Although there were fierce explosions all around, the Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches around the West Tortoise Island Fort still heard a low but gradually approaching roar. The roar became louder and louder, and gradually turned into thunder that shocked the eardrums.
The Japanese soldiers looked up from their bunkers and were stunned.
In the sky, twelve transport helicopters, covered by an equal number of armed helicopters, were seen flying towards the fort area from different heights. The roar of their engines seemed to push away the surrounding war.
The three Type IV armed helicopters flying in the shape of a "pin" in front of them screamed and passed over the heads of the Japanese troops. The Japanese defense line protecting the fort below had become a useless decoration.
The twelve armed helicopters in the air were divided into four combat groups. These low-altitude kings were equipped with 18-tube 70mm rocket launchers and terrifying 20mm six-tube continuous Vulcan cannons. They fired at the ground unscrupulously.
, wantonly harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches.
Twelve armed helicopters quickly destroyed any target that could not be suppressed by traditional artillery, while transport helicopters carrying combatants from the rear rappelled directly to the fort area.
The wolf-like officers and soldiers quickly occupied a solid landing point in the central area of the fort. After searching the three forts to confirm that there was no threat, under the cover of armed helicopters, they attacked the unprepared Japanese from behind.
The first ring-shaped fortification area around the Kuai Fortress fell under the control of the Anjia Army.
The defensive positions of the Japanese army were always shrouded in endless explosions and gunpowder smoke. The landing Anjia Army Guards officers and soldiers, with crazy expressions on their faces blackened by fireworks, bravely and fearlessly launched an attack on the Japanese army.
The several Japanese squads around the fort were mostly well-trained and fierce fighting troops. However, when they faced the well-equipped, fierce and brave Anjia officers and soldiers, it was destined to be a one-sided battle. Soon, a large number of Japanese soldiers came from
They collapsed on the battlefield.
The armed helicopter hovering in the low altitude was chasing the Japanese army like a duck. The Japanese army panicked. The team suddenly became chaotic. At this time, several heavy artillery shells fired from naval guns came, and the Japanese army was in chaos.
In the light of the fire, a large pit of more than ten meters suddenly appeared where the Japanese troops gathered. The dozen or so Japanese soldiers who had originally gathered there disappeared in an instant.
There are also some Japanese soldiers who rely on the trenches to fight to the death, blindly shooting into the sky with their Type 4 A semi-automatic rifles, but the 7.7 mm caliber bullets are like scratching the armor of the armed helicopters.
The pilot who drove the armed helicopter and drove the Japanese army into a panic. Looking excitedly at the frightened enemies running away under him, he tapped the button with his right hand and saw two gray smoke lines immediately ejected from the armed helicopter.
Flying out, the two rockets directly hit a fire point.
There was only a "boom" explosion, a flash of fire, and the Japanese machine gun firepower suddenly went silent.
At this time, three IV-type armed helicopters drew a graceful arc in the air and spread out. The black holes of the 20mm cannon and 70mm rocket launcher nests, like the sharp fangs of a cobra, were revealed to the Japanese army.
In the distance on the sea, more than 20 landing craft, under the cover of more than a dozen "Dolphin I" amphibious tanks, rushed towards the shoal in the northern part of the Western Hawksbill Island.
As amphibious tanks and landing craft docked one after another, the fire from naval guns gradually became sparse, and the tanks covered the landing officers and soldiers. They quickly advanced in depth. At this time, the special forces officers and soldiers who had changed into Anjia Army uniforms were sniping behind the Japanese defense line.
The Japanese soldiers who tried to resist stubbornly, all cooperation seemed to be flawless.
As of 12:15 noon, under the attack of the trinity of sea, land and air, the ground troops of the five battalions of the forward regiment of the 3rd Guards Division had basically eliminated the remaining Japanese forces on the West Hawksbill Island and the East Hawksbill Island, and officially announced that the two
The island returned to the embrace of the Chinese people.
Soon, Major General Xiang Yang, commander of the Amphibious Operations Command, and Major General An Yanxing, commander of the Third Guards Division, jointly issued an order requiring the Marine Corps engineer battalions participating in the war to quickly clear the site in the open areas of the two islands and organize a helicopter airport.
