However, because Miss 75 was too bulky and bloated in the street fighting, she had already fallen behind by this time, and the Marines who had rushed to the Governor's Palace to surround her had to rely on small arms to launch a general attack. Fortunately www.biquge.info the number of defenders in the Governor's Palace was small, and there were no machine guns or artillery, so the Marines didn't even need to send out a demolition team, as long as someone approached the window under the cover of a machine gun and threw grenades into it, the enemy in a room was basically killed or wounded......

Due to the long-range firepower of the revolutionary army, the value of the grenade was never fully realized, and it was not until the battle was against time that the cannon was not available, and the grenade finally had a chance to show its might.

According to post-war statistics, more than 60% of the British casualties were caused by grenades, and more than half of the remaining people were stabbed to death with bayonets or pistols after being blown up by grenades.

It was also with the help of grenades that the Marines suffered less than a platoon of casualties in the battle against the British Governor's Palace, of which less than ten were killed, which was much smaller than expected.

Sir Mitchell, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, originally wanted to rely on the sturdy construction of the Governor's House (the Governor's House is as strong as a permanent concrete fortification, in fact, even if Miss 75 can keep up in time, it will be difficult to blast it open). But the devastating offensive of the Chinese Marines soon left him with only two options: death or surrender......

The fact that the small England of the past was able to expand into the current empire on which the sun never sets, and the large number of outlaws among the colonists definitely contributed to it, but this does not mean that every colonist is not afraid of death.

Especially after Britain's colonial expansion reached its limit, except for a few regions such as South Africa and Egypt that had both huge interests and strong enemies, the governors of most colonies only needed to maintain the status quo, and did not need much talent, especially military talent, so a large number of related households have taken office, and the blood of the ancestors is even more difficult to see.

Well, Sir Mitchell was not the worst, at least he commanded his men to put up some resistance, but after being forced to the top floor, Sir Mitchell still couldn't hold on and collapsed, almost at the same time as the Marines rushed up the stairs, he drooped his head and ordered the remaining twenty or so to lay down their arms and surrender to the enemy in a crying voice, and he became the first British governor to surrender in the Sino-British Second World War......

To Sir Mitchell's surprise, many of the Chinese troops attacking the Governor's Palace were fluent in English, which eliminated the need for translation. However, the direct dialogue did not make the Chinese army more sympathetic, and Sir Mitchell, who was still trying to bargain at first, finally did not dare to bargain anymore, and honestly complied with the request of the Marine Corps to lay down his arms and surrender to the remnants of the British army in Singapore through the newly reconnected telegraph line.

Although Sir Mitchell had not taken over the Straits Settlements for a long time, and his authority had not yet been fully established, at least the colonial troops did not dare to violate them, and they did not have a good will to fight, and the orders of their immediate superiors gave them a reasonable excuse to surrender and avoid the battle, so they followed the orders and went to the designated places to surrender their weapons.

The white units were much more tenacious, but interestingly, the ones from Britain were the first to lay down their arms. They were small in number, and most of them were deployed in areas close to the Governor's Palace, and the result was that they first suffered heavy losses in the battle against the attack of the Marines, who surrounded the Governor's Palace, and the British troops who came to the aid were beaten all over the field by the heavy machine guns that blocked the road by the Marines......

However, the majority of the white men in Singapore's British army did not come from distant homeland, but from nearby Australian and New Zealand troops, and the descendants of these former criminals still retained the fierce style of their ancestors, resisting far more stubbornly than the armies of their own suzerain, inflicting unprecedented losses on the marines.

By the time of the capture of Sir Mitchell, the total casualties of the Marines were only over a hundred; However, in the process of dividing the troops to surrender, it only took a little more than an hour to lose three times as many casualties, more than 95% of which were caused by the Australian and New Zealand forces.

The stubbornly resisting ANZ army retreated to the more reliable Malay settlements at the request of its experienced commanders, and fought tenaciously with the cooperation of the residents.

What's worse is that the ANZ army still has an overwhelming advantage in terms of strength, although it only accounts for a small part of the total number of British troops in Singapore, there are still more than 10,000 people, which is much more than the total number of more than 2,000 marines.

Fortunately when defending, the power of the heavy machine gun is not covered, and it is easy to press the enemy out of the air, but when attacking, it is much more difficult, because you don't know where the enemy is hiding and suddenly releases a cold gun. Coupled with the fact that offensive warfare requires much more willpower and organization than defensive warfare, it is actually difficult for the Marine Corps, which has unknowingly surpassed 500 casualties, to launch a full-scale offensive again.

Perhaps motivated by the success of the ANZ army, or perhaps by the fact that the large number of prisoners of war after the large number of men to support the front line was so small that the Malays could regain their courage, many prisoner camps rioted before they could settle down. However, the British prisoners of war apparently underestimated the killing efficiency of the heavy machine guns, and the inability to communicate between the various prisoner camps, as a result, these spontaneous resistance only gave the Marines a good reason to kill the prisoners, and cost the lives of countless British prisoners of war.

According to incomplete statistics after the war, no less than 10,000 British prisoners of war were killed because they started or participated in the riots, and only one Chinese machine gunner guarding them was wounded...... (To be continued.) )