Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

It is impossible to retreat, otherwise the more than 1000 casualties yesterday are meaningless.The attacker in a war will always encounter this problem. No matter how deduced, planned, and prepared in advance, they will never clamor to stop losses in time the second day after the war starts. This is the case with the US military and the German army.

Even the latter became even more crazy under the influence of the Bavarian corporal.

"My generals don't understand the economics of war."

The Bavarian corporal was always thinking about the ratio of input to output, and reached the peak when he was in the blue plan. When he lost more and more money, the Austrian art student who failed the ranking gradually became a gambler.

What you lost before is not considered a loss. If a stud can be turned back, it will be blood-earned. Gradually, it will not lose if it becomes a stud. , A small loss... until he lost so much that he imagined that there were still a few army groups for him to micromanage.

The U.S. military at the time of the Battle of Peleliu Island was a gambler.

Although our first day's progress was not smooth, and the casualties were still very high, as long as we took the airport, we would earn blood.

As for when it will become a profit, Ivan reckons that it will come when the airport is still unable to guarantee the safety of the airport. In order to ensure the safety of the airport, infantry had to be sent into Umurbrogol Mountain to clear the Japanese army. No matter what, it was not a loss at all, and then more and more troops were invested until the casualty rate of the First Marine Division reached a terrifying 60%.

"Grant, we're going to be leaving soon, so be prepared—"

Yi Wenyu earnestly instructed: "The place we are going to is far more dangerous than the tidal flats and the forest line. The infantry can rush through the dangerous area, but we still have to stay there."

"Um......"

Grant glanced in the direction of the airport, as if he could understand what was going to happen next.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, Captain Haldane turned back and found Ivan, and gave two medical satchels full of battlefield traces-just looking at the tattered traces on them, he thought they had just finished the Battle of Saipan.

"If we successfully complete the scheduled goal today, a large amount of supplies will be able to go ashore." Captain Haldane sat down beside Ivan and said softly, "The superior ordered us to go through the airport, occupy that mountain, and ensure that the entire airport is under our control." within control."

"Does the officer want me to do something?" Ivan asked.

"No, you just do it your own way."

Cannon King shook his head, the resolute look he had faced with the soldiers just now disappeared in an instant, replaced by pessimism and worry.

"The higher-ups don't know what we're going to face at all." He looked very gloomy. "There are no bunkers in the area we are attacking, and we don't know anything about it. I don't know if there are bunkers or firepower points... can Shells that hit tidal flats and treelines can also hit that area."

"Sir..."

Yiwen had no way to comfort the officer in front of him who cherished the lives of his subordinates.

From a purely military point of view for the generals, there is nothing wrong with doing this-if the airport is not captured, the Marine Corps planes will not be able to take off and land.

Fighters, bombers, dive bombers, and even transports.

The inertial thinking of the U.S. military has not changed much. The only way to reduce casualties is not to use the subjective initiative of officers and soldiers to create efficient tactics to deal with difficulties, but to use the simplest and most brutal force to fly.

The generals believed that the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier alone could not effectively provide almost unlimited support to Ma Run, who was attacking Peleliu Island. In the case of the loss of so many transportation units, the supply could also be solved by using aircraft without bombs and bullets. So no matter how difficult it is, at least completely occupy the airport on the island today.

From the point of view of the company commander and Captain Haldane, an alien in the U.S. military, K Company didn’t know how many casualties it would cause when it passed through the airport to the north and at the same time cleaned up the remnants of the Japanese army to block the counterattack of the little devils.

The commander who cherishes the lives of his soldiers more will be more cautious and try his best to make every casualty of his subordinates meaningful. However, this order from the headquarters makes such commanders feel that they are not only stabbed in the back, but see you at the beginning. Every casualty of his subordinates is like a knife in his heart.

To be honest, Ivan felt the same way before he really became the commander of a team he pulled up, but now he can understand Captain Haldane's appearance very well.

"I can only comfort myself from the bottom of my heart."

