Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

'This Oka Akinosuke is ruthless enough. '

However, one of the Japanese commanders was ruthless. In order to achieve the desired effect, he sacrificed a squadron or even a brigade of soldiers without changing his face.

After chatting with Manny yesterday to completely abandon anxiety, Ivan's thinking became clearer and he re-examined this position.

The place where I stayed must build a whole set of simple defensive positions before sunset today - facing the south and east.

To the south is the position of the 7nd Battalion of the 2th Regiment, and to the east is the road leading to the first line of defense of the Japanese army. There are three 75mm howitzer batteries there, which are respectively used to support Ma Run who is attacking towards Kokumbuna Village. At the same time, there are also yesterday's main attack A platoon in the company of the company helped the artillery guard the position.

"Evan, why are you here?"

Basilone, who was awakened by the roar of the M2 light tank engine in the morning, washed his face in a daze, but didn't see his best friend, so he didn't eat breakfast and began to search along the position—he even went to the offensive at one point. He set out for the position, but after the search was fruitless, he heard a few soldiers in the 1st platoon who were driving a tuba in the woods say: "A crazy person came early in the morning", so I found Yiwen.

indeed.

扎克斯·伊文下士，海军陆战队1师7团1营D连武器排重机枪1班2号弹药手现在所做的事情就像是神经病一样——冲着友军的方向挖掘散兵坑。

"Be fully prepared."

Ivan answered with his mouth, but he didn't stop what he was doing.

Basilone immediately came over, leaned closer and said, "Do you know what the Ma Runs in the first row think of you?"

"These are not important."

That's right!

Ivan likes the dopamine brought by pretentiousness. He used to be addicted, but now he likes it, but he won't be addicted.If it was him yesterday, he would only try to persuade his comrades not to become the outlier he is now, but after he understands that reincarnated people will be questioned at the very beginning, and even become a laughing stock, his mentality has undergone a huge change.

What about being questioned?

What about being a laughing stock?

His goal is not to pretend to be aggressive in front of these Ma Run... In the end, it is just a bonus to appear in front of people. He reminded himself to keep in mind-never forget that survival is the first priority in the world of reincarnation.

Lieutenant Huckleberry and Lecky, the elders who spent the night at the Japanese blood station, knelt down in front of hundreds of people in order to save themselves, without any dignity of a man.

It's not worth the loss to waste precious time for this thing. It's better to let the Ma Runs who look at me with contempt look at me as crazy.

More than ten hours later, it proved that Corporal Zacks Ivan sweated in front of Ma Run, who laughed at him, was the most correct behavior, which was life-saving pre-war preparations.

For these guys with strange eyes, Ivan even needs to thank them.

'All I'm doing is slowing down your death because you're going to be the best line of defense. '

In the case of BAR, the heavy machine gun is naturally set at the 1.5 line, so the longer the time at the top of the 1 line, the greater the probability of Ivan's survival.

Thinking of this, Ivan suddenly felt as if he had become a demon—using everything available, including human life.

If it weren't for Basilone's voice in his ear, he would almost feel that he would be swallowed by the demon in his heart.

"you......"

Basilone didn't understand, and even felt that Ivan in front of him was a little strange.

The calmness remains the same as before, but the appearance of yesterday and today is a two-level reversal...Last night he thought for a long time, and he also thought of how to unscramble Ivan's words, but at this moment, he felt stuck in his throat.

"Can you help me?" Ivan turned his head and asked with a smile.

"I..." Basilone could only spit out one word.

Ivan turned his head and smiled and said, "Whether you help me or not, I will keep doing this until night."

He didn't seem to want to explain any more, but he smiled indifferently.

"What happened?" Basilone stepped forward and grabbed his best friend's shoulder, "What made you like this?"

Ivan sighed slightly and said, "Old man, I just want to live."

Basilone could understand this sentence, and he could understand the literal meaning, but he always felt that it was not the only meaning.

"If you don't want to help me." Ivan broke free lightly, "Then please don't bother me."

After saying this, he turned around and continued to complete the civil work he had envisioned.

It may be that until dark it is only to create a primary defensive position for the infantry in the 1st row, but it can also play a certain role at critical moments-any chance of surviving, Ivan will not give up holding on to it.

