After getting the land exchange document signed by the British government, Zhuo Fei immediately issued an order to require the independence army to go south from Sumatra to take Java Island. The Southern Advance Corps under the command of Yamashita Fengwen spent a lot of effort to capture Java Island, but the Japanese army was to occupy Java Island for a long time, and Zhuo Fei went south to capture Java Island not for long-term occupation, but only to obtain a passage with Australia.

The meaning of the two is different, and the tactics used are naturally different, and the troop carrier with a large number of infantry did not dock at all, and first smashed a flood of rockets into the port. Not to be outdone, the fighters that took off from the aircraft carrier were not far behind, and incendiary bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and high-explosive bombs took turns to blow up a landing ground for the landing force. The Japanese troops guarding the shore were not to be outdone, and they were happy to fight back and forth, in short, the Japanese army had only one purpose, and could not make the independent army successfully land in Java.

The landing was fought from morning to afternoon, and the casualties on the part of the Independence Army were not very high, and by the time the vanguard of the 1st Independent Division had succeeded in opening up a landing ground and advancing inland on the island of Java, the troop transport fleet found that it was no longer able to provide long-range fire support to the landing force, as the ammunition they carried was almost depleted. The 1st Independent Division, which had completed the landing, was firmly nailed to the island of Java, and the Japanese army, eager to recapture the coastline, launched a counterattack like a locust, but was repeatedly repelled by the 1st Independent Division, which was waiting for the battle.

The battle continued into the night, with the sound of gunfire piercing the night sky, and flares rising from time to time in the night sky near the landing side. At four o'clock in the morning, just over an hour before dawn, a large number of merchant ships brought in from India rushed to the outer shores of the island of Java, tasked with transporting troops and ammunition supplies. Such a large-scale battle, in James's memory, has been called the level of battle, looking at the dust and fireworks rising from time to time on the shore, Sir James standing on the side of the ship can't help but be excited.

The rising sun did not seem to be affected by the war, and still diligently sowed light on the earth, while the soldiers on both sides in the fierce battle could only fight in the scorching heat. The offensive of the Independence Army was as fierce as ever, and under the cover of strong fire from rockets and air power, the forward units of the 1st Independent Division had broken through several lines of defense of the defenders in succession, and were now advancing inland on the island of Java.

The armed merchant ships floating on the surface of the sea were like sharks smelling blood, and they could not wait to rush into the landing zone, using sampans and landing craft to quickly send the soldiers on the cabin and deck to the beachhead. It was already past breakfast time, but James, who was overjoyed, remained on the side of the ship until he learned that the 1st Independent Division had all landed, and then James returned to the cabin to enjoy breakfast, which was already an hour late.

"Inform the forward troops to continue to expand the landing zone, and be doubly careful when advancing inland, so as to beware of Japanese dogs jumping over the wall to find us desperately." Zhuo Fei did not land on Java Island with the 1st Independent Division at the first time, but was forcibly left on the ship by Huffman and them, and the anxious Zhuo Fei could only fiddle with the sand table and map in the headquarters to pass the time. "Tell the troop carriers that I hope that the next wave will be our servant army, and that the task of breaking inland is best left to the servant army, at least to avoid unnecessary casualties among our soldiers."

Zhuo Fei's orders were well implemented, although the 1st Independent Division, which had completed the landing mission, was already the elite of the Independent Army, they were not copper-headed iron arms, and they would be injured and killed if they were hit by Japanese bullets. The Native Servant Army was already cannon fodder, so when the contented James returned to the cabin for breakfast, the 1st Independent Division, which had been advancing wildly, suddenly slowed down its advance and began to expand on both flanks of the landing zone, as if intent on controlling the entire coastline.

"Zhuo, why did the 1st Independent Division suddenly stop continuing to advance inward? Isn't it a good time for a chase? Why didn't you chase the Japanese and drive them directly into the sea to feed the fish? James, who learned that the 1st Independent Division had moved, didn't even finish breakfast, so he ran to Zhuo Fei to ask, in his subconscious and cognition, the 1st Independent Division was enough to occupy the entire territory of Java Island.

"Sir James, there will be many unexpected situations on the battlefield that we could not have anticipated in advance, and although the 1st Independent Division has now completed its landing mission, none of the heavy weapons that can be assigned to them have yet to come ashore. The Japanese troops deployed on Java Island are more than 2 infantry wings, and according to the information we have detected in advance, the Japanese troops here also have aircraft and artillery, so I cannot send our men to the range of the Japanese shelling in vain. James's arrival did not surprise Zhuo Fei, and Zhuo Fei had already thought of ways and rhetoric to deal with James.

