Taro Takemoto ran desperately to the trenches behind him, and at the same time the American landing force had jumped into the trenches on the first line of defense of the Japanese army, which had been destroyed by the huge artillery. Battleships on the distant sea were greeting the Japanese second line of defense with their huge cannons, and large-caliber shells whizzed over the heads of these American Marines, boosting everyone's morale.

More than a dozen naval fighters swooped down from the sky, aiming their heavy machine guns at Japanese targets on the ground, and a dense rain of bullets scattered on the Japanese positions.

It was only to this day that these poor soldiers realized what a powerful country they had provoked, and that they had no way to withstand the enemy's shells and tanks, as well as their flesh and blood and the spirit of devotion to His Majesty the Emperor.

A U.S. Marine tank crawler rolled up sand on the beach, and another Sherman tank, which had come out of a nearby landing craft, slowly ran over in the direction of the Japanese position. Behind these two tanks were groups of American GIs with weapons, and there was not much resistance left in front of them, so their advance was not difficult.

Several successive landing operations have allowed the soldiers of the US Marine Corps to accumulate rich combat experience, and they are good at using their firepower and heavy equipment to target the Japanese army, and this unreasonable style of play makes the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side a little helpless. They lacked the means to deal with the U.S. style of deep pockets, and at least the Japanese armoured forces rarely appeared on the islands to challenge the U.S. Sherman tanks, which had already outwhelmed them in performance.

Although the American Sherman tank proved to be completely unable to compete with the Leopard and Tiger tanks equipped by the German armored forces in the Middle East theater, let alone the newer German King Tiger tank. However, this American medium tank, which was born under the strong quality of Germany's superior armored forces, could crush its Japanese opponent without any suspense.

After landing on the island, these tanks can inflict huge casualties on the Japanese army, and many Japanese soldiers were ordered to blow up these steel monsters with anti-tank mines on their backs, but this kind of close-quarters fighting style is actually not what the American tank crews are afraid of.

The good coordination of infantry and tanks made it very easy for the United States to fight the Japanese against the Japanese in close quarters, and those dense artillery really suppressed the Japanese already few means of counterattack.

Taro Takemoto finally climbed through the blockade and suppression of American artillery fire from the first-line position, and brought the news of the breakthrough of the first-line position to the defenders of the second-line position who were also discouraged, and before he could drink a sigh of relief, the American shells once again patronized his side, because the second line of defense is the core defensive position of the Japanese army, so the quality and complexity of the fortifications are better, so the American artillery fire felt here is not as fierce as just now.

The main reason is that the artillery of the US Navy is resting and preparing for the next more intense attack. Most of the fire now was fired by the 152 mm guns on the destroyers, and the Japanese could bear such an attack, and although the entire second-line position looked very miserable, it was actually not much fatally damaged.

Most of the Japanese defense lines here are reinforced with wood, and they are supported by many stone structures, which are theoretically designed to cope with the suppression of American large-caliber artillery, but when they see the tragic situation on the first line of defense, everyone will have no bottom in their hearts about whether their defense line has the ability to resist the enemy's artillery fire.

The U.S. fleet now has a short board of aircraft carriers, and the number of other ships has exceeded the total number of fleets used by the German army when it landed in Britain.

The American soldiers did not rush inland after entering the first line of Japanese trenches, and this is also a lesson learned from numerous defeats, and the Japanese liked to counter-charge immediately after losing their positions, using a short assault to regain positions and effectively kill American troops. So the Americans have also become cautious, they have more time, so they are not afraid to wait. As long as the beachhead is in their hands, then there will be more and more troops on their side, and the Japanese army will have less and less chances.

Major General Ishida was in his headquarters, looking at the frontal battlefield that had temporarily died down, and reluctantly threw the reserves in his hands into the second-line defensive position. He didn't dare to lose this position, because behind this line of defense was a third line of defense that was not much prepared, and compared to the first two lines of defense, this third line of defense was not much completed at all.

So there is not much time left for him, as long as the second line of defense is broken through by the American army, his troops will be divided and surrounded, and the core position of the entire island will be occupied by the American Marines. This includes a field hospital, as well as a port on the island.

