New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

At 10:24 on October 16th, the Maruyama Division, which had gone through hardships, finally accomplished a great miracle. Without a map and no supplies, they led a team that was already half-starved to death through the vast jungle. Forests, mountains, canyons, rivers, swamps, and cliffs overcame hunger, disease, and death.Finally reached the front of the Blood Ridge position.

Scout Osawa Jiro carefully hid behind the dense grass, watching the US military positions with binoculars.Obviously, after a series of previous battles, such as the assault by the Ichiki Detachment, the Americans are very attentive to the defense of this location.All the trees near the U.S. positions were cut down, and even the weeds were burned. Nearly a kilometer away was an open area with a good view.In the telescope, Daze can clearly see several layers of barbed wire on the US military battlefield, and, damn it!Those barbed wire fences are covered with tin cans of leftover lunch meat.Looking at the past, there are countless cans shaking gently in the wind.

"Ah, canned meat! It's really..." Ozawa has never hated those guys in front of him as much as now, "If I can eat a bite of that kind of thing, it would be good to kill me immediately!" The hunger and longing almost overwhelmed Daze was about to lose his mind.It took him a lot of effort to suppress his urge to immediately rush to the American positions, kill those Americans, and snatch all their cans, and continued to maintain a prostrate posture, carefully observing the enemy's defense situation.Well, there are a few American sentries over there, and one of them is slowly hanging cans on the barbed wire. It must be what they just finished eating.Look at them with their cigarettes in their mouths, the way they are careless!It seems that the Americans are not aware of the imminent attack.Some places on the battlefield were obviously bunkers, and Daze carefully recorded them one by one.However, Osawa knew that compared with these, the Americans probably had more bunkers, but these could not be found with a telescope.

The attack was about to start, and he had to report what he had detected to his superior immediately. He took a last look at the cans hanging on the barbed wire, and then continued to slowly retreat in a prostrate posture.At the same time, he secretly swore in his heart: "I will definitely come back!"

However, the general offensive was not launched on time, because it suddenly rained heavily.The troops could not see the target at all, and Maruyama had to delay for another two hours.This is the seventh time he has postponed the total attack time.If he could launch the attack according to the time of 22, he could even get the fire support of the navy's artillery formation, but now it can't work. The navy said that they had been out for too long, and the warship ran out of fuel in standby, so they went back to refuel.

The 150mm howitzer and 100mm cannon that had been given high hopes were all lost on the road.But now Maruyama still has some guns.For example, there are still a few of the Japanese-style 92 infantry artillery that made a big splash on the Chinese battlefield.If grenades can also be regarded as artillery, then the number of artillery is even higher.The torrential rain finally stopped, and several 92-type infantry artillery were quietly pushed into the attack position, and the attack was about to begin...

Tom and Jerry are the Marine Corps' sleeper scouts.As early as two hours ago, when the Japanese army just appeared in the jungle in front of the highland, they had already noticed it.There is a huge difference between the jungle near the US military station and the jungle near the Japanese military station, that is, there are many wild animals, especially birds, in the jungle near the US military station.In the jungle near the area where the Japanese army was active, not to mention birds and beasts, even the number of insects was very small-the hungry Japanese ate them all.

Although the Japanese army was very careful when approaching the blood ridge, no matter how careful the troops with nearly 92 people were, it was impossible not to disturb the aborigines in the jungle.A group of startled parrots flew up and immediately exposed Ri's whereabouts.Now, Tom has seen with a telescope from a hidden observation post that the Japanese army has begun to set up 92 infantry artillery positions on the edge of the jungle: the 1 infantry artillery that was originally disassembled into individual parts has been assembled little by little, first with wheels, then It's a gun mount, a gun barrel.What about shields?This thing has long since been lost, and the fire can be fired without it anyway.And Jerry immediately used the wired phone to continuously report the latest findings to the command organization behind. "In area 92, it was found that the Japanese army was building an artillery position, and there were Type [-] infantry artillery on the position..."

