The Seychelles Islands are worthy of being a holiday destination for future generations. At about 5:30 in the afternoon, as the sun sets, the refreshing sea breeze from the southern Indian Ocean brings a hint of coolness, making the hot and humid weather quickly become pleasant.
The golden sun shines on the sea, rendering the sea surface sparkling with gold, and the blue sky, white clouds, coconut trees, and white sandy beaches complement each other.
Unfortunately, the sudden sound of artillery destroyed this beautiful scenery. About four kilometers away from the coast and two kilometers east of Beau Vallon on Mahe Island, three Anjiajun naval forces were seizing the time to advance towards Victoria Harbor. The officers and soldiers of the Marine Battalion were suddenly hit by Japanese artillery fire.
A large-caliber artillery shell fell to the ground, flames bloomed, and a violent explosion suddenly sounded. The steaming air wave lifted four officers and soldiers around the explosion point into the air.
"Bombardment! Concealment!"
Major Shen Han, commander of the first battalion of the Second Marine Regiment, was walking in the middle of the queue. When he heard the scream of artillery shells, he immediately shouted, lowered his head, and quickly retreated behind the pile of rocks beside the road. At this time, A cannonball fell more than ten meters in front. The guard pressed Shen Han under him. Almost instantly, the shrapnel from the blast flew out from the heads of the two men.
Dense artillery shells continued to fall, and an advancing "Porpoise I" amphibious tank could not avoid it and was hit by the turret. The tank stopped after rushing out a few meters, and then there was a dense explosion inside the tank. That was inside the tank. The ammunition was detonated, and the entire vehicle body was surrounded by fire. The four tank soldiers did not even have time to react before they died heroically.
The location that was shelled by the Japanese army was in the only section of the canyon on the road leading to Victoria Harbor in the east. The narrowest point of the mile-long canyon was only more than 100 meters. Two hills in the north and south faced each other. The peak in the north was named Er. 08 Highland. The south is 210 Highland, which are named after their altitude.
After the Japanese artillery fire blocked the canyon, it immediately blocked the path forward of the Anjia Army Marine Corps.
"What the hell, why is there a Japanese artillery position on Highland 208?"
Major Yang Zhengming, the instructor of the first battalion, was escorted by two soldiers and rushed to Shen Han's side. He pulled away the guard who was dusting off the dust. He put the telescope in his hand into the battalion commander's hand: "Look, the Japanese army is condescending to me. The threat to the army is extremely great. Judging from the intensity of artillery fire, it is estimated that there are at least twenty cannons deployed on the top of the mountain. Among them, there are even giant cannons with a caliber of 120 mm or more."
Enduring the deafening explosion, Shen Han lay on the rock, raised his telescope and took a closer look. He found that the Japanese artillery bombardment was extremely violent, and his brows suddenly furrowed:
"It's true! And the cliff on the west side is very steep. It is a cliff for more than 100 meters. It is impossible to climb, and there is no way to threaten the Japanese artillery position from our side. When fighting in a strange place, anything can happen. , the aviation unit did not find any artillery positions deployed here by the Japanese army after several reconnaissances, they are really well hidden!"
At this time, another shrill scream sounded. Yang Zhengming pulled Shen Han off the rock and retracted his head behind the rock wall together. The explosion sound contained slag and a shock wave, making the rock in front of him "pop". .
Yang Zhengming smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I now want to understand why the Japanese army did not deploy too many artillery on Bell Ombre Beach. Little Japan deployed all the artillery there. As long as this canyon going east is blocked, we will not have any Method threatens the security of Victoria Harbor!
"In addition, the artillery position deployed on Highland 208, which is only three kilometers away from the eastern port area, can completely deliver a fatal blow to the fleet that breaks into the port. However, the ships on the sea cannot threaten them due to the angle of fire. Japanese artillery to the heights!
"Even so, the Japanese army still felt uneasy, so they deliberately set up a maze of formations and set up forts all over the western beach, making it look like a hedgehog with thorns spreading out, thereby misleading the attacker's judgment."
"What should we do now?" Captain Wei Yao, the commander of the second company, retreated from the front, shrank behind the rock where the battalion commander and instructor were hiding, and asked the two officers for advice: "The enemy's artillery fire is so fierce, if we forcefully pass through the valley, the loss will be It will be very big, but the sun is about to set. If we cannot capture the port area before dark, the consequences will be disastrous."
Shen Han said helplessly: "We can only call for air reinforcements. We now lack effective means to threaten the Japanese artillery positions."
