The next morning, just as dawned, the US military could not wait to launch an attack on the Japanese positions.

This attack was organized by Vilit, and Vilit also boarded the "Wolf Corner" and established a command center to command it in a bunker seized from the Japanese... Vilit's approach is of course correct, because for a low-morning army, the most important thing to win on the battlefield is not training, equipment or supplies, but psychological encouragement.

Although Vilit's approach of leading by example has more elements to show off... At this time, the US military's communication equipment can completely allow Vilit to command without any obstacles on the ship, it can at least give US soldiers psychological support, making the soldiers feel that Vilit has always been with them, and is still on the front line.

As usual, the opening remarks are still prepared for artillery fire.

Perhaps it was to give the Third Army Division courage, or perhaps it was to prove that the US military was not inferior to the Chinese team at all, so the artillery preparation formation this time was unprecedentedly powerful... The defense line of hundreds of howitzers and light and heavy mortars bombed by the Third Army Division was handed over to the Navy in the past two kilometers of the area.

This is because the navy's naval guns and warfare opportunities were accidental bombarded by one's own people, so he left a two kilometers closest to the US military's position as a buffer.

If the artillery fire of the Third Marine Division is still ordinary, the naval guns and more than 200 bombers taken off from the five aircraft carriers were bombing Kwajalin Island in an indiscriminate manner, then it can be described as terror... The sky was full of fighter jets roaring by, and what you heard in your ears were either the roar of artillery or the roar of aviation bombs. The entire Kwajalin Island was shaking as if it was about to be sunk by the bomb.

Wu Yuhang's description to Zhang Chi on the radio was: "These Americans, they are not fighting, they are obviously just throwing bombs!"

Zhang Chi asked: "Do you think it will be useful for them to fight like this?"

"This..." Wu Yuhang was stunned for a moment and replied: "No sure! If the Japanese were like Tarava Atoll, it would be useless, if they were like Voje Atoll and Maloerap Atoll!"

"Yes!" Zhang Chi nodded.

Wu Yuhang is right. Now it depends on whether the Japanese army on Kwajalin Island looks a little more like Tarawarva or Voje.

For some reason, Zhang Chi hoped that the Japanese army would be more like Tarawa at this time, but this possibility was not great. After all, Tarawa was built by the Japanese army with a long time of preparation, while the Japanese army on Kwajalin Island did not have that much time.

What Zhang Chi didn't know was that the Japanese army on Kwajalin Island was neither like Tarava nor Wojie, and they had their own "defense and counterattack" strategy.

Koga Fengichi's "defense and counterattack" strategy of course also took into account the strong artillery preparations of the US military, so at this stage, the Japanese army's countermeasure was to hide in the tunnel to avoid artillery.

It is actually not difficult to build a tunnel, especially on dry geology like Kwajalin... The tunnel is actually the most feared thing about rain. No matter how strong the tunnel is, it will flood here and there, and there will be no rainfall in the location close to the equator like Kwajalin.

The Japanese built tunnels with simple methods. First, choose a lower position, dig out a fortification similar to a trench, and then tie wooden piles to reinforce the inside of the trench, then lay a layer of logs horizontally and a layer of soil, vertically build a layer of logs and then lay a layer of soil. If possible, build a few more layers, and even a few layers of steel plates. After that, use a bulldozer to push them on the surface... There is no difference from the surface, and there is actually a very solid tunnel underneath.

The tunnel built in this way can cause partial damage to the tunnel unless it hits directly, otherwise it will generally not cause casualties to the Japanese troops hiding there.

The "general" mentioned here is because the US military may drop aviation bombs weighing hundreds of kilograms. Such bombs do not need to hit the tunnel directly or blow up the tunnel, but they can shake people hiding in the tunnel to death... From a physical perspective, this is a kind of energy transmission. The energy of the bomb is medium and uses the explosion point as the center of the circle to transmit energy to the surroundings. If the energy transmitted to the human body is too large and it will damage or even shatter the internal organs, it will also cause death.

However, the Japanese army also knew during the battle that if they deal with this phenomenon... there is a saying that "I become a good doctor after a long illness." The Japanese have been bombed by the US military since Guadalcanal and have been bombed a lot. For the sake of their own lives, they will naturally summarize some simple and practical ways to save their lives.

So when they hide in the tunnel, they put some elastic things like rags or sponges on their elbows or palms, and use their hands, elbows and toes to support them on the ground... rags and sponges can digest the energy transmitted from the ground to a certain extent and buffer them. If they use their elbows and toes to support the ground, they will minimize the contact area between the body and the ground. The contact area is small, and the energy received is naturally less. Both hands and feet are the organs farthest from the internal organs, so doing this can prevent the organ from being damaged by shock.

Therefore, the US military did not play much role in the bombing of Kwajalin's Japanese army. It can even be said that the bombing of the US military helped the Japanese army to some extent... No matter how the Japanese tunnels were hidden, there were always traces to be found. If they had not been bombed, the US military might have found the tunnels of the Japanese army. But such a burst of explosions like a storm, the dust raised and the explosive bomb craters quickly buried the tunnels built by the Japanese army more perfectly.

This kind of bombing by the US military only lasted ten minutes.

This is not because the US military has no ammunition. The ammunition prepared by the US military for this battle can be said to be endless after several days of explosion.

The reason for stopping bombing is because of problems that have occurred during previous bombings... The dust raised and the water vapor evaporated when the shells exploded in the seawater quickly formed a circle of dust like fog surrounding Kwajalin Island, which made the pilot unable to see the target clearly.

If this was the past, it would be fine. It would be fine if you couldn't see clearly the target and threw bombs down. But now some of the "wolf horns" of Kwajalin are in the hands of his own people, and throwing bombs may have problems.

So the planned half-hour preparation for artillery fire could only end in a hurry ten minutes.

Then... soldiers from the 1st Regiment of the Third Marine Division advanced towards the Japanese under the cover of dozens of "Sheerman" tanks in a tank battalion.
Chapter completed!