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On the night of December 18, the Kota Tinggi on the northern shore of the Straits of Johor was under heavy artillery fire, and even the heavy guns of warships on the sea had touched the important defense line of the Straits of Johor. For example, during the daytime battle on Dekuko Island, two "Yanjing" class battleships and two "Xi'an" class heavy cruisers repeatedly shelled the island's facilities from the west side of the Malayan Peninsula with 36 main guns, which not only caused the 18th Division to lose an entire infantry brigade, but also nearly 1,000 Chinese "meat shields" were killed in the artillery fire.

This made Yamashita Fumimi fidget, China must have known about the "meat shield" plan, otherwise it would not have carried out retaliatory bombing of Saitama Prefecture, and the special high school also confirmed that the retaliation order was given by Yang Qiu himself. Moreover, before the naval shelling, Chinese reconnaissance planes appeared many times, and they must have seen the Chinese tied up outside, so why did they still use heavy firepower unscrupulously, and they really didn't want these tens of thousands of Chinese? He is very aware of the political environment in Yanjing, and if he doesn't know this kind of thing, it is impossible not to see it, even if he does it to the domestic people, he must do it, otherwise Yang Qiu would have been grabbed by the domestic opposition and stinked by his pigtails.

Although Yamashita didn't think that this method would scare the opponent, if he could curb the opponent's firepower advantage, it would be worth it. The battle on Kedeguang Island made him smell a little bad, but he couldn't say what was wrong, so he was still tossing and turning on the bed and feeling uncomfortable.

"Report, the Fifth Division is in an emergency, and Kota Dingyi has lost!"

At this moment, the adjutant rushed in in a panic, and Yamashita Fengwen, who was lying down in his clothes but couldn't close his eyes, suddenly sat up, staring at the adjutant angrily: "Baga! What is Matsui doing? Are his troops dead? ”

"Report to the general, General Matsui is organizing troops to recapture, but he said."

"Say what?"

Yamashita Bongfumi lit the kerosene lamp, adding a little light to the room that looked a little gloomy because of the power outage. In the dim flickering flames, his face became more and more gloomy, and he was also dissatisfied with the adjutant's spitting. "Let me do it." Masanobu Tsuji walked in, smiled and patted the adjutant to take the telegram, glanced at it and replied: "Lieutenant General Matsui Kutaro said that the Shina Army has put in 300 tanks. ”

"300 cars!" Yamashita recited the number silently. You must know that the entire peninsula army does not have so many tanks, and the attack on Kota Tinggi is only one lightly armed field army in the Chinese army. After buttoning the last button, he picked up his saber: "Order Isamu Yokoyama, blow up the Johor dam, withdraw all ships to Singapore, and block the strait from now on and prohibit anyone from coming from the other side!" ”

After Yamashita Fengfumi cut off the retreat of the 4th and 5th Divisions, he walked to the window and looked at the quiet south: "Tsuji Masa-kun, is there any movement in the Shina Army over there?" ”

"The telegram in the evening, they are still attacking Jambi and Palembang, there is no sign of an offensive across the sea, it should be afraid of our battery heavy artillery." Masanobu Tsuji said confidently. However, Yamashita did not dare to slack off, after the Chinese Defense Forces launched a full-scale counteroffensive, the squadron [***] in Riau Province of Sumatra began to attack Jambi, but the air transport volume in the past few days obviously exceeded the need to deal with the weak troops of Jambi and Palembang, so it was particularly reminded: "It is necessary to increase the defense, arrange more lookout posts, and the people of China still have some ships there." ”

"I'll arrange it."

After Masanobu Tsuji finished speaking, he immediately arranged for Yamashita to be sent to inspect the Johor Strait defense line, and he returned to his office to call the 114th Infantry Wing stationed at the Singapore Strait Battery. "Hey!" The 114th Wing was part of the 18th Division, which had previously been deployed in Burma, but because Yamashita knew that it would be difficult to hold Burma, he simply transferred back to Singapore. Masanobu Tsuji had a lot of prestige among the troops advancing south, so after the commander of the wing, Taro Eda, respectfully agreed, and immediately began to strengthen the defense. But at this moment, there was a sudden buzzing engine sound in the direction of the center line of the strait. "Quick, get up! You pigs! Hearing the sound of the engine, the soldiers of the 114th Wing and the Naval Garrison Brigade, who were on vigil, immediately drove the Chinese prisoners to the battery, but strangely, the sound of the engine did not come close at a distance.

"Keep your eyes open! Additional lookouts were dispatched to scan the sea with searchlights every ten minutes. After waiting for more than an hour, I didn't see any bombers attacking, and Eda Taro thought it was a night reconnaissance plane, so he asked the soldiers to go back and seize the time to rest. But he didn't know that the real Grim Reaper had quietly approached the island of Singapore from the other direction.

