Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Combined Fleet Strikes! (Above)

Japan, southern Shikoku Island, Tosa Bay

Smoke covered the sky and sea, and the sound of explosions shook the air, making the earth tremble...... Tens of thousands of officers and men of the 1st Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps huddled in their bunkers trembling and listened in horror to the explosions outside. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

First of all, thousands of sorties were bombed indiscriminately, so that the positions of the 1st Marine Division were covered with poison gas for a day and a night -- on the Japanese battlefield today, both sides have regarded sarin and other nerve poison gases as regular supplies. Then there was the continuous bombardment of large-caliber naval guns, countless shells from late night to dawn, and from dawn to dusk, so that the earth shook constantly, and even the top of the mountain was cut off a layer, but it still did not stop at all.

At the same time, the four newly organized divisions of the Japanese Army, under the cover of fire from a large number of gunboat planes converted from transport planes, pressed over from the areas of Matsuyama and Uwajima in the northwest of Shikoku Island. The small number of Japanese servants recruited by the Americans from among the surrendered troops quickly dispersed in a hurry—you can't expect a group of puppet troops who have just reorganized themselves to submit to the United States to have a tenacious fighting spirit in the face of a desperate situation. Only the Americans themselves were left to continue to fight alone.

In the face of the menacing Japanese Navy and Army's large-scale counteroffensive, the U.S. troops entrenched in Kochi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku did put up a desperate resistance. However, they were originally a containment division, and their strength was very limited, except for the Second Marine Division, which was the backbone of the force, the rest were scattered and miscellaneous troops, and even if they were all added together, they were only more than 20,000 people. Moreover, the place of operation at this time was the home of the Japanese.

The Kochi Prefectural Office, which once thought that he understood the general trend and voluntarily surrendered to the US army, is now either incognito, abandoning his post and absconding, or decisively defecting and abandoning the darkness to lead the way for the Japanese army in the counterattack, or he is punished by the fanatical rioting citizens as a "national ♂ thief". A very small number of hardcore "Japanese traitors" who could no longer turn back were divided and surrounded by the US military on several small coastal positions, and continued to resist stubbornly.

-- Trapped on an isolated island, the sea is blocked, reinforcements cannot come up at all, and there is no way out if you want to retreat. All the planes were destroyed, and the remnants of the field guns could not reach the enemy ships on the sea.

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“…… Boom-boom! Bang! Bang! ”

Colonel O'Brien, with his arms wrapped in bandages, curled up in an earthy dugout, watched helplessly as kerosene lamps hung overhead and tap danced in a hail of bullets—he could not have imagined that one day he would hide like a mole in the ground, shivering and urinating awaiting the verdict of a merciless fate.

In front of him, there were more than 30 American soldiers, one of whom had a broken leg was moaning slightly, the other two guys who had a nervous breakdown were crying wolf, and the rest were silent with their heads down, and they might even have fainted.

-- In the midst of the earth-shattering shelling, this small bomb shelter was like a small boat in a storm, shaking and trembling to the point that it was almost dizzying.

In fact, under the hands of Colonel O'Brien, there was supposed to be a regiment of men. However, because he did not expect to encounter a counteroffensive of this scale, his regiment was scattered yesterday under the bombing of Japanese planes, and then was driven all the way by the main force of the Japanese army that had attacked from the northwest like a sheep, and finally fled to Tosa City at the mouth of the Niyodo River, where it finally joined the large forces and temporarily gained a firm foothold.

But soon, the Japanese Combined Fleet came up violently from the southern sea, and the American fleet stationed in Tosa Bay had only a few cruisers and destroyers, and it was knocked out by a wave almost in the blink of an eye, and it was too late to escape! More than 100 fighters of various types at the US front-line field airfield on Shikoku Island were quickly suppressed and destroyed by the overwhelmingly superior Japanese naval aviation, and most of the planes did not even have time to take off.

Then the huge shells of the Japanese battleship formation began to fall on the heads of Colonel O'Brien and the soldiers of his regiment......

-- When the Kochi Prefectural Office voluntarily surrendered to the U.S. military, it did transfer the military bases and coastal defense fortresses throughout the prefecture in its entirety. However, as a relatively safe rear hinterland, Kochi Prefecture is a poor rural area with no industrial facilities, nor is it a pass to hold important waterways, and there is no permanent fleet, so the Japanese Empire is very lax in the coastal defense of Kochi Prefecture, and the coastal defense fortifications built are better than nothing, and the few remaining shore guns are also old antiques from the Russo-Japanese War and even the end of the Edo War, and they don't even know where to find shells that meet the caliber.

After the landing of the 1st Marine Division, the US 1st Marine Division only set up some anti-aircraft artillery positions in the harbor, but did not spend too much manpower and material resources to build coastal defense batteries -- even with the magnificence of the US imperialists, it was impossible to spend so much financial and material resources to fortify every forward base.

Therefore, after confirming that the US airfield had been completely destroyed and the minesweepers had been dispatched to clear the waterway, the shelling fleet of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet was very relieved and boldly approached the US coastal position, and started from a position 25,000 kilometers away from the coast.

Under the guidance of seaplanes and ground reconnaissance sentries, the port facilities, barracks, antiaircraft gun positions, and all places of military value controlled by the US military were baptized by the large-caliber shells of the battleships.

