Motota Nakatsuchi guessed correctly, the defense of the Chinese army at the airport was indeed very weak...... The main direction of defense of the Chinese army was on the 382 heights of the Oriba Mountain. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Motota Nakatsu overlooked that sometimes a weak place does not necessarily mean that it is easy to pass through...... The airfield was empty, and the Chinese troops at Heights 382 and Oriba Mountain could look down on the airfield and control the airfield with firepower, in addition to the Chinese army's artillery and warships near the beach.

Perhaps, Motota Nakatsu thought that the enemy's artillery would not be effective in the dark of night, or that the Japanese army could successfully deceive the Chinese army by taking advantage of the darkness of the night.

In short, Motota Nakachi led nearly 5,000 special marines to launch a sneak attack on Mt. Oriba without the consent of Tadamichi Kuribayashi.

What Motota Nakachi didn't expect was that the inability of artillery to play a role in the dark night was not absolute, and under certain conditions, artillery could still play a great role in the dark.

For example, Motota Nakatsu led a large army through the airport stupidly...... The troops of 5,000 men, although the Japanese army was very careful, inevitably made some noise.

The soldiers of the 382nd Heights did not find them, because their positions were high and they were some distance away from the route of the Japanese advance, and it was indeed difficult to find anything in the dark.

However, the altitude of Oriba Mountain is only more than 100 meters, and the frontal width of being able to attack it is only more than 800 meters, and several searchlights are shining back and forth in this direction, and it is not easy for more than 5,000 people to lurk in the past without knowing it.

As a result, one of the devils stepped on the air and fell into a crater, this devil could bear it, his feet were twisted but he was stunned, but the rubble rolled down by the "swish" made the soldiers suspicious, and then fired a few flares down.

The flares still didn't find anything, this is because the Japanese army did a good job of camouflage, and the other is that the light of the flares is still different from natural light...... That photo is a piece of white flowers, just like looking at snow, if someone is lying on the ground and wearing clothes similar to the environment, you really can't find anything.

But the Chinese army had its own way, shouting a few words and firing a cannon from a suspicious position......

This is where the Chinese army spends a lot of money, the Chinese army uses artillery for fire reconnaissance, and a dozen shells are a dozen shells, which blow up like a gust of wind.

This is nothing for the Chinese army...... The Chinese Expeditionary Force has become somewhat extravagant with the equipment and supplies of the American army, but it is unimaginable for the Japanese army, which is struggling with supplies.

As a result, the Japanese army took it for granted that the Chinese army had discovered them, otherwise how could they play like this with a dozen shells.

Then, with the order of Motoda Nakachi, the Japanese army got up from the ground with a roar and rushed towards Oriba Mountain.

The Chinese troops guarding the mountain were taken aback by the Japanese army's action...... The reason why they said "shocked" is because they never imagined that the Japanese army would use the "crowd tactics" to launch an attack on Oribo Mountain, after all, since the attack began on Peleliuu Island, the Japanese army has stopped doing such stupid things, and now it is a little surprising to them to see this scene again.

What is even more ironic is that those Japanese soldiers rushed towards the Ori Bowl Mountain while shouting in blunt Chinese: "Own people!" ”

"Don't shoot!"

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Some of the Japanese soldiers did wear the British saucer-shaped helmets of the Chinese army...... I don't think I knew where I picked up those helmets. The reason for this is that it is unlikely that the Japanese army will get steel helmets from the sacrificed Chinese soldiers, and so far the Chinese army has won the battle, and winning the battle means that even if someone dies, the body is in their own hands.

It should be said that this camouflage method of the Japanese army is too rough, and it is not like they don't wear it, and the Chinese they speak is also a word that people know that they are Japanese when they hear it.

However, Motota Nakatsu must not have thought that he could really deceive the Chinese army, he just had the mentality of giving it a try.

Of course, the Chinese soldiers were not fooled, and immediately called for artillery fire and organized defenses, and greeted these "own people" with a heavy rain of bullets.

The battlefield was chaotic, and a large group of Japanese soldiers rushed to Oribo Mountain regardless of life and death, some of them were wielding sabers, some were carrying machine guns, most of the soldiers were carrying rifles and grenades, and some sailors were strapped to their backs and rushed forward......

But all this was to no avail, and the flares shot into the sky like fireworks during the festival, illuminating the foot of Oriba Mountain and even the airport as if it were daylight, and all the Japanese troops who were charging were completely exposed to the fire of the Chinese army.

So, in fact, this cannot be regarded as a night, nor can it be regarded as a night battle, but should be regarded as a day in the night.

The Chinese army used machine guns, rifles and various types of artillery to shoot at this group of Japanese soldiers, the gunfire "da-da" sounded, the sound of artillery was deafening, the whole night, the battlefield was completely a battle of flesh and steel, so that by dawn the next day, the battlefield was shocking, thousands of Japanese corpses fell horizontally at the foot of the mountain and the airport...... Most of the Japanese troops at the foot of Oriwa Mountain were intact, because most of them fell under the guns of the Chinese army, and the corpses were like salted fish in the sun, facing Oribo Mountain, and they fell lifelessly on top of each other and fell to the ground.

Most of the corpses at the airport could not be seen, to be exact, they were corpse parts...... Most of them were killed by artillery, so all you could see was piles of bright red and broken legs.

This was perhaps the heaviest Japanese casualties of the Battle of Iwo Jima, and it is a better explanation of why Kuribayashi Tadamichi refused Motota's request.

In this battle, the Chinese army lost 90 casualties and 257 were wounded...... Most of these sacrifices were caused by Japanese mortars and grenadiers, and some of them were caused by Japanese soldiers advancing in the dark among the corpses, waiting to get close to the Chinese trenches before throwing grenades or explosive bags.

The Japanese suffered more than 3,000 casualties on this night, and the Japanese Navy's special operations team basically finished the battle.

Zhang Chi was quite surprised when he heard this information.

The Japanese would actually do this?!!

If the entire Iwo Jima were attacked like this, then the rest would be easy.

It was not only Zhang Chi who was surprised, but also Tadamichi Kuribayashi.

When Kuribayashi Tadamichi heard that Motota Nakatsu did not obey the order and insisted on going his own way, he was so shocked that he sat on the chair and said only two words: "Bastard!" ”

(To be continued.) )