Chapter 1184 The rain is coming and the wind is filling the building(2/2)
Sendai, 10th Allied Army Headquarters.
General Stilwell had received an early warning message from the direction of Okinawa. Typhoon Meihua was more destructive than expected.
There are currently more than 600,000 Allied troops in the Sendai area.
After the navy withdrew from the battlefield, the landing troops began to intensively deploy defensive lines.
In order to ensure safety, all Japanese civilians in the occupied areas were either killed or expelled.
Some Allied soldiers with mental problems had gradually forgotten military rules and disciplines while performing eviction missions.
They vented their animalistic desires on civilians and killed them without hesitation after they were done.
The typhoon is coming soon, and no one will care why civilians in the occupied areas died.
Hundreds of such incidents have occurred, even in the most elite 1st Marine Division of the US Army.
The process of the landing troops moving forward is very difficult, and threats to civilians are everywhere.
In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops and teach the Japanese a lesson, some low-level officers turned a blind eye to such incidents.
This emboldened the Allied soldiers.
On the afternoon of the 13th, General Stilwell led a group of senior generals to personally inspect the defense lines.
The entire occupied area was filled with tension as a storm was about to come.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the wind is getting louder and louder.
Standing on the front line, General Stilwell looked into the distance with his telescope.
Although no enemy troops could be seen in his field of vision, General Stilwell felt that there were countless pairs of eyes staring in his direction.
He seemed to be able to smell the dirty smell of Japanese people in the air.
Layers of barbed wire and vast minefields seemed unable to give the Allied soldiers a sense of security.
"Admiral, the typhoon weather is extremely severe. Maybe after the typhoon passes, all the defense lines we have built will disappear completely."
Major General Will, commander of III Marine Corps, said to General Stilwell:
"Then the soldiers will have no choice but to face off against the fanatical Japanese. The pressure will be great and the casualties will definitely be huge!"
If Typhoon Meika reaches the Sendai area with the same intensity as when it made landfall in Miyazaki Prefecture, it is unlikely that all the barbed wire fences and barriers will survive.
However, General Stilwell believed that the intensity of the plum blossoms would be reduced when they reached the Sendai area, so he said:
"We are fully prepared. Even if all obstacles are destroyed by the typhoon, we will definitely be able to defend the occupied area."
"You have to understand that the typhoon hits not only us, but also the Japanese."
"We have a solid position and sophisticated weapons and equipment, but the Japanese are just mindless fanaticism!"
"Under a super typhoon, fanaticism will be extinguished!"
"In general, we still have the advantage. We must not be timid before fighting."
Major General Will nodded, but the solemnity and worry in his eyes did not diminish.
Before the typhoon officially arrives, at least 300,000 Japanese people will be close to the Allied-occupied areas.
Chapter completed!