It is not for nothing that the U.S. military is so well prepared. The 22nd is the attack time set by Staff Masanobu Tsuji and Commander Hyakutake of the 17th Army.Maruyama's troops did not arrive on time, and the general offensive was delayed.But someone arrived on time, and what's more, he didn't receive the order to postpone the general attack.Most of Guadalcanal Island is covered by mountains. Travel friends know that in mountainous areas, the signal of mobile phones will become very poor or even have no signal at all due to the blocking of mountains.The same goes for radio stations.The other two regiments commanded by Major General Sumoji, responsible for launching diversionary attacks, did not receive the order to postpone the attack because of poor signals, so they charged the position of the 1rd Battalion of the 3st Marine Regiment as originally planned.

He likes to issue orders on behalf of the chief (or the emperor), or simply remove the front-line commanders with higher ranks than himself in the name of the base camp (on the 22nd, because the head of the Kawaguchi brigade discovered that the fortifications of the US military were the same as before. What he understood was different, and he asked to postpone the attack, but Lieutenant Masanobu Tsuji deemed him "fearful of war" and immediately ordered that Major General Kawaguchi be removed from his post and replaced by the commander of the 38th Regiment of the 230th Division, Tokai Hayashi Toshisari) Compared with this staff, the US military's staff is much more honest.There is less time to do the things that Yue Zuo delegates, and the time to do what you should do is naturally guaranteed.Therefore, in the eyes of the Japanese themselves, these careless and careless Yankees are still quite meticulous when doing their work, at least, they are much more meticulous than the Japanese staff who only found out that there was no map when they set off.They made a detailed survey and mapping of all the areas in front of the position, numbered them, and arranged for artillery tests to ensure that the artillery can shoot accurately at any location at any time.

As a result, as soon as the two regiments led by Major General Sumoji launched an attack, they were covered by overwhelming artillery fire.Because there were no changes in other aspects, all the artillery fire of the US military fell on their heads. The 8 light tanks of the Japanese army rushed to the front, but they were all ambushed by anti-tank guns. These guys who used to run amok in China, when facing the United States, they did not lose their prestige at all. She, all 8 tanks were turned into crematoriums.And the infantry who charged behind were blown to pieces by shells. In a blink of an eye, the Japanese army killed more than 600 people and had to retreat hastily.

This unsuccessful attack rang the bell for the US military.Vandergrift ordered: "All troops should enter the highest state of alert." The Blood Ridge garrison even deployed two lines of defense, equipped with various firepower, and cleared all the thatch in front of the position that would affect the world. prepared for defense.

Just when Maruyama's artillery team was getting ready to launch the first round of shelling, there was a strange whistling sound in the sky.When the senior soldier Fujita Hiromichi, who was carrying ammunition for the Type 92 infantry gun, heard the sound, he immediately threw away the ammunition box and fell to the ground at the same time.As a veteran who has been on the battlefield more than once, he knows that it is the sound of the American 105mm howitzer shells piercing the air, and the target of these shells is here.

As soon as Fujita lay down on the ground, he felt the ground shake violently, bumping like a boat in the vast ocean.His ears were also filled with huge, seemingly never-ending roars.He lowered his head, pressed his face tightly to the ground, and at the same time pressed his helmet tightly with one hand...

Not far away, Tom and Jerry witnessed the shelling, seeing the first round of shelling, the enemy's artillery positions were completely covered, and the two excitedly clapped each other's hands to celebrate.

Fujita lay on the ground, suddenly felt as if someone was pushing him, opened his eyes, and saw an officer saying something to him angrily, but he couldn't hear a word, and now his ears are still roaring.The officer pointed in the direction of the high ground, Fujita saw many people rushing there, the officer said something, then pulled him up from the ground, and stuffed a 38 rifle into his arms , roared again.

Fujita still didn't hear anything, but he already understood what the officer meant-the cannons are all finished, there is no need for artillery now, charge!

Fujita nodded dumbly, took a step, and wanted to rush up, but fell to the ground after taking a few steps. As an artilleryman, he knew that this was because the huge shock during the shelling temporarily damaged the balance function of the vestibule.But now that the general offensive has begun, for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, we must advance no matter what.So he got up again and stumbled to the high ground.

