On May 1, the 32nd year of the Republic of China (1943), the Shah Alan Landing Campaign officially began!
At 7 o'clock in the morning, more than 800 Allied fighter jets roared over Shah Alan Beach, and launched a large-scale aerial battle with the Japanese aviation forces that scrambled to attack. The battle only lasted for no less than half an hour, and more than 200 fighters took off.
All Japanese Zero fighter jets were lost, and the Allies successfully seized air superiority in the nearby airspace.
At 7:40, more than 20 B-17 strategic bombers and more than 400 Mustang fighter jets carrying aerial bombs and rockets roared in and carried out carpet strikes on roads, bridges and other military facilities between Kuala Lumpur and Shah Alam Beach.
The bombing destroyed almost all the bridges, roads and railways between the two places.
At 7:50, the Chinese Expeditionary Force Airborne Division launched an airborne landing into the depths of Shah Alam Beach.
At 8:20, the huge Allied transport fleet approached Shah Alan Beach under the escort of the US Navy. Immediately, the naval guns of the US Navy's battleships, cruisers and destroyers began to carry out saturation bombardment on possible Japanese targets on the coastline.
Covering the infantry's landing on the beach, for a time, the nearly ten kilometers long coastline was filled with gunpowder smoke, threatening to block out the sky and the sun.
Japanese military positions on the coastline and an underground bunker for an artillery fortification.
Although the bunker is five meters deep underground, the shelling from the ground still makes the entire small underground bunker tremble. From time to time, dust and gravel fall from the concrete ceiling, which makes people worry that it is as thick as half a meter.
The reinforced concrete ceiling will not be able to withstand the huge pressure of the shelling and will collapse.
A 15-watt incandescent lamp was hung from the ceiling, swaying from side to side.
Under the dim light, more than a dozen ghost soldiers crowded together. Their faces were full of despair and fear as if the end of the world was coming. The air was mixed with the smell of sweat, urine, body odor, and even feces.
Several child soldiers as young as sixteen who had just joined the army were so frightened that they became incontinent.
Unlike most ghost soldiers who looked dull, Second Lieutenant Yasushi Inoue seemed very calm and was even in the mood to write his diary during the rumbling bombardment.
Dear Hanako, today is destined to be a tragic day.
Thousands of fighter planes from the Allied forces almost covered the sky above the beach, hundreds of warships almost crowded the sea off Shah Alam Beach, and tons of Allied artillery shells poured over our heads, and the sky
The earth is trembling and the earth is groaning. The once fearless warriors of the empire now have despair and fear written all over their faces.
My dear Hanako, this may be the last diary entry I write to you.
If nothing else goes wrong, the Allied forces will soon carry out a beach landing on Shah Alam Beach. Due to the Southern Army Command's serious misjudgment of the Allied intentions, our reinforcements were unable to arrive in time, and with one division of ours
The regiment's strength could not defend the entire coastline no matter what, and the defeat of the imperial army seemed inevitable.
My beloved Hanako, how much I want to return to my hometown, gently hold your soft and delicate body in my arms, smell the intoxicating fragrance emanating from your body, and use your hot and delicate body to warm my already cold heart. However,
, I may not have such an opportunity, and I will never have it again, because soon I will die on the battlefield.
I hate the title of samurai, and I have never thought about dying in battle for a certain person.
But I am a soldier, a pure imperial soldier. It is my destiny to die on the battlefield for the country and the nation. My love, I hope I can still keep the memory of this life in the next life, and I can find you in the vast sea of people.
Exist to continue the unfinished love in this life. Farewell, my favorite, my Hanako...
Off Shah Alam Beach, an Allied transport ship.
Private Xu Shaoyun took out a cigarette, but he struck six matches in a row without lighting it.
Excessive tension made Xu Shaoyun's hands extremely stiff. Actions that were usually easy to complete were so difficult to do at this time. When he finally struck the seventh match, he held it in his mouth.
The cigarette in his mouth fell to the cabin deck because his lips trembled.
Xu Shaoyun couldn't help but be nervous, because this was his first time participating in actual combat.
Looking up at the huge hour hand hanging on the front wall of the cabin, the hour hand has pointed to 10 a.m. The saturation bombardment of the coastline by U.S. Navy naval guns has continued for one hour and forty minutes. According to the combat manual issued before the war,
The U.S. Navy's bombardment will end in another 20 minutes, and it's time for the infantry to take action.
