"The aircraft carrier of the landing cover group was attacked by submarines and Japanese carrier-based aircraft. Two medium-sized aircraft carriers sank, and one was severely damaged and lost its combat capability. In addition, the landing team was attacked by Japanese fighter jets from Guadalam, and the artillery support group was covering the retreat!"

The news caused Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey to throw the coffee cup in his hand onto the deck for the second time. Although he had already thrown one when he first heard the carrier of the support group being attacked.

Looking at the electronic chart on the large screen in front of him, he didn't know who marked the situation chart of the entire war zone.

What is disappointing is that except for the US military's own troops and the Guadacanal Island that the Japanese refused to defend, the location of the Japanese naval fleet was not seen on it. Some of them were just destroyed and the two submarine attack groups that fled.

"Who can tell me where the Japanese fleet is? Are the bastards on Hawkeye dozing off?"

None of the three adjutants spoke because they knew that at this time, the lieutenant general would roar. Even after solving the crisis, he would apologize to invite the three of them to dinner, but he would still roar at this moment.

"Hey, I want the two special mixed fleets of 61 and 67 on the sea to send all their reconnaissance planes to find the location of the Japanese fleet. I also told the commander of the Hawkeye troops to give him 15 minutes, either find the Japanese Navy or wait to go to the military court!"

His almost unreasonable roar would of course be ignored by the beautiful adjutants. Even his responsibilities and threats would become strict supervision.

"Sir, the landing group and the artillery cover group are asking for help from us, if they are lost..."

This time, Rear Admiral Daniel Callahan and Rear Admiral Richmond Turner both sent the signal of help directly to William Frederick Halsey. As for Lieutenant General Robert Gormley who had lost his air force on the pretext of relocating the headquarters without expecting him to have Lieutenant General Robert Gormley on the sea, he had lost his air force, which made people unable to see him, so why did he ask him for help?

The report of the Adjutant of Communications made Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey silent for a moment. He touched Guangguang's chin with his hand, and he only seriously shaved his clothes before the battle.

You should know that according to the division of labor between Nimitz and Douglas MacArthur, William Frederick Halsey's Seventh Fleet will be mainly responsible for fighting with the main fleet of the Japanese Navy. At this moment, if he disperses his power, it is very likely that his Seventh Fleet's strength cannot guarantee an absolute advantage over the Japanese fleet.

According to known information, William Frederick Halsey, Serena knows that the Japanese Navy has re-purchased medium-sized aircraft carriers from the world's largest arms dealer behind it, the Chinese Federation. As for the supply capacity of the Chinese Federation, William Frederick Halsey is not worried about a big country with a population of 700 million.

There are also the 1st and 2nd fleets of the Japanese Navy, which will work together. In this way, their 70,000-ton heavy attack aircraft carriers will have at least 2 to 4, while for medium-sized aircraft carriers, it may have 6 to 7. If you add those easy-to-built simple aircraft carriers, the number of carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy fleet will not be much smaller than that of its own Seventh Fleet.

If the air aircraft carrier is separated from the two special mixed fleets of 61 and 67 on the water surface, then the Seventh Fleet that fought with the Japanese Navy fleet will only have 1,600 fighter jets left. This is not the case with the fighter jets they have sent to the Guadalam waters based on their request for help.

But the problem is that if the landing group is completely eliminated, the loss of US Navy's military strength will be second, and this battle on Guadalam will become a joke. Even if the Seventh Fleet wins the battle and severely damages the Japanese Navy fleet, the failure of the main combat targets will make the Pacific Fleet an extremely selfish laughing stock.

"Okay, okay, we need our surface fleet, without affecting the operation, try to send fighter jets to Guado, and Marines fighter jets to go there. Of course, the air fleet must go to Guado to support the landing group. And Lieutenant General Robert Gormley's air support fleet to go to Guado to meet with the artillery support fleet, so that we can protect him together!"

