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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 3161 Covered by Artillery Fire

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    Without the threat of the Japanese navy, these gunboats, which are only a few hundred tons, can sail freely in the Pacific. The division fleet commander, Admiral Tang Qiuquan, formed a total of five fast gunboat detachments and five fast torpedo boat detachments. He called the fast gunboat detachment  For "Sea Assassin!" the Northern Fleet took away three fast gunboat detachments, three fast torpedo boat detachments, and the remaining two fast gunboat detachments will be used for the second round of bombardment.

    In addition to being equipped with 100-millimeter-caliber rapid-fire cannons, the most important weapon on the fast gunboats is two thirty-two-barreled naval combat "Thunder Rocket Launchers." One detachment is equipped with forty-two such gunboats, and two detachments are equipped with  Added together, the number of "Thunder Rocket Launchers" reached an astonishing number.

    More than 80 fast gunboats of the division fleet lined up in a line, plowing through the sea water lightly, making white waves, and appeared at the Japanese defense position in the southern part of Chichijima. The telescopic lens of Major General Yanai Hiroshi, the commander of the garrison,  When he was inside, he thought it was a landing craft for the China Division infantry.

    "The Chinese people don't know whether they live or die!" Major General Yanai thought with a grim smile. Each of the more than 80 landing craft carried a squadron of infantry, which is more than 1,200 people. However, the imperial army holding the beachhead position had  There are more than 15,000 people and strong defenses. Therefore, the first wave of Chinese landing attacks is not enough to watch!

    "Order all troops in the forward positions to put the soldiers of the China Division on the beach before fighting. The 1st and 2nd Artillery Battalions are ready for artillery bombardment to cover the beach where the enemy lands in all directions!" Major General Yanai decided to give the Imperial Japanese Emperor  There are also arrogant China Division soldiers in the army, a bloody lesson.

    The originally bright dawn sky.  Suddenly, the eighty-four fast gunboats of the division fleet were illuminated by a burst of meteor-like fire.  After approaching the Japanese beachhead, they suddenly began to erupt.  Rockets one after another, trailing long tail flames and screaming sounds that cut through the air, crashed onto the Japanese position like layers of meteors.

    "Boom! Boom! - Boom!" There was a loud sound like the earth was shaking. In an instant, Major General Yanai's sight was filled with bursts of fire, and then.  A violent explosion reverberated in the air, and the rising orange flames instantly engulfed everything.

    Two fast gunboat detachments, eighty-four gunboats fired the first salvo, and more than 5,000 large-caliber rockets hit the Japanese beachhead, covering the target area. After the rockets exploded.  The high temperature reaching thousands of degrees in an instant turned all the carbohydrates into ashes under the naval gunfire.  The tall trees that survived were like burning torches, the Japanese beachhead and deep positions.  Shrouded in a sea of ??fire!

    Tang Qiusheng put down the telescope, smiled and said to several other generals: "It's been a long time. I haven't seen the spectacular scene of so many rocket launchers, I guess. The Japanese soldiers on the beachhead have almost no chance of survival!"

    Han Tie took over the conversation with a smile, "Deputy division commander, are you still going to use the third round of shelling?"

    "What do you think?" Tang Qiusheng asked.

    "It's not necessary!" Han Tie held up his binoculars and carefully observed the Japanese position before saying, "It's agreed that for the first batch of landing troops, I will take two brigades of the Marine Corps up there, and no one should follow.  I fight!"

    "No one will argue with you!" Tang Qiusheng shook his head and said, "However, in order to reduce the casualties of the troops to the minimum, we will still carry out the third round of shelling according to the original plan!"

    Major General Yanai was wounded. Even though he was hiding in the concealment department, he was still wounded. After the rocket shell exploded, a huge flame rushed in along the observation hole, burning his eyebrows, hair, and a small mustache.  , his face was covered with shiny blisters. Fortunately, he closed his eyes in time and took responsibility. Now he is blind.

    The staff officer beside him screamed and rushed forward, but was kicked away by Major General Yanai. He ignored the burning pain all over his head and face and picked up the phone. He was almost burned into a pig's head in the covert department.  What will happen to soldiers exposed in ground fortifications?

    "Moxi Moxi! I am Commander Yanai! Report the situation there!" Major General Yanai shouted loudly into the phone receiver. As a result, there was no movement at all on the phone, not even the weak current that he was used to hearing.  There was no "chirp" sound. He refused to give up and called several phones leading to the forward position, but the result was the same.

    Angrily throwing down the phone, Major General Yanai's heart was trembling. All he could see were the steaming flames and the sea of ??fire connected by the flames. He knew that his more than 15,000 soldiers must be ferocious.  The phone lines laid several meters deep underground will definitely not be blown up. If no one answers the phone at the forward position, you can be sure that they are all broken and not even the telephone is left!

    ¡°Damn China people, what on earth did they use???Weapon, so powerful?  "Major General Yanai didn't know what kind of weapon it was. Anyway, his heart was beating wildly. The hidden unit was like a lonely fortress in the sea of ??fire. He felt boundless fear.