Cannon King rubbed his tired face, maintaining his tireless appearance from yesterday, "The next casualties, those brothers I cherish will not die. It is very aggrieved. It is very meaningful for them to die here. , because...they are fighting for justice."

Gunshots and cannons came and went, and the high temperature of 42 degrees Celsius in the early morning scorched Ma Run. Even if everyone received 100 ml of fresh water half an hour ago, it was not enough. Yiwen handed the 100 ml of fresh water he had saved to Huo Captain Erdan.

"Have some water, sir."

He still didn't forget to remind: "I see that you already have signs of heat stroke."

"..."

Looking at the kettle handed over, Captain Haldane did not refuse, and even obeyed Ivan to sip the fresh water in his mouth instead of swallowing it directly. During the process, Ivan even opened a can of meat for him.

"Thank you, Inswood."

The Cannon King showed a grateful look, "If it weren't for you, many people would suffer from heat stroke, and even lose the ability to fight due to thirst."

Evan waved his hand and said that was what he should do.

After breakfast, Captain Haldane found the country bumpkin who was the leader of the weapon platoon without stopping, and the two people who had been inseparable since Pavovo Island went to unknown places.

Ivan opened the war-damaged medical satchel, and with just a cursory look, he could understand why the gun king didn't rest all night.

The gun king who has been busy all night got a lot of medical supplies for Ivan. Just two boxes of 10 morphine syringes and 30 rolls of first-aid bandages are scary, not to mention triangular bandages, sulfa powder, and snap-on tourniquets .

After sorting out the medical supplies and directly carrying 3 medical satchels, the medical supplies that Ivan currently owns can be said to be inhumane.

到了此时，伊文才觉得自己像个美帝的医护兵——吗啡注射剂*15、急救绷带*50、三角巾*15、小包磺胺粉*25、卡扣式止血带*10、橡皮管*10、装有磺胺片的塑料小药瓶*5。

Ivan didn't know how Captain Haldane got these things.

If a medical supply ship comes ashore, they should notify themselves to pick it up.

Maybe there is, but the medical soldiers of each company were not notified, but the 1st Marine Regiment was given priority. After all, they have been fighting since yesterday.

That's right, from September 9th to around 15 o'clock in the evening, there was no sound of gunfire from the 8th Marine Regiment. On the other hand, the 7st Marine Regiment did not stop one after another, and it was still the same in the morning-no one knew what was going on there. What a brutal battle.

"Captain, thank you for your hard work."

Ivan felt that the chief of company K must have given something if he just asked for it, such as the logistics man's favorite dollar, and the spoils he picked off from the little devil.

Many Ma Runs who stayed in the rear were very keen to buy trophies from the front-line infantry as a way to commemorate a very important adventure in their lives-they didn't even hear the casualty figures, and they had to do the work every day It's almost like moving supplies and repairing things, so it's hard for this world war to feel the slightest bit of cruelty in the eyes of these people.

Ma Run's logistics in the Pacific region are no less enthusiastic about souvenirs than those on the Western Front, or even worse.

After all, taking the booty back can be a good way to show off, which in disguise proved a thing that made Ivan dumbfounded-pretending to be the primary need after eating and drinking, no matter what age it is.

At around 8 o'clock in the morning, Grant ran over with a face full of ecstasy.

"Where have you been?"

Ivan couldn't help asking him, after all, this kid seemed to have disappeared after he separated from Cannon King, and he didn't see him for more than half an hour.

"Sergeant, someone has found water."

"Really?"

After hearing the news, Ivan immediately stood up, his whole body was shocked.

In this period, no one in Ma Run would say that he was not thirsty. Even K, who was able to distribute fresh water in a concentrated manner, only 100ml of fresh water was distributed to each of them after they woke up.A normal person takes 30-50 ml of water in one mouthful, and the allocated fresh water can be up to three mouthfuls.

