Taro Takemoto ran desperately towards the trenches behind him. At the same time, the US landing forces had already jumped into the trenches on the first line of defense of the Japanese army that had been destroyed by giant cannons. Warships on the distant sea were greeting the second line of defense of the Japanese army with giant cannons, and large-caliber shells whizzed past the heads of these US Marines, boosting everyone's morale.

More than a dozen naval fighters dived from the sky and pointed their heavy machine guns at the Japanese targets on the ground. A dense rain of bullets scattered on the Japanese positions. The Japanese defensive forces, who were already feeling desperate, could only rely on their own instincts and intuition to run around in the direction they thought were safe.

It was not until today that these poor soldiers understood what powerful country they had provoked, and from now on, they realized that their flesh and blood body and their spirit of loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor were unable to withstand the enemy's shells and tanks.

A US Marine tank track rolled up sand on the beach, and accompanied by another Sherman tank driven from the landing craft next to it, slowly crushed towards the Japanese position. Behind the two tanks were teams of American soldiers carrying weapons. There was no longer much resistance left in front of them, so it was not difficult for them to advance.

Several consecutive landings have allowed the U.S. Marine Corps soldiers to accumulate rich combat experience. They are good at using their firepower and heavy equipment to target the Japanese army. This unreasonable style of play makes the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side helpless. They lack the means of targeting the United States with rich and powerful style. At least the Japanese armored troops rarely appear on the island to challenge the American Sherman tanks that have crushed their performance.

Although the American Sherman tanks were proven to be completely unable to compete with the Leopard and Tiger tanks equipped by German armored forces, and even more so, they could not fight against the newer German Tiger King tanks. However, this American medium-sized tank, which was born under the powerful quality of the German superior armored forces, could completely crush its Japanese opponents without any suspense.

After these tanks landed on the island, they could cause huge casualties to the Japanese army. Many Japanese soldiers were ordered to blow up these steel monsters with anti-tank mines on their backs, but this close-killing style of fighting was actually not something that the American tank crew feared.

The good coordination of the Intra-Tank Group made the US's desperate close-fitting tactics against the Japanese army very easy. Coupled with the dense artillery, the Japanese counterattack methods were really suppressed.

Taro Takemoto finally climbed through the blockade and suppression of American artillery fire from the front line. He brought the news of the breakthrough of the first line position to the equally dirty defenders of the second line position. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, American artillery shells once again visited him. Because the second line of defense is the core defensive position of the Japanese army, the construction quality and complexity of the fortifications must be better, so the American artillery fire felt here is not as fierce as before.

The main reason is that the US Navy's artillery is resting and preparing for the next fierce attack. Most of the fires are 152mm caliber artillery on destroyers. Such an attack is still tolerated by the Japanese army. Although the entire second-line position looks very tragic, it has not actually suffered much fatal damage.

This state looks miserable, but in fact there is no loss. Most of the Japanese defense lines here are reinforced with wood and have used many stone structures to support them. In theory, it was designed to cope with the suppression of large-caliber American artillery. However, when you see the tragic situation on the first line of defense, everyone will be unsure of whether their defense lines have the ability to resist the opponent's artillery fire.

Except for the shortcomings on aircraft carriers, the number of other ships in the US fleet has exceeded the total number of fleets used by the Germans when they landed in Britain. In this case, attacking a small island guarded by the Japanese can be said to be a slaughter of a killer.

After entering the first trench of the Japanese army, the American soldiers did not rush to advance rapidly inland. This is also a lesson learned from countless failures. The Japanese army liked to conduct counterattacks immediately after losing their positions, using a short assault to regain their positions and effectively kill the US army. Therefore, the Americans became cautious, and they had more time, so they were not afraid of waiting. As long as the beachhead position was in their hands, the troops on their side would become more and more, and the Japanese army would lose less and less chance.

Major General Ishida was in his command center, looking at the front battlefield that had temporarily ceased, and helplessly put the reserve team in his hands into the second-line defensive position. He did not dare to lose this position, because behind this line of defense was a third line of defense that was not much prepared. Compared with the two lines of defense in front, the third line of defense was not completed at all.

