PS: I fell asleep last night, I'm sorry ╮(╯▽╰)╭

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Singapore.

News of the fall of Malaya's northern defensive line soon reached Singapore.

"What, the northern defense line has been breached? It's been less than two hours, my God, what are these Malays doing?"

British Lieutenant General Arthur Percival, Commander-in-Chief of the Malayan Garrison, opened his eyes in disbelief, and he was devastated by the news.

Lieutenant General Percival was stunned: "They have a full 60,000 people, but they can't hold out even for two hours, are the Chinese really so terrible?"

Percival also has a very embarrassing translation name in the history of the original time and space - Bai Sihua, God knows how it was translated. This Percival, or "Blashua" commander, was a star general in the British Army. He was recognized as one of the most promising of the officers in the British Army. Although his demeanor is unremarkable, his appearance is not striking, and he is not charismatic like other commanders, but he is considered to have a strong character and superhuman courage.

He fought in the First World War, performed bravely at all levels, received two DSO combat medals and one MC cross, and later trained and taught at the Staff College, both of which were distinguished by his superiors, so his superiors valued him very much. It was believed that he would inevitably be promoted to Chief of Staff of the Reich.

In 1936 he was sent to Malaya with the rank of colonel to study the local defense, and the plans he drew up were later adopted. At the beginning of World War II, he fought in France and later in North Africa. Due to the tense situation in Malaya, he was sent to Malaya in March 1941 as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in Malaya and was promoted to Lieutenant General.

"Your Excellency, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese # army is very strong, but it cannot be so unreasonably strong, and the fundamental reason is that the Malayans are too useless. The Chief of Staff, Major General Louis Heath, said: "Your Excellency, the Malays died a generation of young and strong men in the counterinsurgency war in China more than ten years ago, and now there are only 1.42 million people, these 60,000 people look like a lot, but the elite who can really fight will not exceed 20,000, and the rest are just full of old and weak." I used to be an adviser to them, and the combat effectiveness of the Malayan army is very low, especially the old and weak, which is simply inferior to the militia of the Chinese......"

Unlike Lieutenant General Percival, who arrived only last month, Major General Heath has been in Malaya for seven years and knows the situation very well.

"Your Excellency, you have just arrived here and are not familiar with these natives. Their training, command, and equipment are very backward, and the morale of the army is not high, and if it collapses at all, it will cause an avalanche and become completely uncontrollable. In my opinion, they are not as good as the colonial troops of Nigeria and Sudan......" Major General Hiss spread his hands and said in a mocking tone: "With all due respect, their commander-in-chief, His Royal Highness the Prince, if he were in our imperial army, I am afraid that he would not be qualified to be a company commander......"

"But in this way, our situation in Malaya is completely out of control......" Lieutenant General Percival frowned and pointed to a document on the table: "Luis, you look at this, the Chinese in Malaya have begun to riot, Penang, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur and other cities have fallen under their control, not to mention those rubber plantations and mining towns......"

Major General Heath shook his head: "Commander, this is a helpless thing, there are too many Chinese in Malaya! Their population is already about the same as the local natives, but what is even more terrifying is that many of their population are young and strong men, and they often conduct military training, and their militia units are of very high quality, even inferior to the regular armies of some second-rate European countries, and it is impossible to resist them with the strength of the local natives." ”

Just as the PLA was on the offensive, the Chinese in Malaya also launched armed uprisings in Perak, Selangor, Johor, Malacca and other places at the same time. Now the main force of Malaya is being bombed on the Siam-Maa front, and the old, weak, sick and disabled people at home can't stop this group of Chinese bear children mainly born in the 10s and 20s, and now even the Sultan of Johor has been killed by these bear children. In just one day, the red and black flags have swept over most of the peninsula.

The only places that the British can effectively control now are Singapore, a small land, and some nearby areas.

Percival looked at the map and said, "I want to send troops to help them, otherwise once Chinese control the peninsula, we will be very passive......"

Hiss hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, commander, I don't think we can divide our forces. Our mission is to hold Singapore, but we only have four divisions and two brigades now, and this little force can only protect ourselves, and if we go to the aid of other places, how many men will we have to send? Now that China controls the sky, if our troops go out, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to come back......"

"Louis, if we only rely on the Singapore Fortress, how long can we defend it? Without room for maneuver, it is impossible for a single fortress to defend for a long time......" Percival said with some dissatisfaction.

