"The British lined up their troops along the line between Siam and Malaysia and began to build defensive lines." The reconnaissance unit of the Air Force reported to the previous command of the Kra Military District.

Zhu Yao wanted to listen carefully, but he couldn't concentrate. After seeing Chen Ke's telegram for the first time a few days ago, Zhu Yao couldn't believe his eyes. In the military action that led to the war, Chen Ke did not say a word, but questioned what Zhu Yao meant by saying "bear all responsibility" at the end of the telegram. Chen Ke simply and frankly asked what the party committee of the Kra Military Region wanted to say.

This kind of questioning made Zhu Yao feel ashamed rather than frightened. Sometimes being mercilessly exposed about one's own little thoughts, the uneasiness caused by it is even more uncomfortable than being scolded. Zhu Yao really didn't have these ways before, so he did it once and was exposed, which made him feel even more ashamed. The comrades of the reconnaissance unit didn't know what happened to Zhu Yao, but when they saw Zhu Yao's absent-minded appearance, they couldn't help but stop reporting.

When the political commissar saw Zhu Yao's performance, he first said, "Adjourn the meeting for the time being." Then he asked Zhu Yao to go out for a walk together.

"Commander Zhu, this time our party committee is going to write a letter to the Central Military Commission for inspection, and we have recognized the mistakes we have made this time, we will pay attention to it, and we will carry out criticism and self-criticism. It's just that I'm afraid I'll continue to do it next time. The commissar said.

"Hah!" For some reason, Zhu Yao suddenly felt a little energetic after hearing this. It would be absolutely unrealistic to guarantee that he would not make a mistake next time, although Zhu Yao's own sense of shame made him have a strong impulse not to make a mistake next time. But Zhu Yao can intuitively feel that if the check is written like this, this matter will probably be able to end.

Within the People's Party, it is said that "we should treat comrades as warm as spring, work as hot as summer, individualism as autumn wind sweeping away leaves, and enemies as cruel and ruthless as winter." ”

Spring-like warmth is tolerance, and the premise of tolerance is to tell the truth. The absolute number and proportion of those in the People's Party who are "repeatedly unreformed" are not low. In other words, except for a few outstanding comrades who are recognized as being able to make mistakes, all comrades have done things that have not changed their ways.

In this regard, the BJP's tolerance is no joke. The original research object of the major of human behavior was the members of the People's Party, and the research on the behavioral psychology of all walks of life in the industrial age summed up many basic laws. The purpose of this is not to find information for criticizing anyone, but to try to find coordinates for each comrade to more easily determine his or her own position. Prepare for more detailed counseling sessions.

It's just a moment of relaxation that didn't make Zhu Yao completely let go of his psychological baggage, and he still felt very ashamed. When seeing that others can't put themselves in the right position, it would be nonsense to say that Zhu Yao didn't have any ridicule in his heart, so Zhu Yao couldn't accept that he couldn't put himself in the right position. And Zhu Yao also discovered another problem, that is, he himself would have thoughts of anger.

The People's Party attacked Confucianism's idea of privilege and also advocated learning from some of the more advanced parts of the culture. For example, the Analects is one of the important research materials of the People's Party's behavioral psychology. It told an incident that when Yan Hui was twenty-nine years old, his hair was all gray and he died prematurely. Confucius wept very sadly over Yan Hui's death and said, "Since I have Yan Hui, my disciples have become closer to (me). Lu Aigong asked, "Which of your disciples is the most fond of learning?" Confucius replied, "I have a student named Yan Hui who loves to learn, and he never transfers his anger to others, and he does not repeat the same mistakes." But unfortunately he died early, Yan Hui died, and there is no such excellent student to inherit and spread my ideals. ”

Zhu Yao knew very well that at the beginning of this incident, he himself might not really think that he wanted to cross the line within the scope of his authority, and Zhu Yao knew very well that he knew that what he did was very likely to be praised by the Military Commission. However, Zhu Yao did not want to fight against "incorrect ideas" in the party committee at first, after all, many comrades in the party committee were genuinely uneasy. Seeing the uneasiness of these comrades, Zhu Yao actually felt quite cool in his heart. Zhu Yao can do it without getting angry in the war, but this mood afterwards may not have too much goodness.

The result was so cool, but everything behind it was all messed up. Not only did Zhu Yao himself start talking nonsense, but in the end, Zhu Yao sent the telegram with his comrades in a daze.

It must be explained that Zhu Yao felt that he had fought a beautiful battle at that time, and if he could say a few more beautiful words about the scene, it might be a more appropriate thing, so Zhu Yao was a little obsessed with thinking that Chen Ke might not be able to see through this. In fact, what Zhu Yao really hopes is that Chen Ke can be like "Mingjun", be considerate of the conviction of his subordinates, and can also sing and say something that can improve Zhu Yao's status. After all, it takes a great deal of courage to resist the pressure of the commissars and make the decision to go to war. Zhu Yao has also experienced great torture in his heart.

