Chapter 163: Oahu offense and defense (7)

At 8:30, the northeastern sea surface of Oahu Island.

A blue-gray steel tide spits black smoke, splashes with water, and squirms towards the beautiful beach with green coconut trees as the background.

The front end of this 'tide' is the 144 light infantry landing craft carrying 5,000 officers and soldiers of the first cover group, which is spread in a double row and cross-row. This small boat has a full load displacement of 15 tons, is equipped with a 220 horsepower gasoline main engine, with a maximum speed of 8 knots, and can carry 4 tons of cargo or 36 to 40 Marines. It is usually mounted on the side of large landing ships and troop transport ships. After being put down by a crane, the soldiers climb onto the boat from the ropes laid beside the side.

After that, there were 200 amphibious engineering vehicles affiliated to the 11th and 12th Amphibious Infantry Brigades of the Marine Corps and the 1st Battalion of the 1st Special Mixed Engineer Corps, 20 TDC-G amphibious assault vehicles (equipped with 37mm tank guns) and 20 TDC-H fire support vehicles (equipped with 75mm infantry guns), carrying a total of 5,500 crew members. The landing vehicles were paddling forward with tracks. Although the speed was slow, they were enough to keep up with the infantry landing craft in front. The 200 landing vehicles were deployed in three rows of interlaced lines on the front more than 3 kilometers, and were slowly slapped on the undulating sea surface like ducks.

Behind the landing vehicle, there were two or three rows of high and low hills: including seven "Warwick" class chariot landing ships with a full load displacement of more than 4,000 tons, 27 medium-sized general landing crafts placed on the dock landing ships, and 60 mechanized landing crafts placed on large troop transport ships, carrying the 1st and 2nd chariot brigades of the landing team, the 101st Amphibious Mobile Artillery Brigade, the 1st Assault Group's 450th

0 officers and soldiers. The vehicles carried include: 168 combat-making five-type "Flying Wolf" chariots (also known as the No. 5 "Flying Wolf"), 28 "Wolverine" mechanized engineering vehicles modified from the "Flying Wolf" chariot, 74 TDC series amphibious self-propelled artillery (48 90 ditches and 26 120 force), 20 75mm infantry guns, 180 2-point 5-ton trucks, 40 1-ton light trucks and 81 motorcycles (27 of which have hanging buckets).

Behind the above-formed triple formation, the troop transport ship modified by the ocean cruise ship was still nervously lifting the mechanized landing craft carried on the side, and the figures of landing team members were squirming like an ant on the side rope. The temporarily installed universal cranes kept lifting trucks filled with decks into the boat... The 120 mechanical landing craft that set off in the last will carry 3,000 officers and soldiers of the 1st Assault Group Supplement Team and the 2nd Cover Group, 130 vehicles, and 20 infantry artillery, and rushed to the beach before the tide fell.

The most expensive property and the most elite officers and soldiers of the Imperial Marine Corps are all placed here!

Among them, on the bridge of the "Huaxing" chariot landing ship of the third formation, a Marine Colonel in his thirties stood on his back with a tall figure, thick eyebrows and torched eyes, and from time to time issued simple and powerful commands.

His name is Pan Guochen. When he came here through the alien universe ten years ago, he was just an inconspicuous special forces corporal, full of unrealistic naval dreams and wanted to do a big fight here. However, the reality is cruel. In the first few years, he had been working as a guard for the leader Liu Yun and his family as a guard.

Complaints are useless, no, complaining is a poison, a poison that corrodes people's hearts and accelerates the depravity.

Be patient, be patient, be patient for a while, this is a test, if you can't pass, you will be completely finished-

In this way, I kept awakening, motivating myself and endured the first few years with my companions.

The moment Liu Yun announced the end of the test, Pan Guochen was excitedly feeling that the Rockets were about to take off.

In the tenth year of arriving here, Pan Guochen finally ascended to the position of the brigade commander of the Armored Brigade at the age of 33 - he should be content.

In fact, the theoretical basis of this ongoing landing battle with advanced concepts was laid by Pan Guochen.

