Mocking the year, the month, the day.
For Saipan, which can be called a paradise.
It's definitely not a good day.
In Saipan's records, this day has become the "day of bloodshed" in the history of Saipan, where tens of thousands of soldiers with different languages, races, beliefs, and different goals launched an unprecedented and tragic battle.
In the face of the fierce attack launched by the Allied forces on Saipan, Yamamoto Isoroku, who had been sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai platform, was also a little breathless, and he thought that if the Allied forces suffered heavy casualties, they would definitely temporarily stop the attack and use battle patrol formations and carrier-based aircraft to repeatedly strike at targets on the island, and the battle for the beachhead could be said to be the most crucial thing in the island landing battle.
Ben 56 believed that only repeated battles could consume the spirit of the Allies, and more importantly, it could consume a large amount of various material reserves of the Allies, and such a huge landing fleet was like an incomparably complex machine.
From combat units to logistical support, to technical support, maintenance and maintenance, if there is a problem in any of these links, then there will be a problem with the normal operation of this machine, and it is precisely this moment that Yamamoto Isoroku is waiting for.
As long as you are human, you will make mistakes, and you are good at taking advantage of your opponent's mistakes to increase your chips, which is what Yamamoto is best at.
The main force of the Combined Fleet under the command of Yamamoto Isoroku has been hiding 50 nautical miles southeast of Tinian Island, and this area was the most frequented place by US reconnaissance planes before the war.
And here the currents and numerous reefs are simply not suitable for mooring or for the passage of large ship formations.
The main forces of the entire combined fleet were moored and hidden here, and if once discovered, only the fate of total annihilation awaited the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, something that the Americans did not think of, or did not dare to think about at all, the Japanese did, and the gambler nature of Yamamoto Isoroku once again performed a miracle, the first time at Pearl Harbor, and the second time here, Tinian Island The battle patrol formation, headed by the battleships Yamato and Musashi, was the first attack echelon of the combined fleet.
Their mission is to use the night to quickly pass through the air alert blockade area of US planes and directly strike at the Allied landing group in the waters off Saipan.
Taking advantage of the Allied forces' concentrated air and sea superiority to strike at the air raids of the battle patrol formations, the aircraft carrier formation, with four heavy aircraft carriers, including the Kaga and the Daiho Tower, as the main force, used fighter planes to cover horizontal bombers and lightning strike planes to strike at the US aircraft carrier formation, seize air supremacy in the waters off Saipan, and finally complete the encirclement and annihilation of the Allied landing group.
Yamamoto Isoroku's plan can be described as a desperate plan, in order to reach the death of the entire Allied Northern Fleet, it is a pity that the Japanese base camp and Emperor Hirohito did not agree to use the battleships Yamato and Musashi as the main force of the decoy assault formation.
Yamamoto's efforts were unsuccessful, and in desperation, he had to use the Nagasaki and Yaeyama heavy cruisers as the main force of the assault, so that the battle patrol formation became a complete cruiser formation, and the cruiser formation could not compete with the Iowa-class battleships of the US army in terms of firepower and speed.
By mid-afternoon, the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions had failed to occupy the beachhead.
The Japanese Special Marine Corps was under the command of Nagumo Tadaichi.
Despite the scorching heat and fierce support artillery fire of the American army.
The US troops launched three counterattacks in succession on the beachhead, trying to drive the US landing force into the sea, and the US Marines burst out in a desperate situation in the face of their ferocious Japanese counterparts.
No one can save themselves, only on their own, and the Marines are God Stripped naked, the Japanese soldiers armed with Type 99 carbines frantically swarmed out of the tunnels in the woods in front of the beachhead, which was a new generation of military standard rifles improved and developed by the Japanese army on the basis of the Type 38 Wang mm rifle.
Because the Type 38 rifle equipped by the Japanese army uses a concave millimeter bullet, the lethal power is insufficient.
So the design department of the Japanese army began to design the caliber of the knife millimeter ammunition, at the beginning of the caliber ammunition only used machine guns, and later decided to also use rifles, the Japanese army's Type 99 rifle is to fire 77 mm bullets and develop equipment, its Type 99 rifle was finalized and put into production.
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Hence the name 99 rifle.
The 99-type rifle is equipped with 99-type carbine and other models, in fact, the combat shooting accuracy is basically the same as the 38-type standard rifle, and the actual combat accuracy has also reached the expected standard of the military, and the 77 mm bullet fired is also a smokeless and flameless cotton propellant, but the 77 mm bullet is short, and it is easy to roll after hitting the Japanese standard, so the damage of the 99 type rifle to the human body is more than the 30 type using Wang millimeter caliber ammunition.
