Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 3113 Eight Grids
For Koizumi Toshiichiro, fortunately, the Chinese Pacific Fleet is not in the nearby waters, otherwise, what awaits him will be a fiasco that will make it difficult for him to recover.

Six days after the end of the Bukit Cambi encounter, in the morning, when he moved to the Southeast Asian Japanese Army Headquarters in Batam, Koizumi was frowning and looking at the sand table in front of him, when a series of footsteps came, and then someone shouted loudly: " Report! General Sasaki calls urgently!"

Koizumi turned around, took the telegram from a communications officer, glanced at it, and his face became ugly.

"Your Excellency," Narumi Inoue approached.

Koizumi threw the telegram to him and said: "Singapore has been breached by the Chinese army, and there is only one wing left under Sasaki's troops. He demands to retreat!"

Time back to four hours ago.The Chinese army's attack on Singapore started at five o'clock in the morning. The reason why this time period was chosen was to be able to dispatch air forces to ensure that Singapore could be taken at the lowest cost.

The victory of the Bukit Cambi encounter made Gu Zhutong see that the Japanese army had no fighting spirit.If it is said that Gu Zhutong still had scruples before and was unwilling to use too much casualties in exchange for the early recovery of Singapore, after seeing that the Japanese army did not have the determination to stick to Singapore, he knew that the opportunity was rare, and immediately ordered the whole army to advance at full speed , hoping to take advantage of the Japanese army's collapse to get the biggest advantage.

The defeat of the Southeast Asian National Independence Army affected the Japanese headquarters army. However, in Koizumi's plan, the retreat sequence of these troops was in the second echelon.Koizumi Toshiichiro is not a military idiot. He knows that it is unrealistic to withdraw troops as planned at this time. If a core force is not left to stabilize the battle situation, the result will be a big retreat and a big rout, and this result is He couldn't bear it no matter what.

After discovering that the Chinese army detected his own retreat intention and launched an attack immediately, Koizumi called a meeting of Japanese military officers above the division commander level, hoping that some of them could offer constructive opinions.Before the meeting was held, all kinds of bad news came from the front line. So, when everyone really gathered, the meeting turned into a decision on which army to take up the post of staying behind.

Speaking of it, Toshiichiro Koizumi gave up Singapore for the sake of the overall situation, which was a bad move.After all, the battle of Malan was newly defeated, and the morale of the Japanese army was at its lowest point. At this time, what the Japanese army needed most was repair and adjustment.However, after the New Delhi meeting, Koizumi wanted to preserve his strength in order to gain enough voice in the anti-China alliance after defeating China, but instead gave the Chinese army a chance to beat the dog in the water.

Although no one is responsible for Koizumi on this issue, Koizumi was still affected, so he seemed a little out of breath when he spoke: "The retreat plan has changed. In order to ensure that the main force of our army can safely withdraw from the Malay Peninsula, we must stay behind." An elite force, leading part of the National Independence Army to withstand the attack of the Chinese Army—"

At this time, Toshiichiro Koizumi was surrounded by bright stars.Inoue Narumi, Honma Masahiro, Hyakutake Haruki, Yamabe Chuan Sanjian, Kokenichi... and Sasaki Shota, because he is only a lieutenant general and has registered with the Americans, so now he can only sit In the back row of the conference room.

After Koizumi finished speaking, he glanced at everyone, hoping that someone would volunteer.

Regrettably, because everyone knew that those who remained were doomed to escape death, and would definitely end in defeat, so everyone just looked at him quietly, as if they didn't understand the meaning of his words.

If possible, Gu Xianyi would actually like to stand up and take responsibility.However, he also knew that as the commander of the Eastern Front Army, the final result could only be that one of the several support divisions under him would be left behind.And if that's all it is, then it doesn't make any sense for him to take the initiative to stand up.

Yes, at this moment, both Kenichi Koru and Shota Sasaki realized the following: staying would be an opportunity, a person who could use his influence to make the chaos in Singapore even more chaotic, so that the Chinese army Opportunities to reap greater benefits.

Therefore, Sasaki Masata stood up and said to Koizumi, "Your Excellency, if someone must stay, then let our [-]th Division stay!"

Seeing Sasaki stand up, Koizumi showed relief on his face, but he hesitated in his heart.There are reasons why he is so divided. One is because the [-]th Division is the elite of his lineage, and he does not want this army that carries his great hopes to be wasted in the chaos of Singapore; Or, based on his understanding of Sasaki, he was very worried that Sasaki would have a murderous attack, and then take the [-]th Division and the Chinese army recklessly regardless of the overall situation.He didn't answer Sasaki's words right away, but after waiting for a while, no one else stood up, so Koizumi could only hold his nose and agreed to Sasaki's self-recommendation.

Because he was worried that Sasaki would mess up, Koizumi specially kept Sasaki after the meeting, and told him that the [-]th Division only needed to be stationed in Singapore to monitor the operations of the National Independence Army.And authorize him to withdraw from the battle directly if he can't do anything.

In order to keep the [-]th Division, Koizumi was worried about the arrangement.However, Sasaki's special status determined that since Koizumi gave him such an opportunity, how could he not make good use of it.Therefore, in the defense of Singapore that took three days and one night, he first divided the four regiments under his command into three brigades, and let each of the three brigades be responsible for expulsing the National Independence Army to launch a countercharge against the Chinese army.Then, after the Chinese army approached the urban area of ​​Singapore, he successively divided six brigades, claiming to let the Chinese have a taste of the power of the imperial army in street fighting, but in the end, the Chinese army dispatched aviation troops to directly bury them in the sea of ​​flames in the urban area of ​​Singapore. middle.

Koizumi thought he had done his utmost to Sasaki Ren, and said everything that should be said and what should not be said. As a result, Sasaki sent a telegram telling him that there was only one regiment left in the [-]th Division. Once he thought about it, it must be Sasaki Shota was once again murderous and reckless, so his face was naturally extremely ugly.

The headquarters of the Japanese army in Southeast Asia are scarce resources, and every Yamato soldier cannot be sacrificed easily.After reading the telegram, Inoue Narumi shook his head and said, "Sasaki shouldn't have been allowed to stay in the first place, this bastard, he doesn't see the big picture at all."

"Let them retreat immediately! This bastard, didn't I tell him that he can retreat directly? Eight grids! Eight grids!"

(End of this chapter)