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The colonial expansion of the British since the 16th century became a very prosperous state. Home, despite the effects of World War I and the economic crisis, is still not to be underestimated. Because the colonies and dominions spread across the five continents of the world, it is known as the "empire on which the sun never sets". In World War I and many subsequent wars, the British Empire began to gradually go downhill, but the United States of America, a former colony of the British Empire, made a lot of war money because of World War I and has developed into the world's largest economy. However, because the Soviet Union implemented a planned economy, it was not affected by the economic crisis, so its economic strength was not affected much.

It can be seen that several enemies of Germany are very powerful, as a rising capitalist power, Germany does not have such a rich heritage, and the First World War caused Germany to lose all its overseas colonies. However, small Japan took advantage of a lot, and Japan appeared as an "Allied power" during World War I, and only attacked Qingdao and took all of Germany's overseas colonies.

Therefore, the Germans are not optimistic about little Japan. [Note 1]

At present, the focus of Germany's war is not to help Japan, but to solve the problem of fighting on two fronts. The elimination of the USSR was obviously impossible, because the strategic depth of the USSR was so great that it was a nightmare for Germany. Moreover, winter in the Soviet Union was a rainy season, and a large amount of rain froze on the ground and then melted in the spring, turning the roads of the Soviet Union into a large swamp.

These are a nightmare for the German ** team that only owns wheeled trucks, so now Ji Feng is asking the factory to manufacture or transform the production of half-track trucks and half-track armored personnel carriers in large quantities. This half-track vehicle has proven in war, and in some cases even better than tanks in the terrible road conditions of the Soviet Union.

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Britain has now been pushed to the Thames line, for British politics. It's already dangerous. In order not to damage the precious cultural relics, Ji Feng decided to send Ribbentrop to the British government. The government proposed a resolution for the peaceful occupation of London, which was also implemented for the same purpose during the German occupation of Paris. So for British politics. As far as the government is concerned, this is the best way not to lose face, and it can be claimed to be to protect the country's precious cultural relics.

After some haggling, the two sides finally reached an agreement: the Germans could occupy London peacefully, but the German soldiers could not enter London, only as "tourists" and unarmed. The government will take over the affairs of London. Britain announced the relocation of its capital to Liverpool.

As soon as Little Japan saw that the Germans had beaten the British down, they declared war on Britain and sent a combined fleet loaded with several divisions to march to Southeast Asia. Japan declared war on France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, announcing its foray into Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia is rich in resources, not only rubber, but also Borneo oil and so on. However, the Japanese forgot that their refining capacity was really poor [Note 2].

The British had some victories in North Africa - the British in Egypt pushed the Italian army back.

But what is the use of having a large amount of land in this barren land of North Africa, first, you can't farm and open factories, and second, oil is still in the depths, and now you can't get it. Now for the British, North Africa is a piece of chicken ribs. If it weren't for the Commonwealth of Nations. Home helps, now the empire has long since sunset.

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Little Japan's army was extremely quick to react and very hard-working. Because Britain also had an Asian fleet, the combined fleet threw them in Bangkok, Thailand. Although these troops had no logistical supplies, they burned and looted enough food, and the Japanese were so poorly armed that most of them would find a Lee Enfield rifle to use as soon as they entered the battlefield. So all the problems were solved, and even each division had a bicycle brigade.

The Japanese army quickly consolidated the landing ground after the landing, showing itself as a suzhì of the A division. Then he quickly occupied the Thai Imperial Palace, and thus Thailand became a puppet state of Japan. Family.

After conquering Thailand, Japan's targets were Malaysia, Singapore, and other countries in Southeast Asia, and Burma in South Asia. For these Japanese soldiers, they were even able to die of exhaustion while pedaling the bicycles, and many Japanese soldiers died of exhaustion on their bicycles when the bicycle troops attacked to the south.

There are not many British troops in Malaysia, but there are many in Singapore, and they are equipped with tank and shore defense gun firepower. The naval gun firepower of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship "Malaya" is also not to be underestimated, not to mention that there are some carrier-based aircraft on board the "Eagle". These warships were still able to play some role before they were sunk by the carrier-based aircraft forces of the Combined Fleet, at least to suppress the southward movement of the Japanese army.

Because now British politics. The government lost a lot of face, so they decided to hold Singapore, and they had to hold Singapore, otherwise the face of the British Empire would be disgraced.

The British deployed not only the Asian Fleet and the Asian Air Force in Singapore, but also two armored divisions. These two armoured divisions were the only remaining armoured divisions of the Expeditionary Force and the most elite units of the British. The British managed to save up a few "Churchill" infantry tanks, all of which were deployed in these two divisions. Together with the supplies brought in from India, these two divisions were able to defend for a long time.

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Stephen was a lieutenant platoon commander in the British 1st Singapore Armoured Division, and his platoon was the most elite "Churchill" infantry tank platoon. Equipped with a 6-pounder anti-tank gun (57 mm) and a Besa machine gun (7.7 mm), the tank had extremely high firepower, and the armor was not usually thick, and the armor at the front was even as thick as the Tiger tank. But at the cost of speed, which is the speed of the infantry, it became a veritable infantry tank.

