Chapter 341 The Indians Don't Want the Indian Empire anymore, what are you British still fighting?
If you are not allowed to retreat, you will surrender?
The white-skinned officers who led the Indian soldiers on the front line were stupid, they never thought that the Indian soldiers under their command would be so flexible...... And what made them even more dumbfounded was that they seemed to have no way to deal with the surrendered Indian soldiers!
Because once those damn Ah San raise their hands high, then they are prisoners of war of the Ming army, and they have nothing to do with their original superiors. If their former superiors still want to punish these spineless Indian soldiers, they must first defeat the Japanese devils who are carrying bayonet rifles and screaming and rushing into the trenches.
The devil soldiers who have caught a lot of Indian Ah San on the Malayan Peninsula already know these black and spineless enemies very well, and they have been repeatedly told by their superiors - don't shoot the surrendered Indian Ah San, catch a live Ah San and hand it over can be exchanged for ten stone Zhixingdi, so these Ah San are still very valuable!
Of course, the white skin is more valuable, a white skin is worth twenty stones, and if it is an officer, it can also be increased according to the rank...... And live or die!
Therefore, except for some of the devil soldiers who rushed into the trenches to control the three warriors who "never give up and raise their hands high", the rest of the devil soldiers rushed up with rifles and shot to pick those white skins with bayonets.
As soon as the white-skinned officers and non-commissioned officers saw this scene, they immediately lost their will to resist. Still resisting a fart? There are only three or two white skins in a squadron, and more than a hundred Ah San below have surrendered, how can they hold on to three or two white skins? However, these white skins are not willing to raise their hands bravely like the third brother. After all, they are not Ah San, who has long been lying down as slaves, they are the masters of the British Empire! If the British Empire is gone, their losses will be great.
So these white skins didn't say a word, turned around and ran, ran down the embankment as if flying, and then got into the traffic trench.
It's impossible to fight two or three dozen of them, and it's more certain to run away, after all, their white-skinned long legs are not comparable to the little radish legs of Japanese devils.
Seeing such a white skin without martial virtues, the Japanese devil with little radish legs had no choice, so he had to scold "Baga" while picking up his rifle and casually firing a few shots.
So on the front of Woodlands Beach, the screams of devils and the crisp shooting of Taiping rifles rang out. However, the marksmanship of these Japanese devils is actually not very good, so they didn't kill a few white skins - this year's devils are just not afraid of hardship (because they have always been bitter), not afraid of death (bushido), and various tactical levels can only be said to be ordinary, and the World War II devil soldiers in another timeline are not at all like that.
However, those white skins who escaped from the guns of the devils were not so lucky when they met their own overseers - Viscount Bellsford had already given the order, and whoever dared to retreat would be killed! This killing, regardless of whether it is white skin or Ah San.
Of course, Viscount Bellsford also took care of the officers who commanded the White Orders...... Can't kill too much! If they all run down, they can't be killed without leaving any of them......
And these white-skinned officers who retreated from the front of Woodlands Beach seemed to be taking the lead in running away, and before they retreated to their own second-line positions, most of them were suddenly attacked by a burst of machine guns from their own people, and they were really blind!
But no matter how sudden the White Skins were, they couldn't stop the Johor Strait defense from collapsing. Soon after the area around Woodlands Beach was completely controlled by the devils of the four brigades, the Ming army of the nine battalions that originally undertook the task of sheep attack also began to launch a real attack with the cooperation of the devils who had already occupied the position on Woodlands Beach! The Japanese soldiers fought along the seawall, while the Ming army crossed the sea. Under the attack from two sides, the Indian soldiers who never gave up were of course still the old way - raising their hands high, disarming and surrendering. The British officers who commanded them were either killed by the Ming army and Japanese soldiers, or they were suddenly attacked by their own overseers when they fled.
The news of the rapid collapse of the Johor Strait defensive line was quickly reported to Viscount Bellsford on Bukit Timah Hill by the white-skinned British soldiers who were supervising the battle on the second line - in fact, there was no need for people below to call, and Viscount Bellsford knew that the defensive line he had painstakingly managed had been breached. Because one after another sun and moon flags and chrysanthemum flags have been raised on the Anglo-Indian defense line on the front line of the Johor Strait.
"Damn, damn Indians, they can be cowards! It's all cowards...... I'm going to shoot them all!" ”
Viscount Bellsford, who saw this scene on Bukit Timah Hill, was so angry that his face turned blue, and his voice trembled. The Straits of Johor is dangerous! Moreover, the trenches, barbed wire, and anti-artillery fortifications are quite complete, and there is a five- or six-meter-high embankment to rely on. Even if it was bombarded by the Ming army with heavy artillery for an hour, the loss would not be too great, why would it collapse at the touch of a button?
"Viscount, Viscount......"
Just as Viscount Balsford gritted his teeth and said that he was going to shoot the Indian soldiers on the Johor Strait defensive line, his chief of staff, Viscount Fock, ran over in despair. This chief of staff has been talking on the phone with the front line just now, and all he has is first-hand information!
"Faulk," Viscount Bellsford glared angrily at his chief of staff, "you go and prepare your position at once...... Reorganize the Indian dog mongrels who have retreated from the front line, put them into reserves, and launch a counterattack! If anyone dares to hesitate, they will be pulled out and killed one by one! ”
"Viscount......" Colonel Falk shook his head, "No, there are not many people who have retreated from the Johor Strait front, they, they ......"
"What?" Viscount Bellsford was taken aback, "All, all killed?" Impossible, right? There are 30,000 or 40,000 people on the Johor Straits defensive line! ”
Colonel Falk shook his head: "No, not many people died...... They, they all surrendered! ”
"Surrender?" Viscount Bellsford was stunned, "What's going on?" ”
"Viscount," said Colonel Faulk, "were all our British officers and non-commissioned officers who had retreated from the front (and a few were still killed), and they reported that as soon as the enemy had rushed up the dike, the Indians surrendered with their guns, and the white officers had no control over their troops, so they had to retreat. The result is ......"
I killed a lot of my own people!
"Traitor! Traitor! Viscount Bellsford roared angrily, "These traitors to the Indian Empire, they should all be shot!" ”
"Viscount...... "Colonel Faulk wept and mourned, "what now?" Those Indians simply don't want to fight, we can't hold the line...... Is it not to put the rest of the people into the fortress and the coastal batteries? That might support you a few more days. ”
Hearing this suggestion, Viscount Bellsford almost didn't rewind it. The unit he commanded was called the Malay Regiment of the Imperial Indian Army – a unit of the Indian Army, not a unit of the British Army. There were few white people in the team, and most of them were Indians. If only white officers and non-commissioned officers are now collected in fortresses and batteries, it is difficult to say whether it can be gathered to 3,000 people.
And what fighting spirit can these 3,000 people have? Indian Empire ...... The Indians don't want it, what are a bunch of white British people tossing? Isn't this in response to the Chinese proverb, what emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry?
As soon as he wanted to object, the roar of the earth shaking and shaking sounded again, and he quickly turned his head to look, and found that the artillery bombardment of the Ming army had begun again. The shelling was carried out on the reserve (second line) positions of the Johor Strait Defence Line...... If it can't be held there, then the Ming army will soon be able to break through to Bukit Tima Mountain!
Fortress of Tran-Marcy...... It's over!