The headquarters of the Independence Army is in Kuala Lumpur, which is not a big secret for the 18th Division, and although the Malay Peninsula is already in turmoil, there are still many Japanese intelligence officers who are lurking. Among the local Chinese hired by the headquarters of the Independent Army, there was a Japanese spy under the pseudonym Peng Jiaxi, but this Japanese spy under the pseudonym Peng Jiaxi did not know that Zhuo Fei, as the supreme commander of the Independent Army, had a cheating weapon called the light curtain system.

All the local Chinese hired by the Independence Army Command were originally only responsible for providing some data for the map operations to the Operational Staff, and when the staff officers were making the sand table, they discovered the error and alerted the staff officers. Araki Ichiro was recruited into the command under the pseudonym Peng Jiaxi to help, but he didn't know that from the first time Zhuo Fei saw him, his true identity had been known by Zhuo Fei, and Zhuo Fei secretly knew that the mercenaries who served as guards at the headquarters deliberately opened some forbidden areas to this young man named Peng Jiaxi, of course, what Peng Jiaxi saw and heard was what Zhuo Fei wanted him to see and hear.

The local Chinese hired by the Independence Army Command have one day off every three days, and Araki Ichiro took this opportunity to send out the news he had inquired from the Independence Army Command. In the information sent by Ichiro Araki, the Independence Army was described by him as a strong force in the middle, and the Independence Army's delay in attacking Singapore was also due to the excessive consumption of ammunition by the Independence Army. The 18th Division, which received this news, originally did not believe it, but it could be analyzed from the report sent by the 114th Wing that the independent army units that exchanged fire with the 114th Wing used long-range fire weapons only a handful of times, otherwise they would not have finally taken the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield.

The Operations Staff Officers of the 18th Division had repeatedly simulated the Independence Army's firepower output, and they had come to the conclusion that the Independence would be under enormous pressure on its logistical supply lines if it were to maintain this level of firepower at all times. The Chinese government has basically agreed to an armistice with the Empire, which means that they will no longer support the military activities of the Independence Army in Southeast Asia, and without the support of the Chinese government, the huge ammunition consumption will drag down the Independence Army.

The war was cruel, and Mutaguchi did not want to gamble his luck with the Independence Army, but at present, Japan was unable to provide backup support for the 18th Division, and Yamashita Fumi, who was far away in the Philippines, also sent telegrams many times, urging the 18th Division to enter Singapore as soon as possible. The importance of the Strait of Malacca to the empire was self-evident, and in the face of the urging of the local base camp and Yamashita Fufumi, Mutaguchi had no choice but to order the 114th Wing to act as the rearguard force, and the other two infantry wings to go straight to Kuala Lumpur.

According to the latest intelligence sent by Ichiro Araki, the Independence Army has only deployed a new infantry division in Kuala Lumpur, and the other Independence Army units will either stay on the front line in Singapore, or be deceived by the previous feints of the 18th Division and go north to guard the back road. After the 18th Division had a clear goal, it immediately accelerated its speed and rushed directly to Kuala Lumpur, and Zhuo Fei, who was stranded in Kuala Lumpur, was of course not idle, and ordered the troops on the Singapore front line to return to Kuala Lumpur immediately in front of Araki Ichiro.

Ichiro Araki, who did not suspect him, quickly sent out this new information, but when he returned to the headquarters of the Independent Army, he found that the actual situation was exactly the opposite of the information he had obtained, and the troops recalled by Zhuo Fei were not the troops that surrounded Singapore at all, but an independent army division and more than 50,000 indigenous servant troops who went north to assist in the defense. "Should I continue to call you Peng Jiaxi or should I call you Mr. Ichiro Araki?" Zhuo Fei's only one sentence shocked the self-calm Araki Ichiro, and even if he wanted to break his head, he wouldn't know how Zhuo Fei knew his real name.

Knowing that Ichiro Araki, who was called out by himself, would never cooperate with the Independence Army, so when he ordered Ichiro Araki's execution, Zhuo Fei's attitude was very clear and resolute. Even Zhuo Fei himself could not confirm whether the false information sent by the Japanese spies was effective, but for now, the direction of movement of the 18th Division showed that the Japanese army did not seem to have realized that they had been deceived.

Almost the same as the prediction of Zhuo Fei and others, the information sent by Ichiro Araki was confirmed one by one, and then the false information sent by Ichiro Araki was obtained, and the 18th Division did not suspect it. Araki Ichiro's false information made it very clear that the headquarters of the Independence Army in Kuala Lumpur had ordered the troops to be transferred to encircle Singapore and withdraw to Kuala Lumpur for their own safety, but this move of the Independence Army was seen by Mutaguchi Lianya as an opportunity, if the 18th Division took the opportunity to turn around and go straight to Singapore, relying on the more than 20,000 troops of the 18th Division, it would definitely be able to form an armed confrontation with the Independence Army with its back.

