"General Pierce, you can go and send a telegram, and the next thing is the ground battle, which can be regarded as a bit boring compared to the means of attack just now." Using the ammunition that the Independence Army had reserved for half a year to carry out a strong attack on the Fifth Division and the Japanese escort fleet, Zhuo Fei's main purpose was to show the combat effectiveness of the Independence Army in front of Pierce and lay a good foundation for winning the support of the US government. Now it seems that the effect is not too bad, at least Zhuo Fei has discovered the joy hidden in Pierce's eyes.

Although he has not yet figured out from Zhuo Fei's mouth what new weapon the flying team used just now, Pierce is no longer entangled in this matter at the moment, he just wants to send a telegram to the United States as soon as possible, and tell the United States and the president what he has just seen and heard. With just two rounds of rocket attacks and more than 100 warplanes participating in the battle, it was possible to attack a small Japanese fleet and divisional Japanese troops, and Pierce believed that the Umbrella Company already had the ability to compete with the Japanese.

How to argue with the Japanese army in Southeast Asia, Zhuo Fei already had a set of plans in his heart, but he couldn't talk about it to Pierce now, because he hadn't seen the sincerity of the U.S. government yet. After three rounds of strong attacks by the Independence Army, the small Japanese fleet that escorted the Fifth Division had already left the port area, but what they never expected was that Zhuo Fei still had no intention of letting them go.

"What's that?" The presence of a speedboat on the surface of the sea made Pierce exclaim, he had never seen a boat so fast. The speedboat that Pierce saw through the telescope could not actually be called a speedboat at all, in short, it was simply a temporary installation of the high-horsepower engines used on two motorcycles on the sampan. Hundreds of these rudimentary self-made speedboats left the shore and sailed like locusts out to the open sea, aiming at the Japanese convoy.

Although the Japanese escort fleet, which had been continuously destroyed by the Independence Army's flying squadrons, had not sunk ships so far, most of them had been severely damaged and had no chance of escaping in the face of speedboats that were close to 60 yards per hour. The speedboat approached the Japanese ship with thick smoke, and there was no forced boarding, and the indigenous servants on the speedboat only fired smoke grenades at the Japanese ship.

After being shot at by Japanese sailors, the servants on the "Boom" and "Boom" speedboats immediately changed their countermeasures under the cover of smoke and began to use individual rockets to bombard the engine parts of the Japanese ships. The previous armor-piercing rockets from the air had already carved holes of different sizes in the stern of the Japanese ships, but at this time, those holes provided convenience for the servant soldiers holding bazookas, and the rockets fired from the speedboats rushed into the Japanese ships along these holes, and then tossed the **** of these Japanese ships.

"You want to capture these ships alive?" Pierce saw some meaning, obviously the independent army could use the flying team to directly sink those Japanese ships, but Zhuo Fei used speedboats to entangle the other party before the casualties, Pierce only had to think about it carefully, and he already understood Zhuo Fei's intentions.

Zhuo Fei did not directly answer Pierce's inquiry, but stretched out his hand and pointed to the map hanging on the wall of the headquarters and said, "The territories of Southeast Asian countries are not connected to each other, and if the umbrella company wants to occupy a certain initiative in future battles, there must be enough space for the troops to move around." The Umbrella Company did not have enough ships to transport soldiers, but we did not want to be taken by the Japanese army, so we had to borrow the ships of our opponents to serve us. ”

When the two talked in a low voice, the speedboat unit that had been sunk by more than half of the Japanese escort fleet had already turned back to the shore, while the Japanese escort fleet, which had already withdrawn to the open sea, could only spin in place at this time, and this was generally the case with ships that had lost power in the open sea. The Japanese escort fleet, which had basically lost its navigation power, was currently in a dilemma, even if they still had naval guns that had not been destroyed by the fighters, but their naval guns were too far away to provide long-range fire support to the Japanese in Singapore.

Since they could not provide fire support to friendly forces, according to the convention, their escort fleet should have returned the same way, but they were de-motivated, and now they could only keep circling in the open sea. "Baga, find a way, I must go ashore." Looking at the port area where the sound of guns and cannons was dense, Kutaro Matsui on the cruiser jumped to his feet angrily, as the commander of the division, he was actually separated from his own division, if this was known by the base camp, his military career would be over.

There were still quite a few officers and men of the Fifth Division like Kutaro Matsui who were stranded in the fleet, and in particular, the artillery wing and the baggage wing of the Fifth Division were also left on the ships, so that the more than 10,000 officers and men of the Fifth Division who had already landed on the shore had actually lost the support of artillery fire and baggage. This is also the main willingness of the division commander Kutaro Matsui to yell on the ship, how can a unit without artillery support and no logistical supplies hold out in battle?

