My Third Empire

Seven Hundred and Seventy-Two Blood Flows Into a River

"Asami-kun..." Sergeant gritted his teeth helplessly, and drew out the command saber from his waist. According to his identity, there are not many people who can wear a command saber, but his family has been warriors for generations, and this command saber is also an ancestral item, so he wears it on the battlefield.

When he first wore this saber, the strong grandfather hoped that he could do more with this saber. Who would have thought that the first time this saber came out of its sheath, it would actually cut down on his allies.

He held the hilt of the samurai sword in both hands, hesitating whether to cut the wounded soldier named Asami, tears welled from his eyes under the excitement, but the trembling hands still couldn't hold the sword Waving to his comrades in arms: "Mr. Asami, we have been neighbors for twenty-seven years, and I..."

Before the words were finished, the Japanese soldier named Asami had already died of excessive bleeding. He still had a distorted expression on his face, but he was slightly relaxed because he lost consciousness.

"Asami! Asami-kun! Baga! Baga! Baga! Damn Americans, I will smash you into pieces!" The sergeant waved the saber in his hand, facing the invisible The sea at the end shouted loudly.

However, what answered his angry roar was another round of dense shelling. The ammunition fell on the beach and created a sea of ​​​​sea and sand, but the entire Midway Island had no weapons that could fight back. Dozens of field artillery deployed by the army, and Compared with the caliber of the Navy's shells, it is almost the same as a toothpick.

In the face of the overwhelming firepower superiority of the U.S. Navy, the brave and persistent Japanese soldiers simply relied on guns to fight, which seemed futile. They must stay here again, waiting for the arrival of the US military attack.

The Japanese planes on Midway Island fought back against the U.S. fleet, and an attack formation composed of 50 bombers carried out an assault on the U.S. fleet. However, because they had no corresponding experience in attacking the sea, the assault returned without success. The only difference was the return flight. There are 32 fewer planes.

"According to this way, it will take up to 3 days. After 3 days, this place will be occupied by the Americans." A division staff officer complained to Iteng: "The effect of the trenches and fortifications against large-caliber naval guns is not obvious. Although our army has a high fighting spirit, the enemy does not land... If the fight continues like this, I am worried that the soldiers will not have a chance to be loyal to the emperor."

In the hidden trench, An Teng looked at the map of the entire island of Midway Island. He also knew that going on like this was not an option, but he couldn't think of any effective countermeasures for a while. He didn't have the guts to ask him to give up the beachhead and retreat the troops back to the inner line - who would dare to lose the first line of defense in such a muddle?

Tadamichi Kuribayashi defended Iwo Jima as a last resort tactical attempt. At least in 1939, the standard mode of resisting landing operations was still to guard the beachhead.

The correctness is not something that a small division-level commander dares to question easily. What's more, Iteng was originally a well-behaved general, and it was not as easy to let him perform on the spot than to let him commit seppuku.

So Itanium is a little bit out of ideas now. Apart from sending telegrams over and over again to urge the Japanese Navy to quickly reinforce, there is really no further response. Fortunately, the U.S. Navy didn't make him wait too long. On the morning after the second Battle of Midway, the U.S. Navy released its landing force after shelling all night.

The landing commander standing on the bridge of the aircraft carrier looked at General Spruance beside him, pointed to the U.S. Marine Corps soldiers waiting to board the assault boat landing craft, and said, "General, it is so urgent to release the landing troops. , the casualties will be very large, why not bombard them for a day or two?"

"I'm still not sure about the original attack plan. After all, Yamamoto Fifty-Six is ​​very cunning and suspicious. If he suddenly goes north to trouble us, we will lose the entire fleet." Spruance said to the people around him. The general replied: "So I asked General Nimitz for instructions last night, and he also felt that Midway should be taken quickly."

For the United States, Midway Island is also a crucial link. If Midway Island is captured, the U.S. Navy will form a "momentum" in its strategic counterattack. To put it simply, it will be like a strategic counterattack. In the future, it can play an encouraging role for the entire US foreign war.

Moreover, once Midway Island returns to the hands of the United States, the U.S. Navy will gain more room for maneuver. The Japanese Navy will lose their strategic activity capabilities and be fixed between the Marshall Islands and Wake Island. If you want a strategic decisive battle, it will become a very convenient thing.

