Chapter 607: 607 Battle of Kauai

Everyone thinks that Americans are a bunch of playboys, a bunch of rich kids who can't fight. But in fact, everyone does not know the American nation, when the crisis comes, this nation is absolutely not short of heroes, at least in the entire history of World War II, the American will to fight is absolutely tough.

If the American was afraid of casualties, he must have never seen the corpses of American GIs on the beaches of Normandy. The American soldiers continued to press forward desperately in the face of the German machine-gun bullets raining down, and when they finally took the beach, the water was dyed red.

In another time and space, Bastogne, the 101st Airborne Division of the United States was surrounded by superior German forces, and the German commander-in-chief sent a letter of persuasion to surrender, in which he persuaded the Americans to surrender in a praising tone, but Brigadier General McAuliffe, the acting division commander at the time, replied with only one word: "Silly X!"

Therefore, Americans do not lack patriotism, nor do they lack courage and sacrifice, what they lack is a reason to fight for their country, and what they lack is a belief to persuade themselves to die generously. When everything is in place, the Americans' combat effectiveness will completely burst out and turn into a terrible war monster, tearing apart their opponents with their strong industrial base and patriotic spirit.

Of course, if the industrial heritage is not yet fully realized, the patriotic spirit of the Americans, like the Japanese bushido, is extremely vulnerable to steel. The Japanese bombardment on Kauai made everyone despair, and shells rained down on American positions, destroying the strong fortifications that had taken a month to build.

Compared with the nearly 100 warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the artillery deployed by the Americans on Kauai Island did not even have the capital to return fire, and as soon as they opened fire, they were crushed by the Japanese army from all sides: bombardment from the sky and suppressive fire from the sea, which directly knocked these cannons into scrap metal.

"We are reorganizing our defensive line, and several of the main positions, although damaged, can still be used to resist the Japanese landing. The regiment commander who asked for support looked at the field hospital not far away, looked at the more than 30 wounded soldiers in it who were constantly crying, and frowned and assured his superiors: "Yes! We will hold our positions until the order to retreat comes." ”

About 100 meters behind him, a cannonball kicked up dust and mud that covered the sky, causing everyone to shrink their necks involuntarily. The noise came, and the voice could no longer be heard, and the American regiment commander had to confirm the order again loudly: "Louder! I can't hear what you're talking about! Yes! We will hold our ground until the order to retreat comes!"

Before he could put down the phone in his hand, he saw in the small space of the observation port, and the Japanese ships began to unload the hordes of Japanese soldiers in a dense manner, and these Japanese soldiers let out a terrible howl, climbed down from the rope nets laid down from the high side of the ship, jumped onto the sampan and the boat for landing, and launched an attack on the beach defended by the American army.

"Headquarters? Hey, Headquarters? The Japanese soldiers have begun to land!" He took the microphone and reported this sentence to the inside, then put down the phone and turned around and looked at several signal soldiers: "Go to their respective positions! Order the troops to start counterattacking according to the original counterattack plan!"

"Yes, sir!" several signal soldiers stood up and saluted, and then hurriedly ran out of the command room with their steel helmets. At this time, the regiment commander grabbed the phone again and contacted the battalion-level combat units under his command one by one. The main reason he sent the signal corps was because he was afraid that the telephones would be destroyed or cut off, but because of his luck, he contacted all the troops under his control.

The American machine guns have always used outdated and traditional Browning machine guns, but when this weapon is deployed in a fixed position, it has all kinds of drawbacks: its bulky size provides a continuous and steady fire output, and the chain feed is a hundred times better than the various weird feed patterns used by Japanese machine guns.

So when the Japanese soldiers hobbled onto the beach, the casualties caused by the sudden fire of the American machine guns made the dense Japanese soldiers pay a heavy price. Bullets rained down on the Japanese soldiers, and torrents of metal passed through their flesh, sending up a faint mist of blood.

"Attack!" a Japanese lieutenant brandished his command knife and encouraged his soldiers to brave the hail of bullets, but he soon paid a heavy price for his recklessness. A stray bullet from nowhere knocked his knife-wielding hand away, and a second shot sent his arm flying a long way away.

The nightmare didn't end, and as he turned his head to look at his right hand, which was only a piece of bone left, a bullet flew through the back of his steel helmet through the back of his head, taking away his eyes, nose, and most of his facial bones with great penetration. Amid the hysterical screams of the soldiers, the second lieutenant fell like a puddle of mud on the beach.

