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The golden sunset, shining on the blue water, the three British destroyers, quietly parked in the Lion City (Singapore) Jangi Naval Base, in the huge dockyard, not far from the high ground, majestically towering groups of batteries, twelve-inch cannons pointed to the sea, fully demonstrating the strength of the British Empire. British sailors, leisurely shuttling between the batteries, did not notice: the cannons could not be turned to the rear.

The Lion City is another name for Xinjiapo, and the British have been working in this colony for many years. As early as the early 19th century, Britain was expanding its territory in India and trading with China, and they urgently needed to find a port where their merchant ships and warships could anchor and repair, and to gain an advantage in trade competition with the Dutch. At the end of 1818, the British Governor-General, Raffles, established a new trading port at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. After making landfall at the mouth of the Singapore River on 29 January 1819, Raffles found that Singapore was in excellent condition to develop into a harbour, with spacious waters that were spared from storms and a reliable and abundant source of water from the neighbouring streams. Singapore was originally under the colonial authority of British India. By 1820, Singapore began to generate profits for the British Empire, and in 1826 it became the Straits Settlements. On 1 April 1867, Singapore officially became a British Crown Colony, under the direct jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London. By the beginning of the 20th century, Singapore had risen from a swampy wasteland to become the world's seventh-largest port, and was hailed as a small jewel in the crown of the British Empire.

Singapore is strategically located at the southern entrance of the Straits of Malacca, a major shipping route between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. As the political and economic center of Britain in Southeast Asia, Song Xiaofei felt that China had to take Singapore in order to completely drive the British out of Southeast Asia. Moreover, Singapore has a dense overseas Chinese population, and Song Xiaofei has long wanted to include Singapore in the territory of the Chinese Empire. It's just that the Far East Fleet, which had been afraid of Britain before, as well as the army, did not make a move. This time. Because the British refused to negotiate peace, and because China repeatedly sold submarines to Germany after the war. In 1910, he always found an excuse to seize Chinese merchant ships, and Song Xiaofei decided to show the "muscle" of the squadron to the British. Not only to take Singapore, but also Malaysia, Burma, across Southeast Asia, and restore China's traditional influence in the region.

The Malaysian Peninsula is the boundary between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and Singapore, known as the "Far East Gibraltar", is the gateway to the Strait of Malacca, the main shipping route between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The British Empire has been operating in Singapore for many years. The Zhangyi Naval Base is even more extraordinary. However, after the start of the world war, Britain had no spare strength to take care of this territory, and lost most of the Far East Fleet to return home, and the army also transferred most of its troops back to China because of the excessive consumption of casualties, and the deployment in Singapore has been reduced to a minimum. By the summer of 1910, not only in Southeast Asia, but also in India, Australia, New Zealand and other places, British troops were exhausted on the French battlefield.

Britain was in Singapore at this time, and only the battleship "Prince of Wales", the battlecruiser "Counterattack" and two escort ships formed the new Pacific Fleet, and the fleet commander was Rear Admiral Wallace. This is the main force of the navy defending Singapore. At this time, the Malay Peninsula and Singapore Army had only about 18,000 troops, and it was also made up of British, Australian, Indian and Malay armies, with Lieutenant General Tvalsi in command.

The squadron's attack on the Malay Peninsula was divided into two routes: one was the 30,000 army led by Lieutenant General Cai Yi. Enter Siam (Thailand), occupy Bangkok, and head south along the Malay Peninsula. After the founding of the First Republic of China, Siam (Thailand) had the largest number of international students in the Chinese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. So since then, although Britain and France are still very 'involved' in the Thai king* team, there is still a strong pro-Chinese military group in the Thai army. In Siam's pan-Thai political movement, the influence of pro-Chinese military personnel was the largest force. In 1910, Siam was ostensibly a constitutional monarchy. And the essence is a system of military dictatorship. The centrifugal tendencies of the military-ruled Siam towards Britain and France, which traditionally controlled Siam, were increasingly evident, and China as the sole superpower in Asia. Become the object of Siam's pro-Chinese military clique to rely on. The squadron* landed in Siam, and troops stationed in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia also entered Siam by land. The Siamese army saw Chinese tanks and planes. There are also motorized infantry, fierce artillery units, basically frightened fart 'pee' flow, eager to grow four 'legs' to withdraw to the capital, except in Bangkok, the Thai army made a symbolic 'sexual' resistance, the squadron soon successfully entered Siam. The narrow peninsula south of Siam is connected to Malaysia, and it is from here that the squadron* team attacks Malaysia.

