Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 1673 Failed Coordinated Operations

Twenty minutes later, as the Japanese grenadiers and machine gunners were sniped to death one by one by the teaching regiment led by Cao Bixiao, the devil army Cao realized that the attack was doomed to fail, but had achieved the purpose of the test, so he ordered a pause attack.At this time, there were as many as 10 devils rushing onto the beach.

Hundreds of devils built a circular fortification on the beach near the water with a sandbag on their shoulders.Iwamura Zuohei's temporary headquarters was set up inside. He sat on a stool made of two ammunition boxes and looked at the map that was also laid out on the ammunition boxes.Immediately afterwards, he used the binoculars to observe the fortifications on the opposite side carefully for a while, and asked the sergeant a few words, and he had a detailed plan for the next battle in his heart-decided to wait for all the troops to land ashore and pull the front line apart , using the width of this beach to launch a full-scale attack.

Soon after the Japanese army landed, Iwamura pulled out his command sword and moved forward. The two captains under his opponent ordered: "In any case, we must capture the first line of defense of the defenders. Otherwise, the main force will not be able to deploy. If the defenders If the army has concealed artillery units, a salvo can shatter our landing attempt. Two, for His Majesty the Emperor's great cause, attack!"

A steady stream of Japanese troops rushed onto the beach, and gradually accumulated a large force of nearly 2000 people.Looking at the orderly Japanese soldiers with their bayonets shining coldly, many French soldiers saw this scene with pale faces and dry lips. They looked at their officers and deliberately proposed to withdraw to the second fortification that was still relatively complete , but looking at the army of students who were waiting in full battle, he swallowed this idea abruptly.

The sense of honor of soldiers is much stronger than that of ordinary people. Some time ago, they accepted the training of the teaching group and endured too many insults such as "cowards and idiots". The long-forgotten sense of honor of the French has sprung up like mushrooms after rain.They all wanted to change their image in the hearts of the instructors, so the student soldier next door became the object of comparison.

The subordinates were panicked, and Emmons couldn't hold on any longer. He was old in the army, and he could see the combat effectiveness of the opposing troops just by stretching his eyes.He intends to transfer another group up, but seeing Cao Bixiao's calm eyes, after thinking about it, he dismisses the idea.He knows the importance of the reserve team, and knows that extreme warfare is the easiest way to stimulate the potential of the troops. The problem is that knowing is one thing, but he lacks self-confidence when he really wants to implement it, and he has no idea about the result.

With the experience provided by the sergeant, the devils still used grenades to break through the defenders' minefields.And just as they were implementing this strategy, more than a dozen enemy planes flew over from the south and quickly circled over the defenders.

The emergence of this wave of aviation, Iwamura Zuobei did not know - it is worth mentioning that the commander of the Okinaka aircraft carrier fleet commanding this landing battle was the captain of the sunk "Kaga" aircraft carrier Yamada definition. The "Kaga" was attacked and sunk by two Song-class submarines of the Xuebing Army, which almost ended the military career defined by Yamada.Fortunately, the Japanese navy is not as crazy as the army, and Shangfeng will not easily ask his subordinates to apologize.Later, because of Koizumi Toshiichiro's intercession, he won the opportunity to command the Okinaka aircraft carrier fleet.

In that time and space, Yamada Definition was actually an insignificant little person, but now because of Koizumi's care and his unique insights into HNA tactics, he was not beaten to death by a stick.

"What kind of record is achieved in this battle is second, the key lies in the running-in of land, sea and air coordinated operations. If the landing force, shipboard firepower, and air force can be effectively combined, their comprehensive combat power will not be as simple as one plus one plus one equals three. , My ideal number is six. Yamada-kun, work hard. The Kaga is gone, but we still have Yamato and Musashi—the spring of the Imperial Navy has come, what are you waiting for?"

Koizumi's words were a great encouragement to Yamada. He commanded the Chongying aircraft carrier fleet to sail towards Vung Tau City, and his mind was full of coordinated operations along the way.So, after Iwamura Zuobei led the first wave of marine soldiers from the two brigades to fight for the beach, he took over the command from Okada Haruka and began to experiment with the so-called sea, land and air combat tactics.

In the offensive order that Iwamura received, there was no such thing as the concept of coordinated operations.However, he does not reject the fact that his side sends aviation troops to support operations—the attack accuracy of fighter planes is much higher than that of artillery. As long as they don't get entangled with the defenders, they can avoid being accidentally bombed.

Our own fighter planes flew over the battlefield and began to bombard the defenders. He waved his command knife and changed the order: "Slow down the attack speed and ensure the shooting accuracy!"

The Japanese army began to implement the tactics of fighting steadily, which was not a good thing for the defenders.Li Jiansheng judged the situation and ordered: "Third Battalion, charge back! Drive the devils into the sea!"

"Tick tick!" The charge horn blew, and more than [-] students from the third battalion rushed out of the fortifications, and launched a countercharge against the devils along the mine-free zone to the east.

The Xue Bingjun launched a counter-charge, and Emmons was baffled by it, while Cao Bixiao immediately understood what Li Jiansheng meant.He said to Emmons: "General, you should also prepare to charge separately! Once the minefields are penetrated by the Japanese army, immediately order the whole regiment to counterattack!"

