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As Christmas approaches, the gunfire in Europe has come to an end for the time being, but the war is still raging in Asia.
On the night when Ye Ye Shan captured the Singapore City Hall, Dong Hao also led the main force and Colonel Brann's troops to successively capture Tuans, Jurong and Choa Chu Kang to the west of Sing Tao. After the attack along the Johor Strait on the Singapore Johor Causeway was blocked, the two The people immediately turned around and surrounded Bukit Timah Hill.
On December 22, the Air Force used the temporary runway opened by the Volunteer Army to join in reinforcements for the first time. 57 transport aircraft, including 5 Y-11s, transported 10 "Hound" wheeled armored vehicles and 2,300 soldiers to the island within 24 hours. The Navy also Using water transport aircraft and Sumatran ships, 5,100 soldiers, 32 tanks, self-propelled guns and other equipment were reinforced in one go.
In order to relieve the fatigue of continuous operations, the Singapore Command took advantage of the opportunity of reinforcements to let the troops rest for a day before launching another attack in the early morning of the 24th. Ye Shan joined Lim Bo Seng's Malayan Division, assembled 6 "Leopards" and 12 "Hounds", and led 6,000 infantrymen, with the cooperation of naval aviation, to attack Changi Airport along the seawall. Although Yamashita Fengfumi personally directed the battle, the general who was called the "Malay Tiger" by Britain and the United States was no longer in glory. Although the Japanese army held on very tenaciously for 20 hours, Changi Airport still fell into the hands of the National Defense Forces on the morning of the 25th. After seizing the airport, the sea and air forces increased even more rapidly. By the evening of December 27, the Singapore Command already had three divisions, including the 3rd Airborne Division and the Malayan Division, not counting the volunteers and Colonel Brann. There were more than thousands of British and Dutch allied troops, and the total strength increased to 48,000.
Abundant troops and continuous logistical support. This allowed Dong Hao and Ye Zishan to finally launch an encirclement on the Bukit Timah Hill Fortress in the center of Star Island.
At the same time, the 20th Army led by Su Duozhen also defeated the Japanese Fifth Division again. On the last day before the New Year, we headed to Johor Bahru in the north of the Strait of Johor. Although Yamashita Fengwen had already blown up the one kilometer long Johor-Singapore Causeway, cutting off the only land passage across the strait, the Chinese engineers still withstood the Japanese artillery fire and repaired the bombed-out Bailey Bridge components in just 10 hours. Destroyed gate. At 8 o'clock in the morning on January 2, Su Duozhen used a captured train to force open the obstacles deployed by the Japanese army in the direction of Singapore on the Causeway. 200 "Civet Cat" tanks and self-propelled artillery swarmed up. By 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Four army divisions, including the 20th Light Armored Division, have all moved into Singapore Island along the 25-meter-wide embankment.
Just when Ye Zishan and Su Duozhen were engaged in the most brutal street fighting with the Japanese army, 137 ships of the Second Fleet protected the 3rd Marine Division and five army divisions with a total of 80,000 soldiers. At the same time, they were in Batam off the coast of Singapore. Landings were carried out on the islands including Bintan Island, Lingga Island and Xinji Island. Although the Japanese troops stationed there were willing to resist, the gap in strength was too great. In the end, it took only five days to surrender this archipelago, which has dozens of islands, an area of ??more than 5,000 square kilometers, and guarded the Strait of Malacca, to the Chinese National Defense Forces. Thirty thousand Anglo-Dutch allied forces and anti-Japanese comrades imprisoned on the islands were rescued.
It was learned that the garrison on the Linga Islands had been wiped out. Knowing that the situation was over, Yamashita Fengwen finally lowered his head, ordered each regiment to burn the regiment flag, and sent people to surrender to Dong Hao. But to his expectation, Dong Hao and the Singapore Command flatly rejected his surrender request: "Go back and tell Yamashita! I will kill you as you kill us Chinese! He has only two options, one is to commit seppuku. The other is to commit suicide. Just wash your neck and wait for me to hang him."
