The engineer battalion was idle because of the lack of *, and most of them went to the city to watch the excitement. At this time, there is a parade of floats in the city, and the first thing to be carried out is a huge picture of the emperor. This was followed by a dragon dance procession, a portrait of an old man on the birthday boy, and then a procession of schoolgirls in short skirts. Civilians and soldiers of the Chinese army flocked to the streets to watch the grand celebration of East meets West.

Far from Bangkok, the port area is pitch black at this time. After the retreat of the Japanese army, the port of Bangkok basically had no shipping business, after all, the entire Gulf of Thailand was still in the hands of the Japanese, the workers were closed, and the port did not turn on the lights in order to save electricity.

Except for a few sappers, there is still one unit left, which is the picket corps of Chu Tingchang. This unit is based on an infantry battalion of Tao Mingzhang's troops, and has been enriched with a large number of 201st Division personnel who have returned from injuries. The unit upheld Tao's tradition of strict self-discipline and consciously distinguished itself from other units with lax discipline.

This force could have been the last straw for Chu Tingchang and Chiang Kai-shek to break up, you must know that the warlords who opposed Chiang Kai-shek did not have military police units yet. Of course, after all, Chu Tingchang has a lot of ghosts, and he changed the gendarmerie battalion into a picket corps, which sounds like a step away from becoming a king on his own. Chongqing finally chose to swallow his anger and pretend not to see it.

The existence of this unit is to solve the problem of discipline in the Chinese army's fighting abroad, and at present, it was established somewhat late, and the inherent problems of the Kuomintang army and the mixing of soldiers made it difficult to maintain discipline. In order to make up for this shortcoming, Commander Chu specially selected the most disciplined Tao Mingzhang's troops as the backbone to form this unit, the troops were well equipped, the military salary was high, and no one from the 202nd Division was accepted. In addition to discipline, the unit had to take on a number of combat missions, especially when it was still assembled into a reinforced battalion of 1,100 men and had not dispersed.

The U.S. military provided the unit with a large number of jeeps and automatic weapons, but the unit was not armed with light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

After Chu Tingchang realized that there might be some problems in the direction of the enemy's attack, he first sent a telegram to Huang Tianyang, and each reply from Huang was very perfunctory, as if something had happened to Huang Tianyang. So he decided to use the picket corps directly under him to strengthen the defense of the port area. Of course, because of the lack of *, the picket corps could not be pre-arranged in the port*. However, while patrolling the port area, the picket corps found firewood and gasoline that had been placed in advance in the port, and found a total of four places that seemed to have been placed by lurking Japanese agents. These clues were enough to point to the true purpose of the Japanese army.

After the Japanese turned around and galloped for several hours, the flotilla dispersed into several parts. The Army's aircraft carrier "Akitsu Maru" and the Navy's destroyer fleet, due to their high speed, left off the troop carriers and arrived at the sea off the port first, which was of course part of the plan drawn up by Sakagaki with Yamamoto's help. Yamamoto suggested that he use several army carriers to carry out the port grabbing first, and his Mikawa army would provide strong fire support on the one hand, and at dawn, the rest of the low-speed ships would arrive, so that the unloading operation could be carried out very consistently.

But Akitsumaru is now facing a problem, the black light is blinding, and it is difficult to determine the specific location of the port. Because the sleeper agents were afraid of the patrol of the picket corps and did not dare to show their heads, there was no one to indicate the location of the port on the long coastline of the Japanese army. The power outage at the port has left it as dark as the rest of the coast.

The commander of the landing force, Saburo Koshizawa, stood anxiously in the bow of the ship, waiting for the results of navigation. It was said that fire should be set on the shore and the landing location should be indicated, but the time has passed, why there is no signal yet. If there is no correct position indication, his troops will rush over, even if they deviate by a kilometer, they are likely to be stuck in the mudflats and reeds and unable to move, such losses have indeed suffered before.

He could send a few assault boats to get to the bottom of it, but in doing so, he might reveal his intentions and run out of time.

Suddenly, in the distance, the flames soared into the sky. Yue Ze thought that there was an artillery bombardment on the shore, and after waiting for a while, he found that something was wrong, and it was clearly setting off fireworks. It's a godsend. Knowing the location of Bangkok City, he can accurately calculate the location of the port. Although I don't know why there are fireworks in the city, Yue Ze didn't think about it at all, and it might be the enemy's strategy to lure the enemy.

He ordered all the fast motor boats on the Akitsu Maru to go out and move in that direction.

The picket corps, before reporting the discovery of burning materials on the shore to Chief Chu Ting, received a call from the military headquarters: immediately deploy to prevent the enemy's landing.

Underwater 419 detected enemy movements in advance. But for Chu Tingchang, although the warning time was 4 hours in advance, it was still too short, and he did not have time to dispatch troops from other directions, as Lin Xiuxuan said, the sea maneuver was much faster than the ground maneuver. Now we have to find a way to use the local army in Bangkok.

In the past few hours, Chu Tingchang has continuously sent telegrams to Huang Tianyang, asking him to immediately prepare for battle, and the enemy is bound to make action in the second half of the night.

