At dusk, the Japanese convoy arrived at Jinou Bay, and the 56th Infantry Wing, under the command of Yoshio Nasu, first began to attack the coast. The landing craft loaded with Japanese officers and soldiers were hoisted from the transport ship to the sea, and then began to assault the coast side by side, but they were soon attacked by the Germans in the fortifications hidden in the woods along the coast.

There was no mistake in the previous intelligence work of the Japanese army, and the German army did not send a defensive force in Jinou Bay before, but after the Japanese army landed on the Maya Peninsula, the commander of the German Far East Army in Annam, Johannes? Sensing the possibility of a Japanese landing in German Annam, Admiral Blaskovitz ordered the 3rd Division of the Far Eastern Army stationed at Kin'ou to send defensive troops to Kin'ou Bay and build coastal fortifications.

The 341st Regiment immediately moved to the Golden Ou Bay, and Colonel Borgemann did a great job of fulfilling the task assigned to him by Brigadier General Hogel, who in less than twenty days had built a fortification of more than 20 kilometers long and many bunkers in the port of Nangen on the coast of the Golden Ou Bay, and at the same time placed a divisional artillery battalion sent to support him in a hidden area behind the position.

The Japanese did not realize that the Germans had built tight coastal fortifications on the coast of Nangen, and the dense tropical jungle along the coast of Jinou Bay provided the Germans with excellent concealment. On the sea, in an instant, a landing craft was destroyed, and most of the Japanese troops on the boat were killed.

Under heavy artillery fire, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.

The landing craft of the 1st Brigade, led by Takao Shukai Shosa, rushed to the front, and when he saw that the shape was not good, he immediately ordered the officers and men to jump into the sea and forcibly swim ashore. He himself was the first to swim to the shore beach. Command the troops to charge into the woods.

No sooner had hundreds of Japanese troops washed up on the shore than they were completely pinned down by machine-gun positions in the coastal fortifications. Seeing that the landing force was under attack, Rear Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto, commander of the Japanese Navy's 3rd Mine Combat Squadron, who was on the escort duty on the light cruiser Kawauchi, immediately commanded the Kawauchi and five destroyers to use naval guns to suppress the German artillery positions on the coastal positions.

Wielding a command knife, he commanded the 1st Brigade to charge the German positions in the face of a hail of bullets. But by the time the Japanese rushed to the barbed wire fence in front of the German positions, more than half of them had already been killed or wounded.

Finally, by the time the sappers cut through the barbed wire, the 1st Brigade was only a third of its strength left. The Japanese were desperately pinned down at the front of the position by the cross-machine gun positions in the German bunkers, and could no longer advance an inch. Takao Sukai was also beaten into a sieve by a machine gun while passing through the barbed wire fence.

German fighters taking off from Jinou Airport quickly arrived at the battlefield and braved the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese escort fleet to carry out a fierce bombardment of the transport fleet in the bay. The Japanese transport ship "Awajiyama Maru" was hit by a bullet and caught fire, and the light of the fire guided the artillery on the shore to the target, and it was under intensive artillery fire. Soon the explosion sank.

It was the first large ship with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons to be sunk by the Japanese army after the start of the war.

German fighters continued to attack the rest of the Japanese transports, and soon the Ayatoyama Maru and Sakura Maru were damaged. Seeing this, Shintaro Hashimoto suspended the landing, and the convoy took refuge and waited for dark before reorganizing the landing. But the first wave of Japanese troops had already landed, and if the offensive stopped, then the troops that had already landed would suffer a devastating blow. Tu Mei Haonan insisted on reinforcing personnel and light equipment first. Advocate continued persistence.

Shintaro Hashimoto had no choice but to suspend the suppression of land artillery and organize anti-aircraft fire with all his might.

Hiroo Tsumi landed with the second group of landing troops. They chose a bare coastal area where German firepower was weak, and this time the landing was relatively smooth, and the 2nd Group finally broke through a German position near the beach woods, and finally established a slightly more stable beachhead.

Since it was already dark, the Germans could no longer get the support of the planes, and the Japanese landed on the coast relatively smoothly. However, the Tumei detachment was unable to break through inland, and the entire detachment's more than 6,000 people lost one-third of the landing operation, and the equipment was at an inferior level, so it could only be supported by the coast.

