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"What!"

On the embankment of the Johor Strait, the adjutant quickly held on to Yamashita Fengwen, who almost fell into the sea. After the fire and explosion came from the fort a few minutes ago, the main force of the army thought that it was just a bomber's disturbance, but they didn't think that it was actually a plane landing operation, and the other party also directly put the gliding landing at the gate behind the fort! This method of warfare is reminiscent of the recently concluded Battle of Crete.

But Singapore isn't Crete! The density of troops here is much higher than that of the British and American ghost animals. "Order Tanaka, even if all his 18th division is shattered, he must drive the Shina people into the sea!" In the roar under the mountain, in addition to the 1st Division guarding the Johor Strait, the troops from all over the island poured out. Lieutenant General Shinichi Tanaka, commander of the 18th Division, also pulled the Indonesian 2nd Division, which had 23,000 soldiers on board, to attack the batteries from three directions, northwest and east, and even a destroyer and several patrol boats appeared on the sea.

The rumbling explosion suddenly woke the entire Star Island from its dream. "Counterattack! Our army has fought back! Changi Fort has been captured!! ”

"I saw with my own eyes, driving the plane directly to the back of the battery, and the plane didn't fall apart. You know the, it's a glider, and it only takes a piece of hard ground to land. Don't talk about it, what about the back? Back, you didn't see that in the back! Seven or eight cars, thousands of people smashed through the barbed wire fence and the fence, and now they have surrounded the mongrels on the fort. ”

"Oh no, Huang Bodong's family of five was captured as a hostage by the mongrel."

"Don't worry, I see it for real. The soldiers rushed up and shouted to lie down and lie down, those soldiers who said that they couldn't understand our words, they were all killed, and now Lao Huang's family is settled in the fort and safe. ”

"I knew it, I knew it! The president will definitely save people! You people, a few days ago, you were shouting that the country will not care about our life or death, and the president will take into account the overall situation, what is happening now? Dumbfounded! No, I'm going to the fort, even if I die on it, I'm going to help. ”

"Then let's block the road, Made! We have to keep these mongrels in the city! ”

The rumbling sound of artillery stimulated the enthusiasm of the Chinese people in Star City to defend the land and serve the country, many people spontaneously poured along the trail to the fort, some people also brought their own food, more people moved all kinds of furniture and sundries from their homes to block the middle of the road, and some wealthy families and car drivers also parked their cars on the road and burned them to block the road.

"Push it away, quick!" Less than a few kilometers from Bukit Tima Mountain, Mizutani Torakichi's baggage wing was blocked on the road by several burning buses, and he was so angry that he immediately ordered the trucks in front of him to push the roadblocks.

Seeing that the truck hit it hard a few times and finally tore open a passage, Li Ting and the classmates blocking the road were extremely anxious. At this moment, a H-10 "bomb truck" roaring from the Minas oil field at low altitude discovered the anomaly, and the pilot immediately made a detour and swept the road with six 12.7mm machine guns in the wings.

In the explosion, the two trucks used to push through the barricade suddenly turned into fireballs. "Look!" Li Ting and her classmates were so excited that they almost screamed when they saw the plane disintegrate and break the barriers. A few bold boys were still sneaking around to get the rifles on the soldiers of death, when they saw more than a dozen airborne soldiers carrying carrying equipment rushing over from the southern intersection. "This way! There's me here! Seeing that they were running towards the army, Li Ting didn't care about safety, so she hurriedly ran up to stop them. But as soon as she got closer, she was pressed against the wall by an airborne soldier and could not move.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, we're all students of Star University." Seeing this, the classmate hurriedly stepped forward to explain, and also took out his student ID card to prove his identity.

"I'm sorry." The soldier let go of Li Ting and scratched his head, as if he felt embarrassed to be rough with the girl. "It's my fault, I didn't make it clear." However, Li Ting, who has received military training, knows that there are requirements for those who lead the way in the army, after all, no one can guarantee that strangers are not annihilated. "Gan Yongxing, squad leader of the 3rd Airborne Division of the Chinese National Defense Forces, we got lost when we landed, please tell me how to get to St. Andrew's Street."

"Turning out here is St. Andrew's Street, and there are our barricades in front of us, but there are also a lot of soldiers."

"It's okay, that's what we're doing. Can you take the Heavy to the rooftop? The lost squad leader decided to believe these young students and immediately asked Li Ting to take the machine gunner upstairs.