"It's not needed now!" Yang Zhengming suddenly said happily: "Our reinforcements are here!"
Shen Han and Wei Yao turned around and saw a group of S1-B dive bombers flying over from the sky south of Mahe Island. When they were about to approach the battlefield, the Japanese anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the mountains on both sides rang out, and the sky began to Black clouds appeared, and the numb spots began to splash freely on the ink landscape painting.
In order to avoid ground anti-aircraft fire, the S1-B dive bomber climbed consciously, two thousand meters, three thousand meters, and then got into the white clouds.
The Japanese army was obviously in disarray at this time. Although the shelling did not stop, the falling shells became sparse.
After a while, the unique scream of a dive bomber began to shock all living things in this world. Amidst the shrill whimpering, the fuselage dived down almost vertically from the clouds. When it reached the top of the mountain more than 200 meters away, it quickly lifted up, buttocks. Huge aerial bombs fell one after another from behind.
Although they were hundreds of meters apart from each other, the Marine Corps officers and soldiers of the Anjia Army, who were hidden under the ridges on both sides of the canyon, in the woods, and on the rocks, could clearly see the beautiful dive of the S1-B bomber and the huge black smoke columns rising from the ridges. Violent explosions occurred one after another.
Every Marine officer and soldier showed an expression of gloating, shouting in his heart: Blow it up, blow it up, completely make the Japanese artillery disappear!
In the blink of an eye, a squadron of fifteen S1-B dive bombers all completed dropping bombs and pulled up again. They made a circle in the air and passed over the Japanese artillery position at high speed. Although the Japanese anti-aircraft fire was still fierce, explosions exploded in the sky. There are dark clouds, but you are completely at a disadvantage in terms of momentum - there is nothing more frustrating than letting the other party fly under your nose, coming and going at will.
When the "Flying Fox" logo clearly appeared under the wings of the returning bomber under the setting sun, even though it was only for a short moment, the Anjia Army Marine Corps officers and soldiers in the valley cheered loudly.
Thick smoke billowed from the top of the mountain, and the Japanese artillery fire had completely silenced. At this time, another group of S1-B dive bombers appeared in the southern sky. In addition, six armed helicopters roared over from the western coast of Mahe Island, apparently for The attacking troops stormed the formation.
Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, the morale of the Anjia Army Marine Corps officers and soldiers on the ground was greatly boosted. It took only five minutes for the forward troops to quickly pass through the valley, and immediately climbed to the mountains on both sides to control the commanding heights.
Due to a severe shortage of troops, the Japanese army's blockade seemed weak. After half an hour of fighting, the 208 and 210 heights on both sides of the canyon successively announced that they had changed hands. At the same time, all 11 Japanese air defense positions deployed in the mountains were
was destroyed.
On Highland 208 on the top of the mountain in the north, the officers and soldiers saw that the cannon barrels, breech blocks and firing devices had been blown to pieces, and fragments of ammunition boxes were scattered everywhere. Many of the surrounding trees were broken in half.
There are several huge deep craters, as if they were hit by meteorites with a radius of more than ten meters. It seems that violent explosions have occurred here.
Controlling the high ground on both wings meant that the passage for Marine Corps officers and soldiers to enter the port was completely opened. At this time, transport helicopters once again airlifted more than 300 officers and soldiers, greatly strengthening the strength of the offensive force.
Under this circumstance, Qian Zhen, the commander of the Second Marine Regiment as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Front, discussed with the political commissar Colonel Li Yi and the chief of staff Lieutenant Colonel Wu Runhong, and decided to seize the time to launch an attack on Victoria Harbor in an effort to resolve the battle before dark.
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At 6:15 in the evening, four battalions of Marines advanced to the outskirts of Victoria Harbor and encountered stubborn Japanese resistance.
The Japanese positions are distributed in an arc from north to south. Each supporting point of the defense line is about 1.5 kilometers away from the main port area. The positions are equipped with certain light and heavy machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers. Some bunkers are equipped with
Equipped with anti-aircraft guns to deal with Anjiajun's tanks!
Of course, the Japanese army's positions were built too hastily, and there was no way to deploy anti-tank and infantry mines in front of the positions. At the same time, the temporary trenches dug by the Japanese army were only more than one meter deep, and there was no time to reinforce them with wooden strips. It was easy for them to attack during the attack.
Collapse appeared in front of the artillery of the troops!
