Lieutenant General Smith was also present when Gao Jianwu issued his tactical orders. He thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out why such a difficult problem for the Allies immediately became easier when Gao Jianwu came here.
Smith is not questioning Gao Jianwu's tactical feasibility. He has been partnering with Gao Jianwu for a long time, and he has seen even things that seemed more incredible before.
What Smith couldn't figure out was why the Allied generals hadn't thought of such a simple tactic?
With doubts, Lieutenant General Smith wanted to watch for a while before talking. After all, asking questions now seemed too low-key.
Lieutenant General Smith soon saw some reasons why the Allies were not doing well.
Gao Jianwu was able to direct the naval guns to accurately clear the Japanese fire bunkers that could be seen everywhere on the front line, rather than the area-wide destruction pursued by the Allied bombardment. In fact, tens of thousands of tons of artillery shells were wasted and had little effect.
Most of the artillery shells were hit in useless places. Often during the charge after the artillery bombardment, the little devils could still get up from the trenches and fight back.
But Gao Jianwu is different. The naval guns he commanded were aimed at the key points of the Japanese defense positions, almost perfectly maximizing the lethality of the naval guns!
Smith, who was observing in person 2 kilometers from the front line, saw with his own eyes the huge 203mm artillery shells, like being measured with a ruler, falling one after another in the trenches and bunkers of the Japs!
Each time, more than a dozen heavy artillery shells landed on a position section of nearly 1 kilometer one after another, directly forming a huge killing surface.
The shock wave and debris turned this area tens of meters wide and more than 1,000 meters long into a life-limited area! Even if the soil and concrete above the bunker are thick enough, it won't be of much use. A bomb that falls a few meters away from the bunker can directly kill people within forty or fifty meters!
It is said that after Gao Jianwu commanded the naval gun bombardment, the entire 1 kilometer was almost turned into a no man's land.
After repeating this several times, the 50-meter-deep defense position of the Japs for several kilometers was completely exhausted, and almost no Japs could survive!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the assault brigade went up, accompanied by artillery on standby near 2 kilometers away, ready to counterattack the enemies emerging from the tunnel at any time!
However, when the assault brigade advanced into the tunnel and approached the pit, a group of little devils suddenly appeared and started to fight back crazily!
Even though the assault brigade was well prepared, the fire counterattack was extremely sharp. With the cooperation of Browning machine guns and Type 43 assault rifles, bursts of barrages were fired!
The assault brigade harvested the little devils like wheat.
Such powerful firepower dazzled the little Japanese frontline commander.
He couldn't figure out why the firepower of these people on the opposite side was so violent!
However, the little Japanese frontline commander did not give up. Instead, he grabbed the phone and started calling a hidden artillery position, requesting artillery bombardment at the place where the assault brigade broke through!
In a pothole, four Little Japanese Type 41 mountain guns were pushed out, and the Little Japanese artillery began to carry out targeted bombardment according to the instructions of the frontline commander!
However, because they did not have precise coordinates, the two shells in the first round all missed the side of the tunnel.
When the squad leader of the assault brigade heard the incoming artillery shells, his expression changed and he immediately ordered his team members to evacuate!
One by one, the commandos began to retreat in the tunnel like mercury pouring down the ground, and soon disappeared from the sight of the little Japanese front commander.
The little Japanese artillerymen over there are still working hard to make corrections, but all the people in the assault brigade here have fled.
When the forward support artillery saw one of their own people being shelled, the observers immediately began to nervously calculate the location of the Xiaojiap artillery position based on the direction and impact point of the Xiaojiap shells.
Although they are not as powerful as Gao Jianwu, but after a lot of training and learning, the older group of artillery observers have grown rapidly and their level is constantly improving. After a few minutes of calculation, the forward support artillery locked a general area and immediately Launched a wave of blind fire counterattack.
Regardless of whether the target was hit or not, after a round of covering counterattack, the forward support artillery battalion immediately moved its position. It was impossible for them to expose the target to opponents who might have enemy artillery everywhere.
After exiting the possible sight of the pothole, the assault brigade did not let it go. The team leader directly called for naval gun support. After reporting the scene to Gao Jianwu, Gao Jianwu located the coordinates outside the pothole and immediately ordered a round of naval gunfire. Covering blow.
