Lin Jun's words were obviously an initiating reminder for Raslov, "As long as the new equipped infantry squad has two people and one body each, it can provide very effective warp fire support in combat, and it does not account for the staffing number." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The most important thing is the role of the squad when fighting, such as in the woods or in the city like the Battle of Minsk.

As for the added weight of the grenade launcher to the soldier, for the generally large Russian soldiers, the AK47 made by the stamping process in their hands is not heavy, and the grenade launcher with a mass of more than a kilogram is completely within the weight that the soldier can bear.

In practical use, as long as the grenade launcher is assigned to soldiers with better physical strength, and the Soviet Union is the most indispensable in terms of manpower is the Russian strong man!

They may be inflexible, but there are always a few people in each infantry squad who are still flying with general-purpose machine guns.

"We have always emphasized the regular assault operations of large-scale corps in great depth and advocated coordinated operations, and some of them have neglected the independent combat capability of infantry under special conditions in actual combat, and infantry operations are highly dependent on vehicles and artillery fire. At present, it is necessary to rely on regular assaults of large-scale and large-scale corps to win the war, but since we have already thought of improving the independent combat capability of infantry detachments, it is still necessary to improve the infantry's ability to fight alone as much as possible. ”

Effective equipment is better than nothing, and many troops will carry far more weapons and ammunition than the prescribed share in actual combat, and basically they will not shout too heavy and tired: when it comes to the exchange of fire, they will always feel that the firepower and ammunition are not enough, and they will not think that it is too much!

Just like soldiers in the army who use assault rifles, the standard ammunition allocation under normal circumstances is to grab one magazine and three on the chest. And the actual situation is: when marching, many soldiers are like ammunition transport machines, and it is very common to carry two more ammunition bases with oblique bags, which is basically how much they can carry!

Lin Jun held the launcher in his hand and said: "This is a good thing, Raslov, you have to come up with the best modified design as soon as possible and submit it to the Ministry of Armament, and I will let the Small Explosives Design Bureau help you to develop suitable ammunition at the same time." ”

The gun-mounted grenade launcher can not only provide infantry with close-range fire support, but also kill and kill live targets at the point, without affecting the normal shooting of firearms. It can be fired horizontally or in a curved manner, and can be used to destroy exposed single or group targets at ranges from 50 to 400 meters, or to kill targets hidden behind obstacles, behind bunkers, in foxholes, or on the back of small hills.

"You just need to design it as a grab mount mounted on top of an assault rifle."

"Yes, Marshal. I'll make design changes to it as soon as possible. ”

"In order to be able to add to existing assault rifles without any technical modifications, it should be said that for many years we will design new assault rifles, and we will still use AK47 as the basis. It's very important that you put it on the barrel and fix it with a fixing buckle, so that you don't need tools when loading and unloading. ”

It's all about ease of use: the grenade launcher is already very simple, and the ammunition is clearly designed to be front-loaded, with the rear of the chamber fixed.

The front-loading launcher, in terms of design concept, seems to be as old as the bronze cannon in the Brest Fortress! Actually, it's very advanced!

At first glance, the ammunition looks like the fuse of a large-caliber artillery shell, but in fact this is a complete ammunition with a diameter of 40 mm: it is launched using the principle of high and low pressure of the new concept, the high-pressure chamber is on the body of the projectile, and the initial volume of the low-pressure chamber is formed by the space between the launcher and the medicine chamber, and there is no need to withdraw the shell after launching.

Because there is not enough high-performance aluminum alloy, it is basically made of existing steel, and there is no delayed explosive device, and of course, the safety cannot be compared with the anti-personnel grenades of later generations.

Simple, it can be effectively launched into the target area, and then it can hit the ground and explode, producing an explosion power that exceeds that of an ordinary grenade, and this is its only design goal - whatever it can do, the mine factory can use the existing equipment and technology to manufacture.

