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The next morning, Zhu Binhou returned to the bridge of the navigation ship, and saw Deng Haoqian, who had stayed up all night waiting for news, holding a steamed bun with one hand and a teacup with the other. The aviation staff officer standing next to him held the photos of the damage taken by the carrier-based plane in the morning and studied where the bombing still needed to be continued.

Seeing him come in, the two of them reported together on the situation of last night and this morning. There were not many battle reports, and judging from the reconnaissance photos, Port Blair and the surrounding three-kilometer area had basically been repeatedly bombed by attack planes, and the minesweepers had also begun to clear the landing lanes. However, the Indian fleet that worried Zhu Bin the most was still nowhere to be found, which means that in the first few days of the landing and expansion of the landing zone, the fleet had to keep one eye on it at all times.

"Will you flee back to Malaya?" Deng Haoqian couldn't figure it out.

"Forget it, if you want to come out, it will come out sooner or later. The ships continued to search, increased the number of reconnaissance planes, and let the marine commandos set off so as not to delay the landing. After listening to the report, Zhu Binhou still didn't want to wait. Since the main landing fleet could arrive in the evening, and the landing ships and merchant ships, which were generally slow, could not be allowed to spend the night in the Andaman Sea, where the threat had not yet been lifted, it was necessary to seize Port Blair as soon as possible and let the soldiers go ashore for the night.

"Get in the car, get in the car! Departure. "Soon after the order was given, the 12 landing ships that arrived from Addu Atoll last night were busy. Cui Shizhuang, a first-class private of the 5th Marine Division, turned over and got into the "Otter" amphibious armored vehicle. This dukw-like amphibious armored vehicle, which can transport an infantry squad or 2 tons of supplies at a time, and can also sail in bad weather with winds of 110 kilometers, is very popular with the marines, so the factory has also modified many models equipped with 105 mm howitzers and mortars.

Because the Andaman Island is covered with the densest, most primitive and most treacherous tropical rainforest in the world, and the canyons and mountains are full of snakes, it is impossible to confirm whether there are still concealed heavy artillery by aerial reconnaissance alone, so the first batch of landing commandos cannot enjoy the treatment of landing ships directly rushing to the island. Because the "Otter" needed to sail for 15 minutes from leaving the ship to going ashore, which made him a little nervous, he repeatedly checked the H38 semi-automatic sniper rifle in his hand, until the steel helmet was slapped by the squad leader during the roll call, and he realized that everyone had already boarded the car.

The sergeant squad leader, who sat on the left side of the back door of the carriage, was a veteran transferred from the 1st Marine Division, who had an eccentric temper and few words, and had participated in the battles of Guam, the southern conquest of Wake Island, and the Marshalls, and had rich experience. The strange thing is that he is actually from Gansu. It is hard to imagine that a Northwesterner actually joined the Marine Corps, and the surname Shui is better than the coastal soldiers.

The deputy squad leader Liu sat on the right side of the car door, he was a tall Shandong man, hearty and smiling, and he was the firepower in the class. I heard him say that his family is a pig killer, and he has not lacked meat since he was a child, so he grows stronger than others. He was also the only person in the class who carried two guns, a shotgun and a grenade, and everyone called him Liu, the big boss with two guns. Machine gunner Xiao Liu sat next to him, the son of a Guangdong fisherman, don't look as thin as a monkey, his strength is greater than that of the old Liu, he just loves to be cool, and now he is still wearing two 150-round cartridge belts, he looks like a predator, and he is not too tired to panic.

The deputy machine gunner and demoman is called Xiao Meng, a native of Yangzhou, a typical son of a rich family, whose ancestors were salt merchants and his family was wealthy. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the president state-owned the salt industry, and the salt merchants in Yangzhou had no way out, and the later land bill restricted the sale and ownership of land, and many salt merchants were forced to go on the road of industry and commerce. Xiao Meng's family is the same, fortunately, he has a little knowledge, joined the National Socialist Party early, and started a construction company by relying on the party's connections, and the highest 23-story Suyang Hotel in Yangzhou was built by his family. Because his eldest brother was the pillar of the family, and the second brother was a teacher, and the wartime conscription law prohibited conscription from teachers and students, his father kicked him into the army, and he also called him a training in his name. It's a pity that this kid is a scourge! When he was stationed in Adu Atoll a few days ago, he said that he had eaten everything, but he had never eaten raw shark fin, so he carried a lot of grenades and Xiao Liu to fight sharks. The shark was dragged back, but the two were kicked into the confinement room by the company commander, and the raw shark fin was also divided up by everyone, and when they came out, there was only a pile of fish bones left.

