Singapore is the world's most important golden waterway and strategic location.

Britain controlled it because for hundreds of years the British Empire was the world's largest power, and it would have been almost impossible to keep it without that. But even if Britain controlled Singapore and held the golden waterway of Malacca, they did not dare to impose exorbitant fees lest they provoke public anger.

The outbreak of the Southeast Asian War, the Chinese army swept southward, and a series of defeats by the great powers made the entire Singaporean people panic.

Countless white people poured onto the docks in panic, desperately buying tickets for the boat, just to prepare to escape from here and away from the war.

Far east, behind a steamer of several thousand tons, towing dozens of long fishing boats, this is the French Major General Mork and the thousands of French soldiers who have fled from Da Nang. Originally, Moque was full of despair, because the speed of the fishing boat was even more impossible to escape, but there was no endless way, and when the countries declared war, a Spanish ship docked at a small pier in order to replenish fresh water was discovered by the soldiers who were looking for the boat, and unceremoniously forced to requisition on the spot, connected all the fishing boats together, and escaped here by relying on this steam engine ship.

Mock took the officers and men ashore and went directly to the British Singapore Far East Naval Command with his staff officers.

After the report, Admiral Billy, commander of the French Far East Fleet, ran out quickly, and when he saw Mock, he said in surprise: "God, Rear Admiral Moke, it's great to see you again." "It was like an old friend who hadn't seen each other for years.

If it weren't for what happened to Da Nang, Mock would have been flattered. Anyway, the other party is a general. But at this moment, he only felt disgusted, and he almost couldn't hold back a punch to break the opponent's nose. But he forcibly held back and saluted: "Your Excellency, I am very happy to see you alive." But now I have to have a couple of boats. ”

Admiral Billy said in surprise: "Boat? What do you want to do? ”

"We have to send elite troops to rescue our compatriots in Saigon, where there are important people. This is a secret mission. ”

Billy said incredulously, "Can you come here, don't you have a boat?" ”

"We intercepted a Spanish boat as a tugboat and brought the troops here with dozens of fishing boats, and the other party's ships refused to dock in Saigon," Mork said. ”

Billy thought for a moment and said, "Okay then. "Thinking of the Da Nang incident, he actually felt guilty in his heart, so he agreed." We still have several transport ships in our Navy at our disposal. I will issue you an order immediately. ”

"Thank you!" Mock said lightly, and then he saw Admiral Kate, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and British's Rear Admiral Miller, nodding politely.

Soon, Admiral Billy took a document and handed it to Billy and said, "Major General Mork." Take care. ”

Mock gets the papers. Smiled: "You too." "Immediately take your leave with the staff officer.

Out of the command of the British Far Eastern Fleet. The staff officer immediately asked: "General, are we still going to Saigon?" ”

Billy sneered: "Go to Saigon to die?" Let's go back to Europe. ”

"But what you just said about Admiral Billy was a secret mission to Saigon?"

"Can we get the boat otherwise? Those naval commanders left us to be cannon fodder. If I guessed correctly, the Chinese will soon attack Singapore. ”

"Why? Are they too risky to do so? ”

"Isn't it risky to declare war with the whole world? How can you control Southeast Asia without controlling Singapore? ”

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With Admiral Billy's orders, Mork quickly obtained several transport ships from the remnants of the French Navy and quickly left Singapore with his troops. In fact, Mo Kewan did not expect that in the early morning of the next day, the Chinese army launched an attack on Singapore

The sky was faint, and the terrible sound of sirens woke up the whole of Singapore, and countless bombs whistled down, bringing with them the call of death.

The violent explosion made the faces of Kate, commander of the Pacific Navy, Billy, commander of the French Far East Fleet, and Rear Admiral Miller, who had fled to the United States here, extremely ugly, and the violent explosion caused by the fall of the bombshell was like a meteorite falling from the sky hitting the ground, and the whole earth was filled with a palpitating tremor.

Miller's face was like dirt, and he muttered to himself in distraction: "It's over, it's over." As far as he could see, the remnants of the fleet in the harbor had been bombed, and the garrisons on the shore had been bombed, and it was clear that the Chinese air force had dealt a fatal blow to Singapore's military forces, and such accurate intelligence was undoubtedly premeditated. Of course, this is understandable, who has allowed Southeast Asia to be China's traditional sphere of influence for thousands of years, and there are millions of Chinese, and it is impossible for China to hide such obvious goals as it is willing to collect intelligence.