As for the danger of unexploded ordnance: historically, the Red Army used more than 220 million mines in the Great Patriotic War, and this issue was not considered until the end of the war.

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Since he went to inspect the mine and grenade factory, Lin Jun of course also had to look at all the products and production here.

Grenades are produced in large quantities by only one model of wooden-handled grenades designed by Lin Jun, and a large number of trucks transport countless boxes of grenades to the railway station and then to the front line every day; As for the abundance of mines, almost all kinds of anti-infantry mines and anti-tank mines equipped by the Red Army are found here, and there are also new products that have been trial-produced by factories.

It turned out that the comrades of the workers who made the tin cans were no slower than the comrades of the old arsenal to build mines, and they had a little more innovative spirit: they had more ideas to become monks halfway, and they could have a lot of wonderful ideas when they were guided.

Lin Jun saw an unconventional mine like a curved brick in workshop No. 4, and now he wondered if someone had "crossed" like him!

It was clearly an anti-infantry directional mine, a product that would not appear until the early 50s, but after the introduction it was learned that the Red Army had already been put into small-scale use, and the troops reacted very well!

The seat is too high, and there are still many things I don't know.

Directional mines, as the name suggests, only explode in a fixed way when a mine is detonated, and no one in other directions will be affected: to put it simply, no one has designed a special directional mine for many years after the appearance of landmines.

Directional anti-infantry mines are a weapon that will discourage the opponent's infantry in the future, and there is basically no chance of survival in front of it! And it's going to die a terrible death!

As far as Lin Jun knows, the history of the development of directional mines can be traced back to the Second World War, but by no means in Moscow.

By the time of the Korean War, in order to hold on to its position and save the losing situation, the "United ****" used directional mines for the first time: a Canadian design.

The American GIs, who were squatting in the same trench as the Canadians, also became interested in the Canadians' technology and took a few directional mines from the Canadians to study them.

A few years later, the Americans had plastic-shelled M18 anti-infantry directional mines.

The world's military academic circles have recognized that the M18 is the first anti-infantry directional mine officially equipped with troops, and this is how the directional mine in Lin Jun's memory came from.

Seeing that Lin Jun was very interested in the directional mines being assembled, Comrade the factory director, who had not interjected for a long time, said: "Marshal, this is the Type 41 directional anti-infantry mine designed by us, which has been put into small-scale mass production and has been practically applied in front-line defensive operations at the beginning of this year, and the response of the troops is very good. ”

"Whose design?"

"It was a brainstorming design, because the troops on the Baltic coast needed a weapon that could restrain the fascist infantry from tailing the attack of the tank group, and after we got the news, we managed to develop this kind of directional mine exposed to the air and provided it to the troops supporting the North-Western Front."

"How did you master the technique of directional blasting?" At first glance, the factory director was a little unable to react, "I mean, how can you grasp the principle of detonating explosives behind a curved steel plate, and most of the impact force acts perpendicular to the steel plate?" ”

Now the factory director and the technicians on the side are really impressed by the deputy commander: this principle is not understandable to everyone, and this principle is completely new!

"Marshal, this was originally due to an accident, but I didn't expect our technicians to get this technology in an accident."

Lin Jun saw the frightened expression of the factory director, and he didn't have any intention of pursuing it, this is not what he, the deputy commander, should care about: "If the steel plate can become a high-speed penetrating body in the explosion, its destructive ability will be very amazing!" You can test this in future research, provided that you can maximize the mass production of your current product. ”

"Yes, Marshal. We have this idea too, but the technology is very difficult to master, and it is not the most urgently needed at the moment. If the technology matures, a new and very effective anti-armor mine weapon will be born, but now we have mastered only anti-infantry directional mine technology. ”

"Proceeding from reality, we must take one step at a time -- you will provide what is needed for war, and this is the most important thing at present!"

The Type 41 directional mine in front of you is just a simple arc-shaped plastic box in appearance, and in order to facilitate the laying, two pairs of scissor-shaped simple brackets made of steel wire are installed under the mine shell.

