The inarticulate lieutenant could only watch in despair as his comrades raised their guns and aimed at them, just before he lost consciousness, the pair of eyes that had not been closed until death finally saw countless black dots falling from the sky, but at this time it was impossible for the second lieutenant to warn his "comrades" anymore......

It wasn't until the overwhelming rain of bullets was about to fall that the British finally found out, but at this time it was too late to ask everyone to hide. Pen~Fun~ Pavilion www.biquge.info The New Zealand soldier who had just taught the "coward" a lesson with his fist was blown to pieces by a 120mm shell that fell near him before he could scream......

Almost in an instant, this residential area, which was still jubilant at the hope of victory, became a different look, and the Australian and New Zealand officers and soldiers who were still high morale before hid everywhere, but they could not find a safe place at all, the power of the naval guns was too great, not to mention ordinary houses, even if it was a solid building such as a church, it only took one 210mm shell to collapse, and at this time, there were 36 210mm naval guns that fired at this residential area, and more than 100 shells fell per minute......

Not only the 210mm main guns and 120mm secondary guns on the Haitian-class patrol, but also the four old ships in Dingzhen have also worked hard to exert their residual heat, especially the 8 305mm giant guns on the second ship of Dingzhen, although because of the slow rate of fire, the actual firepower output is far from being compared with the 210mm rapid-fire guns, but its great power far beyond the imagination of the recalcitrant soldiers and civilians quickly destroyed the will of these people, and countless soldiers and civilians rushed out of this urban area that brought them glory not long ago. But what awaited them was a heavy machine gun that had been waiting for them very early, not to mention that they could not think of showing that they had come to surrender when they fled in panic......

Under the raging fire snakes fired by heavy machine guns, the Australian and New Zealand officers and local civilians who tried to rush out in vain turned into corpses and fell down in the blink of an eye, and then they were immediately covered by the newly created corpses, and soon the streets were tightly blocked......

Even at this time, there are still soldiers and civilians who are unwilling to wait for death who persistently want to climb over the "corpse mountain", but they have become the best target because they appear in high places. Only a handful of smart people thought of hiding in buildings close to these machine-gun fire points, but they didn't get out right away and escaped......

Zhou Chunyu obviously deeply understood Li Hui, "Either you don't do it, or you can do it." In order to crush the stubborn resistance of the ANZ army, the 36 210mm main guns of the six Haitian-class patrol guns all the remaining blasting shells were wiped out in one go, and their rifling was almost worn out at this time, but fortunately, the newly occupied Singapore Navy base allowed them to replace the lining immediately, but the ammunition replenishment still had to wait for domestic reinforcements to be brought together.

Inadvertently, the Chinese Navy has set a new record in the world's military history, and the density of their firepower in this ground artillery coverage is almost equivalent to hundreds of thousands of land forces by European standards, and it is also greatly more than any previous large fleet that has carried out ground artillery bombardment missions, refreshing the cognition of all military experts in the world.

No matter how tenacious the Australian and New Zealand troops are, they are only flesh and blood after all, and under the cover of such powerful firepower, there is no difference compared to those rabble, less than a minute after the shelling begins, there are officers and soldiers who have broken will to surrender, but the continuous shelling of the Chinese fleet in the harbor has not even given them a chance to raise the white flag......

When the shelling finally stopped, and the Marines rushed into the area that had been completely razed, even though they had all been tested on the battlefield for a long time, many of them were still stimulated by the terrible cruelty and the thick blood to vomit on the spot.

Since most of the bodies of the dead were so broken that they could not even find their limbs and arms, there is no accurate figure on how many people were killed in this shelling until a hundred years later.

The only thing that is certain is that almost all the other people in this urban area are spared, except for the outermost narrow circle, because even those "lucky ones" who are lucky enough not to die are almost all seriously injured, and the number of marines is too small to provide ambulance, so they can only follow the old rules and let them die a little more happily......

At this point, the Battle of Singapore finally came to an end, and the Chinese Navy, in accordance with the bold plan put forward by Deng Shichang, gave full play to the advantages of its own advanced weapons, and killed 31,412 British soldiers (including suppressed prisoners of war), including 17,863 whites and 26,791 prisoners, including 2,668 whites, at a small cost of 187 killed, 241 lightly wounded, and 145 seriously wounded.

In addition, there were a large number of civilian deaths during the Battle of Singapore, which the British government estimated at more than 50,000, or about 30% of the total population of Singapore (not limited to Singapore City); The Chinese government, on the other hand, believes that the British have greatly overestimated the population of the city, and indeed the city as a whole, acknowledging only that about 20,000 civilians died, or about 25 percent of the city's population.

However, there is little disputing the death toll among white civilians, with figures on both sides around 2,000, as the pre-war information on the white inhabitants of Singapore is relatively detailed. Sure enough, in the eyes of Westerners, the natives of the colonies cannot be counted as human beings......

Military commentators of various countries generally believe that in addition to the advanced weapons of the Chinese army, the key to the success of the Singapore campaign lies in their grasp of the three victory and defeat points, otherwise it is impossible for the 2,000-strong marines to completely capture Singapore, which is heavily entrenched.

The first is that the Chinese fleet was able to storm the Singapore naval base from the sea with its strong ships and artillery, and one wonders if Nelson's famous phrase about the fleet fighting the fort is outdated.

But there are also true wise men who see the real crux of the problem, such as Fisher, who unceremoniously pointed out that the defeat of the fortress side in this battle was actually due to the traditional practice of using obsolete old naval guns.

Fisher believes that in the current era of rapid development of naval science and technology, not only warships must speed up the pace of updating to keep up with the times, but even coastal defense fortresses are no exception. (To be continued.) )