An accident occurred when Bai Sihua, Percival and others left the team and rushed to the dock. One of the battalion commanders questioned their actions: "Commander, don't they want to leave us alone?" His speculation immediately caused an uproar.
——Thousands of British soldiers surrounded the convoy of Bai Sihua and Percival, asking them to give an explanation. Most of them did not know that the so-called "Singapore Retreat" was no longer going on.
They all asked when they could board the ship. Percival couldn't bear to deceive them, so he simply stayed in the car and refused to get off. Bai Sihua sent his captain of the bodyguard to respond: "We are going to discuss the specific retreat with the Americans now.
As for the matter, please wait patiently here, and the results will come soon."
"My dear, you are not just trying to escape alone, are you?" A soldier cursed loudly from behind.
"What happened to the previous battle? Wasn't it to prevent the Chinese from boarding the ship and preventing them from seizing our cabins? But I saw that the Chinese have already entered the dock area," someone asked loudly.
In order to avoid being threatened by the Chinese people with Thomas and Johnny, Bai Sihua ignored Wavell's advice and widely publicized the order of "Singapore Evacuation". Now, he has to pay the price for this original decision.
The British are not good at fighting, but they have a good way of questioning the orders to go up the mountain. At first, only a few people spoke, and only a thousand people participated in besieging the convoy. After the captain of the guard gave an ambiguous answer,
More people joined in, and soon the convoy was completely surrounded. The emotional soldiers knocked on the doors and windows of Bai Sihua and Percival's car, demanding that they give a reasonable explanation - "We have
Power knows the truth!”
"Assholes, are you going to disobey military orders?" the captain of the guard yelled.
"How dare we disobey military orders? We just don't want to stay here and wait for death. Huo Peter, you can't be so selfish. You can escape death by following the big shot. But what should we do? Are we going to die?" The provocation
The battalion commander in question said.
Hearing these words, Bai Sihua, who was sitting in the car, turned livid with anger again. Seeing that the situation might become increasingly tense or even get out of hand, Percival sighed, opened the car door, came down and shouted: "Soldiers, you don't want to
If you doubt the decision of the headquarters again, I will stay. Is that okay?"
The soldiers temporarily stopped making noise, but Bai Sihua became excited. He rolled down the window and shouted to Percival: "Percival?! Negotiations cannot be separated from you!"
Percival gritted his teeth and turned to him and said: "Your Majesty Commander, you go quickly, I will leave this place to you!" Then he turned to face the silent crowd, and he said loudly: "When did our Royal Army become so sluggish?
What's the situation? I admit that the Japanese army is very fierce, but what I want to say is that our soldiers of the British Empire are not easy to mess with. The Japanese army has repeatedly trampled on our dignity. Today, let us teach them a painful lesson!
Come, if you think you are still a man, stand behind me and let me lead you to recover our honor from the Japanese!..."
The soldiers were moved by Percival's speech, and they moved out of the way one after another. The convoy finally started. Bai Sihua watched Percival's figure disappear into the darkness through the car window, and couldn't help but burst into tears. He suddenly stretched out his hand
Covering his face, he choked and muttered to himself: "Oh my God! When did I, the majestic Army General of the British Empire, become so cowardly and selfish?"
Perhaps in his heart, Bai Sihua wanted to stand up bravely like Percival, but in the end, he chose to leave cowardly.
"General, we should be proud of General Percival!" Beside him, Quartermaster Eagle said softly.
"The reason why we are reduced to this situation is all because of the damn Chinese!" Bai Sihua suddenly raised his head and waved his fist and roared; "It was these despicable yellow-skinned pigs that deprived us of the opportunity to retreat! I swear, I will absolutely I will not spare these despicable yellow-skinned pigs! One day, I will let them kneel at my feet and beg for forgiveness!"
Eagle gently shook his head and looked out the window, thinking to himself: "What a great ideal! Hey! Do the Chinese people deserve to die? When they are in trouble, they can still get help from the distant motherland, but what about us? "
Bai Sihua and others were not the last ones to board the ship. After them, there were more than 2,000 volunteers and more than 1,000 Jewish cadets from Aesop. At Zhang Liangfeng's order, Aesop personally took charge of the British army with more than 500 soldiers. As part of the "security work" of the military, they confiscated the weapons of Bai Sihua and others, and "protected" them boarding a large cruise ship called "Tomorrow Star". After they completed boarding, with a long whistle, Breaking the silent night sky, the "American Evacuation Fleet" left the dock one by one and began to return.
At this time, the "Kaga" aircraft carrier fleet led by Yamada Shii had already set up a formation in the sea about fifty kilometers away from them. In the captain's room of the "Kaga", Yamada Shii looked at the darkness ahead with complacency. On the sea surface, a slight sneer appeared from the corner of his mouth from time to time, and he said to the trainee captain of the "Kaga" Harukatsu Okada, Major Okada: "When our fighter plane suddenly appears in the sky above the heavy patrol of the US military, do you think the Americans will Will you be so scared that you wet your pants?”
Okada Harukatsu chuckled and joked: "Even if you don't wet your pants because of the fright, your legs will probably shake!"
"Haha, I'm looking forward to it!"
Yamada Shimasa and Okada Harukatsu were chatting and laughing in the captain's room of the "Kaga". In the water just over 4,000 meters away from them, two Song-class submarines were slowly floating to the sea under the command of Xu Kai.
In order to avoid misunderstandings, the Japanese did not implement blackout, which gave Xu Kai and others the opportunity to discover the enemy first. Two periscopes surfaced one after another, and a Song-class submarine numbered "S-002" was piloted In the cabin, watchman Feng Yuanzheng shouted excitedly: "I saw it, I saw it! The distance is about four thousand meters. Ship Xu, come and see."
Xu Kai came over, looked into the observation mirror, and said: "Okay, brothers, cheer up, the opportunity is right in front of you, we must seize it! Xiao Feng, come and see if there is an aircraft carrier. If so, determine its location."
"yes!"
The "American Evacuation Fleet" had just left the dock, and Grant was about to have a good exchange with Mitterrand, who was on the same ship, when he heard radar soldier Deco shout: "Captain, that's not right, it's eleven o'clock. There seems to be a cluster of unknown fleets!" Grant walked over to take a look, raised his eyebrows and said, "It must be the Japanese fleet, it seems they have noticed something abnormal."
"Then what should we do now?" asked the first mate Lewis, who was steering the ship.
"Inform the Chinese people immediately and I will go find Consul General Mitterrand. Things may be very difficult!"