Over the Pacific Ocean, 500 nautical miles east of Guadalcanal.

The main force of the Red Alert Navy's West White Tiger Fleet is approaching this theater of operations.

No one underestimated Japan, even if it lost several aircraft carriers and a large number of excellent air forces, but Japan's huge war machine was still enough to bring a certain threat to the Red Guard Corps in naval warfare.

War is not an absolute chance of victory for the side with superior equipment.

The naval battle that has just ended, which is not too large-scale, also fully illustrates this point.

In terms of military strength, if it were not for the lack of aircraft performance balance amphibious ships in the use of aircraft carriers, it would have been difficult for them to have an advantage in the face of the Japanese Navy.

Without aircraft carriers, there will be no early warning aircraft on the sea that can anticipate the enemy's first opportunity, and the combat environment and weather are also the key to the outcome of a war.

In the future, we will face the same situation again at any time, after all, the staff headquarters of the Red Police Corps is not 100% like a god, and all plans are also based on relative intelligence.

On the command ship White Tiger, Fan Yize boarded the huge command ship by helicopter, and Admiral Guo Shaohua on board personally greeted Fan Yize's arrival.

In the huge fleet headquarters, dozens of staff officers are busy.

The arrival of the White Tiger Fleet will be mainly responsible for combat missions in the western Pacific region, giving full play to the powerful scientific and technological superiority of the Red Guard Navy, and looking for opportunities to completely eliminate more of the main forces of the Japanese Navy.

Even if it cannot be completely destroyed, it is necessary to ensure that the Japanese Navy is no longer a threat.

"Commander, at present, our forces near Kuah Island are almost the same in terms of ships, aircraft, and troops that can be used for direct combat, and even the Japanese army still has a slight advantage in large warships such as aircraft carriers and battleships."

Guo Shaohua took the lead in saying to Fan Yize: "But this is only temporary, in another week, all our troop deployments will be fully in place, and we will have a complete advantage over the Japanese navy at that time." ”

Hearing Guo Shaohua's words, Fan Yize didn't seem to be interested at all, but asked him: "Historically, what was the situation of the war on Kuah Island, the strength of Japan and the United States on Kuah Island?" ”

"Similar to our current situation with the Japanese army, in the historical Kuah Island War, in all respects, the Japanese had the upper hand in the beginning. Moreover, the current strength of the Japanese in the Kuah Island area is about the same as in history. Guo Shaohua didn't know what he meant and said.

"Yes, in the early days of the Kuah Island War in history, it was clear that the Japanese had the advantage, but why did the Americans win the final battle?" Fan Yize turned back to Guo Shaohua and asked.

This kind of problem is not difficult for Guo Shaohua at all, and he doesn't need to think about it, so he said directly: "The gap in strategic thinking, and the Japanese are too greedy. ”

"Isn't that exactly what we're experiencing so far?" Fan Yize nodded lightly and said, "Do you know why we are obviously prepared, but our troops on Kuah Island do not occupy enough advantages? ”

Guo Shaohua did not know more relevant information, because everything was carried out according to the plan of the Corps General Command Center.

He also knew that if it was a normal situation and the battle for Kuah Island had broken out, according to the combat regulations of the Red Guard Corps, all the troops should be fully prepared, and there would be no result of the previous naval battle, because under normal circumstances, the actions of the Japanese Navy would be the main aircraft carrier fleet of the Red Guard Navy.

"To test the response of various units in the face of difficulties, but also to attract more of the main forces of the Japanese Navy." Guo Shaohua thought about it and said.

"That's right." Fan Yize nodded slightly, if it weren't for the purpose of creating a larger battlefield on Kuah Island, the West White Tiger Fleet would not still be in this position, and the two aircraft carrier strike groups that came out of the front had already arrived on Kuah Island.

Kuah Island is a bait, a bait for catching Japan.

The Japanese army's operational attempts were significantly beyond their own combat capabilities.

Japan has always had expansionist ambitions, and its basic national policy is aggression and expansion, and its military performance is to gain an inch and be insatiable.

Whenever one place is occupied, in order to hold the occupied area, it is necessary to further occupy other important places nearby, and even if it is counterattacked, it is unwilling to give up.

This violates the law that "the offensive force will gradually weaken" as stated by Clausewitz in "On War".

To put it simply, as the attacking side advances on the front, it needs to defend more and more occupied areas and vital rear lines of communication, and more and more troops are used.

The forces used for the first line gradually decreased, and the defending side, with the shortening of the battle line, gradually concentrated the forces.

As a result, there are more and more troops on the front line, so as the comparison of the forces of the two fronts changes, once the defender's strength is greater than the attacker, it can launch a counterattack, so that the tide of the battle will change.

In other words, if the attacker's attack exceeds the limits of its own strength, it will suffer defeat.

At the beginning of the war, in the first phase of the strategic offensive, the Japanese occupied Rabaul and northeastern New Guinea in an attempt to establish the first line of defense in the Bismarck Islands, an area that was already the limit of the Japanese offensive force.

However, the unexpectedly huge victory achieved in the early stage of the war made the Japanese army lose their minds and decide to continue to advance the battle line in the direction of the southeast and Pacific Ocean, so they built an airfield on Kuah Island.

When the Red Police Regiment landed on Kuah Island, if the Japanese army simply withdrew from Kuah Island, a decisive battle against them would not begin.

However, the Japanese army believed that if they did not recapture Kuah Island, the Red Alert Empire's use of the Kuah Island airfield would pose a huge threat to the entire Solomon Islands, and then the Japanese army's important sea and air base in the South Pacific Ocean, Rabaul, would lose its barrier and threaten the Bismarck Archipelago, so they decided to retake Kuah Island with all their might.

However, this strategic decision of the Japanese army is extremely incommensurate with its military strength and industrial potential.

In terms of transportation capacity, the maritime transportation capacity of the Red Police Empire is supported by a complete world behind it, not to mention that Japan cannot be compared, even if the maritime transportation capacity of all countries in this world is added up, it will not be the opponent of the Red Police Corps.

What's more, the total number of new ships in Japan has not yet been able to make up for the losses in the war.

Kuah Island is an island, which needs a large number of transport ships to transport troops, equipment and supplies, and the shortage of Japanese ground forces and heavy equipment and the extreme lack of supplies are closely related to the insufficient number of Japanese transport ships.