At this time, after Mizutani Torakichi used a machine gun to drive away the attack plane, he transferred an armored vehicle left behind after the surrender of the British army from behind, preparing to force it over again. "It's not good, it's my tank! Quick, you can hide inside". A young student had never seen a real tank, so he called an armored car a tank. The squad leader smiled contemptuously and beckoned to the grenadiers behind him. Li Ting and her classmates only saw that the armored vehicle with the "dog skin plaster" had just passed between the two burning trucks, and a flame erupted from the southern corner, and the 84-mm armor-piercing bullet easily blew the "tank" in their mouth into pieces.

The general-purpose machine guns that climbed up to the roof of the building also rang out, and a dense metal barrage soon blocked the road connecting the town hall to the harbor battery.

Although Li Ting and many patriotic students and citizens took to the streets to close the road spontaneously, Ye Zishan also sent a small force to set up a defensive line, hoping to slow down the speed of the army approaching the fort. However, the island of Singapore is too small, with only 20 kilometers between the two straits, and before his side can complete the clearance, a large number of troops have already launched a counter-encirclement of the fort from the east, west, and north.

Half an hour ago, the trouble of the weak defense on the rear side that Taro Eda encountered was all returned to Ye Zishan, and it was even worse than just now! Because the army had destroyed most of its artillery before the defeat, he did not even have heavy firepower now. Although the group of attack planes that arrived in Minas continued to suppress and strike at the reinforcements and drove away the destroyers, the fierce shells of the Japanese army still rained down on the battery.

The Airborne Forces are in a bitter battle! Shinichi Tanaka, who replaced Taketaguchi Ryoya, knew very well what the reaction would be if he lost the fort, so he frantically ordered his troops to attack and advance, even if they died in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood! The frenzied army also set up 105-mm cannons at close range and bombarded the batteries indiscriminately. Although the thick cement reinforcement of the fort was enough to withstand the shells, the exposed facilities and positions were almost completely wiped out! In addition to the 18th Division, the doglegs of the Indonesian 2nd Division also fiercely buried their heads in the artillery and launched a ** attack. These vested interests after the army went south, they actively acted as the butcher's knife of the colonizers before Xinhai, and swung it at the Chinese countless times, and now after turning into a reader, they have begun to regard themselves as the masters of the South China Sea. In order to alleviate the disadvantage of insufficient troops, an army of 400,000 troops was armed in one go! Not only did it stir up the Dutch East Indies before the war, but it also repeatedly targeted the Nanyang Chinese. In Masanobu Tsuji's previous meat shield grabbing operation, they were even more rampant than the army! The number of Chinese women killed and humiliated by them is several times that of the Yue Army! The Nanyang Chinese hate them even more than the Ben and the colonizers!

"Boom, boom."

The elite airborne troops are not afraid of these doglegs at all, but the ferocious artillery fire of the Yue army pressed them to the surface, and they couldn't show their abilities.

"Has the airport been taken?"

The tragic battle made Ye Zishan, who is known for his calmness, covered in smoke and dust, and even the corners of his military uniform were torn into strips of cloth. It was the first time since the formation of the Third Airborne Division that it had encountered such a bloody battle, if it had not had for the absolute superiority of automatic weapons. The scene of the army pouring in like a death is estimated to scare the nerves of many people!

"Not yet, there are too many troops at the airport, and Company Commander Qian and their attacks have been repulsed several times."

Before the raid plan, Ye Zishan asked to attack the airfield and the fort at the same time, but because several "Dapeng" heavy gliders that raided the airfield during the landing were attacked by antiaircraft artillery and had to land on the fort, the forces to seize the airfield were insufficient. "It's too late! Let the third company abandon the airfield and retreat, hold the seawall to the east, there is a military brigade over there, let them be careful! Commander, where have they been? Ye Zishan looked at his watch, decided to cancel the attack on the airport, and then asked Dong Hao for reinforcements.

"Just left, at least at noon." The telegram that the communications corps had successfully landed was sent to Kunlun Island, Natuna, and Riau provinces at the same time. But it is clear that barges and landing craft with a speed of only 11 or 2 knots will need enough time to cross the 100-kilometer Strait of Malacca. "Commander Hu, collect the weapons of the army and select a group of people." After calculating the time, Ye Zishan twisted towards Hu Tiejun.

"Good!" Hu Tiejun knew that the situation was urgent, and hurriedly led people to start selecting volunteers among the rescued and rushed Chinese. In the moment of life and death, most men chose to pick up their guns and follow the airborne troops into the bunkers of the battery.

