1054 Island Front

The vast ocean is the only scenery in front of him. Looking at this familiar scenery, Takemoto Taro seems to be very numb to the fact that he is in a foreign country. ?Huo??????? `He accepted the country's conscript a year ago and entered the army to serve as an honorable infantry soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army. However, he was sent to a small island on the front line and stationed in a In the supply port.

He knew that he didn't really have any skills. If he wanted to be called the main force of the army, he heard that he had to go to the distant China of China, where he killed people and saw blood before he could be called by the divisions of the real main force. Look, elect for the more elite infantry. However, Takemoto Taro is not willing to fight for the title of the so-called elite army, because he has seen too much of those so-called elite infantry.

As a soldier stationed on the island, he had seen the so-called horsemen on the wharf of this small supply port. Standing neatly in a majestic queue, carrying a pile of luggage and supplies, and carrying a long 38-type rifle, they look very energetic. These troops are also equipped with a large number of machine guns and grenades, and even large-scale field equipment such as mountain cannons. Sometimes Takemoto Taro and his companions on duty nearby learn from those officers with command knives, the kind of high-chin Supercilious look.

But in a few days, they will see these familiar faces from the transport ship and the destroyer sent back to the island by the navy to rest in frustration. The originally well-equipped soldiers seemed to have lost their souls, and the crying and shouting made the entire island restless late at night.

A few troops were able to bring back some rifles, but most were out of ammunition. Everyone is very curious about what kind of battle they experienced on the distant front line, but those big figures are very secretive about it, and the officers do not allow soldiers to talk about the battle on the front line in private, so everyone gets very limited information .

However, Takemoto Taro still knew that the battle on the front line was becoming more and more unfavorable. In the past two months, some officers and soldiers from the naval ships who came to replenish the warships went to nearby restaurants and comfort stations to reveal some so-called inside information. They claimed that they had sunk a certain American warship in the waters of the Solomon Islands, or boasted that the Imperial Army had successfully repelled an American offensive on a certain island.

But recently everyone has been very silent, and even these partial victories have begun to shut up. Everyone just silently did what they were supposed to do, until now, the news of the failure could not be concealed. Hundreds of thousands of wounded were sent by transport ships, all of them came from the front-line islands. For these wounded soldiers, all this was considered lucky, because Taro Takemoto soon discovered that the islands where the battle broke out will be destroyed in the later stage. , There is no way to transport the wounded out.

Takemoto's name is Taro, which is a tradition of Japanese names. Taro is the boss, and the second son is called Jiro. Therefore, if you make malicious speculations based on habitual thinking, the name Yamamoto Fifty-Six is ​​actually very pleasing, isn’t it? As the eldest son of the family, Taro Takemoto was unwilling to be sent to the front line like those so-called elite troops. He hoped that he could serve in the rear until the end of the war. Not every Japanese was eager to donate blood.

At least when it fails.

It is a pity that his good wishes have been completely shattered by the cruel reality, because just two days ago, the defense command on this island received an order that this division, which is the reserve team, must start to attack the island. Build bunkers and fortifications for defense. All began to do manual work, including digging tunnels and building bunkers and parapets with stones and earth.

Another transport ship arrived at the harbor. Teams of supplementary soldiers wearing new military uniforms, generally looking very young, walked down the hanging ladder with their squad leader and sergeant. These soldiers are obviously different from the elite sent to the front, because even Takemoto Taro, a soldier who has never been to the front, can tell that these people are all new recruits, and they are newer than recruits like him recruits.

The war not only made the population resources of Germany and the Soviet Union nearly exhausted, but in fact, Japan in the Far East was the most exhausted. This island country itself does not have much military strength to expand. Unfortunately, they chose China as an opponent with a large land and resources at the beginning of the game, and then directly went to war with the world's most powerful country. They only choose the hard mode when playing games. Sometimes you have to admire it. The Japanese are heroic high-level players who die and die.

"Ishida-kun... this is going to be the front line soon." A lieutenant general of the Japanese army put his hands behind his back and said to a man wearing the rank of major general of the army behind him, "that fellow Yamamoto Fifty-Six's Navy Defeat after defeat, even the most basic courage to support us in combat is gone. The navy suggested that we abandon this island, but the army headquarters, hope that we can continue to stick here for three months..."

