Kuribayashi Tadamichi and other Japanese officers thought that the Chinese army would soon launch an attack on the Japanese army's 362 heights after consolidating the defenses of Mt. 382 and Mt. Oriba. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even Kuribayashi Tadamichi has a defense plan...... Highland 362 is divided into three highlands: 362A, 362B and 362C, and these three highlands also form a triangle, enclosing the unfinished No. 2 Airport, Yuancun and No. 3 Airport in the middle. (Note: Yuancun is the village inhabited by the aborigines of Iwo Jima, and is named Yuancun because it is in the middle of the Yuanshan Mountains)

Obviously, if the Chinese army attacked these three heights, there was no doubt that they would be stubbornly resisted by the Japanese army...... In the final analysis, the Chinese army's method of taking the Oriba Mountain and the 382 Heights was a sneak attack, and the Japanese army, which had suffered a loss, would certainly not let the enemy succeed again, so it was necessary to deal with these highlands.

However, the Japanese army did not wait for the attack of the Chinese army, but waited for the Chinese army to infiltrate and harass the Japanese positions by taking advantage of the darkness of the night.

The Japanese army was completely defenseless against this...... They always thought that the night was their world, and the enemy could not make any moves in the night, but first the loss of the 382 heights, and now the frequent movements of the Chinese army, made the Japanese army unable to defend itself and suffered several losses, and once even a small ammunition depot was blown up by the Chinese army.

That's when Tadamichi Kuribayashi really realized how terrible his opponent was.

"These Chinese are even more powerful than I thought!" Kuribayashi Tadado sighed.

"What did Your Excellency Lieutenant General say that?" Yoshitaka Horie asked strangely, "Didn't the Chinese army dare to attack?" Why do you still say that they are powerful? Maybe they're scared! ”

Yoshitaka Horie's statement is a common way of thinking for the Japanese, who are accustomed to rushing and fighting on the battlefield, and those who dare not rush and dare not fight are considered cowardly and cowardly.

This style of fighting has its strengths and weaknesses.

The strength is that the whole army dares to fight and kill, even in extreme cases, it is life and death...... This method of play is especially useful on the Chinese battlefield, many **** troops were originally demoralized, if they were far away from the enemy to fight that was fine, sometimes even with the advantage of numbers to suppress the Japanese army, but the Japanese army desperately held up the bayonet "wah-wow-wow" rush, all of a sudden frightened these troops, and then the whole line collapsed, and the battle that could have been won became a flock of ducks driven away by the Japanese army.

The shortcomings are more reflected in the Pacific theater......

In fact, the tactics, spirit, or style of the Japanese army were indeed effective when used against opponents whose weapons and equipment were not much different or inferior to those of the Japanese army...... If the weapons and equipment are similar or even worse, it is the people who fight, and no matter how ruthless the people are than the other party, then it is a matter of course to win on the battlefield.

However, if the weapons and equipment are weaker than the opponent by one generation, the supply will not be able to keep up, for example, against the US military in the Pacific theater......

What's the use of being ruthless? The Yankees blast a wall of fire with airplane artillery, and the more ruthless you are, the faster you rush forward and die.

It's a pity that the Japanese didn't realize this until the battle on Peleliu, but by this time it was too late.

"Horie-kun, do you think the Chinese are scared?" Kuribayashi Tadamichi replied with a wry smile, "No...... If they were afraid, they would never dare to launch an infiltration war against us in the dark of night! ”

Horie Yoshitaka nodded slowly, he had to admit that he himself had led his subordinates to launch an infiltration war against the enemy, so he knew very well that this was not something that ordinary people could do, and it took a lot of courage.

"They do it...... I want to get the maximum benefit at the lowest cost! Kuribayashi Tadamichi continued, "We have no possibility of supply, so we will continue to consume it day by day...... They don't need to attack at all, we're starving to death! ”

"Then this ......" Yoshitaka Horie couldn't help frowning.

If it had been in the past, the Japanese army's supplies might not have run out so quickly, but the Japanese army has always regarded Oriba Mountain and 382 Heights as two important places to be defended, so more than half of the ammunition and supplies are in the tunnels of these two heights, and with the loss of these two heights, these supplies will also be lost.

Unless it's ...... The Japanese army walked out of the tunnel and attacked the position where the Chinese were stationed, but this was exactly what the Chinese wanted!

Kuribayashi Tadamichi only sighed: "So, we can only pin our hopes on 'returning to the sky'!" ”

On the other hand, the Japanese army's 'Chigusa' special attack team lived up to the high expectations of Tadamichi Kuribayashi of Sato Kenriwa and rushed to the waters of Iwo Jima three days later, and sent the code name 'Chigusa' to the Hachijojima command.

Hachijojima is an island more than 300 nautical miles from Iwo Jima, almost in the middle of Iwo Jima and Tokyo, the capital of Japan, and because there is an airport on Hachijojima, more than 50 fighters and suicide bombers transferred from Tokyo are also concentrated here. Therefore, Ken Sato used Hachijojima as the front-line command center and unified the operation of the reinforcements on Iwo Jima in the direction of Tokyo.

This Bazhang Island is also the Qin Dynasty, legend has it that Qin Shi Huang sent a boy and a girl to the East China Sea to look for the elixir of life, on the way the ship was washed away by the waves, the island where the virgin landed and lived, so it is also called "Guardian Island" or "Female Island", and the other island "Qingdao" is called "Male Island" or "Boy Island".

Major General Taro Shiina was the commander in charge of this campaign, and the moment he received the code name "Chigusa", he immediately ordered the Japanese fighters that had been prepared to take off in two waves......

Thirty sorties in the first wave and twenty sorties in the second wave.

There are fighters and bombers in these two waves of fighters, but in fact, it is not the point of what kind of aircraft, because Shiina Taro knows that there are only a few of them left under the interception of the radar, fighters and anti-aircraft guns of the Chinese and American coalition forces, especially since most of these fighters are old models.

The focus is ...... Eleven suicide bombers were hidden in these two waves (six in the first wave and five in the second).

Shiina Taro pinned most of his hopes on these eleven suicide bombers, which were filled with explosives, and if any one of them managed to crash into an enemy ship or aircraft carrier, it could inflict heavy damage on the enemy ship. As for other fighters...... It was just a cover for these suicide fighters, and even the "Chigusa" special attack team with the "Huitian" torpedo.

Shiina Taro was an air force man, and he didn't think that the clumsy and complex "Huiten" torpedoes would bring much success, even if one of the torpedoes was a fearless warrior.

(To be continued.) )