While Zhuo Fei and Pierce were chatting at the headquarters, the ground forces of the Independent Army, which had been waiting for a long time, had launched an attack on the Japanese defense line, and under the cover of the armored forces, a large number of independent army soldiers poured into the Japanese defense line. The "boom" was accompanied by a bang, and a firepower point of the Japanese army was bombed into the air, and the debris of the human body thrown high with the air wave could still be faintly seen in the raised dust.

What was in front of him made Leslie feel suffocated, and he resisted a strong feeling of vomiting, and Leslie followed the Jewish soldiers in front of him to the Japanese position more than ten meters away. Pierce also brought with him more than a dozen so-called observers selected from the US Army, including Leslie, who already has the rank of lieutenant, whose main task is to follow the ground forces under the umbrella all the way to observe and assess the combat effectiveness of the Independence Army.

"Ryan, bring the bazooka over here and knock out that damn fire point in front of me." The marching assault team stopped for a moment, heard the platoon commander's shouts, and the Jewish soldier crouched in front of Leslie stepped forward, and Leslie followed. Bazooka weapons are also available in the US military, but the bazooka rocket launchers equipped by the US army are rear-loading ammunition, while the bazookas of the Independence Army are loaded from the front.

The Jewish soldier named Ryan first combed and loaded his bazooka with rockets, and then moved a few meters to his left slightly, taking advantage of the machine gun on his side to provide fire cover for himself, Ryan suddenly got up and aimed the bazooka on his shoulder at the Japanese fire point in the distance. "Don't crouch on the tail of the bazooka, when the bazooka is fired, it will create a heat flow from the tail and it will hurt you." Leslie, who was unknown, was pulled away by the platoon commander's hand, and then looked at Ryan, who had already fired the rocket out at this time.

"Boom" sounded, the Japanese firepower point in the distance immediately turned into a fireball, the grinning platoon commander reached out and patted Lane's shoulder to show praise, and the other Jewish soldiers also smiled and stretched out their hands to pat Lane's steel helmet, and the latter with smugness in the corner of his eyes had silently retreated, according to the tactical requirements, he had to give up his position to the comrades behind him who were ready to attack at the first time.

After two years of systematic training, the Jewish soldiers who lived and ate together had established a tacit understanding and trust, and as the platoon commander commanding the battle gestured to move on, Ryan and his comrades jumped out of the street corner to continue to advance. Accompanied by the sound of dense explosions, the Japanese defense line could be seen everywhere rising fire, in the face of the rain of bullets of the independent army, the accurate shooting skills they had relied on so far were no longer effective at this moment, and the Japanese troops on the defense line could not resist the strong firepower attack of the independent army.

Leslie was an observer sent by the U.S. military, so he wore a U.S. military uniform, and if the only difference between him and the soldiers of the Independence Army was probably the difference in military uniforms, that is, the weapons and ammunition he was equipped with. Leslie was armed with a Thomson submachine gun and only carried four fully charged magazines, while Lane and the others not only carried a semi-automatic rifle and four grenades, but also had a pistol stuck in their leg straps.

Leslie has been silently observing the small force in front of him, the establishment of the independent army is different from the United States, the independent army has 15 soldiers in each squad, a platoon includes three squads, and counting the platoon commander, a communications soldier, and three ambulance soldiers, a platoon of the independent army is exactly 50 people. At present, the smallest combat unit of the US military is basically a regimental unit, while the independent army is a company as the smallest combat unit.

Leslie was greatly shocked by the weaponry, operational tactics, and command system of the Independence Army, and just now, he even saw that after the infantry was wounded, Lane, who had already shot all the rockets, took over the position of the infantry under the assignment of the platoon commander. "Every soldier in our Independence Army is a generalist, Ryan can be an attacker or a walkie-talker, and if necessary, an artillery observer or even a machine gunner." The young platoon commander didn't mind complimenting his men in front of Leslie.

Relying on the tactics of assault tactics with high firepower, the offensive of the Independence Army units was as fierce as mercury, and in some parts of the Japanese line, the Independence Army units, assisted by armored units, had even torn through the enemy's third line of defense. Under the cover of the machine gun, Ryan, who had re-replenished the rockets, aimed the bazooka on his shoulder at the Japanese bunker in front, if he knocked out the Japanese bunker in front, Ryan and they could completely suppress the counterattack of the Japanese army here.

