On August 17, 1942, the stars twinkled in the conference room of the Yangon Theater Command in Burma. At this moment, a military meeting of senior generals above the division level is being held, and the minimum rank of the participants is also major general. But even so, the huge conference room was still full, with nearly 200 people. There is no way, the strength is not allowed to be low-key, plus the more than 100,000 officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force who have returned, and now the armed forces in Myanmar have reached one million, which is fully organized into 20 army-level units!

After a year and a half of business development, Myanmar has not only built a huge industrial chain, but also greatly developed the people's livelihood economy, and has also made great progress in judicial construction, army construction and other aspects. The first batch of cadets of the Myanmar Army Military Academy is about to graduate, and they will soon be enriched into the grassroots level of the Chinese and Burmese armed forces, and will become its backbone force in the future, playing an unparalleled role.

Generally speaking, Myanmar has now been run by Jiang Qiang into an iron bucket, radiating unprecedented vitality, which can be summed up by political communication and harmony.

In fact, Jiang Qiang and his entourage arrived safely in Myanmar by boat as early as 12 days ago. The officers and men of the expeditionary force who arrived together were put on a month-long vacation by Jiang Qiang, so that they could vacation comfortably and enjoy the hard-won happy life and glory time. However, Jiang Qiang himself has not been idle, and has been busy all day long these days, inspecting various parts of Burma, meeting with responsible persons of various fields, accepting interviews with various newspapers and media, holding celebrations and commendation meetings, and paying tribute to the fallen soldiers.

Not long after they arrived in Burma, they were transferred back to China by an order from the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, and after more than 10 days of busy work, Jiang Qiang finally became familiar with and straightened out the military and political affairs of Burma. After a pleasant opening remarks, Jiang Qiang said to everyone in the audience: "This time, the Allies inflicted heavy losses on the Axis African Korps in the African theater and turned the tide of the war in North Africa in one fell swoop.

This is a major victory of the World Anti-Fascist Alliance, and it is also another brilliant victory of our Chinese Expeditionary Force! And the soldiers who stayed in Burma have also done a very good job, not only blocking the repeated attacks of the Japanese Burmese army, but also further strengthening themselves, we already have a million tigers and lions in Burma alone! Speaking of this, Jiang Qiang said in a paused tone: "But what I want to say next is that the situation of the Anti-Japanese War is still very grim, and the enemy we are facing is stronger than before."

And that's not even counting the millions of Japanese troops in Japan mainland and other overseas colonies, so we still have a long way to go, far from the time when we can sit back and relax. Immediately afterwards, the conference room exploded all of a sudden, and all the generals took the initiative to ask for help, eager to immediately lead the troops to the battle, and clean up the Japanese devils by dividing them by two.

"Good! Very good! Jiang Qiang nodded at everyone, and then said, "The morale of the army in the war is very important, and at the same time, strategy is also very important. As I've always emphasized, the best victory is to destroy the enemy while trying to preserve yourself. Killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 losses at a loss, we can try not to do it if we can! ”

"Well, the little devil is a group of lords who bully the weak and fear the hard!" After a little silence, everyone thought of this place. Jiang Qiang nodded and said: "This is the main reason, the devil has suffered many times in our hands, and he knows that we will pay an unbearable heavy price if we attack hard, so the devil wants to turn attack into defense, wait for us to gnaw hard bones, and then consume us through defensive warfare!" In this case, what do we say? Chen Zhengnian scratched his head and said, "Boss, then we can't stop fighting devils because we're afraid of more dead people, right?" "Yes, if the devils can't hold out, then we can't keep spending time with them, right?"

At six o'clock in the morning, Sun Wang received a secret telegram from Burma, the telegram was safe, the snow leopard special combat team and others had broken away from the Japanese blockade and entered Malaya, which made Sun Wang breathe a sigh of relief, as long as they could enter Malaya, the snow leopard and others would be safe, and the Japanese army would never have imagined that they would break through the blockade and flee Singapore so quickly. At this time, Singapore and Kuantan, Malaya were full of smoke, and the bombing not only destroyed the Japanese air force airfield and all the planes on the airfield, but also other important military facilities in the two cities, and the scene of devastation was everywhere.

At 6:30 a.m., Toshitoshi Terauchi, the supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Dispatch Army, was furious after receiving the report of the loss, and even ordered the massacre of Allied prisoners of war and Singaporean civilians. Terauchi Shou ordered the massacre of prisoners of war and civilians not only because the Allied bombers had blown up airfields and other military facilities and caused heavy losses to the Japanese army, but in fact, the Japanese had already intended to do so, and this bombing only made the Japanese army determined.

