The news of the Battle of Midway has just spread, and this chaotic world has once again been turbulent.

The collapse of the mighty Japanese Navy was like a dream for many people.

At this point, even many allies who had not dealt with it before were constantly propagandizing.

The Red Alert Empire did not join the Axis powers, and the current declaration of war on Japan gave the Allies hope for cooperation.

The alliance is not enough, but it is no longer so hateful, at least the hope of the allies has been placed on the Red Alert Empire.

On the other hand, the Red Alert Empire and Japan completely ignored the international reaction, and all made decisions together without distraction, and jointly set their sights on the Pacific Ocean.

Guadalcanal.

The eyes of both sides were on this island, which had been unknown for thousands of years.

Both eyes were on Guadalcanal at the same time, elevating this small and inaccessible island that had been dormant in the South Pacific for thousands of years to an important strategic point.

Japan suffered its first crushing defeat since the start of World War II at Midway Island in the Pacific.

It is also the heaviest blow ever, and Japan must find a way to reverse this unfavorable situation.

Japan also quickly launched a series of offensive plans.

The 17th Army of the Army carried out the operation to capture Moresby by land, and the naval ship unit and shore-based aviation were responsible for sea transportation, escort and air support.

The Navy and its shore-based aviation units are responsible for consolidating and building a series of shore-based aviation bases in the Bismarck Islands, eastern New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

In the new battle plan, in order to cover the flank security of the main operation, the Japanese army had to build a water airfield in the Solomon area for bombers.

With this bomber airfield, it can control large swathes of the Southwest Pacific, provide air superiority for naval operations, and control the lines of communication between the United States and Australia.

After the introduction of the new operational plan, the Japanese army originally planned to build an aircraft base on the island of Tulagi. However, when the Japanese carefully examined the terrain of Tulagi Island and its surroundings, they were surprised to find that to the south of the island, there was a much larger island, and its northern shore was more suitable for the construction of airfields.

This is Guadalcanal.

When the Japanese hastily landed on Guadalcanal, the Red Guard Corps was not fully prepared to move and did not attack Midway, but blocked Midway and then prepared enough forces to advance westward.

This preparation took more than two months, and it was also these two months that gave the Japanese time to build defenses.

Less than a month after the Japanese landed on Guadalcanal, a 1,200-metre-long, 50-metre-wide airstrip paved with coral sand and cement was largely completed and ready for planes to arrive.

While the Japanese base camp was carefully planning and implementing the new battle plan step by step, the Red Guard Corps was also beginning to prepare for the next phase of operations by mobilizing troops.

The Supreme Command Center of the Red Guard Corps has also drawn up a complete battle plan and is ready to carry it out, and has readjusted part of the plan for the Japanese engine room to be built on Guadalcanal.

Originally, according to the plan of the Red Guard, it was intended to seize the Santa Cruz Islands, Tulagi Island and its nearby important places, and then launch an advance on Salamawa and Wright in the Papua Peninsula, while seizing the rest of the Solomon Islands and heading north.

After that, the Allies switched to a two-sided attack on Rabaul. The ultimate goal of the campaign was to capture the islands of New Britain, New Ireland, and New Guinea.

Originally, the Red Alert command center believed that the Japanese would not have time to build a cabin in Guadalcanal, but it was clear that the speed of the Japanese was underestimated.

However, it did not have much impact on the overall plan, but it was similar to history, with one more plan to capture Guadalcanal.

The realignment of the target was to identify Guadalcanal as the first point to be captured.

Guadalcanal is located at 160 degrees east longitude, south of the equator, about 150 kilometers long from east to west, about 40 kilometers wide from north to south, with an area of 6,000 square kilometers, and is a large island in the Solomon Islands.

The heat on the island is unbearable, and it often rains heavily.

At 2,331 meters above sea level, the Popomanarim volcano stretches across the island like a backbone. The southern shore of the island is dominated by mountains, with rolling hills at the foot of the northern shore and some plains along the coast.

The vast majority of the island is dominated by peaks and dense jungle where wild plants such as bananas, limes and papayas grow.

