The Battle of Guadalam was divided into two battlefields from the beginning - land and ocean.

Of course, for the Japanese and Americans, the distribution of China Airlines and HNAs has divided the sky early...

In the original history, the most eye-catching thing about Guadalam is the island battle. What is most noticeable in this time and space is the naval and air battle between the two sides.

Although the Lieutenant General of the Mikawa Army in his previous life also participated in this battle, the protagonist of the Japanese side was not him, but changed the private turning point and Yamamoto Izuru, who had not been shot down yet.

Americans are just starting to make efforts in the Pacific Ocean and have not yet gained a strategic advantage in their previous lives. Yamamoto Iroku is still jumping around and running around.

Although he did not board the ship directly, he was in Rabaul and had control over the actions of the entire Japanese fleet.

The Guadalam he chose was undoubtedly very beneficial to the Japanese.

After losing Australia, the Japanese's most important advancement base in the Southwest Pacific was changed to Rabaul.

Rabaul in his previous life has always been a strategic location for Japan and Americans to compete for. The Japanese rebuilt cities and ports here, as well as a large number of factories and tunnels, and even a brothel of two thousand people.

Because of Australia, Rabaul's construction was slow, but the scale of the Japanese troops stationed here also exceeded 100,000.

Most importantly, the ships can be partially repaired here, and there is also a large-scale air force. The combat radius of fighter jets taken from Rabaul can cover the vicinity of Guadalam. This means that the fleet of the Japanese Navy received air support not only the fighter jets stationed in Guadalam, but also the reinforcements taken from Rabaul.

At the beginning, the Japanese abandoned Tulaji Island, the administrative center of the British Solomon Islands, as a forward base, and rebuilding Honyala on Guadalam is considering that the alluvial plains in the north of Guadalam are more suitable for building airports.

Convenient conditions also allowed the Japanese to have a large-scale airport in Guadalam, which could provide more services to fighter jets. This means that although the Japanese lacked aircraft carriers, they could rely on this Guadalam airport to deploy more fighter jets in the air, provide air cover for Japanese warships, and even attack those American warships.

Of course it is limited to warships.【w..cm

｜I｜|】Same as the reasons that caused the Japanese to fail the entire strategically in the original history, the Japanese still rarely attacked the supply ship.

One reason is that they have not attached importance to logistics as always.

The rise of the Japanese was accompanied by the concept of saving the nation's poverty as a war. Perhaps in order to cover up this embarrassment, the Japanese army's combat methods, such as the single-shot shot of the 38th-large cover, and the emphasis on bayonet close-killing fighting, and even eating was supplemented by plunder. In short, the pressure on logistics was not great.

Even if the Japanese Navy spent a lot of money, it was also extremely cost-effective for ammunition, otherwise there would not have been a 100-shot cannon by Hirahachiro Togo.

Whether facing the Americans in their previous lives or the Chinese vanguards in this time and space, the Japanese cannot envy them. However, their weak national strength cannot support their luxury. They can only continue to carry forward the spirit of Bushido and their spirit.

When used in battle, they are reluctant to consume ammunition unnecessary. Don’t use expensive torpedoes, or ordinary bombs, they will use them.

In their eyes, those warships that cost expensive construction costs, at this time, have valuable targets, and each time they destroy one, they can weaken the enemy's strength. They make the enemy feel so painful and heartbreaking, and they are eventually forced to the negotiating table.

Unfortunately, they miscalculated their opponents. In the eyes of Americans, the warships dragged out from the assembly line are some consumables.

Those supply ships that lack defense lost not only those personnel, but also those supplies. It is not that the Americans lacked these, but the time spent on the supply sent from thousands of miles away before the Hawaiian base was completed and there were insufficient supply points before it was completed. Even the lack of supplies brought by the young master soldiers, and the possible defeats caused by the lack of supplies.

Compared with the Japanese, Americans pay more attention to the adverse effects of logistical collapse.

But the Japanese let go of these supply ships, and both warships and fighter jets in the air placed their targets on those warships. The larger the target, the more attractive the Japanese for honor and military achievements.

With the support of Guadalam Airport, air support from Ballar and Port Moresby can be obtained at the same time, and the swimming guards of Japanese warships near Guadalam have not had a good solution for the Americans.

