Nanyang 1931: From piglets to giants

Chapter 217 "The Japanese troops in Singapore can only surrender to Mr. Zheng"

As the saying goes, if you have books, you will be long; if you don't have books, you will be short.

Time is like the youthfulness of a boy. Sometimes it ends just as it begins.

In a flash, it was September 1945, 9.

Japan surrendered.

And the question that arises is: to whom will they surrender?
Outside the Japanese military camp that had clearly surrendered, layer after layer of Southeast Asian Chinese were slowly surrounding the place with firm and slow steps.

"You...you...what are you going to do? Are you going to rebel?"

A British soldier, holding a gun in his hand, faced the surrounding crowd with a look of horror and shouted loudly in panic.

Almost immediately after the words were spoken.

Then I heard a hissing sound coming from afar.

It was a rocket that flew straight towards him and penetrated into the tank track beside him. With a bang, it exploded into a large area of ​​fire.

The British troops were stunned.

Although they were holding guns in their hands, the guns could not give them any sense of security. The sweat on their palms made the butt of the gun seem to have become extremely slippery.

Click, click, click, click

More and more Chinese people came from all directions, and the encirclement around them became smaller and smaller.

You should know that in history, the surrender of the Japanese army was also very turbulent. As many as 100,000 Chinese people surrounded the Japanese camp with sickles, hoes, axes and other tools and refused to let them accept surrender, and even caused a big chaos at one point.

However, it only caused a little trouble.

The Japanese surrendered to the British and American troops, which has nothing to do with you Chinese in Southeast Asia.

No matter how unwilling you are, you have no choice but to accept it.

However, in this time and space, the Chinese in Southeast Asia had guns in their hands.

These Chinese groups, which are constantly gathering from afar and are still expanding, have a population of more than 20,000, although not yet 100,000.

But almost everyone of them has a gun.

British Army?

How many guns does the British Army in Singapore have now?

With the explosion of this rocket launcher, countless guns were pointed at their heads. Although the British army still had several tanks, each of them was equipped with a heavy machine gun with unlimited power against such a dense crowd.

But who dares to shoot?

The British army has tanks, and those Southeast Asian Chinese have rocket launchers in their hands!
"What are you doing? Huh? Why can't you just talk it out nicely? Why do you have to do this?"

To their confusion, the guns in the hands of these British soldiers were actually taken away by the Chinese. From beginning to end, no one dared to fire the first shot.

Even the doors of the tanks and armored vehicles were opened, and the drivers were forced out at gunpoint, and their tanks were inexplicably confiscated.

Obviously, the rocket launcher that just flew from a distance gave these British troops a great shock and also showed the attitude of these Southeast Asian Chinese.

This isn't just about daring to fight with them, this is simply about looking for trouble and wanting to fight with them!
So what can they do? Fight?

Hit it with a hammer!
You know, not long ago, they were all friendly forces.

After Japan surrendered, the British Commander-in-Chief of the Southeast Asian Allied Forces, Marshal Munroe, rushed to Singapore with his men to accept Japan's surrender.

Then, that was it.

With such a big commotion, the British officers and generals who had already gone in could no longer sit still and came out to check the situation.

Marshal Meng came out in person with a gloomy face. Facing the sea of ​​Chinese people, he angrily shouted, "What are you Chinese going to do? Huh? Are you going to shoot your allies? Are you going to rebel and declare war on the great British Empire? Does Zheng Yi know you are doing this? Huh?"

"Do you know what kind of international impact this will have? Huh? Just relying on a few broken guns, you want to declare war on our great British Empire? Huh? Who gave you the courage?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a snapping sound.

This time, a bullet really flew past Marshal Meng's ear, and the heat wave even scratched his ear.

"Ah~~"

Marshal Meng suddenly felt pain, and coupled with the sudden fear, he instinctively covered his ears and squatted down.

It was just a little bit off. If the bullet had gone a little further, it would have hit his head.

He didn't know whether the shot came from a sharpshooter or if it was aimed at his head but went slightly off target and hit his ear.

Are these Chinese people so brave?
However, this was a general who had come through World War II after all, and he could not be really a waste. Soon, he stood up again, covering his bleeding ear, and looked around the crowd angrily. His pair of tiger eyes were as big as light bulbs as he looked for the gunman who had just fired the shot.

"Who? Who hit me? If you have the guts, stand up and tell me, are you, the Southern Alliance, going to go to war with our British Empire now?"

For a moment, the angry duke was like a mad lion, ready to devour anyone.

"Sixth Master is here~"

Someone suddenly shouted this, and the originally crowded crowd suddenly parted in two directions like waves, revealing a passage more than three meters wide.

