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Chapter 57, United Fleet Attacks!

Japan, Southern Shikoku Island, Tosa Bay
Diffuse gunpowder smoke enveloped the sky and the sea, and the sound of continuous explosions shattered the air, making the earth tremble... Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the First Division of the US Marine Corps shivered and curled up in their respective bunkers, trembling with fear. Listening to the explosions outside one after another.

First, thousands of aircraft bombed indiscriminately, causing the entire position of the First Marine Division to be covered with poisonous gas for a day and a night. In today's Japanese battlefield, both sides have used sarin and other nerve gases as common items.Then there was the continuous bombardment of large-caliber naval guns. Countless shells were fired from late night to dawn, and from dawn to dusk.

At the same time, the four newly organized divisions of the Japanese Army, under the cover of fire from a large number of gunboats converted from transport planes, pressed over from Matsuyama and Uwajima in the northwest of Shikoku Island.The small number of Japanese servants recruited by the Americans from the surrendered soldiers quickly dispersed—you can’t expect how tenacious a group of puppet troops who have just reorganized and surrendered can have such a tenacious fighting spirit in the face of desperation.Only the Americans are left to continue to fight alone.

In the face of the menacing Japanese navy and army's massive counterattack, the U.S. military entrenched in Kochi County on Shikoku Island did put up a desperate resistance.But they were originally a diversionary partial division with a very limited force. Except for the Second Marine Division as the backbone force, the rest were all scattered and miscellaneous troops, and even if they were all added together, they would be no more than 2 More than ten thousand people.Moreover, the battle site at this time is the home field of the Japanese.

In the past, they thought they had understood the general situation and surrendered to the U.S. Army. Now, they either hide their names and abandon their posts to abscond, or resolutely defect and turn to the light to lead the way for the counterattacking Japanese army, or they are regarded as "national thieves♂" "Give it to heaven.A very small number of hardcore "Japanese traitors" who could no longer turn back, were divided and surrounded with the US military on several small coastal positions, and continued to resist stubbornly.

——Stuck on an isolated island, the sea is blocked, reinforcements can't come up at all, and there is no way to retreat if you want to retreat.The planes were all destroyed, and the remaining field artillery could not reach the enemy ships on the sea. It was said that they were stubbornly resisting, but in fact they were just huddling in caves or trenches, drawing a cross and being shelled.

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"... Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Amidst the fallen earth and rocks, Colonel O'Brien, with his arms wrapped in bandages, curled up unkempt in an air-raid shelter full of earthy smell, helplessly watching the kerosene lamp hanging above his head tap-dancing in the rain of bullets—— He really didn't expect that one day he would hide underground like a mole, trembling and shitting, waiting for the verdict of ruthless fate.

Around him, there were more than [-] American soldiers crowded in all directions, one of them was a non-commissioned officer who had a broken leg and was moaning slightly, the other two guys who had collapsed were crying and howling, and the rest of them kept their heads down and remained silent. language, and may even have passed out.

——Amidst the earth-shattering shelling, this small air-raid shelter was like a boat in a storm, shaking and trembling so much that it made people dizzy.

In fact, under Colonel O'Brien, there should have been a regiment of people.But because he never expected to encounter such a large-scale counterattack, his regiment fell apart in the bombing of Japanese planes yesterday, and then was driven away by the main force of the Japanese army who raided from the northwest like a sheep. In the end, they fled all the way to Tosa City at the mouth of the Niyodo River, where they finally gathered a large force and temporarily gained a foothold.

But soon, the Japanese United Fleet came up aggressively from the southern sea. The US fleet stationed in Tosa Bay only had a few cruisers and destroyers, and they were wiped out by a wave almost in the blink of an eye. There was no time to escape!More than 100 fighter planes of various types at the U.S. frontline field airport on Shikoku Island were quickly suppressed and destroyed by the overwhelmingly superior Japanese naval aviation, and most of the planes did not even have time to take off.

Next, the giant artillery shells from the Japanese battleship formation began to fall on Colonel O'Brien and the soldiers of his regiment...

——Before, when the Kochi County Hall voluntarily surrendered to the U.S. military, it did hand over the entire county’s military bases and coastal defense forts in its entirety.However, Kochi County, as a relatively safe rear hinterland, is a remote area with no industrial facilities, and it is not a pass guarding important waterways, and there is no permanent fleet. Therefore, the Japanese Empire is very slack in defense of Kochi County's coast. The coastal fortifications are better than nothing, and the remaining coastal artillery pieces are also old antiques from the Russo-Japanese War and even the end of the Shogunate War era, and they don’t even know where to find shells that fit the caliber.

After the first U.S. Marine Division landed, it only added some anti-aircraft artillery positions in the port, and did not spend too much manpower and material resources on building coastal defense forts—even with the wealth of the U.S. emperor, it is impossible to spend so much money. Material resources, to fortify every forward base.

Therefore, after confirming that the U.S. military airport had been completely destroyed and dispatched minesweepers to clear the waterways, the bombardment fleet of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet approached the U.S. coastal positions with confidence and boldly, starting from a position of 5000 meters from the coast. Then seeing that the counterattack was weak, they approached to a distance of about [-] meters. They simply dropped the anchor and concentrated on firing cannons to hit fixed targets, turning the coast of Tosa Bay into a sea of ​​flames for more than ten kilometers!
Under the guidance of seaplanes and ground reconnaissance sentries, the port facilities, barracks, anti-aircraft artillery positions and all places of military value controlled by the US military were baptized by the large-caliber shells of the battleships. Like a volcanic eruption.

