It was not easy for Mikawa after completing the artillery mission, because on the way back, he encountered the American fleet. If he had also encountered a cruiser formation, Mikawa would not be very afraid. As far as the artillery battle was concerned, Mikawa felt that

, Americans are far behind him.

However, what a cheat. He actually ran into the strike circle of the American aircraft carrier formation. The Imperial Army happened to send a transport fleet. Regarding the failure from the night of 12th to 13th, the Navy did not know whether it was because of shyness or something else, and did not

The Navy did not tell the Army the truth. On the contrary, the Navy told the Army: We defeated the U.S. Army in a naval battle. This is actually not wrong. Simply counting the losses in the naval battle, the losses of the U.S. Army were indeed greater. But the Navy did not tell the Army.

: Early the next morning, I was blown to pieces by a bomb from the Cactus Air Force. On the night of the 13th, after Sanchuan bombarded Guadalcanal, a telegram was sent back stating that the bombardment was successful. The Navy seized the opportunity to brag: We have once again

Guadalcanal Airport was blown to pieces.

This "again" is really a magical word, and it can be interpreted in many ways. For example, the Navy's understanding of this is: just like those previous Tokyo Express trains. The Army's understanding is: and the last bombardment of Kurita's battleship

Same. So the army started to act according to its own understanding. Since the navy blew up the airport, those transport fleets that had been parked in the port for a long time and were already filled with people and goods should seize the time and go to Guadalcanal.

Reinforcements. If we don’t go now, are we still waiting for the Americans to repair the airport?

So a transport fleet consisting of 11 transport ships (these were from the Army) and 6 destroyers (these were from the Navy) set out for Guadalcanal.

As soon as the Japanese transport fleet set off, the Americans knew about it (the Americans had arranged submarines in nearby waters). It happened that the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier formation was near Guadalcanal. So the reconnaissance plane on the Enterprise immediately took off to search everywhere.

Japan's transport fleet. Prepare to implement General Halsey's 18-word policy of defeating Little Japan (kill Little Japan, kill Little Japan, keep killing Little Japan), and use it on the island

Compared with gunfire and shelling, direct sinking of transport ships is obviously much more efficient in killing small Japanese troops.

The reconnaissance plane that took off from the Enterprise did not find the transport fleet, but happened to spot the Mikawa fleet that was rushing back. Although it was not the target that the aircraft carrier was looking for, it was better than nothing. In the spirit of food, it is food on the plate.

In principle, the Americans immediately took action against Mikawa.

In the round of bombings, Sanchuan struggled painfully. As the saying goes: Life is like a gun. If you can't resist, just close your eyes and enjoy it. Now if this saying is applied to Sanchuan,

It's not quite accurate. First of all, the word "strong" was changed to the word "wheel". What's more terrible is that he can neither resist nor enjoy it.

From 14:55 to 15:30, in the past ten hours, the carrier-based aircraft of the USS Enterprise and the shore-based aviation forces of Guadalcanal and Espiritu Santo attacked the Sanchuan No. 1 on the way back.

The Second Artillery Strike Formation launched multiple air strikes, sinking the heavy cruiser "Kinugasa" and damaging the "Chomi", the heavy cruiser "Maya" and the light cruiser "Isuzu". Just when Mikawa was already desperate, cute

The army rescued him.

An American reconnaissance plane discovered the Japanese transport fleet! Damn, with big fish and meat, who the hell would be willing to eat rotten carrots. Poor Sanchuan, after being beaten for several more rounds, was mercilessly beaten by the American aircraft carrier formation

Abandoned.

The Americans, who were full of energy, turned around the Japanese army's transport fleet 8 times before dark. Six of the 11 transport ships were sunk, and one was seriously injured and returned. In Japan

Tanaka, who is known as a "tenacious man" in the Navy, commanded the escorting destroyers to do their best to resist the U.S. air strikes while quickly rescuing the officers and soldiers who fell into the water. The six destroyers rescued more than 4,800 army officers and soldiers, and of course there were even more who were not rescued.

It was big. The remaining four boats managed to survive until dark.

At about 2:00 on the 15th, the four transport ships of the Japanese army's reinforcement formation finally arrived at Tasag Faronga Beach on Guadalcanal and immediately began to unload. Tanaka led the destroyers to begin evacuating at 2:30 to avoid being wheeled again by US military aircraft after dawn.

After dawn, the US "Cactus" Air Force sank the four unprotected transport ships one by one, and used incendiary bombs to burn all the supplies that had just been unloaded on the beach - 260 boxes of ammunition and 1,500 bags of rice.ri

The military paid a great price to transport 13,500 people and 10,000 tons of supplies from Shortland Island. In the end, only more than 2,000 people and 5 tons of supplies were transported to Guadalcanal! In this way, the Japanese on the island can only live in pain.

Struggled.

While Ri was struggling hard, Ron was also struggling painfully. Originally, yesterday he had a cut in an insignificant place like his butt, which was not a big deal at all. It would be fine after a few days of rest. But he didn't want both of them to suffer.

A few days later, a high fever suddenly broke out. The temperature suddenly rose to 40 degrees. At first, due to the misunderstanding of the injury, the doctor thought it was caused by wound infection, and the damn wound did show signs of infection. After using some anti-inflammatory

After taking medicine and antipyretics, he sweated a little and the high fever subsided. Ron felt unusually tired. The doctor told him to take a good rest and he would be fine.

