The landing battle against Alberton was carried out under the cover of Alton's artillery fire, and the Japanese did not even know that the Chinese army had laid artillery in Alton...... Thinking that the shells that were being fired at them were fired from American warships, the Japanese radioed to the command headquarters, "We are under heavy bombardment from enemy warships!" Where did all the Japanese combined fleet go? ”

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The benefits for the Chinese military are...... The artillery deployed by the Chinese army at Arton was basically not returned fire by the Japanese, which is also one of the advantages of air supremacy...... If air supremacy was in the hands of the Japanese at this time, then the Japanese army only needed to send a random reconnaissance plane into the air, and it would be easy to spot the Chinese artillery in Arton and guide the artillery fire to suppress it.

But now the Japanese army can't do anything, because they don't even know where these shells are coming from.

As a result, dozens of heavy artillery pieces from the three heavy artillery battalions poured shells on the Japanese Wojie Atoll, and the bombardment of naval guns and fighter planes only blew the Wojie Atoll into a cloud of smoke.

At the same time as the bombardment, a company of Chinese troops launched an attack on Alberton.

The reason why only one company was sent was because Zhang Chi believed that there were not many Japanese troops stationed at Alberton...... Woje Atoll consisted of sixteen large and small islands, and the Japanese army had only about 3,000 troops, most of whom were deployed on the larger Rûm Island, which could control the entrance to the atoll, and there were naturally not many Japanese troops on an island like Alberton.

But this time Zhang Chi guessed wrong.

The reason why Zhang Chi chose Alberton as the target of the attack and planted artillery on it was because Alberton was covered with vegetation and mostly mountainous...... Such terrain facilitated the concealment of artillery.

However, just as Zhang Chi chose Alberton as the target of the attack, the Japanese also used it as an artillery position, and Sakamoto Shaosa, who was in charge of commanding Wojie Atoll, laid two artillery batteries and an infantry company on Alberton Island, plus a platoon of engineers.

It stands to reason that it would be difficult for a company of Chinese troops to defeat and occupy the Japanese troops stationed on Alberton Island...... After all, the total strength of the Japanese army is nearly three times that of the Chinese troops, and the Japanese army still has a home advantage.

The problem is that the Japanese did not expect the Chinese army to take Alberton Island as the first target...... Moreover, Alberton's main force of Japanese troops was artillery, and their mission was to provide artillery support for the main island, which is Rum, when it was attacked, so most of its artillery and fortifications were oriented towards Romi Island, and worse, ...... When the Sino-American coalition bombed Woje Atoll, the Japanese artillery hid in the fortifications and waited for orders from Rûm Island for the sake of preserving their strength.

As a result, the order did not wait, and the news that the enemy had landed was waiting.

So the Japanese artillery rushed to the battle, but by this time it was too late, and the Chinese troops had already attacked the fortifications where they were and blocked the exit with fire.

None of this was difficult for the Chinese army, which used no more than one platoon for coastal guard, and most of the Japanese troops in this platoon hid in fortifications to avoid artillery fire for the same reason.

Perhaps there was another reason for these Japanese troops...... They thought that it was daytime, and that the low tide would run aground, so they thought that the enemy was unlikely to attack at this time, and that their obstacles and fortifications near the sea would hold the enemy back for a while.

This is perhaps the difference between a battle-hardened unit and a garrison that has never fought a battle...... If it was the Japanese army in Burma, they were afraid that they would send a few people to guard outside no matter what the situation was, but the Japanese troops on Alberton Island did not realize that something was wrong until they heard the sound of the motor of the amphibious landing vehicle of the Chinese army.

The Chinese army attacking Alberton Island was the third company, and the commander of the third company was a special poor student who followed Zhang Chi all the way from Burma.

The third company landed on an amphibious landing vehicle...... Each landing vehicle can carry 25 people, and a company only needs about six landing vehicles in terms of numbers, but the third company is equipped with a full 12 vehicles.

On the one hand, this is because the third company needs to use landing vehicles to carry some equipment and ammunition, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to use landing vehicles to enhance the firepower of the troops...... The landing vehicle has a 12.7 mm machine gun and a 7.62 mm machine gun, and will also provide some protection for the landing force.

Twelve landing vehicles "rumbled" towards Alberton Island under the cover of artillery fire, perhaps because of the sound of artillery and the smoke from the shells, the Japanese never noticed that any landing vehicles had approached them.

The obstacles set up by the Japanese army in the coastal waters are useless for tracked landing vehicles, and the bare coral reefs after the low tide are certainly not a problem.

However, when they got closer to the beach, the extremely poor students still gave an order for the soldiers to disembark...... Approaching the beach is the moment when it is most vulnerable to enemy blows, and the landing vehicle needs infantry deployment to provide cover for it.

To the surprise of the extremely poor students, there was no movement in the direction of the Japanese army.

The extremely poor students couldn't help but feel strange: Could it be that the Japanese army set up an ambush in front of them to make them jump into the ambush circle?

But later facts proved that the extremely poor students thought too much, and the Japanese army they faced was not as good as the extremely poor students thought, on the contrary, ...... The vast majority of these Japanese soldiers were rookies who had never been on the battlefield, and at this time they were frightened by the fierce artillery fire of the Chinese and American coalition forces, and they were hiding in the tunnels and waiting for the artillery fire to end!

Then the artillery fire extended backwards, and the special poor students and infantry advanced forward behind the landing vehicles...... This is the result of more than ten days of training, including the extension of artillery fire, and although this tactic of infantry advancing closely behind the artillery fire seems simple, it actually requires close coordination between infantry and artillery.

At this time, the Japanese army came out of the trenches one by one.

They were just glad they had survived the enemy's fire, but at this time...... But they cried in their hearts, why didn't the shelling just kill them? Then maybe he would have died a crisper death, and now after so much fright, he would have to face so many tanks and enemies armed to the teeth in front of him.

(Note: The Japanese army does not know what the landing vehicle is, and compared to the Japanese Type 95 tank, which is only 6.7 tons, the LVT landing vehicle has 7.8 tons, especially the tracks and machine guns, so in the eyes of the Japanese, it can indeed be used as a tank)

Then a massacre unfolded on Alberton Island, dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the landing vehicles fired wildly, the rifles and submachine guns in the hands of the soldiers cooperated in the gap to kill the enemy one by one, and mortars and Bazooka rocket launchers also smashed shells into the trenches of the Japanese army, which had long been blown up.

The Japanese army collapsed almost as soon as it came into contact with the Chinese army. (To be continued.) )