Last night, when Ma Run was resting, each of them was given 150ml. They were already thirsty and unbearably thirsty, and the human body would consume a lot of water from urine, skin, and breathing when sleeping at night. In the state of water shortage during the menstrual period, it will be more serious under high temperature. The fresh water allocated now is not at all quenching thirst, at most it can moisten the dry throat for a long time.

The notch is at least 300ml.

As time goes by, the temperature is gradually rising. When the sun shines, the temperature on Peleliu Island may exceed 45 degrees Celsius. At that time, Ma Run lacked fresh water and had to fight with little devils. I can’t believe how many people there will be on the way. People suffer from heat stroke.

“Real water!”

"go!"

Evan didn't hesitate at all.

It is not so easy to die from heat stroke, but don't forget that if heat stroke develops into severe heat stroke, it will cause heat stroke, let alone the modern army, even the modern army will have soldiers die from heat stroke.

The found water source was located on the right wing of Company K, very close to the 7th Marine Regiment. When we arrived, we saw a group of people surrounding the ruins of a building that had been bombed by artillery fire.All the members of Eugene's mortar squad were never absent, and even Lecky, Laughing Tiger, and Scud from H Company rushed over. They looked anxious and wanted to jump directly into the pool to fill their stomachs.

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Judging from the fact that this place must have been the freshwater reservoir of the defenders of Peleliu Island, no matter how bad it is, it is also a reservoir that can collect freshwater in rainy days.

With this judgment, he directly held down the excited Grant to prevent him from going forward to fetch water.

"what happened?"

"There's no need to go."

"why!?"

Faced with doubts, Ivan didn't explain too much, he just found a place to sit down and light a cigarette.

About ten seconds later, the crowd erupted into a burst of curses.

"Holy fuck!"

"Those beasts!"

"You dog, you actually poisoned fresh water!"

It was only at this time that Grant understood, and then he was quite curious about how Ivan knew there would be such a result. He didn't even see the shadow of fresh water, and he judged that there was a problem just by coming to this place.

"Grant, don't you think this was a building before the heavy artillery destroyed it?" Ivan asked back.

"It's like, it's like—!"

After Grant finished speaking, he seemed to understand something, but he was stuck in that place like constipation.

"It means that it must be something like a cistern built by the Japanese army." Ivan explained, "Water needs to be loaded with something. After joining the army, you should have heard of the cruelty of the little devil. So for animals who have no bottom line , will the fresh water that cannot be taken away be left to us?"

"No." He shook his head vigorously.

"Is there any easy way to destroy fresh water?"

After hearing these words, Card Master Grant straightened his thinking, and deeply felt that the cruelty and viciousness he described in his mouth was far worse than coming to see it himself.

"My imagination is still too limited."

Grant was indignant with incomprehension, "In this way, wouldn't the little devil be similar to us?"

"Maybe."

Throwing away the cigarette, Ivan wiped the sweat from his brow and wiped it on his trousers and walked to K Company's department.

要是真差不多，还能让大部队坚持到1944年11月27，多股游击队伍坚持到1945年2月，最后一支日军小队坚持到1947年4月？

At 8:30, Captain Haldane announced the command of the headquarters, a simple and rude one-all officers and soldiers of the [-]st Marine Division who landed on Peleliu Island, crossed the airport and pressed the front to the south of Umurbrogol Mountain to ensure the safety of the airport .

"We had to go through the airfield because the kid's artillery was hidden in that mountain, and if they weren't destroyed there would be casualties every day."

"Only by taking him down and completely destroying the little devil can we be safe."

"Did everyone understand?"

"Aye aye, sir!!!"

PS:

The debt that fell silent before was 3 words, today I updated 1.6 words, of which 1.2 words are repaid, and there are still 1.8 words left in debt, let me pay it back slowly (after entering the small black room for a month, people are so beaten that they are unresponsive )

12. Let's go! (3K)

The order of the headquarters was not to hit Umurbrogol Mountain, but to require all officers and soldiers to pass through the airfield without shelter at the fastest speed.

The difference between the two is quite large.

