Meng Xiang used a variety of means to finally dispel the scruples of the Americans, and when Kuah Island was blocked by the Japanese, he continued to invest in the army.

Even when the two sides fought the most intensely, Huaxia did not make any changes in Australia, but only tried to improve the defense system of the Australian mainland.

Even the Japanese saw the strangeness of the Chinese situation, and after several attempts to confirm, not only did the Chinese not continue to attack the few neighboring islands that were within easy reach in Australia, but even Sakhalin Island, which was ready to be arrowed in the north, was not launched for a long time.

In the face of the stronger attacks of the Americans, the Japanese still relaxed their defense against China and concentrated their forces against the Americans.

The gap between the bottom line of the negotiations between the two sides is too far, and the Americans want to stand up for their authority, so they directly rejected the so-called peace talks proposed by the Japanese, vowing to wash away the shame of the previous two years.

As the operation of the war machine became more and more perfect, the Americans became more and more confident in fighting in the two oceans. Taking advantage of the fact that the Chinese seemed incapable of expanding, the Americans broke out.

A steady stream of ships came from the rear, some of which continued to support Kuah Island, while some of them were carrying Marines and Army Support Units, under the cover of sea and air, preparing to take the island directly. Moreover, the target of the first round of island seizure is not Kuah Island, but New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu behind it. One is to eliminate the threat behind it, and the other is to build a safe supply base behind you.

Under the continuous aerial struggle, even if the Japanese occasionally succeeded in counterattacking, on the whole, the Japanese air power was constantly shrinking, and it was not even enough to support Fiji and other places, and the U.S. fleet in the Coral Sea contained the Japanese sea power and could not draw troops to support.

The Americans, who pounced with more troops, quickly crushed the Japanese defenses in the coastal waters and hit land.

But they seem to ignore the fact that the Japanese soldiers who had withdrawn from Australia were still congregating in areas such as Fiji and New Caledonia, and that in order to prevent the Americans from taking advantage of these places. They also stationed nearly a hundred thousand troops on these front-line islands.

Even if it is pulled backwards. As long as it was the main warships of the navy and some fighters, the strength of the army did not decrease much, and the 120,000 Japanese troops have been holding their breath and waiting for the arrival of American soldiers.

When the U.S. Marines relied on the cover of powerful naval guns and aerial bombardment to storm the island in Vanuatu. New Caledonia, the main attack of the U.S. Army, is in trouble, while the Fiji Islands, which are jointly attacked by the Marine Corps and the Army, are in big trouble.

The Japanese knew that they could not hold the coast, so they simply let the Americans land on it. It gave the Americans a hard blow on the coastline and even inland.

Ever since they experienced the saturation of artillery from China, the Japanese had long since learned to develop underground and caves. Under the threat of the Japanese bayonets, the local natives and the white captives were exhausted, and half of the fortified forts built after they were exhausted withstood the test of American artillery fire.

The Americans' initial 24-hour dismounting-style naval artillery and aerial bombardment to clear the field did not hurt the Japanese at all.

When the American GIs landed on the target island, treading on the soft soil still covered with artillery fire and the scorched black color, they did not wait for the rejoicing of the messy coastline before the Japanese machine guns and artillery retaliated.

Except that the islands of Vanuatu are too small. So that the Japanese could only retreat on Santo Island, stuck the last shield, and let the Americans advance smoothly. The first round of attacks on the islands of New Caledonia and Fiji ended in failure.

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"Are these dwarfs all rats?" Lieutenant General Alexander Patch scolded anxiously.

His American division was damaged by more than a quarter. Still ahead of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island.

The artillery fire of the Americans seems to have plowed the front-line positions along the entire coastline three times, but there are always Japanese people jumping out of the smoke of gunpowder. Charging frantically towards the landing American troops.

He stood on the battleship and watched through the binoculars as the American troops hurriedly retreated as soon as they landed on the beach, but there was nothing he could do.

If he were to put a machine gun behind their backs like the Russians, I am afraid that before the military court tried him, there would be soldiers who shot him behind his back.

"We need more firepower, but the damn goats can't make their horns sharper!" He could only continue to curse on his feet.

When the American army encounters hard bones, the first thing it counts on is fire cover. Now Patch's army relied only on naval warships and naval aircraft for fire support.