At first glance, it looks like a brick, nothing special, and nothing "outwardly intimidating" - its real mystery is hidden in the thunder shell!

The front of the body contains 700 steel balls with a total weight of 650 grams, while the back contains 680 grams of explosives. Once the mine is detonated, within a 60-120 degree angle to its front, the dense steel balls like raindrops can effectively kill enemies within a range of 50-100 meters, and the fragments can even fly up to 250 meters away!

Within its effective killing range, it is difficult for the enemy to escape the "steel rain" formed by these 700 steel balls, whether they are standing or lying down.

As for the source of the steel balls, they are used from the defective products eliminated by the Moscow Region Bearing Factory - they cannot be used there, and they are just right on the mines: there is not much attention paid to the quality of the steel balls that are shot into the human body.

In times of war, make the most of all resources. It turned out that the plant had a little trouble with the supply of plastics, but as soon as the report on the use of the Baltic Coastal Forces came up, the problem was immediately resolved: the Ministry of Armament gave priority to ensuring the supply of plastics to the Moscow mine plant.

In addition to plastic, wires are also sufficient: Type 41 directional mines are generally detonated with electric ****, because they are generally used as positional defense, there is a 90-meter-long wire and a canvas carrying bag, and there is an instruction manual in the carrying bag, even soldiers who have not used it before can easily learn how to use it through the manual.

"The only safety problem is that the 16-metre range and 120-degree angle behind the mine is a dangerous area, because when the mine explodes, the fragments of the mine shell will fly backwards, and the operator and his own personnel cannot enter the area."

"If necessary, it can also be taped to tree trunks or other objects, or even laid in water, with excellent moisture resistance. We have experimented with 1 hour of immersion in salt water and can still be used normally. For example, if you use all kinds of hair, tripping, and pressure fire equipment to detonate, you can replace the electric **** with an ordinary **** and connect it with ******, which are all ordinary equipment for engineers in the front-line troops. ”

The Type 41 directional mine is similar to the M18A1 directional mine that the Americans put into the Vietnam campaign in the 60s, and Lin Jun himself has seen its "Chinese version": Type 66 anti-infantry directional mine, its structure, power, and use method are similar to the M18A1.

As long as it can be reasonably used in actual combat, the lethality of the enemy's infantry is amazing!

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In western Lithuania, 5 km northwest of Nemenchne, the northern gateway of Vilnius, the position of the 1st Mechanized Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Guards. The position of a company of the 3rd battalion of the 9th Infantry Regiment.

This generation was a hilly area, where the Red Army was at the forefront of Lithuania, and the positions were able to overlook the inner city of Nemenchi in the distance. In the bitter cold season, the Red Army had no intention of the city in front of them, where the Germans had heavy troops, and the Germans had deployed three lines of defense from the villages in an open distance of 5 kilometers from here to the outskirts of the city.

A battalion of 122-mm howitzers, less than two kilometers behind the positions of the company, controlled the movement of German troops with artillery fire, and any German troops who appeared in the field of view of the front-line observation posts were effectively shelled!

It took almost 200 men for the first division to seize this forward position, and it was subjected to numerous counter-assaults by the Germans within a month, and the result of repeated tug-of-war was that the hills seemed to be eliminated by dozens of centimeters!

A very small area, which the soldiers called "small land", and every inch of land here seems to be soaked in the blood of Red Army soldiers, and the lives of nearly 1,000 Red Army commanders and fighters have been lost on this position!

The artillery battalion in the back also changed positions twice in three days, and in this way there were only half of the men left in the whole battalion - the German artillery was not vegetarian either!

The combat planes of the air forces of the two sides were not idle in this cold season, fighting around the battle for positions on the ground, and more than 40 wreckage of the planes of both sides could be found on horseback riding around the control areas on both sides!

