Bougainville Island is located in the northernmost part of the Solomon Islands, about 205 nautical miles southeast of Rabaul, the strategic base of the Japanese army in the southwest Pacific, with an area of 9,318 square kilometers, making it the largest island in the Solomon Islands.

After the Japanese army retreated from the Battle of Kuah, it focused on strengthening the defense of the island in an attempt to hold it for a long time, and deployed heavy troops on the island.

The Japanese troops defending the island consisted of more than 35,000 people, including the 6th Division of the 17th Army (commander Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haroyoshi), the 38th Mixed Brigade, and the Southern Garrison of the Navy (3 brigades).

It's almost an elite unit of clear water. However, what the devil did not expect was that after almost a year of drying up here, the US military had no intention of capturing it except for sending fighter planes to bomb it. Suddenly, the knife was struck, but Saipan was occupied.

For more than half a year, Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haruyoshi, commander of the 17th Japanese Army, had not been mainly engaged in warfare or building fortifications, but had been busy asking the base camp for supplies, ammunition, and medicine all day long. Bougainville Island is almost in a primitive state of flood, with an area of nearly 10,000 square kilometers, and there are only 20,000 or 30,000 poor natives who have no land to grab food, so they can only rely on sea for supplies.

No matter how bad the battle situation was, Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haruyoshi's subordinates were all elite troops, and General Terauchi Toshiichi, commander of the Japanese Southern Army, still attached great importance to it, and the food problem was basically solved. But medicines, not to mention Hyakku Haruyoshi, even Terauchi Shouichi can't get much.

Therefore, the Japanese army can only fight against mosquitoes every day, but the small mosquitoes are really difficult to deal with, and groups of devils have malaria because of this, and whether they can survive depends on Amaterasu.

Hyakutake Haruyoshi is not a big soldier, he is a high-ranking general with a taste for life, and he asks to eat vegetables every day. As a result, a little devil has been busy lately. Busy growing vegetables for the general.

The little devil's thinking is very distinctive. In such a difficult environment, the fighting spirit was high, and from top to bottom I was looking forward to the US military coming. Without him, in this environment, it is better to die in battle than to die in the mouth of a mosquito.

On December 22, the devils on the island of Bougainville finally ushered in the long-awaited battle. The US Army Air Corps dispatched more than 300 bombers, ravaged them fiercely, and flew away without waiting for the Japanese fighters to dispatch.

It's not that the little devil hasn't been bombed by the U.S. military, but this time it's really the largest bombing Hyakutake Haruyoshi has ever seen. Three hundred warplanes. There were at least two hundred bombers among them, and hundreds of tons of bombs were overwhelming.

The level of high-altitude bomb delivery of the US military is actually not very good, and the Japanese devils have suffered a lot and have gained experience. It's often just a matter of hiding and you're fine, unless you're unlucky. Amaterasu didn't take care of it, and it was blown up.

But. This time is completely different. The US military aircraft fleet is a way to maintain a large formation. High-altitude bombs. In just one or two minutes, all the bomb throwing actions were completed. Although the U.S. military is not a submunition dropped, its scale is similar to that of a submunition. Hundreds of tons of bombs exploded almost simultaneously, covering a full ten square kilometers.

You know, for the sake of convenient transportation, the Japanese army's concealment department, bunker. The fortifications and headquarters were basically around the airfield. Although the U.S. troops did not deliberately aim, under the covering blow, whether in the bunker or in the bushes, the Japanese had nowhere to escape. In the blink of an eye, thousands of troops were lost.

Only the deep-pocketed U.S. military can use such tactics. If it were another country, such a squander of force, the economy would have collapsed long ago.

Hyakutake Haruyoshi was furious, jumping and waving his sword, and his vegetable patch was blown into a swamp. Hyakutake Haruyoshi doesn't have the kind of Jin Dapang himself, if he had, he wouldn't even use a rifle, and he would definitely cut down a few U.S. fighters with a knife.

The angry Hyakutake Haruyoshi did not sleep well all night, and only fell asleep at dawn when a group of fighters flew again.

This is the Allied carrier-based aircraft group, dropping a bunch of bombs, and the airfield that the little devils worked so hard to repair all night was bombed again. This time the power was not as good as yesterday, and the frightened devils ran to the anti-aircraft artillery positions one after another, and the anti-aircraft artillery fire had just opened fire, and more than 100 fighters flew away again.

