"Report, Your Excellency Commander, the Kuantan position has been breached! Our troops retreat, and the enemy is in pursuit! Wing Commander Yamazaki and Commander of the 15th Army of the Southeast Asian Imperial Allied Army, Fernanbang are asking for tactical guidance......"

"Report, Your Excellency Commander, the defense line of our Yanjia airfield has been broken through by the Chinese landing force, the airfield has been occupied by the Chinese, and our fighter units have been forced to make an emergency flight, but they have all been quickly shot down by Chinese fighters. The 10th and 11th armies of the Southeast Asian Imperial Allied Army lost more than seventy percent. The 35th Brigade of the garrison lost more than half! Currently retreating to the city-state outside Singapore,......"

"Report, Your Excellency Commander, my Johor Strait defense line has been attacked by the Chinese National Defense Forces! Under the dense firepower of the Chinese fleet and the rapid penetration of a large number of amphibious tanks and combat vehicles. The three armies of the garrison and the 109th Division suffered losses of more than eighty percent, and the commander of the 109th Division, Lieutenant General Mutaguchi Ryoya, was killed on the spot and basically lost his combat effectiveness. By the time the 109th Division sent a farewell message, the defense line in the Straits of Johor had been completely broken. ……”

The report ,......, three groups of air forces aided by Indonesia were wiped out by the Chinese Air Force, and the bomber units of two squadrons of the United States were also wiped out by Chinese fighters. Akira Muto, commander of the Indonesian garrison, sent a telegram saying that several large air bases in Indonesia had once again been retaliated by Chinese bombers and had lost their ability to support us. ……”

In the dimly lit basement, under the dim light, one by one battle reports were handed to Yamashita Fengwen's desk, and the current commander-in-chief of the Southeast Asian Dispatch Force suddenly felt dizzy. He did not expect that the Kuala Lumpur defense line, which had been held for several days, would be torn apart in an instant, and the Chinese army did not rest. A full-scale assault on the Singapore fortress was immediately launched. All this made him feel like he was caught off guard.

I think back then, he didn't let the troops rest for a moment, and as soon as he arrived in Kuala Lumpur, it was a fierce attack.

However, his onslaught was nothing in front of China. Moreover, it was the incompetent general of the British who surrendered voluntarily, allowing Japan to take the Singapore fortress without much effort. In the past three days, Yamashita Fengwen has lost half of his hair, and some of his fat body has also lost weight rapidly.

Singapore is his last retreat, the Malay Tiger. There is no land for the Malays. How to continue the glory of the Malay Tiger, when Japan completely lost the land of Malay, that is when the Malay Tiger became a dead tiger.

The most difficult thing for Yamashita to accept was that China's attack began three days ago. After China announced that the empress and prince had been attacked. The entire Chinese army seemed to be crazy. If the previous attack was heavy rain. Well, now he's in the midst of a raging storm.

Over the course of three days, the Chinese quickly occupied Kuala Lumpur, followed by naval aviation and marines. Forcibly landed in Singapore from all sides. Under the targeted strikes of heavy aerial bombs and cloud burst bombs, the heavy defensive weapons on the Singapore fortress were removed one by one. Then the naval ships approached Singapore and began to cover the landing of the marines, and even opened four landing fields directly. On the ground, the defense line of the Johor Strait, which was carefully constructed by Yamashita Fengwen, was also completely broken under the continuous onslaught of the army with a large number of rocket artillery and amphibious armored forces.

Yamashita Fengfumi thinks that this is the first time he has encountered such a problem in his military career. Under the powerful blows of China's land, sea and air, his so-called defense system and the Singapore fortress are of little use at all.

The Wehrmacht swept away the intensity of the offensive some time earlier and launched a devastating attack directly on the position. Every day, dense bombers began to appear on the battlefield, and the whistling bombs directly overturned all the Japanese bunkers, bunkers and fortifications.

Now, Yamashita only has six divisions and three brigades in his hands. This is now Japan's entire strength in Southeast Asia, and the rest are basically surrounded in other parts of Southeast Asia, making it impossible for them to take care of each other.

There are quite a few Imperial Allies from Southeast Asia. The establishment of the Imperial Allied Army in Southeast Asia was established in full accordance with the structure of the Japanese army. Therefore, the concept of "army" of the Southeast Asian Imperial Allied Army is actually the same as that of the Japanese army.

Each military-level unit of the Southeast Asian Imperial Association Army has two divisions and one brigade. This is the standard Japanese Army One Army concept. Of course. In terms of weapons, Japan did not have so many heavy weapons to supply to these Southeast Asian imperial allies.

Most of these Imperial Allied troops were using heavy weapons and weapons captured by the Japanese army from the American army, the British army and other Southeast Asian troops. Fortunately, there are a lot of these weapons, and they are finally barely armed to the point where they look like some people. As for the light weapons, many of them were old rifles that were eliminated by China and sold to Japan.

