Chapter 897: Sneak attack on Pearl Harbor

After the shelling, the front line of the American army and the Cuban political axe army was forced to retreat three kilometers into the second line of defense. The Independence Army and its support personnel who crossed the river rushed in, the wounded American troops, the wounded who could not be transported away, were captured, and all the supplies on the front line were plundered.

The pockets of the corpses on the ground were all cleaned, but the identity tag of the corpse was not moved, and it was still hanging around the neck of the deceased.

In just three hours of counter-charge, the tacit understanding was successfully broken, and the US army, which was caught off guard, suffered a big loss, plundered countless important materials that were transported to the forefront, and gave the independent army ammunition and weapons and equipment to support the war out of thin air.

When MacArthur received the news of the fiasco, he organized a second line of defense and ordered a counterattack, seizing the opportunity to entangle with the enemy and engage in close combat.

But when the army gathered and rushed to the front line, they unexpectedly did not see a single enemy army, and there was not a single screw left in the front line, only messes and corpses all over the ground.

The opponent is running out of ammunition!

Instead of being angry, MacArthur was ecstatic. The enemy was in such a hurry to carry out a counterattack because of the lack of ammunition. According to his speculation, eighty percent of the people on the opposite side were recruits, and although dozens of people were injured in one position in each attack, the opponent's bullet consumption was thousands or thousands. In the gunfire of the bean popping, the hit rate is extremely low.

"Go on the offensive !!"

MacArthur ordered loudly.

The U.S. Army and the Political Axe Army returned to the front line of the offensive while cleaning up the corpses.

After "friendly" and simple consultations between the two sides, the US military and the political axe army spent about an hour cleaning up to a distance of 60 or 70 meters from the enemy's position, transporting all the corpses that were clean in their pockets and resting for half an hour. Before dark, the attack was launched again.

At the beginning of the offensive, the U.S. Army and the Political Axe Army adopted the tactics of fatigue and attrition, launched an uninterrupted attack, forcing machine guns and grenades to join the defense in the positions here, and once hit dozens of meters in front of the positions.

The battle was extremely fierce. The attack of the American army gave Dong Kudu a bit of a headache. The vision at night is not good, even if some fighters have been equipped with night vision devices, but at a distance, they cannot be seen if they are not close to 100 meters, so sniping has become an obstacle.

The addition of grenades and machine guns led to a sharp increase in ammunition consumption. Recruit casualties in the unit are also increasing. Fortunately, a batch of airboats would land every two nights, and hundreds of tons of ammunition would flow continuously, and Dong Ku was not worried that the supplies would not be able to keep up.

It has been increased to six empty ships in pairs of twos. A round trip from Mongolia for six days, which is equivalent to a wave of two days, 500 tons. This number will increase as the number of airships continues to increase, and the combat attrition will be completely resolved within a week.

The battle has not stopped since that night. The U.S. Army and the Political Axe Army are constantly attacking, trying to use this most primitive offensive method to consume the opponent's ammunition supply.

Therefore, the battlefield is stalemate. Gunfire continued around the clock. But there has been no progress, except for the ever-increasing death toll on both sides. It is difficult to break through the battle situation.

As long as the US military does not use aircraft and artillery, it does not use tanks. The Independence Army on the opposite side defended its position with its spears alone. As long as it is used, the opposite side will thunder back and completely destroy those auxiliary attack weapons.

It became a meat grinder, and MacArthur was anxious to find a solution. It's feasible to test every day, and it can be used in any way. But in addition to the loss of aircraft, it is impossible to break through.

A large-scale tank attack was completely destroyed at close range by the enemy's anti-tank weapons that had been ambushed in advance, and more than 200 tanks were lost at one time, and even the experimental tanks were vulnerable.

Although obtained some of the necessary data on the weapon to improve. But the losses were too great.

It is said that life should not be extinguished, and this is also suitable for MacArthur. If he continues to fail miserably and does not make achievements, then his military career will end with a stain.

Just after five days of fighting, a long-planned attack saved MacArthur. That is, they were silent, set off in groups, and assembled the Japanese troops on Oahu to launch an attack on Pearl Harbor.

On the sea, the sky was still dark, and Yamamoto Fifty-six, a gambler, gave the order to attack. Immediately, Nagumo ordered the plane to take off.

On the aircraft carrier, the fighters took off one after another, quickly assembled in the sky, and flew to Oahu in formation. They followed the same route as they had done on the previous plane, still attacking from the north, heading around Pearl Harbor.

At the moment when the Japanese plane took off, Roosevelt took his coffee, sighed heavily, and then showed his face.

He knew that after today, American isolationism would not exist, and he would make the sleeping giant of the United States stand up, waving his fists and roaring.

The sleeping island of Oahu did not know that death was coming. At dawn, they are still doing their daily work, today is the weekend, they are going to enjoy the vacation, they don't know when they will go to war. Especially the battleships and those giant ships, they all knew about Cuba, and they knew that they were afraid that they would soon go to war, so they especially cherished their vacations.

At 6:10 a.m., a formation of 180 warplanes flew towards Oahu.

