Subsequently, the Japanese army launched a "jade crushing attack" against the American defense line...... The Japanese were familiar with this method of attack, even without the command of Ushijima Mitsuru, they could proceed step by step, first killing the seriously wounded or leaving them a grenade, in fact, at this time, the grenade was already in short supply for the Japanese army, and the seriously wounded were lucky to get a grenade, and most people could only get a military stab. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Then all the people who could move, including the wounded, crawled out of the tunnel one after another in the dark...... Unlike the previous "Jade Shatter Attack," this time the Japanese army drove a large number of Okinawan civilians to open the way.

The Japanese army will do this, on the one hand, because they want to "waste" these Okinawan people, anyway, these Okinawan people will serve the Sino-US coalition forces after staying, and it is better to drive them to the battlefield and join themselves in serving the "emperor's loyalty". On the other hand, the Japanese army hoped that the Okinawan people would clear the mines in front, or the U.S. troops would be soft when they saw the Okinawa people, so the Japanese army could take the opportunity to attack the U.S. defense line.

But the Japanese were soon disappointed......

The U.S. military is not like the Chinese troops, which are emotional, and if they see unarmed civilians walking in front, they may be merciful.

But the US military ...... They put their own interests first in everything, and if their lives are not threatened, they will talk about humanitarianism, but if they perceive danger on the battlefield, they will not care if you have weapons in the hands of the people, they will calmly give themselves a reason "This is war", and then they will not hesitate to shoot and fire at those people.

Later, the U.S. military even brought in several destroyers and battleships to bomb together, which made the southern corner of Okinawa full of Japanese roars and screams all night, and artillery fire rang out all night.

By the next morning, when the artillery fire had gradually stopped, the Chinese and American forces were presented with an open field of corpses and organs...... It was a veritable mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and last night the land was covered with woods and weeds, but now the woods and weeds were all gone, replaced by charred earth and layers of corpses.

No one knew whether the charred earth was blackened by artillery fire or the color of dried blood, or both.

The U.S. forces waited until it was dark, and before advancing they continued to bombard the Japanese garrison with artillery fire and warplanes for an hour...... This is the characteristic of the US military, and they will do everything possible to reduce the risk of an offensive and the possible casualties.

When the U.S. troops were advancing, Zhang Chi was inspecting on the high ground, and in Zhang Chi's field of vision, the U.S. troops were almost vomiting while advancing...... These U.S. Marine divisions are not rookies who have never been on the battlefield, but it is the first time that they have advanced on a position with so many corpses.

There was still some weak resistance along the way, and there was no need to think about it, it was the few surviving Japanese soldiers who were fighting the trapped beasts, but they were quickly solved by the American army.

What is unimaginable for the US military is ...... When they searched the seaside and the cliffside, they kept finding that groups of Okinawan people had committed suicide here and there, and most of them were women and children.

"Don't do that!" The U.S. military was shouting at the civilians, "We won't hurt you!" ”

But no one understands what the US military says, and even if they do, they don't believe it...... They belonged to the part of the people who believed in the propaganda of the Japanese, and some of them were not Okinawan people, but the families brought by the Japanese officers.

So, the U.S. military watched them jump off the cliff one after another, watching the groups of children holding hands and leading their mothers to the ocean......

The Battle of Okinawa ended in the evening of that day, and the U.S. forces announced that they had occupied all of Okinawa.

In this battle, the Japanese army lost more than 90,000 casualties, 7,400 prisoners, more than 100,000 island residents, 7,830 aircraft were lost, 16 ships were sunk, and 4 were damaged. The U.S. military suffered more than 70,000 casualties (including 26,000 non-combatants), lost 763 aircraft, sank 36 ships, and damaged 368.

However, the US military announced that it would occupy the entire territory of Okinawa a bit early, because there were still a large number of Japanese guerrillas hiding in the jungles of northern Okinawa and the surrounding islands, and these guerrillas continued to harass and sneak attack the US military until after the war, even after Japan's surrender...... The last Japanese surrendered in 1947, and it was only then that the nightmare of the American army was truly over.

This is one of the reasons why the U.S. military has historically chosen to use atomic bombs instead of attacking the Japanese mainland...... If the Japanese under militaristic education were to fight in such a situation, attacking the Japanese mainland would undoubtedly make the US military mired in a quagmire from which it would not be able to extricate itself.

Of course, the situation is a little different now, because Okinawa is not only garrisoned by the US military, but also by the Chinese army, which is good at jungle warfare and guerrilla warfare...... Zhang Chi used these small units of Japanese guerrillas and the mountainous areas in the north as training grounds.

This night, the sound of the cannon finally slowly disappeared, although the gunfire still appeared from time to time, but Zhang Chi knew that it was also the final end.

The moonlight reflects a little bit of light like fish scales on the surface of the sea, but it makes Okinawa look dark...... Okinawa, named because it resembles a rope that is constantly washed by the ocean, reached a turning point on this night.

Although he couldn't see it because it was dark, Zhang Chi knew that Okinawa was in tatters at this time because of this brutal war...... Houses were destroyed in large numbers, farmland was uncultivated, labor was severely lacking because of the evil deeds of the Japanese army, and even because of the looting of the Japanese army, the people had no surplus food in their hands......

Hundreds of thousands of people, this is not an easy task to deal with.

Although Okinawa does not have a large number of people compared to Northeast China, the advantages of Northeast China are ...... Although this war machine deprived the Chinese people of Northeast China of their blood, sweat and even their lives, because the Japanese army needed it to provide supplies and ammunition for the Japanese army invading China and even the Japanese mainland, it instead made it have a relatively complete and even complete industry and agriculture that surpassed the national government.

Therefore, it is relatively simple to solve the problems of people's livelihood in Northeast China, and it is only necessary to snatch back the agriculture and industry that were previously occupied by the Japanese and return them to the people of Northeast China, so that they can produce most of the materials they need.

But Okinawa...... It originally had no industry, and agriculture was not developed, and at this time it was ruthlessly looted by the war, and now it is not an exaggeration to describe it with the words "poor and white".