Build a simple supply station.
The officers and soldiers of the Forward Regiment of the Third Guards Division, covered with dust and gunpowder smoke, were busy burying Japanese corpses, cleaning up ruins, eliminating safety hazards, and building simple barracks. The second batch and the third batch arrived later.
A group of guards officers and soldiers will use this as a starting point to launch a charge towards Sanya Bay.
During the rest of the 19th, the heavy cruisers, light cruisers and heavy ships of the battle fleet of the First Task Force moved forward to the offshore waters of Sanya Bay, pouring hundreds of tons of ammunition on the Japanese beachhead and rear core positions.
, nearly a hundred carrier-based bombers carried out key strikes on important parts of the Japanese defense line.
The Japanese army is very tenacious. Mines are scattered all over the coast of Sanya Bay to prevent ships from landing. The Yazhou Guards are deployed on the beachhead, and the Monk Ridge, Tianya Ridge, Wushi Ridge, and Baopo Territory are three to ten kilometers away from the rear.
, Nanding Ridge
There is a garrison point of the 11th Infantry Brigade in Hailuling, and four infantry regiments of the 171st Division are deployed in Tianya Town, Fenghuang Town, Sanya Town and Tiandu Town along the coastal highway.
The regiment headquarters is located in Tianya Town.
When each section of the beachhead was attacked, the Japanese army could muster more than five infantry brigades within two hours, forming a local strength advantage and attacking the landing troops head-on.
The battle plan formulated by the Anjia Army was to use naval artillery to suppress the Japanese firepower on the beachhead and core positions, and to use Air Force bombers and aircraft carrier-based aircraft to conduct intensive bombing on the main highways, blocking the reinforcements of the Japanese follow-up troops, and giving their infantry a huge
of killing.
After the beachhead position was consolidated, the landing tactics of the East and West Hawksbill Islands were repeated. Transport helicopters, under the cover of armed helicopters, transported troops, rappelled at weak points of the Japanese army, implemented decapitation tactics, blocked the Japanese reinforcements, and won the victory for the frontal landing.
precious time.
The entire operation is closely linked, with the air, underground and sea closely integrated, striving to give full play to the sea, land and air advantages possessed by the Anjia Army, inflicting huge damage to the Japanese army while consolidating the landing point, covering the naval attack on Sanya Port, and ultimately winning the landing operation.
victory.
From the time the warships launched shelling on the Sanya Bay defense line until late at night, except for a few anti-submarine warnings, the fleet did not encounter much trouble, and it was later proven that it was just a false alarm, mainly because the sonar operator on the destroyer was too late.
I was too nervous. I mistook the huge whales, sharks and other fish swimming in the nearby waters for Japanese submarines!
In the early morning of the 20th, the ships responsible for transporting the first batch of landing officers and soldiers of the Guards Division gathered at the port of Tortoiseshell Island in the west of Sanya Bay.
The officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment and the Third Regiment of the Third Guards Division, escorted by the "Beihai" battleship, two light cruisers, and four destroyers, arrived at the sea off Sanya Bay at 6 o'clock yesterday evening, and then boarded the Western Hawksbill Island and stationed there.
The camp has just been packed up by the forward group and a simple tent has been set up. Rest immediately after dinner.
As the first batch of troops to land on the beach, the officers and soldiers of the second regiment got up at four o'clock in the morning to prepare. After having breakfast at 4:30, they gathered in the open space to listen to the combat briefings of each unit.
At five o'clock, the officers and soldiers of the second regiment boarded the landing craft moored at the port one after another, waiting for the combat order to be issued.
The battleship formation that carried out the land attack resumed its suppression of the Japanese defense line at 5:15. The first round of shelling covered the entire landing site. Subsequently, two squadrons of carrier-based bombers arrived at the beachhead in the morning light.
From the sky, a large number of bombs were dropped towards the outside of the landing site, as well as incendiary bombs specially designed to deal with underground fortifications.
The sound of artillery roared. All battleships and cruisers were divided into sections. They attacked the identified targets one by one.
