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Chapter 18 Majuro Air Battle (6)

The commanders of the Tang and Japanese armies fought wits and courage, and finally met on the narrow road on the 27th.

At three o'clock in the morning on the 27th, the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group arrived on time on the ocean east of Nantarawa, about 400 kilometers away from Majuro Atoll of the Marshall Islands.

At 3:00, the four aircraft carriers of the Tang army began to prepare for flight. Twenty-five minutes later, the navigation lights of the aircraft carrier flight deck were all turned on, and the Raptor heavy carrier-based fighter jets began to take off. All the surrounding Tang army cruisers, destroyers and submarines entered the first-class combat state, forming a defense circle within a range of 50 kilometers around the aircraft carrier, and opening all sonar detectors to prevent enemy submarines from approaching the aircraft carrier, ensuring that the four aircraft carriers were not affected in the twenty-five minutes of sending all participating aircraft.

At about four o'clock in the morning, when the last Hellfire heavy carrier-based bomber that took off on the Duowen Tianwang aircraft carrier took off and completed its formation, a huge group of 288 fighter jets made a huge roar and rushed straight to Majuro.

On the bridge of the Tianwang aircraft carrier, Zhang Meng and Li Haichen watched the Tang army fighter fleet go away, and the trend is surging.

Li Haichen couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, if today goes well, you will definitely destroy or capture the Majulu supply station. The fuel and food on the Japanese ships may be enough, but their fresh water will definitely not be left. As long as we hold them back for about a week, they will inevitably panic."

Zhang Meng smiled slightly and said, "Destroying their supply station is just an insurance for our victory. In fact, with the strength of our naval aviation, we don't need to wait at all. As long as the Japanese Combined Fleet enters the combat radius of our bomber, the waiting for them will inevitably be death."

Li Haichen said: "But you have also said that although our fighter jets are much more advanced than Japanese fighter jets, there is still a certain gap between our pilots and Japanese pilots in training!"

Zhang Meng nodded and said, "Yes, this is our only weakness now! However, I believe that our Tang army pilots will grow up quickly in this battle. In the future, they will be the air overlords of the entire Pacific Ocean and the air overlords of the entire world!"

Zhang Meng was immediately full of enthusiasm when he said this, and Li Haichen beside him was deeply infected and could not help but feel confident.

At this time, all the aircraft carrier flight deck lights were turned off. In order to prevent the discovery of the Japanese submarines moving nearby, the four aircraft carriers quickly left the sea area, but in order to recover the fighter jets, the aircraft carrier still sailed straight towards the Majuro Atoll.

At the same time, in the Majuluo Atoll, the Tang Army's First Marine Division has completed the goal of all heavy equipment landing.

The division commander Zheng Shaoqiu ordered the special forces to continue to advance in silent combat, and successively seized four of the eight islands in the Majuluo Atoll. These four were guarded by only a small number of Japanese sentries.

Zheng Shaoqiu was waiting for dawn because he needed Navy aviation bombers to level the Japanese strong fortress artillery positions and machine gun castles guarding Majuluo Atoll to the ground, otherwise the other side would be in a pass without any traffic, and the Tang army would return to a huge cost of casualties.

"Report that our plane has set off and will arrive on time before dawn. The commander's telegram ordered us to prepare ground guidance to ensure that the bomber group can destroy the enemy's key targets as soon as possible."

"Very good!"

Zheng Shaoqiu immediately showed joy and immediately ordered the special forces to confirm again the Japanese fortress gun positions and the position coordinates of the machine gun castle. Prepare for ground radio guidance, and at the same time to prevent accidental injury of his own people. The Tang army engineers used eye-catching red canvas painted with certain fluorescent functions in the open area to form huge attack arrow icons, pointing to the enemy on the opposite side. Even if they look down at a height of 10,000 meters, they can clearly distinguish the enemy and us.

The reason for making such an arrangement is due to the bloody experience and lessons learned from the natives of Fiji during the bombing. At that time, the Tang army's fighter planes sometimes had no time to distinguish the enemy and us when diving, and so they accidentally injured their own people many times. At the meeting on the summary of work experience of the Tang army, front-line combatants from the army raised this issue, which was immediately taken seriously by the senior leaders of the Tang army, and immediately made arrangements to avoid accidental injuries.

The Tang army troops set up formation and pushed forward in a net-like manner, leaving no survivors wherever they passed, preventing the other from warning the Japanese.

A Japanese immigrant farmer's home was built next to the only way for the Tang army to advance. The dog at home suddenly barked, and not long after, a Japanese man rushed out with a hunting rifle.

The Japanese man thought it was a local native who came to steal things, but he saw a team of Tang soldiers carrying live ammunition. Although he had never seen the Tang army, he at least knew that this was Japan's territory. It was naturally malicious that foreign troops suddenly came in.

"Bang!"

"Da da da da!"

The gunshots sounded, and the Japanese men did not dare to shoot at the Tang army. He fired a shot in the sky to warn the Japanese army. But the Tang soldiers subconsciously believed that the Japanese men were shooting at them and fired one after another.

A piece of machine gun bullets shot over, and the Japanese man was immediately beaten into a sieve.

A group of Tang army special forces members lurking at the Japanese outpost on the top of the mountain immediately cursed inwardly. At this time, several Japanese soldiers in the outpost had heard gunshots. They could hear a gunshot for a long time. Although the gunshots could not be heard by the M1 submachine gun, they believed that a large number of unknown enemy troops came to the island.

"Open fire!"

