Chapter 346: Landing on the beach

Looking up from the sky, there was just a piece of flat land and nothing could be found. The US military planted some plants around the fortress, which seemed to be no different from ordinary landforms.

The US mortars and soldiers were hidden in the fortress. Previous reconnaissance planes did not find their targets. Each fortress was equipped with two Mén mortars, one heavy machine gun, one light machine gun, and one sniper rifle. The firepower was fully equipped, and for infantry, it was very lethal.

From here, it looks very clear to the open area under the volcanic wall. No force can escape their eyes. Looking from the front, it is difficult to see clearly the location of the US military's firepower point.

This is the fortress and fortress built by the Russians in the early years that they helped build the then independent Kingdom of Kauai. Later, Kauai was unified by the Kingdom of Hawaii, and then merged into Hawaii, and finally fell into the hands of the Americans.

If this fortress was placed decades ago, it would have strongly blocked the attack of any powerful brigade, but in today's era of aircraft and tanks, its role is no longer so important. It is obvious that the Zhenguo Army cannot attack infantry to capture this fortress. Tank propulsion has become the best choice, and using tanks to destroy these strongholds is not too complicated.

Located in the fortress at the center of the fortress, more than 20 US soldiers were there, carrying various weapons and preparing.

A US soldier was standing on a wooden ladder, holding a monocular lens in his hand, looking out from the lookout.

There are six observation ports in this fortress, each of which is two meters away from the ground. People must stand on a ladder or a platform built to see outside and can shoot outside.

Except for the soldier holding a telescope, there were no other soldiers in the lookout. They would only climb up and attack after the battle began.

More than 20 American soldiers were lying tilted on the ground, some were smoking, some were wiping with guns, and some were chatting about interesting stories about their hometown. They had been here for several weeks, and they were eating, drinking, defecating and urinating nearby every day, and never left.

Due to the hidden geographical location here, these soldiers have survived the previous large-scale bombing of the Zhenguo Army. These soldiers have always felt very safe.

The fortress has an area of ​​more than 100 square meters, almost square, with a height of about three meters. The ground is soil-like and a bit uneven. Under the surrounding walls are a large number of boxes of various specifications, with bullets and shells inside.

Mortars cannot be shè in the fortress. There is an exit beside the fortress. There is a trench outside the exit. The trench is connected to the ground outside. Once the battle begins, the US military will lift up the covered vegetation covering the trench and transfer the mortars from the fortress to trench for shelling. The shells can be directly transported from the fortress.

The other fortresses are almost the same as here. The six fortresses are more than 200 meters apart. The six fortresses can cover a distance of more than one kilometer and can strike the offensive party from different angles.

Each fortress is based on the advantages of the terrain and is built in a location that looks difficult to detect from the outside, and the possibility of being hit by local shells is smaller.

There is also a dense vegetation blocking in front of this fortress, but the US military has cut off some of the trees blocking their sight. They can clearly observe the scene near the beach and use mortars to strike distant targets.

The sun gradually shifted its direction and shone into the lookout of the fortress, bringing a hint of warmth to the cold fortress. Several American soldiers moved their positions and sat in the position where the sun was shining, posing in a leisurely position.

The US soldier who was watching with a telescope was still moving left and right to observe the sea surface in the distance. A group of seagulls on the sea were flying over the crossline of his telescope. The sea surface was calm and there were no ships coming and going.

The vast beach in front is enough to accommodate thousands of people to gain a foothold, which is very suitable for large troops to land, and also facilitates the landing troops' assault boats and rubber boats to dock. If the Zhenguo Army does not choose to land here, it would be a major mistake, so the US military attaches great importance to this place and dare not neglect it.

A few minutes later, the US soldier holding a telescope couldn't help but shake his hands, and his pupils suddenly widened a little. He saw a wisp of rising smoke coming out of the horizon connected by the sea and the sky, which looked like a mist of water.

But after staring at the smoke for a few minutes, the US soldier found that it was not ordinary water mist, but probably the smoke from the chimney of the ship.

"There are ships, and there are ships coming to us." The soldier shouted softly.

This sound made the American soldiers sitting below nervous immediately. Several people stood up from the ground with guns, and the rest stopped chatting one after another.

Several soldiers climbed up and stood on the wooden platform and looked out from the lookout, but they had no telescopes and could not see the scene in the distance.

"Peter, look carefully, what did you see?" A soldier looked around and saw nothing, and immediately raised doubts.

"Wait, I see the chimney on a ship. It's true. Go and notify the company commander." The soldier holding the telescope continued to check carefully, murmuring in a low voice.

Gradually, a thick chimney emerged from the telescope, which was venting wisps of smoke into the sky. It was obvious that the ship was coming. At this time, the surrounding sea surface had been blocked, and it could not be an ordinary merchant ship.

A tall American Army captain with a beard and in his early thirties ran in from the passage behind a few minutes later, and he got into the tunnel that could lead to the rear.

