This made Jiang Haoran a little dumbfounded, although he didn't believe that the British had the ability to take down Singapore, but they made this matter look like it, and even openly said that they didn't need their own assistance, who would dare to do it without being completely sure?

Jiang Haoran immediately panicked in his heart, worked hard to prepare, spent a lot of energy, troops, and resources, but in the end he made a wedding dress for others, he really hadn't eaten this kind of loss, and his face was a little dark with anger.

Just when the atmosphere in the headquarters was a little solemn, Chief of Staff Gui Yongqing hurriedly walked in, stood still in front of Jiang Haoran, seemed to notice that the atmosphere in the room and Jiang Haoran's expression were a little wrong, and he wanted to speak and stopped, and after hesitating for two seconds, he still said carefully: "General seat, the reconnaissance plane found a large number of island warships and transport ships shuttling in the Johor Strait of Singapore, and it is suspected that the island army has increased a large number of troops. ”

"Got it!" Jiang Haoran replied impatiently, did not ask more, and did not give any instructions on this, at present, Singapore is in an emergency, and it is normal for the island army to urgently increase troops and transport a large number of materials, this is not valuable information, and Jiang Haoran is depressed at this time, where is he in the mood to think about these small things.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Honglie sent a telegram saying that the British East India Fleet would soon enter the Strait of Malacca.

Jiang Haoran replied, pay close attention to the battle between the two sides, but do not participate in the battle, the British clearly said not to help themselves, he will not lick his face to be thankless.

The Strait of Malacca runs southeast and northwest, with the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean at its northwest end and the South China Sea at its southeast end. With a total length of about 1,080 kilometers, the widest part of the strait is 370 kilometers in the northwest and 37 kilometers in the southeast.

Because the narrow place was only 37 kilometers long, and it had already entered the range of shore-based artillery fire on both sides of the strait, Jiang Haoran wanted to see what ability the British had to pass through the powerful shore-based artillery fire.

The battle soon began, and Yang Honglie would send telegrams every ten minutes detailing the battle situation between the two sides.

But what is strange is that in every telegram, the British army is extremely brave, the carrier-based aircraft easily destroy the enemy's fortifications, and the dense naval guns are like long eyes, and the accuracy is incomparable.

On the other hand, the island army, which has always had good combat effectiveness, had no accuracy in its shooting, and hit very few targets, and under the fire of British carrier-based aircraft and naval guns, they showed no fighting spirit and were about to collapse at the first touch.

The battle ended in less than an hour, and the British were victorious, with all ships passing through the Strait of Malacca and heading straight for Singapore.

When this result came, the entire command was dead silent for several minutes, which literally subverted everyone's senses and cognition.

When did the British become so brave?

When did the island army become so vulnerable?

This is probably the most thought-out and incomprehensible question on everyone's minds at this time.

If this information had not been seen by their own air forces, I am afraid that no one present would believe that this was a real battle situation and result.

"It's not like the British and the island army are acting, right?" Lin Long suddenly said something shocking, breaking the tranquility of the headquarters, and almost everyone's eyes were on him at this moment.

"Acting? What kind of play? Jiang Haoran exclaimed.

Lin Long shook his head a little dazedly, and said, "I don't know what kind of drama I play, but don't you think it's too much like a drama?" ”

Jiang Haoran was stunned, his brows instantly tightened, and he seemed to say to himself: "Could it be that the British and the island army have reached some agreement, and the island army will voluntarily hand over Singapore to them, and this battle is for us to see?" ”

"This ...... Impossible, right? Chen Shaokuan said: "Singapore is an extremely important strategic point of the Pacific defense line, the island army has already lost Sumatra, if Singapore is abandoned again, the Dutch East Indies Islands will all be exposed to the aviation fire of the allies, and there is no possibility of holding on, can the island army do this?" Or do they dare to do so? ”

Jiang Haoran hesitated for a few seconds, and suddenly raised his eyebrows, as if he had understood something, and then his face sank, and he said in a cruel voice: "Can they ...... And they dare! ”

"Why?" There were at least four or five people in the command who spoke in unison.

"Humph!" Jiang Haoran sneered and said: "First, the little devil understands very well that if China, the United States and Britain jointly attack Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, they have no possibility of holding on at all, if the price is right, it is a good choice to sell it to the British, not only retaining its strength, but also getting benefits." Second, Burma is no longer defensible, and even the whole of Southeast Asia has been completely out of control, even if they carry it to the death, our expeditionary force will inevitably capture the entire territory of Burma, and the next step will be to go straight to Siam, the land route of the Malay Peninsula will be completely blocked by our army, and the island army must find a way out, and this retreat is our Liangguang - Guangzhou and Guangxi, so they will attack Liangguang before this, in fact, in order to face today's situation. Third, the combined fleet of the island army has suffered one after another, and the Mi army and our wings are growing, and they have lost the conditions for fighting for the Pacific Ocean, so they can only shrink their forces and retreat to the next best thing to keep the last line of defense, so as to ensure the security of their last territory in China and their homeland. And this last line of defense is built on our island chain of Hainan Island, the Philippines and Saipan. Therefore, they dared to abandon Singapore, and they had to abandon it. ”

As soon as Jiang Haoran's voice fell, political commissar Xiao Guang continued: "This also reasonably explains why the British are suddenly so 'brave', and why the island people are so 'vulnerable'. So, I agree with the general seat. ”

This singing and harmony made the people in the command a little confused, and Chen Shaokuan still said unrelentingly: "Okay, I admit that what you said makes sense, but how do you explain that the island army is still sending troops to Singapore, this is the intelligence of the morning." ”

Jiang Haoran said: "Actually, it's very simple, what the air force sees is not an increase in the island army at all, but an emergency retreat, I remember that in the morning when Chief of Staff Gui reported, he said, 'There are countless warships and transport ships on the island', I didn't think much about it at that time, in fact, there is a problem in this, if the island army only increases troops and transports materials, there will be no grand situation of shuttling back and forth, and this situation must be that the island army is in a hurry to transport the strategic materials on the island back, so this busy scene will appear." ”

This statement has won the approval of a large number of people, and Gui Yongqing is not willing to be lonely: "In this way, the air supremacy was also voluntarily given up by the island army, which also explains why we only shot down more than 100 of their planes with a whole flight regiment of the island army, and they are not willing to spend too much money on Singapore." ”