Devil's Army

Chapter 1820: Japanese Army Plans to Advance Northward

For this reason, Division Commander Kumagai postponed the attack on Chao County and continued to gather the Japanese army and air force from Hefei, Anqing, Wuhu and Tongling.

While the Japanese army and air force were gathering in southern Anhui, the Japanese navy was also gathering in Anqing, Wuhu and Tongling.

What made the Japanese Navy excited was that a Japanese fleet fighting in Southeast Asia was also ordered to come and provide support.

The Japanese flagship leading the team was the light aircraft carrier "Ruixue", the sister ship of the light aircraft carrier "Ruikaze", which had suffered a series of defeats in Dalian and Lushun.

After they arrived at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the light aircraft carrier "Rui Xue" and several large cruisers and destroyers stayed in the waters of the Yangtze River estuary on standby, while the other six frigates and small warships went upstream and arrived at the Japanese naval base in Wuhu.

The underground liaison of the New Fourth Army in Wuhu quickly passed the news that a Japanese fleet had arrived at the Japanese naval base in Wuhu to the First Army Navy.

The Jackal quickly passed the news to the Qingdao Navy and ordered the Qingdao Fleet to set out tomorrow morning to fight against the Japanese naval fleet.

The First Navy Brigade also arrived at Chaohu Lake from the Huai River via the Chaofei Canal and hid in the reed marshes of Laoshan Island.

In order to compete with the devil troops for air supremacy in Anhui, Division Commander Kumagai, through Commander Hata Shunroku of the China Expeditionary Army, mobilized the air forces of Hubei and Zhejiang to attack Chao County and northern Anhui at nine o'clock two days later.

At eight o'clock the next morning, the invincible Japanese naval fleet in Southeast Asia set off first, led by the frigate "Zui Maru".

The Ruifeng light aircraft carrier fleet suffered two defeats in Dalian and Lushun, and its morale hit rock bottom.

The flagship light aircraft carrier "Ruifeng" was also captured by the devil's forces.

The remaining warships of the fleet later returned to the island nation to replenish supplies. Led by the light aircraft carrier "Rui Xue", they were invincible along the coast of Southeast Asia and began to become arrogant again.

This time they returned to Anhui to fight a decisive battle with the devil's navy.

At six o'clock the next morning, Captain Ji Xiong'an of the Qingdao Fleet rushed to the mouth of the Yangtze River with the heavy cruiser "Qingdao" and five cruisers and destroyers.

Captain Yang led the frigate Zibo and the 14 small and medium-sized warships that defeated the Japanese "Yangtze River Fleet" last time to the entrance of the Yuxi River, ready to fight the Japanese fleet.

Since the Qingdao Fleet was responsible for the Japanese navy in the Yangtze River Basin, its warships were all small and medium-sized warships.

Captain Ji led only six large warships to fight against the Japanese fleet stationed at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Leng Feng airlifted the First Aviation Squadron stationed in Lushun to Qingdao Port and set off with Captain Ji.

The Golden Eagle V drones equipped by the First Aviation Squadron now carry far more cruise missiles than during the Battle of Port Arthur and Dalian.

With the support of this batch of Golden Eagle 5 drones, Captain Ji is more confident in defeating the Japanese Navy.

An hour after the navy set out, Division Commander Kumagai assembled part of the troops from Wuhu, Tongling, Anqing, and Hefei, as well as a large number of puppet troops, and headed north to prepare to retake Chao County.

The Japanese army originally planned to launch a battle to confiscate Chao County and Bengbu City and Huaibei City in northern Anhui at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, but the army's progress was not smooth.

Because the 2nd Regiment of the 5th Brigade was attacking Feidong County, the Japanese army in Hefei County had to send troops to support Feidong County while sending troops to attack Chao County.

The battle in Feidong County was still intense. The Japanese troops attacking Chao County were blocked by the New Fourth Army when they passed Shuangshan in Qiaotou Town, Feidong County.

Initially, the Japanese army did not take it seriously, hoping to wipe out this elusive New Fourth Army. However, the progress of the battle was far beyond the Japanese army's expectations.