Americans are also good at summarizing.

He suffered too much loss on Tinian and Saipan, crippled two marine divisions, and the direct loss of troops of both divisions exceeded 40 percent.

Therefore, the artillery preparation for Guam was not an hour, nor a day, but fifteen days of artillery preparation in one breath!

Beginning on 6 August, the US military carried out a 15-day heavy artillery bombardment, firing 6,258 rounds of 406mm shells and 356mm shells, 3,862 rounds of 203mm shells, 2,430 rounds of 152mm shells, and 16,214 rounds of 127mm shells.

On August 21st, the sky was clear and the wind was calm, and it was a good weather for the exchange of troops.

Since the early hours of the morning, the US military has provided direct fire support with 6 battleships, 3 escort aircraft carriers, 8 cruisers, and 32 destroyers.

The 3rd Marine Division landed at Asan Beach in the northern part of the Orot Peninsula, and the 1st Marine Brigade and the 77th Division landed at Agata Beach in the southern part of the Orot Peninsula.

At the Asan beachhead, three regiments of the 3rd Marine Division were deployed at the same time, attacking side by side on the 1,800-meter-wide beachhead. Initially the landing was very smooth, and the Japanese resistance was insignificant.

However, because there are many coral reefs along the coast, only tracked landing vehicles can land, so they rely on tracked landing vehicles to transport troops back and forth, and the speed of advance is similar to that of snails.

Finally, around noon, all the troops, vehicles, and artillery of the division went ashore, and then they found that the terrain of the landing beachhead was extremely unfavorable, with high ground in front and sea in the back, and steep cliffs on both flanks.

That's really: look at the strange rocks, and then look at the bad luck.

The artillery deployed by the Japanese troops on the top of the hill on three sides and on the anti-slope plane condescendingly covered the entire landing beachhead, and more than 20,000 US troops crowded into the narrow landing beachhead have now all become live targets, and every shell fired by the Japanese army will cause tragic casualties to the US troops.

The 3rd Marine Regiment was to attack the most treacherous terrain, facing a fortified fort with triple 460mm guns, resulting in the greatest casualties and minimal progress.

In fact, there was no progress at all, and after advancing less than three hundred meters from the beach, it was already close to total annihilation.

Because the regiment commander, chief of staff, battalion commander, and company commander were all blown to pieces, the troops released ducks at that time and became the target of the Japanese machine guns.

After only half a day of landing, the 3rd Marine Division of the American devils had already lost 40% of its strength and completely collapsed.

On 23 August, after two days and two nights of bloody fighting, the 1st Marine Brigade and the 77th Division of the US Army in the south finally established a beachhead after suffering more than 4,000 casualties.

Over the next two days, the U.S. landing force began desperately stockpiling supplies and setting up makeshift field hospitals to treat thousands of wounded.

On the evening of August 25, the Japanese army, which had been silent for a day, suddenly launched a fierce night attack on the deep defense line of the American army in the north, directly hitting the back of the American devils.

This is a raid that the Japanese little devils have carefully prepared for many days.

First, concentrated artillery bombardment, then small units infiltrated and assaulted, launching feints from four directions.

The U.S. troops were caught off guard and could only respond with all their might in all directions, and after repelling the Japanese army's repeated feint charges, the American devils discovered that the enemy was a harassing attack.

At the juncture when the American devils thought that tonight was a harassing attack, the main force of the Japanese army was like a sharp sword stuck in their chests, and they were powerless to organize a counterattack.

Because the killer of the little Japanese devil came out, that is, the pig assault.

Wave after wave of squadron-sized attacks in three directions completely destroyed the nerves of the American soldiers, and finally broke through the American defense line from the gap between the 3rd and 9th Marine Regiments in the north.

The little devil's three-way column then drove straight into the field hospital of the 3rd Marine Division of the US Army. More than 3,000 US nurses, military doctors, and wounded were killed, and field hospitals were burned!

This was a wonderful battle that brought into full play the tactics of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and even played at a super level.

For example, the little devils did not implement the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army's "surrender the gun but not kill" and "give preferential treatment to prisoners". Bai Shujie knew about the battle afterwards and thought it was worth praising the little devil.

On August 28, 1944, the U.S. Army finally captured Sumai, and the troops from the north and south met at Tengjue Mountain.

On the same day, Lieutenant General Gao Pinbiao, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Guam and commander of the 29th Division, personally led his troops to launch a final decisive charge and was killed.

Lieutenant General Hideyo Obata was well aware that the U.S. forces had a great advantage in firepower, and in order to put up a protracted resistance, he left only two brigades to cover the narrowest waist of Guam, and personally led the main force to withdraw to Mount San Rosa for the final battle.

The battle lasted until August 29, when the 1st Marine Brigade seized the Orote Peninsula, and the American troops annihilated more than 14,000 Japanese troops, paying the price of more than 22,000 people killed in battle, and finally took control of half of Guam.

After a brief recuperation in the field, the U.S. forces launched an attack on August 31, 1944.

With the support of naval artillery fire, and the Japanese troops took the initiative to retreat, the American troops advanced smoothly. At about 11 o'clock, the 3rd Marine Regiment occupied Agra, the capital of Guam.

On September 3, the 77th Division captured the village of Barigada, and the American army finally found two wells.

Unexpectedly, before the little devil retreated, he had already poisoned the well, and it was potassium cyanide, and as a result, all the American devils in a battalion were poisoned and died.

