This tank battle, which was rare in the Pacific theater, ended not long after, and many Japanese tanks were destroyed before they even had time to fire, and even if they fired, the shells did not know which direction they flew. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But even so, the Chinese troops stopped their offensive here.

The order was given by Zhang Chi, and at this time, Wu Yuhang and the soldiers of the expeditionary force were fighting vigorously, and they couldn't stop at all. It wasn't until Zhang Chi heard the situation and gave a death order that the soldiers reluctantly stopped their steps.

Zhang Chi is based on two considerations.

One is that the tanks used by the Japanese army at this time are the same as those of the Chinese army, which are all "Sherman" tanks, and they cannot distinguish between friend and foe from the outside, and once they easily cross the "tank defense line" of the Japanese army, it is easy to cause confusion and suffer losses.

Another, more importantly, Zhang Chi knew that the kilometer he had just walked, although he was chasing the Japanese army all the way, and the Japanese army was powerless to fight back.

But...... This does not mean that this kilometer is safe, as mentioned before, the Japanese army has built hidden tunnels in this kilometer and even on the entire Kwajalein Island, and it is likely that the remnants of the Japanese army are still hidden in these tunnels, and if they attack rashly in this case, it is very likely that they will encounter the same situation as Velite.

Zhang Chi guessed correctly, the Japanese army did leave some people in the tunnel when they retreated, but this was not intentional...... In fact, because the change of battlefield came so suddenly, the speed of the Chinese army's attack was too fast, so that Nakatani Kawakami did not recover from his previous offensive state at all, and he did not even have time to give the order to retreat, so he panicked and retreated under the cover of his subordinates.

In this regard, some subordinates in the Japanese army suspected that Nakatani Kawakami was not actually too late to give the order to retreat, but at this time it was Kimura Koji's troops who were in front of him, and Nakatani Kawakami subconsciously hoped to use the hands of the Chinese troops to defeat Kimura Koji's sharp spirit in order to achieve the purpose of subduing Kimura Koji.

Therefore, the matter of dismantling each other is actually not the patent of ****, and it is also common in the Japanese army, which is all for profit in the final analysis...... Everyone has a selfish side, and they can do things to destroy the Great Wall for the sake of profit, and this is true for the British, the Americans, and the Japanese are no exception.

Therefore, these Japanese soldiers did not actually consciously and systematically lurk in the tunnel, and the reason why they entered the tunnel and hid themselves was just to escape for their lives.

But it was unexpectedly right...... Regardless of why the Japanese army hid in the tunnel, it left a hidden danger for the Chinese troops to dare not advance, and gave the Japanese army a chance to breathe.

"Clear the occupied area immediately!" Zhang Chi ordered.

"Yes!" Wu Yuhang answered, and then commanded the soldiers to get busy.

It was not difficult to find the entrances to the tunnels, because the Japanese soldiers had entered the tunnels in a hurry, and the occupied area had not been shelled, so there were footprints and blood stains of wounded Japanese soldiers everywhere outside the tunnels, and even some of the tunnels were covered in a hurry...... Chinese soldiers can easily find these tunnels by following these traces.

However, after finding the tunnels, it was not so easy to deal with these Japanese troops, because these tunnels were very cleverly constructed, and they had a curve from the mouth of the tunnel, and there were two or three bends in the inside...... When the Chinese troops were in Guadalcanal and Rabaul before, the Chinese troops had seen the Japanese tunnels, and most of those tunnels only had one bend.

Bending a bend can protect against bullets and shells, because bullets and shells go in a straight line, but such a tunnel cannot be fireproof, just take a flamethrower and spray it inside...... The flames would go in an arc and burn the Japanese soldiers hiding inside.

But if the tunnel had bent two or three times, the flames would obviously have been weakened to the point where they would not be enough to injure the Japanese troops inside.

This was very embarrassing for the Chinese soldiers...... What to do with these tunnels? Bullets and shells can't hit, and fire can't burn! If you send someone in to fight the devils, it will obviously be dangerous and extremely uneconomical.

What made the Chinese soldiers even more angry and strange was that there were always bullets in the tunnel that shot the Chinese soldiers outside the tunnel.

Zhang Chi also felt very puzzled when he heard Wu Yuhang's report...... Didn't this tunnel make a few turns? The bullets of the Chinese army can't hit the enemy inside, why can the enemy inside shoot bullets?!

Later, a few Japanese prisoners were captured and tortured for a while, and finally figured it out.

In fact, these tricks were learned from the Chinese battlefield...... As mentioned before, Koji Kimura's 1st Maritime Mobile Brigade was dealing with guerrillas in northern China, and among the guerrillas they dealt with were the "tunnel warfare" organized by the Chinese guerrillas on the Jizhong Plain in North China, and the Chinese's "tunnel warfare" used to cause the Japanese army a great headache, but the Japanese army still learned a lot of knowledge about building tunnels in the confrontation with the Chinese guerrillas.

(Note: The tunnel warfare in North China began in 41 and was developed and promoted around 42 years)

The new tactic of "tunnel warfare" came as a great surprise to the Japanese army, because the Japanese army was far superior to the guerrillas in terms of equipment, strength, and quality, and even knew that the guerrillas were underground, but they could not do anything about them.

Then the Japanese army and the American army in the Pacific theater of the island capture campaign appeared almost the same situation as the Chinese guerrillas...... The Japanese army was inferior to the US army in terms of strength, equipment, and quality.

In terms of quality, it should be said that the quality of the Japanese pilots and navy is far inferior to that of the US military because of the heavy casualties and the lack of personnel training, and the army, because the US Marine Corps is basically newly formed and many of them are undertrained and rushed into battle, they are still inferior to the Japanese army in terms of overall quality.

So Major General Nishida Shomi (read: real) had a whim...... If the Chinese guerrillas could use "tunnel warfare" against the better-equipped Imperial Japanese Army, why couldn't the Imperial Army use "tunnel warfare" against the better-equipped American ghost animals?!

Nishida Shomi quickly reported the idea to Yamamoto Isoroku, who did not take the suggestion seriously at the time...... The main reason was that the situation in the Pacific theater was still unclear at that time, and Yamamoto believed that the Japanese army was fully capable of defeating the Americans on the battlefield in an open and honest manner, so he did not take it seriously.

This is also the reason why at the time of the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Japanese army had not yet built a large-scale tunnel to confront the American army.

(To be continued.) )