It is too late for Woje Atoll and Maloerap Atoll. The Sino-US coalition forces have broken through the Japanese defense. The Japanese troops on the two atolls are defeated. These two atolls are destined to fall into the hands of the Sino-US coalition forces. [Look at]

But Kwajalin Atoll was still in time.

So the Japanese army immediately mobilized urgently and added two brigades of the First Maritime Mobile Brigade to immediately reinforce the defense in the direction of the lagoon.

The person who commanded these two brigades was Kimura Hiroshi. He led his troops to the direction of the lagoon and couldn't help but curse: "These bastards, they have been stationed in these islands for so long, but they have no fortifications! What have they done for so many years!"

No wonder Hiroshi Kimura was unbalanced. Over the years, he and his troops had been dealing with the guerrillas in China, and had many days of fear. However, the 61st garrison was enjoying a carefree life with the sea breeze on these islands. It was fine. They had no fortifications at the critical moment of life and death.

Hiroji Kimura is worthy of being the commander who fought in China. Although most of his opponents are guerrillas, he still has combat experience in the end.

At the first moment, he ordered his subordinates to lay as many landmines as possible on the beach... Some subordinates expressed their objections to this, because the sea water would rise at night, and these landmines would soon fail to enter and become flooded by sea water.

Hiroji Kimura's rebuttal: "You still think about the rising tide at night? It's your mission to be able to stay alive until the night is still alive!"

While his subordinates were laying mines everywhere and building fortifications nervously, Kimura Koji tried his best to contact the Japanese troops of the two atolls Voje Atoll and Maloerap through relations, and inquired as much as possible about the attack of the Sino-US coalition forces. Then he judged that the enemy was likely to use a large number of "open tanks" to launch an attack. (Note: At this time, the Japanese army did not know what the amphibious landing vehicle was, so he called this monster with tracks to transport troops "open tanks")

It is not difficult to guess this, because the tide has receded at this time, and there are eight or nine hundred meters long coral reefs on the side near the lagoon, which are exposed one after another. It is almost impossible for a landing craft to pass through this reef belt. If the US military can attack, it will have to take an "open tank" to attack.

So Koji Kimura made a quick decision and issued three orders in succession.

The first order was to ask the subordinates to collect discarded tires everywhere, pile them up more than ten meters and pour them into a pile and burn them with gasoline.

The purpose of this is obvious, to prevent the US pilot from reconnaissing the Japanese army's actions... A large amount of black smoke will appear when the rubber tires are burned, which can effectively block the pilot's view.

This trick was learned from the Chinese. On the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese often have absolute air supremacy, and Chinese troops will do this when doing some actions that they do not want Japanese pilots to reconnaissance.

As expected, the American pilots saw nothing, and they even thought it was caused by US naval guns or artillery bombing.

The second order from Kimura Hiroshi was to dig anti-tank trenches near the sea.

Koji Kimura believes that if the US military attacks with "open tanks", it will definitely use the firepower and defense of the "open tanks" to launch an attack on the Japanese defense line.

Then, the anti-tank trenches can effectively block these "tanks".

In particular, it was not difficult for the Japanese army to do this... because the seaside was coral sand geology, and it didn't take much effort to dig out a deep and wide anti-tank trench.

Koji Kimura even asked his subordinates to demolish the houses on the island, and the wooden boards they removed were used to camouflage the anti-tank trenches... This made the anti-tank trenches look no different from the beach on the surface.

The third order is to request artillery fire from Colonel Nakatani.

Colonel Nakatani Kawaguchi is the highest commander of the Japanese army in Kwajalin Atoll. At this time, he was already in chaos due to the defeat of the Japanese army in Voje Atoll and Maloerap Atoll... Although Nakatani was a colonel, he was a colonel in the garrison. He had always been content with the status quo on the island and had never experienced wars. If he had experienced any war, it was the bombing of the Marshall Islands by the US military in recent months.

However, he always believed that it was very far away for the US military to directly attack Kwajalin Island where he was. After all, the Marshall Islands are so big that if American ghosts and animals need to eat one by one, when will they eat Kwajalin Atoll?

What he didn't expect was that the US military started eating from the center of the archipelago... and the US military's appetite was very good, and it swallowed more than half of the two atolls as soon as it started fighting.

Nakatanikawakami was worried that Kwajalin Atoll would also be the end of Woje Atoll and Maloerap Atoll, so he placed his hope on Hiroji Kimura. After all, Hiroji Nakatanikawakami knew that Hiroji Kimura had fought a war... In this situation, Nakatanikawakami knew that only those who had fought a war were the most trustworthy.

So as soon as Kimura Hiroshi spoke, Nakatanikawa immediately transferred more than half of all the artillery soldiers in his hands to the command of Kimura Hiroshi. The reason why he only transferred "most half" of the artillery soldiers was because Nakatanikawa was a little worried that the US military's attack on Kwajalin Atoll would unfold from the front rather than attacking from the lagoon like the other two atolls. Otherwise, why would the US military not launch an attack until now?

However, this was enough for Koji Kimura. He immediately adjusted all his artillery troops to aim at the offshore, atoll entrances and anti-tank trenches.

At this time, the terrain of Kwajalin Island helped Koji Kimura a big favor... Kwajalin Island is like a half-moon to say it looks like a bowl, which is also the reason why the US military gave it a code name called "Porcelain".

Because its shape is half a moon, artillery fire or machine guns are distributed around the coast, which will naturally form a perfect encirclement to the coast, which is obviously beneficial to the Japanese army.

Then Koji Kimura waited quietly.

In fact, Koji Kimura was not sure whether the US military would attack from the lagoon, because it would be incredible if the US military still attacked from the lagoon... The US military could attack from the lagoon like the other two islands in the early morning. At that time, the tide had not yet retreated, and the Japanese army was not prepared.

If this is the case, Kwajalin Island at this time will probably have two possibilities: surrender or launching a "Long Live the Charge" to the US military.

So, Koji Kimura didn't understand what Americans were thinking or what they planned to do.

But what surprised Hiroshi Kimura was that the scouts he set up at the entrance of the atoll quickly sent a warning with telegram... The Americans really attacked, and they appeared at the entrance of the atoll, which meant that they were still attacking from the lagoon!

(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!