Chapter 532
"Report, Commander, the position of Kuantan has been broken! Our troops retreated, but the enemy pursued them relentlessly! Captain Yamazaki Coalition and commander of the 15th Army of the Southeast Asian Imperial Army Fernangbang is requesting tactical guidance..."
"Report, Commander, our defense line at Yanga Airport has been broken by the Chinese landing forces. The airport was occupied by China. Our fighter jets were forced to set off urgently, but they were quickly shot down by Chinese fighter jets. The 10th Army of the Southeast Asian Imperial Army lost more than 70%. The 35th Brigade of the garrison troops lost more than half! We are currently retreating to the city-states outside Singapore,..."
"Report, Commander, our Johor Strait defense line was attacked by the Chinese National Defense Forces! Under the dense firepower of the Chinese fleet and the rapid breakthrough of a large number of amphibious tanks and tanks. The three armies of the garrison and the 109th Division lost more than 80%. Lieutenant General Mutaguchi, the commander of the 109th Division, was killed on the spot and had basically lost his combat effectiveness. As of the time when the 109th Division sent a farewell message, the Johor Strait defense line had been completely broken...."
"Report,..., the three batches of air forces assisted by Indonesia were all eliminated by the Chinese Air Force, and the bomber units of two US squadrons were also eliminated by Chinese fighter jets. The commander of the Indonesian garrison force, Akira Muto, sent a message saying that several large air bases in Indonesia were once again bombed by Chinese bombers and had lost their support capabilities to us......"
In the dim basement, under the faint light, battle reports were handed over to Fengwen Yamashita's desk, and the current commander-in-chief of the Southeast Asian Expeditionary Force suddenly felt dizzy. He did not expect that the Kuala Lumpur defense line that had been guarding for a few days would be torn apart in an instant, and the Chinese army did not rest. He immediately launched a full-scale attack on the Singapore Fortress. All of this caught him off guard.
Back then, he didn't let the troops rest for a moment, and once he arrived in Kuala Lumpur, he had a fierce attack.
However, his fierce attack was nothing in front of China. Moreover, the incompetent British general who took the initiative to surrender, allowing Japan to take down the Singapore Fortress without much effort. In the past three days, Yamashita Fengmo has already had half of his hair white, and his fat body has also quickly lost weight.
Singapore is his last retreat, the Malay Tiger. There is no place for the Malay Tiger. How can the Malay Tiger continue? When Japan completely lost the Malay Tiger, it is when the Malay Tiger becomes a dead tiger.
What made Yamashita Fengwen most unacceptable was that China's attack had been three days ago. After China announced the queen and the prince was attacked, the entire Chinese army was like crazy. If the attack in the past was heavy rain, then he was now suffering from a storm.
In three days, China quickly occupied Kuala Lumpur, and then forcibly landed in Singapore from all directions with the cooperation of the Navy Aviation and Marines. Under the fixed-point attack of heavy aviation bombs and cloud bombs, the heavy defensive weapons on the Singapore fortress were removed one by one. Then the naval ships approached Singapore and began to cover the landing battle of the Marines, and directly opened four landing sites. On the ground, the Johor Strait defense line carefully constructed by Fengwen Yamashita was also broken on the entire line with the uninterrupted attack of the army with a large number of rocket launchers and amphibious armor forces.
Yamashita Tomoto thought that it was the first time that he had encountered such a difficult problem in his life. Under the strong attack of China's sea, land and air, his so-called defense system and Singapore fortress were of little use.
The National Defense Forces swept away the intensity of the attack some time ago and launched a devastating attack on the position. Every day, intensive bombers began to appear on the battlefield, and the howling bombs directly overturned the Japanese army's castles, bunkers and fortifications.
Now, Yamashita only has six divisions and three brigades. This is the entire Japanese army in Southeast Asia now, and the rest are basically surrounded by other parts of Southeast Asia, making it impossible for them to take care of each other.
There have been many Imperial Army troops in Southeast Asia. The organization of the Imperial Army in Southeast Asia was established completely according to the Japanese army. Therefore, the "army" of the Imperial Army in Southeast Asia is actually the same as the concept of the "army" of the Japanese army.
Each Southeast Asian Imperial Army military-level unit has two divisions and one brigade. This is the standard concept of one army in the Japanese army. Of course, Japan does not have so many heavy weapons to supply these Southeast Asian Imperial Army.
Most of these Imperial Army troops were using heavy weapons and weapons seized by the Japanese army from Southeast Asian troops such as the US, British and other Southeast Asian troops. Fortunately, there were many of these weapons, and they finally barely armed these people to the same kind of humans. Many of the light weapons were eliminated by China and sold to Japan for old-fashioned rifles.
The insufficient armed part is supplemented by guns eliminated by the Japanese army themselves. Anyway, the Japanese army did not expect these Southeast Asian Imperial Army to achieve any results, as long as they could resist the Japanese evacuation. As for whether they were captured and slaughtered by the National Defense Forces or turned into prisoners, the Japanese army would not care.
