Since the division commander's mind has been decided, Zhao Yuhe, chief of staff of the division headquarters, and Yu Guanghan, chief of staff of the Sulu Mobile Corps, will not say more, as the chief of staff, the deployment of the campaign has the right to build three times, since the independent division was formed, all the chiefs of staff who have worked beside the division commander, the construction of the plan, is all around the specific details, in order to improve the combat plan, not several chiefs of staff, do not have their own unique opinions, but as the division commander Tang Qiuli, has established absolute authority.

On many occasions, the battle plan drawn up by the division commander was, in their view, extremely risky, with an obvious gambling component, but in the end it turned out that the division commander was right, and over time, a habit had been formed, and successive chiefs of staff only used their brains on the details of the campaign and did their best to make the plan more perfect, but there was basically no objection to the main direction of the operation.

Tang Qiuli also discovered this, it's not that he doesn't let go of the chiefs of staff to do it, he hopes that his chief of staff can surpass him, but it has never worked, and he himself is quite helpless, this should be the advantage of being a human being in two lives!

Seeing that Zhao Yuhe and Yu Guanghan did not raise any objections, Tang Qiuli said: "Yuhe, Guanghan, from now on, the main energy of the two of you should be on controlling the rhythm of the march of the troops, and maintain close contact with the three brigade commanders and Battle at any time, in addition, Yuhe, contact Qi Hejaz, find out the specific location of the Japanese army's Hengshan Brigade and Regiment Headquarters, after the battle starts, I will give the Japanese a black tiger to dig out their hearts, and destroy the Japanese army's command system first!" ”

Zhao Yuhe and Yu Guanghan glanced at each other, and Zhao Yuhe said, "Division Commander, are you going to use Commander Le's paratrooper regiment?" ”

Tang Qiuli nodded and said, "If you defeat the command system of the Japanese army and destroy the order of Singapore, you will not be able to issue it in time." It also relieved the pressure on the special operations detachment, and the paratroopers parachuted into Singapore to keep pace with the frontal attack, and ordered Le Yiqin and his paratroopers to parachute into the headquarters of the Japanese Yokoyama Brigade and regiment before 3 o'clock in the morning of 8 August, that is, when the campaign was launched, to carry out the decapitation operation. After the specific battle plan is drawn up, it will be submitted to the division headquarters for approval! ”

Le Yiqin received a call from Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe, and she couldn't keep her mouth shut. The paratrooper regiment can't think of being famous, and the division commander gives a regimental combat unit. Assign tasks in person. You should be a trivial matter, and then, in the auditorium of the Myitkyina base of the Southern Flight Group of the Air Force, a military meeting was held with the participation of the commanders of the parachute regiment at and above the company level.

Le Yiqin deliberately wanted to create an atmosphere, put the pre-war mobilization and swearing-in meeting, as well as the ceremony of awarding the regimental flag. Put together, Le Yiqin is dressed in a military uniform, full of energy, and has the epaulettes of a major general. Under the bright lights, shining, he walked to the rostrum with a cadre of the command center.

The opening remarks are as simple and direct as Le Yiqin's personality, there is no nonsense, he said: "Today is the day when our Southern Flight Group Parachute Regiment was officially established, and the big guys have been training for more than a year, do you want to go to the battlefield and fight a beautiful battle?" ”

The officers below stood up together and shouted: "Use me in the first battle, use me to win!" Flying generals in the sky, tigers on the ground! ”

Le Yiqin smiled, and then said: "Sit down, the slogan is shouted quite loudly, and the momentum is not bad, our parachute regiment is the number given by the division commander himself, Saker, see it, the regimental flag, it will be awarded to you today, originally, the division commander is going to personally present the flag, but the Singapore campaign is about to be launched, and I just received a telephone order from the division headquarters, and the first battle after our parachute regiment is formed is a decapitation operation!" ”

"This operation code name is to lift the spirit, what is decapitation, it is to use our Saker to cut off the head of the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Singapore, the task of decapitation is carried out by the first battalion, you have to parachute well, it is best for me to jump on the desk of the old devil Major General Yokoyama, this is the first battle of the parachute regiment, the division commander and the whole army are watching it, you have to fight well, don't give our aviation, our Southern Flying Group, and don't embarrass me!"

Le Yiqin's words were simple but extremely infectious, and the fighting spirit and pride in the hearts of the officers of the parachute regiment were ignited with a "boom", and a newly established regiment-level combat unit of his own, in the whole army of an independent division, there are thousands of regiment-level units, and it is an honor and expectation to be able to get the attention of the division commander and personally award the number.

