At dusk, the Japanese transport fleet arrived at Jinou Bay. Under the command of Colonel Nasu Yoshio, the 56th infantry revoltage first began to attack the coast. ~ The landing craft full of Japanese officers and soldiers was hung from the transport ship to the sea, and then attacked side by side towards the coast. However, unexpectedly, they were soon attacked by the German army hidden in the forests along the coast.

The Japanese army made no mistakes in intelligence work before. The German army did not send defensive troops in Camón Bay, but after the Japanese landed on the Maya Peninsula, the commander of the German Far East Army in Annan, General Johannes Braskowitz, foreshadowed that the Japanese army might land in Annan, and ordered the 3rd Division of the Far East Army stationed in Camón to send defensive troops to Camón Bay and build coastal fortifications.

The 341st Regiment immediately operated to Jinou Bay. Colonel Borgman completed the task assigned by Brigadier General Hogel very well. In less than twenty days, he built a more than 20 kilometers long at Nangen Port on the coast of Jinou Bay, and built many fortifications fortifications for bunkers. At the same time, a division artillery battalion sent to support him was placed in a hidden area behind the position.

The Japanese army did not realize that the German army had built a strict coastal fortification on the Nangen coast. The dense tropical jungle along the coast of Jinou Bay provided excellent concealment for the German army. When the first Japanese troops landed near the coast, suddenly, rumbling cannons sounded, and artillery shells fired from positions in the woods crossed the sky and landed on the sea surface around the Japanese landing craft like a storm. In an instant, a landing craft was destroyed, and most of the Japanese troops on the boat were killed.

Under the fierce artillery fire, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties.

The landing craft of the 1st brigade led by Major Takao Sui rushed to the front. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately ordered the officers and soldiers to jump into the sea and swim forcibly. He took the lead in swimming the beach on the Shanghai coast and commanded the troops to charge into the woods.

Hundreds of Japanese troops had just rushed to the beach on the shore and were completely suppressed by the machine gun positions in the coastal fortifications. Seeing the landing troops being attacked, Major General Shintaro Hashimoto, who was commanding the 3rd Mine Team of the Japanese Navy, who was serving as the escort mission, immediately commanded the Kawaui and five destroyers to use naval guns to suppress the German artillery positions on the coastal positions.

Major Shujing waved his command knife and commanded the 1st Battalion to charge towards the German positions in a rain of bullets. However, when the Japanese army rushed to the barbed wire in front of the German positions, more than half of them were killed or injured.

After finally waiting for the engineer to cut the barbed wire, only one-third of the troops remained in the 1st Battalion. The Japanese army was tightly suppressed by the cross-machine gun position in the German bunker and could no longer make any progress. Kotoshi Sui was also shot into a sieve by the machine gun when he was passing through the barbed wire.

German fighter jets that took off from the Cambodia Airport soon arrived at the battlefield and braved the anti-aircraft artillery fire of the Japanese escort fleet to bomb the transport fleet in the bay. The Japanese transport ship "Awaji Yamamaru" was shot and caught fire. The flames guided the target of the artillery on the shore. Under the intensive artillery fire, the explosion soon sank.

This was the first large ship that the Japanese army was sunk after the war, with a drainage of more than 10,000 tons.

German fighter jets continued to attack the other Japanese transport ships. Soon, the Ayodoyama Maru and the Sakura Maru transport ships were damaged one after another. Seeing this, Nobuta Hashimoto suggested that the army suspend landing, and the transport fleet avoided first, and wait for darkness before reorganizing the landing. However, the first wave of Japanese landing troops had already landed. If the attack stopped, the troops that had already landed would suffer a devastating blow. Tuomi Hironan insisted on strengthening personnel and light equipment first. He advocated continuing to persist.

Shintaro Hashimoto had no choice but to suspend suppression of land artillery and organize air defense firepower with all his strength.

Tuo Meihaonan followed the second batch of landing troops to land. They chose a bare coastal area with weak German firepower. This time the landing was relatively smooth. The 2nd Battalion finally broke through a German position near the beach and woods, and finally established a slightly more stable beachhead position.

Since it was already dark and the German army could not get the support of the planes, the Japanese army had successfully boarded the coast. However, the Tuomei team was unable to break through inland. More than 6,000 people in the entire detachment lost one-third of the landing operations. In addition, the equipment was at a disadvantage, so they could only struggle to support the coast.

