Age of Conquest Reborn

Now that the division commander has made up his mind, Zhao Yuhe, the chief of staff of the division headquarters, and Yu Guanghan, the chief of staff of the Sulu Mobile Corps, will not say more. As chiefs of staff, they have the right to make three suggestions on the deployment of the campaign, from **

Since the division became an army, everyone has been by the side of the division commander

The suggestions put forward by the chiefs of staff who have worked before are all centered on specific details. In order to improve the combat plan, it is not that several chiefs of staff do not have their own unique insights, but that Tang Qiuli, as the division commander, has established

absolute authority.

Many times, the battle plans formulated by the division commander seemed to them to be extremely risky and contained obvious gambling elements. But the final result proved that the division commander was right. Over time, a habit has been formed, and successive chiefs of staff only

He used his brain on the details of the battle and tried his best to make the plan more perfect, but basically had no objections to the main direction of the battle.

Tang Qiuli also discovered this. It's not that he didn't let his chiefs of staff do it, but he hoped that his chiefs of staff could surpass him. However, it never worked. He himself was quite helpless. This should be

The advantage of being a human being in two lifetimes!

Seeing that Zhao Yuhe and Yu Guanghan did not raise any objections, Tang Qiuli said: "Yuhe, Guanghan, from now on, the two of you should focus on controlling the rhythm of the army's march, and cooperate with the three troops at any time.

The brigade commanders and Battelle maintained close contact. In addition, Yu He contacted Qi Hanzhi and found out the specific location of the Japanese Hengshan Brigade Headquarters. After the battle started, I gave the Japanese a black tiger to dig out their hearts.

The chain of command is destroyed!”

Zhao Yuhe and Yu Guanghan looked at each other, and Zhao Yuhe said: "Commander, do you want to use Commander Le's paratrooper regiment?"

Tang Qiuli nodded and said: "The command system of the Japanese army has been destroyed. By destroying Singapore, the order will not be issued in time, and it will also reduce the pressure on the special operations detachment. Paratroopers are parachuted into Singapore and the frontal attack must be carried out simultaneously. Order Le

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Qin, his paratroopers must parachute to the headquarters of the Japanese Hengshan Brigade before three o'clock in the morning on August 8, when the battle is launched, and carry out the beheading operation. After the specific combat plan is drawn up, it will be reported to the division.

Approved by the command!”

Le Yiqin received a call from Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe. She was so happy that she couldn't help but become famous. The division commander personally assigned the task to a regiment-level combat unit. You think it's a small matter.

Subsequently, a military meeting attended by commanders of the parachute regiment and above was held in the auditorium of the Myitkyina base of the Southern Aviation Group.

Le Yiqin deliberately wanted to create an atmosphere, putting together the pre-war mobilization and swearing-in ceremony, as well as the ceremony of awarding the regimental flag. Le Yiqin was dressed in military uniform. She was in high spirits, and the major general's epaulettes were shining brightly under the bright lights.

Guang, along with all the members of the headquarters, walked up to the rostrum.

The opening remarks were just like Le Yiqin's personality, simple and direct, without any nonsense. He said: "Today is the day when our Southern Flying Group Parachute Regiment was officially established. Everyone has been training hard for more than a year. Do you want to pull something off?"

Go to the battlefield and have a good fight?"

The officers below stood up together and shouted loudly: "Use me in the first battle, and you will win if you use me! There are flying generals in the sky and tigers on the ground!"

Le Yiqin smiled, and then said: "Sit down, the slogan is quite loud, and the momentum is not bad. Our paratrooper regiment was given the title personally by the division commander. Saker, did you see that dough flag? I will award it to you today.

Originally, the division commander was supposed to come in person to present the flag, but the Battle of Singapore is about to start, and I have just received a phone call from the division headquarters that the first battle of our paratrooper regiment after its formation is a beheading operation!"

"This operation is codenamed to cheer you up. What is decapitation? It means using our Falcon to chop off the head of the highest commander of the Japanese army in Singapore. The first battalion will be responsible for the decapitation task. You have to parachute well. You'd better jump to that place for me."

On the desk of the old Japanese Major General Hengshan, this is the first battle of the Paratrooper Regiment. The division commander and the entire army are watching. We must fight well and don’t embarrass our aviation force and our Southern Flying Group. Don’t embarrass me either!"

Le Yiqin's words were simple but extremely contagious. The fighting spirit and pride in the hearts of the officers of the Parachute Regiment were suddenly ignited. A newly established regiment-level combat unit of their own was...

*There are probably thousands of regiment-level units in the entire army of the * division. It is an honor and expectation in itself to get the attention of the division commander and personally award the title.

The morale of the troops was like a pile of dry firewood, which was immediately ignited by the commander's words. From the shining eyes of the officers, Le Yiqin could see the strong fighting spirit. He was very satisfied with what he had done.

At the end of the battle plan reported to division commander Tang Qiuli during this ceremony, he poetically added, "The morale of the troops is unprecedentedly high, and the blood is burning with the passion for fighting!"

