Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

Company K took advantage of the Japanese army on September 9 until yesterday. If the third settlement day is the evacuation day of the 28st Marine Division and it still goes smoothly, it would be too arrogant and underestimated the male commander of Chuanzhou.

"Guys, from now on we're going to have the last chance, maybe not...you've come all the way with me, you know who I am, I won't lie to you , it will be easy to fight after lying to you, and will only tell the truth."

Evan spoke out about yesterday's worries.

"It is impossible for the Japanese army not to notice this very special force of ours. They will definitely try their best to deal with us, not to mention defeating us, but also maiming us. At that time, many people... including me, will die in the Here, it is even difficult to have a tragic ending."

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"I was eating at the same table just now, and there may be no more voices from comrades-in-arms in the meeting. Next, we will win. I promise you that we will win, but I can't guarantee that you will all survive. I don't force anyone People follow me up, any of you who want to quit can now switch positions with volunteers."

Yiwen waited for a moment, but no one flinched.

"The front will be our death and our grave, but I believe... After this battle is over, many people will remember us, because it is not others but us who rushed to the front line to kill These rat-like devils!"

"Brothers, follow me! We will die together on the road of attack!"

"Hu———re———!"

65. Feint?storm!

Ivan put everything in the worst direction. For example, he only asked the army to make a feint to attract the attention of the Japanese army, but unexpectedly, these gangsters were desperate enough. The most important thing was that a heavy artillery battalion belonging to the infantry division of the army landed yesterday. It was necessary to call the artillery of the 11th Marine Regiment, relying on the Army Heavy Artillery Battalion that had just landed to calibrate the impact point with artillery observers at a position close to 50-80 meters, which gave the Japanese army a blow.

If a single shell is not effective, then one more, two, three more...until a hole is poked out of the Japanese army's bright castle.

This is not a feint, but a strong attack—Ivan ignored that the impact of Company K is not limited to the [-]st Marine Division, and the command's acceptance is not just a perfect guarantee of Company K's logistics, at least the army generals in it are a bit small Temperament - I can't control the internal affairs of your Marine Corps, but I never think that the Army can only let K Company go up and fight. Our boys will prove the bravery and adaptability of Army soldiers, and even subjective The initiative is no worse than your Marine Corps soldiers!

If Ivan knew about this, he would definitely clap his hands and applaud, but it is undeniable that after the male commander of Zhongchuan Prefecture personally took charge of the 8th district, the little devils here no longer had no choice but to keep filling their lives in the fortress as before.

"Report-Forts 24 and 187 in area 193 were heavily shelled, and the attacking US troops are launching from the front, carrying very fierce firepower!"

The male commander of Zhongchuan Prefecture stayed in the simple command post of No. 8 area, while listening to the factual battle report and staring at the tactical map, the whole person was as taciturn as if his thoughts had drifted far away.

"Report - Fort 24 in Area 193 was bombarded by heavy artillery, and the entire bunker was blown up!"

"Report--"

"Report..."

Next to the male commander of Zhongchuan Prefecture, there was a second lieutenant, a warrant officer, three chief cao and three sergeant cao, all of whom assisted him in re-planning the occupied areas of his side and the occupied areas of the enemy on the map according to the battle situation.Normally, a commander's command post must have a sand table that restores the terrain. Not to mention how fine it is, at least the location of each light and dark fort can be identified. It's just that the conditions on Peleliu Island are relatively bad. Commanding the devils in the three regions It would be nice to have a big map somewhere.

The battle started at 7 o'clock in the morning, and it is now close to 10 o'clock. The pressure on the front line is quite high, and every time the orderer reports news, it puts considerable pressure on the command post-3 Mingbao were destroyed by the US military in 6 hours .

It was not the destruction of the Japanese army inside, but the fortress was blown into ruins and could not be used. Even so, Nakagawa Prefecture's male commander still held his breath, as if he was not worried about the current battle situation at all.

"Report - Fort 24 in Area 187 was attacked by flamethrowers at close range. The machine guns inside the fort have been destroyed. Warrant Officer Kobayashi requested to mobilize a machine gun squad from the reserve team."

Before Nakagawa could speak, the second lieutenant and warrant officer below couldn't sit still.

"Your Excellency, the Yankees are almost hitting our headquarters, if this continues, it's game over!"

