Major General Matsuyama was very sure that Hainan Island was Li Tie's secret base, and it was more likely that the base-ground-organization-organization secret base was located.

Regarding Major General Matsuyama's statement, the young adjutant once again expressed his doubts, and Major General Matsuyama was in a good mood today, and he even patiently continued to explain to the adjutant in front of him:

"Hainan Island is remote and inaccessible, and Hainan Island is also surrounded by the sea and has many natural harbors. Most importantly, Hainan Island is a vast and sparsely populated island that is outside the control of the Chinese government.

Hainan Island is home to many ethnic minorities, most of whom live in isolation, so it is easy to build a secret naval base on Hainan Island as long as someone can bribe the leaders of these ethnic minorities.

And Li Tie has the financial resources and the ability to do all this well. Imperial intelligence agents also repeatedly infiltrated the coast of Hainan Island to search for this secret base.

As a result, all the intelligence personnel in the vicinity of Lingshui disappeared for no reason, and not only that, but even the reconnaissance ships sent by Japan would also suffer all kinds of accidents as long as they were within 50 nautical miles of Lingshui.

The vessels either collided with nearby fishing boats or were hit by unidentified objects on the seabed and crashed into the ship's hold, resulting in the destruction of the boats.

In recent years, dozens of intelligence personnel of our Great Japanese Empire have died near Lingshui in Hainan. There are more than a dozen reconnaissance ships of various types, but they still haven't found out where the specific secret base is. ”

"Can't you find it even if you send planes?" The adjutant finally couldn't resist asking again.

"Yes, our Air Force reconnaissance plane has also flown several times over the entire Hainan Island, and we have not let go of the larger blisters, but we still can't find this mysterious submarine force.

It wasn't until an incident happened a few years ago that we were sure that Li Tie was the boss behind this submarine force, and there must be Li Tie's secret base in Hainan. Major General Matsuyama affirmed.

"Oh, what is it that makes us so sure?" The adjutant asked again.

A few years ago, after the First Battle of Shanghai, when General Shirakawa Yoshinori was assassinated, Wang Yaqiao fled to Hainan Island, and became the provincial chairman of Hainan Island, and within a few years he ran Hainan Island vigorously.

Not only did the people live and work in peace and contentment, but even the army on Hainan Island was greatly strengthened. Especially after the Fujian Incident, when the 5,000 men and horses of the 19th Route Army disappeared from the open sea of Quanzhou, Hainan Island immediately increased the number of 5,000 Hainan Guards, and soon expanded the entire Hainan Guards into the current 50,000 troops.

The intelligence officers of the empire are already collecting information on this Hainan escort army, although it is not much, but it is recognized that this unit is an elite force of China, even compared with our Japanese soldiers, it is not inferior. Major General Matsuyama's words were astonishing.

"How is it possible, how is it possible for backward China to produce troops on a par with our Japanese soldiers?" The adjutant said in disbelief.

"Nothing is impossible, don't forget, Li Tie's Huaxing Escort caused great trouble to our Great Japanese Empire during the First Battle of Shanghai.

Just a few months ago, the men of the Huaxing Escort also put on the uniforms of the Hainan Guards, and engaged in fierce street battles with our Japanese army in the streets and alleys of Shanghai, causing many losses to the soldiers of our empire.

And Wang Yaqiao's Axe Gang has a lot to do with Li Tie, and their deputy gang leader is married to Li Tie, so up to now, although the empire has no direct testimonial, the high-level people of the empire know that Wang Yaqiao on Hainan Island is funded by Li Tie, and the Hainan Escort Army is composed of the 19th Route Army and the Huaxing Escort Army.

With the help of Wang Yaqiao, the nominal chairman of Hainan Province, it was easy for Li Tie to build a secret submarine base on Hainan Island.

With Li Tie's financial resources and Wang Yaqiao's manpower, the two of them joined forces to operate on Hainan Island, not to mention a submarine base, it is not impossible to build eight out of ten.

What's more, Li Tie built a huge airport in Lingshui on Hainan Island as early as ten years ago, and began to train flight cadets, and now ten years later, Huaxing's three aviation schools in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Hainan have trained no less than 2,000 flight cadets.

That's a big number, considering that there are only 2,000 pilots in Japan. Fortunately, China does not have so many fighters, and at the same time, Li Tie has not purchased so many aircraft.

Therefore, the Admiralty has already issued an order, and only after our escort mission in Hangzhou Bay is completed this time, our fleet of two aircraft carriers will go straight to the Lingshui area of Hainan Island.

With an absolutely powerful direct attack on the Lingshui area, we must find this mysterious submarine base. "Rear Admiral Matsuyama went so far as to tell all the secret missions of his fleet.

"Great, Your Excellency General, please take me with you at that time, I will personally drive the battleship into Hainan, destroy this mysterious submarine base, and avenge the dead naval officers of the Japanese Empire." The adjutant said happily.

Major General Matsuyama was very satisfied that his adjutant was so motivated, seeing that he had already seen the defensive positions of the Chinese army in Hangzhou Bay, and from the telescope, he could already see the panicked appearance of the sparse Chinese defenders.

By this time, all the troop carriers had been gathered, and they could land only when the convoy had defeated the Chinese defenders. Rear Admiral Matsuyama received an order from the fleet commander to have their aircraft on board take off immediately to bomb the Chinese defenders along the coast of Hangzhou Bay, while all the frigates immediately turned their guns and began shelling the Chinese defenders on land.