Blood flowed down the beach to the sea, and it was an absolute hell for the Japanese soldiers, who had never seen such ferocious suppressive fire anywhere in China or anywhere in Southeast Asia, and even the density of ammunition dropped by their own most elite divisions could not be compared to the American soldiers on the other side.

In order to catch up with the huge gap in the individual weapons of the German army, the Americans repurchased their own front-line weapons, and the M1 Garand automatic rifle began to be installed in large quantities, which for the Japanese bolt rifle, it was simply a terrible storage comparable to a submachine gun. What's more, the U.S. forces are also equipped with carbines to close the gap in firepower density with the German MP-44 assault rifles, and after some efforts, the infantry ammunition dumping capabilities of the U.S. units are comparable to those of elite German grenadiers, and it seems to be overkill to deal with a large number of Japanese units that rely on bolt rifles.

In the trenches, the American GIs, armed with their weapons, began to frantically sweep their ammunition towards the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side. The dense artillery attacks that had just made these American soldiers suffer a lot, and now that the feng shui is turning, they naturally want to vent their anger on the enemy on the opposite side in their own way.

"Fire, fire, shoot as far as you can! You've suppressed them! Aim and shoot!" an American sergeant squinted his eyes and ordered his men in the trench in a loud voice. But the American soldiers around him didn't heed his shouting. The soldiers frantically pulled their triggers, firing bullet after bullet at the crowd on the opposite side, until they heard their rifles pop out of the magazine with a crisp click, then crouched down, took the loaded magazine from their pockets, struck it twice on their helmets, and pressed it back into the bomb bay.

A Japanese soldier with a long rifle aimed at the opposite American position, pulled his trigger, and the bullet hit an American soldier with precision. However, the Japanese soldier was quickly knocked to the ground by a machine gun, and before he could even scream, he vomited blood and died. More Japanese soldiers shouted and shouted slogans of divine protection, and frantically flocked to the American defensive positions with bayonets in their 38 rifles.

As time passed, the sea gradually turned red, and the Japanese continued to charge frantically, this time they had all kinds of cover covers, which were piled up layer by layer from the corpses of Japanese soldiers. Little by little, the corpses stretched towards the American positions, and in some places the distance between the two sides was already very close, and the Americans frantically returned fire under the shelling of the Japanese battleships, while the Japanese soldiers frantically poured onto the beach under the cover of the ship's guns.

On a machine-gun position in the United States, the shooter was swinging the machine gun back and forth, shooting bullets at the enemy in the distance, and not far away from the trench connected to the machine-gun position, Japanese soldiers were already jumping into the trench with bayonets. Some American soldiers armed with shotguns and submachine guns opened heavy fire, knocking all the Japanese soldiers who had entered the trenches to the ground.

But more Japanese soldiers rushed into the trenches, and an American officer ran out of bullets from his carbine, only to find that there was no time left to install ammunition, so he pulled out his pistol and opened fire, knocking over one of the Japanese soldiers who was screaming and rushing at him.

Behind him, however, another Japanese soldier jumped into the trench and shot the American officer in the back, the bullet piercing through the chest, and the American officer fell into the muddy water, allowing the Japanese soldier's toe shoes to step on his body.

On the beach, a dozen Japanese soldiers finally carried a Type 92 heavy machine gun ashore. This kind of heavy machine gun, which weighs more than 110 pounds with a total weight of more than 110 pounds, is definitely a well-deserved guy. Of course, compared with the Browning used by the American soldiers on the other side, the performance of this machine gun developed by Japan "independently" can only be described as average.

However, at this time, a heavy machine gun that could provide continuous fire support could restore some self-confidence to the Japanese marines, who only had a Type 38 rifle in their hands. As the co-shooter kept stuffing the bomb bay with bullet plates, the machine gun began to shoot tongues of fire to suppress the American machine gun positions in the distance.

With this machine gun under cover, more Japanese weapons began to be deployed on the beach, including grenadiers, a special Japanese weapon. This weapon can be said to be a small mortar, or it can be said to be a simple grenade launcher, in short, at some moments, this weapon that Japan is heavily equipped with is still very threatening. After two precise grenadier attacks, the American beachhead defense line was finally breached, and groups of Japanese soldiers rushed towards the breach, and the Kauai landing battle continued after three hours of fierce fighting between the two sides.