That's right, Kawaguchi Kiyoken's mind was not waiting for reinforcements to arrive, but how to take Kuah Island back from the Sino-American coalition.

It was not that Kiyoken Kawaguchi was unaware of the enemy's forces, in fact he made contact with the remnants of Ichiki after landing on the island, and obtained some more detailed information from them, such as the Chinese troops stationed in the west and east, and the American troops stationed in the south, with a total strength of about 10,000 men.

Even Kiyoken Kawaguchi sent a reconnaissance force to the top of Mount Austin to condescendingly observe the entire Cape Lunga, and drew a more detailed military map, and even the deployment of the Sino-American coalition forces.

It's a bit hard to imagine.

If Kawaguchi Kiyoken had so much information, and there was a previous experience of the disastrous defeat of the Ichiki detachment, how could Kawaguchi Kiyoken still set a strategic goal of occupying Kuah Island with 5,000 troops against the enemy with 10,000 troops?!

But in fact, it is not surprising at all, because the Japanese Army has a problem with arrogance, and when facing the enemy, they never think that the combat strength of the enemy is one to one.

For example, when they face Chinese troops, they generally estimate them at 1:10, and only 1:5 against Chinese elite troops, and against American soldiers...... Because American soldiers often have advanced equipment such as aircraft and tanks, they will use the ratio of one to three or one to two.

So with this calculation, Kawaguchi Kiyoken thought that his troops were enough to drive the Sino-American coalition forces defending Cape Lunga into the sea.

So the telegram he sent to Hyakutake Haruyoshi after doing reconnaissance was: "Crush and annihilate all the enemies near Guadalcanal!"

The deeper reason why Kiyoken Kawaguchi set such a strategic goal, which seems very unrealistic now, is that there is an element of wanting to compare the Japanese Navy to the Navy and embarrass the Navy:

Isn't the Japanese Navy having a headache because of this small island? As soon as the war began, thousands of engineers were captured by the Sino-US coalition forces, not to mention the airport, and later a special marine team said to be an elite was dispatched, and as a result, the elite of the 1,000-strong navy was almost completely wiped out.

Kiyoken Kawaguchi decided that he would fight a beautiful battle of annihilation with 5,000 men in his hands. Let the Japanese Navy see what elite is, let them know what it means to fight!

To put it simply, Kawaguchi is competing with the navy, and it is no wonder that the Japanese vice admiral said ...... The main combat opponent of the Navy was the Japanese Army, and then the enemy.

Without thinking, Hyakutake Haruyoshi agreed to Kawaguchi's plan and ordered the navy to cooperate fully.

In the evening of the same day. Zhang Chi felt that the movements of the Japanese army were a little different.

Before it got dark, more than 30 Type 97 bombers, escorted by Zero fighters, flew over Kuah Island and fired indiscriminately against the south of the US garrison...... In the past, Japanese fighters rarely bombed Kuah Island directly, because Kuah Island was full of jungle and dense grass, and it was difficult to achieve an effective bombing under such circumstances.

This time, the Japanese army will bomb the positions of the US troops, and Zhang Chi believes that the Japanese army is afraid of the firepower of the US army...... Even a fool knows that the firepower of the U.S. military must be stronger in the Sino-US coalition, which is why the U.S. military is deployed in the middle, and the firepower of the U.S. military can reinforce the Chinese troops on both flanks at any time.

So. On the contrary, the Chinese army picked up a bit of a cheap advantage because its firepower was inferior to that of the American army.

Then, just after dark, the Japanese seaplanes began to move in the air again, and this time there were eight of them...... The Japanese heavy cruisers could be equipped with two seaplanes each, which meant that the Japanese had at least four heavy cruisers this time.

"The devil is going to attack!" As he spoke, Zhang Chi grabbed his rifle and ran towards the front line with the guards and communicators.

Zhang Chi's position is not far from the front line, which is of course to grasp the battlefield situation more clearly and in a more timely manner...... Zhang Chi is not the kind of "chief" who only stays in the headquarters and listens to reports.

The cat trotted all the way along the traffic trench, but it took ten minutes to run to the front line.

Here is the line of defense of the first battalion, on which the fighters have long been ready for battle. At this time, when I saw Zhang Chi coming up, he hurriedly shouted one by one: "Tuanza!" ”

Zhang Chi didn't speak, and ran all the way to the front-line headquarters of his fellow villagers. He asked his fellow countryman who was looking at the map: "What's the situation?" ”

"Tuanza!" The fellow replied: "There is basically no situation on our front, only a few outposts on the flanks have reported the presence of the enemy!" ”

Outposts are outposts that are deployed at the front of the defensive line, not to stop the enemy or stop the enemy, but to detect the enemy's intentions before they attack.

"What location?" Zhang Chi asked again.

"Here, and here......" the fellow countryman pointed out two points.

Seeing these two points, Zhang Chi couldn't help frowning, those two positions were indeed like what the countrymen said. It was the flank of the new regiment.

More importantly, this flank is the junction of the Chinese and American coalition forces.

This shows that the Japanese army in front of it has done enough intelligence work, so it knows the deployment of the Sino-US coalition forces and has formulated a targeted battle plan before launching an attack.

The joint forces of the Chinese and American coalitions are indeed a soft threat in the defensive line.

This is mainly due to the language barrier between the Chinese and American militaries and the lack of coordination, especially in the dark night, especially the Chinese's stature is about the same as that of the Japanese...... Just like last time. The two armies almost had a misunderstanding when they surrounded the Ichiki detachment.

It should be said that this is also an old trick played by the Japanese army, but as the code of conduct for American soldiers says: "If a stupid method works on the battlefield, then it is the smartest method."

This trick of the Japanese army proved to be very effective, so they always moved it to the battlefield again and again.

"Pete!" In the next second, Zhang Chi said to Pete, who was following behind: "Call Colonel Clifton...... Tell him that the main direction of attack of the Japanese is the positions where the American troops are stationed, and the focus is on the two flanks of the American positions, that is, the junction of the Chinese and American lines! ”

"Yes!" Pete quickly hung up the phone on his walkie-talkie to Clifton.

After a while, Pete raised his head and called out to Zhang Chi, who was holding a telescope a few meters away: "Zhang...... The colonel asks you how to solve this problem! ”

Zhang Chi ran back a little helplessly to take the phone, and then he heard Clifton's somewhat flustered voice in the microphone: "Zhang, this will make us a mess, the Japanese will take advantage of the chaos to kill from the junction, and will let us fight each other!" ”

"No, they won't!" Zhang Chi replied: "Tell everyone to lie on the ground when you encounter an unrecognizable situation, and then knock down all the people who are standing!" ”

For this, the expeditionary force is much more experienced than the American army.

(To be continued.) )