The hoarse voices of the Japanese soldiers were like wild beasts howling, and with the muffled sound of the Type 99 rifles, they rushed straight towards the US troops, and in the face of the barrage shot by the US troops, they still ran into it without hesitation, and what frightened the US troops was that in the onslaught of the Japanese army, many human flesh bombs with bags strapped to their bodies were detonated, and as long as the human flesh bombs rushed into the defensive circle and detonated, a pound would appear in the defensive circle.
The tragic scene of flesh and blood was extremely shocking to the American Marines who were still arrogant before, under the supervision of the sergeant or master major.
Or push and shove with a collar around the neck and a kick in the ass.
Marines were able to fill the gap in panic, and when a non-commissioned officer or officer was killed, the recruits in the defensive area they supervised would be thrown into disarray.
However, there were still hundreds of Japanese troops who rushed into the beachhead defense circle of the American army, and the frightened recruits laid down their weapons, but the Japanese army did not have any mercy for this, and the lethality of the short-edged bayonet was far greater than that of the 38-type bayonet, and at the critical moment of life and death, all the American troops went into battle, doctors, communications staff officers, wounded, senior officers, and all those who could still pick up arms were thrown into the counterattack against the Japanese army.
In the white smoke of gunpowder produced by the firing of weapons, the Japanese and American soldiers were shot one after another and fell to the ground wailing, and the fierce and timely artillery fire of the US troops blocked the Japanese counterattack troops, and the US troops were able to survive on the beachhead.
The huge casualties caused by the Japanese attack on the American beachhead also made Nagumo Tadashi waver in whether or not to continue the attack.
To the relief of the US military, in 4 landing sites.
Only the two landing sites at Gloo Beach were successful, and the US 27th Infantry Division had already landed its troops, but it was unable to break through the formation position of the second ridge line in front of the Japanese army.
In contrast, the 10th Regiment and the 10th Regiment of the 3rd Light Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force can be described as brilliant, they have completely cleared the beachhead and annihilated the strength of at least three squadrons of the Japanese army.
And the landing squadron also suffered heavy casualties, the 10th Regiment as the main force of the first attack withstood the most fierce fire of the Japanese army, and several white-knuckle battles broke out with the Japanese army when seizing the first line of communication trenches, the only remaining combatants of the main regiment of the first type of porridge 2 people before the war can only be organized as: Jin Xiaolian, what makes Liang Chao the most heartbroken is that a large number of wounded died because they could not be transported, if it were not for the beachhead of the St.
Mary's beach, which brought a large amount of ammunition and supplies to the beachhead troops, Now the beachhead troops under the command of Liang Chao will fall into the point of running out of ammunition and food.
The number and speed of the losses of the armored vehicles and landing craft of the US military were extremely shocked, and they were also even more caught off guard, but the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which was equipped with the least transportation capacity, was the only one that stood in the way of the attack under extremely passive conditions, which gave the officers and men of the US military from the top level to the grassroots level another intuitive and profound understanding of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
In the late afternoon, when Liang Chao commanded his troops to seize the central fortress line of the Japanese second line of defense, Turner and a group of senior American officers came to the Knight.
Because of the unexpected failure of the beach-grabbing operation, all the plans and plans previously formulated need to be rectified.
On the Knight, Turner and the senior officers of the U.S.
Army witnessed a scene they will never forget in front of the high-powered observation glasses in the observation room, in the smoke of gunpowder stirred up by bursts of explosions, the Chinese soldiers rushed bravely under the guidance of the military flag, and successively defeated several counterattacks launched by the Japanese army from the flank, in the rain of bullets in the core position of the Japanese army, the Chinese soldiers stepped on the corpses of their comrades like waves in the advance of one meter after another, and the flag-bearers who rushed to the front were frequently replaced, and the military flag that was full of bullet holes and broken was still flying high.
Just like the Chinese people's will to fight, there is no compromise, no retreat.
In the end, the military flag was planted on the Japanese position, and the figure of the Chinese soldiers also crossed the top of the mountain, and at this time, the American generals, including Turner, were really relieved, and they suddenly found that they were so nervous that they were sweating.
After visiting the few wounded who were lucky enough to be transported down in the field hospital of the Knight, Turner soon found a scene that shocked him, some of the lightly wounded sat in the corridor, pressed the scattered bullets into the magazine one by one, and then put the magazine aside, especially a Chinese soldier with gauze blindfolded eyes groping for the bullet, the resolute look on the young face of the Chinese soldier made everyone awe-inspired, and the reporter John Tom who accompanied the army with a hand-ached hand immediately snapped this extremely shocking scene.
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At this moment, Turner understood what Song Yuhang's so-called foundation of faith was, and at the same time, Turner also deeply felt how terrible it was for such an army that relied on faith and had a soul
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