Admiral Kate gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, the closest place to here controlled by the Chinese is Bangkok, but Bangkok is more than a thousand kilometers here." How could their bombers bomb Singapore from such a distance? Hell, would they rather scrap these planes for the sake of this bombing? ”

Billy shook his head and said, "It can't be. You look at how many Chinese planes are in the sky, one or two hundred H-1 Thunderbird bombers, not a few, how can China let them be scrapped like this? Unless they send someone to secretly build an airfield on a nearby island, or if their planes have a range of enough to fly back. ”

Miller is dripping blood in his heart, if the bombing of Da Nang is considered unprepared for China's attack, but what about Singapore now? It's almost history repeating itself, except that the Chinese side seems to have only a handful of strange warplanes, which seem to be seaplanes, and almost all the others are bombers. But at the same time, Singapore's military centers were devastated, and Singapore's airport had long since turned into a sea of fire, and he did not see any planes taking off, only a few Chinese seaplanes hovering overhead.

"Seaplane?" Miller sighed in his heart and exclaimed, "It's not good, the main force of the Chinese Navy is nearby." ”

Admiral Kate was surprised: "How is this possible? We have sent submarines to patrol the shipping lanes in the vicinity, and if we find them, we will definitely get information. ”

Miller said in a deep voice: "If this is not the case, then you tell me, how can those Chinese seaplanes be here?" ”

Kate and Billy looked in the direction of Miller's finger, and sure enough, they saw several Chinese J-2 fighters, but there was something more underneath the planes, which seemed to be fixed skateboards, and they knew that they were designed to allow the planes to glide on the water. When they looked at each other, their faces became a little ugly.

Billy hesitated: "Could it be that the Chinese sent submarines to refuel the seaplanes so that they could fly here." ”

Miller almost lost his breath, he really couldn't imagine how these idiots could become generals, they were just like idiots in the big picture. The Chinese are attacking in an all-out way, and the offensive is so fierce, this is already very telling, and China is clearly trying to control the whole of Southeast Asia, at least most of it, before the Western world reacts, otherwise what's the point of them bombing Singapore? These bombs might as well bomb the Anglo-Indian regiments in Burma and bomb the American troops in the Philippines who have not yet been completely annihilated.

"We must leave immediately." Miller didn't explain, and he didn't have time to explain. He must leave with the officers and sailors, the Western world can build enough warships, but excellent officers and sailors cannot be trained in a short time.

Miller took the lead in mobilizing British naval officers and sailors to flee, and Kate and Billy certainly wouldn't stay, even if they lost Singapore, it would be British territory.

Braving the bombing, British, French, and American naval officers and sailors frantically rushed onto the remaining ships, snatched the merchant ships that were still in the commercial docks, and forcibly drove them away.

The sky gradually brightened, and a fleet came to the sea not far from Singapore, and the five-color flags were waving in the wind, making the white men who had not had time to leave the Singapore pier look like dirt.

Lin Jianzhang and Ding Peng looked at the dock with binoculars, they were a little stupid, they saw that the dock was in a mess after the bombing, and there were many corpses, but they didn't see any decent troops.

"It's not going to be running away again, is it?" Lin Jianzhang was really dumbfounded, he made a joke in Hue at the beginning, when the French army had fled, and their South China Sea Fleet thought that the other party was an empty city. However, the military problem is not trivial, and the slightest carelessness will result in the loss of countless lives of officers and men.

Ding Peng scratched his head and said: "Ignore him, shell first, and proceed according to normal combat procedures." ”

Lin Jianzhang nodded and said, "Okay!" That's it. Command the fleet, carry out artillery and attacks. "Although the fleet has radio communications and can maintain communication within a radius of several tens of kilometers, the flag still sends the same command.

However, before the shelling was ready, a white flag had already been erected on the dock, which made Lin Jianzhang and Ding Peng dumbfounded again.

There is no way, when China is not sure of victory, it still has to abide by the current rules of world war. It was difficult for the other party to surrender, but they couldn't help but be on guard, so they sent a platoon of soldiers to land, only to know that the other party had really surrendered.

It turned out that there were many businessmen in Singapore and some officers and soldiers left, these people either lived at sea or on the docks, where could they not recognize the flag? As soon as they saw that the Chinese fleet was preparing for a saturation artillery bombardment, and the army suffered heavy losses, and the others ran away, there was not even the slightest chance at all, according to Western military rules, they could surrender, and there was no need to send their lives meaninglessly, so the white flag was erected.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the defenders of Singapore, there are not many defenders in the first place. Because the Western world has reached a consensus on dealing with China, and the Western powers have extremely strong confidence in maritime superiority, in the eyes of the British, the Chinese simply cannot threaten Singapore's security. In the eyes of the Western world, the war against China should be the Western coalition forces attacking around China, and the Chinese mainland is full of gunsmoke, but they have already deployed nearly two million troops in the surrounding area, and the elite will continue to arrive in the future.

Who would have thought that war would break out so quickly? Who would have thought that the Chinese would immediately launch a full-scale attack, and the colonial forces of various countries would be defeated like a mountain, and even their combined fleet, which was absolutely confident, would not be able to be killed in a single shot? (To be continued......)