In late October, the hidden wind in China was not noticeable, and it was the actions of the Japanese that were the most noticeable. The Japanese forces on the other side of the Straits of Johor, after a short rest, were also familiar with the waters of the Straits and chose to launch an attack on October 23.

The 26th is only the seventh day of the yin calendar and the 23rd day of the yin calendar on February 8, the 42nd year of the previous life, and it is also not the high tide season, but the water level after the daily low tide falls is still less than 4 feet. At night, when the water level is at its lowest, even short Japanese people can wade through the water. In addition to the water, the abundance of timber in Southeast Asia provided convenience for the Japanese who intended to cross.

The Straits of Johor are less than 2 kilometres wide and even 1.4 kilometres in the western section.

Although the British, who had always attached great importance to the sea, had been operating Singapore for hundreds of years, they were mainly facing the naval fleets of other empires and those pirates, and the muzzles of all kinds of fortress guns were all pointed at the sea, including the world's largest caliber 15-inch fortress guns.

However, when the Japanese took advantage of the loophole and rushed from Malaya to the back of Singapore as they went, the British, who did not believe that the Japanese could cross the jungle of Malaya for thousands of miles in a month and a half, were panicked and had no choice but to blow up the 70-foot-wide embankment connecting the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, and hurriedly build a land defense line.

At this time, there were less than 50,000 troops dragged to the Straits of Johor under the mountain, and the rest of the army was still wandering through the jungle and other Malayan cities, while the combined forces of the British, Australian, and Johor sultans on the opposite side had numbered more than 140,000.

However, Yamashita did not take long, only took a short rest, and began to attack with the force of less than 50,000 men. The Japanese had already found out the details of the British through a number of other sources.

Not to mention the confusion in command, this patchwork coalition does not even have an advantage in weapons.

Singapore's tanks and planes were transferred to the British Isles and North Africa, and even a large number of heavy artillery that could be flexibly mobilized participated in the North African war, and the few remaining artillery pieces lost the support of the fortress and could not hold off the Japanese attack from the other side. Even the fortifications built in a hurry by the British were frequently bombed by Japanese fighters.

The dozen or so antique fighter planes that the British put together from Malaya and other regions can only fly into the air to add more merits to the zero war and add a few more coffins in the air. The air supremacy was completely occupied by the Japanese army, and the available artillery was superior, and even the British fleet was entangled in the South China Sea by the Japanese and ran everywhere, and there was no time to provide much cover.

Crucially, the British troops who had retreated from Malaya to Singapore had lost their morale, and the confrontation was already unbalanced from the start.

On the night of the 26th, the Japanese army took advantage of the lowest water level in the Johor Strait at low tide to force their way across the strait.

The Japanese army mobilized more than 200 large and small artillery pieces that they carried with them to bombard together, and the Japanese bombers bombed and covered it overnight, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops rushed to the opposite bank together. In addition to the machine guns and grenadiers on more than 100 rubber boats and a large number of rafts, many Japanese soldiers even fired back at the British defenders on the opposite shore while wading through the strait. The Japanese, who had become accustomed to night battles with the vanguard army, encountered the Anglo-Australian coalition forces that were in a hurry in this regard, and they collapsed in one rush.

By daybreak, more than 20,000 Japanese troops had crossed the Straits of Johor and rushed into the city of Singapore, where the battle continued. But there was only one place where no smoke of gunpowder rose.

Tin Hill, northwest of Singapore, is the highest point on the island at 177 meters. There were some warehouses for the British army, as well as a reservoir with strong fortified defenses. It was the focus of the British army's defense, but now the vicinity of Xishan, where more than 300 households originally lived at the foot of this mountain, is full of Chinese. There are also some white faces mixed in.

Knowing that defeat was foregone, the British agreed to the Umbrella Company's proposal to designate the fortified area as a refugee area. The Chinese organization first placed the old and the young here.

In Singapore, the Chinese occupy the vast majority. But in the previous life, the defenders and residents of Singapore died more than 100,000 people, and the majority of them were also Chinese.

In another time and space, there was a Xishan massacre here, but this time there were umbrellas, copycat companies, and some representatives from German, Italian, and Chinese companies stranded in Singapore. In the face of Huaxia's reminder and emphasis, the massacre against these Chinese was not staged again. Even elsewhere in Singapore, the Japanese army relented.

"Before accomplishing one of the two set goals, the vanguard army must not be dragged into Southeast Asia!" Instructions from the Japanese base camp were communicated all the way down to the lowest level. The Japanese also know not to easily give Huaxia an excuse and be made a wedding dress by Huaxia.

