The lieutenant drove the * boat towards the coast. He hoped to find fuel in the warehouse. However, Lin Xiuxuan had already commanded the Japanese artillery to completely destroy the warehouse. The reason, of course, was that a Japanese machine gun crew was hiding in the warehouse, so as many as dozens of rounds fell near the warehouse, detonating the explosives and fuel inside.

* When the boat re-docked at the last berth, only Lin Xiuxuan and nearly 100 Japanese corpses remained on the entire battlefield, most of which were blown into stumps and broken arms. Originally, there were only more than 40 enemies defending in the barracks, but dozens of Japanese corpses killed in the battle the day before had been parked in the square, and the Japanese were ready to go to the Turen village to find fuel and burn them into ashes to bring back.

Lin didn't have the manpower to collect the corpses, and his men couldn't meet with Kennedy's men, otherwise they would be exposed, so he asked them to withdraw first.

There are also dozens of Japanese troops on the island, sent to search for the Allies, and they are still wandering around the jungle, and drones are watching. In short, things are in a mess, and it is still unknown whether a small squad of Japanese troops on the island must be dealt with first, and then help the lieutenant find fuel, and whether he can send them away from there. At the moment they are on the verge of a war zone, and it is not known if there will be any surprises. The archipelago environment here has led to a decline in 419's sonar reconnaissance capabilities, and various sudden events can occur at any time.

At this moment, the first round of air strikes by the US military on the islands of East Timor and New Guinea has been launched. The Japanese Army's 2nd Water Mobile Brigade had already launched an attack on Darwin, and the Japanese had transferred an amphibious landing ship belonging to the Army, the Akitsu Maru, from the Cape York landing site, which was loaded with 40 large hair boats, which could be transported ashore half a brigade at a time. The magic of this amphibious landing ship is that it also has a straight deck, which can take off some reconnaissance aircraft and fighters, and can be used as a quasi-aircraft carrier, but after the fighters take off, they cannot land on the ship, and can only return to the nearest island of Timor-Leste.

Only when the 2nd Brigade stood firm, and the merchant ships that needed to be transferred, dared to approach the coast and send the 7th Division to Darwin.

Before these boats were dispatched, airborne troops were used as usual, and the Japanese army summed up the experience of Chu Tingchang in Sittwe and changed the airborne time to night, which greatly increased the danger and organizational complexity of the airdrop. Once again, the airborne landed with huge casualties in exchange for a negligible tactical effect.

In the end, thanks to the firepower of the superior heavy cruisers, the troops succeeded in going ashore. In order to counterattack, a regiment of the US army, which had just been mobilized to the station by rail, was thrown into battle under the command of Jiang Weiguo, but there were no tanks, only M3 half-tracks equipped with 75-mm guns, which still caused heavy casualties to the newly formed island combat unit of the Japanese Army, the Marine Mobile Brigade.

At the same time, various types of US planes were dispatched in turn to attack Japanese ships at sea at any cost, as well as to attack ports and airfields dispatched by Japanese troops across the sea.

Judging from the US military communications intercepted by 419, as of 6 o'clock in the morning, the ashore army was confined to a 3-square-kilometer beachhead and controlled part of the port buildings, but the victory or defeat was far from being decided.

Lieutenant Kennedy walked through a dense crater and walked to Lin Xiuxuan, who was smoking a pipe under the flagpole in the playground, which was the only thing in the barracks that was still intact.

"Captain, you did it."

The lieutenant walked up and shook hands with Lin Xiuxuan excitedly. He could roughly imagine the situation when the Army rushed into the camp and the Japanese were forced to call in artillery fire to cover themselves—something the Japanese did.

If he had been less sad and had looked at the still smoking corpses, he would have found that there was not a single corpse of American soldiers.

"What about your brothers? They won't all die here, will they? The lieutenant asked cautiously.

"No, they have entered the mountain, there are still some Japanese here, they have to be monitored, and then I need your forces to cooperate and annihilate them together."

"How big are your casualties?"

"It's very small......," Lin Xiuxuan replied vaguely, "I'll tell you bad news, the Japanese have landed in Australia and are currently consolidating their bridgehead." ”

"My * radio station on the boat is damaged, I don't know anything like this."

"The other bad news is that the warehouse has been destroyed by shelling, and it looks like we're going to have to find another way to get fuel."

"What can you do?"

"Go to the rest of the island and look for the supplies that the Dutch have hidden. Maybe there's something you need. ”

"Australia has begun, and I need to immediately return to the headquarters in Pasa, 100 kilometers away, to take on a new mission. Yes, the archipelago must be used to attack their sea supply lines. "The lieutenant still looks really eager to fight.

"Get your men ready with weapons, and in an hour, we'll search for the Japanese and find fuel at the same time."

"Okay, I'll ...... right away"

Before the lieutenant could finish speaking, a sharp engine whistle sounded in the distance, and in the blink of an eye, a TBF bomber swept through the clouds, dragging a thick black smoke behind the fighter. Two Japanese Hayabusa fighters followed closely and strafed the American bombers. The bomber flew over Lin Xiuxuan and the lieutenant about 150 meters above them, and the pilot tried to escape the pursuit at a low altitude. But the Japanese planes were in hot pursuit. Eventually, the three planes flew over the highest hill on the island and no explosions were heard, but two Japanese troops could be seen turning out from behind the hill and returning, and the American plane did not appear.