Early the next morning, Ron woke up and felt refreshed, as if nothing had happened. If it weren't for his butt that hadn't healed yet, he would have wanted to fly out and bully little Riben - you know,

Bullying is the foundation of happiness. But this good feeling did not last long. In the evening, Ron was lying on the bed, looking at the setting sun, and chatting with a few guys. Will I still be there tonight?

I won’t come to bet. At this moment, Ron suddenly felt that the sea breeze coming out was a bit cool, making people feel a bit cold. Ever since arriving in Guadalcanal, Ron has never felt too cold. You must know that here

It is a tropical area, and it is an area close to the equator. Here there is only one season a year: the hot season!

But now Ron really felt cold. First, his fingers started to become cold, and after a while, even his back felt cold.

"Why is it so cold?" Ron said, his voice trembling.

The comrades who were chatting with him immediately realized that Ron must have malaria. One man ran out to find a military doctor, while the others took care of him.

At this time, Ron was so cold that he huddled up, his face was pale, his teeth kept chattering, and his upper and lower teeth made a rattling sound. In the parlance of "Water Margin", it is called: "Thirty-six

The teeth caught the pair and they were fighting.”

But by the time the military doctor arrived, Ron was no longer cold, and now he was having a fever. Chills first, then high fever, which are the most typical symptoms of malaria. Because the body temperature of patients with this disease fluctuates high and low,

It alternates between cold and hot, so Chinese people also call it "Da Bao Zi".

The high fever this time was completely different from the last time. The high fever lasted for more than 3 hours. During this period, there were several episodes of confusion.

Malaria is really not a new thing on Guadalcanal. There are so many people in the Marine Corps. However, in the Air Force, Ron got a first, the first pilot to get malaria. Since he had not been diagnosed yet, he

Little did he know that he would be the first person on Guadalcanal: the first patient with falciparum malaria.

The doctor prescribed some artificial quinine to Ron, which was a specific medicine against malaria at that time. After the Japanese army occupied Southeast Asia, they controlled all the major natural quinine producing areas in the world. So they proudly promoted that if

If the Americans dare to counterattack, without quinine and without the Japanese fighting them, malaria will defeat those Americans.

However, these Japanese people were disappointed. In the words of Nai Ping's political teacher, they did not study Marxism-Leninism Taizu Thought (Japanese people during World War II: What is Taizu Thought?) and did not know how to look at problems from a development perspective.

, a more fashionable way of saying it is: They failed to keep pace with the times (there is no way to learn from this). They did not understand the scientific conclusion of Emperor Sejong of our dynasty on "Science and technology are the primary productive forces". They did not expect it at all,

Americans invented artificial quinine that was cheap and plentiful.

It was supposed that with the use of quinine and Ron's already good physical condition, his condition would improve soon. But the fact surprised the military doctor.

At eight o'clock the next morning, Ron's malaria broke out again. This time, the hypothermia actually lasted for more than an hour. You know, the chill stage of malaria usually only lasts about ten minutes, and the subsequent high fever lasts only a few minutes.

for an hour.

An hour later, Ron's fever broke without sweating and he lay down on the boat tiredly and fell asleep. But just a few hours later, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, malaria broke out again. This time it was even weirder, with chills.

A high fever broke out even before the process started. The fever never went down. The medic George and the orderly Marcos who had been following Ron continued to use towels soaked in ice water to cool him down. Several military doctors stayed there with heavy expressions.

On the side. It wasn't until 8 o'clock in the evening that Ron's high fever subsided, but he still didn't sweat when the fever subsided.

As soon as the high fever subsided, Ron fell into a deep sleep. His orderly sent several military doctors to the door and asked softly:

"Doctor, is Commander Ron okay?"

Several military doctors looked at me and I looked at you. Finally, a tall military doctor spoke:

"Mr. Ron's disease is very strange," he paused, and looked at each other with the doctors, "I have seen malaria a lot, but we have never seen such strange symptoms.

"

"Then doctor, Chief Ron..."

"Look further. In addition, the conditions here are too bad. It is best to change him to a place with a better environment."

On the third day, Ron only had one attack, but it lasted surprisingly long. The fever lasted for up to 10 hours and was accompanied by a severe headache. The military doctors were almost helpless.

After Ron fell asleep, Marcos and another soldier named Roy who was sent to look after him looked at the sleeping Ron and started chatting wordlessly.

"What do you think the officer said when he was unconscious? It doesn't seem to be in English."

"Sir Ron knows many languages... but there are not many people who can learn foreign languages ​​and learn to talk nonsense like the chief."

"Isn't that right... The officer seemed to be saying a name repeatedly just now. It seemed like "Xina" or something. Well, this person must owe the officer a lot of money..."

"Nonsense, I clearly heard another name coming out of the officer's mouth more often, like 'Henna' or something. I think he must owe the officer more money..."

On November 19th, a transport plane landed at Guadalcanal Airport. This plane did not bring anything to Guadalcanal, but took away a person. On this day, accompanied by a group of doctors and nurses, Ron was
Chapter completed!