.In the distant sky, on a black cigar-shaped aircraft, the artillery staff stood in front of the artillery team's mirror and said calmly: "Team A, the direction is corrected, the No. 5O, and the No. 4 fuze remains unchanged..."

The airship was tied directly above the artillery position by a steel cable. The captain stood in the cab, observing the movements below with all his attention. The artillery staff observed the bullet points in front of the artillery mirror, shouting out corrections one by one, and the messenger passed them to the artillery command post below through the phone.

On the Chinese artillery positions on the reverse slope, one-two heavy mortars, seventy-five mm infantry cannons, seventy-five mm mountain cannons, and one-five howitzers are arranged neatly in the semi-buried artillery positions. The camouflaged rope net covers the common vegetation on the Ryukyu islands. They have been pulled apart half and the barrels are exposed.

The phone ringtones came one after another, and the shooting commands and the corrections of the various elements were sent to the artillery commanders, and each command was sent to the company. The artillery platoon leader roared the commands, waved the signal flag, and issued the commands, which were wave after wave of the earth. The main fires by the Chinese army were one-five-long tube howitzers and one-five-two cannons. These new tube retreat guns, at an unprecedented speed, under the unprecedented artillery command system, covered the target with indirect aiming, completely overturning the tradition of the world artillery industry since Napoleon: direct aiming and rapid fire.

The artillery soldiers had already lost their temper, and they were all shirtless. The bronze muscles that were exposed on the island were lumps, and sweat formed a stream, flashing crystal in the sun. The brass shell shells next to them had piled up like mountains, and the strong ammunition hand carried heavy bullets one by one and pushed them into the barrel. The gunner closed the bolt, pulled the rope, reset, and retreated the bore, followed by the next cycle.

This unprecedented metal storm swept the Japanese landing site in a cruel and ruthless manner, destroying all dead, alive, physical, and metal objects up and down the wharf in the most brutal way.

The flagship of the Japanese Joint Fleet, Mikasa.

The King of Mitsumasato Rimoto, who was a little gloomy just now, now has the same gloomy face as the generals of the army and the navy next to him. He watched the brave Yamato man struggle and break in the hell of artillery fire, and no one could still keep his peace.

"The Commander-in-Chief, there is no doubt that the Chinese people hid the main field artillery, not in the direction of the military information notification." Lieutenant General Kawamura Keimei, the commander of the First Division of the Marine Corps, looked ashen, and bowed to Hirahachiro Togo, but his tone was very bad. "I beg the joint fleet to punish the Chinese artillery so that our Marine Corps can launch."

Togo Heihachiro nodded and turned to Shimamura Soo: "Chief of Staff, have you captured the Chinese artillery position?"

Shimamura Suo smiled bitterly: "Commander, here the hot air balloon cannot be launched, so he can only use the shooting observation points on the mast. It is currently preliminarily determined that the Chinese artillery position is located in the mountains to the south, and it is likely to be behind the ridge."

"The Bagachina is cunning." Kawamura Keimei cursed angrily, "The shooting position on the reverse slope is difficult to deal with."

When everyone heard this, they felt a sank in their hearts.

The naval guns of the Joint Fleet were undoubtedly low pitch cannons according to the naval combat distances passed by the navy at that time, and were unsurprisingly low pitch cannons and could not be shot at high elevation angles. For the artillery positions hidden in the back slope behind the ridge of the Chinese army, it was difficult to capture and suppress the straight naval guns with ballistic straightness.

"Fast shooting, use grenades to bomb the ridge." A firm voice came from the side, "The grenades of my naval naval guns are all made of Xiase gunpowder, and the arson ability is extremely strong. Since the Chinese army abandoned the front line of defense trenches, they must have placed the defense line on the ridge and placed the artillery on the back slope to protect it. From the current visual observation, the vegetation on the hilltop is lush, and it is obvious that they did not remove all the vegetation in order to disguise. In this case, we will use Xiase explosives to deal with them, force them to leave the position with fire attack, or at least interfere with their firepower and cover the landing troops to go ashore to unfold."

