New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

Before dawn, the pilots of the Cactus Air Force were already eating breakfast. "Hey," Ron swallowed the last bit of bread in his hand, looked at the canned Spam luncheon meat in front of him and sighed, "This time is almost impossible, now there is only Spam, even bread and milk It's gone. Don't even think about fresh vegetables, it's just spam! Chefs will fry spam for breakfast, roast spam for dinner, and serve spam as a meat filling for dinner In tortillas, spam pie the next morning..God knows where the logistics quartermaster got so much spam, it must have been ordered by the barrel. Spam stew, spam steak, And spam grease!"

If the Japanese soldiers of the Maruyama division who were trekking in the dense forest heard such complaints, they would probably faint with envy.In history, the Japanese army used high-speed destroyers to pick up some surviving army officers and soldiers after the complete failure of the Battle of Guadalcanal.It is said that after a certain soldier boarded the ship and ate something, he sighed to the people in the navy: "It's better to be in the navy. I will definitely let my son work in the navy in the future." The people in the navy said, "Oh, we don't It’s better, there are many people who died.” The man replied, “No matter how many people died, no one died of starvation?”

But now the living standards of the US military on the island have indeed declined. The Japanese Combined Fleet came out again, using 5 aircraft carriers, 4 battleships, 4 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 31 destroyers, and 269 carrier-based aircraft to encircle the entire Solomon Sea.So much so that the Americans have problems with supplies.Even the living standards of pilots have been affected to some extent.As for ordinary Marines, the impact is even more pronounced.But a good sign is that the morale of the troops is not bad now.They were buoyed by a piece of good news: the Navy had replaced General Gormley with General Halsey.He listened to Vandergrift's report on the situation in Guadalcanal in Noumea, and promised to Vandergrift: "I will give you all my family fortune!"

General Halsey has always been known as a "brute bull" because of his courage and daring to fight.Later historians often compared him with Patton of the Army, calling Halsey the Patton of the sea and Patton the Halsey of the land.However, the difference between the two is quite obvious.Patton was called the bloody general by later generations, but if compared with Halsey, he could only be called fake bold.Although this guy often said: "every coward has covered his ass tightly since some idiot said something about protecting the flanks." But in fact, Patton himself never showed his ass, he In previous battles, he also protected his flanks well.Lao Ha is different. Ever since he led the fleet to air raids on Tokyo, this buddy has never seriously protected his ass.His principle has always been: Before you smash my ass, beat your ass worse.In order to smash your ass, I am not afraid of my own ass being smashed!Later in Wright Gulf, he smashed the last bit of strength of the United Fleet, but he was not careful, and almost smashed his own ass.Fortunately, the one on the opposite side is "Escaping Kurita" who likes to retreat very much.

Ron knew that General Nimitz and his boss, Admiral King, had now released Halsey, the brute, just because he dared to risk his ass and spank Yamamoto's ass.Considering the overwhelming advantage of the United States in industry, although Japan still has more aircraft carriers than the United States in the ocean, it is still appropriate to have a main battle with the Japanese army.Just like the great admiral, the soul of the British Royal Navy - Horatio Nelson said: "Even if we are defeated, they will not have any ability to act for at least half a year." etc. In half a year, the astonishing number of new warships on the American berth will all be launched.It's like playing chess. You exchanged a horse for a rook, and you were complacent, only to find that they took out two more rooks from your pocket and put them on the chessboard.Damn, what's next?Going to Xu Yinchuan is useless.Halsey is here to make such an exchange with Ri himself.

After barely eating enough and resting for a while, Ron was about to go on a combat mission again.Otherwise, after a while, it's time for the Japanese to launch an air strike again.

In fact, the current air strikes by the Japanese are basically to hold back the Cactus Air Force, so that more people and materials can go ashore.Just like yesterday, a large group of Japanese planes came over mightily.Ron was still thinking about getting a few more today, so that he could get twenty in the morning.As a result, the Japanese plane didn't even think about fighting seriously. When it was about to arrive, the escorting fighter jets continued to fly forward, but the bomber actually turned a corner and went back directly.

In a firefight against these Zeros who didn't need to protect the bombers, the Cactus still had the upper hand.But it's not as easy as it used to be.They shot down 10 Zeros, (3 more by ground fire) and lost 6 P-38s themselves, luckily the pilots were all saved.

But precious time was wasted like this.Plans to bomb enemy transports fall through the cracks.In order to have time to go to the beach, Ron decided to advance the breakfast time, before Ri's own plane arrived, and try to let as many planes as possible go to the beach.

When Ron took off the plane, the sky was full of stars.But the airport can now turn on the lights, and the bombardment fleet must have run away by now.

And when they flew to the beach commonly used by the Japanese army in advance, Ron immediately discovered that "the early bird gets the worm" is really a wise saying-there are two Japanese transport ships on the sea not far from the beach that haven't had time to go far What about the boat?

Although the p-38 has a large bomb load, it cannot do large-angle dive bombing, so it is far inferior to the dreadnought in bombing moving targets.However, these two ships are not protected by escort ships at all, so Ron can boldly bully them with ricochet bombing.Ron quickly lowered his altitude and rushed towards a transport ship.

