Chapter 279: The Lamb to the Slaughter
On the Akagi, 300 kilometers away, Commander Yamamoto excitedly sent back a three-character message to the mainland representing the success of the sneak attack, and at this time, Hachiro Arita was still receiving King Edward VIII in London.
Before Edward VIII, who was praising Japan's sincerity for peace, finished his sentence, he was rudely interrupted by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who ran in with a blue face.
Chamberlain did not bother to explain to His Majesty the King, and said angrily to Hachiro Arita: "Your Excellency is the most shameless liar I have ever seen in my life."
"Your Excellency, what happened?" Edward VIII asked curiously.
Chamberlain gritted his teeth and glared at the smiling Hachiro Arita again, then turned around and bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I just got a telegram that the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet has attacked Changi Harbor, so far the battleship Queen and two aircraft carriers have been sunk, and the air raids are still continuing!"
Edward VIII is stupid, he doesn't play with such a person, and he is still here to praise peace! Let the family punch the eyes of the stars.
Looking at Edward VIII's dumbfounded expression, Arita Hachiro bowed slightly and said, "Your Majesty, this is exactly what I want to tell you, you probably forgot that our two countries are still at war, and peace talks are not peace."
"Get out!" Edward VIII replied with an angry roar.
The air raids on Changi Harbor continued, and the 40,000-ton battleship Queen Elizabeth was already sitting on the berth, with two-thirds of her huge body still out of the water, but she had lost the ability to resist, and the Japanese had given up attacking her.
Now all the fire was focused on the remaining two battleships, bomb after bomb, torpedoes with a cry of death on the two wretched creatures, and at this moment the huge combined fleet was rushing towards the port as fast as possible, Yamamoto's mission was not simply to destroy the Far East Fleet, his ultimate goal was to occupy Singapore. In order to cooperate with him, the three divisions of the Japanese Army have now boarded the ship in Hong Kong, just waiting for the news of departure.
The first round of air raids on Changi Harbor lasted half an hour, and with the exception of the seriously wounded Malaya and Counterattack, all the capital ships of the Far East Fleet were destroyed, almost half of the warships of the entire fleet were sunk, and all the remaining ships were damaged. When the air raid planes flew away, Admiral Phillips, who had hurried from the Governor's Palace, looked at the devastated harbor and the flagship sitting in the water, sighed and gave the order to the remnants of the warship to retreat immediately, and then without hesitation, he drew his pistol and shot himself in the head.
However, it was impossible for the Far Eastern Fleet to leave, and as soon as more than 20 active warships under the leadership of the Counterattack left the port, the second round of Japanese air raids began, and the poor Counterattack finally failed to withstand the siege of more than 100 aircraft, and finally sank in the harbor.
Just two hours after the sinking of the Counter-Attack, the massive Combined Fleet appeared outside Changi Harbor. Standing on the deck, Commander Yamamoto looked at the port of blood and fire in front of him with irrepressible excitement, half a century, the dream of half a century was finally realized in his own hands, Bu Huangwei started from this port in the four seas, he turned his head to look in the direction of Borneo, the empire was finally no longer under the control of Mi Ying Oni, there was an inexhaustible supply of oil.
There was no suspense in the landing of the Japanese troops, and the Far Eastern Fleet was completely annihilated. The 20,000 British troops in Singapore were frightened, how could they have the courage to resist. Almost as soon as the Japanese marines appeared in the harbor, the British troops in Singapore fled the city like a flock of panicked ducks, and almost all those who did not run were disarmed and surrendered, and the Japanese Navy occupied the choke point of the Far East with the loss of only 40 combat aircraft and less than 2,000 casualties.
When the news reached the United States. Boss Yang was so happy that he almost pulled over.
"British, haha, this is British, it's hilarious." The creature said as he coughed.
"You need to be so happy! The Japanese occupation of Singapore would not do us any good. Xin'er complained while beating him on the back.
"No good? How can it not be good? If they don't fight Southeast Asia, how embarrassed are we to start, you must know that I am an honorary knight of the United Kingdom. No, I'll have to make a condemnation statement, or it won't be interesting. Boss Yang gloated.
This sudden battle stunned the whole world, who didn't expect the Japanese to play like this, too insidious, too despicable, too shameless, but it has to be said that this is too effective, and you can get the benefits of losing face, and the fall of Singapore means that Borneo and Malaya are already in Japan's pocket.
Not only that, but almost all the warships of the Far East Fleet have also become trophies of the Japanese, and all the warships in the sunken port, except for the Athletic, which has no hope of repair, can be salvaged and repaired, especially the Queen Elizabeth, which is sunk in the port, and can be re-commissioned with a little repair after being fished out.
You must know that this is a fleet aircraft carrier and three battleships, with these four battleships, the strength of the Japanese navy has increased by one-third almost all at once, not to mention six heavy cruisers and dozens of light cruisers and destroyers.
However, although the Japanese are very insidious, no one can accuse them, Arita Hachiro is right, Britain and Japan have already declared war, and it is completely reasonable for the Japanese Navy to fight when, as for his peace talks, the peace talks did not say an armistice? It's normal to talk while fighting, and even if you complain, you can only complain that you British people are too stupid.
After the occupation of Singapore, the follow-up troops of the Japanese army immediately poured into this port, and in just one month, the Malay Peninsula fell into the hands of the Japanese army, and at the same time, three Japanese divisions landed on Borneo, quickly cleaned up the Anglo-Dutch troops here, and then took over the Anglo-Dutch oil fields in Borneo.
The British continued to be jaw-dropping on the battlefield, showing not even the slightest combat effectiveness in the Japanese offensive, and there was nothing to describe other than fleeing and surrendering, and 40,000 of the 50,000 British troops in Malaya surrendered in the end.
The Far East Fleet's Prestige Cruiser and Glorious aircraft carriers hiding in Colombo also behaved poorly in the face of the aggressive offensive of the Japanese Combined Fleet, hiding in the harbor and not daring to go to sea at all, even when the main forces of the Combined Fleet withdrew to the mainland, leaving only two battleships and two aircraft carriers to support the land forces in Southeast Asia.
The Japanese dreamed of the Japanese so easily, but the Japanese army occupying the Malay Peninsula did not stop, the Japanese army even began to draw troops from the Chinese battlefield, and then began to attack Burma, because of the poor performance of the British army, the Thai government did not hesitate to agree to Japan's free passage right in the Kra Isthmus, Burma officially opened the door to the Japanese army, in this case Yang Feng was urgently called back to China by the skinheads.
The British called for help.
This is not surprising, a total of 100,000 British troops in Southeast Asia, distributed in Borneo, Malaya and Burma, died and surrendered in this short period of a month, and there were less than 50,000 left, and these 50,000 people had to face more than 200,000 Japanese troops, which was basically no different from sending them to death.
Chamberlain is now going crazy, looking for help all over the world, and even asking the French allies in Annam to send troops to help, and was almost spat on by the French, we have 18,000 people in Annam, and now we are worried about when the Japanese will raise their hands to shoot them to death, and they will help you?
As for lobbying for the United States, not to mention, British envoys ran to Washington one after another, and even came to beg Yang Feng, hoping that he would fight side by side, exert his influence in the United States, and promote the United States to start a war against Japan, but what they didn't know was that the most important job of Boss Yang now was to prevent the United States from going to war against Japan.
Besides, if the Far East Fleet is still there, the Americans may still consider whether to join in the fun, but now that the Far East Fleet is completely annihilated, if it is fought again, the Pacific Fleet will fight the Combined Fleet alone, not to mention the US Congress, even the commander of the Pacific Fleet himself is not happy, plus the performance of the British army is really impossible to look at, and with such a group of pigs as allies, the American soldiers want to live for a few more years!
Of course, the British are not for nothing, after all, they also have constant contacts in the United States, and Roosevelt himself is more inclined to war against Japan, so it can only be said that the United States is hesitating now, but even if it can participate in the war, it is estimated that the British army in Southeast Asia will die later, so only the Chinese can directly send reinforcements.
Busy is definitely going to help, but it depends on how the British say, this is a good time for the lion to open his mouth, Yang Feng has not yet set off from New York when he receives a second telegram from the bald guy, asking him to go directly to London to participate in negotiations with the British.
It seems that this guy is also very inauthentic, he knows that playing with foreigners still has to rely on Yang Feng, especially this kind of slanderous work, there is no suitable candidate except for this profiteer, but Yang Feng is not the official negotiator, the official representative is Uncle Guo.
When Hercules' plane landed in London, the British Foreign Secretary even personally greeted Yang Feng at the airport, as the honorary knight of the British Empire, Yang Daboss naturally patted his chest and assured the British people that as long as he was there, he would never sit idly by and watch the British army in Burma be in danger.
"I can once again make a solemn promise to those mothers and wives who are waiting for me, even if our government is not able to reinforce Burma for the time being, I will mobilize all the forces I can mobilize to help the young men, and I will never let the dirty claws of the Japanese reach into Burma!" The thing said solemnly.
Of course, after attending the welcome ceremony, and then meeting with Uncle Guo at the manor specially arranged by the British government, this goods immediately showed a hideous face. (To be continued......)