Accardo's visit to the King Tiger tank production workshop is just one of the many events that have caught the world's attention in the decisive battle for Kauai Island in the Pacific Ocean.

The U.S. Navy's two aircraft carrier fleets, the USS Raider and the USS Hornet, headed south and cut into the route between the Japanese mainland and the Australian port of Darwin, causing panic among the nearby Japanese Army.

As a result, the Japanese Combined Fleet was forced to abandon its plan to immediately return to Kauai, and led the fleet to the southbound American fleet. As a result, the Combined Fleet counterattack that the Japanese soldiers on Kauai had been looking forward to did not come until the end of October, and the two divisions of Japanese troops on the entire island had been sharply reduced to the strength of one division.

What is even more desperate is that this Japanese army has run out of heavy weapons and shells, lacks basic supplies of food and ammunition, and even has little ammunition left for grenadiers, and its combat effectiveness can be said to have been lost, and the only thing that supports them is the counterattack of the combined fleet and the ethereal blessing of the emperor.

Lieutenant General Fukuda, commander of the 131st Division, had been killed by the Americans in a decisive counterattack not long ago, and the hungry and green-eyed division commander was even helped by two slightly stronger Japanese soldiers when he charged to the death. Many Japanese soldiers were starving and could not even lift their weapons, and they did not even have the strength to shout slogans to strengthen their courage, and some even hoped that they could be killed by the US troops as soon as possible, so as to end this nightmare-like difficult time.

While the Japanese Army was worried about a mouthful of food, a shell, or even a pill on Kauai, the Americans ate canned beef and threw large-caliber howitzers on Kauai to greet these hateful Japanese from the west.

Moreover, the U.S. Navy has not rested at this time, more than a dozen of the latest destroyers have joined the U.S. Navy, and Nimitz has not hesitated to devote itself to the battle of the Kauai anti-submarine blockade. The arrival of these warships immediately plunged the Japanese Navy's submarine transportation into despair, after all, these destroyers were built on the basis of the experience of being ravaged by the Germans, and the anti-submarine capability can be said to be unprecedentedly strong, and it may be a little difficult to deal with German submarines, but when used to deal with Japanese submarines with little actual combat experience, it is simply handy.

In the process of supporting the Japanese army on Kauai, the Japanese Navy has sunk six large ocean-going submarines, although this loss does not sound terrible, but if you think about the sunken submarines but sank to the bottom of the sea together with the materials on the submarines, how many submarines were sunk, how many materials the Japanese soldiers on Kauai Island lost, so you can know what a heavy price the Japanese army paid.

"Those idiots in the base camp are simply accomplices of the Americans!" Nagumo Tadaichi complained depressedly to Marshal Yamamoto 56 beside him, he knew that Yamamoto was preparing to advance eastward first and seize the Hawaiian Islands in one go, and then go south to encircle and annihilate the US aircraft carrier fleet. However, Yamamoto Fifty-six's Jianyì was rejected by the base camp, and these adults who were far away in Japan wanted the combined fleet to ensure the safety of the route against Australia, so the whole fleet had to go south.

As a result, the two divisions on Kauai had to rely on their firm will to fight the Americans, while the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet had to hide from a guerrilla force of the U.S. Navy in the vast expanse of water.

Nagumo Tadaichi can't be blamed for not being able to hold his breath, because Yamamoto received a telegram from the Ministry of the Navy while patrolling the command ship Akagi, claiming that the 7th submarine had lost contact in the waters near Kauai, and that the supply lines of the Japanese Empire to the Japanese army on Kauai had been completely cut off by the U.S. Navy.

Yamamoto Isoroku is now in an extremely depressed mood, and after returning to the Japanese mainland to rest for a few days, his mood is getting heavier and heavier day by day. At a time when the United States has relied on its huge industrial system to produce dozens of destroyers and cruisers, the Japanese naval dockyards on the Japanese mainland are still slowly manufacturing two of the world's most powerful battleships.

Although several veteran diehards of the Japanese Navy Ministry claimed that these two battleships were definitely the most powerful battleships in the world, Yamamoto still felt that it was an unlikely unilateral conjecture to win a war with these two warships, which were unlikely to be commissioned in the short term.

Of course, like all the senior generals of the Japanese Navy, he was not worried about a few submarines, but mainly worried about the impact of the entire Japanese Pacific war situation on Kauai once the Japanese Army was completely annihilated by the United States.

