The Republic of Lanfang, with the personal participation of President Bai Shujie, has carried out extensive nuclear energy research and scientific practice, which cannot be announced to the public.

You can only work quietly, and you don't want to shoot.

During the period when Bai Shujie disappeared, the Solomon Islands was already tense, and now it was at the critical juncture of "the bow is wound and the knife is unsheathed", and the war is about to break out.

The Americans did not "think carefully," "sincerely united," and "orderly" as later generations boasted, but instead "fought for power and profit," "pulled each other's strings," and "passed the buck to each other."

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, under Roosevelt's personal coordination, finally put an end to the dispute between Secretary of War Marshall and Admiral King, Chief of Staff of the Navy, and finally came up with a difficult "lookout" operational plan.

The objectives of the first phase of the operation included the island of Kuah (Guadalcanal) in the southwest Pacific Ocean and the island of Tulagi in the Bering Sea in the northwest.

The purpose of the campaign is twofold:

The most important one is to completely open up the connection between Hawaii and the Southwest Pacific, eliminate the threat of Japanese monkeys to Australia, and build an impregnable strategic base for the Allies.

Second, it is necessary to consume as much as possible the vital strength of the Japanese Monkey Combined Fleet, gain control of the Central Pacific and the Western Pacific, and clear the way for attacking the Japanese mainland.

Guadalcanal, often referred to simply as Guadalcanal, was a British colony. It is located at the southeastern tip of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, at 9°30′ south latitude and 160° east longitude.

Guadalcanal, the largest and most dominant island in the Solomon Islands, is one of a series of volcanic islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is 150 kilometers long, 48 kilometers wide, and has a land area of about 5,302 square kilometers. In the middle there are many ridged mountain ranges, the highest peak, Makaracombu, is 2447 meters above sea level.

Prior to this, Yamamoto's combined fleet had been greatly weakened after the Battle of Midway. In particular, the Americans have emerged one after another with warships and planes, and the Japanese devils have discovered that they do not have absolute air and sea supremacy.

As a result, the Japanese devils also lost the strategic initiative and were forced to stop their strategic offensive and abandon or postpone their attacks on Fiji, Samoa, and Novogaledonia.

However, the little Japanese devils do not think that their strength is no longer good, but hopes to stabilize the front a little, withdraw their fists to accumulate strength, and then launch a fatal blow to completely defeat the American devils.

It is precisely for this reason that after the Japanese little devils occupied Kuah Island, they made the same mistake again -- they began to build airfields and defensive fortresses on Kuah Island and Tulagi Island, and established the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

On June 6, about 2,000 sappers of the 11th Engineer Brigade led by Ding Dazuo in front of the gate landed on Kuah Island and began to build the airport.

On June 19, about 700 engineers from the 13th Engineer Brigade led by Tokucho Okamura were sent to the island to strengthen the construction force and ordered the construction to be completed by August 5.

At present, the Kuah Island Airport has been basically completed, and the auxiliary facilities have been largely completed. At this time, Kuah Island had 2,700 Japanese little devil sappers and 240 garrison troops, a total of about 2,940 people; Tulagi Island has 140 Japanese imp sappers, 400 aviation troops, and 200 garrison troops, a total of about 740 people.

At the same time, in order to realize the strategic attempt of "defending first and then attacking", the War Department, the base camp of the little devils, formed the 17th Army. It was originally prepared for the occupation of Fiji and Samoa, and now it comes in handy.

This unit is commanded by the younger brother of the emperor's chief military attaché, Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haruyoshi, and the military headquarters is located in Arawa on Bougainville Island, so far, the 17th Army has been under the jurisdiction of: Nanhai Detachment, Ichiki Detachment, Aoba Detachment and other units, with a total strength of about 13 brigades, assembled in Namataneh and Bismarck Islands in eastern New Guinea, ready to raid the Cape York Peninsula and Darwin City on the basis of responding to all sides, and establish an advance base for the occupation of Australia.

In order to strengthen the strength of the southwest Pacific, the Admiralty of the base camp specially established the 8th Fleet, appointed Vice Admiral Mikawa Guni as commander, and commanded the 6th and 18th warbands, the 29th and 30th destroyer groups, and the 7th, 13th, and 21st submarine wargroups.

It has a number of warships and submarines, including 4 heavy cruisers and 3 light cruisers, and is mainly deployed in Queen Augusta Bay, west of Bougainville Island, to fight in conjunction with the 17th Army.

Still not at ease, Yamamoto ordered the 25th Air Force of the Combined Fleet to send more than 100 shore-based planes to Bougainville Island to provide air cover for the ground forces and the naval fleet.

Although the Americans had a slight advantage in the Battle of Midway, the situation in the Central Pacific became more stable. However, the Japanese monkeys turned into a big fight in the southwest Pacific and desperately increased their troops.

It's really a Chinese saying: press down the gourd and get the scoop.

The Americans had just taken a breath in Hawaii and Midway, and Australia was in a state of extreme passivity.

Of course, the lame Roosevelt, Marshall the Fox, and Admiral King were not fools, and if you let the Japanese monkeys build these airfields, and then deploy the entire 17th Army in place, and really run this place to a solid foundation, the entire east coast of Australia and New Zealand will be completely finished.

