Chapter Sixteen: The Final Battle in Malaysia (Five)

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  "Today is a damn good day to die." Standing on the bridge of his own warship, RSS Sea Hawk (F80), a "Sea Wolf"-class missile corvette that he had served on for many years, Lieutenant Chen Xinhe muttered a curse. At this moment, in front of his warship, six Victory-class light missile patrol vessels, six improved "Sea Wolf"-class missile corvettes and six Fearless-class anti-submarine patrol boats from the 1st Flotilla of the Singapore Navy were slowly sailing out of Changi Naval Base in formation. What lay ahead for this fleet? Chen Xinhe didn't have much imagination because he was a soldier, and obedience was his duty.

  The sky of Changi is not radiant with sunshine today, and the streets that were heavily damaged by intercontinental missiles in the distance are still emitting thick smoke from time to time. But what does it matter? Any day is suitable for soldiers to die for their ideals.

  At this moment, the flames of war on the Malay Peninsula are still raging. The vanguard of the 57th Mountain Division of the Indian Army, which landed lightly, merged with the Indonesian rebels led by Naga Pino and began to march towards Kuala Lumpur. Faced with Naga Pino's smiling face, the Indian officers always had a chilling fear in their backs.

  Within 72 hours of landing in Malacca, Nanking Pino also established a solid beachhead in the most efficient way. This simple and direct method had been widely adopted by his predecessors in Asia countless times, that is - scorched earth.

  The army of Nanking Pino consisted of two parts, the numerous Sumatran local armed forces were just a mob. The real backbone that supported the Indonesian rebels to survive in the jungle for a long time was a small number of foreign mercenaries with a similarly mysterious name - "Xiaoyi people".

  For a long time, the Japanese government has been seeking to dispatch military forces overseas, but due to constraints such as the Peace Constitution, apart from following the US government and doing some hard work, the Japanese military has almost no actual combat capability overseas. For this reason, the Japanese military decided in the 1990s to emulate American private military companies, using military force in civilian form overseas.

  However, Japan is different from the United States. There is a lack of a large and abundant adventurous spirit among retired soldiers in Japan, and the Japanese government is also worried that mercenary troops with many Japanese people will cause trouble for the Japanese government in diplomacy. So soon, the Japanese military shifted its target to foreigners living in Japan. In 2003, the Japanese government secretly recruited the first batch of foreign mercenaries. Since their training camp was located on the sparsely populated Rishiri Island in northern Hokkaido, this unit was named "Ezo".

  Although the Japanese government had planned several secret military operations with foreign mercenaries as the main characters, this was the first time that the "Ezo people" were in a real battle without any discount. Although the Japanese military was confident in the combat effectiveness of the "Ezo people", it was actually the Japanese spies disguised as companies such as "Japan South Sea Oil Development Co." that made the "Ezo people" shine in the war.

  Before the outbreak of war, Japan had conducted a thorough investigation into the human geography of southern Malaya. Local Japanese companies had stockpiled large quantities of military supplies before the outbreak of hostilities and some electronics firms had tapped and disrupted Malaysian communication networks.

  Taking the Afghan War and Yugoslav Civil War as references, Nangapino further requested the Japanese government to urgently order a batch of powerful off-road light trucks from domestic automobile manufacturers, which were secretly stored in warehouses of Japanese automobile companies in southern Malaysia along with multi-tube rocket launchers, large-caliber machine guns, grenade launchers and other weapon accessories. After the "Emishi" people landed and looted various Japanese enterprises, they quickly became a mechanized infantry with abundant materials and mobility and firepower that could not be underestimated.

  At this moment, Lieutenant-Colonel Nishino Ichiro was standing in the northern suburbs of Malacca City. His troops had already completely controlled the state of Malacca, and as soon as they crossed this land called Negri Sembilan, he and his "Yamato" people would become the first Japanese army to occupy Kuala Lumpur since World War II. Although the Indian military's request was only to pin down the Malaysian army's actions, but for a Japanese soldier, Indians were just an inferior nation in his dictionary.

  The Malaysian army's resistance was weak and easily defeated, Nangka Pino crossed city after city only to see faces filled with fear and astonishment. There were no sniper shots, no landmines, not even a single opposing slogan. The invaders occupied the empty police stations and municipal centers as if they were driving away birds and beasts, forcing Malays out of their homes and shooting them one by one.

  "Inferior nations are inferior nations after all." Nangpi even doubted whether the Malays could be considered human, and he could imagine his ancestors entering China in the 1930s. But soon his arrogance would suffer the most severe punishment.

  On the Malaysian side of the Johor-Singapore Causeway, countless Malaysians fleeing the war gathered here, unable to enter the country and gazing longingly at the island nation that was not far away. In the minds of Malaysians, there has always been a complex psychology: no matter what achievements Singapore has made, they are subordinate to Malaysia.

  In the thin morning mist, tanks and military vehicles with flashing headlights emerged on the bridge, rumbling as they came. The Singapore Army made its historic first crossing of the Causeway. The first batch of Singapore troops to cross the Causeway were from the 46th Battalion, Singapore Armoured Regiment, and the 23rd Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment, First Guards. The original plan was for the troops to board ferries from Singapore to Tanjong Bruas in southern Malaysia, then use the Malaysian highway network to advance towards Kuala Lumpur.

  However, Lee Kuan Yew vetoed the plan. For political reasons, Singapore Army was asked to cross into Malaysia via Johor Causeway instead. The AMX-13 SM1 light tanks of 46th Battalion, Singapore Armoured Regiment rumbled across the causeway and advanced along the highway.

  But what awaited them were not flowers and applause, but the whistling Indian fighter jets. As the Indian Air Force repaired civilian airports in Bandaraya Aceh and Medan, Sumatra, India's light combat aircraft could use these airports to launch sorties. Four MiG-21FLs from the 29th Attack Squadron of the Indian Air Force dived down, dense unguided rockets sweeping through the advancing column of the Singapore Army...

  The same misfortune also occurred on the sea surface off Changi, where the 1st Flotilla of the Singapore Navy had just left the harbour and encountered an interception by the Indian Air Force. Dozens of Indian Air Force fighter jets pierced through the anti-aircraft fire of the Singaporean warships, unleashing a baptism of doom...