Five hundred and ninetieth eight chapters Guadalcanal
The history is so similar, but the difference is that the time is a full year later, and the warring parties have become China and Japan. At about three o'clock in the morning on August 7, 1943, with the help of the cover of bad weather, the Pacific Fleet
The four aircraft carriers under his command, headed by the Mudoutenwang and several American warships, carrying nearly 50,000 French, American and Australian soldiers, quietly appeared 150 kilometers southeast of Guadalcanal Island.
After the Battle of the Timor Sea, the Xuebing Army conducted three relatively large-scale naval battles with the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet. In these three naval battles, the Xuebing Army lost once and was seriously injured by one aircraft carrier, while the Japanese army lost twice.
, one aircraft carrier was sunk, and another aircraft carrier lost its combat capability and self-destructed in the Coral Sea.
After three naval battles, almost all the fifty special attack aircraft of the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet were used up. As for the Xuebing Army, Poseidon ship-to-ship missiles were finally no longer available, so the two sides entered a tacit truce period of about one month. During this period,
, the ground troops of the Australian Army were not idle. Chu Tiange and Guo Kui each led one unit. Chu Tiange took the lead in attacking and Guo Kui took the lead in supporting. Chu Tiange began to launch a counterattack towards the Japanese strongholds along the Timor Sea, while Guo Kui continued to attack.
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After the Battle of the Timor Sea, the Japanese Combined Fleet actually lost the courage to engage in a decisive battle with the Pacific Fleet. After Tsukahara 243's Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet suffered another defeat, a serious problem appeared in Yamamoto Isoroku.
In front of Roku-pilots, especially pilots with combat experience, suddenly can no longer meet the needs of the front line. You know, because of Koizumi Minichiro, the Japanese Navy began to pay attention to the training of pilots before the Pacific War started. Japan
The current pilot training system is more than twice as large as that time and space. However, it cannot keep up with the speed of consumption on the front line. This forced Yamamoto to reflect on special attack tactics. It was under this background that the Japanese army
The 50 special attack aircraft force was required to reduce the frequency of participating in the war. Without the help of the 50 special attack aircraft, the Wuwei aircraft carrier fleet had no capital to compete with the Pacific Fleet. When the US-Australia coalition forces and the French coalition launched a full-scale counterattack in Australia,
Tojo Hideki once again clamored for control of the "National Liberation Army". After careful consideration, Yamamoto Isoroku believed that it was time for the strong man to cut off his arms, and decisively ordered Koizumi Toshiichiro to abandon the Australian strategy, switch from offense to defense, and heavily defend the Solomon Islands.
and other places to contain this wave of Allied counterattacks.
As a result, the focus of the Allied and Japanese offensives shifted to the Solomon Islands. As the gateway that separates the South Pacific from the Solomon Sea and the Coral Sea, the strategic significance of the Solomon Islands is self-evident. The Allied forces were unable to participate in the war due to the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Next, if you want to launch an offensive against it, you can naturally only rely on the Xue Pacific Fleet. For this reason, the Xue Pacific Fleet has also transformed from Ouyang Yun's "super toy" and has become the focus of the world's attention.
Among the many islands in the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, because of its special geographical location, is the door lock from the Coral Sea to the South Pacific through the Solomon Sea, so it is naturally valued by both the offensive and defensive sides, and the focus of both sides' strategies gradually shifted to this island.
In the past, the Japanese army lost the initiative in the Pacific War, which started with the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. As a time traveler, Koizumi Minichiro was deeply impressed by it. Therefore, at the beginning of the capture of Guadalcanal, he mobilized his forces to build large-scale construction on Guadalcanal, and
The construction of the Guadalcanal defense system was completed three months ago.
On Guadalcanal today, stretches of virgin forest have disappeared, replaced by stretches of steel and concrete buildings and frontline airports one after another. When Koizumi built the Guadalcanal defense system, the Japanese army still took the initiative in the Australian War.
, so he intended to build Guadalcanal into an aviation transfer station. Now, when the Japanese army switched from offense to defense, these airports also began to play a role. A large number of land-based fighters were mobilized by Koizumi from Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and other places.
At this point, a large number of transport planes travel between Guadalcanal and Jayapura every day, transporting a large amount of military supplies. If you have to find one word to describe Guadalcanal now, it would be like a steel weapon with its whole body spread wide.
Porcupine with quills.
As for the Allies, because of Ouyang Yun's generosity regarding the Golden Eagle, the Americans had a much calmer mentality (of course, the fundamental reason was still lack of strength), they were no longer obsessed with the ownership of command, and handed over the highest command of Guadalcanal.
They gave up and were handed over to Bai Liusu. A woman was to command more than 60,000 allied troops to attack Guadalcanal. Once this matter was disclosed, it attracted great attention from the Western media. The United States, such as Admiral Jin, was naturally very concerned about this.
He added criticism and even asserted that if the Guadalcanal attack failed, the problem would lie in the selection of the supreme commander.
In this regard, there is also controversy in the country, but the official media has unified the tone and praised Bai Liusu. She regards Bai Liusu as the new generation of Hua Mulan and believes that under her leadership, the Allied forces will be able to defeat the Japanese army and achieve victory.
Victory at the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Ignore these verbal remarks and focus on the present. At this moment, in the captain's room of the Wudao Tianwang, Bai Liusu is wearing a headset and giving orders to each ship. I can see that she speaks Chinese for a while, English for a while, and sometimes even
She started to speak French, and as Zhang Liang, who was standing next to her, put the last card with the name of the squadron and the name of the squadron commander on the table, she took off her headset and looked around and said: "Everyone, let's get started.
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"Yes!" Everyone responded, and then except for Zhang Liang and a few others, everyone rushed to their respective posts.
"The little devil would never have thought that we would attack in such bad weather. We will definitely win this time," Zhang Liang said while putting the card into his briefcase.
Bai Liusu looked out the window, looking at the lights that were lighting up in the storm. She gritted her teeth gently and said in a hoarse voice: "We must win."
On Rennell Island, two hundred kilometers due south of Guadalcanal, on the watchtower of a lookout post near the sea, the new gate guard was taking a nap against the wooden wall. He didn't know what he was dreaming about, and he grinned.
He smiled. Suddenly, he was woken up by a loud shout. After waking up, he turned around and looked around. When he saw his surroundings clearly, he muttered: "It turned out to be a dream," and then closed his eyes again.
In front of him on the left, Jiro Maki, who had just screamed, saw him like this. He didn't know where he got the courage. He stepped forward and slapped him in the face, shouting: "Shinmon-kun, don't sleep, something is going to happen!"
Maki's slap was hard enough. It not only drove away Xinmen's sleepiness, but also made him full of anger. "Ba Ge, it's the other way around!" he roared, jumped up, and quickly grabbed the man next to him.
Guardrail, and then, he looked out at the sea under the raging storm, his eyes wide open, completely dumbfounded.