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The original traffic situation in Southeast Asia was not good, and the mud and dirt roads were soaked in rainy days, and fighting in Southeast Asia was not much better than fighting in the swamps of northern Russia, which brought great trouble to logistics and transportation.

Although there was a railway system in the Malaysian area before, it had suffered a lot of damage after many years of war, and it was said that when Ben first attacked Malaysia, the British side took the initiative to demolish a large section of the railway, and then said that Ben occupied the Malaysian peninsula and did not make any effort to repair it, because on the one hand, there was no strategic need, and on the other hand, it was said that the Chinese army was also guarding against the direction of Thailand, so it was naturally impossible to take the initiative to build a railway that could allow the Chinese army to move south quickly. Moreover, during the Pacific War, Ben's main ground war was in Australia, and in order to provide supplies for the troops to go south, Ben dismantled a large number of railroad tracks in Malaysia and even the Niassi region of India and transported them to Australia to lay military railways.

As a result, the Chinese First Army was unable to get transportation support from the railway system during the operation from Thailand to Singapore, and a large number of materials transported from the domestic railway system such as the China-Vietnam Railway, the Vietnam Railway and the China-Myanmar Railway were hoarded in southern Thailand, and if they wanted to continue to transport to the south, they could only rely on road transportation.

In order to supply the material needs of the troops to fight in the south, the First Army dispatched a large number of transport vehicles to and from the southern border of Thailand and the periphery of Singapore, and at the same time, it also removed the engineering troops to repair the original Malaya Peninsula Railway, in an attempt to restore the railway traffic from southern Thailand to Singapore.

So far, the supplies of the numerous units fighting outside the city of Singapore have been carried out only by road transport!

Taking the 43rd Division of the 12th Army as an example, this infantry division can be regarded as the most standard first-line field infantry division in the Chinese Army, and it is now in the state of attacking Singapore and consuming nearly 400 tons of materials every day.

At present, the 12th Army attacking Singapore has three divisions and a reading artillery regiment, and it needs to consume more than 1,200 tons of materials every day.

Such a huge material demand could certainly not be solved by relying only on the Twelfth Army's own transportation forces, and the First Army had to transfer a large number of additional transport vehicles to meet their operational needs.

From ancient times to the present, wars are fought by logistics, with sufficient logistics, a large number of shells and bullets can be fired, and the number of shells can be exchanged for the lives of the opposing soldiers, and if the supply of logistics materials is insufficient, you can only rely on the lives of the soldiers in exchange for victory.

Although the traffic situation in Peninsular Malaysia is very bad, since there is only one Twelfth Army fighting on the Singapore side, and the follow-up troops of the First Army are still moving south, there is no need to worry about insufficient supplies in the short term.

In order to seize the opportunity, the well-supplied 12th Army had launched several large-scale offensives in succession, with the 43rd Division as the main force to carry out a breakthrough offensive in the east.

Of course, these strategic things are not something that those middle and low-ranking officers need to consider, and at this moment, Sergeant Lee is driving his tank to the company headquarters to join up.

However, just halfway through the walk, he suddenly heard several whistling sounds, and Sergeant Lee immediately shouted: "Shelling! ”

Sergeant Li is an old soldier, and just listening to this voice, you can tell that it is his own large-caliber heavy artillery, at least a hundred millimeters or more, and it is not a fun thing if he is hit.

He said, 'My long-range artillery bombardment caused a stir to this small unit, and Sergeant Lee did not go alone with a tank, but with him an infantry platoon of the 4312th Battalion, and those infantry obviously did not want to walk, and seven or eight people climbed into the tank and hitched a ride.

At this time, he said, 'When my own artillery bombardment came, the infantrymen also climbed out of the car and lay down like the others, and after a long time, the cannon stopped before they got up one after another, cursing one by one and continuing on their way.

Although the shelling just now was quite powerful, it did not bring much damage, except for one unlucky man who was injured by shrapnel, no one else was injured, but it caused a certain amount of chaos.

"I'm afraid of Mao, keep going, I don't believe it can really hit!" Sergeant Lee paid no attention to the shelling.

Because in actual combat, if you use a long-range howitzer to shell a tank, the hit rate is infinitely equal to zero, unless Sergeant Lee's luck is really unlucky for eight lifetimes, it is really unlikely that he will be directly hit, and if he is not directly hit, even if there is shrapnel nearby, it is impossible to cause any damage to the tank.

