At about 6:30 in the morning, the sky was already bright, and the sound of the cannon around the port of Hayman Blair gradually stopped.
After an hour and a half of the uninterrupted shelling, coupled with the intensive bombing of the Air Force, the Blair Peninsula facing the east coastline, no turret can be hit.
After losing its target, the fleet gradually slowed down the shelling strength. Two destroyers slowly approached three or four hundred meters outside the port to get close to the patrol observation. After determining the expected effect, immediately report the situation to the fleet headquarters.
At this time, the report of the reconnaissance aircraft was also delivered to the headquarters. Zhao Lei picked up the telescope and looked at it carefully, and then nodded heavily: "Start!"
With the order, the landing fleet that has long been ready to go, attack on the entire line.
Under the cover of the thirty -two "Dolphin I" water and land tanks, thirty -six landing crafts and 42 "Crocodile I" water -land armored conveyor, full of officers and soldiers of a group of assault teams, chop waves, drove towards the coast to the coast.
Then, then
After a quarter of an hour, the first batch of landing on the beach of the boat was stranded.
In the lower cabin door, the officers and soldiers with the real ammunition rushed down, followed behind the first batch of officers and soldiers, and rushed forward.
At this time, the 32 water and land tanks also opened the beach, caught up with the previous troops, and covered the infantry to the island in depth.
The previous shells were very successful. From the beginning of the army landing, it was just a few places in the fire point of the anti -waves on the anti -waves.
The remaining forests are burning like torchs, and many branches still rush to smoke after the fire is extinguished. Large blockbusters are blew out. Boulder accumulates the bottom of the slope, and the small stones are scattered everywhere.
It seems to be the mines after mining, a piece of wolf borrowing.
On the ring road inside the warehouse under the mountain, several places have been completely blocked by gravel.
However, the powerful "dolphin I" water and land tank, in the face of these gravel piles without pressure, the buttocks rushed up with the green smoke, covering officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps to keep moving forward.
Wait until the Japanese positions that are completely cleared to the dysentery and facing the side of the sea, and the landing officers and soldiers were divided into three roads. All the way to the west, captured the military airport in the middle of the peninsula, along the mountain to the north, and the troops marching on the road along the mountains.
Together, attack the port of Blair.
The mountains in this area are not very steep. The highest point facing the coast, only more than 100 meters of altitude. Basically, it is still quite gentle.
The officers and soldiers who attacked north, carrying automatic rifles, general machine guns, rockets, and flame jets. Seeing suspicious places, first use the rocket launchers to slam on the target, then slowly approach the target.
, Then a short frequency charge, you can quickly take off the blocking position.
As for the deep caves that look quite deep, the officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps simply dealt with the flame jet, and the tens of meters of fire dragons. Wherever they go, they all ignited the fire. Some Japanese soldiers tried to hide in the cave to fight a cold gun.
As a result, burnt coke living lively.
The officers and soldiers cleared the disabled, while along the mountains and the mountains, and quickly advanced to the north in an orderly manner. From time to time, they could encounter the guns.
However, most of them are already in a state of strike. The Japanese soldiers inside are either blown up. They are defeated to the back of the mountain and the port area in the north to prepare the second wave of resistance.
If they hadn't seen the reinforced concrete slabs, the remaining tattered sandbags, and the yellow sand scattered everywhere, others wouldn't be able to imagine the original appearance of these places.
Half an hour later, the assault group rushed to the main battery in the southern part of Port Blair.
The main fort is located on the mountainside of a mountain. It has two floors above ground, the underground and the back are deep into the mountain. The front is two meters thick. There are four 305mm naval guns lined up in the north and south directions. I don’t know how many naval guns this fort has received.
The outer wall of the shells was covered with bullet marks, two of the four large cement shooting ports were opened, and two others were also emitting black smoke and were almost disabled.
The Marine Corps officers and soldiers carefully climbed up the rock and moved to the shooting port facing the east. They shouted inside and ordered the remaining Japanese soldiers inside to surrender, but no one answered.
After a while, the Marines used their guns to blow open the back door of the fort. After throwing in a few grenades, they rushed in with their guns in hand. They soon found that the people inside were lying scattered all over the place. Were they not shot?