A somewhat shabby-looking Cadillac sedan, with a convoy of cars and motorcycles behind it, slowly drove over from a distance and stopped in front of Marshal Meng.

"Boom"

After parking the car, the driver trotted to open the door. An extremely luxurious-looking gentleman's stick covered with a layer of gold foil stretched out from the car and leaned on the ground.

Chen Liushi, with a haggard face, slowly got out of the car.

He was a fierce-looking man, and several years of guerrilla warfare had made him even thinner. His left leg was also injured by shrapnel during those years, and he almost died. Although he recovered, he was left with a limp.

He was seen limping in front of Marshal Meng on crutches, and as he walked, he said loudly in a hoarse voice:

"Marshal Meng, you are so powerful! The great British Empire dares not fight against the Japanese, but threatens us Chinese with full confidence, but you don't know...

Are you here now as the commander of the Allied Forces' Southeast Asia Theater, or as the British Admiral? This will help us Chinese to clearly know who our opponents are.

Eh? No, I'm fucking an ally, too.

After saying this, Chen Liushi slowly stood in front of Marshal Meng.

"Who are you?" asked Marshal Meng.

"I am Chen Liushi."

"Heh~tui!"

But Chen Liushi suddenly spat on the ground beside Marshal Meng's feet, then calmly took out a handkerchief from his pocket and gently wiped the corner of his mouth.

"I'm sorry, Marshal. I'm a rough man. My family was poor when I was young, so I didn't have the opportunity to go to school. After coming to Nanyang, I was born as a rubber slave in the rubber forest. I earned my status by chopping with two axes, so I don't have much quality. I hope you will bear with me."

"But when we were fighting in the martial arts world, we all knew one thing: whoever conquers the territory gets it. If someone doesn't put in any effort during the fight, but comes to show off their experience after conquering the territory, no one in the martial arts world will like them."

Marshal Meng said: "Mr. Chen, this is war, international politics, not a gang fight for territory. You are not a gangster. Are you going to declare war on our British Empire on behalf of the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Liushi quickly reached out to stop him and denied it, saying, "Marshal Meng, you can't say such nonsense. I'm just an ordinary businessman and can't represent the Southern Alliance. Today, I'm going to play this hooligan with you!"

As he spoke, Tan Lark Sye slammed his crutch to the ground. The Southeast Asian Chinese surrounding the Japanese camp immediately raised their guns and cheered like thunder.

Chen Liushi took the opportunity to take two steps forward, and whispered in Marshal Meng's ear with a smile: "Marshal, don't think that we will not dare to kill you. The Southern Alliance is not a national actor.

If I kill you, the rest of the Southern Alliance won't be held responsible. Mr. Zheng and I don't have a clear and substantive superior-subordinate relationship, so he can't be implicated. At worst, I'll pay for your life, one life for another. Tell me, will your British Empire go to war with the entire Southern Alliance because of you?

After saying this, Tan Lark Sye took two steps back and shouted in a mocking voice, "In the past, Mr. Zheng repeatedly reminded you that the Japanese army would definitely attack Southeast Asia and would definitely attack Singapore from the Johor Strait, and asked you to adjust the muzzles of your guns inwards, but what was the result?
Yamashita Tomoyuki swept across the entire Malay Peninsula with only five divisions. 100,000 British troops surrendered almost without a fight in Singapore. The British surrendered, but the Chinese did not. After years of fighting with the Japanese devils, they finally achieved this victory.

"May I ask Marshal Meng, how on earth do you British people have the nerve to come and accept Japan's surrender after the Japanese have decided to surrender?"

Marshal Meng's expression was naturally not very good, but he knew very well that what this guy said was the truth.

Compared to a few years ago when they surrendered in disgrace and lost control of Singapore, the Chinese in Singapore, and even the Chinese in Southeast Asia as a whole, have become completely different and have been reborn.

Three years ago, although the Chinese in Penang had become powerful, at least the Chinese in Singapore were still obedient citizens.

Penang allows the sale and purchase of guns and legal possession of guns, which has nothing to do with British-controlled Singapore. Singapore, like other British colonies, implements extremely strict gun control laws.

And to be fair, the Chinese, at least the Chinese in Singapore, are indeed the beneficiaries of Britain's Far East colonial system in Southeast Asia, and they are also the exploiters of other indigenous peoples throughout Southeast Asia under the same system.

Honestly, sometimes the Nanyang natives call the Chinese "lackeys of the British colonists," which, while overly aggressive, is actually quite reasonable. Singapore itself was the core center of the British Commonwealth's rule over the entire Far East. The wealth plundered from the colonies through financial and trade means ultimately flowed to Singapore, and almost all of those working in finance and trade in Singapore were Chinese.

