"The Japanese have landed. Immediately order Major Winston to launch a counterattack to the Japanese army's landing point. There is a reef protection there. The Japanese have landed in a hurry, and the number should not be too many." Thomas ordered.
There is the sea to the east, and being able to attack them from the east means that the Japanese came from the sea. Thomas can be sure of this.
"By the way...the Japanese fleet!"
Thomas suddenly remembered this, and cold sweat broke out from his forehead.
Yes, the Japanese still have their fleet.
Just then, streaks of red tracer bullets pierced the dark night sky, followed by the roar of artillery.
Thomas, who was about to return to his tent, instinctively rolled into the foxhole nearby. As soon as he rolled into the foxhole, a high-speed shell fired from a naval gun broke through the air with a shrill roar.
"Shell attack, lie down!"
A shell exploded next to him, and a large crater stained red with blood appeared where he stood.
Dense artillery shells continued to fall on the camp near the airport. The Eighth Marine Regiment was blindsided by the sudden attack, but they did not fall into chaos. Instead, they rolled into the nearest foxhole to avoid the shelling. This was also thanks to their usual rigorous training.
saved them.
Harold was pulling the bolt of his gun hard to shoot at the landing Japanese troops when he saw a dark figure rushing in front of him. Before he could raise his rifle, the other party rushed to him. Without thinking, Harold raised the Springfield rifle with the bayonet and aimed at it.
The opponent stabbed hard.
Only a muffled grunt was heard, and the figure of the rushing black figure paused for a moment, sluggish, and then slowly fell down.
The east side of Henderson Airport faces the sea, and the other three sides are either mountains or bushes. The main defense forces of the Eighth Marine Regiment are in the other three directions, and very few troops are deployed in the direction facing the sea.
After all, no one would have thought that the Japanese would actually attack from the sea. You must know that Task Force 17 is anchored at sea. The Japanese will only attack them from this direction when they are full.
This is not only the idea of the 8th Marine Regiment, but also the idea of Major General Flake, the commander of Task Force 17.
Therefore, when a Japanese fleet secretly came to the east of Henderson Airport under the cover of night and put down landing craft to transport two squadrons of Japanese troops to the east of Henderson Airport, they immediately caught the Eighth Marine Regiment off guard.
Perhaps few people in later generations have heard of Ichiki Kiyonao, but those who have studied the July 7th Incident will know that this man was the culprit of the July 7th Incident.
On July 7, 1937, Ichiki Kiyoshi, who served as the captain of the riverside brigade, provoked the Chinese defenders in the name of an exercise and fired the first shot at the Marco Polo Bridge.
After the incident, Ichiki Kiyoshi once arrogantly declared that he "fired the signal gun for the empire's prosperity."
After the war, his master, Emperor Hirohito, did not forget this "hero" and awarded him the third-class Golden Eagle Order.
By this time, Ichiki Kiyonao had already served as the commander of the Ichiki detachment directly under the base camp. This time he still arrogantly led his detachment and was escorted by six destroyers to Guadalcanal.
The mission of the Aoki detachment was to seize the Henderson Airport occupied by the US military. In order to buy time, Ichiki Kiyoshi divided all the troops into two echelons. The first echelon was led by him personally, with a total of 917 people, and took the lead on a boarding boat.
Go to the island; the second echelon of more than 1,400 people took an ordinary transport ship to Guadalcanal.
In order to advance lightly, Ichiki Kiyoshi ordered all heavy weapons to be left on the ship, and all his troops would advance lightly.
In addition to the Type 38 rifles, the weapons of the first echelon he led only had 36 light machine guns, 24 grenade launchers, 8 heavy machine guns, and 3 70mm Type 92 infantry guns.
In Ichiki Kiyoshi's view, the U.S. military's defense force east of Henderson Airport was extremely weak, and coupled with its sneak attack, it only took one charge to overwhelm and defeat the U.S. military.
But obviously, the progress of the battle was beyond his expectation, and it was extremely difficult from the beginning.
"The first team will stay in place, the second team will go south, and the third team will go north..."
As soon as he stood up from the sand, Ichiki Qingnao shouted orders to the Japanese troops around him, and then he ran westward along the coast. More than a thousand meters to the west was the US military's Henderson Airport, but at the same time it was also
The most fortified position of the US military.
What was even worse was that the first wave of charging Japanese troops was discovered by the US military.
Seeing their whereabouts exposed, more than a hundred Japanese soldiers immediately changed their sneak attack into a strong attack and rushed towards the US military with Type 38 rifles, because according to their intelligence, there were only two platoons of US troops stationed here.
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However, the expected collapse did not happen. More than a hundred Japanese troops encountered a dense fire net constructed by the US machine guns and 37mm rapid-fire cannons. Most of the Japanese troops were killed in front of their positions before they even saw the US troops.
Seeing that the sneak attack failed, Ichiki Kiyoshi was so angry that he cursed loudly, and then directed the Japanese army to launch a second wave of attacks.
More than a hundred meters in front of the position, an M2A1 mine buried in the bushes was detonated and exploded. Harry and the American soldiers in the foxhole saw a Japanese soldier being blown into the sky, followed by another.
The mine exploded, followed by a scream.
The author would like to make a correction here. In the past, in film and television dramas, the protagonists who could not be killed would immediately notice the landmines once they stepped on them, then stop where they were, and then use the bayonets or even chewing gum that they carried with them to slowly deactivate the landmines.
came out, and finally came back without any danger.
But in real life, this situation does not exist. As a defensive weapon, landmines are used to kill the enemy as much as possible, so how can they leave the enemy a chance to clear the mines?
Therefore, most anti-infantry landmines have pressure fuses, which means that as soon as a person or animal steps on them, the landmines will explode, blowing anyone who steps on their heads to pieces.
The situation where the landmine will not explode immediately after stepping on it, but will wait until the opponent lifts his or her foot, does not exist in real life.
"Great, blow up those damn yellow-skinned monkeys."
The soldiers in the foxholes were extremely excited, and Harry's original nervousness was slightly relieved.
Although Japanese destroyers blew up several artillery pieces deployed in the east, the U.S. military, which has always been known for its deep pockets, has a very large ammunition reserve.
A few days ago, Harry and some soldiers who seemed to have nothing to do ran to the east and deployed a minefield, and now it finally came into use.
But to Harry's surprise, even though the Japanese stepped on two landmines and killed dozens of people, they still did not open fire blindly, but quietly lay on the ground and observed the situation at the airport.