The well water was not drinkable, and the more than 30,000 U.S. troops who had landed on the island had to transport fresh water from more than 2,000 kilometers away by warship.

On 5 September, Landing Commander Geiger ordered the U.S. forces to speed up and seize Mount Santa Rosa, a watershed in the middle of Guam, before the Japanese established the final line of defense.

Only by occupying the watershed can we use the spring water in the mountains to completely solve the problem of drinking water for the troops, and at the same time control the commanding heights of the army.

Otherwise, if the little Japanese devils launch another counter-assault, they will definitely lose their previous efforts, and the previous more than 20,000 people will die in vain.

On September 10, Lieutenant General Hidera Obata who had run out of ammunition and food sent a final farewell message to the Tokyo base camp, then burned the military flag and personally led the flag team to launch a final charge against the American troops down the mountain.

The problem of the little devil is once again highlighted, that is, the high-level commanders are all rice buckets.

There were still more than 10,000 troops under his command, and he gave up because his headquarters was in danger of being surrounded.

After sending the telegram, Lieutenant General Hidera Obata abandoned his troops and launched a suicide attack in despair, serving His Majesty the Emperor, who was "glorious and great, but incorrect."

On the contrary, it is the middle and lower-level officers of the little devils who have strong executive power and have the endurance to never give up, thus maintaining the combat effectiveness of the Japanese little devil army.

Geiger was just as happy as MacArthur.

The U.S. military had reached the northernmost tip of Guam, and for the sake of his personal glory, he could not wait to announce to the public that the organized resistance of the Japanese army on Guam had been eliminated.

As everyone knows, the fact that the Japanese army did not appear on the ground does not mean that it has been completely wiped out. Guam's surface positions fell, and more than 10,000 Japanese devils went underground.

The consequence of Geig's telegram not only misled the people outside, but also the attacking troops below, resulting in a paralyzing and careless feeling.

Coupled with the continuous bloody battles, everyone was already exhausted, so the troops participating in the war neglected to take precautions.

That night, Geiger's station was attacked by more than 10,000 Japanese devils. A regiment of guards was mostly killed, and Geiger escaped with only nine men hiding in a crack in the rocks.

All the weapons, ammunition, medical medicines, compressed biscuits and other military supplies hoarded by the Geiger Command were snatched, thus determining that the American devils would never really occupy Guam until Little Japan announced its surrender.

To be honest, after Bai Shujie heard the news, he almost wanted to shoot the case.

It's a pity that the little devil's equipment is really limited, and he only wiped out one of the guard regiments of the American devils and avenged his lieutenant commander.

According to Bai Shujie's meaning, if he had known that this was the case, he should really have airdropped a batch of weapons to the stubborn little devils and solved all the American devils who landed.

The Japanese army in Guam never gave up resistance and continued to fight until January 24, 1972, for 27 years!

On September 16, 1944, the Japanese resistance finally ended, and the regular battlefield of the Battle of Guam came to an end.

In this battle, the Japanese army killed more than 27,000 people on the spot, more than 400 people were captured, and there were no wounded. More than 23,000 Americans were killed and more than 31,000 wounded, and no one was captured.

In any case, now the initiative in Guam is in the hands of the US military.

Although nearly 50,000 people were killed and more than 40,000 were wounded, Nimitz's "surprise attack" finally achieved its goal.

Guam, Tinian, and Saipan were lost one after another, the strategic defense posture of the Japanese army in the Pacific deteriorated, and the "absolute defense circle" established by the base camp was facing collapse due to the loss of the core area.

The "Absolute Defense Circle" has been torn through the middle, giving the US military a forward base for continuing its advance in the Central Pacific, and the Japanese mainland has been exposed to the fire of the US B-29 "Air Superfortress" bombers.

At the last moment of the ground battle on Guam, Hideki Tojo wanted to send troops back from Indochina, but unfortunately he could no longer do what he wanted.

In order to save the huge crisis caused by the collapse of the "Absolute Defense Circle", Hideki Tojo started the "Operation No. 1" plan in a desperate attempt at the end of August 1944.

He ordered the Japanese troops in China to open up the Pinghan, Yuehan, and Xianggui railway lines running through the mainland at any cost, in an attempt to get rid of the blockade of the US Navy and supply the Japanese troops trapped in the South Seas.

It's a pity that this battle is not over, but the dust has settled on the Guam side.

The Battle of Yuxianggui began at the end of August, which was the last fight before the Japanese little devils fled, and although they opened up the mainland communication line, they were no longer able to consolidate this line.

As the B-29 bomber group of the American devils began to directly attack the Japanese mainland, Hideki Tojo also came to the end of the road.

The successive defeats on the battlefield, the defection and disappearance of the commander of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (this is the conclusion of the Japanese dwarf), intensified the trend of the domestic opposition.

On September 18, Hideki Tojo, who had lost the trust of the emperor, held his last cabinet meeting and presented his resignation as prime minister to Koichi Kido.

On the same day, he resigned as Chief of Staff (General Umezu Mijiro succeeded on the same day), and successively resigned from the posts of Minister of War, Minister of the Interior, and Minister of Munitions, and transferred to the reserve.

With the fall of Hideki Tojo's cabinet, even ordinary people began to suspect that the myth of the invincibility of the Imperial Japanese Army might have a lot of moisture in it.

The haze of the end of the country is coming, and it is already at hand.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.