"Your Excellency Marshal Yamamoto, the commander of the Marine Corps, General Fukuda, has called that the first wave of landing forces has seized the landing ground on the beach, but the casualties are also very heavy. He hoped to continue to provide artillery support and to send out aviation to cover their advance. An officer stood behind Yamamoto and reported loudly.

Yamamoto stared at the sea not far away, and was silent for a while before asking, "How much is the loss of the landing force?"

General Fukuda's telegram said that there were 6,100 soldiers...... About 1,500 U.S. servicemen were killed. The officer, apparently feeling that the number was too much, bowed his head as he answered, and his voice grew lower and lower.

Yamamoto smiled bitterly, his landing force suffered heavy losses in 3 hours, and even under such favorable conditions, it was necessary to pay such a terrible price for attacking the islands heavily guarded by the United States, which showed that the strength of the Americans was growing, and the strength of the Japanese offensive was weakening.

"Keep the shelling!" Time didn't allow him to think too much, and under the watchful eyes of the officers around him, Yamamoto still gave the order to attack. He knew that the losses were a bit big, but once the battle began, it would not be allowed to stop, and that could not be changed. Yamamoto knew very well that as long as the Japanese attack was stopped by the Americans, then the next situation would be led by the Americans, not by the Japanese--this initiative, he had to fight.

"Boom!" With a huge explosion, a Japanese Navy shell landed in the depths of Forte on Kauai. The U.S. defensive positions also began to collapse with this huge explosion. 300 U.S. soldiers were surrounded on the beachhead, while another 1,100 U.S. troops were engaged in a heavy exchange of fire with Japanese soldiers on the second line of inland defense. They can't retreat, because behind them is the core of Kauai, including hidden but important reserve points and hidden killer moves.

Ten American M3lee tanks drove out of the hidden bunker, this is the last resort for the Americans to counterattack, for the Japanese, especially for the Japanese landing force with no heavy weapons, these 10 M3lee tanks are definitely a headache to counterattack.

In the hidden woods, the American tanks soon approached the beachhead, and when these tanks appeared in front of the Japanese soldiers, there was no surprise that the Japanese landing force was rightfully panicked. The total combat weight of American tanks is 27 tons, because they have to undertake the task of dealing with German tanks, so many American tanks have thickened the armor at the front, and the weight is close to 29 tons, which is definitely a behemoth for the Japanese army with only small tanks.

"Boom!" Although the 75mm gun on the side of the M3lee tank was a little worse than the German tank, it was definitely enough to attack the Japanese infantry. In an instant, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were hit by tank artillery and fell to the ground. At the same time, the machine guns on the tank began to roar, and more Japanese soldiers who crossed the trench and attacked had to retreat into the trench to avoid the hail of bullets.

"Get as close as you can to the beach!" "Get the Japanese soldiers out into the sea!" a tank commander radioed to his accomplices, who was loading a 37 mm turret gun because they had used it to eliminate a Japanese grenadier position that was firing incessantly.

As the American tanks rushed into the middle of the Japanese army and went on a rampage, several Japanese fighters patrolling nearby in the sky began to dive down, all of which carried small bombs for ground attack, and although the attack accuracy was not much better, it was timely and powerful. Several planes dropped all their bombs, destroying 4 American tanks, and they ran out of ammunition and had to turn back, leaving the remaining tanks to continue to wreak havoc in their accomplices' positions.

"You are the proudest warriors of His Majesty the Emperor! For the sake of the motherland and the great Emperor, we must achieve the victory in front of us! Even if you die here, your soul will return to the shrine and be worshiped by all the Japanese people day and night!" a Japanese officer stood fiercely in front of his soldiers, shouting loudly.

In front of him, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were wrapped in white cloths and tearing their muddy and dusty military shirts. Soon they revealed the white vest inside, as well as the "Thousand Seams" wrapped around their stomachs. These Japanese soldiers raised their hands and shouted loudly the slogan of His Majesty the Emperor, as if they were really invincible in the world at this moment.

The men then took the explosives from their companions behind them and ran towards the American tanks that had already driven not far away. They gradually approached the American tanks in the trenches and then waited for the other side to come, or carefully climbed out of the trenches and used the tank's dead spots to approach these huge steel monsters.

