A U.S. military colonel jumped from the landing ship and was the first to rush to the beach. It was Colonel Hunter, the commander of the 5th U.S. Marine Regiment. Seeing his commander rushing to the front, the morale of the U.S. military was greatly boosted. These American soldiers hugged each other one by one.
Shouting with guns drawn, they rushed to the beachhead.
Unexpectedly, the imaginary Japanese artillery did not bombard the Japanese army, and the Japanese army seemed to disappear. So these American soldiers continued to charge forward, gradually expanding the beachhead position and developing in depth.
Seeing that the first batch of US troops successfully landed on the island, the second batch of Xu Rui's 3rd Regiment and the 5th Marine Regiment also landed one after another, controlling the beachhead while organizing follow-up troops to land in an orderly manner.
In fact, the reason why this situation occurred is excusable. Because the Japanese intelligence agency could not foresee that the US military would land so soon, the Japanese on the island were completely unprepared.
More importantly, the Japanese soldiers on these islands were only engineering troops, and they were mainly Korean laborers building airports. They did not bring any weapons. However, when a small number of security troops saw the American soldiers pressing down on the border, they were so frightened that they fled directly without firing a shot.
In the jungle, because of this, the US military successfully landed on the island without firing a shot. By 5 pm, more than 11,000 Chinese and US allied soldiers had landed on Guadalcanal.
The main reason why the U.S. military landed on Guadalcanal was because the airport on Guadalcanal was a fatal threat to the route from Australia to the United States. Therefore, everyone's first task was to occupy the airport. However, due to the lack of accurate maps, after landing on Guadalcanal, China and the United States
The Allies could only fumble their way forward in the jungle.
Leng Tiefeng led Langya to keep groping forward. Since Langya was familiar with jungle warfare, he moved much faster than the US military. However, because he did not have an accurate map, he walked all night and did not find the airport. However, Langya did not find the airport.
Never give up, keep searching and moving forward.
At 6:30 the next day, Langya finally found the location of the airport.
Seeing the Japanese airport in front of him from a distance, Leng Tiefeng waved his fist and all the wolf fangs behind him squatted down.
Leng Tiefeng took out his telescope and looked into the distance, only to see faint smoke rising near the airport.
Putting down the telescope, Leng Tiefeng snorted and said: "The little devil is cooking. He is not prepared at all. Comrades, prepare to fight!"
Following Leng Tiefeng's instructions, everyone loaded their guns and got ready for battle.
"rush!"
Leng Tiefeng waved his hand, and hundreds of wolf fangs followed him and rushed into the Japanese airport.
"who?"
On the lookout post, a Japanese Japs shouted, Digua raised his hand and shot the Japs in the head. The Japs fell directly from the lookout posts to the ground.
As soon as the gunfire rang out, the Japs who were preparing to eat immediately fled in all directions. Langya chased after them for a while, but all these Japs had fled into the jungle without even taking their guns.
Seeing this scene, everyone in Langya couldn't help but feel funny. These little devils were really damn rabbits and they escaped too fast.
In this way, Langya fired no more than a dozen shots in total and easily captured the airport. At this time, Leng Tiefeng discovered that the airport was not completely completed, but only 80% of the progress was completed. However, the tower, power plant, etc.
All have been built.
"Captain, there is a lot of food and construction equipment and materials here!" Zhuanshan Leopard shouted.
"Captain, look what is this?" The sound of a donkey barking came. Leng Tiefeng hurriedly walked over, only to see hundreds of boxes of Japanese beer placed in the warehouse of a factory. The factory turned out to be a complete frozen processing facility.
factory.
"Haha, the little devil is really interesting. He left so much beer for us, so I have to carry the wine back!" Digua said happily.
"yes!"
The Langyas swarmed up and moved the wine back. At this time, a large U.S. military force arrived from behind. Leng Tiefeng handed over the airport to the U.S. troops, and he took each of the Langyas to move a piece of beer and came to the beach.
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The seaside was completely in chaos. The U.S. soldiers responsible for coastal control had too few manpower and had to use combat troops to carry supplies. On the other side, many Chinese and American allied forces were idle, including Xu Rui and his third regiment.
At this time, Xu Rui and the soldiers of the Third Regiment were bored on the beach because they were not assigned any tasks. Xu Rui simply got a deck chair, applied olive oil on his body, and sunbathed.
Digua found Xu Rui holding the beer box and asked: "Captain, you are living a good life in your little life. By the way, why don't you see that guy Gao Chu?"
Xu Rui said: "This guy has nothing to do. He went to shoot birds with his men."
"Captain, the captain has captured the airport. This battle was really comfortable. It's almost time for vacation." Digua said with a smile.
"Well, the Yankees' command was a bit confusing, so I was tired and idle. I guess in the future, the Yankees will learn from their mistakes and things like this won't happen again."
"Captain, look, there are more than a dozen Americans over there sunbathing like you did." Zhuo Ligetu pointed to the distance and said.
"Hey, there isn't much fighting on Guadalcanal anyway, so you should do whatever you want." Xu Rui said.