At this time, Rear Admiral Matsuyama and his adjutant finally put their minds at ease, because at this moment, no submarine is suitable for an attack, because in this sea area densely populated with warships, any submarine will be attacked by artillery fire from all directions as long as it shows its head, and it can be said that it will definitely die.

Just as Rear Admiral Matsuyama had just arranged the order for the plane to take off, he saw more than a dozen rapidly advancing waterlines suddenly coming from under the water around the troop carrier.

"It's not good, it's a torpedo attack, dodge it." Many of the soldiers on the troop carriers and warships saw the attack from underwater, and while they warned of the torpedo attack in a terrible way, they wondered in horror, are these submariners crazy?

In such a narrow sea area, they dared to launch a direct attack from underwater, and although they each fired two torpedoes, their submarines would also be attacked by Japanese warships.

In such a dense sea area, and in the coastal waters of Hangzhou Bay, where the sea is relatively shallow, as long as a few depth charges are casually dropped into the sea, all these submarines must not be blown up.

So as soon as a dozen torpedoes burst out of the water, a destroyer rowed a "Z" shaped route and rushed towards the sea area where the submarine might be hiding.

However, before these destroyers rushed to this sea area, they saw two huge submarines suddenly rushing out of the bottom of the sea, and then the two submariners began to rush frantically towards the troop carriers not far away.

It was only at this time that the warships guarding the surrounding area reacted, and they turned their guns one after another to directly bombard the submarines of unknown nationality that were rushing towards the troop carriers at high speed on the water.

"Boom, boom, Kuang Kuang." First the sound of torpedoes hitting troop carriers, then submarines being hit by artillery fire from destroyers and frigates.

Twelve of the sixteen torpedoes hit six troop carriers directly south, and four were dodged by the troop carriers. The two submarines were shelled to varying degrees.

A submarine that was rushing towards the troop carrier at high speed was blown off the spot and lost power. The other was only slightly injured and rushed towards the troop carrier at high speed.

A group of Japanese warships saw that this fish that had slipped through the net was still running fast, and more artillery fire bombarded him, directly blasting the wounded submarine into pieces.

While these warships were attacking, eight more torpedoes came out of the sea, and in the same way, when these eight torpedoes had just come out of the water and attacked several other troop carriers, two more submarines rushed out of the water and rushed directly at the other troop carriers.

At this time, almost all the commanders of the Japanese warships knew the tactics of this unknown submarine force, and every time they launched an attack, they released two submarines to directly ram the troop carrier at high speed.

First, there is indeed the idea of directly ramming and sinking the troop carrier.

Second, it was also reported to attract the firepower of the Japanese fleet and buy enough time for the submarines hiding in the sea to reload their torpedoes. For submarines, which were at high speed on the surface of the sea at this time, the Japanese frigates had to attack first.

Only in this way can we ensure that these two submarines will not collide with the troop carriers, and all the warships will reflexively attack the two submarines on the surface of the sea, so naturally no warships will take the initiative to attack the submarines below the surface of the sea.

At this time, the two submarines on the sea had already rushed to the nearest two troop carriers in two directions. Seeing this, all the Japanese warships opened fire again and opened fire on the two submarines, only to be blown up by another submarine in one round of shelling.

Then the Japanese warships were not relieved, and immediately launched another artillery bombardment, and soon all the four submarines that had already rushed out of the sea were blown to pieces, and just after the Japanese warships had just blown all the four submarines that had rushed out to pieces, four more torpedoes flew out from under the sea and flew towards the troop carriers.

Then only a few bangs were heard, and six more of the eight torpedoes of the second wave hit three troop carriers. Two more of the four torpedoes of the third wave hit a troop carrier.

At this time, all the destroyers had chased all the submarines out of the sea, and they were ready to drop depth charges to blow up the two submarines in the sea in one fell swoop.

More than a dozen destroyers dropped hundreds of depth charges into the sea, only two rounds of attack, only to see a lot of debris floating on the water.

Seeing these debris that were obviously rushing up from the bottom of the sea, the officers and soldiers couldn't help but shout loudly.

Seeing this, Rear Admiral Matsumoto and his adjutant also breathed a sigh of relief, although 10 troop carriers were hit by 20 torpedoes, and many troop carriers were blown out of two large holes more than two meters long and were slowly sinking.

However, Rear Admiral Matsumoto did know that their casualties would not be too great, as they had plenty of time to transfer nearly 30,000 Japanese soldiers from ten troop carriers to other troop carriers.

The submarine force that I had been worried about must have appeared, and seeing that they did not hesitate to attack troop carriers in the form of suicide attacks, we knew that this submarine force had reached the point of exhaustion.

Sure enough, as the Admiral said, all conspiracies are vulnerable in the face of absolute strength.

Just when Rear Admiral Matsuyama was still rejoicing in the elimination of this mysterious submarine force, he only heard the adjutant behind him muttering:

"No, we were attacked by a total of sixteen torpedoes, eight in the second wave and four in the third, so they should have eight submarines underwater.

But why did we only blow up four ships on the surface of the sea, and attack two ships in the sea? We've only wiped out six submarines, and where are the other two? After speaking, the adjutant raised his head and looked at Major General Matsuyama suspiciously.

Major General Matsuyama calculated carefully, his face changed drastically, and he shouted: "It's not good, we are ambushed." ”

"Boom." With two loud bangs, Rear Admiral Matsuyama only felt his body shake, and the aircraft carrier Eagle Xiang was attacked by two torpedoes.