Wang Hanzhang in Burma did not know that the Battle of Stalingrad had been changed, and Hitler no longer insisted on his original stubbornness. Of course, this is also what Wang Hanzhang wants to see, Wang Hanzhang does not want the European war to end before the Asian War, because if that happens, not only will it not be able to recover the nearly two million territories occupied by Soviet Russia, but also Outer Mongolia will be completely split, and if Soviet Russia sends troops to the northeast, it will burn and loot in the northeast, and the industrial level of Soviet Russia is not comparable to China after all, so if something like that really happens, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it, if I can cross over as soon as possible.

Wang Hanzhang in his previous life wrote a novel called "The Great Warlord of the Republic of China", the protagonist was reborn in 1932, and he was actually reborn in 1942, is it a joke! If it really matters, I must at least advance the time of the rebirth of the protagonist of "The Great Warlord of the Republic of China" by ten years, so that I can be reborn or travel to 1932, with my own foresight, even if there is no better opportunity, it is a big deal to be a monster, tell Brother Mao or Brother Jiang that he will serve in the future, and then tell them the history he knows, don't believe them, don't believe it, don't change it. It's a pity...... It's a pity......

In September, after more than two months of Pacific preparations, Japan has built the Pacific Ocean very strong, and they themselves believe that it is impregnable.

Due to the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Japanese army lost its sea and air supremacy in the Pacific Ocean at the beginning of the war, and also lost its strategic initiative, and was forced to stop its strategic offensive and abandon or postpone its attack on Fiji, Samoa, and New Caledonia. However, the Japanese army did not realize that its strength had been greatly weakened and that the strength and morale of the US military had greatly increased, so it still decided to continue its attack on the islands of the South Pacific, and planned to first build an air base on Kuah Island and send out air forces to cover the attack on Port Moresby on the island of New Guinea, and after gaining a firm foothold on the island of New Guinea, it would gradually advance to the southeast and attack Australia, an important base of the Allies in the South Pacific, so as to regain the strategic initiative.

In order to realize this strategic attempt, the War Department of the base camp vigorously strengthened the 17th Army, which was originally planned to fight for Fiji and Samoa, and was formed in May 1942, with the younger brother of the Emperor's Chief Military Attaché as the commander, Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haruyoshi, and the military headquarters was located in Rabaul, New Britain, and by the beginning of August, the army had jurisdiction over the Nanhai Detachment, the Ichiki Detachment, the Aoba Detachment and other units, with a total strength of about 13 brigades, assembled in eastern New Guinea and the Bismarck Islands, and assumed the task of capturing Port Moresby. The Admiralty of the base camp established the 8th Fleet in July 1942, appointed Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunyi as commander, under the jurisdiction of the 6th, 18th, 29th, 30th destroyer groups, 7th, 13th, and 21st submarine fleets, with a number of warships and submarines, including 4 heavy cruisers and 3 light cruisers, and the main force was deployed in Rabaul to cooperate with the 17th Army. The Combined Fleet also sent more than 100 shore-based aircraft under the jurisdiction of the 25th Air Force to Rabaul to provide air cover.

After the Japanese army occupied Rabaul in January 1942 and built this port and the nearby airfield into the most important sea and air base in the South Pacific, it occupied Tulagi Island in May 1942, which is located in the southern part of the Solomon Islands, and is on the edge of the combat radius of fighter jets based in Rabaul, about 30 nautical miles away from Guah Island, the second largest island in the Solomon Islands, and close to Florida Island in the north. Later, due to the deterioration of the war situation and the inability to defend, he took the initiative to evacuate. After the Japanese army occupied the island, they began to build an airfield, and surveyed the nearby islands, and found that although Kuah Island was mountainous and jungled, the alluvial plain of the Longjia River in the north of Kuah Island was flat, which was more suitable for building an airport than Tulagi Island, so on June 16, he sent about 2,000 engineers of the 11th Engineer Brigade to land on Kuah Island and began to build an airport. On July 1, about 700 engineers of the 13th Engineer Brigade led by Tokucho Okamura were sent to the island to strengthen the construction force, and the construction was ordered to be completed by August 5. After intense construction, by the beginning of August, Kuah Island Airport has been basically completed, and the auxiliary facilities have been largely completed. At this time, Kuah Island had 2,700 Japanese engineers and 240 garrisons, a total of about 2,940 people; Tulagi has 140 Japanese engineers, 400 aviation troops, and 200 garrison troops, a total of about 740 people.