The morale of the troops, like a pile of dry firewood, was immediately ignited by the words of the commander, from the shining eyes of the officers, Le Yiqin saw a strong fighting spirit, he was very satisfied with the ceremony he did, and then to the division commander Tang Qiuli, at the end of the reported battle plan, he added such a sentence poetically, "The morale of the troops is unprecedentedly high, and the blood is burning with the passion of eager to fight!" ”

Seeing Le Yiqin's words, Tang Qiuli shook his head with a smile, and said to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, do you see, our militants, there are also times when the writing is beautiful, I remember that in northern Myanmar, when Le Yiqin killed the British Air Force in India, he also had a similar expression, it seems that all the reports he submits in poetic language are the result of victory, and the victory is still very beautiful!" ”

The Malay Peninsula seemed so calm, but underneath this calm, there was a quietly accumulated war situation, and in the eyes of the Japanese army in Singapore, there was nothing unusual.

The Yokoyama Brigade of the Japanese Southwest Pacific Dispatch Army stationed in Singapore, the brigade commander Major General Yokoyama Deepgoro, has often had nightmares recently, especially for the troops of the Independent Division, and after the capture of Hong Kong, nightmares have become a compulsory course for Major General Yokoyama every night.

Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, Singapore was garrisoned by more than 100,000 troops of the Imperial Japanese Army, and Major General Yokoyama did not use this worry, but with the transfer of troops to the battlefield on Luzon Island, His Excellency Commander Ito, Major General Yokoyama would fall into an inexplicable worry every day.

Just across the line of Kuala Lumpur, not far away, there are hundreds of thousands of troops of the independent division stationed, this neighbor, is not a good person, that is the entire Imperial Japanese Army sent hundreds of thousands of horses, from the Indochina Peninsula to fight the wolf bèi escaped from the tiger and wolf division, the first few battles, Major General Yokoyama personally experienced, recalling that scene, if you say not afraid, Major General Yokoyama will not believe it!

Although he believes that the combat effectiveness and bushido spirit of the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army can fight without fear of death, but more than 10,000 troops against more than 100,000 troops, such a huge and disparity gap can not be made up for by relying on the spirit of bushido, and Major General Yokoyama absolutely believes that as long as the devil Tang Qiuli is willing, it will not take a morning, and his 10,000 men and horses will be wiped out.

Hong Kong was lost, more than 60,000 imperial soldiers were all broken, and there was no dispatch army headquarters to send an additional reinforcement to Singapore, many times, Major General Yokoyama even had a feeling that he and more than 10,000 soldiers were forgotten by the empire, or rather, they were victims, just for a Singapore that could not be defended, the Hengshan Brigade was like a small dish placed in the mouth of the devil Tang Qiuli, as long as he wanted, he could eat it at any time!

Just when the commander of the Yokoyama Brigade was almost desperate, he finally waited for the order of the base camp, and after reading the order issued by Prince Zaihito, the chief of the general staff of the base camp, he personally signed it, Major General Yokoyama couldn't help but shout a few times, Amaterasu bless, Long live His Majesty the Emperor, after receiving the order, Yokoyama began to make arrangements.

In the view of the commander of the Yokoyama Brigade, whether or not to blow up Singapore or not is the second most important thing is to cover the safe evacuation of the brigade from Singapore, so Major General Yokoyama carried out the order of the base camp very seriously and in place.

The commander of the Yokoyama Brigade issued such an order to the commanders of the various units responsible for blasting: "No unit is allowed to act without receiving an order to detonate the brigade commander himself!" ”

The order must be unified, who knows that crazy guy, with the idea of dying with the troops of the independent division, detonates it in advance, maybe he will bury the imperial troops together, the fire and smoke in the sky, the ruins and rubble everywhere are enough to block the troops of the independent division, and at the same time, he gave several wings a road map for their own retreat, and in the case of not getting the brigade order, he can control the time of retreat by himself.

In addition, the commander of the Yokoyama Brigade also ordered the requisition of a large number of civilian ships to be docked in the harbor and stand by, and the shipwrights were not allowed to leave the ships for half a step under the supervision of the military police, and in addition, he also contacted the destination of the brigade's retreat, Vice Admiral Shinno, commander of the Fifth Army of the Imperial Southwest Pacific Dispatch Army on the island of Sumatra, and asked him to use long-range shore artillery to cover the retreat of the troops when he received his telegram for help.

Commander Xinye, who was not at all embarrassed as the commander of the Yokoyama Brigade, promised that after arranging this qiē, Major General Yokoyama seemed to have a lot of confidence in his heart, but I don't know why, since yesterday, he has had a feeling of panic and a catastrophe is coming.

As for why this happened, the commander of the Yokoyama Kongoro Brigade couldn't say it clearly, it was too calm, and the independent division troops on the opposite side didn't behave abnormally at all, but he was restless, and he attributed this indescribable feeling to being too nervous.

On the morning of 8 August, the commander of the Yokoyama Brigade, together with his chief of staff, went through all the arrangements from beginning to end, and found no loopholes, and then he said, "This beautiful coastal city will one day be in ruins, but the destruction of Singapore can be exchanged for the safe retreat of the brigade, which is worth it!" ”

(To be continued) (To be continued.) )