Devil's Army

With the success of artificial rainfall, the drought situation of crops has been alleviated.

During this year, the Japanese army's several invasions of Yunnan were repelled due to the tenacious resistance of the Yunnan Army and the Gui-Yunnan Front Army.

Yunnan became one of the few provinces without Japanese troops.

Yunnan's economic development has been significantly improved and people's lives have become significantly more stable.

However, the Japanese troops on the periphery were still eyeing Yunnan covetously. They wanted to cut off the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway and the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and prevent China from obtaining international aid through land transportation lines.

Yunnan could be plunged into war again at any time.

The victory in the war against Japan significantly boosted the enthusiasm of Yunnan people to join the army, and more people signed up to join the aviation force than usual.

Commander-in-Chief Terauchi Hisaichi lost all the coastal cities in China, and the army and air force were blocked from attacking Yunnan. He had to use limited air force to bomb the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway and the Yunnan-Burma Highway to prevent China from receiving foreign aid.

In addition, it sent troops to occupy Myanmar in an attempt to completely cut off China's land transportation lines for obtaining foreign aid from Myanmar.

In order to protect the unobstructed Yunnan-Burma artery, the Nanjing government issued the first expeditionary force to enter Burma in early 42.

At this time, in order to ensure the Yunnan border and support the expeditionary force abroad, Captain Yin led a group of fighter planes back to Kunming, Yunnan.

After the Southern Front Army completely recovered the coastal cities in Guangdong occupied by the Japanese army, it did not continue to attack inland cities.

Instead, they temporarily train the troops and recuperate.

The recovery of the coastal cities of Guangdong exposed many problems. Among them, the new soldiers were not proficient in combat techniques and were panicked and at a loss during the battle. The various troops were temporarily deployed and did not cooperate well with each other.

Zhang Shaojie seized the opportunity to strengthen the training of troops and lay the foundation for recovering inland cities.

While the Southern Front was undergoing intensive training, a Japanese naval fleet that had occupied Hong Kong took advantage of the moment when Captain Yin was returning to Kunming with a group of fighter planes and launched a brazen attack on Haikou City.

Since the Japanese fleet launched a surprise attack, the 1st Regiment of the 1st Independent Division of the Southern Front Army guarding Haikou City was quite passive at the beginning of the battle.

At the beginning of the Japanese Navy's surprise attack, it was severely bombarded by the coastal defense artillery of Xiuying Old Fort and Beigang Island.

The Japanese naval commander immediately assembled the fleet's main and secondary guns and fiercely bombarded the Southern Front's Xiuying Old Fort coastal defense artillery positions and Beigang Island coastal defense artillery positions.

The Southern Front's coastal defense artillery was unable to withstand the fierce bombardment of the Japanese fleet's large-caliber naval guns and had to retreat.

Subsequently, the port terminal of Haikou City was severely bombarded by Japanese naval guns.

In order to preserve strength and accumulate power for the future defense of Haikou City, the commander of the first regiment resolutely ordered the soldiers to withdraw from the port and lure the Japanese Marines ashore.

At this time, the Hainan Island Fleet, which was at the port of Weizhou Island, heard the news and immediately returned to Haikou City at full speed.

At this time, the First Anti-Japanese Army's navy was the weakest and the army was the strongest. Commander Zhang Shaojie quickly agreed to the regiment commander's plan.

The Japanese warships' naval guns acted as if they were in an empty space, bombarding the Haikou port terminal crazily.

A regiment's positions, dock warehouses and other facilities at Haikou Port were all destroyed by Japanese warships.

When the commander of the Japanese fleet, Captain Sadozo, saw that the Devil Forces of Haikou Port did not fight back, he ordered the Marines to land.

Captain Sadojiro knew that the Devil's Army was full of tricks, so in order to prevent the warships from being ambushed by the Devil's Army, his fleet stopped seven or eight nautical miles offshore.

Japanese Marines went ashore in landing craft and assault boats.