The negotiations between the Cadet Expeditionary Force and the French were uneventful, but the negotiations between the Northeastern Army and the British almost broke out. Ultimately, the military appearance of the two armies gave people a very different feeling. The Cadet Army was well-equipped. The morale is high, and the French colleagues were shocked as soon as they showed up. As for the Northeast Army, its equipment is considered top-notch among the Chinese army, but it is worse than the British army. The biggest difference is that the artillery unit is smaller in size. , but it happened that the advanced equipment Ouyang Yun gave to Shaoshuai Zhang was left in Yunnan by him.
Let’s not talk about how Wan Fulin, the commander of the 53rd Army of the Northeast Army, was arguing with the British in Yangon. Let’s just talk about the Xuebing Army. The Xuebing Army rested for three days in Hanoi and then headed to Phnom Penh, Vietnam and Cambodia under the French Indochina Federation. , Laos has retained its original royal government. Of course, just like the Wang puppet regime in China, these so-called royal governments are just a fig leaf used by the French to proclaim democracy and embody gentlemen. Their actual effect is almost zero.
According to the details of the alliance agreement finally reached between the Cadet Army and the French, Phnom Penh will be the location of the Cadet Expeditionary Force headquarters for a long period of time. The Cadet Expeditionary Force will be centered in Phnom Penh and radiate to surrounding towns and cities, not only to Responsible for local defense, and also responsible for suppressing local resistance forces. The French are still wary of the Cadet Expeditionary Force. They are worried that Ouyang Yun will use his status as the original sovereign to affect the self-reliance of the locals, so they added this to the details. , and precisely because of the constraints of this detailed rule, the student expeditionary force divided its troops and headed for Dishi to suppress the local rebellion on the day it arrived in Phnom Penh. In the next week, Ang Bos, who was far away in Hanoi, was deployed in Phnom Penh. The intelligence officers in the Dishi area had a detailed understanding of the Xuebing Army's suppression of the local rebel forces. After learning that the Xuebing Army killed more than a hundred local resistance fighters on the first day, the French were completely relieved and no longer doubted this. The "sincerity" of allies from the far east has come,
What he didn't know was that under the operation of a Chinese named Cai Shaoming, the local resistance force called the "Dishi Rebel Army" experienced a brutal internal struggle to seize power. The result of the internal struggle was that the founder The Abao gang headed by them were brutally suppressed by the Xuebing Army and another faction. The resistance force was then recruited by the Xuebing Army as a follower of the army and became a secret follower of the Xuebing Army.
Turning their attention to the Strait of Malacca, the British Indian Ocean Fleet was forced to retreat to the Andaman Sea after suffering a disastrous defeat. Immediately, the Japanese army launched a fierce offensive against Singapore.
The British were well aware of the importance of holding Singapore to protecting British colonies in Asia. Churchill first ordered to send as many additional warships as possible from the mainland to the Indian Ocean, and then sent three telegrams to the commander-in-chief of the British Malaysian Army, Lieutenant General Bai Sihua, Let him defend Singapore at all costs and never allow the Japanese to completely occupy the Strait of Malacca.
At the beginning of the Japanese expeditionary fleet's attack on Singapore, because the British had already assembled nearly 80,000 troops in Singapore, both the British themselves and bystanders from third countries believed that it would not be a problem for the British army to defend Singapore in a short period of time. Once the British Royal Navy can effectively reinforce the Indian Ocean, the Japanese offensive in Southeast Asia will inevitably be contained.
The facts were beyond everyone's expectations. Within a week of the Battle of Singapore, the British army suffered three major defeats. As the Japanese began to forcibly land at Miraca through the Strait of Malacca in the Dumai area, the British army's biggest The crisis is coming,
In the early morning of November 15, the 3rd Marine Division of the Japanese Western Expeditionary Fleet, under the command of the division commander Lieutenant General Hashimoto Shun, forcibly landed at Milaca. After a British division stationed there was killed more than 300 people. He was frightened by the ferocity shown by the Japanese. With the establishment almost complete, he ran to Negeri Sembilan regardless of the danger of putting the large army in Singapore into a Japanese encirclement.
The British troops stationed at Milaka fled after a little resistance. It was in line with the Japanese army's wishes to abandon Milaka. After landing, Hashimoto's division flew towards Segamat and annihilated the troops stationed there in just two hours. There were two battalions of British troops in the area, and the news that Segamat had been breached reached the British headquarters in Johor Bahru. Bai Sihua was stunned when he heard the news, and immediately organized two divisions of troops to recapture Segamat, but ended up in Kluang. It was ambushed by the Japanese army. In this battle, Hashimoto's division fought even more beautifully. It only took half an hour for the three brigades of Hashimoto's division that participated in the ambush to completely defeat the two divisions of British troops. After killing more than a thousand people, Actually, more than 11,000 people were captured.
These more than 1,100 people immediately became the laborers of the Hashimoto Division, and were forced by them to build defensive positions from Kluang to Mersing. As Yamamoto Isoroku sent an aircraft carrier fleet to blockade the waters of Mersing, At this point, the Japanese army had completed the encirclement of the British and Malaysian coalition forces.
On the 18th, the news reached Phnom Penh. Ouyang Yun looked at the telegram and wanted to curse his mother in anger at first. Then he smiled and cursed: "I can't support the wall with mud. I thought the British would do it anyway." Those who persisted for the first half of the year, NND, actually couldn’t persist for even one month. What’s the matter?”
Chu Tiange, Guo Kui, Guo Da, and Huang Haifu were all there. Chu Tiange shook his head and said, "It's strange. When did the Japanese become so fierce?"
Huang Haifu: "The Japanese have not changed, but their opponents have changed. I think these British guys are just like some of the Central Army in our country. They are basically old soldiers."
Guo Kui: "This is a good thing. I want to see if the British can continue to be arrogant. Now, they should agree to the conditions proposed by the Northeast Army."
Ouyang Yun suddenly remembered something, stood up and shouted: "No."
Everyone was startled by his roar and looked at him.
Ouyang Yun looked at Guo Kui and said, "Old Guo, we have to dispatch Lu Zhibai and the others in advance."
Everyone is puzzled,
Ouyang Yunyin said with a stern face: "Do you know which ethnic group has the largest population in Singapore? The Chinese. Hey, I was so confused during this period that I actually forgot about it. If the Malay Peninsula is not safe, the local Chinese will definitely have to Damn it, Lao Guo, organize a capable team to infiltrate into Singapore as soon as possible. I estimate that the British may surrender. By then, it will be us Chinese who will suffer. If my estimation is good, the local Chinese people should spontaneously organize to resist. It must be as soon as possible. Find these people and help them evacuate the Malay Peninsula."
Guo Kui was stunned and said suspiciously: "Commander-in-Chief, are you sure?"
Ouyang Yun knew that the Chinese in Singapore would take up arms to resist the Japanese invasion because he remembered that during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, a Star Chinese Volunteer Army had appeared there. This matter could not be explained clearly. He replied: "After all, they are all Descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties, take precautions before they happen. I will leave this matter to you. I remember that there are several students in the Wolf Head Regiment who are overseas Chinese from Southeast Asia. You can choose two people to participate."
He acted seriously, but Guo Kui didn't dare to take it lightly. He said, "Okay, I'll do it right away." Then he opened the door and left.
Ouyang Yun walked for two steps with his hands behind his back: "I hope the British will not surrender too early."