my bright sword career

Chapter 583 Henderson Airport

"The Japanese have landed. Immediately order Major Winston to immediately launch a counterattack to the Japanese army's landing point. There are reef protection there. The Japanese landed in a hurry, and the number should not be too many." Thomas ordered.

The east is the sea, and being able to attack them from the east means that the Japanese came from the sea, which Thomas can be sure of.

"By the way,...the Japanese fleet!"

Thomas suddenly remembered this, and cold sweat flowed from his forehead instantly.

Yes, the Japanese still have their fleet.

At this moment, a series of red tracer bullets pierced the dark night sky, and the artillery roared instantly.

Thomas, who was just about to return to the tent, instinctively rolled into the foxhole beside him. Just as he rolled into the foxhole, a high-velocity shell fired from a naval gun pierced through the air with a shrill roar.

"Bombardment, lie down!"

A shell exploded beside him, and there was a large crater stained red with blood where he was standing.

Dense artillery shells kept falling on the camp near the airport. The Eighth Marine Regiment was blinded by the sudden attack, but they did not fall into chaos. Instead, they rolled into the nearest foxhole to avoid the shelling, thanks to the usual strict training saved them.

Harold, who was pulling the breech bolt and shooting at the landing Japanese army, saw a black figure rushing in front of him. Before he could raise his rifle, the opponent rushed to him. Without hesitation, Harry raised the bayonet-mounted Springfield rifle and rushed towards him. The opponent stabbed in the past.

Hearing a muffled grunt, the rushing black figure froze for a moment, then slowly fell down.

The east of Henderson Airport faces the sea, and the other three sides are either mountains or bushes. The main defensive forces of the Eighth Marine Regiment are in the other three directions, and very few troops are deployed in the direction near the sea.

After all, no one would have thought that the Japanese would attack from the sea. You must know that Task Force No. 17 is moored at sea, and the Japanese will attack them from this direction when they are full.

This is not only the idea of ​​the Eighth Marine Regiment, but also the idea of ​​Major General Flake, the commander of the No.17 Task Force.

So when a Japanese fleet sneaked to the east of Henderson Airport in the dark, and put down the landing craft to transport the two squadrons of Japanese troops to the east of Henderson Airport, it immediately caught the Eighth Marine Regiment by surprise.

Few people may have heard of Kiyoshi Ichiki in later generations, but those who have studied the July [-]th incident will know that this person was the culprit who provoked the July [-]th incident.

On July 1937, 7, Kiyonao Ichiki, who served as the captain of the Riverside Brigade, provoked the Chinese defenders in the name of an exercise, and fired the first shot at the Lugou Bridge.

After the incident, Kiyonao Ichiki once arrogantly declared that he "fired the signal gun for the prosperity of the empire".

After the war, his master, Emperor Hirohito, did not forget this "hero" and awarded him the Golden Eagle Third Class Medal.

By this time, Ichiki Kiyonao had served as the commander of the Ichiki detachment directly under the headquarters. This time he still arrogantly led his detachment and escorted by six destroyers to Guadalcanal Island.

The task of the Aoki Detachment is to seize the Henderson Airport that was occupied by the US military. In order to gain time, Kiyonao Kazuki divided all the troops into two echelons. The first echelon was led by him personally, with a total of 917 people. They took the lead by boarding a wooden boat. On the island; the second echelon of more than 1400 people took an ordinary transport ship to Guadalcanal.

In order to advance lightly, Kiyonao Kazuki ordered that all heavy weapons be left on board, and all troops under his command should advance lightly.

他率领的第一梯队的武器除了三八式步枪之外，就只有36挺轻机枪、24具掷弹筒、8挺重机枪、3门70毫米九二式步兵炮。

In Ichiki Kiyonao's view, the U.S. military's defense force east of Henderson Airport is weak, and in addition to its own sneak attack, it only takes one charge to crush the U.S. military.

But obviously, the progress of the battle was beyond his expectation, and it was extremely difficult from the beginning.

"The first team is stationed in place, the next day the team goes south, and the third team goes north..."

As soon as he stood up from the sand, Kiyomi Kazuki shouted orders to the Japanese soldiers around him, and then he ran westward along the coast. More than 1000 meters to the west is the Henderson Airport of the US military, but it is also the defense of the US military. The strongest position.

To make matters worse, the Japanese troops who charged in the first wave were discovered by the U.S. military.

Seeing that their whereabouts were exposed, more than 100 Japanese soldiers changed their sneak attack into a violent attack without stopping, and rushed towards the U.S. troops with [-]-style rifles, because according to their intelligence, there were only two platoons of U.S. troops stationed here.

But the expected one-touch collapse did not happen. What more than 100 Japanese troops encountered was a dense fire net constructed by the U.S. military with machine guns and 37mm rapid-fire guns. Most of the Japanese troops were killed in front of the positions before they saw the U.S. troops.

Seeing the failure of the sneak attack, Kiyoshi Kazuki cursed angrily, and then directed the Japanese army to launch a second wave of attacks.

More than 100 meters in front of the position, an M2A1 landmine buried in the bushes was detonated and exploded. Harry and the American soldiers in the trenches saw a Japanese soldier being blown up to the sky, followed by another mine explosion , and then let out a scream.

The author wants to make a correction here. In the past, in film and television dramas, once the undefeated protagonists stepped on a landmine, they immediately noticed it, then stopped in place, and then used the bayonet or chewing gum they carried with them to slowly deactivate the landmine. Come out, and finally come back safe and sound.

But in real life, this situation does not exist. As a defensive weapon, landmines are used to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible, so how can it be possible for the enemy to clear the mines.

Therefore, the vast majority of anti-personnel landmines are detonated fuzes, which means that as soon as a person or animal steps on it, the landmine will explode, and anyone who steps on their head will be blown to pieces.

The situation that the landmine will not explode immediately after stepping on it, but will not detonate until the opponent lifts his foot up, does not exist in real life.

"Great, blow up those damn yellow-skinned monkeys."

The soldiers in the trenches were extremely excited, and Harry's original nervousness eased a little.

Although Japanese destroyers blew up several artillery pieces deployed to the east, the U.S. military, which has always been known for its wealth and wealth, has a lot of ammunition reserves.

A few days ago, Harry and some soldiers who seemed to have nothing to do ran to the east to deploy a minefield, and now it finally came in handy.

But to Harry's surprise, although the Japanese stepped on two landmines successively and killed dozens of people, they still did not open fire blindly, but lay quietly on the ground to observe the situation at the airport.

(End of this chapter)