Sitting on his left and right are Chen Mazi and Huang Laosi, the two stinky mouths are all famous, and they don't stop now. Separated from himself, he said something in a local dialect that no one could understand, and the squad leader said that sooner or later, these two scourges would be killed by the sniper because of their mouths. Sitting in the corner with a mirror, the stinky little white face is called Qu Yan, who used to be a third-rate actor in Shanghai, and has acted in several movies of passers-by. He said that he joined the army in order to make a war movie that can be passed on to the world in the future, but in the eyes of Cui Shizhuang and everyone, the only reason why he can join the Marine Corps is that he can speak fluent Mandarin, because once after he put on his military uniform, he was actually more like Yue himself!

Several other comrades-in-arms are also from all over the world, no wonder the squad leader once got angry and scolded, saying that he was bringing a group of "crooked melons and cracked dates". This is Cui Shizhuang's unit, the only rookie unit that has not participated in any previous battles among the 5 Marine Divisions, 17th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 1st Company, and 5th Marine Division.

"Sit down! It's time to open the cabin! "There was a reminder from the driver.

Amid the loading sound of the vehicle-mounted machine gunner, the bow of the landing ship slowly cracked, and after the four Type 37 "Sea Serpent" amphibious tanks in front of them rushed into the sea, the "Otters" also rushed out of the cabin one after another.

After leaving the landing ship, there was a spectacular scene of war, with 12 Tien Shan-class tank landing ships spitting hundreds of amphibious armored vehicles out of their mouths like sea monsters with wide mouths. On both sides of the hull, dense infantrymen slid down the rope ladder onto the small personnel landing craft below. In the distance, dozens of warhawks circled back and forth over the island, four battleships and four heavy cruisers on the sea continued to spray rumbling artillery fire into the depth of the island, six territorial water-class frigates were protected on the left and right flanks, and three shallow water heavy gunboats flying the Vietnamese flag were opening the way in the forefront.

These three shallow-water heavy gunboats, originally the Thai Navy's "Thonburi", "Soktai Dynasty" and "Ratnakosin City", were captured by the Navy in the Battle of Dongou Kok and given to the Vietnamese Navy as a founding gift. Originally, the navy did not want to carry such a burden, but the Vietnamese political axe was very active in joining the Asian allies and offered to let them join the war. For some reason, the Political Department had no choice but to stuff them into the Third Fleet and rush through the Sunda Strait under the control of the "Yasuhai" formation. After rushing out of the strait, considering that the speed of the 3 ships was very slow, they had to let them and the 6 territorial water-class frigates go to Addu Atoll first, and then converge the main force to go south to Andaman.

If it weren't for the fact that the navy was basically finished, and it was no longer able to block the strait and intercept the "Anhai" formation, which had four battleships and two aircraft carriers, I am afraid that they would have been sunk dozens of times. "Shelling!" As soon as I saw the outline of the harbor, an explosion sounded from the left. "Boom, boom." Amid the shouting of the squad leader, more and more shells fell between the combat vehicles. This kind of shelling was not surprising to everyone, except for the two kilometers near the sea, which was relatively empty, and the rest of Port Blair was dense rainforest, and even with the most powerful bombs of the air force, it was impossible to completely clear out the hidden enemy.

Attack aircraft and naval artillery formations immediately responded with artillery strikes, and escort ships also swept the rainforest with artillery. But Cui Shizhuang always had a bad feeling, because no matter how the attack planes and battleships bombed, the falling artillery shells of the Yue army still did not decrease. The armored car was at full speed, and when it was about to go ashore, the machine gun on the top of the car went off. As the soldier with the best eyesight in the squad, Cui Shizhuang immediately looked in the direction of the machine gun. But no matter how he searched, except for the green that couldn't be dissolved, there was no figure at all. "Don't be blind, these guys have a hard time shooting a bird, it's a waste of bullets." Chen Mazi reached over and began to puff up his foul mouth at the car machine gunner again.

