my bright sword career

Chapter 644
Guadalcanal Island has a tropical climate, not to mention the hot weather. At night, all kinds of mosquitoes are rampant. Many soldiers even developed a high fever after being bitten by mosquitoes, and had to be admitted to a field hospital, causing the soldiers to complain endlessly.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp sound, Gao Hongming opened his right hand. On his palm, a character the size of a peanut was imprinted on the center of the palm, and there was a blood mark around it.

Gao Hongming spread his palms, and said to Chi Yaohui, "Tsk tsk, if there are more than ten of these things, it will be enough for cooking."

"Who says it's not." Chi Yaohui said helplessly: "When we first came, our soldiers were not used to it, and some soldiers were even sent to the hospital.

Later, the doctor of the health team somehow got the wormwood for the brothers, and lit it around the camp, which made things better, otherwise we would still suffer. "

"Okay, let's not talk about that."

Gao Hongming waved his hand, "Let's discuss the matter of attacking Tululu Island the day after tomorrow. We will dispatch three battalions to cooperate with the [-]th Marine Regiment to launch a full-scale attack on Tululu Mountain the day after tomorrow.

According to the results of our discussions with Spruance, we will attack from the east and the Eighth Marine Regiment from the south at the same time.Be sure to make a hole in Mount Tululu.

The biggest problem now is that the terrain in the east is the most dangerous. It is not only difficult to launch an upward attack from the east, but it is also easy to be blocked by the Japanese army. This is a severe challenge for our troops. "

"Indeed."

Chi Yaohui rubbed his chin, took out a pack of Lucky cigarettes from his pocket, handed one to Gao Hongming, lit it, pointed to the map and said, "Tuan Zuo, I think the difficult terrain also has its advantages. At least the Japanese put There will certainly be fewer troops in the east than in the south."

Gao Hong understood him with a glance: "Nonsense, it's a waste to put too much."

"Okay, no kidding."

Chi Yaohui chuckled, "But don't worry. Although the little devil has a good location, we don't give it to you for nothing. Didn't General Spruance agree that tomorrow we will let the cruiser Naples and the destroyer Goodman treat us?" Do you support?

The naval guns on these two warships add up to dozens of guns. As long as they bombard for half an hour, at least half of the fortifications on the east can be bombarded, and it will be much easier for us to attack again.

Even if it doesn't help, don't we still have two squadrons of planes? After the naval guns are blown up, let them carry incendiary bombs and then do a general cleaning. I don't believe that the little devil's fortifications can still play a big role. "

At the end, Chi Yaohui couldn't help looking at Gao Hongming, with admiration in his eyes.

He had to be his own boss. On the first day of his arrival, he got rid of the commander of the 2nd Marine Division, and even made the Yankees who looked down on them hold their noses and send two warships to cooperate with them.

If this was changed before, he would not have dared to think about it.The Americans would have to thank God for the warships to give them artillery support for ten to twenty minutes. It's not like they are now assigned to their command.

"Well, that's true, we..."

"Woooooooo..."

Before Gao Hongming finished speaking, he heard a sound like an old cow panting in the air... no... this sound was like the sound of a train whistle.

The two looked at each other, and they both noticed that the other's face had changed from each other's eyes, because they knew that only one type of artillery can make this sound, and that is the super heavy artillery.

But before the two could react, there was a deafening explosion in the distance, and then a strong shock came from the ground, shaking the coffee on the ammunition box to the ground.

"not good!"

Gao Hongming rushed out of the tent first, looked towards the west where the explosion sound came from, and found an orange-red light flashing in the direction of Henderson Airport dozens of miles away, and then a burst of flames shot straight into the sky.

"Not good...that's the direction of the airport, our plane!"

Gao Hongming was shocked. You must know that all the land-based aircraft of the Allied Forces were parked at Henderson Airport, and even the fighter planes of the two squadrons of the dispatched corps were there. Once an accident happened at Henderson Airport, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Boom...boom..."

Accompanied by bursts of violent explosions, high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs landed on Henderson Airport one after another.

Debris from incendiary and explosive bomb explosions covered the entire airport and created a storm of flames.

Looking at the thick smoke rising, Gao Hongming only felt a chill in his heart.

Chi Yaohui was not idle either, he hurried into the tent and contacted the Fifth Fleet headquarters through the radio.

It took a while before they came to report: "Boss, the Fifth Fleet reported that a Japanese fleet took advantage of the night to attack Guadalcanal Island. Now it is the Japanese battlecruiser King Kong that is shelling Henderson Airport." .”

"Battlecruiser? King Kong?"

Gao Hongming came to his senses, why is the naval gun of this thing so powerful? We are more than 20 miles away from Henderson Airport, so far away can make us tremble.

Chi Yaohui said bitterly: "Boss, the King Kong's main gun has a caliber of 356mm, and the crater can even be as big as a fish pond."

Gao Hongming asked irritably, "Then what about our plane?"

Chi Yaohui shook his head feebly: "Now we have nothing to do, we can only let them ask for their own blessings."

Gao Hongming turned his head and looked at the burning airport in the distance. At this moment, he felt so powerless and urgently realized how important it is to have a strong navy.

The shelling continued until the early hours of the morning, and all American fighter planes parked at the airport suffered.

During the bombardment, everyone was unable to rescue the fighter planes at all, and could only watch the planes being blown into scrap iron by the Japanese.

Subsequently, the loss of the airport was quickly passed back.

In this bombing, although the U.S. military did not lose pilots, more than half of the planes they managed to save were destroyed by the Japanese, leaving less than [-] fighters to perform missions.

The situation of dispatching the corps is more intriguing.

Because except for the loss of one Panda fighter plane in the entire dispatch team, the other fighter planes and pilots were all safe and sound.

After the news came out, both the U.S. military and the dispatched corps were in an uproar. Even Spruance personally called to inquire about the matter, and even several military officers came to investigate the reason immediately the next day.

The results came out quickly, but all the Americans who saw the results lost their voices collectively.

The reason is very simple. The reason why the dispatch team’s aircraft lost so little is because the Yankees, who are used to crowding out the Chinese, arranged for the dispatch team’s squadron to be in the most remote northeast corner of Henderson Airport, with the worst runway and facilities. .

This also caused them to suffer almost no losses when the Japanese army bombarded them.

After the results of the investigation came out, all the Americans looked at each other, and they didn't even know what to say.

(End of this chapter)