A few minutes later, several 203mm artillery shells landed near the crater. After a thunderous explosion, not only did the entrance of the crater completely collapse and cover, but the huge shock wave also destroyed the small ambush dozens of meters inside the crater. The Japanese was so shocked that he bled to death!
After the bombardment, the assault brigade team went to check again. The entrance of the hole had completely changed its appearance. Part of the mountain above had been blown down, and the entrance of the hole was blocked tightly.
The commandos did not give up. They placed explosives again on the weak part of the mountain above the entrance of the cave, blowing down more earth and rocks and burying the entrance of the cave deeply.
After such an operation, without the help of large-scale construction machinery, it would be impossible to dig out the hole again with manual shovels and the like without dozens of days of work.
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As Gao Jianwu dispatched the assault brigade to use explosives to blow up a large number of mountains and seal the entrances of the discovered potholes one by one. Even if the little devil Jiao Tu San Cao built a lot of potholes to enter and exit, as long as they were connected to the defense line, Gao Jianwu's people would kill them as soon as they discovered them. The cave entrance collapsed and was sealed.
Under Gao Jianwu's all-out attack on the Little Japanese's ten-kilometer defensive line, it didn't take a few days to complete the sealing of the position and the holes, and in one fell swoop the position, which had caused heavy casualties to the Allied forces, was completely occupied.
Even though there are thousands of little devils squatting inside the mountain, after the hole entrance is blocked, they can't get in or out at all. Even if the little devils are digging desperately with small shovels, but at this time It doesn't make much sense anymore.
Even if they could dig out the collapsed earth and rocks in more than ten days, Gao Jianwu's men would have killed the other ground commanders' kidnappers long ago.
Adhering to the principle that artillery fire does not cost money, Gao Jianwu unceremoniously used his fifth squadron as the main force.
His precise map bombardment made it impossible for the Japanese positions on the ground to avoid fatal blows. With one salvo, several thousand square meters of ground were washed clean by heavy artillery!
Lieutenant General Smith followed Gao Jianwu and witnessed Gao Jianwu's explosive hammer without martial arts!
Really, when fighting with Gao Jianwu, Lieutenant General Smith always felt that his opponents were mentally retarded and had no idea how to fight back.
Because Gao Jianwu basically didn't give any opponent a chance to fight back.
The entire army has a clear defense level, with tanks, heavy artillery and forward artillery support forming an echelon. Once there is any movement, call for naval gun and air support!
This kind of three-dimensional attack by sea, land and air has been mastered in the hands of Gao Jianwu. In particular, Gao Jianwu seems to be very familiar with the impression of the terrain here on Smith.
After the frontline observers casually reported a few characteristics, Gao Jianwu was able to quickly confirm the specific location details with them!
It's almost like having a map in your mind.
What Smith didn't expect was that his guess was infinitely close to the truth.
But absolutely no one could have imagined that such an incredible thing would really happen.
After Gao Jianwu took over Shuri's defensive line and launched an unethical explosive and hole-blocking attack plan, the little devil's Shuri defense completely collapsed.
A few days later, Gao Jianwu demolished this line of defense. Faced with the street fighting of the Japs, Gao Jianwu had no intention of fighting head-on with the Japs. One day after he shouted at the urban area, the Air Force took the lead in bombing key targets in the urban area!
Gao Jianwu had no intention of leaving anything behind on this land. Hundreds of tons of bombs were poured down at once, and in conjunction with Gao Jianwu's use of a three-dimensional map to designate targets for naval gun bulldozing, Shuri, which did not have much urban area to begin with, was the first to be bulldozed.
Lieutenant General Liu Daoman, the commander of the Little Japanese Defense Force, never thought that he would encounter an opponent like Gao Jianwu who did not respect martial ethics. He hid in the underground headquarters and heard bad news every day.
But Liu Daoman had no choice at all. He put most of his resources on the defense line that he was proud of.
This position, which can be connected to the interior of the mountain through tunnels, played a huge role in the Allied forces' operations, allowing the Japanese defenders, who were at a disadvantage in all aspects, to constantly fight for a draw with the Allied forces.
This desperate strategy of one life for one life really put great pressure on the Allies.
