Devil's Army

After Commander Zhang left, Captain Chen convened a meeting of Hainan Fleet officers and assigned the task of luring the Japanese fleet into our three coastal artillery bases.

At 6 o'clock the next morning, the First Army Hainan Island Fleet set out from Sanya Port Terminal and headed for Haikou Port.

On this day, several people with suspicious behavior were strolling around Haikou Port.

The commander of the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Division, which was responsible for defending Haikou Port, arranged several soldiers in plain clothes to follow slowly nearby. However, these people seemed to be here to collect folk songs and did not make any obvious reconnaissance movements.

The regiment commander therefore did not ask the soldiers to arrest them.

The intelligence was quickly reported to Commander Zhang, who analyzed that since the Japanese army had sent people to investigate the port, they might take action soon, so he ordered the troops to step up their alert.

Haikou Port was suddenly filled with the smell of gunpowder and soldiers patrolling with live ammunition were everywhere.

The dock workers, who were unaware of the situation, were working even harder with smiles on their faces, celebrating the recovery of Haikou Port in their own way.

At around 4 pm, Captain Chen arrived at Haikou Port with the Hainan Island fleet.

The commander of the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Division received Captain Chen and other naval officers, and took them to visit the three coastal defense artillery batteries that were being consolidated and built.

Captain Chen and other naval officers gained an intuitive understanding of the Haikou Port Coast Defense Artillery Battery.

Since the Japanese Fifth Fleet was relatively powerful and Haikou Bay was an open bay that was nearly semicircular, it was difficult for the Hainan Island Fleet to hide in Haikou Port.

In order to prevent the enemy from inflicting heavy losses in the first encounter, Commander Zhang asked Captain Chen to lead the Hainan Island Fleet to leave Haikou Port first and wait for an opportunity to act in the sea not far away.

The captain led the Hainan Island fleet to leave Hainan Haikou Port overnight and waited 20 kilometers south of the former site of Xiuying Fort.

Commander Zhang then reported his plans and speculations to Commander Leng Feng.

Leng Feng asked Commander Zhang to report to the Kunming headquarters when the battle with the Japanese fleet started, and he would send Kunming's air force to reinforce.

Two days later at 8 o'clock in the morning, a group of Japanese troops from Wenchang County suddenly launched an attack on the positions of the st Division and st Regiment in Qiongdong County.

The attack was so fierce that it seemed as if the Japanese army had concentrated all its forces in an attempt to break through the defense line of Qiongdong County.

Commander Zhang did not dispatch the troops stationed in the nearest Qionshan County for reinforcement, but instead dispatched the Second Regiment of the First Division in the rear for reinforcement.

At the same time, he ordered the garrison of Qionshan County to strengthen the defense of Haikou Port.

A regiment commander mobilized the artillery of a division and only then was the fierce counterattack of the Japanese army suppressed.

Subsequently, the Japanese army also used artillery, and the two sides fought each other at the border between Wenchang County and Qiongdong County.

In order to lure out the large Japanese force, Commander Zhang ordered the garrison at the junction of Qiongdong County and Wenchang County to retreat.

The Japanese army finally broke through the positions of the defenders in Qiongdong County and divided their troops into two groups, advancing rapidly into the depths of the Qiongdong line.

When the Japanese troops advanced to the outskirts of Qiongdong County, they were stubbornly blocked by the Qiongdong County defenders.

When another group of Japanese troops advanced to the canyon position of the Wanling Ancient Post Road, they were also blocked from above by another unit of the 1st Division.

At this time, Commander Zhang ordered a division commander to take the remaining troops to quietly cut off the retreat route of the main Japanese force back to Wenchang County from the side.

When the Japanese troops in Wenchang County were fighting fiercely with the soldiers of the 1st Division in Qiongdong County, the protagonist of this battle, the Japanese Fifth Fleet, appeared.

The Army Aviation Soldiers who had been conducting aerial reconnaissance discovered that the Japanese Fifth Fleet, consisting of 36 warships, was sailing towards Haikou Port from Shenwei Bay in the north of the Qiongzhou Strait.

The commander of a regiment at Haikou Port immediately ordered soldiers to evacuate dock workers and civilians from the port.

The remaining eight Golden Eagle III drones in the hands of the Army Aviation soldiers took off first and launched the first wave of attacks on the Japanese warships.

The fighter planes and bombers of the First Army from Sanya Airport and Lingshui Airport took off one after another, preparing to launch a second wave of attack on the Japanese Fifth Fleet.

The observation post on the mast of the Japanese flagship "Myoko" heavy cruiser soon discovered the group of Golden Eagle III drones approaching them rapidly from high altitude.

Immediately issue an air raid warning to the fleet using flag signals.

The anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the Japanese Fifth Fleet were all set up, keeping high alert over the sky above their fleet.

The Golden Eagle drone group had not yet reached the sky above the Japanese fleet, and the Japanese fleet's anti-aircraft firepower was fully opened.

Tongues of fire shot into the air, forming a dense firepower network.

The Army Aviation soldiers operating the Golden Eagle drones were not in a hurry to attack the Japanese fleet, but patrolled the periphery, harassing the Japanese fleet and occasionally launching air-to-ground missiles at Japanese warships.