Chapter 107: Cruelty
It is shameful for someone to have no knowledge. Yamamoto didn't care, after all, he wasn't a technician, and he didn't have the concept of radar in his head. But what about Toshiichiro Koizumi? This guy with a wealth of knowledge from later generations can't judge that the Cadet Army has radar in the face of so many suspicious signs, which has to make people sigh.
After the end of the Hainan Campaign, the Japanese Admiralty launched a counter-espionage operation that lasted for more than three months, not to mention how many officers suffered "injustices" and died at the hands of their own people in this operation.
These things that happened later, not only Ouyang Yun didn't know about it, but Yamamoto Fifty-six also didn't expect it.
Back to July 13th. Yamamoto listened to Koizumi's advice again, and when he later met with Onizuka Shomuro, he first severely criticized the latter, and then proposed a new operational plan: after the artillery bombardment and bombardment had achieved certain results, he would send several small units ashore to induce the ambush of the Cadet Corps to appear, so as to adopt indiscriminate artillery bombardment to give full play to the superiority of the combined fleet.
"Attack the enemy's shortcomings with your own strengths, Onizuka-kun, do you understand what I mean?"
"Hay!"
The Marines continued to suffer heavy losses, and Onizuka, who was once high-spirited, is now like a frosted eggplant, where can he dare to raise objections.
Yamabegawa Sankey once again showed his superb flying skills in front of the officers and men of the Combined Fleet. Under his control, the Type 99 fighter numbered 1003 circled up and down like a nimble carrier pigeon between the three batteries of Dazhou, Hele, and Beipo, and ten minutes later, he brought back detailed information: the three batteries of the people of China had been destroyed, but the batteries a little further away had not been damaged. Based on the situation detected by Yamabe, Tsukahara suggested to Yamamoto that part of the ship group be dispatched to annihilate the discovered batteries, and at the same time send aviation to bombard towns that might be hiding ambushes a little farther away.
"We want to plunge the entire Hainan Island into flames, Your Excellency, it is necessary for us to let the people of China know the fate of the Dao and the Empire!" At the end of the telegram, he stated his point of view.
Yamamoto agreed. And in order to avoid being seized by the Cadet Army again to carry out a similar "sunk" operation, this time, he only agreed to send a squadron of fighters.
"The people of China are waiting for an opportunity to send only one squadron of fighters to escort them, will they feel that their opportunity has come? As long as the Chinese air force dares to show up, we will deal a devastating blow! He explained to Koizumi why he sent only one squadron of fighters to escort the escort.
Lessons from the past, Koizumi felt that it was better for him to watch more and study more at this stage, and it was rare that he did not express any opinions.
Tsukahara's operational proposal is exactly what Arima Masafumi had in mind. How many Marines died, or even what kind of damage the Combined Fleet suffered, was not his concern, and what he was bent on was how to give the people of China a painful memory.
A total of seventeen warships, led by the "Shancheng", left the fleet, and they headed for Sanya, arriving at the predetermined sea area half an hour later. Immediately, the shelling of Guangpo and Haitang batteries began. Not only that, but after completely suppressing the two forts, Arima also ordered the fire to be extended, and when they landed, all the Sanya area was shrouded in smoke and fire caused by the explosion.
Sanya was not much away from Wanning, and when Wanning became a sea of fire, the people of Sanya began to evacuate. Unlike Wanning, due to geological reasons, Sanya has few air defense facilities, so people have to evacuate Sanya with their families to avoid possible air raids.
Not everyone is aware of this, and when the air raid sirens sounded, at least a third of the people in Sanya chose to stay. By the time the shells arrived, it was too late for them to escape. For various reasons, the buildings in the Sanya area are mainly wooden structures, which makes the shelling effect of Japanese ships more and more impressive, and often a single shell can set a residential area on fire.
Garrisoned in Sanya was the 43rd Brigade of Xue, of which the brigade commander Yundian would stay in the vicinity of the Songhe Reservoir with the troops directly under the brigade.
When the Japanese detachment began to move towards Sanya, General Yundian received a report from Du Xin, who immediately had the air defense alarm sounded and began to organize troops to disperse and hide.
The shelling came as scheduled, first the two forts that had been exposed were instantly shrouded in large and small mushroom clouds, and then Haitang Bay and Tian Duxiang became a sea of fire.
The Songhe Reservoir is not far from these places, so they can even hear the screams of the people in the fire. The screams were heart-wrenching, and some of the students couldn't help it. Political Director Hua Jiao trotted to Yun Dianjiang's side and asked: "Old Yun, let me bring some people to help the people evacuate, they don't understand the cruelty of war at all, it's too paralyzing." ”
Yun Dianjiang felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he categorically rejected Hua Jiao's request for war: "War always kills, and our task is to assist in the defense of the battery." However, I don't think the battery will be able to hold it either. The military seat still overestimated the anti-shelling performance of the battery! But it doesn't matter, the little devils will always land, as long as they dare to come up, that's our time! ”
"But—"
"Don't be, remember, we're first and foremost a soldier! Don't forget your duty! ”
The shelling lasted only ten minutes. Guangpo and Begonia Fort had actually stopped shelling a long time ago, of course, because of the strong sound and light effects produced by the cannons, they could not escape the eyes of the little devil lookouts. The forts along the coast of Hainan Island are still very strong, and the reason why the Dazhou fort was destroyed was completely accidental, so although it seems to the Yundian general that the Begonia and Guangpo forts have been destroyed, the actual mountain, these two forts are only wounded.
The Japanese fleet began to withdraw, Hua Jiao was asking for instructions to bring people to the rescue, and the air defense alarm of the Wuzhishan radar station arrived.
This time, the Japanese ships flew a total of two waves of fighters, of which 18 came to Sanya; The other thirty flew directly to the northeast.
"The little devil is preparing to turn Sanya into purgatory!" The request was rejected by the cloud point again, and Hua Jiao slammed his fist on the grass.
Yundian ignored him with a tiger face. During the Battle of Nanjing, as a small company commander of the First Jiangsu Security Division, he once braved the artillery fire to rescue a baby who was less than a year old. But so what, there were more than 10 million children who fell under the fire of the little devils at that time, and all he could save was the nearest one.
"If we want our children to suffer this kind of calamity again, there is only one way, and that is to completely defeat the Japanese army and drive the little devils out of our land!" These words were said by Huang Ye, and Yundian will remember it deeply, and from then on, his heart seemed to become as hard as iron.