The so-called "one-hand foundation" is actually to extract and adapt theories of different time and space in the group's computer, and to use the most likely parts of it using the Naval University and the Marine Corps Teaching Brigade as a platform.

The internal discussions "Introduction to Modern Landing Warfare" and "Mechanized Landing Warfare" compiled by him became the theoretical basis for the Marine Corps to form armored mechanized troops and purchase new landing equipment. The latter became a high-level textbook for the Marine Continental Warfare Department. For a time, senior officials who came into contact with Pan Guochen's theory were all impressed and admired him, especially the central officials of the military - from the Minister of Defense to the Chief of General Staff - all claimed to be his staunch supporters everywhere, so there were enthusiasts who gave him the title of "landing warfare master". From then on, people were needed, money, power and power, and without any obstacles along the way, and they worked hard. Now, the large number of expensive equipment that was driving towards the beach and nearly 20,000 well-trained officers and soldiers, can be said to have existed due to his efforts.

Now, it’s time to prove that you don’t make a false name!

Now, it is time to prove the value of this elite force!

Now, it’s time to let your opponent collapse in front of the combat concept that is beyond the times!

The shells whizzed past the head, and from afar, ferocious, swelling smoke from the beach was rising like a rotten corpse. It was getting closer and closer. Haven't the enemy's artillery started to fight back?

"Airplane, the plane is here!"

Someone beside him shouted happily. Pan Guochen followed the man's instructions and looked up at the port side. Sure enough, he saw a dense crowd of aircraft, with at least fifty or sixty aircraft approaching the coast from the west. He raised his telescope to look carefully. The aircraft slowly flew over the beach, divided into several groups, and began to circle, and occasionally dropped bombs like birds shit. Air support before landing began.

Pan Guochen looked at the waterproof watch on his wrist - it was pretty punctual, but this was not the most critical...

"Sir, your smoke-proof mask is tidied up."

After taking the smoke-proof mask handed over by the adjutant - the gas mask called in that era, Pan Guochen climbed to the top of the bridge and saw that the arrow on the top of the mast was still pointing to the southeast, and smiled comfortably.

Sunset Beach is backed by the Kolao Mountains that run across the eastern coast of Oahu Island. There is a large coconut forest between the beach and the mountains. There is a road parallel to the coastline in the middle of the coconut forest - that is, Highway 83, which surrounds the northeast coast of the island.

That morning, the main force of the 1st Hawaiian Preparatory Regiment, the machine gun company and artillery company of Colonel Pokaki, was stationed behind the beach.

Colonel Pokaki set up his command in a small valley behind Highway 83. Climbing up the hillside in front of the valley, you can overlook the entire beachhead - an artillery observation station is set up on the hilltop.

The A and B companies of the 1st Rifle Battalion were deployed in parallel in the front line of civil fortifications, foxgloves, trenches and traffic trenches behind the beach, each with four machine guns.

Company C and Company D are deployed on the rock walls at both ends of the beachhead, each equipped with 4 machine guns and 2 3-inch field guns. In addition, the Navy has a temporary turret on the rock wall at the southern end of the beachhead, equipped with 1 6-inch naval gun and 2 6-pound guns.

The e and F companies of the 2nd Rifle Battalion were arranged as reserves on the second-line position behind Highway 83, equipped with two machine guns. The main artillery position was set on a high ground with a forested tree after the second-line position, equipped with 4 fast-fire field cannons.

Company G and Company I are stationed in Haleva Town and are equipped with two machine guns. Although Haleva's pier has been blown up, the possibility of the enemy attacking directly at Haleva cannot be ruled out. Moreover, it is the supply center of the First Reserve Regiment.

The 3rd Battalion has only three companies, of which the J Company is left in Wahiyawa in the middle of the island. The other two companies are responsible for the guards on the east and west coasts and have been excluded from the defensive forces on Sunset Beach.

Even so, Colonel Pokaki was confident.

Over the years, he has participated in the battles of landing in Nicaragua and Mexico, and learned a truth from it: as long as a few machine guns and field cannons are installed in the fortifications carefully constructed behind the beach, it is enough to turn the beach into a slaughterhouse for landing soldiers. If there is a certain size of reserve team, it is possible to drive landing soldiers several times more than me into the sea...