"Are you kidding, how could I just watch you expend your energy here!?" Basilone gritted his teeth, "I'll call someone, but you have to tell me the reason for doing it afterwards."

"Okay." Ivan said without turning his head.

PS:

When I was reading the outline, I forgot that there was still a sentence left in the introduction - war turns people into devils, but faith turns devils into people.

71. The explosion of the ammunition depot verified the expectation when Ivan attacked

On the battlefield, one psychopath drives a group of neuropathies.

Although only the main and deputy shooters and ammunition men of the two machine gun squads helped, and those errands belonging to the platoon and company clearly refused, but it was still much more efficient than Ivan alone.

"thank you."

If there are any complaints, there must be, but they chose to stand with Ivan under the persuasion of Basilone.

There are many people and strength, and Ivan can even fill in the details of the expected simple defensive position.

Single-person foxholes, double-person foxholes, together with their trenches, and the traffic trenches connected to the trenches - did not ignore the trenches left by the Japanese army. Some places can still be used after modification, which greatly increases efficiency.

It took a whole morning to dig out a fairly decent trench under the ridicule of Ma Run in the first row, including a trench with a length of 1 meters, a dozen foxholes, and three traffic trenches.

The traffic trench cannot lead to the machine gun position 300 meters away, but it is enough for the infantry in the 1st row to move and transfer flexibly.

During the break at noon, I learned that the progress of the front line was not going well. All six attacks were repelled by the fourth line of defense firmly guarded by the Japanese army. Company A and Company C suffered over 20 casualties, and Company D was assigned The 2 platoons in the first line of defense and the 3 platoons in the third line of defense were transferred to attack in the afternoon.

Until now, Ma Run and the others only thought that the little devil's counterattack was only the end of their strength, and a wave of collective bombing by sea, land and air in the afternoon would solve the problem.

Just after lunch, Ivan saw destroyers and gunboats approaching from Cape Lunga, and continuously fired shells to bombard the Japanese positions on the front line of Kokumbuna Village, preventing them from having any chance to repair. Something, added a meal to Ma Run who was going to attack in the afternoon-Spam luncheon meat.

In fact, this batch of canned food produced after the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor incident has not been so unpalatable so far, but after the regular and quantitative distribution to Ma Run some time ago, when it was time to fight, the soldiers spread their hands and expressed that their canned food was lost. up.

Where is it lost, it is simply that it tastes good and is eaten as a snack—the same is true of the D-level rations in the past, which are sweet and delicious like chocolate, and will always be eaten at insignificant moments.

This matter was reported to the layers quickly, and the boss in charge of logistics felt that it was a waste of energy and time to command the soldiers to let the officers tightly control the mouths of the soldiers, so he contacted the person in charge of Spam's canned luncheon meat, meaning It was said that it was a little unpalatable, and the person in charge of the canned food immediately had a brain hole when he heard this sentence-in that case, then I just cut down the cost, beef?pork?No no no, any meat will do, pureed with a lot of starch and extra salt... so it becomes hell.

The inventory in the hands of Brigadier General Vandergrift, who has to take care of everything, is all serious spam luncheon meat with more meat than starch. I heard that the soldiers ate it directly as a snack, so they didn't let the canned food It is issued to every soldier, and it is only supplied to the battalion logistics unit when it is time to fight. Every time, the battalion commanders are warned not to issue the cans directly to Ma Run.

Since the overall reserve of canned food was not as abnormal as in the next few years, non-combat troops generally could not enjoy it, and Yiwen and others could only eat hard D-grade rations.

After the break, the machine gun squad started working in front of a group of smoking and bragging errand runners. Until sunset, they dug a total of 9 machine gun positions and the associated traffic trenches and foxholes.

The advantages of more people and easier work are vividly reflected - Ivan can even have time to build anti-gun holes, ammunition storage holes, and bullet-proof slots in every machine gun position and individual fortification belonging to the machine gun squad, and he can also go north. A dozen or so M1939 anti-infantry jump mines are arranged in the direction of the beach.

Needless to say, the meaning of the anti-gun hole and the ammunition storage hole is mainly used to defend against the grenades thrown in by the Japanese army. The width of the blade of the engineer shovel is the width, the length of the engineer shovel is the depth, and the bottom length of the individual fortifications is the bottom. Width, if an enemy throws a grenade in, it will be kicked into the bullet-avoiding slot immediately.

