The Fiji archipelago consists of more than 300 islands, large and small, with Viti Levu and Vanua, 60 kilometers to the northeast, a colony under the British Commonwealth. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the early hours of 15 September, just north of Viti Levu, six Zero seaplanes were ejected into the air with a series of catapult sounds, and half an hour later, the roar of the engines was over Viti Levu.

One hundred and fifty nautical miles to the north, on the Zuihe, the flagship of the Second Mobile Fleet, the Z-shaped flag, representing wartime mobilization, fluttered in the wind.

Ground crews were busy using elevators to bring Zero, Type 97 and Type 99 carrier-based bombers to the deck, adding torpedoes and aerial bombs.

In the dormitory inside the aircraft carrier, the pilots lined up, walked to the shrine placed on the left side of the hatch one by one, bowed to the shrine, took out the suicide note that had already been written, and threw it into the mailbox in front of the shrine.

In the bridge, Yamaguchi Tawen was neatly dressed, with a saber in his hand, standing behind the window, looking at the hot deck.

An intelligence staff officer walked into the bridge and reported to Tawen Yamaguchi.

"Commander, a telegram has been sent by the seaplane ahead, and an airfield has been discovered in the southeast of Viti Levu."

"What about Vanua?"

"No airfield was found on Vanua."

"Let Zuihe send the first attack wave and destroy the airfield."

With Yamaguchi's order, the propellers of the fighters parked on the deck rotated at high speed, and the humming sound of vibration echoed through the windows of the bridge, echoing in Yamaguchi's ears.

A Type 97 ship attack was the first to break out of the deck, hovering in the sky, and 12 Type 97 fighters and 27 Type 99 shipblowers rushed out of the deck, and then converged into a group in the sky, and flew towards Viti Levu under the guidance of Type 97.

The first battle did not take place on Viti Levu, but over the landing fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Kondo.

At this time, the Pacific War had entered its ninth month, and the vigilance of the US military had been greatly enhanced, and a battle similar to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was almost impossible to repeat.

Eight B-17 strategic bombers, which were originally intended to be used as reconnaissance aircraft on a large range, and twelve SBD dive bombers, preemptively attacked.

Over Kondo's landing fleet, anti-aircraft shells of various calibers burst out countless clouds of gray-black gunsmoke, dotting the blue sky.

The 24 Zero fighters from the light aircraft carriers Ruifeng and Xiangfeng rushed to join the battlefield, quickly ending the meaningless attacks of the US fighters.

When the last SBD dreadnought dive bomber dragged black smoke to the surface, the zero-loss Zero fighters hovered over the Kondo fleet, which was divided into two parts, to protect the landing fleet.

After receiving a shock, the landing fleet launched a landing operation on Viti Levu as planned.

In the northeastern part of Viti Levu, a protruding piece of land plunges into the sea like antlers, and where the earth meets the sea, the grains of sand glow golden in the morning sun.

A group of uninvited guests from the sea broke into the offshore waters, led by two destroyers, followed by landing craft carriers.

One of the two C-type special ships that Yamaguchi Tashi paid close attention to, the Shenzhou Maru rushed to the front.

After confirming that there was no enemy resistance on this sparsely populated beach, the landing craft carriers stopped their ships and lowered their small landing craft, and the infantry climbed down the rope ladder and into the landing craft.

During the war, the power of the special ship was revealed, and the soldiers on board went directly into the landing craft, which was then lifted by two cranes on the Shenshu Maru and smoothly lowered to the surface.

While the soldiers on the other landing craft carriers were still crawling on the rope ladder, around the Shenshu Maru, there were already seven or eight landing craft starting their motors and rushing towards Viti Levu.

The two landing craft at the front rushed unhindered onto the beach, the front hatch opened, and each had a bean chariot rushing onto the beach in a grand manner. The infantry followed the bean chariot and trotted to the shore.

After a brief reintelligibility, the Japanese soldiers rushed into the scattered villages near the beach in small groups, sweeping across the landing site like locusts crossing the border.

Sixty kilometers to the east, on a beach north of Vanua, the landing craft dropped by the special ship Akitsu Maru and other landing craft carriers also safely sent the landing force to the beach.

