Captain Ota, who was in command in the air, keenly observed the situation and found that the time had come to eliminate the advantages of one or the other, but most of the ammunition and fuel for most of the planes in the air had been exhausted, and the enemy's aircraft carrier, the Dreadnought, was hit by a *, and still completed the recovery of the planes last night, and the fighters could be lifted into the air immediately. Knowing that the precision weapons were too powerful to prevent the carrier from taking off, he enlisted volunteers in the air to launch a suicide attack on the enemy's last intact aircraft carrier to ensure the destruction of the runway. He assured his subordinates that he would continue to command from the air, but would not leave the battlefield alive.

Immediately, four Zero fighters launched a suicide attack on the aircraft carrier of the Dreadnought fleet to compensate for the lack of dive bombers in the Japanese army.

One of them crossed the fire net and hit the elevator to detonate a Skua plane with a bomb, and the other hit the middle of the deck, igniting the fuel. Although the British aircraft carrier used the armored deck, and the two attacks did not cause fatal damage, these two attacks damaged the take-off deck and made the British lose the ability to take off and land.

Somerville was forced to give the order to retreat, he knew that the tide was over, it was time to stop the loss, he realized that he was too close to land, and the aircraft carrier was unfortunately attacked continuously, and many air fighters had to leave the battlefield and fly to land in the Allied control area in southern Burma after running out of fuel.

It was a decisive battle in which technology, skill, and courage played a decisive role at the same time, and the Japanese had a slight upper hand on all three fronts, so that the war situation quickly developed on the side of the weaker Japanese army.

The battleship "War-Wey" was besieged by Japanese planes and destroyers, and its speed continued to decline, and it was no longer able to break free from the battle, but it still used eight intimidating 381 mm guns to block the Japanese fleet and cover the evacuation of the rest of the ships. With the passage of time, 8 destroyers of the second echelon of the Japanese army rushed to the battlefield under the leadership of the "Natori" light cruiser to fill the weakness in combat power.

By noon, there were no British fighters over the battlefield, and more than half of the 70 fighters that Onishi had put into the attack were lost, and a total of 6 planes launched suicide attacks, and all the guided weapons were thrown out, and none was left.

After the warweariness was hit in succession, the hull began to tilt. The Japanese army began to use this direction to launch * attacks. After being hit by several aviation *, the inclination intensified further, and finally the destroyer Taitokaze was sent to the bottom of the sea with a salvo of heavy * at a distance of 2 km.

Captain Ota, who commanded this air attack, did not choose to land at the nearest Andaman Islands airport when the outcome of the battle was decided, but fulfilled his promise and chose to use his command plane to ram the British No. 2 ship, the cruiser Belfast.

Command of the Fifth Army of Thailand.

After seeing off Tao Mingzhang and Lin Xiuxuan, Chu Tingchang received a telegram from Stilwell, who informed the British that they had messed up at sea, and that the most powerful navy in the Indian Ocean had been reduced to a less powerful navy a few hours earlier. According to preliminary statistics, one battleship and two aircraft carriers, as well as several destroyers, were sunk, and the rest were being withdrawn to Calcutta in the East Indies. The fleet threw 2,000 elite British troops on several major islands in the Andaman Islands, and the battle on the islands ended in a British victory, capturing more than 100 engineering units formed by Koreans. However, the future of these troops was uncertain, and they had to take control of the airfield first, and rescue the Japanese reinforcements back to the East Indies with a transport class before they landed.

Of course, Stilwell's greatest fear was that the Japanese army would inevitably quickly rescue the Burmese Front at Sakagaki in Yangon and possibly land on the Malay Peninsula, so he hoped that Chu Tingchang would make a plan early and suspend the offensive against Thailand and Vietnam, and give priority to the defense of the Malay Peninsula, because as far as he knew, the Japanese army had the ability to counterattack immediately from a crushing defeat. In addition, he had intelligence that the Southern Army would be supported by new troops.

Chief Chu Tingchang lamented that Stilwell did have some foresight this morning, and after the defeat of the British army at sea, he foresaw that the enemy would transfer Rangoon's forces to the Malay Peninsula. However, such a reminder was of little value to him, he had long expected the defeat of the British, and had already begun to prepare.

He was going to let Tao Mingzhang command three divisions to build a strong defense in the narrowest area of the Malay Peninsula, and in order to implement this plan safely, he sent Team Leader Lin and Qin Xiaosu to follow Tao Mingzhang's team, so as to facilitate the use of 419's reconnaissance force.

Now, what he has to do is to take advantage of the fact that all the forces of the Southern Army are scattered in various battlefields from Nanyang to Australia, and have a good meeting with the Earl of the Temple. Now standing between him and Terauchi Shouichi is only one 4th Division and 6 brigades. He didn't care about the naval defeat of the British, in fact, if the British had won, they would have mixed feelings and more constraints on his plan.

He now relied on only two things, one was the recruits that Xiong Xianghui had been constantly training from, and the other was the supplies that Stilwell had been constantly providing from him. Within three days, the railway from Sittwe all the way to the River Kwai had been largely completed, and the supplies to him had reached Mandalay, where he could come over after the final reinforcement of several captured railway bridges. But he was already impatient, because the 58th Division of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army in Guangxi was already assembling, and the vanguard may have entered Vietnam. He didn't want to wait any longer to give the commander of the light pole, Shouichi Terauchi, time to gather his forces.