At 7:15 a.m., the second wave of 170 planes took off.

At this time, the U.S. troops at Pearl Harbor still didn't know what to do, and they were still comfortably busy with their own affairs, and there was no one on the battleship. Cuba is also repeating the previous offensive moves, and the battle is in full swing.

At 7:53 a.m., the commander of the fighter planes gave the order to attack, and the group of planes came out of the clouds and pounced on Pearl Harbor, which was unaware in the distance.

The first wave of fish bombers and dive bombers swooped down on the harbor, and the flamingos swooped down on the airfield in groups of five.

At the moment of the group's movement, a Type 99 and a flamingo broke away from the formation and did not follow the group to the harbor.

The Japanese planes saw the huge battleships, their eyes lit up one by one, and they rushed to the largest battleships with a fanatical shout.

Even at this time, the U.S. troops on Pearl Harbor did not smell that this was an enemy attack. They looked at the flying group of planes and thought that this was an offensive and defensive drill that they had done before. They all smoked leisurely, looking at the shiny airplane in the sun, and judged their tastes.

Sun Flag......

A sailor looked at the approaching plane suspiciously, and a faint bad thought rose in his heart. Before he could shout, several torpedo bombers aimed at a large battleship dropped torpedoes under their stomachs.

When the water splashed, no one had yet noticed that it was an attack, until the planes whizzed over the battleship. Everyone was horrified to see the clear sun flag logo.

At this moment, in the midst of the screaming, one dive bomber after another pierced straight towards their respective targets, and the whistling sound of bombs followed.

"Air Raid !!"

reacted quickly to see the white waterline rushing straight to the battleship, and immediately shouted in horror.

But no sooner had he shouted than a loud boom drowned out his voice.

A battleship was jerked up. Then it fell with a bang in the rolling mist. The ship was hit by a torpedo in the middle of the hull, and before it could catch fire, it was hit by another 500-kilogram aerial bomb on the deck.

Rumble!

It shook again, and a huge ball of fire rose up, debris flew into the sky, and thick smoke rose with it, billowing into the air.

"Pull the alarm!!"

"Air Raid !!"

"This is not a drill! Damn it! Back to your posts!! ”

The violent explosion caused all the American soldiers who saw this scene to shout in horror and rush to their combat posts.

Unfortunately, they were running too late. The moment the torpedo bombers dropped their bombs, they had no chance.

One after another planes roared, and in the clattering fire, bombs surrendered to those unsuspecting, and at this time the warships were in chaos, and in the loud roar, puffs of smoke rose up.

At the same time, flamingos pounced on the airport. The planes that were placed in pieces were live targets, and strings of bullet chains were drawn. The planes fell apart.

The sudden attack on the airfield and the absence of the pilot made the Japanese planes feel like a fish in water, comfortably dropping 60 kilogram bombs one after another, blowing up the hangar and destroying all the planes on the tarmac.

The airport is just a moment. Hundreds of planes burst into flames, debris flew all over the sky, and a violent explosion made the eyes of all the people who were still alive blood-red, and all kinds of weapons strafed at the planes shuttling through the sky. The easiest way to stop these demons from wreaking havoc.

At this moment, in a violent explosion, the Arizona was hit by an 800-kilogram bomb on the foredeck, which ignited the black powder used for seaplane ejection, and then detonated the smokeless powder of the main turret, and the violent explosion lifted the horizontal structure of the entire hull and the hull above the armor column.

The turret was shaken by the not-so-violent explosion of the bomb, and two minutes later an even more powerful explosion broke the turret, fuel came out somewhere on the left chord, and the bow sank into the sea, and the waves flooded the aft main deck, and then a fire broke out, and the black and red plumes of smoke flew several meters into the air, visible from afar.

Seeing the brilliant results of the battle, the Japanese attack formations roared down, specially picking those big ships to bomb, before climbing, the machine guns did not forget to love you to pump the bullet chain to those who ran to the combat post, or the American troops who were fighting, hitting them with flesh and blood, sparks splashing.

In just 10 minutes of bombing, Pearl Harbor was paralyzed, and the establishment could not leave, and even sunken warships blocked the route out of the port, and the sea was covered by fire, and thick smoke rose thousands of meters high.

The Japanese fighters were already crazy at this time, and when the enemy ships began to counterattack and defend, waves of formations still rushed to the battleships without fear of death, and bombs and torpedoes poured down like money.

At this time, bullets flew over Pearl Harbor, debris was scattered, and most of the battleships were looming due to the condensation, and the size of the tunnel was unknown if they did not get close.

This also led to the Japanese army starting to bomb wildly, and there was no effective organization at all, and they no longer cared about those damaged warships, as long as they caught one, they immediately attacked.

Just when the first wave of bombers in Pearl Harbor had already finished dropping bombs, an earth-shattering noise came from a distance, followed by a ball of fire that bloomed like a fireflower rose up three to four hundred meters, and one by one the fireballs burned and flew out in all directions, and exploded in the air continuously, throwing out patches of fire rain.

The destruction of Pearl Harbor came...... (To be continued......)