"Asami-kun......" Jun Cao gritted his teeth helplessly and pulled out the command knife on his waist. According to his identity, there are not many people who can be equipped with a command sword, but his family has been a samurai for generations, and this command knife is also an ancestral thing, so he wears it on the battlefield.

When he first wore this war knife, his strong grandfather still hoped that he could use this war knife to make more meritorious contributions, who knew that now this war knife was unsheathed for the first time, and it was actually his own friendly army.

He held the handle of the katana with both hands, hesitating whether to cut the wounded soldier named Asami, and under the emotion, tears had already poured out of his eyes, but those trembling hands still couldn't swing the sword to the body of his comrade-in-arms: "Asami-kun, we have been neighbors for twenty-seven years, I ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the Japanese soldier named Asami had already died from excessive bleeding, and he still had a distorted expression on his face, but he was slightly relaxed because he had lost consciousness.

"Asami, Asami-kun, Yaga, Yaga, Yaga, Yaga, Damn Americans, I'm going to tear you to pieces!" the soldier shouted as he brandished his saber and faced the endless sea.

But what answered his angry roar was another round of dense shelling, the ammunition fell on the beach and raised a cloud of sea water and mud, the whole of Midway Island had no weapons to return fire, and the dozens of field guns deployed by the army were almost no different from the caliber of the navy's shells.

In the face of the overwhelming firepower superiority of the US Navy, the brave and persistent Japanese soldiers fought purely on the flesh, which seemed to be in vain, and thousands of Japanese soldiers were trapped on the beach, tortured by the shells fired by the US Navy, but because of the tactical requirements, they had to stay here and wait for the arrival of the American attack.

Japanese planes on Midway Island returned fire against the American fleet, and an attack formation of 50 bombers carried out a surprise attack on the American fleet, but because there was no corresponding experience in naval attacks, the surprise was fruitless, and the only difference was that there were 32 fewer planes returning home.

"If we continue like this, we will fight for three days at most, and after three days, this place will be occupied by the Americans. A division staff officer complained to Anteng: "The trenches and fortifications are not effective against large-caliber naval guns, and although our troops have high morale, the enemy does not land...... If this continues, I am afraid that the soldiers will not have a chance to be loyal to the emperor. ”

In the hidden trenches, Anteng looked at the map of the whole island of Midway, and he also knew that it was not a way to go on like this, but he couldn't think of any effective countermeasures for a while. Let him abandon the beachhead and withdraw his troops back to the inner line, and he does not have the courage - who dares to lose the first line of defense in such a vague way?

Kuribayashi Tadamichi was trapped on Iwo Jima as a last resort, and at least in 1939, the standard mode of resistance to landing operations was still to defend the beachhead, and the correctness was not something that a small divisional commander dared to question easily. What's more, An Teng was originally a decent conservative general, and it was not as easy for him to play on the spot as it was for him to commit suicide.

Therefore, Anteng is now a little out of ideas, except for sending telegrams over and over again urging the Japanese Navy to hurry up and reinforce them, there is really no further countermeasure. Fortunately, the U.S. Navy did not let him wait too long, and the morning after the Second Battle of Midway, the U.S. Navy, after shelling all night, released its own landing force.

The commander of the landing US forces standing on the bridge of the aircraft carrier looked at General Spruance beside him, pointed to the US Marine Corps soldiers who were constantly waiting for the assault boat landing craft, and said: "General, if the landing force is released in such an urgency, the casualties will be very large, why don't you shell it for one to two days?"

"I'm still not very worried about the original attack plan, after all, Yamamoto Isoroku is still very cunning and suspicious, and if he suddenly comes north to trouble us, it will cost us the entire fleet. Spruance replied to the generals around him, "So I consulted with General Nimitz last night, and he also felt that he should take Midway Island quickly." ”

For the United States, Midway Island is also a crucial link, if Midway Island is taken, then the US Navy will form a "momentum" in the strategic counterattack, to put it simply, it is a strategic counteroffensive, which can play an encouraging role in the entire US foreign war.

Moreover, once Midway is returned to the United States, then the US Navy will gain more room for maneuver, and the Japanese Navy will lose its ability to carry out strategic activities and be fixed between the Marshall Islands and Wake Island.

