Just when Lieutenant General Oshima was swearing to live and die with Kauai, the cannons of the US fleet came to prelude to land on Kauai. More than a dozen cruisers and destroyers opened fire from all directions, pouring hundreds of tons of shells onto the Japanese positions of Kauai.

The shells hit the beach, setting off a smoke screen several stories high. The trenches that the Japanese soldiers tried their best to dig were quickly destroyed by the destruction of these large-caliber artillery. And the so-called large-caliber artillery of the Japanese seemed to be a little too pediatric compared to the Americans.

Most of the support artillery of the Japanese Army are 75mm caliber mountain artillery. For other larger caliber artillery, the Japanese Army does not have many, because it is landing across the sea, so it is not carried at all.

As for this legendary 75mm caliber mountain cannon, it is an important support firepower of the Japanese Army on Kauai Island. However, facing the United States' 155mm caliber cannons, as well as cruiser cannons with larger caliber, battleship cannons, these Japanese cannons really have no room to fight back.

What's more, Japan has not systematically replenished ammunition these days, and the large-caliber ammunition in its hands is really limited. Faced with the overwhelming fire attacks of the US Navy and the shore artillery forces, the Japanese artillery could only hide in the shelter and pray that all this would pass soon.

Lieutenant General Oshima is not like the Japanese general Tadao Kuribayashi when he was defending Iwo Jima in another time and space. He has no good study of the degree of mechanization and combat mode of the United States, and even holds the unrealistic idea of ​​Japan's strength and the weak United States. He feels that Japan is only temporarily local passive, rather than losing the initiative on the battlefield.

Therefore, the Japanese soldiers on Kauai Island did not carefully build underground fortifications, nor did they support tunnels, and most of them were trenches and simple bunkers. Faced with the cover of the US military, casualties rose sharply. By the time the island decided to strengthen the fortifications, it was too late.

With the bombardment of American cannons, American landing craft and barges appeared in the sight of Japanese soldiers on the sea near Oahu Island. When the Japanese soldiers were most reluctant, the soldiers of the US Marine Corps appeared where they should appear the most.

"Boom!" As the American ships get closer and closer to the beach of Kauai Island, a new round of firepower is coming to the Japanese position. A machine gun bunker was hit by a US artillery shell due to bad luck. Under everyone's gaze, the machine guns and shooters on this machine gun position were all blown into the sky and turned into pieces of debris.

Just in the terrified eyes of the Japanese soldiers, the first US Marine landing craft near the beach lowered the hatch door, and the American soldiers inside rushed into the slightly cold water with their guns high. The sea water above the waistline immediately slowed down the speed of their movements. They could only move forward slowly and could not avoid them at all.

"Bang!" A Japanese soldier pulled his trigger, and more Japanese soldiers began to fire wildly. The machine guns began to roar. The bullets hit the sea like small shells, splashing tiny water columns.

The first American soldier was quickly knocked down by bullets, and his body trembled and fell into the sea water. The Japanese machine gun was still shooting. Soon the bullets flew into the open landing craft cabin door. The American soldiers who had not jumped into the water were knocked down to the ground one by one, and blood flowed down the deck into the sea water, dyeing a large area of ​​red.

As the Japanese troops defending the shore opened fire violently, casualties of US Navy soldiers continued to increase. After all, this was different from Germany's landing in Britain. At that time, Germany had to face a small number of British coastal defense forces, because the British judged that the location where the Germans would land was other areas. On Kauai Island, the Japanese successfully guessed the attack route of the US military, and the troops were more than enough to defend a small island, so the losses of the US landing forces rose sharply.

However, when another round of artillery fire hit the Japanese defenders' positions, more Americans landed craft rushed to the soft beach. When groups of American soldiers entered the beach, the firepower of the Japanese defenders was obviously dispersed. The sparse firepower allowed more American soldiers to rush to the beach safely, and began to attack deeper places.

"Ammunition! Give me ammunition!" A Japanese soldier holding a heavy machine gun in both hands stared at the distance and called out loudly to his companion, but the machine gun deputy shooter could only look down at the empty ammunition box and sighed. The American soldiers on the opposite side were getting closer and closer, and the artillery fire hit the Japanese positions one by one. As more and more American soldiers landed on the shore of Shanghai, the coordinates were passed to the nearby US Navy more accurately. The artillery bombardment also changed from covering to precise point shooting, and the Japanese defensive positions began to collapse quickly.

