The Fiji Archipelago is composed of more than 300 islands of all sizes, with Viti and Vanua 60 kilometers northeast of it, which is a colony under the Commonwealth.

In the early morning of September 15, just north of Viti Island, with the sound of a series of catapults, six Zero-type seaplanes were ejected into the air. Half an hour later, the roar of the aircraft engine enveloped Viti Island.

One hundred and fifty nautical miles north, the flagship of the second mobile fleet, Ruihe, represents the Z-shaped flag mobilization in wartime flutters in the wind.

Ground crews were busy using lifts to send Zero fighters, Type 97 ship attacks and Type 99 carrier-based bombers to the deck, and torpedoes and aviation bombs were hung.

In the dormitory inside the aircraft carrier, the pilot lined up and walked to the shrine placed on the left side of the cabin door, folded his hands and bowed to the shrine, took out the suicide note that had been written, and threw it into the mailbox in front of the shrine.

In the bridge, Yamaguchi Daowen was dressed in an intact manner, pressing his saber in his hand, standing behind the window, looking at the hot deck.

An intelligence officer walked into the bridge and reported to Yamaguchi Daoshi.

"Commander, the seaplane ahead sent a telegram and the airport was discovered in southeastern Viti Island."

“Where is Vanua?”

“No airport was found in Vanua.”

"Let Ruihe send the first attack wave to destroy the airport."

With Yamaguchi Daowen's order, the propellers on the fighter plane parked on the deck rotated at high speed, and the buzzing vibration passed through the windows of the bridge and echoed in Yamaguchi Daowen's ears.

A Type 97 ship attacked the first to rush out of the deck and hovered in the sky. Twelve Type 0 fighters and twenty-seven Type 99 ships followed suit and rushed out of the deck. Then they gathered in the sky to form a group of aircraft and flew to Viti under the guidance of Type 97.

The first battle did not take place on Viti Island, but over the landing fleet commanded by Lieutenant General Kondo.

At this time, the Pacific War had entered its ninth month, and the US military's vigilance was greatly enhanced. Fights similar to sneak attacks on Pearl Harbor were almost impossible to happen again. Two days ago, a Catalina seaplane on Viti Island discovered traces of the Japanese fleet.

Eight B-17 strategic bombers, which were originally used as reconnaissance aircraft on large ranges, and twelve SBD dive bombers, launched the attack first.

Over Kondo's landing fleet, countless gray-black smoke exploded in various caliber air defense shells, dotted in the blue sky.

24 Zero fighter jets that arrived on the Ruifeng and Xiangfeng light aircraft carriers urgently joined the battlefield, quickly ending the meaningless attack of US fighter jets.

When the last SBD fearless dive bomber dragged black smoke toward the sea, the zero-loss Zero fighter hovered over the two-part Kondo fleet to protect the safety of the landing fleet.

After being frightened, the landing fleet launched a landing battle against Viti as planned.

In the northeast of Viti Island, a protruding land antler penetrated into the sea like a deer antler. At the intersection of the earth and the sea, sand shone with golden light under the rising sun.

A group of uninvited guests from the sea broke into the near sea, led by two destroyers, followed by the landing craft mothership.

One of the two Type C special ships that Yamaguchi Daowen closely monitored, Shenzhou Maru rushed to the front.

After confirming that there was no enemy resistance in this sparsely populated beach, the landing craft motherships stopped ships one after another, put down the small landing craft they carried, and the infantry climbed off the ship along the rope ladder and entered the landing craft.

During the war, the power of the Shenzhou Maru special ship was revealed, and the soldiers on the ship entered the landing craft directly. The landing craft was then lifted by two cranes on the Shenzhou Maru and placed smoothly on the sea surface.

While the soldiers on other landing craft motherships were still crawling on the rope ladder, seven or eight landing craft had already started motors around the Shenzhou Maru and rushed towards Viti Island.

The two landing crafts that rushed to the front rushed to the beach without any obstacles. The front cabin door opened, and each of them had a bean chariot rushing to the beach with great might. The infantry followed behind the bean chariot and trotted to the Shanghai coast.

After identifying the direction briefly, Japanese soldiers rushed into the scattered villages near the beach, sweeping across the landing location like locusts passing through the border.

