my bright sword career

Chapter 647 Dead Horses as Living Horse Doctors
联军对于进攻图鲁鲁山的决心是巨大的，不但华夏派遣总队几乎全军出动，光是美陆战2师出动的部队就有第2、6、8、10四个步兵团，以及师部直属的第2侦察营、第2轻装甲侦察营、第2坦克营、第2工兵营、第2两栖突击营等部队，共17500人。

In terms of scale, the 2nd Marine Division is far superior to the Huaxia Dispatch Corps in terms of size and strength. In addition, they are attacking the relatively flat south, so they are also facing the most intense resistance.

Harry's 8th Marine Regiment was the main attacking force. As soon as they arrived at the foot of Tululu Mountain, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army.

Although limited by time and materials, Japan cannot use reinforced concrete to build permanent fortifications here, but the Japanese are not stupid. They dug a large number of large and small caves by using the terrain, and opened up the caves. The condescending advantage blocks the US military.

Facing the retreating tactics adopted by the Japanese army, the strategy adopted by the U.S. military was to bombard with artillery first, and then send infantry to compete with the Japanese army one by one.

After a night of fierce fighting, the bunkers such as the temporary fortifications and parapets built by the Japanese army at the foot of the mountain had already been blasted into a pile of tatters, and corpses buried under them could be seen everywhere in the ruins. American soldiers cleaning the battlefield on the hillside would often face dead body
"Bah, bah!"

Accompanied by two clear gunshots, Harry, who was cleaning the battlefield at the foot of the mountain, and more than a dozen American soldiers from the 8th Marine Regiment hurriedly hid behind the trees, looked towards the place where the gunshots came, and carefully observed the large and small people at the foot of the mountain. Varying caves.

During the hours of fighting, many Japanese soldiers hid in those caves, relying on shooting and killing the attacking American soldiers in the caves, although the large-scale battle has ended, and there have been hundreds of American soldiers in these few hours Soldiers were killed and injured by Japanese guns in the cave.

An American second lieutenant wearing a steel helmet leaned against a rock, took out the small binoculars in his pocket, and flashed half his head to find the cave where the Japanese army was hidden.

"Ba... whoo..."

Unexpectedly, as soon as his head appeared, accompanied by a gunshot, a bullet flew past his shoulder, and the second lieutenant who was holding the binoculars was so frightened that his whole body trembled.

"Damn it, these Japanese monkeys are really accurate with marksmanship!"

The second lieutenant, who was lucky enough to escape, cursed with lingering fear, and if he moved an inch or two further, his head would probably explode.

Harry, who was leaning behind the tree, saw his lieutenant hiding behind the stone again, and shouted loudly.

"Sir, it's not an option to search like this, or try throwing two grenades!"

The second lieutenant, who had lingering fears, heard that it was a solution, but no one knew how deep those caves were, and using grenades might not be appropriate.

He thought for a while and shouted to the back: "Two people, throw two tear gas bombs into the hole! Choke these Japanese monkeys out."

"Yes!"

After hearing the order, the two American soldiers first ejected all the bullets from the Garand rifle in their hands, then put a launch sleeve on the muzzle of the gun, took out a green tear gas bomb and inserted it into the mouth of the sleeve, and finally Load a blank bomb.

After doing all this, two soldiers poked their heads out of the bunker and pulled the trigger at the largest cave tens of meters away. Accompanied by the muffled sound of the launcher, the tear gas grenade was fired immediately. out.

Two or three seconds later, the cave was completely shrouded in light gray smoke, and figures flickered in the smoke from time to time.

"what!"

Accompanied by several miserable howls, Harry and the others saw several figures fall down from the cave one after another, tens of meters away from the cliff, but when the black figures fell.The sound of "poof, poof" can still be heard one after another.

When the smoke gradually faded, these American soldiers saw the Japanese soldiers who were lying on the ground struggling to get up as they wished. This time, without the command of the officer, the American soldiers raised their rifles and pointed at the Japanese soldiers. trigger.

"Two more tear gas bombs!" Seeing that the tear gas bombs had an effect, the second lieutenant just wanted to order to continue the attack, but just as the words were out of his mouth, he heard a dull whistling sound in the air.

Immediately afterwards, a deafening explosion sounded in the distance, and then a group of US troops more than 200 meters away from him was instantly enveloped in thick smoke.

The power of this shell was so great that Harry and others who were more than 200 meters away were also knocked to the ground.

After the explosion, Harry staggered up from the ground, spat out the dirt in his mouth and cursed: "Shit... This is a heavy gun with a caliber of at least 150mm. Where did the Japanese get it?"

Harry's words are correct. The shell that exploded just now was fired by the Japanese Type 150 [-]mm mountain artillery.

Although the range of this artillery is not very far, it is powerful and accurate, and it is extremely light compared to other artillery of the same caliber, so it quickly became one of the heavy artillery of the Japanese Army as soon as it came out.

While speaking, a few more shells landed in the formation of the US military with a dull whistling sound, and the ruthless flames and thick smoke swallowed dozens of US troops in an instant.

"Find that damned artillery quickly and destroy it!"

The U.S. military, which was dizzy from the bombing, hurriedly called for air force support, but the answer they received made the soldiers of the 8th Marine Regiment feel cold.

"Sir... the Air Force informed us that because Henderson Airport was bombed by the Japanese battleship King Kong the day before yesterday, most of our planes were lost, and now there are only a dozen or so planes that need to give priority to supporting the 1st Marine Division. request cannot be fulfilled at this time."

Thomas was so angry that he cursed, "It's the 1st Marine Division again, and we give priority to the 1st Marine Division. Could it be that our 2nd Division was raised by a stepmother?"

After cursing, he directly connected to the division headquarters, reported the current situation to the new division commander, Major General Julian Smith, and asked for air reinforcements.

But Major General Julian's answer disappointed him greatly. In addition to comforting him, Julian also gave him an idea, asking him to send a team to Huaxia for help.

"Shet!"

Thomas put down the phone and began to curse.

"Let me ask the Huaxia people for help, do you think I'm not ashamed enough?"

Looking at the furious Thomas, his adjutant boldly said: "Sir, don't you have a good relationship with Chi Yaohui from the Huaxia Dispatch Corps? Maybe it will be useful to ask him for help now?"

"what do you know?"

Thomas said unhappily: "Now that the late boss has arrived to take over the command, even if I have the cheek to ask him for help, it may not be of much use other than embarrassing him."

"If you don't try it, how do you know it's useless?"

"I... ok..."

Thomas sighed helplessly, now he can only be a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

(End of this chapter)