Among the top elites among the Chinese, at least half are indeed the white gloves or even black gloves of the colonists, while the middle-class Chinese actually serve the top elite Chinese, and the lower-class Chinese serve the middle-class Chinese.

This is also the reason why Singapore was rich before the war. It is the third largest city in Asia after Tokyo and Shanghai, and the Chinese here are indeed quite rich.

The Chinese in Singapore rely on the British colonial system, and in fact they follow the British colonial system and rely on sucking blood from the entire Southeast Asia to maintain its operation.

So of course the Chinese would also maintain British colonial rule. As long as the lackeys could get something to eat, they would never bite their masters.

Of course, this is a rather blunt statement. In fact, people will glorify their own behavior. The most typical representative here is Li Xiaoshi. These people accept the concept of dual nationality.

These people are loyal to both Britain and China. In addition, the money they earn is often used to build bridges and roads and do good deeds. They will believe from the bottom of their hearts that it is the British who brought civilization, and they will truly be loyal to Britain.

This is actually the reason why people like Li Xiaoshi, as Chinese leaders, failed to stand up and take action when Britain suddenly quarantined and deported Chinese people in history.

When the Britain they are loyal to and the China they love deeply come into direct conflict, their own values ​​are torn apart.

However, a world war changed everything.

It turns out that you British people only know how to surrender when you encounter problems.

You don't care about the life and death of us Chinese at all.

忠？
I am loyal to you!
We were the ones who drove the Japanese away, what are you doing?
This change in mentality is the most direct reason for the almost complete collapse of British colonies in history, especially among the Chinese.

From being the most useful lackey of the British Empire, they underwent radical changes and became the main force against British colonists.

Especially after the founding war in the 50s.

"We Chinese have even defeated the Americans. Why do you British still want to rule us?"

At this time and place, everyone's mentality is actually similar to that of the Chinese in Southeast Asia in the 50s, or even worse.

Chen Liushi took a step forward, his nose almost touching Marshal Meng's nose, and gave the British admiral no respect at all. He said in English word by word:

"I'm here today. Even if Fatty Qiu comes in person, I won't give him face. The Japanese troops in Singapore can only surrender like Mr. Zheng. I say!"

After that, Chen Liushi pointed toward the Japanese camp and switched to Japanese, saying, "Listen up, you little Jap devils! We, the Southern Alliance, have not yet accepted your surrender. If you dare to surrender recklessly, I will order an attack right now and annihilate you."

With a wave of his hand, countless soldiers behind him roared in unison, shaking the earth, and began to fire their guns into the sky. Countless bullets turned into parabolas and flew towards the Japanese camp.

The 100,000 Japanese soldiers were frightened so much that their faces turned pale.

Why is it so troublesome to surrender?

But at this moment, the Japanese soldiers inside suddenly shouted: "The Japanese army in Singapore will only accept surrender from Mr. Zheng!"

"Yes, that's right. We just surrender to Mr. Zheng."

This sudden shout actually eased the tense situation a little, but it confused Marshal Meng and the British army.

And this has to do with the character Zheng Yi has established in Japan for such a long time.

To be honest, eight out of ten Japanese want to kill Zheng Yi. Zheng Yi is the enemy of the country, even the number one enemy. This is a consensus among all levels of Japanese society.

However, most of the Japanese troops in Singapore had actually heard of the Voice of Freedom Japan, so they actually knew very clearly what Zheng Yi's attitude towards them was, and they also knew clearly that Zheng Yi distinguished between ordinary Japanese and Japanese militarism.

They are all Asians, and they are even from a Confucian society. There is a soil in the society that respects the enemies. Zheng Yi has been pretending for so long and he is really good at it.

There may be Japanese who hate Zheng Yi, but I am afraid there is no one who does not admire Zheng Yi.

As for ethnic hatred, to put it bluntly, there were also differences among the Japanese army. Most people did not actually have such heavy blood debts on their hands.

There are indeed many Japanese soldiers who are beasts in disguise, but this actually depends on the legions. In some legions, every single one of them is a beast from top to bottom.

For example, the Chrysanthemum Army.

The three most brutal and inhumane massacres in the history of World War II were all committed by the Chrysanthemum Army.

Such beastly legions are rare in the entire history of human warfare.

But in fact, most of them, especially those in the B-class legions, really don’t have that problem.

Are we all ordinary people in essence? In fact, all countries in the world are similar. There are even weird ones like the Osaka Army, which is completely opposite to the Kiku Army.
What's more, some Japanese soldiers chose to stab China in the back during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and made huge contributions to the anti-Japanese cause, such as the Japan Anti-War Alliance, and Japanese friends like Sato Takeo and Miyagawa Kazuo. Their resistance was more tragic and heroic than that of most Chinese people.

