What was a landing battle like?

If this question had been asked, and it had been ten minutes before, Shimoki Honda would have replied naturally: a landing battle is a group of soldiers rushing to the beachhead in boats, advancing with an amphibious tank attack.

And what if it's on Iwo Jima?

Honda Shizuki will also answer naturally: the special environment of Iwo Jima, the landing ships can not get close to the beach at all, the landing will be very difficult, even the tank will be because they can't climb the beachhead, and then become a battery on the water.

However, if these two questions were asked now, Shimoki Honda would not be able to answer them, because the enemy's landing completely subverted his understanding.

It's no secret that a huge hovercraft is a kind of hovercraft, but when he sees this huge hovercraft rushing straight onto the beach and approaching the trenches of his own defense, it definitely shocks everyone's eyes.

In fact, when the real landing battle began, hundreds of air-cushion landing craft appeared in front of the Japanese army in a menacing manner.

In the trenches that had just been destroyed, before a large number of Japanese soldiers could react, these air-cushion landing craft had already rushed to a place only 100 meters in front of the trenches.

Iwo Jima, which used to be lush with vegetation, has long since become a barren island with only mud and sand.

Many tree trunks that had been blown off blocked in front of the trenches and became natural obstacles, but these obstacles could not stop the charge of the air-cushion landing craft at all.

Not even bullets could penetrate the air cushion airbag, which looked like it would burst at the slightest stab, but ignored the defensive machine guns in the trench and rushed to the front of the trench.

These air-cushion landing craft, close to the trenches, under the dense gunfire, released the air inside the air sacs and lowered the hatches.

In the fully enclosed cabin, huge tanks rushed out of it, like wild beasts out of the cage, and rushed in front of the Japanese soldiers in the blink of an eye.

No Japanese soldier had ever seen a tank of such a beautiful shape, nor had he ever seen such a large number of land weapons.

The heavy body gives people a sense of stability like Mount Tai, and the wide tracks easily press everything that is blocked along the way.

The trenches in front of it were as if they were flat ground, and they did not pose any obstacles.

Especially here in Oribayama, the terrain is very narrow, and when six Apocalypse tanks appear here, they directly penetrate and cut off the communication channel between Oriba Mountain and the Japanese army in other areas.

At the same time, a large number of transport helicopters in the sky, escorted by armed helicopters, also quickly landed in the rear of the front-line defense, and the 2,000 naval garrisons in the front line were flanked by the front and rear.

When the real landing battle came, the defending Japanese soldiers all found in despair that their weapons could not destroy the attacking enemy at all.

The helicopter gunship following the head of the Apocalypse Tank is also very terrifying, until now, there is not even a figure of the enemy, and some are just a kind of combat weapon that is more terrible than a kind.

The army on the island, having reacted, gave intensive fire support to the naval garrisons on the front line, a large number of mortars and anti-tank guns, storming the landed troops.

However, the Apocalypse tanks that landed on the island were almost like putting on a protective cover, completely ignoring the Japanese Army's artillery counterattack.

The most frightening thing is that the three machine gun fires on the Apocalypse Tank are able to accurately lock on to the fire of the counterattack each time.

Moreover, the commander's machine gun on the turret was able to fire on its own, and it hit the thief accurately.

The naval garrison, which was difficult to counterattack and resist, was completely unable to block the landing operation, and even those dark bunkers were quickly destroyed one by one.

When Awabayashi Tadamichi reacted, the enemy who landed had already gained a firm foothold on the battlefield, and a large number of landing troops appeared on Iwo Jima.

Su Lin Zhongdao is very aware of the current situation, and he can't continue to let the soldiers take the initiative to fight back, and the counterattack will only let more soldiers die.

In view of this, Awabayashi Tadamichi also decisively ordered all the land forces to withdraw to the tunnels according to the original plan, and prepare to rely on the fortifications that had been built to fight a defensive battle with the enemy in Iwo Jima.

Shimoki Honda also received this order as soon as possible, and it was not a phone call, but a junior soldier named Taro Otake, one of his countrymen.

The two signed up for the army in the same year, and they have always served in the same army, and their friendship has long surpassed ordinary comradeship.

And if it weren't for Taro Otake to inform him, he wouldn't have known he would be able to withdraw from here, because the phone line had been blown up somewhere.

When the two of them were about to leave here along the tunnel, they found that this place had been evacuated to the point that only the two of them could get down.

The two of them made a quick move, having to get out of this damn place through the vents before the enemy arrived.

However, just as the vent was close in front of him, a sudden explosion sounded overhead, and the next moment a large amount of sand and stones fell down from the passage.

Honda was a little slower to get down the tree and was not crushed by the collapsed earth and rocks, but Taro Otake was not so lucky, and the rocks and sand pressed down on his body.

Honda Shimoki could clearly hear the clatter of the bones on Otake's body as the stone squeezed him, and Otake's face also showed a distorted color of pain.

Honda, who was at a loss for a while, went down the tree, and didn't dare to push the rocks on Otaketaro's body, for fear of directly crushing his partner.

"Dazhu-kun, there will be a way, hold on."

Hearing Honda's words, Otake Taro was in pain, but he was very aware of his situation, and he understood that in such a situation, his partner did not save him at all.

Otake Taro stretched out his finger and pointed it to his temple, but because of the pain, he couldn't say a word in his blood-blistering mouth.

However, Shimoki Honda understands the meaning in Taro Otake's eyes, and he wants Shimoki Honda to give him a shot and end his pain.

Under the pleading gaze, Honda Shimoki couldn't do it at all, because he couldn't pull the trigger and kill even one of his comrades with his own hands, let alone Taro Otake, a fellow countryman, on Iwo Jima, that is, his relatives, even if this method could help him get out of the sea of suffering, but he still couldn't do it.

Honda Shimoki could only watch and could do nothing.

Otake Taro didn't mean to blame, but endured all the pain, and used the only arm that could still move, and pulled a grenade on his body.

Honda fell down instinctively, and under the huge explosion, the strong air flow generated blew away the collapsed pit and also rushed through the ventilation hole that had just been covered.

Looking out at the view outside the vents, tears rolled down my cheeks.