Navy Vice Admiral Mitchell commanded Task Force 58 to slowly sail to the front of the entire landing fleet. Mitchell stood on the bridge of the warship with a determined gaze.

Behind the 58th Task Force were dozens or hundreds of battleships and cruisers.

After arriving at the designated position, the muzzles of all warships slowly rotated. Following Mitchell's order, a war sonata began to sound between heaven and earth.

"Boom boom boom......"

The thick battleship's main gun muzzle erupted with dazzling fire, and heavy shells left the warship and shot towards the Japanese coastal fortifications 10 kilometers away.

The bodies of the Japanese Eleventh Front Army soldiers hiding in the fortifications trembled together with their souls.

Having just experienced carpet bombing, many people were lying on the ground and vomiting to relieve the dizziness in their brains.

But less than two minutes had passed before the indiscriminate bombardment from large-caliber naval guns arrived.

Many fortifications have cracked and collapsed during the carpet aerial bombing.

When the bomb hit, the cracked fortifications completely collapsed.

General Fujie Keisuke, commander of the Eleventh Front Army, was also trapped on the front line.

The surrounding reinforced concrete walls were trembling continuously, and heat waves poured in from the vents.

The air is surging, and even if it is sucked into the lungs, it can bring a burst of heat and stirring.

"Cough cough cough......"

General Fujie Keisuke had never experienced such a dangerous scene. He kept coughing, as if he wanted to cough out something stuck to his lungs.

Chief of Staff Major General Imai Ichi2san's body was shaking like chaff.

The continuous coastal fortifications are filled with the disgusting smell of vomit and urine.

The Eleventh Front Army has jurisdiction over the 81st, 84th, 86th, and 93rd divisions. These divisions have never left the Japanese mainland and have been responsible for the defense of the homeland since their formation.

Officers and soldiers have high combat literacy and fanatical will to fight.

But that's all.

If you have not experienced the bloodiest and cruelest war, no matter how high your combat qualities are, you will not be able to display them, and your will to fight will collapse in your fanaticism.

Major General Imai Kazusan previously worked in the Army Operations Department at the base camp and has rich theoretical and paper work experience.

But when it comes to real war, I’m afraid I’ve only experienced the Tokyo bombing.

The indiscriminate bombardment of the landing site by battleships and cruisers lasted for an hour. The US Navy officers and soldiers on the warships were working hard and sweating profusely.

During this hour, officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps and the 10th Army disembarked from the landing craft.

More than 2,000 landing craft are ready for the charge.

The sun at 10 o'clock in the morning shone warmly on people. MacArthur and Nimitz stood on the island of the USS Lincoln, their expressions gradually changed from high-spirited at the beginning to calm and calm.

After the bombardment ended, MacArthur issued the order to land.

More than 2,000 landing craft began to charge towards the coast at maximum speed.

At the same time, carrier-based aircraft on 58 ordinary aircraft carriers also took off one after another.

The carrier-based aircraft pilots have been waiting for a long time, and everyone has an impatient expression on their face.

A large number of propeller-driven carrier-based aircraft soon appeared in the sky. The mission of these aircraft was to cover and assist the landing troops in landing on the beach.

They either dived and strafed or dropped precision bombs to remove the Japanese firepower and reduce the pressure on the landing troops.

The F86 Saber fighters carried by the three super aircraft carriers, the King, Lexington, and Hornet, roared into the sky with the help of steam catapults.

The mission of the F86 Saber fighter formation is different from that of propeller fighters. They flew over the coast of Japan at high speed and arrived at the city behind Sendai.

Throw the aerial bombs mounted under the wings accurately at city entrances, stations, transportation hubs, etc.

The main purpose was to prevent the Japanese troops in the rear from reinforcing the coastal defense forces in time.

The jets on the Lincoln and Yorkton were carrier-based aircraft on combat readiness and did not take off like the carrier-based aircraft on other aircraft carriers.

The mission of these carrier-based aircraft is to prepare to intercept Japanese kamikaze or Sakura bombs that may appear at any time.

At 10:16 a.m. on October 6, the first batch of landing craft crashed onto the beach.

"go!go!go!"

The hatch opened and American soldiers swarmed out.