Earlier, the Japanese army had suffered heavy losses in the attack on Singapore, and Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumi, who was in charge of the Japanese army, first sent a unit to the northeastern part of Singapore Island and the waters near Ubin Island, successfully attracting the attention of the British troops stationed in the area, and then the Japanese troops in the northwest of Singapore Island took the opportunity to cross the Straits of Johor in Malaysia in inflatable kayaks and land on the beaches of Salembun, Kranji, Limchu Harbour and Jurong. The Japanese army was resisted by the combined resistance of the Xinghua Volunteers and the Allies, and the prelude to the defense of Singapore began.

On February 13, 1942, the Japanese 18th Division attacked Opium Hill with heavy firepower, and the Battle of Opium Hill broke out, which was the fiercest battle for the Japanese army to attack Singapore. Due to the failure of the first attack of the Japanese army, more than 400 people were killed, so it was decided to disguise themselves as British Indian soldiers. Sergeant Anan of the 1st Malay Regiment, which was defending on the Opium Hill with only 42 men left, saw through the enemy's tricks and launched an attack on the Japanese. In the end, the Malay legion was outnumbered and all died heroically, and Sergeant Anan was captured. In order to vent their anger, the Japanese soldiers cut off Anan's limbs, put him in a sack and hung him upside down on a tree, and stabbed him dozens of times with bayonets, and Anan was only 27 years old when he died.

After the surrender of the British defenders in Singapore, many prisoners of war began to be sent to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan to build railways and open mines, but until now more than 50,000 people are still held in the Singapore prisoner of war camps, and these people have become the target of the Japanese army's anger. In addition to these captured Allied soldiers, tens of thousands of Singaporeans were slaughtered, most of whom were Chinese, and many of them were members of the Huaxing Volunteers, who were found by the Japanese army and killed with bayonets one by one. On the one hand, the Japanese army slaughtered prisoners of war and civilians, and on the other hand, they extorted innocent Chinese and civilians in Singapore, demanding that overseas Chinese pay 50 million yuan in money. The reason given by Yamashita at that time was: "Overseas Chinese support the Burmese government to resist Japan, and this payment is the money you pay to atone for your sins against the Japanese army." ”

The Japanese set up the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Association, with Dr. Lin Wenqing, an overseas Chinese elder in his 70s, as its president, and asked him to raise money in the name of the association, and Singapore was responsible for 10 million yuan. After the Japanese invasion army occupied Singapore, it urgently needed to use some well-known leaders in society to serve it, and the recognized overseas Chinese leaders at that time, such as Tan Kah Kee and others, had long since left and disappeared. As a result, Lin Wenqing, who was in his late teens, was forced to come forward to organize the "Overseas Chinese Association" and raise 50 million yuan of "bona gold" to present to the supreme commander of the Japanese army, Yamashita Fengfumi, as an expression of his willingness to cooperate with and support Japan's military rule.

Lin Wenqing was forced to be helpless and suffered. However, he also took advantage of the status of the "association" and its "president" to rescue some patriotic overseas Chinese. For example, after Li Zhendian, the treasurer of the "Nanqiao Association," was arrested by the Japanese military police, Lin Wenqing signed a letter of guarantee and was released. At 6:40, about 20,000 Allied prisoners of war were escorted out of the prisoner of war camp by the Japanese and gathered in a remote wilderness, where they were then given shovels, hoes, poles, and dustpans, and the Japanese ordered them to dig a very large underground fortification to build a fortification.

Under the pressure of machine guns, the Allied prisoners of war had to pick up tools and start digging work, and the prisoners of war were whipped by the Japanese army if they slacked off, and the scene of tens of thousands of people was spectacular. How big is it? Sun is expected to get the news soon. Yamashita Fengwen stood on a high place under the arch of several officers under the arch of several officers, looking at the work scene below with a blank face, and raised his hand to look at his watch from time to time.

In the distance, Sun Wang, who had already received the news, took the shopkeeper to lie on the grass and observe, and the shopkeeper asked: "Shopkeeper, what do the Japanese want to do when they bring these prisoners of war here and issue hoes and dustpans?" Sun Wang said while taking a photo with his camera: "I don't know for the time being, depending on the situation, the Japanese are building underground fortifications, let's see the situation!" ”

The two hid in the grass, one observed with a telescope, the other took pictures with a camera, and at about 7:40, when the two were about to leave, the Japanese suddenly moved. I saw rows of Japanese soldiers with rifles and shiny bayonets surrounding them from all directions, driving the Allied prisoners of war who were digging underground fortifications into a rectangular pit 200 meters long and 100 meters wide that they had just dug. The Allied prisoners of war who were working showed frightened expressions when they saw the Japanese soldiers coming up from all directions, and the scene was mixed up for a while, and some intelligent British soldiers and officers immediately understood the intentions of the Japanese army, but in the absence of weapons, they had no ability to resist at all, and groups of Allied prisoners of war were squeezed into the middle of the pit by the people in front.