"Don't you think that the enemy in front of you is Company K? With such ferocious firepower and efficient offensive, are there other companies besides Company K!?"

The first thing Mr. Nakagawa did when he came to the 8th District was to form a reserve team, and redistribute almost the entire 7th, 8th, and the remnants of the defeated soldiers who had withdrawn from the 9th District. The district commander can still hold a reserve team of 60 to 2 people. Now it is really impossible to squeeze out a dog. Basically, there are only 1 people in each fortress, and even some bunkers only have [-] rifleman... ...otherwise the Army could not have progressed so fast.

Destroyed 3 bunkers of the Japanese army in 6 hours, which is very close to the results of the entire army infantry regiment in the previous two days.

In addition to drawing out troops to form a new reserve team, the Nakagawa Prefecture male commander also took a big gamble-he mobilized all reserve forces from the 4th, 5th, and 6th regions in the southeast, and the 10th, 11th, and 12th regions in the north. Soldiers in each reserve team are required to carry 6~8 grenades and gather near the entrance and exit of the tunnel, and place a small number of communication stations in the reserve team to ensure that they can contact each reserve team immediately when a counterattack is needed. Team.

The price is that any news from the front line received by the male commander of Zhongchuan Prefecture will be delayed for about half an hour, but it is better than staying at the headquarters in the Five Sisters Mountain area for several hours.

In this way, he had to judge which direction the U.S. army was attacking from was Company K. If it failed, it would be equivalent to ruining the troops that could have taken advantage of the terrain to do more damage to the U.S. army.

His idea is very simple - if it does not cause damage and casualties to Company K, such an army beyond military common sense will tear apart and tear apart the things that the Locust Army is proud of one by one.

"Your Excellency—!"

"You idiot, shut up!" Nakagawa scolded.

Following the burst of shouts, the command post immediately fell silent. Seeing the anxious look of the junior officers, Colonel Nakagawa said softly: "There is only one chance, and it may not succeed, but it is better than being here by K company." Then one burnt to death... You must think from the perspective of the K company commander, don't think that he is a dirty Yankee, and face the opponent squarely to hope to win the victory."

With the method and efficiency of K Company, even if all the fortresses are given up, they will be blown up one by one if they are not given a chance to be burned to death. More importantly, they still take care of the tunnel entrance... Ten days, 20 30 days, [-] days, as long as they give time, they will bomb - if they don't launch a counterattack against Company K, the locust army has only two options.

First, he was burned to death in the bunker by the flamethrower; second, he retreated into the tunnel and lingered until he died of starvation and disease. If you keep sending people up to fill the bunker, he will kill your people. If you give up the bunker, He will blast you with a large amount of explosives and seal you underground.

The Nakagawa Prefecture male commander who wanted to understand the K丨 tactics admired the commander of the unit very much. He not only maximized the advantages of the US military, but also firmly grasped the disadvantages of the locust army... But it is not like this in another area. In a place hanging alone by the sea, reinforcements can continuously provide artillery support, and they can continuously rush up to deliver supplies to increase the strength of the troops, which will not make him such a gamble.

"Tell Warrant Officer Kobayashi that I will not give it to him alone. If there is a bunker that must be filled, let him go there himself!"

66. The Colonel must have been beaten out of his mind by that K company, right?

If at 7:30 in the morning, Nakagawa Shuo was just a little bit puzzled when he learned that Area 24 was under attack, after all, he felt that it would not be so easy to transfer Company K to another direction overnight to launch an attack—if it was a It is not difficult to set up an ordinary infantry company, but it is the K company that spills supplies like urine. Each attack must ensure a large amount and sufficient supplies. Shifting the direction means that the supplies must be transferred. Such a huge project Quantity, how can it be so simple?

It's just that with the passage of time, the head of Nakagawa Prefecture's male commander kept recalling everything about the United States described by General Kuribayashi Chumichi, and he mentioned that "it does have many problems, but the horror of industrial production capacity cannot be ignored. "I have seen with my own eyes how their factories operate. The chain-to-chain process is synonymous with efficiency. In comparison, our country seems to be behind by five or 60 years."

When these words appeared in his mind one after another, Nakagawa Nakagawa gradually felt that the U.S. military might really be capable of tactically transferring hundreds of tons of supplies to the entire K Company overnight.

