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    On the night of December 18, artillery fire was loud in Kota Tinggi on the northern shore of the Johor Strait. Even the heavy artillery of warships on the sea had touched the important Johor Strait defense line.  To the surprise of Yamashita Tomofumi and Tsuji Masanobu, the Chinese National Defense Force did not seem to know that there were "human shields". For example, in the battle on Tekko Island during the day, two "Beijing" class battleships and two "Xi'an" class heavy cruisers,  From the west side of the Malayan Peninsula, 36 main guns repeatedly bombarded the facilities on the island for four hours. Not only did the 18th Division lose an entire infantry brigade, but there were also nearly a thousand Chinese "human shields" on the island.  Killed by gunfire.

    This made Yamashita Fengfumi restless. China must know about the "human shield" plan, otherwise it would not carry out retaliatory bombing of Saitama County. The Special High School also confirmed that the retaliation order was personally given by Yang Qiu.  Moreover, before the naval bombardment, Chinese reconnaissance planes appeared many times, and they must have seen the Chinese tied up outside. So why did they still use heavy firepower unscrupulously? Do they really not want these tens of thousands of Chinese?  He is very aware of the political environment in Beijing. It's okay if he doesn't know about this kind of thing. If he knows it, he can't pretend that he didn't see it. He has to do it even if he shows it to the domestic people. Otherwise, Yang Qiu would have been caught by the domestic opposition.  It stunk.

    Although Yamashita Fengfumi never thought that this method would scare his opponent, if it can curb the opponent's firepower advantage, it is worth doing so.  But the battle on Tekong Island made him smell something bad, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so he was still tossing and turning in bed and felt uncomfortable.

    "Report, the fifth division received an emergency call, Kota Tinggi has been lost!"

    At this moment, the adjutant rushed in in a panic. Yamashita Fengwen, who was lying down but couldn't close his eyes, suddenly sat up, stared at the adjutant and said angrily: "Baga! What is Matsui doing? His troops are dead.  Is it light?"

    "Reporting to the general, General Matsui is organizing troops to retake it, but he said"

    "say what?"

    Yamashita Fengwen lit the kerosene lamp, adding a little more light to the house that seemed a little gloomy due to the power outage.  In the dim and flickering flames, his face became increasingly gloomy.  He was also dissatisfied with the adjutant's hesitation.  "Let me do it." Tsuji Masanobu walked in, patted the adjutant with a smile, took the telegram, glanced at it and replied: "Lieutenant General Matsui Kyutaro said that the China Army has invested 300 tanks."

    "300 vehicles!" Yamashita Fengwen recited this number silently.  You know, the Japanese army in the entire peninsula did not have so many tanks, and the one who attacked Kota Tinggi was only a lightly-armed field army from the Chinese Army.  After buttoning the last button, he picked up the saber: "Order Yokoyama Isamu. Blow up the Johor Dam, withdraw all ships to Singapore, and block the strait from now on to prohibit anyone from coming from the other side!"

    After Yamashita Fengwen cut off the retreat of the Fourth and Fifth Divisions, he walked to the window and looked to the quiet south: "Tsuji Masaru, is there any movement from the China Army over there?"

    "The evening telegram showed that they are still attacking Jambi and Palembang. There is no sign of a cross-sea attack. They should be afraid of our fort's heavy artillery." Tsuji Masanobu said confidently.  But Yamashita did not dare to neglect. After the Chinese National Defense Force launched a comprehensive counterattack, the Chinese army in Riau Province, Sumatra, began to attack Jambi. However, the air transportation volume in the past few days clearly exceeded the needs to deal with Jambi and Palembang, which were weak in force.  Therefore, he was reminded: "We need to increase our defense and arrange more lookout posts. The Chinese still have some ships there."

    "I will arrange it."

