"Ten days have passed since the first day of the shelling, and the enemy's shells are still like cheap sand, bombarding the potholed sand without stinginess.

The remaining artillery positions on the island, after the initial counterattack, all the rest were dormant, and the flying torpedoes seen on the first day did not continue to appear, but the enemy's shelling of Iwo Jima became more intensive.

Especially at night, I was often awakened by artillery fire in my sleep, fearing that the enemy would land unnoticed and then bite my head.

I am not the only one who has this kind of thought, many people are afraid to sleep.

The day before yesterday, when I went to the headquarters to report, I heard from two officers that during the shelling, there were occasional explosions of guns with a power of more than 406 mm.

Many people around me also know about this matter, and in the midst of the sound of artillery, an explosion that suppresses the fire of other cannons is occasionally heard, and the vibration from the ground is also unprecedentedly violent.

At first, we suspected that it was a bombshell dropped by the enemy's air force, but when many of these sounds were heard, there was no enemy air force over the island.

For this reason, the admirals on the island suspected that the enemy possessed a more formidable battleship than their active battleships, with shells of at least 550 mm in caliber, and assumed that one of these shells weighed at least two tons.

I think this possibility is completely there, but the caliber should be a bit too huge, it should be around 500 mm, it may be in the caliber of 510 mm.

God knows that with such a huge main gun, that battleship is not the largest warship in the world, maybe the tonnage has exceeded 80,000 tons, or even more.

But I don't want to know, after landing on the island, whenever I pick up the pen, the first impression in my mind is always the word jade......"

Honda put down the pencil in his hand, and then put the notebook close to his body, another day is about to pass, and no one knows when this rumbling explosion will end.

In the evening, I received my own dinner, two rice balls, mixed with wild vegetables, this is dinner.

Honda Shimoki did not have any dissatisfaction, and after eating his own dinner, he continued to lean against the dirt, looking at the starry sky outside, aiming at his hometown more than a thousand kilometers away, and slowly fell asleep.

The next morning, it was another rare sunny day on Iwo Jima, with a cloudless sky and a light breeze.

As soon as the sky lit up, the sound of explosions was heard, and as soon as Honda opened his eyes, he saw more than a dozen small boats on the sea near the beach, demining.

There was no figure in sight on the ship, and the speed of the boat was so fast that it seemed to pull something into the water from behind it, and a powerful explosion could be heard behind it.

Is this demining?

In fact, there is no need to think about it, what the enemy is doing can be understood at a glance, and what makes people depressed is that a large number of mines that have been laid for more than a month are being quickly destroyed, and the enemy has not yet begun to land.

The first reaction in Honda's mind was that the enemy could not be allowed to destroy these mines.

In fact, Awabayashi Tadamichi also discovered the situation above the coastal waters for the first time, and he saw more broadly than Honda Shimoshu, with at least hundreds of fast boats, constantly detonating underwater mines.

"We can't let them continue to sabotage, and the enemy may land today." Su Lin Zhongdao turned back very seriously and ordered: "Order the artillery, destroy those small boats immediately." ”

The artillery on the island, which had been quiet for ten days, rang out again, which startled Long Yun on the command ship in the distance on the sea.

"The little devils on Iwo Jima are even more survivable than rats, and they still have so many artillery pieces hidden." Putting down the binoculars in his hand and looking at the artillery firing point on Iwo Jima, Long Yun shook his head and ordered:

"Destroy the artillery fire on Iwo Jima now."

The artillery fire that had already been prepared for a long time quickly launched a counterattack, and directly called the aircraft carrier aircraft to carry out a precise strike on the artillery positions on the island.

In the sky, the two Huang Feng carrier-based planes immediately received combat orders, and the reconnaissance planes sent back the coordinates of the Japanese artillery on the island, and the air-to-ground missiles carried by the fighters were immediately launched.

The whistling missiles were mixed with the shells, and the Japanese artillery fire on Iwo Jima was once again suppressed after a round of attacks.

Next, the Japanese on the island could only look at the unmanned demolition boats that kept clearing mines on the sea.

These blastboats tow long underwater explosive devices and are able to create the pressure to deceive the mines, as if the ship had struck a mine, detonating the mines.

This means is suitable for treating grenades in this primitive way of detonation.

Another batch of artillery fire was destroyed, and Awabayashi Zhongdao did not order the last four artillery pieces to counterattack, so he was reluctant to use them.

I could only watch as a large number of mines were detonated one by one, blowing up the fish.

In the afternoon, demining entered its final phase, which also seemed to mean that the landing operation would begin at any time.

Honda Shimoki, who was still in the observation port, also realized that the battle was coming, and he clenched the rifle beside him several times and released it several times.

There is a military cao to inform everyone to prepare for battle, Honda Shimoki is not a front-line combatant, his biggest role is to observe the enemy's movements, and report important information.

But it's not far from the coast, and the battle can be fought at any moment.

It's just that the day passed quickly, and the enemy never landed.

That night, Honda slept for less than three hours, and the rest of the time, he stared at the calm sea, watching for a possible night attack by the enemy.

However, the calm one. Night, still nothing.

It wasn't until the early morning of the next day, when the sky was just hazy, that Honda Shimoki noticed that the enemy's fleet formation had changed greatly, and on the sea, many huge amphibious dock landing ships could be clearly seen.

This is also the warship I learned from the Red Alert Empire, this kind of warship has few weapons, and its only combat function is to carry amphibious tanks, amphibious combat vehicles, and a kind of hovercraft speeding over the sea to project troops to the islands.

This kind of specialized amphibious ship is the most important warship of the Japanese side, and once it appears, it means that the landing war is about to begin.

Shimoki Honda decisively grabbed the phone next to him and reported the situation.

Hanging up the phone, Honda Shimoki bit the root of his teeth, lay down in the observation port, slightly extended the muzzle of the Type 97 sniper rifle out of the observation port, pulled the bolt, and pushed the bullet into the chamber, breathing heavily.