"Masako Tsuji, why do you think this is?" Yamashita Takafumi thought there would be no more on the battlefield that could make him frown, but this time he really didn't know what to do.
"General, China's offensive is abnormal. The air force, whether it is the number or frequency of round trips, is not comparable to the situation in previous battles. The offensive of the ground army is also very fierce, completely beyond our expectations, and is completely different from the previous offensives of the Chinese army. In Chinese, it seems that there is a hatred between us to kill our father and take our wife." Masato Tsuji said.
He is not much different from Yamashita Tomoto. He is known as one of the three major advisers of Showa, and there is no good way to rescue Singapore, which has been surrounded by history.
"The Empire cooperated with the United States to assassinate the queen and prince of China. This was originally a good thing that could once again increase the morale of soldiers. But those agents were of no use at all. Not only did they not succeed in assassination, they also ruined themselves and aroused hatred from all over China. For our army, it will be very unfavorable in the near future." Can Yamashita Fengwen not know? Whether it was the assassination success or the assassination failure, he had some mental preparations, but he completely underestimated China's powerful offensive ability.
Yangon Airport and the air force base above Borneo. Every day, it is dispatched at the highest intensity, carrying more than one ton of heavy bombs, and they all carry invading the warheads, which can penetrate into the fortress and then detonate the bombs.
In terms of fighter jets, in addition to ensuring air-controlling fighter jets, other fighter jets also launched saturation attacks on the Japanese army on the ground. Rocket launchers and aviation artillery became the dream demons of the Japanese army and those puppet troops. The army aerial helicopter troops also adopted multiple consecutive jump attacks. The Chinese army's offensive often launched an attack from the rear of the Japanese army's defense line and attacked forward and backward.
In the past, the Japanese chased the British by bicycle. Now, under the large number of Chinese army aviation troops, Japan is not much better than the British army at the time.
Yamashita Bongmoon bet everything he had on defense. Since the beginning of the Battle of Chiang Mai, under its command, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are now building fortifications in an emergency, especially in the Johor Strait area. It is the top priority for defense. At that time, he asked the Japanese troops to defend here to make good use of the fortifications built by the British and strengthen new fortifications. All the puppet troops were concentrated to reinforce the defensive forces. He also sent two brigades of troops to Johor Bahru, a key transportation area in Malaysia and Singapore, to defend. At the same time, Hashita Bongmoon immediately generated power to apply for reinforcements from the Indonesian occupation forces.
The Japanese army headquarters, which received the emergency telegram, was in a state of tension. China took Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, so the Japanese army still fighting in southern Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodian Warriors and the Chinese Defense Forces would have no way out. Those who waited for them would have no ammunition and food.
Without much hesitation, after the emergency consultation, the headquarters immediately dispatched two divisions and two brigades from Jakarta and other places in Indonesia to reinforce. After drawing out the first batch of reinforcements, it was also preparing to dispatch a total of five divisions to reinforce the forces to the reinforcements depending on the situation. Combat aircraft near Jakarta, Pontianak and Palembang were also dispatched to reinforce Singapore.
However, the base camp did not mention the navy at all. Even Tadaichi Nakamoto's aircraft carrier team disappeared into the world. Faced with such an important defensive battle, the Japanese navy did not come to support it. The Japanese base camp did not mention the navy at all.
Although the emergency reinforcements from the Japanese headquarters made many Japanese officers in Singapore feel a glimmer of hope. But Yamashita Tomoto did not relax at all. Although the reinforcements seemed to be very large, it was only a large number and did not bring much quality increase. However, Yamashita felt a little relieved that the day before the successful landing of the Chinese Defense Forces, it was a day before the Chinese Defense Forces landed on the Pacific Ocean to Australia, and then through the Indonesian islands, a supply fleet that struggled to pass through Singapore. Although the fleet was not large, the fleet led a batch of heavy firepower that was most needed now. Among them were heavy artillery from a complete field artillery brigade and a batch of supporting ammunition. The most important thing is that the latest Japanese main station tanks in the two wings were all heavy main station tanks. At present, such tanks were only equipped in Okamura Nishi's Kanto Army.
Yamashita Fengwen, who received this group of heavy firepower, was ecstatic. He even took the time to greet the fleet in person, and promised to award special medals to the military headquarters to commend them such a timely help.
With these temporary increased heavy firepower, Yamashita felt a little confident when it cooperated with the heavy firepower in the 18th Division and other divisions and brigades. However, it did not relax at all, and the pressure put on him by the Chinese army was not greatly relieved. For this reason, Yamashita Fengwen also issued a temporary recruitment order, requiring Japanese expatriates in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and other places to immediately register for emergency military training in the places set up by the army, distribute guns and ammunition to establish a temporary corps to strengthen their strength.
