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Christmas is approaching, and the sound of gunfire in Europe has come to an end, but Asia is still fighting like a fire.

On the night when Ye Zishan conquered Singapore Municipal Hall, Dong Hao also led the main force and Colonel Brann's troops to conquer Duan Shi, Jurong and Choa Chu Kang, west of Sing Island. After being blocked from attacking the Xinrou Long Dike along the Johor Strait, the two immediately turned around and surrounded Bukit Tima Mountain.

On December 22, the Air Force used the temporary runway opened by the Volunteer Army to join the reinforcements for the first time. 57 transport aircraft, including 5 Yun11, transported 10 "Hunter" wheeled armored vehicles and 2,300 soldiers to the island within 24 hours. The Navy also used water transport aircraft and Sumatra ships to reinforce 5,100 soldiers and 32 tank self-propelled guns and other equipment in one go.

In order to alleviate the fatigue of continuous combat, the Singapore Command took advantage of the opportunity to give the troops a day off and launched another attack with the early morning of the 24th. Ye Zishan gathered with Lin Mousheng's Malay Division, gathered 6 "Golden Leopards" and 12 "Hunters", and led 6,000 infantrymen, with the cooperation of the naval aviation, to launch an attack on Changi Airport along the seawall. Although Yamashita Bongmoto personally directed the battle, he was called "Malay Tiger" by Britain and the United States.

The General was no longer in glory. Although the Japanese army held on for 20 hours very stubbornly, Changi Airport still fell into the hands of the National Defense Forces at the 25th morning. After capturing the airport, the number of naval and air forces increased more quickly. By the evening of December 27, the Singapore Command had three divisions, including the Third Airborne Division and the Malayan Division. This did not count the more than thousands of British and Dutch Allied forces of the Volunteers and Colonel Brann, and the total strength increased to 48,000.

Enriched troops and continuous logistics support allowed Dong Hao and Ye Zishan to finally launch a siege on the Bukit Tima Mountain Fortress in the center of Sing Tao.

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, it advanced to Johor Bahru north of the Johor Strait. Although Fengwen at the foot of the mountain broke the one-kilometer-long Xinrou long embankment early and cut off the only land passage across the strait, the Chinese engineers still used the pre-installed Bere Bridge component to repair the bombed gate in just 10 hours. At 8 a.m. on January 2, Su Duozhen used a seized train to force the obstacles deployed by the Japanese army in the Singapore direction of the long embankment, 200 "Cyclops" tanks and self-propelled artillery swarmed up, and by 4 p.m. Four army divisions, including the 20th Light Armored Division, had all driven into Singapore along the 25-meter-wide embankment.

Just when Yezishan and Su Duozhen opened the most brutal street battle with the Japanese army, the 137 ships of the Second Fleet protected the Third Division of the Marine Corps, five army divisions, a total of 80,000 soldiers, and landed on islands such as Batam, Bintan, Linga and Xinji Island outside Singapore. Although the Japanese garrison was willing to resist, the gap in force was too great. In the end, in just five days, the archipelago with dozens of islands, which had an area of ​​more than 5,000 square kilometers and guarded the Strait of Malacca to the Chinese National Defense Forces, and 30,000 British-Dutch coalition forces and anti-districtmen who were imprisoned on the archipelago were rescued.

When he learned that the Linga Islands garrison was swept away. Shanxia Fengwen, who knew that the situation was over, finally lowered his head, ordered the corps to burn the corps flags, and sent someone to surrender to Dong Hao. But beyond his expectations, Dong Hao and the Singapore Command rejected his request for surrender: "Go back and tell Shanxia! I will kill you whatever you kill us Chinese! He only has two ways, one is to commit suicide by cutting his belly, and the other is to wash his neck and wait for me to hang him."

The unusual threat of death made the Colonel who came to negotiate the surrender all over his body, and he roared for a long time: "This is a violation of the Geneva Articles, and a trampling on the Convention on Attack!"

"Geneva, hum! Do you remember now? When you used ordinary people as hostages, why didn't you think about attacking the Convention! Come and send him back." Dong Hao was too lazy to talk to a messenger. He waved his hand and let the soldiers drag it out. The officers around him had no doubts, because this was an order issued by the President and Marshal Yue, which was to tell Japan and those forces who were fighting against the Chinese in Southeast Asia. The era of Chinese being killed has passed! As for Colonel Brann and several British and Dutch officers, they were silent. The hundreds of thousands of coalition prisoners thirty-one months ago are now half of them, and their hatred for the Japanese army is no less than that of China.

In the dirty tunnel under Bukit Tima Mountain, after the Colonel repeated Dong Hao's words, Masato Tsuji suddenly took a few steps back and leaned against the cold and cold stone wall, trembling all over. Yamashita's face was gone without blood. He could not have imagined that his opponent was so cruel! Those were 180,000 young people who were still fighting bloody battles on the Southeast Peninsula for the dream of the imperial country! By the end of the war, how many people could survive in the 500,000 troops and millions of subjects following the empire south?

"Send a telegram to return to China, let everyone... be loyal to the empire." Thinking of this, Yamashita Fengmo's mouth twitched twice, and his chest seemed to be covered with explosives. But when he saw a Chinese corpse outside the air window, he couldn't help but sigh. One step was wrong, who can he blame now?

