Chapter 912: The Fall of Singapore
readx; Although the F10 fighter is already good in the first generation of jet fighters in various countries, the Chinese Air Force is still very dissatisfied with this, otherwise it would not have only purchased more than 1,000 of them and then disappeared, and even the Air Force did not plan to send these F10 fighters to the front line, but to use them as local air defense fighters. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It can be said that since 1941, the Chinese Air Force has put all its hopes on the X12 program, and even squeezed out a lot of funds for other projects of the Air Force in order to support the research and development of the F12 fighter.
Relatively speaking, although other countries also attach importance to the research and development of jet aircraft, they are definitely not as invested as much as the Chinese Air Force, and this is inseparable from Chen Jingyun's attention. And other countries do not have people like Chen Jingyun, such as Germany, after their ME262 fighter was developed, Hitler actually instructed the Air Force to use it as a fighter-bomber, and it was not until the later period that the ME262 was used as a fighter.
The British side of the jet aircraft development is also relatively early, but their jet engine technology has not been very good, until now the development of a 900 kg thrust engine equipped on the Meteor fighter. As for the jet engine in the United States, it was developed only after receiving technical assistance from the United Kingdom, and the engine was mainly imitated from the British centrifugal engine.
The level of the British jet itself is not good, and the level of American jets that learn from the British is even worse, the British Meteor and the American P59 are far behind the ME262 and F10 in terms of engine and fuselage design.
When the Americans saw that the surname of the P59 could not even beat the propeller aircraft, they were determined to develop a new generation of jet aircraft, and this is the P80, but the aircraft has just been developed, and the surname has not yet been determined.
However, while other countries are still catching up with China's F10 combat capability, the Chinese Air Force's F12 fighter jet, which has cost a lot of money and time, has been successfully developed and is ready for large-scale service.
After all, the Chinese Air Force intends to use the F12 combat as a new generation of main air supremacy fighters, if it were not for this attention, the Chinese Air Force would have directly produced a large number of F10, not to mention the development of another F12.
With the large-scale service of the F12A fighter, the Chinese Air Force is confident that it will continue to maintain the leading position in the fighter surname!
However, although the Air Force has purchased F12A on a large scale, it will take a long time for the F12A fighter to enter service on a large scale and form combat effectiveness.
At least in a few months or even half a year, the main air supremacy fighters of the Chinese Air Force will be the F5 series, especially in the theater of operations, the F5 fighters are active in the entire airspace over the whole region, escorting bombers, patrolling in small formations to lure and hunt down fighters, carrying bombs to carry out ground bombing missions, installing aerial cameras to carry out reconnaissance missions, and so on.
While various air battles were going on between Korea and the Honko, and a large number of bombers were constantly bombing the homeland, the battles in Singapore and the Ryukyus were also raging.
On the Singapore side, the Twelfth Army, supported by two other infantry divisions of the First Army and a large number of artillery, launched a super-large general attack on Singapore on July 5.
Although Ben desperately defended Singapore, he was still unable to stop the joint attack of China's navy, army and air force, and the joint attack of hundreds of tanks, thousands of aircraft of the navy and air force, and dozens of warships gave the infantry great fire support.
On July 9th, the 12th Army invaded Singapore, and a large number of remnants of the army were surrounded and strangled respectively, and the army did not surrender on a large scale, but fought hard to the end, and it was the hard fighting of the army that allowed China to break through the siege of Singapore.
After conquering Singapore, the first strategic objective of the South Pacific Theater will be achieved, and the follow-up goal of the South Pacific Theater is to continue to occupy the territories that are still under the control of the Philippines, whether it is the Philippines or the Niasi Islands in India, China must seize these areas before Britain and the United States react, although it will not be said that these captured territories will be directly included in the territory of the Republic, which will be too ugly and will be obstructed by Britain and the United States.
In this situation, Chen Jingyun's plan is to first grab these areas under his control, and then talk about it, and as for how to deal with these areas in the future, that is a matter for the future. Although it is unrealistic to say that direct annexation is unrealistic, there is no problem in supporting the local political axe to make these colonies read, unless Britain and the United States are determined to have an all-out war with China, otherwise they can only swallow this bitter fruit.