The bullet shelter will absorb most of the shock waves from the grenade, and the remaining shock waves will rush out vertically, which can largely protect the soldiers fighting in the fortifications.

If there are sleepers, logs, etc., it can be further reinforced and camouflaged. Some small-caliber guns are difficult to destroy such fortifications. Ivan is aiming at the Type 89 grenadier, which is the most equipped by the Japanese army.

"Thank you again for your trust in me."

If it weren't for the help of this group of Ma Run, it would be impossible for Yiwen to dig out such a position alone. The limit is the foxholes facing the south, and he can't even dig trenches and traffic trenches.

"So, can you tell us why we did this?" Basilone panted, "You were worried that the little devils would attack from the flank, so I can understand the position you dug in the first row, but there are three more The machine gun positions are facing east... Isn't that where our 1 howitzers are positioned?"

Ma Run, who had been tired all day, sat slumped in the trench, staring at him with eyes.

"This afternoon's offensive still failed. The 11st Battalion of the 1th Regiment and the 7st Battalion of the 1th Regiment combined had more than 50 casualties. Our battalion suffered relatively small casualties but there were more than a dozen people. So far the total casualties have exceeded 3. In the Japanese position on the first line of the lower Kokumbuna village, all the infantry in the rear were transferred to the front line, resulting in only three artillery batteries in the first line of defense, and only three platoons in the second line of defense."

Artillery, not infantry, even if they have two squads of soldiers defending and equipped with an M2 heavy machine gun, it seems that there is no problem with the configuration of firepower and troop strength, but don't forget that the artillery company stays in the rear most of the time. It may be in close contact with the Japanese army.

It is required that they can withstand the crazy attack of the Japanese army like the infantry... It is recommended not to have this dream.

"We lost 6 tanks in today's attack, and the remaining 3 tanks have malfunctioned. The troops on the first line of defense have been withdrawn. If we can't attack tomorrow morning, it's time for the Japanese army to counterattack... Maybe the Japanese army There will be a counterattack tonight."

Ivan drew a circle on the ground. Since there was some moonlight tonight, Ma Run and the others could see clearly, and then drew a body that didn't match the circle. "Our deployment is like a big-headed child, whose body is so weak that If the Japanese attack from the rear and flanks, they will definitely lose!"

"But to resist the attack of so many of our troops, all the Japanese troops should have been mobilized." Basilone is not a tactical commander, but he has unusual military acumen.

Ivan shook his head: "It's not as simple as you think. First of all, here is a jungle... There are towering trees everywhere, and it is difficult to achieve accurate aircraft and artillery support, so the big goose requires that all companies' 60mm Mortars are used together, and M2 tanks are not M4 tanks. One explosive can kill one person... The officers and soldiers of the little devils don’t take their own lives as their lives.”

That is to say, as long as they enter the depths of the jungle, the advantage of Ma Run's ground-to-air firepower network will be greatly reduced, so no matter how long the gunboats, destroyers, artillery bombardment, and how many times the aircraft bombards, the defense line of Kokumbuna Village will remain unchanged.

Wasn't the US military weak during the Vietnam War?The various arms are invincible in the world, and the aircraft, artillery, and armed helicopters have whatever they want, but the Vietnamese soldiers still use camouflage, tunnels, burrows, booby traps, traps, etc. to fight PTSD. field.

Ma Run doesn't know the German army's unit tactics. It is difficult to divide the squad into several combat teams to alternately cover and throw grenades after advancing to a certain distance. The skirmish line is pure for the Japanese army who is hiding in the bunker and is still a sharpshooter per capita. Free.

The most important thing is that the morale will drop rapidly after being frustrated. If the 75 howitzers in the rear are taken away, the flanks are attacked, and the Japanese army in the front starts to counterattack, the situation of a three-sided encirclement will make the morale of the three marine battalions instantly collapse.

After talking about this, Ivan lay down and fell asleep, snoring like thunder in just a few tens of seconds.

Going to sleep so quickly made the rough embryos look astonished.

Of course, people who didn't believe it accounted for the majority, even if what Ivan said was well-founded-until a huge explosion sounded from the first line of defense at 1 o'clock in the morning.

"Bang bang bang bang-!"

