Chapter 79 monkey show

The Battle of Guam was originally arranged by the 3rd Amphibious Army, but later Spruance felt that the strength was insufficient, so he joined the Army's 77th Infantry Division. Landing on the beachhead. Spruance was right to be cautious. The resistance encountered by the U.S. military on the southern beachhead was much more ferocious than that in the north.As soon as the tracked vehicles drove to the edge of the reef, they were violently bombarded by artillery fire, and 24 tracked vehicles were damaged, which meant that one-eighth of the total tracked vehicles were shut down, and the landing of subsequent troops was affected.The troops without tracked vehicles had to jump into waist-deep water and waded ashore on foot. If the Japanese artillery fire was not busy dealing with the vanguard at that time, they would have been miserable.

If the Japanese army in the north is "extreme right", then the Japanese army in the south is equivalent to "extreme left". They wish they could catch all the US troops who landed with one claw.After dark, the Japanese soldiers came out of the caves in Alifan Mountain, screaming wildly, while shooting sporadically at the defense line of the Fourth Marine Regiment, in order to lure the US military to expose its position. The Fourth Marine Regiment is all veterans of the Marine War, so naturally they won't be fooled.The Japanese army failed in one plan, and tried another plan, changing the firepower test into a short assault, but this time it failed again.

After repeated failures, he had to make a big move.The place where the 4th Marine Regiment and the 22nd Regiment are connected is the Agra-Tangjushan Highway that runs through the north and south. The Japanese army used six tanks as a cover to launch a night attack along this road. When tanks run over on the road, they will make a powerful clanging sound, which is louder than the sound of guns.After a soldier of the Marine Corps found out, he immediately fired rockets at the tank. The rocket launcher will be subject to certain restrictions in the jungle battle, and it will become very powerful in the open field.In addition to penetrating the turret of one tank, the rocket shells also forced the other two tanks to stop.It was difficult for the remaining Japanese tanks to see the target clearly, so they had to keep firing.

Two US "Sherman" tanks took the opportunity to go around and destroy all the Japanese tanks.The tanks were useless, and the infantry gathered around the tanks couldn't bear it, so they scattered and fled into the mountains. The first round of night attack failed, followed by the second round.The Japanese soldiers participating in this round of night raids were all drunk, screaming long live, and rushed towards the center of the Fourth Marine Regiment along a ditch in Alifan Mountain. The leading Japanese officer even waved a stick The plaster battle flag with a bayonet on its head looks menacing.

The officers and soldiers of the Fourth Marine Regiment used Browning automatic rifles and other light weapons to stop and kill them.The Browning automatic rifle is called a rifle, but it is not light, like a small barbell, so it is often used as a light machine gun in actual combat.Its advantage is fully automatic shooting, once the trigger is pulled, 550 rounds of bullets can be spit out of the gun chamber within a minute, and there are few failures, and it has great lethality even in jungle warfare. Under Browning's strafing, the Japanese army became grasshoppers fried in a hot pot.In the end, relying on the gap between the pile of zombies and the American army's reloading, the Japanese army finally squeezed out a gap. The Japanese soldiers who infiltrated were carrying anti-tank mines. This kind of weapon could not hurt the "Sherman", so they had to take To deal with infantry, roll anti-tank mines like hoops into American foxholes.

After breaking through the defense line, the Japanese army rushed to the US artillery position on the beach.Due to the short distance, the artillery could no longer shoot, so the artillerymen put down the shells, picked up the carbines and Thomson submachine guns suitable for close-range shooting, and poured bullets into the "sea of ​​people" that kept coming. Cannons on the shore cannot be fired, but those in the sea can.The naval support fleet quickly used giant artillery to bombard the second half of the "sea of ​​people", causing the Japanese army to quickly "stop flow".The follow-up troops couldn't connect, and the gaps that had been squeezed out were closed again.

For the 4th Marine Regiment and its adjacent 22nd Regiment, it was a thrilling night. Their bloody fight with the infiltrated Japanese army continued until the dawn of the next day.At dawn, corpses were everywhere from the hills to the coast, and of course most of them were Japanese soldiers who had been beaten to death. The Alifan Mountain occupied by the Japanese army has become a thorn in the side of the US military. On July 22, the Fourth Marine Regiment advanced little by little, sweeping away the caves and bunkers of the Japanese army one by one, and finally disintegrated this sophisticated defense system of the Japanese army, and reached the top of Alifan Mountain at dusk.By the evening of July 23, all the high grounds capable of controlling the Agat landing site had been captured by the US military.

