The outstanding performance of the Ryukyu National Liberation Army not only made Chen Shaokuan and Jiang Dahe secretly vigilant, but also made Kurane Yexiong "look at it with admiration". For the Japanese, the Japanese Peace Army was a shame for the country and the nation, and the Japanese were willing to be China's lackeys. Traitors are the scum of the Yamato nation. They are all greedy for life and afraid of death. The Japanese have a reason to define the Japanese Peace Army in this way. If these Japanese traitors are really brave and not afraid of death, how could they choose to surrender? For the Japanese, Because of the existence of the Summoning Shrine, death in battle is not only not scary but also very honorable. Before the war officially started, Kurane also ridiculed the Ryukyu National Liberation Army, telling his subordinates: "Look, this is what you get when you work as a lackey for the China people, and you are used as cannon fodder." Let's do it." Some of his men also joined in the fun and answered: "You really don't accept their surrender?" Kurane and his men thought they had defeated the Ryukyu National Liberation Army, but in the end, they thought that the "Ryukyu people" were not afraid of death. When they were holding the blasting tubes and trying to kill each other at every turn, the Kurane United Force could no longer hold on. As a defensive side, there were solid fortifications as a barrier, but even the puppet troops couldn't defeat them. This made Kurane feel very embarrassed. , the little devil was also a ruthless person. Seeing that his troops had suffered more than 500 casualties, he decisively ordered to abandon the forward position, and then issued a battle order to the artillery unit,
The Guards Division calls itself a mechanized force, and it does not forget its mechanized features when fighting this kind of fortress defense. Ishihara Kanji suggested that when the 1st Guards Division deploys against Ryukyu, it will use about a quarter of its tanks and artillery carriages. Moved to the island, these tanks and artillery carts were hidden in bunkers by the Japanese. They were originally used as surprise troops. In Kuragen's original plan, these surprise troops would be left for the student army to enjoy. The plan could not keep up with the changes. The puppet army's It was so powerful that he had to reveal this magic weapon in advance,
The Dongshan Fleet does not have an aircraft carrier, but the heavy cruisers carry a certain number of reconnaissance helicopters and armed helicopters. After the landing battle began, these helicopters were sent out to perform reconnaissance missions and provide limited fire support for ground forces. Jiang Dahe received Chen Shao After Kuan's order, he sent the 1101st Brigade under his command to carry out the second wave of landing missions. There were too many monks and too few people. In order to allow all units above the division level to participate in the Ryukyu Islands Campaign as much as possible, Jiang Dahe selected the troops in brigades. In fact, most of them only have two regiments, and some even have only one regiment. The 1101 brigade participated in this battle with two regiments. These two regiments were personally led by brigade commander Xie Changan. After Xie Changan received Jiang Dahe's order, As he was organizing the troops to transfer to the ship, he suddenly heard a shrill siren sounding from the flagship Fuzhou behind him. The sirens were short and long, which meant that a major emergency had occurred. Xie Changan did not dare to be careless and immediately ordered the troops to suspend the transfer operation. Then he picked up the walkie-talkie and called Jiang Dahe.
Jiang Dahe didn't know what was going on, but just when he was about to ask Chen Shaokuan, he heard a thunderous sound of artillery fire suddenly sounded from the north of Ishigaki Island, "shelling, the Japanese cannons, TND, the Japanese are on the island" There are also artillery hidden there." He cursed. Because he could not locate the Japanese artillery positions, for the sake of safety, he had to order all the troop transport ships to retreat. As soon as he issued this order, Chen Shaokuan's call arrived.
The reason why the Fuzhou suddenly sounded the warning was because it received intelligence from a helicopter that was conducting reconnaissance over Ishigaki Island. A large number of self-propelled artillery suddenly appeared on the north side of Ishigaki Island.
After receiving this information, Chen Shaokuan immediately concluded that this should be a hidden method of the Japanese. Thinking that the Japanese had been operating on Ishigaki Island for a long time, they must have organized all the coordinate parameters into a book, which means that the Japanese artillery force will have instant fire capabilities. He did not know whether the target of the Japanese bombardment was the island troops or the fleet. He did not dare to waste any time and immediately ordered to sound the emergency alarm.
The siren also reached the ears of "Ryukyu people". The establishment of the Ryukyu National Liberation Army was still too short, or it can be said that because the Supreme Command did not regard the Ryukyu Army as its own, the Ryukyu Army failed to Having received training in the Xuebingjun system, it is natural that he would not be able to understand the meaning of the alarm. Of course, if Shang Hua insists on holding people accountable for this issue, Chen Shaokuan can answer this way: "Did you hear the alarm? Didn't you Know what the alarm means.”
The real situation at that time was that the Ryukyu people were alarmed by the siren and felt uneasy, but the Ryukyu army, including Shang Hua, failed to respond correctly immediately. So when the rumble of cannons sounded, Shang Hua felt a big disaster. When he felt the impending danger, it was already too late for him to give the order to defend against the artillery fire.
The Kurone Regiment is not equipped with many artillery pieces, only 12 for each group. However, because it can fire at the entrance of the hole, and the forward position has been completely reduced to ruins, it cannot provide an anti-artillery barrier for the Ryukyu Army at all, so the artillery attack The effect is quite impressive,
Kurane Noo was very shrewd and did not dare to leave the artillery exposed for a long time, so he gave the order to the artillery brigade to fire rapidly for five minutes. However, even these five minutes of rapid fire still brought a devastating blow to the Ryukyu Army. The average rate of fire of the Japanese Zero self-propelled artillery is eight rounds per minute. This means that in just five minutes, the Japanese army's 12 guns fired a total of nearly one hundred rounds. The Japanese army's self-propelled artillery technology can be compared. The Bingjun army is still slightly lacking. The self-propelled artillery currently equipped by the Xuebing army is already very common with a caliber of 150 mm. However, because the Japanese army cannot break through the chassis technology, it can only carry artillery with a caliber of 120 mm at most. Even so, a salvo of 12 120mm artillery pieces was still not something the Ryukyu Army could withstand.
After the sound of the artillery fire, the scream of the artillery shells tearing the air sounded, and Jiang Dahe's tight heartstrings relaxed. He was an old soldier, and he knew by listening to the sound that the target of this round of shelling was not them. He picked up the The telescope looked toward the island, and then his left eyelid twitched violently. It was miserable, so miserable. Through the telescope, he clearly saw the scene of artillery shells falling on the forward position and exploding. Mushroom clouds rose up, " "Ryukyu people" were blown away in pieces. Many "Ryukyu people" were obviously frightened by this blow. They scurried around like headless flies, and ended up rushing from the edge of one explosion into the center of the next explosion. and then torn into pieces by high-explosive air waves,
"It's okay, it's okay. Fortunately, I didn't fight to win at that time, otherwise..." He thought in his heart, and suddenly felt that he was so lucky.
Jiang Dahe was glad that it was not the Taiwan Army that was bombarded. On the island, Shang Hua, who was pressed tightly by several men, was so regretful that his intestines turned green. "Is this the price of betrayal?" he thought in his heart. , biting his lower lip tightly until blood dripped from his bite without even realizing it.