On the third day, the new 1st Division arrived on Peleliuu Island by transport ship under the cover of the Chinese Navy, and the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion of the vanguard landed on amphibious landing craft and Higgins ships under the leadership of Staff Officer Liang. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The arrival of the Chinese troops immediately caused bursts of cheers from the US military.

At this time, Clifton received a call from Rupertes: "Colonel, you and your troops hand over the defense line to the Chinese army, and then you can withdraw it!" ”

Clifton was stunned for a moment, then replied, "General, I ask you to allow us to continue fighting here?" ”

"Keep fighting?" Hearing this, Rupertus couldn't help but feel a strange feeling: "But the colonel ......"

"I understand, General!" Clifton interrupted Rupertes.

"I think it's good for us to stay here!" Clifton said: "The Chinese army has just arrived, and they are not very familiar with the terrain and the enemy's troop deployment, and we can assist them in fighting as a supplement to the Chinese army!" ”

Rupertus nodded in agreement. The 1st Marine Regiment has previous experience of fighting in coordination with the Chinese army, so there should be no problem.

But in fact, this is only one of the reasons why Clifton wants to stay, and the main reason is that the 1st Marine Regiment has sacrificed many comrades here, and they want to avenge these sacrificed comrades together with the Chinese troops.

If a few days ago, Clifton and his men did want to leave the hellish island of Peleliu, but now the situation is different...... Before, it was because they could not see the hope of revenge and victory, but now they are full of confidence, so they are reluctant to leave even if they are driven away.

Zhang Chi can certainly understand this mentality of Clifton and his subordinates...... Many things are common to soldiers who have experienced life and death on the battlefield, and there is no need to say much about it at all.

"So......" Clifton spread his hands to Zhang Chi, "what should we do now?" I mean, how do you take control of the airport?! ”

"Capture the high ground near the airport, of course!" Zhang Chi replied.

Clifton couldn't help but roll his eyes and smiled: "Dude, the question is how to attack!" You know? That's another reason why I'm asking to stay, and I'm wondering if it's you...... How will you fight this battle! ”

"It's easy!" Zhang Chi replied: "Most of the Japanese artillery is small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and mortars, right?" ”

This was determined by Zhang Chi's observation and intelligence gathering in the past few days.

"Yes!" Clifton replied: "And a handful of shore defense guns!" ”

"So......" Zhang Chi said, "we have to divide these Japanese guns into two categories, one is shore defense artillery, and the other is other artillery!" ”

"But...... What's the difference? Clifton didn't understand what Zhang Chi meant.

"Of course there is a difference!" Zhang Chi replied: "One of them is a gun that can destroy an M4 tank, and the other is a gun that can't destroy an M4 tank!" ”

"You mean to say...... Get the tank up? "It's not easy, there's no way up the hill for a tank," Clifton said......

"If not, we'll fix one!" Zhang Chi said: "But before that, we have to concentrate our firepower to deal with the Japanese coastal defense artillery!" ”

As he spoke, Zhang Chi marked a few points on the map: "Their coastal defense artillery is here, here, and here, there are six in total...... These shore defense guns have a large caliber, and they can only hide in the fortifications and cannot be moved......"

"The problem is, there's nothing to be seen from the surface where they're located!" "So it's hard for warplanes to bomb them!" Clifton said. ”

"So I didn't plan to use the fighter!" Zhang Chi replied: "We want to concentrate all the artillery...... Naval guns, howitzers, mortars, concentrate fire on these points until the fortifications of these points are blown down! ”

Hearing this, Clifton couldn't help but nodded.

Although the Japanese fortifications were underground, they were not impregnable, and they could not be destroyed before, but the explosion points of the artillery were too scattered, and if you bombed a few points intensively...... Then it's only a matter of time before it blows it up.

Soon the artillery fire was pouring down on the Japanese positions, and unlike before, these shells were concentrated on a few points.

If this is according to the combat habits of the Chinese army...... It was supposed to send people to attack in a sneak attack, that is, to blow up these fire points with explosives bags and blasting canisters.

But Zhang Chicai is not so stupid, the Yankees do not lack artillery shells, why should people solve problems that can be solved with artillery shells? What's more, it was the Chinese who sacrificed but saved the shells for the Yankees...... Zhang Chi is not stupid to this point!

Such shells bombarded for a whole day and a night, and the various artillery shells took turns to bombard almost without stopping.

It's just that this kind of bombardment has a drawback, that is, no one knows whether those large-caliber coastal defense guns have been destroyed.

It was only after the war that I learned that in fact, most of these coastal defense guns were buried together with the gunner...... Needless to say, why it was buried, it was naval artillery, howitzers and mortars that kept bombarding, not to mention civil fortifications for a day and a night, even reinforced concrete fortifications would be blown up.

In fact, the Japanese still want to dig out these coastal defense guns and put them back into the battlefield after simple repairs, but there are too many uncertainties in thinking about it.

First of all, the Yankees continued to bombard the location of the coastal defense artillery, and the excavation work was afraid that too many casualties would be paid.

Secondly, even if the cannons were dug up, no one was sure whether they had been blown up.

Again, the coastal defense artillery is huge, even if it can be used...... There are no other more suitable fortifications to accommodate them, and if they are deployed outside the fortifications, they can easily be destroyed by the US military, which obviously outweighs the losses.

So the Japanese army simply did not dig.

However, when the Chinese army attacked, they inadvertently dug out a few shore defense guns with an excavator, and after a little cleanup, they found that they could still fire, so they set up on the high ground and turned the muzzle of the guns to hit the Japanese in turn.

When the Japanese were bombarded, the Chinese army coordinated with the US troops of the 1st Marine Regiment to transport "Sherman" tanks to the shore and use armored bulldozers and armored excavators to build roads on the high ground.

In fact, most of the road construction was done by the U.S. military...... I have to admit that there is still a gap between the Chinese sappers and the U.S. military sappers in terms of driving bulldozers and excavators, after all, these are technical jobs.

It is said that the U.S. sappers were so proficient in driving excavators that they could use excavators to open bottle caps, while Chinese sappers didn't even know what excavators were before they entered Burma.

(To be continued.) )