On November 19, the Wufu Line of the "Maginot Line of China" was broken through by the Japanese army. A large number of Chinese troops began to retreat towards the Xicheng line. "The defeat is like a mountain", and the entire Jiangyin City was shaken by the footsteps of the retreating army.

On the 22nd, the Japanese 10th Army continued to advance on Wuxi and Huzhou, and the Japanese army began to storm the Jiangyin Fort and launched an offensive on the Xicheng line.

On the 24th, the Shigeto detachment broke through the Chengxi defense line, cut off the road between Jiangyin and Wuxi, and began to encircle Wuxi and the southern part of the Jiangyin fortress by land, and the battle situation in southern Jiangsu took a sharp turn for the worse.

On the 25th, the left and right flanks of the Japanese army converged at Zhoushanbang in Wuxi and broke through the city; after the Japanese 10th Army captured Huzhou and Changxing, the 114th Division continued to pursue in the direction of Yixing and Liyang.

At this point, the Jiangyin fortress became a lonely army. The Chinese troops stationed in Jiangyin faced the overwhelming superiority of the enemy forces and launched the final battle to defend Jiangyin. In this battle to defend Jiangyin, the army units, the fortress artillery units, and the naval torpedo boat units worked closely together and fought side by side, showing a high fighting spirit of hatred for the enemy.

On December 2, the Jiangyin [51 fo] fortress was lost, marking the complete breakthrough of the second defense fortification, the Xicheng line.

Subsequently, the Japanese army hired more than 1,000 people to salvage the sunken ship, clear the obstacles, and spent 7 days and 7 nights digging a very narrow channel, which could only accommodate small ships.

In the Battle of Jiangyin, the Chinese army shot down more than 30 enemy planes, sank 2 enemy ships, and damaged more than 10 ships.

The Japanese land forces suffered heavy losses, killing nearly 1,000 Japanese soldiers and destroying dozens of tanks on November 25 alone, and fighting hard in Huashan for five days and nights, killing nearly 2,000 Japanese soldiers and more than 5,000 puppet soldiers, achieving the expected goal of containing the Japanese army's westward advance and consuming troops.

The defending 112th Division suffered about 4,000 casualties, and Division Commander Huo Shouyi was seriously wounded by Japanese artillery fire. The 103rd Division suffered 5,000 casualties, and when it withdrew from Jiangyin and passed through Zhenjiang, it was besieged by a strong enemy, and suffered very heavy casualties, and about 2,000 people successfully broke through. At this time, the division commander He Zhizhong, the chief of staff, Wang Guanghan, a Zunyi man, and others had withdrawn to Hankou, and the deputy division commander and Xingyi Dai Zhiqi took on the danger and led the remnants of the 103rd Division to participate in the defense of Jinling.

Qin Di paid attention to the progress of the war every day, in addition to reading the newspaper, he also took advantage of the night to fly to the rental area from time to time, quietly cutting off the raging small group of Japanese soldiers.

When he saw the devils smashing and looting everywhere, and seeing the devils killing the people who were hiding, he couldn't help but take action.

During the day, he haunted the area of Su Xichang, watching the planes of the Orientals, 12 in a formation, like, the fuselage bombs fell...... Listen to the rumbling cannons, echoing in the long river of history......

The more Qin Di looked at it, the more angry he became: "The Japanese air force is too strong, causing great damage to the Chinese army, this is not a reciprocal war, but a one-sided oppression!"

So he was ruthless in his heart, and once again went to sea alone, and quietly touched the Chicheng outside Wusongkou.

The Akagi is 261 meters long, with a full load displacement of 42,541 tons, 12 carrier-based fighters, 35 carrier-based bombers, 19 carrier-based attack aircraft, and 25 reserve aircraft.

As Japan's largest mothership other than Shinano, the Akagi has long been regarded as a symbol of mobile forces. In 1928, the Japanese Navy established the First Air Force with Akagi as the flagship, and in 1934, the Second Air Force was established with Akagi as the flagship.

The giant ship exploded violently at 12:30 p.m. and sank in three hours, with 30 percent of the 1,630 people on board killed in their sleep, another 30 percent were burned or drowned in the cabin, and only more than 400 people escaped into the lifeboat! All the planes on board were buried in the sea!

Then at 4:45 a.m., a similar explosion occurred on the Kaga moored in Hangzhou Bay and sank at 8:20 a.m.!

The Kaga is slightly smaller and 231 meters long, but it carries 18 fighters, 27 bombers, 27 attack aircraft, and 18 spare aircraft

Although it was already dawn when the ship was sunk, because the flight deck was destroyed by the explosion, the planes on the ship could not take off and all sank to the bottom of the sea!

There were 1,708 people on board, and 800 people finally boarded the lifeboat, which seems to be a bit better than the Akagi.

Two huge war fortresses, with 180 planes sunk to the bottom of the sea, sank off the coast of China overnight, leaving only lifeboats floating in the sea, those living Japanese soldiers, one by one frightened with doubts, do not know what happened last night!

The Japanese base camp is almost going crazy!

Near: Bunji Ei, Hideki Tojo, Motomo Sugiyama, Minamijiro, Shouichi Terauchi, Ishine Matsui, Ninji Okamura, Mijiro Umezu, Shunroku Hatata, Yukiji Anami, these upper-level figures of the Japanese military are dumbfounded, and their hearts are cold!

Hideki Tojo jumped to his feet and roared: "The Great Japanese Army is invincible, why has the Navy become a piece of shit?"

Konoe Fumiro inhaled vigorously: "What happened to the navy? In just three months, it lost three giant ships! How much money did each giant ship cost the empire? It took eight years for the Kaga alone to go into service from the start of construction to its commissioning! We tightened our belts to build 10 huge ships, but we lost the Fengxiang in the First Southeast War, and this time we lost the Ryuchi, Akagi, and Kaga! If this continues, how will the war be fought in the future?"

Army General Matsui Ishine was very angry: "We have lost 180 planes! The army will face tremendous losses! Every time we push forward, we will have to pay the lives of the imperial soldiers! Baga, these naval officers and men are asleep? Why did a good warship sink? Did we not even give a warning at all?"

Shouichi Terauchi sent a direct telegram: "Why hasn't Hasegawa Kiyoshi seppuku yet?"

Admiral Hasegawa Kiyoshi was scolded for being a bloody squirt, but he couldn't find an excuse to defend himself.

When the Japanese people got the news on the radio, they immediately turned from fanaticism to consternation: "Nani? In just three months, three huge ships were bombed and sunk by the Chinese? What are the officers and men of the navy doing? These damn bastards! They all died outside, and did they still have the face to come back?"

"Admiral Hase, you are a sinner of the Imperial Japanese Army!"

"If all our warships are sunk, then the Imperial Army will be trapped in Zhina!"

"What's going on? The first two days were good news, the empire conquered Tianjin, took the magic capital, and is advancing towards Jinling, why did you hear such bad news today?"

Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa was forced to return to the base camp to explain whether he would be dismissed and imprisoned.

On the Chinese side, Mr. Qing's reaction was very fast, and as soon as the news came out, he immediately announced: "This is a major victory for the Nationalist army! A navy of the Republic of China quietly set out from Fujian and took advantage of the darkness of night to successfully attack by surprise!