting, making movies? Are you going to survive this war without blood? Do you think it is nobler and purer to kill someone with an airplane than to kill someone with a knife? ”

"Or ......"

Liang Gensheng finished wiping the dagger, stuffed it back into the scabbard, got up and approached Cai Guolan, his hand suddenly stretched out to her neck, Cai Guolan jumped back a few steps like an electric shock, and put his hands in front of his chest: "What are you doing!" Can a colonel play hooligan? ”

Liang Gensheng only said lightly: "You have a cross around your neck." ”

"It doesn't violate military discipline, don't those who believe in Buddhism also hang amulets begged for in the temple?"

"I mean, do you think you can go to heaven with a cross? War is a murderous activity, and no matter how beautiful the name is added and how great the justice is shouted, this fact will not change. You and I will go to hell, and all the murderers in this war will go to hell, unless you flee this battlefield, hide in the arms of your mother, and chant in the church until you die of old age, and maybe you will have a chance to be forgiven by your God. ”

"No, at least I won't kill innocent civilians and prisoners who laid down their arms!" Cai Guolan retorted confidently.

Liang Gensheng bent down to pick up the empty magazine on the ground, pointed to the dead body on the ground and said coldly: "Really? So think about it, who made the clothes on these people? Did the bread they eat fall from heaven? And who made weapons and ammunition for war? War is a struggle of the country as a whole, there are no innocents at all, everyone is part of the war. For example, a fighter jet, some people are machine guns, some people are bullets, some people are engines, some people are fuselages, and some people are pilots. It's only the machine gun that hits the enemy, but without the synergy of the other parts, the machine gun can't attack the right enemy in the right place. And to destroy this plane, it is necessary to shoot at its entire fuselage, and it cannot and cannot be attacked only by aiming at its machine guns. ”

"As for the captives who laid down their arms, just now I have already given you good reasons, and if you can't understand it, it's your own problem. But I hope you don't doubt the veracity of that reason, otherwise you will not only suffer yourself, but also everyone around you. ”

"Last, Lieutenant Cai, I want to ask you, what is the nature of a soldier?"

Cai Guolan hesitated for a moment, and said reluctantly and reflexively: "Yes...... Obey. ”

"That's right, I'm in charge of this place now, and if you want to stay here, you have to listen to me. Now I order you, take your men back and be on standby, ready to carry out the task of air indication. ”

"Yes......"

While Cai Guolan gritted her teeth and saluted, an officer poked his head out of the sugar cane field on the bank of the river and shouted: "Sir, the enemy is coming." ”

Liang Gensheng kicked the dead body on the ground, and then instructed Cai Guolan: "Go quickly, this time you may be shelled, the people with you are hiding, and they are not allowed to come out without my order." ”

With that, he jumped up the river slope and threw himself into the sugar cane field like a bear.

"That man...... What exactly is ......?"

Cai Guolan clenched her fists, but she was surprised to feel that the most gentle instructions were so gentle......

……

Sunset Beach.

Following five Marine Infantry Battalions of the First Formation and two Marine Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Brigades of the Second Formation, two Marine Armored Brigades of the Third Formation and the 101st Amphibious Artillery Brigade began disembarking at 10:30 a.m.

Prior to this, the Marine Corps sappers in the first formation and the amphibious engineering vehicles in the second formation had already carved several direct roads on the beach to Route 83.

Demolition canisters and ZHA kits carried by sappers destroyed the barricades made of coconut tree trunks and opened up a four- to six-fold barbed wire fence for trucks to pass through. The demining engineering vehicles fired serpentine pill packets propelled by the sappers at the minefield, and then the bulldozers leveled the minefields and the passages in the barbed wire array, and finally the paving trucks laid prefabricated steel plates on the passages, so that the roads opened up were not only safe, but also ensured that vehicles, especially wheeled vehicles, could quickly and smoothly drive out of the beachhead.

With the help of the effect of air-dropped poison gas bombs, the infantry of the first formation successfully drove the enemy out of the defensive position, and the 1st Marine Division, 1st Regiment and 2nd Battalion, which were responsible for the frontal assault, rushed all the way and drove the remnants of the enemy across Highway 83, and after the 7th Company of the Sharp Knife Platoon launched an attack on the enemy artillery position hidden in the mountains and forests, and within a few minutes took the enemy artillery position and captured 4 rapid-fire field guns. Its 5th Company pursued the enemy all the way, penetrated deep into a valley, found the regimental flag and related documents of the enemy's 1st Hawaiian Reserve Regiment, captured many regimental personnel, but did not find the enemy regimental commander. With a light machine gun, the sixth company, one platoon, and two squads annihilated about one company of the fleeing enemy in a valley leading to Haleiwa, capturing nearly 200 of the enemy.

In addition, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marine Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment successfully solved one company of each of the enemy defenders on the rocky walls north and south of the beach by means of frontal climbing and flank detours respectively -- the enemy's position was completely covered with poison gas, and almost all the officers and men lost their combat effectiveness, and they were basically captured without a fight. The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment with two infantry platoons and an engineer platoon captured a coastal battery equipped with heavy artillery, and since the battery was also covered with poison gas, the attacking troops met almost no resistance, and after blowing open the gate with a zha medicine bag, all the defenders were captured, only one of our soldiers was accidentally wounded by a companion's bayonet when he stormed the battery, and only two soldiers and one officer of the enemy were wounded in the explosion.

THE THIRD BATTALION OF THE 1ST MARINE REGIMENT ADVANCED NORTHEAST ALONG HIGHWAY 83, SUCCESSFULLY CAPTURED KAWELA, WHICH HAD ONLY ONE PLATOON OF DEFENDERS, AND WITH A COMPANY OF TROOPS, MADE A TENTATIVE ATTACK AT KUUMA, A FEW KILOMETERS TO THE EAST.

The 1st Marine Regiment and 1st Battalion advanced along Highway 83 in the direction of Haleiwa in the southwest, pursued the fleeing enemy all the way, and rushed into the city of WAIMEA, close to the southern end of the beach, where there was a fierce battle with the enemy forces who rushed to reinforce them, and each side occupied about half of the urban area, and was at a standoff for a while. Due to the lack of heavy weapons, the first battalion was forced to suspend the attack and wait for backups.

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE LANDING FORCE, GENERAL SHEN XINGYI, WHO CAME ASHORE WITH THE THIRD FORMATION, IMMEDIATELY OPENED A FORWARD COMMAND IN THE VILLAGE OF WALALEE AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE BEACH. The personnel of the headquarters set up a radio station in the thatched hut of a local native, and spread out a large-scale map of the theater of operations on the special marching table of the headquarters -- the communications soldiers of various units immediately arrived from all directions like bees attracted by flowers, carrying letters and dragging telephone lines, and the originally empty village was suddenly drowned out by the sound of mechanical reports, impatient shouts, majestic orders, hurried leather boots, calm radio announcements, and the sound of rough vehicle engines.

Riding in huge crocodile amphibious personnel carriers, or flying wolf chariots covered with rivets, or two-and-a-half-ton trucks with pigs' heads, or trailer motorcycles painted in green, the commanders of the brigades and above also rushed to the village of Valari from all directions.