Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

"Do you dare to follow three nines?!"

With a snap, Laiji flipped out his hole card, and said triumphantly, "Straight Flush? You're going to lie to the devil! The chef is going to die!"

4 9s with 1 K, this card is perfect.

It directly reached the upper limit of Lecky's deck.

Yiwen smiled unhurriedly, and opened the 10 and Q of Hearts... It was obviously only 4 points, but his luck was always overwhelming, and he was afraid that he would not know when to return it.

"Holy fuck!"

"Oh God! This is the first time I've seen such a big straight flush in my life!"

"What a joke!"

The comrades in arms gave unbelievable chanting.

Lackey stared at the deck of cards for two seconds. If it wasn't out of trust, he would definitely feel that Ivan was cheating.

"Damn it, who the hell shuffled the cards!?" Lecky scolded the shuffler angrily.

Ivan pointed at Lecky while eating the remaining apple, "I didn't expect a battle to make your IQ negative."

"F丨ck, it turned out to be me, so it's okay." Fucky leaned back and couldn't find the person responsible for it, his face full of helplessness.

Company H will rest until the early morning of August 8. Ivan took the opportunity to rest and apply for live ammunition training to the company commander, Captain Hugh Ligan.

Even if the supplies to supply the 1st Marine Division were not sufficient, as usual, even if approved, Ivan would only be given 30 rounds of bullets. However, the Navy Cross hanging on the tattered combat uniform played a decisive role. The quartermaster heard that it was Douglas Ivan, the hero of the 1st Marine Division, and without a word, he approved a daily quota of 50 rounds of live ammunition training, and he could fire 26 rounds until the morning of the 150th when the rest was over.

The most disgusting thing in Ivan's three-day live ammunition training was the Japanese military planes that appeared over Henderson Airport every day. They seemed to come to Ma Run's F4F "Wildcat" dogfight at fixed time and place.

Then, yesterday, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons ended.

The fleets of the two sides evacuated together due to mutual losses. Guadalcanal's sea control was divided into two parts. During the day, it was in the hands of the US military, and at night, because Fletcher was worried, it was temporarily in the hands of the Japanese army.

Due to compliance with Roosevelt's strategy of 'first Europe and then Asia', more than 70% of the supplies were given to the army, plus Fletcher was unwilling to engage in night battles with the Japanese army, resulting in extremely low efficiency of material transportation, and now there are 2 battalions plus follow-up There was also a battalion of Ma Run who landed on Guadalcanal, and the originally sufficient supplies became stretched.

The two-meal-a-day system has returned to the first-line Ma Run—"Happy heart" bid farewell to B, C, and D-grade rations, and "happy smile" welcomes rice.

29. At least, you will not regret not even touching a woman's hand before you die

After 150 rounds of live ammunition training, Ivan's marksmanship has improved a lot.

In the beginning, 100 out of 10 rounds on a 5-meter fixed target, and 2 rounds on a moving target, looked okay but most of them didn’t hit the fatal parts. Now it’s possible to hit 7 rounds on all fixed targets. In the lethal part, 7 of the 3 rounds in the moving target hit the lethal part.

The speed of aiming is much faster, and the most important thing is that he no longer needs to stare at the crosshair of the gun.After firing 150 rounds of live ammunition, he is already fully familiar with the M1903 Springfield in his hand. The deflection, recoil, and the points and strength that need to be paid attention to when pressing the bullet have all produced muscle memory.

If Ivan can be given more training time and opportunities, he believes that sooner or later he will be comparable to those sharpshooters in history.In terms of talent, there is definitely no way to compare with this group of geniuses, but Yiwen has a very powerful point - every point of effort added by ordinary people is 1 point, and he can change 1 point into 1 points or even 2 points in the middle of the effort, In the later stage, there is no cap on the start at 3 o'clock, which belongs to the slow-heating player in the no-bottleneck period.

It's a pity that the 1st Marine Division's supplies are limited, and the repair time for H Company is coming soon. Tomorrow, we will set off to conduct a combat patrol across Alligator Creek, to see if the Japanese army that attacked the airport a few days ago slipped through the net. It is best to catch a few. A prisoner returns.

On the night of August 8, it began to rain lightly, and it seemed to have no end.

Fortunately, until 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, Company H was repaired according to the order, so he didn't have to stay overnight in the position wearing a raincoat like other first-line maruns.

Since the combat patrol will be carried out tomorrow, the mountain men, smiling tigers, and scuds in the tent all went to bed early, and only Lecky chanted with his notebook by the faint candlelight.

It wasn't a letter sent by someone who missed him, because when he got closer, he found that he had a pen in his hand besides the remaining half of a cigarette.

"Who are you writing to?"

