At the end of the Pacific War, the Japanese Combined Fleet, which had more than 637 warships and a total tonnage of 1.93 million tons, was in a very miserable situation: all battleships and heavy cruisers were buried at the bottom of the sea, and the remaining ships were only 1 small aircraft carrier, 3 light cruisers, 1 diving carrier, 2 special service ships, 30 destroyers, and 12 submarines, a total of 49 ships. The Japanese probably never dreamed of this tragic ending before the war.

During the war, it is said that in order not to demoralize the will of the Japanese people, the base camp blindly exaggerated the results of the war and did not mention the defeats. However, the United States and Britain are very different, and they truthfully announce the facts of their victories and defeats to the people in order to encourage them to work hard. In contrast, the base camp is shallow and not very clever. As a result, the Japanese people were in a state of confusion and did not know why they were losing the war. In response to such a tragic situation, the people were all amazed.

Many asked, in an unbelievable tone, with a ridiculous voice:

"Battle of Leyte Gulf? What kind of naval battle is that? ”

Others asked: "What was the Battle of the Marianas?" I've never heard of it! ”

Some people stared at the big surprised eyes and asked, "I heard that the 70,000-ton 'Shinano' aircraft carrier was sunk on the first day of the battle, can such a large warship be sunk as well?" ”

This is not to say that the Japanese people are all a bunch of idiots, it's just that the Japanese base camp strictly blocks the news, and ordinary people can't hear any news from the outside world at all. This also leads to the fact that when the defeat of the war comes. Many people still find it inexplicable.

However, at this time and space, China's daily large-scale bombing of the Japanese archipelago made many surviving Japanese people clearly realize that the war seemed to have brought Japan to a desperate situation. What caused the Japanese base camp the most headache was that when the Chinese bombers arrived, they dropped not only bombs, but also countless newspapers and leaflets.

Some newspapers and leaflets recorded information even faster and more detailed than the Japanese capital revenues. From the entire length of Korea being occupied by China, even the island of Tsushima, which is adjacent to Kyushu, to the whole of Eastern Siberia and Sakhalin. All were occupied by China.

Black and white with vivid photos. Smashed one fluke after another.

At the beginning, the Japanese base camp may come out to inform the people that this is a propaganda war by China. The above messages are all fake. But when the people asked the government to come up with evidence. The government was silent. With more and more "fake news". Many Japanese people are starting to really believe it.

Even its own homeland cannot be fully protected, and tens of millions of citizens live within the range of China's bombers every day, can the government still keep those overseas colonies?

The answer is sadistic.

Since April. The Chinese bombers never seemed to bring any "bad news" again, but after less than a month of calm, the Chinese bombers brought news that made everyone even more desperate.

The only hope for the Japanese people, the Combined Fleet, seemed to have come to a glorious end.

The final fate of the opposing sides was first decided when the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese Pacific Theater captured the Solomon Islands.

The 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Marine Division is landing on Cape Lunga, Guadalcanal.

Lin Siyu, the battalion commander of the third regiment and one battalion, stood on the beach of Longa Cape to greet Wang Huiqing.

Lin Siyu's appearance has changed a lot, and he is almost unrecognizable. His hair was unkempt, his beard was long, his crumpled officer's uniform was covered with mud, the two-bar and two-star brochure was only left on one side, and his knees and elbows were torn, like Robinson on a desert island.

The beach at Cape Lunga is the only beach of the 1st Marine Division at Karnal, with a gentle beach with coconut groves on the shore and a beach for bathing in peacetime. Now, it's like a big garbage dump. There were bomb craters everywhere, and military supplies that had been smashed and discarded everywhere. Broken jeeps, cannons with missing wheels, and charred crates stand in the way. Whenever the tide goes out, parts of various weapons are revealed on the beach. Several shipwrecks, crooked in the mud and sand, reveal the bow and bottom covered in barnacles.

Two good friends hugging each other. Lin Siyu is thin and small, his eyes are full of red silk, and compared with the neat and tall Wang Huiqing, he seems to be a person in two worlds.

"Huiqing, don't laugh at me, within a week, you will be like me, in this place of Karnal, the living will also become ghosts."

"Siyu, I heard that you beat the Japanese out of body here."

"Our souls are about to go out of the body." While helping his brother-in-law unload his luggage, he kept talking about Guadalcanal's precautions. Lin Siyu is enthusiastic and impulsive, he likes to give speeches since he was a child, and the cruel battlefield life has not changed his character in the slightest.

Wang Huiqing opened the zipper of the handbag and took out a box of chocolate candy from the bag: "Siyu, what you like to eat, you may be stuffy all the way to the tropics." ”

Wang Huiqing also wanted to find a clean military uniform for Lin Siyu from the bag, but Lin Siyu stopped him: "Let's go, Huiqing, it's not a holiday, this is Kanal, and the allied planes will come to bomb it soon." ”

As if to prove his point, six Japanese Zero fighters and eight Mustang fighters covered the flight of four Super Fortress bombers to Kuah airport, the bombers dropped bombs, and the fighters began to strafe.

The anti-aircraft guns of the 1st Marine Division fired heavily and drove the enemy planes away from the airfield. Allied military planes gradually searched north, and without much difficulty, they found the unloaded landing craft. They circled and began to dive and drop bombs, and the 57-mm anti-aircraft guns and 12.7-mm anti-aircraft machine guns on the landing craft returned fire in a frenzied manner, which, combined with the anti-aircraft fire of the escort warships, made the sky over Lunga Bay red.

An Allied bomber was shot and staggered into the bay, the bomb in its belly exploding, shattering its aluminum fuselage into countless pieces.