Fighting the past is not a mindless charge, it requires the cooperation between infantry and a series of arms such as infantry, engineers, machine gunners, artillery, scouts, vanguards, tanks, and aircraft.No matter how poor an army is, without tanks and planes, and with very few artillery pieces, it still requires arms coordination.

Everyone rushed up in a swarm, making it as completely undesirable as gang fights.

The U.S. military has a big business, so it has a fixed set of infantry offensive tactics - stop advancing immediately when encountering a firepower point, and call artillery to destroy it. During this period, all Japanese troops who may rush out to fight back will not continue until the firepower point is destroyed. advance.

Now the headquarters has given up this tactic and requires the infantry of the [-]st Marine Division not to rely on the coordination of any other arms, to rush over and rush up to press the front line quickly to prevent the Japanese army from organizing troops to counterattack.

The order also emphasizes one point - during the charge, no one can stop unless injured, and you can't stop when you encounter a firepower point during the charge. You can rely on bunkers and other carrier-based aircraft or naval guns to solve the problem. If the firepower point hinders your progress, please Frontline officers figured out their own way to organize the Demomen to take it out.

To expand the occupied area regardless of cost is the answer obtained by the headquarters after a night of deduction.

It is unrealistic for thousands of people to crowd in an area of ​​0.2 square kilometers and wait for heavy artillery to land and more supplies to land. The status quo is very clear, with a total loss of at least 30% of the transport capacity, even if it is full, it can only maintain the landing horses. Daily consumption, there are still a considerable number of devils on the island who attack the beach from time to time. Ma Run's morale will become worse every day when there is a shortage of food and ammunition. I'm not stupid. Seeing that you are staying on the periphery of the airport and not moving forward, you can naturally judge your intentions, and immediately organize your troops to carry out multiple and multiple counterattacks. Once this kind of war of attrition starts to land on Peleliu Island, Ma Run will never think about it. In order to be able to eat good food and drink clean water, which led to further low morale and collapse, which eventually turned into a huge failure.

Then can we advance a little bit with strong fire support according to the usual infantry tactics?

The conclusions drawn by the generals and staff officers are also unacceptable, because they stopped when encountering firepower points, stopped when they were frustrated, or even retreated directly to the bridgehead occupied yesterday and waited for the carrier-based aircraft and naval guns to blow up the bunker near the airport. The speed is quite inefficient and it is likely to develop into a tug-of-war at the airport, and then due to limited capacity, it will become the last result that the command wants to see.

Therefore, handing over everything to the infantry who went ashore has become the best solution at present.

Whether it is firepower or construction, the US military's conventional tactics in the past are all regarded as farting.Today's command does not want to hear the number of casualties, as long as there is a major breakthrough on September 9, not to mention directly entering Umurbrogol Mountain, at least occupying the airfield on Peleliu Island.

It was impossible for the generals not to guess what might happen after such an order was given.If there are many bunkers near the airport, many firepower points, and the Japanese army has enough ammunition, and the crowd of people is very close to the weekend supermarket when the group charges, not only will they be unable to rush through, but the casualties will be very heavy.

But as mentioned before, the U.S. troops who set foot on Peleliu Island became gamblers before they greeted the sunshine of the next day.

Judging from the final results of this battle, Ivan is very clear that it seems that the entire island occupied by the US military has won the bet, but in fact it has lost a lot - the airport did not play any strategic value, and the island eventually became quite tasteless The material transfer station of the Japanese army created conditions for guerrilla warfare in disguise for the Japanese army team staying in the cave in the mountainous area.

Steal some from the US military warehouse when you are hungry, steal some when you are thirsty, steal some when you are out of bullets, steal some if the gun is broken, and steal some if someone is sick... Even if the island is vacant, the little devil’s guerrilla The team couldn't hold out until April 1947.

But after paying so much and not using it, the big bosses in charge of this battle must be ashamed?

Therefore, Peleliu Island is a piece of chicken ribs for the US military's strategy.

"Hohoo..."

Ivan adjusted his breathing and heart rate, coping with the large number of wounded people who were likely to appear next.