Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 1584 Rescue Overseas Chinese
As an overseas Chinese leader with a heart for his homeland, Tan Kah Kee originally decided to return to China for a visit in the near future to learn more about the domestic Anti-Japanese War situation.However, the Japanese army suddenly attacked Southeast Asia, and they came to Singapore in less than a month. He was worried about the safety of his family, and just as Thomas, the governor of the Straits Settlements, wanted to use his influence to organize Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese to cooperate with the colonial army to resist the Japanese army, he had to stay. After coming down, he became the spiritual leader of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia to resist the Japanese invasion.

In the schedule of Tan Kah Kee's unscheduled visit to China, the Xue Bingjun ranked first.One is a well-known overseas Chinese leader in Southeast Asia, who has made great contributions to supporting the motherland against Japanese aggression; the other is a unique anti-Japanese armed leader in China. Although the two have never met, they have known each other for a long time.In reality, I missed an opportunity to meet, but now I exchanged ideas and discussed countermeasures through radio waves, but established another kind of close connection.In just two days, there were more than ten rounds of radio exchanges between Phnom Penh and Singapore. The old and the young, the two people who had never met unexpectedly had a tacit understanding and began to work together.

Regarding the direction of the battle between Singapore and Malaysia, the two agreed. They both believed that the British coalition forces would undoubtedly lose, and they both knew that after the Japanese army occupied Singapore and Malaysia, they would definitely not spare the Chinese and overseas Chinese.There are currently nearly 20 Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia. It is unrealistic to evacuate all of them. Then we can only evacuate as many people as possible who show up more and leave a deep impression on the Japanese.Tan Kah Kee organized a rough calculation of the number of people who should be withdrawn but could be notified in a short period of time, as many as [-] people.Send this number to Ouyang Yun, and at the end of the telegram, he said with a wry smile: "When raising funds for the domestic anti-Japanese war, I always felt that there were too few compatriots in Southeast Asia who could contribute much, but now I have to There are too many sighs."

Ouyang Yun called back to comfort him: 6 people may seem like a lot, but if it is a [-]-ton merchant ship, ten ships will solve the problem.I'm trying to figure out a way, please gather the people first, and I will definitely pick you up.He also said: You stood up when the country was most difficult, and contributed money and efforts. Now is the time for the country to help you. Although the student army cannot represent the will of the country, within the scope of its ability, it will definitely do whatever it takes.

Ouyang Yun's words carried weight.

During the same period of time, all the merchant ships belonging to the Xuebing Army Gu’s Consortium received an urgent telegram from the chairman, Gu Lianyun, requesting that the ships in Southeast Asia immediately and unconditionally concentrate on Palawan Island. As for the losses caused by this, the At the same time, the coastal wharves under the jurisdiction of the Xuebing Army, such as Dongshan, Haikou, and the Pearl River Estuary...shared private private ocean-going ships were also gathered, under the command of a captain named Zhang Liangfeng appointed by Chen Ce Drive toward Manila.

The next day, Li Qingquan, a well-known overseas Chinese leader in the Philippines, and Zhuang Xiyan, a well-known overseas Chinese leader in Indonesia, one in Luzon and the other in Hong Kong contacted the Chinese shipping companies they were familiar with, and asked them to immediately gather the ships in Southeast Asia to Palawan Island , Let them contact the flight representative of the Gu's consortium who is there, and prepare to participate in a rescue operation related to the well-being of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia.

Another day, Gu Lianyun went to the White House to visit President Roosevelt of the United States. After an hour and a half of spying, he obtained a power of attorney.

The cadet army will evacuate overseas Chinese, and the Americans will also evacuate overseas Chinese.Americans have a big face and hard fists, so what they say is particularly weighty. The Japanese are not yet ready to go to war with the United States. Dare not obstruct.Of course, if that's all it is, Ouyang Yun is not yet fully sure that he will be able to rescue the Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia with the banner of stars and stripes.In order to be safe and do his best, he will send two Song-class submarines to the Gulf of Thailand.

On December 12, as the Japanese army landed another division of marines from the port of Malacca in Melaka, and as the aviation unit of the British Indian colonial army suffered serious damage in the battle, gunpowder smoke began to fill the air in Singapore However, after the U.S. government sent more than a dozen notes to the Japanese government with a lot of thunder and rain, it finally started the evacuation operation.

There are more than [-] American nationals in Singapore, and at least half of them have dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States.This time Roosevelt really wanted to help the cadet army. The US government issued a lot of notes, but none of them mentioned the number of expatriates.In this way, when more than [-] large and small merchant ships and cruise ships organized by the Xuebing Army and the Southeast Asian Chinese organization joined the American evacuation fleet, although a Japanese light cruiser supervising the American evacuation felt surprised, it did not say much. think.

The U.S. government's evacuation fleet consists of six ships.A [-]-ton cruise ship, two [-]-ton merchant ships, two frigates and a heavy cruiser.The commander of the American evacuation fleet is Colonel Grant, the captain of the heavy cruiser.Grant was the only member of the fleet who knew that the Chinese government wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to evacuate Chinese from Singapore and Malaysia.But even so, when as many as [-] ships joined the fleet he led, he was still taken aback and sighed: The Chinese are so united!What a big battle.

Ouyang Yun and Tan Kah Kee operated in secret, and wanted to evacuate as many overseas Chinese trapped in Singapore and Malaysia as possible through the evacuation of the Americans.They thought that this matter was kept secret, and they followed Roosevelt's path directly. As long as they were properly prepared, there should be no major troubles.However, when the "American Evacuation Fleet" was about to arrive in Singapore, an accident occurred.

As mentioned earlier, after Wavell took over as the commander-in-chief of the British Indian Army, he has been planning another Dunkirk retreat.Just like Ouyang Yun, he also targeted the Americans.Originally, he also wanted to organize his own commercial fleet or simply lease American ships to accomplish this feat.However, after learning of what the Chinese were secretly planning, bad water rose in the old British man's stomach.

The old British man really couldn't bear it. He didn't inform Bai Sihua until he learned the exact date when the United States launched the evacuation operation, asking him to withdraw all the British troops on the front line and replace them with Indian troops, Australian troops, and Dutch troops (Indonesia was captured by the Japanese army. After the occupation, the Dutch East India colonial army withdrew to the top of Singapore) and told him to be optimistic about the Xinghua Volunteer Army and send heavy troops to protect the Americans in Singapore.

Bai Sihua resolutely carried out this order. Therefore, on the day when the United States evacuated the overseas Chinese, as many as six divisions of the British army stayed in the city of Singapore, and one of the divisions specially surrounded the training camp of the Xinghua Volunteer Army.

(End of this chapter)