Looking at it now, Zhu Yao's idea was completely frustrated. Some people are very self-conscious, and it is inconvenient to say them directly when criticizing and self-criticizing. It is these thoughts that are the driving force behind the most wrong actions. There are some things that are talked about every day, that is, let the comrades know what they have done after they have done it, and when they do it, they can't help it.

"Commander Zhu, what you have done is what you have done. It's useless to think so much now, let's continue to work and do a good job of what we should be doing now. The political commissar said to Zhu Yao, "No matter how ashamed you are, wait until after the battle is over." Now is not the time to be ashamed. ”

"Hey......" Zhu Yao sighed

The political commissar actually wanted to sigh, but he finally held back, "Commander Zhu, it's nothing to be embarrassed to throw people to Chairman Chen, Chairman Chen never laughs at others." Let's just remember that there is such a thing. ”

The matter can only be handled in this way, Zhu Yao just can't get rid of the uneasiness in his heart, he, like other comrades in the party, is not worried that Chen Ke himself will be so cautious. Chen Ke is very strict with inappropriate ideas, but he is very tolerant of the fact that comrades will make mistakes. Chen Ke is definitely not a person who turns over old accounts, or settles accounts after the autumn.

After the commissar commander of the Kra Military District returned to the front command together, the meeting was finally able to continue. At least everyone is very realistic about the work, and anything that is unhappy will be forgotten at work.

After carefully looking at the defensive layout of the British side, the front-line command immediately came to the judgment that the British still adopted the traditional tactics of the First World War and organized a heavy defense. The British defended Malaysia with more than 60,000 British troops, and about 80,000 in Singapore. These forces consist of the British Army, the Australian Army, the Indian Army, and the Malaysian Army. The quantity is not enough, and the quality is not even better.

"Are the British really ready to commit heavy troops to this line of defense? Without sea supremacy, how could the British guard against their flanks and rear flanks? Zhu Yao was born in the navy, and he directly raised this question.

"Are the British ill-prepared for war? That's how their first reaction was. After all, it is impossible to mobilize the masses in an imperialist war, especially in the colonies. The commissar gave his opinion on this.

For such a situation, the front-line command naturally came up with a tactic of transporting troops by sea to raid the British flank. The reason for this was that if you wanted to attack by land on a large scale, you had to invade Siam. Now that Siam is completely in the hands of the British, Zhu Yao dares not to let the British fire a second shot, but he absolutely does not have the courage to invade Siam without the consent of the Military Commission.

Instead, it was through Siamese territory south of the Kra Canal, which did not require much difficulty. The only problem was that the number of army in the Kra Military District was only two regiments, and in the face of a total of 145,000 enemies, the army of two regiments was too thin.

As soon as the plan was completed, the Kra Military District sent a telegram to the Military Commission. The military commissar quickly gave an order, "The troops of these two regiments are ready to move south with the cooperation of the air force." The Central Military Commission has already sent the new military bicycles to the Kra Military Region, hoping that the troops will carry forward the spirit of rushing and striking hard and go all out to the south with the cooperation of the Air Force. ”

Military bicycles of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army are common in Southeast Asia, and unlike commonly used bicycles, military bicycles use solid tires, which are slightly heavier but do not blow out. The load is also sufficient. The bikes have been delivered, including the equipment on board. Zhu Yao is not from the army, and he has no confidence in the two regiments going south, although there is also a tropical light tank battalion in the Kra area, and with the strength of two regiments and one battalion, no matter how you look at it, you can't beat Singapore. It's just that the military commissar gave an order, and this must be carried out. The heads of the Military Commission are all veterans of several decades, and they will not joke nonsense.

On February 6, 1939, the day Poland declared war on China, with the cooperation of the Air Force, the troops of two regiments of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army plus a light tank battalion began to move south.

Zhu Yao knew that the People's Party had never expected any weapons for a decisive battle, but this time the Air Force had brought a new type of bomb, which, according to the Air Force comrades, was far more powerful than they could have imagined. Zhu Yao did not doubt that the Air Force had such a guarantee, after all, it was a cross-sea operation, and it would take time to mobilize troops on a large scale, and it would take time to attack quickly. At this time, the most reliable weapons are the weapons with amazing lethality, and the question is how powerful these bombs really are. The consumption of the air force is huge, and the tonnage of bombs required to annihilate the defending enemy by relying on the air force is unimaginable. If you have this strength, it is more reliable to consider strengthening sea transportation.

The British did not know the news of the dispatch of Chinese troops, and these days, the British Air Force is being depleted at an unprecedented rate. On the day Britain declared war on China, the Chinese Air Force launched an air raid on Singapore. The main targets were airfields and batteries. British batteries were protected by a large number of bunkers, but airfields did not have such protection.

The Chinese Air Force is getting stronger and stronger, and the British naturally know about it. It's just that the development process of Britain's latest fighter jet is not fast, although the Spitfire fighter has begun to be produced, but the number is still very small, and Singapore, a small jewel in the British crown, despite its importance, has only been allocated 12 aircraft. The others are the likes of honest Buffalo fighters.