Seeing this situation, Sun Wang gasped, his face suddenly became bloodless, and the shopkeeper next to him also discovered this abnormal situation, and hurriedly asked, "Shopkeeper, what are the Japanese going to do?" Sun Wang's lips trembled, and he trembled and said: "The Japanese, the heavens, they are going to bury 20,000 prisoners of war alive!" Crazy, the Japanese are really deprived of their conscience! "W-What? OMG! That's 20,000 people! "The shopkeeper was shaking like a sieve.

As the Japanese army gradually pressed towards the pit, the encirclement became smaller and smaller, and countless Allied prisoners of war were squeezed into the pit, and the Allied troops below screamed in fear and wanted to climb up, but they were crushed by others who fell from above at the bottom of the pit and never had a chance to climb out of this huge pit like a demon's bloody mouth. Countless screams came out, these voices were like the roar of the devil tearing the souls of Sun Wangwang and the shopkeepers, and the two covered their ears and rolled on the ground in pain, it was too miserable, this was a tragic massacre that exterminated humanity.

"No, I can't do this, I have to publicize the atrocities of the Japanese!" Sun Wang bit the tip of his tongue fiercely, a tingling pain made him sober, he turned over and picked up the camera next to him and began to take pictures continuously, filming the scene of the Japanese army burying Allied prisoners of war alive from beginning to end. At the same time, the patrol cars of the Japanese army shuttled through the streets and alleys of Singapore, and there were people on the cars constantly shouting with loudspeakers, to the effect that Chinese men between the ages of 18 and 50 among the residents were to gather in four places to collect the "good citizen certificates".

However, when they arrived there, they found that the Japanese did not issue him a certificate of good citizenship at all, but asked the former British police, Indian police, and some betrayers who resisted the Japanese army to identify the so-called "anti-Japanese elements" with their faces covered. The identified Chinese and civilians of various nationalities were bound to the beach by the Japanese army without any trial process. The civilians were escorted to the beach and lined up with their backs to the sea, facing the Japanese soldiers, who aimed them with dozens of machine guns.

"Shoot—" A Japanese officer shouted, drawing his command knife and pointing forward. Dozens of machine guns fired at the same time, and the machine guns emitted countless tongues ......of fire. The innocent civilians who were shot in a row were instantly swept by the bullets, and now only the roar of machine guns can be heard, and those civilians fell one by one in a pool of blood, and after a few breaths, not a single one of the hundreds of civilians was still standing. Immediately afterwards, another group of civilians were escorted up, and when they saw the bloody scene at the scene, many civilians were frightened and cried loudly, but the Japanese army had no mercy at all, and the Japanese commander gave another order, and the airport opened fire again, and the civilians fell like wheat harvesting.

Several times in a row, the beach by the sea has been full of blood, after several big waves, the body was taken away from the beach by the waves, the original smell of horror and blood, the beach full of blood has been washed away by the sea. Later, in order to save bullets, the Japanese simply tied people into a string and loaded them onto ships, and pushed them into the sea about 10 kilometers from the coast. The Japanese army used extremely cruel methods to massacre the "designated" overseas Chinese: some tied people up and pushed them into the sea and fired them with machine guns, some made them dig pits and commit suicide by poisoning, or shot them with machine guns or slashed with sabers.

In less than two hours, the corpses of civilians were floating on the surface of the sea, attracting a large number of predatory fish, a scene 100,000 times more terrifying than hell, and the surviving civilians of Singapore later lived in nightmares of fear every day. Sun Wang and his shopkeepers evaded the patrols of the Japanese army, and traveled through the streets and alleys and the seaside for three consecutive days, faithfully taking photos of the atrocities of the Japanese army, and recording them into words and sending them to China.

After the war, the official Japanese figure for the massacre was 5,000, but the number given by the Singapore Chinese News Agency was 100,000, and the figure for the post-war trial was about 50,000. At 8:30 a.m., Yuko Kitajima, the leader of the Skynet organization, received a secret telegram from Singapore, the content of which was that the Japanese army had carried out a terrible massacre in Singapore, 20,000 Allied prisoners of war had been buried alive, and 4,000 civilians had been slaughtered and thrown into the sea, and the massacre was continuing.