At this time, Hyakutake Haruyoshi's anger had reached its limit. From yesterday to today, the Japanese army suffered more than 1,500 casualties in three air raids, the airfield was destroyed, and all 40 or 50 warplanes were scrapped before they could play a single role.

In fact, if Hyakutake Haruyoshi can really send fighters to track him, it will definitely be a death. Nearly 50 F6F fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army are waiting for the devil to take the bait in the high altitude not far away.

At 10 o'clock, 48 fighters from the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Force arrived again.

This time was different from the past, these 48 fighters were constantly hovering in the air, seriously looking for targets. The ease is like a leisurely stroll, and Hyakutake Haruyoshi is even more angry, this is completely teasing.

However, no matter how angry the little devil was, he didn't have any tricks.

It can't be said that there is no trick at all, and the machine gun anti-aircraft artillery is still very lively. However, the effect was simply nothing, and the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army always maneuvered in a serpentine manner at an altitude of more than 3,600 meters. THE JAPANESE ARMY'S ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN, WITH A MAXIMUM CALIBER OF ONLY 75MM, THAT IS, A HEIGHT OF MORE THAN 3,000 METERS, COULD NOT POSE A THREAT AT ALL.

This is the experience that the Naval Resistance Force has gained after more than half a year of the dice whirlwind operation. The devils are too poor to compare with powerful countries like Germany, and there are very few large-caliber anti-aircraft guns. In a place like Bougainville, it is already a luxury to be able to arm a three-inch anti-aircraft gun.

When the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery just appeared, it was dived by the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army and blown into scrap metal.

For the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army, they are accustomed to the dense firepower of the battleship's air defense, and they are almost immune to the few anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese Army.

After more than an hour of fighting, the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army almost performed their flying skills in front of the Japanese troops, and in the end, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army destroyed nearly 20 anti-aircraft fire points of the Japanese army at the cost of one wounded. At this point, the Japanese air defense forces were close to a blank.

Hyakutake Haruyoshi spat out a mouthful of blood.

Without planes and anti-aircraft fire, the elite army divisions of the Japanese Empire were reduced to lambs to the slaughter.

Lieutenant General Kincaid was on the flagship, smiling. The Haitang Army's moves are simple and effective.

In the more than half a year of the dice whirlwind operation, the Haitang Army has long figured out the habits of devils. The little devil doesn't know what it means to preserve strength at all, as long as he provokes a little, he will definitely use any tricks. If the enemy plane does not appear, it means that the devil has no fighter plane. And after the destruction of the anti-aircraft artillery, there was no more even basic air defense.

The Haitang Army often needed three rounds of strikes to destroy the air power and air defense of the Japanese army in a city.

I thought that the little devil had been tortured on the coast of the Indian Ocean for more than half a year and would grow a little, but now it seems that it is still the same old way.

As a result, the fighters and bombers on the US escort aircraft carriers began to show their prestige, and these US pilots who were not of a good level began to show their prestige. There is no threat of enemy aircraft, no threat of anti-aircraft artillery, and it is better to wait for this time if it is not majestic.

When the American pilots were so addicted that even a few small wooden boats in the harbor were blown to pieces, the Allied fleet withdrew from the sea area.

From then on, the Allied fleet began a whirlwind of dice in the Pacific that lasted for more than a month.

When Li Guang learned that the devils on Bougainville Island actually had the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which was a beast division and the main culprit of the Nanjing Massacre. Li Guangfa said: This is the prey of the Haitang Army.

More than a month later, the seaplane carrier PJP led an old cruiser to begin the year-and-a-half-long campaign of Bougainville.

The effectiveness of mastering sea supremacy was revealed, and the power of the navy was thoroughly demonstrated, and in the year-and-a-half-year-long Battle of Bougainville, the Haitang Army suffered fewer than 10 casualties. The Haitang army exhausted all kinds of means of setting fire and poisoning, and the Japanese army had tens of thousands of troops, but in the face of more than a dozen seaplanes with weak survivability, they had no power to resist.

Under the long siege, most of the 35,000 Japanese troops starved to death on Bougainville Island, and only a small part were rescued by Japanese submarines or warships. Fewer than 6,000 people survived on Bougainville, most of them mentally ill.

After the war, the Haitang Army learned that almost all of the 20,000 or 30,000 natives on Bougainville Island were killed by the Japanese army, and as for what to do, the use was disgusting. (To be continued......)