Chapter Ninety-Three: The Sapper

The communications corps is right, but it can also be said to be wrong.

It was indeed the sappers who held back the Japanese landing, but not just the engineer battalion.

Coincidentally, the commander of this engineer battalion is named Lee Ho, who is a North Korean...... During World War II, because the Japanese army occupied the entire territory of Korea, many Koreans who were dissatisfied with the Japanese rule fled to China, and some joined the army and became a member of the Chinese army, and Lee Ho was one of them.

And the Japanese soldiers captured by the new regiment when they attacked Kuah Island should be said to be Korean Japanese soldiers, and they were also Koreans.

Moreover, after the surrender of the Korean Japanese army, it was assigned to Li Ho to take care of it...... This is because Lee Ho is a North Korean who facilitates their communication, and the other is because there are a large number of projects on Kuah Island that need to be completed by Korean Japanese engineers.

In this way, Lee Ho became acquainted with Park Zhongjiong, the head of the Korean Japanese Army Engineer Corps, so he also learned about Park Zhongjiong's life experience and trusted each other.

This is one of the reasons why the Korean Japanese sappers were so cooperative on Kuah Island, because they heard a lot about serving in the Chinese army from Lee Ho, and some of them were almost unimaginable...... For example, the same treatment as Chinese soldiers will not be discriminated against, and even can really be an officer and command Chinese, such as Li Ho, who became an engineer battalion commander and commanded hundreds of people.

This is unimaginable in the Japanese army, and at the same time, they can vaguely feel that the Japanese are already at the end of their crossbow at this time, and if they want to go home or recover Korea, they will probably have to rely on the Sino-US coalition forces, so most people want to die with the Sino-US coalition forces, but they are prisoners and have participated in the Japanese army...... It will be difficult to gain the trust of the Sino-US coalition.

But the emperor lives up to his wishes.

On this day, Park Zhongjiong and other troops finally found an opportunity.

At the time of the fierce battle between the Sino-US coalition forces and the Japanese army, Park Zhongjiong's Japanese troops were transporting ammunition to the front line under the supervision of the Lee Ho engineer battalion, when Japanese landing craft suddenly appeared on the sea. And there are almost no defenders of the Sino-American coalition along the coast.

Li Ho also noticed this situation, but he was embarrassed when he saw the Japanese army's formation...... The Japanese army had more than 1,000 men, and it was both a warship and a seaplane, and the strength of the engineer battalion alone could not stop the Japanese army.

"Battalion Commander Li!" At the critical moment, Park Jung-hyung yelled at Lee Ho: "Send us the gun, let's beat the Japanese back together!" ”

Li Hao couldn't help but hesitate...... What if Park Jung-hyung was pretending to say this, but in fact he was deceiving trust and surrendering to the Japanese?

"I killed a Japanese officer!" Park Chung-hyung shouted, "Don't you still believe me? The Japanese won't let us go! ”

"Yes, Camp Commander Li!" Another Korean soldier said: "The Japanese are very cruel to the Korean soldiers. As soldiers, we ...... It's impossible to go back to Japan! ”

Li Ho thinks it's right, the Japanese have never regarded the Korean Japanese army as a human being, and now they know that these Korean Japanese soldiers have surrendered, so they will not let them go easily.

Therefore, at this time, they are actually already in the same boat, if the Sino-US coalition forces lose the battle and lose the island, they are afraid that the final result of their surrender will be death.

What's more, the current Lee Ho seems to have no other choice.

So Li Ho didn't think about it anymore, and he didn't even ask for instructions from the forward. He immediately ordered to open the warehouse, send guns to the Korean soldiers, and organize a defense along the coast.

These Korean soldiers did not disappoint Li Hao, and they really fought with the Japanese army on the coast, and they fought very hard...... This is because they remembered how they were abused by those Japanese in peacetime, and how their families and countrymen let the Japanese slaughter and enslave them.

This scene made Li Ho feel a little unbelievable, because he heard about the new regiment capturing the airport, and almost did not encounter resistance to take the airport, and also captured a large number of Korean engineers. And the same group of sappers. Their current performance is similar to the previous greed for life and fear of death, and later these Korean soldiers even launched a counteroffensive against the Japanese army...... If it weren't for the fact that there were no ships for the Korean surrender. Otherwise, they would all be killed in the sea.

But in fact, these are not strange, this is the difference between an army with conviction and an army without conviction.

In the past, when this army fought under the Japanese system, they were forced to work hard, to be cannon fodder, and to be cannon fodder for the Japanese who enslaved them. You don't need to think about how unwilling you are.

But now, all of a sudden, they were turning over and becoming masters, and even saw the hope of rescuing their families and driving the Japanese out of Korea, so that the battles and sacrifices immediately became great and meaningful, and this made them burst out with extraordinary combat effectiveness. Even if the vast majority of them have just learned to use the American M1 rifle.

The most wronged of these should be the Japanese troops who landed.

They are soldiers of the Japanese Navy Special Marine Corps, and they are a good move by Hyakutake Haruyoshi to capture Kuah Island in one fell swoop at a critical moment, before this he even let the seaplane do a good job of reconnaissance, knowing that this area is the weak point of the defense of the Sino-US coalition forces, but he did not expect to kill him halfway to bite the gold to beat him to the point of losing his armor.

If Hyakutake Haruyoshi knew that it was the Japanese army who defeated the Special Marine Corps, he was afraid that he would vomit blood and die on the spot.

Zhang Chi couldn't help but secretly say that he was lucky after knowing this situation.

The Japanese attacking the mountain also knew that their attack had been thwarted again, so they had to leave behind a large number of corpses and retreat.

Half an hour later, Zhang ......Chi received a call from Halsey, and Halsey's voice on the phone was no longer as confident as before: "I just learned about your war, and I know it's very difficult. I hope you can support it, and we'll find a way to get you out when we get the chance? ”

"Get us out?" Zhang Chi asked.

"Or what do you think ......?"

"General!" Zhang Chi asked Halsey: "I want to know the specific battle situation at sea!" ”

"Let's put it this way......" Halsey replied, "we have lost one aircraft carrier, the other is also wounded, and we now have no aircraft carriers to fight!" ”

"And what about the Japanese?" Zhang Chi asked: "Why did their aircraft carrier retreat?" ”

"Because they lost too many fighters!" Halsey replied.

"That's right!" Zhang Chi replied: "General, we still have an aircraft carrier to use!" ”

"What do you mean...... Guadalcanal? ”

"Of course!" Zhang Chi replied: "The loss of our fighters is not large, but the losses of the Japanese fighters are quite serious, if we add an unsinkable aircraft carrier, then who does the general think the final victory will belong to?!" ”

"God!" Zhang Chi heard Halsey's exclamation on the other end of the phone: "Why didn't we think of this!" (To be continued.) )