On a beach in the north of Vanua Island, sixty kilometers away to the east, the landing craft dropped by the Akitsu Maru special ship and other landing craft motherships also safely sent the landing troops to the Shanghai beach.

Avoid densely populated towns and place landing sites on sparsely populated beaches to minimize resistance encountered by landing troops.

This tactic allowed the Japanese army to achieve the greatest tactical effect. The landing craft traveled back and forth between the beach and the transport ships in the rear. In less than an hour, three brigades and one engineer brigade were sent to the beach.

On the island of Vanua to the east, there were also three infantry brigades and one engineer brigade.

On Viti Island, in the villages near the landing ground, the Japanese soldiers behaved quite civilized in addition to causing a turbulent restlessness.

On the eastern beach of the landing site, in a Hindu temple, the Japanese army found several English-speaking Brahmins and also found the party they needed the most.

The Fiji Islands are British colonies, and the residents above are mainly composed of three parts, one is local natives, the other is colonists from Britain, and the third part is Indian laborers captured by the British from India.

Indian workers did not give up their most primitive religious beliefs because they were far away from India, and firmly believed that India was their hometown.

Through radio broadcasts, descendants of Indian workers were deceived by the slogan "Greater East Asia Prosperity" promoted by the Japanese government, believing that Japan is not as disgusting as the British propaganda.

Because the "Rabe Diary" triggered the declaration of war between Germany and the Axis Group, the Japanese government learned its lesson and ordered the occupying forces from all over the country to be civilized people and to engage in civilized occupation of the occupied areas.

First, they were deceived by the propaganda of the Japanese radio station, and then bewildered by the illusion of the seemingly civilization of the Japanese army. The Brahmins in the temple hit it off with the Japanese army landing.

When the Japanese army was communicating with the Brahmins, their secret weapons were sent on the transport ship, the silver-wheeled chariot with high quality and low price, also known as bicycles.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, when the Japanese army attacked the Malay Peninsula, more than 50,000 offensive troops carried more than 12,000 bicycles!

Using these bicycles, the Japanese army crossed mountains and ridges on the Malay Peninsula as if walking on flat ground, boldly interspersed in the rugged and complex jungle terrain, quickly disrupting the enemy's defense deployment.

Since the wheels of these bicycles were coated with silver coatings, after the Malay Peninsula, the Japanese army proudly called these troops "Silver Wheel Forces".

The two brigades of infantry turned into "fully automatic" silver wheel troops, pedaled their bicycles and followed the bean chariot. Under the guidance of the party leading the way, they quickly galloped towards Suva, the important port city of Viti Island's port in the southeast corner.

Before the Japanese silver wheel troops arrived in Suva, the battle over Suva was already in full swing.

The US anti-aircraft guns opened fire frantically, but they still could not stop the dive drop of Japanese fighter jets.

At the airport by the Reva River in the northeast corner of Suva, the hangar was hit by an aviation bomb, leaving only broken walls, and the navigation tower was destroyed by machine cannons.

There are a bunch of large and small craters on the airport runway, which loses the function of taking off and landing.

In Suva City, only the Sixth Marine Corps and the First Battalion under the Second Marine Division of the United States were stationed.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, a predecessor of the Second Marine Division, a Marine Brigade, was urgently strengthened by some of the backbone of the First Division and began to expand into the Second Marine Division.

Because the Japanese army conquered cities and made rapid progress in the Pacific, the Second Regiment, which was the first to form combat effectiveness, was strengthened to the First Marine Division and urgently transported it to Guadalcanal Island to participate in the war.

The Sixth Regiment Headquarters and the First Battalion, which were under training, were sent to Fiji to conduct adaptability and landing operations on the spot, and happened to encounter the battle of the Japanese army's storm of Fiji.

In the east of Suva City, Lieutenant Ma Hong, the platoon leader of the battalion, looked at the war-filled sky in the distance, suddenly turned his head and shouted to the three squad leaders behind him: "Aren't you going to kill the Japanese? The Japanese are here now, and they can't escape this time."

"How many Japanese are there? Which direction do they come from?" asked a squad leader Michael Schofield.

"They came from the north, and I don't know how many people there are. But this doesn't matter. How many they come and how many we kill." Lieutenant Ma Hong said.
Chapter completed!