Hulu Island is located in a coastal area, a strategically important location.
On the sea surface outside Hulu Island, hundreds of Red Alert troop transport ships were packed tightly.
Red Alert troop transport ships are divided into three types: light, medium, and heavy.
Light troop transport ships can carry 50 soldiers at a time, weigh 25 tons, and can approach the shore.
Medium troop transport ships can carry 300 soldiers at a time, weigh 150 tons, and can carry tanks, etc.
Heavy troop transport ships can carry 600 soldiers at a time, with a displacement of over 500 tons.
During World War II, in order to fight for the Pacific battlefield, the island landings of Fusang and Yingjiang were frequent, and the role of troop transport ships and landing craft became increasingly prominent.
During World War II, Yingjiang built a total of 65,000 landing craft.
There were 30 Red Alert heavy troop transport ships, 50 medium troop transport ships, and 100 small ones on the sea surface.
They were charging towards the beach at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour.
Clang—
After each troop transport ship arrived at the beach, the steel front door was lowered, and one by one, Grizzly tanks drove out, followed by fully armed Red Alert soldiers. A total of four divisions landed on the beach.
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Major General Suiyuan, commander of the 8th Mixed Brigade, led the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese army, with an expanded number of 6,000 people.
Number disparity!
Extremely huge!
Major General Suiyuan was directly stunned, how could he fight this?
After thinking for a long time, Major General Suiyuan decided to defend his position!
It was at this time that a series of whistling sounds rang out.
A fleet of Red Alert helicopters…with strange oval shapes, large propeller blades, ferocious machine guns and missile nests, dozens of them hovered in the air.
What kind of new weapon is this?
What kind of new weapon is this?
Da da da…
One after another, 20-millimeter Gatling machine guns from the helicopters fired at the Japanese positions.
One after another, 80-millimeter missiles were launched, falling towards the Japanese positions!
There were 75-millimeter mountain gun positions, mortars, grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns on the Japanese positions.
But there were no anti-aircraft weapons.
They could only be slaughtered by the armed helicopter fleet…The armed helicopters bombarded the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade, causing over 3,000 casualties out of 6,000 people.
At this time, the four Red Alert divisions that had landed had already surrounded them from all sides, and they took advantage of the situation to occupy the Xingcheng area, including the mountainous areas and the Steel Township, surrounding the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade.
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In desperation, the entire 8th Independent Mixed Brigade,
didn’t plan to escape, but instead gathered 400 explosive packs.
Hundreds of Japanese soldiers carried the explosive packs, shouting "Banzai for the Emperor!" as they charged out of the positions!
Da da da…
After they ran out of the positions, they charged towards the troop transport ships on the beach, but they were shot dead by the heavy machine guns on the transport ships before they got close. The Japanese soldiers ran and pulled the fuses, then detonated themselves in a suicide attack.
Major General Suiyuan looked at this scene with tears in his eyes.
Major General Suiyuan had no choice but to order a breakout.
"Fix bayonets! Banzai! Banzai!"
The remaining 3,000 people, equipped with the Type 38 Arisaka rifles with a total length of 1.6 meters.
They charged out of the positions in a dense, surging wave.
The Japanese soldiers in their yellowish-brown uniforms were packed tightly.
But they were facing the heavy machine guns and 20-millimeter rapid-fire cannons on the troop transport ships, as well as the four Red Alert divisions that had already formed their battle formations and were waiting in full battle readiness!
Da da da…
A dense network of fire, Japanese soldiers fell down in waves.
3,000 people gradually became 2,000 people
2,000 people gradually became 1,000 people
1,000 people gradually became 500 people.
500 people became 1 person.
In the end, only Major General Suiyuan remained.
Major General Suiyuan, in despair, took out his command sword and looked towards the direction of the Japanese mainland.
Then he knelt on the ground, pointed the command sword at his abdomen, and finally…died from the pain of disembowelment.
The positions of the 8th Mixed Brigade were filled with corpses, and no one received the telegram from headquarters.
The 8th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese army, at the cost of the entire brigade’s demise, held back the Red Alert landing for a few hours.
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Red Alert base
In the office
Lin Zheng rubbed his forehead to relieve his fatigue.
Behind Lin Zheng stood four beautiful women.
They were Princess Julianna, Princess Margaret, Song Yu, and Hai Lin.
Each of them had their own unique personality, and they had become friends at some point.
Lin Zheng didn't know what was going on in the minds of the four women.
Knock knock knock…
A knock on the door, and General Ling Liang, with a heroic bearing, walked in.
"Commander Lin, the front has reported that they have taken the Hulu Island area."
Lin Zheng's impression of the Hulu Island area came from the movie "Decisive Battle", when Chiang Kai-shek was holding a meeting on Hulu Island, and he said, "Can I wish you all success?"
The Hulu Island area is strategically located, with an important seaport and dockyard.
Lin Zheng: "Hulu Island can be used to build a deep-water port…and a deep-water military port."
Hulu Island is rich in industrial resources, and in the future, it will become the largest zinc smelting base industrial zone in Asia, a node of the Belt and Road Initiative, and a node of the Jingjinji Triangle.
Electricity, as one of the energy sources, is also the energy source for modern factories, and the demand for zinc batteries will become increasingly large in the future.
Lin Zheng: "Hulu Island has zinc ore reserves and we can build a zinc smelting base."
Lin Zheng looked at the map, towards the Bohai Sea area nearby. If he remembered correctly, there are hundreds of millions of barrels of oil stored under the Bohai Sea, which is the largest oil field of Yanhuang in the future.