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Chapter 232 The Lifeline of Asia (2)
This wave of attacks left only one fortress gun in the entire Changi Fort group, but before the first formation had time to launch the final attack on this fort, the Chinese United Fleet No. The second formation has successfully landed there.Although Liu Yongfu and Liu Buchan were life-and-death friends, the bloodiness of a soldier made him grit his teeth and curse after receiving the news: "Liu Buchan, Liu Buchan, I think you should call your kid Liu Xiaoguier."

In the north of Singapore, on the shore of the Strait of Johor, there are countless swamps, depressions, tidal flats, jungles, and artillery positions on the other side of the Strait of Johor. Therefore, choosing to land here is undoubtedly a suicide act.In the southwest of Singapore, there are nearly a hundred islands and reefs, large and small, and it is difficult for sampans used for landing to reach them smoothly.What's more, the British who have experienced many battles still have a group of forts here.This landing seemed like an impossible task!
It's a pity that the British were wrong this time, because what they faced was a well-equipped Chinese naval formation and a well-trained Chinese sailor. Over the past ten years, Guan Xuqing's countless financial resources and painstaking efforts in the imperial navy have finally come to an end. Get the most rewards at this time.

At 8:20 that night, the night here was already dark. The frogman team sent by Liu Buchan successfully reached the shallow sea area and blew up various obstacles such as deer villages and steel horns that were submerged under the water during high tide.Seeing the flames of the explosion, Liu Buchan immediately ordered all naval guns to adjust their azimuth and elevation angles, and bombard the shore with suppressive bombardment.The bushes on the bank were set on fire, and the British camp was blown into cannon fodder. Countless gravel, wooden branches, canvas fragments, and severed limbs all flew into the sky under the fierce artillery fire.At the same time, more than a hundred landing sampans rushed to the shore taking advantage of the tide.

Since the front was not very wide, only one battalion was the first to land.However, due to the well-trained landing soldiers, only half an hour later, all [-] battalions of the Marine Corps set foot on the land of Singapore.Although the resistance of the British army was tenacious, it was not very fierce.While lacking various suppressive weapons, they also faced the "destruction" of Chinese naval artillery fire, making it almost impossible for British soldiers to enter the battle position.

After the Marines landed, they immediately developed in depth, and staggered forward along the place where the naval gun fire had "plowed pears".About 150 meters from the shore, the machine guns in the British fortifications that had survived the shelling suddenly opened fire.The blazing bullets quickly knocked down dozens of marines, and also suppressed the charging momentum of other team members.

The communications soldiers immediately called for naval guns to suppress them, but due to certain wind and waves at sea, the accuracy of the naval guns was greatly reduced, so a few minutes passed and still no shells hit these fortifications.The Gatling shells fired from these fortifications also continued to cause trouble for the follow-up troops who were landing.At this time, the landing troops were less than 100 meters away from the British fortifications, but they gave the opponent their hiding place amidst the constant explosions.At this time, a forced charge will inevitably suffer great casualties, and it may not be possible to capture these fortifications.

"Damn it!" Yuan Jiu, the commander of the third brigade in charge of the assault, howled, watching the follow-up troops continue to fall under the enemy's guns, his eyeballs were about to burst, and he immediately ordered all the front troops with grenade The shooters gathered and concentrated shooting on the fortifications in front of them.Under the cover of several machine gunners, more than forty grenades fired at the same time. Because they did not grasp the shooting angle well, most of them missed the target, and only a few grenades exploded near the firing holes.

Yuan Jiuhao made a determined effort, snatched more than a dozen grenades from the soldiers, and said to the brothers behind him: "Use your firepower to attract each other, and I will take five people to blow up that evil bunker."

Xu Chunda, the battalion commander of the first battalion, hugged the brigade commander's legs bitterly. Everyone knew that he would die after performing such a task, "Brigade commander, let me go!"

Yuan Jiuhow had a fiery temper, and kicked Xu Chunda aside: "Stop fucking nonsense and obey orders!"

The six Maxim heavy machine guns of the forward troops spit out flames together, and several firepower points fired at the bunker at the same time. The British army in the fortification was really fooled and concentrated more firepower to this side.Yuan Jiuhow and five brothers crawled towards the bunker from east to west in the flickering light of the artillery fire, and the figures of the six quickly disappeared in the dense bushes.

Xu Chunda was so anxious that he yelled at the mortarman behind him: "Stop firing, you don't have eyes, do you want to fucking kill the brigade commander and brothers! Machine gunner, who told you to stop and keep firing, brigade commander If there is something good or bad, I will never let you go!"

Xu Chunda was like crazy, thinking that the brigade commander had led him through life and death, and now he risked his life to destroy the enemy's bunker, he felt really uncomfortable.

Xu Chunda's anxiety didn't last long, when he heard a loud bang directly in front of him, shaking the ground.

"Battalion Commander, the bunker has been blown up!"

Xu Chunda was ecstatic, and shouted behind him: "Brothers, give it to me!"

The marines rushed over like tigers descending the mountain.Xu Chunda saw at a glance that Yuan Jiuhao was standing alone on the enemy's ruins, his clothes were all torn by the artillery fire, and he was still pulling his neck to direct the team members.

After the follow-up troops followed up, the marines all occupied the fortification group centered on the south bank of the Johor Strait at 10 o'clock that night.At the same time, Liu Yongfu's first formation also successfully captured the Changi Forts, and all the marines landed.

The next thing is to attack the city of Singapore and quickly take down the port to facilitate the subsequent unloading of heavy equipment.At this time, the artillery shells fired from the artillery positions at Toa Payoh and Dacheng continued to land on the landing points, which greatly affected the landing of the follow-up troops.For this reason, the Chinese escort fleet immediately bombarded the two artillery positions under the guidance of the shore guides.At this time, the Pearl Hill artillery position in the city of Singapore also started firing, which caught the marines advancing into the city by surprise. Three minutes of shelling brought casualties to 3 Marines.

As we all know, the main population of Singapore is Chinese. If naval guns are used to suppress the Pearl Hill artillery position, it will inevitably bring great harm to the Chinese in the city.Since the British knew that China was about to launch an attack on Singapore before the Battle of Singapore, they forced the Chinese to stay in the city, and the Chinese who were driven from various plantations outside the city and nearby Malaya were also concentrated in the city.This made Zhang Yu, the commander-in-chief of this battle, very embarrassed.Because it was at night and the waves were relatively large, the firing accuracy of the naval guns on the battleship was very poor. Under such circumstances, forcibly suppressing Pearl Mountain would only cause a large number of Chinese casualties.

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