Chapter 321: Sixty-four kilometers of landing ground

On the sea of Saipan's Cha Railing No, on the battleship BB-2, the main guns of the front turret slowly rotated.

One of the barrels rose high at a thirty-degree angle, and with an amazing roar, a huge shell flew over the landing zone.

This huge shell was very slow to discharge, and after leaving the turret for a second, the shell of the shell exploded, and a parachute hung a circular flare, which appeared in the sky above the landing area, and the dazzling white light lit up, illuminating the entire coastal line, and also illuminating the Japanese defense line and the figure of the pupil.

Then the fire from the destroyers broke out, and a new round of artillery bombardment was launched against the Japanese defense line near the landing area.

The dense artillery fire seemed to kill all the cockroaches, and countless shells exploded in the same area, and the density was very amazing.

At the same time, one after another on the landing ships that opened their hatches, the air-cushion landing craft took the lead in launching a landing attack, and the air-cushion landing craft with a surface speed of more than 55 knots were speeding quickly on the water, and the landing distance of 1,000 meters seemed to be just a distance that could be easily crossed.

The landing craft that rushed to the beachhead quickly released the gas in the airbag, the hull descended rapidly, the heavy front hatch opened, and the rhinoceros main battle tank, which had been waiting impatiently, quickly got off the landing craft.

Before the Japanese troops on the island could react, twelve Rhino main battle tanks had already landed on the battlefield.

The air-cushion landing craft quickly withdrew, and on the sea, amphibious tanks and amphibious armored vehicles had left the dock landing ship and approached the beach.

The main battle tank, which had successfully landed, was only subjected to sporadic attacks under the suppression of the fleet's intensive artillery fire, which directly caused the tank to rush onto the beachhead that had tamped the ground, and the tank's engine roared and quickly rushed to the defensive position of the Japanese coastal line.

Widening the landing ground so that as many troops as possible can land ashore is not a landing battle that can be completed in a day, and in three hours, even with the efficiency of the Red Alert Marine Corps, it is difficult to successfully send a complete Marine Division to the beachhead.

The huge landing site area, which needs to be quickly occupied and stabilized, must be at least a kilometer deep, and the width of the landing site reaches sixty-four kilometers.

A large number of amphibious combat vehicles and tanks, numbering in the thousands, plus the main battle tanks that continued to be delivered, by the time the Japanese army reacted, the first landing force had successfully landed.

At the same time, when a large number of warships continued to shell, more than 100 carrier-based aircraft took off from amphibious assault ships and suppressed the Japanese army.

Even the Getter cannon on the amphibious air-cushion landing craft was also exerting residual heat, and in the process of landing, the fire points that appeared on the rapid Japanese positions.

The amphibious tank rushed to the front, and also covered the left and right sides of the amphibious landing vehicle, clearing the obstacles to the landing and covering the landing of the amphibious combat vehicle smoothly ashore.

The Japanese army, which gradually reacted, also burst out with ferocious fire on the long landing ground.

Dense machine-gun bullets, non-stop strafing on landing vehicles and tanks, as well as a large number of mortars and grenadiers, all launched a counterattack on the landing troops without money.

If it had not been caught off guard in time, the island would have been better defended, the coastline would have been riddled with mines, and the beaches would have been jammed with barricades......

The fleet could not completely cover the 64-kilometer-long landing site, and in order to ensure that the landing site was completely connected with the defense line, it could only land on the entire line, which also gave many Japanese troops the opportunity to counterattack.

Dense artillery fire and bullets attacked amphibious tanks and main battle tanks, sending out dense sparks, but such an attack could hardly pose a threat to the tank.

Until an 88-mm anti-tank gun, which was supposed to be from Germany, destroyed an amphibious combat vehicle that landed ashore, it could be regarded as the opening of the Japanese defense.

Many of the 37-millimeter anti-aircraft guns on the Japanese defensive line, as well as various infantry guns and mountain guns, also opened fire.

Although the Japanese only had more than 200 artillery pieces on Saipan, these guns were all heavy artillery for tactical support, and there were many small artillery pieces, which were the weapons that really caused problems at the landing site.

Although the previous firepower preparation had destroyed a considerable amount of the Japanese army's defensive line and defensive firepower, it was difficult to completely destroy it, and many firepower points still survived.

However, the exposed firepower, although it looked fierce and caused enough trouble for the landing troops, did not help the overall situation.

Within 20 minutes of the start of the landing battle, more than 1,000 combat vehicles and amphibious tanks for landing operations had already landed on the beachhead, and the number of troops ashore had reached 10,000.

However, if these 10,000 people are distributed in a 64-kilometer-long landing zone, it is not too much.

It seems to be sporadic and few in number.

At the moment at the landing site, there are still a large number of landing vehicles trudging ashore.

The firepower of the Japanese army was completely attracted to the frontal battlefield.

At this time, many heavily armed soldiers on the amphibious assault ship and the amphibious dock landing ship were all assembled on the helicopter platform.

The rotors of the Nighthawk helicopters were spinning rapidly, and the heavily armed soldiers boarded the helicopters one by one.

With the take-off signal lights on, transport helicopters took off from the rear deck of the amphibious ship and landing ship and flew directly to Saipan.

The Japanese never imagined that the enemy would use a vertical landing, and when the helicopters quickly arrived at the hill two kilometers behind the Japanese line, the Japanese forward line was all stunned.

Staring at the dense firepower, on a helicopter with five soldiers sitting on each side, a young soldier, carrying a huge sniper rifle, was grumbling incessantly:

"Squad leader, you are really a coward, as a model for the whole army, it shouldn't be the first time for our squad to land on Saipan Island and stab the little devil's chrysanthemum, but not only is it not the first, but even the vertical landing is the second wave, as a member of the squad, I despise you quite a lot."

The squad leader on the side, his head suddenly jumped blue, and shouted: "You goggles, shut up Lao Tzu......"

The talkative ghost Huang Wenkang didn't have the consciousness to shut up, and still felt good about himself and said: "Squad leader, I know that you have always been jealous of my earth-shattering handsomeness, especially my innate strong temperament, coupled with my world-shocking genius sniper level, to be able to be under you, that is the squad leader, your ancestral grave is smoking, and the great fortune of the tenth generation is ......"

On the helicopter, the other eight comrades-in-arms all looked at this guy who was talking non-stop helplessly, and endured it with all their might.