Cui Shizhuang cracked his mouth, crying because of nervousness and smiling ugly. But no one laughed at him now, even the squad leader took a deep breath with a solemn face. "Boom!" Just as the armored vehicle climbed onto the beach and drove deeper, an "otter" that was following behind and was about to go ashore was hit by a shell. As an open-top amphibious armored vehicle, the shells fell on the compartment without hindrance, the entire vehicle was on fire, and no one escaped.

The explosions and fires that were close at hand made Cui Shizhuang and his comrades-in-arms feel the cruelty of war for the first time.

The artillery fire of the Japanese army became denser and denser, and armored vehicles and landing craft were constantly hit and set on fire, and although the three Vietnamese shallow water heavy gunboats and six frigates used all their firepower, they were still unable to completely destroy these invisible enemies. Looking out of the armor plate of the carriage, the entire harbor had been destroyed by the heavy naval artillery, and there were corpses of soldiers and faceless people everywhere. Houses turned into char, and huge craters made armored vehicles need to be extra careful.

Since the harbor was completely destroyed, the company commander did not let everyone get out of the car, but continued to sit in the "otter" and rushed to the edge of the rainforest with the amphibious tank. Just as the armored vehicle was about to burrow into the rainforest, countless bullets suddenly spilled from the rainforest, which was still silent just now, and the armored vehicle seemed to drive into a torrential rain, and there was a terrifying sound of bells in all directions. "Boom!" In an explosion, the "otter" that Cui Shizhuang was riding suddenly shook, and before he could understand, the cab caught fire. "Get off! Get out of the car! Watch out for stealth and watch out for snipers! The squad leader immediately jumped out of the car and loudly reminded everyone to pay attention to concealment. Cui Shizhuang was the penultimate to jump out of the car, and when he got down, he found that a hole had been blown open in the front of the armored car, and it looked like it had been hit by a 37-mm anti-tank gun. The door of the cab was missing in the explosion, the driver and the machine gunner were half of their bodies drooping and had died, and the co-pilot's thigh was bloody and fleshy.

Cui Shizhuang hurriedly went over to help, and it took a lot of effort to drag him in with the elder Liu, settle in the back of the car, and plant an eye-catching red cross pennant beside him to remind the medical soldiers behind him that there were wounded here. "Good job, be careful, run, run!" After the elder Liu praised him, he stopped him behind his body, and carefully waited for the military machine gun to stop before pulling him to the position of the squad leader. The chirping bullets and the light of the fire all stimulate the rapid secretion of adrenaline. By the time the two of them arrived at the bunker where Ban was, the 2-kilometer-wide landing zone was already full of dense rain of bullets shuttling back and forth. Shouts, explosions, and cries were everywhere, and exposed comrades were constantly killed by bullets, and limbs and blood were splattered in the explosions.

"Don't be stunned! Find out the enemy! The squad leader kicked Cui Shizhuang, hoping to use his sniper eyes to find out the location of the military. But the problem is that Cui Shizhuang is so lucky that he can't see through the situation in the rainforest, even if it's 30 meters! "I can't see it, squad leader! I can't see it, it's all trees! ”

"Made! Elder Liu, you come and run, everyone pay attention to the muzzle flame. As soon as the squad leader gritted his teeth, he simply used his running to attract the enemy's firepower and automatically exposed.

Later, everyone learned that in fact, the squad leader's method did not work very well, because the muzzle flame of the 38 big cover was very small, and in this kind of primeval rainforest, it could not be seen for twenty or thirty meters. However, the elder Liu did not complain, and rushed out and ran left as soon as he pulled the bolt. Fortunately, after only a few steps, Cui Shizhuang could distinguish the position of a crooked handle: "2 o'clock!" A crooked handle, about 70 meters away! ”

"Mortar! 2 o'clock, 70 meters covered! The squad leader cocked his thumb and turned to call for 60mm mortar support from behind. Boom, boom, boom. A volley of shells quickly pounced, dumbing out the crooked sub-machine gun.

Soon, three "Sea Serpent" amphibious tanks caught up from behind, taking the place of the "otters" and continuing to protect the infantry from rushing in. After the tank approached, Cui Shizhuang and Huang Laosi immediately ran over and tried to hide behind, but this time they still didn't succeed. Because the two of them had just run halfway out, a more violent explosion sounded in front, and the shock wave of ** knocked both of them to the ground. "Fourth! Xiao Cui! The squad leader and Xiao Meng shouted and dragged the two back to the bunker. Huang Laosi's face was cut by shrapnel and was all blood, and Cui Shizhuang's ribs were grazed by stones, but fortunately it was not very heavy and he could continue to fight.

