 By early afternoon the Japanese force of some 4,500 troops and a dozen tanks were outside Haiphong.By the evening of 26 September, fighting had died down.Japan took possession of Gia Lam Airbase outside Hanoi, the rail marshaling yard on the Yunnan border at Lao Cai, and Phu Lang Thuong on the railway from Hanoi to Lạng Sơn, and stationed 900 troops in the port of Haiphong and 600 more in Hanoi.