"Yes, Commander, I'll leave this box of beer for you. I'm going to shoot birds." Digua put the beer under Xu Rui's recliner, then picked up a Springfield rifle and went to shoot birds.
Xu Rui was lying on the chair, thinking in his mind. In the original history, the battle for Guadalcanal took Japan and the United States half a year. Is it really so easy to capture Guadalcanal this time?
Just when Force X successfully occupied most of Guadalcanal, the U.S. Force Y attacking Tulagi encountered strong resistance.
Tulagi Island is a natural haven. There are two small islands on the east side of the island: Gavutu Island and Tanambogo Island, which guard Tulagi Island like two sentinels.
The British had built simple seaplane airports on these two islands before the war. The U.S. military overestimated the strength of the Japanese army on Tulagi Island and concentrated artillery fire for a violent bombardment. The Japanese troops hurriedly hid in bunkers, and the U.S. military successfully landed under the cover of artillery fire.
, but soon encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army as they advanced in depth.
On the two small islands, the U.S. military underestimated the Japanese army. When the U.S. troops had just rushed ashore and were not yet stable, the Japanese suddenly opened fire. The U.S. commander was seriously injured and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties. They were suppressed by the intensive firepower and were unable to move on the beach.
The distance between the enemy and ourselves is too close to provide naval gunfire support.
A few hours later, several 81mm mortars were sent ashore. At the same time, the US military called in aircraft to provide aviation fire support, and then 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 demolition teams.
He rushed to the top of the mountain from the blind spot of Japanese firepower, and then threw explosives and grenades into the cave from a high position.
The fighting on these three islands was very fierce. In order to resolve the fighting as soon as possible, Vandergrift put all his reserves into the battle. The battle lasted until dusk, when the remaining Japanese troops retreated to the valley.
Just when the U.S. military landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi Island, the U.S. and Japanese aviation forces fought a battle over Guadalcanal. On the day when the U.S. military landed on Guadalcanal, Mikawa dispatched 51 Japanese 25th Air Force from Rabaul.
The aircraft launched an air attack on Guadalcanal, but was effectively intercepted by 62 U.S. carrier-based fighter jets, and 19 were shot down.
The next day, the 25th Air Force dispatched another 41 aircraft to attack Guadalcanal. At the cost of losing 16 aircraft, it finally broke through the interception of US aircraft, sank the transport ship "Elliott" and injured the "Jarvis".
"Destroyer".
At this time, Xu Rui had already led the troops ashore. Watching the Japanese planes in the sky bombarding the ships on the sea, he immediately led people to leave the beach. At this time, a large amount of supplies were piled on the beach, but Xu Rui waited for a long time.
The Japanese planes were just there to bomb US warships.
Xu Rui and Leng Tiefeng looked at each other, and Xu Rui said: "This little devil can't be so stupid."
Digua asked: "Captain, what happened?"
Xu Rui said: "The devils are really stupid. There are so many military supplies on the beach. The devils only need to throw a few bombs, which will easily cause the ammunition in the ammunition box to explode. Without these supplies on the beach, Guadalcanal will be destroyed."
The Allied forces could only retreat."
When Di Gua heard this, he said: "That's really what happened. There are basically no anti-aircraft guns on the beaches now. If the Japanese attack the beaches, then we can only watch the supplies being destroyed."
"Well, the little devil is getting stupider and stupider. If the war continues like this, it won't be long before we can control the entire Guadalcanal." Xu Rui said.
"Will the Japanese fight back?" Leng Tiefeng asked.
Xu Rui said: "It is possible that if the Japanese attack back, their fleet may already be on the way."
Xu Rui was really surprised. At this time, the main force of the Japanese combined fleet was far away from Guadalcanal and was preparing to attack Port Moresby. However, if the airport on Guadalcanal was used by the US military, it would be extremely detrimental to the situation in the South Pacific.
, decided to quickly organize forces to retake Guadalcanal. However, he was unwilling to use the troops to attack Port Moresby, so Lieutenant General Mikawa Junichi, the commander of the newly established Eighth Fleet, felt that the situation was serious and immediately decided to launch a counterattack.
At this time, the warships of the Eighth Fleet were scattered due to various tasks, but he quickly gathered nearby warships. A total of 5 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, and 1 destroyer sailed south from Rabaul on the evening of August 7
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The base camp in Tokyo, Japan, does not agree to dispatch the Eighth Fleet. The Eighth Fleet has only been established for three weeks and has never conducted coordinated operations. It is unknown what the real combat effectiveness is. The most important thing is that the Eighth Fleet does not have an aircraft carrier.
Because Baoer's land-based aviation is too far away from Guadalcanal and cannot form effective support, from the perspective of the base camp in Tokyo, the Eighth Fleet's behavior is suicidal. If it encounters a US aircraft carrier, the Eighth Fleet will be very
Danger.
However, unexpectedly, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku, agreed with Mikawa Junichi's action plan. He even gave Mikawa Junichi all the military orders that he could decide on. It can be seen that Yamamoto Isoroku was against Sanchuan Junichi.
Sichuan Junyi is very trustworthy. This is also Yamamoto Isoroku's consistent policy in hiring people. Don't trust people when you hire them, and don't use people who you doubt.
