The Japanese moved quickly and prepared to occupy those batteries. If the battle had started earlier before the deployment of the engineer units had been completed, it would have also meant that the plan had failed (the Japanese had almost no special ships to transport supplies in the shoals) and would have to occupy the port in its entirety.

Asano was an eternal optimist, and he could strategically judge the indecision of the British, but he had no regard for the risk to the Japanese in such a hastily prepared operation, or the complexity of the mission itself. He even hoped that this battle would sharpen an amphibious force that would be ready for his expected landing in Chittagong or Calcutta. All the participants who knew the depth were nervously waiting for the news ahead, and he went to bed early, just waiting for the good news to be heard early tomorrow morning.

It was pitch black in the turrets of the British army outside the harbor, because they were worried about an attack by the main Japanese aircraft carriers on the sea. In fact, there were only 12 Zero fighters and 6 old 97 fighters on board the Longxiang, and several 97 ships attacked.

As a horizontal bomber, the 97 ship attack bombed with almost no threat to key targets on land, but Commander Ozawa was a little resourceful, and he used the 97 fighter with the landing gear that could not be recovered, posing as a dive bomber, to launch several attacks on positions near British ports. The British commander, panicked and ill-informed, reported to his superiors that he had been attacked by a heavy *, in fact only a couple of 25 kg *, leaving several shallow craters in the ground. The news was uploaded layer by layer, and it was deliberately increased in order to attract attention, and finally the intelligence that came to Alexander's hands turned into an attack on the port by the enemy's 99 ships with 250 kg*.

Based on the intelligence that the Japanese small aircraft carriers did not carry dive bombers, Alexander certainly had reason to believe that there was an aircraft carrier formation that was so large that it was very complete with three types of tactical aircraft, and it was full of food and stared at him specifically in this place where birds don't.

As a result, the searchlights near the fort did not dare to be used, providing the best opportunity for those Japanese engineer units who had not received special operations training and were slow to move through the open area.

Asano was a man of retreat and rhetoric, and he never thought about the details of complex military operations, but things were just as magical. The unit passed through the artillery positions of the enemy fortress with a blank eye, and attracted no attention from the British, except for a few barking dogs.

The British garrison was only a fraction of the fort, and since the British were previously focused on Singapore and Sittwe was a traditional Arakanese region, most of the defenders here were Indian soldiers of Muslim origin recruited from Bengal. The recent lack of control of the British forces has led to a lack of discipline, and soldiers often gather to listen to Congress radio in Assam and the Bose system propaganda broadcast through Japanese warships. Needless to say, the independent propaganda of the Congress Party was even more lethal than Bowes's telegrams, and every day the Indian soldiers who surrendered in the Battle of Rangoon appeared in the program, telling the nonsense that the Japanese wanted to liberate the entire Asian colony. When Keiji Suzuki's southern agency took over the stall left behind after the disappearance of Kagesa, he was surprised to find that Kagesa's efficiency had formed a ready-made system within the Indian army. This is also the confidence that he dares to guarantee eighty percent victory in front of Iida.

Finally, a British officer discovered that the situation was wrong, and the Indian lieutenants around him could not be found one by one, and the guards outside had changed for some reason. The officer called his superiors, but by this time, the phone was no longer available.

Due to the guidance of the inner ghosts, the Japanese army entered the fortress very smoothly. They did not storm the four batteries in front of them, but secretly installed * in the ammunition depot, and the time was set at 12 o'clock. The rest of the troops rushed to the rear 9.2-inch howitzer positions to prepare for a looting operation. Once these 230 guns with their muzzles turned are in hand, they can condescendingly fire at most targets within a radius of 30 kilometers.

Commander Ozawa of the Southern Fleet, and Captain Inage of the 48th Wing were anxiously waiting for the time to pass, because of the low level of communication, fearing exposure, so the troops ashore maintained radio silence, and the rear could not know the situation in time, so they could only wait for the sound of artillery from afar, if the sound of artillery sounded on the coast before 12 o'clock, it meant that the operation failed.

The captain of the Inamo Wing didn't even dare to go to the deck to watch, he hid in his cabin, sitting cross-legged in front of a banner with the words "Wuyun for a long time" and praying for the blessing of the gods, and as the time passed, it seemed that a miracle was about to happen?

In the cockpit of the Torikai, the flagship of the Southern Fleet, everyone stood still, looking at the pointer on the wall pointing to 12 o'clock. Then there was a slight flash of light on the coastline in the distance, which could still be seen from a distance of dozens of kilometers, showing that the power of the explosion was not small. Immediately, the navy and the army were simultaneously sent to the front to play a communication: the attack mission was accurately completed.

On the British battery, the personnel of the artillery unit directly under the 31st Division, with the help of the Indians, had taken over the British 230 giant guns and began to fire at the British camp near Sittwe Airport.

The Japanese southern fleet also began to shoot at pre-calibrated targets to cover the rapid occupation of the port by land troops. No one knew if the British had planned to destroy the port, perhaps Kagesa knew about it, but he was missing.

Alexander was still far away in Monywa, because the Chinese expeditionary force counteroffensive was going well, he decided to stay in the center for a few days to accompany the lord to see the battle, and his first reaction after hearing that the Japanese army had landed was that it was coming.

The lieutenant general had no way to judge the enemy's situation by accurate intelligence, and could only guess the enemy's movements from the chaotic and even inconsistent telegrams from the front.

Since the Japanese chose to attack at night, the situation of the former hostile enemy was seriously exaggerated. He was told that at least 2 wings of Japanese troops had already gained a foothold on the beach and were outflanking the whole of Sittwe. The counteroffensive forces were suppressed by the heavy artillery of the enemy's battleships, and they could not advance.