"Heavy artillery!" When he took a deep breath and picked up his sniper rifle again, another "tanuki" was destroyed by a cannonball that suddenly shot out of the rainforest, and even the ammunition was detonated. In terms of prestige, at least a 105-mm cannon.

There is no doubt that this is a completely asymmetrical bloody battle. Because the Japanese army hiding in the rainforest can have an unobstructed view of the open harbor, but the marines can't see through the dense rainforest at all, so they can only fire indiscriminately at suspicious locations. To make matters worse, more than 90 percent of the entire 6,000 square kilometres of the Andaman Islands are covered by this pristine rainforest!

"One row to the left, two rows! Protection in one row, three rows. "In order to find the heavy artillery and the position of the army, the company commander ordered everyone to sneak into the rainforest in a roundabout way.

Cui Shizhuang followed the squad leader and his comrades-in-arms and made a detour to the south into the rainforest. He couldn't describe the scene around him, except that it was a primeval forest that even sunlight could not penetrate, full of branches and vines, intertwined, and the wet surface was full of dead branches and leaves, and there were many unknown centipede insects crawling around. "There, I saw it!" Soon after burrowing into the rainforest, Chen Mazi was the first to see something that looked like a cannon barrel. He immediately jumped to his feet, threw out a grenade for cover, and rushed towards the "gun emplacement". But when he brushed aside the branches, he suddenly disappeared in front of everyone, and then there was a scream that seeped into the spine! "Mako! Pockmark! Elder Liu rushed over, only to find that Chen Mazi had fallen into a trap. At the bottom of the trap four or five meters deep, there were sharp stakes, Chen Mazi's body had been pierced through the stakes, the bloody tips were exposed from his back, and his body was still writhing. "Fuck you! It's fake! A rotten piece of wood! At this time, Qu Yan had already seen clearly that the "cannon" that killed Chen Mazi was clearly a fake target built with wood and camouflage nets.

"Yaga! Xiao said, there is a kind of out! Qu Yan, who loves stinky beauty, was dizzy, vented his anger loudly in Mandarin, and finally kicked down the fake cannon. But this kick alarmed a poisonous snake entrenched in the tail of the "cannon barrel", and before he could react, the piebald snake jumped up from the "cannon barrel" and bit him on the cheek. "Vipers, vipers! Hold him down! After the squad leader saw the pattern of the poisonous snake, he was so frightened that he hurriedly pressed him to the ground, and he couldn't help but pick up the dagger and cut off the carrion on his face.

Cui Shizhuang and everyone were also taken aback, looking at Qu Yan, who fainted in blood and pain, their hearts were sour, because his dream of being a big star could no longer be done.

The second squad, which followed behind, quickly came up and burned the poisonous snakes and "fake cannons" with flamethrowers, and everyone searched forward again. This time, he was not in the wrong place, and a 105-mm cannon and a large group of soldiers slowly emerged from the depths of the rainforest. "Be careful!" However, the sentinels of the army still found the search team in time, and hundreds of soldiers rushed towards everyone. The machine gunner Xiao Liu and the machine guns of the second squad fired fiercely together, and they barely suppressed them.

The fierce battle was beyond the imagination of many veterans, and because of the proximity between us and the enemy, naval aviation could not use high-power bombs and napalm, and could only circle in the sky. The navy was also extremely anxious, and the captain of a frigate even rushed into the shallow sea area to sweep the rainforest with 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 25mm rapid-fire guns, regardless of the danger of running aground, and finally he even ordered all the hedgehog shells that should have been used for anti-submarine warfare to be fired into the depths of the rainforest. Other captains also dismantled their 12.7 mm heavy machine guns and mounted them on transport boats to fire on the beach, until even the tanks and infantry flamethrowers ran out of fuel. On the contrary, after absorbing the combat experience of Ryukyu and other places, Tada Jun has strictly forbidden the troops stationed on the island to easily launch the "onboard pig spurt" that is easily exposed, and completely relies on the rainforest to offset the firepower superiority of the Wehrmacht.