The shells that exploded inside the fort were torn apart by shrapnel, and they were knocked unconscious.
The officers and soldiers quickly occupied the shooting platform, observation room, lounge, communication room, utility room, toilet, and the ammunition depot deep inside the mountain.
Since all the Japanese soldiers in the entire fort were strangely unconscious, the Japanese army did not have time to destroy the fort, and all the ammunition and naval guns fell into the hands of the Anjia officers and soldiers who landed.
At this moment, a steady stream of troops are landing on the beach, flat-bottomed barges carrying Leopard II tanks and fully-tracked armored combat vehicles have also docked, and steel behemoths are driving onto the beach.
Southern part of the peninsula.
"Boom boom——"
A series of dense explosions came, and Captain Lai Zheng, commander of the third company of the 1st Battalion of the 21st Marine Regiment, who was leaning against the rock wall, was breathing heavily. If he hadn't reacted quickly just now, he might have been as close as the two people around him.
soldiers died together.
While other troops went north to attack the port area, the first battalion was assigned the task of climbing directly over the coastal mountains and then continuing west to capture the military airport south of Port Blair.
This place is like a military airport with an unsheathed sword. It was built and expanded by the British and Japanese successively. It covers an area of nearly ten square kilometers and is equipped with a control tower, hangar, maintenance plant and multiple oil depots.
It is necessary to take advantage of the chaos in the Japanese army to take control as soon as possible.
During the attack, Lai Zheng discovered that the naval guns only destroyed the barrier on the seaside, but the fortifications built on the reverse slope were out of direct reach of the naval guns, which gave the Japanese a chance to survive.
Originally, the troops were progressing quite smoothly. Just as Captain Lai Zheng led his company to continue advancing, several 75mm infantry cannon shells suddenly flew from behind the hill in front. Two soldiers were unable to evade and were killed on the spot, and the rest were killed.
Together with Captain Lai Zheng, he temporarily hid under the mountain wall.
"What a hell!"
Lai Zheng took the simple gun sight from the guard and prepared to observe the situation in front. Unfortunately, except for the mountains in the distance, he could not see the situation below the mountains at all.
"Company commander, look, the first company has begun to charge!"
Second Lieutenant Wen Dai, the leader of the platoon, pointed to their left side and said loudly, his face full of eagerness. I saw the officers and soldiers of the company suppressed by artillery fire suddenly surged up. They jumped directly onto the ridge, and then rushed down under the artillery fire.
The officers and soldiers of the Anjia Army have always regarded honor as more important than life, and no one wants to fall behind the brothers. Now seeing such a brave company, Second Lieutenant Wen Dai's eyes are red.
"Papa -"
Lai Zheng raised his pistol, stood up suddenly, and fired two shots into the air. He loudly called to the officers and soldiers around him: "Brothers, charge for victory!"
The Marines, who had been resting and preparing for a while, suddenly burst into loud shouts, picked up their automatic rifles with bayonets, and rushed up the mountain ridge.
On the right side of the third company, the second company also began to charge. Suddenly, a charging queue of several hundred people appeared on the reverse slope of the hill, sweeping towards the bottom of the mountain where shells were being continuously fired.
At this moment, twelve armed helicopters took off from the decks of the heavy cruiser and transport ship. With huge airflow, they flew through the low altitude. The rumbling roar of their motors and the shouts of the ground infantry formed a gorgeous offensive duet.
Looking down from the helicopter, the Japanese artillery positions with white smoke rising are particularly conspicuous. The artillery on these defensive positions is not concentrated. They are basically groups of two or three hidden behind the rolling hills.
The bottom is deep underground, and the top is a bunker with a thick wooden frame and a mud roof.
The Japanese rapid-fire artillery and howitzers needed to raise their muzzle elevation to the highest level in order to shoot far over the hills in front of them and to shoot at the ridges further away.
Behind the Japanese defense line, a flat and spacious airport was clearly visible. Unfortunately, there were no aircraft parked on the airport as a target.