Fresh fish, poisonous spiders, leeches and scorpions are everywhere, and insects, mosquitoes, and termites are abundant. There are scattered indigenous populations in the island's valleys, numbering no more than 10,000.

Two months after the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Guadalcanal broke out.

On the evening of the day of the attack, escorted by an amphibious flotilla, the Red Guard marines, under the protection of the amphibious flotilla, advanced to Guadalcanal.

The landing was escorted by two battleships, eight cruisers and a destroyer alert group, and air support was carried out by three amphibious assault ships.

It is said that it is an amphibious assault ship, but in fact, in the eyes of various countries, this is an aircraft carrier, which is also equipped with carrier-based aircraft, and is also responsible for air supremacy, and of course, it is also responsible for the main ground attack.

With a displacement of nearly 30,000 tons, it is capable of carrying dozens of fighters, a straight-through deck, plus a part of the helicopter, which allows soldiers to carry vertical landing operations.

Because the task of the Navy's aircraft carriers is to seize air supremacy, and then seize sea supremacy.

The mission of the amphibious assault ship is to assist in landing operations and deal with the target's land airfield, so the tonnage is smaller, and the fighters on board are also biased towards ground attack.

The huge fleet, sailing north at 12 knots in the rain and fog, sailed north with four transports and four destroyers heading for Tulagi, while another 15 transports and cargo ships headed for Guadalcanal.

The sea was calm, with rain and fog most of the time, and the last two days were even more cloudy, and the cloud cover was so low that the Japanese aerial reconnaissance planes could not observe the sea.

Without the complete detection of the enemy, the landing fleet arrived at the planned landing site, located in the northwestern part of Guadalcanal.

Two hours later, the sentry caught a glimpse of a dark figure in the distance, shaped like a pyramid, a small volcanic island.

Under the cover of the weather, the fleet quietly approached the planned landing position and continued to approach the target position.

At this moment, the Japanese army has not yet discovered the landing fleet that is quietly approaching, and the visibility on the rainy sea is really not good.

It is very helpful for landing operations.

Zeng Fanyi stayed quietly in the amphibious landing ship, sitting on the landing craft that could leave at any time, listening intently to the sound of the waves outside crowding the hull of the ship.

In the quiet waiting, when the time came to the beginning of the total, all the ready Marines on the landing craft held their breath.

The silence was broken by a thunderous roar of artillery, and three cruisers and four destroyers opened fire at the same time, a sound never heard before in the region.

Everywhere there were crimson tongues of fire, and red flames shone on the gray-blue sea. The cannonballs streaked across the morning sky, like arcs drawn with a red pencil towards Guadalcanal.

Two minutes later, amid the rumbling of artillery, cruisers and destroyers also began to fire at Tulagi.

The two landing sites that were originally planned did not encounter any movement of the Japanese troops.

It is clear that the Japanese did not anticipate this attack and were taken by surprise.

In less than 30 minutes, all the transport ships were in position.

Dive bombers and fighters taking off from 3 amphibious assault ships appeared in the sky, strafing the beaches and bombing target areas, where they met only sparse anti-aircraft fire.

Inside the landing ship, the huge dock hatch opened, and the same voice came to everyone's ears: "The landing force goes ashore." ”

At the intended landing site, the assault battalions of the 1st Marine Division of the Red Guard Corps swarmed up.

Zeng Fanyi was the first to climb the beachhead, but the coconut grove by the sea at night was quiet and met with no resistance.

And there is not the slightest human figure here, and it does not look like there is any activity at all.

The assault battalion headquarters immediately issued an order to search and alert, Zeng Fanyi and his team searched in the coconut grove, and half an hour passed, and it was certain that there was no Japanese defense line in this place.

The assault battalion also sent a message to the amphibious fleet that the landing was not resisted, and then the assault battalion simply established a defensive line on this beach.

The landing ground on the other side was exactly the same, the landing process was unusually smooth, and there was no resistance at all.

Soon new tasks were issued, and the two landing sites were tasked with advancing inland, establishing a defensive line to ensure that the beachhead was not threatened by a Japanese counterattack.

