Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

29. Is this quite a strict order?

Why do most armies pay attention to strict hierarchy and put an end to disobedience on the battlefield, and they do not hesitate to set up the most severe punishment for this? It is precisely because there will be a second and third time after the first time.

The move through the airfield changed Captain Haldane forever.

He no longer blindly believed in the judgment of the headquarters, but tried every means to make the boys under his command survive the war—he would never let go of the opportunity to work abroad.

"Ah this...!"

The country bumpkin really didn't expect this to be the plan in the mind of the longing chief.

After all, the tanks were pulled over from the battalion headquarters, so wouldn't it be unnecessary to say no to attack?

"This is not to be told to a third person, but you must keep Inswood on the team."

"Aye aye, sir."

When Yiwen learned that he was kicked out of the vanguard team, he was stunned.

'Fuck, didn't we agree?How dare you go back on your word! ? '

Seeing the country bumpkin hesitating to speak, with determination in his eyes, Yiwen glanced at Cannon King.

If you say that directly issuing orders can change Lieutenant Eddie's will, Ivan would still believe this before the conversation yesterday, but he definitely won't believe it today.

"Obey orders!" the country bumpkin couldn't refuse.

"Aye aye, sir!"

After following the team forward and having to stop for a period of rest every 300 meters, Ivan seemed to have a corner of the answer.

'Damn it, could it be that the gun king didn't want to complete the changed battle plan at all! ? '

After conducting three investigations throughout the morning without any success, Ivan was convinced that his company commander was really leading the team to fish.

'Damn it—absolutely! '

' No wonder the redneck was changed after being pulled over and said a few words! '

According to the changed battle plan, Company K was not given an order to storm a certain area, but to look for—yes, that’s right, to find loopholes.

You can find it, or you can't find it. After all, you are completely unfamiliar with the terrain of Umurbrogol Mountain, and frequent reconnaissance operations do not mean that Company K has not worked hard.

Even if it is found, it can be said that it has not been found!

Captain Haldane was also very cunning and asked the rotating vanguard to enter the mountain area and fire a dozen or twenty shots before running away. The little devils inside also gave a strong counterattack the moment they heard the gunshots.It's not that the beasts are stupid, but that they are really not sure whether the US military will attack, and a lot of bullets were wasted.

At night, the Cannon King was not idle, and formed a team of veterans who could see the road clearly in the dark. They continued to go into the mountain to fire a round of bullets and then ran back quickly. The task assigned by the headquarters.

It was implemented, but it was not fully implemented. Let alone entering the mountain, even the large valley connecting Umurbrogol Mountain had never been entered.

Of course, this does not mean that Company K really did not exchange fire with the Japanese all the way.

The little devils huddled in the Umurbrogol Mountain would always send some scouts to leave the fortifications and search outside to try to catch some American prisoners for interrogation information, because the 1st Marine Regiment attacking from the west and southwest was working hard and fighting extremely fiercely. I heard that there were nearly a hundred casualties every day, so most of the devil scouts fumbled to the east and southeast, and then came across Company K who was stuck with a mission bug.

The fighting process was quite short. Ma Run and his men fired two or three rounds of salvo, and the little devil scouts were defeated.Although it caused some losses to K Company, before receiving the order to return to the airport on September 9, there were a total of 24 moderate injuries and 3 minor injuries, but at least 6 little devils were killed.

Some wounded were sent to the field hospital that had been set up, which proved in disguise that the company led by Captain Haldane had fought fiercely with the Japanese army.

It's no wonder Company K didn't work hard because they couldn't find any loopholes, but the little devil's defense deployment was flawless.

Anyway, the school officers and staff officers staying at the battalion command post did not know the specific situation on the front line, and the tanks following Company K also withdrew to refuel before the evening of the day they arrived, so how could they know what Company K would do next.

On the way back, the spirits of the K company Ma Run were quite good, after all, they did not really participate in the hard battle like the 1st regiment.

Under the wise command of Captain Haldane, Company K killed 9 devils at the cost of injuring 38 people, and seized 3 non-commissioned officers' knives and various Japanese weapons in nearly a week.

It's a bit funny that in the past time Company K has not made any real progress. It has neither controlled the valley entering Umurbrogol Mountain nor won any commanding heights. Quite frequent reconnaissance operations are equivalent to empty guns, but they have received support from the regiment headquarters. award.