Ivan leaned over and sat on Lecky's makeshift bed, "Could it be to write a letter to my wife in my hometown?"

"Do you think I have a wife?" Lai Ji rolled his eyes and closed the notebook full of words.

"That's at least a woman."

"Vera."

Leckie did not deny, "Her name is Vera, and she is my good friend. Before joining the Marine Corps, I went to tell her the news, hoping that she would bless me in my distant hometown."

"you like her?"

Listen, Ivan is a little interested.

In a world that lacks entertainment, other people's gossip and the past are always the most interesting things - either full of black humor, or a tragedy, or a comedy that makes people laugh so hard that their stomach hurts.

"Ah."

Lecky admitted his feelings, and he didn't mean to be shy at all.

"Then why didn't you confess?" Ivan asked.

"What do you think?" Lakey asked.

After thinking briefly, Ivan said: "No one can guarantee that he can come back alive after participating in the war, so you are afraid that Vera will be sad when she hears the news of your death after playing with your friends...or you want to Get enough credit on the battlefield, wear medals on your chest to complete what you think is the most romantic confession ceremony."

Listening to Ivan's words, Lai Ji fell silent.

Ten seconds later, he sighed: "As expected of the chef, you know a lot."

But Ivan lit a cigarette and said, "But those are all excuses."

"!!!"

Lecky's pupils shrank suddenly.

"You like Vera, and you've been friends for a long time—know her, and she knows you."

Yiwen saw through Ma Run's mind: "You are afraid that your confession will fail, and then the two of you won't even be friends."

"..."

The professor's lips were tightly pursed, and the expression on his face was extremely stiff, all of which was right by Ivan.

But Laiji is Laiji after all, and this is what makes him different. He didn't overreact when his inner affairs were exposed and publicly executed. Instead, he asked Ivan, "Then what do you think should be done?"

"How to do it?"

Ivan had a strange expression on his face: "If it was me, if you like her, then go and confess, and say that you like her openly, even if the war engulfs me, and she may be sad because of it."

Lakey couldn't understand the rather hurtful behavior of the Navy Cross warrior.

"That's nothing but tragedy."

"But at least before I die, I won't regret that I haven't even talked to a girlfriend, and I haven't touched a woman's hand—"

Ivan stared at Lecky, and said solemnly: "Remember what I said - if you miss a lot of things, you may miss it for a lifetime, unless the God you no longer believe in opens a new door to your life."

The thing that the terminally ill boy regrets the most is that he used his strong will to get rid of all the temptations of the colorful world at that age. In fact, he didn't have to work so hard. With that kind of restraint, he couldn't reach the level of the number one scholar in liberal arts, and it didn't mean he couldn't enter the top. The school... When I was terminally ill and wasting away day by day, I could only look enviously at the carnival people staying in the world of feasting and feasting.

"If God really existed..."

He didn't finish his sentence, he seemed to be moved by Ivan's words, then he put down the notebook in his hand and ran outside the tent, shouting loudly to the rainy sky: "I love you, Vera—!"

The voice was so loud that many Ma Run could hear it clearly, and even alarmed many soldiers who were light sleepers.

"Wow--!"

"A warm confession!"

"Shhhhh (whistle)!"

Ma Run's favorite thing to do is booing. Hearing the name "Vera", you know it's a woman.

"I really love you, Vera—!"

"Don't trust those bad guys, Vera—quick! Come to me!"

"Vera, trust me, they are all 3cm soft, my 20cm is enough to make you feel good!"

Ivan didn't expect Lecky to do such a thing.

It can only be said that he is worthy of being a native of the United States of America, and he has reached a certain level.Facing the 'provocation' of other Ma Run, Lecky stood on the commanding heights without hesitation and declared loudly that he was Vera's real belonging.

Due to the loud roar, the searchlights in the camp directly hit this idiot, and the gendarmerie immediately ran over in the drizzle.

However, just when this group of disciplined guys were about to drag Lecky to the confinement room, a correspondent from the division came over and told the military police that the leader would not be punished, and the voice of indulgence in the rainy night would not be banned.

The division commander, Brigadier General Vandergrift, understands the soldiers under his command very well. Guadalcanal's harsh natural conditions and lack of infrastructure are enough to make Ma Run a lunatic here. The most important thing is the ration rationing system that has been re-introduced today. It will definitely make morale worse. If the soldiers' complaints are still suppressed at this time, I am afraid that the combat effectiveness will be difficult to guarantee, and the morale will be hit hard.

The rainy night couldn't cover the long-suppressed emotions of Ma Run and the others.

外>群$&5~1~>7|~8~/8#0*7<|[email protected]

This night in Guadalcanal is no longer a carnival for animals, and the Ma Runs dominate half of the night.