After the secret telegram was translated, it was sent to Kitajima Yuko's hands, reading the full text of the telegram, Kitajima Yuko's face was pale, it was indeed outrageous that the Allied prisoners of war were buried alive, but the Chinese civilians in Singapore were slaughtered by the Japanese army for no reason, which made people angry, he put away the telegram and put it in a briefcase and quickly rushed to the military headquarters to find Jiang Qiang. This morning was the last part of the "Tempest" plan, the day when the Allied forces in the Western Pacific Theater launched an attack on the Japanese defenders on the northern border of Malaya, so Jiang Qiang entered the office early.

Kitajima Yuko immediately sat opposite Jiang Qiang, then took out the telegram from his briefcase and handed it over, and said with a solemn expression: "Brother Jiang, Sun Wang, the head of the Skynet Singapore station, sent a top-secret telegram, the matter is very important, I didn't dare to delay at all after receiving the telegram, and immediately rushed over, you look at the content of the telegram." Jiang Qiang took the telegram and glanced at it, quickly gasped, and then read it carefully, and the telegram said that the Japanese army had buried 20,000 Allied prisoners of war alive in just two hours. These are British, Australians, Indians, Burmese, and Malays, and Jiang Qiang doesn't care very much, but it is written that the Japanese army coaxed Chinese civilians to the beach to carry out a massacre, and the blood of civilians stained all the nearby seas red, attracting a large number of carnivorous fish.

"Bang!" Jiang Qiang's face turned pale, and he couldn't help but slap it with one palm, and the coffee table suddenly shattered into countless pieces. "Conscienceless, inhumane! Little Japanese, I say that your ancestors are eighteen generations! Jiang Qiang's eyes were blood-red, and his face was hideous. Apparently angry to the extreme. The time when the Allied forces launched an attack on the southern border of Thailand was nine o'clock, Jiang Qiang gasped and raised his hand to look at his watch, it was already eight forty o'clock, and then asked: "Does the command know the news?" ”

Chen Zhengnian shook his head and said: "Singapore is under martial law on all fronts, I think except for Sun Wang, I'm afraid no one can pass on the news, I rushed over after receiving the secret message, and I didn't have time to inform the command!" Jiang Qiang nodded, handed the telegram to Wang Qiang, and instructed: "Immediately notify the command, inform the whole army of the massacre of the Japanese army in Singapore, and tell Zhao Zhengbi that after the attack, Lao Tzu will beat the Japanese to death, I don't care what the army of the British Commonwealth is, don't take prisoners of the army of my Burma, don't take prisoners!" If you see a Japanese, kill one! In addition, inform the press that I will hold a press conference at 10 o'clock! Go now, right away! ”

"Yes!" Wang Qiang straightened up, took the telegram and quickly walked out of the office. After Wang Qiang left, Dongfang Bar said to Yuko Kitajima: "The responsible persons of the Skynet organization in Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines must protect themselves, and they can't sacrifice themselves unless they have to do so, their tasks and responsibilities are very heavy, and intelligence collection is inseparable from them, at this stage, their task is to collect intelligence, not to fight with the Japanese, what is an intelligence organization?" The role of intelligence organizations is to use all means to collect intelligence, not to engage in assassinations and other unscrupulous work. Be sure to tell them this explicitly! ”

"Understood!" Yuko Kitajima nodded. After Zhao Zhengbi received Wang Qiang's call, he immediately informed the Allied armies of the news, and then informed the commander of the British army, Archibald, and told him that the Burmese army would not leave prisoners, and as for the British army if they wanted to be hypocrites, he did not want to care, but also asked him to ignore the actions of the Burmese army.

Archibald was so angry that he overturned his desk when he got the news that the Japanese had buried 20,000 prisoners alive in Singapore, that was 20,000 Allied soldiers, although there were not many troops in Britain itself, only 5,000 people, but it was also 5,000 people, and there were 30,000 Allied soldiers who were locked up in prisoner of war camps waiting to be processed, there is no doubt that what was the end of those prisoners? He has already realized that the Japanese soldiers have gone crazy, and the Japanese commanders have also gone crazy, and the only way to deal with madmen is to destroy them from above! He agreed with Zhao Zhengbi's opinion, and after consulting with Zhao Zhengbi, it was decided that the command would issue an order in oral form to all troops, leaving no prisoners during the attack, and that this order should not be recorded in writing from the headquarters to the troops.