Ten days ago, the First Preparatory Regiment was ordered to defend the north shore of Oahu, and he began to practice his theory. Under his Texas cowboy-style shouts, the troops cut down coconut trees, brought stones, and dug trenches, and set up solid 'fire' fortifications for artillery and machine gun positions. With machine guns and artillery positions as the core, fox pits, trenches and traffic trenches were dug, and a support point-like circular defense system was built. The shrubs between the support points were shoveled and cleared to expand the 'fire' boundary and facilitate the 'fire' killing of enemy soldiers who infiltrated the gaps in the support points.

The lush and evergreen woods and shrubs on Oahu are the best camouflage of the position. Even so, the colonel still forced the troops to cover fresh grass leaves on exposed bunkers before sunrise every day to prevent aircraft reconnaissance.

The colonel's slogan was: "The Navy was defeated because it looked down on those mechanical flies, and our army was not as stupid as them!"

After hearing the bomb explosion from the beach, Colonel Pokaki hurriedly climbed up the mountain bag in front of the command center and came to the artillery observation mirror to watch the sea situation - God! I saw a long dark wall of darkness stretching across the sea sky line, covering it with the faint black smoke, taking advantage of the tide and water, and it seemed like thousands of giant whales, pushing tens of millions of tons of sea water, spraying evil poisonous black mist to waves. It won’t take long to flood the beach, flood the inland, shake the Kolao Mountain, and sweep the Oahu Island...

"Good come... I'll hit you in close range!"

Colonel Pokaki's combat policy is very simple: take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy had just rushed to the beach and was crowded together in a mess, and concentrate on firepower to massacre it.

The only thing you need to do now is to wait and wait for that time to come.

The shelling became more and more fierce, and huge smoke and clouds of dozens of meters high continued to explode in the coconut forest. Soon, those annoying mechanical flies also flew over the beach in groups, circled around to find targets. Unfortunately, unless the pilots of the East Asian Alliance had perspective eyes, it was impossible to find the US military fortifications covered under the emerald green branches and grass groups.

Yes, you have giant cannons and planes, but if you can't find the exact target, you can only shoot blindly like a blind man. If you want to hit, you have to rely on God for your blessing. Unfortunately, you don't believe in God. Obviously, God is on our side.

While Colonel Pokaki was trying hard to cheer himself up, the coconut forest where Company A and Company B were located was disappearing in large areas into the thick smoke and flames, flying in the sandy tree pieces, and occasionally passing through the traces of broken limbs...

At around 9:20, the first infantry landing craft approached the beach with shallow craters - even the most powerful shells could not exert their power on the soft and loose beach. The boats finally adjusted their direction and prepared to take advantage of the tide and waves to grab the beach.

Colonel Pokaki stared at the beach and held the telephone receiver in his right hand. As long as he shouted "fire", the signal flares would fly into the sky. The rifles on the front line of positions would sweep and fire the beach from three directions. The field cannons ready to fire on the artillery positions would also shoot fiery shrouds at the enemy rushing up like an ant at the speed of a rifle.

Come on! The ants, rush up and let us slaughter!

"Sir, another batch of planes!" the adjutant reminded Pokkaki.

"Don't worry about them."

Judging from the performance of the previous batch of enemy aircraft, the colonel did not feel that another batch of aircraft could stop the upcoming massacre on the beach.

"No one can save you, except God...but God is on our side."

At this time, Colonel Pan Guochen, who was on the "Huaxing", had no way to consider the bullshit issues such as God was on or what kind of underwear God was wearing. He just raised his head, clinged to the telescope, and carefully observed the movements of the second wave of support aircraft.

When the huge aircraft group approached the beach, they formed several groups and pulled an arc along the beach. At this arc, they dropped bombs almost at the same time. After the bombs were dropped, they did not have to hover a few more circles and sweep and shoot for a few rounds, but turned to leave immediately and soon disappeared.

"Smoke started! Smoke started!"

The adjutant shouted excitedly. Sure enough, as the plane gradually moved away, a stream of yellow and white smoke slowly rose from the land around the beach, and followed the wind and drove away inland.