The under-armed part was supplemented with guns that the Japanese army itself had eliminated. Anyway, the Japanese army did not expect these Southeast Asian imperial allies to make any achievements, as long as they could resist until the Japanese army withdrew. As for whether they were captured and slaughtered by the Wehrmacht or turned into prisoners, the Japanese did not care.

"Masa-kun Tsuji, why do you say that?" Yamashita thought that there would be nothing on the battlefield that would make him frown, but this time he really didn't know what to do.

"General, China's offensive is unusual, and its air power, whether in number or frequency of round-trips, is not comparable to the situation in previous battles. The offensive of the ground army was also very fierce, which was completely beyond our expectations and completely different from the previous offensives of the Chinese army. In Mandarin, it seems that there is a hatred between us for killing our fathers and taking our wives. Masanobu Tsuji said.

He is not much different from Yamashita Fengfumi, who is known as one of the three major staff officers of Showa, and he has no good way to rescue Singapore, which has been surrounded by history.

"The cooperation between the empire and the United States to assassinate the empress and prince of China was originally a good thing that could once again raise the morale of the soldiers. But those agents were useless at all, not only did they not succeed in assassination, but they also buried themselves, which also aroused the hatred of the whole of China. For our army, this period of time in the near future will be greatly disadvantageous. "Can Yamashita Fengfumi not know? Whether the assassination was successful or the assassination failed, he had some mental preparations, but he completely underestimated China's strong offensive ability.

Yangon Airport, an air base above Borneo. Every day is the most high-intensity sortie, carrying more than a ton of heavy aerial bombs, and all of them carry penetrating warheads, which can drill into fortresses and then detonate aerial bombs.

In terms of fighters, in addition to ensuring air supremacy, other fighters also attacked the Japanese army on the ground in a saturated manner, rocket artillery and aviation cannons, which became the dream demon of the Japanese army and those puppet armies. The army aviation helicopter unit even adopted a multi-stage continuous jump attack, and the offensive of the Chinese army often launched an attack from the rear of the Japanese defense line. Forward and backward pinching.

In the past, the Japanese bicycles chased the British fart. Now Japan, under the large number of army and aviation troops in China, is not much better than the original British army.

And Yamashita Fumi bet everything he had on defending Singapore. Since the start of the Battle of Chiang Mai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are now under its orders and are being fortified urgently. Especially in the Johor Strait area. It is the top priority of defense. At first, he asked the Japanese troops to make good use of the fortifications built by the British and strengthen the new ones. Concentrate all the puppet forces to reinforce the defenses. Two additional brigades were sent to Johor Bahru, a key point of communication between Malaysia and Singapore, for defense, and at the same time, Xia Fengwen immediately sent a telegram requesting reinforcements from the Indonesian occupation forces.

The headquarters of the Japanese army, which received the urgent message, was nervous. If China takes Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, then the Japanese troops still fighting against the Chinese National Defense Forces in southern Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, and the Cambodian Warriors will have no way out.

Without much hesitation, after urgent consultations, the headquarters immediately transferred troops from Jakarta and other places in Indonesia to the nearest two divisions and two brigades to reinforce at night, and after the first batch of reinforcements was dispatched, a total of five divisions and regiments were ready to be dispatched to reinforce according to the changes in the battle situation, and combat planes near Jakarta, Pontianak, and Palembang were also dispatched to reinforce Singapore.

However, there was no mention of the navy at the base camp, and even Nagumo Tadaichi's aircraft carrier squadron seemed to have disappeared from the world, and in the face of such an important defensive battle, the Japanese navy did not come to support. And the Japanese base camp did not say a word about the navy.

Although the emergency reinforcement of the Japanese headquarters gave many Japanese officers in Singapore a glimmer of hope. But Yamashita did not relax at all, although the reinforcements seemed to be very numerous. But this is only a quantitative increase, and it does not bring much qualitative increase in the slightest. However, Yamashita was somewhat relieved that the day before the successful landing of the Chinese National Defense Forces, a supply convoy had arrived in Singapore from the Japanese mainland around the Pacific Ocean to Australia, and then through the islands of Indonesia. Among them, there is a complete field artillery brigade of heavy artillery, and a batch of matching ammunition, and the most important thing is that there are two wings of the latest Japanese main station tanks, all of which are all heavy main station tanks, and at present, such tanks are only equipped in Okamura Ninji's Kwantung Army.

Yamashita was so overjoyed that he even came to greet the fleet at the dock in person, promising to award a special medal to the military headquarters in recognition of their act of sending charcoal in the snow.

With these temporary increases in heavy firepower, and in coordination with the heavy firepower of the original 18th Division and other divisions, regiments, brigades, and regiments, Yamashita felt some confidence. For this reason, Yamashita also issued a temporary conscription order, requiring Japanese expatriates and immigrants in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and other places to immediately sign up for emergency military training in places set up by the army, distribute guns and ammunition, and set up a temporary D Corps to strengthen its strength.

