mesbooks Chapter 383 Landing (3)
Chapter 383 Landing (3)
"Huh-huh-"
Liu Jianqi, the lieutenant deputy company commander of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment of the People's Army, was gasping for breath. He felt as if his lungs were filled with a bucket of hot salt water, and the bitter, salty and astringent taste rushed up his throat.
The beach in front of me was glowing with a sticky light in the morning light, like the belly of a freshly cut fish.
He held the submachine gun that had just been removed from the plastic bag tightly in his hand, and the wet sea sand under his feet made a "crunching" sound under his military boots.
"Go! Hurry up, push to the right! Don't crowd together!"
The waves rolled over his feet and his trouser legs were already soaked.
The moment he stepped onto the beach, he nearly fell into the water. To prevent running aground, the landing craft was forced to stop 40 to 50 meters from the shore. The soldiers could only wade up step by step in the waist-deep water, giving up all their energy to the sea before they could even fight.
But what he never expected was that the Japanese on the beach were as completely lacking in fighting spirit as a group of old men who had just paid their dues.
"Deputy Captain, where are the Japs? Where are the people?" A soldier with a BAR on his shoulder came over panting, looking around with wide eyes, as if the Japs would pop out from under the sand in the next second.
"Shut up! Stop talking such a bad mouth!" Liu Jianqi cursed, but he was actually worried in his heart.
The imagined deadly machine gun fire blasting down on them?
All Liu Jianqi heard, apart from a few sporadic shots from the Type 99 rifles, were a few short "da da da" sounds from two or three Type 99 light machine guns, but they soon fell silent. He didn't know if they were taken down by friendly forces.
Imagine bunkers and mines everywhere?
There were obstacles on the beach, but they had all been reduced to scattered iron and charcoal. The cruiser's 152mm guns had blasted down, even the mines had been "exploded" with a crackling sound, causing them to explode prematurely.
Right in front of us, several engineers were slumped over in a bomb crater, panting. At their feet were blasting tubes and mine sweepers placed in plastic bags for waterproofing.
Liu Jianqi couldn't care less about these trivial matters. He had to hurry and integrate his troops first.
He squatted in a huge crater created by the naval gunfire, shook off the water droplets on his helmet, and while recovering his strength, he raised the telescope and scanned the front.
Beyond the beach is a seawall. Looking down from a high vantage point, it looks like a winding spine slanting inland.
There is the first stage target of their vanguard troops.
In a few minutes, more than fifty people gathered around him, most of them were soldiers from his own company who had dispersed ashore and gathered around him on their own, as well as a few people from the engineering battalion.
As for the company commander's landing craft, it was pushed to another landing point by the tide. Only complaints from the other party were heard on the walkie-talkie. The battalion headquarters was still on the second wave of landing craft. At this time, Lieutenant Liu Jianqi was the highest commander on the scene.
As a member of a force built to be a mission-oriented army, the Marine lieutenant naturally began to exercise command and tried to complete the mission of the first wave of landing troops - to serve as the vanguard for the subsequent large forces.
"Listen to me—" He raised his voice, took a breath, and pointed at the seawall a hundred meters away. "Behind that dike a hundred meters away is the Japanese's first line of defense. We are the first vanguard, and our goal is clear: seize the seawall, clear out the Japanese inside, and open a gap for the tanks and large troops that will land later."
He glanced at the low-ranking officers and veterans around him, his eyes burning: "If we don't go up, those thousands of people behind us will have to be shot on the beach! The mortar team will be placed in this crater to provide cover fire.
Li Datou, your squad will lead the charge, climb the ladder and charge forward. Su Laosan, your squad will provide cover, and set up the ladder while you're at it, but make sure it's not tilted! Several soldiers from the engineering battalion responded immediately, ready to blast the obstacles.
"Ma Zi, hold on to your walkie-talkie and follow me closely. We have to be in touch with the battalion headquarters at all times!"
"Yes!"
The voices were in unison, and the soldiers quickly adjusted their equipment. A folding ladder was hastily unpacked and unfolded.
Li Datou held up the M1 Garand and tried to shake the ladder. He grinned and said, "Deputy Captain, why is this ladder still shaking? I have to step on it firmly later, otherwise I will fall and be embarrassed."
"You're just a chatterbox!" Liu Jianqi kicked him and turned to remove the smoke bomb hanging from his chest. "Get ready for cover! Once the smoke clears, we'll charge!"
When the ring was pulled, white smoke rose up like a pot of white porridge with the lid just opened, instantly blurring the beach in front.
"Come on—!"
As soon as the copper whistle in Liu Jianqi's mouth sounded, more than a dozen smoke bombs flew out one after another.
In the fog, teams of soldiers rushed out of the bomb craters like tigers emerging from the mountains.
"Hurry, hurry, get to the top of the ladder!"
bang bang bang-
A burst of dense gunfire came from behind the dike. The Japanese finally showed up. The sounds of grenade launchers and light machine guns were mixed with sharp Japanese curses. Bullets tore through the smoke and flew over the head with a "whoosh".
Li Datou was the first to rush up the ladder. He tossed grenades upwards as he climbed. As soon as the half-figure emerged, he immediately opened fire, his M1 Garand firing—bang, bang, bang—ding, emptying an eight-round magazine.
"Little devils, your grandpa is here!"
"Suppressive fire—throw grenades!"
One after another, under the cover of smoke and fire from below the dike, the Marines began to climb the dike. Liu Jianqi listened to the gunfire above his head and felt at ease. It was not that the Japanese were too weak, but that his own firepower was too strong.
Their Marine Corps is not only strong in manpower, but also has more powerful firepower - M1 Garand, M1A1 carbine, Thompson semi-automatic, BAR machine gun, as well as naval guns and aerial bombs from planes in the sky for support. How can they not be an iron stream?
"Ma Zi, call battalion headquarters—tell them that the Red Beach breakthrough has been achieved!"
"Yes!" The signalman took off the microphone of the walkie-talkie, jogged back and hid, and started calling.
Liu Jianqi turned his head and saw that landing craft were continuously transporting follow-up troops of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment ashore. More soldiers were stepping onto the beach step by step from the sea, carrying guns and ammunition boxes, cursing under their breath, but no one stopped.
With his vanguard troops gaining a foothold, everything has been settled.
Liu Jianqi soon saw the company commander who was soaked all over under the seawall. Water was still dripping from his body and he looked very miserable.
"The command here is left to you, boss. I'll go up and give close command." After saying this, Liu Jianqi climbed up the ladder using his hands and feet, climbed over the seawall, and jumped into the trench dug by the Japanese. He commanded his subordinates to gradually clear this complicated trench fortification.
There were still some scattered Japanese soldiers in the trenches, some trying to poke their heads out from the cracks in the bunkers in a desperate attempt, but they were shot in the head by a barrage of 7.62mm bullets from the BAR.
When encountering a Japanese machine gun fire point, first use the RPG to greet it, then after a few anti-personnel grenades, rush forward with a submachine gun and fire.
When you encounter a suspicious soldier hiding cave, throw a grenade first, then use a flamethrower to fire it in to ensure that the "rats" that may be hiding underground have no way to escape.