One thousand and one hundred kilometers southeast of Rabaul, on the east coast of Maleta Island, Captain Alexander Archer Van der Grift squatted quietly in his foxhole, his jing's eyes swept back and forth at night

The beach covered with windings, the rustling sound of waves in his ears is like a lullaby, constantly luring him into his sleep. () The fastest update of Sui Meng novel ww)

Captain Vandergrift, thirty years old, comes from a Virginia family of construction contractors. He has loved to listen to adults tell stories about American wars since he was a child. He was even more keen to read after going to school. Therefore, when he was twenty-two years old, he

After graduating from the University of Virginia in 2018, he joined the Marine Corps without hesitation.

Before the war, Van der Grift served as a military academy teacher and participated in landing operations involving Cuba and Nicaragua's revolution. On Christmas Day 1914, when Chinese aircraft over Pearl Harbor passed the masts of American warships, he had just been

Accepted his lieutenant promotion order in Port Veracruz, Mexico.

In Van der Grift's view, the war was conspired to impose on the American people by the Chinese and German militarist groups - until the attack on Pearl Harbor, most Americans stayed away from the European War, which had just reached a stalemate.

Few people thought that war would first break out in the Pacific Ocean and burn to the United States immediately.

In just a few weeks, Hawaii fell, the Philippines was lost, the Panama Canal and the West Coast cities were successively air strikes and shellings, and the American public was dominated by anger and fear for a moment, even Vanderg, who was in Veracruz, was in succession.

Rift also heard rumors that the 30 to 500,000 Zhongri coalition forces will land on the Mexican coast on the Pacific side, and drive the US troops who came to interfere with the Mexican revolution to the Atlantic Ocean, and then enter the U.S.-Mexico border, without any defense.

The hinterland of the United States.

Fortunately, the rumors did not come true in the end, and Van der Grift was ordered to leave Mexico and go to the San Diego Naval Base in California to become the company commander of the newly formed Marine Corps B Company B, 1st Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment.

Van der Grift also clearly remembers that when he first inspected the entire company, the B company had only a few dozen Western-American War-era point 405-inch (103 mm) Winchester M15 lever

A bolt rifle, plus a hundred wooden guns that are rougher than a toy. ()

Van der Grift immediately protested to his superiors. Under his company's disturbance, his superiors quickly made remedies: allocate more than a hundred single-shot black powder rifles from the Civil War period to his company-

—A large part of it was requisitioned from local residents.

Van der Grift was amused, but soon he saw hope: all the latest and best infantry weapons began to be given priority to the Marines, and at the same time he realized that the Marines would be the first to commit to counterattacks in East Asia.

Fighting of militarist enemies.

In September 1915, when Van der Grift's company boarded the ship from Vancouver and headed to Alaska to participate in the Kodiak Island counterattack, the company had 204 people. It was equipped with dozens of points of 45 inches (1143 mm).

) caliber Browning M1911 semi-automatic pistol, 150-plus 30-inch (762 mm) caliber Springfield M1903 hand-pull bolt-action rifle, 4-point 30-inch caliber Lewis M1915 ammunition disc for

It has an air-cooled light machine gun, and eight "grenade rifles" equipped with "French style" grenade launchers.

If necessary, the B Company, which is a rifle company, can also obtain the two to four-point 30-inch caliber Vicks-style ammunition chain supply water-cooled heavy machine guns that are reinforced by the battalion machine gun company. In general, the equipment level of the B Company at that time was not

It is inferior to the British or French infantry companies on the continental battlefield at the same time.

On Kodiak Island, Vandergrift's company encountered equipment and organizational different from the world of Jingshen, the soldiers of the army were violent when they were on the verge of despair. Their range was far greater than that of the grenades in their hands.

The "grenade launcher" of the she-device left a deep impression on the fledgling Marines, or rather, a painful memory.

Nine months later, when Company B boarded the ship from Port Vila to Maleta, the entire company had 256 people, except for pistols and rifles, equipped with eight Lewis light machine guns and grenades.

Eight rifles, plus four 2-inch (51 mm) caliber "East Asian style" grenade launchers, on average, each rifle platoon is equipped with two light machine guns, two grenade rifles and one grenade launcher, even higher than the same period

The level of the infantry company of the American Expeditionary Force to France.

In addition, the heavy infantry weapons that can be directly reinforced into the company with approval from the regiment headquarters include: a 30-inch caliber Browning M1916 water-cooled heavy machine gun, a 37mm caliber Pito M1916 fired with a shelter 1 pound (045 kg) heavy shell.

light infantry cannon, as well as a 3-inch (762 mm) caliber Stoke mortar.

Within two weeks after landing, Company B changed three defensive positions, one further away from the landing field than the other. At this moment, the small coast under Vandergrift's feet was just 24 hours ago.

The fourth position to enter is five miles (about eight kilometers) away from the landing ground in zhong yang, Ulu Bay.

Time is tight, and even B has not had time to dig the coherent trenches, nor has the barriers such as mines and wires been laid on the beach. All personnel and equipment are temporarily living in waist-high foxholes and simple bunkers.

In order to effectively defend this 1,600-foot (about 500 meters) beach, Company B was strengthened by the regiment headquarters, a light infantry artillery squad and a 3-inch mortar squad.

Four Browning heavy machine guns, two 37mm infantry guns and two 3-inch mortars, the total strength of the company after being strengthened exceeded 300.

Van der Grift arranged heavy machine guns and infantry artillery on both wings of the defense line to form cross-distance shehe firepower against the front of the main defense. The three infantry platoons equipped with light machine guns, grenade rifles and grenade cans were arranged in a row.

Tack the front line. Finally, the mortars and an infantry platoon as a reserve force were arranged behind the defense line for support.

The company's telephone can directly access the shore defense artillery headquarters, and dozens of 75mm to 155mm caliber cannons can be mobilized at any time to "baptize death" to the "yellow monkeys" who are landing in large numbers - so "epic"

The scene, Van der Grift has naturally fascinated for a long time.

The sound of waves was still there. Just as the captain's company commander was half asleep and half awake, a gunshot came vaguely, which made his heart suddenly start. The sleepiness that had been entangled for half a night suddenly disappeared.

The gunshots came from the north corner of the position. What happened? Is it the sentry going off fire, or...

Before Van der Grift could think about it, a strange gunfire followed one after another, sounding like some kind of weapon of continuous attack, but it was neither like the low sound of a water-cooled heavy machine gun, nor like the air-cooled

The crisp sound of the light machine gun is lighter and denser, just like a group of hornets roaring in a blast.

Could it be that this is the legendary "portable machine gun" or "submachine gun" unique to the Chinese army?

"Swish~~~"

A 3-inch mortar-launched flare lit the night sky, and the beach in front of the position suddenly seemed like daytime. Van der Grift raised his telescope and looked at the north corner of the position, and saw several floating faintly on the water line on the beachhead.

The black thing was shaking dozens of strange figures, neither like humans nor animals, nor like machinery, but like some kind of evil thing that just escaped from hell...

"Fire, fire all! Where is my signal gun..." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)), Nickname

Archie, commander of the 1st Marine Division of the United States during World War II. In August 1942, he led his troops to launch an attack on Guadalcanal Island, landed successfully, and made military achievements during the famous Battle of Guadal Island:

In November 1943, commanded amphibious troops to land on the island of Bolganville. On January 1944, he was promoted to commander of the 18th Marine Expeditionary Force. On April 4 of the following year, he was promoted to major general. On June 30, 1946, he was awarded the "Medal of Outstanding Service"
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