"Boom!"

The explosion was like shaking the earth, engulfing the first position outside the jungle.

It was not an explosion but a series of explosions in which the ammunition depot exploded. Huge flames appeared in front of Ma Run who were awakened.

At this moment, Ma Run in the first row fell into shock and fear, while Basilone, Manny, Morgan, Evans and others turned their eyes to Ivan, who had expected this for a long time.

72. Allies?Believe in you, friend, continue to fight me!

Compared with the serial explosions caused by the explosion of the ammunition depot of the artillery position, Ma Run of the machine gun squad was more shocked by Ivan's foresight. He seemed to predict the possible future situation like a god-the Japanese army really went around and blew up the 75 howitzer position!

At the same time, intensive artillery and gunfire came from the position where the 11rd platoon of C Company, 1st Battalion, 3th Regiment was stationed. There was the southern end of the second line of defense set up by the Japanese army. The place where the Japanese army stayed inside.

"What are you doing in a daze? Everyone is ready to fight!" Ivan shouted, "Basilone, take your squad to position 9, and Morgan, take your squad to position 7!"

After such a shout, Ma Run of the two machine gun squads recovered their senses and started to act one after another.

However, Ma Run, who were running errands in the company and platoon departments, fell into a great panic. They were also listening to what Ivan said before nightfall. The impact directly made them dumbfounded.

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and notify the platoon leader of the 1st platoon, let him command his subordinates to enter the trench we dug before, and point their guns to the south and east—!"

However, the errand runner Ma Run, who had been engulfed by the huge shock, didn't seem to hear this sentence. They were frightened by the serial explosions on the first line of defense and the realization of Ivan's prophecy, as if they forgot that they were human beings with legs and hands standing at the top of the food chain.

Seeing this, Yiwen didn't hesitate to go up and slap each of them, finally waking up the group of Ma Run who could only deliver things.

"you--!"

He didn't even want to call out Ma Run's name. Yiwen was speechless to this group of people, "You take my place and go to the No. 9 machine gun position!"

"Aye aye, sir!"

Even if Ivan had commanded them to cross the Matanikau River together in an orderly manner, they were still not considered 'sir'. It can only be said that these errand runners were panicked to death, and urgently needed a calm and 'powerful' man. Someone came and told them - what to do now.

"If you want to survive, follow my orders...I don't want you to take the old antiques in your hands and shoot at the Japanese army, but any tasks related to ordering and running errands must be obeyed unconditionally!"

当1号跑腿走了之后，剩下的2、3、4、5号跑腿听到这句话立刻齐声响应。

"Aye aye, sir!"

"Now go and inform the 1st platoon leader that the defensive position will be dug in the morning, and as much as possible can be completed now, and at the same time, at least one squadron will be deployed to point the muzzle of the horse towards the place where we came. At the same time, be on guard against the canopy of the forest, just shoot if you have nothing to do!"

After No. 2 errand runner Ma Run left, Ivan said with a serious expression: "You go and transport one-third of the grenades you brought over to the machine gun position and distribute them to the ammunition crew. After you come back, you will assemble the incendiary bombs here with the rest. After the assembly is complete Just put it here, remember not to light an open flame in a hurry, and don’t expose it to the outside of the trench, put it all in the anti-blasting hole for me, it’s no joke that the thing exploded!”

"Aye aye, sir!"

As the sound of martyrdom outside the forest in the east gradually diminished, the Japanese army's attack from the rear of Ma Run was about to begin soon. At this moment, the sound of gunfire at the 11rd row of the 1st Battalion, C Company, and 3rd Platoon of the [-]th Regiment gradually became sparse. After all, there was only one The infantry platoon, and possibly the BAR squad belonging to the platoon, were all transferred to the front line. Ma Run, holding a bolt-action rifle, either fled or fought bayonets with the Japanese army on the ground.

Evan hoped it was the latter and not the former.

After taking a deep breath, he decisively carried the M1903 Springfield on his back, and climbed up to the canopy of the tree beside him.

"Ho Ho... Ho Ho..."

Except for the difficulty of escaping, the canopy has no other disadvantages.

Being condescending can not only see the battlefield situation clearly, but also effectively shoot and kill the advancing Japanese army.

"boom--!"

"pia——!"

"Boom--!"