Six Hundred and Fifty-Eighth Second Kauai Island Battle

Just when Lieutenant General Big Island vowed to live and die with Kauai Island, the artillery of the American fleet came to start the prelude to landing on Kauai Island. More than a dozen cruisers and destroyers fired from all directions, pouring hundreds of tons of shells on Kauai Island. on the Japanese front.

The shells hit the beach, setting off a smoke screen several stories high. The trenches dug by the Japanese soldiers with great effort quickly collapsed under the devastation of these large-caliber artillery. Compared with the American's, the so-called large-caliber artillery of the Japanese seems too childish.

Most of the support artillery of the Japanese Army are 75 mm caliber mountain cannons. For other larger caliber artillery, the Japanese Army does not have many, because it is a cross-sea landing operation, so it is not carried at all.

As for this legendary 75mm caliber mountain gun, it is the important support firepower of the Japanese Army on Kauai Island, but facing the all-in-one 155mm caliber cannon of the United States, there are also cruiser guns with larger calibers and battleships. Cannons, these small Japanese cannons really have no room to fight back.

What's more, Japan has not systematically replenished ammunition these days, and the large-caliber ammunition in its hands is really limited. Facing the overwhelming fire attack of the US Navy and shore artillery forces, the Japanese artillery can only hide in the bunker, praying that all this will pass soon.

Lieutenant Admiral Oshima is not like the Japanese general Tadamichi Kuribayashi when he defended Iwo Jima in another time and space. He did not have a good study of the degree of mechanization and combat mode of the United States, and even held the unrealistic belief that Japan is strong and the United States is weak. Thinking, he felt that Japan was only temporarily passive, rather than losing the initiative on the battlefield.

Therefore, the Japanese soldiers on Kauai Island did not carefully build underground fortifications, nor did they have tunnels and other supports. Most of them were trenches and simple bunkers. Facing the cover of the US military, the casualties skyrocketed. When Oshima decided to strengthen the fortifications , it is already too late.

With the bombardment of American cannons, Kauai Island was close to the sea on the side of Oahu, and American landing craft and barges appeared densely in the sight of Japanese soldiers. At the time when Japanese soldiers were least willing, the U.S. Marine Corps Soldiers are where they should be.

"Boom!" As the American ships got closer and closer to the beach of Kauai, the Japanese positions ushered in a new round of fire coverage. A machine gun bunker happened to be hit by an American artillery shell due to bad luck. Under everyone's gaze, the machine guns and shooters on the machine gun position were all blown into the sky and turned into pieces one after another.

In the terrified eyes of the Japanese soldiers, the first U.S. Marine Corps landing craft approaching the beach lowered its hatch, and the U.S. soldiers inside rushed into the already slightly icy water with their guns held high. The sea water above the waistline immediately slowed down the American soldiers' movement speed. They could only move forward slowly and could not dodge at all.

"Boom!" A Japanese soldier pulled his own trigger,

More Japanese troops started to fire wildly, and the machine guns began to roar, and the bullets hit the sea water like small shells, splashing tiny water jets.

The first American soldier was quickly knocked down by the bullet, and fell into the sea with a trembling body, while the Japanese machine gun continued to shoot, and soon the bullet flew into the open hatch of the landing craft, and those who had not yet jumped into the water The American soldiers were knocked to the ground one by one, and blood flowed down the deck into the sea water, staining a large area red.

As Japanese forces defending the shore opened fire, U.S. Marine casualties continued to mount. After all, this is not the same as Germany's landing in the UK. At that time, Germany had to face a small number of British coastal defense forces, because the British judged that the Germans would land in other areas. On Kauai Island, the Japanese successfully guessed the attack route of the US military, and their troops were more than enough to defend a small island, so the losses of the US landing troops skyrocketed.

But when another round of artillery fire hit the Japanese defenders' positions, more American landing craft rushed up to the soft sandy beach. When groups of American soldiers entered the beach, the firepower of the Japanese defenders was obviously dispersed. The sparse firepower allowed more American soldiers to rush onto the beach safely, and began to attack farther places. .

"Ammo! Give me ammo!" A Japanese soldier holding a heavy machine gun in both hands stared into the distance and called out to his comrades loudly, but the sub-shooter of the machine gun could only look down at the empty ammunition box and sighed. The American soldiers on the opposite side were getting closer and closer, and the artillery fire hit the Japanese positions one after another. Because more and more American soldiers landed on the coast, the coordinates were more accurately passed on to the nearby U.S. Navy, and the shelling also From coverage to precise burst shooting, the Japanese defensive positions began to collapse rapidly.

