Chapter 136 General Attack (2)
While warships used ships to bomb Japanese coastal defense guns, landing crafts carried tanks and the main force of the New First Division to launch landing wars.
At this time, except for a few shore defense guns, the Japanese army fired and stirred up several water columns, which could basically have no force to prevent the landing of the Sino-US coalition forces.
Originally at this time... the Japanese army should have attacked the landing of the Sino-US coalition forces from three directions on the sea, on land and in the air at the same time.
On the sea, Japanese warships will launch a strike against the US fleet with the cooperation of shore defense artillery.
On land, the Japanese army should have a large number of troops using fortifications to organize tight defenses along the coast.
In the air, there will be a large number of various fighter jets carrying out ruthless attacks on the Sino-US coalition forces.
If this is the case, then most of the main force of the New First Division will be killed or injured before landing. Even if the remaining troops are barely landing, they will soon be knocked down on the beach by the Japanese army in groups.
However, none of this happened.
The Japanese army in Rabaul was in chaos, and many of their fortifications along the coast were in the hands of the China Team... Among them, especially the bunkers and tunnels, the China Team immediately took down places with sufficient ammunition reserves, and then relied on these ammunition to organize defense.
Because the bunkers and tunnels are very narrow, they often only occupy them but do not relax. Even if the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, they could not capture them again and again.
Therefore, the Japanese army's defense line was actually divided into many small units that could not be connected with each other.
On the other hand, there are a lot of coolies and laborers in Rabaul.
These coolies and laborers include Myanmar, North Korean, and Philippines...
The Korean workers mentioned here are not necessarily Korean engineers. Although North Korea was occupied by the Japanese army, the guerrillas that North Korea opposed the Japanese rule had never stopped fighting. Naturally, many guerrillas became prisoners of war, and those who helped guerrillas or disobedient people were "spent" by the Japanese army to Rabaul to become coolies.
What’s more interesting is that among these coolies there are also those from Thailand... If you want to say that Thailand is an ally of Japan, the Thai people have become coolies in Rabaul?!
These Thai people were deceived by the Japanese army, saying that they would give high rewards and that the lies such as gold mines everywhere in Rabaul were magical. As a result, the Thai people believed it true that many families had their fathers and a few children to make money. After that, they realized that the facts were not the case at all, but they were suffering from the fact that they could not go back even if they realized they were cheated.
These coolies from several different countries played a significant role in the battle of Rabaul.
This is not to say that they were helping the Chinese team attack Rabaul, but that they were usually threatened by inhuman treatment or even death from the Japanese army, and had long hated the Japanese army. At this time, they saw that they had the opportunity to take revenge and also wanted to survive, so they spontaneously launched an uprising.
So the Japanese army had just put out the fire and smoke rose again. Just after suppressing this one, the other end began to get messy again. The whole Rabaul fought happily.
Such a Rabaul was obviously unable to resist the attack of the Sino-US coalition forces, so the main force of the New Division landed under the cover of tanks, and broke through the Japanese defense line like a destruction and advanced towards the airport.
Zhang Chi and the first battalion did not move.
This is because the airport is a strategic location, and they cannot abandon the airport for no reason.
On the other hand, what is more important is that the physical strength consumed by hand-to-hand combat is amazing. The soldiers barely took the airport back from the Japanese army and the ammunition depot, and they no longer had the strength to face another battle.
Sometimes Zhang Chi even thought that as long as the Japanese army sent a little more troops, even if there was only one squadron, the first battalion would not be able to hold on.
But who knows? Now it is because the soldiers all know that the Japanese are defeated, so they feel relieved and feel that they have no strength. They may not know where the enemy comes, and they jump up and fight against the enemy with the threat of death.
"Group!" said a fellow villager to Zhang Chi, who was sitting on the ground smoking, "Here you come!"
"Oh!" Zhang Chi responded, slowly stood up from the crater and looked at the eyes of his fellow villagers. Sure enough, he saw a team of * who were slowly advancing towards the airport under the cover of tanks.
The reason why this place is "slow" is because the road is full of corpses, so they have to clear a way for the tanks... Of course, they know that they cannot drive the tanks to run over these corpses at this time, because these corpses are not only from the Japanese army, but also from their own comrades. At the same time, because these comrades are also wearing Japanese uniforms, they can't tell the difference at all.
After both sides approached, Wang Mazi snatched from the team and shouted, "Captain 1, are you?"
"Teacher?!" Zhang Chi was stunned when he saw that it was Wang Mazi. He thought it was just the vanguard of the division's main force, but he didn't expect it was Wang Mazi's direct troops. If the remaining Japanese troops were ambushed...
Zhang Chi hurriedly brought a few soldiers to meet him and said, "Teacher, why are you coming ahead? The battle situation is not stable yet!"
"Hey!" Wang Mazi patted Zhang Chi's shoulder, then looked at the soldiers around Zhang Chi, who were also covered in blood, and sighed: "You can all take such a big risk and pretend to be a Japanese and go deep into the tiger's den. I just waited for you to fight before coming to help. What's the point of not daring?"
"The teacher is joking!"
"No, it's a good fight, this battle is very good!" Wang Mazi and Zhang Chi walked aside and said, "The results of this battle were far beyond our expectations, and even beyond the expectations of the Americans..."
As he said that, Wang Mazi raised his head at the plane at the airport and said, "Not only these planes, you have seized a Japanese aircraft carrier, which makes the Americans so happy that they jump into the sky!"
"What? The aircraft carrier has really been handed over?" Zhang Chi was overjoyed when he heard this.
"Don't you know yet?" Wang Mazi's face was a little confused.
"Our walkie-phone was smashed!" Zhang Chi replied, "So I really don't know!"
It was smashed in hand-to-hand combat, and none of the three walkie-talkies in the camp were spared.
"It's the 'Shock He'" Wang Mazi said: "The Second Battalion Commander didn't expect it to be so smooth. He only sent a company to grab the aircraft carrier. He always thought that at most it would only cause some chaos to the aircraft carrier. Unexpectedly, most of the aircraft carriers were North Korean engineers. They were motivated by your North Korean adviser and stood by the side with the Chinese team to fight the Japanese!"
Zhang Chi couldn't help but feel very grateful when he heard this. It seemed that he had used Park Jung-hyung and his group this time.
Chapter completed!