There is a Japanese military airport on Leyte Island, because there is not much flat land on the island. In fact, there are only large areas of flat land on the river mouth near the sea. Naturally, this airport can only be found here. And large areas of flat land can only be found here.

Flat land is also one of the most suitable locations for landing, so the Americans’ landing point is naturally very close to here. In this case, such an airport has naturally become a target. Although there are not many Japanese aircraft at the airport, (

Those aircraft were all used up in the previous Taiwan offshore naval battle), but the U.S. Navy's carrier aviation still seriously plowed the airport with bombs. After that, when the U.S. Navy fleet used artillery fire to support the landing troops,

Because it was suspected that there was a Japanese army mortar position near the airport, the airport was washed from head to toe with the 203mm cannon of the heavy cruiser, the 152mm cannon of the light cruiser, and the 127mm cannon of the destroyer. If it were not for the consideration of the army

The need for the airport, to be more precise, is that the Navy wants to be liberated from the task of protecting the landing point as soon as possible. The Navy may even simply use the 406mm gun of the battleship to do so.

Although it was not ravaged by the 406mm cannon, when the landing troops finally occupied the airport, the airport had been completely destroyed. It took more than a week for the Army troops to remove the Japanese troops near the airport.

The soldiers are cleared, and then we can finally start repairing the airport.

It was at this time that Ron came to the airport for the first time. When he arrived at the airport in a jeep, there were no buildings with a height of more than two meters on the airport. Barracks, hangars, and towers had all become

There is a piece of rubble, and these ruins exude the stench of corpses. Although it is already November, you can still see blowflies flying everywhere.

"General, there may be Japanese corpses buried in these ruins. The weather in the Philippines is hot and humid, and corpses rot very quickly.

We have to clean this place first and then disinfect it thoroughly. Otherwise, infectious diseases will occur." An army captain officer explained to Ron. At this time, a crawler-type shovel truck drove over.

After shoveling up a large piece of rubble, Ron saw half a dead body hanging on the big shovel, and some dark, rotten pieces of flesh falling from it like mud, revealing the half-black and half-white bones of the corpse.

.A gust of wind blew, and the foul smell forced Ron to take several steps back.

Ron has been on the battlefield for a long time, but as an aviation soldier, he really didn't have many opportunities to see such things. When he was still fighting the enemy as a pilot on the front line, he couldn't even see the opponent clearly.

It was difficult no matter what it looked like; and when he took the command position, he would have no chance to see such a scene.

The forklift dumped the half of the carrion and other rubbles onto a dump truck. These dump trucks would carry these things to a flat ground a few hundred meters away. The Army's earth-moving machine dug out a deep

Dump trucks would dump all these things into the deep trenches, and when they were almost full, the Americans would come and bury them.

"After the ruins are cleared, we will conduct a thorough sterilization here. We will soak every inch with carbolic acid." The captain continued to explain to Ron, "Then we can rebuild the building."

"How long will this take?" Ron asked.[

"Very soon, General. It will take three days after thorough cleaning and disinfection, and then at most a week, we can set up the barracks and hangar. The tower will be slower, two weeks is about the same. Then

, Well, you can use it. But you know, these buildings are built in a hurry. You can't compare them with the villas in Manhattan. This thing won't last long."

"Oh, we don't need it to last long." Ron said, "Let's go to the runway and see."

The damage to the runway was not as bad as Ron originally expected. It can be seen that the Japanese were very serious when they built this airport. The concrete on the runway was poured very thickly, except for the 500 pounds dropped by some HNA fighter jets.

In addition to the more serious damage caused by the bombing, the damage caused by other guns such as 127, 152, and 203 is much smaller. According to Ron's estimation, these two main runways can be restored to the point where they can take off and land aircraft in one day at most.

situation.

Compared with the two main runways, the condition of the dirt runways on both sides of them was worse. Intense artillery fire turned over the dirt runways over and over. After they enthusiastically turned over the dirt, Ron felt that he could directly walk on it.

Potatoes were planted on it. However, Ron knew that the dirt runway was destroyed as quickly as it could be repaired. Press it hard with a road roller and it would be almost ready for use.

Since the main runway was fine, Ron was sure that the airport would be put into use in three weeks at most.