After receiving the report, Yamashita ordered to stand by at sea. The Guards Division, which was preparing to attack Thailand, turned to land in Dishiwan. Lieutenant General Takuma Nishimura commanded the Guards Division to land in Dishiwan overnight with the support of the navy. The 7th Division of the German Far East Army, which defended the front line of Dishi, was an emergency recruitment of newly formed colonial troops. In addition to some German officials, the soldiers were mainly recruited Annan people and some Chinese people, and their combat effectiveness was relatively weak. There was even a group of Public Security Nan people who were inclined to the Japanese army and believed that they were "liberators."

The 7th Division of the German Far East was soon defeated, and the Japanese Guard Division occupied Dishi and began to advance in depth.

Admiral Braskowitz realized that the 3rd Division at Cape Cambog was in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army, so he ordered the 2nd and 5th Divisions to reinforce Di Shi, and at the same time ordered the 3rd Division to give up Cape Cambog and retreat to Saigon.

On January 15, the 16th Japanese Army, commanded by Yoshiro Iida, landed in Thailand. After two small battles, Thailand announced that it would give up its resistance. The Japanese army marched straight into the central Annan along the Meng River, intending to cut off the retreat route of the German Far East Army in southern Annan. The battle situation in Annan quickly deteriorated.

After emergency consultations, General Blaskowitz, the Governor of Austro-Hungary in Annan, General Pjomovich, Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungary Far East Army, and General Falkenson, head of the German Advisory Group in China, suggested that General Blaskowitz temporarily give up South Vietnam and withdraw his entire army to the northern Vietnam region.

Braskowitz also realized the danger of the war and immediately informed the country of the latest war. After evaluation, the German General Staff agreed to Braskowitz's request for retreat.

Just when the Japanese invaded Annan in large numbers, the Chinese Army took advantage of the weak Japanese troops in South China to launch a large-scale counterattack in South China and Fujian.

In Fujian, the 14th Army of the National Defense Force concentrated its forces to recover Fuzhou in one fell swoop. In the South China War Zone, the Japanese army only deployed the 21st and 56th divisions in Guangzhou, while the National Defense Force mobilized more than 400,000 troops to counterattack Guangzhou under the command of General Ma Xiaojun, the commander-in-chief of the South China War Zone.

Ma Xiaojun personally visited the Guangdong front line, Ye Qi's unit of the 17th Army of the Central Army, Bai Chongxi's unit of the 29th Army, and Chen Bonan, the 32nd Army of the Guangdong Army, marched towards Guangzhou in the third route.

In the consciousness of the Army Department and the General Staff, the Guangzhou Battle is of great significance and will definitely be very difficult. But the actual situation is just the opposite. The 23rd Army of the Japanese army that occupied Guangzhou was not a strategic key force, but only carried out traffic blockade tasks for China. After the war in the South China Sea began, the 38th and 51st Divisions under its jurisdiction were transferred to Malaya, with only the 104th Division and the 19th Independent Mixed Brigade.

After China began a counterattack, given the lack of troops, the Japanese base decided to give up Guangzhou, which had lost its strategic significance, and focus its offensive on Southeast Asia.

Because the Japanese army's resistance was not fierce, it was very different from its previous performance on the Chinese battlefield. The South China Theater Command was worried about any "conspiracy" and ordered the troops to advance cautiously, so China's attack was not fierce. After a few days of resistance, the 23rd Army of the Japanese army voluntarily gave up Guangzhou. The entire army, including two puppet military divisions, boarded the ship and evacuated from Guangzhou Bay under the cover of the navy.

The Chinese Army revived Guangzhou and Fujian, although it did not go through any major battles, it had strong symbolic significance. Because this was the first time that China had recovered the provincial capital city since the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance in 1937. The victory of the National Defense Force in Guangzhou and Fujian made the Chinese people extremely excited, which indicates that after three and a half years of arduous resistance, China finally kicked off the counterattack, and also allowed the Chinese people to see a glimmer of victory.

Massive celebrations were held in major cities such as Beijing, Jinan, Qingdao, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Wuhan, Chongqing, Changsha, and Nanning. Citizens took to the streets, sang and danced, celebrating victory.
Chapter completed!