dusk. A position on the Shuri front that was cratered by artillery shells.
"Hey, the Allied forces have been repulsed by us again. We can sleep peacefully tonight." A regimental captain of the 24th Division of the Little Devils who had hid returned to the position again and cautiously stretched out his head to observe with a telescope for a while. Finally, he happily said to the people around him.
The charging Allied soldiers retreated like a tide, to a distance that he could not even see. This meant that the Allied forces no longer wanted the positions lost during the day.
Maybe they knew that if they stayed, they would be attacked fiercely at night. According to the requirements of the little devil Liu Daoman, after the forward position was lost, they must find a way to regain it at night, even if there were heavy casualties.
This tactic caused heavy losses to the Allies, because the Allied air force, navy and artillery reinforcements at night were almost zero! It was tantamount to the two sides turning into a duel between infantry and a single arm.
Even though the firepower of the little Japanese infantry is far inferior to that of the Allies.
However, these little devils all have the characteristics of being brainless after years of brainwashing. When fighting, they have no fear at all. They just shout slogans and rush forward with all their might, carrying the 38 big cover.
This style of play caused the Allies, who had always relied on firepower superiority, to suddenly lose important support. Therefore, during the day, the Allies relied on a variety of firepower to support the battle, but at night they were often overturned by the Japs to regain their positions.
Repeatedly, this place has turned into a millstone of flesh and blood, and the battle for each line of defense often results in tens of thousands of casualties on both sides!
But the commander of the 24th Division had no idea that a reconnaissance team had quietly approached his position and started carefully observing the battlefield.
They recorded the observed terrain and landforms one by one, and then they moved carefully at the front of the position to have a panoramic view of the area, especially bunkers and suspected firepower points.
After they reported all this, it didn't take long for Gao Jianwu from the rear to quickly mark all the suspected firepower points of the Japs on the map based on the intelligence from the front reconnaissance, and lock the target area for the attack.
Since Gao Jianwu turned into artillery targets and marked them on the map, he then contacted the flagship of the Fifth Squadron commanded by Gao Jianwu in real time through the walkie-talkie system to transmit these precise targets.
Lin Zun was sitting on the USS Minneapolis, an old New Orleans-class cruiser. After receiving Gao Jianwu's bombardment target, he commanded three triple-mounted Mark 15 203mm naval guns according to Gao Jianwu's bombardment coordinates. Started setting parameters, and soon opened fire one after another, sending nine 203mm grenades to the Jaap's position.
"Nani?!" The kid captain was horrified when he first heard the sound of the shells whistling through the air. His face changed drastically as soon as he heard it!
"Navy gun attack! Return to the tunnel, return to the tunnel immediately!" A group of little devils had been educated by the naval gun, and they swarmed up and ran towards the tunnel without even having to be greeted by the captain!
But it's too late! The grenade weighing hundreds of kilograms hit the little devil's position hard, and then made an earth-shattering noise. The overwhelming shell fragments flew everywhere, and along with the huge shock wave, almost all creatures hundreds of meters away from the impact point of the shell were almost destroyed. Instantaneous extinction.
Nine artillery shells landed on the Japs' position one after another. The frontier observation team had previously observed that the position seemed to have been completely turned over and loosened. Many of the protruding bunker-type buildings also disappeared in an instant. Got it!
"Good boy! The power of this naval gun is much more powerful than the ordinary 155mm howitzer. As for the 75mm grenade, it is nothing compared to this kind of shell!"
Scout Nie Lei, who was responsible for observing the enemy's situation and the effects of shelling, shook his head and muttered to himself. Even though he was 2 kilometers away, his head was buzzing.
"Team leader, fortunately, General Manager Gao told us not to get within 2,000 meters of the bombardment target! The power of the Qingqing naval gun is really terrifying. Look, there used to be a small mountain-like protrusion over there, and now one has been hit. It’s all been turned into a big hole! If this was a bunker, the kid inside would be so cool that he just took a plane back to his grandma’s house!”
The scout Yu Li who followed Nie Lei was also the first to observe the effect of the 203mm naval gun on site. Seeing this situation, he was shocked and speechless for a while. It took him a long time to react and lost his voice.
This round of naval gun bombardment shocked them as far as 2 kilometers away. You can imagine the feeling of the little Japanese who were within the killing range of the shells. Not to mention anything else, just the lethality of the huge shock wave, It is possible to exterminate a lot of little Japs within a few tens of meters without being bombarded by shell fragments, and their internal organs will be ruptured and they will be shocked to death.