The art of war in the world comes from the same source, which is nothing more than calculating each other and going toe-for-tat: "Lao Tzu who is in favor of the enemy will oppose it, and Lao Tzu who the enemy wants to build will be crushed." ”

Therefore, the first stage goal of the Americans was to break the enemy's wishful thinking and completely smash the airfields and fortresses of the Japanese monkeys.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to transport the 1st Marine Division from the mainland to New Zealand to participate in the landing and seizure of the islands while strengthening the strength of warships and aircraft.

In the book, it is explained that Lieutenant General Gormley is the most classic coward, and when he saw that the Japanese devils were constantly increasing their strength, their troops were getting stronger and stronger, and it became even more obvious that their troops were very thin, they began to beat the drum in their hearts.

Coupled with Nimitz's order to move the landing site forward, and the preparations were not ready, the danger was great. So in the next half month, Lieutenant General Gormley began to grind foreign work, always finding tens of thousands of reasons to get Nimitz to agree to his postponement of the attack.

Specifically, the Americans' participation in the war this time is divided into three parts:

The first was the landing transport formation under the command of Rear Admiral Turner, consisting of 23 transport ships and 11 destroyers, which was responsible for sending the 1st Marine Division to the islands of Kuah and Tulagi.

The second is the cover formation under the command of Rear Admiral Krachley, consisting of eight cruisers and eight destroyers, which are responsible for directly covering the landing convoy.

The third is the task force under the command of Vice Admiral Fletcher, which has a total of 3 aircraft carriers, 1 battleship, 6 cruisers, 16 destroyers, and 3 oil tankers, which are responsible for sea and air support and cover.

Don't look at the babbling of the Americans from top to bottom, in fact, the combat preparations are extremely inadequate, or they are not called preparations at all.

Kuah Island is a ghost place, which was visited by Spaniards in the 16th century, and was discovered in 1788, but no outsiders have come up at all.

So far, except for the Japanese devils, other people have no idea about the situation of Kuah Island and its surrounding islands.

In addition to the sporadic information provided by the Australian plantation owners who had been on Kuah Island, the Americans had only a ninety-year-old nautical chart and a few old photographs taken by missionaries.

The eternal jokes in the world's military history were born from the Americans.

After the Joint Chiefs of Staff looked at the map and finally came up with a "lookout plan," the staff officers below were suddenly in a mess.

Because he really couldn't find a "valuable clue", a staff officer had an idea and thought that he had read a novel.

Later I remembered that it was a novel written by Jack London about the Solomon Islands.

Use the content of the novel to develop a battle plan that will determine the fate of the country.

Nima, if it weren't for a genius like the Americans, the whole world wouldn't have seen this kind of joke.

It can be seen from this that the US staff officers draw lines on the map, and that is all "ancestral mastery".

Later, in the Korean War, the most direct trigger was because a certain staff officer grabbed a pen and drew a ruler on the map - the great 38th parallel was born.

As soon as the line was drawn, the troops that had erected the boundary markers began to operate.

As a result, half of the original house of three belonged to South Korea and half to North Korea. Of the three members of the family, two belong to South Korea and one belongs to North Korea.

Nima, can there be no problem with such a ridiculous thing?

In addition, as everyone knows, the 1st Marine Division, which is the main force of the landing, was the first elite unit in the United States to conduct special training for landing warfare.

However, a large number of outstanding and well-trained officers and non-commissioned officers of the division have been transferred away as the backbone of the newly formed 2nd and 3rd Marine Divisions.

At present, most of the members of the First Marine Division are newly recruited recruits, and their combat effectiveness, let alone combat effectiveness.

At the end of June 1942, the 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division had just arrived in New Zealand; The 7th Regiment is also in Samoa, California, USA, and is composed almost entirely of recruits, having just completed a month of basic training for recruits.

The 1st Regiment had already departed, but it was still on a ship bound for the South Pacific, enjoying the scenery from the sea.

When the division commander, Major General Vandergrift, came to his new unit and saw a large group of so-called "elites" who looked like ordinary people, his heart kept going up and down.

Fortunately, he received assurances from the War Department: "The division will not participate in the war before the end of 1942, and you have at least half a year of training time to reorganize them and train them." ”

However, when Vandergravet arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, on June 26, Nimitz was approached by Nimith for a military conference.

As a result, the order was given: "The 1st Marine Division is immediately ready for battle and will immediately participate in the operation on Kuah Island." The basic task was to act as the main force, to be the first to rush to the beach and land, and then to occupy the airfield. Campaign preparation time, four weeks, immediate action. ”

What's even funnier is that as the commander of the main offensive force, Division Commander Vandergravet didn't even know that there was a place in the world called Kuah Island until now.

As for what exactly is on Kuah Island, how many enemies there are, what kind of firepower is equipped, what type of fortifications they belong to, and what is the terrain and landform, Nimitz replied very simply: "You are all nonsense, as long as you go up, you will understand." ”

Division Commander Vandergreft returned to his temporary headquarters and carefully scrutinized the battle plans of the General Staff Headquarters and the Front Bottom Command, but the more he looked at it, the more confused he became:

In the entire battle plan, there is only one landing site, and then there is a battle objective to seize the airfield.

As for where the airfield is, what offensive route should be taken, the deployment of the enemy's troops, the position of defensive fire, the key points of the campaign, the precautionary measures, etc., there is nothing to be desired.

In the end, he couldn't find a better word to describe the current bad situation, and he simply jokingly called it "It's just the plague coming, everyone is panicking, but there is no one reason for it, it is called Operation Plague." ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.