    After Tsuji Masanobu finished speaking, he immediately arranged for a car to be sent to Yamashita Fengfumi to inspect the Johor Strait defense line. He returned to the office and called the 114th Infantry Regiment stationed at the Singapore Strait Fort.  "Hi!" The 114th Regiment belongs to the 18th Division. It was previously deployed in Myanmar. Because Yamashita Fengfumi knew that it would be difficult to hold Myanmar, he simply transferred it back to Singapore.  Tsuji Masanobu was quite prestigious among the troops marching south, so after the commander Taro Eda respectfully agreed, he immediately began to strengthen the defense.  But at this moment, the buzzing sound of an engine suddenly came from the direction of the center line of the strait.  "Quick. Get up! You Chinese pigs!" Hearing the sound of the engine, the soldiers of the 114th Regiment and the Naval Guard Group who were keeping watch immediately drove the Chinese prisoners to the fort, but strangely, the sound of the engine was not heard in the distance.  near.

    "Open your eyes wide! Send additional lookouts and scan the sea with searchlights every ten minutes." After waiting for more than an hour, no bombers were seen attacking. Taro Eda thought it was a night reconnaissance plane.  So let the soldiers go back and take the time to rest.  But he didn't know that the real God of Death had quietly approached Singapore Island from another direction.

    At 2 o'clock in the morning, bombers that had been circling the central line of the strait to attract the attention of the Japanese army dropped several large illumination bombs from high altitudes.  "Quick! Quick! The troops are coming, turn on the ground guidance lights." I saw the flares over the strait.  Hu Tiejun, who was responsible for responding to the airborne troops but had to wait for a full hour, immediately asked someone to turn on the guidance light.  These flashlight-like red guidance lights were specially made and could only be seen from the air, so the Japanese troops on the fort did not notice anything strange.

      Shortly after the guidance lights were turned on, the 12 "Little Bird" light gliders led by them saw a red signal from an altitude of 100 meters. The highly skilled pilots immediately told the coordinates to the main fleet behind them, and then quickly descended to 500 meters before pulling up quickly.  Lift the nose of the aircraft and glide towards the landing site with the help of wind and air resistance.

    ¡°Hold on tight!¡± Gliding and landing are extremely dangerous no matter when or where.  What's more, in order to bring as many soldiers and equipment as possible, all the gliders participating in the operation tonight were fully booked.  For example, the "Little Bird" with a rated carrying capacity of 15 people was stuffed with 18 people, and the "Dapeng" heavy-duty glider with a rated carrying capacity of 7 tons or 52 soldiers was stuffed with 61 fully armed airborne troops.  "Bang." With a crash that made the airborne troops stand on end, the first "Little Bird" quickly landed on the slope of a hill less than one kilometer west of the fort.  Because the position was not controlled properly during landing, the entire left wing was cut off by a tree, and the plane suddenly turned.  Fortunately, the pilot opened the reduction gears immediately after landing. These reduction gears installed on the skids penetrated deeply into the ground and helped stabilize the fuselage.  "Quick, quick, quick!" As soon as the plane stopped, 18 paratroopers carrying carrying equipment quickly jumped out of the cabin. The pilot and co-pilot also quickly unbuckled their seat belts, picked up submachine guns and followed the troops.

    The first batch of 12 "Little Birds" had just landed, and the main fleet following them also rushed to the ground.  Especially the "Dapeng" heavy-duty glider made a lot of noise when landing, and was quickly discovered by patrolling Japanese sentries.  "China plane! Beep! Enemy attack! Enemy" The sound of the collision attracted the Japanese sentries. When they saw huge black shadows touching their heads and landing not far away, the Japanese sentries were stunned at first.  He immediately picked up the police whistle and blew and shouted.  But they just ran outside the landing site.  Suddenly, they noticed a few red dots that moved to their chests and foreheads. When they raised their heads and looked in the direction where the red dots were coming from, several soldiers with dark faces that couldn't be seen emerged like ghosts.

    "Duh duh" After a few short bursts of fire, the Japanese sentry targeted by the red dot sight was killed by the hunter special forces protecting the landing site.