Just when the U.S. military was the first to start anti-artillery preparations, Maruyama also realized that they had been discovered by the U.S. military.He immediately issued an order: "The general attack begins!" So amidst a frantic shout of "His Majesty on board!", Maruyama's first assault began.

The current Blood Ridge is completely a sea of ​​steel and flames. The 105mm artillery of the U.S. military is constantly blocking shots. If you can enter the range of the rifle, you will be torn to pieces by the shells.

In the assault operations of the Japanese Army, their firepower level is generally like this: at a distance of 2500 meters, use 92 infantry guns to kill targets such as enemy bunkers, at a distance of 600 meters, rely on machine gun fire to fire, and at a distance of 500 meters, use machine gun fire to fire. On the other hand, use the grenade to attack, and at a distance of 400 meters, you can use the precision 38 large cover.Get closer, who is the Japanese imperial army afraid of bayoneting?

It is a pity that this system has completely collapsed now. The 92 infantry artillery was reimbursed before even a single shell was fired. As soon as they got out of the jungle, they were shot by the US 105mm artillery, and finally survived the 105mm The strike zone is still six or seven hundred away from the US military.And immediately suffered a new blow.

Under the pale light of the flares, a special, electric drill-like sound sounded.Everyone in the Maruyama Division is not familiar with this sound. This is the sound of the Vulcan cannons on those damn American planes. Could it be that when the night has fallen, the US military planes dare to do such dangerous close support?

However, Ri himself quickly realized that it was not an airplane, and the 20mm shell was shot from the Blood Ridge, so it must be the land-based Vulcan.

These howling, super-high-speed anti-aircraft guns stunned the Japanese all at once, and the raindrops of dense 20mm shells swept across the entire battlefield, but wherever they went, they were full of flesh and blood flying Shura like hell scene. The 20mm cannonball has terrible power. Ozawa, who was leading the charge, witnessed the tragedy it created: a 20mm cannonball hit the abdomen of a comrade not far from him, and the man exploded from the abdomen. His body was beaten into two pieces down the middle, the flesh and internal organs were blown out, half of his intestines flew out for about ten meters, and landed on Daze's rifle.

But Daze has no time to mourn for his comrades, or even to fear, because he himself is a target!

Fired together with the high-shelf version of the Vulcan cannon, there is also an m2 large-caliber machine gun.Although the shooting speed and lethality of this .50 caliber machine gun are not as perverted as Vulcan, it is still very good to use its firing to hit those fish that slipped through the Vulcan cannon.Now the m2 is aimed at Daze.one. A 50-caliber bullet hit Daze's left calf, and the entire calf was immediately split into two sections.Daze, who lost his balance, fell headlong to the ground. He raised his head in pain, and saw a barbed wire fence just a few meters away from him. On it, canned boxes were floating in the night breeze with a special temptation. swaying.Daze didn't care about his own wounds, and tried his best to crawl towards the barbed wire, leaving a bright red trail behind him.Finally crawled under the barbed wire, Daze stretched out his hand and grabbed those barbed wires, he didn't care about the pain caused by those barbed wires piercing his palms, he tried his best to climb up against the barbed wire, stretched out a bloody hand, trying to pick off a can.But just then, another bullet hit him... Daze fell down, dead.He failed to fulfill his wish to rush into the American positions, kill them, and eat their cans of spam, or even touch the empty jars of those cans, and was shot like she Killing a beast is like shooting at a place thousands of kilometers away from his hometown...

When the surviving Japanese continued to advance to the rifle range, the firepower they faced became more intensive. 80mm mortar shells fell like raindrops, and Springfield and Browning automatic rifles (actually light machine gun) and a newer rifle—the m164 semi-automatic rifle equipped by the Army's 1th Regiment in the second-line position sounded into a pot of boiling hot porridge.The surviving Ri himself was knocked down one by one in front of the barbed wire fence of the position.Maruyama's first assault thus failed.