Sure enough, Yamamoto did not disappoint Fifty-six, and he soon received information that the American fleet had left the port...... This was provided by the Japanese spies who had arranged in advance near the harbor, and of course, these spies only knew that the fleet was leaving the port but could not determine where the fleet was heading.

So Yamamoto Isoroku immediately ordered the aircraft carrier "Hayabusa" to send fighter planes to reconnoiter around.

This time, it was not Fletcher who commanded the US aircraft carrier battle group, but Kincaid.

Kincaid made a mistake as soon as he got on the court......

Before he became the commander of the aircraft carrier, the US Navy was divided into two factions, one faction was led by Fletcher, who advocated the joint use of the two aircraft carriers, so that the two aircraft carriers could support each other. On the other hand, led by Knox, advocates that aircraft carriers be used separately, which will reduce the probability of being detected and attacked at the same time.

And Kincaid has a synthesis of these two factions, that is, neither too separate nor united...... The two carrier battle groups are 10 nautical miles (18 kilometers) apart, and his idea may be that the two carrier battle groups can be separated when they need to be separated, and they can be united in time when they need to be united, that is, they can take the best of both worlds.

But objectively speaking, the views of the two factions of Fletcher and Knox are different, and if Kincaid supports either side, there will be no big problems, and everything has advantages and disadvantages.

However, standing in the middle like Kincaid wants to take advantage of the best of both worlds...... In fact, it was a two-way street: the two carrier battle groups did not reach 15 to 20 nautical miles beyond the pilot's visual range, and they did not operate together as Fletcher had hoped.

As a result, it was discovered by the Japanese at the same time, and because the distance of 10 nautical miles was not short, it was difficult to conduct joint operations, so it laid a crisis for the US Navy from the beginning.

But what surprised everyone was ...... It was not the naval and air battles that really decided the battle, but the land battles on Kuah Island. Yamamoto Fifty-six thought that he could easily win the land battle of Kuah.

"Colonel!" Zhang Chi looked at the map for a while before he said to Clifton on the other end of the phone: "You can retreat to the second line of defense, but can you get the artillery ready to cover us?" ”

Hearing this, Clifton couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "You need artillery cover?" ”

The reason Clifton was so surprised was because he knew that the battle in the direction of the new regiment would be easy, and the Chinese troops could repel the Japanese attack with little effort. But now the artillery units are being asked to provide cover for it?!

"Yes!" Zhang Chi replied: "I think the purpose of the Japanese is to force you to retreat and surround the new flank. ”

"Oh!" Clifton quickly agreed: "No problem, I'll get the artillery part ready!" ”

After putting down the phone, Zhang Chi immediately ordered his fellow villagers: "First battalion commander, immediately transfer the troops to ......."

Zhang Chi looked at the map for a while, then pointed to a point and said: "This, the No. 1 and No. 2 heights are stationed, and the action is fast!" ”

"Yes!" The townsfolk answered, and immediately ran towards the No. 1 and No. 2 heights with a battalion.

Zhang Chi then led his troops to the No. 1 and No. 2 heights...... These two highlands are called highlands. But in fact they were a small overgrown ridge connected together, Heights 1 to the south and Heights 2 to the north, and this ridge was previously outside the Lunga Defensive Circle, so the Chinese and American forces did not pay much attention to it, except for an outpost on it, which was guarded by ******** soldiers to report on the enemy's situation at that moment.

But now, because this small ridge is located on the left flank of the new regiment. So it immediately became important.

After the townsmen arrived here with their troops, without saying a word, they led the soldiers to dig trenches and communication trenches with sapper shovels...... I don't know why. Japanese fighters and bombers flew over the heads of the fighters several times, only to frighten the soldiers to lie down, but the Japanese fighters did not react at all.

After a few moments, the soldiers became bolder, and the Japanese fighters did not care about the flying of the Japanese fighters, and they did not even take care of the action of falling down to build the fortifications.

Ten minutes later, there was even a seaplane flying over the mountain. Then, with a "snap", a large package with a parachute was dropped towards the mountain.

Fellow villagers and others went up to open it and take a look...... It turned out to be compressed biscuits and canned food.

Seeing this, the hooligan couldn't help but wonder: "This little Japan, is it a change of sex or what's wrong today?" ”

"These biscuits ......" Xiao Zhejiang asked with some confusion, "It can't be poisonous!" ”

"Poisonous bird!" The hooligan scolded: "If they really want to deal with us, they can just drop the bomb, why bother throwing food down and poisoning us to death?" ”

Without saying a word, he stuffed the biscuit into his mouth.

Zhang Chi found out later. This turned out to be a Japanese pilot who mistakenly thought it was the Japanese Army.

In fact, they are not to blame, the Japanese naval aviation did not have much contact with the Japanese army, and at this time, they saw the soldiers below who were not tall building fortifications...... Not being tall means that they are not Americans, and it is more likely that the fortifications are Japanese, because the Sino-American coalition forces are on the defensive side, and their fortifications have already been built. So they took it for granted that it was Japanese.

It was only later, when the Japanese Army repeatedly asked the air force to bomb the mountains, that the Japanese air force realized that they were making a joke.

There was only enough time for the soldiers to simply build a trench and a cat's ear hole, and then the outpost came with a message over the radio: "The devil has come up, there is a brigade!" ”

"Get ready for battle!

"Get ready for battle!"

……

One by one, the orders went down.

Zhang Chi set up his sniper rifle in front of the trench and looked through the weeds in the sniper scope towards a jungle three hundred meters away.

At first, there was no movement, and even Zhang Chi suspected that the sentinels at the outpost had made a false alarm, but it didn't take long to see several Japanese soldiers with rifles and marching quilts on their backs coming out of the jungle, and they cautiously looked around for a while, and then waved their hands behind them.

In the next second, a large number of Japanese soldiers suddenly appeared in the jungle, all of them were neatly dressed and steady, and they knew at a glance that they were a strong force...... This is the mental outlook of a unit, you must know that these Japanese troops have survived the situation of starvation for a long time, and the other troops have long been ragged and embarrassed, but the Japanese army in front of them is still majestic, so even if the battle does not start, you know that their combat effectiveness is extraordinary.

(To be continued.) )