Since the naval battle of Kiyojin was completely destroyed by the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Etajima Naval Academy has lost its status, and the reason is simple: the navy is gone, what is the school to train naval officers? At this time, there were still hundreds of naval officer candidates in the Jiangtadao Naval Academy, and after hearing that Lin Yuan's troops had launched an attack, they unanimously requested: Drive a training ship and attack Lin Yuan's landing force!

The principal of the Naval Academy was none other than Togo Heihachiro's chief of staff, Akiyama Shinyuki, who had returned to Etajima at this time, and after hearing about the candidates' petitions, he slapped his desk and said angrily, "No! Using a training ship to attack Lin Yuan's landing force is looking for death! Let the candidates evacuate to Hiroshima immediately! ”

Instructors at all levels of the Naval Academy immediately organized the evacuation of the candidates, but at this moment, the phone on Akiyama Shinyuki's desk rang, he picked up the phone, and only heard the voice of Admiralty Minister Ito Yuhiro from inside: "Akiyama, I heard that Lin Yuan's troops are about to hit Etajima, right?" ”

Akiyama Mayuki hurriedly stood up and said, "Yes, their forward is less than fifteen kilometers away from Etajima. ”

Ito said, "Let the candidates in the military academy attack!" ”

Akiyama Shinyuki was so surprised that he almost dropped the microphone in his hand when he heard this, and he said loudly: "General, you can't do it!" There is Lin Yuan's fleet on the sea, all of which are the latest warships, and our training ships are all old warships. These candidates are the future of our Imperial Japanese Navy, and it is up to them to rebuild our Imperial Japanese Navy! ”

Ito sneered: "The Great Japanese Empire is about to die, how can we rebuild the Great Japanese Imperial Navy?" Don't say it again, Akiyama, you are a China expert, you know Chinese culture very well, and you know better than me the truth of 'under the nest, how can there be eggs'. ”

Ito hung up the phone after speaking, and let Akiyama Shinyuki shout into the microphone: "General, please think twice!" Akiyama Shinyuki shouted a few times before stopping, found his instructor, and said, "Order the candidate to drive the training ship to attack!" ”

The instructor then passed on the order, and the naval cadets were all elated, driving the training ship in the direction of Lin Yuan's troops, and the training ships of the naval academy were all retired from the Japanese Navy, although they were said to be decommissioned, but they did not reach the age of retirement, and the reason why these warships were retired was because the Japanese Navy wanted to catch up with the trend of dreadnoughts and replaced the old warships with dreadnoughts, and these ships were turned into training ships.

Although these training ships had a certain combat effectiveness, it was night at this time, and these warships could not hit the littoral combat ships of the Lin Yuan fleet at all, and the littoral combat ships adopted the tactics of encirclement and annihilation at sea, pouring shells on the training ships, and soon the training ships lost their combat effectiveness and withdrew from the battle.

After the destruction of the training ships, the 33rd Amphibious Operations Division landed on Eta Island, although the defenders on the island resisted desperately, but they could not stop Lin Yuan's troops, three hours later, the island defenders were completely annihilated, Lin Yuan's troops immediately occupied the whole island, and the top management of the naval academy headed by Akiyama Shinyuki withdrew to Hiroshima ahead of schedule.

In the next few days, Lin Yuan's troops carried out search and suppression throughout the island to clear the remnants of resistance, and on 12 August, several large islands in southern Hiroshima, such as Yashiro, Nakajima, and Etajima, were all under the control of Lin Yuan's troops.

The time came to August 15, at one o'clock in the morning, Xiao Yingwu gave an order, the 2nd Division, the 3rd Division, the 5th Division and the 8th Division and other troops divided into ten roads and rushed to Ube, Zhou Fang and other places, Iwasaki Shunichi's adjutant hurriedly woke him up from his sleep and said: "Division commander, Ube, Zhou Fang and other places have found Lin Yuan's troops!" ”

Iwasaki asked in surprise, "Isn't the Kanmon Strait Bridge not repaired yet?" Why didn't Lin Yuan's troops take the Guanmen Strait Bridge? ”

The adjutant was speechless, and as soon as Iwasaki got dressed and came to the command post, at this time the chief of staff had already marked the position of Lin Yuan's troops on the sand table with a small red flag, and Iwasaki Hayao calculated that on the 100-kilometer defense line, Lin Yuan's troops would have troops every ten kilometers, advancing like a grate.

Iwasaki Haruichi hurriedly said: "Chief of Staff, let's analyze, which direction is the main attack direction of Lin Yuan's troops?" ”

The chief of staff shook his head and said: "In my opinion: the ten routes are the main direction of attack of Lin Yuan's troops, and the only thing we can do is to divide our troops to resist the enemy." ”

Iwasaki Hadaichi nodded lightly and said, "That's good, divide the troops to resist the enemy!" The order was immediately transmitted to the 17th Division and the 107th, 108th, and 109th Divisions, and the last three divisions were temporarily put together by the Japanese, and their combat effectiveness was not strong.

"Mobile defensive operations" is one of the styles of defensive warfare, and this kind of operation puts forward very high requirements for both commanders and troops, because mobile defense has no time to build fortifications in advance, and can only take advantage of favorable terrain, and it depends on the commander's su zhì to find favorable terrain on the battlefield, and it depends on the su zhì of the troops to quickly seize the advantageous terrain, and the Japanese 17th Division fought relatively well, but the three divisions formed later were not good, so the next three divisions quickly collapsed under the blows of Lin Yuan's troops.

At the same time, the 33rd Amphibious Division landed from the south of Hiroshima and went straight to the city of Hiroshima, and the Japanese garrison of Hiroshima resisted desperately, but the 24th, 48th, and 49th divisions of Lin Yuan's troops landed one after another, and the Hiroshima garrison could not resist, and Lin Yuan's troops occupied Hiroshima at 5 o'clock in the evening of 15 August.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of 16 August, the 17th Division of the Japanese Army was defeated, the division commander Hadaichi Iwasaki died in the chaos, and Lin Yuan's troops occupied the entire "Chugoku region", which was a region of Japan, and Japan had eight major regions, and the "Chugoku region" was one of them, including Hiroshima, Shimane and other prefectures, and the Battle of Hiroshima ended victoriously.

The victory in the Battle of Hiroshima marked the beginning of the final attack on Japan by Hayashien's troops into Honshu Island.

At nine o'clock in the morning of August 17, a helicopter slowly landed in the central square of Hiroshima, Chen Fei stepped down from the helicopter, and Zhou Xiao, commander of the 2nd Division, hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and said with a smile: "Old captain, why are you here in person?" ”

Chen Fei smiled and said, "I'm here to perform a special mission, are you ready?" ”

Zhou Xiao nodded and said, "As soon as we received the news from Lin Shuai, we started to prepare, and now we are ready, waiting for you to go in person." ”