Devil's Army

After a while, two Huaxia III fighter planes roared over the Qingdao fleet and flew towards Wuhu.

While flying, the pilot kept an eye on the ships on the Yangtze River.

When the air force was about to arrive at Yong Town, Shenxiang Town, Jiujiang District, it discovered a small Japanese fleet heading towards the mouth of the Yuxi River.

The air force immediately reported this information to the Qinghai Fleet through the command center.

The artillery of the Qingdao Fleet immediately loaded shells into their guns and prepared for battle.

More than an hour later, a small Japanese fleet appeared on the Yangtze River and enthusiastically greeted the Qingdao fleet with flag signals.

The flag signalmen of the Qingdao Fleet also warmly greeted the small Japanese fleet.

Just as the Japanese fleet changed direction and prepared to enter the Yuxi River, the Qingdao fleet's naval guns suddenly opened fire.

Several gunboats and small warships of the Japanese fleet were hit and caught fire in the first round of shelling by the Qingdao fleet.

They quickly turned their guns around and fired back, but were met with even more intense fire from the Qingdao fleet.

The Japanese fleet only played a supporting role on the river, and was far smaller than the Qingdao fleet in both tonnage and firepower.

Under the fierce bombing of the Qingdao Fleet, the Japanese fleet was quickly enveloped by columns of water, and its ships were hit one after another.

The Japanese fleet commander soon discovered that the Qingdao cruiser was the enemy's command ship, and concentrated most of the fleet's firepower to fire at the Qingdao cruiser.

Under the overwhelming firepower of the Qingdao Fleet, the Japanese fleet's counterattack was quickly suppressed.

After more than half an hour of bombing, the Japanese fleet lost its resistance.

The warships of the Qingdao Fleet surrounded the Japanese fleet.

A team of naval soldiers lay on the side of the ship and fired fiercely at the Japanese soldiers in the gunboat, suppressing their firepower. Another team of naval soldiers began to prepare to board the ship.

Most of the naval soldiers of the Qingdao Fleet are equipped with Type 95 automatic rifles and machine guns.

The Japanese firepower on the gunboats was simply unable to withstand the attacks of the Qingdao fleet soldiers.

After a brief and fierce battle, the naval soldiers of the Qingdao Fleet successfully boarded the Japanese gunboats and encircled and suppressed the Japanese troops on the gunboats.

After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, the Qingdao Fleet successfully eliminated the Japanese troops on this small fleet.

The Battle of Yuxi River Mouth was the first time that the First Army Navy engaged the Japanese Navy on the Yangtze River. Ten Japanese gunboats and small warships were captured.

Two of the small warships were blown up and lost power, and were towed back to Qingdao Port for repairs by warships of the Qingdao Fleet.

Qingdao Port was an important military port and strategic material transfer base of the former Japanese army in North China.

Qingdao built the Qingdao Dockyard Factory in 1905, which has a ton floating dock capable of repairing various types of warships.

In 1934, a 10,000-ton naval dry dock was built in Qingdao Xiaogang, further increasing the ability to repair military ships.

When the Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937, the factory moved its main machinery and equipment to Wanxian, Sichuan, and other equipment was destroyed on the spot.

After Japan invaded Qingdao for the second time in January 1938, the factory came under the jurisdiction of the Japanese, and the Japanese army added equipment to the factory to carry out operations such as warship repairs.

This time, the First Army's battle to recapture Shandong was swift. The Japanese army had no time to destroy the equipment at the dock repair yard. On the other hand, they subconsciously believed they could quickly retake Qingdao Port.

Therefore, the Qingdao Shipyard and Craft Factory was completely taken over by the First Army's Navy.

It’s just that the factory is seriously short of skilled workers and engineers.