Avoid densely populated towns and place landing sites on sparsely populated beaches to minimize resistance from the landing force.

This tactic allowed the Japanese to achieve the greatest tactical effect, and the landing craft went back and forth between the beach and the transport ships in the rear, and in less than an hour, three brigades and one engineer brigade were sent to the beach.

To the east, on the island of Vanua, three infantry brigades and one engineer brigade were also landed.

On the island of Viti Levu, in the villages near the landing ground, the Japanese soldiers behaved in a civilized manner, except for a burst of restlessness.

On the eastern beach of the landing site, in a Hindu temple, the Japanese found a few English-speaking Brahmins, as well as the leading party they needed most.

The Fiji Islands are a British colony, and the inhabitants of the islands are mainly composed of three parts, one part is the local indigenous people, the other part is the British colonizers, and the third part is the Indian laborers taken by the British from India.

The Indian workers did not abandon their original religious beliefs because they were far away from India, and firmly believed that India was their homeland.

Through radio broadcasts, the descendants of Indian laborers were deceived by the slogan of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity" propagated by the Japanese government, believing that Japan was not as hateful as the British propagated.

Because "Rabe's Diary" triggered the declaration of war by Germany and the Axis powers, the Japanese government learned a lesson and strictly ordered the occupying forces overseas to be civilized people and occupy the occupied areas in a civilized manner.

First deceived by the propaganda of the Japanese army's radio, and then deceived by the illusion of civilization on the surface of the landing army, the Brahmins in the temple hit it off with the landing army.

When the landed Japanese troops communicated with the Brahmins, the transport ships brought their secret weapon, the inexpensive silver-wheeled chariot, also known as bicycles.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, when the Japanese army attacked the Malay Peninsula, the attacking force of more than 50,000 people brought more than 12,000 bicycles!

Using these bicycles, the Japanese army crossed the mountains and mountains of the Malay Peninsula as if they were walking on flat ground, boldly interspersed the rugged and complex jungle terrain, and quickly disrupted the enemy's defensive deployment.

Because the wheels of these bicycles were coated with silver, the Japanese army proudly called these units "Silver Wheel Troops" after the war in the Malay Peninsula.

The infantry of the two brigades, transformed into "fully automatic" silver wheels, pedaled bicycles, followed behind the bean chariot, and under the guidance of the leading party, quickly galloped towards Suva, an important port town in the southeast corner of Viti Levu.

The Japanese silver wheel troops had not yet arrived in Suva, but the battle over Suva was already in full swing.

The anti-aircraft guns of the US army fired wildly, but they still could not stop the Japanese fighters from diving and dropping bombs.

At the airfield on the Rewa River in the northeastern corner of Suva, the hangar was hit by aerial bombs, leaving only a broken wall, and the navigation tower was destroyed by machine guns.

The runway of the airport has a bunch of large and small bomb craters, and it has lost the function of taking off and landing.

In Suva, at this time, only the regimental headquarters and the first battalion of the 6th Marine Regiment under the 2nd Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps were stationed.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, a Marine Brigade was the predecessor of the 2nd Marine Division, which was urgently strengthened by some of the backbone of the 1st Division, and began to expand into the 2nd Marine Division.

Because of the rapid progress of the Japanese army in the Pacific Ocean, the second regiment of the division, which was the first to form a combat force, was reinforced to the 1st Marine Division and urgently transported to Guadalcanal Island to participate in the battle.

The headquarters and a battalion of the 6th Regiment were sent to Fiji for on-the-spot training in adaptability and landing operations, which happened to encounter the battle of the Japanese army attacking Fiji.

In the east of Suva City, Lieutenant Ma Hong, the platoon commander of the first battalion, one company, and one platoon, looked at the war-torn sky in the distance, and suddenly turned his head and shouted to the three squad leaders behind him: "Aren't you going to kill the Japanese?" The Japanese are here now, and this time they can't run away. ”

"How many Japanese are there? From which direction are they coming? Squad leader Michael Schofield asked.

"They came from the north, and I don't know how many of them numbered. But it doesn't matter, how many they come, how many we kill. Lieutenant Mahone said.