The Chinese soldiers stepped on the corpses of Korean Japanese soldiers all the way forward to kill, and even saw some Japanese soldiers kneeling on the ground and raised their hands without hesitation to shoot them in the head.

This may seem a bit cruel to say, but in fact, it was forced out by the Japanese army.

Because fake surrender is a common trick used by the Japanese army, in previous battles, the Chinese army has encountered such a situation: when the troops are advancing, they choose not to kill the surrendered Japanese army...... This choice was strictly correct, because killing prisoners would cause a series of undesirable consequences, such as the Japanese army would no longer dare to surrender and would resist desperately.

But this principle often outweighed the gains in the face of the Japanese army...... There were very few cases of Japanese surrenders, and these surrendered Japanese soldiers did not know which one had a few grenades hidden in their arms, and only when our soldiers crossed him did they pull off the grenades and then "boom".

As a result, the soldiers of the expeditionary force often did not leave prisoners when facing the Japanese army, not only because of their hatred for the Japanese army, but also because of their own safety.

Don't look at the soldiers of the expeditionary force who are frantically chasing the Japanese army all the way and shouting and killing, in fact, the soldiers of the expeditionary force are chasing very well.

There are two main aspects of the rules mentioned here:

One is that when passing through the bunkers built by the Japanese army, they do not use explosive packs and blasting canisters, but only grenades.

The reason for choosing to use a grenade is that the power of the grenade explosion is small, but it can be thrown into the bunker in the enclosed space enough to kill the enemy inside or blow people unconscious. Then the soldiers rushed inside, and after a few shots, the pillbox and even the machine guns and food inside were intact.

Of course, what is rare for the fighters is not the ghost machine guns and food, which can be said to be everything on the Yankees' warships...... But it was only later that I realized that this was not always the case.

The reason why Zhang Chi asked the soldiers to do this was that he clearly knew the characteristics of the battle for the island, which is also an amphibious operation...... Cape Lunga will become a landing point for the Chinese army today, and it may become a landing point for the Japanese army tomorrow, after all, Cape Lunga is a coastal salient, and there is no stronghold on the sea that can be defended. As long as the Japanese army stopped its warships at Cape Lunga, they could carry out a beachfront landing on Cape Lunga.

As a result, these bunker fortifications built by the captured Japanese army now can become excellent firepower points in the hands of the Chinese army in the future, and the Chinese army can save time and energy in building pillboxes.

The other is that the Chinese army did not kill these Japanese soldiers indiscriminately, but always kept a certain distance from the Japanese army, not too far and not too close, like chasing ducks after the Japanese army.

I learned this trick from the Japanese army...... This tactic is often used by the Japanese army on the domestic battlefield, and the Japanese army actually has the opportunity to eliminate the **** that they are chasing in many cases. But they didn't do it, but followed the rout all the way and led the way.

At this time, the **** who defended in depth was dumbfounded, for this kind of frame they fought or not?

Let's fight! All those who are ahead are their own brothers, and their own men beat their own men......

Don't fight! Then you can only let the devil follow the rout and kill him.

It's not that this fight is not a fight, but after thinking about it, I feel that I can't stop the devil, so I just run away...... Escaping early can give you a little more hope of survival, so you swarm into the ranks of escaping without letting go of a shot.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force at this time also used this tactic.

In fact, they were more than capable of annihilating the Japanese troops who were fleeing in front of them...... You must know that the Chinese army has American equipment in their hands, semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, plus two Stuart tanks and mortars. If these equipment were to be beaten by the Japanese army, the Japanese soldiers in front of them would soon be strewn with corpses.

But instead of doing this, the Chinese army chased after the Japanese and shouted, shooting and killing a few who were slow or "dishonest". Drive them all the way to the depths of their defenses.

As a result, the Chinese army easily took the second and third lines of defense of the Japanese army...... It wasn't until they were trying to get on a road that they were blocked.

It was obviously a newly opened highway, and Zhang Chi knew what it was driving for...... If the Japanese army wants to build an airfield on Kuah Island, it is necessary to have some things to be transported from the ship to the island, such as bulldozers, excavators, and building materials. So there has to be a road.

In other words, the newly opened road would have led to the airport, otherwise there would have been no need for such a wide road on this uninhabited island.

The Chinese forces were held back from the jungle on both sides of the road. To be precise, it was the Chinese troops and the Korean Japanese soldiers who were blocked, because the bullets did not care whether it was their own people who ran in front of them, and mercilessly knocked them down in a pool of blood.

As a result, Zhang Chi quickly made two judgments:

One: It is very likely that the real Japanese army hiding in the jungle.

Because only the real Japanese army would be so ruthless, and only the real Japanese army would have such marksmanship...... Although the gunfire was not intensive, many Japanese soldiers fell in front of them.

Two: The number of Japanese troops hiding in the jungle is not large.

This can be roughly judged from the sound of gunfire, and even Zhang Chi can determine that they are not carrying any heavy equipment.

Zhang Chi's judgment was correct, this was a squad of only fifty people led by Lieutenant Takeda, and the duty of this squad was to supervise the construction of the airfield and prepare for the defense of Kuah Island......

The Japanese did not expect the Americans to launch an attack on Kuah Island so quickly, so their idea was: first let the engineering troops build an airfield and fortifications on Kuah Island, and then send troops to station when the airfield and fortifications are almost built, so as to save some of the materials they were already in short supply...... You must know that what the Japanese army lacked most at this time was supplies, including food, gasoline, ammunition, etc., which was determined by the fact that Japan was an island country with serious lack of resources, and its materials for war basically relied on imports or plundered from other countries.

This required the Japanese army to do everything possible to save these "hard-won" materials. The casual movement of the army meant that the supply would be transported by warships, which would also mean that more fuel would be consumed, so the Japanese decided to enter Kuah Island as late and as little as possible.

Of course, if the Japanese had known that the U.S. military would attack Kuah Island, they would not have sent troops to garrison Kuah Island in order to save supplies, because it was obvious that they would have to pay a double price to recapture Kuah Island in the subsequent battle.

(To be continued.) )