Anti-Japanese blood sacrifice mountains and rivers

However, the naval garrison still insisted on annihilating the enemy at the beachhead. In desperation, Su Lin finally made a compromise plan, focusing on defense in depth, supplemented by beachhead defense. The naval garrison built permanent launch points and strong The support points are used for defense, and the main force of the army is concentrated in the Suribachi and Wonsan areas to implement defense in depth. %&*";

So Abayashi decided to build Iwo Jima into a strong and unsinkable fortress. He chose Suribachi Mountain as the core position and the two airports on Iwo Jima as the main defensive zone. Utilizing the natural caves of Mount Suribachi, in terms of tactical arrangements, the East and West Beaches suitable for landing are defensive positions with permanent launch points and strong support points as the backbone. The Japanese army's fortifications are mostly underground tunnel positions. The natural caves are organically combined and connected with each other by a new zigzag underground traffic trench.

Su Lin is very virtuous in building artillery positions. He has learned that the Chinese army often uses napalm incendiary bombs and cloud bombs before attacking. The attack will not appear disastrous loss of intelligence.

As for the main construction of the artillery positions, most of Sulin was built semi-underground. Although the firing range of the artillery was sacrificed, it greatly improved the survivability under heavy bombing. The Japanese army attached great importance to the protection of artillery positions and communication networks. Under the command of Aulin, the Japanese army carried out 24-hour uninterrupted construction day and night. Suribachi Mountain was almost hollowed out, and the tunnels built had as many as nine floors.

The Japanese Army studied the combat characteristics of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Su Lin planted a large number of landmines deep on the beach. Machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank guns formed a dense firepower network. The configuration and shooting targets of all weapons were accurately calculated. Concealing oneself, and being able to kill the enemy to the greatest extent, the most important thing is that the tunnel fortifications connected to Mt. Suribachi built in the Wonsan area has been fully excavated. This passage is 28 kilometers long, allowing the Japanese army to attack on Iwo Jima. Troops do not have to be exposed to U.S. superior surface-to-air fire to move back and forth. .cc|i^ Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice Mountains and Rivers 940

At the same time, Su Lin also changed the previous desperate tactics of the Japanese army. He instilled in all officers the tactics of point-blank shooting, division of troops and mobile defense, and lure and ambush. Only one officer and soldier of the Chinese Aid Force who landed can die. Su Lin's painstaking efforts made the Battle of Iwo Jima the most brutal and arduous landing battle in the Pacific, killing and injuring a large number of officers and soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

At the request of Shen Yingxiong, the B24 medium bombers of the Seventh Air Force under the command of Major General Hale dispatched to bomb Iwo Jima almost every day as long as the weather permits. The bombing of Iwo Jima, a giant bomb weighing two tons and seven developed by the British, is the largest single aerial bomb that the b29d super sky fortress can carry. However, due to the complicated transportation and manufacturing process, the output is very low, and it can blow up two-meter-thick reinforced concrete and ten-meter-thick soil layers.

On the one hand, the U.S. military used giant bombs to continuously bombard the Japanese military fortifications in the Suribachi and Wonsan areas. I take the Bunker Hill aircraft carrier as my flagship.

He commanded an aircraft carrier formation composed of 77 fleet-class aircraft carriers, [-] new battleships, [-] cruisers, and [-] destroyers to leave Ulisi, pass the Mariana Islands and the east of the Ogasawara Islands, and head straight for the Japanese mainland.

Spruance planned that the main force of the fleet would arrive off the coast of Japan, use about two days to carry out suppressive air strikes on the airports in the Kanto region of Japan, and then go south to participate in the Iwo Jima operation. Therefore, there are only 24 bombers and torpedo planes on each aircraft carrier, and the rest are all equipped with fighter jets. In order to minimize the possibility of being discovered by the Japanese army, 29 submarines were dispatched to serve as reconnaissance and search in front of the formation channel, while the shore base of Saipan The air force used b[-] medium bombers and b[-] super sky fortress heavy bombers to patrol and guard the air over the sea area where the formation passed.

Rear Admiral Brandy led a fire support formation consisting of six battleships, sixteen escort aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, and 29 destroyers to leave Saipan for Iwo Jima, provide fire cover for the landing troops, and attack Iwo Jima. The Japanese army's fortifications in the mountains were attacked.

The Chinese Expeditionary Army's amphibious land force has entered the battle state, and has completed pre-war mobilization and material and ammunition preparations. The United States has generously provided great support. It can be said that the generosity of the Americans is very shocking. The level made Shen Yingxiong a little stunned. Facing the Battle of Iwo Jima, the six divisions of the amphibious landing force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the four divisions incorporated into the combat group were ready to go. However, the capacity of the Iwo Jima battlefield is limited, so Song Xilian is ready to go to the amphibious The [-]st Marine Division and the [-]nd Amphibious Marine Division carried out landing operations to attack the Japanese troops guarding Iwo Jima, completely wiped out the main force of the Japanese troops defending the island, occupied Iwo Jima, and provided a better airport for the US military to bomb the Japanese mainland. .

On Christmas Day, December 1943, 12, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, accompanied by Nimitz, arrived at Saipan to listen to a report on the Battle of Iwo Jima and inspect the preparations for the battle. Turner, commander of the U.S. Navy Landing Formation Nicknamed "Alligator", the report originally planned to prepare for ten days of bombardment on Iwo Jima, because the warship could not carry the ammunition for ten days of bombardment, so it could only conduct three days of bombardment, but Turner said that the area of ​​only 25 square kilometers Three days of bombardment on the island is enough, and the defenses that the artillery fire fails to destroy will be completed by the landing force.

And for more than ten consecutive days, the air force bombing force threw incendiary bombs on the Japanese positions, burning the camouflage of the Japanese positions and exposing them so that naval guns could destroy them.The bombers on Saipan will also carry out large-scale bombing on Iwo Jima. It is planned that within three days, the U.S. military will consume more than [-] tons of shells and bombs before the amphibious land forces of the Chinese Expeditionary Force land. An average of [-] tons of ammunition per square kilometer was saturated.

Forrestal expressed satisfaction with the firepower preparations before the landing group landed. The saturated attack ammunition volume of [-] tons per square kilometer can blow up Iwo Jima into the most worthless land in the world, even a damned island. Flatten.