Under such overwhelming artillery fire, the US ground troops, which were already frightened birds, were bombed all over the country. In front of the main gun grenade of a battleship with a caliber of 18 inches, every shell smashed down can blow up a crater in the ground that is equivalent to half a football field, and even a Sherman tank weighing more than 30 tons can be directly knocked back to the state of parts. Jeeps and trucks were lifted high into the air, and then fell so hard that even the people sitting in the cars were smashed into meat sauce. As for the flesh-and-blood infantry, it's even more so ......

-- Due to the haste of the incident, there were not many anti-artillery fortifications at all in this temporary gathering place, and many of the troops lived directly in requisitioned houses by the sea, and some of the routed troops who had retreated from the inland front line could only pitch tents or sleep in the open. As a result, under the indiscriminate bombardment of the main guns of the Japanese aircraft carriers and battleships, these poor American GIs did not even have a place to hide, and they were like beetles on a hot iron plate, and they were blown up everywhere, completely losing their basic order, and they were immediately killed and wounded, and the ground was full of stumps and broken arms, and the sky was scorched with smoke and flames, and the waves of fire were dancing wildly......

Even if the US soldiers staying in the field fortifications, their trench bunkers can at most deal with army howitzers of more than 100 millimeters, where can they withstand the main guns of battleships with a caliber of two, three hundred, three or four hundred millimeters? As a result, the Japanese Marines in the south had not yet landed, and the Japanese Army forces in the north and west had not yet overwhelmed them, and Commander O'Brien's men had already been killed and scattered, and Colonel O'Brien himself had lost contact with the division headquarters -- the last radio station around him was also damaged......

However, compared to his subordinates who had been blown into pieces of bone and flesh and burned to charred ashes, Captain O'Brien was relatively lucky. Because before the Japanese battleships began to bombard the shore, he luckily took a group of people to hide in an underground bomb shelter left by the Japanese, and this bomb shelter happened to be located on the belly of a coastal hill, and the exit was facing away from the sea where the enemy ships were anchored, so it should theoretically not be threatened by naval guns.

However, despite the thick layer of mountain rock and soil as a natural protective wall, in the face of such a huge shelling, feeling an earth-shattering roar and bursts of palpitating vibrations came from all directions, Commander O'Brien and all the personnel hiding inside were pale, and their hearts were also raised to their throats, for fear that in the next second, a cannonball would drill through the ceiling and fall on their heads and explode.

After waiting patiently for a while for the shelling to cease and wait patiently, Commander O'Brien and his two subordinates carefully drilled out of the dugout, slowly crawling to the top of the small mound, ready to reconnoiter the enemy. Smoke and blackened craters were everywhere along the way. At the edge of the crater, where the dirt and vegetation had been rolled over, were scattered countless pieces of cloth, gun parts, and human stumps. A half-dead, blood-stained American soldier sat blankly on the scorched earth next to the crater, staring at the sea in the distance, as if he had lost his mind and turned into a walking corpse.

Commander O'Brien didn't bother to take care of him, but just climbed straight onto a rock, took out his binoculars and looked south, only to see that on the sea filled with gunsmoke, a huge battleship with a length of tens of thousands of tons was lined up against the coastline of Tosa Bay, and the muzzles of the black holes were flashing with fire......

“…… Not good! The enemy is firing again! Evacuate! ”

Captain O'Brien screamed hoarsely, and with astonishing agility, tumbled down from the rocks, but was still a step too late—with a scream that tore through the air, a huge flame exploded in front of him, and a scorching storm swept across the land in an instant......

A moment later, the dull sound of cannon came from the distant sea. Immediately afterward, shells fell one after another on the beaches and trees around Commander O'Brien, forcing him to run for his life...... When Commander O'Brien returned to the dugout, he was alone, and the two soldiers who had followed him out before were nowhere to be found in the explosion of the enemy ship's shelling......

And the explosion of the giant cannonball continued to shake the small shelter, and the shock of each explosion was like a sledgehammer slamming into the heart of Commander O'Brien—the bleak future of the annihilation of the whole army seemed to be in sight, making his mood more and more desperate.

At this moment, he recalled the humiliation of being defeated by the Japanese Combined Fleet again and again, and the horror of being about to die on the battlefield......

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ps: Two Taiwanese soldiers tortured the little white dog to death. The people were shocked and indignant, and the little animal protectors paraded the streets to send Xiaobai! Brother Bing is inhumane! Brother Bing's blood debt is repaid!

It is rumored that under the strong pressure of the small animal protection, the Taiwan army will also let the little white dog enter the heir to the Martyrs' Shrine......

The missiles of the Taiwan warship killed the Taiwanese fishing boat, and the fishermen were killed and wounded three. The Taiwanese people cheered: Wow, that's great! It's a good hit! The mainlanders are terrified! Taiwan's military officers are infinitely proud: the performance of the Hsiung-san missile has shocked the world, Taiwan can make such a good missile!

-- The results of the handling of the handling of the Penghu fishing boat captain killed by the accidental missile firing of the Jinjiang warship in Penghu have come out, and one person on the fishing boat has been killed and three wounded, resulting in seven demerits in the army. Compared with the previous dog abuse cases, nine people were punished because of a dog's life, which shows that people in Taiwan today are really inferior to dogs.

Hey, this ghost island really deserves to be a ghost island. If this pattern of development continues, it is estimated that Taiwan will soon become a national psychopath!

In addition, the tour guide who killed a mainland tourist in the Hong Kong tour group last time was also sentenced, and he was sentenced to five months for manslaughter.