"Only the last person is left to keep fighting, don't easily commit suicide or launch the last assault, and definitely not be taken prisoner" - in "Combat Experience", you can see everywhere "In order to enter the hold. Born after a long war".

This is the experience of the battle written by Tadamichi Awabayashi himself, and every soldier on Iwo Jima would sing it, write it down in the notebook of the army, and sing it again and again first thing every morning.

Why?

Looking back at the Pacific Theater, most of the confrontations with the Red Guard Imperial forces seem to have ended with the Japanese side of the jade.

Awabayashi Tadamichi was not a person who did not advocate jade crushing, but the situation of Iwo Jima was special, and suicide attacks did not serve the purpose of delaying the enemy at all, nor could they effectively kill or injure the enemy.

In the past nearly a year, in the battle with the Red Alert Empire, Awabayashi Tadamichi analyzed a characteristic, that is, the individual soldiers of the Red Alert Empire possessed powerful automatic firepower and perfect logistics and supply, and the Japanese jade crushing attacks were all acts of death.

There was no chance of victory in the Jade Shatter attack, and as long as it was allowed, it was impossible for the soldiers of the Red Alert Empire to engage in bayonet or hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese.

The strategic goal of Iwo Jima is to hold back the Red Alert Empire's forces as much as possible, even if it can be delayed for an extra day, it must not be given up.

Awabayashi Tadamichi wrote all his determination into the "Battle Experience", and in the face of this experience, the Japanese soldiers on the island could only prepare for the worst, and Iwo Jima became a battlefield that was not even allowed to escape from pain and choose death.

In other theaters of war in the Pacific, soldiers in the Japanese army were taught internally to go back and fight with their comrades even if their positions were occupied by the enemy, but on Iwo Jima, everyone had to hold their defensive positions and not take a step back.

The small size of Iwo Jima meant that the Japanese defenders on the island had no way to retreat, and they could only fall into the sea if they retreated.

And every Japanese soldier on the island still accepted the task of destroying ten enemies by each of them, and Japan was sure to win, and it was repeatedly instilled in the mind of every soldier.

The so-called strong belief rooted in this kind of compulsion cannot be rejected by all soldiers, or rather, they are not willing to refuse, at least there is a flame of hope in their hearts.

The day after the war began, when Honda returned to the trench behind Mt. Oriba, the sun in the sky disappeared.

Honda, who was still an observer, looked up with some confusion, not because the clouds were covering the sun, but because the sky was covering the sky.

The already narrow observation port, the enemy aircraft group in the sky, at this moment, gave him the feeling as serious as a solar eclipse, as if the heavens and the earth were dark.

Shimoki Honda looked at those bombers in the sky with envy, if Japan also has so many bombers, then ......

There was no if in the war, and the ensuing landslide-like bombardment and shelling shattered Honda's illusions of going down to the tree.

The explosion was like a thunderstorm, and the huge roar was not only deafening, but even the brain was confused, which was very terrifying.

For the next two days, Honda did not leave the place even a single step, and the Fourth Army also dropped more than 100,000 shells of various naval guns and more than 5,000 tons of bombs on Iwo Jima in these two days.

When it was a little quieter on the ground, Shimoki Honda picked up a pen and wrote in his notebook: "I don't think this is about taking Iwo Jima, but about destroying the whole of Iwo Jima......

That night, after the bombardment and shelling had subsided, Shimoki Honda finally left the observation post, but only briefly, to patrol the airfield and check on enemy movements.

On the airfield, you can see the shrapnel left after the explosion everywhere, and by the moonlight, Honda Shimoki saw that these shrapnel after the explosion are still the marks of the Japanese army.

This made Honda Shimoki quite speechless, after seeing the firepower of the Red Alert Empire, he knew one thing that the lethality of the Japanese army's shells and explosives could not compare to others.

And when I thought of the bombing in the past two days, all the bombs used were Japanese, Honda Shimoki couldn't calm down in his heart, and he was a little disgusted.

On his way back, Honda saw Mt. Oriba, the symbol of Iwo Jima, which had partially collapsed after heavy shelling and bombardment, and many of the terrain had changed its original shape.

Some papaya trees and banana trees that used to exist on the island have been uprooted, and the lush vegetation and fragrant flowers no longer exist.

Iwo Jima has turned into a scorched earth with nothing but sand left, and it has become very strange under the terrifying attack of the terrain that changes the terrain in an instant.

Shimoki Honda returned to the trench with a heavy heart, and as soon as he returned to the trench with a little luck, the sound of cannonballs whistling in the sky was heard.

Several naval guns fell directly on the Ori Bowl Mountain, and in the tunnel of the trench, when the whistling sound of shells was heard in the sky, a Japanese soldier who was originally leaning on the ammunition box suddenly trembled, and three or four companions on the side hurriedly stepped forward to hold him down, but this soldier's whole body trembled. Shake, still not stopped.

Honda Shimoki also stepped forward to help, but it still had no effect, until the short shelling was over, and there was no more whistling and explosions of shells. The guy who shook was instantly resurrected with full blood and no longer trembled. Shake.

Honda Shimoki left quietly, no need to ask, because people like the mentally ill people who had just been replaced by this soldier are gradually increasing, especially many older soldiers, and the symptoms are still becoming serious.

In the underground trenches and tunnels, the constant heat and darkness, large swarms of cockroaches and ants crawling on their bodies and feet, this kind of life alone has exhausted everyone, coupled with the attack that seems to sink the entire Iwo Jima, under the continuous torture, people in this environment, the symptoms of heart failure are very normal.

Moreover, on Iwo Jima, it is now difficult for the Japanese side to drink clean water, because Iwo Jima itself is an island without clean water, and the water sources on the island are all dirty water and cannot be drunk directly.

For the Japanese soldiers on the island, clean drinking water was the greatest desire.

The Red Alert Marines who landed on Iwo Jima did not hesitate or hurry to build a camp and defense line, and built a pontoon pier in the landing area, as if they wanted to build Iwo Jima into a base, not to fight the Japanese.

However, around Iwo Jima, more than 500 warships surrounded the island.