It was too late for the Woje Atoll and the Maloelap Atoll, the Chinese and American forces had already broken through the Japanese defenses, and the Japanese troops on the two atolls were already defeated, and these two atolls were destined to fall into the hands of the Chinese and American forces. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But Kwajalein Atoll is still in time.

As a result, the Japanese army immediately mobilized urgently, and two additional brigades of the 1st Marine Mobile Brigade were immediately reinforced, and the defense in the direction of the lagoon was immediately reinforced.

Commanding these two brigades was Koji Kimura, who led his troops to the direction of the lagoon and couldn't help but curse angrily: "These bastards, who have been stationed on these islands for so long, have no fortifications!" What have they been doing all these years! ”

It is no wonder that Koji Kimura is unbalanced, for so many years he and his troops have been dealing with the guerrillas in China, and there are no fewer days of fear, while the 61st Garrison is enjoying a carefree life with the sea breeze blowing on these islands, and that's all, they don't even have fortifications at the point of life and death.

Koji Kimura is a commander who has fought in China, and although most of his opponents are guerrillas, he still has combat experience.

From the very beginning, he ordered his men to lay as many mines on the beach as possible...... Some subordinates objected to this, because the tide would rise at night, and the mines would soon become ineffective due to flooding.

Koji Kimura's rebuttal was: "Are you still thinking about the late rising tide? It's your job to stay alive until the night! ”

When his subordinates were laying mines everywhere and building fortifications intensively, Koji Kimura tried his best to contact the Japanese troops in the two atolls of Woje Atoll and Maloerapu through his connections, and asked as much as possible about the attack of the Sino-American coalition. Then he judged that the enemy was likely to attack with a large number of "open tanks". (Note: At this time, the Japanese army did not know what the amphibious landing vehicle was, so they called this monster with tracks to transport troops "open tank")

It is not difficult to guess this, because the tide is already low at this time, and there are coral reefs of eight or nine hundred meters long on the side of the lagoon that are exposed one after another, and it is almost impossible for landing craft to cross this reef zone, and if the American army can attack, it will only be attacked by "open tanks".

So Koji Kimura immediately made a decision and gave three orders in succession.

The first order was for his subordinates to collect discarded tires everywhere, pile them up at intervals of more than ten meters, and then pour gasoline on them and burn them.

The purpose of this was obvious, that is, to prevent the US pilots from detecting the movements of the Japanese troops...... When the rubber tires are incinerated, a large amount of black smoke will emit a large amount of black smoke, which can effectively block the pilot's vision.

Koji Kimura learned this trick from the Chinese, and on the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese often had absolute air supremacy, and the Chinese troops would do this when they did something they did not want Japanese pilots to detect.

The American pilots didn't see anything, and they even thought it was caused by the bombardment of American naval guns or artillery.

Koji Kimura's second order was to dig an anti-tank trench offshore.

Koji Kimura believed that if the US forces attacked with "open tanks," they would certainly use the firepower and defense of "open tanks" to attack the Japanese defense lines.

Then, what can effectively block these "tanks" is the anti-tank trench.

In particular, it was not difficult for the Japanese army to do this...... Because the seashore is a coral sand geology, it doesn't take much effort to dig a deep and wide anti-tank trench.

Koji Kimura even had his subordinates demolish the houses on the island, and the removed planks were used to camouflage these anti-tank trenches...... This makes the anti-tank trench outwardly indistinguishable from the sandy beach.

The third order was to ask Nakatani Osa for artillery fire.

Nakatani Kawakami was the supreme commander of the Japanese forces at Kwajalein Atoll, and by this time he was already in disarray by the rout of the Japanese forces at Woje Atoll and Maloelap Atoll...... Although Nakatani is a big sa, he is a big sa of the garrison, he has always been content with the status quo on the island, and has never experienced a war, if there has been any war, it is the bombing of the Marshall Islands by the U.S. military in recent months.

However, he has always believed that a direct attack on Kwajalein Island where he is located by the US military is very far away, after all, the Marshall Islands are so big, if the American ghost animals want to eat one by one, when will they be able to eat Kwajalein Atoll.

What he didn't expect was that the U.S. military started eating from the center of the archipelago...... Moreover, the appetite of the US military is very good, and it swallowed more than half of the two atolls as soon as the battle began.

Nakatani Kawakami feared that Kwajalein Atoll would also be the fate of Woj Atoll and Maloelap Atoll, so he pinned his hopes on Koji Kimura, after all, Nakatani Kawakami knew that this Koji Kimura had fought...... In this situation, Nakatani Kawakami knew that only those who had fought in the war were the most trustworthy.

As soon as Koji Kimura spoke, Nakatani Kawakami immediately transferred more than half of the artillery in his hand to the command of Koji Kimura, and the reason why only "more than half" of the artillery was transferred was because Nakatani Kawakami was a little worried that the US attack on Kwajalein Atoll would be launched from the front instead of from the lagoon like the other two atolls, otherwise, why did the US army not attack at this time?

But that was enough for Koji Kimura, who immediately adjusted all of his artillery units to aim at the offshore, the entrance to the atoll, and the anti-tank trenches.

At this time, the topography of Kwajalein Island helped Koji Kimura a lot...... Kwajalein Island is like a half-moon shape, or arguably a bowl, which is why the U.S. military gave it the code name "porcelain".

Because it was shaped like a half-moon, artillery fire or machine guns distributed along the coast would naturally form a perfect encirclement of the coast, which was obviously beneficial to the Japanese army.

Then Koji Kimura waited quietly.

In fact, Koji Kimura is also not sure whether the US army will attack from the direction of the lagoon, because if the US army still attacks from the direction of the lagoon, it will be too unbelievable...... The U.S. forces could have attacked from the lagoon in the early hours of the morning, as they had done on the other two islands, before the tide had receded and the Japanese were unprepared.

If this is the case, Kwajalein Island at this time is afraid that there are only two possibilities: surrendering with one hand or launching a "long live charge" against the US army.

So, Koji Kimura also doesn't understand what the Americans are thinking, or what they plan to do.

But to Kimura's surprise, the scouts he had set up at the entrance to the atoll were soon alerted by telegram...... The Americans really attacked, and they still appeared at the entrance to the atoll, which means that they are still attacking from the direction of the lagoon!

(To be continued.) )