The Japanese 18th Division was transferred to the Malay Peninsula, and although it was far away from the quagmire of the Philippines, the experience of the 5th Division had already sounded the alarm for the officers of the 18th Division. Mutaguchi Lian, who has just taken over as the commander of the 18th Division for only half a year, is also a thoughtful person, and the experience of the Fifth Division has made Mutaguchi Lian also have a rough understanding of the Independence Army besieging Singapore, and Zhuo Fei considered the same, Mutaguchi Lian did not want the 18th Division to fight the Independence Army.

Instead of choosing to land in Singapore Port, Mu Taguchi Lian also chose a position that the independence army did not expect to land, and when Zhuo Fei received the news of the 18th Division, the ambitious Mu Taguchi Lian had already commanded the 18th Division to land in Kuantan. Although Kuantan is located between Singapore and Kota Bharu, and the landing of the 18th Division here has the intention of cutting off the back road of the independent army, Zhuo Fei thinks that the Japanese 18th Division should still have a backup move waiting for him.

But things were once again beyond Zhuo Fei's expectations, the Japanese 18th Division that landed in Kuantan was divided into two routes, one way approached Kuala Lumpur, and the other Japanese army went directly north, with the intention of cutting off the rear road of the independent army. The 18th Division's move in this way puzzled the commanders of the Independence Army, and the division of the 18th Division to the north would indeed pose a threat to the logistics supply lines of the Independence Army, but the logistics troops of the Independence Army were not so easy to fight.

"Don't pay attention to the Japanese troops heading north, the 1st and 2nd Independent Divisions continue to surround Singapore, and be careful of the 18th Division fishing in troubled waters. The 3rd Independent Division continued to clear the coastline and offshore islands according to the original plan, the 4th Independent Division remained in Kuala Lumpur, and the 5th Independent Division and reconnaissance units were reduced to pieces to fight mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare with the 18th Division. Everyone's worries did not affect Zhuo Fei, but the mission was assigned according to the original plan, and the officers attending the meeting did not know that the reserve 6th and 7th divisions that had gone south from Ruili had already crossed the Taima-Malaysia border south.

"Although the 18th Division of the Japanese Army is indeed a strong army, their number of troops is far inferior to ours, whether they are preparing to go north to cut off our logistics supply line, or directly take Kuala Lumpur, we have the same attitude, that is, to fight." According to the original battle plan, the tasks given by Zhuo Fei were somewhat general, but in this way, the autonomy of the commanders of each unit was much greater. As long as there was nothing wrong with the general direction, Zhuo Fei didn't care how his officers commanded the troops, because he knew that these Jewish officers would never use their Jewish soldiers as cannon fodder.

The 18th Division was menacing, and after landing, it even put on a posture of dividing troops to cut off the rear road of the Independent Army, but a series of actions of the 18th Division did not disrupt the deployment of the Independent Army. If you carefully analyze Zhuo Fei's deployment, you will find that the current Kuala Lumpur is completely a situation of external strength and middle cadres, and Zhuo Fei has ignored the worries of many officers in the Independence Army.

Hollow array, this is Zhuo Fei's way to deal with the attack of the 18th Division, no matter how many local natives die, Zhuo Fei will not worry, and Zhuo Fei also very much hopes that the attack of the 18th Division can completely raze Kuala Lumpur to the ground. "Kuala Lumpur, Malacca and Singapore are important places that the umbrella company must master, and only by completely destroying these places with the help of the Japanese army can the umbrella company have the possibility of fully controlling these places." In the face of everyone's incomprehension, Zhuo Fei gave an answer, except for the members of the staff group, the others did not understand Zhuo Fei's answer very well.

The battle was about to break out, and the first shot was fired by a company of the 5th Independent Division, an infantry company of 300 men that was supposed to move north according to the orders of the division headquarters, but did not want to move to Bentong when it suddenly encountered a forward squadron of the 18th Division. Before it was clear where the Japanese squadron came from, the warring sides fought around a village. In the roar of guns, the firepower intensity of the Japanese squadron was obviously inferior to that of the Independence Army, and a large number of Independence Army units equipped with automatic fire weapons soon relied on the advantage of the terrain to occupy the initiative on the battlefield.

"Ned, you take your platoon to the left, judging by the density of the opponent's firepower, I judge that the Japanese army on the opposite side may be just a vanguard force. Your platoon must not reveal its position until it has received my order, and once you find that there are still reinforcements from the Japanese army on the opposite side, your platoon will be a strange soldier of our company. Do you understand? Under the influence of Chen Geng's group of Chinese officers, many Jewish officers in the Independence Army also learned to keep a reserve after the battle began, and only use the reserve when the crisis came.

