The next day, as soon as a ray of light appeared at the junction of the sea and the sky in the east, Mr. Onizuka, who was sitting on the chair, opened his eyes. "I actually fell asleep." He whispered self-deprecatingly, stood up and stretched.
Adjutant Matsushita Jin had been waiting outside with breakfast. He nodded towards Onizuka through the glass, opened the door and slowly walked in.
"Aikawa-kun's remains must be found." Onizuka said: "However, we don't know how many groups of those people are ambushing on the island. It seems that the only way to do this is to ask the aviation force for help."
"Sir, I will ask Captain Noma to send a telegram."
"Also, please help me call Major Sanma."
"Hai." Matsushita Jin bowed and stepped away. Five minutes later, Sanama Dabai walked in. He bowed respectfully and said, "Your Excellency, may I ask if you have any orders."
"From now on, the Kurata Regiment will be under your command. Go and prepare. It won't be long before we launch another landing battle. The remains of the Imperial Army soldiers who died in the battle must be recovered."
"Hai."
At about seven o'clock, on the deck of the "Kaga", Tsukahara Tsukahara Sankey personally sent Yamabekawa Sankey to a Type 99 fighter plane numbered 1003. As one of the few ace pilots in the Combined Fleet Air Force, Yamabe Kawa Sankan no longer easily carries out such easy reconnaissance missions, but what happened on Ozu Island last night was really weird. In order to find out, Yamamoto personally ordered his general,
Learning from the past, Tsukahara paid special attention to this reconnaissance mission. Not only did he personally convey the order to Yamabe, but he also personally sent him to the fighter plane.
Yamabe was originally not interested in this new commander who came by air, but Tsukahara valued him so much, which moved him very much, "Sir, please don't worry, the Chinese have not yet given birth to a pilot who can shoot me down." He said this to Tsukahara, and then pulled down the hatch cover.
Faced with his confident words, Tsukahara stood on the deck and saluted him with a military salute.
1003 had just risen above 1,000 meters. At the Wuzhishan radar station, Fang Xueliang immediately picked up the phone and called the military department. Shan Renxiong received the report and smiled and said to Brother Kuang Lai: "It must be Dazhou Island. Hehe, I don't know. What was Yamamoto Isoroku's expression like when he received detailed information and learned that there were only snakes on the island?"
"Should we send Blue Volcano and the others to attack?"
"Of course, if the little devil wants to conduct reconnaissance across the border, he must be expelled."
Lan Huoshan is the commander-in-chief of the Hainan Air Force. At this time, he was leading a group of pilots to do morning lessons. After receiving a call from Brother Kuang Lai, he immediately sent two Baiji dolphins to fly in the direction of Dazhou Island.
The Kaga was only about 30 kilometers away from Ozu Island, and it arrived in a few minutes at a speed of more than 570 kilometers per hour in Type 99.
Onizuka really wanted to know the secret of Oshima Island. He paid close attention to 1003, watching it first fly around Oshima Island at an altitude of more than two thousand meters, and then lower the altitude step by step until it dropped to three or four hundred meters. Flying along the mountains of Dazhou Island at a high altitude, his heartbeat accelerated, and he was actually more nervous than Yamabe himself.
Ten minutes later, nothing happened. 1003 climbed up and left again. Onizuka couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. There was no sound of anti-aircraft gunfire, and 1003 did not attack. It was because the Chinese on Dazhou Island were too well hidden, and 1003 had no trace. It was found that there was no one on the island at all. If there were no Chinese lurking troops on the island, could it be that all the officers and soldiers who died on the island last night were buried in Shekou? In that case, last night was not a defeat but an accident. , Onizuka thought, feeling extremely complicated,
1003 landed lightly on the flight deck of the "Kaga" under the control of Yamabe. Yamabe opened the hatch and stood up from his seat. What greeted him was the thumb of the pilot: "Your Excellency Yamabe, pretty."
Yamabe's expression was tense. Tsukahara came towards him. He couldn't wait to ask Yamabe who was walking down the gangway: "What did you find?"
Yamabe gritted his teeth and spat out a line of words: "Snake, the island is full of snakes."
"What."
"Based on my experience, there are absolutely no human traces on the island." Yamabe added: "Sir, we were fooled by the Chinese. That's not right, or we fooled ourselves."
"They are all snakes. Could it be that Dazhou Island is basically a snake island?" Tsukahara asked, the expression on his face suddenly became weird.
Not only him, Yamamoto Isoroku, Koizumi Minichiro, Arima Masafumi and others had strange expressions after hearing this report, and no one expressed any opinions for a long time.
What a shame. I was so excited to raise troops, but ended up struggling with a group of worms for most of the night, and paid a huge sacrifice. If this matter was spread back to the country, how would the army bosses in the base camp view this matter?
Koizumi Toshiichiro deserves to be from later generations. He was the first to react. He glanced at everyone and said loudly: "Yamabe is definitely wrong. How can a group of snakes defeat a large army of heavily armed imperial troops? This is simply a conspiracy of the Chinese people." , I thought that those snakes were simply kept in captivity by the Chinese people. The Chinese people have always talked about it. Maybe there are snake exorcists among them. But I heard that in Indochina, there are people who can't even control the poisonous King Cobra. All snakes can be tamed.”
Koizumi's words reminded others. Except for Yamamoto, everyone else echoed their words and quickly reached an agreement to blame Onizuka for last night's defeat. They believed that it was Onizuka's carelessness that caused the attacking troops to fall into the siege of the Chinese. , this is why the Marine Corps suffered such heavy battle losses,
Since Onizuka was responsible, he naturally had to deal with it to show that the imperial army was strictly disciplined. Of course, due to unknown reasons, the handling had to be just right, so Koizumi took the initiative and sent a message to the entire army in the name of Yamamoto: "12th Day and Night Osu Major General Onizuka, as the supreme commander, had the main responsibility for the defeat in the Battle of Shimashima. However, considering that the decisive battle was imminent, the Marine Corps did not have a more suitable commander, so he was allowed to continue to command the troops for his meritorious service. I hope that Major General Onizuka can learn his lesson and serve in the future. To draw lessons from our command, to Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Isoroku Yamamoto.”
For unknown reasons, even though Onizuka repeatedly sent messages to Tsukahara 243 requesting for Osu Island reconnaissance information, the latter declined with various excuses.
At around 8:15, after research by Yamamoto Isoroku and others, the combined fleet's offensive against Wanning was finally launched again, and fighter planes took off one after another from the "Kaga" and "Soryu" , the next moment, they formed two formations on the upper left side of the fleet, and then flew towards Wanning,
On the morning of the 13th, after a silence for the rest of the night, the battle started again in the sea, land and airspace of Wanning, Hainan.