For the Japanese Empire, it was a long one. Night.

Vladivostok, which had almost reached the mouth of the Far East, was cut off by the 1st Red Alert Division.

Tokyo was bombarded by the Third Fleet, and the entire capital was engulfed in explosions and flames.

On the Japanese island of Kyushu, an invisible chrono portal with a width of 500 kilometers was unfolded the night before, covering the entire Tsushima Strait, passing through Tsushima Island, connecting Busan and Daegu in North Korea in the north, and running through Kyushu Island in the south, from Sasebo to Kagoshima.

The chrono portal faces the Japanese island of Kyushu, the Tsushima Strait, the Korean Strait, and stretches hundreds of kilometers along Pusan to the north of Daegu.

No one has discovered the existence of this super space-time gate, even from the day before yesterday to the present, I don't know how many ignorant people have passed through this gate back and forth.

Except for the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet, as of the early hours of this morning, there were no large-scale invasion of land forces in the Chrono Portal.

Finally, when the Third Fleet finished shelling Yokosuka, the super gate was once again flooded with invisible space gravitational waves, and around Sasebo in the dark night, troops suddenly appeared from the darkness.

Eight days ago, the Japanese Combined Fleet departed from the Sasebo Naval Base and headed for the Tsushima Strait for a decisive battle against the Russian Second Pacific Fleet.

At this time, Sasebo was only a port that was gradually improving, and both the industry near the port and the maintenance capacity of ships were still very reluctant.

After all, Sasebo has only gradually become a military base of the Japanese Navy in recent years, and its main job is to provide supplies for the fleet, as well as as a transport port, as a major seaport for the army to Korea and Russia.

In response to the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Government has conscripted 700,000 reserve troops since last year, and the vast majority of the Japanese Army that went to Korea and Siberia to fight last year are Japan's standing active forces.

If the war ends, these reserve units will be replenished to the standing divisions and regiments to restore their combat effectiveness, but some of them will retire and return to the lives of ordinary people.

If the ground war with Russia is not ideal, these 700,000 troops will continue to be on the battlefield and more reservists will be called up to continue training.

Amid Russia's clamor for an invasion of Japan, the Japanese, who had no self-confidence, actually prepared for the worst and worked out a local defense.

Sasebo was originally developed as a small fishing village as a former port of the army, but in fact, there are not many civilians living in Sasebo today.

The army's three reserve divisions are stationed here, and the three ordinary infantry divisions are specially used to train troops, and they do not even have division numbers.

However, Sasebo, which has not yet built a complete industry, is mostly occupied by workers from the military port and naval personnel, and there are no factories and no workers, so no one will live here.

At this time, Sasebo did not know the news that Yokosuka had just been attacked by the enemy navy and suffered heavy losses.

Nearly 100,000 troops of the three training divisions are still asleep, and the intensity of the daily heavy training is very dead, and once the hard-working body lies down, they all sleep to death.

Sasebo, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides, gave the Red Police Army a good cover, and in addition to the negligence of precautions, the Japanese side never discovered the danger around them during the three-hour preparation and assembly time.

On the top of the four high mountains on both sides of Sasebo, Mount Tajima, Mount Yujani, Mt. Ooka, and Mt. Shogon, the camp built by the Japanese Army on the top of the mountain was silently occupied, and in the chrono portal across these four peaks, a cannon and a machine gun were teleported.

In front of the construction of artillery positions and the construction of offensive positions, on the mountain peaks in the dark night, artillery observation balloons were slowly lifted into the air.

More than 3,000 meters away from the mountain, the port is brightly lit, and a large number of workers in the port are still carrying supplies onto the ship, and these loaded ships will leave for North Korea tomorrow.

The 1st Army of the Red Police, which mobilized two field infantry divisions and two field artillery brigades, was responsible for the attack on Sasebo.

While the First Army was preparing for the attack in a hurry, the Second Fleet of the Red Alert Navy had quietly entered Sasebo Bay.

The 1st Fleet went to Vladivostok, the 2nd Fleet cruised the Tsushima Strait and the Sea of Japan, and the 3rd Fleet was responsible for Tokyo Bay.

Attacking Sasebo, the Second Fleet, which had no important targets for attack, naturally came to help.

It was similar to the sneak attack on Yokosuka, and the Japanese in Sasebo didn't think that this place would be attacked at all.

In addition, Sasebo did not build a fort, and the lighthouses on both sides of Sasebo Wan Bay were also quietly controlled, and the Sasebo Port, which was busy in the early morning, did not find a huge fleet approaching from the bay at all.

It wasn't until the Second Fleet came within range of Sasebo's guns that a sailor blowing the sea breeze on a Japanese merchant ship docked in the harbor to load supplies spotted the shadow of the huge fleet in the distance.

"The Combined Fleet is back!"

The sailor, who had spotted the shadow of the fleet, shook off the cigarette butt in his hand and shouted excitedly towards the busy port.

A large number of workers who were busy also put down their goods one after another and ran to the edge of the convex embankment wharf, looking at the hazy shadow of the ship approaching in the distance.

In Sasebo Bay, there was no mist, a crescent moon hung in the air, and with the help of the faint light, the hazy shadow of the ship in the distance seemed to be getting clearer and clearer.

In the harbor, the alarmed Japanese naval officers also stood on the shore, looking at the silhouette of the battleship in the dark, but unlike the workers and sailors who did not understand, these naval officers, although most of them were only responsible for the operation of the port, were also quite familiar with the combined fleet.

The unfamiliar silhouette of the battleship, it is definitely not the Combined Fleet in the distance, not to mention that if the Combined Fleet returns, it will definitely notify the port before entering Sasebo Bay, especially at night, without the welcome of lights and guide tugs, the Combined Fleet will not rush into the port.

"Yaga, this is not the Combined Fleet, sound the alarm immediately, this is an enemy attack."

On the shore, a navy commander suddenly shouted to everyone.

The mysterious fleet, which does not even have the light of the stars, is quietly approaching Sasebo, and it is definitely not here to visit, not to mention that it is still the period of the Russo-Japanese War, and anything can happen.

When the battle alarm was sounded, the timely response of this navy commander was completely fine.