In the dense rainforest, with the smell of mold, a team of American soldiers is searching and advancing. Suddenly, two gunshots rang out, and two American soldiers fell to the ground. Other American soldiers hurriedly lay on the ground, and some soldiers fired indiscriminately at the front. A soldier crawls forward, trying to check on his companion. At this time, another gunshot rang out, and the American soldier twitched and was silent. "The enemy has snipers, hurry up and hide!"

As soon as the second lieutenant of the U.S. Army shouted and played, a bullet was accurately concentrated on the center of his eyebrows, and the captain lay there without closing his mouth. An American soldier beside him, seeing the second lieutenant staring sideways and his eyes, blood gushing out of his eyebrows, suddenly trembled with fright, got up and ran away. But he didn't run two steps, and a bullet hit the back of the heart accurately. Because the US soldiers had no combat experience, they panicked and collapsed when they saw such a terrifying scene.

The American soldiers got up and ran backwards, but the bullets were like eyes, and a platoon of American soldiers was reimbursed. Soon, a group of Japanese soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms appeared in the dense forest. "Clean up the battlefield quickly, don't leave a mouth alive!" Shinobu Kui held a sniper rifle in his hand and said with a hideous expression. Instead of using guns, the Japanese special operators used daggers to kill wounded American soldiers. The American GIs were "very rich," and the soldiers of the Japanese special operations team carefully looted and collected all the valuable things, including weapons and ammunition.

On the night of August 24, the Japanese special operations team leader Shinobu Kuai led 200 special combat personnel to follow the reinforcements to Kuah Island. At this time, the battle for Kuah Island was in full swing, and the three of them were fighting at sea, air, and land at the same time. This battle was the first time that US ground forces launched an attack on their own initiative. Half a month ago, Rear Admiral Turner, commanding the amphibious fleet at the Allied Command in Australia, crossed the island of Florence very covertly and went straight to the island of Kuah. Due to the bad weather, the Japanese army was not aware of it, and the landing force reached the vicinity of Kuah Island that morning.

According to the US military battle plan, the landing force was divided into two routes, one way to capture Tulagi Island around Kuah Island, Florence Island and the nearby islands, and one way to capture Kuah Island. The American fleet shelled the beaches of the landing islands, and carrier-based bombers on aircraft carriers bombed Japanese positions. Several of the other islands were met with fierce Japanese resistance and were quickly captured by the U.S. due to their limited strength and outnumbered. The U.S. offensive on Kuah seemed to be going more smoothly, with slight resistance from the Japanese defenders.

The soldiers of the 1st Marine Division of the U.S. Army easily set foot on the beach of Kuah Island, and if it were not for the fetters of the tropical rainforest, the U.S. soldiers would have made great strides to the northeast. Due to the limited strength of the Japanese army and the rush to meet the battle, it was difficult to resist the three-dimensional attack of the American army. A small number of Japanese soldiers were forced to flee into the rainforest to take refuge, and the U.S. military took advantage of the situation to occupy the newly built Japanese airfield. At the same time, naval and air battles in the surrounding seas were equally fierce and fought around the Japanese naval and air base in Rabaul, New Britain in the north.

The 17,000 officers and men of the 1st Marine Division of the US Army, under the command of Major General Vandergrift, easily gained a foothold on Kuah Island. The base camp of the Japanese army was very angry about this, and quickly recruited reinforcements, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the American army, and annihilated it in one fell swoop. On August 9th, the American GIs ushered in a very pleasant and exotic night on Kuah Island. The birds of the woods were silent, the beasts were screaming, and the air was so humid that it could almost squeeze out water. Just when the American GIs were bitten by mosquitoes and couldn't sleep, where did they think of bad luck.

That night, the Japanese Lieutenant General Mikawa led seven cruisers and one destroyer across the strait between the two necklaces and approached Kuah Island in the dark night. Mikawa's flagship "Bird Sea" is a 10,000-ton high-speed cruiser with a speed of 35 and 5 knots and powerful firepower. The Sanchuan Army issued an order: this night attack of the Imperial Navy will definitely be victorious, and everyone must go all out and fight calmly! Japanese sailors have been trained for Chinese New Year's Eve and can aim, range, and shoot in the dark, making up for the lack of radar equipment in the Japanese Navy.

After escorting the 1st Marine Division to land smoothly, Fletcher, commander of the US aircraft carrier task force, was worried that his fleet would be attacked by air raids, so he abandoned Van der Graft and led the entire aircraft carrier task force to evacuate Kuah Island. When Major General Turner, who was under remote control in Australia, heard the news, he had no choice but to order all transport ships that had unloaded half of the military supplies to immediately evacuate Kuah Island. At the same time, Turner ordered the two combined fleets of the United States and Austria to intercept the Mikawa fleet heading south.

The combined fleet, consisting of 6 cruisers and 4 destroyers, was commanded by British Rear Admiral Krachley to blockade the western entrance of the Channel, and the other fleet, commanded by Coaster, was to patrol the eastern entrance of the Channel. When Krachire led the fleet through the strait between Kuah Island and Savo Island to the north, he was spotted by Japanese naval observation sentries. After confirming that it was the enemy fleet, Mikawa Gunichi ordered an artillery bombardment. The cannonballs of the wind streaked across the night sky, and the arc light of the bullet marks reflected the night sea.