At the beginning, the 4th Marine Regiment was the main striker, and when the next main target was the Olot Peninsula, the 22nd Marine Regiment would punch. The purpose of attacking the Olot Peninsula is to gain control of the Agra-Tengjushan Highway.The Agra-Tengju mountain road is located at the bottom of the peninsula. The road is full of mines, and the Japanese mortars and anti-aircraft artillery have also targeted the road early. This makes the battle extremely tragic, and the progress of the U.S. military is quite slow. There are more than one or two similar difficulties, once or twice, the Marine Corps has long been familiar with it.As the old saying goes, "Try to watch the crab with cold eyes and see how long you can run wild." With the little ability of the Japanese soldiers, they couldn't jump a few times after all. On the afternoon of July 24, the vanguard of the 22nd Marine Regiment finally arrived at the coast of the port. The Japanese army on the entire Olute Peninsula was blocked and became a turtle in an urn. Now it was the turn of the Japanese army to go crazy.

The Japanese army was determined to break through, but the difficulty of breaking through was as high as the sky: After Geiger placed the support force of the reserve team in the south, the US troops in the south were very strong. In one place, it is difficult to even exercise. The only way the Japanese army could cope with this difficulty was to drink.Guam seems to be the liquor storehouse of the entire Central Pacific region. The U.S. military has never seen so much alcohol in other places. There is a popular joke that after the battle, a marine with a long beard was found crying by the cave, very sadly, and they asked him if it was because he thought the battle was too hard.The veteran explained, sobbing: "It wasn't that the battle was hard, but a Japanese soldier ran into this cave, and I followed him and threw a grenade. Guess what? I blew up all of them. 60 cases of good Scotch. My goodness, this is so sad!"

When preparing for an attack, the Japanese soldiers were not cleaning their guns or loading ammunition, but collecting all the good wine in the vicinity.The assembly point of the Japanese army was set on the bank of a densely forested swamp, close to the US defense line, and the US troops at the front line could see its movement clearly. They saw these Japanese soldiers screaming, laughing wildly, and throwing Empty wine bottles are like celebrating New Year's Eve in the zoo, where there is no feeling of a large-scale counterattack or breakout. Of course, the U.S. military didn't have this kind of elegance. The artillerymen took the time to measure the various targets on the bank of the swamp and calculated the range in advance.

On July 25, 5 minutes before midnight, probably the wine had been drunk, or it might have reached a climax, when the Japanese soldiers swarmed out of the swamp and rushed to the open ground with a sharp roar.Among the charging Japanese troops, the officers waved swords and military flags, and some soldiers held weapons, some with bare hands, and some even held empty wine bottles, straw forks, and baseball bats. This is exactly "pigs and sheep visit the butcher's house and seek their own death step by step."As the U.S. commander gave orders to the field telephones, the platoon began to smash into the crowd of drunks.The Japanese soldiers were bombed and ran around. Amidst the horrible screams, their hands and feet were separated from their bodies, flying in the air like snowflakes. Before reaching the U.S. front, the first Japanese attack retreated.Those who were not killed on the spot fled back into the swamp. The second attack somehow reached the edge of the front line, but at best it was performing a monkey show in front of the US military.Under the illumination of the flares, these drunken guys rolled and fell into the foxholes of the US military, and then threw grenades aimlessly, and some of them shouted some vague English words. , and some laughed wildly. The U.S. Marines also came out of hand-to-hand combat. When they saw their opponents entering a foxhole, they stepped forward and wiped them out without hesitation. The Japanese army who stayed at the assembly point was also having a hard time. From midnight to 2:00 am, the U.S. military fired a total of 26,000 shells into the swamp, turning the assembly point into a death trap for the Japanese army. After defeating the Japanese army's attempt to break out of the siege, the U.S. Army, with the 22nd regiment as the main force, continued to advance inch by inch to the entire Olot Peninsula.The morale of the Japanese army was very low, and probably even alcohol could not cheer them up.It was not until the evening of July 27 that the U.S. military discovered that a squadron of Japanese troops lined up and rushed towards the U.S. defense line under the leadership of a flag-holding officer. Without professional artillery opening, the "Sherman" shot up and pulverized the officer and his standard, and then the squadron was also wiped out. In the future, there will be no counterattack units like squadrons in the Japanese army. It is just a small group of a dozen people who smash their heads against the guns, which has actually been reduced to a kind of collective suicide in disguise. On July 29, the Marine Brigade completely occupied the Olot Peninsula.The day before, the U.S. troops from the north and the south joined forces at Tengjue Mountain—since the "counterattack" that defeated the Japanese army, the Japanese army in the north has also become the last of its strength, and the resistance is completely disorganized. So far, the frontal connection of the two landing forces of the US military in the north and the south has become a front line, and half of Guam has been controlled by the US military.