Seeing that the Japanese army was about to call to report, several special forces members had no time to attack in close proximity, and they used weapons such as rifles, submachine guns and sniper rifles to launch attacks.

Unlike the Tang army of the Marine Corps who used the same M1 submachine gun, the special forces members were only required to use the most advantageous weapons. Some like to use long spears, some like to use submachine guns, and some like to use sniper rifles. Even if some people think that their flying knives are more powerful than guns, they are allowed to use flying knives as their main combat weapon.

In short, special forces members are allowed to use different weapons in order to exert greater combat effectiveness and perform various tasks.

Under the fierce attack of several special forces, several Japanese sentries were quickly shot to death. Although the Japanese sentries were unable to say a word, the phone had already been called. The gunshots had already indicated to the Japanese army that there had been attacked here.

“Woo…”

A rapid alarm sounded over the Majuluo Atoll, but only three islands sounded the alarm because the other five islands had been occupied by the Tang army.

Major Tomomi Inada was awakened by the alarm and the rushing knock on the door. He learned that the outpost was attacked, and only three of the eight islands had contact with the other five islands. The news that the other five islands had lost contact was like thunder, which made him nervous.

"It's Tang Jun! They're touching it!"

"Damn it, are they gods? How can we not notice it at all?"

Tomomi Inada was in a hurry and lost five of eight islands overnight. Although the three most important islands were still in their hands, the other five islands were occupied by the Tang army to put the entire Majuluo Atoll in danger. But last night, Kobayashi had already reminded him to strengthen his defense. Tomomi Inada knew that his military career had ended.

"Master, are we reporting the situation here to General Kobayashi Jizao?"

Tomomi Inada thought for a while and suddenly ordered: "Don't send a report first. Order the first squadron and the second squadron to set out immediately, take back the lost islands, drive the Tang army out of the sea and destroy them. After we take back these five islands, we will report to General Kobayashi Jizao."

"But we don't know how many Tang troops are there. I'm afraid it's inappropriate to attack rashly?"

"How many Tang troops can there be? The Tang army fleet is still far away from us. They did not bring a large number of landing troops, so we can only see a small amount of harassment from the Tang army. We have a large brigade of troops, leaving a squadron to defend enough."

Since it was not yet dawn, Tomomi Inada was sure that there were only a small number of Tang troops attacking him, so he hoped to take back the five lost islands and report to Kobayashi.

Half an hour before dawn, Zheng Shaoqiu saw that the Tang army was exposed and no longer waited for the support of the Tang army planes, he immediately ordered the troops of the First Marine Division to launch an attack on the Japanese army as planned.

The three islands, Epni, Jarit and Deputa, are the key defenses of the Japanese army. There are Japanese airports, oil supply warehouses and material supply warehouses built on it, which are also places where the Tang army really wanted to destroy or occupy.

In the coconut forest south of Karalin Island, 18 80mm caliber cannons, 18 105mm caliber mountain cannons and 18 155mm heavy howitzers were concentrated, and the gun doors aimed at the Japanese back-ablanc bunker positions on the opposite Epni Island.

"Correction of all elements!"

"Reload the shells!"

"Target Highland No. 7, coordinates 2-2-4!"

"Three-wheeled rapid fire! Prepare - fire!"

When the order flags of the command troops fell, the 54 artillery pieces of the Tang Army's artillery regiment opened fire in turn.

Accompanied by the sharp whistling sound, a fiery red mushroom cloud rose up opposite Highland No. 7 in an instant. In an instant, mountains shook away, soil and rocks collapsed and splashed, violent explosion shock waves broke the trees, and fell leaves flew.

The Japanese bunkers had a concrete structure of more than one meter thick and were not easily destroyed. However, the fierce artillery attacks of the Tang army's artillery regiment were suppressive, and the smoke and dust aroused in the sky obscured the Japanese army's sight.

The roar of the Tang army's chariots sounded, and ten SRA tanks ran through the sandy beach and waded along a shallow beach and crossed the sea toward the opposite island.

Since it is a Majuluo, it is the structure of the atoll and it is the ebb time in the morning, the shallows between the two islands are less than 0.3 meters deep, which just meets the conditions for the Tang army's chariots and infantry armed swimming.

The Japanese artillery fire on the opposite island was mainly placed facing the sea. We watched the Tang army chariots in the reverse slope direction swim, but could not adjust the muzzle to attack.

The machine gunner in the Japanese bunker pulled the trigger, and the machine gun fire spurted, trying to block the Tang army's armed swimming. Unfortunately, the Japanese machine gun bullets hit the Tang army's chariots and were all shot away, which could not hurt the Tang army behind the chariots.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

The Tang army artillery regiment once again suppressed fire. The Japanese bunker was bombarded by a 155mm heavy howitzer, and a large area of ​​concrete was blown off. The Japanese inside were either killed by the explosion fragments or fainted by the violent explosion shock wave.

After several times, the machine guns of several Japanese bunkers suddenly became silent.

As the Tang army artillery fire extended, machine guns on the SRA chariot opened fire violently to cover the Tang army infantry to launch a charge, and soon captured the Japanese back-ablind machine gun bunker position on the east side of Epni Island.

The Japanese artillery squad on the top of the mountain lacked individual combat weapons and was forced to detonate the ammunition depot.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

With violent explosions, the earth shook, the Japanese coastal artillery positions were blown up, and the Tang army then captured the commanding heights of Epni Island.

The Tang army looked down from the top of the mountain, and the Japanese Majulu Airport was completely visible.
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