As soon as it was dawn the next morning, the U.S. troops could not wait to launch an attack on the Japanese position. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The attack was organized by Villit, who also ascended the "wolf's horn" and set up a headquarters in a pillbox captured from the Japanese...... Villitt was right to do this, of course, because for a demoralized army, the most important thing to achieve victory on the battlefield was not training, not equipment or supplies, but psychological encouragement.

Villitt's approach of leading the way is more showmanship...... At this time, the U.S. military's communications equipment had completely allowed Villit to command the ship without obstacles, but at least it could give psychological support to the U.S. soldiers, making the soldiers feel that Villit was always with them and was still on the front line.

The opening remarks were still artillery preparations, as usual.

Perhaps it was to embolden the Third Marine Division, or perhaps to prove that the US army was no worse than the Chinese army, so the artillery preparation for this battle was unprecedentedly strong...... The 3rd Marine Division's hundreds of howitzers and light and heavy mortars bombarded the defensive line for the previous two kilometers, and the rest of the area was handed over to the navy.

This was because they were worried that the navy's naval guns and fighters would bomb their own people by mistake, so they set aside a section of two kilometers closest to the US military position as a buffer zone.

If the artillery fire of the 3rd Marine Division is quite ordinary, then the naval guns of the Navy and more than 200 bombers taking off from five aircraft carriers bombarded Kwajalein Island indiscriminately, which can be described as terrifying...... The sky was full of warplanes whizzing by, and the roar of artillery or aerial bombs was heard, and the whole island of Kwajalein shook as if it were about to be sunk.

Wu Yuhang's description to Zhang Chi on the radio was: "These Yankees, where they are fighting, they are obviously dropping bombs!" ”

Zhang Chi asked, "Do you think it will be useful for them to fight like this?" ”

"This ......" Wu Yuhang was stunned for a moment and then replied: "I can't say!" It's useless if devils are like Tarawa Atoll, but it's useful if they're like Woje Atoll and Maloelap Atoll! ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Chi nodded.

Wu Yuhang is right, now it depends on whether the Japanese troops on Kwajalein Island are a little more like Tarawa or a little more like Woje.

For some reason, at this time, Zhang Chi hoped that the Japanese army would be more like Tarawa, but this is unlikely, after all, Tarawa was built by the Japanese army after a long period of preparation, while the Japanese army on Kwajalein Island did not have so much time.

What Zhang Chi didn't know was that the Japanese troops on Kwajalein Island were neither like Tarawa nor Woj, and they had their own strategy of "defensive counterattack".

Of course, Koga Mineichi's "defensive counterattack" strategy also took into account the strong artillery preparation of the American army, so at this stage, the Japanese countermeasure was to hide in the tunnel to avoid artillery.

It's not that difficult to construct a tunnel, especially on dry ground like Kwajale...... In fact, the most afraid of the tunnel is rainwater, no matter how strong the tunnel is, if it is flooded by rainwater, it will flood here and collapse there, and Kwajalein, a position close to the equator, of course, will not have much rain.

The Japanese method of building a tunnel is also simple, first choose a lower position, dig a trench-like fortification, and then tie a wooden stake on the inside of the trench to reinforce, then horizontally erect a layer of logs and lay a layer of soil, erect a layer of logs and then a layer of soil, if possible, set up a few more layers, and even lay several layers of steel plates, and then use a bulldozer on the surface to push ...... On the surface, there is no difference from other places, but there is a very strong tunnel underneath.

Unless a direct hit of a shell could cause partial damage to the tunnel, it was generally unable to inflict casualties on the Japanese troops hiding in it.

The "ordinary" mentioned here is because the US military may drop aerial bombs weighing hundreds of kilograms, and such bombs do not actually need to directly hit the tunnels or blow up the tunnels, but they can shock the people hiding in the tunnels to death...... From the point of view of physics, this is a kind of energy transfer, the energy of the bomb uses the land as the medium to transmit energy to the surroundings with the explosion point as the center of the circle, and if the energy transmitted to the human body is too large and shocks or even shatters the internal organs, it will also cause death.

However, the Japanese also knew in the battle that they would deal with this phenomenon...... There is a saying that "a long illness becomes a good doctor", and the Japanese have been bombed by the US military since Guadalcanal, and they have been bombed a lot, and out of consideration for their own lives, they will naturally sum up some simple and practical ways to save their lives.

So when they are hiding in the tunnel, they put some elastic things such as rags or sponges on their elbows or palms, and prop them on the ground with their hands, elbows and toes...... Rags, sponges and other elastic things can digest the energy transmitted from the ground to a certain extent to cushion the effect, and use the elbows and toes to support the ground, that is, to minimize the contact area between the body and the ground, the contact area is small and the energy received is naturally less, the same hands and feet are the organs farthest away from the internal organs, so this can be a good way to avoid the organs being injured.

Therefore, the bombing of the Japanese army by the US army did not play much role in Kwajalein, and it can even be said that the bombing of the US army helped the Japanese army to some extent...... No matter how the Japanese tunnels were hidden, there were always traces, and if they had not been bombed, the American troops might have found the Japanese tunnels. But such a storm-like explosion, the dust and craters that were kicked up quickly buried the tunnels built by the Japanese army more perfectly.

And this bombing by the US military lasted only 10 minutes.

This is not because the US military has no ammunition, and the ammunition prepared by the US military for this battle can be said to be blown up in a few days.

The reason for the halt of the bombing was the problem that had occurred in previous bombings...... The dust kicked up and the vapor evaporated by the shells as they exploded in the sea soon formed a fog-like circle of dust around Kwajalein, making it impossible for the pilots to see the target.

If this is good in the past, it is okay to throw bombs under the target if you can't see clearly, but now that part of Kwajalein's "wolf horns" are in the hands of his own people, it is likely that there will be problems with littering bombs.

As a result, the planned half-hour preparation of artillery fire could only be hastily completed after ten minutes.

Then...... The soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division advanced in the direction of the Japanese army under the cover of dozens of "Sherman" tanks of a tank battalion.

(To be continued.) )