Pan Guochen knew that the batch of aircraft just now dropped poison gas bombs with "special smoke bombs" sheep heads, mainly tear-gass phenylacetone and sneezing, vomiting, biphenylacetamide and biphenylacetamide. These poison gas bombs have the advantages of convenient storage, fast on-acting time, and not easy to decompose. They are suitable for loading various shells, bombs and even grenades. Moreover, they are more "humane" than other killer gases, mainly to promote people to shed tears, sneeze, vomit, and even lose their combat effectiveness, and will not cause obvious damage and will not easily cause death. The disadvantage is that they have high requirements for weather conditions, limited time for action, and poor killing effect - the opponent can recover their combat effectiveness as long as they survive for a period of time.

In fact, applying poison gas attack before logging in can only be regarded as "icing on the cake" and is not a necessary condition. Even if poison gas cannot be released due to weather conditions, the troops will still launch an assault as originally planned. However, in that case, the losses of the landing troops are expected to be more serious.

Modern poison gas was first used in the war in another space-time. On the evening of April 22, 1915, the German army used 500 cylinders of 168 tons of chlorine gas while launching violent shelling on British trenches. The result was devastating, causing 15,000 casualties, causing the British to stop all resistance on positions with a length of 4 miles and a depth of 8 miles. Later, Britain and France fought back with phosgene (l), which was more toxic than chlorine gas, and a large-scale poison gas war became a major scenery of World War I.

In this time and space, modern poison gas was first used today - on the morning of January 5, 1915 - in the landing operation of the Imperial Chinese Navy Air Force. Compared with the chlorine gas used by European demons, the phosgene and n more cruel and terrifying poison gases, the poison gas used by the Chinese army seemed to be more "humane"... God knows!

Pan Guochen was shocked and subconsciously touched the gas mask on his waist. He didn't want to be fumigated by those more "human" poisonous gases.

A year ago, he witnessed a secret poison gas experiment targeting death row and political prisoners. The terrible expression of the poisoned person is still deeply imprinted on his cerebral cortex. When he thinks about it, he feels nauseous and wants to vomit.

This is war, and in order to achieve the goal, we should use any means.

In comparison, we are more "civilized", aren't we?

Before the smoke dissipated, most of the 144 light infantry landing craft in the first formation successfully rushed to the sunset beach. About 5,000 marine officers and soldiers from the five infantry battalions wearing standard rubber gas masks rushed into the faint yellow smoke like a tide.

Several companies that landed first were left to defend the beach. Other troops attacked the predetermined targets according to the pre-demarcated areas: including the rock walls on both sides of the beach, the road directly in front and the hills behind the road.

"By bypassing the burning piles and falling wood, jump over the falling deer forts and wires - sometimes you need to throw a few blasting tubes to open the way, and a trench was swayed in front, and there was no one inside! Go forward, one, two, countless craters, and collapsed fortifications and trenches were reflected from time to time by the craters - when you see people, fire! The machine gun team jumped into the crater and set up a machine gun to cover the crater. The company commander asked the grenade launcher to shoot two white phosphorus bombs to indicate the direction - the poisonous smoke has not yet dissipated and cannot see clearly."

"The company commander issued an order to attack, and the rifle charged! Everyone rushed forward like a match, but the mask was very breathless. When they ran here from the beach, they felt very breathless. The water vapor evaporated from the sweat was covered in glasses and could not be wiped off from outside. It was really hateful! They rushed up in such a way that they could not see clearly. When they saw something that seemed to be human-shaped, they would shoot and assassinate them. If they accidentally stepped on the air..."

"Running from the side, the Maxim machine gun with a water sleeve was intact in the bunker. Where is the machine gunner? Is it an American soldier? Why not resist? Maybe it was smoked by special smoke. The face and neck were covered with sticky liquid, tears or snot? Maybe there was vomit, which looked very disgusting. The comrade pulled him out of the bunker, kicked him to the ground, and gave him a bayonet. Only then did I see the comrade's epaulette clearly - the sergeant's words, it should be the squad leader, and then I realized afterwards that he was indeed the squad leader! Since the squad leader took action, he could not hesitate anymore, and I stabbed him..."
Chapter completed!