Kapo, the commanding height of the whole island - the summit of Bukit Timah Mountain.

A large number of staff officers wearing ribbons and guards with submachine guns surrounded two generals with completely opposite expressions.

Among them, the one with the rank of army general on his shoulder, with a slender figure, a shaved face, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and a polite style, if he changed the straight navy blue uniform on his body into an ordinary suit, he would look more like a weak professor. He is Deng Jian, the commander of the Indian Front and former Minister of War of the National Defense Headquarters, who took office in Sanya, Hainan Province, three months ago, and has just transferred his headquarters to Singapore.

The army general who accompanied him was obviously much shorter and fatter, with a shaved scalp exposed under his military hat, a gray goat's whisker, and cloudy eyes glowing with the cunning of an angry fox and the smoothness of a glass bead. His name is Yuan Shikai, the commander of the First South China Sea Group under the Southern Front, who led his army to conquer the Malay Peninsula and Singapore within three months.

"Is that where he was surrendered?"

Deng Jian asked, pointing to a very conspicuous wide street at the bottom of the mountain.

Yuan Shikai nodded, and pointed out: "Yes, at the end of that Bukitima street, the military envoy sent by Lieutenant General Rosenberg came to our army formation with a white flag, and then held a meeting at the three forks in front. ”

"I heard that you said directly to Rosenberg in English: 'To surrender or not to surrender, YES, NO?' Right away

Yuan Shikai waved his hand again and again: "Wherever and wherever it is, the base camp is properly commanded, and it is also thanks to the care of the Navy and Commander Deng......

Deng Jian smiled: "Forget about the navy, how can I care." But, solace. To tell you the truth, I'm really here to take care of you. ”

Yuan Shikai's eyes flashed: "Commander Deng means ......"

"Singapore and Sumatra have finally been successfully pacified according to the plan, the Andaman and Nicobar islands have been seized by the navy, and the gate of the Indian Ocean has been kicked open by our army.

"So, Commander Deng intends to take up his position?" When Yuan Shikai said this, he was quite hesitant, and he had already been seen by Deng Jian, who was as careful as a needle.

"Still. But I heard that the old illness of the court has relapsed recently......"

"There is no local matter, there is no matter, my old Yuan is only fifty-six this year, compared with the old general Zhao Erfeng, who is over sixty years old and has not worked tirelessly to fight in Gurkha, I have to say a word of shame."

Deng Jian saw Yuan Shikai's anxious appearance and thought: "This guy is actually quite cute, in this new historical time and space that has been completely subverted by us, he should be able to live for a while longer." ”

In another time and space, in 1915, with the "support of public opinion" created by the Republic of China, the Republic of China was blatantly subverted. The imperial system was restored, and on December 11 of that year, it was accepted as the "Recommendation of the Senate". The next day, it was announced that the name of the country would be changed to "the Chinese Empire" and the Common Era would be "the first year of the Hongxian of the Chinese Empire". However, only 13 days later, starting from the first uprising in Yunnan, there was a "national protection movement" against Yuan Shikai's claim to be the emperor to defend the Republic of China, and in 16 years 322 announced the abolition of the imperial system and attempted to retire the presidential status, but was rejected by all parties, and died of grief in Japan.

But here, Yuan Shikai, the general of the Imperial Army, showed a new image of a pioneer and a famous general on the battlefield, and the group naturally did not give him the opportunity to establish the Beiyang Army. did not give him the opportunity to participate in or even lead the gradual improvement, without Li Hongzhang's promotion, without the small station of the Wuwei Right Army as the initial capital, without the "trust" that Xu Xunian won over his thighs. Not to mention the governorship of Zhili, the six towns of Beiyang, and the prime minister extorted from Xinhai Nian......

Since 1890, his fate had to follow |::

He first served as the general adviser of the Chinese side with full responsibility for assisting in the establishment of the Korean New Army, and then served as the "chief liaison officer" of the Korean Army during the Asian-Russian War. That is, the de facto chief of staff. After the war, he successively served as director of the mobilization bureau of the Zhili Military Region, vice president of the Baoding Army Academy, and chief of staff of the Zhili Military Region, and had a good friendship with Deng Jian, who had served as the commander of the Zhili Military Region for a long time. Before the war, he was transferred to the South China Military Region, and devoted himself to planning a possible future attack on the South Seas, and after the outbreak of the European War, he was ordered to form the First South China Sea Group responsible for attacking Malaya.

At the end of January 15, as the supremacy of the South China Sea was more and more effectively secured, the Malayan operation officially began. The main force of the 1st South China Sea Group, the Western Route Army, consisting of four divisions of the Chinese Army and two divisions of the Siamese Army, forced a breakthrough from the western side of the Siam-Matsu border, routed the enemy forces one after another, and captured Alor Setar on the 212th, and on the 217th of Kesungai Petani, the army attacked south in two columns from the west coast of the peninsula and the western foothills of the Central Mountains.

At the same time, it consisted of the 3 Marine and 110 Infantry Divisions; > ships, under the cover of the main force of the South China Sea Fleet, made a surprise landing at Kota Bharu on the east coast of the peninsula, captured the place and then advanced along the east coast to capture Kuala Terengganu on the 216th.

220, the Wu Pei detachment of the Western Route Army (3 battalions of the reserve infantry 144 as the backbone) raided Penang by engineer motor boat, and in only 24 hours, it defeated the 1st battalion of British and Indian defenders and pacified Penang.

224, the two columns of the Western Route Army jointly conquered Taiping, and then concentrated the subordinate cars (about 300 in the 3rd column), chariots (1 battalion, about 30), motorcycles and bicycles (the number is unknown), and the 1433 battalions of reserve infantry were allocated; > Ignoring the tactics of lightning breakthrough on the flanks, they rushed 40 kilometers in three hours, and cooperated with the airship airborne troops of the 9th Wing of the Army Aviation Special Service to seize the only railway bridge over the Perak River in one fell swoop, eliminating the natural obstacle of the Perak River that troubled our troops.

228, crossed the Perak River 143 and took Ipoh lightly, and on March 6, captured Kampo, where the Western Route Army was redivided into two columns and marched in unison.

It is worth mentioning that the "Hai" Column marching along the coast used the Wu Peifu detachment twice during the attack on Klang and Malacca, and when it could not secure the sea control on the west coast of the peninsula, it boldly carried out the maneuvering of boats and boats in the coastal areas, and made a detour behind enemy lines to intercept and disturb them, and both were very successful.

Relying on the adventurous assault of this "strange soldier", the "Hai" column captured a large number of enemy troops at 312 grams of Klang and 3 Malacca.

The "land" column marching along the western foot of the central mountain range, with Xu Shuzheng's detachment as the vanguard, carried forward the superiority of "bicycle light infantry", did not give the enemy a chance to breathe, and fiercely pursued all the way, and on Japan and the first part of the Eastern Route Army took Kuala Lumpur, 317 Ke Seremban, 322 Ke Xi Kamat, and on March 29, the "Hai" column and the main force of the East Route Army joined Johor Bahru at the southern tip of the peninsula, and the First South China Sea Group completed the march of nearly 1,000 kilometers on the peninsula in only two months, annihilated more than 20,000 enemies, and liberated most of Malaya except for Singapore Island.