Based on this, no matter how ferociously the US troops attacking from the east attacked and how many bunkers they destroyed, he did not think it was the masterpiece of Company K.

'It is absolutely impossible to take a rest! '

That being the case, where would Company K attack from?

First of all, the southeast is impossible. The only strategic purpose of attacking from that place is to join forces with the U.S. forces that are storming the 8th area to expand the flank area. If the commander of Company K, who has achieved such a brilliant record, wants to expand the flank control area, there is no need to go around. this circle.

What if attacking from the northwest?

At the beginning, the male commander of Zhongchuanzhou thought that if it was possible, the commander of Company K would launch an offensive from such corners with his unconstrained tactics, but then he directly denied his ignorant thoughts—you can see it from a careful look on the map. I understand that if K Company really did this, it would just come out of the oblique stab to join the frontal attacking troops. The attack distance exceeds 2 kilometers and must pass through the defense lines of more than half of the four districts.

It's not that K Company doesn't have the ability to penetrate a road, but their logistics supply line is much longer than that from the east, west, south, and southeast. The long supply line, Nakagawa Prefecture's male commander thinks that the commander of this company is not so stupid.

After eliminating these two directions, the north and northeast can also be eliminated, leaving only the west and southwest, the latter being the Five Sisters Mountain area where he set traps twice.

'The Five Sisters Mountain area...is really likely to do the opposite! '

Shuo Nakagawa found that what this American army was best at was not the gamble tactics that made him gradually desperate, but that he could easily see through the combat deployment of the locust army, just like it was not Company K who set a trap for the first time. , Surrounded 3 marine companies for the second time and set traps in the same place, K company still went straight into the locust army's waist as if it hadn't seen it, and it took only two days to rescue the friendly army from another direction.

Now is the third time.

Changing the direction of attack again, one hammer to the east and one hammer to the west, it looks messy and may not create terrible results, but in reality, this set of random punches combined with strategy and tactics beat the little devils defending U Mountain quite terribly .

If it were a commander with an average level of ability, it would be like the few grassroots commanders who are standing next to the Nakagawa Prefecture male commander, who have been beaten so dizzy that they only know to keep filling the bunker with lives, or very desperately initiate A wave of counterattacks with few troops, little preparation, and no meaning.

He believes that even if Shao Zuo Pingkang is the commander here, or those conceited generals are here to command, the result will not make much difference...Because I haven't figured out one thing from the beginning, this group of US troops The essence of strategy and tactics is to seize the initiative and lead the locust army by the nose - run to this place to beat you up, run to that place to beat you up, make you lose troops, lose your mind, and make you tired of running , was eventually nibbled away and eliminated bit by bit.

Just like in the past three hours, Nakagawa Prefecture's male commander had the idea of ​​mobilizing the reserve team at least 7 times, because the firepower, accuracy, and efficiency of the frontal enemy are really well-deserved K Company, which is difficult for other US troops to have. The situation arises, but every time he has this thought, he will ask himself again and again: There is only one chance, are you sure?Are you sure?Is it really K Company?

Then he gradually suppressed this thought, until now he firmly believed in his own judgment - the enemy in front of him was definitely not Company K!

'Five sisters mountain area and the west, only these two options remain. '

After careful analysis, the male commander of Zhongchuan Prefecture is most likely to be in the west. It is not that he has strong confidence in the underground fortifications in the Five Sisters Mountain area. He simply carried out strategic deduction based on the thinking and ideas of the K company commander. Locked to the west instead of Five Sisters.

"Everyone—obey the order—!"

The officers stood up in unison, and the male commander of Zhongchuan Prefecture arranged for combat missions by name. Only one sergeant was left in the headquarters, and the rest had to assemble a reserve team to wait for orders. Company K launched a counterattack-required to get as close as possible to throw grenades to kill the US troops.

In the end, it was a good idea, and he didn't directly issue an order to leave the tunnel and launch a counterattack, because when company K really appeared in an unexpected area, the Nakagawa Prefecture male commander could let them move quickly.

Of course, the officers below did not understand very much.

west?

The U.S. offensive in the west has been quite weak in the past few days. Even now there is not much movement there. Judging from the reported situation, most of them are assisting the U.S. attack in the east, with a small amount of firepower to contain them.

