At dawn, Japanese planes took off from Da Nang and rushed to the delta, and from the air, a large army was seen, marching southeast. There were no tanks in the ranks, mainly jeeps and trucks, and the trucks were loaded with huge pontoon equipment, so the pilots were sure that they had missed the striker, and the whole column must have been much larger than it seemed.

Zhou Youfu obtained a large number of American-made Willis jeeps by air, and then when he was besieged in the mountains at the foot of the mountain, Merrill's assault opened a land supply line for him, and the main force of his 202nd Division was able to form a large army with the troops arriving by air in the early days.

Due to the rugged and narrow roads, some areas could not travel on two lanes, and the U.S. military left most of the trucks behind. Zhou Youfu originally planned to use these trucks to launch an attack on Saigon, but now he has another purpose, which is to transport Lan Xiang's troops and American troops to the Mekong River to build a one-kilometer-long pontoon bridge. Of course, this was actually a backup plan, and his first plan was to seize the bridge built by the French in the lower Mekong.

Just as Terauchi Shouichi sighed when he was alive, Chu Tingchang's troops actually seized every bridge on the Thai-Burma Railway under his nose, which in his opinion is a miracle in military history. In fact, the seizure of bridges in enemy-occupied areas sounds incredible, but it is precisely because these bridges are behind enemy lines and the enemy's ambivalent mood that they are reluctant to blow up the bridges, which makes it possible.

Zhou Youfu is well versed in the way of seizing the bridge, which is nothing more than a surprise, the more far-reaching the bridge, the less likely the enemy is to prepare to blow up the bridge. His staff had made a plan within hours of receiving the order, still using the old method of taking bridges by tanks. Of course, due to insufficient intelligence gathering, there is no information other than the map provided by the British, including the state of the bridge garrison and whether it was installed*. Lao Zhou just wants to bet that the Japanese are unprepared, since Chu Tingchang's bag explains: to cut off the enemy's rear road. Then the enemy must not be ready.

Although the Japanese suffered repeated losses, but this time there was still no foresight to prepare, the bridge was still guarded by the French a few days ago, and a small group of Japanese troops was added two days ago, but it was not to bomb the bridge sappers, just to guard against Wang Bao's searchlight troops.

Zhou Youfu's detachment of light tanks and reconnaissance combat vehicles quickly rushed to the bridge, saw the defenders on the bridge from a distance, and opened fire without hesitation. The French commander decisively ordered a retreat. Most of their weapons were confiscated by the Japanese and used to arm Ngo Dinh Diem's team, and there was really no reason to participate in the battle. A small group of Japanese troops tried to take over the anti-aircraft guns at both ends of the bridge and block the tanks, but were quickly defeated. Zhou Youfu's troops, according to previous experience, suppressed the weak firepower, and then galloped across and successfully occupied the bridge.

Ten minutes after receiving a report from the air that the enemy suddenly turned around to himself, Yamashita learned that the bridge downstream had been captured, which meant that the worst had happened.

The 5th Division Engineer Wing, Captain Nagasawa is a sensible person, and after looking at the photos of the bridge, he suggested that using the cargo ship of the 4th Division to transport troops and loading it with * to hit the bridge pier may be a solution. Now that the 4th Division is blocked by tanks, and the boats are stopped on the west bank of the river and dare not move, it is just right to implement this plan.

Yamashita immediately sent Nagasawa to find the Osaka Division downstream to see if he could use those stranded ships to blow up the bridge at night. At the same time, army aviation was ordered to blow up the bridge at any cost.

His main force remained in Phnom Penh, and after missing the opportunity to escape, he decided to simply stay here, and the marshal of the temple was in a different place to fight in an ominous place, after all, there were still a large number of houses here that could be used as cover.

Chou Youfu received a telegram from Ho Chi Minh informing him that his troops had entered Saigon, suggesting that the Chinese army should go north directly and attack Hue without wasting time on the periphery of Saigon. Zhou Youfu originally had some guilt about Ho Chi Minh, but the Vietminh helped him a lot, and in the end his team did not say goodbye, but it seems that people really want their team to be as far away as possible. Based on his experience, the Japanese army would definitely counterattack, but it was difficult to judge whether it would be delayed for a few days, so he did not give Ho Chi Minh any advice.

More than 10,000 Vietminh guerrillas invaded Saigon, and did not encounter regular Japanese troops in the city, in fact, before they arrived, the French army and Ngo Dinh Diem's puppet army had already begun to exchange fire with each other, which made the superior Vietminh quickly retreat on both sides and seize most of the city of Saigon. However, the Viet Minh, who was preparing to completely exterminate Ngo Dinh Diem's puppet army, did not know that a Japanese naval corps departing from Taiwan's Zuoying was rapidly approaching and was already in the open sea at this moment.

If the drone finds something, it will at least warn the Vietminh through Tao Minh's headquarters, but the location of the 419 drone cannot collect enemy information in the South China Sea at present.

The U.S. submarine that stayed outside the port of Saigon was the first to spot the approach of the Japanese fleet. The submarine did not have time to pick up the secret service team of the Strategic Intelligence Service and quickly dived and slipped away. The telegram sent before leaving was intercepted by 419, and it became known that four troop transport steamers had reached the open sea under the cover of three small gunboats.