It was suggested that the port must be abandoned immediately and retreated to the root of the peninsula to defend it, according to the predetermined plan. This was indeed the plan that had been drawn up at the beginning, and it was a systematic retreat under the assumption that the enemy's superior forces would come ashore and that the port would be confirmed to be unsafe one or two days later.

The lieutenant general still had some luck and thought to himself that perhaps he should wait for dawn and the enemy situation to become clearer before making a decision...... But immediately another voice warned him that indecision could lead to the worst. After all, he did not win by victory, but by running out of successive miraculous retreats. Whether it was Dunkirk or the recent retreat in Yangon, it was a decision made in a flash of lightning, and it turned out later that it was this determination that saved the troops. These personal experiences gave him enough hints - to escape as soon as possible.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, just four hours after the Japanese army launched the attack, he made a decisive decision, abandoned the port, retreated to the terrain of the peninsula, and saw if he could rely on the Chinese army to come to the aid of the 33rd Division and save the situation, perhaps until the 33rd Division was annihilated, so that the Chinese army could free up more troops?

Lin Xiuxuan was on a barren mountain not far from the new 38th Division, and he heard this shocking news, although he was also worried about the amphibious attack, but based on the already information, he expected that the enemy would not come so chaotically. He immediately sent a message to Chief Chu Ting, telling him to withdraw from the blocking battle and be ready to rush west to help at any time.

The Japanese easily captured two 230-mm guns, giving them the greatest bonus to their plan, at least making the Allies think that there were really a few battleships in the open sea.

The two cannons began to fire in turn, attacking the panicked enemy from all directions. Even if it was just an engineer unit of the 31st Division with little combat experience, it successfully entered the port and began to dismantle the possible *, it turned out that there was a false alarm, and the port did not *exist. A unit of armored vehicles of the British army was dispatched to cover the retreating troops, but they still did not understand the situation, and turned on the headlights all the way to the west, directly exposing the 230 fortress cannon to the direct range. Two guns fired 2 shells each, breaking 6 armored vehicles into parts.

The Type 97 horizontal bomber on the Longxiang flew over the British airfield in the dark and dropped it*. Although the landing point is crooked, it has played a role in scaring the British, and all the British communications intercepted by Lin Xiuxuan are reporting that the enemy's main aircraft carrier fleet is attacking him. He couldn't help but worry that these false military reports would even be as critical as the confrontation between the US and Japanese navies 7,000 kilometers away.

At daybreak, the Japanese army's military adventures bore fruit. The freighters, loaded with the main forces of the 58th Wing, heard directly from the port of Sittwe, began to unload their forces and heavy firearms, and now they were no longer 600 kilometers from the British, but deep into the rear of the enemy, and there was no longer a shortage of motor vehicles. The second wing is on its way and is expected to be unloaded within 24 hours.

Alexander demanded that the Allies immediately convene an urgent military conference to discuss the present grave situation, and he submitted to the Chinese and American sides a grossly exaggerated report on the enemy situation, in which the enemy who had landed had a division equipped with heavy firepower, and what was even more terrifying was that these landing forces were advancing under the cover of strong fire from about 4 aircraft carriers, 6 heavy cruisers, and at least 2 battleships.

Outside the headquarters of the 33rd Division, * continued to fall, and the earth-shattering shouts and explosions in the distance were foreshadowed. The 33rd Division will become the first divisional and regimental unit to be annihilated since the start of the Sino-Japanese war.

Lieutenant General Sakurai was already at the end of his rope, and all the troops that could be sent, including men, artillerymen, repair troops, and engineers, were sent out, and only his direct squadron and communications squadron members were left at the division headquarters.

The two regiments of the new 38th Division, after charging dozens of times in turn, and after many bayonet battles, the vanguard had reached a distance of 150 meters from the division headquarters. If the Chinese army had had enough direct fire, the shells would probably have entered the headquarters.

There was an uproar in the headquarters, and the staff officers were burning code books and division documents. Sakurai asked Second Lieutenant Ikeda to take the military flag that had been given by the emperor and had the number of the trial division written on it, and threw it into the fire and burned it together. Seeing that the flag was burned, he took his saber from the wall, sat down and wiped it.

Gunshots rang out from the telecommunications room next door, and a communications soldier gave himself a shot, and the defeat had begun irreversibly.

"Ikeda, I need your favor."

Sakurai gestured with his saber on his stomach and said calmly, obviously he needed a mischief to give him a good time.

"Your Excellency the division commander, I can take the squadron directly under the command to escort you out of the bloody road."

"No, Chief Iida's order is for us to hold on for five days, and since we can't hold on for three days, we should apologize for our crimes."

Sakurai said to his subordinates with a smile. There were gunshots next door, and another suicide was committed. Because of the fear of being captured, suicidal thoughts haunted everyone's mind like a contagion.

Seemingly with no choice, Ikeda drew his saber and walked over to the division commander.

Listening to the explosions outside, the Chinese army's * is only separated by a wall, and they seem to have even * gone.

"Division commander, division commander," someone in the communication room next door rushed over, holding a piece of paper in his hand, "The command headquarters is urgent, Lieutenant General Kawada's 31st Division has landed in Sittwe, and the British army on the west side is currently in the process of being dispersed." ”

"What?" Sakurai jumped up at once, threw the command knife aside, he took the telegram in his hand, and when he saw it halfway, his hand began to tremble with excitement, and large tears fell on the telegram.

"Kawada, bastard, did a good job."