On February 8, Terauchi Shouichi made a move and ordered the whole line to be launched.

At this time, Terauchi Shouichi had already received the news of the successful surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Combined Fleet, and sat on the flagship with his command knife in his hand, looking like a general who had strategized and won a decisive victory, and waited for the various units to advance and occupy after they were launched.

Hordes of warplanes took off from warships, airfields in Vietnam, Taiwan, and South China, and swooped down on Southeast Asia.

Tsukada Tsuka, chief of the general staff of the Southern Army, together with deputy chiefs of staff Shigesei Aoki and Yoshitaro Sakaguchi, and senior staff officer Masami Ishii, commanded those operational staff officers, communications staff officers, and confidential staff officers to set up a command post on the flagship, and used radio to communicate with the fleets, air groups, armies, and divisions of the Southern Army, and in accordance with the operational plan, orderly directed the combat clusters to start large-scale sneak attacks.

The Anglo-American-Dutch troops stationed in the countries of Southeast Asia were indeed ready for battle.

However, because of the war in Europe, Britain did not have the strength to devote more to the defense of Southeast Asia, but sent a "formidable, fast, high-class task force of battleships and aircraft carriers" in Churchill's words, to Singapore to deter the provocations of the Japanese navy. Unfortunately, in early November, the aircraft carrier Invincible ran aground in the West Indies and could not join the new Far East Fleet. Only the Prince of Wales, the Counterstrike and 4 destroyers remained in the new Far East Fleet.

The United States has not yet decided whether to enter the war, although reinforcements have been made to Southeast Asia, but they are limited.

The Dutch army was even more pitiful. Their country was already occupied by Nazi Germany. The presence of troops in Southeast Asia is tantamount to completely cutting off the possibility of domestic reinforcements.

The greatest hope of Britain and the United States is to scare the Japanese with their own great powers, sanction the Japanese by economic means, and make the Japanese dare not move against Southeast Asia. In this case, the fate of Southeast Asia and Pearl Harbor has become so similar that one has to sigh.

As soon as Shouichi Terauchi commanded the army to attack, the British, American, and Dutch forces stationed in Southeast Asia found that the disaster had come so suddenly and so powerfully. In a panic, he began to engage in resistance battles.

Resistance is in vain!

The core target of the Japanese attack was the oil-rich Dutch East Indies (present-day central Indonesia), which had to pass through the British Malay Peninsula.

On the evening of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Vice Admiral Phillips, commander of the British Royal Navy's "New Far East Fleet," who had received information that the Japanese had established an invasion beachhead in Songkhla, Malay Peninsula, led the fleet to set sail. I want to destroy the bridgehead of the Japanese army.

This Phillips, known as the "Little Napoleon" in the British Royal Navy, was convinced that bombers were no match for battleships. In fact, he had never seen a large number of bombers bombing a battleship.

Vice Admiral Phillips told his sailors, "We're going to get out and get into trouble," to the cheers of the sailors.

On December 9, Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumi, the former commander of the Manchurian Defense Force of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the new commander of the 25th Army of the Southern Army, was taught a disgraced lesson by Liu Yimin during his tenure as chief of staff of the North China Front. With a deep affection for General Terauchi Shouichi's kindness, he commanded an elite assault group composed of the 5th Division, the 1st Guards Division, and the 18th Division to reach the waters of the Malay Peninsula after heading south from Sanya on Hainan Island, and began to launch an assault on the Malay Peninsula. The task given to the 25th Army by General Terauchi was to cross the 700-kilometer Malay Peninsula within 100 days of the start of the war and conquer the Singapore Fortress, the center of British rule in the East, which was known as the "impregnable fortress".

Hordes of Japanese warplanes took off from the Saigon airfield in Vietnam and swooped down on the British airfield in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula, blowing up only 10 of the 158 RAF planes on the Malay Peninsula.

At 3 p.m., the New Far East Fleet, led by Vice Admiral Phillips, was spotted by the Japanese submarine I-65. Shouichi Terauchi immediately ordered the Kondo fleet, consisting of 7 cruisers and 2 battleships, to quickly move south to intercept the attack. As a result, the Japanese fleet did not arrive, and the Japanese air force departing from Saigon, Vietnam, discovered the British New Far East Fleet at 11:45 a.m. on December 10. It's like a pack of wolves spotting their prey. Eighty-five fighters of the Japanese Army Air Corps swooped down viciously, and all aerial bombs and torpedoes appeared. By 2 p.m., the once glorious and massive British Royal Navy battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Counter Strike had been destroyed, with a total of 793 dead on both warships, including Vice Admiral Phillips and Captain Rich. Only 3 planes were destroyed, 27 aircraft were damaged, and 21 crew members were killed. This battle is known in the history of warfare as the Battle of the Malay Sea.

That is to say, only two days after the Japanese attack was launched, the British army in the Malay Peninsula completely lost air and sea supremacy.

