The incident happened two hours ago, when Qiao Zhengwei and his bomber formation had just taken off from Haikou Airport, far away at the other end of Hainan, dozens of warships and hundreds of troop carriers of the Japanese Navy's Fifth Fleet were slowly sailing towards the landing waters near Sanya.

When the troop carriers reached the optimal landing distance, the commander of the Fifth Fleet, Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo, again asked the commanders of the various units on board the battleship Izuhi.

"Are you sure the sea is safe? Didn't you find any trace of the Hainan submarine force? ”

The first to answer the lieutenant general was the chief officer of the submarine force: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, our four submarines have been repeatedly searching this sea area since half a month ago, and there are absolutely no submarines in this sea area except for the discovery of countless reefs on the bottom of the sea. ”

"Don't brag! With such a large sea area, you are so sure that the enemy will not sink in the sea? Didn't you miss a single bit in your search?

In case the Hainan submarine comes out of the bottom of the sea when we land, you will have a good look. Major General Iida Shoshichiro, commander of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, asked uneasily.

"General Iida, please rest assured that our submarine forces are not large in number, but we in Japan have the most advanced submarines in the world.

With the ability of our submarine batteries, they can only be lurking in the water for three days at most, and after three days, they must float up to recharge, and even if the Hainan submarine force gets submarines built by Germany, their batteries will not support them for too long.

Our reconnaissance detachment had been closely watching this area of water for a week and had never found any sign of the submarine refloating. So I'm sure that the enemy must not be under water.

Take 10,000 steps back and say that even if there are submarines under the sea, how much can they do? Today, there are hundreds of ships of all kinds on the sea.

Among them, there are only destroyers, dozens of submarine hunters, not to mention minesweepers around, and frigates patrolling back and forth on the sea.

With our large Japanese Air Force patrol planes in the sky and our army's most advanced submarine guarding it under the surface, I really can't figure out how little Hainan will stop us from attacking. Therefore, your army can rest assured that the landing operation will be carried out. ”

Seeing that the commander of the submarine force was so confident, Lieutenant General Na Na Chengichi of the 18th Division reminded the generals present: "Before this attack on Hainan, the commander-in-chief, Mr. Guzhuang Ganlang, warned us more than once that we should not be careless about anything in Hainan, after all, we have suffered many losses at their hands.

In particular, Hainan's submarine unit successfully attacked our landing force in Hangzhou Bay. What's more, you should have heard of Hainan's air force, and Hainan is not short of pilots.

At 918 of that year, Li Tie was able to steal 200 fighters from the Northeast, and now that eight years have passed, I don't believe that there will be very few pilots for them.

I don't believe that Li Tie, who has strong financial resources, does not have a huge fleet in Hainan. Therefore, my opinion is still to send the air force to attack on all fronts, and under the cover of the air force, carry out landing operations. ”

Seeing Seiichi Kuna so cautious, Major General Iida thought that the time had come for him to behave, and he immediately asked to be the first echelon of the landing and personally lead his troops to occupy the beach.

As a result, the Japanese army's vigorous beach-grabbing landing began, and nearly 10,000 people of the entire Iida Brigade began to slowly approach the beach of Sanya with the help of dozens of troop carriers.

The vanguard unit quickly seized the beachhead and began to set up mortars and other positions to prepare for the counterattack of the Hainan Army.

However, the vanguard did not meet any resistance, and even the fishermen on the seashore threw down their nets one by one and fled as fast as they could go inland.

It seems that the Hainan Guards were not prepared for this Japanese sneak attack. So Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake waved his big hand and all moved forward and landed quickly.

As soon as Nobutake Kondo urged like this, all the troop carriers began to rush to the beach. The surrounding frigates also had to make enough space for the hundreds of ships to dock on the beach at the same time.

At the same time, dozens of Japanese planes were circling around the beach to defend the success of the landing operation. Things got to this point where everyone thought that the landing in Sanya had been successful.

Now it is only necessary to wait for all the marines to occupy Sanya, and then use Sanya as a base to sweep the entire Hainan Island. They were too careful, where were the Hainan guards.

Just as hundreds of troop carriers were transporting soldiers to the beach in front of the beach, I saw submarines covered with algae and microorganisms starting to start at a depth of 100 meters.

The submarines slowly raised their heads in the water, aimed the torpedo tubes in front of the submarines at their respective targets, and then they waited for the signal to attack.

At the same time, on the peaks of the mountains a few kilometers away from the beach, cannons covered in camouflage stretched out the muzzles of black holes, and the lookouts next to the cannons held a coordinate map in their hands, and they were also waiting for the signal to attack.

It was also at this time, when only half of the more than 20,000 Japanese troops climbed onto the beach, when hundreds of troop carriers were in a state of confusion over who came first and who went out first.

In the distance, a black fighter suddenly flew into the sky.