Under the precise attack of the Japanese naval guns, within a few minutes, the Australian cruiser "Canberra" sank into the sea under artillery fire. The American cruiser "Vincennes" desperately counterattacked, and the blind cat hit the 7,000-ton Japanese ship "Kinugasa", and then it was sunk itself. The shooting skills of the sailors of the US ships were extremely poor, and they just bombarded indiscriminately. The American sailors were obviously lacking in ideology and experience in their first night battle, and the Japanese army not only had a clear superiority but also became more and more courageous the more they fought.

Soon after, the American cruisers "Astoria" and "Quincy" were bombarded with heavy artillery, and the hull of the ship was on fire, like a bright candle on Christmas Eve. The two warships struggled on the surface of the sea and died in the sea. The heavy cruiser "Chicago" suffered heavy damage in the bow and staggered out of the battlefield and survived, killing more than 1,300 Allied officers and men, and the Japanese won a one-sided victory.

It is a pity that Mikawa Junyi lacks enterprising spirit, and if he aims his naval guns at the mountains of military supplies, weapons and ammunition piled up on the stalls of the 1st Marine Division, and destroys the precious materials, Van der Grift will not only be in a precarious situation in the face of the Japanese army's frantic attack, but will most likely lead his troops to surrender. The Mikawa Army got carried away with a great victory, and on the way back to the port, the cruiser "Kagu" was attacked by American submarines and sank.

The naval battle around Kuah Island was only a prelude, and the four Allied heavy cruisers were only the first victims of the naval battle altar. In the future, there will be a long and bloody battle around the island of Kuah, and warships will sink into the Strait Cemetery one after another, and this undersea cemetery will be awarded the title of "Iron Bottom Bay" in the future. Lieutenant General Mikawa's resounding victory certainly boosted morale, but it seemed to sweep away the haze of the defeat at Midway. However, this battle gave the officers and men of the Japanese Navy the illusion that Lao Tzu was the best in the world in the night battle, and the enemy's radar was useless. Later, the Japanese Navy suffered bitter fruits and regretted it.

The situation changed dramatically overnight, and the east showed the whiteness of the fish's belly. When the American soldiers were frightened to hear the roar of the gunners of the half-ship, and when they returned to the beach after dawn, they found that there was not a single warship on the coast of Kuah Island, and there was not a single sail shadow on the blue sea. Faced with such a critical situation, Commander Vander-Gravet ordered the formation of circular fortifications centered on the airfield.

In the days that followed, the US officers and men entered a nightmarish situation, and the Japanese warships swaggered out on the surface of the sea and bombed the US positions indiscriminately. At the same time, Japanese warplanes took off from Rabaul Base on the northern island of New Britain and used high-explosive bombs to wantonly ravage American officers and soldiers. The naval artillery strikes and aerial bombardment were endured by the US officers and men, but when night came, the Japanese snipers caused the US soldiers to rub salt on their wounds, making the situation worse, and their morale was seriously damaged.

Due to the proximity of the American positions to the coast, visibility was brighter in the reflection of the sea than in the interior of the island. The Japanese special combat team was able to hunt with terror, and the American soldiers were so frightened that they basically did not dare to leave the defensive area without authorization. When night fell, Japanese snipers hid in the woods, and could blur the silhouette of American soldiers by the faint reflection of the sea. Despite the light control in the U.S. positions, the soldiers at the forward positions were still accurately hunted. For several days in a row, about 300 American soldiers died at the gunpoint of Japanese snipers.

During the day, it was hit by Japanese naval guns and ravaged by warplanes. At night, the devilish quest for his life, the spirit of the American defensive soldiers seemed to be in trouble, and one of the American soldiers in the forward position was actually driven crazy. What is even more terrifying is that some US soldiers pretend to be crazy in order to escape from the forward positions. With such a horrific situation, Commander Van der Gravet had nothing to do and asked the Australian command to withdraw his troops from Kuah Island. You must know that more than 17,000 US military officers and soldiers have evacuated Kuah Island, which is simply impossible in the current state.

The Australian Allied Command, Major General Turner, was shocked to receive a report from Van der Grift. If this situation continues, there is a high risk that the US military officers and soldiers on Kuah Island will collapse. Turner's request for Vandergravet's evacuation of Kuah would not have been considered at all. At present, the US and Japanese navies are fighting for control of the sea around Kuah Island, and if they withdraw from Kuah Island at this time, the retreating troops will be buried in the sea at any time. "General Turner, should we consider asking for help!" The chief of staff seemed to remember something.

"Help!" Turner was a little confused. The chief of staff said: "When the Chinese Expeditionary Force sent troops to Burma, when the war situation was erosive, it was the special forces of the Eighth Route Army who turned the tide of the war in one fell swoop. I deliberately studied the tactics of the special forces of the Eighth Route Army, in which the operational characteristics of the special operations regiment were similar to those of the Japanese special combat units. The predecessor of this special operations regiment was adapted from the special combat team of the Eighth Route Army, which had a prominent reputation on the Chinese battlefield and was terrified by the Japanese army. "I have heard about the special combat team of the Eighth Route Army, and I will immediately send a report to General Nimitz ・・・・・・."