Devil's Army

Seeing the Japanese fleet retreating at full speed, Captain Du immediately rushed over with his pilots.

The remaining warships of the Japanese Fifth Fleet were preparing to launch a surprise attack on Haikou. When Commander Kondo saw the sharp-nosed planes of the Devil's Forces approaching, he immediately ordered the anti-aircraft firepower to be fully opened.

A fighter plane and a bomber of the First Army were successively hit by the intensive anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese fleet.

The bomber exploded in mid-air at that time, and the fighter plane was damaged and staggered back to Sanya Airport for repairs.

Captain Du saw that the Japanese fleet was retreating at full speed, so he called a halt to the attack.

Their main task now is to gain air superiority over the southern cities and provide fire support to the ground forces of the First Army that are about to attack the southern cities.

The loss of Hainan Island greatly angered the Japanese Southern Expeditionary Army's commander-in-chief, Terauchi Hisaichi.

He ordered the Japanese 18th Division stationed in the Leizhou Peninsula area to step up preparations and wait for an opportunity to attack Hainan Island, and sent the Fifth Fleet to provide support.

At the same time, he applied to the country to speed up the dispatch of additional Type 52 Zero fighters to support the 21st Air Corps of the Japanese Army, which had been severely damaged by the Devil Force's aircraft.

At the same time, Commander-in-Chief Terauchi Hisaichi stepped up the occupation of small Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam and Laos, and increased the blockade of the Yunnan-Vietnam highway and railway.

The Japanese Vietnamese Hanoi garrison launched several tentative attacks on Kunming Hekou County, but they were all repelled by the brave Yunnan Army and the Gui-Yunnan Front Army.

Just as the Japanese Southern Expeditionary Army was preparing to attack Guangxi, Kunming and Hainan Island, Leng Feng ordered the 1st Independent Division of the Guangxi-Yunnan Front Army to cooperate with the Guangxi Army to launch a major counterattack against the Japanese troops in Guangxi.

At this time, most of the Japanese troops had withdrawn from Guangxi, but they still occupied Weizhou Island in the Beihai with heavy troops and turned it into the 18th base of the Southern China Naval Fleet of the China Expeditionary Army.

The First Independent Division of the Gui-Yunnan Front Army quickly defeated the Japanese troops in Longzhou County and arrived near Weizhou Island. They advanced in parallel with the Gui Army and prepared to recapture Weizhou Island.

Weizhou Island was the 18th base of the Japanese Southern Fleet. When the st Independent Division of the Guizhou-Yunnan Front Army launched an attack on Weizhou Island, a Japanese fleet in the base was preparing to encircle Haikou Port on Hainan Island with the Fifth Fleet.

The captain received a telegram from Weizhou Island asking for help and quickly returned to the port. The joint operation with the Fifth Fleet naturally failed.

The First Battalion of the First Regiment of the Gui-Yunnan Independent Division caught the Japanese army by surprise and quickly broke through the outer defense line of the Japanese Marine Corps on Weizhou Island. However, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese Marine Corps when attacking Weizhou Island.

In addition, the battle of the Gui army responsible for attacking Weizhou Island from the south did not go smoothly. They did not even break through the outer defense line of Weizhou Island.

The 1st Independent Division only had small-caliber artillery and was countered by the Japanese artillery on the island when it attacked Weizhou Island.

Commander Jia had no choice but to request air force support from the Kunming headquarters.

There was no war on Hainan Island at that time, so Leng Feng ordered Captain Du to arrange for the air force to support the battle of Weizhou Island.

In less than an hour, Deputy Captain Liu personally led a mixed squadron of fighter jets and bombers to fly over Weizhou Island and launched a fierce strafing and attack on the Japanese fortifications on the island.

Before the soldiers of the First Independent Division could launch a new round of attack on Weizhou Island, the Japanese Weizhou Island Fleet rushed back.

All kinds of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the fleet's warships opened fire at full power, strafing Deputy Captain Liu's fighter planes and bombers.

Deputy Captain Liu then abandoned the Japanese Marine Corps' fortifications on Weizhou Island and turned to bombing the Japanese fleet on the sea.

When Deputy Captain Liu was still at a disadvantage in the fight with the Japanese warships, more than 40 fighter planes flew over from the Japanese Shantou Airport and joined the siege of the mixed fighter squadron of Deputy Captain Liu.

Deputy Captain Liu immediately ordered his pilots to retreat and asked Captain Du for help.

The Japanese fighter planes could not catch up with the mixed fighter squadron of Deputy Captain Liu, so they turned their anger on the soldiers of the First Independent Division of the Gui-Yunnan Front Army, and took turns to fiercely shoot at the soldiers of the First Battalion of the Independent Division on the position.

Division Commander Jia urgently ordered the first battalion to temporarily withdraw from the battle to avoid the air raid by Japanese fighter planes.

Leng Feng knew the situation on the battlefield of Weizhou Island and did not ask Captain Du to send a plane to reinforce it. He was worried that the Japanese army would take the opportunity to attack Hainan Island.

He asked Captain Yin to dispatch fighters and bombers from Kunming's 2nd and 3rd Air Brigade to support the battle on Weizhou Island.

Upon receiving the order, Captain Yin personally led more than 100 fighters and bombers from the Kunming Second and Third Aviation Brigade to Weizhou Island at full speed.