Under the cover of such overwhelming artillery fire, the U.S. ground troops, which were already frightened, were even more devastated.In front of the 30-inch caliber battleship main gun grenade, every shell hit can blast a crater the size of half a football field in the ground, even if it is a Sherman tank weighing more than [-] tons, can be directly returned to the state of parts.The jeep and truck were lifted high into the air, then fell heavily, and even the people sitting in the car were smashed into meat paste.As for the infantry of flesh and blood, let alone...

——Due to the haste of the incident, the U.S. military did not have many artillery fortifications in this temporary gathering place. Many troops directly lived in civilian houses requisitioned by the sea, and some defeated soldiers who had retreated from the inland front line could only do so. Pitch a tent or camp out.As a result, under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft and the main guns of the battleship, these poor American soldiers had no place to hide at all. The basic order was lost, and there were many casualties immediately. The ground was full of stumps, limbs and arms, the sky was scorched by smoke, and the waves of fire danced wildly...

Even for American soldiers staying in field fortifications, their trench bunkers can at most deal with army howitzers with a caliber of more than 100 mm. How can they withstand the main guns of battleships with a caliber of two to three hundred or three to four hundred mm?As a result, before the Japanese marines in the south landed, and the Japanese army in the north and west hadn't overwhelmed them, Commander O'Brien's subordinates had already been blown up and scattered, and Colonel O'Brien himself He also lost contact with the division headquarters - the last radio station around him was also broken...

However, compared to his subordinates who had already been blasted into bone dregs and charred ashes, Captain O'Brien was still relatively lucky.Because before the Japanese battleships began to bombard the shore, he took a group of people to hide in an underground air-raid shelter left by the Japanese somewhere, and this air-raid shelter happened to be located on the hillside of a seaside hill, with the exit facing away from the sea where the enemy ships were moored , In theory, it should not be threatened by naval guns.

However, although there is a thick layer of mountain rock and soil as a natural protective wall, in the face of such a massive bombardment, feeling a thunderous roar and waves of heart-pounding vibrations coming from all directions, O'Brien The head of the regiment and all the personnel hiding inside were pale, and their hearts were raised in their throats, for fear that a shell would drill out of the ceiling in the next second, land on their heads and explode.

After finally waiting for the shelling to temporarily stop and waiting patiently for a while, Captain O'Brien led two subordinates, carefully got out of the air-raid shelter, slowly climbed to the top of the small mound, and prepared to scout out the enemy's situation.There are charred black craters everywhere along the way.On the edge of the crater where the dirt and vegetation were turned over, countless pieces of cloth, gun parts and human remains were scattered.A half-dead, blood-stained American soldier was sitting blankly on the scorched earth next to the bomb crater, staring absently at the distant sea. He seemed to have lost his mind and turned into a walking corpse.

Captain O'Brien ignored him, just climbed up a rock, took out the binoculars and looked towards the south. On the sea filled with gunpowder, there was a row of giant battleships of tens of thousands of tons, sticking to Tosa The coastline of the bay is lined up, and the muzzle of the black hole is flashing with fire...

"...Not good! The enemy is firing again! Withdraw quickly!"

Captain O'Brien screamed hoarsely, and at the same time rolled down the rock with astonishing agility, but it was a pity that he was one step too late—accompanied by a scream that tore through the air, a huge group of flames suddenly exploded in front of him. Open, the scorching storm swept across the earth in an instant...

After a while, there was the dull sound of cannons rumbling from the distant sea.Immediately afterwards, round after round of shells fell one after another on the beaches and bushes around Commander O'Brien, forcing him to run desperately... When Commander O'Brien returned to the air-raid shelter again, he had already He was left alone, and the two soldiers who had followed him before disappeared amidst the explosion of the enemy ship's bombardment...

And the explosion of the giant shells is still shaking this small shelter, and the shock brought by each explosion is like a sledgehammer hitting Captain O'Brien's heart heavily—the whole army was wiped out. The bleak future seemed to be right in front of him, making him feel even more desperate.

At this moment, he recalled the humiliation of being defeated by the Japanese United Fleet again and again, and the horror of being about to die on the battlefield...

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PS: Two soldiers in Taiwan tortured and killed a little white dog.The public was shocked and indignant, and the small animal protection workers paraded the streets to send Xiaobai away!Brother Bing is inhumane!Brother A Bing pays back his debt with blood!
It is rumored that under the strong pressure of the small animal protection, the Taiwan army will let the little white dog enter the Martyrs' Shrine...

The missiles of the Taiwanese warship killed the Taiwanese fishing boat, killing one fisherman and injuring three.People in Taiwan cheered happily: Wow, that's great!Hitting well!Mainlanders are terrified!Taiwanese military officers are infinitely proud: The performance of the Xiongsan missile has shocked the world. Taiwan can make such a good missile!

——Taiwan’s Jinjiang ship mistakenly fired a missile and killed the captain of the Penghu fishing boat. The result came out. One person was killed and three wounded on the fishing boat, resulting in seven people in the army being demerited.Compared with the previous dog abuse case, nine people were punished for one dog's life. It can be seen that people in Taiwan are really inferior to dogs.

Hey, this ghost island really deserves to be a ghost island.If it continues to develop like this, it is estimated that Taiwan will soon become a mental illness for all people!
In addition, the tour guide of the Hong Kong tour group who killed a mainland tourist was also sentenced last time. Manslaughter was sentenced to five months. Everyone, please don’t go to Hong Kong to seek abuse. Your life is only worth five months of criminal detention!