Christmas is approaching, the guns in Europe have come to an end, but Asia is still at war.

On the night that Ye Zishan conquered Singapore City Hall, Dong Hao also led the main force and Colonel Bryan's troops to conquer Tuanshi, Jurong and Choa Chu Kang on the west side of Star Island.

On December 22, the Air Force used the temporary runway opened up by the Volunteers to join the reinforcement for the first time, and 57 transport planes, including five Y-11s, transported 10 "Hound Dog" wheeled armored vehicles and 2,300 soldiers to the island within 24 hours, and the Navy even reinforced 5,100 soldiers and 32 tanks and self-propelled guns and other equipment in one go with water transport planes and Sumatran ships.

In order to alleviate the fatigue of continuous operations, the Singapore Command took advantage of the reinforcements to give the troops a day of rest and then launched another offensive in the early morning of the 24th. Ye Zishan joined Lin Mousheng's Malayan Division, gathered 6 "Golden Leopards" and 12 "Hounds", and led 6,000 infantry with the cooperation of naval aviation to attack Changi Airport along the seawall. Although Yamashita personally commanded the battle, His Excellency the General, whom the British and Americans called the "Malay Tiger", was no longer in the limelight, and although the Japanese army held out very tenaciously for 20 hours, Changi Airport still fell into the hands of the Wehrmacht on the morning of 25. By the evening of 27 December, the Singapore Command had three divisions, including the 3rd Airborne Division and the Malayan Division, not counting the thousands of Anglo-Dutch Allied troops of the Volunteers and Colonel Brann, bringing the total strength to 48,000.

With abundant troops and a steady stream of logistical support, Dong Hao and Ye Zishan were finally able to launch a siege of the Bukit Tima Mountain Fortress in the center of Sing Tao.

At the same time, the 20th Army led by Su Duozhen also routed the Japanese 5th Division again and advanced to Johor Bahru north of the Johor Bahru Strait on the last day before the New Year. Although Yamashita blasted the one-kilometer-long Xinjo Causeway, cutting off the only land access across the strait, the Chinese engineers withstood Japanese artillery fire and repaired the blown gate in just 10 hours with pre-built Bailey Bridge components. Eight o'clock in the morning on January 2. After Su Duozhen used a captured train to forcibly break through the obstacles deployed by the Japanese troops in the direction of Singapore on the Long Causeway, 200 "Tanuki" tanks and self-propelled guns swarmed up, and by 4 p.m., all four army divisions, including the 20th Light Armored Division, had entered Singapore Island along the 25-meter-wide embankment.

At the time when Ye Zishan and Su Duozhen were engaged in the most brutal street battles with the Japanese army, 137 ships of the Second Fleet protected the 3rd Marine Division and 5 Army Divisions with a total of 80,000 officers and men, and at the same time landed on the islands of Batam, Bintan, Linga, and Sinhe Island off the coast of Singapore. Although the Japanese troops stationed there were willing to resist, the disparity in strength was too great, and in the end, it took only five days to surrender this archipelago with dozens of islands, an area of more than 5,000 square kilometers, and holding the Strait of Malacca, to the Chinese Defense Forces. Another 30,000 Anglo-Dutch and anti-log fighters imprisoned on the islands were rescued.

Knowing that the garrison of the Linga Islands had been swept away, Yamashita Fengfumi, who knew that the general situation had gone, finally lowered his head, ordered all wings to burn the flag of the wing, and sent people to surrender to Dong Hao. But to his surprise, Dong Hao and the Singapore Command rejected his request for surrender: "Go back and tell Yamashita!" Whatever you do to kill us Chinese, I will kill you! He only has two options, one is to kill himself by seppuku, and the other is to wash his neck and wait for me to hang him. ”

The unusual threat of death made Dazuo, who came to negotiate surrender, shiver all over his body. After a long pause, he roared: "This is a violation of the Geneva Article, a violation of the Convention on Attack!" ”

"Geneva, hum! Do you remember it now? When you used ordinary people as hostages, why didn't you think about attacking the Convention! Come. Send him back. Dong Hao was too lazy to talk to a messenger, and waved his hand to drag the soldier out. The officers around him did not doubt it, because this was an order personally issued by the president and Marshal Yue, that is, to tell Japan and those forces that were making trouble and rain against the Chinese in Nanyang. The era of the Chinese being killed has passed! As for Colonel Brann and several Anglo-Dutch officers, they were also silent, and the hundreds of thousands of allied prisoners thirty-one months ago were now not even half left. Their hatred of the Japanese army was not much worse than that of China.

In the dirty tunnel under Bukit Tima Mountain, after Osa repeated Dong Hao's words, Masanobu Tsuji took a few steps back sharply, leaning against the cold and cold stone wall and shivering. Yamashita Fengwen's face was also bloody, he couldn't imagine that his opponent was so ruthless! That's a full 180,000 young people who are still fighting bloodily for the dream of the imperial kingdom on the southeast peninsula! By the time the war is over, how many of the 500,000 southward troops and millions of subjects who have followed the empire southward will survive?

"Send a telegram back to China, so that everyone can be loyal to the empire." Thinking of this, the corners of Yamashita Fengwen's mouth twitched twice, and his chest seemed to be filled with explosives. But when he saw a Chinese corpse outside the air window that was used as a meat shield, he couldn't help but sigh. One wrong step, one wrong step, who can blame now?