In this way, it is possible to cover the smooth landing of the follow-up troops, so that there is a space for processing and distribution after the supplies are disembarked.

In the middle of the night, the two battalions were met with resistance from small Japanese forces, but the small Japanese forces were quickly repulsed.

The attacking troops soon came to a defensive line on the Japanese island, but this was only a material transfer station for the Japanese army, and it was already abandoned.

The small units of the Japanese army that had just fought were only for the purpose of destroying the contents of the war, and they were obviously not here for the battle.

The Japanese made ample preparations on Guadalcanal, and although they did not anticipate the landing of the Red Guard, they did not find much damage.

Even the airfield on the island suffered serious damage, more than a dozen planes were destroyed, but there were few casualties.

On Guadalcanal, the Japanese army amassed more than 20,000 troops, all of which were hidden in the dense jungle of the island, and the air force had no way to attack.

This was also a very cruel test of war for the Red Guard Corps.

On the Japanese side of the base camp, the news of the landing of the Red Alert Empire on Guadalcanal Island was soon received, and the base camp had only one request, that is, to let the enemy bleed on Guadalcanal.

Japan has made an in-depth analysis of the Red Alert Imperial forces that have been at war with the United States, and it is very clear that relying on the equipment level of the Japanese Army, there is no need to fight a tough battle with the enemy at all.

The only recourse is to fight jungle warfare, which is also the best option for the Japanese.

If it weren't for the fact that Guadalcanal had not been occupied for a long time, Japan had only built simple fortifications on this island, otherwise the effect would have been better.

After the 1st Marine Division successfully landed, and successfully established a pontoon dock, a large number of supplies were transported to the island, but it was only there.

Dense woods, rugged ridges, tanks simply could not enter, only infantry lightly armed into the island to fight.

It is difficult to bring into play the advantages of the Red Guard Corps.

However, the command center of the Red Guard Corps had long expected this, so it handed over this battle to the First Division of the Marine Corps, and every soldier in the First Division was from a special forces background, and jungle warfare was no stranger to it.

The battle for Guadalcanal is destined to be a bloody storm.

Because don't expect the Japanese army at this time to surrender.

In fact, the 17th Army of the Japanese Army, which was in charge of the defense of Guadalcanal, was commanded by Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haroyoshi, a representative of Japanese soldiers who was deeply influenced by the spirit of bushido.

But Hyakutake Haruyoshi was also an excellent commander, and he studied Guadalcanal for two months, laying a lot of defenses, and in his words, the enemy had to fall at least 100,000 men if he wanted to capture Guadalcanal.

The more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers of the 17th Army had no idea of leaving Guadalcanal alive, and in the past two months, the natives of Guadalcanal and 3,000 laborers had been killed by these Japanese, because they would consume more food if they were alive.

However, it is impossible for 20,000 people to completely hide in the island.

In the early morning of the same day, when the 1st Division had completely landed, the Japanese 17th Army also planned a counteroffensive.

Green signal lights rose into the air, and many Japanese wearing white headbands, under the cover of early morning night, launched an attack on the Red Guard landing force.

With the help of the cover of the dense forest, in the dark night, the Japanese soldiers, who were already familiar with the place, frantically rushed to the improvised defense line established by the assault battalion.

In the darkness of the night, under flares, the assault battalion also quickly launched a counterattack, and with the help of foxholes dug in the woods, a dense cross-cover fire was soon formed.

Nearly eight hundred Japanese soldiers, shouting long live, rushed to the defensive line, dense fire, covered by mortars and grenadiers, the Japanese attack, there was no intention of dodging at all.

For this kind of opponent, the Red Police Regiment had already learned in another time and space, and it did not panic at all, and opened fire with heavy machine gun fire, calling for naval artillery support.

It was only a brief confrontation, and it quickly fell silent for half an hour, and none of the more than 800 Japanese soldiers attacking retreated, and the bullets were all hit head-on.

For this kind of enemy, the Red Guard Regiment is even more ruthless than them, and there are constantly flares rising into the air, and there is no trace of the enemy at all.

It is clear that the tentative offensive of the Japanese failed, and they really tasted the terrible combat power of the Red Alert Empire.