Before nightfall, Company K enjoyed a hot meal and learned that it would take two or three days to rest at the airport.

In his spare time, Ivan instinctively collected information.

From the second day after the airport was captured, part of the 5th Marine Regiment and the 7th Marine Regiment began to advance northward, but it was almost as if Company K stopped immediately after the first reconnaissance operation. Most of the 7th Marine Regiment also stepped forward to cooperate with the 5th Marine Regiment to cooperate with the 1st Marine Regiment, but each of the following Marine Battalions and Marine Companies did not make any actual progress.

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The overly tortuous and complicated terrain is the first, and the second is the crazy move through the airport the next day after landing, which caused serious loss of troops.

If the cannon king returned to K Company on September 9 to start all kinds of fishing operations, then the company commanders of other companies tried several storms, and after being fiercely counterattacked by the Japanese army and escaping in a hurry, the captains were completely helpless. Know how to fight - according to the previous method, there will be a lot of fire coverage before each company-scale attack, and the infantry often only needs to go in and clear some remnants of the enemy, but this time is completely different.

It was bombed once, twice, three times... No matter how many times it was bombed, the infantry company was violently fought back by the little devils after entering the area with complex terrain, causing heavy casualties in just a few minutes.

陆战7团的一个步兵连在9月20日一次10分钟的强攻中战死19人受伤33人失踪6人，撤下来以后该连连长内疚的无法走过心里的那一关吞枪自杀。

The US military's powerful ground-to-air firepower network in the past could not play much role. The company commanders who no longer knew how to plan an offensive plan simply failed, and the orders were carried out as usual, but they never thought of launching a strong attack again.

Including the 1st Marine Regiment, which has been fighting fiercely so far.

Since its landing on September 9th, the Marine Regiment has fought day after day with the Japanese army at a place called "Point" on the northwest side of the airport, until the airport was captured by the 15th Marine Regiment. After this 'point' was controlled, it advanced to the Umurbrogol Mountain on the north side, and then encountered the regiment's fatal disaster-the Five Sisters Mountain.

The 5st Battalion of the 1th Marine Regiment suffered 70% casualties at a place called Bloody Nose Ridge in the Five Sisters Mountains, but so far the commanding heights are still in the hands of Ma Run, and it is very questionable whether the regiment can survive.

The head of the regiment, Colonel Puller, asked the headquarters for help more than once, saying that his entire regiment was about to be wiped out, and even asked the 81st Regiment of the 321st Infantry Division of the newly landed army to take over the position, but the headquarters told him to hold on for a while.

The reason is that yesterday, that is, on September 9, the little devil actually sent additional reinforcements from the main island of Palau to Peleliu Island. There were two groups of people in total. The first group succeeded, and the second group was overturned by the navy. According to According to the captives, at least several hundred people successfully landed.

The generals who heard the news were furious and immediately took measures-the death of the 1st Marine Regiment, the 7th Marine Regiment took over the 5th Marine Regiment and continued to suppress the east and southeast of Umurbrogol Mountain, and the Army's 321st Infantry Regiment from the west bank Fighting north, the 5th Marine Regiment replaced to occupy Ngesebus Island, Kongauru Island, and Murphy Island, and then from north to south, together with the Army 321 Infantry Regiment, captured the Amiangal Mountain in the northern part of Peleliu Island, completely cutting off the Japanese guarding the island from the outside world. All links.

Ngesebus Island, one of the three northern islands, is connected to Peleliu Island. There is a long and narrow causeway, which is reported by reconnaissance planes that take off frequently from the airport. There are ground artillery deployed by the Japanese army on the island and a small At the airport, Colonel Bucky Harris, the head of the 5th Marine Regiment who received the mission, believed that the enemy's situation was unknown and walked directly from the lift to hit the Japanese army's arms, so he asked the headquarters for 4 days of preparation time.

The 5th Marine Regiment will make another beach landing.

The Ma Runs who heard the news were not very happy. After all, everything that happened in the landing battle on September 9 was vividly remembered.

"The new offensive method has been communicated from above, and at the same time..."