Before he could finish the thought, a tall black soldier entered the cabin and shouted angrily: "Gogogo!"
The soldiers who were already fully armed got up one after another and rushed to the hatch like a tide. When Xu Shaoyun struggled to squeeze out of the hatch, he saw that the deck was already crowded with fully armed expedition officers and soldiers. Soon the soldiers walked along the side of the ship.
We climbed up the hanging ladder and descended like dumplings to the assault boat docked next to the transport ship.
With dull eyes and stiff movements, Xu Shaoyun almost fell sideways into the cabin of the assault boat.
"Ready? Go!" Seeing that everyone had arrived, the American soldier driving the assault boat immediately set off.
Xu Shaoyun bent his legs and curled up into the corner of the cabin as much as possible. Looking around, the tall steel baffle completely separated the cabin from the outside world into two worlds. Except for the occasional fighter planes passing by at high altitude, the whole world seemed to be just
Only the 12 soldiers crowded in the cabin and the American soldier driving the assault boat were left.
Xu Shaoyun looked at the faces of his comrades one by one. Only the old squad leader looked calm.
The old squad leader was a real veteran. He had participated in the Battle of Wuhan and killed two Japanese soldiers on the battlefield.
The old squad leader's stomach still retains the bloody mark of that battle. A terrible scar almost cut his abdomen in half. The old squad leader often told them that it was a miracle that he survived.
Even the Lord of Hell couldn't stand the little Japs, so he deliberately left him to kill more Japs.
As if sensing Xu Shaoyun's gaze, the old squad leader sitting at the front suddenly turned around, cast an encouraging glance at the youngest but most highly educated private in the class, and then shouted in a loud voice: "The hatch will open later.
After that, don’t think about anything, just follow me and rush forward, keep rushing, do you hear me?”
"I heard it." The soldiers answered sparsely, obviously a little distracted.
The old squad leader was furious, and immediately roared in a thunderous voice: "Did you hear that!?"
"I heard it!" The old squad leader's roar seemed to have an effect this time, and the soldiers responded louder and more uniformly.
At 10:20 a.m., after two full hours, the U.S. Navy's saturation bombardment finally ended.
As soon as the sound of artillery stopped, Second Lieutenant Yasushi Inoue hurriedly led the entire artillery team of more than a dozen soldiers to the ground fortifications.
The artillery observer quickly rushed to the front of the artillery team mirror. Looking out through the artillery team mirror, he saw that the sea several kilometers away was already covered with black and dense assault boats. There were thousands of assault boats at least. The observer could do whatever he wanted.
He chose a target and shouted angrily: "12 o'clock direction, distance 3200 meters, shooting angle minus 5 degrees!"
The gunner quickly adjusted the firing angle, and the ammunition hand immediately loaded the shells.
Immediately, Lieutenant Yasushi Inoue pulled the saber in his hand forward, and the gunner pulled down the gun. There was a loud bang, and the combat artillery weighing more than 1 ton shook violently.
, a 37mm-caliber anti-war artillery shell had already fired towards the sea ahead with a piercing scream.
On the sea ahead, an assault boat that was speeding forward was disintegrated in an instant.
Unfortunately, the ghost soldier's shell hit the fuel tank of the assault boat. In the huge explosion, 13 Allied soldiers, including the American soldiers driving the assault boat, instantly turned into broken limbs and corpses all over the sky.
The broken pieces of steel suddenly rose into the sky, then rolled and flew hundreds of meters away.
"Yo Xi." Second Lieutenant Yasushi Inoue put down his telescope, turned back and nodded appreciatively to the artillery observer and gunner.
The artillery observer was in high spirits, and when he was about to reselect the shooting target, a UFO suddenly appeared above his field of vision. When he looked carefully, it was an Allied fighter jet roaring towards him. At this moment, the Japanese observer could even
Clearly see the eight ferocious rockets hanging under the wings of the Allied fighter jets!
"Baga Yalu..." the artillery observer groaned, turned around and wanted to run away.
However, before the artillery observer could take two steps, a rocket had already separated from the Allied fighter planes and shot down towards the Japanese artillery fortifications. It instantly penetrated the thick concrete walls of the artillery fortifications and then exploded, including Inoue.
Including Second Lieutenant Jing and the anti-tank gun, all the people and objects in the fortification were instantly disintegrated.
When the dust settled, a broken diary tumbled down from the air. As the title page stretched, a yellowed black-and-white photo quietly fell from it. The woman in the photo was wearing a kimono and looked very charming. On the back of the photo,
There is a beautiful line of small characters written in Japanese: I wish Inoue-kun a speedy triumph, Xiaowada Hanako.