Tanaka Yoshihide's eyes flashed with light and he bowed slightly: "I'm supporting Akiyama's opinion."

Prince Fumimi Sadaki Miyaki looked at Akiyama Matsuyuki with appreciation, and nodded after a moment: "What Akiyama said is very reasonable, so you might as well give it a try."

Ten minutes later, the artillery fire carefully organized by the Japanese joint fleet covered the defense position of the No. 2 Chinese Army in the southern part of Yuntian Port. On the stacked mountain hills, clusters of giant mushrooms grew out of thin air, one after another, and the vegetation used to cover people's ears burned rapidly under the action of Xiase explosives. The wooden boards and ammunition in the Chinese Army's fortifications also burned ragingly under the high temperature and flames, and the ammunition exploded one after another.

The fierce Chinese Marines can fight to the point where they are exhausted from ammunition and food, but in the face of such a terrifying sea of ​​fire, they want to put out the fire, but they find that everything is covered with fire people screaming and jumping out of the trenches and rolling down the ridge. Many clever officers directed the soldiers to quickly remove and cut down all combustible materials and organize the fire isolation belt. After all, the combustion of this explosive must be made by the help of combustible materials as a medium. There was no napalm bomb in this era.

Meng Jin looked at all this in a daze, and his heart twitched. These were all his soldiers, and the brothers who lived with each other day on this island suffered such heavy losses because of his carelessness.

The howitzer troops on the back slope of the mountain faced the churning flames and were also a little brave. The fixed-mounted shells on the position, if they encounter such high temperatures and explosions, it would be a real nightmare.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Chinese army, the second batch of Japanese landing troops came ashore desperately and quickly stepped forward to occupy the trench positions that the Chinese army gave up, arranged firepower, and deployed troops. The artillery along with the ship also began to enter the artillery position, calibrated the troops, and prepared to attack.

Three hours of intermittent ship gun suppression turned the Chinese military positions into a real purgatory. But Meng Jin didn't have much time to sigh because he was already in a real crisis.

The Japanese landing troops had already launched two entire regiments of troops, and the front-line tactical artillery had also begun to test the fire. Soon, the Japanese army began to attack.

The Japanese Marines in a new-style military uniform in grass green, the uniforms were still white sailor shirts, and the white lapels were exposed outside the military uniforms. Compared with the army's earthy yellow-colored groundhog-like image, it was a little more vitality. The steel helmets were also painted green in grass green, which played a good camouflage effect on Ryukyu Island in this season. They started their first tentative attack based on the designated attack route and the cover of the terrain.

Meng Jin knew that this time was just a fire reconnaissance, and the experienced Chinese Marines also fired with part of the firepower in accordance with the regulations of the military code. The Japanese army soon encountered the minefields, barbed wire and antlers of the Chinese army. This time the tentative attack was suspended without any suspense at the outer defense line.

With Meng Jin's order, the Chinese soldiers immediately hid back to the anti-aircraft artillery hole and the hidden department, leaving only the observers of the observation center.

There were dense bombardment, flames, smoke, suffocation, death, tragic roar, silences, minced meat, the smell of roasted human flesh, the dull explosion of the mines that were detonated.

Meng Jin shook her head, her ears were still buzzing. She opened her mouth and shouted hard, but her voice sounded particularly misty and vague.

Four hours.

The Japanese landing craft, facing the Chinese army's desperate stop shooting, was still transporting troops, heavy weapons and ammunition and medicine to the shore. The high-angle mountain cannons and small-caliber mortar cannons that had been set up on the artillery positions near the dock were also capturing the Chinese army's back-sloping positions. The artillery soldiers of both sides launched a fierce artillery battle.

There were more and more Japanese troops ashore. The Japanese army of two more registrars had conducted many test attacks on the Chinese defense system, began to calibrate weak links, and carried out several extremely threatening attacks. Meng Jin used the highest efficiency to allocate troops and firepower to suppress the Japanese attacks again and again.

In the brutal battle, this arrogant Marine Corps savage was deeply shocked.