Ned and his platoon were ordered to move to the left side of the position, but unfortunately, they never found that the Japanese troops on the opposite side had reinforcements. The encounter didn't last very long, and after about an hour, the guns on the battlefield had already thinned out. The Japanese squadron that fought across the village from the Independence Army troops was almost completely wiped out, and the Independence Army also suffered dozens of casualties, and after the battle began, the Neder platoon, which went to the left side of the position, unexpectedly did not get a chance to attack.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" Just when the Independence Army troops began to clean up the battlefield, there was suddenly artillery fire, and the soldiers of the Independence Army who had woken up were hiding on the spot, but there were still two squads of soldiers in Moyo who had been engulfed in artillery fire. "Retreat, retreat, let's get out of here." The bearded company commander shouted and ordered the surviving Jewish soldiers around him to evacuate backwards, and the intensity of the shelling only showed that the scale of the enemy was beyond his imagination.

The loot and the corpses of their companions were too late to collect, and the surviving Jewish soldiers quickly retreated, but soon found themselves surrounded by Japanese troops. "What should I do?" Cold sweat began to slip on the company commander's head, the Japanese army surrounding them was at least the strength of a brigade, and if they wanted to break through the encirclement of the Japanese brigade, it might be very difficult to rely on the remaining 200 or so soldiers around them.

Fortunately, the company commander was not confused by the large number of Japanese troops, and while letting his company's infantry contact nearby friendly troops to rush to the rescue, he commanded his soldiers to seize a high ground on the right flank to meet the enemy. In the armies of European countries, neither officers nor soldiers have the idea of fighting to the death. However, most of the training instructors of the Independent Army are Chinese officers, and Chinese soldiers will never allow themselves to surrender to the enemy. As a result, most of the Jewish soldiers in the Independence Army were also infected with this problem, and they also considered surrendering to the Japanese army a very shameful act.

Seize the high point first, this Jewish company, which has suffered more than 20% casualties, has planned to fight the Japanese army to the death, and in the face of the encirclement of the Japanese brigade level, they have no possibility of escaping. However, the dozens of meters high earth mountain was surrounded by Japanese regiments, and the soldiers of the independent army ignored the Japanese encirclement, but only waved their engineering shovels to build their fortifications and bunkers stronger. The first wave of the "attack" Japanese army only used two squads, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers opened the straggler line and attacked Tushan, while the independent army only silently watched the Japanese attack the mountain.

When the Japanese army reached the halfway point of the mountain, some people in the independent army began to shoot, the gunfire was sparse but accurate, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten Japanese soldiers were shot and fell. The first to shoot were several snipers from the Independence Army company, and the attacking Japanese soldiers had already marched within 100 meters of them, and these snipers were able to hit their targets 100% without using sniper scopes at all.

The two Japanese squad leaders who commanded the attack on the mountain were the first to be shot, followed by the Japanese machine gunners and grenadiers, and when the Japanese troops below the mountain used mortars to suppress the fire of the Independence Army, it seemed that more than half of the Japanese troops attacking the mountain had been killed. Leaving behind dozens of corpses, the Japanese troops who forcibly attacked the mountain retreated down the mountain in a gray manner, and the Independence Army was also wounded by shells from the Japanese troops down the mountain, but on the whole, in the first battle between the two sides, the Independence Army side had a slight upper hand.

Taking advantage of the withdrawal of the Japanese troops, the company commander of the Independent Army informed the surrounding friendly forces through walkie-talkies about the strength and weapons of the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain. "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" "Boom" Only a few minutes later, the second Japanese attack began, and this time the Japanese used a little brains to carry out artillery bombardment of the positions of the Independence Army on the dirt hill before the infantry attacked. Before the dust dispersed in the sky, more than 100 Japanese soldiers rushed to the top of the mountain, with the intention of killing the top of the mountain at one time.

"Machine gun fire, push them down for me." The Japanese troops who rushed up the mountainside with the dust encountered the suppressive fire released by the machine gunners of the Independence Army, but with the frantic suppression of the Japanese grenadiers, the machine gunners of the Independence Army on the top of the hill suffered continuous casualties, and the firepower to suppress the Japanese attack was also intermittent. The machine-gun fire was forcibly suppressed by the Japanese grenadiers, and despite the snipers' best efforts, the Independence Army's firepower weakened uncontrollably.

The sound of Kasumi shotguns firing was already heard on the "bang" and "bang" positions, which indicated that there were already Japanese soldiers approaching the outer edge of the position, and if it were not for this, the soldiers of the Independent Army in the position would never use the Kasumi shotguns. The company commander of the Independence Army, who had been shot in the shoulder and left arm, was already like an ant on a hot pot, and the nearest friendly unit was still three miles away, and according to the current intensity of the Japanese attack, they probably could not wait for friendly reinforcements. Seeing that the enemy's position was about to be breached, the Japanese commander was overjoyed, and said in his heart that this independent army was nothing more than that, and I really don't know how those bastards of the Fifth Division were defeated by such a second-rate army.