Listening to Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey's almost sighing voice, the three adjutants understood that this matter also involved the issue of unity and combat objectives of the Pacific War Zone and the Southwest Pacific War Zone.

"Sir, if you only support the login group..."

William Frederick Halsey felt that he had enough to give Douglas MacArthur face. Otherwise...

"Let him go there. Although he has no bombers anymore, he still has fighters on simple aircraft carriers that can protect himself. In addition, the reason why he goes there is that without aircraft carriers, he will use naval guns to support the Marine Corps."

Hearing the roar of William Frederick Halsey in a bad tone, the three combat adjutants were wise and stopped arguing and quickly conveyed his orders.

Facts have proved that Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey's move toward the landing group was correct, because if there hadn't been a special change there, I'm afraid the artillery cover group commanded by Rear Admiral Daniel Callahan would have been destroyed.

"Sir, the Atlanta light cruiser was sunk, and Colonel Norman Scott was killed in battle! Three destroyers were sunk at the same time, namely the......!"

At this time, in the sky of Guadal Island, Japanese planes taking off from Guadal Island were frantically launching attacks on the US military landing artillery support group that had no smoke protection and became susceptible to attack.

There is a question here, do Japanese commanders on Guadacanal have water in their minds? Or the commanders who are commanding air attacks have tropical fish in their heads! Why don't they attack the merchant ships carrying landing groups of US troops, they only have some destroyers to protect.

Just as Lieutenant General William Frederick Halsey thought, without the landing group, the "Observatory" operation on Guadacanal was a joke.

What exactly caused the Japanese to make such an important wrong choice?

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In addition to his personal preferences, another more important reason is that this is the guiding principle of the Chinese Federation during World War II.

Let all countries bleed and spend their money in war! Perhaps this will make people think that it is an extremely shameless selfish act. But please look at the history of international political struggles and answer what else should you do if you have the benefits in international struggles?

Therefore, the Japanese commander on Guadacanal was to let the 12th Division of the United States Marine Corps land, and then turn the battle on Guadacanal into a huge war of attrition for sea, land and air forces.

Moreover, as a key point on the Pacific battlefield, Guadacana is just a must-rescue point for the US military. The other is Midway Island, which is a little smaller, but will also cause huge consumption by the sea and air force. As we all know, the power of these two branches is the result of billions of money being accumulated.

At this time, the USS San Francisco, the flagship, was also in a difficult situation. Fortunately, there were no air-fired guided torpedoes from the Chinese Federation on Guadacanal, or anti-ship missiles from Germany with 250 kilograms of armor-piercing warheads that used alcohol and oxygen as fuel. Otherwise, the US military's landing artillery support squadron would have been destroyed long ago.

"Put down the lifeboats in each cabin, and also put smoke on the other side. The people who were going to land on the medical ships in the group started praying for us, otherwise..."

Obviously, this brave commander, facing the desperate attack of the Japanese side, had already begun to worry that the artillery fire support squadron would have a few remaining ships when the fighter jets of the Seventh Fleet arrived.

When the artillery support squadron, under the command of Rear Admiral Daniel Callahan, was unable to leave here with all the injured warships under the cover of smoke. Perhaps it was because he wanted the people of Angel International to make their prayers to all the gods fulfilled.

"Sir, we just received the news that the Marine Corps' air landing support group has arrived, and they... they have a lot of fighter jets..."

The news cheered the already worried Major General Daniel Callahan. When he raised his telescope, he could see that in the sky, the Japanese fighter jets were already entangled with the f6f-3 evil fighter jets of the US Marine Corps who had just joined the battle group in the sky.

What made him even more gratified was that some Marine Pilots desperately broke through the blockade of the Japanese Zero or Feidi-z fighter jets and were launching attacks on the crazy "Kamikaze multi-purpose bombers" on their side.

At this time, even on the bridge, he heard greetings from the leader of the US Marine Corps, who led the air support group.
Chapter completed!