On January 8, 1942, the Singapore Command launched a general attack on the last Japanese stronghold of Bukit Tima Mountain. In this one-sided but extremely bloody battle, the Chinese Army, Navy and Air Force used thousands of tons of various types of ammunition to almost smooth the entire mountain from the surface! More than 30,000 trapped Japanese and Indonesian soldiers were either bombed or burned to death 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, thousands of soldiers ran wildly due to nerve collapse.

On January 15, after the last Japanese soldier hiding in the sewer was killed, Chinese Field Marshal Qiu Wenbin, Deputy Chief of Staff Zhu Peide, Navy Chief of Staff Bai Yutang, Southwest War Zone Commander-in-Chief Ouyang Nan, Singapore Autonomous Chairman Chen Jiageng and others arrived at Changi Airport to announce the end of the Singapore battle.

A record was set in this 28-day battle, that is, no one was not without prisoners!! A total of 93,532 officers and soldiers, the First Division, the 18th Division, the Navy Garrison and the 2nd Indonesian Army, were all killed or missing, and at least 4,700 Japanese expatriates were beaten to death or suicide by angry local volunteers during the war. In addition to the figures on the Malay Peninsula and Linga Islands, a total of 120,737 Japanese and expatriates died and 5,731 were missing.

Similarly, China and Singapore also paid a great price, with 20,000 soldiers of the National Defense Army, including more than 5,700 deaths and 1,171 missing. There were 5,000 deaths and wounded among the British-Dutch coalition and prisoners of war. The worst was the ordinary local people, with 17,000 Chinese people acting as flesh shields by the Japanese army, and 30,000 deaths during the pre-war Japanese army. In addition, casualties during the war, a total of 60,000 deaths were the eight elements of the entire population.

After Ouyang Nan announced that the battle in Singapore was over, the navy immediately began a large-scale mine-sweeping operation, intending to open up 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 went south to Aceh. Similarly, the National Defense Forces also carried out large-scale revenge on the local anti-China Indonesian army and Japanese army. 80,000 Indonesian soldiers and more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, and nearly 700,000 supported the Indonesian government. The militants and their families who participated in the persecution of Chinese people were confiscated and their families were exiled to the Central and Siberian Plateau for mining in the following year. Since these people had no idea what severe winter was, there was no difference between this kind of exile and direct execution.

While revenge on a large scale, Yang Qiu did not forget that his ancestors had used thousands of years of Huairou and differentiation policies. You should know that the historical origins of Sumatra and Java were very complicated, and the two sides were seriously hostile. Therefore, after Sukarno established unified Indonesia, he did not win much support from the Sumatra people. After the Indonesian army and the Japanese army were wiped out, especially after those who supported unification were confiscated and exiled by China, the calls for autonomy of all ethnic groups were getting higher and higher. In addition, Riau Province was basically controlled by the Chinese. Therefore, at Yang Qiu's instructions, the General Staff, the Intelligence Department and the Foreign Ministry took a multi-pronged approach to actively support those politicians who were determined to seek autonomy and accelerate the action to split Indonesia.

Tokyo, Asakusa.

The millennium famous temple Sensoji Temple is the last bombing target in Tokyo that was deliberately avoided. Because of this, the surroundings of the temple have become a refuge and a support for many people to survive. The heavy snow fell ruthlessly, covering the ground one after another. On the quiet streets, groups of refugees with family members hid behind the ruins and shivered. Whenever someone passed by, they would rush forward to kneel down and beg. There were also many women who put cheap labels on themselves to live and accept humiliation and torture over and over again. Even though their men knew that they were humiliated, they could only hide outside and bit their lips in order to survive and have children, pick up cigarette butts that were too short to be short, and help guard the door and solicit "business".

In every raised snow pile, you can see your hands and feet that are already frozen and black. The continuous bombing has left Japan's oil dry, the food harvest has failed, the houses have collapsed, the coal for heating has become a luxury, the wood has been stolen, and even the pine trees on the mountain have been cut down because they have to dig the roots of the pine trees to boil oil. All the young men were conquered by the army, and then they were trained day and night. The girls were sent to comfort camps to "comfort" the men trained, and even the fishing boats on the beach have been blown up... No one knows how many Japanese people have disappeared in this severe winter that is rare in decades due to hunger and cold. Everyone only knows that the corpse collection team can clear dozens of cars of dead bodies every day, and there have even been many things that kill children to share food.

Every Japanese hopes that winter will pass quickly, hoping that the cherry blossoms will bloom again, sow seeds and wait for a bumper harvest. But the bomber group that whizzes by day and night will smash this dream with a bunch of bombs.

A car burning coal broke the silence of Sensoji Temple. In the carriage, Hirota Hirota looked silently at the numb faces that were swept through the window quickly. As a Japanese politician who firmly opposed the war against China before the war, he could still gain strong support during the period of Tetsuyama, but after Nagata's death, the "forgetful" Japanese top leaders seemed to have forgotten who helped them bring back their Soviet allies, who suggested that the Soviet Union and Germany and Japan form an alliance for the first time, and who broke the ice and visited China after the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Japan, how long can this forgetful nation last?

In Hirota's sigh, the truck driving on coal slowly stopped behind the temple. Walking into the temple, hiding under the trees, the soldiers in the building and an anti-aircraft gun turned the inside and outside into two worlds. "Kun Hirota." Hirota Hirota just walked into the side hall under the leadership of the monk, and a voice sounded from the side.

Shigekami and Toyhara Kishiro both came out.

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Chapter completed!