Time flies on June 1, 1943.

On this day, the landing battle of the New Georgia Islands, which lasted for two months, finally came to an end.

In this battle, the Allied forces participated in the war include 58,000 troops in the Army, 1,700 Marines, 134 ships of various types, and 1,290 aircraft.

The Japanese island guards are the Southeast Detachment of the Army and the 8th Navy's Joint Special Marine Corps under the Southeast Fleet, with a total of 14,000 people, 350 aircraft of various types and 27 combat ships.

It is mainly deployed around Monda Airport on New Georgia Island and Colognebonala Island. It is commanded by the commander of the Southeast Fleet Caolu.

After more than two months of bloody battle, the Allied forces occupied the New Georgia Islands at the cost of more than 5,000 casualties, lost only 8 ships, and 241 aircraft, establishing a forward base for subsequent development and offensives.

On the Japanese side, more than 2,500 casualties were killed and 19 ships and more than 790 aircraft were lost.

In this battle, the Allies adopted the offensive tactics across the island, and accumulated rich combat experience for the future comprehensive counterattack on the Pacific battlefield.

By conquering neighboring islands in turn and instead conquering only strategic islands, the Allies can then use their superior maritime power to blockade them, trapping the enemy troops trapped on isolated islands, thus achieving the ability to occupy these islands without fighting.

In this way, the Allied casualties will be greatly reduced, and the speed of counterattack against Japan will be greatly accelerated. Such an offensive strategy has a strong practical effect.

New British Isle Rabaul, Japan's Eighth Front Command.

On November 16, 1942, the Japanese Base Camp reorganized the 17th and 18th Army units in the South East Pacific region, formed the Eighth Front Army, and undertaken the purpose of combat command tasks in Solomon and New Guinea.

The Japanese base camp and set up a headquarters in Rabaul, New Britain. The commander of the Eighth Front Army was the General of the Imamura Army.

"Your Excellency General, I just received the latest news that New Georgia Island was lost half an hour ago, and the Imperial Army was finally defeated."

General Imamura Takashi, commander of the Eighth Front Army of Japan, was discussing the war with senior generals such as Lieutenant General Kato Yohei, commander of the Southeast Fleet Kusato, and senior staff officer Colonel Takahashi and other senior generals. When a communications officer walked in with a telegram and looked ugly.

"I understand! It's the Papua Peninsula and Labaoer's turn next!"

Imamura waved his hand powerlessly and was not interested in taking the message. Although the news was expected, he was still full of sadness at this moment.

Imamura is considered a soldier with "double military and political advantages" among Japanese generals. In 1936, he served as deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and participated in the planning of the July 7 Incident. He was the commander of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army during the Battle of Southern Guangxi. During the Pacific War, he led two divisions to occupy the Dutch East India.

Rabaul, a city located in the northeast of New Britain in the South Pacific, was first filled with civilian towns on the swamps of local mangroves and named it Rabaul Town.

After World War I, Germany lost all its overseas territory, and the ownership of this place was transferred to the UK, and then it became the capital of the New Guinea territory.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army immediately swallowed Southeast Asia. The British knew that they were no match for Japan in Southeast Asia, so they urgently evacuated all the women and children in Rabaul Town. Sure enough, the Japanese army bombed Rabaul on a large scale not long after.

Immediately afterwards, the Battle of Rabaul began, tens of thousands of Japanese Marines landed in Rabaul, the Australian army was defeated, and the Japanese occupied the surrounding islands with Rabaul as the base.

During the Japanese occupation, the Japanese army built Rabaul into a stronger military base and prepared to continue to advance to the Western Pacific.

Naval ships, naval aviation, army aviation and other troops took Labaer as the center to attack surrounding Allied troops and transportation lines. The Japanese army dug nearly 100 kilometers of crisscrossing tunnels in the Labaer area as air raid shelters to avoid Allied air bombing.

The 8th Front Command of the Japanese Army and the Southeast Front Fleet Command of the Navy were both stationed here. At its peak, the number of Japanese troops stationed in Rabaul exceeded 110,000, which was a completely soldier city.

The Japanese army built many factories and tunnels here, and even a Jiyuan with more than 2,000 people!

Especially since the Allied forces began to counterattack Guadalam in October 1943, Imamura had already predicted the future outcome and decided to implement the "Centenary Rabaul Fortress Plan".

The Japanese army began to lay out mines on the waterways of Simpson Bay last month, setting up more than 90 152mm shore artillery pieces, and various fortifications equipped with more than 500 light artillery pieces and 76 heavy artillery pieces.

After a long and hard digging, the length of the Rabaul Cave position exceeded 300 kilometers.

These caves have their own advantages. They simply work hard on volcanic rocks, and the specialty is also laid with coconut wood floors in the caves.

The air-raid shelter where the Eighth Front Army Command lived was also installed with telephones, and the Japanese army also built underground hangars, repair rooms, warehouses, hospitals and other auxiliary facilities.

Imamura even gathered people from the army with culture and formed a weapon research institute, which made 200 homemade fireworks, 400 mortars and 200 flamethrowers, and most officers and soldiers were equipped with homemade anti-tank thunder bombs.

The biggest problem of the Japanese army was self-sufficiency in food.

For this purpose, the village personally organized personnel to engage in planting, breeding and fishing operations.

The slogan proposed by Imamura and Kusato was: "Build a new Japanese empire in the South China Sea and persist in the century-old war of resistance."

It’s a coincidence that there were three wrong bags mixed in the supplies sent from China at one time, which contained not rice but rice.

Imamura was extremely excited when she heard the news and authorized two professors from the Department of Agriculture of Kyoto University to lead people to conduct scientific farming experiments.

The climatic conditions of Rabaul are very suitable for planting. Now rice has been planted for more than a year, and it can achieve self-sufficiency in terms of staple food.

Even in the future, even if the United States is rich and wealthy, it is not as luxurious as using bombs to blow up farmland everywhere.

Imamura also ordered soldiers from fishermen to go into the sea to fish, but Americans' air strikes were too frequent. A few ships were too precious and afraid of losses, so they went into the sea to fish at the seaside. When the enemy's plane turned around and drilled holes.

In addition, Yaxing also works in the breeding industry in the village, because chickens cannot be enclosed in air-raid shelters and can only be kept in open air and free-range. In the end, these domestic chickens turned into pheasants running around.

So on weekdays, when the Allies did not come to bomb, a unique landscape appeared on the British Isles, where Japanese soldiers went everywhere to pick up eggs and catch pheasants.
Chapter completed!