After the attack was launched, the Anjiajun naval carrier-based aircraft flew past low in the sky, and there was a wailing sound wherever the aviation machine gun bullets fired from both wings hit!
At the same time, more than a dozen "Porpoise I" amphibious tanks, covering about 2,000 Marine officers and soldiers, rushed towards the Japanese position.
Many people don't know what it is like to charge two thousand people together. If they line up in a very dense formation, half a football field can accommodate it. But if two people are separated by four or five meters, it will be too loose.
The formation marched quickly in the wilderness, and it looked extremely majestic!
"boom--"
Several Type 88 75mm anti-aircraft guns deployed on the front line of the Japanese army opened fire one after another, and the shells flew directly towards the rumbling approaching amphibious tanks.
This Japanese anti-aircraft gun has a total weight of 2,450 kilograms, a projectile muzzle velocity of 720 meters per second, and a fire rate of 20 rounds per minute. It can penetrate 75 mm armor at a 47-degree angle at a distance of 1,000 meters, making it a powerful weapon against tanks.
Almost instantly, a "Porpoise I" tank was hit by a bullet and stopped moving forward. Within a minute, another tank exploded and caught fire.
Faced with the madness of the Japanese army, the Anjia Army officers and soldiers did not flinch. The loud charge bugle sounded at the right time. The Anjia Army Marine Corps officers and soldiers, armed with automatic rifles and bayonets drawn, changed from a trot to a fast run. Those amphibious tanks quickly
Being left behind.
When more than two thousand officers and soldiers ran together, the jumping steel helmets and bayonets reflecting the sunset light looked spectacular, and the dust raised under the soldiers' feet had the potential to block out the sky and the sun, making the Japanese troops on the position
The soldiers had the illusion that thousands of troops were attacking.
"Da da——"
"Dong dong——"
The Japanese light and heavy machine guns rang out, grenades and mortars also fired. The fast-advancing Anjia Army infantry fell to pieces under the intensive firepower.
However, the exposed fire points of the Japanese army were soon taken care of by dense mortar shells, and the Japanese army's cross-strike firepower immediately came to a brief pause.
However, at other locations, the Japanese machine gun fire, grenade launchers, and mortar firing sounded again, and another row of attacking Anjia officers and soldiers fell. However, these Japanese firepower points were quickly fired by armed helicopters hovering at low altitude.
rockets were destroyed.
Those dive bombers continued to drop aerial bombs on the heads of the Japanese troops. Although the killing effect was not good due to the protection of the trenches, they greatly damaged the morale of the Japanese troops.
The amphibious tanks that were originally covering the infantry attack also wisely stopped advancing at this time and began to act as fixed forts, aiming at suppressive fire at the exposed fire points of the Japanese army.
About a battalion of Marine officers and soldiers who were charging at the front quickly jumped into the Japanese trenches and started a hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese troops who had gathered their courage. The weaknesses of the Japanese army's weaponry, equipment, strength gap and lack of training were immediately exposed, and the battle line began.
became precarious.
At the same time that the attack was launched in the west of the port area, the third wave of Anjia army's airborne troops were airlifted directly into the empty dock by transport helicopters. About a battalion of Marine officers and soldiers quickly occupied the port and the nearby airport, and headed towards
The Japanese defense line launched an attack.
The Japanese army, which was attacked from both sides, was in chaos. Its commander, Major General Hiroshi Fujita, seeing that the situation was not good, quickly led his troops to flee to the mountains and forests in the southwest of the port area.
The officers and soldiers of the Anjia Army Marine Corps took advantage of the victory and pursued the enemy. Some of them went south along the coastal road and attacked the high ground occupied by the Japanese army from behind.
As the main frontal attack, the Marine Regiment knew that the time for a decisive battle had come, and launched a desperate charge regardless. The Japanese troops holding on to the highlands in the southwest of the port area could not resist, and had to retreat to the central mountainous area in embarrassment.
Prior to this, the aircraft carrier task force dispatched small landing forces to land on the beaches of Polis Bay, Lazar Bay, Anse Boileau Bay, Grand Bay and other beaches, and successively occupied the southern, southwestern and southwestern parts of Mahe Island.
Western area, and successfully joined forces with the Marine Corps coming along the coast road at 6:30 in the evening.
At this point, the entire area surrounding Mahe Island was firmly controlled by the Anjia Army Marine Corps.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the aircraft carrier task force cruising southeast of Mahe Island entered Victoria Bay in a mighty manner and stationed in the port area.
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