Imperial Overlord

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The U.S. military did hit the iron plate, and the beachhead attack cost them a large number of soldiers. The vertex update is the fastest, but this time the counterattack is the highlight that they have been brewing for a long time, and naturally they will not give up easily.

Just nine hours after the start of the Battle of New Guinea, the fourth batch of the US Army was sent to the island of New Guinea.

The battle continued until dark. Japan is good at night battles, and the U.S. military did not intend to give up the night advance, but the dark night was still full of deep malice towards the U.S. military.

By moonlight, as the U.S. Army was consolidating their defenses near the beachhead, a huge cannonball roared over their heads.

The devastating explosion made the soldiers of the U.S. Army even forget to dodge.

Before humans developed the atomic bomb, this may have been one of the most terrifying explosions. After all, the power of a shell fired on a naval battleship was indeed beyond many people's imagination.

After being silent for a whole day, the battleship of the Japanese Navy finally had no worries and entered the Torres Strait.

The U.S. Navy's landing fleet, for fear of the Japanese navy's artillery battle, withdrew from this area after the night came.

Even if small warships such as torpedo boats and destroyers are left, hoping to hold the Japanese navy, the Japanese navy's night combat quality at this time is indeed higher than that of the United States.

And yes, a fundamentally asymmetrical naval battle was fought off the Torres Strait, and the Japanese navy was victorious within an hour.

The ensuing artillery bombardment, the Japanese navy's battleship was the famous Yamato battleship.

Before the launch of the U.S. Navy's supercarrier, the Yamato battleship was the largest naval weapon ever built.

The flagship of Yamamoto's fifty-six-seat slammed into the night, bombarding the US Marine Corps' landing site with its formidable 460mm cannon.

The shells fired by three 460mm caliber heavy artillery roared towards the American positions, and set off fireworks that blocked the moonlight there.

Before the American defenders could react, the second round of three 460-caliber artillery shells fell, once again allowing American soldiers to experience what it means to destroy the world.

"Yes! Yes! Japanese artillery bombardment! From the sea! God! It's definitely a battleship!" On the beach, General Holland Smith grabbed the phone and begged for reinforcements.

He was the commander of the 1st Marine Corps, and his command had just been hit by a shell fired by the Japanese Army.

A jeep was directly blown into the sky, and at least 30 people in the military were seriously injured or killed by the shell.

As soon as he climbed out of the simple fortifications, General Holland Smith began to mobilize his troops for defense. After such a terrible artillery bombardment, the Japanese defenders must have launched a large-scale counterattack.

But before he could mobilize his troops, the terrifying 460mm heavy artillery of the Yamato battleship began to attack the American positions.

Because the range is too far, the American ground observation posts can't see the fire from the Yamato's fire at all, so they don't even know where the enemy is.

Those terrifying artillery shells had to fly a distance of 30 kilometers before hitting the ground. The American soldiers were horrified to discover that the previous Japanese artillery attack was really a very polite welcome ceremony...

The good news is not without, because the soil near the beach is loose, so the howitzer shells of the Yamato battleship hit the ground too deep, and the explosive power is not fully exerted.

But even so, with just the shock wave and shock of a 460mm shell explosion, it was possible to kill the surrounding American soldiers.

Even if these soldiers have cat ear holes to hide, even if these soldiers have craters that can act as bunkers, they cannot resist the damage caused by the explosion of giant shells around them.

Some soldiers were directly killed in the crater, and some did not reply to their hearing until the next morning...

What's more terrible is that it is only eleven or twelve o'clock in the night, and there are still several hours of long nights waiting for the US Marine Corps and the landed Army soldiers.

Major General Charles Thompson, commander of the US 1st Army, who had just landed in the afternoon, was also devastated by the Japanese night shelling.

Although the U.S. Army suffered heavy losses when it landed in New Guinea, most of the troops that could be lost were Marines, not the 1st Army of the U.S. Army that landed later.

Therefore, for the soldiers of the 1st Army, the main force of the US Army, in fact, the battle for the islands of New Guinea is tragic, and they have not experienced much.

Right now, they really fully realized the cruelty of this war: when a cannonball fell, the entire infantry platoon lost contact...

"Call for support from naval warships! If this goes on like this, we will all become prisoners of the Japanese tomorrow morning!" Major General Thompson ordered in a depressed manner.

His chief of staff, Brigadier General Clovis Byers, also looked solemn: "I just sent a telegram... The Navy may not be able to do anything for a while."

The U.S. Navy's fleet was used to contain the Japanese naval fleet, and they were not deployed near the Torres Strait at all at night.

When the main U.S. Navy fleet arrives near the Torres Strait, the sky may be getting brighter. Isn’t that a meal for the Japanese Naval Air Force?

You know, Yamamoto Fifty-six waited for the U.S. fleet to expose its position, and in turn used the tactics of the Battle of the Solomon Islands to give the U.S. Navy some ruthlessness.

But the Solomon Islands battle itself was drawn up by the U.S. Navy. How could Admiral Halsey, the commander of the U.S. Navy Fleet as the commander, fall for it?

No matter from the time point or from the battle situation, the US Navy will not appear in the Torres Strait this night.

Therefore, the U.S. Marine Corps, as well as the U.S. Army 1st Army, can only rely on themselves to face the crazy shelling of the Japanese.

They, who were trapped near the beach, did not know that the Japanese frontline commander, Yamashita Fengwen, had no intention of throwing in troops to fight back at night.

In any case, this is good news for the American landing forces, at least they don't have to fight hard all night, facing both the Japanese shelling and the Japanese infantry.

However, they also did not know what kind of welcome ceremony the Japanese Army would prepare for them after dawn the next day.

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