The shelling of the small army's heavy artillery group was almost the same as the support artillery fire of the US Navy battle patrol formation.
With a sharp whistling sound, in the flash of a huge explosion, Liang Chao saw several medical soldiers who were transporting the wounded disappear into the smoke of gunpowder, and almost every shell of the Japanese army could inflict casualties on the Chinese troops on the beachhead.
Liang Chao lay on his stomach on the Sherman, who was pushed onto the beach by the landing ship Saint Mary.
Under the chassis of the amphibious tank, the beachhead local counterattack plan was deployed in the Japanese artillery fire, Liang Chao could see the fire balls sprayed by those behemoths on the sea, and at the same time that the Japanese artillery group gave the Chinese expeditionary force a lethal blow, the Allied battle patrol formation also gave the Japanese a fatal blow, especially the Iowa-class battleship New Jersey, the Type 7 high-explosive shells fired at a rate of 2 rounds per minute from the Type 5 high-explosive shells fired by the Type 5 caliber millimeter main gun, often one shell down.
Outside the crater with a diameter of more than 10 meters, more than 30,000 pieces of shrapnel swept across the 2,000-meter range.
If it weren't for the fact that the reconnaissance planes could not be dispatched at night to lock on to the Japanese artillery group, the Japanese artillery group would have been muted a long time ago, and in order to prevent the trajectory from being calculated by the opponent and thus lock on to the artillery group, after a burst of rapid fire, the Japanese artillery bombardment suddenly stopped firing and shifted the position.
However, for the Japanese troops who launched an attack in a dense formation, the segmented firing of the battleship New Jersey as the core battle patrol fire support formation, especially the three triple main turrets of the battleship New Jersey, was simply a nightmare for the Japanese army.
Or opened the door to hell for the Japanese attacking troops.
Where had the Japanese officers and men from the 80th Mixed Brigade of the Kwantung Army ever seen such a terrifying power.
Some of the Japanese troops retreated timidly due to such a devastating artillery bombardment, but the machine guns of the gendarmerie overseers completely cut off their hope of escaping, and the disgraced Saito Yoshiji personally commanded a continuous attack on Glou Beach with a large brigade each of the Akiki Wing and the Ichito Wing.
This time, Saito Yoshiji did not divide his forces, but concentrated all his forces and carried out a counterattack on the squadron east of Glou Beach in an extremely targeted manner.
When the east slightly revealed a hint of fish white, the wreckage of more than a dozen Type 95 medium chariots was still burning.
A Japanese charioteer who had not had time to flee was exposed and most of his body was charred on the turret, and from time to time flames came out of the corpse's wide open mouth, and the stench of corpses accompanied by thick gunpowder smoke wafted in the air.
A large number of Japanese soldiers piled up corpses in front of the defenders of the Chinese landing force, and even though the squadron also suffered heavy casualties, the beachhead was still firmly controlled by the squadron, and not only that, but the third ridge line by the woods was also overcome by the squadron.
Saito Yoshiji listened to the report of tactical staff officer Sakai with a blushing face, and in the early morning of this day, the strength of the two brigades invested by the 80th Mixed Brigade was one brigade each of the Akiki and Ichito Wings, and all four brigade leaders were killed in the early morning battle, and the four brigades retreated, including the wounded, were not enough for Asahito.
Saito Yoshiji can be said to have made a mistake in his subjective consciousness, he simply thought that the Shina army must be inferior to the American army, but he kicked it firmly on the steel plate, and the remains of the imperial army pressed on the layer from the attack position to the beachhead were the price of his wrong choice.
The Chinese Expeditionary Force, which repelled countless counterattacks and counterattacks by the Japanese army, also suffered heavy casualties, and the squadrons of the two regiments that landed were no longer enough combatants at this moment, and nearly 1,000 light and serious wounded could not be accommodated, and people died every minute, and the landing ship St.
Mary located on the beachhead was already full of holes because it was the target of the Japanese army's key attack, but the miracle was that as the self-defense weapon of the St.
Mary's armed landing ship, only two cannons were destroyed, and a large amount of materials and ammunition had been safely transported off the ship.
It can be said that the situation of the Chinese expeditionary force is already in danger, even under such conditions.
Liang Chao still concentrated his forces and took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Japanese army.
The starting position of the Japanese attack was captured, and this beautiful and sudden assault in front of the battle killed the Japanese soldiers with a lot of corpses.
Although Liang Chao is already facing a shortage of troops.
In particular, he still insisted on the third line of defense that was directly suppressed by the "Dragon's Back" firepower, but Liang Chao believed that once it was dawn, Song Yuhang would definitely send the 12th Regiment ashore, and then after the Spitfire tanks and others landed one after another, he would have enough troops and equipment to clean up the Japanese entrenched on the "Dragon's Back".
Just when the Japanese army abandoned the corpses and retreated.
A Japanese cruiser that seemed to appear out of thin air approached the waters off Saipan, and the two US destroyers on guard knew that they were invincible, but still sounded the battle alarm after reporting the location of the enemy ships.