Emmons was very puzzled: "Why? Don't use the good fortifications, but launch a dangerous counterattack!"

Cao Bixiao frowned and pointed at the raging Japanese fighter planes in the sky: "General, this will not be the last wave of enemy planes of the Japanese army. Instead of waiting to be bombed, why don't we start a fight with the Japanese army? In that case, the Japanese fighter planes will not be able to fight against the enemy. Full firepower! Their air fire support is tantamount to wasted!"

"But," Emmons was still about to say something, when suddenly there was a muffled sound of gunfire in the distance beyond the sea's sight. He was startled and said, "What's going on? Does the Japanese ship dare to fire?"

Cao Bixiao couldn't think of a reason, he listened for a while, then looked at the army of apprentices who had already launched a close-range attack with the Japanese army, and said carefully: "No, the Japanese army invested no less troops than us, and There is no sign of defeat - what on earth are the Japanese trying to do?"

Cao Bixiao couldn't see through the mystery of the Japanese ship's sudden firing, and the same was true for Iwamura Zuobei.There was the sound of cannon firing behind him. At first, the little devil thought that the naval guns were hitting the defenders in depth.But in the past ten seconds, listening to the screaming sound of the shells, and feeling that the landing point was the beach, his face changed and he shouted wildly: "Bage! What's going on? What happened?" His The reaction was quick, and then he thought of a possibility, turned around and ran into the sea, and shouted to the landing craft parked not far away: "Zhongxi Erdai, you bastard, who told you to call for artillery support? Bage Yalu! You Do you know what you're doing?"

Zhongxi was the deputy commander of this wave of landing troops. He stayed on the command boat to communicate with the main fleet in the distance, and he was the only one with the right to call for artillery support.Iwamura took it for granted that it was because of his summoning of the main fleet that the fire support was launched, but he didn't expect that this wave of artillery fire suddenly came, it was entirely the whim of the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Rear Admiral Yamada Mori.

Yamada's sudden and unreasonable change of order first aroused the doubts of the commander of the Marine Corps, Major General Ono Sueji.He believes that even if he wants to try out sea, land and air coordinated operations, it is necessary to say hello to the frontline Marine Corps commander and let him be prepared.Yamada's definition blocked his mouth with a light sentence: "Ono-kun, this is a war, not a drill. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. When we send the notification, we don't know when the next opportunity will be." Yes! As a front-line commander, Iwamura must have the ability to adapt to changing situations. Besides, I also intend to examine his command and adaptability. Ono-kun, this is an order personally assigned to me by Your Excellency Koizumi, and it is a top secret. I have until now It was only revealed at that time, and it was also to achieve the effect of surprise soldiers winning!"

Koizumi's status is too special, because of Yamamoto 56's favor, now he has become the No.1 of the Western Expedition Fleet below Yamamoto, Yamada lifted Koizumi out as a shield, and Ono was speechless for the last time.

This round of continuous artillery fire by the Japanese fleet was very crazy. More than 150 gunboats used cannons with a caliber of 10 mm or more to continuously bombard for 10 minutes. 90.00% of the Marine Corps of the brigade was lost, and even the Zuobingwei of Iwamura was seriously injured.

Yamada's conscience is very bad. He didn't inform Iwamura Zuobei in advance because he wanted to test his command and response ability. He was really worried that he would not cooperate with his "Sea, Land and Air Coordinated Operations" drill.

The Japanese army suffered a devastating blow because they were completely exposed on the beach.Although the defenders had fortifications for concealment, their losses were huge.When the Devil fighter plane on a reconnaissance mission hovered over the battlefield to check the actual combat effects, what he saw was a piece of fragmented fortifications and defenders interspersed with them.

The sound of the explosion finally stopped, and Cao Bixiao poked his head out of a piece of floating soil and spat out a mouthful of sand, angrily cursing: "Damn it, you're really crazy!" Suddenly he thought of Emmons, and immediately pulled up beside him.

Emmons was lucky, although there were several wounds on his body, none of them were fatal.After he was dug out from the sand by Cao Bixiao, he coughed a few times, and then said to Cao Bixiao with lingering fear: "This is the craziest army I have ever seen. The Japanese are not human at all!"

After this round of shelling, only about [-] people from one regiment of the French army survived, and even fewer survived from Li Jiansheng's unit—he ordered the third battalion under his command to launch a counterattack, and that battalion was entangled with the devil soldiers because No shelter, no shelter, only three people survived.

The gunpowder smoke dispersed, and the survivors, under the command of Li Jiansheng and Emmons, went back to the fragmented frontier fortifications. Many people felt lingering fears. Emmons' men, more than a dozen officers and soldiers couldn't stand the stimulation, and lay down on the ground and vomited. Spit out the gastric mucosa.

The Japanese army was worse than them. They were bombarded by their own people inexplicably. Less than 2000 of the 200 people survived in the end. Their morale was hit hard. The landing craft ran wildly, completely losing the courage to continue fighting.

(End of this chapter)