This is a trick learned from the Far East Nomenkan and the Chinese opponents, the Japanese paid the tuition with blood, and learned from the battle of Nomenkan that their tanks were indeed no match for European countries. So the Japanese used the same way the Chinese dealt with Japanese tanks against Soviet tanks, and now they are repeating their old tricks to destroy American tanks.

Stupid methods can sometimes work well, especially after risking your life. The Americans apparently did not expect that the Japanese would send death squads that were not afraid of death to blow up their tanks, and they did not stand up to cover each other to shoot, but they were still approached by the Japanese death squads and blew up three M3lee tanks. The remaining American tanks were eventually forced to retreat, and the plan to rescue the encircled American soldiers ultimately failed.

But the Americans didn't give up on Kauai, and they fought desperately in the rest of Kauai, and the two sides fought fiercely for 36 hours, and the gunfire on Kauai was still intense. The Japanese Navy had to abandon its plan to occupy the entire Hawaiian Islands in three days, and ordered troops to completely dismantle Kauai before attacking Oahu.

Little by little, the battle between the two sides on Kauai Island has become white-hot, with the number of American troops decreasing while the number of Japanese troops landing on the coast is gradually increasing. The balance of power began to tip in favor of the Japanese, and the American soldiers began to be divided and surrounded by insufficient forces, and their positions were compressed in the direction of Oahu.

On September 1, 1938, Japan finally took possession of the island by killing the last 17 resisting American soldiers on Kauai. However, compared to the 2,900 soldiers killed by the U.S. military on the island, 900 soldiers surrendered, the Japanese lost a full 9,700 on the island, almost turning an entire Marine Division into a state of scrap.

Unlike the U.S. forces in the Philippines, which were defeated at the slightest engagement, and Allied forces elsewhere, this time the Japanese really felt the formidable military power that the United States had placed on its home defense system. The Americans began to fight for every inch of territory, and the firepower and strength of the defense made the Japanese feel tremendous pressure.

Subsequently, the Japanese had to postpone the attack on the nearby island of Oahu due to lack of troops. This time, in order to attack the Hawaiian Islands, Yamamoto 56 mobilized two Marine Corps divisions, which were about 34,000 troops, and the result was that more than a quarter of the troops were lost on a small Kauai, which surprised everyone.

In the end, the base camp decided to mobilize two more army divisions nearby to strengthen the expeditionary force under the command of Yamamoto Isoroku, so that he could continue to attack Oahu and the other islands behind.

Of course, the cessation of the Japanese attack left more time for the Americans to prepare, and unlike Kauai, Oahu can be said to be the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and an important U.S. military base in the Pacific, so the U.S. troops on Oahu reached a staggering 20,000, which is four times more than the U.S. defense on Kauai.

These forces had strong fortifications, even the cover and support of batteries, and the artillery on Oahu was much larger than on Kauai, and the Japanese would have to pay a much heavier price to occupy it. Measured by the proportion of losses on Kauai, the Japanese may have had to lose a full 30,000 men here to capture this important U.S. military base.

On September 20, 1938, the hot summer of the year was coming to an end, and the largest battlefield in the world, with the exception of the Balkans, where the war was raging, was not in Europe, but in the calm Pacific Ocean.

In the distant sea of Sydney, Australia, a destroyer flying a red and black rice flag slowly approached the port city, which had withered slightly. The destroyer approached cautiously, and the signal light on the mast was playing an internationally accepted code signal.

"I'm a destroyer from England, a destroyer from Scotland and England! I hope I can dock here! We have no malice! We have no malice!" over and over again, the destroyer repeatedly sent this signal to identify itself.

Eventually, the destroyer docked safely at a pier in Sydney, where a German officer wearing the Iron Cross descended from the staircase, followed by an officer wearing a British Navy uniform and a German Navy cap.

"You're the first warship to come here since the Great Withdrawal began. They were received by an officer of the Australian Army, and the Australian Navy had taken their families back to the United States, leaving behind mostly poor abandoned fellows. However, the officer was neatly dressed and did not speak nervously: "I am the supreme defense officer here, do you need any help?"