Therefore, for both the U.S. and Japanese navies, Midway Island is a crucial strategic location, and it must be in their own hands. Japan's advantage is that Midway Island is already in its own hands, while the US Navy's advantage is that Yamamoto Fifty-Six's combined fleet is not near Midway Island now.

"Attack! This is what we have to do now." Spruance watched the navy's landing craft spread out densely on the sea, and said with his hands behind his back: "General Nimitz said that this is a war, and we must Countless people must sacrifice for the country to win the final victory. We are Americans, the strongest Americans in the world, and no one can defeat us, not even the Germans, let alone the Japanese!"

The Japanese defenders on the beach finally saw hope, because the US Navy's landing force began to spread out on the sea, which meant that the seemingly endless shelling was about to end, and the real equal battle was about to begin. So many Japanese soldiers began to pull the bolts of their guns, staring at the landing craft shaking with the waves with hateful eyes.

"Ring, ring, ring!" Amidst the sparse artillery fire, the phone rang in General Iteng's headquarters. He grabbed the receiver and heard the first good news since the battle began: "Your Excellency, halfway Right in front of our main position on the island, the U.S. Navy is landing. Our judgment on the direction of the enemy's landing is accurate, and I will issue a counterattack order in a few minutes."

"Very good! According to the pre-plan! Drive these greedy Americans into the sea! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" An Teng said murderously. In the past day and night, he has been under too much pressure, and at this time, he can finally vent.

Although most of the defensive positions were severely damaged by American artillery shells, the Japanese troops stationed inside still stubbornly stood in the ruins. They still have many hidden bunkers and scattered solid fortifications on the beach. The Japanese soldiers determined to fight to the death suppressed their anger and waited for the moment when the Americans rushed to the beach.

However, the U.S. Navy obviously accumulated rich experience in landing operations when they landed on Kauai Island. They poured a large amount of ammunition on the beach and dropped a large number of smoke bombs in the few minutes before landing. The sight of the Japanese defenders was severely blocked, and the wide sea in front of them even disappeared, and the entire beach was filled with thick smoke, as if a sandstorm had rolled up.

With the turbulent sea water, the first American landing craft approached the beach. With the sound of metal friction, the huge front step was slowly lowered, and the American soldiers who had been waiting inside began to rush out of the landing craft, and then the The sea water on the knees quickly spread out to both sides.

"Tudu! Tuk!" A Japanese machine gun position closer to the beach opened fire. They couldn't see anything in front of them, but the sound proved that the U.S. Marine Corps had rushed to the beach. The radical Japanese soldiers ignored the danger of exposing themselves. Decided to take the lead in attacking American soldiers.

The bullet blindly swept through the smoke and hit the sea water around the US landing craft, splashing a splash of water. An unlucky American soldier was hit in the stomach by a bullet and let out a scream. His blood quickly stained the surrounding area. The sea water, he was out of breath before the medics were called.

The second landing craft rushed onto the beach, and the American soldiers inside quickly dispersed. The Japanese defenders had obviously realized that the situation was not in their favor, so they began to organize intensive firepower attacks. Some rifles and machine guns on the front line fired blindly, and more and more intensive attacks fell on the heads of the US Marine Corps soldiers.

"Fire! Fire back! Move fast! Occupy favorable terrain! Quick!" A front-line commander who landed with the soldiers ordered loudly, and more landing craft rushed to the beach. Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers risked Thick smoke and a hail of bullets attacked the Japanese positions. There were shouts of soldiers being shot everywhere, and a large number of casualties began to appear on the entire beach.

After crossing a barbed wire fence destroyed by shells, American soldiers jumped into a huge bunker. This is a huge crater formed by the explosion of a shell with a caliber of more than 300mm. There are already more than a dozen US troops who arrived here first.

An American soldier was holding a walkie-talkie to call for artillery support from the navy, and several American soldiers were hastily setting up a heavy machine gun on the edge of the crater, and more American soldiers were frantically fighting back with their Garand rifles. , They didn't aim at all, just fired a clip of bullets into the blurry distance, and then retracted into the crater to reload their rifles.

On the second day of the Second Battle of Midway, both sides encountered difficulties on the beach. The Japanese were more tenacious than the Americans imagined, and the Americans were stronger than the Japanese imagined.

So, at this moment, blood flowed like rivers on the beach.

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Although it's a little late, but today Long Ling worked hard to update a chapter, I hope everyone wakes up early in the morning, can read this chapter, and have a good mood!

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