Zhuo Fei explained like this, James didn't know what to do for a while, knowing that the other party already had artillery fire, and he wanted his soldiers to continue to attack, even if it was James, a layman who was not very proficient in warfare, he knew that it was wrong. "Sir, the 1st Independent Division is currently expanding the landing zone on both flanks, and when we complete the second echelon landing, I will face troops trying to break inland, but now, it is really not the time." Seeing that the rhetoric he had prepared had succeeded in calming James down, Zhuo Fei began to continue to fool James, a layman commander.

Zhuo Fei pointed to the sand table on the table and explained to James, "Sir, you see, our army has successfully landed and is actively expanding to both flanks. The Japanese fortresses and fortifications here, here and here have been completely destroyed by our troops, which means that our troops actually have a landing zone that is not threatened by long-range Japanese artillery fire. As long as we can keep up with the speed of transporting troops, we can drop off the third group before dark. ”

"According to our previously designated attack plan, the first three landing forces will be divided into three directions and carry out a breakthrough into the interior of Java Island. If the Japanese army wants to block the advance of the puppet army, it can only divide its troops, but it is absolutely impossible for the Japanese army to break through each one. At the same time, the convoy that has completed the first phase of the troop transport plan will be transferred here, opening up our second landing field, and the Japanese army here will not be able to resist the attack from both directions. ”

Knowing that Zhuo Fei still had second-hand preparations, James was overjoyed, and after carefully listening to the narrative of Zhuo Fei's combat staff officers, and then looking at the sand table and map in the headquarters, James was finally completely relieved. Dozens of troop transports kept plying the waters between Java and Sumatra, carrying heavily armed soldiers onto Java, and by the time night fell again, the exhausted fleet had sent more than 30,000 Independence Army and 20,000 indigenous servant troops to Java.

The 30,000 Independence Army troops were enough to control the landing zone that was currently under their control, and the 20,000 native servant soldiers had already sharpened their knives and slaughtered the interior of Java, and they were ordered to hunt all other creatures on Java except for the local Chinese. 20,000 South Asian indigenous soldiers armed with thermal weapons are 20,000 brutal bandits and thugs who fought this war only to get a good booty, and the means of obtaining the spoils of war were killing and looting.

"We can't let those coalition prisoners of war sit idle, and starting tomorrow, in a formation of 1,000 people, we will start sending coalition prisoner of war formations to the island of Java. Even if they can't do regular combat duty, they can at least be able to guard with guns, and the prisoners of war need manpower. Zhuo Fei had no intention of sparing the local indigenous population of Indonesia, but all the troop carriers returning to Sumatra were stuffed with a varying number of captured local indigenous youths, who would later be sent to the mines of the five South Asian countries as free laborers.

The attack on the island of Java went as smoothly as ever, without the surprises that Zhuo Fei had been fearing, and by noon on the third day, the forward troops of the 1st Independent Division, which had been advancing wildly, had taken Jakarta and continued to advance inland in West Java. The Japanese troops stationed on the island of Java were overwhelmed and quickly retreated to Central Java, trying to rally the local natives to build a defensive line to continue to resist the attack of the independence army. The Independence Army, on the other hand, ignored this, and after taking control of almost all of West Java, sent more than 50,000 indigenous South Asian servant troops as the forward force.

Using the already crazy South Asian indigenous servant army to take turns to consume the Japanese army's vital forces and ammunition reserves was a strategy that Zhuo Fei had already formulated at the beginning of the war, and the independence army was also very easy to execute. The abundance of booty had long since made the Servant soldiers forget about the dangers, and the Indonesian natives of Java seemed to be richer and more suitable as a target for killing and plundering by the Servant forces than in West Malaysia or Sumatra.

Forgetting the danger, the servants slaughtered the heavily defended Central Java like moths to a fire, and while the Japanese killed and wounded a large number of these South Asian indigenous servant soldiers, the Japanese also suffered casualties. The scuffle lasted for three days, and when Zhuo Fei's third and largest group of South Asian Servant troops from Sumatra landed on the northern coast of Central Java, the situation changed for the rest of the battle.

The Japanese troops defending Central Java finally began to withdraw in the face of the joint attack of more than 80,000 South Asian indigenous servant troops, and before they could withdraw from the Central Java area, the Japanese army's strength had been forced to lose nearly half of its strength by the South Asian servant army. The Japanese army, which had lost half of its troops, finally began to panic, and while they called for help from the mainland, they consolidated their forces and planned to retreat to East Java to continue to resist the attack of the independent army.