Yangtze River Wharf Bay, the headquarters of the Japanese Third Fleet.

Not long ago, Keno Ikeda, commander of the Third Fleet of the Devils, heard the news of the defeat of the Watanabe warband.

A devil naval intelligence officer, with a document in his hand, hurried to Keno Ikeda to report.

"Report to the commander, this is a casualty battle damage report from General Watanabe......"

With a gloomy face, Ikeda took the document handed by his subordinates, and then carefully looked at the battle-damaged warship and the casualties of the navy officers and men on the telegram.

Looking at the battle damage report on the telegram, Ikeda's face became more and more ugly, and suddenly, he angrily tore the telegram in his hand to shreds.

"Yagaya Road, Tomota Watanabe, this incompetent idiot, has lost so many warships in this battle, and has also killed and injured so many imperial navy navies!"

Keno Ikeda's spring is like thunder, if Watanabe Tomota is here, he really wants to slap the other party with a big mouth.

The Japanese Third Fleet, since the invasion of China, can be said to be the hegemon in the water, rampant and invincible, has always been the pride of the Great Japanese Army, and it is rare to have such a crushing experience. ，

The defeat of the Nanshan Yangtze River Bay Devil Warship Squadron not only made Ikeda Keno's face gloomy, but also humiliated the powerful Third Fleet.

"Your Excellency Commander, the warships of the Watanabe Clan's warships have suffered heavy losses, and the overall combat effectiveness of the squadron has been sharply reduced, should they be allowed to withdraw first to rest?" The devil's chief of naval staff whispered to the commander's suggestion.

After listening to the chief of staff's suggestion, Ikeda Keno Haruharu thought about it for a while, and said cautiously: "Immediately send a telegram to the Watanabe team and order all warships to withdraw to Pier Bay to rest!" ”

"Hayi, Commander!"

A devil naval officer saluted and left, immediately going to deliver the order.

After a while, the Devil Messenger handed over a telegram.

"Report to the commander, send a telegram to the Central China Dispatch Army Command!"

Hearing that it was Shunroku Hatata's telegram, Keno Ikeda did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

He took the urgent telegram from the communications soldier and carefully read the contents of the telegram.

After reading the telegram in his hand, Ikeda Keno's face was a little more displeased.

"This Shunroku Hata is really an old fool, the army actually blamed our navy for the defeat in the operation, and said that the warships of the Watanabe War delayed the fighters and did not support the army in time, Yaga, this is simply unreasonable!!"

Keno Ikeda called Shunroku Hata by his name, and kept scolding in the headquarters.

The devil's navy and the army have a bad relationship in the first place, and they despise each other, obviously because the army is not in a good position to fight, and they also say that the navy is delaying the fighter plane, and they want the navy to take the blame for the army, and Keno Ikeda is naturally unhappy.

However, after all, Shunroku Hata was the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, and Keno Ikeda did not dare to contradict his superiors.

What made Keno Ikeda most angry was that Shunroku Hata had just mentioned in a telegram that he had ordered the naval fleet to actively cooperate with the army in combat.

"Bagaya Road, a bunch of incompetent army, let our powerful navy actively cooperate with the war, even ask our navy to obey the order of the army, what a stupid decision!" Keno Ikeda's face turned green, and he angrily scolded the army for its incompetence. Wanshulou

"Commander, what a joke to make our navy subordinate to the incompetent army!"

"Our naval forces are invincible from the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Wuhan, if the poorly equipped army does not have the support of our navy, how can it be possible for those incompetent army forces to land so quickly?"

The other devil officers of the headquarters spoke indignantly, expressing all kinds of dissatisfaction with the Japanese Army.

The chief of staff of the Devil Navy thought for a while and advised: "Your Excellency Commander, calm your anger, after all, this is an order of the Central China Dispatch Army Command, and we can only obey it. ”

"Everyone, since we can't resist the order, then our navy will enlarge the pattern and cooperate with the army to fight, after all, our real enemy is the army!"

All the devil officers and generals were just complaining just now, and after listening to the words of the chief of staff, they all calmed down one by one.

Ikeda was furious at the thought of defeating the security corps of their warship fleet.

Immediately, Ikeda issued an order to his subordinates to resend a fleet of warships up the river to support Madang Fortress and cooperate with the army.

This time, the Devil Navy can be said to have made a bloody investment, and transferred three warship warships to form a joint team to fight at the same time.

The Japanese warship lineup was very strong, dispatching the aircraft carrier "Yunfan", nine cruisers, eleven destroyers, and seven gunboats, adding up to nearly 30 ships of various sizes.

The Japanese naval combat unit received an order from Commander Keno Ikeda, and all naval guns sailed out of Pier Bay overnight.

The little devil was really forced to be in a hurry this time, and even a large ship such as an aircraft carrier was dispatched.

However, the devil's aircraft carriers do not play a big role on the Yangtze River. 、

It's not that the devil's aircraft carrier is a junk warship, as we all know, the aircraft carrier is the core main ship of a warship battle group, and it is also the overlord of ocean combat.

During the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army's flight units could take off and fight through aircraft carriers even in the absence of an airfield, so they occupied air supremacy.

However, a large warship of more than 100 meters can sail unhindered in the sea, but it is not so flexible to enter the Yangtze River, the waters of the Yangtze River are winding and wide and narrow, and the depth and height are also different, the depth can reach 100 meters, and the shallow bay is only a few meters.

Therefore, even if the devil dispatches an aircraft carrier, he can only fight in deep water.

Of course, the strike capabilities of aircraft carriers are far beyond human imagination, providing both air cover and long-range artillery strikes.

The devil's aircraft carrier carries a lot of carrier-based attack aircraft, and the devil's plane can freely take off and land on the deck of the aircraft carrier without relying on land airfields.

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The battle continued overnight, and the devils naturally refused to give up after losing the battle, and mobilized navy, land, and air forces to fight together overnight.

The defense line of Madang Fortress was very important, so the Japanese army made sufficient preparations for this attack.

The Japanese troops guarding Madang Fortress fought fiercely with the Nationalist troops for a night, and the devil's isolation turned into a bitter battle, and the enemy's heavy fire positions were destroyed a lot by the assault team.

Outside the Madang defensive line, two artillery regiments of the national army were fiercely shelled, and there were commandos attacking and sabotaging the Madang position.

The Chinese army spared no expense, went forward and attacked the Madang defense line one after another, and after several rush attacks, the national troops on the front line have successfully landed at the forward position of Madang Fortress.