But Liu Daoman didn't expect that when he encountered a weirdo like Gao Jianwu who didn't respect martial ethics, even his life-threatening fighting style would lose its use.
The coordinated tactics of sea, land and air are not new. In the past, the Allied forces also used the air force, navy and army together. Thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on hills and positions. However, most of them were just loosening the soil on the hills and they were not used at all. What an effect.
After being replaced by Gao Jianwu, Liu Daoman discovered that although his defense system did not leave many loopholes, in the face of Gao Jianwu's precise ground washing and unethical explosive sealing of potholes, this defensive position soon collapsed. It was so riddled with damage that it completely lost the ability to fight back.
Even if Liu Daoman ordered the artillery and tanks partially hidden in the mountains to fight back during this process, the artillery was okay. If they fired a few rounds and then retreated, they could basically escape intact;
However, the tank attack was not only useless against Gao Jianwu's assault brigade, but it also made the assault brigade members hidden at the front very excited. They used super bazookas one by one to shoot the thin-skinned tanks of the little devils like target practice. Soon the few tanks that the little devils had were gone.
The small number of infantry that attacked was even more useless. After a squadron-level counterattack team was discovered just after they came out of the cave, the assault brigade did not bother to call for naval guns, and directly let the mountain artillery from the front line to support the artillery to cover the bombardment. More than a hundred small Basically, most of the Japs were scrapped!
The tunnels where they attack are all fixed places. The front-line supporting artillery has already marked these targets. As soon as they see the little devils dispatched, more than a dozen guns of the artillery battalion directly hit the tunnels and bombarded them one by one. The artillery shells fell in these tunnels one after another. , giving the little devil no chance to hide!
When Liu Daoman hit the hole and was about to be blocked by Gao Jianwu, he really had no other moves!
He could only watch as the positions were swallowed up one by one by Gao Jianwu.
The position built on the mountain originally had infinite power and lethality against the Allied forces, but it was still zero against Gao Jianwu.
Shuri's defense line was breached!
Shuri, destroyed!
Most of Liu Daoman's heavy troops deployed here are blocked inside the hills on the Shuri side, even though there are still some hidden potholes that can be exited, such as some potholes built on the coastline of the sea.
But once large-scale troops appear in these places, they will be easily discovered by Allied aircraft and ships in the sky and at sea.
There is no danger to defend those places. The little devils who come out with only individual weapons are completely living targets when facing the naval guns and the Mustang fighter jets hovering in the sky!
After Gao Jianwu destroyed the Shuri defense line and Shuri City, he also knew that the main force of the Japanese defenders had gotten into the mountain and was hiding in the cave like mice.
He didn't have enough energy to dig out the mouse holes one by one, so he set up dense observation points on the island. Not only did he post sentries along the island where they might appear, he also had reconnaissance planes patrolling back and forth every day, completely laying out a dragnet. !
Under such measures, Gao Jianwu advanced step by step and completely leveled the position of the Naba Japs. Then, while controlling the Japs hiding on the hilltop with heavy troops, he sent small groups of troops along the island to bulldoze all the way with naval guns and fighter planes. .
Even if Gao Jianwu's tactic is not that fast in terms of time. But Gao Jianwu effectively controlled casualties. From the beginning of the war to now, the casualties of the troops have just exceeded three digits.
Such a record is simply incredible for the Allies. But it all happened right under Smith's eyes.
General Mike saw that Gao Jianwu's tactics were so effective, and he also promoted them among the Allied forces. Although they do not have the precise artillery command capabilities of Gao Tianhu.
However, with their powerful firepower advantage, the Japs' positions were destroyed one after another. The little devils hiding in the cave were also blocked in one hilltop after another.
Gao Jianwu's tactics successfully allowed the little devil to realize his long-cherished wish of digging a hole and burying himself.
In more than a month, Ryukyu attacked the first cluster and the second cluster, and cooperated with the Allied forces to completely occupy the entire main island of Ryukyu.
Although at this time, the Jaap defenders had not been completely annihilated, but they were blocked in the mountain, and their doomsday countdown had begun, waiting for Gao Jianwu and the others to slowly die inside. Such a tactic would be used in later history books. There is huge controversy in the film, but Gao Jianwu doesn't care.