Although Hu Tiejun quickly used the weapons of the Yue army to organize 3,000 volunteers, the losses of the airborne troops were still very large. By five o'clock in the morning, there were less than 1,500 troops left, except for the 570 who died in the raid. At this critical moment, the dull sound of engines came from the morning light, and more than 20 huge "Sea King" transport planes used their wide wings to block the sunlight from the battery.

The 29 "Sea Lord" transport planes urgently transferred from Taiwan by the Theater Command finally arrived from Natuna. The giant, six-engine seaplane, which was first put into combat during a sneak attack on Guam, had unrivaled transport advantages, each carrying 15 tons of supplies or 102 heavily armed soldiers.

"Shoot! Shoot at the sea behind the battery! Seeing the hordes of "Sea Lords", Tanaka Shinichi suddenly shouted badly and ordered the artillery to extend fire, trying to block the sea landing site.

"Fire! Fire! Be sure to hold it down! As soon as the dense column of water rose from the sea, the four H-7 gunboats that arrived at the same time as the "Sea King" rushed up from behind. 75mm howitzers, 40mm automatic grenade launchers, 25mm machine guns, and 12.7mm heavy machine guns opened heavy fire on the gun positions.

A few minutes later, 80 Lightning-powered fighters and Yaksha dive bombers from the Second Fleet also arrived to help and secure the safe landing of the Sea Lord. In a powerful air strike, the artillery of the army was either destroyed or hurriedly shifted its position. Taking advantage of this gap, 29 "Sea Masters" quickly landed in the bay below the battery. After the pilot opened the hatch, he quickly threw out one inflatable kayak after taking into account that the airborne troops and marines, who could not land directly on the shore after landing. Seeing the large number of people, Hu Tiejun also hurriedly organized volunteers and used fishing boats and motorboats in the bay to pick up and drop off soldiers.

By six o'clock in the morning, fighting the price of the loss of two "Sea Overlords" hit by shells, the first batch of 2,722 airborne troops and marines who came to help successfully went ashore, and they also included a large number of weapons and equipment including 16 120-mm mortars, which finally alleviated the trouble of Yezishan's lack of suppressive firepower.

Soon after the departure of the remaining Sea Lords, a second batch of as many as 77 Fei Lian 2 Seahawk seaplanes followed. Although the volume of transportation of the "Sea Hawk" cannot be compared with the former, it is superior to the number of flexible ones, with more than 200 aircraft at several bases in Natuna and Borneo alone. Seeing them, Ye Zishan immediately divided into half, contacted the carrier-based aircraft group of the Second Fleet, and cooperated with the battery artillery to cover them to go ashore in Boona Vista in the west. Further disperse the offensive of the Japanese army. Then he asked Hu Tiejun to lead the volunteers to the seawall in the southwest and use the flat seawall road to build a temporary runway.

His arrangement proved to be very correct, and the airborne regiment, which had come ashore from Boona Vista, took advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army to attack the fort and quickly occupied Pasir Panjang with the help of the Volunteers, forcing Tanaka Shinichi to divide his precious forces. Hu Tiejun also led the volunteers and tens of thousands of citizens who spontaneously rushed to build the runway around the island day and night, and by the afternoon of the next day, a field runway of 1,800 meters appeared on the surface, ensuring follow-up air supplies.

At one o'clock at noon, Dong Hao arrived at Fort Bay with more than 20 barges and landing craft, bringing not only 4,100 soldiers to Yezishan, but also 6 155mm howitzers and 6 Type 31 tanks.

"Go up, reinforcements go up!"

Just when the second batch of "Sea Eagles" completed their reinforcements, in the operational command center of the Yanjing General Staff, Yang Qiu, who was waiting for the news, couldn't help but squeeze his fists fiercely, and Tan Kah Kee, chairman of the Singapore Autonomous Association, who was waiting for the news, couldn't help but applaud loudly. Although the troops on the island can only hold the batteries at present, and the navy cannot land directly on the side of the strait through the minefield, as long as this forward base is kept, even if there is only one bay, the air transport capacity far superior to the original can ensure the subsequent urban attrition war.

"Good!" Chen Jiageng, who stayed in Yanjing, was even more tearful. After learning that the army was taking ordinary Chinese hostages, he was so anxious that he couldn't do it, but he was afraid that going to Yang Qiu would affect the army's liberation of Singapore. Knowing that more than 10,000 people had been rescued when the news came, and a bridgehead had been established behind the army, he settled down. Although there are still many more people who have not been rescued, as long as they can stand in the heart of the army, there is still a chance.

