The Siamese Navy has its own aviation, which is not small, except for two British Aphro 504N biplane trainers, the rest are all Japanese.

Because since Phibun Songkan came to power, the Siam Navy and the Japanese Navy have established a long-term and stable cooperative relationship, and at the same time, the rebates from Japanese manufacturers have also been sufficient, so the Siam Navy has always preferred to choose Japanese-made products in equipment procurement.

Forty-five Type 95 water reconnaissance planes and six Type 96 water reconnaissance planes are the main equipment of the Japanese Navy in active service, and both planes can carry two 30-kilogram aerial bombs.

These planes can take off from the harbor off the coast of Siam to bomb enemy targets on the water, and although the flight parameters such as speed and maneuverability are somewhat low, if they reach a certain number, they can still pose some threats to small and medium-sized coastal defense ships and submarines in the state of surface navigation.

In addition to submarines and aircraft, the Siam Navy also purchased a number of surface ships from Japan. Among them, the most dazzling are two 2,000-ton shallow water heavy gunboats, the Siamese Navy is defined as the [Thonburi] class, called the "Thonburi" and the "Ayutthaya Ayutthaya", this kind of draft is a little more than four meters of flat-bottomed ships, each equipped with four heavy cruiser-class 200 mm heavy guns.

These were originally old guns that were dismantled during the modernization and modification of the Japanese aircraft carriers [Akagi] and [Kaga], but Kawasaki Shipbuilding took them and refurbished them slightly, replaced them with twin turrets, and sold them to the Siamese.

This 50-caliber three-year Type 20-1 naval gun, with a maximum firing range of 26,000 kilometers, uses the Japanese Navy's old Type 88 armor-piercing projectiles, which is enough to inflict fatal damage on surface ships below the Treaty-class heavy cruiser, provided that it can hit it well.

The Royal Siam Navy also has two British-made [Laneksin City]-class shallow-water heavy gunboats, with a displacement of 1,000 tons, each equipped with two light cruiser-class 152-mm main guns, namely the "Laneksin City" and the "Sukhothai", although both are more than ten years old, but they were also the main backbone of the Siam Navy.

In addition, there are two light coastal defense ships built by Japan for Siam, the "Yegong River" and the "Tajin River", and the Siamese government was originally full of expectations for these two new warships of 1,300 tons, and even the king rushed to the dock to greet them when they returned from the Japanese shipyards.

However, it was not until the Siam Navy actually used it that it found out that because of greed for cheapness and more kickbacks, the ship was powered by cheap old steam engines instead of steam turbines, so this coastal defense ship, which was originally intended to be used as a destroyer, had a maximum speed of only 15 nautical miles, and it was not even as good as some high-speed freighters.

Because the procurement case involved some privacy of the Siam Navy, this matter was finally trivialized, and the Siam Navy simply offered the two ships as treasures, and in addition to serving as the royal family's yacht on weekdays, it was to load a group of naval midshipmen to train in circles in the Gulf of Siam.

The Siam Navy also received an R-class destroyer launched in 1920 from the British, which was a gift from the British to the King of Thailand, and was named "King Phra Luan" by the Siam Navy.

Looking back at the French side, the East Asian Fleet now has two Dunkirk-class battlecruisers, one Sufren-class heavy cruiser, one La Gallisonier-class light cruiser, and two colonial Duguet. The Truan]-class light cruiser, as well as six Storm-class destroyers and one utopian-class destroyer, four minesweepers, and nine river gunboats.

The strength of this colonial squadron has surpassed that of the main fleets of most small countries. If you add the colony's powerful air force, the French Far East Fleet can easily destroy the entire Siam navy.

In fact, the French fleet had already received an order that the capital ships must be dispatched within twelve hours, and the task of the capital ships was to shell the port cities off the coast of Siam and force Siam to admit that it had been defeated.

