The width of the narrowest part of the river surface of the Xiaojiang section of the Ao River is also about 200 meters, and the water flow is urgent, and it is very difficult to build a pontoon bridge. Moreover, the aviation units of the Combined Fleet and the 11th Air Regiment had suffered heavy losses, and the Cadet Corps had completely mastered the air supremacy in this area, so Matsui Ishine did not dare to fight the idea of rebuilding the pontoon bridge at all. The troops directly under the headquarters led by him were originally running at the front, but because the road ahead was exhausted, the old devil had no choice but to order the construction of a defense line on the spot, and at the same time the telegram ordered Okuichiro to catch up immediately, and the telegram said that there was a major matter to discuss.

Okuichiro is known for his strategy, and he is Matsui Ishone's ideal candidate for front-line commander. However, Gu Shoufu was arrogant and unreasonable, and Leng demanded that the 6th Division take the lead in the attack. Well, the first blow sent more than 12,000, the second blow sent another 2,000, and the third blow simply routed the whole army. Not only that, but it also caused heavy losses to the combined fleet air force, and in one fell swoop buried the strategic advantage that had been achieved in more than a week. Now, Matsui is not only disappointed in Tani Shofu, but even very resentful. The old devil regretted that he didn't insist that Okuichiro be the front-line commander at the beginning, but unfortunately there was no regret medicine in the world, otherwise, the old devil would definitely be willing to buy a bottle at a sky-high price and pour it all into his mouth.

Okuichiro rushed to Matsui Ishone when he was called, and when he heard the old devil explain the reason for calling him over, he was suddenly struck by lightning and was speechless for a long time. It's been too hit, you must know that since the capture of Cangnan, the 9th Division has not fought a good battle. The 9th Division fell into such a situation, and it can be said that it was completely due to Toshio Tani. Therefore, Ichiro Okuchiro was already depressed enough. Now that he heard that the back road has been cut off, the department may be surrounded and annihilated in the area of Xiaojiang Town by the Xuebing Army, and it seems understandable that he has such a reaction.

"You know the terrain around Xiaojiang Town, and as soon as the Huangdu pontoon bridge is broken, our army will be in a desperate situation. Oku-kun, it seems that we have to deal with it from the worst perspective," Matsui Ishone said with difficulty, his face worried.

Okuichiro's brows furrowed deeply, he thought for a few minutes, then raised his head and said to him: "Your Excellency, the battle situation will develop to this point, and I didn't expect it. Now, if our army wants to get out of the predicament, it can only turn to the Combined Fleet. It's just that now that the Scholar Army has completely gained air supremacy, I don't know if His Excellency Yamamoto is willing to take the risk. ”

Matsui Ishine also thought about asking for help from the Combined Fleet, but when he thought that the other party had lost almost all of his fighters in order to cooperate with Tani Shofu's third blow, he broke off this idea. The old devil smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said, "It's hard to speak, I think it's better to rely on your own efforts to find a way to get out of trouble." ”

"Your Excellency, didn't I strike at you, air supremacy is in the hands of the Cadet Army, and their artillery is particularly strong, rely on ourselves?" Okuichiro shook his head as he spoke: "I don't have any confidence at all. I think it's better to send a telegram to His Excellency Yamamoto. ”

Matsui gritted his teeth, looked up at the sky, exhaled a breath of turbid air for a while, and said slowly: "Then I'll give it a try." ”

Matsui sent a telegram to Yamamoto Fifty-six in his own name asking for help, which was regarded as a loss of his old face, but he didn't know what to do, and Yamamoto was in a thunderous rage at this time.

Yamamoto was angry because of a telegram sent back by Masafumi Arima.

However, it is said that Qi Minghao, deputy commander of the Dongshan Fleet, led four torpedo boat groups with a total of more than 50 high-speed torpedo boats from Quanzhou Bay, advanced southeast along the coastline, lasted two and a half hours, and caught up with Arima's landing fleet at about 12 o'clock in the afternoon on the East China Sea, about 200 kilometers southeast of Fuzhou.

The "Swordfish" high-speed torpedo boats installed in the Dongshan Fleet can reach a maximum speed of about 90 kilometers per hour. Quanzhou Bay was only about 150 kilometers away from the coast of Fuzhou, and Qi Minghao's unit set out at about 9 o'clock and walked along the coastline for about an hour. Qi Minghao immediately ordered to break away from the coastline, change the sneak attack to a strong attack, and catch up directly.

Arima Masafumi's landing fleet would abandon the landing operation because the air force led by Yamabegawa Sanjian was unexpectedly dealt a devastating blow, and the combined fleet lost air supremacy along the coast of Fujian. Originally, after receiving a reminder from the radar detection ship in the rear, if he immediately led his troops to retreat, Qi Minghao would not be able to catch up. However, in the combined fleet's operational plan, there was no targeted response plan for this accident. Therefore, Arima Masafumi took matters into his own hands and used the battleship "Ise" and two heavy cruisers to bombard the coastal fortifications along the coast of Fuzhou before retreating. Arima may have done this just to prove to the Cadet Army that they had come, but he didn't know what to do, just because he delayed for an extra twenty minutes off the coast of Fuzhou, but gave Qi Minghao and other Cadet Corps the opportunity to emerge as a new navy.

The "Swordfish" type high-speed torpedo boat has a full load displacement of only about 90 tons, and this type of torpedo boat is equipped with four torpedoes and one 30-mm machine gun in the front and rear.

The swordfish, which has a full load displacement of only 90 tons, is like a sampan in the sea. Therefore, when they sailed into the radar monitoring range of 120 kilometers of Arima's landing fleet, they were nothing more than a few dozen tiny black dots on the radar monitoring screens of Japanese ships. The target was too small, and the devil radar soldiers were stunned at first.

Then, when they were only fifty or sixty kilometers away from the enemy fleet, although the devil radar soldiers noticed it, they still did not pay attention to it.

And if it weren't for a captain and staff officer named Kiyozumi Mingfeng on the "Ise", it is estimated that Qi Minghao's strong attack would have become a sneak attack.

At that time, Qi Minghao and the others were only about thirty kilometers away from the enemy fleet.

The Swordfish was racing about eighty yards per hour, which was definitely a lightning speed at the time. Qingquan Mingfeng came to the radar monitoring screen out of boredom, he stared at the screen for a few seconds, and immediately exclaimed: "What is this? ”

Qi Minghao was very "treacherous" because he was worried that the enemy fleet would sail directly to the first-line military port in Taipei, which was controlled by the Japanese army, and after he led his team to leave the coastline, he did not chase the enemy ships in a straight line, but first rushed in a southeastern direction. Then, when he received new information from the coastal defense radar station and adjusted its course and headed straight for the enemy fleet, when they appeared on the Japanese radar monitoring screen, their position was in the direction of ten o'clock. The target of the Swordfish is too small, and the combined fleet has been operating in the waters off Fujian and Guangzhou for so many years and has not encountered enemy ships, and the devil's radar soldiers are somewhat inevitably negligent, and even if they pay attention to the monitoring screen, they only pay attention to the coastal areas of Fujian, so they give Qi Minghao an opportunity to take advantage of.