"Cherry blossoms will eventually fall, it's a natural law." When Mudan recalled the battle of Peleliu a few years later, he made a poetic assessment.

That's right, he is a top student of the Literature Department of the Southwest Associated University, and has the reputation of a campus poet, and his poems have been imitated by many people.

However, at this time, Mu Dan could not be poetic, because he was commanding the troops, attacking the last important stronghold of the Japanese army, the Bloody Nose Ridge.

Bloodnose Ridge is a coral ridge with steep terrain that tanks and armored vehicles cannot climb at all, and the lush vegetation and a lot of conscious camouflage make it look like it's defenseless.

However, this is not the case, and the Japanese have excavated a large number of artificial caves, some of which are as large as nine floors. The entrance of the cave is full of various firepower points, and there are a series of facilities such as lighting and ventilation in the cave, and the entrance of the cave is equipped with a steel gate, and the gate is camouflaged with grass and trees, once the gate is closed, it is difficult for outsiders to find their entrance.

In previous shelling and air raids, it was also a key target, but because Coral Ridge was so hard, it did little damage to the Japanese troops inside, and after the shelling, they built camouflage and became the same as before.

An infantry regiment and two infantry battalions of the 1st Division participated in the task of directly attacking the Bloody Nose Ridge.

In fact, yesterday there were already troops attacking the Bloody Nose Ridge, a battalion of the 15th Infantry Regiment attacked three times, and more than 200 people were killed and wounded on the three occasions, and almost half of the brothers in a battalion were reimbursed.

The battalion commander finally cried to the commander, "It's too difficult to fight, this is not a war, this is suicide!" Let the fucking Yankees fight! ”

The regiment commander sighed, "The Japanese have a much deeper hatred with us than the Americans!" Even if the Americans don't fight, we have to fight! ”

The regiment commander reported the battle situation to the division headquarters, and the division commander Dai was silent for a long time after hearing it, and after a while, he smashed his fist on the map, "If you want to blow up this mountain, you must also fight the Bloody Nose Ridge!" ”

Division Commander Dai personally went to the front line and mobilized the forces of two regiments to attack the Bloody Nose Ridge. Prior to this, he asked the US aircraft carriers to send more than 50 carrier-based aircraft to bomb the Bloody Nose Ridge.

This time, the U.S. forces used a large amount of coagulation*, and after a series of bombardments, the Bloody Nose Ridge was burned into a sea of fire, and after removing the obstacles, the infantry began to attack.

Mudan remembered that it was the most tragic battle, braving the frenzied artillery fire of the Japanese, the officers and men went forward one after another, stepping on the corpses of their comrades inch by inch, and they shouted the slogan "Expeditionary Force, marching forward" and rushed forward with a roar.

The deputy division commander wiped his tears after seeing it, "Fuck! Like the Japanese, we're doing 'Banzai Charge'! ”

The battle lasted for two whole days and one night, and no one could hope to survive this battle, and after paying great sacrifices, the 1st Expeditionary Division finally defeated the Bloody Nose Ridge!

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With the loss of Bloody Nose Ridge and the loss of the last barrier of the Japanese army on Peleliu, Nakagawa Osa knew that the tide was over, and he could not reverse the defeat no matter what.

He sent a telegram to the garrison headquarters, asking the garrison headquarters to approve his "jade shattering" battle plan with the whole army, and the Japanese garrison rejected Nakagawa Daisa's "jade shattering" plan, but in the absence of reinforcements outside and no breakthrough inside, Nakagawa had no second way to choose.

Raising his hands to surrender is not his style, let alone the style of the entire imperial army. With the gradual scarcity of supplies and ammunition, he had no choice but to launch a suicide attack on the "jade shatter".

As the night approaches, Peleliu is at its coolest time of the day.

Nakagawa Osa and his subordinates sat around the command post, and not far from them, more than a thousand wounded soldiers were present.

In front of the dilapidated table, in front of which was an old gasoline barrel that had been cut, the orderly came and poured the gasoline he had taken, struck a match and threw it in, and the flames burst into the drum with a clatter, and a lieutenant threw all the confidential documents into the barrel, and the flames became even more vigorous.

Kojima Nakasa came over and solemnly took down a military flag hanging at the command post, which was their company flag, which was given to them by the emperor himself at the beginning of the establishment of the wing.

There is no doubt that this military flag bears all the exploits and honors of the wing.

Kojima Temple held this military flag, and with a difficult expression on his face, he turned his gaze to Nakagawa Osa next to him. Nakagawa didn't respond to his gaze, just waved his hand and said, "Burn it!" ”

"Hayi." With this reply, he threw the flag into the brazier and burst into flames.

After burning confidential documents and military flags, issuing orders for the whole army to shatter, and sending a telegram to the garrison headquarters that the whole army was determined to fight to the death, Nakagawa felt that he and his generals had completed their mission.