The short, strong, silent and well-trained Japanese soldiers on the opposite side were both fierce and obedient of the army, and strict organization, flexible tactics and high morale. In the repeated impact, they persisted to the end almost every time until the retreating horn sounded.

Even though the Chinese Empire Marines have always claimed to be the first amphibious combat power in the Pacific and Meng Jin has always been famous as a powerful general, he now has to admit that these soldiers from the east are worthy of respect and must be given full attention.

Meng Jin has calculated the assets at hand more than once: a Marine Corps, with a total of 2,700 infantrymen in the company, equipped with six Seven Five Mountain Cannons, six Seven Five-Stage Cannons, six One-Two Heavy Mortars, and one One-Two Howitzers for him were strengthened, one One-Two Cannon Battalion, one One-Two Cannon Battalion, one One-Two Cannon Battalion, one Eighteen Mountain Cannon Battalion, two Two-Two Three-Two Cannon Battalion, two Two-Two Three-Two Cannon Battalion, two Two-Two Three-Two Cannon Battalion, two Three-Two Cannon Battalion, and one of his land battalion provided cover. These forces formed two strong fortified positions that rely on each other, firmly blocking Yuntian Port and the Minou Bay in the south.

According to Meng Jin's idea, with such troops and a solid position, even if the enemy has artillery fire support from a fleet, it would be no big problem to defend the position against an ordinary Japanese division of one and a half.

But now Meng Jin has realized that if the enemy continues to add troops, the pressure on him may be far beyond his original imagination.

The fierce battle lasted all day.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties. The field hospitals in the underground bunker of the Chinese army were already full of wounded people. The No. 13 preparation (sulfonamide) just issued began to play a huge role. The medical staff were all excited and working like robots. Meng Jin inspected the position, appeased the officers and soldiers, asked about the battle situation, summarized the experience, and held meetings without stopping when he came back, adjusting the deployment, transporting ammunition, allocating troops, organizing night checkpoints and patrols, and mine laying matters. He barely glared over in the second half of the night.

But in the early morning, the earth-shaking burst of explosions woke him up from his sleep. He was about to ring the phone from the Frontier Observatory, but the other party had already hung up. The sound was unprecedentedly panic and anxious: "Captain, the Japanese have landed in Nago Bay in the south."

The capital of Ryukyu Main Island (Japanese name Okinawa), Shuri Castle.

Along Naha Port and Shuri Castle, as well as the mountains in the east and hilly areas in the south, the Chinese army built complex and rigorous fortifications. In addition to the fortress fortresses, trenches, antlers, barbed wire mesh, minefields, searchlights, cement chest walls, trench fortifications, there are also continuous and complex trench systems, with light and dark firepower points interspersed, with solid fortification support points as the core and traffic trenches as the link, the Chinese army arranged three defensive fronts here, with a depth of six kilometers.

The Ryukyu Guard Command has been moved underground.

This is an underground fortified command center located at a depth of 15 meters, reinforced with steel and cement, able to withstand repeated bombardment of heavy artillery at the largest caliber, and has a complete life-saving system, which has a large amount of materials and can independently maintain combat. With this as the heart, the telephone line and traffic trench extend in all directions, and together with several wireless telegraphs, it forms the defense core of the Ryukyu Island.

The commander of the Ryukyu garrison commander and the newly expanded Ryukyu garrison commander Lu Rongting looked solemn: "Old Guo, the Japanese seem to have moved this time. The boy Meng Jin is a monkey who is itchy when he hears the sound of cannons. Now he is asking for help. He almost yelled at me on the phone just now... I think the situation on this boy is really dangerous."

"He couldn't stand it in just 48 hours." The chief of staff of the division, Guo Zhengyun, had a little black eyes, obviously not having a good rest. "This time, I saw that the base camp had miscalculated the Japanese troops. It was in front of Meng Jin. Japanese Marines had already appeared. On his back, he landed in Nago Bay. The 14th Utsunomiya Division of the Japanese Army was now a fleet of the Japanese and Russians, and they were still eyeing them in the outer sea. I don't know which side they were going to fight. I'm afraid the Japanese's entire force will not be lower than the four divisions."