Many Japanese soldiers who failed to participate in the Battle of Tenaru River (Battle of Alligator Creek) heard the sound from the direction of the airport and thought that the Americans were having a party. Their eyes were almost green after being hungry for a while. , the beasts who thought of the American feast heard the gurgling from the bellies of their own kind.

30. Combat Patrol

Is combat patrol a boring thing?

Yiwen will give a definite answer - it's so boring, it's so exciting!

No one knows where the bullet came from, only that the comrade who was alive and kicking around just now was hit in the head and turned into a speechless corpse.

Many people think that street fighting is a nightmare for soldiers, and the same is true of jungle warfare-you never know where the enemy is hiding, and what traps you will step on, or you will not know where you are. Under the circumstances, he was killed by a bullet.

The PTSD produced in this environment will not be less than street fighting, and maybe there will be more.

Company H was ambushed without any accident, and the two fallen comrades reminded Ma Run beside him that it was very likely that you would die in the next moment.

No enemy could be found, so the rough embryos could only fire at places where they thought they had enemies.The dense jungle will make you have an idea of ​​'enemies in all directions', which is very easy to break the spirit of a soldier.

"Medical soldiers————!"

"Quick, fire—!"

"Fire suppression!"

Captain Shock Ligan had never experienced such a battle. He couldn't give effective orders if he couldn't find the enemy, and he couldn't disobey the order to retreat. He could only lower his body like this and let the Maruns open fire freely.

"where?!"

"Where is the horse riding!"

"You little devil, get out!"

No matter how the Ma Runs roared, the ambushing Japanese army just didn't have the idea of ​​showing up.

Yiwen immediately guessed a possibility - the Japanese scouts, not the large troops ambushed here, otherwise how could the 3rd row vanguard of Company H be killed and injured.

Crouching in the grass, he aimed at a leafy tree about 130 meters away, and pulled the trigger calmly.

"boom--!"

With the end of the sound, the Japanese army hidden on the tree rolled down instantly. It is difficult to see the Japanese army hiding there with the naked eye. It is purely because Ivan heard that the Japanese army loved to do nothing more than the Japanese army on the Southeast Asian battlefield during World War II. — dig a hole in it, ride a bicycle, tie yourself to a tree.

With such a complex terrain in the Pacific Islands, they must have done a lot.

So I won the lottery.

【Kill soldiers】

[Reward: 2 points]

"Good job!" Lieutenant Stone shouted. "The Navy Cross is not for nothing!"

If it could be discovered earlier, the two riflemen in the 3rd platoon of H Company would not be unlucky - one of them was shot in the head and died on the spot, and the other was hit in the lung and was not dead for the time being.

Captain Huckleberry immediately called the stretcher soldiers to carry Ma Run, who had undergone emergency treatment, back to the field hospital behind, hoping to save his life.

It is now September 9st, and Company H has crossed Alligator Creek non-stop since August 1th, exploring 8-26 meters forward every day.Ivan could tell that this was to cope with the task assigned by his superiors, but yesterday he suddenly received an order from the battalion headquarters and had to go to Taiwu Corner.

This place is exactly the place where the Japanese army who fought against Company H landed on Guadalcanal on August 8, and it can be regarded as one of the rear base camps of the Japanese army.

Captain Hugh Ligan had to obey the order to let the Ma Runs give up fishing and advance into the dangerous area. Today, just after leaving the safer jungle, they were ambushed by the Japanese army.

At first, they thought there were a lot of little devils, and Ma Run and the others were so scared that they emptied the magazines in all directions. It wasn't until Iwen shot the ambushers that they realized that they were actually just a Japanese scout.

Even a single Japanese soldier dared to ambush an entire company. It is hard to imagine how daring these beasts are.

It took a few minutes to confirm that there were no extra ambushes, and after ensuring safety, Captain Huckleberry and Lieutenant Stone immediately pulled the carrying gear on the Japanese soldier. At this time, Ivan stepped forward and found a problem-this Japanese soldier was quite strong and did not look like a hungry soldier at all. Crazy guy.

"The problem is a bit big." Lieutenant Stone said, "This is obviously a soldier transported by the 'Tokyo Express'."

During this period of time, because Lieutenant General Fletcher was unwilling to fight night battles with the Japanese army, Little Japan thought of a coup in order to recapture Guadalcanal—use a destroyer to carry enough troops from the Rabaul base and transport it to Guadalcanal. Evacuate immediately after the island, and one night is enough to finish the shipment and evacuate the waters near Guadalcanal.

The Yankees called it "Tokyo Express". Ivan reckoned that the Japanese army would not come up with such a name. After all, the navy sent the army over - this is not the style of the imperial army at all.

"Standby -!"

After the order was given, Captain Huckleberry immediately contacted the rear battalion headquarters and informed him of what had happened.