Chapter 729: The Difficult Battle to Capture the Island
While the war on the European continent was intensifying, in Southeast Asia, the series of island-seizing campaigns, considered the ultimate battle between China and Japan, were also in full swing.
Viewed from the air, this island with a radius of only seven or eight square kilometers has no trace of the human world. The billowing smoke, some still burning flames, broken limbs, and broken firearms form a picture of iron and blood.
A realistic painting woven with fire and gunpowder smoke. On the northwest side of the island, on the sea adjacent to another island, are five four-thousand-ton light cruisers and two large landing ships. On the two large landing ships
In front of us, dozens of kayaks were rushing toward the beach at lightning speed amid the shouts of "one, two, one, two" from some soldiers in camouflage uniforms.
"How many times has this happened?" Zhang Lingfu, wearing a lieutenant general's uniform whose original color could no longer be distinguished and a steel helmet, stood on the front deck of a light cruiser with his hands on his hips, surrounded by several colonel officers.
He asked with a dark face.
"The eleventh time!" replied a colonel, with a rather ugly expression on his face.
"Eleven times?!" Zhang Lingfu said, a look of pain flashed across his face. Eleven times of charging, more than a thousand soldiers were left behind, but still failed to establish a solid beachhead. Such a hard battle, no matter how hard it was,
To say that the entire Third Central Army Group has not been encountered for a long time is very rare even if we look at the entire National Defense Forces.
On the small island, as the kayak approached the tidal flat, the sound of gunfire rang out again. The first gunshot sounded, and Zhang Lingfu picked up the telescope. Through the telescope, he saw that the opposite side of the tidal flat had been blown down by a meter.
On the deep hillside, several cannons were once again revealed. Not only that, between these cannons, multiple shooting ports were opened, and the muzzles of machine guns were poked out from inside.
The Third Central Group Army, the Sixth Central Group Army, and the Seventh Central Group Army are divided into three groups. The Third Central Group Army will be responsible for directly opening the route from the Riau Islands to Hainan. The Central Sixth Group Army will be responsible for advancing westward and directly attacking Australia.
The Central Seventh Group Army's combat mission was smaller, and it was responsible for conquering Sumatra Island. Originally, in Sun Liren's view, this should be a devastating battle. However, after the war actually started, he realized that he had bitten a hard nut. Indeed, it was a hard nut to crack.
It is a tough nut, because the Japanese directly turned the Riau Islands and the coastal areas of Malay Island into a defense group composed of underground cement fortifications.
Sun Liren also thought about adopting a leap-frog tactic to abandon the Riau Islands and attack the Malay Island directly. However, because the Japanese built several mountain docks in the Riau Islands and hid many special attack submarines and special attack torpedoes in them, in
After the transport ships were attacked by Japanese special attack forces one after another, he had no choice but to turn his spearhead in order to capture the Riau Islands first. Then, he directly kicked the iron plate. As of now, he has disabled two divisions.
Zhang Lingfu's ace division had to be transferred to the front line.
Using fighter planes for saturation bombing, using naval guns for saturation bombardment, and every conceivable method, Zhang Lingfu and the two division commanders in front of him used almost every method, but now it seems that the effect is not very good.
The sound of artillery sounded, and kayaks were hit from time to time, and then there was a scene of people turning on their backs. Every time he saw this scene, Zhang Lingfu's brows jumped for a while, and the evil fire in his eyes became more and more intense. Under the Japanese mountain artillery and machine guns
Despite the strong obstruction, more than two-thirds of the kayaks completed the beaching, and then a new round of offensive and defensive battle began.
Zhang Lingfu watched quietly for about a quarter of an hour, then put down the telescope and said in a hoarse voice: "Let them withdraw!"
"Military seats, and -" a colonel said, but before he could finish, Zhang Lingfu turned around and shouted: "Are you deaf if I ask them to withdraw?"
The colonel shuddered and quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Order from the military seat, withdraw first!"
"Why! We can still fight! Military seat, give me another quarter of an hour! In a quarter of an hour, I can build the beachhead again!!"
"This is an order from the military commander!"
"yes!"
The troops on the beach began to retreat. Seeing that the enemy's firepower became more fierce, Zhang Lingfu gritted his teeth and squeezed out the telescope with both hands. After a while, he said: "Pass my order to anyone who can think of it."
There is a way, I will let him be promoted to the leader of the main force immediately!"
Is Zhang Lingfu really exhausted? Maybe. But this does not mean that he will give up. If he was so easy to give up, he would not be named Zhang Lingfu, and he would not be able to jump from brigade commander to division commander so quickly.
The army commander.
This wave of troops that participated in the attack finally withdrew. When they went out, they were a company, but now there is only a little more than a platoon left.
Some officers began to go down to deliver orders, while others looked at Zhang Lingfu.
If even one of the outpost islands in the Riau Islands cannot be captured, then there is no way to attack its main island. And if the main island cannot be captured, then it is simply impossible to launch an offensive against the big Malay island.
A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Lingfu's closed eyes suddenly opened, and he said to a major next to him: "Li Gan, pick up the commander for me."
The attentive colonel noticed that the moment Jun Zuo opened his eyes, something clearly flashed in his eyes. "Military Zuo has thought of a way?" he thought in his heart, and couldn't help but be full of expectation.
The call was quickly connected. Zhang Lingfu took the microphone from the major and said: "Commander, I need napalm, a sufficient amount of napalm!"
Naturally, the person on the other side of the phone was Sun Liren. Affected by the Battle of the Riau Islands, Sun Liren was in a very bad mood during this period. "Napalm?!" he asked on the phone.
"Yes! Don't the little devils like to be mice? Then I will burn them to death!"
Sun Liren's eyes lit up, and he said without hesitation: "Okay! I will arrange it! Do you need a plane to cooperate?"
Use napalm to fight together. Ouyang Yun had used it during the Battle of Madang.
"Yes, preferably an Albatross transport helicopter!"
It was definitely not Koizumi Minichiro's original intention to dig holes in the ground and become a gopher. However, when he was suppressed at sea, land and air, and when the United States and the United Kingdom were too busy to take care of themselves because of their wives' revolution, he could only use the Japanese army's war in World War II.
The U.S. military's ultimate countermeasure is to maintain the stability of the political environment of its two allies, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Yes, because he didn’t think that women could make big waves at all, Koizumi Toshiichiro still had great expectations for the United States and the United Kingdom. Even if he was tricked by Eisenhower’s U.S. military, he could only lose his teeth and swallow his blood.
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Of course, the reason why the U.S. military in the Pacific became a "scourge" was partly due to the wife's revolution, but the biggest reason was that the "chess pieces" laid out by Ouyang Yun finally began to play a big role.