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 from the third line of defense in time, he would have lost another regiment by this time.
——Lying on the edge of a large crater created 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 nearby, and then he recognized
When it comes to the real gap between oneself and the opponent in terms of actual combat command.
Artillery played the leading role on both sides of the offense and defense, but the casualties were vastly different. A total of more than 700 men from the Emmons Division came out, while nearly 900 men from the Chen Division came out. What about 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' supporting firepower as Yamada had expected, which was equivalent to a death sentence for the Japanese in that brigade.
"Your Excellency, the new artillery vehicles used by the Chinese have extremely strong armor protection capabilities, but we, we failed to cause effective damage!" The commander of the HNA Group reported the battle situation to Yamada through the walkie-talkie.
Yamada had already guessed it.
Ono Sueji was the first to wake up. Only then did the fighter planes rush towards Mao Xiangnan's artillery regiment. He suddenly asked: "The sea bomber carries a fifty-pound conventional bomb, right?"
Yamada didn't know why at first, so he asked, "Is there any problem?"
Ono's face immediately drooped, 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 gone just like that!" Ono said, punching the railing in front of him with his right fist, and there were blood stains on his white gloves without even realizing it.
Another group of Japs were carried by assault boats and began to land, and the West was also among them. Ono viciously ordered the messenger around him: "Let them come back and stop the attack!"
The messenger looked at Yamada. Yamada waved his hand dejectedly: "Let them come back first, we need to re-formulate our tactics!"
"I will not agree to launch the next attack until the aviation force rediscovers the Chinese artillery and destroys it!" Ono said, looking at the garrison position where the smoke had faded, and felt an inexplicable heart palpitation.
Yamada opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he swallowed the words as soon as they reached his lips.
When the first brigade to land on the beach was bombarded by the defenders, the assault boats in Nishi and Yoshino had just begun to rush out. The distance of three thousand meters was not too far, so Nishi 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. In addition, the assault boat was jolting violently, and they couldn't help but lie down
People vomited wildly along the side of the boat.
"Ba Ge! These idiots, are the lives of the Imperial Army so worthless?" Nishi turned around 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, Nidai was impressed by him. He patted his shoulder hard and said loudly: "Ha! Yoshino, I really didn't realize that you are such an impulsive guy!
"
"Your Excellency Xi, you seem to be no better than me! You just killed a military police second lieutenant!"
"It doesn't matter, Yoshino, to tell you the truth, I don't want to go back alive!" Nishi 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 people 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!"
"Don't want to die? Brother, I'm not going to hit 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 boat team 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 Nishi: "Of course you will die if you go back.
, but do you have to go back?”
Xi was shocked when he heard this. He also looked around and lowered his voice: "Yoshino, what do you want to do? Don't do anything stupid!"
Yoshino glanced at him and said: "Your Excellency Nishi, do you think we can win this war?"
"Ba Ge! What the hell are these! Yoshino, you and I are His Majesty the Emperor's samurai, how can we say such treacherous words!?" Nishi suddenly shouted, looking at Yoshino with sharp eyes.
Yoshino looked at Xi, his eyes unyielding, and said calmly: "I'm just telling the truth!"
"Put away this thought! Damn it, how can 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 anymore, let's fight first!"
Nishi looked at him with penetrating eyes that seemed to pierce his heart. However, as Yoshino jumped into the water, Nishi shook his head and jumped in too, temporarily letting go of the matter.
The Japs jumped into the water and first turned the bow of the assault boat towards the sea. Xi Zheng gave the order to rush to the beach, but 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 West exploded
.The Japs in the West were basically sentenced to death because of the military remonstrance they made before, so they were a group of people in the Ono Brigade who were really not afraid of death.
Some Japs immediately got mad and shouted in the direction of the command boat: "Ba Ge, what are those bastards doing? Change orders from morning to night? 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 just fight! This way you can still enter the shrine!"
"Your Excellency Xi, please speak!"
At this time, Nishi 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 Nishi wary.
Nishi glared at Yoshino and said word by word: "Soldiers, it is your duty to obey orders! Retreat!"
"Get on board, get on board! Evacuate first, it's good to live a little longer," a Japanese soldier responded and began to board the ship.
But Yoshino and the others didn't move at all. He didn't move, and neither did Nishibana.
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, retreat 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 Nishi 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."
"My relatives? They are all dead long ago!"
"Eight squares!"
"Sir, what should I do?!"
Xi's eyebrows rose up, and he wanted to reach out to touch the gun, but when he saw Yoshino's eyes, he finally gave up. "Ba Ge!" He cursed again, and then shouted in a deep voice: "Let's go!" He waved his hand and climbed up first.
Get 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)