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Chapter 422: Replacing Offense with Defense

One hour later, it was not until sixteen "Hellcats" landed on Iwo Jima Airport one after another that Zhang Chi completely felt relieved.

When the "Hellcat" landed, the Japanese army only fired a few shots occasionally, and even ignored them later.

Obviously, this is what the Japanese know... If even such a big B29 cannot hit, then hitting the "Hellcat" would be a waste of shells. At the same time, the Japanese shells are very precious, so they simply chose to give up.

In fact, this is ultimately because the Japanese artillery shells are insufficient and the bombing density is not large enough. Otherwise, there would be shrapnel, craters and smoke everywhere, and there would be room for fighter planes to land.

With the arrival of the "Hellcat" fighter jet, Zhang Chi was relieved to let the Third Regiment land, so a group of garrisons stationed at Zhebo Mountain, the Second Regiment stationed at Highland 382, ​​and the Third Regiment stationed at the beach and served as the reserve team's Iron Triangle Defense, which surrounded the No. 1 Airport tightly in the middle of this Iron Triangle.

"Teacher!" Li Huakun, the commander of the 50th Division, could not wait any longer. He called Zhang Chi and asked, "It's our turn now! We are still blowing the sea breeze on the boat, and the brothers can't sit still!"

The fact is actually... Li Huakun himself is also a landslide, shaking around on the transport ship and seasick.

"No hurry!" Zhang Chi replied: "Let the soldiers train more on the boat and keep their physical strength and wait for orders!"

"Yes!" Li Huakun answered helplessly.

Commander Liang was a little confused when he heard this.

"Teacher!" asked Staff Liang: "The three regiments of the New First Division have been used up. Now it is time to transfer the 50th Division to take advantage of the victory to pursue it. Why are you still..."

"Is the Japanese hiding in the tunnel easy to fight?" Zhang Chi asked replies without answering.

"Of course it's not easy to fight!"

"Did those Japanese hiding in the tunnel have any impact on us?"

"It doesn't seem to have any effect!"

"Then what else do we beat them?"

Staff Liang was speechless for a moment, but after thinking about it, he felt that what Zhang Chi was right. The fighter jets and bombers who controlled the airport could take off and land on the island freely, and the Japanese troops on the island could be said to be useless.

"So!" Zhang Chi concluded: "It's not us who are anxious now, but the Japanese... The longer this continues, the more the Japanese supplies will be consumed. As long as the Japanese transportation line is not restored, their supplies and ammunition will always be used up for a day. It will be much easier to get the 50th Division to go to the time!"

Staff Liang couldn't help but say: "This is called "returning to the guest as the main force and defending as the attack. If the Japanese can't wait, they can only come out of the tunnel to attack us... In other words, waiting is death, and not waiting is death!"

Zhang Chi nodded.

If it were the US military, they would never choose to do this.

Because the US military prefers absolute security... This is actually a manifestation of lack of confidence in their combat effectiveness. The US military knows that their combat effectiveness is largely achieved by relying on superior equipment and powerful supplies, while the Japanese army has real combat effectiveness.

Therefore, if the US military encounters this situation, it means coexisting on the same island as the Japanese army, and even the Japanese army may attack the US military positions at any time... Then they will be like thorns on their backs and sleeping and eating, because they know that those Japanese like rats will look for any possible opportunity to penetrate into them and create chaos, and may even collapse the US military and rewrite the situation.

This is true. In the Battle of Iwo Jima in history, the Japanese army took advantage of the darkness to penetrate the US defense line and penetrated into the rear of the US military, where the US military's land and artillery units, and the "Sea Bee" troops were stationed.

(Note: The Sea Bee Unit is the nickname of the Marine Corps Engineer Unit, because its logo is a worker bee wearing a sailor hat. She holds a "Thompson" submachine gun in her first two hands, and many hands holding various engineer tools in the back, which means the characteristics of the engineering corps both construction and combat)

These troops were sleeping "huhhhh" and had no idea that the Japanese army had penetrated into the front.

Then, the tragedy inevitably happened. The Japanese army attacked from three groups. They used knives to split the barracks and stabbed the sleeping US soldiers. Some threw grenades directly into the tent, while others fired at the sleeping US soldiers with pistols and rifles.

After the US military was awakened by the gunshots, they started a melee with the Japanese army in the dark, so bullets flew everywhere, fists and feet, and fought each other in close combat... After dawn, the camp was full of corpses, and the US military suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, there were only more than 200 Japanese troops infiltrated, so it did not cause much chaos.

To be honest, the squadron is also afraid of such a thing.

But the squadron is much more strict in defense and organization than the US military... American soldiers are more careless and have their own ideas and opinions on the tasks arranged by their superiors. Sometimes they even think that their superiors are wrong and choose their own set. The squadron says one is one, and the assigned tasks should be performed unconditionally.

So it is obvious that the US military's defense line is more likely to be infiltrated, which was verified in the subsequent US-Vietnam War and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.

But the squadron is not just defense.

There is a saying that "there is no airtight defense line"... The defense line is as short as a few miles long as a dozen miles or dozens of miles. Once the defense line is long, problems will inevitably occur, and there will be loopholes in one way, and then the enemy will take advantage of the situation.

Therefore, being infiltrated by the enemy is almost inevitable and unpredictable. The US military is often overwhelmed by this infiltration by the Japanese army.

However, the squadron, to be precise, is the Chinese Expeditionary Force, they have a kind of heroism that Captain America does not have... Since entering Myanmar, the Expeditionary Force has been suppressing the Japanese, and many of them are elite troops of the Japanese. The 109th Division of the Japanese army we are facing now is just a B-type division. After a few battles, they also learned that their organization was a mixed brigade and a mixed wing.

The squadron that had fought with the Japanese army for several years certainly knew what the role of this mixed brigade and mixed gang was, so they immediately became condescending psychologically.

Sometimes, it is a good thing to have this situation on the battlefield, because it can at least "strategically look at the enemy."

The squadron's approach is to "treat others by their own way"... Damn it! Just because the Japanese mixed brigade team still plays infiltration with me, do you penetrate us? We also penetrate you!
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