The wave of 203mm heavy artillery shelling just now wiped out the little Japs who had emerged from the several hundred meters of defense line.
Nie Lei made a preliminary assessment that there were at least several hundred of the little Japs who had just been dug out like a nest.
After he regained consciousness, he assessed the situation at the scene, reported the results of the bombardment, and began to look for new targets.
Based on their reconnaissance results, Gao Jianwu continuously directed the naval guns to extend the artillery fire coverage of the position. Along the way, they continued to conduct extended artillery fire along the little Japanese's defensive front.
With Gao Jianwu's precise bombardment target area, the landing point of the naval gun was directly aimed at dead objects to strike. Under the correction of frontline reconnaissance, the accuracy of the bombardment was simply frightening!
Compared with the aimless covering bombardment of the Allies. Gao Jianwu integrated the terrain information fed back from the front line into the high-definition three-dimensional map in his mind, and delineated a small bombardment range to maximize the efficiency of the naval gun. Even at dusk, when the line of sight gradually became blurry, Gao Jianwu could still follow the high-precision map. , and with simple corrections based on on-site observations by frontline scouts, the artillery shells were accurately delivered to the position.
This unexpected wave of bombardment. The little Japs who had just run out of the tunnel were directly bombarded on the battlefield.
Wait until the naval guns have completely plowed this position. Almost all the members of the little devil's regiment suffered casualties.
At this time, Song Tiecheng's assault brigade was divided into several small teams, and the replacement reconnaissance team began to move forward under the cover of night.
Now the size of the assault brigade has not expanded much, but the weapons and equipment are not weak at all. A 30-man squad has one or two super bazookas, three Browning light machine guns, and equipped with Type 43 assault rifles. This firepower is almost It's the firepower of a squadron of little devils.
More than a dozen teams advanced at the same time, advancing alternately in groups of three along the rugged trenches and holes left by artillery shells.
At night, these commandos wearing field camouflage looked like erratic shadows from a distance.
Without careful observation, their whereabouts would not be discovered at all.
Passed over the position that had been shelled at dusk. Looking at the broken limbs of the little devil lying on the ground, the commandos all felt as if their hearts were still, and there was no wave at all.
There is absolutely no reason to sympathize with these devil-like little devils.
Death is the best destination for them.
After crossing the position. Seeing the criss-crossing potholes that penetrated deep into the mountain not far away, the commandos moved forward cautiously.
They didn't stop until they reached the completely enclosed hole in the mountain. It seemed that the next step was where the little devil was hiding.
They dug countless tunnels in order to hide the main force in the mountains and use the thick mountains to resist the endless bombardment of the Allies.
After the commandos figured out the situation of the trenches on the front line, they no longer rushed forward rashly. Instead, they took turns to cover their way out of the tunnels and reported the situation they detected today to Gao Jianwu.
Gao Jianwu was not surprised at all by this situation. After all, most of the little devils on the Pacific Islands use this tactic. Now we are just using commandos to find out the situation on the ground.
"Brother Yunfei, do you have any good methods to crack this kind of pothole?" Although Gao Jianwu had already been worried about this, looking at Chu Yunfei on the side, Gao Jianwu decided to find something for him to do.
"Brother Jianwu, if we follow normal tactics, we have no choice but to dig into the holes one by one." Chu Yunfei said with a solemn expression.
"But in this way, in the middle of a small hole, our artillery advantage is completely useless. This kind of hole attack has a huge advantage for the defender. If we adopt such tactics, our army will The casualties must have been huge.
I believe most of the Allied casualties were caused this way. "
"With normal tactics, we can't afford such heavy casualties. Are there any abnormal tactics that can easily kill the little Japs?" Gao Jianwu asked with a smile.
"If we talk about abnormal tactics, brother Jianwu, haven't you already been confident?" Looking at the old god Gao Jianwu, Chu Yunfei's heart moved, and he thought of a solution that was not a solution.
"Oh, then Brother Yunfei, do you want to guess what I can do?" Gao Jianwu looked at Chu Yunfei as if he was watching a good show.
"It's nothing more than blowing up the potholes we found one by one and letting the little devils bury themselves inside and turn into real ghosts." Chu Yunfei looked at Gao Jianwu's appearance and became more and more convinced that his intuition was right.
"Hahaha, Yunfei said that you and I are really close friends. You also thought of this method." Gao Jianwu laughed loudly.