    At this time, a staff officer came over and reported: "Commander, I received a telegram from Lieutenant General Chunchuan, the commander of the 105th Division, asking what happened on our position and why it was covered in thick smoke and fire?  Yes, has the China Division¡¯s attack begun? Why didn¡¯t we hear any shots fired back?¡±

    Major General Yanai's face twitched suddenly, causing a blister. The pain made him gasp, and he gritted his teeth and shouted to his staff: "Report immediately to the commander of the Chunchuan Division. The enemy's infantry has not yet begun to land, but my father  The defensive positions in the southern part of the island were attacked by powerful unknown weapons from the China Division. The troops suffered heavy casualties. Please send additional reinforcements!"

    After receiving the telegram, the commander of the Harukawa Division took a breath of air. He was suspicious, but before the fighting started, the troops suffered heavy casualties. This shouldn't be the case. The defense system in the southern part of Chichijima was enough to withstand multiple shellings from large-caliber heavy artillery.  , this Yanai, what happened?

    However, although he suspected that Major General Yanai was exaggerating, from his position, the southern defense line of Chichijima looked like a volcanic eruption, which was not a good sign. Lieutenant General Harukawa decided to send two main forces to Yanai from the central defense line.  The wing has more than 5,000 reinforcements. The position is too important. Once the China Division troops are allowed to land, other areas will be undefendable, and the entire defense system of Chichi Island will collapse!

    "Qiuquan, send a reconnaissance plane to conduct a reconnaissance over Chichijima Island, and evaluate the effect of the two rounds of bombardment!" Tang Qiusheng said to Tang Qiuquan.

    Eight carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft took off from the aircraft carrier. Four of them were hovering over the bombardment area, while the other four were flying deep towards Chichijima Island. The two reinforcements sent by Lieutenant General Harukawa were also heading towards Chichijima Island.  Flying south, in an area of ??only about twenty square kilometers, more than five thousand Japanese soldiers were the most obvious targets, and they immediately fell into the eyes of the reconnaissance aircraft pilot.

    "Report to headquarters, the second reconnaissance unit reported that a large number of Japanese soldiers were found marching from the central part of Chichijima to the south!" the reconnaissance plane pilot reported.

    In the command cabin of the fleet flagship, the report of the reconnaissance plane pilot was very clear. Han Tie smiled "hehe" and said: "Deputy division commander, did you see the live target that was delivered to the door? Let the reconnaissance plane provide accurate directions and use naval guns to  Damn you kid! I¡¯ll organize the troops to land immediately!¡±

    Tang Qiusheng ignored Han Tie's words and said to Qiuquan: "Dispatch some carrier-based aircraft and cooperate with the naval guns to keep all the Japanese reinforcements!"

    Groups of large-caliber naval gun shells roared in and landed accurately among the panting Japanese soldiers. At the same time, a mixed formation of carrier-based bombers and fighter jets also began an air attack. Naval guns and carrier-based  The ground and air firepower of the aircraft cooperated with each other, exposing more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers who were unobstructed and exposed on the ground to a hail of deadly bullets!

    More than half an hour later, more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers who were reinforcing the southern defense line of Chichijima escaped the attacks of artillery shells, bombs and bullets, and only more than 1,000 of them limped back. At this time, the southern part of Chichijima  On the Japanese defensive positions, the flames emitted by rocket shells gradually extinguished, and the Japanese positions revealed their true colors, but they can only be described as horrific.

    Major General Yanai's premonition was very accurate. Of the more than 15,000 Japanese soldiers who survived the sea of ????fire, only more than 4,000 survived. They relied on strong anti-gun holes and concealed areas to survive, but most of them survived.  Most of them suffered from varying degrees of burns and were able to continue fighting, but more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers, a total of more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers, disappeared in the two rounds of shelling by the division fleet. This time took less than two hours!

    But this was far from over. The division's third round of shelling began again. This shelling was longer and more violent than the previous one. The bombardment lasted for a full hour and a half, destroying the planned landing site.  The Japanese army's reinforced concrete fortifications, which were turned over several times by the explosion and were already burned like shortbread by the high temperature of the rockets, could no longer withstand such a fierce bombardment.

    Cement blocks mixed with sand and soil flew into the air, and the shelters and anti-gun caves collapsed. Of the thousands of Japanese soldiers who survived, after three rounds of bombardment, almost no one was left, even Yanai, the captain of the Chichijima garrison.  The major general was also buried in the ruins!

    Seeing the soldiers running back, seeing the smoke covering the sky and the sound of artillery shaking the sea on the southern defense line of Chichijima, Lieutenant General Harukawa, the commander of the Japanese garrison at Chichijima, knew that the southern defense line was lost and he could no longer send it out.  Reinforcements are asking for death.

    Near ten o'clock in the morning, Lieutenant General Han Tie, commander of the division's Marine Corps, commanded two brigades to successfully land on the southern beach of Chichijima andHaving established a foothold, during the landing process, the resistance and troop casualties encountered by Japanese soldiers were minimal.

    Han Tie bent down and grabbed a handful of still hot sand, grinned happily, and said, "It feels so good to bully the little devil!"

    (To be continued) (To be continued)
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