It's a pity that most of the main warships of the navy are in the Coral Sea after clearing the threat on the periphery of the island, and the remaining main force has also gone to support the attack of the marines, and the support firepower assigned to the army here is naturally less.

Originally, this was nothing, and Patch had previously shouted that he didn't need the Navy's long-barreled cannons to get the Japanese to raise their hands and surrender. But now he has a problem, and he desperately wants more fire support from the Navy.

It's a little hard to say, so I can only curse a few words at the Bill mascot.

"If only the chief were still here!" He sighed in his heart.

He was talking about MacArthur, who is now under investigation in Washington.

If MacArthur was there, he dared to run directly to Nimitz and scold. However, the new commander-in-chief of the army has not yet been issued, so that there is no unified command of the army's operations, and even if MacArthur's chief of staff, Vice Admiral Sutherland, is a hardliner, he still cannot replace MacArthur's position and suppress the army and the powerful US Navy.

With his tutor and the connections he had accumulated over the years, MacArthur's strength was not something that anyone else could replace, especially in Asia, where there were very few active officers in the entire U.S. Army who could replace him in the Pacific Army.

This is one of the reasons why Washington has been slow to make a decision.

Although many people in the United States are still blaming MacArthur for his failure, mainstream public opinion has already tilted in his favor.

The Philippines retreated, with an order from Washington.

Australia is not American's, and the loss of the loss to the Americans is not fatal, except that the casualties are too large to be outraged by the people, as if other reasons cannot shake MacArthur's background background.

Many public opinion is making him a tragic hero that the American people like more, and pushing the failure to the objective conditions. It seems that the empty seat will continue to be reserved for him, but there is still a transition time, and he can only miss this time to land on the island.

However, this vacant seat still aroused the coveting of many people in the US military, thinking that the opportunity had come.

This landing on the island did not mean that the superiors observed and assessed it.

Originally, the cooperation between the sea and land was somewhat poor in this action of the Americans, and the army did not have a strong unity, and there was a tendency for the army to fight its own battles.

This is the kind of combat horror that is similar to the Chinese army built with the backbone of clone soldiers who absolutely obey orders. Without internal constraints, the strongest strength will burst out. But what army in the world has no conflicting interests within itself, and can have only one voice like the vanguard army?

At least not the U.S. military.

Pache relied on the newly promoted lieutenant general to exert a greater influence on the navy, and it was difficult to unify the offensive deployment even within the army.

Lacking much outside support, Patch seems to have exhausted all means, but there is still no sign of breaking through the Japanese defenses.

"It seems that the Marines didn't succeed either." His lieutenant reminded understandingly.

He knew the reason for his commander's anxiety, and he was joined by the Marines, who were always at odds with the Army, to attack Fiji.

The American Navy always seems to have found a part of the reason to mock the Army in the elite Marine Corps.

If the Marines, who have sufficient support from the Navy, take the lead in opening up the situation on the side of Vanua, the second largest island in Fiji, it will undoubtedly bring greater humiliation to the American Division on this side.

Patch breathed a sigh of relief.

"General Vandergraft also seems to be in trouble on Santo Island!" The adjutant continued.

The news of the 1st Marine Division's rapid progress in Vanuatu also put a lot of pressure on the Army, but they also ran into a similar nail on Santo Island, where the Japanese had retreated.

The fortifications of the Japanese were not afraid of ordinary naval artillery bombardment, and even if large-caliber naval guns went down, they achieved little success. The Japanese, who had learned enough lessons from the Chinese Pioneer Army, had already connected everything with holes and trenches, and would not be stupid enough to stay in one place and be bombed.

With the largest naval guns only supported by heavy cruisers, the Marines can't do anything about it.

Even if they had enough courage, they were still slightly inferior to the madness of the Japanese.

Although the Japanese have various countermeasures, the saturation firepower attacks of the US military without money are not vegetarian, and the casualties of the Japanese are also rising.

The Americans did not know that the Japanese had also suffered heavy losses, and even lost more than half of them in some places, but they were frightened and hesitated by their own casualties of more than 30,000.

MacArthur's greatest dissatisfaction with the people was the huge casualties, and there were more than 30,000 casualties in such an offensive.

The rough estimates made by the staff officers were unacceptable to the US military, and no one dared to take such a risk.

This time, the attack on the island was unexpectedly delayed, and the two sides fell into a standoff.

The first landing of the Americans on the island was a failure.