At this time, the shortcomings of the Americans' supply points that did not have a forward base near the United States were exposed.

Although sufficient supply ships were prepared, after Yamamoto Iroku retreated decisively to Guadalam, the blocking war or encounter that the Americans expected turned into a long confrontation war.

At this time, Americans were not in sufficient supply.

Fiji, New Caledonia and other places are still in the hands of the Japanese. Although the main warships have all gone to Guadalam to participate in the decisive battle, the remaining destroyers and even torpedo ships are still a threat to the long supply line.

Although the Japanese's main goal is not on the supply ship, they are not stupid enough to let go of the fat meat that comes to their mouths.

In the absence of sufficient warship targets, sinking the supply ship is also a record.

Medium caliber naval shells, even if they only require some machine guns, can obtain good supply ship loot.

As a last resort, in addition to sending warships and even escort aircraft carriers to join the task of escorting supply ships, the Americans also reduced the scale of ships left in the Coral Sea.

At least in the early stage, because of the existence of Japanese warships, there is no question of bombarding islands or landings. When the two sides contacted each other from a long distance, they were not naval guns, but fighter jets.

While the two battleships retreated and were about to gain a foothold in the rear, the Coral Sea aircraft carrier became the main force of the attack.

The Americans sank three battleships through the Coral Sea, which made the aircraft carrier more profound in their naval combat. They realized that they could rely on the aircraft carrier to settle their opponents and even directly settle the super battleships.

In the following battle, they increased their air power, which forced the Japanese to continue to invest more air power.

In this air battle, which seemed to be small in scope, the fierce battle that lasted for more than three months, led to the Japanese's continuous investment of more than two thousand fighter jets.

Even though the Americans sent three more aircraft carriers during the period, nearly one-third of the fighter jets on the aircraft carriers were still replaced.

On US aircraft carriers, the number of Hellcats is increasing, and they have a great air advantage in the face of Japan's main fighter jets Zero or even Super Zero. However, the new Japanese fighter jets have already appeared in advance.

The emergence of the Breeze and Purple Electric fighters has caused a lot of losses to the Americans, but the small number of advanced fighters cannot control the entire battle situation.

The correct use of tactics can easily become one of the decisive factors in a battle.

The Japanese were not willing to be suppressed by the Americans around Guadalam. Yamamoto Iroji keenly targeted the attack's weak point in the American air combat aircraft carrier.

Compared with the Japanese who built three temporary airports on Gua Island and built Gua Island into an unsinkable aircraft carrier, the Americans' expedition aircraft carriers do not seem to have such great resistance to strikes. As long as the aircraft carrier sinks or even throws a few bombs on the runway of the aircraft carrier, the attack power of the aircraft carrier may be paralyzed, making the goshawks in the sky become rootless duckweed.

On November 9, the Japanese launched a counterattack against the American aircraft carrier.

In addition to advanced fighter jets such as Jifeng and Zidian were concentrated and tried their best to restrain the American escort fighter jets, spontaneous Japanese suicide tactics appeared again.

This crazy attack method gave the Americans a heavy blow. The air defenses of surrounding cruisers and even battleships could block the Japanese torpedoes and bombers, but it was difficult to block this unyielding suicide impact.

On this day, three aircraft carriers were severely damaged, one of which was sunk by subsequent torpedo planes. Due to the damage to the aircraft carrier, the losses of 72 fighter jets also made the Americans extremely painful.

What they were sad about was not the fighter jet that could be replenished at any time, but the 34 pilots who were sadly damaged with it.

In fact, the Japanese should be more heartbroken.

During the battle with the Japanese, the Americans attached great importance to the protection of pilots. Although the number of fighter jets was lost a lot and the entire Guadalam Battle lost more than 400 fighter jets, most of the pilots survived. Even if those parachutes landed on Guadalam and became Japanese prisoners, they did not commit suicide, which laid the foundation for maintaining their future combat effectiveness.

However, the Japanese's broken spirit made the pilots who fought to the last moment also consumables.

Compared with the more than 1,400 fighter jets lost in this Guadalam Battle, they killed more than 600 pilots in this battle, including elite HNA pilots and a few aces.

This finally lived up to Meng Xiang’s long-term plan.

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