"Although all the batteries on Oriba Mountain had been destroyed, the four 220-millimeter guns were blown up without firing a single shell. But the enemy did not know what terrible things would await them on this island. ”

Hundreds of tunnels, trenches, hidden caverns, foxholes, mines planted everywhere......

When the fourth day of the landing operation came, the Marines who landed on Iwo Jima were once again in action.

Climb on the soft. The soft volcanic ash entered the hinterland of Iwo Jima, and the attacking troops still did not see the infantry, only the cold steel machines.

The front of the attack was an area covered by naval guns, with gunship fire from helicopter gunships in the air, and the powerful armored forces opened the way, and the main Apocalypse tanks once again entered the battlefield.

Like many of his soldiers, Honda was ready to fight, but from the very beginning, the war was completely unexpected by everyone.

In the imagination, the enemy's attacking infantry did not see, only tanks and armored vehicles in their eyes.

Crossing the craters and walking on the ground, the mines that were detonated, the mines planted by the Japanese, were detonated piece by piece by rocket demining vehicles, and even if there were missed mines, it was difficult to hurt the attacking Apocalypse tanks.

Honda Shimoki kept looking for targets in the sniper scope, but there were only tanks and armored vehicles in the distance, and there were no targets to attack.

This kind of battle is very painful.

The battle turned into watching the enemy approach fearlessly, but there was nothing to be done.

Just as Honda was about to put down his sniper rifle, a figure caught his eye, it was one of his companions, also a veteran from the same county.

A few hours ago, the two had a brief chat, and the veteran said to him without concealing this war: "If it weren't for the fact that I had to kill ten enemies before I could choose suicide, I would never have endured it until now." ”

Life on Iwo Jima is worse than hell, because there is no water on the island that can be used at all, and in order to relieve the pain of not having drinking water, even medical alcohol and fuel are drunk.

Many soldiers, when they have nothing to do, lie on their stomachs at the bottom of the wet tunnels, sucking the water from the dirt.

Without drinking water, it is difficult to swallow even food.

In fact, there is no shortage of food on Iwo Jima, whether it is the preparation of the Japanese army itself or a part of the original ecology on the island, which can meet the needs of the stomach.

However, the lack of water is a more serious problem than the absence of food.

Honda Shimoki looked at his companion and ran out of the hidden tunnel, he thought of a very bad picture in his mind, the muzzle of the gun couldn't help but aim at his back, and his heart was full of entanglement.

However, Honda soon lowered the muzzle of the gun, and he saw his fellow countryman, after leaving the tunnel, began to crawl slowly, and soon came to the side of several corpses, took out bundles of grenades from the satchels on his body, tied them together, and then lay down among the corpses.

The crunching tank tracks in front of him, Honda, who watched this scene, clenched down the tree, and then silently watched the back of his companion lying on the ground.

From the very beginning of the battle, the difference between the two armies on the battlefield was simply a world of difference.

The same is the use of machine guns, the Japanese army must ensure that every bullet kills and injures the enemy as much as possible, on the other hand, the Red Police Corps, every time the fire is suppressed, the bullets pour down like a torrential rain.

This gap is very fatal.

This also made many Japanese soldiers not know how to fight at all, compared to marksmanship, people sit in armored vehicles, very safe to shoot accurately at the opposite side, often exposed fire points, will be quickly killed.

Around the armoured vehicles that followed the tanks, there were infantry firing holes that could rotate 360 degrees, as well as independent observation devices that could clearly survey the situation outside.

In this case, many Japanese soldiers almost faced collapse.

Many soldiers simply held explosives and lay among the corpses, intending to die together and continue to live, which was more painful than death.

For such companions, Honda Shimoki wanted to say that he should not do this, not because he looked down on these companions, but on the contrary, he admired the courage of these companions very much, because they dared to die.

However, this kind of behavior is useless at all, because Honda Shimoki has seen with his own eyes that a advancing enemy tank was blown up by three anti-tank mines in a row, but it was intact, and even the tracks were not broken.

It is impossible to destroy such a terrible tank with a man-portable grenade alone.

However, the actual result was even more unacceptable than Honda had imagined.

The advancing Apocalypse Tank, the commander's machine gun on the turret, suddenly turned, the muzzle downward, and the companion who had just been lying down for less than ten seconds was beaten to a blur of flesh and blood by the 12.7 mm caliber bullet on the commander's machine gun, and from the back, the entire Moon Hun cavity was blown up by the bullet.

Honda Shimoki stared at the corpse of his companion for a full ten seconds, and then suddenly fell into the dirt, he did not allow others to see the tears in his eyes, he did not want to be a coward.

It was only soon that Honda was attracted by the cheers coming from the tunnel, and when he raised his head, he found that his tank was hidden in the tunnel, and he set out.

Honda Shimoki didn't cheer like others, because his own tank, in front of this type of tank of the Red Police Empire, was like a child who had just learned to walk, and he was a man who had been tempered for thousands of years, and the strength of the two was not in the same dimension at all.

The same tanks, when the Japanese Beetle-like tanks appeared, they did not need the Apocalypse tanks to move, and the 20-mm rapid-fire cannon on the multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicle in the offensive could easily destroy such a tank.

It is very appropriate to describe it as vulnerable, and the thin and brittle Japanese tank does not seem to need to use the cannon of the armored vehicle, but only the armor-piercing shell of the heavy machine gun, which can penetrate it.

For such a result, the tunnel was quiet for a moment, and no one cheered anymore, only a deathly silence.

There is no hope, there is no disappointment, Honda Shimoki is a little better than the others, at least as a top student in the physics department of the University of Tokyo, his insight is much stronger than that of other soldiers.

On the fourth day of the attack, the Japanese garrison on the island still resisted to the death, but the Japanese still fought tenaciously under various conditions by virtue of the teaching and idea that they could never lose to the Red Alert Empire in terms of spirit and fighting spirit, and also created some minor troubles for the attacking marines.