Rabaul under the rainstorm is still full of busyness.

Japanese soldiers in raincoats are like industrious bees, carrying all kinds of supplies.

During this period, more than 60,000 elite Japanese troops were stationed in Rabaul, which was strengthened by the Eighth Front Army after placing its headquarters here.

But in Fan Yize's eyes, the Japanese soldiers here will soon be isolated from the world.

Although the Red Guard Corps is not the US military in history, it will not choose to fight for the Pacific islands occupied by Japan one by one, and will still use island-hopping tactics similar to those of the US military.

Fan Yize was very patient, and after spending several days near Rabaul, he was even in the mood to build a shelter for himself deep in the jungle.

It's not that he has nowhere to go, but that New Guinea, to which Rabaul belongs, will soon become the focus of contention between the two armies.

As he expected, the Japanese had decided to abandon the already defeated island of Guadalcanal, intending to try to pick up the Japanese troops on Guadalcanal, but the operation failed again.

The Japanese Navy, which already did not have many ships, did not have a second option.

The Japanese forces on Guadalcanal were abandoned, which was expected, and the fighting for the entire Solomon Islands ended.

The Eighth Front, which was supposed to recover Guadalcanal, was also ordered by the Japanese military headquarters to operate with the goal of occupying all of New Guinea.

And this is also the purpose of Fan Yize's early morning here.

It's just that compared with the Japanese ambitions for New Guinea, Fan Yize actually wants to completely eliminate Rabaul and the surrounding garrisons.

Japan's control over New Guinea is actually not at all, but it only controls Rabaul, has troops nearby, and has a very weak control over New Guinea, an island like a continent.

Today, when the village is focused on New Guinea, the air force of the Red Alert Empire no longer intends to remain silent.

Since the outbreak of the war against Japan, the air force has always been petty in its fights, because the tropical oceanic climate is really capricious.

And the Red Alert Air Force is not a real all-weather combat unit at present, and it does not have the ability to fight continuously around the clock.

In addition, in order to paralyze the Japanese, since the Guadalcanal War, the performance of the Air Force has not been bright.

In New Guinea, the Air Force is also trying to change the status quo, planning a super-massive air strike on Rabaul.

However, it is a pity that the bomber group has just departed from Australia, and when Fan Yize was planning to enjoy the beautiful fireworks show, the bomber group returned again due to thunderstorms.

It's not that the Air Force doesn't work hard, it's that the weather really doesn't cooperate.

But the actions of the Navy and Army did not stop because of the weather.

Australia is a super island in a broad sense, shaped like a sleeping pair. Peak camel with head facing west and tail facing east.

Darwin Harbour is on the tip of its hump to the west, and the hump to the east is Cape York. Brisbane's location is in its fart. On the strand, Melbourne is on the root of its tail.

1,400 nautical miles east of Melbourne is New Zealand. Heading north from Cape York, across the Torres Strait, 100 nautical miles wide, arrives at Irian Island.

Irian is only smaller than Greenland and is the second largest island in the world.

Irian is like a kangaroo lying on the ground, and like a female peacock crawling forward, also with its head facing west and its tail facing east.

The rattail part is called the Papua Peninsula, Mirren Bay is on the tip of the tail in Papua, and Port Moresby is under the tail root. The entire tail is lined with the Owen Stanley Mountains, which are taller and more dangerous than the Qinling Mountains in China.

Lae and Saramaua's town are at the junction of the back and tail. Connecting Lae and Mirren Bay in a straight line, its midpoint is the small fishing villages of Buna and Woona. Connecting Wooner and Moresby, the midpoint is the Kokoda Aboriginal Tribal Village.

Crossing the Channel from Lae landed on the island of New Britain. The famous Rabaul is at its eastern end.

There is a small island at the eastern end of the Vitiaz Strait, and the small strait between the small island and the island of New Britain is called Temple Strait.

It is divided into two along the 141st parallel east longitude: the eastern part is called New Guinea, which was once administered by the Australian government.

Not far north of the neck of the Irian kangaroo is a small island of Biak. Kangaroos have their heads fixed on the group of islands known as the Maluku Islands, the spice islands that Europeans dreamed of for centuries and for which Magellan sailed around the world.

The northernmost island of the Maluku archipelago is Morotai, which is located just 220 nautical miles from the Bird's Head Peninsula in western Irion.

New Guinea's centre of gravity is Port Moresby. The Japanese high command set it as the terminus of a strategic offensive to the south.

Once you control it, you can use bombers to bomb any Australian city and island within a radius of 2,000 kilometers as long as Brisbane.

And this time, the Japanese navy also fully agreed with the army's operational plan and attacked Port Moresby directly from the sea.

To this end, the Japanese Navy dispatched all the warships that the Combined Fleet was able to dispatch.

With the aircraft carriers Shozuru and Zuizuru of the Fifth Air Fleet of the Japanese Navy as the mainstay, and the two cruisers of the cruiser fleet as the escort core, they set off from the port of Truk.

At the same time, the Japanese Navy's light aircraft carrier Shoho in Rabaul, a landing cover fleet of eight cruisers and six destroyers, also departed from Rabaul.

Then the convoy of transports actually escorting the Japanese Army soldiers departed again from Rabaul, and this convoy of fourteen troop transports, protected by one cruiser and six destroyers, approached the target Port Moresby.

And more than a hundred fighters in Rabaul airfield, which are also able to serve as battlefield support.

Japan's first fleet, the target of the aircraft carrier Shoho, swooped directly at the target, Port Moresby.

The second fleet, the Fifth Air Fleet, was to support the landing operation in the nearby waters.

The three fleets set off at different times, but the goal was the same, and the time was calculated in detail.

Fan Yize got the details of the movements of the Japanese Navy as soon as possible, and the White Tiger Fleet, which had already been preparing for launch, also acted quickly.

There are only three Japanese aircraft carriers, which is not much of a threat to the seven main aircraft carriers of the White Tiger fleet.

However, compared with the number of existing aircraft carriers in Japan, this fleet of the Japanese Navy can be regarded as a feast.

The storm and clouds converged in the waters near Port Moresby, and Vice Admiral Inoue, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet and the escort fleet, whose ambition was not only to escort the landing force, but also to try to find an opportunity to bring shame to the United Fleet.