This rare tank battle on the Pacific battlefield ended not long after. Many Japanese tanks were destroyed before they even had time to fire. Even if they fired, they didn't know which direction the shell flew. (?

But even so, the Chinese troops stopped attacking here.

The order was given by Zhang Chi. At this time, Wu Yuhang and the soldiers of the Expeditionary Force were fighting and could not stop at all. It was not until Zhang Chi heard the situation that the soldiers stopped unwillingly.

Zhang Chi is based on two considerations.

One is that the tanks used by the Japanese army at this time were the same as those of the Chinese team. They were both "Sheerman" tanks. They could not distinguish between enemies and us from the outside. Once they easily crossed the Japanese "tank defense line", they would easily cause chaos and suffer losses.

Another, more importantly, Zhang Chi knew that the kilometer he had just walked was chasing the Japanese army all the way, and the Japanese army had no power to fight back.

But... this does not mean that this kilometer is safe. As mentioned earlier, the Japanese army built secret tunnels on this kilometer and even the entire Kwajalin Island. These tunnels may also contain remnants of the Japanese army. In this case, if they attack rashly, they may encounter the same situation as Vilit.

Zhang Chi guessed right. The Japanese army did leave some people in the tunnel when they retreated, but this was not intentional... In fact, because the battlefield transformation came too suddenly, the attack of the Zhong** team was too fast, so Nakatani Kawakami had no idea of ​​recovering from his previous offensive state. He didn't even have time to withdraw the order to retreat, so he retreated in panic under the cover of his subordinates.

In response to this, some subordinates in the Japanese army suspected that Nakatanikawakami did not have time to issue an order to retreat, but was at this time the troops were Kimura Hiroshi's troops. Nakatanikawakami subconsciously hoped to use the hands of the Chinese troops to slash Kimura Hiroshi's spirit to achieve the goal of subduing Kimura Hiroshi.

Therefore, the fact that mutual destruction is not a patent is actually a common patent. It is also common in the Japanese army. In the final analysis, it is all for the sake of interests... People have selfish side, and they may do things that destroy the Great Wall for the sake of interests. This is true for the British, American, and Japanese are no exception.

So these Japanese soldiers were not consciously and organized to lurk in the tunnel. The reason why they entered the tunnel and hid themselves was just to escape.

But this was unexpectedly done right... No matter why the Japanese army hid in the tunnel, it left hidden dangers for the Chinese army to prevent them from advancing, and gave the Japanese army a chance to breathe.

"Eliminate the occupied areas immediately!" Zhang Chi ordered.

"Yes!" Wu Yuhang responded, and then directed the soldiers to hurry up.

It is not difficult to find the entrances of those tunnels, because the Japanese army hurriedly entered the tunnel, and the occupied area was not bombarded, so footprints and bloodstains of the injured Japanese soldiers were everywhere outside the tunnel, and some tunnel entrances were even urgently covered... Chinese soldiers could easily find these tunnels as long as they follow these traces.

But it is not so easy to deal with these Japanese troops after finding the tunnel. The reason is that these tunnels are very cleverly constructed. They are curved from the entrance of the tunnel, and there are two to three bends inside... Before, when the Chinese troops were on Guadalcanal Island and Rabaul Island, the Chinese team had seen the Japanese tunnels, and most of them were only one bend.

You can prevent bullets and shells by turning a bend, because bullets and shells are in a straight line, but such tunnels cannot prevent fire. Just use a flamethrower to spray them in... the flame will go in the arc and burn the Japanese troops hiding inside to death.

But if the tunnel is broken for two to three bends, the power of the flame will obviously be weakened to the extent that it is not enough to harm the Japanese army.

This made the Chinese soldiers very embarrassed... How to deal with these tunnels? Bullets and shells cannot be fired, and fire cannot be burned! If someone is sent in to fight the Japanese, it will obviously be dangerous and extremely unprofitable.

What made the Chinese soldiers even more angry and strange was that there were always bullets in this tunnel to kill Chinese soldiers outside the tunnel.

When Zhang Chi heard Wu Yuhang's report, he was also very confused... Didn't this tunnel turn a few turns? The bullets of the ** team could not hit the enemy inside, so why could the enemy inside fire the bullets?!

Later, several Japanese prisoners were captured and asked for a torture, and finally I figured it out.

These tricks were actually learned from the Chinese battlefield... As mentioned earlier, Koji Kimura's First Maritime Mobile Brigade was against guerrillas in northern China. Among the guerrillas they dealt with were "tunnel warfare" organized by Chinese guerrillas on the Hebei-central plain in North China. This "tunnel warfare" by the Chinese once gave the Japanese army a headache, but the Japanese army still learned a lot of knowledge to build authenticity in the confrontation with the Chinese guerrillas.

(Note: China launched tunnel warfare in North China since 1941 and was promoted in about 1942 years)

The new tactic of "Tunnel Warfare" surprised the Japanese army, because the Japanese army was far higher than the guerrillas in terms of equipment, strength and quality. They even knew that the guerrillas were underground, but they had no choice but to do anything to them.

Then the Japanese army was almost in the same situation as the American guerrillas in the battle of island capture on the Pacific battlefield... The Japanese army was not as powerful as the US army in terms of military strength, equipment and quality.

The quality should be different in this regard. Due to the large number of casualties and personnel training, the quality of the Japanese pilots and navy is far inferior to that of the US military. In terms of the 6th Army, since the 6th Navy teams were basically newly formed and many of them were not trained enough to go into battle in a hurry, they still cannot compare with the Japanese military in overall quality.

So Nishida Xianggu (read: real) Major General Suddenly thought... Since the Chinese guerrillas can use "Tunnel Warfare" to deal with the Japanese Imperial Army with better equipment, why can't the Imperial Army use "Tunnel Warfare" to deal with the American ghost animals with better equipment?!

Nishida Xiangyu quickly reported this idea to Iroku Yamamoto, who did not pay attention to this suggestion at that time... The main reason was that the situation on the Pacific battlefield was still unclear at that time. Yamamoto believed that the Japanese army was fully capable of defeating the Americans on the battlefield openly, so he did not take it seriously.

This is also the reason why the Japanese army had not built tunnels on a large scale to confront the US military during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Chapter completed!