"Mr. Jiageng, don't worry, I promise you, there will definitely be more people rescued." Yang Qiu stepped forward and grabbed his hand: "But you have to take care of the next things, when Singapore is all liberated, I will let Bei Zuyi accompany you back." When the timetable for the founding of the country is determined, I will also try to find time to attend the ceremony. Hehe, don't blame me for being in a hurry, this matter is really sooner rather than later. ”

"Thank you President, thank you Chief of Staff, thank you Marshal, you can rest assured of the next things." Hearing that Yang Qiu was likely to personally participate in the founding ceremony of Singapore, Chen Jiageng excitedly grabbed him, Yue Peng and others, and thanked him vigorously. It wasn't until the staff officer came to report that the car was ready, and then he said goodbye.

When he left, Yang Qiu took a deep breath slightly. In fact, the casualties in this kind of fight are definitely greater than the original plan, but for the sake of the face of the Chinese in Singapore who have donated tens of millions of dollars to the country since the start of the war, this sacrifice is still deserved. Now that the troops had already stood in Singapore, he began to care about the follow-up actions as he had done in so many battles before, turned his head to look at Chu Nan and asked in a low voice, "Is the plan to reinforce Bai Chongxi ready?" ”

Chu Nan said: "The domestic side is ready, it depends on the speed of the navy's minesweeping." Bingwen told me that Chen Shiying has dispatched more than 40 fishing trawlers and 10 minesweepers, and it is expected that they will be able to sail before the end of the year. ”

"Let the navy speed up as much as possible, and when it's almost time for the fleet to leave for Natuna first, I think something will definitely happen in the Middle East at the beginning of the year."

"Huh. President, do you have a double clairvoyant eye? It was known so soon that something was going to happen in the Middle East. ”

As soon as Yang Qiugang asked the navy to speed up, Song Ziqing and Yan Baohang, who were holding documents, walked up from behind to interrupt their speeches. Seeing the two of them, Yue Peng, who was standing next to him, asked curiously: "Baohang, is Turkey fighting?" ”

"How can it be so fast, Hitler is still looking for a ship to cross the strait." Song Ziqing smiled and shook the document in his hand: "But the tone is not small." Look, you see, this is something that Zhang Xiaozhun has just sent back, and Hitler has officially given Turkey an ultimatum, demanding to join the axis and open its airspace and territorial waters. ”

"What about Roosevelt? The command of the Middle East is so important to the United States, it will not be stupid to watch the German invasion again, right? Yang Qiu took the document and asked while reading it.

"Of course not, just now Shi Zhaoji called and said that US Ambassador Jensen had come to greet him, and Roosevelt, Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle would issue an ultimatum to France within 48 hours, demanding that French Syria immediately lay down its arms and accept the jurisdiction of the Allies, and he hoped that you would also sign the ultimatum to participate in this ultimatum." Song Ziqing said: "And I heard Zhang Xiaozhun say that in order to ensure the Middle East theater, Roosevelt asked Eisenhower to put all the 600 Y-8s we sold into the Middle East route, and the specific route was from Halifax, Canada, to the Canary Islands and Nigeria for refueling, and finally landed in Cyprus." ”

"Good guy, this will take more than 10,000 kilometers, right?" Liu Mingzhao, who was standing next to him, pushed his glasses. After the war in the northwest was temporarily over, he returned to the War Department and began to prepare for the war that followed.

Yan Baohang also took out a thick stack of information, handed it to everyone to watch, and replied: "To be precise, it is 11,000 kilometers, and you need to refuel twice on the way." In addition to the Y-8, the United States has also sent 7,800 C47s to carry out the transportation mission in the inland section of Africa. So as of the day before yesterday, the total number of US troops in Cyprus had increased to 300,000, and at least 2,000 tanks and armored vehicles would all arrive after Christmas. We expect the U.S. military presence in the Middle East to increase to 500,000 by the end of January. In addition to the reinforcement of troops in Cyprus, the Anglo-American coalition attacking Iraq from Jordan has recaptured the Habbaniah Air Base west of Baghdad. An armored brigade of the U.S. Army is also outflanking Karbala along the Euphrates River. General Bai Chongxi said that the Iraqi National Army has fully withdrawn from the Kuwait-Iranian border, and it is estimated that it will hold Baghdad to the death. ”