The unusual death threat made the colonel who came to negotiate the surrender shiver all over. He was stunned for a long time before roaring angrily: "This is a violation of the Treaty of Geneva and a violation of the Convention of Attack!"
"Geneva, hum! Do you remember it now? When you used ordinary people as hostages, why didn't you think of attacking the convention! Come, send him back." Dong Hao was too lazy to chat with a messenger. He waved his hand and asked the soldiers to drag him out. The officers around him had no doubts, because this was an order personally issued by the President and Marshal Yue, to tell Japan and those forces that stirred trouble in Southeast Asia against the Chinese that the era of killing Chinese people was over! As for Colonel Brann and several British and Dutch officers, they also remained silent. Not even half of the hundreds of thousands of coalition prisoners thirty-one years ago were left. Their hatred of the Japanese army was not much worse than that of China.
In the dirty tunnel under Bukit Timah Mountain, after the colonel repeated Dong Hao's words, Tsuji Masanobu suddenly took a few steps back and leaned against the cold stone wall, trembling all over. The color on Yamashita Fengwen's face was also gone. He didn't expect his opponent to be so cruel! That¡¯s a total of 180,000 young people who are still fighting bloody battles for the dream of the imperial kingdom on the Southeast Peninsula! When the war is over, how many of the half-million troops marching south and the millions of subjects who followed the empire south will survive?
"Send a telegram back to your country and ask everyone to be loyal to the empire." Thinking of this, Yamashita Fengwen's mouth twitched twice, and his chest felt like it was filled with explosives. But when he saw a Chinese corpse outside the transom being used as a human shield, he couldn't help but sigh. One wrong step and one wrong step, now who can you blame?
On January 8, 1942, the Singapore Command launched a general attack on Bukit Timah Hill, the last stronghold of the Japanese army. In this one-sided but extremely bloody battle, the Chinese army, navy and air force used thousands of tons of various types of ammunition, almost removing the entire mountain from the surface. Smooth it out! More than 30,000 trapped Japanese and Indonesian soldiers were either killed by bombs or burned alive by napalm bombs. Even though many people raised their hands and hung white flags, they still could not escape the fate of being shot on the spot. In the end, there were even thousands of soldiers running crazy due to nervous breakdown.
On January 15, after the last Japanese soldier hiding in the sewer was killed, Chinese Army Field Marshal Qiu Wenbin, Deputy Chief of General Staff Zhu Peide, Chief of Naval Staff Bai Yutang, Commander-in-Chief of the Southwest Theater Ouyang Nan, and Singapore Autonomy Chairman Tan Kah Kee and others They arrived at Changi Airport hand in hand and announced the end of the Battle of Singapore.
A record was set in this battle that lasted for 28 days, that is, no one was left prisoner! ! A total of 93,532 officers and soldiers of the Japanese 1st Division, 18th Division, Naval Garrison Group and Indonesian Army 2nd Division stationed in Singapore were killed or missing. At least 4,700 Japanese expatriates were killed by angry local volunteers during the war. Beat to death or commit suicide. Adding the figures for the Malay Peninsula and the Lingga Islands, a total of 120,737 Japanese soldiers and foreigners died and 5,731 people were missing.
? Same. China and Singapore also paid a heavy price. 20,000 National Defense Force soldiers were killed or injured, including more than 5,700 dead and 1,171 missing. There were also 5,000 casualties among the British and Dutch troops and prisoners of war. The worst thing was the local people. 17,000 Chinese who were used as human shields by the Japanese army died, and another 30,000 died in the capture by the Japanese army before the war. Adding in the casualties during the war, the total number was 60,000. People die. One-eighth of the entire population.