But Nagumo Tadaichi thought a lot more than Yamamoto Isoroku, first of all, he himself belonged to the commander of the air fleet, and he had not been liked by the mainstream Japanese naval generals among the senior commanders of the Japanese Combined Fleet. From the day of its birth, his carrier-based aircraft was regarded as an anomaly by the top brass of the navy, who firmly believed in the idea of big ships and huge guns, so the loss of the submarine to the south made him feel a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

"Nagumo-kun, we are Japanese soldiers, and the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire must take obedience to orders as their duty. Since the commanders of the base camp told us to annihilate the American fleet to the south, we just need to do it, after all, if we can sink the American guerrilla fleet, it will also help to support Kauai. "Isoroku Yamamoto was very grateful that the base camp did not hold the Combined Fleet accountable for the retreat during the Battle of Hawaii, so he decided to repay it now.

So this time, Yamamoto Isoroku took Admiral Kurita's battleship detachment as the pioneer and the aircraft carrier fleet as the core, gathered most of the forces of the combined fleet, and went south to find the American fleet for a strategic decisive battle.

"However, Marshal Yamamoto, we only have the secret weapon Type 1 electric scout installed on the battleship Nagato, and it is not easy to find the American fleet in such a vast sea area, right?" Nagumo Tadaichi, as the commander of the air fleet, naturally had his own worries, and he frowned and asked his doubts.

"There's no way around it, before I came here, there was a problem with the first type of electric scout, and the reconnaissance plane in your hand is the only long-range reconnaissance method we have now, so I came here in order to get first-hand information." Yamamoto said with his hands behind his back. After speaking, he walked to the row of glass windows facing the distance on the bridge, looked at the north and sighed depressedly: "Japanese soldiers on Kauai, I hope you can really hold on a little longer, for the future of the Great Japanese Empire, hold on a little longer!"

To the north of the Combined Fleet, on Kauai, at this time, Vice Admiral Oshima was receiving the encrypted message from the base camp with a trembling hand, and none of the above messages were good for Vice Admiral Oshima. The first few telegrams either told him that he had to hold on alone, or that the sinking of the submarine would delay the delivery of the cargo, and that he was now tempted to smash the radio so that he would not be so well informed.

"In order to support your continued hold on to Kauai, the 7th submarine from the mainland was sunk by the U.S. military, and the cargo can only be delayed. General Oshima smiled wryly and threw the telegram on his desk, which was full of papers.

It was an underground bunker he had on the island, a makeshift reinforcement of the basement of a private house, and the light inside was dim, but it was still durable. The day before yesterday, the last box of American canned food from the seized supplies had been eaten by Oshima, and he had only poor dough to satisfy his hunger these days, and hunger made his complexion very ugly, and the whole person was as hideous as a ghost.

"Bagaya Road! These damn naval bastards! Send a telegram saying that several submarines have been sunk, who knows if it's true? They are playing tricks on us! They are killing the generals of the army with the hands of the Americans!" The Japanese officer, who had succeeded Vice Admiral Fukuda as chief of staff, picked up the telegram from the table, looked at it, and cursed.

They are now at the end of their rope, and it seems that the Americans have no intention of letting go of any Japanese servicemen on Kauai, and their plan is very simple, which is to torture all Japanese troops invading Hawaii with starvation.

On the other side of the wall, there is a small cabinet that has been moved in to store belongings, and on top of it is a radio that is playing inspirational songs that are played 24 hours a day in mainland Japan, most of them sung by children, encouraging the front-line soldiers to fight bravely and be invincible in Australia. The children's voice sounds very inspiring, but the content of the lyrics has nothing to do with me.

The more the staff officer listened, the more angry he became, he reached out and turned off the power switch, and continued to complain: "Australia, Australia! They only remember Australia, aren't we soldiers of the Japanese Empire here? Do they still remember us? Does anyone still remember us on Kauai? Lieutenant General Fukuda ...... Is it in vain?"

"Yaga, shut up, are you an idiot, be cautious in your words and deeds!" Lieutenant General Oshima frowned and loudly reprimanded his subordinates: "We are all the most loyal soldiers of His Majesty the Emperor! Even if we are only for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, only for all the Japanese on the mainland, we will defend this place to the last man!"

He gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Send a telegram to the mainland! Send a telegram in plain code! Just say that Lieutenant General Oshima is determined to live and die with Kauai! I would rather die here in battle than take a step back! His Majesty the Emperor ...... Hooray!"-

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