    (You read that right, it is a red dot sight. Hippo has 100% evidence that it began to be equipped with the US military in 1944. However, it is not known because the war is over and the number is not large.)

    Under the protection of the Hunter and Malayan Divisions, all 78 gliders (3 were lost on the road) landed safely except for 2 that capsized during landing.  In less than ten minutes, 2,866 airborne troops and pilots rushed out of the aircraft. To save time, the armored vehicle in the heavy glider blasted the hatch.  Then it rushed out of the cabin at high speed like a wild horse.

    "Password!"

    "Kill all the Japanese."

    "Hunter Squadron 2, eh? Why is it you, sir?" As soon as he rushed out of the plane, Ye Zishan met Pei Jian and Hu Tiejun, captains of the Hunter Squadron 2 who had worked together in Guam.  "How did you get here? Forget it, don't ask this, where is the fort?" He knew the nature of the hunter, so he quickly shut up and pulled the two of them to hide in a bush.  Hu Tiejun quickly pointed to a few tall black figures one kilometer away: "It's over there, 1,100 meters away. There is a circle of barbed wire outside. The tied up people are on the flat roof and the front slope. Move quickly, the Japanese should have woken up.  .¡±

    "Okay, find someone to lead the way, and the others will follow!" In order to seize the time, Ye Zishan didn't assemble his troops at all, so he and Pei Jian took three "Hunting Fox" wheeled armored vehicles and rushed towards the fort under the personal guidance of Hu Tiejun.  .

    The entire attention of Taro Eda and the Japanese troops at the fort was attracted by the buzzing sound above the strait just now.  So I didn't notice the silent glider coming from behind.  It was only when the piercing brass whistles and gunshots sounded that a large number of gliders landed.  Amidst the piercing sirens, more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers who were sleeping in the fort quickly got up and rushed outside.

    "Baga! Turn the muzzle, quickly!" In various gun positions on the top of the mountain, the Japanese artillerymen also turned the muzzle desperately.  However, due to the lack of high-horsepower motors, dozens of tons of fortress cannons must be rotated manually, and the speed is very slow.  Although those small-caliber artillery and anti-aircraft guns are fast.  But because the landing site was too close, the gun muzzle was lowered and readjusted.  "Why don't you open it Boom boom boom." Looking at the densely packed airborne troops, Taro Eda was sweating profusely. He had not yet seen the scene of the fortress's heavy artillery tearing the enemy apart.  The airborne troops on the opposite side quickly poured firepower on the fort with 60 and 80 mm mortars.  More than a dozen mortars per minute quickly destroyed several Japanese anti-aircraft guns and rapid-fire guns, but nearly a hundred Chinese prisoners were also killed.

    Every airborne soldier knew that it was impossible for them to rescue all the overseas Chinese. The only way to reduce the sacrifices was to quickly occupy the fort and kill all the Japanese soldiers inside. Therefore, as soon as they got off the plane, they followed the predetermined plan and raced against time under the guidance of their guides to quickly evacuate from various places.  Head towards the fort.

    "Set it here, load bullets!" Several Japanese soldiers carried a Type 92 heavy machine gun to the firing hole on the rear side, but before they could load the bullets, four or five strange-looking "Hunter Fox" light wheeled armored vehicles appeared.  Just from fierceAfter breaking through the barbed wire fence, the 12.7mm heavy machine gun above spit out a long tongue of flame, hitting the shooting holes and several entrances and exits with sparks flying.  "Shoot, shoot!" The Japanese machine gunner was startled by the armored vehicles rushing in, but no matter how hard his heavy machine gun fired, those armored vehicles that looked smaller than a jeep could not be damaged at all.

