The battle was started by the US military. First, the pieces of shells were smashed wildly on Kwajalin Island. But the role these shells could play was not only to give the US Marine Division courage, but to add some smoke to Kwajalin Island.

The latter is actually not good for the US military, which makes the US military unable to see the Japanese artillery in the fortifications, nor the mines buried in the beach, and of course, it cannot find the anti-tank trenches carefully disguised by the Japanese army.

The US military's offensive was indeed as Kikuji estimated, using an amphibious landing vehicle to launch an attack.

This attack seems to be a huge momentum. As the vanguard, a group of US troops were fifty amphibious landing vehicles... According to the calculation that each amphibious landing vehicle could carry 25 soldiers, these fifty amphibious landing vehicles could carry more than a thousand soldiers. And this is just the first wave, followed by two waves and the third wave...

The US military divided the 120 landing vehicles into three batches, the first batch of 50, the second batch of 40, and the third batch of 30... The US military's plan was that after one batch had gained a foothold on the beach, it immediately went up the second batch. When the second and third batches launched an offensive, the first landing vehicles retreated and received US soldiers from the Higgins ship entering the lagoon and then transported them to the coast where the Japanese troops were stationed. Therefore, the three batches of amphibious landing vehicles would cycle one after another, continuously transporting American troops ashore to seize the Japanese positions.

This idea is good, and if we estimate the battles in Woje Atoll and Maloerap Atoll, this kind of fighting will not be problematic.

But... Johnson did not think about what if one of these three batches of landing cars had gone but no return? It would mean that this cycle would be interrupted, and the US military's offensive would also have problems.

Brigadier Johnson might take it for granted that this situation would not happen, because it was dozens of landing vehicles. Not only did these amphibious landing vehicles carry armor and aircraft, but they also carried howitzers, mortars, etc. (Note: There are two types of lvt amphibious landing vehicles, one is armored, equipped with additional armor and two stands, and the other is transportation type, which does not have armor and aircraft, and the transportation weight is about three tons, while the US m1 howitzer weighs more than 600 kilograms)

So these fifty amphibious landing vehicles were not only the firepower of hundreds of aircraft, but also the artillery launched after landing. Johnson had reason to believe that his subordinates could break through the Japanese defense line.

But imagination is a matter of a moment, and reality is another matter.

The US military was in unexpected trouble as soon as it landed. The Japanese laid a lot of barbed wire mesh near the sea. These barbed wire mesh were not used to deal with infantry. Koji Kimura knew that the US soldiers would not wading in the water, so this was prepared for the landing car.

In fact, Hiroji Kimura was not sure whether the barbed wire was effective for amphibious landing vehicles. He just had many barbed wires that were not sure where to use, so he spread them between the coral reefs with a flash of inspiration.

Of course, the US amphibious landing vehicle did not take these barbed wires seriously and drove forward on its own... But the first barbed wire may have no effect, two, and triple... When more and more barbed wires are stuck in the car's tracks, the car finally couldn't move.
Chapter completed!