The Japanese naval guns continued to bombard for another ten minutes before stopping. What frightened Emmons was that if he had not led his troops to rush out of the third line of defense in time, he would have lost another regiment by this time. ,, Lying on the edge of a large crater caused by a heavy shell, he picked up his binoculars and looked at the third line of defense behind him. He found that the trenches and communication trenches had been completely blown over. He glanced at Chen Zhong nearby, and then Realizing the real gap between oneself and the opponent in actual combat command,
Artillery played the leading role on both the offensive and defensive sides, but the casualties were vastly different. A total of more than 700 people came out from the Emmons Division, and nearly 900 people from the Chenzhong Division. As for the Japanese army, the brigade that arrived earlier was even worse than the Iwamura Division. No more than a hundred people survived. The reason for this situation is naturally related to the inaction of the Japanese and Hainan aviation groups. The Japanese aircraft group successfully bombed Mao's artillery regiment to the south, but because of the fifty The damage done by the 15-pound aerial bombs to the artillery carriages was minimal, so they failed to completely crush the defenders' support firepower as Yamada Hiki expected, which was equivalent to giving the Japanese in that brigade a death sentence.
"Your Excellency, the new artillery vehicles used by the Chinese have extremely strong armor protection capabilities, but we, we have not been able to cause effective damage." The commander of the HNA Group reported the battle situation to Yamada through the walkie-talkie,
Yamada has already guessed,
Ono Sueji was the first to wake up. Only then did the fighter planes rush toward Mao Xiangnan's artillery regiment. He suddenly asked: "The sea bombers are carrying fifty-pound conventional bombs, right?"
Yamada didn't know why at first, so he asked, "Is there any problem?"
Ono's face immediately dropped, he glared at him and yelled: "Don't you know that the Chinese artillery vehicles are self-propelled and equipped with protective armor?"
"Ah." Yamada's face turned red and he was completely speechless.
"A unit is just gone." Ono said, punching the railing in front of him with his right fist, and there was blood on his white gloves without even realizing it.
Another group of Japs were carried by assault boats and began to land, including the Midwest. Ono viciously ordered the messenger around him: "Let them come back and stop the attack."
The messenger looked at Yamada, who waved his hands dejectedly: "Let them come back first, we need to re-formulate tactics."
"I will not agree to launch the next attack until the aviation force re-finds the Chinese artillery and destroys it." Ono said, looking at the garrison position where the smoke had faded, he felt an inexplicable heart palpitation.
Yamada opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he swallowed the words again.
When the first brigade to land on the beach was bombarded by the defenders, the assault boats Nakanishi and Yoshino were riding in had just begun to rush out. The distance of three thousand meters was not too far, so Nakanishi and the others could clearly see the beach. The explosion scene on the boat, seeing the bodies of friendly soldiers being dismembered by artillery fire, the stumps of limbs and arms, and even the head being lifted up and scattered by the air waves, many Japanese soldiers could not bear this scene, and the assault boat was jolting so much that they couldn't help but lie down The ship's edge was filled with vomiting,
"Ba Ge, these idiots, are the lives of the Imperial Army so worthless?" Nakanishi turned back and glanced at the command boat, and said angrily to Yoshino,
Yoshino gritted his teeth and said, "I only regret that I didn't kill that bastard just now."
Yoshino fired a shot at Tamura. Although there was no merit, it made Nakanishi Erdai look at him with admiration. He patted his shoulder hard and said loudly: "Ha, Yoshino, I really didn't realize that you are such an impulsive guy. "
"Your Excellency Nakanishi, you seem to be no better than me. You just killed a military police lieutenant."
"It doesn't matter, Yoshino, to tell you the truth, I don't want to go back alive." Nakanishi said, took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his body, removed the cigarette shell and said with a smile: "There happen to be two more, one for each person. branch."