The quality of these temporary conscripts is poor. More than eighty percent of the soldiers are old, weak, sick and disabled. Even the stronger-bodied women were asked to change out of kimonos, which interfered with movement, to carry supplies and build fortifications. But if you look at weapons and ammunition. The guns and ammunition that were assigned to them were even worse, many temporary soldiers basically didn't even have guns, and a kitchen knife found from a citizen's house was a good weapon, and their role was more used by the soldiers or military officers who temporarily commanded them to consume the ammunition of the Chinese army.

Yamashita was able to come up with this crazy solution thanks to the rapid immigration of Japan in a short period of time, and in order to alleviate the food problem in the Japanese mainland, Japan transported more than 2 million migrants to Southeast Asia in a short period of time by squeezing sardines. And after China and Japan turned their faces. By the time the navy began to block the shipping lanes and began attacking the Japanese fleet, Japan had already sent more than four million migrants to Southeast Asia. However, more than half of these immigrants are in the Philippines, the closest to the Japanese mainland, followed by Indonesia.

As a result of the war, the Japanese immigrants, who had now been plagued by the two places, had eaten everything more violently than the locusts, and began to move to other places, and by all means of transportation they could get from to Singapore with the Japanese navy, such as single-plank boats, where they were to Sumatra, Java, and Thailand via the Malay Peninsula.

As a result, there are as many as 200,000 Japanese immigrants from all over the country in Singapore. If the mountain is allowed to eat the few food reserves, these maggots will be eaten. It's better to let them die as cannon fodder. It can not only consume the ammunition of the Chinese people, but also reduce the consumption of food on their own side.

If Yamashita had earned the name of the Tiger of the Malay by virtue of the madness of the Japanese soldiers, he was now a mad beast. Just as he hated tigers for the same reason. In fact, he himself is also changing to the "character" of the tiger.

After issuing an order to recruit immigrants to be cannon fodder to resist the Chinese army. Yamashita issued an even crazier order. The order demanded that all Japanese immigrants who had not been conscripted into the Provisional Army be recruited. A thousand women and children who were loyal to the emperor were selected, a batch of bombs were distributed to them, and after a brief exercise, they were asked to launch suicide attacks or wait for the arrival of the Shina army to detonate them. However, given the current form. Yamashita did not go crazy enough to release this order publicly, but chose to carry it out secretly.

When the inhabitants of Singapore heard that the fighting had been raging again, and that there had been armed forces landing in the Kuantan area, Singapore quickly became in chaos. People have just experienced the chaos of the war brought about by the Japanese landing, and many people still remember the two bloody nights when the Japanese army entered the city and burned and looted, and now there is an army coming to attack here, whether these troops are good or bad, the shells that fall into the city will not recognize the good guys and bad guys. Although the Japanese army has been blocking the news, with the spread of the grapevine, the Japanese soldiers who have been transferred around confirm the accuracy of the news.

The fortress of Singapore was in turmoil, and there were still 200,000 Japanese immigrants here, who could only eat half a day and half full, taking advantage of the chaos of the local residents, some of these immigrants began to attack the local residents after evading the Japanese military headquarters, and searched for all the food they could eat and all the valuable goods. In the chaos, some ronins relied on force to rob and kill people and set fires inevitably happened, which caused chaos in the city even more.

When Yamashita learned of this at night, he immediately ordered some troops to be sent to clean up the troublemakers, and the order was that they could be killed immediately after a warning was ineffective, and he did not want to be distracted from dealing with the fire in the backyard in such a difficult situation. The order was quickly carried out and the riot was quickly brought under control.

But then a very strange situation arose. That is, the Japanese soldiers who went to suppress the riots only suppressed the riots that had arisen in other places. But the only areas that were not suppressed were inhabited by merchants and farmers, where Japanese bandits still engaged in murder and bloodshed.

The fact that these Japanese soldiers did not suppress the riots in the neighborhood where the merchants and farmers lived was not because they did not see or hear the shouts and the fires that were burning from there, but that they even turned a blind eye to the Japanese bandits who came out of there as they passed by, as if they recognized what was happening here.

This was also a consequence of Yamashita's occupation of the area, and with his permission, a large number of merchants and farmers living here were robbed of their money and everything by the trumped-up list, and many more foreign merchants were cut off without even giving any reason. If it weren't for the lazy eating and laziness of the indigenous people living there, a lot of production would still need to be carried out by foreign laborers. Yamashita was happy to slaughter all the foreign merchants and the farmers. It's just that Yamashita can't do this, not even the former British, French, Dutch, and Spaniards. Because no matter what the ruler is, they know very well how lazy the natives who live here are. Now that the Chinese diaspora has completely withdrawn from this area, if it does not rely on outsiders to produce and work, then the use value and resources of this land will be greatly reduced.

The output of rubber, grain, and minerals will be greatly reduced. The indigenous people prefer to talk and fart at home rather than engage in production, thirsty and hungry, and it is easy to find food in the deep forests of this rich land, and they would rather eat wild and high-yielding red rice than eat delicious rice that needs to be planted and harvested.

However, the efforts of Yamashita and the Japanese base camp did not help Singapore's defense much, and the Chinese army quickly tore through the Japanese defense line and attacked the core of Singapore. (To be continued......)