While the Huaxing Air Force was engaged in a fierce air battle with the naval aviation of the Japanese Fifth Fleet, the Japanese 21st Army stationed in Guangzhou also took action.

They sent a full 50,000 troops from Guangzhou into Shenzhen, preparing to help the 23rd Army attack Hong Kong from Shenzhen.

Dozens of more planes were selected to sneak attack Hainan Island again.

The Third Fleet, which had a tacit understanding with the 21st Army, also sent a large number of planes to reinforce the Fifth Fleet, which was fighting off the coast of Hong Kong.

Due to the first attack on Hainan Island, it was discovered by the air defense radar of the Huaxing Escort Army, which ultimately led to the failure of the 21st Army's attack on Hainan.

After repeated studies by the Japanese army, they finally confirmed that Hainan Island must have a radar that can detect flying targets in advance.

After repeated attempts by the Japanese army, the Japanese army finally confirmed this, and the Japanese, who were good at summing up the lessons of failure, really explored a simple and practical way to lie down and avoid radar, that is, to raid at ultra-low altitude like the methods of later generations.

As a result, 48 dive fighters of the 21st Army secretly rose from Guangzhou and began to sneak attack the Lingshui airfield in Hainan at an ultra-low altitude along the coastline.

Although 48 planes of the Army Air Wing of the 21 st Army successfully raided the Lingshui airfield, the Hainan Air Force has done a good job in air defense and secrecy work.

In fact, there are not many planes parked on the entire Lingshui Airport, and when Li Tie built the airport, he fully considered that when the war with the Japanese army was launched in the future, Hainan Island would have to deal with air raids from all directions, so whether it was Lingshui Airport or several secret airports distributed in Hainan Island, there were underground hangars.

That is to say, when the planes are not dispatched, there are only a limited number of planes parked at the airfield that are responsible for the airfield's air defense tasks.

Therefore, when the Japanese army adopted the tactic of flying at low altitude to break through the radar blockade and finally arrived at Lingshui Airport, there were no too important targets except for a few large staff dormitories and aviation control towers.

When the air defense alarm sounded and the first explosion of the Japanese army, the dense anti-aircraft artillery around the airport immediately gave the Japanese planes a head-on blow.

Seeing that the bombing effect was not satisfactory, the Japanese air force did not love war, and immediately took off into the air and flew inland to Hainan.

Since there were no definite military targets to bomb, the Japanese planes were like tourists coming to Hainan. However, when hundreds of Hainan fighters came head-on, the Japanese Air Force, which had not had much fuel, immediately hurriedly dropped all its bombs and fled towards Guangzhou.

At this time, although the overall performance of the Japanese aircraft was not as strong as that of the Hainan fighters, because of its light weight, it was faster than the Hainan aircraft in terms of climb speed and flight speed, so the Japanese planes that wanted to escape really escaped with their lives. In the end, there were still as many as 40 planes that managed to escape back to Guangzhou.

The sneak attack of the 21 st Army caused certain losses to Hainan Island, but the mountainous terrain of Hainan Island and the consistent secrecy measures of various military bases in Hainan effectively reduced the bombing effect of the Japanese army.

The 21st Army and the 23rd Army attacked Hainan and Hong Kong at the same time, and more than 150,000 troops of the Army, Navy, and Air Force directly participated in the attack on Hainan and Hong Kong.

In the minds of the Japanese army, such a large number of troops attacking the territory of Huaxing Company must make Li Tie unable to take care of each other. And whether Li Tie loses Hong Kong or Hainan because of this, it will be a fatal blow to Li Tie's Huaxing Group.

However, the air defense work on Hainan Island was really good, and the Japanese Air Force could not have absolute air superiority in Hainan, so the Japanese air raids could not cause much damage to Hainan Island, and in addition, there were many and dense coastal defense guns around Hainan Island, so the ships of the Japanese Third Fleet also had no way to get close to the coastal waters of Hainan Island within a range of several tens of miles.

What was even more excessive was that the powerful Japanese Air Force was once again given air supremacy by the Huaxing Air Force, so the Japanese 21st Army's plan to land in Hainan was once again bankrupt.

However, after this battle, Wang Yaqiao, who was in charge of defending Hainan, had to recruit most of the navy and air force that reinforced Hong Kong back to Hainan for defense.

Anyway, the Japanese navy also retreated to Guangzhou, and Wang Yaqiao left a full 16 submarines in Hong Kong to defend the three directions in Hong Kong. At the same time, reconnaissance planes are dispatched to patrol the sea every day, and as long as the Japanese navy does not move to Hong Kong in large numbers, the Hainan navy will not move.

All of a sudden, the entire task of attacking Hong Kong was once again in the hands of the army. Without the support of the navy, with less than 100,000 troops of the 23rd Army and the 21st Army, it seems unrealistic to occupy Hong Kong, which is defended by hundreds of thousands of people from land.

So when the 23rd Army received an order from the Japanese military headquarters to limit him to occupy Hong Kong within three months, the commander of the 23rd Army slammed the table:

"Baga, are the important members of the Imperial Military Department all fools? With only 100,000 Japanese troops, let me take down hundreds of thousands of Huaxing guards armed to the teeth, are they crazy or am I crazy? ”

The commander of the 23rd Army definitely had a reason to go crazy, because just after the order was given for him to occupy Hong Kong independently, due to the resumption of war in China, the military headquarters pumped a large number of planes belonging to the 21st and 23rd armies to other battlefields in China.

