The entire South China Sea is boiling, with hundreds of ships cleaving the waves and cleaving the lines day and night, and millions of tons of supplies moving slowly across the sea at a rate of twelve or thirteen knots per hour, from port to port. The dispatch of military materials has prompted the birth of new disciplines such as co-ordination, and the huge logistics service department has tried its best to reduce trouble by using colors, large characters, symbols, and other methods that can be clearly distinguished by the naked eye. Computers must be used to deal with such huge military logistics needs when manpower cannot solve them. Therefore, the General Logistics Department is the third military department in the country to introduce computers to assist in the work, and there are more than 100 relay computers in the logistics and transportation center in Shanghai, and there is even a top-secret transistor computer developed in the 3010 program to help with the work.

No matter how splendid the previous battlefields in Central Asia, Northeast Asia, and Europe were depicted, the countries and ordinary people living in the South China Sea could not imagine what it was like to see hundreds of ships, and Siam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore all watched with nervous eyes, and even Hirohito, who was far away in Tokyo, which had been disturbed by the harsh winter and famine, sent edicts to the troops advancing south.

"The survival of the Imperial Kingdom depends on this battle! I and all the people of the Empire hope that the samurai of the Empire will carry forward the spirit of their predecessors. Extend the glory of the Empire! I and all the people are looking forward to your victory! ”

Inside the Japanese Peninsula Command at Singapore's Parliament House, Masanobu Tsuji recites the Emperor's edict aloud. In the past, Hirohito used to use tapes and tape recorders to send to the front so that soldiers could hear his voice with their own ears, but now he can only use radio and then dictate by officers. Even so, the Japanese soldiers who listened to the oracle still burst into tears, knelt on the ground and shouted wildly, vowing to fight bravely for the empire.

The performance of the soldiers satisfied Yamashita Bongbun, but the Singapore defenses outside the window were terrible. The complete destruction of the fortress before the surrender of the British army left the Japanese with only an empty shell. Although after two years of work day and night, the function of the Bukit Timah Hill Fort and some of the forts has been restored, but it is much worse than during the British occupation. Judging from the previous battles, the squadron has more armor and strong firepower, has a lot of heavy artillery, and is also very good at three-dimensional combat with sea and air, which is completely the German army's fighting style, and even surpasses. What's more, after losing the navy, the current Chinese National Defense Force and the Japanese army are not at all opponents of the same level, and the weapons and equipment are elephants and beetles, so I am afraid that the only thing that can be used in this battle is the mud in the rainy season and the fighting willpower of the soldiers.

There is no doubt about the combat ability of the Imperial soldiers, but the terrain Yamashita Fengwen looked at the map and still had a headache. From Songkhla to Singapore, the coastline is more than 800 kilometers long, and there are dozens of landing sites, and even if he has drawn back the 18th division of Burma, there are only four divisions, three naval garrison groups, and one Indonesian puppet army division, and only two captured British destroyers, 178 torpedo boats and gunboats, and less than 50 planes left, and only 180,000 horses at full duty, which cannot take care of such a vast area at all. Moreover, the squadron is still assembled in Andaman , which requires him to prepare for the worst of being hit in the abdomen and back. "It's hard!" Yamashita Fengwen sighed inwardly.

"Admiral, it's a telegram from the Navy. Vice Admiral Inoue said that he would cooperate with us in flanking the landing fleet in China. Masanobu Tsuji walked over with a telegram from the Philippines. Yamashita Fengwen took it and read it, and put it next to him. He knew that Inoue Narumi was just putting on a show, and that the poor possessions of the Third Fleet would be sunk by the swarming bombers if they got out of the Philippine Islands. At this time, he didn't want to blame the navy, so he turned his head and asked, "Masasa Tsuji, how do you think we should defend it?" ”

Masanobu Tsuji didn't hesitate so much, and his finger on the map was very spicy: "No matter how the army is mobilized, Singapore will definitely be their last target." I propose that the forces be reduced to the 4th Division defending Johor, the 5th Division defending Kuala Lumpur and Malacca, the 1st and 18th Divisions all withdrawn to the Straits of Johor, and the torpedo boats being deployed on both sides of the Straits of Johor and Singapore. We can also arrest the Shina people here and use them as shields. In the words of the Chinese people, it is to let them throw the rat bogey device and not give full play to the advantage of firepower. ”

Yamashita Fengwen's eyes lit up, this is a way, the two countries have long been mortal enemies by now in the war, and there is nothing to scruple about.

Singapore had a pre-war population of 1.17 million, of which about 900,000 were Chinese. After the Japanese army moved south to occupy Singapore, Yang Qiu pressured the Japanese government, seized on the weakness of the Japanese army's reluctance to immediately start a war against China, and forced the Japanese government to agree to let China evacuate overseas Chinese. During this period, about half of the Chinese were evacuated from Borneo and Natuna, and the rest were not able to withdraw but were unwilling to leave, so there are still about 500,000 Chinese living here today.

Hundreds of thousands of meat shields were in front of him, and he believed that Yang Qiu had to consider the consequences.

But there is one thing that has always been deeply rooted in his heart: the Riau province of Sumatra, across the street from Singapore. Before the Sino-Japanese war, China urgently deployed 2 army divisions here on the grounds of ensuring the safety of Minas oil, because it did not want to fall out with China, so the Japanese army turned a blind eye to this matter, who wanted Yang Qiu to intensify his efforts, increasing the garrison to 4 divisions, and a large number of guerrillas of the peninsula resistance group, and now the total strength there has exceeded 150,000. After the start of the war, the Japanese army has been worried that they will cross the strait and attack the peninsula, so they used dozens of warships to attack the oil fields and defense facilities, and also deployed a large number of troops in Singapore, Lingga Islands and Kuala Lumpur, and transported fortress guns from China to repair several British forts, and finally dismantled the guns on the British ** ships sunk in the harbor and deployed them on the batteries. If they alone, Yamashita is confident that he will thwart all the crossing operations, but now that he has to face the Shina army attacking from the peninsula, the coastal defenses will definitely weaken, what should he do?

Seeing that he was silent, Masanobu Tsuji immediately went to order the troops to arrest people and act as shields. Countless Japanese soldiers who were stimulated by Hirohito's oracle rushed out of the barracks, tore off the mask of hypocrisy on weekdays, and sprinkled the streets and alleys like a pack of mad dogs.

"Let go of me! Let me go! Beasts, beasts! Little Japan, I'll fight with you! In front of the Hu family's shop in Dabajiao, more than a dozen fierce Japanese soldiers rushed into the shop and pressed the proprietress and her seven-year-old daughter to the ground.

"Jap! **Your grandma! A young man in the shop rushed out with a kitchen knife, but the kitchen knife could not match the sharp bayonet, and before he could get close to two bayonets, he stabbed him in the chest. After the Japanese soldiers finished venting, they also set the shop on fire, and then threw the proprietress and young children who had passed out into the fire. The whole street! All of Singapore! It was all this scene of killing, everywhere with the screams of women in pain and despair, and the howls of men being beaten to death. Tens of thousands of Chinese were chased by Japanese soldiers. A British truck stopped, and more Japanese soldiers rushed out of the truck, tied the overturned Chinese into strings with rope and wire, and then held them behind the truck.

In order to alleviate the worries of the war, Masanobu Tsuji ordered the arrest of young men and their escort to the Straits of Johor, the Straits of Singapore, and some important military installations as meat shields. Then they put the helpless woman, the old man, and the child behind them. In this way, if the young people wanted to escape, the Japanese army could kill the women, the elderly and children behind them to threaten them, and if the Wehrmacht attacked, the women, children and the elderly could not avoid the bullets and guns because of their slow movement.

In order to seize the time, the Japanese army began the first large-scale purge and massacre after the occupation, and by the evening nearly 70,000 people had been arrested, and 20,000 women, children and rebels had been killed, blood and corpses everywhere, and even the pungent smell of blood floated in the air.

"Brethren! Fight with them! "The sudden massacre caught the Singapore Resistance by surprise. In Choa Chu Kang's Fishermen's Lane on the Singapore side of the Straits of Johor Bahru, more than 100 young people quickly pulled open the wooden bed and took out the submachine guns that had been hidden for a long time from the cellar. They were all local guerrilla soldiers, affiliated with the Malayan Division of the Asian League, the largest resistance group on the peninsula. The division commander and the commander of the Singapore regiment were Lin Mousheng and Hu Tiejun, who helped the British army evacuate and blew up the fortress. Due to the suddenness of the incident, when Hu Tiejun arrived here, everyone was already ready.

Because there was no counteroffensive plan in the country before, and it was worried that the armed activities would be retaliated by the Japanese army and spread anger on the people, so the Singapore Resistance Army mainly collected intelligence before. But this living massacre deeply angered everyone, and when they saw him coming, several soldiers immediately surrounded him with bloodshot eyes: "Brother Hu, you say, where to fight!" "Although Hu Tiejun is young, he is very calm in his work, and he already knows what is going on in the city, and he is anxious about the safety of his compatriots, and he knows better that he must first understand what happened." Can anyone tell me, what the hell is going on? ”

"I know a little." A middle-aged man who was helping the Japanese army with chores came out and quickly said the reason: "That's the case, this morning the Japanese emperor sent a holy edict, and those officers gathered the devil soldiers to listen, and they didn't know what they said, anyway, the devil soldiers shouted like crazy when they heard it, and many people cried. After about half an hour, they began to arrest people everywhere, and I heard from those traitor interpreters that they seemed to be trying to arrest us Chinese as meat shields to block domestic aircraft artillery. ”

"Jade Crushing Order!" Before he finished speaking, Hu Tiejun's face changed. The Japanese army issued jade crushing orders in Ryukyu and Seoul, and the massacre of local residents had long been reported around the world through newspapers. The Japanese government was condemned by the international community for this, but the Japanese army regarded it as a symbol of courage and a decisive battle, so it intensified the implementation of the Jade Crushing Order.

Previously, since most of the jade shattering orders involved Ryukyuan and Koreans, there was no pain on the Nanyang side, but I didn't expect this infamous "order" to suddenly appear in front of me now. But he also knew that the news had to be spread as soon as possible. Seeing that the main force is coming, if the main force does not know the details of the indiscriminate bombardment, I don't know how many compatriots will die. "Xiao He, you take a few of the best water-based, immediately cross the strait to Qiuka, and send out the news here! Remember! In any case, the news that the Japanese are using ordinary people as shields must be sent. Also, tell the division commander to find a way to send more people to the island, I urgently need it here. By the way, be careful of the strait, I just saw a lot of devil motorboats on patrol. ”

"A few of you go and get the rest of the people, and if you are left alone, you will all be summoned to join us, and then go find more big iron tongs, the more the better. Also, be careful of being mixed in by devils, and gather in the woods of Mandai Mountain at 8 o'clock in the evening. ”

"Be sure to get your compatriots out!