"I lost his mother, General Intelligence Bureau and Naval Intelligence Bureau, what does the Army Military Intelligence Bureau eat?" Lu Rongting obviously had a strong liver fire these two days. "I promised that the Japanese could come to at most two divisions, so let us hold on for two months. If the Japanese really only came to two divisions, others would not add troops? The soldiers who lost their mother were not three heads and six arms."

Guo Zhengyun looked at the old Zhenguo Army from Guangxi, and felt helpless, but he did not dare to scold him like the other party. He was the real Xu Fan from the General Staff. He worked hard at the grassroots level like Lu Rongting, and was appreciated by Emperors Zheng Ying and Xu Fan. The practical generals who studied in the Marine Corps School and the Amphibious Command Department of the University were not the same method. His awe of Xu Fan and the General Staff of the Navy is from the heart, so of course it is impossible to answer the conversation.

Lu Rongting cursed a few times, and felt angry in his heart. He seemed to notice the embarrassment of his chief of staff. He grinned, but was embarrassed to say anything. He just took a sip of herbal tea and calmed his mind. He asked, "Old Guo, how long do you think Meng Jin can last? Will we send reinforcements?"

"What is the Japanese's idea? I can smell it even when I sit here." Guo Zhengyun sneered, "It's nothing more than attacking me and saving me. Then use the firepower of the naval gun to kill and injure my reinforcements halfway. When the firepower of my southern troops weakens, I wait for an opportunity to land in Naha Port."

Lu Rongting pondered for a moment and nodded: "This is in line with the logic of military science. Judging from the current situation of the Japanese, if they really had four or five divisions, they would probably do this. Then, in your opinion, how will our troops deal with it?"

"The key to the problem now lies in insufficient troops." Guo Zhengyun pondered for a long time and sighed, "If I had two divisions in my hand, I could naturally send a reinforcement regiment, carrying machine guns and mortars, and reinforce Meng Jin north along the traffic trench. But now, we only have these more than 20,000 people, and many of them are Ryukyu people. How much fighting will they have is still a questionable question."

"Anyway, we cannot sit idly by and watch Meng Jin fall. Once Yuntian Port is lost, the Japanese will gain a firm foothold in Ryukyu with the support of this port, and they will share the territory equally with us, and the fleet supplies will be more convenient. And if our fleet wants to go east to the ocean and attack Tokyo Bay, it will be too difficult." At this moment, Lu Rongting finally showed the overall vision that he should have as the supreme commander of Ryukyu. "I don't have a battalion of infantry soldiers who have transferred the naval engineering troops to him in the name of the naval engineering force, a Ryukyu battalion, strengthen a heavy machine gun company and an 81mm mortar company to send him."

"Since I have decided to fight harder on the North Line, I think I have to strengthen it." Guo Zhengyun nodded, then shook his head again, "The Japanese are constantly landing, gradually forming an encirclement. This little force may not be responsible for the trouble if they go up. I think a battalion of Marines will be added, and a regiment will be temporarily organized, and Ding Feihu will be led by Meng Jin. On Meng Jin's side, a North Line Command will be established, and he will be the commander-in-chief, and give him a name. In the future, if any troops go up, they will be under his jurisdiction."

"Old Guo, you're still thinking comprehensively." Lu Rongting slapped his thigh, "Just do the messenger and let Ding Feihu's bastard come over."

One hour later.

Ding Feihu, deputy commander of the Second Land Regiment of the Ryukyu Garrison Division who was stationed in Kadena, looked at the division commander and the chief of staff, felt the unusual solemnity on the faces of the two men, and their bodies became more and more straight as swords.

"Xiao Ding, you always think you are a piece of material, and it's a pity to put it on this island." Lu Rongting looked at this high-profile student in the amphibious land warfare major of the sea university with a high opinion of himself, his junior brother, "I usually say you are talking about war on paper, but you always stare at me. Today I will give you this opportunity."
Chapter completed!