This is the list of British and American ships that have passed through the Suez Canal in the last three weeks, with a total of 270 merchant ships passing through the strait, and the U.S. Navy also has two Avenger-class escort carriers, six Borg-class escort carriers, three heavy cruisers, 29 light cruisers and other ships stationed in Cyprus Harbor. In terms of aircraft, about 200 P43 fighter jets (purchased from the Chinese-patented F6F), 400 P40, 300 B17, 200 B24, and 400 C47 transport aircraft have flown to Cyprus in the past three weeks. Eisenhower has already submitted a report to Marshall, asking the U.S. political axe to offer us to buy 12 million tons of fuel from Saudi Arabia and Iran for the garrison in Cyprus and the Middle East, in order to reduce dependence on domestic oil and use transport ships for more urgently needed equipment shipments, and I estimate that the U.S. ambassador will come to you in a few days to make a request. ”

"This is the report of last month's battle that has just been sent back by the British Air Service Regiment, which mentions that the Allied Command in Europe began to increase the bombing of the French railway network, seaports and the German mainland last month. According to the Air Service Regiment's own statistics, about 720 of the 12,000 bombers of various types were carried out by the Allied forces from the British mainland last month, and 100 were damaged and scrapped. At present, their fighters are unable to escort long-range bombers such as the B17, and most of the losses are due to being shot down after penetrating deep into German and French airspace. It is said that Roosevelt had instructed Eisenhower to focus his bombing on Spain, France, and Italian Sicily for the time being, and to wait for the latest P47 fighter jets to enter service before expanding the bombing of the French and German mainland. ”

"Finally, we have calculated the delivery capacity of the US Navy by the beginning of May, and now it has been basically determined that the two damaged "North Carolina"-class battleships will all be repaired in April, and the first three "South Dakota"-class battleships will also be fully commissioned in April. So we predict that by the end of May at the latest, Roosevelt and Churchill will attack Malta and regain air supremacy in the Mediterranean! Cut off the supply channels of the German-Italian North African Corps! ”

Jiang Baili, who was quick-eyed, grabbed the US Navy delivery list, and after reading it, his eyes were full of stars, and he said jealously: "Good guy!" It's too much of a toss-up. Look, President, we have forced Bingwen to hang his neck, and they are good, they will be able to deliver 3 battleships, 3 heavy cruisers, 5 light cruisers, 60 destroyers and 22 escort aircraft carriers in the first five months of the bright year! ”

"Alright, don't burn a fire." Yue Peng smiled and secretly glanced at Yang Qiu, and bumped him on the shoulder: "If Roosevelt didn't have such a strong industrial capacity, do you think we would still fight like this?" ”

Yang Qiu didn't hear his words, and after digesting all the documents and information brought by Yan Baohang, he sighed with emotion: "Roosevelt has exerted his strength." ”

"Not only do they exert force, but also the increase in naval and air forces by the first mate can show that they still have no confidence in next year's ground war, so they are ready to adopt the tactics of confrontation on land and the initiative of the sea and air." Liu Mingzhao pushed his glasses and slowly analyzed the news revealed between the lines of intelligence: "Judging from the speed of the US army's increase in Cyprus, it should be ready for the German army to attack Turkey, so it will hoard hundreds of C47 transport planes on the front line." Returning to the news that the Anglo-American forces had advanced to the west of Baghdad, I think Hitler was probably in a hurry, so he gave Turkey an ultimatum. The Germans will definitely not take the Dardanelles, and Hitler still remembers the tragic situation of the last war with Britain, so the best thing to do is to take the Eurasian land bridge! However, it is not so easy to pass through the Bosphorus, the US military has deployed so many long-range bombers and transport planes in Cyprus, clearly to forcibly destroy the Turkish railway network and bridges, and is ready to learn from our rapid entry into Turkey through air transport, so unless the Turkish army completely defects, the blockade of the strait can still be done compared to the German naval forces in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Second, although there are a large number of pro-German forces in Turkey, Kemal specifically instructed President Inonu and political axe officials before his death that they must stand with Britain and the United States if there is another war, and they have long been unhappy with the Soviet Union on issues such as Armenia, Iraq, and Iran. So once Germany declares war, Turkey is likely to have U.S. troops stationed in the Strait to protect it. I am sure that the German General Staff must have taken these problems into account, and when they are all taken together, there is only one solution. ”

Although Liu Mingzhao did not say a solution, everyone knew that his words pointed to the Black Sea, the only force that could protect the German army from Yugoslavia and cross the Black Sea to land in Turkey by surprise attack, that is, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet!

"Speed up the replenishment of the Myitkyina and Central Asian railways to the Persian Gulf, and once the Strait of Malacca is opened, the fleet will quickly keep up. Chu Nan! Prepare the Air Force to bomb the Baku oil fields. Yang Qiu laid out the documents and information one by one and slowly raised his head...... (To be continued.) )