After listening to Chen Shaokuan's explanation, Guan Zhenglin also had a general understanding of the current situation. It seemed that what Minister Jiang Baili said in the telegram before coming was true. Amphibious operations on land and sea were indeed different from previous mainland operations. First of all, he
It has put forward higher requirements for the quality of the troops and logistical support. It is simply impossible to win an amphibious operation without sufficient logistical support.
After thinking for a long time, Guan Zhenglin looked at the map for a while, and finally moved his eyes to a place marked on the map as "Harlem Airport".
"It must be occupied." Guan Zhenglin's vision was indeed ruthless, and he saw through the key to occupying Sakhalin Island at a glance, "Only by occupying Harlem Airport can our planes, personnel and materials be quickly delivered to the hands of the combat troops. It only takes one day.
Without capturing the airport, our troops cannot let go and attack, and our reinforcements cannot arrive quickly, so we must capture it."
Zhang Yanbo shook the kettle in his hand. Not even a drop of water could be poured out of it. He had already drank the last sip of water in the kettle last night. He shook his head helplessly, grabbed the Type 56 rifle next to him and walked towards
He hit the building next to him. Half of this building had been destroyed by tanks yesterday. Next to it were several bombed Japanese Type 95 light tanks that were still emitting residual heat. Next to them were a bunch of Japanese
Zhang Yanbo went to the pile of Japanese corpses and rummaged through the corpses of the soldiers.
"Yanbo, stop looking for it. The only water we have is given to the wounded." Squad leader Zhou Fangzhou came over and patted Zhang Yanbo on the shoulder. The private who was still shaking when he heard the gunshots yesterday was fine after just one day.
I was rummaging around in the pile of enemy corpses looking for something. It seems that the battlefield is a place for training.
"Damn it, there isn't even a drop of water in this damn place, and the Japanese have thrown livestock carcasses into the few water sources." Zhang Yanbo said angrily.
"Okay, brothers, we have work to do today." At this time, the platoon leader Liu Zhaochen came over and clapped his hands to gather everyone: "The company ordered us to gather quickly and cross the mountain with the Seventh Company and the Ninth Company.
, go and occupy the Harlem Airport there. Now everyone stand up quickly, count the ammunition and prepare to go. This time we are at the front. Zhang Tiecheng, you will open the way and be responsible for reconnaissance."
"Yes, sir"
"Sir, please speak." Wang Hongyong raised his hand
"Request approval"
"Since yesterday, why is it that our company rushes to the front every time, and our platoon rushes to the front of the whole company to block bullets for them?"
Liu Zhaochen sighed and smiled helplessly: "I guess it's because you must have peeped at the camp's sister-in-law taking a bath before, so the camp always sends our platoon to the front to block bullets."
"Hahaha" Liu Zhaochen's black joke made everyone laugh, and the depressed atmosphere in their hearts was slightly relieved.
"Okay" Liu Zhaochen clapped his hands, "Everyone, cheer me up. It is said that the Japanese garrison at the airport only has two squadrons, so don't be nervous, cheer me up. Now you have five minutes.
Eat breakfast and get moving.”
Five minutes later, a team of more than 300 people headed to the Harlem Airport in the south. They took all the ammunition they could carry and began to climb the steaming active volcano.
Staring at the steaming ground, everyone felt a little cold in their hearts. Zhang Yanbo timidly asked: "Squad leader, you are so damn evil. How can this mountain be on fire?"
With a soft "pop" sound, Zhou Fangzhou lit a cigarette and handed it to him before smiling and saying: "You kid, you haven't seen it, haven't you? This is a volcano. I heard that magma from the ground will emerge from time to time. When you walk,
But be careful, if you are transferred to a volcano, not even gods can save you."
Looking at the steaming ground, everyone carefully followed the footsteps of the people in front, not daring to make any mistakes.
As the saying goes, you can't run fast when you look up a mountain. A seemingly very short mountain made the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Marine Company climb for nearly four hours until they reached the foot of the mountain around 11 noon. By this time, Harlem Airport had already appeared in
In front of their eyes.
Harlem Airport is the only large airport of the Japanese army on Sakhalin Island, but black smoke is still rising everywhere at this airport. Yesterday, Harlem Airport was bombed into a mess by carrier-based aircraft of the Pacific Fleet, and all the aircraft were bombed.
It was destroyed on the runway. At this moment, the Japanese army was still desperately clearing the runway.
"Come together, the Japanese are clearing the runway, should we take the opportunity to attack?" After observing for nearly ten minutes, Liu Zhaochen made a suggestion to the company commander Wang Xiaoguo beside him.
Wang Xiaoguo thought for a while and asked: "There are at least two squadrons of 300 Japanese soldiers in the airport. If you let your platoon attack first, can you disrupt their defense?"
"Can you call the air force to bomb the airport first?" Liu Zhaochen asked.