However, Huang Tianyang was already drunk and couldn't wake up no matter how much he shouted, but fortunately, the officers under him, a group of mid-level commanders from Nanyang college students, realized that the situation was not right, and began to raise the alarm in the city to prevent the celebrations, but half of the people were on vacation in the city, and the troops could not be assembled for a while.

The first round of the Japanese attack was launched by the rapid wing of the 6th Division, commanded by Daisa Koshizawa. The size of this wing is much smaller than that of an ordinary infantry wing, with only more than 1,000 men, but it serves as a search/reconnaissance mission for the troops, and has experienced much more actual combat than ordinary troops.

In the dark, the assault boat approached the coast and did not encounter any shore artillery attacks. Only when approaching the port, an explosion was found on the coast, and some cranes were blown up.

The defending troops did not hear the sound of the motorboat until the Japanese were very close. So the flares began to be fired. By the time the flares fell, about a hundred Japanese assault boats with light machine guns were already in sight. The rotorcraft that took off from the Akitsu Maru also flew over the harbor and began to search for airdrops*, although this strangely shaped low-speed aircraft could only carry one 60 kg* and had no machine guns. However, with the help of darkness, the movement made by hovering in the air still caused a lot of psychological pressure on the defending troops. After all, in ordinary air raids, planes are whistling by, and this thing, which seems to be flying overhead all the time, buzzing like a fly, just doesn't get out of the way, which is a great distraction.

The Japanese sent rotary-wing planes to provide observation for the shelling of the covering destroyer fleet, but at this time, dawn had not yet come, so they could only stay over the combat zone, and the backseat pilots dropped some flares to support the landing force.

About 650 Japanese troops were the first to land on the coast, and the motor boats immediately returned to pick up the next group of Japanese troops. The three squadrons of Japanese troops began to advance with difficulty, and they were faced with an unusually stubborn picket corps that lacked heavy firepower. The Japanese tried to charge in one go, but they rushed several times and made little progress. They called for destroyer fire, but the destroyer did not dare to approach for fear of being ambushed by fire from the shore, and the Mikawa Army, which commanded this fleet, was hit by the 105 artillery group on the shore in the Malay Peninsula, and some were a little apprehensive. Long-range shooting has a very poor landing point due to the lack of correction. The two mortars of a fire group of the Japanese army ashore became a more effective weapon to suppress the Chinese army.

When the second group of Japanese troops arrived, the Japanese troops on the shore only advanced about 100 meters, but the casualties were as high as 50%, and the Japanese army occupied a crescent-shaped bridgehead. At this time, the sky is slightly bright. The Japanese destroyers realized that the Chinese troops on the shore did not have great firepower. Six destroyers, only then drove to the shore to implement close fire support. The Chinese army held on to the warehouses and the port authority building, but these support points were completely vulnerable to the destroyer's artillery.

With the support of six powerful Yangyan-class destroyers with a total of 36 127-mm cannons, the Japanese charged for the sixth time and were able to occupy the port facilities, while at the same time, the troops of the 203rd Division rushed to the vicinity of the port one after another, but encountered the target designation of the Japanese rotorcraft. The fire of the Japanese fleet hit the troop assembly very accurately. Japanese Army Airlines planes that had taken off from the Malay Peninsula also began to arrive in succession and participated in the air raids. For the Chinese army, the battle became very difficult.

Huang Tianyang had woken up from his drunken state at this moment, and he realized that he might have caused a catastrophe, and if he couldn't remedy it, the situation in the whole of Southeast Asia could take a sharp turn for the worse. He hurried to the front, intending to lead his men to rush once and try to drive the Japanese into the sea when the enemy situation was unknown. Or at least, ruin the port. But Chief Chu's telegram arrived just in time.

The telegram was rather strange and demanded that he immediately lead his troops back with his troops. He watched it three times, but he didn't understand what the commander meant, was he confused? Is this the same as abandoning the coast?

Of course, this was not an order given by Chu Ting in a daze, but through 419's full reconnaissance of this Japanese operation to conceal the sky and sea, as well as the conclusion reached after careful discussion between Lin Xiuxuan and Cheng Dayang, Huang Tianyang's troops lacked heavy weapons, and since the enemy had come ashore, he would definitely not be able to stand the port of Bangkok, so it was better to give the port * to the Japanese, withdraw the troops, and avoid the enemy's naval artillery fire. 419 observed the size of the enemy's flotilla and, roughly judging that the size of the Japanese army that could come ashore in the next three days would not exceed 2 divisions. Further reinforcement of troops required the return of the fleet to Singapore. The enemy thought that he could open up a new battlefield in the weak place behind Chu Tingchang, but all military adventures were double-edged swords, and now they divided their troops into pieces. The four main forces, the 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Divisions, were divided into different battlefields and could not support each other. Therefore, the best way to solve this situation may be to let the enemy come up, with the transportation capacity of the Japanese army, I believe that without causing trouble for them, they themselves will not be able to continue.

Chu Tingchang gave up the idea of annihilating the enemy on the beachhead, and he had to rely on Huang Tianyang and the rest of the youth divisions to fight with the oldest and most capable troops of the Japanese army.