Now the Colonel said that Company K would definitely appear in the west, without giving any reason, directly confusing the grassroots officers, but he didn't dare to say a few more words.

After leaving the command post, the officers discussed in a low voice.

"Shall we attack the air?"

"The pressure on the east is so great, but not a single soldier is reinforced. How can it be judged that Company K is not in the east but in the west?"

"I shouldn't have been too suspicious, but... I always feel that Colonel was beaten out of his mind by that K company, right?"

Complaints are complaints, the tasks that should be performed must be carried out. It was already 12:[-] noon when they arrived at the designated location and made a communication report. If Ivan knew this efficiency, he would have to yell at him—it took more than an hour to assemble the reserve team, the responsible officer He should be dragged out and shot!

In fact, due to the relatively complicated situation of the underground tunnels, this is already quite efficient. The reserve force is not concentrated in a certain underground tunnel, and it is necessary to send people to assemble and arrange which tunnel entrance and exit to go to the surface.

The conjectures and inferences of Nakagawa Prefecture's male commander are completely correct, but the person involved suddenly fine-tuned the combat deployment.

67. There is no way to avoid it, so you can only face it head-on

At 11:01 a.m., when he was about to continue advancing 12 meters before 50 o'clock, Ivan suddenly received news from the Army that he was in a hurry—from 7:200 a.m. until now, the Army had advanced a total of [-] meters. Destroyed more than a dozen bunkers.

The moment the news reached his ears, Ivan felt a chill down his back, and the chill suddenly appeared in his heart, stimulating every nerve in his body.

It is not so easy to directly destroy the bunker that the little devil hides underground with heavy artillery. After thinking about it, there is only one way - to shoot the shell regardless of the cost, and to provide accurate coordinates through the artillery observer approaching the position of the accidental injury, and finally use the shell The penetrating force hit the bottom of the bunker, controlled the explosion with a time-delayed fuze, and knocked it flying.

Ivan has no doubts about the techniques and tactics of the US artillery in this regard.

If you want to say that the American infantry stretched the span during World War II, almost no one would object, but if you want to say that the American artillery stretched the span, then you would be a bit ignorant-the U.S. military on the Western Front often used this method to pry the Germans open fortress.

The problem was not with the US military, but with the Japanese.If Company K fought like this, Ivan fully believed and felt that the efficiency was not as good as before, but it was completely different when the Army achieved such results.

It's not to ridicule that this army has no such combat effectiveness and the possibility of achieving such a result, but Ivan doesn't believe that the Japanese army will be so aggressive.

The day before yesterday, yesterday, two days ago, the other attacking companies were all covered in bags, and today they suddenly became incapable?Unilaterally beaten by the army! ?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

That being the case, Ivan could only think that the little devil had changed his battle plan.

The specific changes or adjustments, the situation on the army side has been written clearly - the little devil will inevitably draw troops from this area or even areas close to the north and south to form a team that can effectively counterattack, and the spearhead will be pointed at the top soldiers of K company With the attacking firepower group.

As I said before, Yiwen's tactic is to build this group of people into a steel needle that can pierce everything. The sharper it is, the easier it is to break. The safest way is to put a protective cover around it, but due to the terrain The restriction made it impossible for Ivan to let the infantry come up to build a protective cover.

To deal with the vanguard and fortified fire groups who do not have enough firepower to deal with the Japanese army that suddenly appeared in all directions with more than ten times the number - it takes at least 10 minutes to mobilize the infantry to come up, but the Japanese army during this time will It's very crazy, even if you want to exchange your life for one, two for one, even if it's five for one, ten for one, it's not a loss, because the current reserve technicians have been exhausted, and K company has one less casualty here. Cannot be supplemented.

It is easy to replenish supplies, but it is difficult to replenish soldiers.

Therefore, Yi Wen decisively stopped the original attack plan, and got in touch with the gun king in the rear through a convenient communication tool.

The first thought was to retreat directly to let the Japanese army go into the air, but after thinking about it for two seconds, I just gave up... The headquarters made such a big determination and used so much effort to guarantee this and that. If you didn't launch an attack Instead, they withdrew directly. Even the division commander, Major General Ruperts, couldn't keep Ivan. Originally, he wasn't going to be carried down Mount U alive, but he didn't want to leave without killing enough devils.