"No." Wang Xiaoguo shook his head and said: "The airport has been damaged a lot. If we carry out bombing again, we will have to spend a lot of money to repair the airport and runway. In this way, our heavy bombers and transport planes will not be able to station at the airport immediately. This
We cannot afford the price."
"Okay, I'll give it a try, but company commander, you have to allocate all the heavy firepower in the company to me." Liu Zhaochen gritted his teeth and agreed.
"I'll give you the three M2 heavy machine guns and three mortars in the company, and I'll give you two more mg42s. That'll be fine, right?"
"Okay" Liu Zhaochen waved his hand and shouted in a low voice: "Everyone in the third row, follow me."
Major Sakurai is the garrison commander of Harlem Airport. Yesterday, after the airport was bombed by a carrier-based aircraft of the Pacific Fleet, he was reprimanded by the brigade commander, Major General Sasaki. He was scolded so much that he almost had to have his caesarean section. In the end, Sasaki was the one to blame.
He was spared his life because there were not enough officers.
This morning he received another call from Major General Sasaki, asking him to be optimistic about the airport and not let this only airport be lost.
Major Sakurai held the ancestral sword and several soldiers standing next to the collapsed airport control tower to observe the situation around the airport. Due to the peaceful situation in recent years, there were not even minefields arranged around the airport.
, he was not sure whether the strength of the two squadrons could hold the airport.
Suddenly, Major Sakurai saw through the telescope that dozens of Chinese soldiers wearing marine-colored combat uniforms emerged from the end of the airport and were sneaking into the airport.
"No, the Chinese are attacking. Everyone, hurry up and get into position." Sakurai's roar echoed around the airport.
"Da da da" The battle started in an instant.
"We have been discovered, brothers, rush forward and get close to the Japanese." Seeing that the target had been exposed, Liu Zhaochen stopped advancing covertly and directed the soldiers to run forward.
"Boom" an 82-caliber mortar shell landed fifty meters ahead, picking up soil all over the ground.
"Quick" Wang Hongyong carried the mortar barrel and fired hard at the front of the team. He had to find a suitable distance position in the shortest time to provide artillery support for his brothers. Without heavy artillery and aircraft cover, he
The three mortars in charge are the main fire support of the entire company.
"Huhuhu" while avoiding the dense rain of bullets, he was looking for a suitable location to set up the mortar. Wang Hongyong looked around as he ran. Suddenly he saw a large depression 70 meters in front of him and a row of stone walls in front of him.
Overjoyed, he quickly waved his hand behind him and said, "Brothers from the artillery squad, follow me." He ran over first.
"Bang bang bang bang" Zhang Yanbo ran with all his strength while firing randomly towards the front. Now they were still more than 400 meters away from the Japanese army's position. This distance was completely compared to the Japanese army's heavy machine guns.
It's an effective range.
"Puff, puff, puff!" The bullets from the Type 92 heavy machine gun of the Japanese army hit the surroundings and made a harsh sound.
"Hurry up, everyone, follow up and set up a defense line a hundred meters ahead." Seeing that the Japanese defenders at the airport did not have mountain artillery, field artillery and other heavy weapons, Liu Zhaochen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the report
The information that the Japanese airport garrison is only a lightly armed force is correct.
"Erect a heavy machine gun here. Hurry up and set up one on the right. The remaining one will follow me to the front." Finally, he ran into a pile of rubble. Liu Zhaochen immediately directed more than 30 brothers to set up a line of defense.
, to cover the sudden advance of the brothers in the company behind.
"Dong dong dong dong" When the dull M2 Browning heavy machine gun began to spit out tongues of fire, the Eighth Company Commander Wang Xiaoguo, who was observing the battle situation from behind, breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ordered the two factions around him to follow. They must be there tonight
Capture this airport before dark.
"Da da da"
A bunker hidden next to the airport began to pour out tongues of fire. Two Marines who were running forward suddenly fell to the ground, and tongues of fire were flying everywhere.
"Damn" Liu Zhaochen turned around and yelled, "Wang Hongyong, are you fucking blind? Hurry up and fire a few rounds of smoke grenades to cover the brothers and kill that bunker, otherwise we will be completely destroyed. Zhou Fangzhou, you bring the seventh class and help me kill that bunker."
Get rid of the damn bunker"
"Bang bang" two dull sounds exploded in front of the bunker, and two plumes of black smoke suddenly came out. Seeing that the black smoke was about to cover the view in front of the bunker, suddenly a strong wind hung in front, and the black smoke instantly disappeared.
The smoke blew away, and Liu Zhaochen was so angry that he cursed loudly.
Liu Zhaochen gritted his teeth and stared, saying: "Zhou Fangzhou, you immediately lead the Seventh Squadron to go around from the right. You must kill the bunker in front of you, and be careful to use terrain cover."
"Yes, come with me from Class 7." Zhou Fangzhou mentioned Suomi and ran to the right first.