Now a fierce battle has begun on the infantry positions, and with the support of tanks and artillery fire, the German infantry has once again launched a fierce attack on the positions of the Red Army!

After a standard German 105mm howitzer suppressed the base, the snow on the position that had just fallen last night was already disrupted by the charred black soil, which was extremely dazzling with black and white.

In the face of the German offensive, intensive artillery fire broke out again on the positions of the Red Army!

It has become a war of attrition, which the higher authorities do not want to see: but since they control this important place of battle, they must not give it to the fascists! Even if you spend a lot of money, you have to stick to it!

The attacking side always suffered greater casualties than the defenders, and although a war of attrition is not the usual style of the 1st Division of the Guards Interior, it is no longer up to the commander to do so!

The Germans clearly had a numerical and equipping advantage, and at least one regiment of German infantry with more than 30 No. 4 tanks was getting closer and closer to the position!

The barrel is red, and it is cooled directly with snow! On the left flank of a company, the German infantry was already close to 50 meters! Fortunately, the German tanks could not reach the hillside with anti-tank mines for a while, so they could only go around from both sides, and the 76.2 mm anti-tank guns of the Red Army also burst out with the maximum rate of fire!

The anti-tank artillery of the Red Army had the courage to be feared by the Germans, that is, to fight to the last man, even the fascist tanks would still shoot in front of them!

Never run away and defend every inch of the motherland's territory with flesh and blood!

But the confidence of the Germans did not seem to have been affected much - they had to uproot this Red Army position, which posed a direct threat to Nemenchne!

Just when the German infantry was less than 30 meters away from the position, a scene appeared that the Germans behind would never forget! It seems that in an instant, the soldiers rushing in front are "dancing"!

In the dense gunfire and explosions, the Germans did not find any violent explosions, and even the terrifying grenades just now were already sparse, but it seemed that something had swept the front of the position!

At the critical moment, the Red Army on the position used directional mines that had been laid long ago! And almost at the same time, directional mines that were not destroyed in advance by artillery fire were detonated at the same time!

The rain of bullets composed of steel balls swept through the German infantry, and the soil and snow that were stirred up, coupled with the blood mist that rose like mist, instantly destroyed the morale of the German army!

A single explosion far exceeded the effect of a salvo of weapons in the hands of all the Red Army on the position! The Germans in front were brought down like a gust of wind, and most of them could not stand up again!

The nerves of the Germans in the back were the dying comrades: they were screaming like bloody men!

They were loyal German fighters, regardless of sacrifice and pain, not afraid of shell explosions and machine gun bullets whistling from the Russians, but they still had a common human weakness: fear of danger that they did not know and could not understand!

Just as their fathers faced the rumbling tin cans of the British army for the first time in 16 years, the German soldiers, like their commanders, chose the primitive first choice of human nature - to retreat!

The danger of not knowing is the most terrible, and under an attack of that magnitude, the attacking Germans thought that it was impossible for them to rush through the "steel rain" that had just appeared!

The Germans did not know that it was already the last batch of directional mines on the positions of the Red Army!

In the face of the retreating German troops, the soldiers did not even have the strength to cheer when the commanders shouted the order to "stop shooting"!

Outside the position, there were still screams of the German wounded, but the sound grew quieter in the bitter cold of minus 20 degrees Celsius: no one paid attention to them, and the scene repeated almost every day for a week. And on his own side, the more he fought, the fewer people came, and every time a new company came to support, it didn't take two days to almost "change" a group of people.

"Small Land", which was already well-known in the North-Western Front, was already a bargaining chip in Tukhachevsky's hands when the entire North-Western Front seemed to be silent: due to the interlacing of teeth on both sides of the front, Army Group North could not relieve the threat to the north-west of Vilnius with absolutely superior forces, and its attention was largely attracted there!

The "Red God of War" will not be content to do a sit-down war, and before the winter season, which the Germans are not accustomed to, is not over, and the rainy season has not arrived, the North-Western Front will launch an offensive campaign, and the location is in the middle of the border line between Latvia and Lithuania!

