Add Bookmark | Recommend this book | Back to the book page | My bookshelf | Mobile Reading

Free Web Novel,Novel online - All in hlnovel.com -> Historic -> my northeast army

Chapter 166 Bloody Okinawa (2)

Previous page        Return to Catalog        Next page

    You can search "My Northeastern Army" on Baidu to find the latest chapters!

    The Japanese army's deep beach defense line built between Naha Harbor and Naha City was essentially a series of reinforced concrete bunker groups and firepower strongholds, as well as a large number of underground tunnels and trenches, which together formed a line of about 7.5 meters long.  The Japanese army on the island called it the "Underground Great Wall of Okinawa" and the "Oriental Maginot Line".  Within the defense line of this underground Great Wall, the 144th Division commanded by Lieutenant General Chen Jiyong is stationed, with a total of about 11,200 troops, and is equipped with a large number of machine guns, mortars, grenades, infantry artillery, and accumulation  There are mountains of ammunition and food; all weapon configurations and firepower ranges of the entire defense line have been carefully calculated in advance, which can not only conceal themselves to the maximum extent, but also maximize the damage to the enemy.  The officers and soldiers of the Northeastern Army's beach-busting force, who were desperately attacking, soon fell in pieces under the blows of thousands of Japanese fire tongues and whips. The soldiers who stepped on the landmines were blown down in a pool of blood in circles, and they were white and sharp.  The bones were exposed directly from the broken limb.

    After thirty minutes filled with the lives of thousands of Northeastern Army soldiers, the Northeastern Army fleet and aviation forces, which had barely repelled the Japanese kamikaze suicide planes and suicide motorboats, were finally able to free up their hands to assist the struggling land forces.  Brigades and Army units.  Under the guidance of the correction radio soldiers, the overwhelming naval gunfire and aerial bombs immediately blew up the above-ground fortifications of the Japanese army's "Great Wall Defense Line" and the Japanese artillery position in Owu Mountain, curbing the Japanese army's fire coverage. Immediately, the follow-up  Some units of the 43rd and 46th Marine Brigades also landed ashore one after another, bringing with them more than 40 amphibious tanks.  The Northeastern Army, whose troops and firepower had been strengthened, finally managed to defeat the Japanese army and stabilize its position.

    As the sun sets in the west and night falls, the 28th, 38th, 43rd, and 46th Marine Brigades of the Northeastern Army and the 911th Regiment, 255th Division, and 260th Division of the Army have a total of 7 Marine regiments or infantry regiments (brigades).  , 4 artillery battalions, 2 tank battalions and 1 engineering regiment, a total of about 25,000 troops landed ashore one after another, occupying a landing site about 3,000 meters wide and ranging from 500 meters to 1,500 meters in depth. A large amount of military supplies were also  They were slowly unloaded by transport ships; throughout the afternoon's battle, more than 2,600 people from various units of the Northeast Army were killed and more than 3,500 injured.  The tragic casualty figures made every general and grass-roots commander learn from the pain and put away their contempt for the Japanese army.  The troops who landed ashore immediately built fortifications to prepare for night attacks or suicide attacks by the Japanese army. However, unexpectedly, this did not happen. The Japanese army, which had always been fanatical and advocated a decisive battle with the main force, uncharacteristically began to calmly and cautiously proceed.  Tactics such as small unit infiltration, guerrilla harassment, and cold gun suppression were carried out, which caused great trouble to the Northeast Army. The most serious thing was that the Japanese artillery carried out shelling based on pre-calibrated positions, and the shooting accuracy was unusually high.  Multiple supply depots and ammunition storage areas set up by the military on the seaside were accurately hit, causing a great psychological shock to the exhausted Northeastern army officers and soldiers; especially the Japanese rapid-fire artillery unit and combat anti-artillery unit, which repeatedly destroyed the Northeastern Army.  More than a dozen amphibious landing tanks and light tanks.  This situation was not reversed until the Northeastern Army destroyed the artillery observation post secretly set up by the Japanese army on the seaside and the subsequent arrival of the 101st Heavy Armored Division.

