Chapter Forty-Seven: The Dutch Surrender

The two Americans exchanged a few words of greeting and began to introduce their Chinese partners to each other.

"Mr. Chen Jiageng, Lin Jiangshi, commander of the Xinghua Volunteer Army, and Hu Tiejun, deputy commander. Oh, this is Mr. Xiao Yi. Grant, he's a true warrior, and if it weren't for him just now, you wouldn't be able to see me now! Mitterrand enthusiastically introduced the Chinese leaders of Singapore and Malaysia to Grant.

In a previous battle, a British soldier threw a grenade from the roof of a house at Mitterrand's crowd. Under the light of the fireworks burning on the side of the street, Mitterrand's heart almost stopped beating, and his hands and feet suddenly became cold. "It's over, I'm going to die!" He thought to himself. Madame Mitterrand let out a sudden scream, and then collapsed into his arms. Everyone who saw this scene thought that Mitterrand and they were dead, so at this moment, Xiao Yi on the side jumped up, and with a volley of flying legs, he actually miraculously kicked the grenade away. With a "boom", the grenade exploded in the air about twenty meters above the ground. Although several American expatriates were injured by shrapnel, fortunately none were killed. Mitterrand was ready to die in the line of duty, but he did not die, and at this point, the way he looked at Xiao Yi was completely different.

Mitterrand paid special attention to Xiao Yi, and Grant immediately expressed the greatest kindness to the latter, regardless of whether Xiao Yi was suitable or not, and gave him a hug very warmly. Next, he introduced Zhang Liangfeng and the commander of the Jewish soldiers, Aesop, the commander of the guard brigade of the Sixth Army, to Mitterrand.

Mitterrand was curious about the Jews: "Are you Jews? Oh, you've joined the Cadet Army? Very good, the Chinese are the kindest people in the world, and your choice is right. ”

The American expatriates were the first to board the ship, and the process was short-lived, and they were already at the front of the line, and there were only about 2,000 people.

At about a quarter past ten, the Chinese began to board the ship. Lin Jiangshi and Hu Tiejun led the volunteers to line up on both sides of the main road of the wharf, and they stood on a high place and shouted to the crowd: "Compatriots! Don't mess around, let the old people and women go first. We have enough boats to take them all! ”

Because of the obstruction of the British, the process of "New Malaysian Chinese ** rescue" this time was quite tortuous, and the New Malaysian Chinese paid a heavy price for it. Not counting the property damage, more than 6,000 Chinese died under the guns of the British. Many people have fled with their families, but now they have either lost their fathers or mothers, and the worst of all is that there are only one or two children left in three generations of the family. This kept the queue filled with a sense of misery, and many of them looked back frequently as they walked towards the pier with the flow of people, tears streaming down their cheeks, and they never did it until they boarded the boat. The experience of blood and fire strengthened the cohesion of the Chinese, Lin Jiangshi and they beckoned to fight down, and the young adults took the initiative to let the children, the old people and women go first, although the huge team looked chaotic, but the order was quite orderly.

Cui Lin walked behind the line with 3,000 volunteers, who had to be wary of a possible organized counterattack by the British and to deter the scattered British soldiers, and to pick up the late Chinese.

The Chinese entered the dock in an orderly manner, and then boarded the ship, and Bai Sihua and other British people watched from a distance, feeling uncomfortable as a fire in their hearts.

"Damn the Americans, if they had thought about the alliance, we would have been on board now," said one of Mr. White's guards.

"Commander, we can't let the yellow pig board the ship so easily, we, let's inform the Japanese, right?!" A staff officer said.

As soon as he finished speaking, he slapped Bai Sihua hard with a "snap". "Bastards, when did we, the soldiers of the British Empire, fall into such misery? Don't forget, the Japanese are our enemies! Bai Sihua scolded, looking righteous and awe-inspiring.

The staff officer was stunned, he covered his mouth and snorted: "Commander, this, this is not contrary to your previous order, isn't it?" ”

"Idiot!" Bai Sihua didn't bother to explain to him, scolded indignantly, and then gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "It's not a big deal, just go and intercede with the Chinese." In any case, they are now nominally subjects of Her Majesty's Majesty. As archons, it should be okay for them to give up some space, right? ”

Bai Sihua's face was cloudy and he was making a difficult decision, when someone suddenly reported that "General Percival is here". He turned around and saw a glimpse of car lights shining in the distance, and a few minutes later, Percival's car "creaked" to stop beside him, Percival opened the car door and jumped down, slashing his head and covering his face with a sentence: "Bai Sihua, bad! The Dutch surrendered! ”

Bai Sihua was taken aback, grabbed his sleeve and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

For the "great retreat from Singapore", Bai Sihua withdrew all the British troops from the front line on the grounds of "fatigue from a long battle", and replaced them with Hu Cong troops from Australia and India, as well as Dutch troops who had defected to them. Because the Japanese offensive was not very fierce in these days, neither the Dutch nor the commanders of the two subordinate divisions raised any objections. However, because of the sudden outbreak of fierce fighting in the city of Singapore, which was detected by the Japanese army, the Japanese, who did not know the truth, wanted to find out, and at half past eight o'clock they tentatively launched an unprecedentedly fierce attack on the Dutch defensive line. The Dutch had been beaten by the Japanese army in Indonesia as early as possible, and they could not distinguish whether the Japanese army was a feint or a real attack. As a result, an unbelievable scene appeared, the Dutch army, which had more than a division, was actually defeated and retreated under the attack of a large group of Japanese troops, and only lasted for an hour before it collapsed. The Japanese front-line commander felt that there was an advantage to be taken advantage of, so he threw in another brigade, well, the battle went on for another half an hour, and the Dutch army was actually routed on all fronts, and even sporadic resistance could not be organized. Then when the Japanese rushed up, their commander actually surrendered directly to the Japanese.

The British defense line received by the Indian, Dutch, and Australian armies was in a corner situation, and once the Dutch army in the middle was breached, the Indian army and the Australian army were in danger of being attacked on both sides. After greeting each other, a telegram was sent to the British headquarters, and then directly abandoned the position and retreated, completely abandoning the forward position established by the British army.

Listening to Percival's explanation of the battle situation on the front line, Bai Sihua only felt that he was poured a plate of ice water from head to toe, and he fainted after shouting "God".

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