From the very beginning, Mutaguchi's purpose was not to find the Independence Army troops for a decisive battle, but the 18th Division's retreat to the Malay Peninsula had only one purpose, that is, to firmly hold Singapore and the Strait of Malacca. When the 18th Division landed on the Malay Peninsula from Kuantan, Mutaguchi also wanted to play the trick of attacking the east and west, whether it was the logistics supply line of the Independence Army in the northward stage, or the direct attack on Kuala Lumpur, these actions were actually smoke bombs deliberately released by the 18th Division, and their main purpose has always been Singapore.

And now, the opportunity that the 18th Division has been waiting for has finally come, and the Independence Army has been successfully confused by the various actions of the 18th Division, and after the 18th Division has put on a posture of going straight to Kuala Lumpur, it actually ordered to withdraw the troops besieging Singapore and return to Kuala Lumpur. From this moment on, Mutaguchi was finally able to determine that the Independence Army was not a strong force at all, and it could be seen from the poor command ability of the Independence Army that they were nothing more than a rabble with sharp weapons.

Determined that the biggest reliance of the Independence Army was the sharpness of weapons, and in addition, Mutaguchi Lian couldn't think of any aspect of the Independence Army that was stronger than the Imperial soldiers. Therefore, after receiving the false information sent by Ichiro Araki, Mutaguchi Ryoya also drew two brigades to continue to put on a momentum of going straight to Kuala Lumpur, while the rest of the 18th Division went out day and night and turned straight to Singapore. "It seems that the Japanese army was fooled." Even if the Japanese troops of the two brigades tried their best, they could not disguise the size of the two infantry wings, and Zhuo Fei, who got the news, couldn't help but be ecstatic, which showed that the 18th Division was really deceived.

In the Pahang River Valley, Zhuo Fei had already arranged a large number of indigenous servant troops, coupled with the assistance of the local Malay Chinese, as long as there was a change in the Japanese army, Zhuo Fei would immediately receive the news here. Two days later, Zhuo Fei received news that the 114th Wing of the Japanese Army, which served as the rear guard of the 18th Division, had also quietly crossed the Pahang River, and so far, the 18th Division, which had turned south, had all crossed the Pahang River.

The Independence Army (ISA) troops, which had been transferred back from the north by Cheuk Fei, immediately closed the north bank of the Pahang River, and more than 70,000 Bumiputera servants immediately backed the Pahang River and began to harass the 18th Division with the assistance of the Malay Chinese. From the moment the 114th Wing crossed the Pahang River, Zhuo Fei's plan to encircle the 18th Division was implemented, and compared with the encirclement and annihilation of the 18th Division, there was no challenge in attacking Singapore, which could only be regarded as a shelf-by-breath.

After crossing the Pahang River, the 18th Division tried to speed up to Singapore, but they ignored the destructive power of the Bumiputera Servants, who were waiting for the appearance of the 18th Division on the way from Temerloh to Singapore. These indigenous servant troops did not dare to engage in a frontal battle with the 18th Division, even if it was impossible to conduct a small-scale battle, but the soldiers of the indigenous servant army were proficient in all kinds of attack tactics, traps, mines, poisoning, in short, all kinds of means emerged one after another.

From the beginning of the exchange of fire between the first wave of the indigenous servant army and the forward troops of the 18th Division, the 18th Division, which had planned to march in a hurry, had to slow down, and throughout the morning, the anxious Mutaguchi Lian also received continuous battle reports from the forward troops, claiming that they had been attacked continuously. In one morning, the troops only walked a few miles, and it was obviously impossible to rush to Singapore at such a speed before the Independence Army could react, and Mutaguchi finally woke up at this time, and the southward movement of the 18th Division was probably expected by the Independence Army.

After noon, with the strong rebound of the forward troops of the 18th Division, the attack methods of the indigenous servant troops began to become more sophisticated, they would lay minefields tens of meters long on the entire section of the road, would use the rocket launchers provided by the independent army to attack the forward troops of the 18th Division at close range, and even used the grenadiers captured by the Japanese to attack the Japanese troops. As a result, the speed of the 18th Division was even slower, and the casualty number was higher and higher, and the Japanese army did not know that there were more indigenous servant troops rapidly massing here.

The most suitable for the indigenous servant army was the guerrilla tactic, which was loved by the soldiers of the servant army, while the soldiers of the 18th Division had to endure the constant threat. "I didn't expect that these indigenous cannon fodder would finally come in handy, since they were fighting well, let's continue. Tell our men to follow up slowly, to ensure the supply of ammunition for the servants, but not to engage in an exchange of fire with the Japanese too soon. In front of the Jewish officers under him, Zhuo Fei bluntly said that the servant army was a cannon fodder unit, but the Jewish officers did not object in the slightest.

In the eyes of the Jewish officers, the native servants were of course cannon fodder, and these guys who could only fight with the wind could not be called soldiers at all, and it might be more appropriate to call them bandits or bandits. If it weren't for Zhuo Fei's insistence, the Independence Army would never be willing to fight side by side with the Servant Army, believing that fighting side by side with the Servant Army would defile their uniforms. But no matter what, the performance of the servant army this time is still very good, at least they have dragged down the speed of the 18th Division to the south, creating an opportunity for the independent army to encircle the 18th Division.