    After entering the second half of the night, a medium-sized typhoon began to make landfall on the Ryukyu Islands. The weather suddenly became bad, and the sea was covered with dark clouds and soon the wind was high and the waves were rough.  Immediately, light rain began to fall one after another, and by daybreak it had turned into moderate to heavy rain.  These are undoubtedly greatly detrimental to the unloading work of the Northeast Army's supply ships conducting landing battles, and increase the intensity and arduousness of the battle.

    "Password!" the sentry in a raincoat asked sharply, and several searchlight beams quickly swept over.  The brightly lit Naha Harbor is now in full swing and a busy scene.  A large number of transport boats kept flowing back and forth between the transport ships on the sea and the beach, and then unloaded a large amount of luggage and supplies. The engineers worked hard to build roads and collect the bodies of the soldiers killed during the day. The injured soldiers were transported by assault boats and torpedo gunboats.  They were sent back to the hospital ship at sea and to the temporary field hospital on Jiu Mi Island.

    "Mustard powder mixed with radish skin!" In the jeep, the guard next to Major General Xiong, deputy commander-in-chief of the Okinawa landing army, responded loudly.  The reason why I chose such an incomprehensible password is because these Chinese characters are very verbose and difficult to pronounce words in Japanese.  In this way, even if the Japanese army knew the password, they would not be able to use it, and they would give themselves away as soon as they spoke with an awkward accent.

    The sentry, who did not relax his vigilance, put away his loaded rifle and opened the roadblock to let people pass.

    Major General Xiong got out of the car with a solemn expression and strode into the frontline headquarters of the Battle of Okinawa.  Major General Li, Major General Shu, Major General Zhao, Colonel Yin and other commanders were all there. Major General Li's forehead was still wrapped with a thick bandage.

    "Today ISuddenly he saw clearly that it was his left eyeball that had been shattered by a shrapnel.  "Captain!" Camp Commander Zhong roared and rushed over desperately, suddenly picked up Captain Yin who had fallen into a coma, and stumbled back.  Battalion Commander Zhong shouted at the top of his lungs while running: "Brothers, don't be reluctant to fight! Retreat!"

    When the officers and soldiers in the melee heard the familiar Pingjin accent of the battalion commander, they immediately came to their senses and retreated to the beach, dragging the bodies of their fallen brothers.  The radio soldiers desperately shouted to the frontline headquarters: "No. 1! No. 1! There is a pothole in the road! The road is blocked! Ten cigarettes have been smoked and the cigarette butts have been extinguished Come and light the fire! Light the fire quickly!"

    Major General Xiong and Major General Li, who were in the frontline command room at Naha Harbor Beach, felt their hearts sink and suddenly changed their colors after hearing this intermittent cry.  The secret message sent by the radio soldiers means: The Japanese army has an ambush, the assault operation has been frustrated, half of the officers and soldiers have been casualties, and Captain Yin has been injured.  Rear Admiral Li eagerly grabbed the phone and called Rear Admiral Jiang Bin, Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet.  A large number of Japanese troops were chasing the assault battalion that suffered heavy casualties. Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma was ecstatic after learning that a Northeastern Army assault force was ambushed. In this stalemate situation where the two sides were fighting hard, he could wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop.  The formation of an organized unit will definitely be a great morale booster for our own soldiers. Lieutenant General Honma immediately ordered all the security forces from his headquarters to be sent to pursue and suppress the Northeastern Army.  Suddenly, more than 400 officers and soldiers of the "Skeleton Regiment" assault battalion, who had no way to retreat, started shooting and bayonet battles with the Japanese troops gathered around the beach. Under the pouring rain, thunderbolts and lightning struck one after another.  Thunder roared in the crowd of melee between the Japanese army and the Northeastern army, and a circle of bloody human body fragments immediately exploded.

    Battalion Commander Zhong placed the regiment leader behind a rock to prevent Japanese bullets from hitting him.  He jumped up, checked the army's reserve ammunition and shouted: "Brothers, hold on! We still have fifty thousand rounds of ammunition! The navy brothers will save us soon!" Fifty thousand rounds essentially means to return the ammunition.  Five hundred rounds left.  The shells fired by the Japanese grenades and mortars blasted the rocks near the beach until rubble flew into the sky. The bullets fired on the rocks splashed out thousands of sparks. The desperate commandos roared while relying on the rows of rocks.  Fight to the death.  Battalion Commander Zhong looked anxiously at the dark sea battered by the heavy rain. Where were the navy's warships?  If the troops don't come, we won't be able to survive!