"Well, this airport has two main runways and three dirt runways. In this way, it can accommodate at least two to three squadrons of aircraft. In this way, the general structure of a wing can be built."

Just as Ron was looking at this airport with great ambition, he imagined that three weeks later, one after another, P-81, P-38 and P-51 fighter jets would take off from here, killing the Japanese kamikaze aircraft to pieces.

When he didn't stay and blew up the Japanese ground troops, he suddenly heard a strange whistling sound in his ears. The army captain standing next to him immediately knocked him to the ground and knocked him to the ground.

Pressed hard on his back.

"What's going on?" Before Ron could understand, he heard an explosion coming from a very close place. It made his ears buzz. At this time, he also heard shouts: "Japanese

!Throw the barrel!”

The captain who was jumping on him rolled down from him and crawled aside. While changing the M1 carbine in his hand from his left hand to his right hand, he said to Ron: "General, are you okay? Follow me.

There are several artillery holes not far ahead!" Then he climbed a few steps forward. At this time, several more bullets were fired from the jungle not far from the airport, hitting Ron and

Near the captain. "Follow me and run the 'z' for a while." The captain said. After saying that, he climbed a few more steps, then jumped up, ran a few steps in a "z" shape, and then

Jumped into a cannon pit. Ron followed him and jumped into the cannon pit.

At this time, the US military on the airport had also reacted. Several M2-type 60mm mortars that were the first to react began to bombard the enemy at the maximum speed in the direction of the jungle. At the same time, a US military

The M5 Stuart light tank also drove onto the runway, heading towards the pit where Ron and the others were hiding. The tank drove to the pit and stopped in the middle of the forest, and then started firing its 37mm cannon and 762mm machine gun.

Shooting into the jungle.

"Didn't you say that the nearby Japanese troops have been cleared?" Ron asked the captain while squatting in the pit.

"It is said that it has been cleared, but in the jungle, you know, many things are difficult to say. The Japanese can dig holes again. They may be hiding in the hole that we did not find, and wait until night to infiltrate this way.

, This is probably due to infiltration. Damn you little devil, you play such unscrupulous things every day!" The captain let out a loud sigh, and then made this statement in a rather frustrated manner.

explain.

"Why not just cut down some of the jungle, and then set up barbed wire fences and machine gun bunkers around the airport?" Ron asked.

"This is what we plan to do next. General, when your troops take over the airport, this kind of thing will definitely not happen again." The captain said. Then he muttered in a low voice: "In fact, recently, we have been doing this

There are already far fewer Little Japans, and most of them are probably dead. I estimate that by then, most of the Little Japans around here will be dead."

As the captain said, the area near the airport is basically under the control of the US military. Only some Japs hiding in the jungle have not been completely eliminated. But these guys cannot stay in the jungle for too long - that kind of

This place is not a place where humans can stay for a long time. Although Americans often call Japanese people yellow-skinned monkeys, after all, Japanese people are neither Taishan nor Beiye. They stay in the jungle for a long time and do not need to be beaten by Americans.

It's a dead end.[

At this time, the gunfire outside became sparse and stopped after a while. Then the jeep drove to the pit. The two people came out of the pit and saw a group of soldiers walking from the jungle, some of them were dragging

The corpses of Japanese soldiers...

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In other directions, the U.S. military's offensive began to become less smooth. After the U.S. military penetrated deeply into Leyte Island, the Japanese army's resistance became stronger and stronger, and the undulating terrain and dense jungles seriously affected the superior firepower of the U.S. military.

Especially the naval gun firepower, you simply don’t dare to fire casually at such a distance. Otherwise, the chance of blowing up your own people is definitely not low.

The Japanese used various natural or man-made caves and bunkers to resist U.S. military attacks. Sometimes, the Japanese would quietly hide in their caves, waiting for the U.S. troops to walk over them, and then

After the fighting started in the front, the Japanese came out from behind, shot at the Americans from behind, and threw grenades. The jungle blocking the view further increased the success rate of the Japanese tactics. In this way

The resistance caused the U.S. military's offensive speed to drop to a crawl. This also made the organizer of this battle, General Gray Wolf, very depressed.
Chapter completed!