At 2 a.m., bombers that had been circling the center line of the strait to attract the attention of the Japanese army dropped several large flares from a high altitude. "Quick! Fast! The troops came, turned on the ground guidance lights. Seeing the flares over the strait, Hu Tiejun, who was responsible for receiving the airborne troops, but had waited for an extra hour, immediately asked people to turn on the guiding lights. These flashlight-like red guiding lights were specially made and could only be seen from the air, so the soldiers on the fort did not notice anything unusual.

Soon after the guidance lights were turned on, the 12 "Little Bird" light gliders led by the group saw a red signal from a height of 100 meters, and the skilled pilots immediately told the coordinates to the main group behind, and then quickly descended to 500 meters and quickly pulled up the nose of the plane, and glided towards the landing site with the help of wind and air resistance.

"Hold on!" Gliding and landing is extremely dangerous whenever and wherever it is. What's more, in order to bring as many soldiers and equipment as possible, all the gliders participating in the operation tonight were raced to the brim. For example, the "Little Bird" with a rated capacity of 15 people was crammed into 18 people, and the "Dapeng" heavy glider with a rated load of 7 tons or 52 soldiers was crammed into 61 heavily armed airborne troops. "Bang." With a creepy crash, the first "bird" quickly landed on the slope of a hill less than a kilometer west of the battery. Due to the uncontrolled position during landing, the entire left wing was cut off by a tree, and the plane made a sharp turn. Thankfully, the pilot opened the reduction teeth as soon as they landed, and these reduction teeth mounted on the sliding warp penetrated deep into the ground and helped stabilize the fuselage. "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" As soon as the plane came to a standstill, 18 paratroopers with carrying gear quickly jumped out of the cabin, and the co-pilot quickly unbuckled their seat belts and picked up submachine guns to keep up with the troops.

The first batch of 12 "Little Birds" had just landed, and the main group of aircraft that followed behind also rushed to the ground. In particular, the "Dapeng" heavy glider was very mobile when it landed, and was soon discovered by the patrolling sentry. "The Chinese plane! Tick Tick! Enemy attack! Enemy. When they saw a huge black shadow grazing the top of their heads and landing not far away, the sentry was stunned at first, and then picked up the police whistle and shouted. But as soon as they ran outside the landing field, they suddenly noticed a few red bright spots that had wandered to their chests and brains, and when they raised their heads to look in the direction where the red dots were coming from, several soldiers with dark faces that could not be seen clearly came out like ghosts.

"Aggressive." A few short shots, which were aimed at by the red dot sights, were killed by the hunter special forces who protected the landing site.

(You read that right, it's the red dot sight, the hippopotamus has 100% evidence, this thing has been equipped with the US military since 1944, but because the war ended and the number is not much, it is unknown.) ）

Under the protection of the hunters and the Malayan division, all but two of the 78 gliders (three lost on the way) landed safely. In less than ten minutes, 2,866 airborne troops and pilots rushed out of the plane, and the armored vehicles in the heavy glider also directly smashed the hatch in order to save time, and then rushed out of the cabin at a high speed like wild horses.

"Password!"

"Kill the light himself."

"Second Brigade of Hunters, huh? How are you, sir. "As soon as he rushed out of the plane, Ye Zishan met Pei Jian and Hu Tiejun, the captains of the second hunter squadron who had cooperated in Guam." How did you get here? Forget it, don't ask this, where is the battery? Knowing the hunter's surname, he quickly shut up and pulled the two of them into a bush. Hu Tiejun quickly pointed to several tall black shadows a kilometer away: "Over there, 1,100 meters away, there is a circle of barbed wire outside." The people who were tied up were all on the flat roof and the front slope, and they had to move quickly, saying that they should have woken up. ”

"Okay, find someone to lead the way, and the others will follow!" In order to seize the time, Ye Zishan did not assemble troops at all, so he and Pei Jian took three "Fox Hunting" wheeled armored vehicles and rushed to the fort under the personal guidance of Hu Tiejun.

All the attention of Taro Eda and the Fort's army was absorbed by the hum over the strait just now, so they didn't notice the glider that was silent from behind. It was only when the shrill brass whistles and gunshots sounded that a large number of gliders had landed. Amid the piercing siren, more than 2,000 soldiers who were sleeping in the fort hurriedly got up and rushed out.

"Yaga! Turn the muzzle, hurry! "In the various gun emplacements on the top of the mountain, the artillery also desperately turned the muzzles. However, due to the lack of high-horsepower electric motors, the fortress guns of several tens of tons all had to be rotated manually, which was very slow. Although those small-caliber guns and anti-aircraft guns were fast, because the landing range was too close, the muzzles were lowered and readjusted. "Why don't you start it yet?" Looking at the densely rushed airborne troops, Eda Taro was sweating profusely, and before he saw the picture of the heavy artillery of the fortress tearing the enemy apart, the airborne troops on the opposite side quickly poured fire on the battery with 60 and 80 mm mortars. A dozen mortars per minute quickly destroyed several anti-aircraft guns and rapid-fire guns, but nearly 100 Chinese prisoners were also killed.

Every airborne soldier knew that it was impossible for them to rescue all the overseas Chinese, and the only way to reduce the sacrifice was to quickly occupy the fort and kill all the soldiers inside, so as soon as they got off the plane, they rushed to the fort from all directions in accordance with the predetermined plan, under the guidance of the guide, racing against time.

"Set up here, load the bullets!" Several soldiers carried a Type 92 heavy machine gun to the shooting hole on the rear side, but before they could load the bullets, four or five strange-looking "Fox Hunting" light wheeled armored vehicles slammed through the barbed wire, and the 12.7-mm heavy machine gun on it spat out a long tongue of fire, sparking the shooting hole and several entrances and exits. "Shoot, shoot!" The machine gunner was startled by the armored vehicles that rushed in, but no matter how his heavy machine gun fired, the armored vehicles that looked small and were not as big as a jeep could not be damaged at all.

This is the "Fox Hunting" light reconnaissance armored vehicle that has just been equipped in China, a three-person 7-ton light reconnaissance vehicle with a 4*4 wheeled chassis. This reconnaissance vehicle is not domestic, but the "Humber wheeled reconnaissance armored vehicle" that Britain was equipped with only at the beginning of the year. Considering that he lacked such a flexible small armored vehicle, Zhang Xiaozhun contacted China and purchased the patent, which was then handed over to the Fuzhou Automobile Factory for production under contract. The Fox Hunt has a strange shape and has a lot of bevels, which can effectively block 7.62 mm machine gun bullets. The main change in the domestic version is the use of a domestic petrol engine, and then the British 7.62mm machine gun above is changed to a more powerful 12.7mm Fangs heavy machine gun and/or an 84mm recoilless gun. According to the plan, the "Fox Hunt" will produce 4 thousand units, and 700 units have been delivered so far. Due to its light weight and ease of airlifting, the airborne division was the first batch of troops equipped with this type of armored vehicle.

After the "Fox Hunt" broke through the barbed wire, it quickly blocked the entrance and exit of the battery and the few firing bunkers with firepower, protecting the airborne troops following through the gap and continuing the attack on the battery.

The defense behind the strait fort was weak, because the army never thought that it would be attacked by a sneak attack, and even Yamashita believed that even if the enemy crossed the Johor Strait, it would not be possible to advance to the fort so quickly, so most of the soldiers of the 114th Wing and the naval garrison group stationed here hid in the fort to rest, and did not even lay the prepared mines. So after being blocked by more than a dozen heavy machine guns and general-purpose machine guns, the soldiers inside could not get out at all, and many had to climb out of the gas windows of the gun emplacement. Not to mention how slow this method is, many people were killed with grenades and rifles by the swarming airborne troops as soon as they came out.

The huge fortress-type fort was blocked into a stuffy jar by the airborne troops who were rapidly attacking, and the soldiers who were hiding inside could not get out, and the few who came out were constantly decreasing like spring and snow in front of the strong firepower.

At this moment, the sky suddenly sprinkled several snow-white pillars of light, and several night bombers used high-power searchlights to illuminate the three forts. Suddenly from darkness to light, a large group of soldiers were blinded, and the Chinese who were driven around the fort, ragged and wounded, could not open their eyes. Just when they were at a loss, the shouts of "get down and get down" rang out in their ears at the same time.

"Get down! Get down! Get down! The airborne troops shouted and charged.

Hokkien, Cantonese, Shandong, Shanghainese, and Mandarin promoted after the founding of the People's Republic of China, etc., the entire battery was shouted loudly by the airborne troops. Hearing the shouting, the Chinese who were at a loss for what to do fell down one after another, so that all the soldiers who were guarding them were exposed. "Get down! Get down! Aggressive, aggressive. "An assault rifle with all colors has a clear advantage in this kind of close combat, and in less than a moment all the upright targets are killed.

"Get out of here, get out of here!"

The airborne troops in front swept and shouted, and the soldiers of the Malayan Division such as Hu Tiejun in the back also quickly caught up, seized the time to cut the ropes and shackles, and evacuated the captured Chinese.

"Boom, boom!" At this time, the airborne troops inside the attacking battery also bombarded the floodgates with blasting canisters and 84-mm recoilless guns, and after a rain of grenades, dozens of airborne troops with miner spotlights on their helmets took the lead in the interior. Bright and blinding miners' spotlights swept back and forth in the dark and narrow inner passages, and the blinding pillars of light made it impossible for the soldiers to shoot at all, even if they occasionally fired, either by a dense rain of grenades or swept into a hornet's nest by faster assault rifles.

In just 47 minutes of raiding, the three batteries facing the Singapore Strait were basically cleared. According to later statistics, 570 airborne troops died in the raid, but less than 2,000 of the more than 10,000 Chinese who were tied here as "meat shields" died, and the rest were all rescued. Many of the tactics in this raid were later listed as standard tactics for the Rapid Reaction Force by the [***] side...... (To be continued.) )