Sasaki, commander of the 1st Regiment of the Japanese Guard Division in Guadalcanal, with the military rank of Colonel. Yesterday morning, the sudden bombing by the Americans made Sasaki feel a little strange, because according to the latest intelligence from the headquarters, the Americans did not attack Guadalcanal.
intention, but why did they still bomb Guadalcanal? (Historically, the Japanese command did not know that the Americans had landed until forty or fifty hours after the American troops landed on Guadalcanal)
When Sasaki knew that the Americans had landed, they were already in front of him and had arrived at the airport. Sasaki, who was still sleeping, was pulled up from the bed by his deputy and realized that the Americans had arrived at his door. Sasaki immediately started
He frantically called for help from the headquarters, but the order he received was to stay put and wait for help.
The Guadalcanal Garrison Division is at most a C-level division in the Japanese military establishment. What is a C-level division? According to the hierarchy of the Japanese troops in World War II, the Japanese troops can be divided into four categories: A, B, C and D.
level.
Among them, the Class A division is a Japanese standing division. It existed before the war broke out. At that time, the Japanese army had more than 400,000 people, divided into 17 standing divisions. Each division had about 28,000 people. This is Japan's
The main force of men.
Class B divisions are Japanese reserve and reserve divisions. After the Sino-Japanese War broke out in an all-round way and the Second World War broke out, the seventeen standing divisions of the Japanese simply could not meet the Japanese war needs. Therefore, the Japanese
Enrollment was expanded. At that time, Japan's military service system was relatively complete, from reserve service, reserve service to first supplementary force, second supplementary force, etc.
The soldiers recruited at this time are basically retired veterans and young people who have undergone certain military training. Therefore, they still have a certain degree of combat effectiveness. This kind of division is classified as a Class B division.
The combat effectiveness of Class B divisions is not as good as Class A, and the configuration of the artillery and cavalry regiments has also been weakened. The number of Class B divisions is not large, and it is also considered the main force. The troops who were once surrounded in Wanjialing
The 106th Division is the second-level division, and the number of the second-level division is between 22,000 and 24,000.
The Class C division, which is the division where Yu Yang and Sasaki currently belong to, is the largest division in the Japanese army. All divisions from the 110th Division to the 300th Division belong to the Class C Division.
, due to the increasing scale of the war, the original reserves and reserves could no longer meet the requirements. Under such circumstances, Japan began to continue to expand its troops, that is, to recruit first and second supplementary troops.
The average number of Class C divisions is about 17,000, and the number of heavy weapons is far less than that of Class A and Class B divisions. Class C divisions have some combat effectiveness, but they cannot fight hard battles. If you want to fight a big battle, you need at least a Class B division.
The regiment was holding on. The C-level division had exhausted Japan's last reserve soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of the D-level division could not be opened at all.
The last D-level division, although homophonic with the top division, is a completely different concept. The D-level division is the division with the smallest number of people and the worst combat effectiveness among all the divisions of the Japanese army. The strength of a D-level division is only
12,000 to 14,000. Why are there so few? Because this was originally a division expanded from a brigade. In the later stages of World War II, as the supply of soldiers gradually dried up, Japan even sent children over 10 years old during the recruitment process.
onto the battlefield.
Many of the soldiers in the D-level division are child soldiers in their 10s, and the child soldiers often fall behind even in emergency marches. Such troops cannot compete head-on with the enemy. They basically perform tasks such as patrolling, vigilance, and maintaining law and order.
On the Pacific battlefield, the U.S. military captured many such child soldiers.
Sasaki knew the fighting power of his men, and it was OK to bully the Korean workers, but fighting to the death with the Americans was no different from dying. Moreover, he was only a regiment leader, and the army was not full, with less than 1,500 soldiers.
Hundreds of people, after Sasaki thought for a long time, he decided to retreat. Rather than sit back and wait for death, it was better to retreat strategically. After waiting for reinforcements to arrive, he would cooperate internally and externally to eliminate all these Americans.
So when the Americans began to attack the airport, Sasaki just said "retreat", and took the combat staff of his headquarters and some people to retreat hurriedly from the airport to the outside. As for his own troops, they could only run as many as they could.
It depends on their luck, they have ordered the retreat anyway, and the captains under them at the assembly point are also very aware of it.
Sasaki's retreat order was issued in a hurry. Some Japanese soldiers received the order and were retreating towards the outskirts of the airport while covering each other alternately. Some Japanese soldiers did not receive the order to retreat and started to counterattack on the spot. However, these Japanese soldiers discovered
The number of friendly troops around him became smaller and smaller, and some soldiers began to retreat.
The Japanese resisted for ten minutes. After ten minutes, when there was no resistance from the Japanese soldiers, the Americans rushed into the airport as if they were in a deserted land. Some Americans who ran faster overtook some Japanese who retreated slowly.
The soldiers captured a lot of prisoners, but more of them were Korean workers.
Compared with history, this time the Americans suffered some setbacks. When attacking the airport, about 40 people were killed and more than 200 injured. However, for the landing force of more than 10,000 people, these American casualties
Totally bearable.
Yu Yang moved forward about two hundred meters, and was still less than a hundred meters away from the officer he found. Now the sun had jumped out from the sea level, and the sky began to brighten.
"puff!"
Yu Yang gently pulled the trigger, killing the Japanese soldier who was walking at the front. Then he quickly turned the gun and pointed it at the Japanese near the officer and continued to pull the trigger. The guy was blocked in the crowd.
In the middle, Yu Yang didn't have a good shooting angle. Sasaki was too short, only about 1.5 meters tall, and several of the staff around him were a little over 1.6 meters, which perfectly blocked Yu Yang's line grab.
The sudden attack made the retreating Japanese panic, especially since they had no idea where the bullets came from. A group of people immediately chose to lie on the ground in a group and look around to find the location of the snipers.
A group of people all lay on the ground. After the body that blocked Sasaki was gone, Yu Yang immediately aimed his gun at the Japanese officer, then gently pulled the trigger, and then quickly retracted behind the tree.
When I fired the gun just now, my position must have been exposed. After all, the distance was only about a hundred meters. The suppressor can only weaken the sound of the gun and reduce the gun fire, but it cannot completely weaken the gun fire. After shooting, the flame at the muzzle will
Yu Yang's position was exposed, and the first few shots were surprise attacks. Now the Japanese became vigilant. Anyone who was not blind could see. After all, although it was daylight, it was still a little dark in the woods.
PS: This chapter is about basic common sense, so don’t criticize me.