After Ouyang Nan announced the end of the Battle of Singapore, the Navy immediately began a large-scale mine clearance operation with the intention of opening the Strait of Malacca before the Lunar New Year. A few days later, news came from Sumatra that after more than ten days of tug-of-war, the National Defense Forces officially occupied Palembang on January 25 and marched all the way south to Banda Aceh. same. The National Defense Forces also carried out large-scale retaliation against the local anti-China Indonesian and Japanese troops. 80,000 Indonesian soldiers and more than 10,000 Japanese troops were killed, as well as nearly 700,000 radicals and activists who supported the Indonesian government and participated in the persecution of the Chinese. After their family's home was confiscated, they were exiled to the Central Siberian Plateau to mine in the following year. Since these people have no idea what severe winter is, there is no difference between this kind of exile and direct execution.
While retaliating on a large scale. Yang Qiu has not forgotten the policy of tolerance and division used by his ancestors for thousands of years. You must know that the historical origins of Sumatra and Java are very complicated, and there is serious hostility between the two different ethnic groups. Therefore, after Sukarno established a unified Indonesia, he did not win much support from the Sumatran people. The Indonesian and Japanese troops were wiped out. Especially after those who supported reunification were confiscated and exiled by China, the voices of various ethnic groups in Sumatra for autonomy became louder and louder. In addition, Riau Province is basically controlled by the Chinese. Therefore, under Yang Qiu's instructions, the General Staff, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took a multi-pronged approach to actively support those politicians bent on seeking autonomy and accelerate the actions to split Indonesia.
Tokyo, Asakusa.
The thousand-year-old Sensoji Temple is one of the last bombing targets in Tokyo that has been deliberately avoided. Because of this, the area around the temple has become a refuge and source of survival for many people. The heavy snow fell mercilessly, covering the ground layer after layer. On the quiet streets, groups of refugees with their families were hiding behind the ruins and shivering. Whenever someone passed by, they would rush forward and kneel. Begging. There are also many women who, in order to make ends meet, put cheap labels on themselves and accept humiliation and torture over and over again. However, their men know the humiliation and can only hide outside and bite their lips in order to survive and have children. Short cigarette butts, help guard the door to attract "business".
In every raised snowdrift, you can see hands and feet that have been frozen and blackened. The continuous bombing has caused Japan to run out of oil and lamps, and the food harvest has failed. Houses have collapsed. Coal for heating has become a luxury product, and wood has been robbed. It's so clean that even the pine trees on the mountain have been cut down to dig their roots for oil. All young men were recruited by the army and trained day and night. Girls were sent to comfort camps to "comfort" the men in training. Even the fishing boats on the beach were blown up No one knew In this severe winter, which has been rare in decades, how many Japanese people disappeared without a trace due to hunger and cold. Everyone only knows that the corpse collection team can clean up dozens of carloads of dead bodies every day, and there have even been many cases of killing children. The matter of sharing food.
??Every Japanese hopes that winter will pass quickly, looks forward to the cherry blossoms blooming again, and sows seeds to wait for a good harvest. But the bombers roaring past day and night shattered this dream with strings of bombs.
A car burning coal broke the silence of Sensoji Temple. In the car, Hirota Hongki silently watched the numb faces passing by quickly in front of the car window. As a Japanese politician who firmly opposed the war against China before the war, he could still get strong support during Nagata Tetsuyama's period. However, after Nagata's death, the "forgetful" Japanese top brass seemed toRemember who helped them bring back their Soviet allies, who first suggested an alliance between the Soviet Union, Germany and Japan, and who broke the ice to visit China after the second Sino-Japanese War.
Japan, how long can this forgetful nation last?
Amid Guangtian¡¯s lamentation, a coal truck slowly stopped behind the temple. Walking into the temple, you will see soldiers and anti-aircraft guns hidden under the trees, in the buildings, turning the inside and outside into two worlds. "Guangtian Jun." Guangtian Hongyi, led by the monk, had just entered the side hall when a voice rang from the side.
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