The second idea was to ask the infantry to come up to replace the fortified firepower team and build a defense line to deal with the counterattack of the Japanese army gathering a large number of troops, but it was strongly opposed by Captain Haldane.

"Inswood, we can't do this." The gun king said, "The reason why we have come to this day is precisely because of the support of one after another. We can do this at night, but we are not qualified to stop during the day, at least You are not qualified until the Japanese army really launches a large-scale counterattack...!"

Captain Haldane said that so many preparations and guarantees were related to the fate of the entire K company. It was not as simple as involving officers. He could accept that he would be at a disadvantage in the battle with the Japanese army, but he could not accept that he would take the initiative to stop. reason.

At this moment, Ivan finally understood that not only the entire [-]st Marine Division was staring at K Company, but also the entire offensive force was staring at K Company, as well as the game between the two top bosses—MacArthur and Nimitz .

It is said that the person in charge of this area is MacArthur, but he has no interest in attacking the Palau Islands. He has supported Halsey the Brute's proposal to skip the Islands from the beginning to the end, but Admiral Nimitz always feels that he must attack the Palau Islands first. Make sure there is a material transfer base, and in the end because of the delay of the telegram, you have to continue to fight.

The results of Company K made Admiral Nimitz, who was far away in Pearl Harbor, feel that although his judgment was wrong this time, it was not without any results.

"Even if we stop and defeat the large-scale counterattack of the Japanese army, the headquarters can use this to punish vigorously. It is nothing for an officer to lose his position or rank. I am not afraid of these things. Maybe the headquarters will not do this, but they will definitely issue orders. Mandatory orders—our brethren will be forced to be cannon fodder and die one by one, isn’t this the result you and I most want to avoid?”

Yes, Ivan, the gun king, the bumpkin, the old gun, and even all the officers of Company K are avoiding any meaningless sacrifices. For this reason, they did not hesitate to unite the division commanders to fight against the headquarters, and Major General Ruperts gave all the confidence to K With the support of Lian, the matter proposed yesterday was very difficult but it was handled perfectly for you. This is all because Company K did not attack according to the combat deployment of the headquarters, but obtained one victory after another.

"Then, there is only one road left!"

Ivan took a deep breath and said, "Our apparent goal now is not to join the army, but to rescue the three besieged friendly army companies. You must deploy a platoon of infantry to defend them."

"False target?"

"Yes, the real goal is to attract the Japanese army's reserves and then destroy them!"

Originally fighting from west to east, now we are fighting from west to south. The strategic situation is to open a life channel for the besieged friendly forces...Since the little devil already knows how to deal with K company, what about the army today? With such smooth progress, they must be preparing to concentrate their efforts to defeat K Company in one wave.

Yiwen's unconstrained tactics before were to avoid this situation, but now that it was inevitable, he could only face it head-on.

It's a wild gamble.

The Japanese army seized the opportunity to take the lead. Although the little devil lost this opportunity after Ivan passed detailed thinking and judgment, it also forced Company K to embark on this road with only a slight advantage.

"I will apply to the 1st Marine Regiment for 1... No, at least 3 infantry companies for reinforcements. In an emergency situation, a platoon of reinforcements is enough to change everything... Finally, Warrant Officer Inswood Irving, as you said when you brought your brothers in - let's die together on the way to attack!"

"Aye aye, sir!"

68. We do not accept any option other than victory

At 11:10, the vanguard team turned to the south, Ivan followed quickly, and the attacking fire team advanced immediately. After 10 minutes, an infantry platoon was led by a country bumpkin to organize the defense line according to the terrain... This is not a normal infantry platoon. It is a reinforced platoon with 4 81mm mortars, 4 M2 heavy machine guns, and 2 additional infantry squads.

How many meters Ivan advances, they will follow up to protect the flanks and stretch the defense width by how many meters... It is a feint attack, but it cannot really be a feint attack. At least it needs to be fierce to fight the Japanese reserve team. Mobilize out.

Otherwise, the Japanese army will see you thundering and raining, and you will stand still. Can your company K continue to give up the attack and wait on the spot?

Therefore, you can only attack, and you have to fight hard, and at the same time you have to find the right time to retreat.