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The infantry of the 1st Guards Division had directional mines, and 8,500 kilometres away from them, on the shores of the murky Straits of Johor, in a swamp overgrown with tropical vegetation, British, Australian and Indian troops were desperately reinforcing fortifications that had been overlooked by pre-war military planners.

If the British, who could have possessed the Red Army's directional mines, they would probably exchange the last pound on their bodies, but unfortunately they didn't, so they had to use all the weapons they could use.

The heat, fatigue, demoralization, and the little tropical bugs all made the trouble for the British army even worse!

On the evening of February 7, 1942, Yamashita believed that the final moment had come: he sent the Guards Division across the strait.

At 10:30 p.m., 300 plywood assault boats began to force their way to the open fortified coastal positions on the east side of the channel causeway, but to the swamps overgrown with tropical vegetation to the west, where the defence was weak and the defenders were exhausted Australian troops.

The Japanese army's ability to adapt to the harsh combat environment exceeded the expectations of the British, who had misguided themselves before the war.

In a matter of hours, more than 4,000 Japanese troops landed and penetrated through the gap between the tropical vegetation in the swamps and the line of the 22nd Australian Brigade.

By dawn the next day, almost half of Yamashita's entire force of 30,000 men had successfully landed in Singapore.

Shortly after dawn, groups of Japanese soldiers charging with bayonets in their hands were overwhelmed, and the Australian army's defensive lines began to waver, and the soldiers guarding these lines fled in all directions.

It was pouring rain, and most of the soldiers' feet were scratched one by one. Australians wade through rivers, through swamps overgrown with tropical vegetation, through bushes to roads.

They threw away all the burdens, even the rifles and bullets!

A group of stragglers, or even "soldiers and bravery" are gone!

Faced with an almost vulnerable Commonwealth army, at dawn the Japanese swarmed through a mile-wide gap in the front line towards the so-called Jurong Line, the second line of defense established by the British along the western bulge on the island.

Now the British had to pay the price for concentrating most of their forces on the forward line.

The British army had insufficient reserves and there were no strong rear positions in front of the city. By evening, the staff officers of the British command knew that it was only a matter of time before the Japanese army ran rampant across the island.

Churchill gave the defenders of Singapore a non-negotiable order: "Fight to the end!" Field commanders and senior officers should die with soldiers! The honor of the British Empire is here! The Russians are fighting bloodily, the Americans are clinging to Luzon, therefore, the honor of our country is here! ”

By the time the sun rose on 11 February, the Japanese had already taken control of half of the island. On the outskirts of Singapore, the vanguard of the Japanese army engaged the British across an abandoned airstrip.

At this time, Yamashita found a problem, and the British, frightened by the Japanese frenzy, were completely unaware: Yamashita realized that his 30,000 troops were numerically inferior, and the Japanese army urgently needed to bluff Singapore into surrendering quickly.

If the British found that the Japanese were under-armed and undersupplied, and engaged in a Minsk-style street battle, the loss of the Japanese troops would be difficult for Yamashita to accept.

But the strength of the Japanese army was not so important to the British, because the will to fight of the British Commonwealth army had collapsed: the streets of Singapore were crowded with drunken deserters who painted a "slogan" on the wall - Britain is British, Australia is Australian, and Malaya is only for bitches!

Singapore's damp monsoon was filled with the stench of dead bodies and the smell of wine emanating from the gutters, and the Governor-General, Sir Sheldon Thomas, had anticipated the capture of the city and had given an interesting order: to destroy all the wine-making ingredients.

For this order, probably the Japanese will find it a little inexplicable.

In that week, almost all but a few of the 50 ships that had evacuated civilians from Singapore had been sunk by bombers and Japanese warships blockading the island, and few survivors had been rescued by the Japanese.

What if it was rescued? Concentration camps awaited them.