The handling of these occupied colonies is actually a rather troublesome matter, unlike when China occupied Russia, as long as an agreement was reached with Soviet Russia, it was able to directly annex it without too much scruples. But the stakes are high in these colonies, and if China dares to directly annex the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines and the Indochina Peninsula, then the United States will definitely have to fight a war with China. In addition to the fact that the Philippines is a colony of the United States, it is also related to the foreign strategy of the United States, and any foreign policy of the United States since World War I has had a basic core element, that is, to break the colonial system.
Because only by breaking the colonial system can a large number of colonies under the control of Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries be able to read out and join the international trade market, which is a vital thing for the American economy and industry.
In the same way, the reading power of these colonies is also something that China has been pursuing, because these colonies are different from Central Asia and Russia, and the reason why China annexed Russia is mainly to establish a solid western defense line, more of a military consideration, and not to say that in order to seize these areas to plunder resources, even China's investment in annexing these regions is not proportional to its income, and it takes a lot of resources to occupy these regions and control them directly, China now spends a lot of money every year on maintaining stability in Central Asia and Russia, which cannot be supplemented by the various mineral resources harvested there.
Not to mention that you have annexed these and these, since you have become those people on the mainland, that is, Chinese, and the political axe has to invest a lot of resources for the livelihood of the people in these areas, and these are actually not good things.
If there were no military considerations, Chen Jingyun would never have chosen to directly annex Russia.
However, in the Indochina Peninsula and the Philippines and the Niassi Islands in India, the situation is different, not to mention the risk that direct annexation will bring great diplomatic trouble and even trigger a third world war, the key is that direct annexation will not bring much benefit to China.
If China does not directly annex but supports the local people's reading ability, China will be able to obtain a large amount of grain, rubber, oil and other resources from the Nanyang region, and will not be responsible for the livelihood of the people in these areas, and can rest assured that it can plunder resources without any scruples. Just like China did in North Korea, China imports a large amount of iron ore and uranium ore and other mineral resources from North Korea every year, but China is not responsible for the living standards of the North Korean people, and it does not matter if Chen Jingyun starves to death.
Therefore, Chen Jingyun's thinking on the subsequent status of these colonies is very clear, that is, politically support local pro-China people to set up political axes and read power, and militarily use concession military bases to gain military control and expand the strike distance of China's [***] forces.
Therefore, after the capture of Singapore, the agents of the Central Intelligence Department could not wait to push out the agents they had supported for many years, and within two days, the political axe of the Republic of Malaysia was proclaimed, and the next day was to sign a military mutual assistance treaty with China and form a Sino-Malaysian joint command.
The Malaysian Defence Force, which was reorganized from the Malaysian guerrillas, also pooled the strength of two mixed brigades to join this joint command, which was directly under the command of the First Army.
The China-Malaysia Joint Command is equivalent to the China-North Korea Joint Command and the China-Thailand Joint Command between China and North Korea, which are currently China's military alliances.
In order to further control Thailand's military strength, China suggested that the King of Thailand follow the example of the Chinese Guard Division and establish an elite mechanized guard army, which is trained by Chinese instructors, all of whom are officers studying in China, and the weapons and equipment are all Chinese standard equipment.
In fact, in the past few years, Thailand has been disarmed many times due to economic pressure and no external factors, and there are only more than 300,000 active army units, which is much less than 600,000 in 1940, and more than 300,000 miles in the active Thai army, which can be looked up to by China and qualified to fight jointly with the Chinese army, in fact, there is only this first guard division, and the combat effectiveness of other units is really not good. Even China's native local garrisons are stronger than them.
After conquering Singapore and supporting the local ethnic readers to form the Malaysian political axe, Chen Jingyun did not let the First Army stop its pace, and after a few days of rest in Singapore, the 12th Army sent a number of small units to sweep away the remnants of the islands in the eastern waters of Malacca with the strong support of the navy.
On July 17, the 51st Division of the 15th Army under the 1st Army, under the cover of the 3rd Mobile Fleet, crossed the Strait of Malacca and landed on the island of Sumatra. The rest of the 15th Army then landed in Sumatra and the 12th Army was then preparing to land on Kalimantan.
The garrison in either direction is not very large, so it can be expected that there will not be much resistance in these two directions.
The second strategic objective of the South Pacific theater, the Philippine direction, is the next big thing.