The country bumpkin found Ivan alone, and his face was very ugly: "The command requires us not to retreat casually during the attack on complex terrain. Even if we want to retreat, we must kill at least one fortification of the Japanese army, otherwise the company commander will be severely punished. The second time the rank is lowered and still hold the position, the second time the position is revoked and let him personally lead the blasting team, the third time he is shot... At that time, each marine battalion will send a gendarmerie team to the front line to see if the company commanders have completed the final basic tasks."

If the company commander is killed, the sergeant major/deputy company commander/platoon leader will go on top, and then continue to follow this order until the infantry company's officers are exhausted.

But it does not mean that the attacking company can only rely on itself. The 11th Marine Regiment staying at the airport will go all out, and the Marine Corps aircraft will take off frequently, and cooperate with the attacking company to provide accurate fire suppression.

The attack plan Ivan thought of before is exactly the same as the attack plan assigned to each infantry company now-the 11th Marine Regiment composed of artillery will cover the reinforcement channel and the commanding heights when the infantry attacks, and the F4U pirates carry incendiary bombs to further suppress the commanding heights. Immediately afterwards, machine guns were used to conduct low-altitude strafing to ensure that within a certain period of time, no Japanese firepower would emerge in areas where the infantry company was difficult to scruple.

What the infantry company needs to do is to form a blasting team of 2 to 3 people based on soldiers carrying M5 flamethrowers, and the rest of the soldiers will provide fire support in the offensive area to suppress the Japanese bunkers that cannot be taken care of by aircraft and artillery.

The attack plan with so many steps and links is to give the blasting team a chance to get close to the fortress.

30. Extremely generous rewards for the settlement of the first stage of the main task

The main job of the military police in the U.S. military is to picket discipline. It sounds like "supervising the battle team" according to the country bumpkins, but in fact it doesn't matter half a dime.

Yankees are used to being free and loose, and the habit will also be brought to the barracks. It is too easy to deceive a team, just like the First Marine Division was tortured by the harsh environment during the Battle of Guadalcanal. A lot of the supplies were stolen by the hungry Ma Run on the day they landed, including the famous God of War in Guadalcanal, Basilone. .

Although the order of the headquarters is very strict, if you commit the same problem three times, you will be shot directly, but that is not the job of the military police. They are only responsible for recording whether the attacking company has completed the basic indicators on the front line-even if they retreat, they must destroy the Japanese army. A fortification.

To be honest, compared with the German and Soviet troops who vigorously opened punishment camps at the same time, they are nothing, but we can also see the determination of the headquarters.

After all, the generals didn't just urge the companies below to fight, but after countless discussions and deduction and combined with topographical maps, they came up with the best attack plan so far.

As for the effect, it will only be known after the fight.

"I have to work hard."

Ivan looked at the country bumpkin and said, "I don't think there's anything wrong with the cannon king and other infantry company commanders' actions in the past week."

If it weren't for this group of company commanders, a lot of soldiers would have been killed or injured in the past week, and the unlucky 1st regiment would have faced the main force of the Japanese army.Whether it's day or night, the little devils are launching a counterattack to retake the Five Sisters Mountain, and the brothers in the 1st regiment have no chance of doing badly.

"Now I feel that the headquarters is just a red-eyed gambler. It will not stop here until the [-]st Marine Division is completely scrapped."

The country bumpkin complained, "I really want to rush over and ask the generals—how many more people need to die before you stop."

"..."

"It's worthless, it's worthless at all!" the country bumpkin smoked, "The little devil has successfully sent a group of reinforcements to this side. If we continue to fight, we will definitely fight until October. The battle preparations for retaking the Philippines have been completed. Almost all the troops are assembled and ready to board the ship and set off from Australia——!"

Many people may not believe it. On the eve of the whole army preparing to land on Peleliu Island, Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey were still arguing about whether to carry out the "stalemate operation". He thinks that there is no need to fight the Palau Islands, because its strategic position is very embarrassing, just skip the fight against the Philippines, while the former thinks that the strategic position of the Palau Islands is very important, and it must be defeated first before fighting the Philippines.

In the end, the trouble came to Washington, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to trust the judgment of Halsey, who was on the front line of the war. However, the telegram to stop the "stalemate operation" was long overdue until the top soldiers had landed on Peleliu Island.

There was no turning back when the bow was opened, so it continued like this until the Japanese army provided reinforcements to Peleliu Island from the main island of Palau. springboard.

