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Densely packed small-caliber shells exploded one after another along the beach.
The 20mm artillery used by many Japanese soldiers is not army standard equipment but ship-based weapons disassembled from US military transport ships. Each artillery fires a hundred shells and one-tenth of them land next to US soldiers. Kill dozens of individual targets.
The horrific explosion lasted for about a minute, and the beach was bloody.
The Okinawa defenders can shoot for a longer period of time, but in order to avoid being knocked out by counterattack fire, they still choose to evacuate quickly.
Let the U.S. soldiers leave the beach and continue shooting with machine guns and grenade launchers from three hundred meters away. Different firepower is used at different times. Hundreds of soldiers have been killed in the landing combat unit in front of them, but more soldiers will fall behind.
Feeling the weakening of suppressive fire, the U.S. soldiers stood up and charged forward.
It will be safer if you move forward step by step along the crater and leave the beach. The tank landing craft behind you will inevitably be bombarded by heavy firepower. Only by staying as far away from heavy equipment as possible can you have a chance to survive.
"Let the tank landing ship be closer, so that we can collect the tank even if it sinks on the shore!"
Fang Tianlang watched the battle situation, and the Japanese commander beside him also stared intently.
Dozens of tank landing ships rushed in and would reach the shore in three or four minutes. The moment the hatch was opened, ten sets of Type 5 multiple rocket launchers would each spray ammunition against a landing ship.
There will definitely be rockets that hit directly and those that miss will also blow up the infantry next to the landing ship into powder.
Two hundred 150mm rockets destroyed forty or fifty "Sherman" tanks and several large tank landing ships. The ammunition utilization rate was already at its best.
The waves surged, and large landing ships came to the shore one after another.
Intense firelight shot from the depth of the beach to the front and then turned into violent explosions. Almost all US soldiers were desperately dodging for fear of being exploded by the missed rockets.
The Japanese multiple rocket launchers are really a demonic weapon system. Any target will immediately turn into meaningless scrap metal as soon as it is aimed at it.
Half a minute after the violent detonation, the ten tank landing ships that were targeted for attack all tilted in the shoal. Hundreds of American soldiers were killed by the missed rockets and were completely ignored in the fireworks.
The U.S. soldiers who have landed on the shore have no idea how they can last for several hours without tank support. The tank landing ship behind is turning around and returning. At this time, if they force the landing, they will be quickly loaded with multiple rocket launchers. Another critical attack.
The tank landing ship in front began to return, and a series of violent explosions came from the distant sea.
Eighteen torpedoes secretly fired by two Japanese submarines ten minutes ago hit a frigate, a fire support ship and two landing craft in succession, making the entire sea area even more chaotic.
"Good fight! It's not that easy to swallow up the 9th Division."
Fang Tianlang put down the telescope with a slight smile on his face. The three to four thousand American soldiers on the beach and the seventy or eighty LVT amphibious vehicles that were about to land behind them were all easily destroyed by the Japanese soldiers.
U.S. soldiers who are not accompanied by main battle tanks are completely vulnerable. Japanese soldiers only need to use the simplest machine guns and grenade launchers to pin all U.S. soldiers on the beach.
The US military's lvt amphibious tank rushed towards the shore at high speed, and the Japanese army's forty small-caliber rapid-fire cannons extended their muzzles from all directions to prepare for killing.
The Type 1 47mm anti-tank gun and Type 94 37mm anti-tank gun equipped by the Japanese army can no longer serve as the main anti-armor force due to the emergence of the modified "Sherman" tank, but they are excellent choices for bombarding lvt amphibious combat vehicles. .
Whether it is a 37mm artillery shell or a 47mm artillery shell, it can penetrate an LVT amphibious vehicle with little armor protection with one shot.
With an extremely high rate of fire and a flexibly rotating gun body, a rapid-fire gun can theoretically destroy five or six lvt amphibious tanks and escape intact.
The US military's lvt amphibious tank approached the shore, and dense artillery shells were fired straight at it.
The scene of the disaster made the U.S. soldiers on the beach unable to help but close their eyes. An LVT amphibious vehicle was hit by two or three artillery shells, which would immediately cause more than a dozen soldiers to be injured or killed.
The smell of blood is everywhere on the entire beach in front of you and is getting stronger and stronger. It only takes about one minute for the Japanese rapid-fire gun shooters to blast every lvt amphibious tank into the sea water.
"The attack is completed!"
Fireworks soared into the sky on the beach, and the third batch of US military landing troops was also blocked on the beach.
The artillery preparations before landing were completely ineffective and did not form an effective attack on the Japanese soldiers in the deep area.
Even if there are only three or four rapid-fire guns that have not been knocked out in the ten-kilometer-wide landing zone, it will be a huge threat to the landing troops, let alone dozens of them popping up at once.
A rapid-fire cannon chases an lvt amphibious tank and starts bombarding it. Even a novice gunner can hit the target after five or six shots.
The Japanese rapid-fire artillery was quickly transferred, and the US warships on the sea once again provided naval gun fire support.
Dense smoke clouds erupted from the depth of the beach, but no artillery shells fell within a range of two hundred meters. The US military fire commander must ensure that there is a safe enough distance between the artillery shells and the beach, otherwise the US soldiers will be killed in pieces.
The U.S. soldiers heard the explosion and regained some confidence, but disasters still followed one after another.
The 9th Division mobilized mortars to fire outwards from the anti-slope fortifications without worrying about being suppressed by naval gunfire. One mortar fired five shells a minute, and a salvo of twenty mortars at once could instantly overwhelm the beach. It became bloody.
"Damn it! We were suppressed!"
"Hurry up and shoot down the mortars! We can't avoid the shells!"
The American soldiers roared while crawling forward. Most of the artillery shell stores were located on the beach, so moving forward a hundred meters would increase the safety factor a lot.
Dozens of U.S. military mortar teams set up artillery to launch bombardments.
The 9th Division decisively ordered all mortars to return to their bunkers. There was no need to engage in a firefight with the opponent. The best way to fight was to use various fortifications to kill the opponent.
The Japanese artillery bombardment paused, and the U.S. soldiers pushed forward crazily, firing hot machine gun bullets in the face.
One by one, American soldiers fell down after being shot, and blood spurted out from the bullet holes. Their fragile lives could not withstand the impact of sharp projectiles. Each of the hundreds of Japanese machine guns emptied a magazine or a bullet chain, which was a battle. Terrifying metal storm.
"In twenty minutes, there will be less than one-tenth of the soldiers left on the entire beach."
"Afraid of death, the tank landing ship dare not continue to rush forward. Failure is inevitable."
Fang Tianlang muttered a few words to himself, glanced at the direction of the beach for the last time, and then walked back. The first few rounds of attacks could destroy the opponent's morale and then continue the battle step by step. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com