With a "boom", the Japanese bunker was bombed into ruins, ignoring the remnants of the Japanese soldiers who retreated from Queen Cang, Lane and others just seized the time to strengthen the fortifications. "Gas bombs, gas bombs." Suddenly, someone shouted, yellow smoke suddenly drifted from the Japanese defense line, and the soldiers of the Independence Army who were at the downwind hurriedly put on gas masks. The heavy smell of rubber from the gas mask filled Leslie's nostrils, and a feeling of suffocation came over her, making Leslie uncomfortable. Wearing a gas mask can prevent you from losing your life due to inhaling toxic gases, but wearing a gas mask can make it difficult to breathe and cause a very uncomfortable feeling. But this was not the time to worry about this, and even if he was uncomfortable, Leslie still didn't dare to take off his gas mask, because he knew how powerful the gas bomb was.

"Get out of here, we're out of here." The voice of the young platoon commander sounded strange through the gas mask, but fortunately there was a sign language for combat in the Independence Army, and after a few minutes, a confused Leslie followed the soldiers out of the newly occupied position. "Stop moving, stop moving forward." Leslie and others were puzzled by what happened, after breaking through the two lines of defense of the Japanese army outside the city of Singapore, the Independence Army troops acting as the vanguard suddenly stopped, and the servant troops who appeared on both flanks immediately entered the holding position, began to clean up the Japanese corpses and took the opportunity to search for the corpses' belongings.

"Zhuo, why did the troops on the forward line suddenly stop? Shouldn't they have stormed the city in one go? Just as puzzled as Leslie was General Pierce, and after repeatedly confirming that the forward force of the Independence Army had stopped advancing, Pierce asked Zhuo Fei about it.

"General, our aim is to contain and consume more Japanese troops, and if we break through all the Japanese defenses outside the city and capture Singapore, then the Japanese troops in the Philippines will not send troops back to help here. The best way for us to contain the Japanese army and at the same time to constantly consume their troops and materials is to surround them first, and then slowly fight a war of attrition with them here. As long as Singapore is still in the hands of the Japanese army, it will become a decoy, and the Japanese army in other places will continue to send reinforcements to the rescue. ”

"Besides, the Japanese army has now used poison gas bombs, although our soldiers have been issued with gas masks, but we cannot rule out the possibility that the Japanese army will use erosive gas bombs, and I cannot let our soldiers take risks. But rest assured, we have the means to deal with poison gas bombs, and the flying teams in the rear will soon be in the air, and we will use incendiary bombs to attack the Japanese lines, and spread chemicals to clean up the poison gas released by the Japanese army. ”

Zhuo Fei's answer made Pierce react instantly, yes, if there is no more attractive bait, the Japanese army in other places will not send reinforcements here, then the purpose of containing the Japanese army is impossible to talk about. Pierce, who suddenly came to his senses, couldn't help but give Zhuo Fei an angry thumbs up, and sincerely admired Zhuo Fei's thoughtfulness, and instead he was in command of this battle, I was afraid that he would only want to defeat Singapore.

Barely prevaricated Pierce's doubts, in fact, Zhuo Fei's heart was secretly in trouble, Singapore was built like a fortress by the British army, when the Japanese army broke through Singapore took a whole week, although the final capture of Singapore and forced the surrender of the Japanese army stationed in Singapore, but the Japanese army attacking Singapore also suffered large casualties. There were millions of Japanese troops, but the Independence Army under the umbrella was only a few hundred thousand, and Zhuo Fei didn't want to use the lives of the Independence Army soldiers to attack Singapore, so he had to think of other ways to solve the war.

In addition, there was another reason that Zhuo Fei did not want to attack Singapore now, and when Yamashita led his southern march through Southeast Asia, he captured a large number of prisoners of war, the largest of which were the British. Although the prisoners of war had been sent to prisoner-of-war camps in Indonesia by the Japanese army, Zhuo Fei feared that once the independence army took Singapore, the U.S. government would ask him to continue south to Indonesia and rescue the prisoners of war held by the Japanese army. The prisoners of war sent by the Japanese army to Indonesia for labor are more than 100,000 people, and the Umbrella Company has already offended the British by forcibly occupying Burma, and once the hundreds of thousands of British prisoners of war are liberated, I am afraid that there will be a conflict between the Umbrella and those British prisoners of war for the sake of Singapore's ownership.

Zhuo Fei didn't mention these things to Pierce, and in fact, Zhuo Fei didn't expect the Americans to speak for the umbrella company. The only way Zhuo Fei could think of now was to find an excuse to delay the breakthrough of Singapore, and find an opportunity to send some guerrilla troops south to Indonesia to harass the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese army to eliminate the British prisoners of war held by them as soon as possible in order to withdraw troops. Zhuo Fei thought for a long time about this plan to kill people with a knife, if the British prisoners of war of the Japanese troops stationed in Indonesia did it, Zhuo Fei would instruct the guerrillas to lead the rescued British prisoners of war to fight guerrillas everywhere in Indonesia and continue to harass the Japanese army.