So he doesn't have much time left. As long as the second line of defense is broken through by the US military, his troops will be divided and surrounded, and the core position of the entire island will be occupied by the US Marine Corps, including field hospitals and ports on the island.

"Let the soldiers who came down from the first line of defense go to the port and then immediately blow up these ports and docks. We cannot leave anything for the Americans." With our hands behind our backs, Major General Ishida finally issued a combat order to blow up the docks. Nothing here can be left to the US military, otherwise the entire Pacific war situation would be even more devastating.

When Taro Takemoto received the order to blow up the dock, the US Marine Corps was still strengthening the defense line. The opponent was not in a hurry to launch a new round of attacks, and it seemed a little scared by the Japanese counterattack. So after getting some supplementary strength, the second line of defense of the Japanese army looked at least very strong.

Taro Takemoto followed a group of Japanese soldiers covered in mud to retreat to the dock. They wanted to replace the elite Japanese troops defending the dock, and then deployed defenses there after blowing up the dock. The reason why they did not blow up the dock now was mainly because Ishida still fantasized that he could get some supplementary supplies from submarines from there.

Listening to the rumbling cannons sounded again behind him, Taro Takemoto felt that he was a very lucky person. He finally escaped from the American artillery fire and was sent to the rear far away from the battlefield by a life-saving order. This was good news for him, and a very reassuring news.

He followed the troops in the jungle with his weapons on his back, walking step by step along a slippery path. On a fork, he saw two officers chopping down the road signs, probably to avoid staying for Americans to use.

Taro Takemoto, who is familiar with the terrain, walked this road countless times. He knew that the field hospital was not far ahead, where at least 500 seriously injured people were thrown on the island before they could evacuate. The cover staff had been transported away during the previous evacuations, and only a few nurses who voluntarily stayed here were taking care of the poor wounded people.

When the tent of the field hospital appeared in front of Taro Takemoto, he saw a terrifying scene. The clearings here were covered with dead soldiers, and many of them were covered with bandages. Obviously, these soldiers were all wounded in the hospital.

More than a dozen wounded soldiers with bandages on their heads were wiping the slender samurai swords in their hands. Their eyes had become cruel, making people creepy. The entire camp was filled with bloody smell, and several soldiers with bandages on their hands looked at Taro Takemoto and the soldiers around him who had retreated from the front line with cold eyes.

"Baga Road! In order to save food, we have killed all the wounded people who cannot stand up! Why do you have the nerve to give up the position and retreat?" A wounded officer with a blood-faced face limped to Taro Takemoto and others, shouting loudly: "You should be loyal to the Great Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor! You should be broken on the front line when the position is lost!"

Taro Takemoto looked at the wounded who had been hacked to death on the hospital bed, and the dead bodies he had stabbed into his stomach with a bayonet, his body was covered with a strong sense of disgust. He didn't know how to defend himself, but in theory he was indeed the kind of person who was defeated.

"We are soldiers who were ordered to change defenses, not escaped!" An officer leading the team stood in front of the wounded officer with a command knife, defending his soldiers: "If you don't believe it, you can go and ask Chief Ishida in person!"

"There are also officers who ordered their soldiers to retreat? Ishida is really a shameless coward!" The wounded officer snorted coldly, then pointed to the wounded people behind him who could barely act, and his facial muscles were twitching: "I will take everyone to support the front line now! We will never live in vain! We must use our lives to defend the Japanese Empire!"

"Long live the Emperor... Long live!" Several mildly injured soldiers behind him shouted with their superiors. They were the most fanatical militarists, who were completely willing to contribute all the samurai to the expansion of the Great Japanese Empire.

Unfortunately, Taro Takemoto didn't want to follow these idiots back to the front battlefield. After all, he would rather go to the chosen rear and perform a simple and safe task of blowing up the dock. But this does not mean that others thought so. Several soldiers with their heads lowered their heads stayed with the wounded. They wanted to go back and kill the Americans and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.

"Fild!" Takemoto Taro sneered in his heart and followed his troops to leave the field hospital. ——
Chapter completed!