Seeing Le Yiqin's words, Tang Qiuli laughed and shook his head, and said to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, have you seen that our militants also have beautiful writing styles? I remember that in northern Myanmar,

Le Yiqin had a similar expression when he killed the British Air Force stationed in India. It seems that any report he submitted in poetic language was bound to win, and the victory was beautiful!"

Everything in the Malay Peninsula seemed so peaceful, but underneath this calmness, there were quietly gathering storms of war. To the Japanese troops in Singapore, there was nothing unusual about it.

Major General Yokoyama Kingoro, the commander of the Yokoyama Brigade of the Japanese Southwest Pacific Expeditionary Force stationed in Singapore, has been having nightmares recently, especially for the ** Division troops. After the capture of Hong Kong, nightmares have become a nightmare for Major General Yokoyama.

Late required courses.

Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, there were more than 100,000 Imperial Japanese Army troops stationed in Singapore. Major General Yokoyama did not have to worry about this. However, after one troop after another, Commander Ito was transferred to the Luzon battlefield, Major General Yokoyama would do it every day.

He would fall into an inexplicable worry. When he discovered that Singapore only had one brigade with tens of thousands of troops, Major General Hengshan, who did not know what fear was, felt guilty.

Just across the Kuala Lumpur line not far away, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Japanese Army are stationed. This neighbor is not a kind person. It is a dispatched army of hundreds of thousands of troops from the Imperial Japanese Army to Indochina.

The tiger and wolf divisions escaped in embarrassment. Major General Hengshan personally experienced the first few battles. Recalling those scenes, Major General Hengshan himself would not believe it if he said he was not afraid!

Guarding such an evil neighbor and always worrying about an attack, Major General Yokoyama naturally had trouble sleeping and eating, and his days were like a year. Although he believed that the combat effectiveness and bushido spirit of the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army could fight without fear of death, but ten thousand

More troops

For hundreds of thousands, such a huge and disparate gap cannot be made up by the spirit of Bushido. Major General Hengshan absolutely believes that as long as that Chinese devil Tang Qiuli is willing, his ten thousand men and horses will be able to make up for it in less than one morning.

Turn into ashes and disappear into smoke.

After the fall of Hong Kong, all the more than 60,000 imperial soldiers were in pieces, and the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army did not dispatch a single reinforcement to Singapore. Many times, Major General Yokoyama even felt that he and more than 10,000 soldiers had been forgotten by the empire.

In other words, they are victims, just for a Singapore that cannot defend itself. The Hengshan Brigade is like a side dish placed in the mouth of the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli. He can eat it at any time as long as he is willing!

Just when the leader of the Yokoyama brigade was almost desperate, he finally waited for the order from the base camp. After reading the order personally signed by the chief of general staff of the base camp, Prince Zairen, Major General Yokoyama couldn't help but shout a few times, Amaterasu, bless the emperor.

Long live your Majesty, after receiving the order, Hengshan began to make arrangements.

He had his own unique understanding of the order from the base camp, requiring the brigade to evacuate immediately and destroy the city after being attacked by the ** Division troops. In the view of the leader of the Hengshan Brigade, the next best thing was whether the bombing would blow up Singapore.

The main reason is that this opportunity can be used to cover the brigade's safe evacuation from Singapore. Therefore, Major General Hengshan carried out the orders to the base camp very seriously and in place.

The designated military restricted areas are the places where large quantities of explosives are buried. The time of detonation requires one's own judgment. The commander of the Hengshan Brigade issued this order to the commanders of the various units responsible for blasting, "

No unit is allowed to act without authorization without receiving the order to detonate personally from the commander of the brigade!"

The orders must be unified. Who knows that crazy guy, with the idea of ​​dying together with the Imperial Army, detonated in advance, and might bury the Imperial Army troops together. The sky full of fire and gunpowder smoke, and the ruins and rubble everywhere are enough to stop the attack.

division troops, and at the same time, he issued respective retreat route maps to several regiments, so that they could control the retreat time on their own without receiving orders from the brigade.

In addition, the commander of the Hengshan Brigade also ordered a large number of civilian ships to be mobilized and parked at the port. The boatmen were not allowed to leave the ships under the supervision of the military police. In addition, he also contacted the destination of the brigade's retreat, Sumatra Island.

Lieutenant General Shinno, commander of the Fifth Army of the Empire's Southwest Pacific Expeditionary Force, asked him to use long-range shore artillery to cover the retreat of the troops when he received his request for reinforcements.

Commander Xinye, it was not difficult for Commander Hengshan Brigade at all. He agreed wholeheartedly. After arranging all this, Major General Hengshan seemed to have a lot of confidence in his heart. But for some reason, starting from yesterday, he felt a kind of panic that a disaster was imminent.

feeling.

As for why this happened, the commander of Yokoyama Kingoro's brigade couldn't explain it clearly. He was too calm. The ** division troops on the opposite side did not do anything unusual at all, but he was restless. He said this

The feeling of not being able to come out is attributed to being too nervous.

On the morning of August 8, the commander of the Hengshan Brigade, together with his chief of staff, went through all the arrangements from beginning to end, and found no loopholes. Then, he said this, "This beautiful seaside

The city will be in ruins one day, but the destruction of Singapore can be exchanged for the safe retreat of the brigade, which is worth it!"

(To be continued)