"Let me see." The bearded officer immediately climbed up the ladder, grabbed the soldier's telescope, squeezed beside the soldier, and looked outside.

At this time, the outline of a warship slowly appeared in front of him, and then he saw another one, until the third one, and more warships appeared in his eyes.

"Prepare for the battle, the Chinese are coming." The bearded man's eyes widened and he shouted loudly.

As several large warships gradually approached, the US military realized that this was definitely not an ordinary reconnaissance ship, but an organized large-scale military operation, and the Zhenguo Army finally took action.

The US soldiers began to run around in panic. Several soldiers carried mortars and ran into the passage on the right, and began to carry shells into the passage, ready to fight at any time.

“Quick, fast”

The US military everywhere had already received the message of Zhenguo's attack by telephone. There were more and more ships on the sea, and the intention was very obvious.

"Boom..."

As expected, with several loud sounds of naval guns coming from the front, Zhenguo Army destroyers had already begun to fire on the shore, and the areas around the fortress became the focus of artillery attacks. Several US strongholds outside the United States immediately became the targets of aviation gun strikes, but these places were actually unguarded, and the US military had retreated to the rear.

In order to preserve their strength, the US military has given up the defense of the beachhead positions and used infantry to deal with armored vehicles. They knew that there was no effective way to do so.

After nearly twenty minutes of artillery bombardment, two huge landing ships gradually docked, and the landing ships 120 and 122 were gradually docked under the cover of destroyer guns.

"Boom..." When two 10,000-ton landing ships landed on the dock, the US mortar finally started, but the scattered shrapnel of the mortar shells may be very effective against the infantry's bodies, but it is almost useless against the warships protected by armor.

After the US military fired a few guns in a symbolic manner, they stopped the artillery shells because they had to leave the shells to deal with the landing infantry, and did not want to expose their positions because the shells were too frequent, because the Zhenguo army could initially judge the source of the shells from the landing point and trajectory of the mortar shells and find the location of their fortress fortresses, which is not conducive to the US military who wanted to attack hidden ambush.

Kauai Island was not the focus of US military defense. The two original artillery batteries had been bombed and destroyed by the Zhenguo Army. The garrisons on the island no longer had the support of anti-ship cannons. The only thing they could rely on was their geographical advantages.

At this time, the US soldiers were hiding in the Kauai Island Circle, scattered in seven or eight large strongholds, preparing to fight guerrilla warfare and positional warfare with the Zhenguo Army. The Zhenguo Army tanks are used in the vegetation of Kauai Island to deal with US fortresses and fortresses. The tanks have relatively little effect on infantry that ambushed and covers by terrain.

Soon, six Iron-Armored No. 1 tanks were driven out from the cabins opened by the two landing ships, and huge muzzles drove towards the shore. More than a dozen tanks lined up in two rows and began to advance forward, making a rumbling maneuvering sound.

There were only a dozen warships participating in this landing battle. In addition to the two landing ships, there were also ten destroyers that helped land, a supply ship, the Nanjing aircraft carrier and other ships participated, and the Third Fleet Commander Zeng Guoqing was responsible for commanding the battle.

Zeng Guoqing was only twenty-eight years old, with a medium-sized and thin figure, and looked a little weak, but Wenwen's weak appearance could not deny his inner strength and tenacity. As a young officer familiar with naval command, he was full of vitality and vitality, clear-headed and flexible, and capable of the position of fleet commander.

Zeng Guoqing was one of the first students to enter the military class of Zhenhua University. He was alumni who graduated from the same period as Li Guoqiang and Bai Yanjun. The three of them were the best among the military graduates of the same period and the fastest-growing group of officers in the army. Li Guoqiang was one year older than Zeng Guoqing and Bai Yanjun, but he was only about thirty, which was also a special historical phenomenon in the younger age of senior officers of Zhenguo Army.

Before the establishment of Zhenhua Technical School, Zhenguo Navy had no available talents at all, and the backward Chinese naval command concept and technical and tactical level could not adapt to the needs of modern aircraft carrier wars.

Most of the officers who surrendered from the Qing Dynasty navy served in the First Fleet because although they had rich command experience, they could not compare with the students who graduated from Zhenhua University in terms of new military ideas and new naval command. Although these students did not seem to have much practical experience, they lacked their students who had mastered advanced military science and technology in their minds, and the command of the aircraft carrier fleet was really a problem.

Zeng Guoqing was responsible for command on the flagship Destroyer No. 158. Since the US military's large-caliber coastal artillery had been cleared before, the US military's threat to our warships has been basically lifted.