Although the weather was good, after the continuous shelling, the entire Japanese defense line was filled with smoke, the vision was blocked, and all the intended targets were not destroyed. At the same time, some Japanese artillery bunkers were deployed on the reverse slope of the shallow hills at the beach, resulting in a direct shelling effect that was unsatisfactory.
The beach is filled with gunpowder smoke. The explosion flashes from time to time make people feel dizzy.
The long flames ejected from the battleship's main gun muzzle shot straight into the sky, and the fierce S1-A, S1-B dive bombers and T1 torpedo bombers dropped heavy armor-piercing bombs that raised towering smoke columns into the clouds.
The explosion and shaking seemed to level the Japanese beachhead.
At 5:30 in the morning, the underwater demolition brigade under the Amphibious Operations Command, under the cover of eight landing gunboats, detected the direction of the beach reefs, determined the channel, and cleared underwater mines and obstacles. The Japanese coastal defense artillery broke through
Silence, and immediately launched intensive fire. In just a few minutes, two landing gunboats were sunk and three were damaged. Anjiajun naval officers and soldiers were killed, 19 people were missing, and 75 people were injured.
At this time, the entire First Task Force and the battle fleet went all out. The aircraft carrier sent carrier-based aircraft for air cover, the destroyers conducted anti-submarine surveillance, and the battleships and cruisers conducted artillery fire, each performing their duties.
In order to mass-kill the soldiers hiding in various reinforced concrete artillery forts, at the last moment of the bombing, the carrier-based bombers dropped powerful cloud bombs, with a density of one every 500 meters, targeting the entire area of more than 20 kilometers.
beachhead and carried out a devastating blow.
Subsequently, six minesweepers moved forward and, without being attacked by coastal defense artillery, it took an hour to finally successfully clear several landing channels.
When the two waves of carrier-based bombers had dropped all their bombs and returned to the aircraft carrier deck for refueling and mounting aerial bombs, bombers from three squadrons of the Air Force's 3rd Pilot Division taking off from Tonghai Airport also arrived at the later-famous Sanya Bay
Over the Coconut Dream Corridor.
The distance from the naval airport to Sanya is only 300 kilometers in a straight line. The Air Force's land-based bombers can easily fly back and forth. At the same time, the upgraded A29 fighter jets can carry 1,000 kilograms of bombs for dive bombing, so they are very important to the Anjia Army Air Force.
From a personal perspective, the Sanya battle is basically a home battle.
Today's mission of the Air Force's 3rd Pilot Division is to fully support the landing operation in Sanya Bay. Ninety-five squadrons of the entire division will take turns to attack and completely suppress the Japanese counterattack.
The first batch of strike fleets to perform battlefield support missions. Each fighter plane carried a thousand kilograms of bombs, some of which were external and some of which were placed in the magazine. The B2 bombers with shorter range also specially added auxiliary fuel tanks.
It was guaranteed to be able to patrol the air over the island for at least an hour. The pilots were ordered to drop bombs as soon as they received a request for fire support from the landing force.
At 6:45 in the morning, the landing craft, guided by the torpedo boats, began to charge towards the shoals of Sanya Bay.
When the naval gunfire coverage reached its maximum, the first batch of landing craft to hit the beach had already reached the sea less than two thousand meters away from the beach. Five hundred meters in front of the landing craft, about forty "Porpoise I" vehicles
Type amphibious tanks drove into the sea from the amphibious landing ship and rushed towards the beachhead. On the one hand, they bombarded the firepower on the shore, and on the other hand, they protected the safety of the landing troops.
As the Japanese counterattack fired intensively, the landing craft also began to accelerate forward. Each landing craft had a platoon of officers and soldiers, and the five battalions of the second regiment were transported ashore by 75 landing craft.
Only after the beach is successfully seized and the beach position is controlled, the landing ships carrying heavy equipment, ammunition supplies, and engineering equipment will rush to the beach.
It can be said that in the entire landing campaign, the most dangerous and vulnerable time is at the very beginning.
To be able to become the first batch of landing troops, the second regiment was full of energy and prepared to look good to the little Japanese.
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