The Island of Gyokusai From Which None Shall Return
Chapter 342:The Island of Gyokusai From Which None Shall Return
The remote island of Iwo Jima is located 1250 kilometers south of Tokyo, but it is far from Japan.
The Japanese headquarters camp did not have time to immerse themselves in the sadness of the air raid loss statistics, and received reports from Iwo Jima.
As a result, the base camp convened a meeting to face the fierce army of land, sea and land in the Red Police Empire, and the defense of the island of sulfur was as fragile as white paper.
“As long as each of our soldiers can kill ten enemies, this battle is a victory.”
“Iwo Jima can hold out for at least three months, and we have more time to prepare for the defense of the Ryukyu Islands.”
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In the meeting room, only a few people spoke, most of them seem listless, not that they do not want to participate in the discussion of the content of the meeting, but in the eyes of many people, how to discuss this topic is not much meaningful.
The enemy can calmly strike the Japanese mainland, which means that Japan must carry out a local decisive battle, although Iwo Jima can be called the throat of the Pacific Ocean, but for Japan now, this lightly opened the curtain, has long ceased to exist.
The only value of the more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers on the island is to create more preparation time for the mainland, and that is all.
And a lot of news in Japan, but also take the opportunity to report the upcoming Iwo Jima campaign, which is the best way to divert domestic attention, otherwise it will make more people in the country worried, people are worried.
At this moment, far away in Iwo Jima, Soolin Zhongdao also received a telegram from the domestic military department, asking Soolin Zhongdao to come up with the spirit of Samurai, collect heroic deeds on the battlefield, and play the domestic and exciting.
The officer with the telegram went into the narrow trenches, and the brightness and sunlight of the southern islands disappeared without a trace, replaced by an endless dark world.
This trench leading to the Iwo Jima Preserve Headquarters had only a very narrow entrance, and after entering the cave, it was a steep downhill slope in which adults could barely walk upright.After more than ten meters, the downhill stopped, and the trenches were changed to horizontal, but at this time the captains who entered the headquarters could only crawl to continue.Through this narrow tunnel, we finally reached the room of Soulin Zhongdao.
The room where Su Lin Zhongdao is located is very narrow, and its width is almost no different from the tunnel that crawled forward just now.
The only thing that can be thought of as a room is the wall around reinforced by concrete, which is the last privilege of Soulin Zhongdao to prepare itself.
The most surprising thing is the height here, adults here absolutely can not stand up, the height of the table is the limit here.
The narrow, enclosed room is where Sumulin is living on the island of sulfur, which is an unimaginable condition for outsiders.
The officer who entered this room was almost impossible to move, and in the scorruptible room, the steaming heat and the feeling of oppression generated by the narrowness and coercion were almost impossible to breathe.
In this environment, most of the first thoughts of all people are to go out at once, breathe fresh air, and be liberated from oppression.
Su Lin Zhongdao in the room, after receiving the telegram, closed his eyes in silent without saying a word.
The officer, in his opinion, left the room in silence, through the narrow entrance when entering, and as he approached the entrance of the cave, the captain looked at the front of the cave and could see a small piece of azure sky, which the captain seemed to keep in mind as if to keep the sky firmly in mind, which was one of the few opportunities to look outside.
For all the Japanese on Iwo Jima, it was a mortal island, a gateway to hell.
Somberlin Zhongdao has given the highest order to turn the island into a: a jade island that cannot be lived.
That is to say, from now on, the 25,000 Japanese soldiers on the island, with only one end to death, will resolutely carry out this order.
In Japan, it is also using this topic to boost domestic morale and strengthen the fighting spirit of military personnel in other regions.
However, the silence and silence of the island are the thoughts of every ordinary person who suppresses their hearts, thinking that the country and the emperor are fighting, supporting everyone.
On the battlefield, when the war was defeated again and again, in fact, all the Japanese soldiers were aware of the future war situation, but they had no choice.
Instead of being shot dead and then carrying treason on their backs, affecting their families in the country, it is better to die bravely on the battlefield.
Close to the coast line of the Japanese defense line, directly observe the underground observation post of the sea surface, Honda under the tree and other soldiers, quietly leaning on the half-man high hole, with the help of only one hand wide observation port, through the vegetation around the observation port, looking at the sea, more and more warships.
Calm, no wave of heart, Honda under the tree's face, so indifferent even he felt strange.
Like most of the soldiers, Honda did not want to die, but he had no choice.
Compared to others, he is happy because he can see the outside scenery.
But at the same time, unfortunately, he looked at the enemy's exposed bacon, and then languished waiting for the enemy to start shelling at any time.
Before him, it was a report recorded by the obscurity of light: from the arrival of the first fleet to the arrival of the second fleet, to the arrival of the second fleet, five different routes have now reached the sea in front of Iwo Jima.
On the other side of the paper is the number of warships recorded.
Twelve battleships, more than forty cruisers, and an unclear number of cruisers, in the distance of the sea, where they could not see, a great number of images could not be seen.
By the next day, the number of enemy warships in the distance seemed to be greater, and the sea near Iwo Jima was filled.
Honda did not record the number of enemy ships in the tree, because this behavior has become meaningless.
All he knew was that the number of enemy warships was as high as the level of terror.
On the morning of the third day, Honda woke up from the tree and saw the view from the outside, he immediately realized that the enemy would soon shell it.
Because today's island of sulfur, the weather is very sunny, the island is full of smoke, disappeared a lot.
Honda's expectations were very correct, and the fire preparation fleet arrived on Iwo Jima for three days, but due to the bad weather of the previous two days, coupled with the smoke cover of Iwo Jima, the visibility was poor and was not conducive to shelling.
After waiting for two days, the visibility was finally sufficient, and in the past long reconnaissance, the fire preparation fleet had identified seven hundred strike targets on the island and could launch shelling at any time.
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