Besides, the Chinese were also considered to be cooperative with the Japanese in receiving them, and they should give as much to the British as they should to the Japanese.

With the relaxation of interests, the Japanese, who had a much lower profile, did not pour out the mania of the war on all the Chinese. The natives, who had no background, and the whites who had been in high positions, endured much of the brutality of the Japanese soldiers.

However, the Chinese organizations in Nanyang have always been fragmented. The tradition of Chinese infighting has never subsided in any circumstance.

Those who were inclined to the Manchus, those who were inclined to the Center Party, those who were inclined to be self-reliant, those who were inclined to foreigners, and even the banana people who had long since abandoned their Chinese identity, did not all of them obey the alliance from the vanguard army in the midst of the mixed circumstances. Some Chinese families did not heed the warnings from the vanguard army at all, and even directly came to the aid of the British, hoping to take the opportunity to climb the high branches.

"The greater the risk, the greater the opportunity! The British Empire will not be defeated, even if it does, it will only be temporary. Even if we gamble on the fortune of the whole family today, with the help of the British, in a few years, our wealth and power will leap to the rank of the great families of the South Seas. Li Guangyao meaningfully admonished his son. His Li family is not the Li family that is among the big Nanyang Chinese families.

But he hopes that his family can be comparable to the Li family, which has experienced hundreds of years of ups and downs, and even surpass. Now may be an opportunity. There are no people in Nanyang who don't know that foreigners are powerful.

"But on the mainland, they all require neutrality in order to keep their wealth, and their son has become the pillar of the family, and he also has dealings with some organizations of the Vanguard Army in Nanyang, and he is a little inclined to the warning from the Vanguard Army.

"The emaciated camels of the British Empire are bigger than horses, and even the Americans have joined, and the Japanese can't grow up. In the future, it will inevitably be the world of the British, and you must invest early to take the lead. "The power of Li Guangyao's patriarch decided the fate of this family.

A large number of family members joined the resistance, but the Japanese army found the taste and copied the family background, and most of the young and strong members of the family were also slaughtered in the war. If it weren't for the instinct of the Chinese families to stay behind, I'm afraid that those families who settled on Xishan would not have been able to escape death.

The Chinese representatives blocked the search from the Japanese side, but they could not save their family fortune from being expropriated.

The wealth of the Chinese has been cherished in its sins, but there is not much protective power, and I don't know how many times the wool has been harvested in history. This time, the armed forces organized by the Chinese on Xishan with the support of the cottage company also made the Japanese jealous, plus the vanguard army behind them, as long as they occupied the reason, they were not afraid of the Japanese turning their faces. But if there is a situation like this asking for trouble, there is nothing that can be done, and being able to save the lives of some people is already the biggest compromise of the Japanese.

As for the property, where can it be spit out if it enters the wolf's mouth? Even the vanguard army is beyond the reach of the whip.

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"What short-sightedness! It's better not to take refuge in the Japanese than those Han jiān, but I don't look at when, but I stick to the ass of the Westerners again. The mutual non-aggression that the country has won with great difficulty can save Xing's life and property, and he will cause trouble by himself! Chen Jiageng was so angry that he slapped the table.

"Everybody is still optimistic about the British, and it's not a rare opportunity. Not only did some small families move closer to the British, but some big families, for the sake of future interests, while paying condolences to the Japanese labor army, and at the same time branching out to support the British. Everyone knew that the Lion City could not be saved this time, but everyone's eyes were on the return of the British in the future. His son-in-law, Lee Kong Chian, comforted him.

In order to survive in troubled times, it is common for Chinese families to make wall grass.

Even when the future of the country is uncertain, in order to continue, a family takes refuge in two factions, and there are many things where each brother is the master.

The big family can't tolerate mistakes and bet separately in order to leave a glimmer of life.

"Aftermath?" Chen Jiageng groaned slightly, turned his head to stare at Li Guangqian, and said, "Do you think the British will have a chance to rule here again in the future?" ”

Li Guangqian's heart jumped, he knew that his father-in-law had close contacts with the vanguard army in the country, and knew some things, at this time, this sentence was definitely not said for no reason, and after a little heaning, he said cautiously: "The British are difficult to power anymore, but there are still Americans." ”

He didn't mention the Japanese at all, and as for the Chinese country, the long-term habitual thinking also made him feel a little worse.

"You! It's still underestimating the country. Chen Jiageng sighed, "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears, I would never have imagined that the domestic military strength has far exceeded your imagination, and I would never have imagined that the country had already planned for Nanyang half a year ago, and even considered the Japanese invasion." This Nanyang is about to change the sky! ”！。