There are people who are more anxious than Chu Tingchang.

Deputy Division Commander Huang Tianyang sent several telegrams a day, asking his 203rd Division to take the lead in the attack, and Huang said in the telegram that he had an uncle who had a lot of forces around Bangkok, and that he could be regarded as an internal response. Obviously, it was a surprise that he had such connections. For more than 100 years, the Huang family has been mixing black and white in the southeast, which he has heard, and Sun Wen raised funds in Nanyang in the early years, and the whole process was supported by their family connections.

Since Huang Tianyang is so willing to fight, then let him move first. Chu Tingchang immediately ordered Huang Tian's Yang to sacrifice Guan Yu and the fallen soldiers tomorrow morning, and the day after tomorrow, the whole army marched towards Bangkok.

In addition, Zhou Youfu was sent to follow closely and join Huang Tianyang near Bangkok. Of course, he also sent a telegram to the Americans informing them of the enemy situation in the Malay Peninsula and that he had made arrangements to make appropriate use of the narrow area of Chumphon Province in Thailand to establish a solid defense, without any fuss.

At the same time, No. 419 left Mengjiawan and prepared to cross Malacca and return to the Pacific Ocean.

Before the enemy completes the new deployment, it will not pose a big threat to Chu Tingchang's troops, so 419 has to hurry up and enter the Gulf of Siam, so that it can provide reconnaissance support for Lin Xiuxuan and Chu Tingchang in both directions at the same time. In addition, Shu Ping judged that Makino may be near the Phetchaburi Airport in Thailand, collecting information on the combat of new weapons, so entering the Gulf of Siam is conducive to finding this old enemy.

The headquarters of the Southern Army in Da Lat, Vietnam, Terauchi Shouyi is in a hurry. He summoned the new commander of the 4th Division, Hosokawa Shimichi, and asked him about his experience with Chu Tingchang, including the powerful artillery bombardment he encountered in Burma, and the characteristics of Chu Tingchang's use of reconnaissance troops.

When Zhou Youfu's army conquered Leigu, Hosokawa was nearby, and he talked about Chu Tingchang's use of troops, and the most profound image was the depth of the hidden purpose, and there was no possibility of insight before the last moment. Lieutenant General Hosokawa said that it was not until the entire army was expelled from the fortress that it was discovered that the enemy's intentions were Ohashi.

As for the second image of Chu Tingchang's use of troops, it is that the preparation in advance is very targeted, for example, before he attacked the fortification, he had already prepared heavy mortar artillery to deal with more than a dozen forts in fortification.

Hosokawa commented that among all the Chinese soldiers he had fought with, only Chu Tingchang was unpredictable, and the various intentions of the rest of the Chinese generals were usually easy to see through.

Hosokawa's argument was shared by Terauchi, who had been dealing with the Chinese army for so many years, and was cautious at first, but after 1938, he began to despise the Chinese army. From the perspective of senior officers, the Chinese army rarely understands how to coordinate the attack, and in defense, most of them are rigidly defended at the cost of the lives of low-level soldiers, and there is no new idea at all. When he was a teenager, he watched all kinds of whimsical tactics in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but later found out that most of them were bragging. He studied the regular warfare tactics of the Chinese army since the Ming and Qing dynasties, but it was effective to fight a dumb battle. No matter what was the case with the Manchurian Army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the same with the Taiping Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, or the same with the Nationalist Army's attack on the Chinese Communist Army, China's soldiers were already in the twilight and could not come up with an effective offensive strategy for hundreds of years, and only the irregular warfare of the Chinese Communists could effectively fight the Japanese army.

It wasn't until the appearance of the demon Chu Tingchang that the situation changed, he was the first general who could fight in regular warfare, his infantry, artillery and armored troops, the coordination was excellent, and there were a lot of ghost ideas in command, it seems that the future China has finally come out of the twilight of hundreds of years.

At the end of last year, he was originally going to move to Singapore, but the appearance of Chu Tingchang disrupted all plans, and now moving to Singapore is obviously out of place, and politically, it will cause serious problems. Those servant states are staring at each other, if the Southern Army Command retreats, it will obviously be seen as a sign of weakness in the empire, maybe Thailand will consider riding the wall again, he knows that the Thai royal family hiding in Europe may return at any time, and the domestic government will be happy to welcome back the royal family and find a step down.

"It looks like there is only one person who can save the situation......"

He had already thought about it, and immediately sent Hosokawa back to the troops, prepared for defense, and then sat down and signed a bunch of withering orders, appointing Lieutenant General Inoue Sadae to take over the command of Australia, and then transferring Yamashita Fumimi back.

He hoped that the Malay Tiger would be able to suppress Chu Tingchang's momentum, but unfortunately it was not enough to just go down the mountain, and the troops here were still very weak. The base camp could only be asked to transfer troops from China, and the Chinese dispatch army was preparing to attack Guilin, but it could only temporarily delay the attack there.