The distant island of Iwo Jima is located 1,250 kilometers south of Tokyo, yet how far away it is for Japan.

The Japanese base camp did not have time to bask in the sadness of the statistics of air raid losses when it received a battle report from Iwo Jima.

The base camp therefore convened a meeting, and in the face of the menacing army, land, sea and air forces of the Red Alert Empire, the defense of Iwo Jima was as fragile as a blank sheet of paper.

"As long as each of our soldiers can kill ten enemies, this battle will be won."

"Iwo Jima can hold out for at least three months, and we have more time to prepare for the defense of the Ryukyu Islands."

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In the conference room, only a few people spoke, and most of them seemed listless, not because they didn't want to participate in the discussion of the content of the meeting, but in the eyes of many people, how to discuss this kind of topic is not very meaningful.

The enemy's ability to calmly attack the Japanese mainland means that Japan must have a decisive battle on the mainland, although Iwo Jima can be called the throat of the Pacific Ocean, but for the current Japan, this curtain that can be opened with a light pick no longer exists.

The only value of the more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers on the island is to create more preparation time for the mainland, nothing more.

And a large amount of news in mainland Japan also took the opportunity to report on the upcoming Battle of Iwo Jima, which is the best way to divert domestic attention, otherwise it will make more people in China worry and panic.

At this moment, far away in Iwo Jima, Awabayashi Tadamichi also received a telegram from the domestic military department, asking Awabayashi Tadamichi to show the spirit of bushido, collect the heroic deeds on the battlefield, and give full play to the domestic situation, which is inspiring.

The captain officer with the telegram walked into the narrow trench, and the brightness and sunshine of the southern islands disappeared without a trace, replaced by an endless world of pitch black.

The trench leading to the Iwo Jima garrison headquarters had only a very narrow entrance, and after entering the cave, there was a steep descent in which an adult could barely walk upright. After more than ten meters, the downhill stopped, and the trench changed to lateral, but at this time the lieutenant officer, who entered the General Headquarters, could only crawl to continue his advance. After passing through this narrow tunnel, we finally arrived at Awabayashi Tadado's room.

The room where Awabayashi Tadado was located was very narrow, and its width was almost no different from the tunnel where he had just crept forward.

The only place that could barely be considered a room was the concrete-reinforced walls around it, the last privilege that Tadamichi Awabayashi had prepared for himself.

And the most surprising thing is the height here, adults must not stand up here, and the height of the desk is the limit here.

The narrow, enclosed room is where Sulin Chundō lives on Iwo Jima, a condition that is unimaginable to outsiders.

The lieutenant officer who entered this room could barely move his body, and in the scorching room, the steaming heat and the oppressive feeling caused by the cramped cramped room were almost impossible to breathe.

In this environment, most of everyone's first thoughts are to go out immediately, breathe fresh air, and be liberated from oppression.

Su Lin Zhongdao, who was in the room, closed his eyes in silence after receiving the telegram.

Seeing this, the lieutenant officer silently left the room, and passed through the narrow entrance when he entered, and when he approached the entrance and exit of the cave, the captain glanced ahead of the cave entrance, and could see a small piece of blue sky, which the captain seemed to keep in his mind, which was a rare opportunity to look out.

For all Japanese people on Iwo Jima, this is a death-defying island, a passage to hell.

Awabayashi Tadamichi has issued a supreme order to turn this island into one: an island of jade shatters that cannot survive.

That is to say, from now on, the 25,000 Japanese soldiers on the island will only die in battle, and all the generals and officers will resolutely carry out this order.

In Japan, this topic is also being used to boost morale at home and boost the morale of soldiers in other regions.

However, the silence and silence on the island are the support of everyone in the ordinary people who suppress their hearts and fight for the country and the emperor.

The war has been going on to such a point, on the battlefield, when they have been defeated again and again, in fact, all the Japanese soldiers are aware of the future war situation, but they have no choice.

Rather than being afraid of being shot to death, and then being infamous for treason, affecting his family in his own country, it is better to die bravely on the battlefield.

Close to the coastal line of the Japanese defense line, directly observe the underground observation post of the sea, Honda under the tree and the other soldiers, quietly leaning on the half-man-high hole**, with the help of an observation port only a hand wide, through the vegetation around the observation port, looking at the sea, more and more warships.

Calm, unwavering heart, the expression on Honda's face, so cold that even he felt strange.

Like most soldiers, Honda didn't want to die, but he had no choice.

Compared to others, he is happy because he can see the scenery outside.

But at the same time, he was unfortunate that he saw the enemy's hideous muzzles, and then waited for the enemy's shelling to begin at any time.

In front of him was a report in a faint light: from the arrival of the first fleet, to the arrival of the second, to now, five fleets of different distances have arrived in the sea in front of Iwo Jima.

On the other side of the paper is the number of warships.

Twelve battleships, more than forty cruisers, and an unknown number of cruisers, and in the distance, in the sea, where they could not be seen, there were a large number of huge shadows that could not be seen clearly.

By the next day, the number of enemy warships in the distance seemed to be even larger, and the sea near Iwo Jima was completely occupied.

Shimoki Honda did not record the number of enemy ships anymore, because this behavior has become meaningless.

He only knew that the number of enemy warships was terrifying.

At dawn on the third day, when Honda woke up from the tree and saw the scenery outside, he immediately realized that the enemy would soon carry out artillery bombardment.

Because the weather on Iwo Jima today is very clear, and the smoke of gunpowder on the island has disappeared a lot.

Honda's prediction was very correct, and the fire preparation fleet arrived on Iwo Jima for three days, but due to the bad weather in the previous two days and the smoke of Iwo Jima, the visibility was very poor, which was not conducive to shelling.

After two days of waiting, visibility finally became a little sufficient, and after a long period of reconnaissance in the past, the fire readiness fleet had identified 700 targets on the island, ready to launch artillery bombardment at any time.