This was the case in the Malay Peninsula, and the Japanese army attacking the Philippines was not ambiguous. It turned out that the commander of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, the commander of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, and the old playboy Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu, who was beaten by Liu Yimin in Shandong and wiped out the entire division by the Eighth Route Army, took a shit luck and was actually favored by General Shouichi Terauchi. He was promoted to commander of the 14th Army of the Southern Army, and under the cover of Vice Admiral Takahashi Ibo's Philippine Campaign Joint Formation, which had 10 cruisers, 29 destroyers, 1 aircraft carrier, 3 seaplane carriers, and about 100 transport ships and auxiliary vessels, under the cover of Vice Admiral Hidera Xiaoice's 5th Army Air Corps with 200 aircraft, and Vice Admiral Tsukahara's 243rd Naval Base Air Force 11th Air Force with 300 aircraft, The Philippine Army went on the offensive.

At this time, the U.S. military in the Philippines had a total of 31,000 troops. Together with the 100,000 Philippine troops, a total of 130,000 people. The commander-in-chief was MacArthur. The US and Philippine forces have more than 270 aircraft, of which only 142 can take off to participate in the war, and the US Asian Fleet, which has 45 combat ships under the command of Admiral Hart, is engaged in coordinated operations.

At the beginning of the raid, the Japanese army and navy aviation launched a surprise attack on the US airfield and the Krabi Naval Base in Luzon, destroying half of the heavy bombers and more than one-third of the fighters of the US army on land, creating conditions for landing operations. Soberly, the main forces of the US Asian Fleet, stationed at bases in the southern Philippines, were spared.

Immediately after that, the Japanese army landed on a large scale, one to capture the Batan Islands north of Luzon, the Tanaka Detachment and the Kanno Detachment of the 48th Division also landed and occupied the airfield at Apari and Vigan in the northern Luzon Island, respectively, and the Kimura Detachment of the 16th Division landed at Legazpi in the south of Luzon to occupy the airfield and further expand the results of the battle.

By the 17th, the remaining 17 B-17 bombers of the US army had been withdrawn to Australia, and the Japanese army had complete sea and air supremacy.

Next, the main force of the 48th Division of the Japanese Army landed in Lingayan Bay on the west coast of Luzon Island, and the main force of the 16th Division landed in Ramon Bay in the southeast of Luzon, forming a situation of flanking Manila from the north to the south and encircling and annihilating the main force of the US and Philippine forces, and Mindanao and Holo Island also fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

At this point, the American GIs, British GIs, and Dutch GIs who were above the top suddenly discovered that the Japanese army was so ferocious!

In particular, the Japanese infantry who landed on the landing, wearing a small and short uniform, looked like a group of yellow-skinned monkeys, but they did not want to die in battle, and dared to attack the American, British, and Dutch troops without artillery cover. At night, the Japanese army was like a ghost, wantonly launching a night attack, and the American GIs, the British and Dutch gentry soldiers, in the face of the Japanese offensive, were all stupid!

MacArthur, the U.S. supreme commander in the Philippines, was crushed in his fragile defenses in the Philippines and was forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula with the remnants of the U.S. army and the remaining 79,500 troops of the Philippine army.

The Thai government, which had been holding the pipa and half-covering its face and colluding with Japan, suddenly discovered that the friendship between the Japanese was so unreliable, and the Japanese landed in Bangkok under the command of Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida, commander of the 15th Army, and soon took control of the whole of Thailand as a rear base for attacking Burma. At this time, the Thai government's dignitaries realized that the Japanese wanted not only Thailand's cooperation and support for them, but also Thailand!

At the same time, Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai of the Japanese Army commanded the 38th Division, which had been completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army on the Longhai Road defense line, and launched an attack on Hong Kong. The Japanese garrisons in Tianjin, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Guangzhou stormed the concession and began to attack the British and American concessions in China.

A strange scene happened, the Japanese army that killed Southeast Asia was welcomed by the upper echelons of Southeast Asia in many places. The Japanese army used all its propaganda machines, and the newspapers and radio repeatedly propagated the true content of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, that is, the liberation of the colonies, the expulsion of the British and American powers, and the construction of Asians in Asia.

Japan's pen troops propagated even more evilly, saying that the Japanese army's march into Southeast Asia was to sweep away the pride and prejudice of the British and American forces, share the pain and joy with the colored people, and establish a just rule of law in the great spirit of democracy within the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere', so as to promote the development of the local society, so that all ethnic groups and individuals can obtain corresponding rewards according to their own abilities.

The newspapers of the Japanese army even carried advertisements for the recruitment of students from various schools and major enterprises in Japan, saying that they wanted to train personnel for free for Southeast Asian countries and revitalize the local economy.

For a time, Southeast Asia was filled with the demonic laughter of the Japanese army and the seductive lies. It seems that the Japanese army is the People's Liberation Army of Southeast Asia, coming to the rescue of Southeast Asia enslaved by colonialism!

At this moment, Terauchi Shouichi felt extremely comfortable in his heart, and the depression of losing the battle with Nishio Shouzo for the commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army was swept away. This devil, the battle report sent to the emperor is full of joy!