0 1. Guadao has a tropical rain forest climate, and there is almost no edible food and plague.
Hot and humid places are most suitable for the survival of bacteria and viruses. Guadao's dense rainforest and countless decaying animal carcasses provide a hotbed for infectious diseases such as malaria.
At first, the number of Japanese troops on the island was small, and they did not go deep into the rainforest, so the power of malaria has not yet appeared. However, since the U.S. raid, the Japanese counterattack, the U.S. counterattack and the Japanese adherence to this series of processes, the Japanese garrison has continued to go deep into the rainforest, and there are many hairy bodies in the camp. Disease outbreaks are normal. Medical equipment certainly couldn't keep up during the war, so many people died of illness.
The rainforest looks rich in plant species, but in fact there are many poisonous foods and few edible ones. In addition, when the Japanese army was trapped in Guadao Rainforest, it was only a few meters, and tens of thousands of people squatted in it, and they could not eat for several days, so there was a lack of food. It is said that in the end, even the bodies of comrades-in-arms became lunch for survivors.
02. The US military raided the Japanese airport and seized the Japanese grain reserves, which made the Japanese army face the challenge of starvation in the early stage.
The reason why the United States attacked Guadalcanal at that time was because Japan was building an airport on Guadalcanal. Japan thought that few people had been to Guadalcanal, and the US military would definitely not call. So at the beginning, there were only about 3,000 Korean Japanese engineers on the island, and the camp was built around the airport. The factory for processing food is also in the airport.
American troops invaded the airport the next morning, with more than 10,000 people. Unable to resist, the Japanese army fled hastily, without even taking away the food of the day. In addition, factories that manufacture food and drinking water sources were also occupied by the US military. Not only the engineers on the island, but also the later reinforcements lost the food supply on land.
03. What did the Japanese army do? Tokyo Express? Tactically, it is impossible to transport food by using destroyers for rapid transportation at night.
Since the US military works for about eight hours and does not fight at night, the Japanese army will send reinforcements to Guadao at night. However, this method can only transport soldiers or light weapons, and heavy items that need to be dismantled, such as food supplies, cannot be transported. The strange phenomenon of increasing population and decreasing food supply on the island has aggravated the hunger problem on the island.
04. The Japanese tried to airdrop food on the coast of Guadao with destroyers, but the American army was so powerful that almost all the food was sunk.
With more and more American troops stationed on the island, there are more and more heavy weapons. The Japanese navy tried to rescue Guadao, but the destroyer could not break through the line of fire of the US military and could only try to put food at night. Because the navy can't go to the island, it can only throw large iron buckets of food near the coast.
However, out of a total of 2,700 iron drums, the Japanese army only got 530, and the rest were all destroyed by the US military. However, reinforcements were sent behind the Japanese army, and the number further increased. Food can only be smuggled in by submarines, and the phenomenon of insufficient porridge has reached the extreme. Finally, a large number of soldiers starved to death.