After circling in the air to see the situation clearly, twelve IV-A armed helicopters began to attack the Japanese defense positions. The rockets were like arrows, exploding around the bunker. If they couldn't knock it open,
For the turtle shells of these bunkers, "Woodpecker" I-type missiles were used to directly aim at the bunker's firing port. Even if it did not penetrate, the huge explosion airflow was enough to stun the Japanese artillery in the bunker.
Dense explosions were heard, and black smoke rose from the Japanese defenses. The morale of the charging Marine officers and soldiers was greatly boosted. They quickly approached these bunkers, threw grenades inside, and then continued to charge forward without stopping.
He quickly rushed into the airport.
The Japanese army did not expect that the Anjia Army's attack would be so fast. At this time, it was too late to destroy the airport facilities. About a squadron of Japanese troops retreated to the port southwest of Port Blair in embarrassment, preparing to fight there.
When the 1st Battalion of the 21st Regiment successfully achieved a breakthrough at the airport, the main force had already advanced along the coastal road to the edge of Port Blair city.
At this time, the second batch of landing officers and soldiers, with the support of more than 20 Leopard II tanks, successfully captured the port area at the lower part of Jizui along the coastal road. Although the Japanese army did not take the initiative to destroy the three ports of the port,
However, the gunfire from the Anjia army fleet caused considerable damage to it. The mud and stone pier was riddled with holes by heavy shells, which frustrated the wish of ships to dock directly to transport troops.
The Marine Corps continued to advance north, but the Japanese army relied on the central highlands of the city and those buildings, condescendingly firing dense bullets and artillery shells, threatening the safety of the attacking troops.
Fortunately, the four 406mm naval guns owned by the fort built in the north cannot be turned, otherwise the attacking force will surely suffer heavy losses.
The battle was very fierce. Anjiajun's tanks and armored vehicles converged into a torrent of steel and sprayed out dense barrage, constantly suppressing the Japanese firepower.
Those buildings built on the central highlands erupted into thick smoke under the continuous attacks of tanks, guns and mortars. There were densely packed corpses of Japanese soldiers lying inside and outside the city, including many Indian and Lanyin indigenous soldiers.
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The Japanese fired artillery shells from the windows of those buildings and continued to explode near tanks and armored vehicles. Two armored fighting vehicles were hit and burned, and another amphibious tank broke down.
At this time, the barriers on the eastern coast have been basically controlled by the detouring Marine Corps officers and soldiers. Now the focus of the competition between the two sides is the high ground in the center of the city. Fortunately, the Japanese army's firepower is not strong, especially the lack of firepower that can threaten the Leopard II tank armor.
It is a powerful anti-tank weapon, so the attack of the Marine Corps officers and soldiers was relatively smooth.
When the follow-up rocket launcher, recoilless rifle and mortar teams arrived, the war was finally brought to the track Anjiajun liked. Thick smoke was rising everywhere in the city and outside the city. The Japanese army's firepower was close to the superior firepower.
Shoot them down and pull them out one by one.
When more and more Marine officers and soldiers rushed up the slope to the central high ground and occupied buildings one after another, hundreds of general-purpose machine guns were set up and fired at the Japanese defensive positions in the other direction without sparing bullets.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the Japanese central fortress located at the chicken's mouth of the peninsula was successfully captured by the Anjia Army Marines who attacked from the side and rear. The troops attacking along the eastern coast continued north and attacked the Japanese fortress from behind.
The two armies advanced hand in hand, and the Japanese army's decline became increasingly obvious.
However, the Japanese were too tenacious. Although the situation was over, the remaining Japanese firepower continued their final madness. Artillery, small artillery and light and heavy machine guns ruthlessly took away the lives of Anjia officers and soldiers one after another. However, they were soon revenged by flying
Tank shells, rockets, and recoilless rifle shells were blown into ruins.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the North Fort was successfully captured.
Another hour later, the final battle on the Blair Peninsula ended at the port in the northwest of the city. The officers and soldiers of the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions of the Anjia Army were completely annihilated at the cost of more than 540 casualties.
With an army of more than 3,800 men and 140 prisoners, Port Blair was captured. The next step was to conquer the entire Andaman Islands.
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