On the other hand, a 10,000-strong Marine Corps led by Vice Admiral Li Yuanhong landed from the sea. In order to support the landing operation, Song Xiaofei ordered the South China Sea Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Sa Zhenbing, including 4 "pocket battleships", which are special warships designed and manufactured by the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group: the displacement is about 10,000 tons, and the 305 mm caliber guns are installed, the armor is thick, and the endurance is super strong, these battleships have the thickest armor and the strongest anti-aircraft firepower, as well as 5 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers and 10 frigates Dang's landing fleet set sail from Sanya, Hainan, and headed for the Malay Peninsula.

China's South China Sea Fleet under Sa Zhenbing's command turned northwest on June 6 and pretended to sail for Bangkok, claiming to cut off the shipping line between India and Britain. On the morning of 7 June, a British reconnaissance ship spotted China's South China Sea Fleet, and the British judged that the squadron would land in Siam first. In fact, at 12 o'clock on June 7, the landing convoy suddenly turned around and sailed to Kota Bharu in the north of Malaysia's east coast, Pattani in the port of southwestern Thailand, and Songkhla in southern Thailand.

In the early morning of June 8, when the sun was still below the horizon, more than 5,000 squadrons on the South Road landed at Kota Bharu under the cover of the fire of four destroyers. Two hours later, the squadron landed, routed the defenders of Kota Bharu and took control of the first beachhead. After dawn on the 8th, the squadron's air force launched a number of air raids on the Singapore Air Base on the Malay Peninsula, which had not yet been occupied by its ground forces, and the British Empire's aviation hot air balloons were completely lost, and countless casualties were inflicted.

On the afternoon of 8 June, Rear Admiral Wallace led the New Pacific Fleet on an adventurous voyage without air cover and with no squadron unknown.

It took only two hours for China's South China Sea Fleet under Sa Zhenbing to cleanly sink the Prince of Wales and the Counter-Attack, capturing the other ships. The main British naval force in Southeast Asia ceased to exist.

The main force of the squadron's 'elite' troops landed in Songkhla, Pattani and other places, and then penetrated to the southwest of the Malay Peninsula, and then advanced south along the west coast. The diversion detachment landed from Godta Baru. It then heads south from the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The squadron rumbled south with the support of light tanks and air force, and the squadron was also equipped with motorcycles.

On the morning of June 11. The Indian Twelfth Division, commanded by General Tvalsi of the British Army, was the first to 'exchange' fire with the squadron, although the Indian army had a three-to-one advantage in numbers, but the soldiers with combat experience had already been transferred to the European theater, most of these troops were recruits, the training was very poor, and the equipment was in a slight position, so the result of such an army and the squadron confrontation was conceivable.

The British were hit by heavy 'shots' from the squadron. Near 10 a.m., visibility had reached a distance of twenty or thirty metres. The Chinese discovered the position of the main force of the British position, so under the cover of the 'shooting' attack of the vanguard detachment, they began to storm with tanks.

The squadron's western route troops quickly occupied Penang, eliminating the possibility of Commonwealth troops supporting the defenders of the Malay Peninsula from the direction of India and Burma. The main force of the West Road is rapidly moving south along the west coast. The Eastern Route troops captured Kuantan for three days and then advanced towards Johor. The Western Route Force entered Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaya, on 13 June and then continued its advance.

The 'shadow' of defeat spread like a plague among the British troops, and the retreat soon became uncontrollable, with more and more equipment falling into the hands of the squadron. The Chinese Air Force could drop bombs on British positions, tanks could be sufficient, and heavy artillery units were deafening with the sound of deafening. Let the fighting spirit of the British army be completely lost.

The Chinese infantry brigade on motorcycles and transport tanks chased after the retreating British and Indian troops, and hundreds of wheels converged into a noisy scene, and the retreating British and Indian troops were terrified.

Much of the Malay Peninsula was soon lost. The British commander, Commander Carllight, ordered the British to make a final retreat to Singapore. The British blew up the more than 1,000-meter-long channel dam connecting Singapore and Johor, and Singapore became a real island, equivalent to a bottomless warship to sail, and the British pinned their hopes on the dense artillery of the port of Changgi Naval Base to hold Singapore.

However, the British forgot that the defense of Singapore was aimed at the sea attack, and only a few of the shore guns could rotate at a large angle, so it was useless to deal with the landing behind. At this time, the soldiers of the British, Australian, and Indian forces in Singapore were demoralized and had no air and sea supremacy.