    This is the "Hunting Fox" light reconnaissance armored vehicle that has just been equipped in China, a three-person, 7-ton light reconnaissance vehicle with a 4*4 wheeled chassis.  This kind of reconnaissance vehicle is not domestically produced, but the "Humber wheeled reconnaissance armored vehicle" that was only equipped by the United Kingdom at the beginning of the year.  Considering that he lacked such a flexible small armored vehicle, Zhang Xiaozhun contacted China and purchased the patent, and then handed it over to Fuzhou Automobile Factory for production under contract.  The "Hunter Fox" has a weird appearance with many bevels, which can effectively block 7.62mm machine gun bullets.  The main change in the domestic version is to use a domestic gasoline engine, and then change the British 7.62mm machine gun on it to a more powerful 12.7mm Fang heavy machine gun/or an 84mm recoilless gun.  According to the plan, 4,000 units of "Hunter" will be produced, and 700 units have been delivered so far.  Because they are light and easy to transport by air, the Airborne Division is the first unit to be equipped with this type of armored vehicles. This time, Ye Zishan also deliberately reduced the number of soldiers and brought ten vehicles to speed up the troop movements.

    After "Hunting Fox" broke through the barbed wire fence, it quickly used firepower to block the entrance and exit of the fort and the few shooting bunkers, protecting the airborne troops following through the gap and continuing to attack the fort.

    The defense on the rear side of the Strait Fort was weak because the Japanese army had never thought of being attacked by a sneak attack. Even Yamashita Fengfumi believed that even if the enemy crossed the Johor Strait, it would be impossible to advance to the Fort so quickly. Therefore, the 114th Wing and the Marine Garrison Brigade stationed here were  Some soldiers were hiding in the fort to rest, without even laying prepared mines.  Therefore, after the entrance and exit were blocked by more than a dozen heavy machine guns and general-purpose machine guns, the soldiers inside could not get out at all, and many had to crawl out through the transom hole of the gun emplacement.  Not to mention how slow this method was, many people were killed by the swarming airborne troops with grenades and rifles as soon as they came out.

    The huge fortress-style fort was blocked by the fast-attacking airborne troops. The Japanese soldiers hiding inside could not get out, and the few who came out continued to dwindle like snow in the face of strong firepower.

    At this moment, a few snow-white light pillars suddenly fell from the sky, and several night bombers used high-power searchlights to illuminate the three forts.  Suddenly from darkness to light, the eyes of the large groups of Japanese soldiers were stung by the light, and the Chinese who were driven around the fort, dressed in ragged clothes and covered with injuries, were also unable to open their eyes.  When they were at a loss, they heard shouts of "get down, get down" at the same time.

    "Get down! Get down! Get down!" the airborne troops shouted while charging.

    Hokkien, Cantonese, Shandong dialect, Shanghainese dialect, Mandarin popularized after the founding of the People's Republic of China, etc. The entire fort was filled with the loud shouts of the airborne troops.  Hearing the shouting, the Chinese who were at a loss fell down one after another, exposing all the Japanese soldiers guarding them.  "Get down! Get down! Duh duh, duh duh" All assault rifles had obvious advantages in this kind of close combat. In less than a while, all upright targets were killed.

    "Leave, get out of here!"

    The airborne troops in front kept shouting and sweeping, while Hu Tiejun and other Malayan Division soldiers from behind quickly caught up, seizing the time to cut off the ropes and shackles, and evacuate the captured Chinese.

    "Boom, boom, boom!" At this time, the airborne troops attacking inside the fort also opened the gate with blasting tubes and 84mm recoilless cannons. After a rain of grenades, dozens of airborne troops with miner spotlights on their helmets took the lead and rushed inside.  .  The bright and dazzling miners' spotlights fired back and forth in the dark and narrow internal passages. The dazzling light beams made it impossible for the Japanese soldiers to shoot. Even those who occasionally fired were either killed by the dense rain of grenades or shot by faster assault rifles.  A hornet's nest.

    In just 47 minutes of raid, the three forts facing the Singapore Strait were basically cleared.  According to subsequent statistics, 570 airborne troops died in the raid, but of the more than 10,000 Chinese who were tied here to serve as "human shields", less than 2,000 died, and the rest were all rescued.  Many of the tactics used in this raid were later listed as standard tactics for quick reaction forces by the militaries of various countries
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