There were also four "Stern" submachine guns and one "Webley" revolver in the tank compartment, armed with a base of small-caliber weapons and ammunition. Now it seems that the weapons and equipment of the British ** team are very sufficient, but in fact, these weapons and ammunition are all from Indian processing factories, and there is actually not too much ammunition in Singapore's armament warehouse.

The tank crews of the British army were told to save ammunition, and they, of course, understood that this was due to the lack of ammunition. But for the coming war, the order to save ammunition was actually a fart, because the Japanese army was all outlaws, and they would even launch onboard attacks [Note 3].

The British soldiers, listening to the rumors, could know that the Japanese were not afraid of bullets, and even thirsted for them, and that there was no terrible enemy in front of them. Some commanders would even send all their pennies of soldiers[Note 4] to launch a muzzle-loading charge.

A few days later, the first Japanese soldiers arrived,[note 5] and the infantry of the first line of defense managed to hold them a few hundred meters in front of the line with great difficulty. But to the dismay of the British soldiers, they called for support from the Japanese naval aviation through their superiors, and more than 100 D3A dive bombers carrying 250 kg of bombs attacked. Escorting were a number of "Zero" fighters.

Since the early industry was not very good, the most advanced British aircraft stationed in Southeast Asia today is the Seafire on the aircraft carrier Eagle, which is actually a variant of the Spitfire. Although the performance of the "Sea Fire" is not satisfactory at the moment, this is the only fighter that can barely resist the "Zero" now.

Singapore is an important node in the Strait of Malacca, and the Japanese army came with the mentality of suffering great losses. As the saying goes, barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes. Since the British are ready to defend to the death, and the Japanese are desperately trying to break through, let them die to the death. This is Ji Feng's idea, because in this case, the energy of the Japanese will be insufficient.

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Stephen no longer remembered how many tanks were destroyed in front of him, anyway, the Japanese 95 was light and thin-skinned, gasoline engines, and a dozen were on board. But now Stephen had to pay attention to one problem - Churchill did not have enough ammunition. Because of the larger caliber of the shells fired, they could not carry more than a hundred armor-piercing or high-explosive shells. And the machine gun ammunition can be taken more, this is just to occupy space, and it can even be dragged outside the tank.

Stephen's platoon now had only two tanks left, one for him and the other for Sergeant Allen. The other two were blown up by the Japanese with explosives packets and other weapons. Now Stephen had to nervously look out the window to see what was going on, and if he neglected what had happened before, it would happen to his tank.

A Japanese soldier rushed from the front, and then Stephen ordered the course machine gun to fire quickly. After a short burst, the Japanese soldier's explosive bag was hit by a bullet, and the whole person was wiped out.

But Stephen didn't have time to celebrate, and Sergeant Allen was in another world behind him - a 250-kilogram aerial bomb hit the top of Sergeant Allen's tank, and the whole tank exploded violently, and even a high-explosive bomb exploded next to Stephen's tank.

Now Stephen was left alone, apparently alone. Stephen was surrounded, and now the British front line had retreated three hundred meters, and Stephen and his tank units were ordered by their superiors to carry out a small counterattack.

Stephen rushed forward vigorously, and as Stephen rushed up the hill, he heard a whistling sound getting closer and closer, apparently a large-caliber shell, and possibly even a shell from a naval gun.

The last thing Stephen saw was an orange world, and his tank was hit red-handed by the main gun of the Nagato.

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[Note 1] Nozomi. Chapter 11 of Mein Kampf, written while in prison, clearly states: "Japan is an inferior people with no imagination, but Germany can use its perseverance and meticulousness in the service of the Germanic people." "So, little Japan...... Born to be this fate......

[Note 2] During the Battle of the Marianas in 44, one of Japan's aircraft carrier fleets was proud. The "Dafeng" was hit by three torpedoes fired by the US submarine "Thornfish," and only one exploded, but it damaged the ship's oil and gas system. Then the oil vapor of Borneo's highly volatile oil filled the entire ship, thanks to a Mars, and then the whole ship was gone. In fact, the Japanese threw Borneo's oil into the oil storage tank without doing any processing, and then because of the backwardness of the oil refining equipment, they did not dare to build too many tanks and planes.

[Note 3] Onboard attack, "board" means "banzai" in Japanese. The Japanese onboard charge was like the Soviets' Ula, but the biggest difference was that the Soviets had at least roughly sufficient weapons for the first and second waves of advance, while the Japanese relied mainly on 38 rifles with bayonets, wooden sticks, and even grenades. For the Japanese, they firmly believe in their hearts that as long as they die for the emperor, they can put their ashes in the Yasukuni shrine. So they are not afraid of death, and even desire to die. Otherwise, there would not have been a "kamikaze" special attack team at the end of World War II.

[Note 4] A death notice in the Japanese army was five cents, so for these high-ranking officers, a soldier was only five cents.

[5] When the Japanese army attacked Southeast Asia, the vanguard was the bicycle unit, because the thousands of bicycles were so spectacular that the British soldiers even thought that these bicycles were tanks and ran away in fear. Therefore, after the Japanese invaded Southeast Asia, they got an American name "Silver Wheel Force".