The assault boat is still speeding forward, and the distance of just a few kilometers is so long!
Xu Shaoyun had never been seasick, but at this time he felt waves of spinning, and a strong desire to vomit in his chest. He only bit the tip of his tongue to suppress the desire to vomit, because of the strong dizziness and excessive
He was so nervous that Xu Shaoyun's face looked extremely pale, without a trace of blood.
The expressions on the faces of the comrades were similar, and several of them were even sweating profusely.
"Boom!" A huge explosion suddenly sounded not far away, and the assault boat began to shake violently. Obviously, another assault boat was destroyed in the explosion, which also meant that more than a dozen comrades were sacrificed.
, the faces of Xu Shaoyun and his comrades became even more pale.
"Pfft." A bloody object suddenly fell from the sky and landed in front of Xu Shaoyun.
Xu Shaoyun instinctively picked up the thing, and when he took a closer look, it was half a bloody broken leg. Suddenly, Xu Shaoyun's stomach began to churn violently, and then he spat it out with a sound. Someone opened his head, and the rest
The soldiers uncontrollably joined in the vomiting process, and the entire cabin was soon filled with filth and was in a mess.
"Bang!" At this moment, the assault boat hit an obstacle heavily and ran aground.
"Go! go! gogogo!" the American soldier driving the assault boat shouted repeatedly and immediately opened the front hatch.
As soon as the front hatch was opened, a hail of heavy machine gun bullets came whizzing in, instantly blowing the American soldier's head. The American soldier didn't say a word and fell down on the driver's seat.
"Go, go quickly, get into the water, quickly!" The old squad leader stood up suddenly, raised his arms and roared.
The soldiers still had not broken free from the tension and fear before the war. The most direct manifestations were dull eyes, stiff movements, and the brain's reaction speed was several times slower than usual. The old squad leader roared several times before the soldiers finally responded.
They came over, climbed out of the cabin very clumsily one by one, and jumped into the salty sea water.
Xu Shaoyun was the last one to leave the cabin. Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw another assault boat at the side and rear. As soon as the front hatch of the assault boat opened, the Japanese heavy machine gun bullets were already pouring out like a tide. More than a dozen people
Before the officers and soldiers could make any reaction, they were beaten into bloody sieves and all died heroically!
Xu Shaoyun's eyes suddenly went straight, and he could no longer take his eyes back.
"Don't mind them, mind yourself!" the old squad leader roared angrily and kicked Xu Shaoyun into the sea.
However, just when the old squad leader turned around and was about to jump into the sea, a rifle bullet whizzed over and shot through the old squad leader's neck with extremely accurate accuracy. The old squad leader's strong body suddenly stopped, and then was hit by gravity and inertia.
Under the influence, he slid out of the cabin and fell into the cold sea water.
Besides, Xu Shaoyun sank into the water nearly two meters deep before he started to resurface.
Just when Xu Shaoyun was struggling with his hands to float up, he suddenly saw the old squad leader stretching his limbs and sinking stiffly from the water. Xu Shaoyun's hands suddenly stopped, and he looked blankly at the old squad leader who was once so familiar.
, I saw a cloud of bright red blood mist pouring out from the old squad leader's neck. The old squad leader's once extremely sharp eyes now seemed hollow and dull, and he was extremely angry.
The whole world suddenly became dead silent. Xu Shaoyun couldn't believe it. The old squad leader who had just been alive and kicking him into the sea died like this. In the eyes of Xu Shaoyun and the whole class of recruits, the old squad leader was immortal.
Veteran, but now, the immortal veteran is dead, really dead!
"Wow." Under the action of buoyancy, Xu Shaoyun finally emerged from the water.
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion, the sharp sound of bullets piercing the air, the hoarse roars of the officers, the wails of dying comrades, and the roar of fighter planes in the sky. All the sounds poured into Xu Shaoyun's heart like a tide in an instant.
In his ears, the whole world came back, and Xu Shaoyun, who had dull eyes and stiff limbs, suddenly came to life.
"Don't stop!" Xu Shaoyun, who seemed to have died once, took over the command of the old squad leader without hesitation, and roared fiercely at his trembling comrades who were huddled behind the barrier, "If you are a man, just rush to me and rush to the beach.
, kill these stupid Japanese devils and avenge the old squad leader!"