After the twelve tanks landed, they began to rush forward to find the strongholds used by the US military to resist. However, after driving more than two kilometers of open areas, the front was covered with the common palm trees on Kauai Island and other trees mixed in. The tank soldiers carefully observed the geographical environment ahead with a periscope and found that there might be US soldiers hidden in the palm trees, but it may be difficult to achieve the effect by relying on tanks to explore the way. They also had to rely on infantry to land on the island to search. The tanks were also worried that there would be a large number of mines ambushed in the complex terrain ahead, which would pose a great threat to them.

Zeng Guoqing watched the landing scene in the distance with a telescope. The dust from more than a dozen tanks fluttered in the wind on the island. After the tank landed, no US military appeared and fought against the landing nearby. The US military only fired a few guns, and then stopped.

"It seems that the US military has given up the beachhead position ahead, and they must have hid behind. There may be a large number of US troops lying in the palm forest." Zeng Guoqing looked at a large number of palm forests in front of him that blocked his sight and said thoughtfully.

Fleet Staff Hu Hai is a junior who was one term later than Zeng Guoqing. The two did not know each other at first, and they were assigned to work together to get to know each other half a year ago.

Hu Hai, who was round and round, looked very strong when standing in front of Zeng Guoqing, had a round head, a pair of big eyes, a bright and energetic, young and quick-thinking.

"Didn't the Americans bury mines on the island? Our tanks seemed to have penetrated within a few kilometers without any resistance?" Hu Hai raised his nose and asked in doubt.

In order to avoid being hit by landmines, Zhenguo Army tanks lined up in two rows and drove along two fixed routes. If the front tank touched a mine, the tanks behind would stop advancing. However, so far, the tanks have not encountered landmines, and it is hard to say whether there are landmines in the open area of ​​several square kilometers.

However, the way they were moving forward had been bombarded by ship guns for a while in order to remove some of the potentially hidden landmines.

"The US military cannot bury landmines everywhere, but I believe they must have buried landmines near the beach. It's just that they haven't happened to be hit by a tank. Someone will definitely touch mines when our infantry goes up later. You have to be mentally prepared for this." Zeng Guoqing shook his head and responded in a low voice.

"The US military must have ambushing in the Madi Fortress. There may also be US military ambushing in the palm woods in front of the Madi Fortress. Their mortars are hidden inside, which will cause certain resistance to our infantry landing. We must be careful." After a slight pause, Zeng Guoqing continued.

"Madi Fortress is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is nearly a hundred meters above the palm forest below. The roads entering the fortress are rugged and are all within the range of the US firepower points. If infantry forcefully breaks in, there will probably be a lot of casualties." Hu Hai nodded and responded.

Zeng Guoqing continued to watch the situation ahead and found that more than a dozen tanks had stopped in front of the palm trees, waiting for further instructions from the rear.

"If the Madi Fortress is not broken, it will be difficult for our infantry to rush over. The US military must have set up sniper points and heavy machine gun firepower in the fortress. This will cause great resistance to the infantry entering the fortress from a wide field of vision. Our tanks will be blocked in the palm trees and will not be able to climb the rugged volcanic rock walls and enter the fortress. The US military obviously knows this, so they let our tanks flow and do not have much resistance. They must have waited for our infantry to enter before they launch a fierce resistance." Zeng Guoqing said slowly.

"The terrain here is complex and covered with a large amount of vegetation. It is difficult for the hidden strongholds of the US military to be discovered from the air. If they do not open fire, we have no idea where they are hiding, which is a bit difficult to deal with." Hu Hai nodded and responded.

"What is the result of the plane reconnaissance? Did you find anything?" Zeng Guoqing then turned around and asked a young officer of twenty-three or four years old behind him.

"Our reconnaissance aircraft launched reconnaissance activities early in the morning, but did not find the location of the US military in the open area. The US military obviously had already hidden it. Fortress Madi is the key location for our reconnaissance, but the photos taken by the pilot from the sky showed that it seemed like an ordinary mountainous land, and no clues were found." The officer immediately responded respectfully.

"The Americans are probably doing some disguises. This kind of terrain is very conducive to disguise. Moreover, they should have a fortress in hidden areas. Although they cannot be seen from a distance with their eyes, I believe they are hiding somewhere behind the palm forest, but we have not found it yet." Zeng Guoqing said while thinking.

In fact, the best tactic of the Zhenguo Army is to siege the US army for a long time and die on the island, but time does not wait for anyone. Hawaii must be occupied as soon as possible. The necessary casualties are still necessary. Zeng Guoqing naturally knew this truth. What he is going to do now is how to reduce casualties and achieve the best results.

"Now there is only one way. We can send a special forces to infiltrate first, find the strongholds that the US military threatened the most, destroy them, and then the large army can launch a large-scale attack." Hu Hai thought for a while, his eyes flashed.

Zeng Guoqing turned his head to look at Hu Hai, and then said a little bit: "This is a solution, but the terrain here is complicated, and it is probably difficult for the special forces to bring out the hidden and lethal strongholds of the US military one by one. I am worried that it will be difficult for them to achieve something if they enter."
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