"No more ammunition! Retreat!" The deputy shooter obviously didn't want to die in this foreign land. He looked at his accomplice and reminded him loudly that there was no more ammunition. On the other side of the machine gun firing port, American soldiers have even begun to pull the safety ring of the grenade.

"Baga! Fight with these Yankees!" The machine gun shooter fiercely picked up the rifle that was set aside, but he was still a step too late, because the grenade in the hand of the American soldier had already flown over, and it was in his machine gun. The front of the bunker exploded. Dust and shrapnel poured into the bunker all of a sudden, blowing the heavy machine gun aside, and the machine gun shooter was already lying in a pool of blood at this moment.

"..." It seems that His Majesty still has something like a thousand seams that can't guarantee his own life. The deputy shooter hurriedly supported his helmet and scrambled to escape from the half-collapsed simple machine gun bunker.

Not all Japanese are cold-blooded killers who are fearless and completely brainwashed by Bushido spirit. Facing the absolute firepower of the Americans, there are still many Japanese soldiers who want to escape, but their opponents did not give them a chance to escape. , Even the chance of surrender was not left to these aggressors.

When the deputy shooter got out of the half-collapsed machine gun bunker, he saw American soldiers not far from the flanks holding semi-automatic rifles and carbines and fiercely firing at the flanks of the Japanese trenches. One fell down, and the screams continued.

The massacre is still going on, but now the roles of the two sides of the massacre have been reversed. The Japanese soldiers who were fiercely firing at the American soldiers just now have become the targets of the American soldiers. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers left their trenches and ran to a place not far behind them, but were shot by American soldiers halfway, and fell to the ground and did not move for a while.

Seeing the scene in the distance, the Japanese deputy shooter who escaped from the dead was startled and frightened to the extreme. He hurriedly climbed out of the trench with his helmet on, hoping to avoid the fierce attack of the Americans and escape to the row of trenches behind him. Seeing that the Japanese soldiers over there are still fighting back, it seems that they can resist for a while.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!" Before he could take three steps, he was spotted by an American soldier who raised the Garand M1 rifle in his hand and fired three bullets in one go. Obviously, no one can dodge in the face of such a density of firepower. The Japanese deputy shooter immediately felt something hammered on his back, and immediately fell to the ground with blood dripping from his mouth, twitching He stopped breathing.

"The first-line position has been lost! The Americans have landed! The artillery and ammunition are out! The death squads are ready, do you want to launch a counterattack immediately?" The chief of staff of the Japanese 4th Division put down the phone in his hand and stared at the man who was looking at the map. Lieutenant General Oshima said heavily: "The frontline suffered heavy losses. About 1,100 soldiers lost contact. The battle is still going on. The Americans have broken through part of the second line of defense."

"Put 300 people here to fight back, and try to drag the battle into the night. At that time, we will concentrate on driving the Americans into the sea!" Although Oshima still believes that the Japanese soldiers have a more determined fighting spirit than the weak American soldiers. He is more effective in combat, but he has also seen the terrifying power of the powerful firepower of the United States. This is definitely not an enemy that Japanese soldiers can defeat by faith.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Oshima bet all his bets on night battles, which Japanese soldiers are better at. After all, the firepower of the Americans cannot be fully utilized at night, and assault hand-to-hand combat is the strength of the Japanese soldiers' key training. Not to mention saving ammunition, it can better reflect the fearless spirit of the Japanese soldiers.

However, Lieutenant General Oshima's troops were not as sufficient as he had imagined. Originally, he had at least 35,000 soldiers, but hunger and disease reduced his troops to less than 30,000. Oshima lacked a full counterattack reserve team of 5,000 people, which suddenly highlighted the problem of insufficient troops in his hands.

In addition, the high-intensity confrontation consumes an unimaginable ammunition reserve. There is not much ammunition in reserve. In the high-intensity war consumption of more than an hour, it has long been stretched. The Americans surrounded and annihilated.

"Soldiers of His Majesty the Emperor! We will never retreat! Let the Yankees see how powerful our Japanese Imperial Army is! The whole army assaults!" A captain drew out his command saber, roared in a fierce voice, and held it high in the sky Zhong swung his arm forward violently, and with his command saber, hundreds of Japanese soldiers howled and rushed towards the position just occupied by the U.S. military.

"Baga! Go!" Holding bright bayonets, the Japanese soldiers rushed towards their target one by one. However, what greeted them was not the spirit of bushido and the American soldiers with good bayonets, but the hail of bullets from machine guns.