The three wrecked destroyers of the Japanese army easily dispersed about a company of Vietminh troops in the port of Saigon with naval guns, and the Viet Minh, who were celebrating their victory and driving the French prisoners through the streets for half a day, did not make any preparations at the port to prevent the landing, neither controlled the artillery positions nor left enough troops.

The agents of the Southern Authorities who remained in Saigon sent a telegram informing them that although Saigon was occupied, the port was not controlled. The Japanese troops at sea were also taken aback, so this Taiwanese Japanese troops, which numbered more than half of the troops, dared to change course at sea, gave up their original plan to land at Nha Trang, and sailed directly here.

The troop carrier was covered by the fire of three old destroyers of the second class with a displacement of only 900 tons, and docked directly to the berth, and the soldiers climbed down from the net ropes on the side of the ship and participated in the battle.

The Viet Minh forces had no experience in controlling the port city at all, and left the French artillery positions uncontrolled, and first forced the citizens to have a party in the urban area, completely unprepared for the Japanese to go ashore.

The carelessness of the guerrillas was bound to pay a price, and they were about to face a fierce attack by a group of Taiwanese Japanese troops who were anxious to show themselves in front of their masters.

About 2,000 Marines fearlessly pounced on an enemy who was 5 times their own. Before today, the Taiwanese army was rarely engaged in large-scale combat, and most of them worked in the rear as soldiers.

However, among the several strategies that Asano left before his death, including the extensive use of Taiwanese in combat, he clearly told the upper echelons that the Taiwanese were the most loyal dead soldiers of the emperor, and even many years after Japan's surrender, the Taiwanese still regarded Japan as their mother country, far less ungrateful than the Koreans, and could safely and boldly use them as cannon fodder and plunge into the most dangerous battlefields. Because his plan came from credible future information (Makino also confirmed it), the base camp did not dare to slack off, and began a large-scale recruitment of Taiwanese soldiers at the end of 42, and at this moment about 200,000 Taiwanese volunteers have joined the Japanese army. Some have been cut off by Chu Tingchang's fierce offensive and cannot be returned in Southeast Asia, and some have carried out law and order warfare in the north of the mainland. This Zuoying Naval Corps, which belonged to the Japanese Navy and was the size of a wing, knew that the imperial kingdom was in turmoil before setting off, and all of them were determined to die to meet Chu Tingchang. Of course, today, they were doomed to disappointment, and what they had in front of them was only a rabble, not the army of Commander Chu Ting.

At the same time, Chu Tingchang was departing from Cyprus for Egypt on the British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Tobruk.

It was not Lin Xiuxuan's idea to go to Cyprus from Palestine, but it was a kind invitation from the British, who left the chairman in Jerusalem, but the chief of the pavilion went to Cyprus. I want him to help plan the war of the European counteroffensive, and at the same time let him see the preparations for the forefront of the counteroffensive in Europe. After arriving on the island, he became a star in almost every part of the island, always surrounded by American and British journalists. A large number of Allied generals came to discuss strategy and tactics with them.

At first, Chief Chu Tingchang was about to express his opinion, but Lin Xiuxuan was the first to see the fame, which seemed to be the United States and Britain using him to interfere with the judgment of the German command, so that Germany misjudged that the British and American troops would attack Bulgaria or Greece. Otherwise, he would not have welcomed his arrival so noisily.

At the military conference, General Patton, who professed to admire him and came on purpose, said that if you control Cyprus, you can control Greece, and Greece is the best way to enter Europe. This is both a historical conclusion and a revelation from God.

Chu Tingchang didn't know if Barton was pretending to be confused or if he was also in the game, being used as a pawn for strategic deception. He bluntly said that based on his study of the stars last night, Italy and Germany would soon break with each other because of external forces, so he judged that the so-called external forces could not come from the Balkans, but could only be an attack on Sicily, and once the Allies landed in the Apennines, Italy would surrender. This is God's revelation.

Later, he said that the best way to conquer Europe was not to start from the mountainous Apennines and cross the Alps, but to attack directly into the flat terrain of France, as Edward III did, and to take the Siegfried line and enter the heart of Germany.

Montgomery immediately expressed his concern, believing that even if the French landed successfully, it would be extremely difficult to attack the Siegfried line, after all, the Germans had been preparing there for decades, and the German armored forces hiding behind Siegfried were extremely terrifying. He expects Chu Tingchang to perform divination and make some predictions about the European strategy in the next year or two.

At the request of everyone, Chu Tingchang hung up in public, and divined a mountain thunder hexagram that shook up and down, and the hexagram simply means that everything is intact under the thunder. He further explained that the essence of the German Panzer Corps and the fate of the Siegfried Line were in fact on the verge of collapse on the outside and on the inside. In other words, the German army was already on the verge of extinction, and the Erzig Line, which was linked to the fate of the Third Reich, was nothing more than a foreign power: it was overgrown with grass and cattle, so it was not worth mentioning at all.