If this side is blocked, the next step for the Japanese army is to occupy Australia, then the supplies for the United States to support China must detour through the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to be transported to India, but there are a large number of German submarines in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, so they will inevitably be attacked, not only will they suffer heavy losses, but the key is that they cannot guarantee that the materials can reach India, and you must know that the supplies to aid Soviet Russia are also transported from Iran and India to Soviet Russia. In short, if Australia were to be occupied by the Japanese, the battlefield situation would once again become dangerous, so the Allies had to hold Australia and block the Japanese navy in the Northwest Pacific.

Due to the defeat of the Burma battlefield, and the loss of hundreds of thousands of elite Japanese officers and soldiers, so Japan is more aware of the importance of the Pacific Ocean, Japan wants to seize Australia even more, as long as it controls Australia, then the real Western Pacific, and the Indian Ocean will be allowed to the Japanese Navy gallop, the situation will also be completely opened, the power of Burma and the British army in India will become nothing to worry about, a huge strategic victory will make everything beneficial, and China without aid will soon surrender, even if it does not surrender, there will be no weapons and ammunition, It didn't last long, the squadron was originally poor in combat effectiveness, and if there were no bullets, it would not be slaughtered.

On September 13, the two-month Battle of Kuah Island finally ended with the crushing defeat of the Japanese army, and the news once cheered up the Allies, especially China and the United States.

In the ground battle on Kuah Island, the US military participated in the battle with a maximum of 70,000 troops, with 3,592 killed and more than 4,200 wounded, and the Japanese army Guadalcanal campaign troops put into Kuah Island were about 46,000, with about 18,000 killed in the battle, and more than 10,000 died of wounds and diseases or their whereabouts are unknown, with a total of nearly 23,800 deaths and more than 2,000 prisoners.

After the war, the Japanese army not only suffered heavy losses in its navy and aviation, but even the invincible army once again suffered a major defeat, and the most elite 2nd Division and other units also suffered huge losses, and the Japanese military department had to review its own strategy and the level of the army.

At the end of the battle, the Japanese army's superiority in strength was gone, and the strategic posture of both sides also changed, -- the defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific theater in World War II, and the war situation began to develop in favor of the United States, and the Japanese army's strategic initiative was gradually lost; In the Battle of Kuah Island, the Japanese army not only failed to realize its operational attempt to regain the strategic initiative, but on the contrary, its military strength was further weakened, and finally it completely lost its strategic initiative and fell into a passive situation. From then on, the Japanese army had to switch from strategic offensive to strategic defense, fortifying everywhere, and being passive step by step until it was defeated. The United States, on the other hand, gradually improved its unfavorable strategic posture through the Battle of Kuah Island, won time to mobilize manpower and material resources, and created favorable conditions for the strategic offensive that was about to begin in the Pacific theater.

In the Burmese Yamashita Bongwen saw the telegram of the complete defeat of the Kuah Island Campaign, he sighed for a long time, the empire in 1942 was really eventful!

Although Yamashita Fengfumi's bushido spirit is also very fanatical, he is still very rational when fighting, although he is also a senior officer, but he basically has no influence on the overall strategic plan of the base camp, and sometimes looking at that kind of brain-dead strategy, he only has a dry life.

Originally, Yamashita wanted to launch an attack on the expeditionary force during the Battle of Kuah, but in the end he gave up, and for a time he did not have many people, he garrisoned 70,000 troops in Burma, another 30,000 Thai troops, and more than 20,000 people in the Burma Independence Army.

However, there are 300,000 people in the expeditionary force, the most important thing is that the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force is Wei Lihuang, and there is a Dai Anlan, a Sun Liren, these Chinese generals who are really capable of fighting in the city, Yamashita Fengwen knows their abilities well, the huge gap in strength, the squadron still has complete fortifications, and there is also a mysterious Wang Hanzhang There is no know what to think about to deal with the Japanese army.