He pulled out the shiny *, looked at the eyes of the crowd, and then killed himself with a sword, ending his life of sin.

After seeing this, several other officers also pulled out their own *, cut open their stomachs, and buried militarists in advance.

Nakagawa's suicide with a knife won a great commendation from the top of the Japanese army, and after his death, he was promoted two levels in a row, from the original army to lieutenant general, which is also a great wonder in the history of the Japanese army.

There was no other move, but it stimulated many Japanese generals to follow suit in the later stages of the war, and for a time there were many Japanese generals who committed suicide after seeing defeat.

Rather than the high-ranking generals who ended the battle with dignity and enjoyed many honors, the officers and soldiers in the middle and lower ranks did not have this good luck.

After the order was issued, the Japanese headquarters on Peleliu ceased to exist, and the Japanese officers and soldiers began to fight on their own. Most of them, having drunk what little sake they had, stripped off their shirts, held their bayonet-mounted Type 99 rifles, and rushed towards the Chinese army with a roar.

Although this kind of suicide attack was full of booing, the damage caused was not great, because the officers and soldiers of the 1st Division of the Expeditionary Force had already learned this kind of crazy attack on the battlefield in Burma, and they had already figured out the gambler psychology of devils from Yunnan to Singapore, so they created a way of playing to break the suicidal charge of the Japanese army.

In short, it is to use the basic company platoon as a combat unit, concentrate *, use the flamethrower to search and advance, and once encountering the suicidal charge of the Japanese army, the flamethrower will cooperate with * and use a dense fire network and * to deal with the Japanese.

This tactic worked very well, and often the Japanese suicide squads were beaten into a sieve or burned into a sheet of charcoal before they could get close.

However, the Japanese army's suicide attacks day and night still brought a lot of casualties to the officers and men of the 1st Expeditionary Division, and when the troops were stationed and resting at night, the Japanese suicide squad often came out of the hole in the ground and frantically rushed out to detonate it.

After hearing the news, Division Commander Dai strictly ordered all units to release their guard posts and mobile posts when they were resting, and at the same time not to sleep in sleeping bags, because it would be difficult to carry out them immediately in case of an emergency.

Compared with the suicidal charge, the biggest problem for the officers and men of the 1st Expeditionary Division was the attack of the Japanese army, after Nakagawa issued the order of the jade shatter, the Japanese army on the island began to fight separately, of which more than 3,000 people in accordance with their promises, picked up the weapons in their hands, and launched the "Banzai charge" with their bare buttocks, but there were more than 1,000 officers and soldiers who did not do this, they stayed in the tunnel, and they wanted to fight with the Chinese army to the end with a scream.

Relying on supplies and ammunition from the underground fortifications, the more than 1,000 Japanese troops began to attack in all directions. Compared with those who charge in the long live, these people are truly terrifying, because they are well versed in the essence of raids and guerrilla warfare, and they have a large amount of provisions, and their individual soldiers are extremely high, and they are extremely familiar with the island, which brings great trouble to the expeditionary force.

The expeditionary force had to break through bunker by bunker, search one pit after another...... In these battles, which were extremely time-consuming and troop-consuming, but an additional regiment began to join the attacking force, and Division Commander Dai ordered to clear the island of the remaining Japanese troops.

U.S. infrastructure units have also landed, and airfield repair and clean-up work has begun.

Sporadic gunfire and the creaking of jeep and tank tracks were everywhere throughout Peleliu, and there was no doubt that the island had been captured by the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the flagpole on which the Japanese flag was originally flying at the airfield had been restored, and a Chinese flag was fluttering in the wind.

After two weeks and thousands of casualties, the 1st Division of the Expeditionary Force finally captured Peleliu Island and completely annihilated the 2nd Wing of the Japanese Army and nearly 10,000 other troops defending the island.

After a few more days of sweeping battles, the remaining Japanese forces on the island were no longer a cause for concern, and the officers and men of the 1st Division began to prepare for the evacuation of Peleliu Island, leaving only a small number of troops stationed on the island with the American army.

The Japanese tactics on Peleliu attracted the attention of the Allied leadership, and both American and Chinese officers landed on the island to visit the fortifications that had already been captured.

Most of these field fortifications have been destroyed, and some of them still have a lot of Japanese soldiers' wreckage, and there is a smell of rotting corpses in the tunnels, but the real soldiers are still unmoved by these, and they are all preparing to observe the Japanese field fortifications under this disgusting smell.

Lieutenant Colonel Glade of the 1st Marine Division was surprised when he saw it: "God, if you abandon the distinction between friend and foe, I think this Japanese defense tactic of composite fortifications is simply perfect." You see, not only have they completely hidden their inferiority, but they have also minimized our firepower superiority. I really can't imagine how the Japanese would use such tactics in the landing operations that followed. ”