    Fifteen minutes later, amidst the roaring sound of heavy rain washing over the land and sea, a magnificent roar that penetrated the rain curtain and resounded through the sky suddenly came from the sky, and gusts of wind accompanied by huge searchlight beams shot towards the ground.  Six black aerial fortresses suddenly appeared over the beach, and flares soared and fell, followed by thousands of thunderbolt-like air-to-ground rockets and the "Vulcan" six-barreled heavy machine gun.  The metal storm of bullets roared to the ground in unison, blasting all the Japanese troops surrounding the commando team into flames and screams.

    Four "Uranus" carrier-based armed helicopters and two "Neptune" carrier-based transport helicopters that took off from the Pacific Fleet braved bad weather and Japanese anti-aircraft fire under conditions of extremely poor visibility and flew over the entire area.  Ba's flight arrived at Saiyuan Beach.  The "Uranus" attack aircraft group immediately bombarded and strafed the Japanese troops on the ground. The two "Neptunes" quickly lowered their altitude and lowered the medical basket to rescue Captain Yin and other seriously injured commandos.  Ten minutes later, two Northeastern Army destroyers and a small hospital ship came through the waves together. The rescue fleet immediately launched naval gun coverage on the Japanese troops on the shore and lowered lifeboats to pick up the commandos of the Skeleton Regiment.  It was not until dawn that all the team members, wounded soldiers, and corpses were picked up. The casualties of the 900 commandos reached more than 750.

    The unexpected difficulty of the Okinawa war greatly shocked the Northeast Frontier Defense Department.  After five days and four nights of bloody fighting, the total number of casualties of the more than 100,000 Northeastern troops who landed ashore has exceeded 10,000, with an average of 2,000 casualties per day. Moreover, the number of Japanese casualties was still lower than that of the Northeastern Army, which had absolute air and sea control. This is  This was almost unprecedented since the beginning of all-out war between China and Japan. After hearing the news, Lieutenant General Long Yunfeng, the commander-in-chief of the campaign, immediately rushed to the front-line headquarters in person and applied to the Border Defense Department for additional troops to attack the island.  In response, people from all walks of life in Northeast China and the Kannai region who were paying attention to the Battle of Okinawa, as well as young generals within the Northeast Army, have strongly demanded "the use of poison gas bombs against the Japanese troops hiding in underground fortresses and caves." Moreover, China (  Northeast) has not signed the Geneva Convention prohibiting the use of poison gas, not to mention that the people who are to be poisoned this time are the Japanese who have already been engaged in poison gas warfare and germ warfare.  After repeated deliberation, General Zhang Xueliang, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army, approved the request of the attacking troops to use poison gas bombs against the Japanese troops in Okinawa.  On June 13, the first batch of 400 tons of mustard gas bombs and erosive chlorine gas bombs was transported from the Jeju Island gas bomb production factory to Okinawa via the Pacific Fleet's Bohai Ship Transport Team; on the same day, the 277th Marine Corps stationed in Singapore  The B Field Division (Division Commander Major General Liao Huilin), the 23rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade (Brigade Commander Major General Jin Jiahao), the 37th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (Brigade Commander Major General Qu Jidong) and the 14th Mechanized Infantry Brigade stationed in the Northern Indian Ocean Military Region (Brigade Commander Wen  Major General Sheng), a total of 38,500 troops were ordered to form the second batch of Okinawa reinforcements. Under the command of Major General Wen, they went to Okinawa in batches to participate in the Battle of Okinawa; Major General Yan Feiyang, Chief of General Staff of the Indian Ocean Fleet, succeeded Major General Wen as the North  Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Ocean Military Region.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The 37th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (Brigade Commander Major General Jin Jiahao), the 37th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (Brigade Commander Major General Qu Jidong) and the 14th Mechanized Infantry Brigade in the North Indian Ocean Military Region (Brigade Commander Major General Wen Sheng), a total of 38,500 troops, were ordered to form Okinawa.  The second batch of reinforcements, under the command of Major General Wen, went to Okinawa in batches to participate in the Battle of Okinawa; Major General Yan Feiyang, Chief of Staff of the Indian Ocean Fleet, succeeded Major General Wen as the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Indian Ocean Military Region.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report