Naturally, it is impossible for such an operational request to retreat to be granted, and the US Asia-Pacific Theater Command cannot accept the appearance that the US air force will collapse with just one contact; even if the investment is greater and the losses are more, the US military needs to achieve results in the battle, at least to maintain the battle line, and the US military cannot let the Chinese marines take any of the large islands in the Solomon Islands.

However, the US military is not stupid, according to the report, the US military was able to basically determine the position of the Chinese air defense fleet, so as to draw a circle of 200 kilometers is the more usual defense radius of China's air defense missiles, and the US fighters tried their best to hide outside this circle to engage in air combat with Chinese fighters, but this situation was also discovered by the Chinese air force, so they carried out indiscriminate bombardment of the US stronghold on Chowasel Island within the defense radius under the cover of the air defense fleet.

The U.S. military has only set up a limited number of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns and short-range anti-aircraft missiles in these strongholds, and there is nothing to be done about the Chinese fighters that appear in the air in large areas and are also strikes outside the defense zone, but the U.S. military is not stupid, and the U.S. military commander used the dense jungle of Chowasir Island to hide soldiers and important military supplies in the woods, which directly made the air attack effect of the naval aviation not particularly good, and something as big as the Type 88 shore-to-ship missile could not be hidden. However, infantry and other relatively small weapons can be hidden, and even if the J-7 has the ability to track ground heat targets after the upgrade, the chances of success in a place like the jungle are not high.

Naturally, the Chinese PLA does not only expect to wipe out the US military by relying on air strikes, in fact, the ground forces that landed are also quite powerful. Rapids ACV, which stormed the island of Choiseul from several beachheads, laid down the battle squads formed by the company. The equipment of these Marine Corps companies is not particularly heavy, mainly to adapt to combat in the jungle area, the main vehicle is infantry fighting vehicles, including Type 04 tracked infantry combat and Type 09 eight-wheel infantry combat, and then in order to enhance the suppressive firepower, each company also carries a Tengu mecha, which can act as air strike firepower and can also fight flexibly in the jungle.

A Marine company that landed from the south was attacked from the jungle shortly after landing, but they were all riding in infantry chariots when they descended the beachhead, so except for a rocket that hit a Type 09 infantry chariot, causing several soldiers in the vehicle to suffer some concussion injuries. However, the raid destroyer parked in the open sea immediately bombarded the place where the jungle opened fire with 100mm Gatling guns, and the dense artillery fire immediately submerged there, and the American troops could not hold on to this jungle defense line and had to retreat slowly. Under the cover of our naval guns, the Marine Company advanced. However, where the woods are too dense, the infantry chariots can't drive in, so they can only let the mechs lead the infantry in, which also makes the Marine Company face a greater risk of loss, and the U.S. troops may be hiding somewhere to prepare for a sneak attack, but this risk is something they have to take.

The second group of landed soldiers began to build temporary strongholds on the relatively open beachhead, they did not choose places that would be flooded at high tide, they generally chose hard ground rather than sandy beaches, and some machine gun points were also erected to prevent sneak attacks by roaming American troops.

Most of the PLA Marines were engaged in such jungle warfare, and only in the northern part of the island did two Marine companies engage in an encounter with a battalion of U.S. troops that suffered largely no losses. In this encounter, the Chinese marines were slightly inferior, although there were many infantry combat vehicles and infantry mechs, but who would have thought that the US military would actually send two M1A2 main battle tanks on this small island. In the face of the U.S. main battle tanks, many Chinese infantry tanks were destroyed, but in the end, even one Tengu was directly disabled by the Abrams' main gun that rushed out of the forest because it couldn't dodge, and finally another Tengu attack mechanized and killed the two M1A2s with anti-armor missiles.

After the two sides entered a bitter battle, the air support from the naval aviation finally broke the deadlock, and the American troops took refuge in the jungle after they could not bear it, and the Chinese Marine Corps won the battle.

The battle on Choiseul Island lasted for a day and night, and the U.S. military resisted beyond the imagination of the Chinese military. Originally, the number of Chinese ground troops stationed on New Britain Island was not large, and there was only one division of the Marine Corps, which had less than 20,000 combat forces. Therefore, the landing force invested in the attack on Choiseul Island was actually only one regiment in strength, and even less than the defenders, which is also very inconsistent with the common sense that a landing force several times larger than the defenders is needed in a landing battle. The main reason is that in terms of three-dimensional firepower, the Chinese troops have a relatively obvious advantage.

"Maybe we don't need the military strength of a front army in the Southwest Pacific Theater, but we need at least the combat strength of a group army, and the US military is very determined, and we can't lose to them!" The front commander told the General Staff that he wanted to get an entire Marine Corps to participate in the Solomon Islands campaign.

Fargo, the commander of the US military, was very dissatisfied with the cowardice of the air wing, but he also knew that if he was too demanding and forced the US fighters to go hard, it might cause even greater losses to the air force. However, Fargo would not leave the officers and soldiers who defended the island, and he immediately planned an anti-landing operation to ensure the survival of NATO allied forces on the Solomon Islands.

The U.S. Navy sent several surface ships to coordinate with the landing force and, under the cover of aviation, began a counter-offensive on Choiseul Island. After the Chinese reconnaissance drone discovered the situation, the Chinese fleet also reacted immediately, sending fighter jets to counter it.

The US carrier-based planes have carried out their combat missions very well, thoroughly protecting the ships below in the air defense circle of the landing fleet, and no matter how much they provoke these US military planes to leave the air defense circle, the US fighters will remain immovable, and the many US air defense ships below can also pose a considerable threat to the Chinese fighters. Originally, the Chinese Navy planned to send a dreadnought warship to lead several cruisers and destroyers to support, but the arsenal ship's Iron Curtain system had some failures and was stopped for refurbishment, while the other ship had just carried out a round of attacks and was undergoing a system inspection, so it was a little slower to go to support.

Despite the lack of firepower, the U.S. military managed to send 1,000 U.S. soldiers to Choiseul Island, but its covering fleet could not stay on the southern tip of the island for long, and the threat from Chinese ships and aircraft was still too great. In the end, the U.S. forces on Choiseul had to face the situation of fighting alone.