Although the quality of these temporary recruits is very poor. More than 80% of the soldiers are old, weak, sick and disabled. Even stronger women are asked to replace kimonos that affect their operations to transport supplies and build fortifications. However, if you look at weapons and ammunition, the guns and ammunition in your hands are even worse. Many temporary soldiers basically do not even have guns. A kitchen knife found from the homes of the people is considered a good weapon. Their function is more to be used by soldiers who temporarily command them or sergeants to consume the ammunition of the Chinese army.
Yamashita is able to come up with this crazy solution, thanks to the results of Japan's rapid immigration in a short period of time. After Japan invaded Southeast Asia, in order to slow down the food problem in Japan, Japan transported more than two million immigrants to Southeast Asia in a short time by loading sardines. After China and Japan turned against each other, when the navy began to block the waterway and began to attack the Japanese fleet, Japan had already transported more than four million immigrants to Southeast Asia. However, more than half of these immigrants were in the Philippines, which was closest to Japan, followed by Indonesia.
As the war progressed, the two Japanese immigrants who had caused great harm to the two places have now started to turn to other places after eating everything more fiercely than locusts. Tongguo single-board boats and other transportation methods can be obtained. With the Japanese Navy coming to Singapore, here, they will go to Sumatra, Java, and the Malay Peninsula to Thailand respectively to cause harm.
Therefore, in Singapore, there are as many as 200,000 Japanese immigrants from other places in preparation. If the maggots are allowed to eat the few grain reserves at the foot of the mountain, it would be better to let them die as cannon fodder. It can not only consume the ammunition of the Chinese people, but also reduce the consumption of food on their own.
If Yamashita Tomoto previously gained the title of the Malay Tiger by virtue of the madness of Japanese soldiers on this land, then now he is already a crazy beast. Just as the reason why he hates tigers, in fact, he is also changing to the tiger's "character".
After issuing the order to recruit immigrants as cannon fodder to resist the Chinese army, Yamashita Tomofumi issued a more crazy order. The order requires all Japanese immigrants who were not recruited into the temporary army. A thousand women and children who were quick to be loyal to the emperor were selected and a batch of bombs were distributed to them. After a simple practice, they were asked to launch suicide attacks or wait for the arrival of the Chinese army in secret and then detonated the bombs. However, given the current form, Yamashita's order was not so crazy that it was released publicly, but chose to execute it secretly.
When the residents in Singapore heard the war and learned that the armed forces had landed in Kuantan, Singapore quickly became chaotic. People had just experienced the chaos of war caused by the Japanese landing. Many people still remembered the two bloody nights when the Japanese army entered the city. Now there is another army to attack here. No matter whether these troops are good or bad people, the shells falling into the city will not recognize the good people and bad people. Although the Japanese army has been blocking the news, as the rumors spread, the Japanese soldiers who mobilized all over the place confirmed the accuracy of the news.
The fortress in Singapore is in chaos, with 200,000 Japanese immigrants here. These immigrants can only eat half full every day. Taking advantage of the chaos of local residents, some of these immigrants began to attack local residents after evading the tyrants of the Japanese military headquarters, seeking all the food they can eat and all valuable property. In the chaos, some ronin relied on force to steal and rob, kill and set fire inevitably, which caused chaos in the city.
After learning about this at night, Yamashita Bofu immediately ordered some troops to be sent to clean up the chaotic elements. The order issued was to kill them immediately after a warning was invalid. It did not want to be distracted from dealing with the fire in the backyard in such a difficult situation. The order was quickly executed and the riots were quickly controlled.
However, a very strange situation occurred at this time. That was, the Japanese soldiers who went to suppress the riots only suppressed the riots in other places. However, the only thing that did not suppress was the area where merchants and farmers lived, where Japanese bandits were still unscrupulously creating killings and blood.
These Japanese soldiers did not suppress the riots in the residential areas of merchants and farmers. It was not that they did not see them, but heard the shouts and burning fires coming from there. They even ignored the Japanese bandits who ran out of there but ignored them, as if they agreed with everything that happened here.
This is also a consequence of the occupation of this place by Fengwen Yamashita. After Fengwen Yamashita captured this place, with his permission, a large number of merchants and farmers living here were robbed of money and everything, while more foreign merchants were even cut off without any reason. If it weren't for the indigenous people living in the local area, many production would require foreign workers to carry out. Fengwen Yamashita was willing to slaughter all foreign merchants and farmers directly. But the indigenous people could not do this, even the former British, French, Dutch, and Spanish could not do this. Because no matter any ruler, they knew how lazy the indigenous people living here were. Now the Chinese expatriates have completely withdrawn from here. If they do not rely on foreigners to work on production, the value and resources on this land will be greatly reduced.
The output of rubber, grain, and minerals will be greatly reduced. Indigenous people are more willing to chat and fuck at home than to engage in production. When they are thirsty and hungry, they are easy to find food in the deep forests of this rich land. They would rather eat wild and high-yield red than eat delicious rice that needs to be planted and harvested.
Chapter completed!