An entire amphibious armored assault regiment and an infantry regiment were all pinned down in the harbor and unable to advance in depth. The entire landing field was full of debris, flames and corpses, and the stream flowing out of the rainforest was also stained red with blood, and when it flowed past Cui Shizhuang, you could clearly see the intestines and human body fragments flowing down the water, and the blood water poured into the sea and mixed with the corpses of the floating Marine comrades, as terrible as the blood hell of Asura.

The scorching fighting continued into the afternoon, and the Marine Corps continued to make no progress, instead destroying many armored vehicles with crude mines and explosives. Seeing that it was likely to be a dangerous night on the beach, the main landing force from Calcutta finally arrived.

Because the landing area of Port Blair was very narrow, and only four landing ships could be guaranteed to rush to the beach at a time, after discussing with Li Zongren, Zhu Binhou and Li Zongren decided to let the armored battalion and an infantry regiment of the 166th Infantry Division go ashore first, strengthen firepower, sweep the surrounding rainforest, and open the gap to let the main force go up.

After the 4 landing ships accelerated to the shallows, the rapid-fire guns on the deck also joined the battle, and under the cover of artillery, the armored battalion and infantry regiment of the 166th Division quickly rushed out of the cabin and moved closer to the marines. "Get out of the way! Get out of the way! "The first company, which held out for four hours, finally waited for reinforcements, and two quadruple 12.7 mm half-track anti-aircraft vehicles were the first to crash through the trees and rush up from behind.

The army also saw these two extremely threatening anti-aircraft vehicles, and they were shouting to turn the cannon around. Fortunately, the army did not have high-powered heavy machine guns, and the cannon turned very slowly, so the air defense vehicles rushed ahead of them and aimed their guns at the position first. "Hit! Fight! Let them taste it! Xiao Liu, the red-eyed machine gunner, shouted vigorously, and was kicked over by the squad leader before stopping.

"Knock, knock, knock." The half-track anti-aircraft vehicle opened fire.

The anti-aircraft version of the quadruple 12.7mm heavy machine gun has a faster rate of fire than the army version, and can fire up to 800 rounds of 12.7*99 machine gun rounds per minute. Maybe it's not enough to deal with high-speed aircraft, but it's perfect for infantry. Under the fierce fire of 8 heavy machine guns, the rainstorm of bullets quickly severed all the branches and vines that blocked the view, and even the big trees with thick bowls could not stop them. When the ammunition boxes were all emptied, Cui Shizhuang found that a sight gap more than ten meters wide and hundreds of meters deep had been swept out in front of him. In the gap, a position garrisoned by a brigade of Japanese troops and a 105-mm cannon was silent, and no moving figures were visible.

Four Type 25C "Tanuki" tanks pounced on them and began to clear out the remnants of the enemy, but some of the remnants of the Japanese army were still very tenacious, holding explosive packs and blasting canisters in an attempt to blow up the tanks. But the Army tanks were not the "thin skins" of the Marines, and two 70-mm low-pressure infantry guns and side-by-side 25-mm machine guns quickly swept away the entire position.

Half an hour later, the first company finally captured this position. When Cui Shizhuang rushed up to see the surrounding scene, he almost didn't spit it out. It's so miserable! None of the corpses swept by the 12.7 mm bullets were intact, their hands and feet were severe, many were broken at the waist, or their heads exploded like watermelons, and the fishy smell could be smelled hundreds of meters away.

"Keep going!" The company commander shouted. A small brigade is too far from the 50,000 troops mentioned in the intelligence, so everyone must continue to search deep into the rainforest to expand the defensive circle. Cui Shizhuang silently followed the team, as if he had pressed a big stone in his heart. The primeval rainforest, which was only one kilometer long, injured Huang Laosi and Qu Yan, and Chen Mazi was even stabbed to death by a sharp wooden stake in the trap! Such bloodshed has exceeded his and everyone's expectations.

"Don't think about it." Elder Liu and the squad leader walked over and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him: "We still have to rely on your sniper rifle to kill the dog to avenge Chen Mazi." ”

"Hmm!" Cui Shizhuang nodded. But he didn't expect that this time "moving on" would take a full 11 months! 17,000 Allied soldiers were either killed in battle, diseased, or bitten by poisonous insects in this primeval jungle. Among them, there are 7,737 members of the Wehrmacht alone, and more than 30,000 people have been injured to varying degrees. Of the 12 people in Cui Shizhuang's class, only 5 walked out of the rainforest.