Yamashita received the report and ordered to stand by already at sea. The Guards Division, which was preparing to attack Thailand, instead landed at Dishi Bay. Lieutenant General Takuma Nishimura commanded the Guards Division, with the support of the Navy, to land overnight at Dishi Bay. The 7th Division of the German Far East Army, which defended the front line of Dishi, belonged to the newly formed colonial troops urgently recruited, except for some German officers, the soldiers were mainly recruited Annam and some Chinese, and the combat effectiveness was relatively weak, and even a part of the Gongan Nan people were still inclined to the Japanese army, thinking that they were "liberators".

The 7th German Far Eastern Division was quickly routed, and the Japanese Guards Division occupied Dishi and began to advance in depth.

Admiral Blaskovitz realized that the 3rd Division at Cape Kinou was in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese, so he ordered the 2nd and 5th Divisions to reinforce Thi, and at the same time ordered the 3rd Division to abandon Cape Gran and retreat to Saigon.

On January 15, the Japanese 16th Army under the command of Iida Shojiro landed in Thailand, and after two skirmishes, Thailand announced that it had given up resistance, and the Japanese army drove straight into central Annam along the Mon River, intending to cut off the retreat of the German Far Eastern Army in southern Annam, and the situation in Annam deteriorated rapidly.

After urgent consultations, Archduke Franz, Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Far East Army and Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Far East Army, and General Falkensen, head of the German Military Advisory Group in China, temporarily abandoned South Vietnam and withdrew all his troops to the North Vietnam region.

Blaskovitz was also aware of the danger of the war situation and immediately informed the country of the latest war situation. After assessment, the General Staff of the German Ministry agreed, Blaskovich's request for retreat.

At the time of the Japanese invasion of Annam, the Chinese Army took advantage of the weak Japanese forces in South China to launch a large-scale counteroffensive in South China and Fujian.

In Fujian, the 14th Group Army of the National Defense Forces concentrated its forces to recover Fuzhou in one fell swoop. In the South China Theater, the Japanese army only deployed the 21st and 56th divisions in Guangzhou, while the Wehrmacht mobilized more than 400,000 troops from the 17th, 29th, and 31st Group Armies to counterattack Guangzhou under the command of General Ma Xiaojun, commander-in-chief of the South China Theater.

Ma Xiaojun personally went to the front line in Guangdong, and the Ye Qi Division of the 17th Group Army of the Central Army, the Bai Chongxi Division of the 29th Group Army, and Chen Bonan, the 32nd Group Army of the Guangdong Army, marched to Guangzhou by three routes.

In the consciousness of the War Department and the General Staff, the Battle of Guangzhou was of great significance, and it was sure to be fought very hard. However, the reality was the opposite, and the Japanese 23rd Army, which occupied Guangzhou, was not a strategic key force in the first place, but only carried out the task of blocking China's communications. After the start of the Nanyang operation, the 38th and 51st Divisions under its jurisdiction were transferred to Malaya, and only the 104th Division and the 19th Independent Mixed Brigade were left.

After the Chinese counteroffensive began, in view of the lack of troops, the Japanese base camp decided to abandon Guangzhou, which had lost its strategic significance, and instead focus the offensive on Southeast Asia.

Since the resistance of the Japanese army was not fierce, it was very different from the previous appearance on the Chinese battlefield. The South China Theater Command, fearing that there was some "conspiracy" involved, ordered the troops to advance cautiously, so the Chinese attack was not violent. After a few days of slight resistance, the Japanese 23rd Army took the initiative to abandon Guangzhou, and the whole army, including two puppet army divisions, boarded ships and evacuated Guangzhou Bay under the cover of the navy.

Although the Chinese Army's recovery of Guangzhou and Fujian did not go through any major battles, it had a strong symbolic significance. Because this is the first time since the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance in 1937 that the Chinese side has recovered a provincial capital. The victories of the National Defense Forces in Guangzhou and Fujian have greatly inspired the Chinese people, which indicates that after three and a half years of arduous anti-Japanese war, the Chinese side has finally kicked off the prelude to the counteroffensive and has also allowed the Chinese people to see a glimmer of victory.

In Beijing, Jinan, Qingdao, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Wuhan, Chongqing, Changsha, Nanning and other big cities, huge celebrations were held, and citizens took to the streets, singing and dancing to celebrate the victory.

The pattern of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is quietly changing. (To be continued......) R1292