Through the front windshield, Ron saw flames starting to flicker on the transport ship, but judging from the size of the flames, it was estimated to be a Japanese Type 93 13.2mm high-fire machine gun.This kind of high-shelf machine gun can't hit so far at all, obviously the guys on it are very unprofessional.

The firing speed of the Type 93 13.2mm high-shooting machine gun is not high, and the number is not large, so it didn't bring any pressure to Ron at all.Gently depressing the bombing lever, a 500-pound bomb fell from the belly of Ron's fighter plane.

Sakai Shinji, the commander of the transport ship, watched in puzzlement as the enemy plane dropped a bomb at a place far away. "How is it possible to hit the target like this?" He was thinking in this way, feeling relieved, suddenly, his eyes widened so much that they almost burst their eye sockets (in classical Chinese, it means that the canthus is cracked).

The bomb hit the water—it didn't sink, it didn't explode—and it bounced off the surface, went on, landed on the sea ahead, and bounced again, like a The ball that fell on the floor bounced towards the transport ship.

Sakai Jinji slammed the rudder to one side, but it was too late, and the bomb directly hit the side of the transport ship.The huge explosion threw Sakai Jinji upwards...When Sakai came to his senses, he found that the whole boat had tilted severely, and a big hole was broken in the side of the boat, and the sea water was rolling in. "Abandon ship! All abandon ship!" Sakai barely got up and shouted loudly.

The two transport ships were quickly resolved.At this time, although the sun had not fully risen, the sky in the east was already fiery red, and the visibility was getting better and better.

Turned to the beach, and sure enough, there was a large group of yellow ants on the beach moving.Ron's Vulcan roared mercilessly at them.The ants below immediately threw away the things in their hands and fled in all directions.Huh, what is that?Why are there still some flower ants?Take a closer look, it seems to be some women.

"God, is it that the Japanese are so hungry and thirsty? Did they send all the comfort women?" Ron began to think about something inappropriate for children, "I don't know these hungry people..."

These women who helped carry things on the beach were indeed Japanese comfort women.But they are all the lowest grade, collected from North Korea, Taiwan, and Manchuria.It is said that sending them to the island was the idea of ​​a famous staff officer.First, it can boost morale, and second, it can also be a labor force.Come three...

When someone raised objections to the plan of the staff officer: "The soldiers have been hungry for a long time, how can they have the strength? Besides, the food supply on Guadalcanal Island is actually in short supply. woman go up?!"

"I need this because I have been hungry for too long." A certain staff officer showed a rather strange smile, "Seeing them, even if the soldiers have no strength to do anything temporarily, they will feel that victory is in sight, otherwise why would we send them away?" Send it to the island?"

After allowing time for the doubters to think about it, a certain staff officer saw that his opponent's lips seemed to be opening again, so he showed a devilish smile: "You idiot want to talk about wasting food again? Hahahaha..." He Suddenly he laughed sharply, so that the officers next to him looked over at them, "I can assure you, they won't consume too much food, because they are part of the food reserve..."

Kim Sook-hee was among the comfort women who came to the island. Of course, she still doesn't know anything about the terrible fate arranged for them by a certain staff officer.When she first came ashore, she noticed that the soldiers on the island were very weak, and she was both a little thankful and a little puzzled in her heart. Fortunately, since the soldiers are so weak, her life may be relatively easy.What is puzzling is: what did they send their group of people to the island for?

When an officer ordered them to also carry supplies, she thought for a while that she had the answer, that she could provide some special service and be a coolie, which might be the reason for sending them here.

But things are obviously not as simple as just selling some coolies. After working for a long time, American planes appeared in the sky.The planes swooped down with a terrible roar, and then she saw the bombs fall, bursting into flames.There was a mess on the beach, people dropped their things one after another, and ran into the woods in a panic. Some people who were farther away from the woods simply fell to the ground and pretended to be dead.

This was the first time for Kim Sook Hee to encounter an air raid, and such a scene completely overwhelmed her.She stood there dumbfounded, watching the people running in panic before her eyes.

A plane was flying straight towards her, and she saw flames flickering from it, and heard a horrible, drill-like sound.Countless fire snakes passed over her head, and behind her came the sound of 20mm shells hitting the beach.Turning around numbly, her eyes were full of dust stirred up by shells, and her ears were filled with all kinds of weak or miserable wailing...

After several days of trekking hard in the dense forest, Maruyama finally admitted that although the imperial army always overcomes all difficulties, this time, no matter what, he could not arrive as scheduled on the 22nd.His soldiers were already weak, and after such a high-intensity march, some people kept falling behind.The fate of these left behind is known to everyone without thinking.They also saw these people again later, and when they were forced to retreat, it was the corpses of these people that became their guidepost.And all his cannons have been lost. Several doors sank in the swamp, and a few more were broken when climbing the mountain. Just now, he encountered a cliff, and he searched and searched and couldn't find a way to get the cannons over safely. place, so the last two cannons were also abandoned.According to the estimates of the division's map room, at the current speed, the division will not be able to reach the attack launch site until 24 at the earliest.So Maruyama had to inform Baiwu that the attack time must be postponed.This is not the first postponement, nor is it the last one. With a series of delays, the implementation of the Japanese army's combat plan has encountered many problems, and it has also led to a series of major changes in the following series.