The soldiers who got off a landing craft were like arrows, stepping through the shallow water and quickly rushing towards the coast.

The 2,000 arrows quickly gathered and turned into a black wave on the beach, surging forward.

The Japanese in the coastal fortifications finally came to their senses. Dragging their injured bodies or dizzy heads, they came to the machine gun firing ports at the urging of the officers.

The next moment.

The long coastline seemed to have become a devil's mouth capable of devouring life. Hot bullets flew out of the shooting ports and collided with the soldiers rushing to land on the beach.

Blood shot out, and blood spray replaced the spray.

The momentum of the black wave came to a halt, and streaks of bright red appeared in front of it.

The charging soldiers moved in unison and threw themselves on the beach with a clatter.

Some people who reacted slowly had their heads opened and their bodies covered in blood mist.

Amid the roars of officers at all levels, soldiers of the Japanese 11th Front either cried or rolled and crawled into combat positions.

The firepower on the shore became increasingly fierce, and the beach landing entered the most difficult stage.

The fighter planes overhead kept swooping and pulling up, pouring firepower crazily to help the infantry brothers.

Casualties occurred all the time, and a large number of landing troops were trapped on the beach.

The few remaining coastal heavy artillery pieces of the Japanese also began to roar!

The cannonball landed on the beach, blowing up large amounts of sand and dust and bringing with it a large amount of body parts and meat.

Those soldiers who threw themselves on the beach out of fear and despair and did not dare to charge forward became living targets for coastal heavy artillery.

A falling artillery shell can take away the lives of at least 10 soldiers.

MacArthur and Nimitz selected six landing sites, resulting in a lack of concentration of troops and firepower.

Although the Japanese coastal defense heavy artillery was destroyed in 5 minutes, many soldiers were still injured and died during this time.

The sun is rising higher and higher, but the warm sunshine cannot penetrate the smoke of war that blocks the sky.

The soldiers on both sides in the center of the fire could only feel coldness and fear.

MacArthur saw the dilemma on the beach. This situation only lasted for more than 20 minutes, and everything was as expected.

MacArthur believed that the landing troops would achieve a breakthrough and the situation of the war would soon change.

He was right. Although the Japanese on the coast resisted fiercely, the support of manpower and ammunition from the rear could not break through the obstruction of the Allied carrier-based fighter jets. The fierce resistance could not last too long.

There were some mentally abnormal soldiers in the First Marine Division and Second Marine Division. After landing on Japanese soil, their expressions became crazy and ferocious.

Unmoved by the bullets whizzing by, he held a submachine gun or a rocket launcher and faced off against the Japanese firepower.

On the bloody battlefield, some people continue to evolve in crazy directions; some people's psychological defenses completely collapse and become a burden to the team.

Driven by such soldiers, the landing troops' operations to seize the beach and land on the beach continued.

In less than an hour, breakthroughs were made at multiple landing sites.

Soldiers armed with flamethrowers or Garand semi-automatic rifles entered the Japanese coastal fortifications.

The two sides began to engage in close combat.

Around 10:40 in the morning, two squadrons of suicide attack aircraft came from the direction of Sendai.

The F86 Saber fighter jets, which were attacking various military facilities behind the Japanese defense lines, quickly discovered these two squadrons.

The Saber fighters decisively abandoned their ground targets, formed a new formation, and began an air battle with the Kamikaze attack aircraft.

The total number of Allied fighter planes of various types in this airspace exceeded 500. The two Japanese attack squadrons that came over seemed not to carry out suicide attacks, but to deliver victory.

Allied aircraft surrounded the Japanese formation from all directions, scrambling to be the first, and fired a large number of rockets at the Japanese formation.

The kamikaze attack aircraft modified from the Zero fighter planes could not withstand such an overwhelming attack. The Japanese aircraft of the two squadrons were quickly destroyed and the pilots were killed in a sea of ​​fire.

These pilots did not even see the vast fleet on the sea.

After the bombardment ended, General Fujie Keisuke, commander of the Japanese Eleventh Front Army, left the front line.

The enemy was coming fiercely, and the sea and air firepower were unprecedentedly powerful. His troops were completely suppressed and had no ability to fight an anti-landing war.
Chapter completed!