Will you surrender if you are not allowed to retreat?
The white-skinned officers leading the Indian soldiers on the front line were dumbfounded. They never expected that the Indian soldiers under their command could be so adaptable... and what made them even more dumbfounded was that they seemed to have nothing to do with the surrendered Indian soldiers. Method!
Because once those damn Asan raise their hands in the air, they will become prisoners of war of the Ming army and have nothing to do with their original superiors. If their original superiors still want to punish these spineless Indian soldiers, they must first defeat the Japanese soldiers who rush into the trenches screaming with bayonets in their rifles.
The Japanese soldiers who have captured many Indian Asans on the Malayan Peninsula are very familiar with these dark and spineless enemies, and they have been repeatedly told by their superiors not to shoot surrendered Indian Asans. , if you catch a alive Ah San and hand it over, you can exchange it for ten stones of knowledge, so these Ah Sans are still very valuable!
Of course, white skin is more valuable. A white skin is worth twenty shi. If you are an officer, you can increase the price based on your military rank...and it doesn't matter whether you live or die!
Therefore, except for some of the Japanese soldiers who rushed into the trenches to control those Asan warriors who "never say retreat and raise their hands high", the rest of the Japanese soldiers were holding rifles and shooting while rushing up to pick out those white men with bayonets. Skin.
When the white-skinned officers and non-commissioned officers saw this scene, they immediately lost their will to resist. Still resisting? There are only three or two white men in a squadron, and more than a hundred Asans below have surrendered. How can it be possible to defend with only three or two white men? However, these white-skinned people are not willing to imitate the third brother to bravely raise their hands in the air. After all, they are not Ah San who has long been a slave. They are the masters of the British Empire! If the British Empire was gone, their losses would be huge.
So without saying a word, these white-skinned people turned around and ran away. They ran down the embankment as fast as they could and then dived into the traffic ditch.
It's impossible to fight dozens of people with two or three people. It's safer to run away. After all, their long white-skinned legs are not comparable to the little carrot legs of the Japanese devils. How can they run away if they take one step to reach someone and two steps to do so? Not falling?
Seeing such a white-skinned, little-carrot-legged Japanese soldier with no martial ethics, he had no choice but to scold "Baga" while picking up his rifle and firing a few casually.
So at the front of Woodlands Beach, the screams of the Japanese and the crisp shots of Taiping rifles rang out. However, the marksmanship of these Japanese devils was not very good, so they did not kill a few white-skinned ones - this generation of Japanese devils are just not afraid of hardship (because they have always been very bitter) and not afraid of death (Bushido), and their various tactical levels can only To say that it is ordinary, it is completely different from the Japanese soldiers in World War II in another timeline.
However, those white-skinned men who escaped from the Japanese guns were not so lucky when they encountered their own troops - Viscount Beresford had already given an order, and anyone who dared to retreat would be shot to death! This shoot-to-kill does not distinguish between Bai Pi and Ah San.
Of course, Viscount Beresford also paid attention to the officers commanding the White Skin Supervisory Team... not to kill too many! Kill the one who takes the lead in running away. If they all run away, you can’t kill everyone without leaving them behind...
And these white-skinned officers who retreated from the front of Woodlands Beach seemed to be taking the lead in running away. Before they retreated to their second-line positions, most of them were shot by a burst of machine guns from their own people. They really died with their eyes open!
But no matter how provocative those white-skinned war teams are, they can't prevent the collapse of the Johor Strait defense line. Shortly after the Woodlands Beach area was completely controlled by the four battalions of Japs, the nine battalions of the Ming Army originally responsible for the sheep attack also began to launch a real attack with the cooperation of the Japs who had occupied the Woodlands Beach position! The Japanese soldiers fought along the seawall, while the Ming army forcibly crossed the sea. Under attack from two directions, the Indian soldiers who refused to retreat would of course resort to the old method - raise their hands high and surrender. The British officers who commanded them were either beaten to death by the Ming army or Japanese soldiers, or were suddenly attacked by their own supervising team while escaping.
The news of the rapid collapse of the Johor Strait defense line was quickly reported by the white-skinned British soldiers supervising the operations on the second line to Viscount Beresford on Bukit Timah Hill - in fact, there was no need for the people below to call, Beresford The Viscount also knew that the line of defense he had worked so hard to build had been breached. Because one after another the Sun and Moon Flag and the Chrysanthemum Flag have been raised on the British-Indian defense line on the front line of the Johor Strait.
"Damn, damn Indians can be cowards! They are all cowards... I will shoot them all!"
Viscount Beresford, who saw this scene on Bukit Timah Hill, was so angry that his face turned green and his voice trembled when he spoke. The Strait of Johor is a natural hazard! Moreover, trenches, barbed wire fences, and anti-gun fortifications are all quite complete, and there is also a five- to six-meter-high embankment to rely on. Even if it was bombarded by heavy artillery by the Ming army for an hour, the losses would not be too great. Why did it collapse at the first touch?
"Viscount, Viscount..."
Just when Viscount Beresford gritted his teeth and said that he would shoot the Indian soldiers on the Johor Strait defense line, his chief of staff, Viscount Fokker, ran over in despair. This chief of staff has been on the phone with the front line just now, and he has first-hand information!
"Folk," Viscount Beresford glared angrily at his chief of staff, "go to the reserve position immediately... reorganize the Indian bastards who have retreated from the front line into the reserve team. Then launch a counterattack! If anyone dares to hesitate, pick them out one by one and kill them!"
"Viscount..." Colonel Fokker shook his head, "No, not many people retreated from the front line of the Johor Strait. They, they..."
"What?" Viscount Beresford was shocked, "All of them were killed in action? Impossible, right? There are thirty to forty thousand people on the Johor Strait defense line!"
Colonel Fogg shook his head: "No, not many people died...They, they all surrendered!"
"Surrender?" Viscount Beresford was stunned, "What's going on?"
"Viscount," Colonel Fogg said, "the people who retreated from the front line were all our British officers and non-commissioned officers (there were still a few who were not killed). According to their reports, as soon as the enemy rushed up the embankment, the Indians After surrendering, the white officers could not control the troops at all, so they had to retreat. The result was..."
He also killed many of his own people!
"Traitor! Traitor!" Viscount Beresford roared angrily, "These traitors to the Indian Empire should all be shot!"
"Viscount..." Colonel Fokker said with a sad face, "What should we do now? Those Indians are not willing to fight at all, and we can't hold the line of defense... Should we take in all the remaining people?" Fortresses and coastal forts? This might support us for a few more days."
Upon hearing this suggestion, Viscount Beresford almost lost his temper. The designation of the unit he commanded was the Imperial Indian Army Malay Regiment - a unit of the Indian Army, not the British Army. There are not many white people in the team, most of them are Indians. If we only collect white officers and non-commissioned officers into fortresses and forts now, it is hard to say whether we can recruit 3,000 people.
And what kind of fighting spirit can these 3,000 people have? The Indian Empire... The Indians don't want it anymore, so why bother with a bunch of white British people? Doesn't this follow the Chinese proverb, that the emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuchs are?
Just as he was about to object, the roar of the earth shaking and the mountains rang out again. He quickly turned his head to look and found that the Ming army's shelling had begun again. This time the bombardment was on the reserve (second line) position of the Johor Strait defense line... If it cannot be defended there, the Ming army will soon be able to break through to Bukit Timah Mountain!
Danmaxi Fortress... is about to be completed!
