The battle on Guadalcanal has begun. Gao Fei is not worried about Song Xilian, because Guadalcanal is a great victory, and the US military's supplies are very sufficient. If it is Saipan or Iwo Jima, Gao Fei must pay appropriate attention and remind him.

Its necessary equipment and tactics, in fact, in the history of World War II, the US military only suffered more casualties than the Japanese in the battle on Iwo Jima. In the remaining battles, they defeated the Japanese with steel.

However, Gao Fei did not know that due to changes in historical continuity, the Battle of Guadalcanal was no longer the Japanese slaughterhouse in history. The pig-headed and pig-brained Tsuji Masanobu caused more Japanese to starve to death than to die in battle.

, Gao Fei's entire energy at the moment is spent on the battle in North China, because the two sides

The marching speed of the Yiyi Army was too slow, and it was difficult to form an overall situation with the sweeping situation. This made Gao Fei very dissatisfied. However, the armies fighting in coordination were directly under the unified command of Chen Cheng. Gao Fei, the commander-in-chief of the Youth Army, was under the leadership of the Youth Army.

One-third of an acre is easy to use, but if you stretch your hand too far, you will be scolded.

The attacking US troops did not even have an accurate map. After landing, the troops groped their way through the dark jungle at night. They did not arrive at the airport built by the Japanese army until early the next morning. The Japanese troops at the airport hurriedly threw down their freshly prepared breakfast.

After escaping into the jungle, the US military easily captured the airport. The runway only had a rough outline, and the tower and power plant had not yet been built. A large amount of food, construction equipment, and building materials were also seized. The most popular trophy was hundreds of boxes of Japanese beer.

and a well-established freezing processing plant.

Song Xilian also began to organize troops to land at noon. At the same time, there was also news of mass poisoning of the US military. The beer, dried fish and frozen food of the Japanese army were all poisoned. Nearly a thousand US troops died of food poisoning. This was obviously the result of the Japanese military.

Prepared, the First Marine Division suddenly became panicked, and seven tactical attack squads mysteriously disappeared during the attack that night?

Although the initial stage of the Guadalcanal landing battle was very successful, it was achieved when the Japanese army had almost no defense. If the Japanese army had been slightly prepared, the US military would have suffered a serious defeat. The most serious problem was that forty-five hours had passed.

There was not much time left for the Chinese troops to land. According to the coordination between the U.S. military and the Chinese Expeditionary Force’s combat coordination department, Song Xilian’s First Amphibious Division

Taking over the 1st Division of the US Marine Corps, the weapons and personnel of the two units are all the same. The only difference is that Song Xilian's 1st Amphibious Division has two M4A8E3 medium tank battalions. In order to land these tanks, the Chinese Expeditionary Force Amphibious

The first division of the battle also suffered a lot. Only the first regiment and the second regiment of the first division of the U.S. Marine Corps were left to shoulder the beach defense.

Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice to Mountains and Rivers 801

The success of the Guadalcanal battle exceeded the imagination of the Americans. They suddenly forgot that they easily occupied the beach during the first landing. The real setback was the jungle battle. The landing battles on Tulagi Island and Guadalcanal were completely different.

, the 2nd U.S. Marine Division that landed experienced a real life and death test of blood and fire.

Tulagi Island is a natural haven. There are two small islands on the east side of the island, Gavutu Island and Tanambogo Island. These two satellite islands guard Tulagi Island like two guards.

The British colonists who previously occupied this area had built simple seaplane airports on these two islands before the war. After the Japanese army occupied this area, they expanded and improved it and planned to build it into a seaplane airport that could monitor the entire Solomon Islands. The US military overestimated.

The strength of the Japanese army on Tulagi Island concentrated artillery fire for a violent bombardment. When the US military carried out shelling and bombing, the Japanese army hurriedly hid in the bunker. The US Marine Corps successfully landed ashore under the cover of powerful artillery fire and bombing. However, they encountered difficulties soon after advancing in depth.

When the Japanese army arrived, they resisted tenaciously.

On the main island, the US military overestimated the strength of the Japanese army, but on the two satellite islands, the US military underestimated the strength of the Japanese army and the strength of the fortifications. The US military used too much artillery fire on the main island. Due to the satellite

The island was too small, so the Japanese army organized defenses on the beach front. The Japanese army poured concrete into the Type 95 light tank and buried it under the fortifications, leaving only a turret free space, which caused great casualties to the attacking US troops.

In addition, the artillery preparations before the U.S. attack failed to destroy the fortifications built by the Japanese army on the solid cliffs, and the landing craft was launched too early and began impacting from 10,000 meters away, giving the Japanese shore defense sufficient time to enter the forward fortifications.

When a group of main forces had just rushed ashore and were not yet stable, the Japanese army concentrated firepower and suddenly opened fire. Commander Heng Heng of the Seventh Marine Regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps

The landing craft on which Lieutenant Colonel Tenange was riding was hit by Japanese shore defense artillery. The commander's death left the U.S. landing force in chaos. During the attack, the Japanese troops used fierce firepower to cover the troops and continued to carry out counterattacks. The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, thousands of

The officers and soldiers were pressed by the intensive firepower and were unable to move on the beach. Because the distance between the enemy and ourselves was too close, it was impossible to implement naval gun fire support.

It was not until the evening that the follow-up troops sent the 120mm heavy mortars ashore and called in aircraft to provide aviation fire support. Then they gradually began to advance in depth. However, the Japanese army still relied on the fortifications in the cave to resist tenaciously, and the US military had to organize

The demolition team rushed to the top of the mountain from the blind spot of Japanese firepower, then threw explosives and grenades into the cave from a high position, and finally eliminated it.

Because the battle on Tulagi Island was very fierce, in order to resolve the battle as soon as possible, Vandegrift put all the reserves into the battle. At dusk, the remaining Japanese troops retreated to the valley. That night, the U.S. military organized four attacks in succession, but failed to defeat the Japanese troops.

The main force was annihilated, but the offensive force suffered heavy losses. Vandegrift jointly commanded the coordinated operations of the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions on Tulagi Island, and the U.S. military suffered heavy casualties.

The U.S. military aviation units stationed on Efate and Espiritu Santo islands dispatched B17 bombers to conduct large-scale suppressive air raids on the Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands overnight. U.S. military aircraft taking off from New Guinea closely monitored the Bismarck Islands and New Guinea.

Japanese troop movements in the northeast, but the effect of night bombing was very limited.

An Australian reconnaissance plane spotted a Japanese fleet for the third time, but the pilot did not report it in time due to radio silence concerns! The Australian pilot, who was always slack, dismissed it after returning to the base in the afternoon, and did his routine after having afternoon tea.

The report wasted up to six hours of precious time, leaving the US military with no time to send out aircraft for reconnaissance and verification.
Chapter completed!