Chapter 1516 Iwo Jima

As Zhang Tuohai expected, the United States carried out a comprehensive bombing and artillery attack on Pearl Harbor.

The ground at Pearl Harbor was plowed twice with shells and bombs.

It seems that this is the only way to wash away their shame.

The attack continued for three days before the Americans sent a landing ship to the island.

The entire island was filled with a burning smell, and there wasn't even a living mouse.

Halsey was very satisfied with the effect of the attack.

"This method is good. I will follow this method in the future. Before each attack, cover the island with cannonballs first."

"Yes." The adjutant recorded the order.

People are all path dependent. When a certain method is successful, they will involuntarily copy it in this way.

That's the case with Halsey.

After destroying the combined fleet, he no longer had any opponents in the Pacific, so he naturally had no scruples and began to gradually capture the islands occupied by the Japanese.

The method he used was also very simple, which was to blow up the land with artillery and then land on the island.

The target is discovered and the bombing continues until all resistance is completely eliminated.

Halsey was very relaxed. He thought he could fight all the way to Tokyo with this tactic.

Until it hit Iwo Jima.

Zhang Tuohai was very concerned about Iwo Jima.

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he sent Lieutenant General Kuribayashi.

At the same time, the elite local First Division was transferred there.

In name, he was to guard local prisoners. In fact, Kuribayashi also took on an important task, which was to build Iwo Jima into a fortress and an unsinkable battleship.

Zhang Tuohai even allocated more than a dozen 460-caliber naval guns to Li Lin.

Li Lin didn't know what Zhang Tuohai was going to do, but this was the emperor's order, and all he could do was follow it.

When Kuribayashi arrived at Iwo Jima, he began digging fortifications day and night, hollowing out almost the entire Mount Suribachi.

A large number of fortifications were built inside the mountain and reinforced with various rocks and cement.

There is a large amount of food, water, and various weapons stored inside, enough for a division to continue fighting for a year.

If the island was not too small to accommodate too many people, Zhang Tuohai would even want to cram millions of people on Iwo Jima.

After the American army arrived at Iwo Jima, they still followed the old method of bombing it with artillery and then landing.

This trick might work well on other islands, but Kuribayashi built all the fortifications in the mountains.

Ordinary naval guns cannot pry open the thick mountain.

The American army, which had won successive victories, also became arrogant, thinking that this time was just like before, just another scorched earth journey.

When a large number of American troops gathered on the beach and prepared to march inland, Lieutenant General Kuribayashi gave the order to attack.

Rifles stretched out from various hidden corners.

Bullets hit the American army from all directions.

Before the American army could react, they were hit by bullets.

In order to encircle a point and provide reinforcements, some Japanese troops would not even take the initiative to shoot the opponent's vital points, but would only make the opponent incapacitated and then kill the opponent's medical soldiers.

The battle was one-sided from the beginning.

A large number of American soldiers were knocked to the ground before they knew what was going on.

The remaining American soldiers were also crawling on the ground, shivering.

Halsey was furious when he saw this situation and ordered aircraft and naval guns to attack again.

He vowed to blow up Mount Suribachi.

However, Mount Suribachi is a solid rock structure. The bombing continued for two days, only leaving some craters, and it was impossible to do anything for the main fortifications.

In fact, Halsey had another way, which was to send warships to besiege Iwo Jima.

Iwo Jima has no depth, it is just an isolated island.

As long as the siege lasts long enough, the people on the island can be trapped to death.

But Halsey was already over it, and he felt ashamed to leave like this.

"Order, continue to send people to land, and we must capture Iwo Jima."

Halsey sent two more divisions to land on the island and began to attack the mountains.

This time they learned a lesson and carefully checked the ground every time they took a step forward.

When encountering an enemy, call in naval gunfire.

Every time you find a hole, throw a grenade into it or use a flamethrower to incinerate it.

Not to be outdone, the Japanese army took advantage of the favorable terrain to resist.

Large-caliber naval guns even sank two landing ships.

The American army suffered heavy losses.

Such a heavy loss made Halsey even more excited, and he wanted to strip the Japanese soldiers on the island.

Kuribayashi was also determined.

He issued an order that every soldier must kill three enemies before being allowed to die in battle.

Under his command, the American army finally captured Iwo Jima at the cost of nearly 100,000 casualties.

In the end, only three Japanese soldiers on the entire island chose to surrender, and the rest either died in battle or committed suicide.

The entire island is like a hell on earth.

Looking at the tragic situation on the island, Halsey had a headache.

And because of the huge casualties, he was transferred to the rear and forced to rest.

He was replaced by Lieutenant General Li Mei.

Lieutenant General Li Mei was born in the Air Force, and his favorite thing was bombing.

In his opinion, the easiest way to crush the enemy's will to fight is to kill the opponent's industrial capabilities and blast the opponent back to the Stone Age.

Then, LeMay began building airports and bombing major cities in Japan.

The first target of his revenge was Edo.

Thousands of bombers formed a dense formation and launched an attack on Edo.

In order to achieve better bombing effects, they even used special incendiary bombs based on the characteristics of Edo's many wooden buildings.

Then, a raging fire broke out throughout Edo, and the entire city was almost burned to the ground.

Tens of thousands of people were burned to death, the rivers boiled, and the entire city became a white field.

In response, Zhang Tuohai directly gave a radio speech, denounced the atrocities committed by the United States, and at the same time called on the entire people to resist and fight the American army to the last soldier.

He even gave everyone a pistol and a grenade.

Resolutely fight the American army to the end.

A large number of weapons were distributed.

Seeing Zhang Tuohai's resolute attitude, Li Mei felt that she had been provoked.

He immediately launched a massive air raid.

Thousands of planes were dispatched frequently, bombing large cities one after another, razing every large city in sight to the ground.

Zhang Tuohai was also prepared. He dismantled all the remaining steel and built anti-aircraft guns, forming artillery regiments specifically to intercept the American troops on their path.

Killed a lot of planes.

In this way, the hatred between the United States and Japan deepens and penetrates into the bone marrow.

In the end, the United States finally couldn't bear it anymore and abandoned the little boy in Tokyo.

Boom!

With a loud noise, a mushroom cloud rose.

Then, hundreds of thousands of meters of troops rushed into the Japanese mainland from various ports.

A fierce battle unfolded on the Japanese mainland.