Chapter 822 Blood on Guadalcanal (Part 2)
Song Xilian's mood is definitely not as beautiful as Gao Fei, because the Japanese were in a hurry to the sky and there was no movement, so the corpse collection team still went to the beach to collect corpses of the US Navy that rushed ashore every day, while the Americans' own troops looked dejectedly. If the will and morale of a unit were destroyed, then the combat power would no longer exist. | March 8 Literature
However, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Expeditionary Force opened Van der Grift's eyes, because the US Pacific Fleet had authorized Van der Grift. When the ammunition and food were exhausted, for the sake of the lives of officers and soldiers, if the Japanese could guarantee their personal safety, they could surrender to the Japanese army. However, during the last battle in Guadalam, the Japanese killed more than 2,000 American prisoners of war on the white beach. How could the Japanese suddenly become human?
The commander of the Japanese rapid fleet, Sanchuan Army, was very depressed at this moment. After shelling Guadalam, he suddenly discovered a problem. The main force of the 17th Army was crippled on Guadalam. No matter how fierce the shelling was, the infantry still needed to land in the end to resolve the battle. The Americans had a relatively poor fighting will. If it were previous operations, the Americans would probably have surrendered. Moreover, the Japanese Navy was different from the Army. They would not kill prisoners of war. Therefore, the Michuan Army also believed that the Americans were willing to surrender to the Imperial Japanese Navy. At least their lives would be guaranteed. However, what made him depressed was that the main force on Guadalian Guadalam was an amphibious land division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Chinese soldiers had been fighting with Japanese soldiers for more than ten years and had entered a state of undying death, either China was conquered or Japan was destroyed. | March 8 Literature
Three months of conquest of China has become a big joke in the international community. At that time, they did not see it in the Japanese government, military headquarters and even the General Staff Headquarters. They were really a little short of it because they miscalculated the overall situation in China. The country and nation were split for too long, but when they faced a strong enemy, they suddenly gathered together. In the three-month bloody battle in Shanghai, the Chinese soldiers insisted on flesh and blood under the Japanese naval guns. The casualties were based on divisions and counted in hours. This failed to defeat the Chinese soldiers' will to resist. In fact, the Japanese knowledgeable people have realized that they could not achieve the final victory in China, and they may even be completely disintegrated and defeated in this quagmire.
The Japanese wanted to occupy Gua Island before the main force of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet arrived, but the army did not have the corresponding force. The navy also knew that its Marine Corps could not make any moves. It can be said that it was embarrassing to take action. In addition, there was a division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and a regiment of the US Marine Division on Gua Island. It is said that the Americans also sent a battalion of Sherman tanks to the island. Although the Americans temporarily lost their sea and air control, the Chinese army on Gua Island was building airports day and night. As long as Gua Island Airport was available for use, the blockade would be broken. Michuan Army also fell into trouble. If the six squadrons of Marine Corps in his hand landed on Gua Island, they would probably only be able to deliver vegetables to the Chinese. Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice Mountains and Rivers 822
While preparing for war, Song Xilian continued to build the airport for 24 hours, because the airport had become their only hope. The b25 bomber that had previously dropped supplies to Guadalam was intercepted and shot down by the Japanese naval aviation forces, which made the Americans more cautious.
Guadalam, which has lost air and sea control, seems to be in danger, and Nimitz is also very conflicted. It is not in line with the original intention of making Guadalam defenders fight to the point of collapse. Moreover, the navy abandoned the isolated Guadalam defenders. In order to survive, their surrender was not a shame. In the US Army's rules and regulations, battlefield commanders can judge whether to stop resistance based on the situation. This is a tradition of the US Army. Especially when ammunition and food are exhausted, this surrender is not regarded as a shame, but rather as a due diligence. The officers performed their duties and protected the lives of their subordinates without meaningless resistance.
The Chinese soldiers who fought bloody battles with the Japanese were obviously not as high as the Americans. Nimitz hoped that Guadalam would stick to it, because only if Guadalam persisted, could they effectively restrain the Japanese naval forces, especially the aircraft carrier forces. As long as they gave the Japanese navy enough damage, they could completely reverse the situation on the Pacific battlefield, and then approach Japan's homeland, forcing the Japanese to carry out near-earth defense operations, restrain the Japanese's strategic forces, and plan a decisive battle to support the Chinese battlefield from a grand strategic perspective.
Nimitz's order to Van der Grift was vague, while MacArthur told Van der Grift to stay at Guardiola at all costs. Van der Grift, who had the jungle fever, finally found a good excuse to leave this damn hell. This was an excuse that no one could refuse. However, the candidate for the US Guardiola commander after Van der Grift made Nimitz and MacArthur rack their brains because no one was willing to take over this mess at this moment.
In desperation, Song Xilian, the Chinese general, became the supreme commander of the Guadalam battlefield. The first thing Song Xilian did after taking over as the commander of the Guadalam ground troops was to withdraw all the US troops on the island from the front line to the airport to stand by, because the depressed US officers and soldiers every day greatly affected the resistance of the Chinese Expeditionary Force officers and soldiers.
The two detachments of the 17th Army of Baiwu Haruki's 17th Army were already broken before Guadalam. Now there are less than five brigades who can be tangled up. With such forces, they can counterattack and retake Guadalam? Although Baiwu Haruki is arrogant, he is not so arrogant. In the military simulation exercises of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, the ratio of Japanese soldiers to Chinese soldiers was calculated from one to seven or one to ten, but the Chinese Expeditionary Force is an exception. The Japanese and Chinese Expeditionary Forces have a 1 to one to one. However, it is too much to look at Baiwu Haruki. It is nothing more than to be optimistic about the face.
Chapter completed!