"Yes, that's how we do it. We don't have to be merciful to the little devil.
Since they like to dig holes like this, just bury them in the holes. The Allies have plenty of explosives. We used hundreds of tons of explosives to seal all the little devils in these mountains. Within a few months, they would turn into fertilizers one by one. It just saved us the trouble of digging holes. "
"Inform us, tomorrow the assault brigade will prepare several tons of explosives. Directly blow up and block all the tunnels in the front positions we destroyed today.
The ships of the Fifth Fleet were divided into two groups. Among them, the cruiser's naval guns were personally commanded by me, and the remaining destroyers were commanded by the forward force reconnaissance team. During the day, they directly bombarded the several-kilometer-long defense line of the Little Devil with full coverage! After destroying the firepower point of the little devils, we blasted the end of the discovered tunnel and the place connected to the potholes on the mountain. We sealed all the holes dug by the little devils one by one! "
Once Gao Jianwu made up his mind, he immediately issued an order.
In order to prevent a sudden counterattack by the hidden artillery and tanks of the Little Japanese, he kept the main force about ten kilometers away from the Little Japanese front, and placed the elite assault brigade and assault group assault battalions about 3 kilometers away from the Little Japanese front to hide.
In this way, you can attack and retreat. The main artillery also set up a position at 10 kilometers. At this distance, it is difficult for the Japs to reconnoiter and locate. However, Gao Jianwu has a map hanging and can quickly locate any target that appears in front of the reconnaissance team, so Even if the Japs launched a surprise attack, they would not be able to escape the eyes of the reconnaissance posts deployed at the front, thus buying time for Gao Jianwu to counterattack.
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After the strategy was formulated, Chu Yunfei and Gao Jianwu separated and became the commanders of the east and west ends of the Japs' front. Today's exploratory attack at dusk had allowed Gao Jianwu to find a way to break the Japs' tactics.
Chu Yunfei also saw how to deal with the Jaap's defensive position. Although he was not cheating, his command level was second to none among commanders at this level in China. After directly approaching the Jaap's defense line within 2 kilometers, he commanded The battleship's gun attack will be accurately aimed at the target after two or three rounds of correction at most.
However, the risk for him was very high, as he would directly enter the enemy's front-line position. For Chu Yunfei's safety, Gao Jianwu sent half of the assault brigade out to protect him.
There are more than 20 assault teams surrounding him. Even if the Japs come out to form a tank regiment, the assault brigade is sure to keep them.
In order to resist the superior tank troops of the Allies, the little Japanese dug their positions into pits and filled with anti-tank trenches. This not only prevented large-scale attacks by the Allied tanks, but also reduced the possibility of their own tank counterattacks to the extreme.
It is absolutely impossible to line up more than ten vehicles to attack.
In this case, the Assault Group's Super Bazooka rocket launcher will be the best weapon to harvest the Imp tanks.
Therefore, Gao Jianwu is not worried about this kind of surprise attack by the Japs, but is worried about the artillery that the Japs have not been found yet.
In order to prevent this extreme situation, Gao Jianwu asked the assault brigade to minimize the possibility of Chu Yunfei exposing his target when defending.
For example, nearly 10 snipers were deployed around Chu Yunfei to search for and kill the Japs scouts who showed up in this area at any time.
These snipers were all deployed in front of Chu Yunfei, seven or eight hundred meters away from the enemy's position. They usually lurked and stayed motionless. Each one was responsible for two or three hundred meters of position, ensuring that the little Japanese scouts would destroy this area as soon as they discovered it.
Chu Yunfei commands the destroyer detachment, and can also command the heavy artillery regiment and the 105mm howitzer regiment.
Although the power of the 127mm naval gun is far behind that of the 203mm naval gun, and there is no need to evacuate 2 kilometers away for every shelling, but in the face of the Japanese infantry on the battlefield, the 127mm shells are also very lethal. For the little devils in the trenches, facing endless naval gunfire was like a nightmare, so during the day, only a few of the little devils stayed in the trenches to defend.
However, the little devils in the bunker are still heavily guarded, and each bunker is almost fully defended.
However, as the 203mm naval guns commanded by Gao Jianwu continued to smash the position, including the bunker, there was no resistance. Lieutenant General Liu Daoman, the little devil, had begun to consider retreating part of the way back to the ground or into the holes in the mountain during the day.
He had a good idea. When the Allied forces were shelling, people would hide in the huge underground holes, but when they needed to fight back, they would climb out of the holes.