"Let the soldiers who came down from the first line of defense, go to the ports, and then immediately blow up these port docks, we can't leave anything for the Americans. With his hands behind his back, Rear Admiral Ishida finally gave the operational order to blow up the dock. Everything here cannot be left to the US military, otherwise the entire Pacific war situation will collapse even more.

When Taro Takemoto received the order to blow up the dock, the U.S. Marines were still reinforcing the defensive line, and the other side was not in a hurry to launch a new round of attack, as if it was a little frightened by the Japanese counterattack. So when some reinforcements were obtained, the second line of defense of the Japanese army at least looked very strong.

Taro Takemoto followed a group of mud-covered Japanese troops to retreat to the pier, and they were to replace the elite Japanese troops defending the pier and blow up the place and deploy it there. The reason why he didn't blow up the dock now was mainly because Ishida also fantasized that he would be able to get some submarines from there for supplies.

Listening to the rumbling sound of cannon behind him again, Taro Takemoto felt that he was a very lucky person. He managed to escape from the fire of the Americans, and was sent to the rear far from the battlefield with a life-saving order, which was good news for him, a very reassuring news.

He followed the troops in the jungle with his weapon on his back, walking step by step along a slippery path. At a fork in the road, he saw two officers cut down the sign, probably so that they would not be left behind for the Americans to use.

Taro Takemoto, who was familiar with the terrain, had walked this road countless times, and he knew that there was a field hospital not far ahead, where at least 500 seriously wounded and wounded were dumped on the island before they could evacuate. The cover personnel had already been evacuated during the previous evacuations, and only a few nurses who had volunteered to stay behind were tending to the poor wounded.

When Taro Takemoto's tent appeared in front of Taro Takemoto's eyes, he saw a horrific scene of dead soldiers, many of whom were covered in bandages, apparently wounded in the hospital.

More than a dozen wounded soldiers with bandages on their heads were wiping the slender katana in their hands, and their eyes had become fierce, making people look horrible. The entire camp was filled with the smell of blood, and several soldiers with bandages on their hands looked at Taro Takemoto and the soldiers around him who had retreated from the front line with indifferent eyes.

In order to save food, we have already killed all the wounded who could not stand up! Why are you embarrassed to abandon your position and retreat?" A wounded officer with a bloody face limped up in front of Taro Takemoto and the others, and shouted loudly: "You should be loyal to the Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor! You should be on the front line when the position is lost!"

Taro Takemoto looked at the wounded who had been hacked to death in the hospital bed, and looked at the corpses that had fallen to their knees with a bayonet in their stomachs, and a thick feeling of nausea enveloped their whole body. He didn't know how to defend himself, but theoretically he was one of those people who had fallen into a rout.

"We are soldiers who were ordered to change guards, not escaped!" an officer leading the team stood in front of the wounded officer with his command knife and defended his soldiers: "If you don't believe me, you can go and ask Chief Ishida in person!"

"And the officer who ordered his soldiers to retreat? Ishida is really a shameless coward!" The wounded officer snorted coldly, and then pointed to the wounded behind him who could barely move, and his facial muscles twitched a little: "I'll take everyone to support the front line! We will never steal our lives! We will use our lives to defend the Japanese Empire!"

"His Majesty the Emperor...... Hooray!" shouted several lightly wounded soldiers behind him, the most fanatical militaristic thinkers, samurai who were willing to give everything to the expansion of the Japanese Empire.

It's a pity that Taro Takemoto doesn't want to follow these idiots back to the frontal battlefield, after all, he prefers to go to the rear that has been chosen, and carry out the simple and safe task of blowing up the dock. But this did not mean that the others thought the same, and a few soldiers with their heads bowed followed the wounded behind, and they wanted to go back and kill the Americans and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.

"Stupid!" Taro Takemoto sneered in his heart, and followed his troops out of this field hospital.

It's late to go home today, but what I promised everyone is what I promised, so Long Ling is desperately coding words, and I will definitely give you three more chapters!