Chapter 101: Massacre
Gunfire and artillery soon rang out...... In an instant, the Japanese soldiers fell down screaming in pieces.
The Japanese were located on the beach, where there was nothing but a limited number of reefs, and it was almost completely exposed to the fire of the Chinese army, so it was a massacre at all, a massacre of flesh and blood by bullets and shells.
Some of these Japanese soldiers are still kind, perhaps because they know that they are too far back and can't escape, so they simply grab their rifles and howl and rush against the Chinese army. But such a charge did not make the slightest sense, and if there was any point, it was to disperse a few bullets fired by the Chinese army at the Japanese army.
More Japanese troops still rushed to the landing craft desperately, crying, shouting, screaming, swearing...... At this moment, the Japanese army's "bushido spirit" of disregarding life and death has no longer a shadow, and what is displayed in front of Zhang Chi and the Chinese army is a poor, cowardly, and undignified army that wants to save its own life.
It's not surprising that there will be such a change, because that's what they are.
In the past, they have always been brainwashed by the Japanese military with the "spirit of bushido", or forcibly suppressed their humanity in their hearts. The inhuman experience of Kuah Island is like a whetstone, grinding away the camouflage wrapped around the outside layer by layer, and finally tonight, that is, the moment when you escape and live and die...... They finally broke down and released the fear of death that had been buried in their hearts.
But it was too late by then, Zhang Chi would not let them go, and every Chinese in the new regiment would not let them go.
Bullets were fired at the Japanese soldiers in pieces, and the soldiers advanced forward as they shot, stepping on corpses with body temperatures under their feet and rifles that were already hot in their hands. The finger kept pulling the trigger......
Later, Zhang Chi learned that at this time, many soldiers had actually run out of bullets...... One hundred and sixty rounds of ammunition, not a single round left.
It's not that there aren't enough bullets, it's that there are too many targets, and the eyes are full of enemies, and you can knock down a few with just pulling the trigger.
When they ran out of bullets, they could have gone to the back to refill their ammunition. The ammunition truck was a few hundred meters behind, but they were not willing to retreat...... Because they are afraid that after returning from replenishing ammunition, the battle will be over.
They did not want to miss the battle, so they loaded their rifles with bayonets and continued to kill, and some of them picked up the rifles of the Japanese soldiers on the ground...... But this was not a good idea, because the Japanese army did not have many rifle bullets, so they specifically chose to pick up grenades and throw them.
The Japanese troops, on the other hand, were frantically squeezed towards the landing craft, even if the personnel were seriously overloaded, they still squeezed upward. Not surprisingly, one of the landing craft lost its balance and flipped upside down, screaming and struggling in the water, climbing onto the other landing craft...... This is especially tragic in the rain of bullets.
Several landing craft could no longer care about carrying more infantry at this time, and hurriedly launched in the direction of the destroyer, but they soon received "special care" from the tanks, and with a few "booms" they became a fireball. Even if one or two of them were lucky enough to escape, they would be swept away by a rain of bullets as they left...... I'm afraid most of the people he brought back were also corpses and wounded.
At this time, an even more shocking scene happened: because I was worried that the landing craft I was on would overload and capsize. The Japanese soldiers inside the ship opened fire on their comrades who were desperately squeezing in outside the ship...... The Japanese soldiers outside the ship saw their comrades inside firing their guns, so they unceremoniously returned fire.
As a result, the Japanese troops inside and outside the landing craft quickly became a mess, and some Japanese soldiers even stuffed cluster grenades and explosives into the landing craft with the mentality that I can't escape and you can't escape......
They are no longer doing this to survive, but they are dizzy, or they have become hysterical and completely lose their minds when they have lost hope of survival.
The battle ended twenty minutes later. The beach and the sea were littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers, and there were landing craft that had been blown up and could not move, the lower half of which had sunk in the sea, while the upper half was still burning and emitting black smoke. The surviving Japanese troops had completely lost the idea of resistance, and they only knew to raise their rifles and look at the Chinese walking towards them with fear in their eyes. He said indistinctly in Chinese: "Surrender, don't kill!" Surrender, don't kill! ”
If it was in the past, the practice of the new regiment towards the Japanese army was not to leave a living mouth.
But now, no one is willing to shoot at these Japanese soldiers anymore.
On the one hand, it was because of the softness of killing tonight, and on the other hand, it was because they felt that such a Japanese army was not worth their hands at all.
And when the soldiers surrendered the guns of those Japanese soldiers, what those Japanese soldiers did in the next second was to stretch out their hands to the soldiers tremblingly, and then point to their mouths......
The fighters soon understood that they were going to eat.
The soldiers were stunned, then took out the compressed biscuits from the dry food bags and threw them to them, and the Japanese soldiers immediately pounced on them like hungry dogs, hurriedly tore open the bags and devoured them.
In this battle, the Japanese army could count more than 3,000 corpses on the beach, and more than 300 people were captured, plus the corpses washed away by the sea, more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers were wiped out.
In other words, the last retreat plan of the Japanese army was a complete failure, and it is said that the corpses could not be disposed of in the end, so they had to transfer a few bulldozers to push them all into the sea.
After ......receiving the report of the Japanese army's withdrawal from Kuah Island, Halsey called Zhang Chi: "Thank you very much, and all the soldiers stationed on Kuah Island. Through your efforts, you have succeeded in thwarting important Japanese goals in the Pacific. It is no exaggeration to say that you won the decisive battle, and you saved the entire Pacific Campaign! ”
Halsey's words are not an exaggeration at all, because this is where the strategic significance of Kuah Island lies...... It enables the US Navy to lay an important wedge in the South Pacific, relying on this wedge, the US Navy can establish a sea and air base here and turn it into a bridgehead for attacking the Japanese army, so that the US military can launch a counteroffensive against the Japanese army, otherwise they will be blocked from the Solomon Islands for a considerable period of time.
"Thank you! Checkmate! Zhang Chi replied: "But I think this is just the beginning!" ”
"Yes!" Halsey replied, "This is just the beginning!" ”
(To be continued.) )