The ground operations in the border area were by this time, and the French army did send a motorized infantry unit to penetrate the rear of the Siamese invading army at night, as the German chief military attaché had deduced. The unit launched a successful night raid and annihilated one of the two Siamese artillery battalions, while the other artillery battalion was far away and the commander was quick enough to abandon all the heavy equipment and escape back to Siamese territory.

By the early morning of the 10th, the French had mobilized a total of forty-seven battalions of ground forces to complete the encirclement of the incoming Siamese Army.

The battle began after sunrise, and the French Army, armed with a large number of heavy artillery, launched an all-out attack on the Siamese Army in the encirclement with absolutely overwhelming firepower.

The battle was fought very fiercely and soon entered a white heat, and the Siamese troops, who did not understand what was happening, put up stubborn resistance to the French.

Siam had a strict hierarchy within the army, and these soldiers were highly obedient to orders from their superiors, and when a commander was killed, the troops were prone to chaos.

It was also an old-fashioned army that was more dogmatic than the French army before the war, and had no idea what flexibility was, and waves of soldiers fell on the way to break out, but the officers still ordered the soldiers to continue to charge at the enemy's artillery fire according to the tactics learned in the military school.

Although the Siamese infantry was highly trained, it was difficult to erase the characteristics of the soldiers themselves, most of whom came from the countryside and grew up in a peaceful environment full of Buddhism, and the level of bloodshed on the battlefield in front of them was seriously beyond the capacity of most of them.

Some of the soldiers soon developed mental problems, which then caused a chain reaction among their comrades. The infantry abandoned their heavy weapons, vehicles, and baggage, and began to scramble to break through in the direction of Siam.

But the whole battle situation had been formed, and no one could break out of the French encirclement, and after realizing that their way home had been cut off, the Siamese army collapsed faster than the French thought.

Before noon, in the wilderness of Banteay Meanchey province, a company and platoon of Siamese infantry surrendered to the nearest French unit, raising their weapons in hand.

The Siamese army's equipment and ammunition were littered with a radius of 15 kilometers, and the road was littered with burning vehicles and corpses, making the scene look like hell.

As General Lyon said, it was a glorious victory, where the French regained confidence and honour, and they proved to the world that they were still a first-class army capable of winning battles.

Moreover, the Siamese Army is really just as shown in the intelligence, there is no follow-up reserve at all, and after the main group in the Eastern Theater is annihilated, they no longer even have enough troops to defend the border locally.

The Siamese Army's Northwest Corps had already begun to move south, apparently preparing to fill the vacuum left by the Eastern Corps. Something must have gone wrong with the command structure in Siam, their orders were given a little too late, and the Siam-Cambodia border line from Chonburi, Pakhonka, Quinsiyuk, all the way to the capital Bangkok, the entire southeastern provinces and counties of Siam, almost completely exposed to the French army.

Let. Without hesitation, General Degu gave the order to the troops on the front: "Rush across the border and teach those Siamese people an unforgettable lesson." ”。

The colonial governor was an admiral, and of course he would not let the French colonial fleet play a supporting role, and the whole fleet was also full of strength to show itself well in this war, so that the French people could see the heroic courage of the French naval officers and men.

But just as the colonial fleet was replenishing ammunition and fuel and preparing to set sail, a long-range reconnaissance plane sent an urgent report that they had spotted a large fleet on the high seas east of Saigon, which was rapidly heading towards the territorial waters of French Indochina, and judging by the flags hoisted on the ships, it should be the fleet of the Japanese Navy.

Visually there were two battleships and four cruisers in this fleet, as well as one aircraft carrier and ten destroyers, and judging by their speed and course, it was clear that some of them were not good.

A battle alarm sounded over the port of Saigon, and all the warships in the harbor set sail urgently, regardless of whether the supply was completed or not. After a slight adjustment outside the port, the French Far East Fleet formed a standard battle formation and bravely met the Japanese fleet at 2 p.m. on November 10, Hanoi time.

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