On 13 February, one of the darkest Fridays in the British Empire, Churchill received a telegram from Singapore: "I fear that the resistance will not last,"

Churchill replied: "Your heroic resistance is of great significance, and you should hold out to the end!" ”

The next morning, the plight of the British seemed to have reached its limit: the Japanese cut off the city's water supply. General Bennett of Australia, who alone decided not to let the Australian soldiers die in vain, ordered them to save fewer and fewer bullets and shoot only when defending their own ring of defense.

The passive defense of the Australians allowed the Japanese to penetrate the weakened lines, and on the same day they washed the Alexander Military Hospital: like the wild beasts did on the battlefields of China, savagely stabbing the wounded with bayonets; Push the surgeon aside and stab a British soldier undergoing emergency surgery with a bayonet.

The next morning, Yamashita concluded that the time had come to 'scare' Singapore into surrendering.

"In the spirit of knighthood, we advise you to surrender," he said at the beginning of his letter to the commander of the British army.

The letter said that Singapore was "completely isolated, and was doing its best and valiant fighting to raise the prestige of Great Britain", and while the staff officers of the British mainland were carefully studying the letter at Fort Canning, the British in Singapore, who were already inferior in command, weapons, and tactics, were now outwitted in resourcefulness.

The British had no way of knowing how little ammunition and supplies the enemy had, and were more worried about the lack of drinking water and the threat of an epidemic that killed civilians en masse. A delegation of officers traveled to the Japanese front in a damaged car, with a rice flag floating outside one window and a white cloth floating in the other.

Yamashita was worried that this was a delaying ploy by the British, and insisted on negotiating only with the commander-in-chief himself.

On Saturday, February 14, British Commander Percival, on the orders of the Japanese, drove to the Ford Motor Factory in Bukit Chimah, behind the enemy's front, at six o'clock in the afternoon with his senior officers, braving the unabated heat.

A stout Yamashita waited, dressed in crisp yellow army uniforms, surrounded by his staff officers, and a large group of Japanese reporters and news photographers prepared to record the prearranged surrender ceremony.

Percival, with a haggard face, arrived, his bloodshot eyes showing his deep sense of defeat.

Perhaps he should have lived comfortably in the English countryside instead of faraway Singapore, where tens of thousands of British troops had been brought to the end of the world.

The British military uniforms are covered with dirt, and they look really pitiful!

The vanquished, there is no right to bargain!

When the British learned through an interpreter that this was not a negotiation to discuss the terms of surrender, and thus became even more uneasy, the round-headed Japanese general Huo Ran pointed to the surrender document spread out in front of them on the table: Yamashita Fumimi asked directly and rudely: "To sign or not to sign?!" ”

Percival, though he was already depressed, was not ready to accept this final humiliation, and planned to get up and leave. However, after consulting with his officers, he was determined to save his soldiers and the citizens of Singapore.

The choice of the British gentleman: unconditional surrender.

At 8:10, in front of the movie cameras where the footage was taken, the British signed the instrument of surrender.

In the Battle of Singapore, about 10,000 people were killed and wounded on both sides. Japan not only conquered the "Lion City", but also smashed the foundations of British imperialist power in the Far East.

And for Singapore, more suffering and death are yet to come! Although Yamashita promised to spare the lives of civilians that night, the Japanese devils would never keep any promises.

For the Chinese in particular, suffering and death followed.

Singapore's dense overseas Chinese population has always been the center of the anti-Japanese movement of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, and the "Nanqiao Charity Association" led by Tan Kah Kee mobilized 8 million overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia to raise a huge amount of foreign exchange worth more than 400 million yuan for the motherland.

At this time, the overseas Chinese in Singapore who fell into the tiger's mouth were jealous and frantically retaliated against the Japanese because they had previously vigorously assisted China in resisting the Japanese and had just organized a volunteer army to resist bravely.