Many people believe that if you surrender to Mr. Zheng Yi, as long as you have no blood on your hands, you should be treated fairly.

Mr. Zheng Yi has one million Japanese under his command.

Even if they had to accept humiliation or even death after surrendering, dying at the hands of Mr. Zheng would be more acceptable to them than dying at the hands of the British.

Soon, Terauchi Juichi came out holding a letter of surrender and a white flag, inserted himself between the two men, and then without saying a word, knelt down in the direction of Tan Lark Sye, raised his buttocks high, and kowtowed, saying: "The Japanese army in Singapore is willing to surrender to the Southern Alliance."

But just now, Terauchi Hisaichi received a telegram from the head of the national headquarters, ordering him to surrender to Mr. Zheng. If the British forced him to surrender, he could even fire back if necessary.

It was only at this time that Terauchi Hisaichi discovered that many of the nobles and bigwigs in the country, especially in the navy, had been secretly colluding with Zheng Yi and selling out national interests long before the Japanese army officially attacked Southeast Asia.

The construction of Haiphong Port even has a master plan drawn up by Mr. Zheng.

These are a bunch of traitors!!
If it were in the past, Terauchi Hisaichi would have cursed these people as traitors and might even have personally led his troops back to execute them.

But now……

It seems to have really become the lifeline of their entire country and nation.

Seeing this, Marshal Meng took a deep breath with a twitch on his face. His expression was extremely embarrassed, and the anger in his heart was almost bursting out.

He said to Tan Liushi in a deep voice, "Mr. Chen, right? You may not be aware that I have already spoken with Mr. Zheng long before today, and I sincerely invite Mr. Zheng to come with me to Singapore to accept the Japanese surrender."

"I can assure you that neither I nor the British Empire intend to come here to reap the fruits of victory. We are willing to share the glory of victory with you, the Southern Alliance. It's your Mr. Zheng who doesn't want to come!"

This is actually where Marshal Meng feels aggrieved.

Didn’t he invite me?

He even invited representatives of the expeditionary force.

It was Mr. Zheng himself who refused to come, so what could he do? Now that he hadn't come, he wouldn't allow them to surrender. What did that mean?
Tan Lark Sye quickly explained what he meant: "Marshal Meng, I told you, only! The Japanese troops in Singapore are only allowed to surrender to Mr. Zheng. Marshal Meng, don't you understand English?"

After saying this, Marshal Meng's expression became even uglier.

Good heavens, you don’t even allow a joint surrender, right?

They are the British Army! The sun never sets!
This was really too much of a bully, and Marshal Meng couldn't hold it back any longer.
"Navy! Navy!"

Marshal Meng took out his radio and shouted, "Where are the Empire's cruisers? Bring them over here, fire, and tell these rebels who is the real ......"

Before he could finish, Chen Liushi stretched out his hand again.

The two British cruisers that were originally docked at the port were suddenly attacked by dense rockets from the SAARC speedboat force near their waterline. In the air, swarms of fighter jets also flew over, buzzing like little bees, circling over the heads of the two British cruisers, and dropped bombs without hesitation, bombarding their decks.

Instinctively, Marshal Meng swallowed his saliva.

[SAARC really doesn't mind going to war with the British Empire]

Tan Lark Sye: "I will state this to you again. The Japanese troops in Singapore can only surrender to Mr. Zheng. Do you understand? If you understand, then now, please, and I ask all you imperialist colonizers, to get out!!!"

At this moment, Marshal Meng couldn't help but start shaking, and he didn't know whether he was angry or scared.

He nodded and said, "Okay, okay, okay, Chen Liushi, right? You are very good, and you, the Southern Alliance, are also very good. How dare you humiliate us great British people like this? We British have never been humiliated like this in hundreds of years."

After saying that, he also leaned his head closer and said, "You'd better know what you're doing. We're not done with this matter today. Let's see."

After saying this, he waved his hand and left with his personal soldiers.

I'm about to explode with anger.

When the Chinese in Southeast Asia saw this, they couldn't help but jump and cheer.

Chen Liushi ignored Marshal Meng's final threat. Instead, he turned around and said coldly to Terauchi Hisaichi, who was kneeling on the ground: "Now, please all return to your proper positions and wait patiently for Mr. Zheng to come and accept the surrender."

"Hi!"

　Because the story jumped quite suddenly, it was also a bit sudden for me. I didn't have time to think about the detailed plot after World War II, so I wrote it quite slowly. In addition, I deleted the content I had written yesterday and started writing it last night, so it was posted a little late and the number of words was a little less. I hope you can forgive me.

　　
　
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