On January 8, 1942, the Singapore Command launched a general attack on Bukit Timah Mountain, the last stronghold of the Japanese army, in this one-sided but extremely bloody battle, the Chinese army, navy and air force used thousands of tons of various types of ammunition, almost the entire mountain was wiped off the surface! More than 30,000 trapped Japanese and Indonesian soldiers were either killed or burned alive by napalm. Even though many people raised their hands and hung up the white flag, they still did not escape the fate of being shot on the spot, and in the end, thousands of soldiers even ran crazy due to nervous breakdowns.

On January 15, after the last Japanese soldier hiding in the sewers was killed, Chinese Field Marshal Qiu Wenbin, Deputy Chief of General Staff Zhu Peide, Chief of Staff Bai Yutang, Commander-in-Chief of the Southwest Theater Ouyang Nan, and Singapore Autonomous Chairman Tan Kah Kee arrived at Changi Airport to announce the end of the Singapore Campaign.

A record was set in this campaign, which lasted 28 days, that is, there was not a single captive!! A total of 93,532 officers and men of the 1st and 18th Divisions, the Naval Garrison and the 2nd Division of the Indonesian Army stationed in Singapore were all killed or missing, and at least 4,700 Japanese expatriates were killed or committed suicide by angry local volunteers in the war, plus the figures for the Malay Peninsula and the Linga Islands, a total of 120737 Japanese troops and expatriates were killed and 5,731 people were missing.

Similarly, China and Singapore have paid a heavy price, with 20,000 IDF soldiers killed and wounded, including more than 5,700 dead and 1,171 missing. There were also 5,000 dead and wounded among the Anglo-Dutch troops and prisoners of war. And the worst are the local ordinary people. There were 17,000 Chinese who were used as meat shields by the Japanese army, and another 30,000 died in the capture of the Japanese army before the war, plus the casualties during the war, a total of 60,000 people died, accounting for one of the entire population.

Ouyang Nan announced that after the end of the Singapore campaign, the navy immediately began a large-scale minesweeping operation, intending to open the Strait of Malacca before the Lunar New Year. A few days later, news came from Sumatra that after more than ten days of tug-of-war, the IDF had officially occupied Palembang on 25 January. Also all the way south to Aceh. Similarly, the Wehrmacht also carried out large-scale retaliation against the local ** Indonesian army and Japanese army, 80,000 Indonesian soldiers and more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, and nearly 700,000 militants who supported the Indonesian government and participated in the persecution of Chinese and their families were raided and exiled to the Central Siberian plateau to mine in the following year. Since these people had absolutely no idea what a harsh winter was, there was no difference between this kind of exile and outright execution.

At the same time of large-scale revenge, Yang Qiu did not forget the Huairou and divisive policy that his ancestors had used for thousands of years. You know, the historical relationship between Sumatra and Java is very complicated. The two sides were hostile to different ethnic groups, so after Sukarno established a unified Indonesia, he did not win too much support from Sumatraans. After the Indonesian and Japanese armies were wiped out, especially those who supported reunification were exiled by the Chinese. The voices of the Sumatran communities for autonomy are growing. In addition, Riau Province was already largely controlled by the Chinese, so at the behest of Yang Qiu, the General Staff, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took a multi-pronged approach to actively support politicians who were bent on seeking autonomy. Accelerate the operation to divide Indonesia.

Tokyo, Asakusa.

Sensoji Temple, a thousand-year-old temple, was one of the last bombing targets to be deliberately avoided in Tokyo. That's why. The area around the temple has become a refuge and a source of refuge for many people. The snow was mercilessly falling, covering the ground layer after layer, and in the silent streets, groups of refugees with their families hid behind the rubble, shivering, and knelt on the ground to beg whenever someone passed by. There are also many women who put cheap labels on themselves in order to make ends meet, and accept humiliation and torture over and over again, while their men know that they are humiliated, and in order to survive and their children, they can only hide outside and bite their lips, pick up cigarette butts that are already too short to be shorter, and help guard the door to solicit "business".

In every snowdrift that rises, you can see the frozen and blackened hands and feet sticking out, and the continuous bombing has caused the Japanese to run out of oil, the lamps have dried up, the grain harvest has failed, the houses have collapsed, the coal for heating has become a luxury, the timber has been looted, and even the pine trees on the mountains have been cut down because they have to dig up the roots of the pine trees to boil oil. The young men were all requisitioned by the army, and then trained day and night, the girls were sent to the comfort camps to "comfort" the men who were trained, and even the fishing boats on the beach were blown up, and no one knows how many Japanese disappeared because of hunger and cold in this harsh winter that has been rare for decades, everyone only knows that the corpse collection team can clean up dozens of truckloads of dead bodies every day, and there have even been many cases of killing children and sharing food.

Every Japanese wants winter to pass quickly, and the cherry blossoms are waiting for them to bloom again, and to sow seeds for a good harvest. But the bomber swarms that roared by day and night shattered this dream with a string of bombs.

A car burning coal breaks the silence of Sensoji Temple. In the carriage, Hirota Hiroki silently looked at the numb faces that passed quickly in front of the window. As a Japanese politician who firmly opposed the war against China before the war, he could still receive strong support during the Nagata Tetsuyama period, but after Nagata's death, the "forgetful" Japanese top brass seemed to have forgotten who helped them bring back Soviet allies, who first suggested the Soviet-German-Japanese alliance, and who broke the ice to visit China after the Second Sino-Japanese War.

How long can this forgetful nation last?

In Hirota's sighs, a truck running on coal slowly stopped behind the temple. Step inside the temple and see soldiers hidden under trees, buildings and anti-aircraft guns that turn the inside and outside into two worlds. "Hirota-kun." Hirota Hiroki had just walked into the side hall under the guidance of the monk, when a voice sounded from the side.

Shigemitsu Aoi and Kishigero Bihara both walked out...... (To be continued......)