Three days after the Japanese army took over Singapore, Yamashita ordered his subordinates to "purge the anti-Japanese Chinese as soon as possible in order to facilitate their future rule" and demanded that it be completed within three days.

The slaughter has begun!

According to the plan of the Japanese army, about 50,000 overseas Chinese were among the massacres, which was decided on the basis of the "Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Register" provided by the Japanese overseas. The Japanese army called it "verification".

The targets of the "verification" mainly include: activists in the Overseas Chinese Relief Association, wealthy people who donated money to the Relief Association, followers of Tan Kah Kee, school principals, teachers and lawyers, Hainanese, Chinese who came to Singapore during the Anti-Japanese War, tattoo people, volunteer soldiers, pro-British people, and people who possess weapons.

Beginning on 19 February, the Japanese army ordered all hundreds of thousands of Chinese sub-districts to gather in several hundred places for "verification."

Overseas Chinese were asked to bring their own dry food for a few days to wait at the designated place, crowded into one place and unable to sleep, and suffered from the sun and frost for several days. When it was time to be inspected, it was necessary to pass several levels of examination and interrogation by Taiwan informants and Japanese officers and soldiers.

Due to the haste of the so-called "verification" of the Japanese army, the Japanese army itself did not draw up a complete set of plans, so the actual implementation standards were different, and the officers of each district acted completely according to their personal likes and dislikes.

Some "forensics" points are dedicated to arresting wealthy people, while others are dedicated to arresting people who wear glasses. As long as they are "verified", they will be pulled by trucks to the suburbs and executed; If you are lucky enough to pass the test, you will put the word "inspection" on your body and put it back.

The Japanese army's methods of massacring the "designated" overseas Chinese were as brutal as what they did in Nanjing: some tied people up and pushed them into the sea and shot them with machine guns, and some made them dig pits and poison themselves or shoot them with machine guns or sabers.

For a while, there was a strong wind and heavy rain in the sky in Singapore, and the whole city was covered with bloody rain.

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When he learned the news of the fall of Singapore, Lin Jun was on a train to Latvia.

"The British Empire's colonial system in Asia is about to collapse, and the Japanese seem to be doing a lot of help."

The news of the fall of Singapore was not good news for the Americans either, as it meant that the Japanese had free up their hands against their forces in the Philippines - and the Americans had no choice but to abandon the Philippines for the time being.

In January this year, the Japanese army optimistically believed that the overall situation of the Philippine operation had been decided, and transferred the main force of the Navy and the 48th Division to the Dutch East Indies, and the main force of the 5th Air Force to Burma, while only the remaining strength of the 14th Army was used to clear Luzon Island, resulting in the inability of the Japanese army to form an effective attack force in this area.

The results were a surprise to the Japanese: the U.S. and Philippine armies and Japanese troops then engaged in fierce mountain, jungle and positional warfare with the Japanese on the Bataan Peninsula. The American GIs and their Filipino allies are not yet vulnerable, at least much stronger than their Commonwealth allies!

The American GIs have a much stronger will to fight than the British gentlemen, and the combat effectiveness of the Philippine army is also above the notoriously unreliable red-headed Ah San!

The Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and had already lost their offensive power on the Bataan Peninsula, and were forced to go on the defensive by the US-Philippine coalition forces, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate.

As soon as the Malay Peninsula on one side is reimbursed, the Philippines will sooner or later become the mouth of the Japanese.

Now the Japanese army can free up their hands, and soon the reinforcements will be able to support the Philippines through the sea route under complete control, "MacArthur's situation is not good!" ”

However, the Soviet Union will not be able to control the war in the Asia-Pacific region, and it is only a matter of time before the Americans defeat Japan, and this is understood by Lin Jun and the rest of the High Command: this time he will arrive at the Northwest Front as a representative of the High Command. In front of him, 50,000 new troops had arrived at the front line, and the strength in the hands of the "Red God of War" was enough for him to launch a medium-sized offensive campaign.

(It's less than 9,000.) (To be continued.) )