Chapter 199: Enemy Attack
At about 6 o'clock in the morning, when the nine warships of the advance fleet of Qi Minghao as commander took the lead in the target sea area about 60 kilometers away from Singapore, and passed by the sea about 2,000 kilometers away from the gas station, a devil who was boiling hot water on the bow of the tanker saw it and looked at it in amazement. Then he exclaimed with a pale face: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" β
The other devils were immediately alarmed, and one of them, the stationmaster of the gas station, ran out and looked at it twice, and said suspiciously: "The French warship? What's going on? Although he was puzzled, he immediately reported to his boss, the captain of a logistics supply base, on the phone.
About a quarter of an hour later, the news reached the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Fleet, and the Japanese staff officer who answered the phone did not dare to slack off when he received the report, and immediately reported it to his superior, a Nakasa named Ikeda Kai. Ikeda remembered a telegram intercepted in the early hours of yesterday morning, and his face suddenly turned pale, and he hurried to find the adjutant of Lieutenant General Yamasato Yamasato of the chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Morishita Hyojiro Nakasa. Morishita then informed Yamayama Masako, who then reported to Koizumi Tonichiro - so much so that by the time Koizumi made a decision, Qi Minghao's advance fleet had already arrived in the target sea area, and the helicopter group had already taken off.
Six Haidongqing, escorted by four albatrosses, carrying two squadrons of jungle special warfare, Guo Kui and Willy, under the guidance of Willy, rushed straight to the Singapore prisoner of war camp 30 kilometers away. They left on their front feet, and eight speedboats were laid down on four ships, including the battleship "Richelieu," and the other jungle operations completed their boarding as fast as they could, and then they rushed to the beach two thousand meters away.
Ten helicopters advanced at a speed of about 300 kilometers per hour, bypassing a Japanese military camp along the way, and flew over the prisoner of war camp in about 10 minutes.
At this time, the Japanese army had not yet figured out the purpose of the "French".
Among the high-level leaders of the Japanese-Western Expeditionary Fleet, the first to receive the report was Shan Shan Zhengxiang, who could have made a judgment and made arrangements at the first time. However, because his position in the fleet was quite awkward and he had no actual command, although he had a lot of ideas, he could only ask Koizumi for instructions according to the procedure. And as a result, the decision-making time lags. This has something to do with Yamamoto -- Yamamoto Masato, who is called Chief of the General Staff of the Fleet, but is actually equivalent to the Minister of Logistics -- Yamamoto 56, whose temperament has changed drastically, is arbitrary in military affairs, and Yamamoto Masaogo, after being "hai" in Nuono for half a month, is angry and simply takes the initiative to take charge of logistics and supply work. In this way, he slowly broke away from the center of power, and when Koizumi Tonichiro became the acting commander-in-chief, he was already in command of the immovable combat troops.
It was the first time Koizumi encountered such a thorny problem, and at first he was at a loss, and it was not until about five minutes that he came to his senses. Koizumi, who had calmed down, still had the demeanor of a general, because he could not figure out the intentions of the "French" at all, so he focused on vigilance first, so the first series of orders were all based on this: "Contact the aircraft carrier group immediately, ask them where they are going, and let them speed up their return; Your Excellency, please contact the airport immediately and ask them to dispatch reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance; Hatono, give me a call from Lieutenant General Ouchiβ"
Koizumi was busy with his heart, when suddenly Ikeda Kainaka Saku hurriedly broke in again, and the little devil stood at the door and hissed: "Report, the prisoner of war camp called, they were attacked by the Shina people!" β
"What?!" Koizumi was terrified.
Yama glanced at him, immediately turned his gaze to Ikeda, and then said, "Pick up the call immediately." β
"Hello!" Ikeda shouted in response to the turn and ran, and then, within a dozen seconds, he turned back and reported that contact had been lost.
Koizumi was dumbfounded, a cool air rose in his heart, and he blurted out and scolded: "Eight grids! β
Yama Prefecture's reaction was much faster, he immediately snatched the phone from Hatono's hand, and directly ordered Yoshifumi Ouchi to immediately reinforce the prisoner of war camp, with special care: if the British escape, there will be no mercy!
The Japanese army was responsible for guarding more than 30,000 British prisoners of war, called a wing, but in fact there were only two brigades. When ten helicopters appeared over the prisoner of war camp, on the playground at the entrance of the Japanese barracks on the left side of the prisoner of war camp, a group of devils who were on a rotational break were going out for morning exercises.
More than 1,000 devils were running around the playground, and the sound of the helicopter engine came, and they followed the sound, and many people thought while running: "Strange, what kind of fighter is this?" β
The squadron leader who led the team was the first to react, and when flames erupted on the weapon spreaders on the left and right sides of the fuselage of a Hai Dongqing at the same time, he hissed and shouted: "Enemy attack, return to the barracks quickly!" Then he turned and ran.
The commander of the Japanese army in the prisoner of war camp, Wing Commander Kamei Matsuhito Osa, was brushing his teeth at the door of his dormitory at this time, he raised his head with a mouth of foam, and then exclaimed: "It's not good, it's a student army!" Then the toothbrush and porcelain jar were thrown and rushed into the room.
More than 500 meters away from the devils running and drilling, hundreds of British prisoners of war were looking up from behind the wooden fence. Their faces were not colored at first, and then when more than a dozen rockets exploded in the Japanese army, a trace of surprise appeared on their faces, and some people fell on their knees and shouted excitedly: "It's here to save us, we are saved!" β
The POWs exploded immediately.
There was no particularly thrilling scene in the whole battle process, the muzzles of the six Haidongqing machine guns and the muzzles pointed at, the little devils turned on their backs, and five minutes later, when the duty brigade was killed from three directions, more than half of the devils of a brigade on the playground had been put down, and the rest of the people who fled into the barracks were also restrained by Guo Kui and others, and they were blocked in the barracks and could not get out.
Haidong Qingcai threw himself into the attack, and the four albatross descended, and when they were still more than ten meters above the ground, the rope hung down, and one hundred and forty jungle special operations plus Guo Kui and Willy slipped down one after another, and immediately entered the battle.
The entire prisoner of war camp was divided into 14 sub-camps, and the Japanese army sent a squad of devils to guard each camp. A squad of devils, if placed on a frontal battlefield against the British, the British would have to send at least one battalion to defend against it. And now, they can't even suppress a squad of jungle warfare.
For the more than 30,000 British officers and soldiers who were held in the Singapore POW camp, this day will surely be remembered for the rest of their lives. More than 100 Chinese soldiers, supported by 10 strangely shaped fighters, actually annihilated an enemy ten times their size. What impressed them particularly was that in the battle with the Japanese, who looked like devils to them, these more than 100 Chinese soldiers seemed to be favored by the goddess of luck.