Chapter 257 Unexpected Encounter
At nightfall, Watanabe walked out of the barracks with a bundle of things in his arms. He had felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach since dinner.
It was now a combat period, and the entire camp was under light control. He could only fumble around in the dark, and finally walked to a leeward corner and squatted down.
After plugging his nose with the hay in his hand and confirming that there was no other smell, a feeling of relaxation came from the bottom up, which made Watanabe shiver in comfort.
The feeling of happiness needs to be supported by other people.
Since he was from the same hometown as Chief Iikuni, Watanabe could enjoy some privileges in private. For example, one of them was unsupervised convenience outside the camp at night. After all, no one wanted to share a place with those workers.
Things like straw paper can be sold for money, so Watanabe was reluctant to use them. After picking up the hay he brought with him and wiping it hastily, he took out a rag from his arms and wiped the things on the ground together with the sand. wrap up.
It is forbidden to solve problems anywhere in the camp, and he must destroy the evidence.
The thing wrapped in black rags looked round from the outside. Watanabe pinched his nose and lifted it up to the edge of the high cliff. Then he threw the thing down with a throwing motion.
"Danger! Hand grenade がある!" There was a panicked Japanese voice below.
Bang, bang, something was hit.
Then a classic Chinese curse "Baga!!" came from below
Watanabe poked his head out from the edge of the high cliff and looked down. The scene after that was something he would never forget for the rest of his life - —I saw densely packed ant-like figures on the side of the cliff approaching their camp.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!! It's the enemy!!!" Watanabe shouted in a panic, and then ran towards the barracks while lifting his pants.
In this way, the second phase of the land battle in the Battle of Guadalcanal started in advance because of a bag of "olige" that flew inexplicably.
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Woooooooo! ! ! !
At the front of the New Japan Founding Army's position, American flares continued to rise into the sky as if they were free, illuminating the scene within a two-kilometer radius as if it were daytime.
Onboard! ! ! ! ! Boom boom boom! ! ! !
The roar of the Japanese charging troops was mixed with the continuous explosions from the minefields on both sides. People kept stepping on the mines and being blown to the ground, but these soldiers shouting slogans seemed unaware. Everyone is holding a bayonet and charging straight towards the front position. If someone falls down, someone will immediately replace him.
"Get ready! Pull! Release!! Kojiro Iiguni, who was wearing the wrong clothes, shouted with a changed tone.
As he gave the command, more than 20 small melon grenades were fired from high places. Throw it into the narrow charging channel in front of the position.
Boom!
The smoke has cleared. The small group of Japanese soldiers were lying on the road, and they could vaguely see the wounded squirming in pain on the ground, and the footsteps behind them were getting closer.
In just a few seconds, someone managed to reach the end. Under the barbed wire fence in front, the soldiers began to cut the wire, and some even climbed on it with their bare hands.
Puff puff puff puff puff puff puff puff! ! ! ! ! ! ! A fire net composed of several Taisho 11 machine guns began to fire near the barbed wire. The soldiers at the front fell down like wheat, and the blood in the darkness splashed on the barbed wire like paint, but some people behind them seemed unaware and were still high. Shouting "Onboard!" he stepped on his companion's body and continued climbing.
"Crazy! These guys are crazy!" Colonel Edson in the distance looked at the blood-spattered battlefield in front of him and murmured. He had never seen anyone so disrespectful of human life. What happened, I was shocked by the madness of the Japanese army for a while.
"Now is not the time to sigh. The people in front are stuck. Let's get started." He Chi reminded the colonel. Edson took a long breath, nodded, raised his hand and waved downwards, and eight 105 mm caliber howitzers appeared behind him.
Boom! ! ! ! Boom! ! ! ! ! Boom! ! ! ! ! ! !
Different from ordinary shelling, the sound of this large-caliber howitzer was very dull. Eight heavy artillery guns with set scales bombarded the middle of the Japanese charging formation. In the dense formation, about forty or fifty people disappeared directly in the shelling. Gone.
Without the blood transfusion of troops from the rear, the struggle of the soldiers in front of the barbed wire no longer meant much. When the last soldier was killed by a machine gun on the road, he was only the last step away from the position of the New Japan Founding Army. More than ten meters.
"Quick! Fill the front! Hold the flank position and transport the wounded down quickly!" Edson's command was obviously more timely at this moment. He seized the gap in the Japanese attack and quickly reorganized the weak defense line. part.
"What happened?! Didn't you say that you put it in the designated position and use the howitzer to take it away at once? Why did you fire in advance?!" the front officer complained depressedly. Night battles were most afraid of various accidents. What happened just now? At this time, if the firepower coordination is a little slower, the Japanese can rush into the trenches and cause a chaotic battle.
This is what American soldiers never want to see.
"God knows, Kojiro reported that the secret sentry of the founding of New Japan discovered the enemy and sounded the alarm in advance." He Chi shrugged.
"Fuck! These smart guys almost did something bad." Edson cursed in a low voice.
"But it is undeniable that these guys performed pretty well, didn't they?" He Chi pointed to the position in the distance.
"Well, I don't deny this, they did far better than I expected..."
Indeed, because they still cannot fully trust the New Japan Founding Army, in order to make the bait more It is true that Edson, under the instruction of Major General Vandergrift, did not tell these so-called "allies" about his combat deployment, so that Kojiro Iiguni and the others had no idea that the Japanese army would raid tonight. .
But unexpectedly, the New Japan Founding Army fought vigorously when they suddenly encountered their opponents at night. More than fifty people stood high and withstood the first wave of attacks using light weapons such as machine guns, mortars, and grenades.
The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that the combat quality of these soldiers was not low before, it also has a lot to do with the fact that Kojiro Iiguni, who never thought of sending his life here, and the night fire watch arranged by Jiaotusanku.
It is also because of this wave of successful defenses with a score of over 8.0 that Americans have seen that the New Japan Founding Army, in addition to its role as bait and political symbol, also has the most primitive military value.
Therefore, after the Battle of Guadalcanal, Washington once again increased its efforts to support this slave army, allowing the number of this army to expand to more than a thousand people like blowing up a balloon.
But at this time, Iiguni Kojiro had no time to think about his future wealth.
Because after a brief silence, the Japanese troops howled and charged towards them again.
(End of this chapter)