What Kutaro Matsui was worried about was not in Zhuo Fei's consideration at all, and what he was thinking about most now was not to break through Singapore, which was heavily defended by the Japanese army, but to stop at when the batch of American fighters that Ruili had been modified would be able to fight south. 80 American planes, this is only the first batch of military aid provided by the US government, Victor is a lion who asked the US government for as many as 800 US fighters, Zhuo Fei has imagined countless times what it will be like after all 800 fighters take off.

There are millions of Jewish mechanics who produce munitions for the Independence Army day and night, and as long as the field team sent by the Umbrella Company can always purchase the materials needed to produce ammunition, Zhuo Fei does not have to worry about the shortage of ammunition for the Independence Army. As long as there is enough time and bombers, Zhuo Fei can even use air explosive bombs to blow up the entire city of Singapore into a dead city, and in the face of powerful air explosive bombs, those street forts of the Japanese army are as fragile as paper.

The flare for launching the ground offensive has not been lifted off for a long time, and the telegram sent by Pierce has not returned, which is something he repeatedly asked Zhuo Fei to do before leaving the command. At the expense of a large number of ammunition reserves, just to let Pierce have one more good word in the telegram, Zhuo Fei himself does not know whether it is right to do this, if Pierce sees through his intentions, the umbrella company may steal chickens this time.

After more than ten minutes, a happy Pierce quickly returned to the headquarters, and before Zhuo Fei could speak, Pierce handed the telegram in his hand to Zhuo Fei. "Zhuo, the second batch of planes provided by the US government has crossed the Bering Strait and are entering the territory of the Soviet Union to refuel, and the third and final batch of planes has also taken off from the US mainland, and it is expected that in a week, you will see all 800 planes provided by the US government."

Zhuo Fei took the telegram handed by Pierce and read it carefully, with an irrepressible smile on his face, it seems that this Pierce did not see through his intentions, the US government will decide to fly all the planes to the Soviet Union so quickly, it must be Pierce who said good things for the umbrella company in the telegram, and it is not a star. Zhuo Fei's guess was right, and Pierce praised the Independence Army in a telegram sent back to the United States, especially the new weapon that could be installed on the fighter plane to deal with ground targets, which was even more admired by Pierce.

What Zhuo Fei didn't expect was that there was only less than five minutes between the telegram sent back to China by Pierce and the telegram sent back by MacArthur asking for help, one was a telegram asking for help, and the other was a good news of victory, and the difference between the two was too great. Ten minutes to make an important decision is also a miracle in the history of the work of the American Congress. It was precisely because of these two telegrams that the US Congress decided to support the Umbrella Company in such a short period of time, and agreed to hand over all 800 fighters to the Umbrella Company for use in combat within a week.

What happened in the U.S. Congress, Zhuo Fei would not know, even if Andy, who learned the news, would send a telegram to Zhuo Fei, it would be a few days later. There will be 800 of the latest American fighters soon, and Zhuo Fei, who was overjoyed, immediately ordered all the pilots in Ruili to finish their physical training, and after a short rest, they will go to Xi'an Airport to wait to receive the fighters provided by the US government.

There is no shortage of pilots in the umbrella company, there is no shortage of secret airfields for parking fighters, and there is no shortage of fuel for fighters, but Pierce does not know this, and after Zhuo Fei carefully read the telegram, Pierce immediately worried. "Zhuo, there are only about 10 days left, and the pilots and fuel are a big problem. If you don't have pilots here, I can try to contact China and ask them to send pilots here, but you need to figure out how to get fuel. ”

Zhuo Fei laughed as he was worried, and took out a cigar and handed it to the other party, Zhuo Fei said with a smile, "General Pierce, you should know that the whole of Myanmar has been controlled by us, and the Ringanqiang oil field in Myanmar is naturally under our supervision for the time being, and our technicians have completely repaired the oil refining facilities in Ringanqiang a few months ago, and the oil is completely enough for us, so you don't have to worry that the fighters don't have enough fuel." ”

"As for pilots, we have no shortage here, you must know that the umbrella company originally recruited at least more than 2,000 pilots from the European continent to fly various types of aircraft, many of them were once soldiers, as long as there are a sufficient number of fighters, the umbrella company can form an aviation force with more than 2,000 pilots at any time." Zhuo Fei's answer made Pierce completely unexpected, he never imagined that the umbrella company would be so strong, there would be more than 2,000 pilots in a mercenary company, and more than half of the pilots were once soldiers.