My own war game

Chapter 257 An unexpected encounter
At nightfall, Watanabe walked out of the barracks carrying a bundle of things. He had been feeling a little uncomfortable in his stomach since dinner.

It was combat time and the entire camp was under a blackout. He could only grope around in the dark and finally walked to a corner sheltered from the wind and squatted down.

After plugging his nose with the hay in his hand and confirming that there was no other smell, a feeling of relaxation came from bottom to top, which made Watanabe shiver comfortably.

The feeling of happiness needs to be complemented by other people.

Because he and Commander Iikuni were from the same hometown, Watanabe could enjoy some privileges in private, such as being able to relieve himself outside the camp at night without supervision. After all, no one wanted to share a place with those laborers.

Straw paper can be sold for money, so Watanabe was reluctant to use it. He quickly wiped it with the hay he carried with him, then took out a piece of rag from his arms and wrapped up the things on the ground along with the sand.

It is forbidden to relieve oneself anywhere in the camp, and he has to destroy the evidence.

The object wrapped in black rag looked round in appearance. Watanabe pinched his nose, picked it up and walked to the edge of the cliff. Then he threw the object down with a throwing motion.

"Danger! Hand grenade がある!" There was a panicked Japanese voice below.

Bang~Baji~something was hit.

Then a classic Chinese curse was heard from below: "Baga!!"

Watanabe leaned his head over the edge of the cliff and looked down. He would never forget the scene that followed - he saw densely packed figures like ants approaching their camp on one side of the cliff.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!! It's the enemy!!!" Watanabe shouted in panic, then ran towards the barracks while pulling up his pants.

In this way, the second phase of the land battle in the Battle of Guadalcanal started ahead of schedule because of a bag of "Oli Gei" that flew inexplicably.
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woo woo woo woo! ! ! !
At the front line of the new Japanese National Army's position, American flares continued to rise into the sky as if they were free, illuminating the scene within a two-kilometer radius as if it were daytime.

Onboard!!! Boom boom boom!!!
The roars of the Japanese army during their charge mixed with the continuous explosions from the minefields on both sides. People kept stepping on mines and being blown to the ground, but the soldiers shouting slogans seemed unaware. Each of them held his bayonet and charged straight towards the position in front. When one fell, someone else would immediately take his place.

"Ready! Pull! Release!! Iikuni Kojiro, who was wearing the wrong clothes, shouted in a changed tone.

As he gave the order, more than 20 small melon grenades were thrown from a high altitude into the narrow charge passage in front of the position.

boom! boom! boom!
When the smoke cleared, at least a squad of Japanese soldiers lay on the road. The wounded could be vaguely seen wriggling in pain on the ground, and the footsteps behind them were getting closer.

In just a few seconds, someone successfully rushed under the front barbed wire, and the soldiers began to cut the wire, and some people even climbed with their bare hands.

Puff p ...

"Crazy! These guys are crazy!" Colonel Edson, who was far away, looked at the blood-splattered battlefield in front of him and muttered to himself. He had never seen such a disregard for human life. For a moment, he was also shocked by the madness of the Japanese army.

"Now is not the time to sigh, the people in front are stuck, let's start." He Chi reminded the colonel. Edson took a long breath, nodded, raised his hand and waved it downwards, and the eight 8mm caliber howitzers behind him appeared.

Boom!!!! Boom!!!! Boom!!!! Boom!!!! Boom!!!!

Unlike ordinary artillery bombardment, the sound of this large-caliber howitzer was very dull. Eight heavy artillery pieces with set targets fired at the middle of the Japanese charging column. In the dense formation, about forty or fifty people disappeared directly in the artillery bombardment.

Without the transfusion of troops from the rear, the struggle of the soldiers in front of the barbed wire became meaningless. When the last soldier was killed by a machine gun on the road, he was only a dozen meters away from the position of the New Japanese National Army.

"Quick! Fill the line! Hold the flank position and transport the wounded down quickly!" At this moment, Edson's command was obviously more timely. He seized the gaps in the Japanese attack to quickly reorganize the weak parts of the defense line.

"What's going on?! Didn't they say to put it at the designated location and then take it away with the howitzer? Why did they open fire in advance?!" the officer in the front complained depressedly. The most feared thing in a night battle is all kinds of accidents. If the firepower coordination had been a little slower at that time, the Japanese would have rushed into the trenches and caused a chaos.

This is something the American soldiers would never want to see.

"God knows. Kojiro reported that it was the secret sentry of the New Japan Kingdom who discovered the enemy and sounded the alarm in advance." He Chi shrugged.

"Fuck! These smart guys almost got into trouble." Edson cursed in a low voice.

"But it is undeniable that these guys performed quite well, didn't they?" He Chi pointed to the position in the distance.

"Well, I won't deny it, they did a much better job than I expected..."

Indeed, because the new Japanese National Army could not be fully trusted and in order to make the bait more realistic, Edson, at the instruction of Major General Vandergrift, did not tell these so-called "allies" about his combat deployment, so that Iikuni Kojiro and others had no idea that the Japanese army would launch a surprise attack tonight.

But surprisingly, when the new Japanese National Army suddenly encountered the opponent at night, they fought very well. More than 50 people were in a dominant position and used light weapons such as machine guns, mortars and grenades to withstand the first wave of attacks.

The reason for this is not only that these soldiers had high combat qualities, but also that Iikuni Kojiro, who never thought of losing his life here, arranged for night firepower guard in a cunning manner.

It was also because of this wave of successful defense with a score of over 8.0 that the Americans saw that in addition to the role of bait and political symbol, the New Japan National Army actually had the most primitive military value.

Therefore, after the Battle of Guadalcanal, Washington once again increased its support for this vassal army, allowing the number of this force to expand to more than a thousand people like a balloon.

But at this time, Iikuni Kojiro had no time to think about his future wealth.

Because after a brief silence, the Japanese army howled and charged towards them again.

(End of this chapter)