Chapter 1336: Underestimating the little devil
On the seventh day of the landing in Penang, the three fleets of the Chinese Pacific Fleet and the British East India Fleet had all entered the Strait of Malacca, located close to the island of Sumatra.
Two days earlier, the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions had penetrated the island of Sumatra, which had become their territory along the entire Strait of Malacca, and the carrier battle group relied on the nearby islands to become as stealthy as possible.
The island army has completely lost air supremacy, and the entire mouth of the strait is full of submarines and warships of the Chinese and British allies.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, Yang Honglie hurriedly walked into Jiang Haoran's office.
Seeing him come in, Jiang Haoran hurriedly asked, "How about Brother Hong Lie, has the island army's aircraft carrier fleet arrived in Singapore?" ”
Yang Honglie shook his head and said: "It's strange, the main seat, the enemy aircraft carrier actually disappeared, and the reconnaissance plane carefully searched the waters near Singapore, but did not find any trace of them, as if they had disappeared." ”
"Oh......" Jiang Haoran frowned, and then got up and walked to the huge map behind him, carefully studied it, pointed to a sea area on the map and said: "The Riau Islands, if I am not mistaken, they must be hiding near the Riau Islands." ”
Yang Honglie nodded and said: "This is really possible, the Riau Islands are close to the Dutch East Indies, and in the air defense field of the Sixth Flying Regiment of the Island Army, our reconnaissance planes dare not approach and search." But...... Aren't they going to Singapore? ”
Jiang Haoran hesitated for a few seconds and said: "It seems that I really underestimated the little devils, they may not really come, they obviously know that we have ten aircraft carriers nearby, and there are aircraft carrier killers - Whale Fork anti-ship missiles, and there is definitely no chance of winning the confrontation of strength, so they try to widen the distance of air combat, so as to extend our stay in the air and achieve the purpose of reducing the attack firepower." And the distance from the Riau Islands to Singapore is already less than two hundred nautical miles, which has entered the optimal combat radius of their fighters, and if we force an air battle with them, I am afraid that we will not be able to find a bargain, and we will have to worry about their Sixth Flying Division participating in the battle. ”
"Sixth Flying Division? This can't be, after all, the Mi people are storming the Dutch East Indies in the south, and they shouldn't be able to pull out. ”
"It's impossible to ask." Jiang Haoran waved his hand at Lin Long as he spoke, ordering her to immediately send a telegram to Nimitz, and asked if the air situation over there in the past two days had seen the island army's army planes significantly reduced.
Nimitz quickly called back, informing him that if it weren't for the island's army planes, they might have landed somewhere.
This shows that the Sixth Flying Regiment of the Island Army should still be over the southern battlefield, at least the main force is still there.
Jiang Haoran and Yang Honglie breathed a sigh of relief, and Yang Honglie said: "As long as the Sixth Flying Division can't come, as long as our aircraft carrier advances another 100 nautical miles, it can at least fully control Singapore's air supremacy. ”
Jiang Haoran said: "I'm afraid it's not so simple, since the little devil has dispatched the aircraft carrier, he must want to transport these divisions away, I don't know what other conspiracy they have?" ”
Yang Honglie hesitated for a few seconds and said, "The island army now has a large number of transport ships approaching Singapore, should we strike at them, or simply blow up their ports." ”
In order to prevent the island army from landing from other places, the ports of Songkhla, Pattani, and Kuantan along the east coast have been razed to the ground, except for the port of Singapore, which is intended to concentrate the island army here and annihilate it.
Jiang Haoran said in a deep voice: "It seems that the only way to do this now is to maximize the materials on Singapore and the tens of thousands of island troops." ”
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An hour later, the east coast port of Singapore.
A large number of cargo ships and transport ships of the island army have entered the military port one after another.
On the docks, busy laborers carried or carried large boxes and small boxes onto the ship, and teams of little devil supervisors kept urging and scolding them, as if they were not fast enough.
All kinds of loading locomotives and large and small cranes are also in full swing, and it seems that the island army has entered the tense stage of the great retreat, and the early transportation is mainly cargo.
Anti-aircraft machine guns, antiaircraft guns, and antiaircraft machine guns can be seen everywhere on wharves and warships, and many of them are surrounded by sand ramparts, and an important naval base is basically a permanent fortification, and these sand fortifications are undoubtedly newly added.
In an open space above the wharf, Lieutenant General Tada Governor, chief of staff of the 22nd Army of the Island Army, personally commanded at the scene.
The islanders are now desperately short of supplies, and if possible, they want to empty every screw in Singapore.
"Woooooo
The sudden sound of a terrible air raid siren means that the radar station has detected the approach of enemy aircraft and will enter the skies over Singapore within minutes.
It has been two or three years since the advent of radar, and both the island army and the German army have been widely used in various fields.
As soon as the air raid siren sounded, the laborers reflexively dropped their belongings and looked around for a place to hide, and the docks were also full of island troops, "Defense, quick drop!" The scene was filled with the sound of cannon loading and chain shaking, and the scene was chaotic.
"Don't stop, keep moving, otherwise you will be killed!" Tada Governor jumped to his feet and howled.
The vicious little devils immediately drove the laborers to continue their work, and when they refused to come out, they were immediately shot and killed on the spot, and the laborers had to pick up the goods they had just dropped again.
Five minutes later, a dense crowd of planes from the southwest was coming, and almost at the same time, the northeast was also overwhelming.
It's no wonder that Tada's face did not change, it turned out that they had already prepared.
The two air forces met in a narrow road over Singapore, and a massive air battle began without warning.
The sky was filled with the roar of machine guns, cannons, the roar of machines, and even the explosions of planes volleying and crashing to the ground.
What is strange is that the number of planes of the island army is not less than that of the Chinese Air Force, and there are a large number of large army aviation planes, and the number of planes is still increasing, and planes from the northeast are constantly coming to join the battle.
The Chinese air force probably did not expect that the island army would suddenly have such a large air force, and the number of fighters and bombers put into operation this time was only more than 100, but the number of planes of the island army actually soared to nearly 200 in just a few minutes, and the situation on the battlefield was instantly controlled by the island army, and the Chinese air force was gradually driven out of the skies over Singapore by them.
At this time, it was too late to call for reinforcements, and the Chinese Air Force had no choice but to flee.