In the early morning of the next day, the amphibious assault of the special mixed ship group arrived on the surface of 150 nautical miles east of Guadalcanal, forming the first line of defense to stop the Japanese attack.

This amphibious assault fleet is composed of three strike forces: one is the amphibious assault ship LHD-13, plus the cruiser two second-generation Aegis air defense cruisers and five destroyers composed of the 13th amphibious assault fleet; the other is the amphibious assault ship LHD-14, which is the 14th amphibious assault fleet consisting of two air defense cruisers and six destroyers; the other is the 15th amphibious assault ship group, mainly the amphibious assault ship LHD-15 Kuimw Wolf.

As soon as the Red Guards amphibious task force arrived, it immediately cruised on the sea in a combative manner.

Although the Red Guard Corps' amphibious assault ships are not ships that operate with air-to-sea combat targets, and the amphibious assault ships do not have more space for carrier-based aircraft in their cabins, they can also carry fighters and bombers.

However, compared to the combat capability of the aircraft carrier, the amphibious assault ship is not at all on a level.Mainly reflected in the number of aircraft and the continuous maritime combat capability.

However, if it is used to deal with ordinary maritime opponents, amphibious assault ships also have good capabilities, and in the field of Japanese aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships also belong to the main carrier type.

The reconnaissance aircraft of the 14th amphibious fleet found the sea formation led by Tanaka, who was at the head of the Japanese joint fleet, and immediately sent back the emergency message to the amphibious fleet: "The Japanese landing convoy escorted by two cruisers and three destroyers sailed towards Guadalcanal at a speed of 17 knots."

Since there is no aircraft carrier battle group, all the investigation methods are only self-investigation by the carrier-based aircraft.

I have to say that this time the Japanese joint fleet did indeed make the Red Guard Navy hastily respond.

Of course, the Red Guards Corps is not a force that does not fight without advanced weapons.

Under the same technical level, the Red Guards are not inferior to any opponent.

The 14th amphibious fleet took action immediately after receiving the call, determined to annihilate this Japanese fleet.

In the afternoon, an attack team consisting of 18 bombers and six fighters flew away from the amphibious assault ship and went to the scheduled sea to air raid the Japanese reinforcements on Guadalcanal Island.

These two air forces will undoubtedly be fatal to the Japanese Guadalcanal reinforcements, and under normal circumstances, this Tanaka fleet will be in great trouble.

However, when the Red Police carrier aircraft arrived in the designated sea area, it was not found that the Japanese naval fleet was found, and the sea was white and empty.Searching for a while and nothing came of it, and the Red Police carrier had to return at dusk.

Without the huge search surface of the early warning aircraft, the Red Police Navy carrier-based aircraft also had to face the same problems as the naval carrier-based forces of this era.

At night, the 14th amphibious fleet sent five more water reconnaissance aircraft to search, and still found nothing.

Originally, the old and slippery Japanese Navy Oda Sasada also found the Red Police Corps reconnaissance aircraft, in order to ensure the safety of the fleet, he issued the order to sail to the northwest, full speed forward, the fleet to avoid the Red Police Corps bomber combat activity radius, so that the Red Police carrier aircraft even empty.

At 18 o'clock in the evening, the Japanese Navy's combined fleet, commanded by Lieutenant General Kondo, a powerful avant-garde sea battle group on Guadalcanal, sailed to the sea 40 nautical miles east of Tanaka's fleet, and in order to confuse the Red Guards, the fleet did not continue to go south, but turned to the northwest.

Before sunrise the next day, the Japanese as a bait-based group of the Seahawk first turned to the southeast again, and at 6 a.m., all the Japanese ships also turned to the southeast, approaching the Red Guard Corps.

The Battle of Solomon is at a critical moment.

In the past ten hours, the three amphibious assault fleets of the Red Guard Navy have not stopped searching for the position of the Japanese fleet, but for the tactics of the Japanese joint fleet, the tactics of the Red Guard Navy, that is, it can be defeated by resolute defeat, can not be defeated, it is difficult to resist, and wait until the main force of the Navy arrives.

In the morning, two formations of the Red Guards arrived in the southeast of the island of Mareta, and most of the Japanese tactical groups also reached this area, and the two sides were more than 300 nautical miles apart.Through previous reconnaissance, the other side knows that there are enemies nearby, but it is not clear the specific location.

In the morning, the fog covered the sea, which brought a good camouflage to the Japanese fleet.

The Japanese fleet loomed in the mist.At nine o'clock, the position of the Japanese fleet was: the reinforcements in Tanaka were located 50 nautical miles north of Guadalcanal; the aircraft carriers of the Asakyu River Chongqing and Ruihe were covered by the 40 nautical miles southeast of Tanaka; the holding group dominated by the Sea Eagle was on the right front of the Higuchi River Qing forces.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the radar of the Red Guards' amphibious assault ship LHD-13 found a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft at a distance of 20 nautical miles, and immediately sent four fighters to intercept and shoot it down.

At the same time, a water machine taking off from the island found the light amphibious assault ship Seahawk, the light amphibious assault ship Seahawk, a well-designed bait from Hasegawa, at pisoon at ten o'clock, at two hundred and eighty nautical miles northwest of the 14th amphibious fleet of the Red Guards.

The Seahawk is in the requisition of the 8,000-ton Argentine Maru, a passenger and cargo ship belonging to the Osaka Merchant Marine Company, and transformed it into a 13,600-ton all-in-one light aircraft carrier.In this battle, the ship not only served as a "bait", but also responsible for the bombing of Guadalcanal.

The aircraft carrier can carry 18 carrier-based aircraft and six carrier-based attack aircraft, which is a very small aircraft carrier.

Another aircraft from the same base found the Japanese containment group and immediately sent a telegram back.

The 14th amphibious fleet will be suspicious after the news.

Yesterday, three batches of carrier-based aircraft did not find the Japanese fleet, is this one from the bottom of the sea?

The 14th Amphibian Fleet Command was not convinced and did not take an attack.But he did not dare to take it lightly and immediately ordered LHD-14 to send the aircraft to conduct reconnaissance.

The Red Guards were moving, and by midday, a total of 23 reconnaissance aircraft and bombers were flying on the wide sea around Guadalcanal.

Around 1 p.m., the Red Guard Corps' radar alert suddenly found many air targets, and the flash on the radar screen indicated that a Japanese plane was flying toward Guadacanal at a distance of 100 nautical miles.

Soon, there was a shocking news of the Thirteenth amphibious fleet: a large number of Japanese fighters and bombers came out of the cloud and were preparing to attack Guadalcanal, but were defeated by two S.H.I.E.D. air defense ships near Guadalcanal, and more than 30 Japanese carrier-based aircraft were expected to be deployed.

Until this time, the Thirteenth amphibious fleet felt that the situation was not a good one, and the Japanese fleet was nearby, rather than, as originally estimated, far from Guadalcanal.