When the soldiers of the Allied forces who were preparing to launch an attack heard the news of the Singapore massacre, they were furious, and their fighting spirit was high. At nine o'clock, two mixed formations composed of fighters and bombers took off from the Hat Yai air force airfield, the first group had 10 fighters and 20 bombers, bombing the Japanese defensive positions on the eastern front, which was the main direction of attack of the Burmese army, and the ground offensive troops were all Huatai Army, a division of troops, a total of 22,000 troops, and there were no Commonwealth troops.

The second group, also escorted by 10 fighters and 20 bombers, carried out large-scale carpet bombing of the Japanese defensive positions on the Western Front, and the ground offensive was composed of a regiment of the Huatai Army, a division of the British native army, and an Indian division, with a total of 40,000 people attacking the Japanese defensive positions on the Western Front, and a regiment of the Burmese Army mainly carried out the task of reserve support, and the main offensive tasks were carried out by a division of the British Army and a division of India. Defending the position on the eastern front was the Japanese Fifth Division, with a number of nearly 30,000, but the Japanese defensive front was too long to concentrate on defense, and the Huatai Army was ready to concentrate on attacking a point with superior forces, comprehensively breaking through the Japanese defense line, and then with the cooperation of the follow-up troops, it was divided and annihilated by the Japanese Fifth Division.

Defending the battlefield on the Western Front was the Japanese Guards Division plus a mixed brigade with a number of nearly 40,000 people, which was the same as the number of Allied offensive troops, but the combat effectiveness was higher than that of the Allied forces, but the Allied forces had air forces to help, and the Japanese air forces in Malaya and Singapore were all blown up last night and lost air supremacy, which was a disadvantage for the Japanese army. At 9:15 a.m., two groups of bombers rushed to the sky above the Japanese defensive positions to carry out carpet bombing, and the Japanese soldiers defending on both lines seemed to be doomed.

The whistling sound of airplanes and bombs falling from high altitude spread everywhere over the Japanese position, which the Japanese army had never encountered, and most of the Japanese soldiers forgot to dodge, and when the aerial bombs exploded, they suddenly woke up, but it was too late, once the bombing began, the people hiding in the trenches ran again to point out the bombing site to the Allied bombers.

In an instant, hundreds of aerial bombs fell on the Japanese positions, and the sound of explosions came and went, and the Japanese troops in the two-line positions had not experienced this level of bombing at all, and the anti-aircraft fire was the first to be destroyed, followed by the Japanese defenders, many Japanese soldiers were killed and shocked to death in the bombing, and some soldiers' ears were also deaf.

Not to be outdone, the fighters lowered their altitude and swept over the Japanese trenches, and the machine guns and machine guns on the Flying Eagle 5 fighters fired bullets and shells frantically, like an iron plough ploughing the Japanese trenches over and over again. Fighters and bombers ravaged the Japanese positions in turn, and the Japanese defensive positions were swept away by the aircraft group, and the soldiers defending suffered heavy casualties, and some Japanese squads even had only a few people left, and the rest were either injured or killed and killed.

It took half an hour for the two groups of bombers to return satisfied, and at this time the Japanese positions were full of smoke, the artillery positions were almost destroyed, not a single complete cannon could be found, and the Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches were also suffering heavy casualties. "Yaga, Yaga, Yalu, the people of China launched a massive bombing, why is our air force indifferent? What are these bastards of the Aviation Forces doing /? It is estimated that the people of China will soon launch a ground offensive, so quickly contact the brigade and regiment headquarters, report the situation, and ask the commander for tactical guidance! "A Japanese captain shouted orders to the staff officer.

"Hey!" Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, this is the first time that the Burmese army has taken the initiative to launch an attack on the Japanese position, and for the British Commonwealth army, this is the first time that the Japanese army has launched a counteroffensive against the Japanese army, and the significance of this battle is very significant. On the eastern front, the Burmese army took the lead in attacking the tank troops, and 180 Tiger tanks rushed to the Japanese defensive positions in the smoke and quickly, which was one of the few plain positions on the eastern front.

The Japanese army is not without a way to deal with the tanks of the Burmese army, for several months, they have dug a large number of anti-tank trenches here, and laid many mines in the front of the position, after the command of the Burma campaign, the Japanese army also knew that their tanks were not of the same level as the tanks of the Burmese country, so they tried their best, and finally thought of using anti-tank trenches and laying mines.

The so-called anti-tank trench is a slope on one side, and the ditch wall on the other side is a vertical ground, the vertical distance from the ground to the bottom of the ditch is generally more than two meters, and the slope distance from the top of the slope to the bottom of the ditch is at least the length of the tank.