Chapter 417 Zhebo Mountain (2)
"Lieutenant General!" Horie Yoshitaka ran into Tadao Kuribayashi's command center in panic, and said in a angrily manner: "The enemy... the Zhong** team has already attacked Zhebo Mountain!"
"What?" Li Lin Zhongdao was shocked when he heard this. Although he was already surprised by the abnormal shouts and gunfires coming from the mountain, he was still a little unacceptable when he was sure that it was indeed the Chinese team who fought on the Zhebo Mountain.? Chinese? Novel w..
"How did they call? How many people are there?!" Li Lin Tadao asked.
"I don't know..." Horie Yoshitaka replied: "There are a lot of people, and the mountains and fields are everywhere..."
After looking at the map for a while, Li Lin Tadao sighed and said, "It must have been an attack from the front, that was a swimming from the sea... The bastard was actually fooled by them!"
Then Li Lin Tadao turned around and ordered: "Order the troops to keep them in hand, and you cannot retreat even at the last moment!"
"Yes!" Horie Yoshitaka responded, turned around and sent the order.
After looking at the map for a while, some cold sweat gradually appeared on Li Lin Zhongdao's forehead... He knew very well what it would mean if Zhebo Mountain and 382 Heights could not be kept. This was not a problem of losing one or two high grounds, but a problem of completely losing control of Airport No. 1.
Once the control of the No. 1 airport is taken away by the enemy, it means that the fighter jets of the Sino-US coalition forces will be able to enter Iwo Jima relatively safely. Sato Ken's fighter jets that were gathered in Japan to reinforce Iwo Jima will face the embarrassing situation of nowhere to land. What followed was that the fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet could not reinforce. The final result was that Iwo Jima was defeated back to its original form and returned to the previous situation of being completely blocked and isolated...
"No, you must not let this happen!" Li Lin shouted and said to herself.
But the situation on the battlefield is not about what you want, especially if the enemy takes the lead, and it is often too late to try to remedy it later.
The Japanese army on the top of the mountain and the Japanese artillery arranged at the crater were defeated, and they didn't even have a way out, because once the tunnel entrance was discovered by the expeditionary forces, they would burst with artillery pill packs without hesitation... This could not only prevent the Japanese army from coming out of the tunnel to reinforce, but also prevent the Japanese army from escaping back.
Of course, the vast majority of the Japanese army still implemented the orders of Tadao Rilin... The two brigades stationed in Zhebo Mountain were the 17th Mixed Regiment under the 109th Division.
The so-called mixed brigade has similar nature to the mixed brigade, except that the mixed brigade is larger, and generally has two or three mixed brigades under it.
In other words, the combat effectiveness of this 17th mixed unit is actually not very good. If it is put into China, it is a second-rate unit that cannot even be considered a second-rate unit.
But the first and second brigades stationed in Zhebo Mountain are some exceptions. These two brigades can almost be said to be the backbone of the entire 109th Division... The other backbone of the 109th Division of the Japanese army was veterans. As early as China, they were transferred to various troops to serve as supplementary troops due to insufficient front-line troops. The insufficient organization was filled with new recruits from the domestic supplementary troops.
But a unit always has to keep some veterans. Only in this way can we set an example for the new recruits or teach them some combat experience.
The two brigades stationed in Zhebo Mountain are the only troops of the 109th Division that can be called veterans.
Tadami Kuribayashi arranged them to Zhebo Mountain because he knew the importance of Zhebo Mountain from the beginning. It can even be said that it doesn't matter if the entire Iwo Jima is lost. As long as Zhebo Mountain, a highland that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, is still in the hands of the Japanese army, the Japanese army can defend and control Airport No. 1 to wait for reinforcements.
But now...
Tadakami Li Lin never expected that the Zhong** team would attack Zhebo Mountain as soon as possible, and attack from the sea, which invalidated all the defenses he had arranged before.
Of course, because the Japanese troops on Zhebo Mountain have considerable qualities, they launched a fierce battle with the Zhong** team on the top of the mountain based on darkness.
At this time, the Japanese army was not completely out of the opportunity, because the Chinese team was indeed slightly inferior to the Japanese army in night battles and stings... After all, the Chinese team had been equipped with American equipment for more than a year, and more advanced equipment inevitably made the Chinese team less trained in these two aspects. In addition, the Japanese army was familiar with the terrain, and wave after wave rushed up from the tunnels on the front slope to join the battle group, which made it difficult for the expeditionary army to deal with it.
but……
It didn't take long before the sky gradually became brighter.
This is also the moment when Zhang Chi is also the expeditionary soldiers have been waiting for for a long time... As the fiery red sun jumps out of the sea, the blood-like sunlight suddenly scatters on Zhebo Mountain, illuminating the Japanese tunnels on the slope and the Japanese troops who kept coming out of the tunnel entrance to reinforce the top of the mountain...
The Chinese navy and artillery, who had been ready for reinforcements, would be polite to the Japanese army? They immediately fired a round of artillery shells at the Japanese army exposed to artillery fire. The fighter jets and bombers on the Pinghai also took off one by one, and then attacked everywhere.
Of course, the reinforcement range of fighter jets and bombers is not only Zhebo Mountain, but also the 382 Highlands where the Second Regiment is responsible for the attack.
The war in the 382 Highlands was relatively easy... The reinforcements sent by Tadakami Riribayashi from Zhebo Mountain were basically of no effect, because the problem with the 382 Highlands was not that there were not enough soldiers. The Japanese army in this highlands had at least 3,000 people. The problem was that they had too many soldiers and complex components, including Korean engineers, Okinawan engineers, army, navy... Now that a new reinforcement was added, the Japanese army in the 382 Highlands was as messy as a ball of porridge, and all parts were randomly fired but there was no progress at all.
However, the war in Zhebo Mountain is hard to distinguish, but this is just because the Chinese team is not as good as the Japanese army in night battles and is not familiar with the terrain...
After dawn, everything is moving in a direction that benefits the Chinese team.
Artillery fire played a role, and fighter jets and bombers also played a role, which cut off the reinforcements that emerged from the Japanese army from the tunnel.
Then, the soldiers used their advanced equipment to eliminate the Japanese troops one by one.
So just half an hour after dawn, a cheer from the soldiers came from Zhebo Mountain, and the soldiers had completely controlled the surface position of Zhebo Mountain.
Of course, there are still many Japanese troops hiding in the tunnels, but these Japanese troops will no longer pose too much threat to the Chinese team.
Because, as long as they blow up the entrance of their tunnel, it will be enough to keep the Japanese army busy for a while.
Chapter completed!