Guided by Lin Siyu, Wang Huiqing and his two company commanders commanded the second battalion, crossed the beach and drilled into a coconut grove on the shore. Behind the coconut grove is the rainforest.

Compared to the rainforests of Karnal, the rainforests of the Philippines can only be regarded as small forests on the outskirts of cities. The rainforest of Guadalcanal is a green rock. All of its spaces are filled with plants, making it an awe-inspiring and unforgettable experience. Roads have been cut down in the forest, otherwise people would not be able to cross this space.

The forest was very quiet, except for the rustling of soldiers' leather boots in rotting leaves and mud puddles. The trees, which can only be hugged by two or three people, are more than a hundred feet high, have no branches, and in order to fight for the sun, even climbing plants and woody vines are as thick as wine barrels, and they either wrap around or grasp the tall trees by their tendrils and hooks.

The rainforest is damp and dark. Although it was noon. Shaped like dusk. Wang Huiqing also saw a kind of strangulation tree, which was originally an epiphytic plant, but it had hanged the big tree and turned into a tree on its own. Soak up sunlight at the location of dead trees. In the rainforest. Plants are fighting to the death for sunlight. Space at all levels is utilized. Orchids bloom on trees, and the temperate inconspicuous Astrophaceae climb to the top of the tree. The old stems of the big trees give birth to flowers, and the sky is full of flowers.

"Huiqing." Lin Siyu patted Wang Huiqing on the shoulder. "Every time we travel. You've got to show your botanical knowledge, and you can't even recognize it now!"

Wang Huiqing acquiesced. China is, after all, a temperate country, and the vegetation of the tropical rainforest dazzles him. If it weren't for the war, it would have been examined here for a few months. Then again, if it's not a war, who knows about Guadalcanal?

Lin Siyu talked endlessly about their combat experience. Sometimes, suffering pins on greatness, and sacrifice becomes glory.

Since its landing on 7 April, the 1st Marine Division has been bombed by Allied aircraft, fired by naval guns, and harassed by ground troops almost every day. Hiding in the fortifications during the day, he was disturbed by a kind of Allied reconnaissance plane at night. It drops a small bomb every ten minutes, which is so annoying that it gets the nickname Louie lice.

And that's not counting all this, the miasma on Kuah Island is prevalent, the lewd rain is incessant, skin diseases, trench feet, malaria, dysentery, wound ulcers, and it is more terrible than the enemy.

"Huiqing, we can endure everything, the only thing we can't bear is that the Marine Corps military department "abandoned" our door. Originally, the Marine Corps had captured the airfield, and the Army should have been asked to change the defense. As a result, no one came, there were no planes, no tanks, and the landing ships, fearing the Allied fleet, slipped back to Espírito Santo before it was dark. The attacking fleet was too timid to send more warships to the 'Iron Bottom Bay'. ”

"Am I not here! Profound...... Hey...... "Wang Huiqing was bitten by some insect, and the pain almost fell, and even tears flowed out. He rolled up his trousers, and a bunch of large bags were already swollen on his calves.

Seeing this, Siyu Lane laughed: "Huiqing, this is done by fire ants, and it is also a specialty of Karnal. "He pulled up his trouser leg, which was scarred;" A Japanese, a bug, you can't find it anywhere else."

The march of the troops stirred up the humid air, and many leeches fell from the trees, one of which got into Wang Huiqing's shirt, desperately sucking blood, but could not be defeated. Wasps attacked other soldiers, and scorpions were active.

"Karnal is a paradise for insects, a hell for people. No wonder no one comes to this hellish place."

The rainforest suddenly opened up, the sun suddenly shone through the treetops and on the ground, the birds chirped, and the jungle was finished. The glittering airport runway stretches across the open flat ground ahead.

Karnal Airport! Its name is louder than the most famous airport in the world.

By the time the 1st Marine Division landed, the Americans had basically repaired the airfield, and on the day of the attack, 27 bombers and the same number of fighters were already preparing to take off from Rabaul and transfer to Kuah Island. China's engineering units further expanded the airfield, making it an important air base in the Pacific.

Karnal Airport is four miles from Cape Lunga. The axis of the main runway is east-north-west-southwest, almost towards the sun. The dive bombers of the Japanese and American armies often took advantage of this to attack airfields from the direction of sunlight.

The airport has a concrete field runway 800 meters long and 60 meters wide, and a taxiway of the same length runs parallel to the runway, located north of the runway. Further north, there is a flat, solid road for cars. At the critical juncture, the Chinese Air Force used the taxiway as a runway and the automobile road as a taxiway.

Wang Huiqing looked from the edge of the rainforest to see rows of fighter jets and bombers parked on the grass between the runway and the taxiway, and between the taxiway and the car road. The wings and carcasses of the aircraft were painted with camouflage camouflage, mixed in the tall kula grass, which was not noticeable.

On the south side of the runway, there were piles of stacked planes, all of which had been damaged by the Japanese bombing. Any engines, landing gear, tires, machine guns and radio stations that were still intact were removed.

Lacking everything on Kuah Island, the mechanics are patchworked, and their work is both the envy of their peers and the laughter of others. There were also planes lying in sandbag-built field aircraft nests with camouflage nets on them. Runways and taxiways are densely packed with craters. After the crater was filled by a bulldozer, the engineer laid a perforated steel plate.

They crossed the flat land from the west end of the airport and approached a small knoll. Before we could get to the bottom of the mountain, the sky changed. Over Kuah Island, dark clouds suddenly rose and heavy rain poured down. The clouds and rain came very suddenly, drenching people at once. Lin Siyu didn't care, he said that since late April, Karnal has entered the rainy season in the northern hemisphere, and it is like this every day.

This is Guadalcanal, and a sea battle originating here is about to begin!! (To be continued......)