June 16th. Squadron artillery and aviation carried out a heavy bombardment of artillery position facilities on the island of Singapore. Subsequently, the Guards Division made a feigned landing in an open area in the northeast corner of Singapore. On the night of June 18. The main force of the squadron landed in warships in the bushes and marshes west of the causeway, where the exhausted and unguarded Australian troops were guarded.

After the landing of the squadron. Work began on the creation and consolidation of the landing ground, after which the Guards Division also moved west and landed at the landing site. The three 'elite' divisions of the squadron advanced side by side to the south, successively occupying important places such as the Tima Heights and the Inpoding Reservoir, and encircled the urban area of Singapore on three sides, while intensifying air raids. In less than a week, the British army surrendered unconditionally. In less than half a month, this "No. 1 strong city in the East" fell into the hands of the squadron. After that, it took three days for the squadron to take Brunei and merge it with its neighbours Sarawak and Sabah into a single administrative district.

The British Empire, known as the "empire on which the sun never sets", has completely lost its naval supremacy in Southeast Asia since its new Pacific Fleet was completely destroyed by China's South China Sea Fleet, and has lost the strength to resist in the face of the offensive of the squadron. This was tantamount to announcing to the British colonies and to the world that the British Empire could no longer defend its colonies.

The squadron then attacked Yangon and took Burma. The people of Myanmar welcomed the arrival of the squadron. This was originally China's traditional sphere of influence. In 1885, the British sent troops to destroy Burma and annexed India under the British Empire, becoming a province of British India. In 1886, Britain won the Third Anglo-Burmese War, and China was forced to sign the Sino-British Treaty of Burma with Britain, which also stipulated that China recognized British dominance over Burma, but Burma continued to pay tribute to China every ten years.

At this point, the army of the Chinese Empire swept across Southeast Asia and completely drove the British out of Southeast Asia. The whole of Southeast Asia is under China's territorial jurisdiction, and the South China Sea has almost become China's inland sea!

"The most painful catastrophe in the history of British colonization, the most humiliating surrender and defeat, is in Southeast Asia." Churchill, the British Secretary of State for War and the Secretary of State for the Air Force, trusted Prime Minister Lloyd in Britain after hearing about the fall of Singapore. George said he strongly demanded that Britain declare war on China.

At this time, Churchill, the former Admiralty Churchill, who had been dismissed from his post for his defeat in the war against the Ottoman Turks, returned to England! The new British Prime Minister Lloyd. George had always admired Churchill, and in order to show that he had treated Churchill with special favor, Lloyd. George gave Churchill any choice between the War Office, the Admiralty Office, or the Air Force Office when he formed the Cabinet. Churchill wanted to return to the Admiralty to wash away his past shame, which he expressed in a letter to the Prime Minister, saying, "I can accept any request to make everyone's wish come true: 'My comrades in the Royal Fleet are ready to let me go back.'" But in the process of consulting with other cabinet members, Lloyd's. Unable to convince the rest of the Cabinet, George withdrew his promise to make Churchill Secretary of the Admiralty, making him both Secretary of War and Secretary of the Air Force.

In the face of Churchill's proposal to declare war on China, British Prime Minister Lloyd's . George, Generalissimo Kitchener, British Foreign Secretary Grey and other members of the British War Council all thought he was crazy, and how could Britain have the strength to go to war with China at this time? In the event of a war with China, Britain will lose not only Southeast Asia, but also India, Australia and other places.

In the end, the British government only sent a telegram to the British ambassador to China, Zhu Erdian, asking him to express the strongest protest against China's actions in Southeast Asia, and to ask the Chinese government to give a reasonable explanation of whether it was to declare war on the "Entente".

Song Xiaofei replied to Zhu Erdian that China's war was not a war against Britain and the Entente, but to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of neutral countries, and hoped that Britain could stop the war in Europe and sit down at the negotiating table. The United States also hoped that Britain would stop the war as soon as possible, and did not condemn China, but sent the American fleet to Australia, on the one hand, to coerce Britain to negotiate, and on the other hand, this is also an action to prevent China from sending troops to Australia.

While attacking Southeast Asia, India's forces could also be said to be quite empty, and Song Xiaofei sent Feng Guozhang to lead 100,000 troops from Greater Tibet, and soon pushed the battle line to Kashmir, which is near the border between India and Pakistan today.

The British government did not want to lose the entire Indian subcontinent, so it was only then that the Entente and the Allies reluctantly agreed to an armistice and negotiate an armistice, and the squadron stopped advancing at this time.

Song Xiaofei knew that the next step was to persuade the countries in the negotiations to quickly destroy Russia, which was not an easy task, so he began to make a series of preparations. q