Therefore, for both the U.S. and Japanese navies, Midway is a vital strategic point that must be controlled by themselves. The advantage of Japan is that Midway is already in its own hands, and the advantage of the US Navy is that the combined fleet of Yamamoto Isoroku is now not near Midway.

"Offense! That's what we have to do now. Spruance watched the navy's landing craft spread out densely on the sea, and said with his hands behind his back: "General Nimitz said that this is a war, and countless people must sacrifice for the country in order to win the final victory. We are Americans, the strongest Americans in the world, no one can try to defeat us, not the Germans, not the Japanese!"

The Japanese defenders on the beach finally saw hope, as the landing force of the US Navy began to unfold on the sea, indicating that the seemingly endless shelling was coming to an end, and the battle of true reciprocal proportions was about to begin. So many Japanese soldiers began to pull the bolts of their guns, staring hatefully at the landing craft that swayed with the waves.

"Ring, bell, bell!" In the sparse sound of artillery fire, in the headquarters of General Anten, the telephone rang, he grabbed the receiver, and heard the first good news since the beginning of the battle: "Your Excellency, in front of the main position of our army on Midway, the US Navy is landing. Our judgment of the direction of the enemy's landing is accurate, and in a few minutes I will give the order to counterattack. ”

"Very well! According to the pre-plan! Drive these life-hungry Americans into the sea! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" said Anteng murderously. In the past day and night, he has been under too much pressure, and at this time, he can finally vent.

Although most of the defensive positions were severely damaged by American shells, the Japanese troops stationed inside still stubbornly held on to the ruins. They still had many hidden pillboxes and scattered fortifications on the beach, and the Japanese soldiers, determined to fight to the death, suppressed their anger and waited for the moment when the Americans rushed to the beachhead.

However, the U.S. Navy apparently had a wealth of experience in landing operations when it landed on Kauai, and in the minutes leading up to the landing, they poured large quantities of ammunition onto the beach and dropped an unbelievable amount of smoke grenades. The view of the Japanese defenders was so badly obscured that the wide sea in front of them disappeared, and the entire beach was filled with thick smoke, like a sandstorm.

With the rough water, the first American landing craft approached the beach, and with the sound of metal rubbing, the huge front pedal was slowly lowered, and the American soldiers who had been waiting inside began to pour out of the landing craft, and then quickly dispersed to both sides in the knee-high water.

"Suddenly, suddenly!" a Japanese machine-gun position near the beach opened fire, and they could not see anything in front of them, but the sound proved that the American Marines had rushed to the beachhead, and the radical Japanese soldiers, despite the danger of exposing themselves, decided to take the lead in attacking the American soldiers.

The bullet blindly swept through the smoke and hit the sea water around the American landing craft, making a splash, and an unlucky American soldier was hit in the stomach by the bullet and let out a scream, his blood quickly stained the surrounding sea water, and he was no longer breathing before the medics were called.

The second landing craft washed up on the beach, and the American GIs inside quickly dispersed, and the Japanese defenders, apparently realizing that the situation did not seem to be in their favor, began to organize a dense fire attack. Rifles and machine guns from some front-line positions were fired blindly, and increasingly dense attacks fell on the heads of the US Marines.

"Fire, return fire, move quickly, occupy favorable terrain! Hurry!" ordered a front-line commander who landed with the soldiers, and more landing craft rushed to the beachhead, and hundreds of American soldiers braved smoke and bullets to attack the Japanese positions, and the shouts of soldiers being shot everywhere began to appear on the entire beach.

Jumping over a barbed wire fence destroyed by artillery shells, the American soldiers jumped into a huge sand pit. This is a huge crater formed by the explosion of an artillery shell with a caliber of more than 300 mm, and there are already more than a dozen American troops who arrived here first.

An American soldier was calling for naval artillery support with a walkie-talkie, and several American soldiers were hurriedly setting up a heavy machine gun at the edge of the crater, and more American soldiers were frantically returning fire with their Garand rifles, they didn't aim at all, just ran out of a magazine of bullets into the blurred distance, and then retracted into the crater to reload their rifles.

The day after the Second Battle of Midway, both sides were in trouble on the beach, and the Japanese were more tenacious than the Americans imagined, and the Americans were stronger than the Japanese imagined.

So, at this moment, the blood flowed on the beach.

Although it's a little late, but today Long Ling worked hard to make up a chapter, I hope everyone wakes up in the morning, can see this chapter, and have a good mood!