However, this is not a difficult task for Zhang Chi.

To be exact, it is not a difficult task for the Chinese military...... On the domestic battlefield, the Chinese army has long been accustomed to fighting the Japanese army without air supremacy and no artillery superiority, so they have their own set of effective methods for the bombing of the Japanese army.

This method is actually very simple, that is, to add fuel tactics, arrange a small number of troops on the mountain ridge, so that they can disperse the defense, so that the bombardment of the Japanese naval artillery and aircraft is not easy to cause too many casualties, and at the same time, because the terrain of the mountain range is easy to defend and difficult to attack, plus the mountain is not high, it only takes less than ten minutes for the soldiers to replenish the mountain from the bottom of the mountain ridge, so they can make up the firepower gap before the Japanese army kills up.

In addition, the bombing of the Japanese Navy and the Japanese Army were always unable to cooperate...... At all, I don't know if the Japanese Navy intended to do this or if there was no tacit understanding, and the Japanese Army was always unable to rush up in time after the bombing of Japanese warships and planes.

Sometimes it was the Japanese army that rushed up late, and the soldiers were already waiting for them on the mountains, needless to say, a bullet and a grenade must have dropped them again.

Sometimes it was the Japanese Army that rushed up early...... Once, the Japanese bombers who rushed up and were unsuspecting dropped a 250-kilogram bomb, so they shook all the Japanese soldiers who rushed halfway, and even some Japanese soldiers were shocked to death, and there was no injury visible on their appearance, that is, they were bleeding from the seven orifices, and they were afraid that their internal organs had been damaged. Another time was when the Japanese army came up, the warship also "dongdong" a burst of heavy bombing, although the Chinese army was also on the mountain ridge at this time, but the Chinese army was hiding in the trenches, so the Japanese army was only blown up again.

Later, Zhang Chi learned that this was actually caused by poor communication between the Japanese army and navy.

It is true that there are radios between them, but they cannot communicate with the sea, land and air forces at the same time...... To put it simply, don't look at the small number of troops that the Navy has drawn to the Army. There is only one warship and two bombers, but this number of troops, together with the army, is the three major arms of the sea, the army, and the air force, and it is not an easy task to get these three arms to fight a battle together, especially at this time the Japanese army's communication equipment still has various problems.

For example, if the army wants to contact the bombers, it can only contact the staff of the navy's Abe Hiroki, and the staff will forward the order to the "Flying Eagle" aircraft carrier, and then the aircraft carrier will issue instructions to the bombers. If you want to contact a warship, you need to go through several procedures in the same way, and sometimes the staff will even send the wrong instructions to the warship to the bombers...... As a result, the Japanese army was in chaos, and Yuji Takeda, who was so angry that he commanded the battle, scolded for a while.

After tossing and turning like this for a while, the Japanese army seems to have finally found a solution...... They simply abandoned the radio. Flag command warships and bombers on Mount Austin.

Not to mention, this method is a bit dirty, but it can solve the coordination problem very well, at least this information will not be as chaotic as before.

But the Japanese navy and air force could see it, and the Chinese army could also see it, so when a Japanese soldier appeared and waved a small flag on the mountain, the artillery fired a few shells at once, and soon the devil who was playing the flag and the flag were blown up into the sky.

As a result, the battle situation on Kuah Island was stalemate near this mountain range for a while, and even if the Japanese army sent reinforcements, it was still unable to push forward further.

Just when the battle on Kuah Island was at a stalemate. A new situation has emerged for aircraft carriers in the eastern seas.

This time, the U.S. military will have better luck, because they were the first to discover the Japanese ship.

The US military was tasked with the reconnaissance mission by the USS Ballard, and it sent the USS Katerina seaplane to reconnoiter everywhere and reaped the benefits through their efforts.

Nine thirty o'clock. A seaplane spotted the Japanese "Striker" fleet.

At ten o'clock, another seaplane spotted the "main" fleet of the Japanese army and began to track.

In other words, at this time, the US Navy had discovered all three aircraft carriers of the Japanese army used to fight against the US Navy.

But alas. Since the seaplane did not dare to get too close to reconnoiter ...... Seaplanes are slow, with a top speed of only 274 kilometers per hour, almost half of the top speed of the Zero. So if it was discovered by a Japanese warship, it would be a dead end.

So the seaplanes could only follow from a distance, and at first they thought they were Japanese battleships and escort ships, and thought that they were going to reinforce the Japanese army fighting on Kuah Island.

Therefore, Kincaid did not intend to attack them, because he was afraid that after attacking these Japanese warships, the Japanese aircraft carriers would be discovered and become the target of the attack.

It wasn't until two hours later that the seaplanes were stunned to find the Japanese aircraft carriers in the ship group, so they realized that they had followed the Japanese aircraft carrier battle group in a daze without realizing it.

However, at this time, an opportunity to attack had already been missed, because at this time, the Japanese aircraft carrier formation and the US aircraft carrier battle group were already 355 nautical miles apart, which was beyond the attack range of the US carrier-based aircraft.

At this time, Kincaid couldn't help but feel sorry for missing this opportunity to attack, because as we all know, the most important thing in the battle between aircraft carriers is "the enemy discovers first, and the enemy attacks first."

The reason is very simple, if the enemy aircraft carrier is discovered first and the enemy aircraft carrier does not find itself, then the enemy aircraft carrier will only be beaten, and the enemy's carrier-based aircraft will not know where the target of attack is even if it takes off. If you can damage or even sink an enemy carrier, then you will save your own carrier from attack and win a big victory, even if you don't damage the enemy carrier, being able to destroy the carrier-based aircraft on its deck will make your own carrier a lot less threatening.

But now Kincaid can only "look at the ocean and sigh".

Halsey, upon receiving this information, immediately ordered Kincaid to pursue.

Halsey's order was: "Attack!" Repeat, attack! ”

So Kincaid immediately changed course and ordered the aircraft carrier to increase its speed to 27 knots and approach the Japanese aircraft carrier, and at this time the Japanese still did not know the location of the American aircraft carrier.

From this point of view, Yamamoto 56's tactic of "fighting from a distance" is still very useful sometimes, because if it were not for the fact that the Japanese aircraft carrier was outside the combat radius of the US aircraft carrier, I was afraid that the Japanese aircraft carrier would be attacked by the US military with all its might.

Through intelligence, it was learned that the direction of movement of the two Japanese fleets had not changed, so Kincaid judged that the Japanese still did not get the position of the American aircraft carrier, otherwise they would have reacted at this time.

Through calculations, Kincaid knew that the American military could catch up with the Japanese aircraft carrier in the afternoon and launch an attack, so he asked the American pilots to be ready for battle.

(To be continued.) )