Let's go back to the war between December and January, when the Chinese defense forces were pushed from the Guangxi border to the northern shore of the Johor Strait in less than 40 days. Under the sunset of the British Empire, a few sparse destroyers were quietly parked in the huge dock of the Lion City Changi Naval Base, and not far from the high ground stood majestically with groups of batteries, fifteen-inch cannons pointed at the sea, fully demonstrating the strength of this once empire on which the sun never set. Sailors leisurely shuttled between the batteries, but it is not known whether they noticed: these cannons could not be turned to the rear.

The Malay Peninsula is the boundary between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Singapore, known as "Gibraltar in the Far East", is the gateway to the Strait of Malacca, the main shipping route between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and is also a natural barrier to prevent the National Defense Forces from seizing oil from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). The British Empire has been operating in Singapore for many years, and its Changi Naval Base is even larger. However, after the start of World War II, Britain had no room to take care of this territory, and its deployment in Singapore was reduced to a minimum.

In the second half of the eighteenth year, Churchill decided to send the battleship Prince of Wales, the battlecruiser Counterattack and escort ships to form the new Pacific Fleet (Z Fleet) to the Far East. On 4 December, Fleet Z reached Singapore. Fleet Z is the main force of the navy defending Singapore. At this time, there were about 88,000 troops in the Malay Peninsula and Singapore Army, consisting of British, Australian, Indian and Malay armies, with Lieutenant General Percival in command of the Army. The Air Force has about 150 older aircraft, such as the F2 Buffalo fighter jet, which was eliminated by the United States.

The actual strategic objective of the Defence Force was the oil-rich Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), and the capture of Indochina was also a necessary way to ensure the realization of this strategic objective. In order to gain access to the Dutch East Indies, it was necessary to pass through the British Malay Peninsula. The Wehrma's offensive forces on the Malay Peninsula were divided into two routes: one was the 1st Army of the 15th Army, which had occupied southern Thailand before the outbreak of the Pacific War, entered Thailand by land, occupied Bangkok, and moved south along the Malay Peninsula; On the other hand, the main force of the 17th Army led by Lieutenant General Du Yuming landed from the sea in batches. In order to support the landing operation, the Imperial Navy was covered by the "War Dragon" task force commanded by Vice Admiral Chen Jiabin, which had three aircraft carriers, one battleship, two cruisers, four destroyers, supply ships, and submarines.

On December 4, the same day that the "War Dragon" fleet arrived in Singapore, the mighty 7th Landing Fleet set sail from Sanya, Hainan, and headed for the Malay Peninsula. On 6 December, the landing fleet turned northwest and pretended to sail for Bangkok, claiming to cut off the shipping lines between India and China. On the morning of 7 December, a British reconnaissance plane spotted a Wehrmacht ship, and the British judged that Wehrmacht would land in Thailand first. In fact, at 12 o'clock on the 7th, the landing convoy had suddenly turned around and sailed to Kota Bharu (Malaya), Pattani (Thailand) and Songkhla (Thailand).

At 1.45 a.m. on 8 December, more than 5,000 IDF troops on the southern route of the landing fleet landed at Kota Bharu under the cover of crossfire from four destroyers. Two hours later, the Wehrmacht landing section repelled the defenders of Kota Bharu and took control of the first beachhead in China. Subsequently, the landing forces of Songkhla and Pattani also successfully held their positions. And after landing army units in various places, they quickly seized the nearby airfield. After dawn on the 8th, the Wehrmacht aviation carried out a number of air raids on airfields and Singapore air bases in the Malay Peninsula that had not yet been occupied by its ground forces, and the British Empire's air force was completely lost.

On the afternoon of 8 December, Vice Admiral Phillips led the Z Fleet on an adventurous voyage without air cover and with no known enemy situation. On December 10, the Z Fleet finally had no escape, and 85 planes of the two aircraft carrier formations of the Wehrmacht Navy, "War Dragon" and "Kanglong", cleanly sank the Prince of Wales and the Counterattack in half an hour, and the main force of the Far East Navy ceased to exist.

Several of the main mechanized infantry divisions of the 17th Army, led by Lieutenant General Du Yuming, were fully mechanized units of the Wehrmacht. Its main force landed from Songkhla, Pattani, etc., and then interspersed with the southwest of the Malay Peninsula, and then advanced south along the west coast. The diversion detachment landed from Godta Bharu and then moved south from the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The two Wehrmacht forces, supported by Marine amphibious tanks and air force, rumbled south, and the Wehrmacht used vehicles to divide and encircle the isolated British forces in the jungle, and annihilated each one.

On 11 December, the Indian 11th Division, commanded by General Heath of the British Army, first exchanged fire with the Wehrmacht, and although the Indian Army had a three-to-one advantage in numbers, the training of the troops was very poor, the equipment was in a slight position, and "the sense of unity between officers and soldiers was almost equal to zero", so the result of such an army confrontation with the Wehrmacht was conceivable.

On 19 December, the IDF Western Route Force Detachment occupied the British Air Force base on Penang, eliminating the possibility of air support by British Commonwealth forces from the direction of India and Burma to the defenders of the Malay Peninsula. The main force of the West Road is rapidly moving south along the west coast. The Eastern Route Force captured Kuantan on 26 December and then advanced towards Johor. The Western Route Force entered Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaya, on 18 December and then continued its advance.