So the 23rd Army, which originally planned to take advantage of the border with Hong Kong and at the same time had some air superiority, was sad again. There was so much air support missing all at once.

And his only 200 planes were responsible for intercepting the Hainan Air Force supporting Hong Kong. There was simply no way to free up aircraft for air support of their army.

Is it really up to the army to face the defenders of Hong Kong, who are fully manned by land, sea and air? Although there are not many naval and air forces in Hong Kong.

When the 23rd Army had not yet made up its mind to attack Hong Kong in one fell swoop, the Japanese Fifth Fleet temporarily withdrew to Guangzhou in the waters off Hong Kong.

However, the Fifth Fleet was not willing to accept defeat. The Japanese Air Force was inferior, due to its huge numerical disadvantage on the battlefields of Hainan Island and Hong Kong, and the Hainan Air Force also seized on the shortcomings of the Japanese air force being largely drained, and immediately became active.

Almost every day, more than a dozen or even dozens of planes went to Hong Kong to participate in the war, and every time the Japanese had to send planes to intercept them in order to offset the numerical superiority of the Hong Kong defenders, the entire air force fought extremely fiercely.

In the following month, the Hainan Air Force and the Japanese Air Force fought several major aerial strangulations in succession, and finally equalized.

However, after a few years of lying on the salary, Huaxing Company has a lot of aircraft inventory, and Huaxing Aviation School has trained more pilots in the past ten years, so Li Tie is not afraid of this kind of air force war of attrition alone.

It's just that it's not time to fight with the Japanese yet, so Li Tie doesn't want to bury all the money he has saved so hard.

Moreover, the current coastal areas are all under the control of the Japanese army, and the Huaxing Air Force does not have the conditions to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army. As a result, the Japanese 21st Army and the 23rd Army were unable to replenish their air forces in a timely manner, and they did not have the strength to annihilate the Huaxing Air Force in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the air force that has scruples on both sides has the idea that as long as you do not take the initiative to attack me, I will not take the initiative to attack you, so after several vigorous efforts by the air force, the Japanese air force and the Huaxing air force have reached a tacit understanding.

A month later, except for the occasional encounter between a small number of planes in the air and the fight to the death, there was no major air battle between the two sides.

In the case that the air force is not strong, the test is the strength of the navies and armies of the two sides. Li Tie's naval strength is still some, and he will not fall behind any Japanese fleet alone.

But when the Fifth Fleet also arrived in Canton and merged with the Third Fleet. Li Tie's navy was clearly no match for the Japanese navy.

However, the Japanese were also afraid of the British navy stationed in Hong Kong, and they were also afraid that the British and Chinese would unite, so that their numerical superiority in the fleet would not be obvious.

So the Japanese Navy did not launch another fleet-level battle, but made a tentative attack on the defense of Hong Kong with a small fleet.

However, when the Japanese Navy discovered that an unknown number of submarines were lying in ambush around Hong Kong, in order to avoid greater losses, the Japanese Navy actually gave up the method of continuing to attack Hong Kong with its navy.

Instead, he and the Huaxing submarine force engaged in a one-on-one fight off the coast of Hong Kong.

After discovering that the strength of the Huaxing Navy and Air Force was extremely good, the Japanese army had already abandoned the strategy of occupying Hong Kong and Hainan Island at the same time, and instead focused on exploration, supplemented by seizing Hong Kong.

At the same time, since the waters off Hong Kong had always been in the area of war between the two sides, and Hainan could not directly send land reinforcements to Hong Kong, the Japanese finally decided on the strategy of attacking Hong Kong with nearly 100,000 troops of the 23rd Army and most of the 21st Army.

That is, when the Japanese Navy was playing a game of hide and seek with the Huaxing submarine force on the sea. On land, the 100,000 soldiers of the 23rd Army and the 21st Army once again joined forces.

This time, they mobilized hundreds of artillery pieces and hundreds of tanks to inflict the most powerful damage on the Fourth Army of Hong Kong's Huaxing.

The Hong Kong Fourth Army stood at the junction with Shenzhen, blocking the Japanese attack step by step.

Fortunately, at this time, neither the navy nor the air force of the two sides was the key to victory or defeat this time, and it was the army that really decided whether Hong Kong won or lost this time.

Japan's army has always been very strong in combat effectiveness, even after several years of attrition, a large number of Japanese veterans have died in battle, and at the same time, the Japanese army has never been cheap in the battle with the Huaxing Guard.

But no, this can stop the officers and men of the 21st Army who are determined to avenge the shame of the past and the soldiers of the 23rd Army who are not afraid of tigers when they are newborns. From the beginning of the attack on Shenzhen to Hong Kong, for a whole month, every step of the Japanese attack was difficult.

Although the New Territories did not build a large number of permanent fortifications, the Hong Kong Wah Hing Guard Force has not wasted two military exercises a year since ten years ago.

Under the leadership of the Fourth Army, which was almost entirely a native of the country, the 100,000 Hong Kong Huaxing reservists fought to the death against the Japanese army in the New Territories, regardless of the gains and losses of one city or one place.

Everywhere the Japanese army went, it was attacked by dozens or hundreds of Hong Kong Huaxing reserves from all directions. Then these reservists would always flee without a trace when the Japanese army reacted.

And whenever the Japanese army began to search for these ubiquitous small detachments, they often fell into the ambush circle set up by the Huaxing Fourth Military first.

For a whole month, the invincible Japanese army advanced only fifty miles into the New Territories.