The battle almost reached a white heat from the beginning. Both sides of the war knew that this was a critical moment of the battle, so they all used their energy to attack and defend.x Chinese x novel...

For the Japanese army, if they can suppress the Zhongzhang team and take back the control of No. 1 Airport, they will gain a huge advantage to defeat the Zhongzhang team, so they can not only kill the Zhongzhang team in large quantities but also consolidate Iwo Jima's defense and bring everything back to the starting point.

For the Chinese team, the 382 highland and Zhebo Mountain are actually their foothold. If these two highlands cannot be defended, then even if the Chinese Navy enters the battle in time, the New First Division will face the fate of being completely annihilated by the Japanese army.

So the offensive and defensive sides refused to give in to each other, attacked the high ground regardless of casualties, and the defenders would rather die with the enemy with the explosives pack than take a step back. In an instant, Iwo Jima was shrouded in a rain of bullets. Because it was dark and smoke everywhere, both sides of the enemy and us would inevitably encounter chaos and mutual penetration, so the entire battlefield unfolded in chaos.

According to the later surviving expeditionary soldiers, no one expected that this battle would be so difficult. He originally thought that it would be almost done when the navy reinforcements arrived for a while. In addition, it had geographical advantages, so he didn't think it was too dangerous. But he didn't expect that the enemy would break through the defense line several times and even penetrated to the top of the mountain.

Speaking of this, these surviving soldiers were full of gratitude. Everyone knew what would happen if the enemy had taken over the mountain top position at that time.

When summarizing experience after the war, Zhang Chi believed that there were two reasons for this situation.

First, the expeditionary force fought too smoothly after reaching the Pacific battlefield, and in its coordinated cooperation with the US military, some of which were infected with the US military's habit of relying too much on equipment and firepower when fighting without contact.

Another thing is that the Japanese army boldly implemented the intersecting and encirclement tactics against the Central Team with the help of darkness and smoke.

This was something that Zhang Chi did not expect... Although Zhang Chi knew that the Japanese army was always accustomed to using interspersed encirclement tactics, for example, when in Myanmar, the Japanese army implemented large-scale intersperses and directly cut off the retreat of the Chinese expeditionary force to return to China.

However, this kind of intersecting and encirclement tactic is generally used on a battlefield with a defensive depth, while the Chinese garrison on Iwo Jima only occupied one beach and two high grounds, and the distance between these positions is very close. Intersecting may be directly blocked by cross-fire fire from several positions... For example, the Japanese army intersecting between the 382 Highlands and Zhebo Mountain will be suppressed by the firepower of the two high grounds, and even if the intersecting is successful, it may fall into the encirclement of the three enemy positions and cannot deploy its troops.

So it is quite dangerous to do so.

But after thinking about it, Zhang Chi felt that the Japanese army's approach was correct.

The reason is that there is cover of darkness and smoke. The possibility of this kind of firepower being suppressed by enemy high ground is very small. As for the problem of the inability to deploy troops... the troops interspersed in do not need space to be expanded at all. They quickly broke into pieces and launched an attack in all directions. Their mission was not to occupy a certain place, but to create chaos as much as possible.

This is also the main reason why this battle will be so chaotic and difficult to fight.

If the US military was on such a battlefield, it would be afraid that it would collapse soon at this moment. However, the Chinese Expeditionary Force had encountered such situations many times on the battlefield. The three regiment commanders almost ordered the contraction of the defense line and then ordered any figure that appeared in front of them... whether it was the enemy or the one who was himself, they would kill them.

This may sound cruel, but war has never been a place to live in kind. The protagonists involved in the war often have to choose one of fewer casualties and more casualties.

Of course, you should choose to have fewer casualties at this time, even if some of these comrades are under their own hands.

As soon as the soldiers' defense line contracted, the connection between several positions was cut off by the Japanese army.

When Tadakami Rilin was overjoyed when he heard this news, because he could almost say that he was half successful when he reached this point... The enemy can contact each other and reinforce each other's three positions that form the iron triangle were divided into three positions, which itself weakened the enemy's defense to a considerable extent.

More importantly, once the connection between these three positions is cut off, the No. 1 airport located between the three positions will naturally fall into the control of the Japanese army.

To be on the safe side, Tador Kuribayashi ordered Horie Yoshitaka to lead a squadron of Japanese troops to occupy Airport No. 1.

Horie Yoshitaka indeed lived up to Tadao Kuribayashi's trust and seized control of the airport ten minutes later.

But this made Tadao Rilin frown.

Tadami Kuribayashi felt that victory was too easy, and he vaguely felt that something was wrong with it. On the other hand, judging from the report of Horie Yoshitaka, they found not many enemy fighter jets at Airport No. 1, to be precise, not very many, but almost none.

"Where have those planes gone?" Tadako Li Lin said to himself: "Maybe, they have been blown to pieces by the naval guns!"

Although this explanation is a bit self-deceptive, because the Japanese bombing was only 20 minutes, and the 20-minute bombing could not make dozens of aircraft unable to find any structure. However, this makes barely sense, not to mention that the Japanese army had no turning back at this time, so they could only go one way to the dark.

Then Tadao Li Lin abandoned his suspicion. He put his left hand on his chest and held up his right hand. He touched his chin proudly and said, "Now, you can see the final answer until dawn!"

Tadoro Riribayashi means that the reason why the Chinese team can still withstand the Japanese attack is entirely because of the Chinese team's advantage in equipment. However, once dawn is dawn, with the reinforcements of the Japanese fighter jets from Hachijo Island and the more than 20 seaplanes of the "Ise", coupled with the targeted bombardment of Japanese naval naval guns... this situation will soon change, and the balance of the war will soon fall to the side of the Japanese army.

Tadami Riribayashi couldn't wait for that moment to arrive. He seemed to have seen the heroic Japanese soldiers rushing to the 382 high ground, rushing to Zhebo Mountain, and then re-plug the sun flag on these two high grounds against the background of the rising sun.

Tadao Li Lin was even thinking about...

How should we deal with those Chinese?

Kill them all?

No! Iwo Jima is short of labor, so I should capture them and let them build tunnels. I will connect the tunnels between Yuanshan and Zheboshan before the next attack by the Sino-US coalition forces!
Chapter completed!