"The shadow of defeat spread like a plague among the British troops, and the retreat soon became uncontrollable, with more and more equipment falling into the hands of the Wehrmacht. The Royal Chinese Air Force could load British fuel on British airfields and drop British bombs on British positions. The mechanized units of the Chinese Wehrmacht closely pursued the retreating Anglo-Indian troops, sitting in tanks and armored vehicles, talking and laughing, as if they were going to watch a football match. Hundreds of wheeled and tracked vehicles converged into a noisy group, and the retreating Indian army was terrified, and they had no experience in dealing with tanks, so the rout became an inevitable choice. ”

A quarter of the British mainland had already fallen, and although the German mechanized divisions were stopped south of London by British troops equipped with American aid, most of the weakly defended Wales were occupied by the Germans. In this case, almost all British forces were transferred to the home mainland, and it was impossible for the British army in Malaya to have any assistance, and on January 20, the French troops stationed in Vietnam, under the orders of the Vichy regime, handed over the defense to China, completely withdrew from the Far East, and the only barrier in Malaya was withdrawn. General Percival has ordered a final retreat to Singapore. On 1 February, the British blew up a 1,000-metre-long channel dam connecting Singapore with Johor, making Singapore a veritable island.

Singapore's local residents are mainly Chinese. In the face of the imminent arrival of the motherland's army, most Singaporean Chinese actively carried out preparatory activities. After the secret establishment of some Chinese organizations, the number of official members reached thousands, including shop assistants, workers, and students. On December 30, people of various factions of overseas Chinese in Singapore established the "Singapore Overseas Chinese Independence Support Association" to support the "Overseas Chinese Volunteers" in cooperation with the National Defense Force's action to liberate Singapore. By 1 February 19, the Defence Forces had launched an offensive and began attacking Singapore. The Commander-in-Chief of the British General Command, Frank Blashua, then announced the start of the offensive and defensive battle in Singapore and decided to defend the front line, and the British forces in Singapore began to engage the Wehrmacht.

At the same time, on 8 February, more than 1,000 members of the "Overseas Chinese Volunteers" headed by Lim Kai Fu, a Malayan Chinese, went to the front line under the slogan of "Defend Satellite Island" to assist the Wehrmacht in fighting the British army. At that time, the British army declared that the "Overseas Chinese Volunteers" in Singapore belonged to the rebels and immediately carried out the strangulation, but in front of the Volunteers who were divided into pieces, the British had no goal at all, but were secretly instructed by the Volunteers The target was attacked several times by the Royal Chinese Air Force, and the soldiers were defeated. In many parts of Singapore, such as the Jurong front, the Pasir Panjang coastal line, the Bukit Timah coastal coast, etc., the Volunteers even fought large-scale fierce battles against the British army, and repelled the British attacks many times, and the volunteers also suffered heavy casualties. However, because the British had foreseen their future fate, no troops dared to open fire on the unarmed Chinese people, so as not to be brutally retaliated against by the Wehrmacht in the future.

In addition, due to problems with training and equipment, the British army in Singapore was losing ground one after another. After several defeats at the hands of the Wehrmacht, the British General Command decided to surrender. On February 15, Lieutenant General Blas, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Singapore, personally signed the unconditional surrender at the Ford Motor Plant in Bukit Timah, formally handing over the sovereignty of Singapore to the Chinese National Defense Forces, and all 120,000 British troops were captured. Most of the captured British soldiers were sent to a large prisoner of war camp set up by the Wehrmacht in Liuzhou, and most of them managed to survive the war, and they were the first great soldiers to enjoy peace.

"A cannon with more grapes than a Christmas pudding will hold Singapore," said an Australian newspaper so vividly dispelling readers' worries about Singapore's future. But according to Churchill's words, "Singapore has no land defense, which is equivalent to a bottomless warship that can sail!" ”。 Singapore's defenses were aimed at attacking from the sea, and only a few of the shore guns could rotate at a large angle, so they were useless against the landing behind. At this time, there were about 80,000 British, Australian, and Indian allied troops in Singapore, although food and ammunition were relatively sufficient, the morale of the soldiers was low, and they had no air and sea supremacy.

The 17th Army swept effortlessly across Indochina and then unleashed a deadly roar at the Lion City. On the morning of 8 February 19, the Wehrmacht artillery and aviation again heavily bombarded artillery positions, airfields and other facilities on the island of Singapore. Subsequently, a regiment made a feigned landing in an open area in the northeast corner of Singapore, preventing the 18th Division, the main force of the British army guarding the northeast, from moving elsewhere. On the night of 8 February, the 67th and 68th Mechanized Infantry Divisions, the main forces of the Defence Forces, landed in landing craft in the bushes and marshes west of the causeway, where the exhausted and unguarded Australian forces were guarded. After the Wehrmacht landed, work was set about establishing and consolidating the landing ground, and then the 44th Rapid Reaction Division also moved west and landed at the landing field. The 3 elite divisions of the 17th Wehrmacht Army advanced side by side to the south. By 14 February, the Defence Forces had occupied key areas such as Bukit Timah Highlands, Inpot Reservoir and Kallang Airport, encircled the city on three sides, and intensified air strikes. On February 10, three days after the Wehrmacht landed, Bai Sihua signed the unconditional surrender, and this "first fortified city in the East" fell into the hands of the Wehrmacht.