The two of them lit up their cigarettes, each took a beautiful puff and exhaled. Yoshino said: "I don't want to die yet, I miss the cherry blossoms in my hometown so much."
"I don't want to die, brother. I didn't attack you. Even if we can win this battle and come back alive, you will definitely be dead. Yamada defines this guy as someone who will take revenge."
When the assault flotilla was still a thousand meters away from the beach, the sound of gunfire finally stopped. The Japanese on the boat were secretly breathing a sigh of relief. Yoshino looked around and suddenly lowered his voice and said to Nakanishi: "Of course you will die if you go back. , but do we have to go back?”
Nakanishi was shocked when he heard this. He also looked around and lowered his voice: "Yoshino, whatever you want to do, don't do anything stupid."
Yoshino glanced at him and said, "Your Excellency Nakanishi, do you think we can still win this war?"
"Ba Ge, what the hell are you talking about? Yoshino, you and I are both His Majesty the Emperor's samurai, how can we say such rebellious words?" Nakanishi suddenly yelled, and his eyes when looking at Yoshino became sharp.
Yoshino looked at Nakanishi, his eyes unyielding, and said calmly: "I'm just telling the truth."
"Put away this thought, damn it, how could you think like this?"
The assault boat hit the beach. Yoshino stood up and drew his pistol and said: "I am not the only one who has this idea. Okay, let's not talk about it. Let's fight first."
Nakanishi looked at him with penetrating eyes, as if he wanted to shoot his heart out. However, as Yoshino jumped into the water, Nakanishi shook his head and followed suit, temporarily letting go of the matter.
The Japs jumped into the water and first turned the bow of the assault boat towards the sea. Nakanishi was giving the order to rush to the beach. Suddenly, the order to retreat came. The Japs from the other brigade were okay and immediately started to board the boat again, but the Japs from the Midwest exploded. Well, the Japs in the Midwest were basically sentenced to death because of their previous military remonstrance, so they were a group of people in the Ono Brigade who were really not afraid of death.
One of the Japs immediately got mad and shouted in the direction of the command boat: "Ba Ge, what are those bastards doing? Change orders day by day, this is a battlefield, not a training ground."
"Whether we fight or not, the Chinese people will laugh."
"That's right, the Chinese people thought we were afraid."
Some Japanese suggested: "You will die if you go back, so you might as well fight, this way you can still enter the shrine."
"Your Excellency Nakanishi, please speak."
At this time, Nakanishi Erdai was looking at Yoshino with a gloomy face. At some point, more than ten people gathered around Yoshino. These people looked like they were just following Yoshino's lead, which made Nakanishi wary.
Nakanishi glared at Yoshino and said word for word: "Soldiers, it is your duty to obey orders, retreat."
"Get on board, get on board, and evacuate first. It's good to live a little longer." Some Japanese soldiers responded and began to board the ship.
But Yoshino and the others didn't move at all. He didn't move, and neither did Nakanishi.
The Japs who heard the conversation between the two saw that something was wrong with the atmosphere. A captain came over and said to Yoshino: "Yoshino-kun, please withdraw first. If you have anything to do, we can talk about it when we get back."
Yoshino spoke, and he said categorically: "I will not go back."
The captain's expression became serious and he shouted sternly: "Yoshino-kun, please pay attention to your identity."
Yoshino: "Don't force me."
Yoshino showed his bottom line, and Nakanishi finally couldn't help but yelled: "Ba Ge, Yoshino, do you want to be a deserter? If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your relatives."
"All my relatives have died long ago."
"Eight grids."
"Sir, what should I do?"
Nakanishi's eyebrows rose. He wanted to reach out and touch the gun, but when he saw Yoshino's eyes, he finally gave up. "Hachi." He cursed again, and then shouted in a deep voice: "Let's go." He waved his hand and climbed up first. Got on the nearest assault boat,
(Old Poison: There will be another chapter later, well, for the sake of Oumiga and Zhang Liang, sleep at one o'clock tonight)