Although Port Blair, as a transit point and a forward airfield, was put into use half a month later, the sound of gunfire in the Andaman continued until the end of 42 before gradually subsided. And the last soldier to walk out of the original rainforest of the Andaman was 17 years later! Judging from the comparison of the number of troops projected and the number of casualties in a single battlefield, the Andaman campaign was the bloodiest and most brutal area in the entire Asian battlefield, and there was no one!

The loss of a few brigades was not much damage to Tada Jun and the Indian left-behind army, which had already saved the heart of death, and as the Allies advanced deeper into the rainforest, the battle became more and more brutal and bloody!

Knowing that the battle on the island was particularly unsmooth, Zhu Binhou and Li Zongren also became agitated. Especially the former, because the Kimura fleet was never found, it was even more like a fish in the throat. "Commander, Calcutta urgent! The Soviet-Indian troops began a large-scale attack on our defense lines. "At this time, the staff officer brought another bad news from India. Chuikov seized the opportunity and in one fell swoop dispatched more than a dozen divisions to begin a full-scale assault on the Allied occupation zone of India.

"These bastards!" Deng Haoqian spat angrily and asked, "Commander Li, do you want me to send a plane to send you back first?" ”

"Don't worry, I already arranged it when I came out, but here." Li Zongren had expected Cui Kev's attack, but he was very surprised by the bloody battle on the island in front of him, and turned his head to look at Zhu Binhou: "Do you want us to go to the island, or do you want to float on the sea all night?" ”

According to intelligence, the Kimura fleet was all fast destroyers, generally armed with oxygen torpedoes, and several ocean-going submarines. You must know that the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean are not the East China Sea, let alone the Pacific Ocean, which is notoriously dangerous seas, and it is difficult to navigate in strong winds and waves. Once a ship launches a night attack, the slow merchant ships and landing ships will not be able to escape at all. Therefore, no matter how bold Zhu Binhou was, he did not dare to risk letting five or six army divisions drift on the sea, and after walking to the nautical chart and looking at it several times, he made a decision: "Order all ships, before the fleet is discovered, the search is not allowed to stop!" Let the battleships move closer to me, ready for the overnight maneuver, the cruisers take over the fire support mission, the remaining destroyers and frigates will defend along the perimeter of Port Blair, and send the main forces of the army ashore tonight no matter what! ”

"Then I'll go get ready." Li Zongren nodded, he didn't want to spend the night at sea either.

When Zhu Binhou and Li Zongren began to deploy the main force to land, Kimura Masafu was also watching a reconnaissance plane slowly disappear into the setting sun.

In fact, he never left the Andaman Island, and after the harbor the day before yesterday, he led the fleet to drill into the Indian Ocean from the straits before the South and Middle Andaman Islands, and then turned around and sailed north into the volcanic atoll on the west side of the North Andaman Island. The water ripples here are complex, there are many invisible reefs under the water, and submarines simply cannot get in. There are also several peaks and rift valleys along the coast, and the forests are also very lush. His choice of hidden deep gorge is even more peculiar, the narrow gorge stretches 400 meters long into the island, but the average width is only 10 meters, and the water depth is 7 meters, just enough to fit into a small fleet. The cliffs on both sides were covered with tropical trees and vines, and the huge canopy of trees stretched into the middle of the rift, just blocking the view of the reconnaissance planes. This is a hidden spot that he carefully selected after spending a year inspecting the whole island, and in order to ensure safety, he has gone to the sea many times to carefully inspect it. Judging from the inspections, it is difficult to see the full picture of the rift valley from the air and from the sea unless it is a person like him who has been on the field for a long time.

It was in this extremely secluded rift that his fleet was able to avoid the destroyers and reconnaissance planes that were searching outside in the netting. "General, it's a telegram from Admiral Tada. The army has dragged the people of China within five kilometers of the harbor, and he asked us to carry out a night attack tonight to shell the main force of the China Army! "After the reconnaissance plane left, the staff officer also brought a telegram from Tada.

"Night shelling? Okay, then let's try our luck. Kimura looked at the staff officer, he didn't even stretch out his hand, and his tone was so flat that it didn't look like he was going to fight a fierce battle to decide the ownership of a strategic location.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, Kimura drank the last sip of rice wine and led the fleet out of the fjord and rushed towards Port Blair...... (To be continued.) )