Gao Guozhong and several international soldiers under his command carefully climbed to the roof of the cabin, laid out the red sun flag he made by himself, and several people raised their hands around the flag, "Oh! Oh! When he raised his hand up, he shouted, and cheered several times before he stopped. This is probably their last nostalgia for this flag.

The pilot of the reconnaissance plane in the sky obviously saw these people who were acting strangely, and after turning around and flying over, and after seeing what appeared to be the Japanese flag below, the two reconnaissance planes circled around the big ship twice, confirmed what they saw again, and flapped away with their wings.

The devil plane flew away! Gao Quan patted Gao Guozhong on the shoulder and praised the Japanese major of the National Army a few words, praising Gao Guozhong so much that his bones were lighter.

This time, Liu Qi pulled his entire independent brigade onto the boat. There is an artillery company in the independent brigade, which has special artillery, Gao Quan handed over the few battle defense guns on the ship to the professional artillery to operate, and he will no longer have to risk firing alone with a few half-hung artillerymen in the future.

The fleet pulled anchor and set sail, went upstream, and slowly drove towards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the direction of Yichang City. Most of the ships in this fleet were sailboats, sailing upstream against the current, and the sails basically did not play much of a role, and the fleet moved forward completely by the motor propellers installed on the ships. Although the fleet can maintain a not too slow speed with the motor fully running, Gao Quan is not in a hurry. He was not in a hurry to go to Yichang, he had to wait for the Third Division to come over, and then go to Yichang after a few rounds of fighting with this old opponent.

The 3rd Division has always served as the main attacker in the previous battle, and it is the main division of the devil's attack on our army. In the later stages of the battle, especially before the fleet led by Satomi Kanji Daisa to leave Yichang, Yamamoto Mitsuo and his 3rd Division basically fought on the line from Changyang to Yichang. On 27 May, Satomi Jinji led the fleet down the river, and although the Japanese army attacked the Yangtze River defense line, it was never able to break through the fortress of Shibeidian and could not defeat the main force of our Jiang Defense Army and the Sixth Theater. The highest goal in Yokoyama's heart, after defeating the Sixth War Zone, went straight to accompany the capital Chongqing, and the big drama of forcing the Chongqing government to surrender was basically no play.

Based on the fact that it can't take much advantage if it continues to fight, and a large number of materials piled up in Yichang have been loaded and shipped away, therefore, the old devil Yokoyama Yong decisively issued an order to withdraw his troops. It's a pity that this top-secret order was intercepted and deciphered by the confidential department of the 500 Army! After the Confidential Department reported this fatal intelligence to Chen Cheng, who was sitting in the Sixth War Zone, Minister Chen and Chief Sun's surprise can be imagined!

The devil is leaving? That's great! Order all troops in the 6th Theater of Operations to launch a pursuit battle at once! Inform the Military Commission that the Sixth Theater has achieved a great victory in western Hubei! At the same time, order the relevant troops to immediately launch an attack on Yichang! The devils are leaving, what are you waiting for if you don't take advantage of the situation to recover the famous city?

Yokoyama Yongguang knew that it was time to retreat when he saw that he had not been able to defeat the Sixth War Zone, and the old devil was thinking about how to retreat in an orderly manner, so as not to suffer losses on the way to retreat, and at the same time he didn't want to give Yichang away. In fact, Yokoyama Yong's original plan was to let the Third Division stay in Yichang to defend the city, after all, the Third Division was strong, and compared to several other divisions, Yokoyama Yong trusted the Third Division more. In particular, the current location of the Third Division is relatively close to Yichang, and it is the most suitable person to stay directly in place to defend the city.

Who knows that the plan can't keep up with the rapid change. The commander of the 3rd Division, Lieutenant General Mitsuo Yamamoto, was reluctant to stay in Yichang. The 3rd Division was originally stationed in Yingshan, and they had been stationed in Yingshan for several years, and they had long been familiar with the local area. It's okay to come to Yichang to fight, if you want to stay here for a long time, you don't know the place well, interpersonal relationships, the support of traitors and everything have to start again, and the head of the Yamamoto division is not very reluctant.

Lieutenant General Yamamoto also has people in the base camp, and the people ask people to lobby Yokoyama Isamu through the back door, and the old devil takes his third division to pull out the camp and start the village, ready to respond to the mountain without saying goodbye!

Someone in the base camp talked to him, and the third division was ready to wilt again, plus the 11th Army was seriously injured in this battle, especially Gao Pinbiao's 17th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the five captains were killed! Fortunately, he ran fast, otherwise he, a second-rate sub-brigade, would have to be swallowed up by Wang Yaowu's "Tiger" troops! This series of unpleasant things revolves around Isamu Yokoyama, Commander Yokoyama's head is big, why was Okamura Ninji so smooth sailing when he was the commander of the Eleventh Army, why was it his turn to be so unsmooth?

When Commander Yokoyama was full of worries, another piece of bad news came, Satomi Konji Daisa reported that the fleet he led had been attacked by the Chinese army near Doinji!

As soon as Takeichi saw this telegram, Isamu Yokoyama smiled angrily. Is Satomi Konji a pig? He led a fleet, with thousands of heavily armed soldiers on board, and there was plenty of food and grass, food and drink, and he didn't have to get off the ship from Yichang to Wuhan! And the Chinese army's sailors have long been wiped out by the Japanese Navy, how can the Chinese attack your fleet? Do you swim? Isamu Yokoyama really guessed right, but this matter is too unbelievable, even if he guesses correctly, he doesn't believe it!

Out of an attitude of being responsible for the army, and despite not believing it, Isamu Yokoyama ordered the air force to send two reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter the situation. Sending out the reconnaissance plane, Yokoyama patted his bald head and laughed again.

The extremes of things must be reversed, and the willows and flowers are bright! When all the bad things are coming, it's often the time to turn around! Isamu Yokoyama came up with a good idea, and he gave an order to Mitsuo Yamamoto, ordering the 3rd Division to rush down the river to support and escort Satomi Konji's fleet! Regardless of whether the fleet was really attacked or not, he didn't plan to let Yamamoto Mitsuo's Third Division respond to the mountain smoothly anyway! If you are disobedient, if you are disobedient, you will do your best!

Isamu Yokoyama was very bad, he didn't tell Lieutenant General Yamamoto where the mission would be completed, that is to say, if there was no order from him, the Third Division would not be able to meet it, even if it met Satomi Konji's fleet, it still couldn't withdraw its troops, and they had to escort this fleet to Wuhan all the time!

Yamamoto Sano is very angry, very angry! Because he had already received the news that the pilot of the reconnaissance plane had seen the Japanese flag with his own eyes over the fleet, that is to say, Satomi Konji's fleet was still in the hands of the Japanese army, but the Chinese soldiers who attacked the fleet did not see any of them! In this case, Isamu Yokoyama still ordered the Third Division to rescue the fleet, what kind of heart does this guy have? But the military order has been issued, and no matter how hard Yamamoto Sannan is in the background, he does not dare to take on the charge of disobedience on the battlefield. Go and go, and we'll settle accounts when we get to Wuhan! Lieutenant General Yamamoto snorted and led his Third Division downstream along the Yangtze River embankment.

He didn't expect to meet the fleet halfway through the road at all, Satomi Konji had already been walking for several days, how could he catch up? During the battle, several infantry brigades originally assigned to the 58th and 68th Divisions under the command of Lieutenant General Yamamoto were transferred back to their original units before the division left. Lieutenant General Yamamoto is not yet under the command of a fully staffed division, and his 68th Wing has been assigned to the Field Detachment. And the field detachment was retreating to the garrison Dangyang with the 39th Division!