In response to the attack in the western Pacific, Fan Yize was not too anxious.

The bait of Kuah Island, if the troops invested are appropriate, can be used as a huge meat grinder, whether it is to strangle the Japanese naval forces and the army forces, it is quite suitable.

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.

At present, the Japanese military strongly demands that the government increase the number of civilian ships to be requisitioned, but this is a major issue that has a bearing on the national strength of Japan, an island nation, and the overall situation of the war; the Japanese Government's Planning Institute believes that the number of civilian ships is limited, and if the military expands the number of requisitioned ships, it will inevitably affect the transportation of raw materials for production in Japan, and then affect the production of military industry, and this will inevitably have an adverse impact on the development of the entire war situation.

Kuah Island is 3,000 nautical miles from the Japanese mainland, and Japan is beyond the power of both the combat capabilities of the naval and aviation units and the ships needed for logistics and transportation.

After the defeat at the Battle of Midway, the Japanese army did not shrink its front in time and turned to strategic defense, but still continued to launch an attack on the Solomon Islands.

The irresolvable contradiction between the Japanese army's strategic intentions and military strength was also the object of Fan Yize's key reliance.

In the past few days since the outbreak of the Kuah Island War, judging from the reaction of the Japanese army, Fan Yize has also quickly captured the ideological concepts of the Japanese at this moment.

At this moment, the Japanese army was still carried away by the victory, and was as arrogant as ever.

Although they are very wary of the Red Alert Empire, this vigilance is far from being treated by the Japanese with real concern.

As a result, there was an erroneous judgment, and the Japanese base camp actually believed that the Red Alert Empire, which had just defeated the Americans, actually suffered very huge losses.

In fact, this is the result of a lot of misinformation that the Japanese have learned.

After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States, the United States declared war on Japan and completely blockaded all Japanese in the United States, making it basically impossible for Japan to obtain much relevant information on the United States.

Fan Yize had close cooperation with Germany, and it was difficult for Japan to get more information from Germany about the Red Alert Empire.

In view of this, the Japanese base camp has a deep-rooted belief that if the Red Alert Empire can defeat the United States, it will inevitably pay a heavy price, and without more than a year of cultivation time, it will have no initiative to attack at all.

It was precisely on the basis of this idea that the Japanese army tried to push the front forward as much as possible before the US counteroffensive, and did not want to turn to strategic defense too early.

The Japanese army believed that since the US strategic counteroffensive was not yet ready, it would encounter no obstacles if it continued to advance to the Solomon Islands, so it dared to cross hundreds of nautical miles in one fell swoop and build an airfield on Kuah Island.

In doing so, there is no awareness of the threat it faces, and there is no forward base that can be deployed in the middle of the hundreds of nautical miles from Rabaul to Kuah Island.

On Kuah Island, they were only concerned with the construction of an airfield by surprise and neglected the necessary defensive preparations, so that the Japanese troops on the island were somewhat inadequately prepared for the sudden attack of the Red Guard Corps, both mentally and materially.

"According to the original plan, leaving sufficient weapons, ammunition and supplies for the 1st Marine Division, the three amphibious ship groups near Kuah Island will be withdrawn."

Standing by Fan Yize's side, Guo Shaohua immediately issued the latest order.

At this time, Hasegawa Kiyoshi should also return to Rabaul, but the Japanese fleet in this area is not only aircraft carriers.

According to reports from submarines near Rabaul, battleships of the Japanese Navy were also dispatched, targeting the island of Kuah.

When the order was given, Fan Yize left the command ship alone.

Battleships are the romance that belongs to men, especially in the era of super dreadnoughts during World War II, and the rumbling cannons make people's blood boil.

At this moment, the Japanese are quite anxious, and the latest news sent by the 17th Army is that the airport on Kuah Island has been captured by the Red Police Corps.

The XVII Army needed support, and in the report, it was stated that the enemy had arranged a large number of tanks and heavy artillery at the airfield, and the XVII Army was simply unable to recapture the airfield.

Even though it is divided into two command systems, the Japanese Navy knows the importance of the Kuah airport.

An order was given to occupy the Kuah airfield, and everyone in the Rabaul Japanese naval base was in a hurry.

However, since the Kuah airport has been occupied, it will be very dangerous for the Japanese transport ships to go to Kuah.

And the artillery and anti-tank guns that the XVII Army wanted, could not be transferred to leave at all.

"If you have a bayonet, you won't pretend if you don't pretend. We have to hurry up, and the enemy's defenses will be strengthened a day later. ”

Japanese reinforcements, hastily loaded onto the transport ship, set off and, under the protection of three battleships and six destroyers, headed for Kuah Island.

At this moment, Kuah Island is a purgatory on earth.

The soldiers of the 1st Marine Division of the Red Guard Corps, although they have sufficient supplies, stay in this hell every day, and their image is as ugly as evil spirits.

This is not a place where people can stay, especially in the dense jungle of the island, where miasma is prevalent, lewd rain is endless, skin diseases, trench feet, malaria, dysentery, wounds and ulcers *** The enemy is terrible.

Even if there is enough medicine, there will still be a large number of non-combat attrition every day.

In the woods near the airport, Zeng Fanyi led a platoon of soldiers and conducted an environmental survey.

Walking in it, stirring up the humid air, many leeches fell from the trees, and one leech fell into a soldier's shirt, desperately sucking blood, but could not be beaten.

Wasps in the woods attack passing soldiers at any moment, and scorpion snakes are quite active in the forest.

Passing through a depression, under the green pool, the corpse of a rotten Japanese soldier was covered with edema, and under the rotten skin, full of maggots rolling, within a radius of two meters from the corpse, thousands of flies, making the scalp tingle.

On a big tree not far away, the body of a Japanese sniper who was killed was hung on the trunk of the tree, and he should not have died when he was killed, and he wanted to go down the tree, but he was hung up, and he died powerlessly, and after his death, he attracted large predators on the island, and most of his body was gnawed clean, leaving the skeleton of half of his body, stained with a large amount of black blood.

Walking in this forest, Zeng Fanyi and the others were already strange, and to be able to survive in such an environment, their nerves were already extraordinary.