Chapter 223: The Doben Line of Defense
With that, the Japanese shouted and rushed out of the gap in the transport ship under the cover of several rifles and a machine gun.
This behavior is considered "brave" by the Japanese, but in the eyes of the US military, it is considered "crazy", "stupid" and "incredible".
Because the "Saida Maru" is more than 100 meters from the coast, although this distance is not far, but the sea water is waist-deep all the way...... It was early in the morning, and the water was just starting to recede, which was clearly not a good time to charge.
At such a depth of water, the Japanese charge was more like death than a charge.
And the 2nd Marine Regiment of the US Army will obviously not be merciful, because they were beaten by the Japanese army under such circumstances yesterday and suffered heavy casualties, and were even pressed by the coastline and roasted by the sun for a whole day without moving, plus just now another Higgins ship full of ammunition was detonated by the Japanese army, this new hatred and old hatred added up, so that the American soldiers scolded while pulling the trigger and firing rows of bullets at the Japanese army, and even the American troops raised the Bazooka bazooka and blew down a large area according to the sound of those Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese soldiers fell in pieces, and the nearby sea water was soon dyed red, and the corpses were suspended in the sea water and rose and fell with the waves, and occasionally a few of the wounded fluttered at the last moment, as if trying to escape out of the water to breathe, but soon there was no sound with a few gunshots.
As for the "Saida Maru"...... The Yankees would not be so stupid as to send people to risk their lives to search for the remnants of the enemy, and the Americans' combat policy was that if they could solve the problem with shells or bombs, they would never solve it with people.
So the Yankees led the Sherman tanks to bombard the wreckage of the transport ship with tank guns, and finally led the warplanes to drop two aerial bombs on it, finally blowing it into a pile of burning debris on the beach.
After that, the Chinese and American forces launched an offensive against the Domoto Line.
According to the plan agreed with Colonel Shopp last night, the Chinese army attacked the upper half and the American army attacked the second...... In fact, at this time, it was almost enough to let one of the troops of the Sino-US coalition fight it, but this can be said to be a rare opportunity for the joint operation of the Sino-US coalition forces, so in the end, two troops were sent together.
The attack on the Domoto defense line was very smooth, and the main reason was that the attack of the Sino-US coalition forces was actually attacking the rear of the Domoto defense line...... As a result, the Japanese troops of Domoto's Brigade had actually abandoned their strong pillboxes and underground fortifications, and were stationed at the field fortifications that had been improvised the previous night.
Such fortifications are still on flat ground, which is a piece of cake for the Chinese-American coalition forces equipped with American equipment.
First of all, under the guidance of artillery observers, they first smashed them with large-caliber naval guns...... However, the effect was still not good, most of the shells actually hit the sea, and the bombing of carrier-based aircraft could not be accurately bombed because of gunpowder smoke and dust.
However, this did not affect the attack of the allied forces on the Domoto line, and the Chinese and American allied forces then used mortars and howitzers to cause a wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the Domoto line, and then launched an attack on the Japanese defense line with tanks as the vanguard...... There were nine tanks in total, one of which was a Sherman, and the rest were Stuarts.
The Domoto defense line could not withstand such an impact at all, so it quickly collapsed.
The terrible thing about island warfare is that it ...... There was nowhere to run after the collapse of the troops.
If it was the U.S. army, it could still choose to surrender, but the Japanese army was a force that would not surrender, so the "Banzai" charge appeared again.
Of course, the Sino-American coalition forces had already prepared for this, so the fate of the Japanese army was only to fall in pieces from shells and bullets.
Some of these Japanese troops successfully stormed the American troops...... The U.S. military was to blame for their own negligence, as they accidentally overlooked a Japanese tunnel during the attack, and they simply sprayed it with flamethrowers and left, thinking that there could be no one living inside.
But what I didn't expect was that when the Japanese army launched the "Long live" charge, a small group of Japanese soldiers with dark faces and uncovered clothes suddenly came out of this tunnel...... A squad of only a few dozen people, although the strength was not much, directly attacked the mortar unit in the rear of the US army, which not only caused the US army to lose the reinforcement of the mortar unit, but also caused the entire US army to be disorganized, so the Japanese army took the opportunity to rush into the US army.
Dealing with this situation, his fellow countrymen are also very experienced, he did not send troops to reinforce the American army, because that would only make the American army more chaotic, he only did one thing...... Artillery units were ordered to bombard the follow-up Japanese troops.
As long as the follow-up troops of the Japanese army are broken, the Japanese troops who rushed into the American troops will only be mantis arms blocking the car.
However, the hand-to-hand combat capabilities of the U.S. military still surprised their fellow villagers and all Chinese troops...... Only more than 100 Japanese troops rushed into the American group, but the nearly 1,000 American troops retreated like a tide.
However, this does not seem to be surprising, because the US military has always thought that it is a foolish practice to fight with the enemy face to face with bayonets, and to a certain extent, it is true, because they are advanced in equipment, and from the perspective of "making use of their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses," they should not fight bayonets, but should give full play to the advantages of their equipment to fight a "non-contact" war with the enemy.
However, the battlefield is ever-changing, and there will always be such contingencies, and the U.S. Marines at this time are obviously not prepared to face such contingencies.
In the end, the U.S. military finally stabilized its position...... The reason why they were able to stabilize their positions was because the Japanese army was too physically exhausted and ran as fast as the American army, so the two armies chased me for a while and finally separated the line, and then the firepower of the American army quickly completely wiped out the Japanese army.
But the U.S. forces were also disgraced, because because of their escape, three of the five tanks they were driving in front of them were blown up, including the "Sherman" tank known as the "Reaper".
And when the U.S. military looks at the Chinese army, it is a clean and neat cleaning up of the Japanese, and they all feel a little embarrassed.
But the soldiers of the Chinese army felt that this was normal...... You must know that they all crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood on the battlefield in Burma, and it would be strange if these American rookies who had just stepped onto the battlefield and only fought one or two battles could compare to them.
Because of the negligence of the US army, the "Sherman" tank was lost, and the side effect was that there was trouble in attacking the Nagasawa defensive line.
However, this was only a minor trouble, and it did not take long for it to be resolved due to the luck of the US military.
(To be continued.) )