The first place the Japanese army discovered the "enemy situation" was a Japanese floating gas station located on the Malacca Canal. The gas station was about 90 kilometers away from Johor Bahru, the capital of the Malaysian state of Johor. At around six o'clock in the morning, when Qi Minghao was the commander The nine warships of the advance fleet advanced towards the target sea area about 60 kilometers away from Singapore. When passing by the sea about 2 kilometers away from the gas station, a Japanese man who was heating hot water on the bow of the oil tanker saw, First he looked at it dumbfounded, then turned pale and screamed: "Enemy attack, enemy attack."
The other Japs were immediately alerted. One of them, a sergeant who was the stationmaster of the gas station, ran out and took a look at it, and said doubtfully: "What's going on with the French warship?" Although he was confused, he still acted immediately. I made a report to my boss, a captain at a logistics supply base, over the phone.
About a quarter of an hour later, the news reached the headquarters of the Western Expedition Fleet. The Japanese staff officer who answered the phone did not dare to neglect the report and immediately reported it to his superior, Lieutenant Colonel Ikeda Kai. Lieutenant Commander Ikeda Kai remembered a piece of information intercepted early yesterday morning. After receiving the message, his face suddenly turned pale, and he quickly went to Lieutenant Colonel Morishita Hyojiro, the adjutant of Lieutenant General Masato Yamagata, the Chief of General Staff. Morishita then notified Masato Yamagata, who then reported to Toshiichiro Koizumi. After all this, By the time Koizumi made his decision, Qi Minghao's advance fleet had already arrived at the target sea area, and the helicopter group had taken off.
Six Haidongqing escorted four Albatross carrying two squadrons of jungle special combat troops Guo Kui and Willy. Under Willy's guidance, they rushed straight to the Singapore prisoner of war camp 30 kilometers away. They left on the front foot, " The battleship "Richelieu" and four other ships then launched eight speedboats. The other jungle special forces boarded the boats as quickly as possible, and then controlled the boats to rush towards the beach two thousand meters away.
Ten helicopters advanced rapidly at a speed of about 300 kilometers per hour, bypassing a Japanese military camp along the way, and flew over the prisoner of war camp in about ten minutes.
At this time, the Japanese army had not yet figured out the purpose of the "French".
Among the senior officials of the Japanese Expedition Fleet, the one who first received the report was Yamagata Masato. He could have made judgments and made arrangements immediately, but because his position in the fleet was quite embarrassing and he had no actual command authority, So although he had great ideas, he could only ask Koizumi for instructions according to the procedures. In this way, the decision-making time was delayed. This situation happened to be related to Yamamoto. Masato Yamagata was named the chief of the fleet's general staff. In fact, But it was equivalent to the Minister of Logistics. Yamamoto Isoroku, whose temperament changed drastically, became dictatorial in military matters. After Yamagata Masato was "Hai" in Nono for half a month, he felt angry and took the initiative to take care of the logistics and supply work. As a result, he slowly left the center of power, and by the time Koizumi Toshiichiro became acting commander-in-chief, he could no longer command combat troops.
It was the first time that Koizumi encountered such a difficult problem. He was at a loss at first. It took about five minutes for him to calm down. After calming down, Koizumi was quite general-like, because he could not figure out "France" at all. "people", so he focused on warning first, so the first series of orders were all based on this: "Contact the aircraft carrier group immediately, ask them where they are, and ask them to speed up their return; Your Excellency Yamaxian, please You contact the airport immediately and ask them to dispatch reconnaissance planes for reconnaissance; Hatono, answer my call from Lieutenant General Ouchi."
Koizumi was very busy when suddenly Lieutenant Commander Ikeda Kai rushed in again. The little Japanese stood at the door and shouted: "Report, there is a call from the prisoner of war camp. They have been attacked by the Chinese."
"What..." Xiaoquan was horrified,
Yamagata glanced at him, immediately turned his attention to Ikeda, and then said: "Put the phone in immediately."
"Hai." Ikeda responded loudly and turned around to run. Then within ten seconds, he turned back and reported that the contact was interrupted.
Xiaoquan was stunned, feeling cold in his heart, and cursed: "Ba Ge."
Yamagata's response was much faster. He immediately grabbed the phone from Hatano and directly ordered Ouchi Yoshifumi to immediately reinforce the prisoner of war camp. He gave special instructions: if the British escape, they will be killed without mercy.
The Japanese army was responsible for guarding more than 30,000 British prisoners of war. It was called a regiment, but in fact there were only two brigades. When ten helicopters appeared over the prisoner of war camp, on the playground at the entrance of the Japanese barracks on the left side of the prisoner of war camp, there were rotating A brigade of Japanese soldiers was doing morning exercises,
More than a thousand Japanese soldiers were running around the playground. The sound of a helicopter's engine was heard, and they followed the sound. Many people were thinking while running: "Strange, what kind of fighter plane is this?"
The squadron leader who led the team was the first to react. When the weapon hangers on the left and right sides of a Haidongqing fuselage simultaneously spurted flames, he shouted in a hissing voice: "The enemy is attacking, return to the barracks quickly." Then he turned around and took off. Just run,
The Japanese commander of the prisoner of war camp, Colonel Kamei Matsuhito, the commander of the regiment, was brushing his teeth at the door of his dormitory. He raised his head with a mouth full of foam, and then exclaimed: "No, it's the cadet army." Immediately afterwards. The toothbrush porcelain bowl was thrown away and he rushed into the room.
More than 500 meters away from the running Japanese soldiers, hundreds of British prisoners of war were looking up behind the wooden fence. Their faces were colorless at first, and then after more than a dozen rockets fired among the Japanese troops, When the explosion made a huge explosion, a hint of surprise appeared on their faces. Some people knelt on their knees and shouted excitedly: "They are here to save us. We are saved."
The prisoners of war immediately exploded,
There was no particularly thrilling scene in the whole battle. The muzzles of the six Haidong Qing machine guns and the muzzles of the guns were pointing at the little devils. Five minutes later, when the duty brigade came from three directions, the crowd on the playground More than half of a brigade of Japanese soldiers had been knocked down, and the rest who had escaped into the barracks were restrained by Guo Kui's men and were blocked in the barracks, unable to get out.
Haidong Qing just launched the attack, and the four Albatross lowered down. When they were still more than ten meters away from the ground, the ropes were hung down. One hundred and forty jungle special combatants, including Guo Kui and Willy, slipped down one after another and immediately entered the battle. ,
The entire prisoner-of-war camp was divided into fourteen sub-camps. Each camp was guarded by a small group of Japanese soldiers. If a small group of Japanese soldiers were placed on a frontal battlefield to fight the British, the British would have to send at least one battalion. Resistance, and now, they can't even suppress a small team of jungle special warfare,
For the more than 30,000 British officers and soldiers detained in the Singapore Prisoner of War Camp, this day will be remembered for their entire lives. More than a hundred Chinese soldiers, supported by ten grotesque fighter planes, actually annihilated ten times their own number. The enemy, and what impressed them particularly deeply was that in the battle with the Japanese, who they regarded as devils, these more than a hundred Chinese soldiers seemed to be favored by the goddess of luck, and in the end, one of them died in battle. None,