"Your Excellency, General! I understand that Ishida is ready to live and die with this island! My divisions will follow me the most and fight to the last!" The major general bowed his head, I made a deep bow: "My family in Kyoto, please leave it to you. Please tell them that I persevered until the last moment for the glory of the Great Japanese Empire."

The old general sighed, and then continued: "With you here, I am relieved. Please, Mr. Ishida...you must stick to it for three months. This is related to the Great Japanese Empire. In the battle of national destiny, you, me, and everyone can't take chances."

He turned around, looked at the subordinate he admired the most, then patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him: "As for your family, I have already let my eldest son take care of it... I can't go back either. This is an order just sent from the base camp, you can see for yourself."

There was a clear order in the telegram that this lieutenant general would lead an elite division in Malaysia to turn to General Yamashita and fight the Americans to the death in the Malaysian archipelago. The content of the telegram is easy to understand, and Japan's military strength in Malaysia is not small, but the tragic battle of Darwin Harbor really makes people feel uneasy. Once the control of the sea and the air is lost, this kind of island battle will eventually become a disaster for the army, which is already the consensus of all army generals.

"General! As far as the navy is concerned, can't we rely on the islands to fight the Americans?" This general named Ishida anxiously slapped the message in his hand, gritted his teeth and asked bitterly. Said: "We don't hesitate to sacrifice our lives for the country, don't they have such a little awareness? The spirit of the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire has been lost by these gangsters who are greedy for life and afraid of death!"

The old general looked helplessly at his subordinates, and really wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know where to start. He really wanted to tell Rear Admiral Ishida that in fact, there were voices in the navy that were fighting to the last drop of blood, but these irrational clamors were of no decisive effect at all.

Any senior naval general who replaced Yamamoto Fifty-Six found that they would either consume the navy bit by bit, delaying time for Japan's future, and see if they could find a turning point in the delay; An illusory victory. But once it is really defeated, it will be a collapse like a mountain, and Japan will lose all chances of victory within a few months. Who dares to order such a bet? Maybe even the emperor himself didn't have the courage to say this.

On the pier, with the sound of shouts, a group of soldiers of the Japanese Army with their upper bodies naked were shouting slogans and unloading a heavy large-caliber anti-aircraft gun from the ship. They only have simple tools and can only rely on manpower to complete this difficult work. After all, the Japanese are short in stature, and it is really not easy to cope with this kind of physical work.

In fact, if it is transported according to the list of weapons most needed by the front lines, the heavy weapons that the Japanese army should supplement to these front lines should actually be large-caliber support artillery. After all, the Japanese army has not lost the effective support of the navy, and the Japanese troops lacking heavy weapons cannot cope with the US Navy 6th Team, which is covered by the giant guns of the US Navy warships.

Looking at the soldiers unloading equipment on the pier, Major General Ishida pressed his command knife with one hand, and complained to the superior in front of him: "The soldiers lack training, and we even canceled more than half of the training in order to save bullets... But in this case , promised to add 92-type infantry artillery to us, but so far none of them have arrived... How should my troops build a basic defense system?"

"Mr. Shitian, the transportation of the dozens of islands on the entire front line is now in chaos. At least you can maintain the supply of food and soldiers here. It is not easy." The old lieutenant general said a little lonely: " I heard that during the battle for the Solomon Islands, many brave soldiers starved to death on their combat posts because they had no rations."

Originally, Japan's strategic thinking was to use war to support war. This strategy is very effective in China, which is rich and weak in resistance. But when the Japanese apply this strategy to the poor Southeast Asian archipelago and the United States, which cannot be defeated and reaped benefits, they will have to face the problem of being unable to effectively "raise war".

What's more deadly is that Japan's steel production is seriously insufficient, and its oil reserves are also very limited. In terms of heavy industry, they simply have no ability to make up for the heavy artillery and other weapons and equipment that have been accumulated for many years during the war with the United States. .

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