Now the battle line of the First Marine Division can’t be pushed to a stalemate with the Japanese army, with more than 100 casualties every day. The second Philippine campaign has entered the pre-war mobilization stage, and according to the intelligence passed by the guerrillas on the island, it shows that it is stationed in the Philippines. Even the guerrillas couldn't do anything about the little devils, they huddled in their strongholds and dared not come out, but if the main force landed on the Japanese army, they would be defeated at the first touch.

In this way, let alone Peleliu Island, even the entire Palau Islands lose their meaning.

However, the headquarters did not let go and did not admit its failure, and issued such an order like an irrational gambler.

"Sir, the reality is—"

Ivan handed over a cigarette and said in a low voice, "Regardless of whether the people sitting in the command post have become gamblers or not, we have no choice but to obey orders."

"Yes...yeah..."

The country bumpkin glanced at him, then refilled a new cigarette, and the extraordinarily intense emotions just now gradually calmed down.

Since such an order can be issued, it means that no matter who comes, the First Marine Division's operations on Peleliu Island must continue.

Officers at the grassroots level can also complain.

"Sir, please be mentally prepared." Ivan said, "It doesn't need to be said that it's a hunch, but it's a reality that will definitely happen—the fire-breathing team of Company K may die in two or three battles."

This is very important, because after the baptism of World War I, the flamethrowers of various countries have been updated and iterated. For example, the M2 flamethrower in the hands of the US military has theoretically increased the attack distance from the original version of more than ten meters to the attack distance of up to 50 meters. The distance actually increased to about 30 meters.

Compared with close-range blasting, it has a natural advantage. However, the fire-breathing soldier is a technical unit that not everyone can take on.

Each fire-breathing team will have a shooter and a shooter, just like serving a light machine gun or a bazooka. The shooter is responsible for controlling the front end of the flamethrower to release flames to an area according to the order. The shooter carries a set of fuel tanks and is responsible for opening them to the shooter. And close the tank valve on his back to ensure that the huge killer on hand can be retracted freely.

Occasionally, when the battlefield is complex and the flamethrower is dispatched frequently, one more person will be added to the team. He will not use the M2 flamethrower or replace the fuel tank. He is only responsible for carrying the third set of fuel tanks. After all, the M2 flame Six or seven long bursts of the injector can almost replace the gasoline tank and the nitrogen tank.

"No matter who is dead or injured between the main shooter and the deputy shooter, the fire-breathing team will lose their combat capability, and they can only rely on the infantry to go up and blast." Ivan reminded, "Remember to prepare more smoke bombs, Grenades, blasting cartridges, dynamite packs."

"I know, I understand..." the country bumpkin nodded.

"I'm going to rest first."

Taking advantage of the time, Ivan first went to the field hospital to check the injured part last time. The answer he got was that it was very good and there was no problem. He also told him not to forget to take painkillers if he was in pain.

"Well, thank you."

After returning to the station, Yiwen began to recharge his batteries.

When the time arrived in the early morning of September 9, he ushered in the first settlement of the main task.

【please wait--】

[The original number of the K company where the reincarnated people belonged: 190 people]

【截止9月25日0点00分K连编制内人数：87人】

[Detected death toll: 37]

[Death rate: 19%]

[Basic Evaluation: D+]

[7 bonus points for detecting reincarnation on the battlefield]

[The highlights are as follows——]

[1. As a medical soldier, you are not afraid of bullets and bullets on the battlefield, even though hell is ahead, but you go forward bravely]

[2. As a medical soldier, you do not distinguish between critical, serious, moderate, and minor injuries, and you will never give up as long as the wounded still has a breath]

[3. Regardless of whether the wounded in front of you belongs to Company K or not, you will treat them as soon as possible]

[4. As a medical soldier, even if you are injured, you run around beside the wounded, surpassing your duties and abilities, and never abandoning or giving up]

[5. The spirit you show makes the comrades around you yearn and yearn for, and greatly boosts morale]

[6. You brought out a qualified medical soldier, which minimized the death rate of Company K]

[7. In the face of a traumatized soldier, you have exhausted all non-extreme methods]

【Evaluation has been upgraded】

【Current Evaluation: A-】

【Excellent Medical Soldier】

[Rewards are as follows——]