"I suggest raising a Japanese flag in the harbor, there will be a lot of trekking planes approaching these days, most of them will be Japanese planes. If they see your boat, they will tear it to shreds. Lin said, of course, he was worried about the only remaining crane in the entire Florales sea, and of course he couldn't say it directly, he had to coax the lieutenant.

"I agree."

After a while, they found a Japanese flag, raised the flagpole, and searched the ruins of the warehouse to kill the lieutenant. So far, no one in the U.S. forces here has seen a single member of the 6th Division other than Rin, and Rin's troops have always existed only in his descriptions.

Lin then presented his plan, saying that his troops had discovered the enemy's whereabouts and that he needed a pincer offensive to surround the enemy at night and fight a battle of annihilation.

After the plan was explained, the lieutenant selected 13 people who could still fight, set off with weapons, and the soldiers were very energetic, and after annihilating a 4,000-ton ship, they felt that it was not a problem to solve the remaining Japanese troops on the island.

The next battle was exactly what Lin Xiuxuan was worried about, his requirement for victory and defeat was that 419 personnel must have 0 casualties, and the combat skills of the surface team were insufficient, so he was forced to let the Americans join. Japanese troops on the island are currently concentrated in the central strip, which is monitored by the optical equipment of the drone.

They spent the whole morning marching in the jungle full of evil insects, this team of 15 people, with 10* and some flares, if you count the superiority in intelligence, the annihilation of the Japanese army is not a problem, of course there may be some casualties, but it is better than 419 casualties.

When I climbed over the ridge, I found some fragments of the plane's skin, apparently dropped from the US plane.

The drone reminded Lin Xiuxuan that the U.S. fighter plane fell on the small lake in front of him, and the Japanese army was approaching there, Lin certainly didn't want the two sides to collide during the day, and there was a scuffle, and he hoped to lead the men and horses to avoid the plane and the Japanese army. However, after discovering the wreckage of the plane, the lieutenant insisted on going to the mountain ridge to observe the location of the crashed plane and confirm whether there were any survivors. Lin could only rely on him, after all, the people here only listened to Lieutenant Kennedy.

They spent an hour climbing to the top of a hill more than 400 meters above sea level, and they could clearly see the huge, forced landing traces in the swamp, and at the end of the trail was a tattered naval plane. The cabin door was pushed to the side, apparently someone was still alive and left the plane. middle

Together with Lin Xiuxuan, Wei and Lin Xiuxuan used binoculars to observe the plane and saw several fierce Japanese soldiers emerging from the woods. They pushed and beat two scarred pilots. One of the pilots was already seriously injured and could not withstand the beating and fell to the ground.

The Japanese officer asked his men to push the unconscious pilot to the ground, and he drew his saber and cut off the pilot's head with a single blow.

"Lieutenant, we must kill those sons of bitches and rescue our brothers." The sergeant of the 502nd regiment, who had only one hand left, shouted and looked agitated.

"yes, we can't wait until the evening."

The anger of the crowd was ignited by the savagery of the enemy, and Kennedy turned to Lin for his advice.

The plan had to be revised, because it looked like the Japanese were going to execute the last pilot soon. Lin thought about it, and could only fight hard.

"I'll contact my people and let them attract the Japanese from the flank, and then we'll sneak behind the Japanese and let our men out."

"Okay, just follow your plan."

The plan has been decided, Lin dodged everyone and began to use its radio to contact his own people, this kind of old-fashioned Motorola walkie-talkie, the effective distance is one or two kilometers, but Lin has been modified and has no worries about this aspect at all. He must now think things out very carefully, including annihilating the enemy, but he has never allowed Lu Dacheng's surface team to come into contact with the US army, among those people, only Qin Xiaosu's spoken English and agility are passable.

The Japanese climbed into the bomber and searched for the maps and documents that remained, and some began to torture the captured pilots, and through the binoculars, 15 Japanese soldiers were scattered around the plane, but the rest were still hiding in the jungle.

In the temporary camp of the Japanese army, the leader of the Japanese squad had realized that this was a carrier-based aircraft, and judged that there might be an American aircraft carrier nearby.

Even if they were in the Army, they knew that the whereabouts of the American aircraft carrier were very important, and it might make or break the war, so they hoped that the prisoners would immediately point out the location of the aircraft carrier from the map through torture, and then inform the Navy through the Kamatsu. They also heard yesterday's shelling, but Qin Xiaosu deceived them through the radio, telling them that the shelling annihilated an enemy counterattack, so they were not in a hurry to return at this time.

On the map, there is no location of the aircraft carrier. The Japanese roared for the captain to give an account of the location of the aircraft carrier, and the captured young warrant officer, trying to explain that he had taken off from a land airfield. But every time he pointed to the land, he would be rewarded with an old punch from the Japanese army, and even if the language was completely incomprehensible, the Japanese could see that he was not honest.

"Your name is George H.W. Bush?" The team leader asked, holding his identity card, he worked as a typesetter in a newspaper office before he became a soldier, and he could pronounce some words.

The warrant officer nodded like pounded garlic.

"You crossed the Pacific Ocean just to make a fortune on the land of the Asians, haha, the Great Japanese Empire knocked you down."