Chapter 217 Eggshell
The dense guns and cannons rang out quickly.[
The Japanese army on Bito Island is the Japanese Navy Special 6th Team, which is the elite of the Japanese army, so the battle almost reached a white-hot level as soon as it started.
The advantage of the Japanese army is that they have complete fortifications. Although this side is not their focus of defense, Bito Island has become a defensive whole with almost no loopholes under the operation of thousands of Japanese troops for a year. Bunkers, tunnels, traffic trenches, etc. are intertwined in complexity, and the fire points are also combined to form a fire network that covers and supports each other with mortars, machine guns, grenade launchers, rifles, etc., so when they fight, they are like stabbing a hornet's nest on the north bank, and are full of dense bullets and shells.
The advantage of the expeditionary army is that they are unprepared, especially at night, which can minimize the difficulty of attacking Japanese fortifications. The reason is that most of the Japanese army hide in tunnels and bunkers... If they do not do so, most of the Japanese army will be killed or injured in the bombing of US warships and fighter jets.
This also caused the Japanese army to have a relatively low perception of the outside world. Expeditionary Army soldiers could find the Japanese firepower dead corners as much as possible and observe the dead corners of advance.
The Japanese army also knew this, so they desperately tried to shoot flares at the bunker, and all kinds of weapons spit out flames almost constantly. The north bank was filled with light from the flares and lines of fire shot from tracer bombs.
Major Domoto, who was stationed on the North Bank, immediately called Fukatanakasa to ask for help: "Your Excellency Nakasa... The North Bank was attacked by the enemy, and it looked like a Chinese, with unknown troops. Please reinforcements!"
The reason why Master Domoto used "looks like Chinese" is that they have always been stationed on Bito Island and have never been to other places, so they have never seen Chinese troops.
But they had heard of Chinese troops. In the previous Guadalam Battle, there was a Navy Special Six Team fighting on Guadalam. It was reported that there was a strange army on Guadalam. They were wearing British uniforms and American weapons, but they were Chinese.
What's even more strange is that this Chinese army has changed the Japanese's contempt for the Chinese army... because this Chinese army is very capable and its combat effectiveness is even much stronger than that of the US army.
The Japanese army is still not suitable for publicity for the combat effectiveness of this Chinese team, because it will "grow others' ambition and destroy one's own majesty", so ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers only get some vague legends. On the other hand, there is a superior who has notified that there is indeed such a unit. If you encounter it on the battlefield, you must be careful not to be careless.
In fact, this is to tell the legend of the Japanese soldiers that is true, because another meaning of "not careless" is that this army should not be underestimated.
However, Fukatanaka Sai is not a grassroots officer. He knows that this Chinese team is more than just the word "not to be underestimated"? This Chinese team is ace force that repeatedly defeated the Japanese 6th Army on the battlefield in Myanmar. Not long ago, in the Battle of Guadalam, he defeated the Japanese Second Division with fewer victories and more.
So when he heard Domoto's report that the Zhong** team appeared in the north, Fukatanaka Sa couldn't help but gasp. The next second he ordered: "You must block the enemy, I will send reinforcements to you right away!"
After saying that, Fukatanaka Sa called Master Fukuyama and ordered Master Fukuyama to bring his brigade to reinforce the north coast of Bito Island.
You should know that the total Japanese army on Bito Island is only about 6,000, and Fukatanakasa sent a large reinforcements to the north coast at one time, which also shows how much attention Fukatanakasa has attached to this Zhong** team that suddenly appeared on the north coast.
Then Sato Fukatanaka sat back on the chair and said to himself after a long time: "How could these Chinese... suddenly appear on the North Shore?!"
"Your Excellency Zhongzuo!" The staff officer next to him reminded: "These ** people are likely to have come in from the entrance of the atoll and then board 6 from the north bank!"
This reminded Fukatanaka Sato. He immediately jumped up from his chair and ordered: "Immediately order the artillery troops to block the entrance to the atoll, and in addition, order the Fukuyama Brigade to attack the Chinese troops, and be sure to annihilate the Chinese troops in the shortest time!"
Fukatanaka Sa may not be able to do strategically. For example, after he took over the command of Shibasaki Keiji, he did not seize the opportunity to organize a counterattack against the US Army's 6th War 2nd Regiment trapped on the island after it became dark.
But he is still very good at tactical.
For example, these two orders just now... the first order was to use artillery to cut off the reinforcements of the Chinese troops. The second order was to drive them into the sea as the Chinese troops had just landed on the island and had not yet established a foothold.
Fukada's idea is of course correct, especially the Japanese army is good at night battles, and the Fukuyama brigade's strength is equivalent to that of the Zhongxun team, with more than 1,000 people. Moreover, the Fukuyama brigade has the coordination of the Domoto brigade in the fortifications, so it is not impossible to defeat the Zhongxun team with a counterattack.
From this we can also see that the decision made by fellow villagers before was quite wise. He did not attack rashly when the first batch was only 500, otherwise it would not be enough for the Japanese army to get stuck in the gaps.
Although the expeditionary force is still at a disadvantage now, it is not without the strength to fight.
At this time, the fellow villager gave another order...
"There are all!" The fellow villager ordered: "Fry smoke bombs and cross the enemy's defense line!"
This order made the grassroots commanders stunned... Crossing the enemy's defense line? Isn't this fighting meant diving into the enemy's encirclement?!
But they still did not hesitate and responded to the "received" and conveyed the orders from their fellow villagers.
This order from fellow villagers naturally has his own reason.
The reason is that before the attack, my fellow villagers carefully looked at the map of Bito Island... The total area of Bito Island is 1.18 square kilometers, but Japan has built an airport in the shape of Bito Island on it, which has almost reached the largest range of Bito Island.
This should be the greed of the Japanese and hope to accommodate as many fighter jets as possible on Bito Island.
But building an airport in this way will have a problem... There is no way to have bunkers or tunnels at the airport runway. If there are these things, the plane cannot take off and land normally!
In other words, Bito Island’s defense is actually like an egg, which is hard on the outside, but as long as this shell is pierced, the inside is empty.
The order from the fellow villager was to lead the troops to break through this shell and seize the central part of the almost undefensive fortifications.
Chapter completed!