Then the entire Fifth Fleet sounded a piercing air defense siren, and more than a hundred aircraft on the aircraft carriers Akagi and Chiyoda began to take off urgently.

It turned out that the Hainan Air Force on the opposite side sent 200 fighters this time. Each of these fighters has an image of a shark with sharp teeth painted on the nose.

Seeing the sudden appearance of so many planes in Hainan, Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake, the commander-in-chief of the army attacking Hainan this time, was very uncomfortable, "Where did so many planes come from, according to reliable information, there are only 100 planes of various types in the whole of Hainan, and these planes are all large planes outside Haikou.

At this time, Zhanjiang's First Air Wing should have already sent planes to attack Haikou Airport, and even if the sneak attack was unsuccessful, Haikou's fighters should be busy dealing with the sneak attack of the First Air Wing, and should not have extra energy to worry about here.

And the news from the imperial intelligence department said that there should be no airfield here in Sanya. But how to explain these large number of fighters? ”

Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake suddenly suspected that he might have been fooled, Hainan Island is high and densely forested, and they must have multiple hidden airfields to gather so many fighters at the beginning of the battle.

Although I don't know what Li Tie and Wang Yaqiao have in mind, I don't want to occupy Hainan now, because the Japanese army, which has lost air superiority, will not be able to defeat the Hainan Escort Army under such complex Hainan terrain conditions.

What he was thinking about now was not how to repel the attack from Hainan, but how to bring back the soldiers who had come ashore safely.

Without any thought, Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake immediately ordered a full retreat, and the air force made every effort to resist the attack of the Hainan air force.

The troop transports were once again approaching the beach, and all the warships were aiming their guns to the north, ready to strike at the possible Hainan convoy at any time.

And Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake immediately asked for help from the 21st Army in Guangzhou, they may have been ambushed, and asked all the planes that could come to support them to come immediately.

Now the number of enemy fighters in the first wave is far greater than that of the Japanese army, and he believes that more Chinese fighters will come soon.

Lieutenant General Nobutake Kondo guessed half right, because not only will a large number of fighters arrive, but he will soon see a variety of attacks.

The first to attack was not the Air Force, but an unknown valley in the distance.

The valley is so vast that a large field has been leveled out at the bottom of the valley, and dozens of cars are placed in the middle of the field, each of which seems to be equipped with rows of huge cylinders.

At this time, the cars were covered with green camouflage nets. In a forest not far from the car array, Jin Sanpang, the commander of the machine gun battalion of the Xinqi 1st Regiment who was guarding the telephone at this time, suddenly received a phone call, and there was only one sentence on the phone: "Open the gun!" ”

Jin Sanpang put down the phone, hurriedly ran out of the woods, raised two red flags, and waved the flags to the middle of the field. I saw that hundreds of soldiers immediately rushed to the field from the edge of the valley and quickly lifted these large camouflage cloths.

If there are Chinese from later generations who see it, they will not be unfamiliar with what is in front of them, and "good" is MLRS.

In fact, as early as three years ago, Li Tie asked Huaxing Laboratory to successfully develop this powerful rocket artillery, but limited to the fact that the Republic of China does not have a strong military industrial system, Li Tie has no way to produce it in large quantities.

Fortunately, Li Tie is now a big international capitalist, and he imported the launch canister from Germany, customized control units from France, and then got various components from the United States.

Then they were all transported to Hainan for assembly and production, and at the Hainan base, the only thing Li Tie could do was cannonballs.

It's just that because the sea transportation is really too long, in the past two years, Li Tie has only successfully assembled 36 medium-sized multiple rocket launchers with 12 consecutive shots. And due to the scarcity of shells, he could only fire one round.

In this era, this is a big killer. Not only is the firing range far beyond that of ordinary heavy artillery, but the power is not much worse than that of naval guns.

Because of the importance of these weapons, Li Tie deliberately transferred the machine gun battalion led by Jin Sanpang of the Xinqi Regiment to this valley to be responsible for the defense work.

And these rocket artillery are not even the second shell, and after this round, it is necessary to transfer positions. And the first explosion point of these rocket artillery was the clarion call for this all-out attack on the Japanese army.

When the first rocket shell landed on the shallows in front of the beach, the huge explosive force directly killed the Japanese troops within a radius of several tens of meters.

Then hundreds of rockets landed on the beach and in the water. Because the production accuracy at this time was far inferior to that of later generations, and the aiming and positioning equipment was also much behind, and all the accessories were customized from different countries, the rocket launcher made by Li Tie was very powerful, but the accuracy was very poor.

The first rocket had just exploded in front of the beach, and the second exploded in the sea. However, when this weapon was designed, it was not expected to carry out precision strikes.

Therefore, more than 400 rockets and artillery shells fell one after another on the beach and sea that the Japanese had just occupied, and the entire beach was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire.