Of course, this is also because the proportion of Chinese in Siam today is much higher than in later generations (the two largest waves of Chinese exclusion have not yet occurred), and if you also count the mixed race children with Chinese ancestry, more than half of the population, and the number of people who can speak Chinese is correspondingly larger, so it is naturally relatively easy to digest

A similar situation exists in Burma, Vietnam, Laos and other places that were occupied before, although the proportion of the population of Han Chinese origin is not as good as that of Siam, but all the ethnic groups on the Indochina Peninsula are all one of the 56 ethnic groups in China itself, and there is no difference in appearance (in contrast, the indigenous people of Southeast Asian island countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia are quite different from the Chinese in appearance because of the excessive proportion of dwarf and black races in blood). ), so it is not difficult to assimilate. However, it is quite ironic that Vietnam, which has been anti-Han for more than 1,000 years in history, is the closest to the Han in blood, and its anti-Han tradition is nothing more than the instinctive fear of being reunified back after independence (just like the doppelgangers in many literary and artistic works are inevitably extremely hostile to the ontology), so perhaps the initial assimilation will be resisted, but it will become very simple later, after all, it is no longer the ancient times when traffic is blocked, Moreover, the colonization of the French greatly weakened the national consciousness of the Vietnamese, and also helped China to take it back

Due to the earlier occupation, land reform in these areas also began earlier than in Siam. It is worth mentioning that the land reform carried out on the Indochina Peninsula is different from that in China, but this is also because the local socio-economic model is not quite the same as that in the mainland. For example, although land is also highly concentrated, a large part of it is relatively modern plantation management model. The plantations remained in their status quo for the time being, except for the fact that their owners were convicted and confiscated and converted to state-run, except that the plantation workers were organized to limit the excessive exploitation of the plantation owners. In Vietnam, which is more akin to rural China, the land reform policies are largely followed, but the enforcers are not from the Red Party from the country, but mainly by local Red organizations

Since Hu Weidong was preparing to incorporate the entire Indochina Peninsula into China's territory, and many of the local Red Organization members had obvious nationalist tendencies, these people were undoubtedly a big hidden danger, and Hu Weidong came up with a solution to hand over the initial land reform to them. As the saying goes, "the more you do." The more errors. After doing the super offending work of land reform, it is too easy to find out the problem. With the handle in hand, I want to get rid of those guys who are hostile to China. For example, Li Duan and others. That's much more convenient and clean. And it is also possible to lend their hands. Doing something that is in China's interest, but that will affect the image of the Red Party or cause discontent among the locals, simply put the blame on those who execute it afterwards. Anyway, with Minister Kang here, he is very good at this kind of thing

The day after the capture of Bangkok, Hu Weidong ordered the 1st Armored Army of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the field army and the only fully mechanized army in the country, to be the vanguard of the whole army, to break through the "Kedah Line" built by the British with the tactics of "breaking through the center" and clearing the way for the main force of the field army to move southward.

However, even Hu Weidong was surprised that the British army, which was already a frightened bird, lost the sense of resistance immediately after the Kedah defense line was broken through by the People's Liberation Army, and fled southward. During this period, the commanders and fighters were generally exhausted from continuous combat, so someone asked Ma Zhongyingdao, "Now that everyone is tired and there is not much fuel left, should we suspend the pursuit first and let the troops recuperate?" ”

"We are very difficult, but the enemy is even more difficult! Now the British will collapse again as soon as they hear the tracks of the tanks, and we must not give the enemy a chance to slow down! Ma Zhongying said sharply, "As for fuel, you can ask the Air Force to transport some of it by air, and if it is still not enough, you can drop some tanks and armored vehicles first, as long as the number is not less than 100."

By this time, the planes of the Singapore Air Force and the Navy had almost been lost; The few remaining ships of the Far Eastern Fleet were not enough to turn the tide of the war, and instead of staying and being sunk or captured by Chinese aircraft, it was better to withdraw to naval bases in India or Australia and preserve a little more vitality for the Royal Navy.

Although the army still has 1670,000 (Commonwealth troops), the elite has already been lost in the previous series of battles, and the remaining troops in Singapore are basically second-line troops (there are not many defeated soldiers who fled back from the front, and the British infantry does not have the iron feet that can outperform the armored troops like us), not only the combat effectiveness is average, but the morale has also fallen to the extreme because of the British army's consecutive defeats in the past two months, and what is even worse is that the advance speed of the fully mechanized troops is too fast, The British did not even have time to blow up the stone bridge connecting Singapore, and as a result, Chinese tanks and armored vehicles rushed directly into the city

Theoretically speaking, step-tan coordination is the most effective method of street fighting, but the actual combat effect during World War II is generally not ideal. The reason for this is that there are many high-rise buildings in the city, and there are all kinds of dead ends, and if there is no very careful cooperation of the infantry, the tank is actually very vulnerable to an attack from unknown sources (the greatest threat from the overhead), but for an enemy city that is not familiar with the place, it is not easy for the infantry to quickly find out the enemy's hidden firepower points, so the performance of tanks in street battles is generally poor, and the armored vehicles with much thinner armor are even more so.

However, Singapore is a special city, although it is a British colony, but most of the residents are Chinese, although most of the overseas Chinese are timid and afraid, but the current situation forces them to choose a side, and in the current situation of the People's Liberation Army's invincible all the way, even those yellow-skinned and white-hearted Straits Chinese have mostly wisely chosen the strong side, not to mention the traditional Chinese who are committed to the motherland. With the help of Singaporeans, Ma Zhongying's armored troops played a huge role in the street fighting, and captured Singapore's commanding heights and water source Bukitema Heights without much cost, and then whether it was to set up heavy artillery bombardment or cut off the water source of the British army, it would be a catastrophe for the British army in Singapore (to be continued......