At about 4 o'clock that day, Singapore, the headquarters of the 22nd Army of the Island Army.

The commander, Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai, sits firmly in the tent of the Chinese army.

Although the situation in Singapore and the Malay Peninsula is not optimistic, there is no panic in the headquarters, the radio and telephone are ringing non-stop, and the staff officers and generals are busy but not chaotic.

The back road was intercepted, but there were more than 40,000 people in three divisions of the British army controlled in the palm of their hands, and this was their confidence and hole cards.

The 22nd Army had four divisions, of which the 118th Division was stationed in the area far south of Songkhla, bordering Siam. The 18th Division was stationed on the front line in Songkhla and Penang. In Singapore is the 19th Division, a permanent division, while across the Johor Strait is the 119th Division.

Although there are only four divisions and regiments, under the premise that there are very few permanent divisions and regiments at present, the army that can be composed of two first-class divisions and two ad hoc divisions and regiments as the main force is definitely a relatively rare establishment of the island army, and there are especially super-established elite divisions such as the 18th division, which shows that the island army still has invested enough money to garrison Singapore.

The base camp had already given Takashi Sakai an ultimatum, and the current battle plan was still based on retreat, and they were convinced that the British would definitely be able to persuade Chiang Haoran to withdraw his troops.

Although Britain is now at sunset, there is still a powerful country of rice behind them, as long as the people of the country intervene, no matter how strong Jiang Haoran is, he can only obediently let go of the road.

Therefore, at present, the island army on the peninsula is still preparing for retreat, all kinds of large-scale equipment and materials are being nervously transported to the rear and docks, and a large number of transport ships are also anchored in the nearby waters.

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The bleak anti-aircraft sirens sounded without warning, especially in bomb shelters.

Because of the loss of air supremacy, the Chinese air force raged in the sky, and the command headquarters was forced to be placed in an air-raid shelter dozens of meters deep into the ground.

After the air defense sirens sounded, it was bound to be a bombing that shook the ground and shook the mountains, and this kind of situation has become commonplace in the past few days; even underground, the officers and men in the command headquarters still quickly put on earplugs, and the impact of the heavy bombs will still make their eardrums ache.

But this time there seemed to be some exceptions, and the sound of the explosion did not sound for a long time, but when the signal corps hurriedly came in to report, it was a few reconnaissance planes that came, and many bombs were dropped but letters of persuasion, and the whole sky was white and snowy, and it is estimated that the whole of Singapore was sprinkled all over Singapore.

Takashi Sakai took the letter of surrender from the soldier's hand, glanced at it hurriedly, then tore the paper to shreds, and roared, "Damn, big drops, hateful." ”

He graduated from the non-commissioned officer school of the island army, entered China in 1928 and served as the military attache of the consulate in Jinan, and single-handedly planned and created the Jinan tragedy that shocked China and foreign countries.

In 1934, he was transferred to the chief of staff of the garrison army of the island country in Tianjin, personally drafted the He Mei Agreement, drew a knife on He Yingjing's neck, and forced He Yingjing to sign it immediately.

The Kuomintang and the Northeast Army were then expelled from North China. 1

In 1937, he was promoted to the commander of the Major General Brigade and participated in the Battle of Lanfeng.

He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1940 and led the 19th Division to occupy Hong Kong in just 18 days, forcing the British colonial governor to surrender.

Therefore, Takashi Sakai is also a military commander who grew up from the flames of war, and his courage and strategy are good, and he can see through at a glance that this is Jiang Haoran's trick, which is nothing more than disturbing the military spirit of the locust army.

He also knew that this trick was absolutely effective, and although he could convince the officers with strong evidence, it would be difficult for the ignorant people and rank-and-file soldiers to succeed.

Jiang Haoran's "ferocity" has long been imprinted in the hearts of the locusts soldiers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not an exaggeration to say that Jiang has changed color, and the terrifying lethality of napalm is enough to make the soldiers frightened, so this mess may be inevitable.

Soon, Takashi Sakai's fears were validated, several wing commanders called, and a cloud of fear had spread across the barracks, with many recruits even crying in fright, and veterans asking for more protection or a temporary retreat.

But even more chaotic are the people in the city, who are like headless flies scurrying around, looking for impossible shelters, causing traffic jams, disorder, and the situation to get out of control for a while.

In order to maintain stability, Takashi Sakai had to give an order to kill all the soldiers, whether it was a soldier or a civilian, and anyone who disturbed the morale and order of the army would be shot.

For a while, the sky over Singapore was full of gunfire, and although the chaos had improved, the clouds of fear were like the coming night, spreading wildly and enveloping everyone on the island.

At about 6 o'clock, the Chinese air force attacked again, and the fighters and bombers unceremoniously poured down aerial bombs and smoke bombs, along with a large number of leaflets, declaring that this was only a warning that if the island army continued to be obsessed, in another hour, napalm would kill them in the flames.

While the city was in chaos, Singapore's Changgi Beach was filled with smoke, and the defending island troops swept up all kinds of machine-gun fire in the fortifications in order to prevent the British from taking the opportunity to attack.

The British soldiers on the beach began to line up their tanks and build a steel defense line on the beach, and a large number of ships were faintly visible on the sea not far behind.

As soon as it gets dark, the British soldiers will drop all their heavy equipment and board the landing ships and transport ships that are quietly approaching and quickly evacuate the beach.

In the sea not far away, not only the East India Fleet will escort them, but also the Second Fleet of the Chinese Navy will also provide them with fire support, and hundreds of heavy bombers will sweep for them in the sky.

……

In the midst of the chaos in Singapore, a fierce battle has just ended on a nondescript hill on the Malay Peninsula.

The battlefield was strewn with corpses and smoke, and dozens of little devil soldiers were stumbling down the hillside.

In the trench on the hill, a middle-aged man wearing a blue uniform, wearing a triangular red cloth logo on his right arm, and a yellow cloth wrapped around his head leaned out for most of his body, looking at the devil under the mountain showing a row of white teeth.

"Come out, the little devil has been beaten down by us again." The middle-aged man turned around and howled loudly.

Twenty or thirty heads emerged from the trenches, all of them with gray faces and no expressions, but all showing a row of white teeth and grinning.

After a burst of cheers, everyone began to call out names, but almost no one answered.

Everyone began to panic, and the corpses were turned up in the trenches, followed by a cry and curse.

"Enough, don't cry, hurry up and count the number of people and ammunition, maybe the little devil will attack again soon." The middle-aged man scolded loudly.

Only then did everyone begin to wipe away the tears from their faces, arranging for a small person to count the number of people, and others to collect weapons and ammunition.

This group of troops is the "Chinese Volunteers" active in Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, and the middle-aged man is their commander Hu Tiejun.