But the tanks are fine, the infantry is different, the shrapnel after the grenade explosion will cause extensive damage to the infantry, and this is the reason why the infantry immediately lie down when they hear the shelling.

Along the way, there were several sporadic small-scale shelling, and Sergeant Lee's tank finally caught up with the pace of the tank company, but to his surprise, only 14 of the original 17 tanks of this tank company remained!

At the very beginning of the charge, one of the tanks of this small tank company was hit by the tracks and was subjected to concentrated fire from the anti-tank fire, although it did not explode on the spot, but it could not continue to fight, and had to wait for repairs. The second is Sergeant Li's own tank, which also had a problem with the track, but the problem was not too big, and it has been restored to normal with the help of the maintenance vehicles that arrived later.

In this way, there should be sixteen tanks in this tank company, why are there only fourteen left, Sergeant Li asked others during the interval of the battle.

"When we attacked just now, we were said to have set up a small ambush, there were two 57mm anti-tank guns in front of us, and two cars were knocked out at once, you see, the one in front of us was one of them!" A sergeant commander next to him said.

Hearing that there were casualties among his comrades, Sergeant Li was also a little depressed, this is war, and war will inevitably have casualties.

And within two days of the start of this battle, this tank company has already lost three tanks, and I don't know how many tanks will survive after the defeat of Singapore, and I don't know if I will survive until then?

And think about it again, this Sino-Chinese war has just begun, even after the defeat of Singapore, there will definitely be other follow-up battles, if this war lasts for a year or two, how many comrades-in-arms will live to the end of the war? And will he be able to survive until the end of the war?

For the first time, Sergeant Lee, who had always been full of confidence and was extremely excited and even looking forward to the war, felt a little hesitant!

However, there was not much time for him to hesitate on the battlefield, and soon he received an order to form a group with the other two tanks, and cover an infantry platoon attacking the position of the men called Ben.

And that position was called 'my own anti-tank artillery position, where the two anti-tank guns were not so powerful that the commander of the tank company was unwilling to continue to risk charging with his precious tanks, so he asked for help from the infantry.

Now that the infantry of that infantry platoon is ready, they will not rush forward stupidly, but will make a detour, and then attack from the flank, trying to pull out this anti-tank position called 'Ben' and open the way for their own tank troops.

But while Sergeant Lee was commanding the tanks to provide fire support to the infantry, Singapore was full of gunfire and explosions, and the 50,000 or 60,000 troops of the Twelfth Army were rushing towards Singapore like a tidal wave, and the other army of the First Army in the rear was also on its way south, and it would not take many days to arrive.

At that time, the First Army concentrated up to six divisions, with more than 100,000 troops and more than 400 tanks, as well as air support of more than 600 aircraft and the support of the First Mobile Fleet.

It is not difficult for the First Army of such strength to take a Singapore, the key to the problem is how many days it will take to take it, and the length of time to take Singapore is also directly related to the timing of the attack on the Philippines and Kaliman Island.

But in any case, the outcome of the Battle of Singapore is no longer in great suspense, and from that point of view, it is impossible to resist China's attack on Singapore. Compared with the Battle of Singapore, the Ryukyu side was more brutal and difficult.

At the beginning of the war, General Zhao Zhike received instructions from the National Military Commission, so he did not rush too much into the Ryukyu Island, but adopted a steady strategy, and after obtaining the landing beachhead, he transported a large number of soldiers to land as soon as possible, and at the same time, the 1st Marine Division also launched a landing in the northern part of the Ryukyus.

By the fifth day of the landing operation, the Ryukyu Front had all landed ashore and was gradually expanding its offensive with the support of air and naval artillery.

However, the offensive is still inevitably produced a large number of casualties, in just a week less than the landing of the total number of casualties of the various troops more than 5,000, such a huge casualty figure is not an exaggeration to call it a bloody battle, although the Ryukyu Front killed and wounded more soldiers, but its own casualties of up to 5,000 still make the commander of the operation Admiral Zhao Zhike feel pressure, after facing pressure from the country, Zhao Zhike also had to give up the scheduled offensive plan, enter a period of recuperation and adjust tactics.

The bloody battle of the Ryukyus, which lasted for about a week, has officially come to an end.