The tactical actions of six heavy cruisers, including the Nagasaki and Yaeyama, of the First Fire Strike Detachment of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, quickly penetrated the waters off Saipan and caused the entire landing cluster to fall into a panic.
The U.S. battle patrol formation quickly changed its mission, switching from ground fire support to naval combat configuration.
The panic and cobalt of the ships on the sea made Liang Chao and Smith on the beachhead startled at the same time.
And Liang Chao and Song Yuhang had a "guts."
Song Yuhang promised Liang Chao to send troops to reinforce the beachhead as soon as the Japanese threat was lifted.
The news of the attack of the Japanese naval fleet made Liang Chao very uncomfortable, especially the ships that were getting farther and farther away made him feel abandoned.
Smith regretted very much at the moment, why didn't he use the last evening to transport the Diyang Regiment ashore, which caused his current strength to be overstretched, and what worried Smith even more was that the "Dragon's Back" that divided Grew Beach in two had not yet been taken, and the so-called two troops that landed on Grew Beach were actually "lone troops."
Nimitz can be called a knight of the sea, not only with the strong strength of the US Navy, but also by its uniqueness in terms of tactics, Turner can be the commander of the fleet of vice admirals is not a melocrat either, the Japanese army with Nagasaki, Yaeyama and other six heavy cruisers as the assault fleet, straight to the US landing force, so that the perimeter alert interception of the US expulsion formation by surprise, and the battle patrol formation is scattered into four detachments to support the four landing sites, which is tantamount to dividing the fist into fingers, The chaos of hastily changing combat missions to cope with the battle can be imagined.
What made Turner even more shocked was that the Japanese cruiser formation appeared alone, and there was no trace of the Japanese aircraft carrier formation or carrier-based aircraft within 50 to 100 nautical miles.
This is very easy to make the generals of the US Navy feel a huge threat, and what Yamamoto Isoroku wants to gamble on is actually that the US military will not easily give up the landing force that has already seized the beach and occupied the beachhead, so that the combined fleet will have a chance to take advantage of it, but the telegram sent by Yaeyama made Yamamoto Isoroku feel very discouraged, and the US military actually retreated at the critical moment, has the other party already realized its intentions, and Yamamoto Isoroku is a little uneasy about this.
For this reason, Yamamoto 56 had to contact Eira Kojo and Nagumo Tadaichi again, who were guarding Saipan, and confirmed that nearly two divisions of Allied troops had landed in the north and east of Glo Beach, and that the Allied forces that had landed at Marquiches Beach were less than a pound in size.
Tuan, if Nagumo Tadaichi wants, he can wipe out these Americans at any time.
Yamamoto was constantly anticipating the US military's countermeasures, while the tactical staff officers were nervously calculating the routes and possible countermeasures needed by the huge US fleet.
Only half an hour later, when a battle plan appeared in front of Yamamoto Fifty-six, Yamamoto Fifty-six looked at Hei Xiang who sent the plan in surprise and said: "So fast" The black makeup legs snapped and said uprightly: "Time is not waiting for Your Excellency, the task of my operational staff officer is to sort out the context of the commander in the shortest possible time, and provide basis and help for the commander's analysis."
Yamamoto Fifty-six nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, you are the only one in your group of combat staff officers who is really a cadre."
Yamamoto Fifty-six suddenly opened his mouth and asked when he was looking through the battle plan: "Kurosu, what do you think of the decisive battle in front of you?"
The eyes of all the people in the war room all fell on Hei Wei's body, Hei Shu was slightly stunned at first, and then replied in a solemn voice: "Report to Your Excellency, as a tactical staff officer, my duty is to analyze the various possibilities expected in the organization and process of the campaign for Your Excellency, I am not the Chief of Staff or Senior Tactical Deputy Staff Officer, my words and opinions are likely to mislead your subjective judgment, you are the decision-maker, we resolutely obey Your command, and will achieve a brilliant victory under Your command, In this battle, the Imperial Japanese Navy will win the victory, Long live Commander Yamamoto" Kurokawa Akira's call sign turned out to be the victory of the Great Japanese Empire, and it was very excessive to use the not simple word "Banzai" after his title, and everyone present understood that everything before Kurokawa Akira was originally a play.
The black-endangered staff officer of Geng Zhimuna turned out to be such an opportunist It can be said that Hei Xiang's words made Yamamoto Fifty-six have a feeling of being the savior of the Yamato nation.
The building is about to fall, will he Yamamoto Fifty-six be the one who will turn the tide?
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Yamamoto fifty-six pretended to reprimand Hei Xiang "Ming."
But the smile on his face betrayed him, and as a descendant of the samurai of the Naganet Domain, Yamamoto Isoroku had always had a heart to keep making progress, and he set his goals on a level that no one else had ever reached, and he believed that this was the only way to motivate him to keep improving.
Yamamoto Fifty-six hesitated for a moment, and said to Hei Xiang with a cold face: "Pushing everything to the commander is simply irresponsible, you go back to your cabin and memorize the full rules of the combat staff officer, and you will be on combat duty at night."
Except for Hei Xiangchuan Ming's expression of surprise.
For a while, the expressions on the faces of all the combat staff officers were suddenly strange, but most of them were naked jealousy: