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    The next morning, Zhu Binhou returned to the navigation bridge and saw Deng Haoqian, who had stayed up late waiting for news, holding a steamed bun in one hand and a teacup in the other, eating and drinking.  The aviation staff standing nearby was holding photos of the damage taken by the carrier-based aircraft in the morning, studying which areas still needed to be bombed.

    Seeing him come in, the two of them reported the situation last night and this morning together.  There are not many battle reports. From the reconnaissance photos, Port Blair and the surrounding three kilometers have been basically bombed repeatedly by attack aircraft, and minesweepers have also begun to clear the landing channel.  Only the Japanese and Indian remaining fleets that worried Zhu Binhou the most were still missing. This meant that in the first few days when the troops landed and expanded the landing area, the fleet had to keep one eye open at all times.

    "Will he escape back to Malaya?" Deng Haoqian couldn't figure it out either.

    "Forget it, it will come out sooner or later. The ships will continue to search, increase the number of reconnaissance aircraft, and let the marine commandos set off. Don't delay the landing time." After listening to the report, Zhu Binhou still didn't want to wait.  Because the main landing fleet can arrive in the evening, the generally slow landing ships and merchant ships cannot be allowed to spend the night in the Andaman Sea where the threat has not been eliminated. Therefore, Port Blair must be seized as soon as possible and the soldiers can spend the night ashore.

    "Get in the car, get in the car! Let's go." Shortly after the order was issued, the 12 landing ships that arrived from Addu Atoll last night became busy first.  Private First Class Cui Shizhuang of the 5th Marine Division rolled over and got into the "Otter" amphibious armored vehicle.  This amphibious armored vehicle, which looks like a DUKW, can transport an infantry squad or 2 tons of supplies at a time, and can also sail in severe weather with wind speeds of 110 kilometers.  It was very popular with the Marine Corps, so the factory also modified many models equipped with 105mm howitzers and mortars.

    Because Andaman Island is covered with the densest, most primitive and most dangerous tropical rainforest in the world.  There are swarms of snakes in the canyons and mountains, and it is impossible to confirm whether there are hidden heavy artillery by aerial reconnaissance alone. Therefore, the first batch of commandos to land cannot enjoy the treatment of landing ships directly rushing to the beach.  Since the "Otter" needed to sail for 15 minutes from leaving the ship to landing, he was a little nervous. He repeatedly checked the H38 semi-automatic sniper rifle in his hand. It was not until the squad leader patted the helmet during roll call that he realized that everyone had already boarded the vehicle.  .

    The sergeant squad leader is sitting on the left side of the rear door of the carriage.  He is a veteran transferred from the 1st Marine Division. He has an eccentric temperament and is taciturn. He has participated in the battles of Guam, the southern expedition to Wake Island and the Marshall Islands, and has rich experience.  The strange thing is that he is actually from Gansu.  It¡¯s hard to imagine that a northwester would actually join the Marine Corps and have better water skills than the coastal soldiers.

    Liu, the deputy squad leader, is sitting on the right side of the car door.  He is a tall and tall Shandong native, cheerful and laughing, and is the firepower of the class.  I heard from him that his family was a butcher of pigs, and he had no shortage of meat since he was a child, so he grew stronger than others.  He was also the only one in the class who carried two guns, shotguns and grenades. Everyone called him Double Gun Boss Liu.  Machine gunner Xiao Liu sat next to him.  The son of a Guangdong fisherman, although he is as skinny as a monkey, he is stronger than the elder Liu. He just likes to act cool and is now wearing two 150-round ammunition belts.  Even if you act like a warrior, you won't be too tired to panic.

    The deputy machine gunner and demolition hand is called Xiao Meng.  Yangzhou people are typically the children of wealthy families. Their ancestors were salt merchants and their families have a lot of wealth.  After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the president made the salt industry state-owned. Yangzhou salt merchants lost their livelihood. In addition, the subsequent Land Act restricted land sales and ownership, and many salt merchants were forced to take the industrial and commercial road.  The same goes for Xiao Meng's family. Fortunately, his father had some insight. He joined the National Socialist Party early and relied on his connections within the party to start a construction company. The tallest 23-story Suyang Hotel in Yangzhou was built by his family.  Because his eldest brother is the breadwinner of the family and his second brother is a teacher, and the wartime draft prohibits recruitment of teachers and students, his father kicked him into the army, under the pretense of training him.  It's a pity that this boy is a disaster!  When he was stationed in Addu Atoll a few days ago, he said that he had eaten everything but raw shark fins, so he carried a lot of grenades and Xiao Liu to hunt sharks.  The shark was dragged back, but the two of them were kicked into the confinement room by the company commander, and the raw shark fins were divided up by everyone. When they came out, only a pile of fish bones were left.

    Sitting on the left and right sides of him are Chen Mazi and Huang Laosi. They are both famous for their bad mouths and they are not stopping now.  Away from him, he was talking in dialect that no one could understand. The squad leader said that these two scourges would be killed by Japanese snipers sooner or later because of their mouths.  The pretty pretty boy sitting in the corner holding a mirror is called Qu Yan. He used to be a third-rate actor in Shanghai, and he acted in several movies by strangers.  He said that he joined the army to make a war movie that would be passed down in the future, but in the eyes of Cui Shizhuang and everyone else, the only reason he could join the Marine Corps was that he could speak fluent Japanese, because once he put on a Japanese  After wearing the military uniform, he actually looks more Japanese than a Japanese!

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

    "Sit tight! It's time to open the cabin!" the driver reminded from the front.

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

    After leaving the landing ship, there was a spectacular war scene. The 12 Tianshan-class tank landing ships were like sea monsters with their mouths open, spitting out hundreds of amphibious armored vehicles from their mouths.  On both sides of the hull, densely packed infantrymen slid down the rope ladder to the small personnel landing craft below.  In the distance, dozens of war hawks circled back and forth over the island. Four battleships and four heavy cruisers on the sea continued to spray rumbling artillery fire deep into the island. Six territorial sea-class frigates protected the left and right wings, and there were three more at the front.  A shallow-water heavy gunboat flying the Vietnamese flag was clearing the way.

    These three shallow-water heavy artillery ships were originally the Thai Navy's "Thonburi", "Sokthai Dynasty" and "Ratna Kosin City". After they were captured by the navy in the Battle of Ca Mau Point, they were used as gifts for the founding of the country.  Sent to the Vietnamese Navy.  Originally, the Navy did not want to bring such a burden, but the Vietnamese government was very active in joining the Asian allies and offered to let them participate in the war.  The Political Department had to stuff them into the Third Fleet for some reason.  Rushing through the Sunda Strait controlled by Japan with the "Anhai" formation.  After rushing out of the strait, considering that the speed of the third ship was very slow.  They had no choice but to let them and 6 territorial sea-class frigates go to Addu Atoll first, and then join the main force to go south to Andaman.

    ¡°If the Japanese navy had not been basically finished and was no longer able to block the strait and intercept the "Anhai" formation with 4 battleships and 2 aircraft carriers, I am afraid they would have been sunk dozens of times.  "Shelling!" As soon as she saw the outline of the harbor, an explosion sounded from the left.  "Boom, boom, boom" As the squad leader shouted, more and more shells fell between the tanks.  This kind of bombardment is not surprising to everyone. Port Blair is relatively empty except for the two kilometers near the sea.  The rest is all dense rainforest. Even with the most powerful bombs of the air force, it is impossible to completely clear out the hidden enemies.

    Attack aircraft and maritime artillery formations responded immediately, and the escort ships also used artillery to sweep the rainforest.  But Cui Shizhuang always had a bad feeling, because no matter how hard the attack planes and battleships bombed, the number of falling Japanese shells still did not decrease.  The armored vehicle was driving at full speed, and when it was about to land, the machine gun on the top of the vehicle fired.  As the soldier with the best eyesight in the squad.  Cui Shizhuang immediately looked in the direction of the machine gun muzzle.  But no matter how hard he searched, there was no one there except for the blinding green.  "Stop looking blindly. These guys have trouble shooting a bird. It's a waste of bullets." Chen Mazi stretched out his hand.  He started talking bad words about the vehicle-mounted machine gunner again.

    Cui Shizhuang¡¯s mouth cracked open, because he was so nervous that he looked ugly even if he cried while smiling.  But no one is laughing at him now, even the monitor is taking deep breaths with a solemn look on his face.  "Boom!" Just as the armored vehicle climbed up the beach and drove deeper, an "Otter" following behind was hit by a shell.  As an open-top amphibious armored vehicle.  The shells landed on the car without any hindrance, and the entire car burst into flames.  No one escaped.

    The explosions and fires so close at hand made Cui Shizhuang and his comrades feel the cruelty of war for the first time.

    The Japanese artillery fire became more and more intensive, and armored vehicles and landing craft were constantly hit and set on fire. Although the three Vietnamese shallow-water heavy artillery ships and six frigates used all their firepower, they still could not completely eliminate these invisible enemies.  Looking out from the armored plate of the carriage, we can see that the entire harbor has been destroyed by naval heavy artillery, and there are Japanese soldiers and corpses with indistinguishable faces everywhere.  The houses were turned into charcoal and there were huge craters, so the armored vehicles needed to be extra careful.

    Since the harbor was completely destroyed, the company commander did not let everyone get out of the car. Instead, he continued to sit in the "Otter" and followed the amphibious tank towards the edge of the rainforest.  Just as the armored vehicle was about to enter the rainforest, countless bullets were suddenly sprayed into the rainforest that had been silent just now. The armored vehicle seemed to be driving into a heavy rain, and there were creepy clanging sounds in all directions.  "Boom!" With an explosion, the "Otter" Cui Shizhuang was riding in suddenly shook. Before he knew it, a fire broke out in the cab.  "Get out of the car! Get out of the car quickly! Pay attention to concealment, be careful of snipers!" The squad leader immediately jumped out of the car and loudly reminded everyone to pay attention to concealment.  Cui Shizhuang was the second to last person to jump out of the vehicle. When he got off, he discovered that a hole had been blasted in the front of the armored vehicle. It appeared that it had been hit by a 37mm anti-tank gun.  The driver's cab door was missing in the explosion, half of the driver and machine gunner's bodies were hanging down and dead, and the co-pilot's thigh was also bloody.

    Cui Shizhuang hurried over to help, and after much effort, he and Old Liu dragged him to the back of the car. They also planted an eye-catching red cross pennant next to him to remind the medical soldiers behind that there were wounded people here.  .  "Good job, be careful, run, run, run!" After the elder Liu praised him, he stopped him behind his body, carefully waited for the Japanese machine gun to stop, and then grabbed him and ran towards the squad leader's position.  The chirping bullets and fire all stimulated the rapid secretion of adrenaline.  Wait until the two of them arrive at the bunker where Ban is located, the 2-kilometer-wide landing area was already filled with dense rain of bullets shuttling back and forth.  There were shouts, explosions, and cries everywhere, and exposed comrades were constantly being killed by bullets, with limbs and blood splashing in the explosions.

    "Don't be stunned! Find the enemy!" The squad leader kicked Cui Shizhuang, hoping to use his sniper eyes to find the location of the Japanese army.  But the problem is that Cui Shizhuang, who has good eyesight, cannot see through the situation in the rainforest, even from 30 meters away!  "I can't see it, monitor! I can't see it, it's all trees!"

    "Made! Old Liu, come and run, everyone, pay attention to the muzzle flash." The squad leader gritted his teeth and simply used running to attract the enemy's firepower and automatically expose himself.

    Later, everyone found out that actually the monitor¡¯s method didn¡¯t work very well.  Because the muzzle flash of Sanba Dagai is very small in this primitive rain forest.  You can't see it from 20 to 30 meters away.  However, the elder Liu didn't complain. He pulled the bolt and rushed out to the left.  Fortunately, after running a few steps, Cui Shizhuang identified the position of a crooked handle: "2 o'clock! A crooked handle, about 70 meters away!"

    "Mortar! 2 o'clock, 70 meters coverage!" The squad leader raised his thumb at him, turned around and called for 60mm mortar support from behind.  "Boom, boom, boom." A series of shells rushed over quickly, muting the crooked machine gun.

    soon.  Three "Sea Serpent" amphibious tanks caught up from behind, taking the position of the "Otter" and continuing to protect the infantry as they rushed in.  When the tank approached, Cui Shizhuang and Huang Laosi immediately ran over and tried to hide behind it, but they still failed this time.  Because the two of them had just run halfway out, a more violent explosion sounded in front, and the hot shock wave knocked them both to the ground.  "Fourth! Xiao Cui!" The squad leader and Xiao Meng shouted and dragged them back to the bunker.  Huang Laosi's face was cut by shrapnel and was covered in blood.  Cui Shizhuang's ribs were scratched by stones, but fortunately it was not serious and he could continue fighting.

    "Heavy artillery!" When he took a deep breath and picked up the sniper rifle again, another "Civet Cat" was destroyed by a shell suddenly shot from the rain forest, and even the ammunition was detonated.  Judging from the power, it is at least a 105mm cannon.

    There is no doubt that this is an asymmetrical bloody battle.  Because the Japanese troops hiding in the rainforest could have an unobstructed view of the open harbor.  But the Marines couldn't see through the dense rainforest at all, so they could only fire at suspicious locations indiscriminately.  What¡¯s worse is that more than 90% of the entire 6,000 square kilometers of the Andaman Islands is this kind of primitive rainforest!

    "First row, go to the left, second row! Protect first row. Third row" In order to find the heavy artillery and Japanese positions, the company commander ordered everyone to sneak into the rain forest in a roundabout way.

    Cui Shizhuang followed the squad leader and comrades.  We detoured southward and entered the rainforest.  He couldn't describe the scene around him. He only knew that this was a primeval forest where even sunlight could not penetrate. There were branches and vines everywhere, intertwined and intertwined. The wet surface was also covered with dead branches and leaves, and there were many unknown things.  The famous centipede crawls around.  "There, I saw it!" Shortly after entering the rainforest, Chen Mazi was the first to see something like a gun barrel.  He immediately jumped up, threw out a grenade for cover, and rushed towards the "gun position".  But when he pushed aside the branches, he suddenly disappeared in front of everyone, and then there was a scream that penetrated the spine!  "Mazi! Mazi!" Old Liu rushed over and realized that Chen Mazi had fallen into a trap.  The bottom of the trap four to five meters deep was filled with sharp wooden stakes. Chen Mazi's body had been penetrated by the wooden stakes, and the bloody tips were exposed from his back, and his body was still twisting.  "Fuck you! It's a fake! A piece of rotten wood!" At this time, Qu Yan had already seen clearly that the "cannon" that killed Chen Mazi was a false target built with wood and camouflage nets.

    "Baga! Little Japan, you have the guts!" Qu Yan, who loves smug beauty, fainted and vented his anger loudly in Japanese, and finally kicked the fake cannon down.  But this kick alarmed a venomous snake entrenched at the tail of the "cannon barrel". Before he could react, the spotted snake jumped up from the "cannon barrel" and bit him hard on the cheek.  "Poisonous snake, it's a poisonous snake! Hold him down!" After the squad leader saw the pattern of the poisonous snake clearly, he was so frightened that he quickly pushed him to the ground, picked up a dagger without any explanation and cut off the carrion on his face.

    Cui Shizhuang and everyone were also shocked. Seeing Qu Yan fainting with blood and pain, his heart was sore because his dream of becoming a big star would never come true again.

    The second squad who followed quickly came up and burned the poisonous snakes and "fake cannons" with flamethrowers, and then everyone searched forward again.  This time, they finally did not move to the wrong position. A 105mm cannon and a large group of Japanese soldiers slowly emerged from the depths of the rain forest.  "Be careful!" But the Japanese sentry discovered the search team in time, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers rushed toward everyone.  Machine gunner Xiao Liu and the machine guns of the second squadron fired fiercely together and managed to suppress them.

    The brutal battle has exceeded the imagination of many veterans. Because the distance between the enemy and ourselves is too close, the naval aviation cannot use high-power bombs and napalm bombs, and can only circle in the sky.  The navy was also extremely anxious, and one frigate captain evenIgnoring the danger of stranding, he rushed into the shallow sea and swept the rainforest with 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 25mm rapid-fire cannons. In the end, he even ordered all the hedgehog bombs that were supposed to be used for anti-submarine warfare to be fired deep into the rainforest.  Some other captains also removed their 12.7mm heavy machine guns and mounted them on traffic boats to shoot on the beach. In the end, even the tanks and infantry flamethrowers ran out of fuel.  But even after exhausting all means, the stubborn and cunning Japanese army could not be driven out of the rainforest.  On the contrary, after absorbing the combat experience in Ryukyu and other places, Tada Shun has strictly prohibited the troops stationed on the island from easily launching the easily exposed "onboard pig surprise".  It relies entirely on the rainforest to offset the firepower advantage of the Wehrmacht.

    An entire amphibious armored assault regiment and an infantry regiment were all suppressed in the harbor and unable to advance in depth.  The entire landing site was filled with debris, flames and corpses. The creek flowing out of the rainforest was also dyed red with blood. When it passed by Cui Shizhuang, one could clearly see the intestines and human body fragments flowing down the water. The blood poured into the sea and mixed with it.  The floating corpses of his Marine comrades were mixed together, as terrifying as Asura's sea of ??blood hell.

    The anxious battle continued into the afternoon, but the Marine Regiment still made no progress.  Instead, the Japanese army used crude mines and explosives to destroy many armored vehicles.  Looking at the possibility of spending a dangerous night on the beach, the main landing force from Calcutta finally arrived.

    Since the Port Blair landing area is very narrow, only four landing ships can be guaranteed to reach the beach at a time. Therefore, after discussing with Li Zongren, Zhu Binhou decided to let the armored battalion and an infantry regiment of the 166th Infantry Division go ashore first, strengthen firepower to sweep the surrounding rainforest, and open the  The gap is too large to allow the main force to move up.

    4 landing ships accelerated and rushed onto the shoal.  The rapid-fire artillery on the deck also joined the battle. Under the cover of the artillery, the 166th Division Armored Battalion and Infantry Regiment quickly rushed out of the cabin and moved closer to the Marines.  "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" The company that persisted for 4 hours finally waited for reinforcements. Two quadruple 12.7mm half-track anti-aircraft vehicles took the lead in knocking open the trees and rushed up from behind.

    The Japanese army also saw these two extremely threatening anti-aircraft vehicles.  The chirping clamored to turn the cannon.  Fortunately, the Japanese army did not have powerful heavy machine guns, and the cannons turned very slowly, so the anti-aircraft vehicles aimed their guns at the position before them.  "Fight! Fight quickly! Let them have a taste of the power!" Xiao Liu, the machine gunner with red eyes, kept shouting and stopped after being kicked over by the squad leader.

    "Dong dong, dong dong, dong dong" The half-track anti-aircraft vehicle opened fire.

    The anti-aircraft version of the quad-mounted 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 fighting infantry is perfect.  Eight heavy machine guns fired fiercely, and the torrential bullets quickly cut off all the branches, leaves and vines that blocked the view.  Not even a big tree as thick as a bowl can stop it.  When all the ammunition boxes were emptied, Cui Shizhuang discovered 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, there was a position guarded by a Japanese brigade and a 105mm cannon. It was so quiet that no one could be seen moving.

    Four Type 25C "Civet Cat" tanks rushed forward and began to clear out the remaining enemies. Some remaining Japanese troops were still very stubborn and tried to blow up the tanks with explosive bags and blasting tubes.  But Army tanks are not those "thin-skinned big stuff" of the Marine Corps. Two 70mm low-pressure infantry cannons and a juxtaposed 25mm machine gun quickly wiped out the entire position.

    Half an hour later, the company finally occupied this position.  When Cui Shizhuang rushed up to see the scene around him clearly, he almost spat out.  It¡¯s so miserable!  None of the corpses hit by 12.7mm bullets were intact, and the severed limbs and limbs were still light. Many were broken at the waist level, or their heads exploded like watermelon pulp, and the fishy smell could be heard hundreds of meters away.  Can smell it.

    "Keep going!" the company commander shouted.  A mere brigade is far from the 50,000 Japanese troops mentioned in the intelligence, so everyone must continue to search deep into the rainforest to expand the defense circle.  Cui Shizhuang followed the team silently, feeling as if a big stone was weighing on his heart.  In just one kilometer of primeval rainforest, Huang Laosi and Qu Yan were injured, and Chen Mazi was stabbed to death by a sharp stake in the trap!  Such bloodshed has exceeded his and everyone's expectations.

    "Don't think too much." Old Liu and the squad leader came over and patted his shoulders to comfort him: "We still need to rely on your sniper rifle to kill the idiots and avenge Chen Mazi."

    "Yeah!" Cui Shizhuang nodded.  But he didn¡¯t expect that this time ¡°moving on¡± would take a full 11 months!  17,000 Allied soldiers either died in battle, died of illness, or were bitten by poisonous insects and died in this primitive jungle.  Among them, there were 7,737 members of the National Defense Forces alone, and more than 30,000 people were injured to varying degrees.  Only 5 of the 12 people in Cui Shizhuang's class walked out of the rainforest

    Although Port Blair, as a transit station and forward airport, was put into use half a month later, the sound of gunfire in Andaman continued until the end of 42 years before gradually disappearing.  And the last Japanese soldier to walk out of the primeval rainforest of Andaman was 17 years later!  According to the strength of a single battlefieldComparing the number of deliveries and casualties, the Battle of Andaman was the bloodiest and cruelest battlefield in Asia, bar none!

    The loss of several brigades did not cause much harm to Shun Tada and the remaining Japanese troops in India, who had already prepared to die. As the Allied forces advanced deeper into the rainforest, the battle became more and more cruel.  , getting more and more bloody!

    Knowing that the battle on the island was particularly unsatisfactory, Zhu Binhou and Li Zongren also became anxious.  Especially the former, because the Kimura fleet could never be found, it was even more troublesome.  "Commander, urgent report from Calcutta! The Soviet and Indian troops have begun a large-scale attack on our defense line." At this time, the staff officer brought bad news about India.  Chuikov seized the good opportunity and dispatched more than a dozen divisions in one fell swoop to begin an all-out attack on the Indian Allied occupied areas.

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

    "Don't worry, I have made arrangements when I came out, but here" Li Zongren had already expected Cuikov's attack, but the bloody battle on the island in front of him surprised him. He turned to look at Zhu Binhou: "Let us go up  Island, or drifting on the sea all night?¡±

    According to intelligence, the Kimura fleet is a fast destroyer, generally equipped with oxygen torpedoes, and has several ocean-going submarines.  You know, the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean are not the East China Sea, let alone the Pacific Ocean. They are notoriously dangerous seas, with strong winds and waves making navigation difficult.  Once the Japanese ships launched a night attack, the slow merchant ships and landing ships would not be able to escape at all.  Therefore, no matter how bold Zhu Binhou was, he did not dare to take the risk of letting five or six army divisions float on the sea. After going to the chart and reading it several times, he made a decision: "Order all ships not to stop searching until the Japanese fleet is discovered!  The battleships are approaching me and are ready to maneuver overnight. The cruisers take over the fire support task. The remaining destroyers and frigates defend the perimeter of Port Blair. We must send the main force 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 Masafuku was watching a reconnaissance plane slowly disappear into the sunset.

    In fact, he never left the Andaman. After entering the harbor the day before yesterday, he led his fleet to drill into the Indian Ocean through the straits before South Andaman Island and Middle Andaman Island, and then turned around and sailed north into the volcanic atoll on the west side of North Andaman Island.  .  The water patterns here are very complex, and there are many invisible reefs underwater, making it impossible for submarines to enter.  There are also several peaks and rift valleys along the coast, and the forests are also very lush.  The hidden canyon he chose is even more peculiar. The narrow canyon extends 400 meters into the island, with an average width of only 10 meters and a water depth of 7 meters. It can fit a small fleet into it.  The cliffs on both sides are covered with tropical trees and vines, and the huge tree crowns extend towards the middle of the rift valley, blocking the reconnaissance plane's view.  This is a hidden spot that he carefully selected after spending a year inspecting the entire island. To ensure safety, he went to the sky and sea to check it carefully many times.  Judging from the inspection, unless you are someone like him who has conducted field investigations for a long time, it is difficult to see the full picture of the rift valley from the air and the sea.

    It was precisely because of this extremely hidden rift that his fleet was able to avoid the destroyers and reconnaissance aircraft searching outside.  "General, this is a telegram from General Tada Shun. The army has dragged the Chinese within five kilometers of the harbor. He asked us to carry out a night attack tonight and bombard the main force of the Chinese army!" After the reconnaissance plane left, the staff officer also brought Tada.  Jun's telegram.

    "Night shelling? Okay, let's try our luck then." Kimura looked at his staff, without even extending his hand, and his tone was so calm that it didn't sound 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 towards Port Blair
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