Hiss said confidently: "Your Excellency, I think it is no problem to hold it for more than half a year. Our Singapore Fortress is the number one fortress in the Far East and one of the top three superfortresses in the world. Even if the Chinese master the sky, it is impossible to fight it so easily. For more than a year, we have made improvements to the fortress so that even Chinese with fuel air bombs will not destroy our Singapore fort in the same way as the Maginot Line......"

"Your Excellency, according to the meaning of the Imperial General Staff, we only need to hold out for half a year, and we can get enough chips to have a good talk with China......" Hiss said with a twinkle in his eyes: "Your Excellency, if you rely only on the Singapore Fortress, you will not be able to maintain the Empire's presence in the Far East. Now the empire just needs a decent reason to withdraw. Our task is to find out this reason, which requires turning the fortress of Singapore into a flesh mill for the Chinese, who will be willing to give us a decent peace condition as long as it hurts the Chinese. ”

Percival thought about it for a while, and finally adopted the chief of staff's opinion: "Well, well, then we'll stick to Singapore." You immediately go down and arrange it, immediately deploy according to the predetermined plan, and we will turn this place into a meat grinder for Chinese......"

He is also a high-level executive, so he naturally knows what the domestic bigwigs plan for the territory of Malaya. The British high-level are not stupid, they have long seen that this territory cannot be saved, because this territory is equivalent to a thorn inserted in the mortal things of China's power, and there is such a thorn that no one can stand it. This will have a serious impact on China's strategic security situation, and Wen Dehe's style will absolutely not ignore it.

It is no longer the Victorian era of the 19th century, Britain's national power has declined dramatically, and China's power is swelling like a hanging. If there is a conflict with China in the Far East, there is no suspense at all about who will win and who will lose. This kind of thankless work, the opium cow will not do.

But they can't just give it up, otherwise where will the face of the British Empire go? So now they just need a proper step, a decent peace treaty.

You China really want the Malay Peninsula, right? You can do that, but you have to come up with enough leverage. Otherwise, you can take your time and gnaw at the Singapore Fortress.

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Speaking of Singapore Fort, here is a word to mention. In the history of the original time and space, the Singapore fortress was actually not worthy of its name, and after the Japanese conquered it, it was discovered that this Nima was a paper tiger.

This fortress has too many holes, all the cannons are facing the sea, and the enemy is blind from the ground. There is also a lack of water, a lack of heavy weapons, a shortage of troops, and various kinds of insufficient preparation, the fortress wall and firepower are only the outer walls of the British naval base and the base defense firepower position, the total coverage is not much larger than that of the later domestic key high school campuses, there are only a few observation posts in the direction of the peninsula connecting the mainland, and there are almost no preset firepower points (never ever, unless you count the ruins that have been abandoned for a hundred years since the early colonial days)...... Blah blah, blah blah blah, it doesn't lack any flaws that should be there anyway.

Of course, the British did have plans to strengthen and renovate the Singapore fortress at that time, but this was just propaganda, and in fact this strengthening plan was never really implemented. Or rather, this fortification plan was just an excuse for the British Army to cheat military spending. They also made documentaries, showed schematic diagrams, organized visits by senior government officials and members of parliament, and boasted about the new fortress, and then when the Japanese came, they were all exposed.

By the way, at that time, Singapore also hoarded a considerable amount of American aid to China, which were seized by the British in a different way, and then drifted and stolen in various ways. When the Japanese came, except for some that was washed away by the British, only a small amount of supplies were destroyed before the occupation, and most of them were given to the Japanese. There are several theories that the destruction of some of the materials was done by the British in order to confuse the accounts and deal with China's condemnation and the United States' complaints, and most of the materials were left to curry favor with the Japanese and protect the expatriates, and then the British gave an account to the United States, China, and Britain themselves. It really deserves to be a thousand-year-old-stirring stick, and the means are high.

But the plane is different, in order to maintain control of this Far Eastern throat, the opium cows really made a lot of blood, they have carried out a comprehensive renovation and expansion on the basis of the original fortress, and also built a lot of new facilities.

The Washington Naval Treaty restricted fortifications in some areas, but Singapore did not include them, so the expansion of the fort was not affected by the naval holiday. After 20 years of painstaking management, Singapore has really become a very perverted turtle shell, still the kind with thorns. Compared to the eponymous work in the history of the original time and space, I don't know how high it is.