Chapter 72 zombie flow

At 4 a.m. on July 7, the officers and soldiers of the 27th Infantry Division heard shouts of "Wah-wah" from a distance, and Japanese soldiers rushed towards their positions all over the mountains and plains. The U.S. Marine Corps based in the mountains also experienced this "Long Live Assault" through binoculars. The six Japanese soldiers rushing to the front held up a flag. This should be the vanguard, followed by the real combat team. What made the observers most unbelievable was that there was a special force behind the combat team. There were probably hundreds of people. Their heads were wrapped in gauze and they had crutches in their hands. Limp forward.These blind and crippled people basically had no weapons in their hands, and even if they did, it was mostly a bayonet or a few grenades.

All the sick and wounded from the field hospital are here.Later, the U.S. military found more than 3,000 corpses in the Japanese field hospital, all of which were wounded Japanese soldiers who could not walk at all. Since they could not go to the battlefield, they were sent grenades to kill themselves.Now those who are on the battlefield are more or less able to move. There is a narrow-gauge sugar cane railway by the beach. The Japanese army rushed along this railway, and soon rushed past the American outpost, crashing headlong into the positions of the first and second battalions of the 105th Infantry Regiment.

This should be regarded as the largest and most brutal life-threatening charge in the history of the Japanese Army.All the Japanese, from the officers wielding sabers to the soldiers with daggers and clubs, to the wounded soldiers on crutches, were running like crazy, almost indiscernible formation.Major McCarthy, the commander of the second battalion, even thought of the frightened cows in western movies: "Put the camera in a hole on the ground, and you can see the cows rushing over, jumping over the hole, and flying over your head. disappear." The U.S. artillery fire hit, and shells fell into the "herd" one after another, blowing up wildly.The flat comb in the charge was shot and flew up, and the surrounding world was suddenly pitch black.After waking up, he was lying on the hospital ship of the US military, his left hand was handcuffed to the bed—the Americans were still afraid that this "mad cow" would jump up at any time.

The rain of bullets and cannonballs did not wake up the remaining "mad cows", but made it harder to contain them. It seemed that nothing could stop them.McCarthy said: "Japs come in one after another, one after another, and if you knock one down, five come up. I don't think they'll ever finish." In short combat, because they were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, the power of US artillery fire was also greatly reduced, and the infantry could only hold on with their own strength.Lieutenant Colonel O'Brien, the commander of the first battalion, held guns in both hands. After being seriously injured, he still insisted on finishing the bullets, and then raised his machine gun to shoot. He did not leave the position until he died in battle.

From below O'Brien, the first and second battalions suffered more than 650 casualties.After losing the main position, Major McCarthy and the remaining officers and soldiers were forced to retreat. Some soldiers who were frightened by the Japanese army fled to the mountains, some jumped into the sea, waded or swam, and fled beyond the reef. The Japanese army rushed past the position of the 27th Infantry Division and went straight to the artillery position behind it.The two artillery companies stationed in the 10th Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division saw the Japanese soldiers swarming like ants, and they were already approaching. They almost used their hands and feet to stuff the shells into the barrels. /40 seconds, it will explode within 50 meters.

The cannon fired flatly at the Japanese army, and many Japanese soldiers fell in a pool of blood, but those who survived stepped on the piles of corpses and continued to rush forward screaming. A few rows were pieced together and merged into this stream of zombies that seemed to be infected by a virus.The gunners had no choice but to hastily unbolt the gun bolts, exit the artillery position, and fight back like infantry. At the critical moment, the fighting spirit that filled the blood of the US Marines was also stimulated, and other companies of the Seventh Marine Regiment also came to reinforce them. In addition to combat soldiers, there were also cooking soldiers and regimental clerks. , They held various weapons and shot violently at the Japanese army.

As long as you keep shooting, the blood of the zombies is also limited. The tenth regiment regained the artillery positions.Then, Holland Smith transferred the reserve team to the front line and swung the rolling pin with all his strength. The crazy actions of the Japanese army were immediately wiped out. In the evening, only a small group of Japanese troops were still stubbornly resisting. On the morning of July 8, this massacre-like battle finally came to an end.No Japanese soldier was willing to raise his hand and surrender, and most of the prisoners captured by the U.S. military were like Hirashiku, who had been shot and passed out during the battle.

The battlefield has already piled up like a mountain of corpses, internal organs and brains are flowing everywhere, and the stench is unpleasant, and its horror is beyond ordinary people's imagination.The exhausted American soldiers couldn't find a place to put their feet, so they simply lay down next to the corpse and fell asleep. It took several days to clear the battlefield. The U.S. military dispatched bulldozers to dig a large grave and buried the bodies of more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers.