"Guadalcanal is a paradise for bugs, a hell for humans."

Zeng Fanyi helped the warriors to dispose of the leeches on the cuffs, although the rainforest suddenly opened up in the place of short rest, the sun suddenly shone through the treetops and sprinkled on the ground, and the birds chirped, more like a resort, but it was still hell.

Because a little further on, it's the airport.

Kuah Airport was built by the Japanese, and after the Red Guard Corps occupied it, it was simply expanded.

However, there was not a single plane in sight in the expanded airport, and the artillery and tanks mentioned in Hyakutake Haruyoshi's report could be seen everywhere in the airport.

But if you look closer, you can see that these so-called guns and tanks are actually fixed in place with small ropes.

Because of the location of the airport, the sea breeze often blows, and these simple inflatable models will move, and there will be Japanese people watching from a distance nearby at any time, which will inevitably reveal flaws.

In the past two days, Zeng Fanyi's task is to arrange more false targets on the periphery of the cabin.

Used to confuse the Japanese on the island.

At this time, the scale of Kuah Island Airport is already very complete and can be put into use at any time.

The airport is located about seven kilometres at Cape Lung Ga, Kuah, and the main runway axis is northeast-west-southwest, almost facing the sun.

A while ago, Japanese dive bombers 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. In an emergency, you can use the taxiway as a runway and the car road as a taxiway.

On the south side of the runway, there were piles of wrecked planes, all of which were Japanese planes that had been damaged in the bombing.

Any engines, landing gear, tires, machine guns and radio stations that were still intact were removed.

Nothing was needed on Kuah Island, even the Red Police, which had adequate supplies, needed everything, and the engineers were piecing together their work, which made their peers envious and made others laugh at them.

There were also planes lying in sandbag-built field aircraft nests, covered with camouflage nets.

Runways and taxiways are densely packed with craters. After the crater was filled by a bulldozer, there were perforated steel plates on the engineering auxiliary.

Zeng Fanyi and the others crossed the flat land from the west end of the airport and approached a small hill.

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.

Everyone doesn't care, at this time, Kuah Island enters the rainy season in the southern hemisphere, every day, everyone is used to this kind of ghost weather.

Enter the hill, where a headquarters covered in camouflage nets sits.

The headquarters of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, the airfield was captured by them.

However, the airport is useless for the Red Guard Corps at this stage.

Even if it is an airfield after repairs, it is more like it is for the Japanese to see.

As soon as Zeng Fanyi came in, someone said: "Old Zeng, the time is just right, and you are so punctual." ”

The regiment commander in the center of the headquarters waved his hand to silence the conference room and said, "I just received an order from Shangfeng, and the first regiment will quietly withdraw from the airport this evening. ”

Hearing the words of the regiment commander, everyone nodded and withdrew from the airport, and everyone was mentally prepared.

The 1st Marine Division did not want to be a savage with the Japanese in the jungle, not to mention that the Japanese on the island had been prepared for a long time.

The best strategy is to attract the Japanese and eliminate them as much as possible.

But Hyakutake Haruyoshi is not an ordinary person, and a simple strategy is difficult to work, and even if it does, it is difficult to eliminate too many Japanese at once.

To this end, the 1st Marine Division is also waiting for an excellent opportunity.

The airport is at the heart of the battle for Kuah Island, and it is bound to be the focus of the Japanese.

Capturing the airport can eliminate some of the Japanese, repair the airport, and let the Japanese know that we are going to start using the airport.

This will inevitably make the Japanese anxious, and such opportunities will naturally arise.

All the telegrams sent by Hyakutake Haruyoshi were intercepted by the technical reconnaissance department of the 1st Marine Division, but they did not block them, but analyzed and understood the ciphertext codes of the Japanese.

The Japanese successfully deciphered the secret telegram, and the content of Hyakutake Haruyoshi's contact with the outside world was also detected.

"According to the report of the technical department, the Japanese fleet will arrive in the evening to carry out artillery shelling of the airfields on the island."

"But this telegram has been intercepted by us, Hyakutake Haruyoshi is completely unaware, and the technical department has successfully forged the order from the Japanese Army Command Department of the Great Military Parade, completely deceived Hyakutake Haruyoshi, and Hyakutake Haruyoshi will attack the airport at night, so we need to fight and retreat at the same time, so that the Japanese can occupy the airfield."

Hearing the words of the regiment commander, Zeng Fanyi simply got up and said: "The matter of the battle will be handed over to me, and I will not let the Japanese see the flaws." ”

Everyone had no intention of objecting, and nodded one after another.

An hour later, the main force of the Marine Corps began to quietly withdraw from the airport, and with the help of the heavy rain, disappeared into the rainforest around the airport.

In the airport, there are only hundreds of Red Alert soldiers left, but the hands of these soldiers are all heavy machine guns, with the firepower of these heavy machine guns, the Japanese want to occupy this place, they will inevitably pay a heavy price, and they will not suspect that the airport is actually abandoned.

At the same time, at nightfall, an AWACS aircraft also detected the position of the Japanese fleet and determined the exact time when the Japanese fleet arrived here, so as to avoid the failure of the assault battalion to evacuate in time.

At this time, Hyakutake Haruyoshi was also thinking about the content of the telegram in his hand.

He was not doubting the authenticity of the telegram, because both the wavelength and frequency band, as well as the irregular garbled code mixed in the cipher of the telegram, were the same as every telegram before the Army Command.

In the telegram, it was simply stated that because of the fear that the fleet would be difficult to approach due to the presence of planes of the Red Alert Empire at the Kuah Island airport, the 17th Army was required to capture the airfield before the fleet arrived.

Among the transport ships that came to support them were artillery and anti-tank guns, which were most needed by the 17th Army, as well as combat vehicles.

Capture airfields, receive these equipment, unite the navy, completely destroy all enemies on the island.

This is the content of the telegram, and the content is completely feasible in Hyakutake Hariyoshi's opinion.

Because the supporting navy has three battleships, and the firepower of one battleship is worth a thousand army guns.

Hyakutake Haruyoshi also understands that this is really a good opportunity, but it is just a tactical consideration that needs to be carefully considered.