"There is no ammunition! Retreat!" The deputy shooter was obviously unwilling to die in this foreign land. He looked at his accomplices and loudly reminded him that there was no ammunition. On the other side of the machine gun shooting port, the American soldiers had even begun to pull the safety ring of the grenade.

"Baga! Fight with these Americans!" The machine gun shooter fiercely picked up the rifle that was placed aside, but he was still one step late because the grenades in the hands of the American soldiers had already flew over and exploded in front of his machine gun bunker. Dust and shrapnel suddenly poured into the inside of the bunker, blowing the heavy machine gun aside, and the machine gun shooter was now in a pool of blood.

"..." It seems that His Majesty the Emperor has something like a thousand people sew, which is really impossible to guarantee his life. The deputy archer quickly held the steel helmet and rolled and crawled out of the simple machine gun castle that had collapsed halfway.

Not all Japanese are cold-blooded killers who are fearless and completely brainwashed by the Bushido spirit. In the face of the absolute firepower of the Americans, there are still many Japanese soldiers who want to escape, but their opponents do not give them a chance to escape, and even the chance to surrender is not left to these invaders.

When the deputy shooter emerged from the machine gun castle that had collapsed halfway, he saw American soldiers not far from the flank holding semi-automatic rifles and carbines firing violently at the flanks of the Japanese trenches. The Japanese soldiers inside fell down one after another, screaming endlessly.

The massacre is still going on, but now the roles of the massacre are changed. The Japanese soldiers who were still firing fiercely at American soldiers have now become the target of being shot by American soldiers. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers left their trenches and ran towards a place not far behind them. As a result, they were shot by American soldiers on the way and rolled to the ground and did not move for a while.

The Japanese deputy archer who escaped from death saw the scene in the distance and was extremely frightened. He quickly climbed out of the trench with his helmet, hoping to avoid the fierce attacks of the Americans and escape into the row of trenches behind. After all, he saw that the Japanese soldiers there were still fighting back, and it seemed that they could resist for a while.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Before he could run three steps, he was discovered by an American soldier. The other party raised the Garland M1 rifle in his hand and fired three bullets in one breath. Obviously, no one could avoid such a fire density. The Japanese deputy shooter immediately felt something hammering on his back, and then he fell to the ground, blood flowing out of his mouth, and twitching and stopping his breathing.

"The front line has been lost! The Americans have already arrived! The artillery ammunition has been exhausted! The suicide squad is ready. Should we start a counterattack immediately?" The chief of staff of the Japanese 4th Division put down the phone and stared at Lieutenant General Oshima who was looking at the map. He said heavily: "The front line suffered heavy losses, about 1,100 soldiers have lost contact, the battle is still continuing, and the Americans have broken through some of the second line of defense."

"Invest 300 people to counterattack here, and strive to drag the battle into the night. At that time, we will concentrate our efforts to drive the Americans into the sea!" Although Oshima still believes that the Japanese soldiers have a stronger fighting spirit and are more combat-effective than the weak American soldiers, he also saw the terrible power of the powerful American firepower. This is definitely not an enemy that Japanese soldiers can defeat by relying on faith.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Oshima bets on the field that Japanese soldiers are better at night war. After all, Americans cannot fully exert their firepower at night, and assault hand-to-hand combat is the key training of Japanese soldiers. Not only can they save ammunition, it can better reflect the fearless spirit of Japanese soldiers.

However, Lieutenant General Oshima's troops were not as sufficient as he had imagined. Originally, he had at least 35,000 soldiers, but hunger and disease reduced his troops to less than 30,000. As a result, Oshima's counterattack reserve team was missing in his hands, which made the problem of insufficient troops suddenly emerge.

In addition, the high-intensity confrontation consumed an unthinkable ammunition reserve. There was no more ammunition reserved. During the consumption of more than an hour of high-intensity war, many soldiers were surrounded and annihilated by the Americans after exhausting all their ammunition.

"His Majesty's soldiers! We will never retreat! Let the Americans see how powerful our great Japanese Imperial Army is! Assault the whole army!" A captain pulled out his command knife, roared in a ruthless voice, and waved his arm in the sky and suddenly waved forward. With his command knife, hundreds of Japanese soldiers howled and rushed towards the position that the US army had just occupied.
Chapter completed!