The British did not expect that within a few hours of the declaration of war, the Chinese air force would visit Singapore. Bombs rained down from the sky. The Chinese Air Force used submunitions and steel ball shells, with the goal of completely destroying the airfield. As soon as the bomb fell, the airport runway was beaten like pockmarked faces, covered with large and small craters. The steel ball bullets were scattered like a storm at the British airport facilities, and the planes on the airfield seemed to be under heavy machine gun fire, and countless holes were punched out of them in an instant, and the landing gear of some planes was even broken, and the planes collapsed to the ground like mud.

High-velocity steel balls pierced the roof and walls of the hangar, and most of the aircraft, including the Spitfire, were concentrated. Some hapless aircraft fuel tanks were punctured and the leaked jet fuel was ignited at high temperatures. Moments later, the plane was burned to the ground in a pile of metal brackets and black stuff that I couldn't figure out what it was. Even an airplane that didn't explode was full of holes, and unless it underwent a major overhaul, an airplane that could still be basically the same as it was was could not take off.

A single bombing destroyed most of the combat strength of the British Air Force in Singapore, and Churchill was clever enough to see that the situation was not good, and he simply rushed to India on a warship. Of course, the reason is very good, he wants to prepare a counterattack force in India, coordinate the Indian Ocean Fleet with the Mediterranean Fleet.

When the Chinese army began to move south on 6 February, the Singapore and Malaysian forces did not even know that the Admiralty Minister had run away, and they thought that the Admiralty, who was characterized by his hard-line stance, was directing the battle in Singapore.

The British army in Malaysia was mainly Indian and Malay troops, and they began to build a "defensive line" under the impetus of British troops. Building a defensive line in the tropics is nonsense, and one of the core of the defense system is the trenches, and in those humid areas, the ground is humus, and when dug down, there are only large groups of ants and other insects. These things are crawling and wriggling, and it's creepy to look at. In some places, it doesn't take long to dig a "well". Even in drier areas, when a trench is dug and it rains, the trench becomes a ditch.

The British officers did not have to work themselves, and the entire work was carried out by the colonial troops who had recruited them. If these colonial troops had participated in the British army's burning, looting, or suppression of ordinary people, they might have been a little enthusiastic, and they treated them as coolies, and their efficiency can be imagined. Coupled with the rush of time, the troops sent to the front formed a "line of defense" in the pattern of two large clusters.

In addition to air strikes on Singapore's airfields, the Chinese Air Force has been trying to patrol these days to eliminate all British aircraft that can be spotted. The movements of these British troops who were building defensive lines in Malaysia were well understood.

After the troops began to move south, 24 H-5 bombers of the Chinese Air Force took the lead and dropped more than 200 bombs on the two British army assembly sites in the "Malaysian Line". The bombs were scattered very widely, and they did not fall quickly. The British and colonial armies, which had lost air supremacy because they had no air force, could only stare at the bombs as they flew down.

"Hide!" The British army was somewhat knowledgeable, with officers directing the soldiers to hide in the woods and bushes, and some simply ran into tents. The colony's army just watched dumbly, and a considerable part of the army saw the air raid for the first time.

Less than a hundred meters above the ground, a large cloud of white smoke suddenly appeared from behind the buttocks of these bombs, and the small bombs that had been in sight suddenly turned into a huge mushroom-like thing.

In a crisp explosion, three more small bombs with a parachute flew out of the belly of each bomb. The bomb resembled a cylindrical beer keg, with a long iron rod sticking out from underneath, tied to a parachute, and fluttering downward. Then, in a series of bomb explosions that were much quieter than usual, the ground was instantly covered in a cloud of white mist behind the butts of those bombs.

The first casualties appeared, and the bombs that landed did not explode. Just plunge into the soft ground, or bounce off the firmer ground. Some of the hapless guys were either smashed into meat sauce by the shell of the bomb, or broken bones and tendons were broken by the bouncing shell of the bomb.

These bloody losses were not large, a total of more than a dozen British troops and colonial troops were killed, and before the people on the ground could figure out what was going on, suddenly, thunder and tremors. Suddenly, with each bomb falling point as the center, there were several ground the size of a football field with fires, trees falling and houses collapsing, and screaming in the sky.

The Chinese Air Force saw a sudden mushroom cloud erupt on the ground, and bright orange-red flames rose violently from the ground, and the flames rolled around and expanded into the air. After the bright flames shone for more than ten seconds, the shock wave in the air rushed into the plane high in the sky, causing the plane to jolt up and down like a turbulent current.

More than an hour later, the troops of two Chinese regiments, guided by tank units, arrived at the site of the air attack. At this point, all enemies who can run away are clean. What the Chinese army saw at the scene was a hurricane of dense jungle, and in some places the entire area was destroyed to the point where you could barely see the ground. The military tents, the machine-gun positions that had been built with sandbags at the beginning, were in ruins, and the personnel were either scorched or suffocated, and suffered heavy casualties. Strangely, the bodies of the deceased were all intact, there were no signs of shrapnel, only the mouth was wide open. In the most tragic situation were the soldiers who died in the hidden fortifications, and they all scratched their throats before dying.

The faces of the dead were distorted, and the fear and pain of death seemed to freeze on their faces, making the place shudder as if it were haunted.