While the warships bombarded the Japanese shore defense guns with naval guns, one after another landing craft carried tanks and the main force of the new 1st Division to launch a landing battle.

At this time, except for a few shore defense guns, which still fired into the sea without a single shot and stirred up a few water columns, the Japanese army basically had no force to prevent the landing of the Sino-US coalition forces.

It was supposed to be at this time...... The Japanese army should have attacked the landing of the Sino-American coalition forces from three directions: sea, land, and air at the same time.

On the sea, Japanese warships would strike at the U.S. fleet with the cooperation of shore defense guns.

On land, the Japanese army should have had a large number of troops using fortifications to organize a tight defense along the coast.

In the air, there will be a large number of fighters of all kinds to carry out merciless strikes against the Chinese and US coalition forces.

If this is the case, then the main force of the new 1st Division is afraid that most of them will be killed or wounded before they land, and the remaining troops will soon be knocked down by the Japanese army on the beach even if they barely land.

However, none of this happened.

The Japanese army in Rabaul was in disarray, and many of their coastal fortifications were in the hands of Chinese troops...... This was especially the pillboxes and tunnels, which the Chinese army took in the first place with sufficient ammunition reserves, and then relied on these ammunition to organize defenses.

Because the pillboxes and tunnels were very narrow, they were often occupied by only a few people, and the Japanese army could not attack them again and again even if they paid heavy casualties.

As a result, the Japanese defense line was actually divided into many small units that could not be contacted by each other.

On the other hand, there were a lot of coolies and laborers in Rabaul.

These coolies and laborers are from Burma, North Korea, and the Philippines......

Although Korea was occupied by the Japanese army, the Korean guerrillas who opposed the Japanese rule never stopped fighting, and naturally many of the guerrillas became prisoners of war during the struggle, and the people who had helped the guerrillas or disobeyed the people were all "dispatched" by the Japanese army to Rabaul to become coolies.

What's even more interesting is that among these coolies are ...... from Thailand To say that Thailand is an ally of Japan, but the Thai people have become coolies in Rabaul?!

These Thai people were deceived by the Japanese army, saying that they would be paid very high, and that Rabaul was full of gold mines and other lies were made up superbly, but the Thai people believed that it was true, and many families were fathers who came with a few children to make a fortune, and only then did they find out that the truth was not the case at all, but they were suffering from this remote island even if they realized that they had been deceived, they could not go back.

These coolies from several different countries played no small role in the fighting of Rabaul.

This is not to say that they are helping the Chinese army to attack Rabaul, but they have been subjected to inhumane treatment and even death threats from the Japanese army in peacetime, and they have long hated the Japanese army.

So the Japanese army had just extinguished the fire, and the smoke on that side had just been suppressed, and the other side began to be chaotic again, and the whole Rabaul was in a mess.

Such Rabaul was obviously unable to resist the attack of the Chinese and American forces, so the main force of the new 1st Division landed under the cover of tanks, and broke through the Japanese defense line as if it were devastating, and advanced all the way in the direction of the airfield.

Zhang Chi and a battalion of soldiers did not move.

This is because the airport is a strategic location, and they can't afford to abandon it.

On the other hand, more importantly, the physical strength of hand-to-hand combat was very staggering, and the soldiers barely managed to recapture the airfield and ammunition depot from the Japanese army, and there was no strength to face another battle.

Even sometimes Zhang Chi thought that as long as the Japanese army sent a little more troops, even if there was only one squadron, I was afraid that one battalion would not be able to hold on.

But who knows? Now it's because the soldiers know that the devil's defeat is decided, so their nerves relax and feel powerless, maybe when the enemy comes, under the threat of death, they don't know where they jump up and fight the enemy.

"Tuanza!" The fellow villager said to Zhang Chi, who was sitting on the ground smoking a cigarette: "It's here!" ”

"Oh!" Zhang Chi answered, slowly stood up from the crater, and looked at the eyes of his fellow villagers, and sure enough, he saw a group of Chinese troops slowly advancing towards the airport under the cover of tanks.

Here it was "slowly" because the road was so full of corpses that they had to clear a way for tanks...... Of course, they knew that they could not drive over these corpses in tanks at this time, because these corpses were not only from the Japanese army, but also from their own comrades, and because these comrades-in-arms were also wearing Japanese military uniforms, they could not tell the difference at all.

After the two sides approached, Wang Mazi rushed forward from the team and shouted: "Captain of the first regiment, is it you?" ”

"Master?!" Seeing that it was Wang Mazi, Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned, he thought that this was just the vanguard of the main force of the division, but he didn't expect it to be Wang Mazi's direct troops, if this was to let the remnants of the devil's troops ambush......

Zhang Chi hurriedly led a few soldiers to meet him and said, "Shizuo, why did you come to the front?" The battle hasn't stabilized yet! ”

"Huh!" Wang Mazi patted Zhang Chi's shoulder, looked at a few soldiers around Zhang Chi who were also covered in blood, and sighed: "You can all take such a big risk, disguise yourself as a devil and go deep into the tiger's den, I just waited for you to finish the fight before coming to cheer, why don't you dare?" ”

"Shizuo laughed!"

"No, well fought, this battle was too good!" Wang Mazi and Zhang Chi walked aside and said, "The results of this battle are far beyond our expectations, and even beyond the expectations of the Yankees......

Saying that, Wang Mazi raised his head at the planes in the airport and said: "Not to mention these planes, you also captured a Japanese aircraft carrier, which made the Yankees so happy that they wanted to jump into the sky!" ”

"What? Did the aircraft carrier really get it? Zhang Chi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this.

"You don't know yet?" Wang Mazi had some doubts on his face.

"Our walkie-talkie was smashed!" Zhang Chi replied: "So I really don't know!" ”

It was smashed in hand-to-hand combat, and none of the three walkie-talkies in the battalion were spared.

"It's the 'Xianghe'" Wang Mazi said: "The second battalion commander didn't expect it to be so smooth, he only sent a company to grab the aircraft carrier, always thought that it would only cause some chaos to the aircraft carrier at most, but I didn't expect that most of the aircraft carriers were North Korean engineers, and they were moved by your North Korean advisers in a few clicks and stood on the side of the Chinese army to fight devils!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but feel very happy, it seems that this time Park Zhongjiong and his party still used it correctly.

(To be continued.) )