Ouyang Yun concluded that the British army would surrender. It's because I'm familiar with this history. Although the Japanese entered the Indian Ocean a year earlier than that time and space, and the order of attack was completely reversed, the fundamental factors that determined the outcome of the battle were no different—the British had not fought for too long, while the Japanese were soaked in blood, and they were weaker and stronger, and when the British army's most reliable sea and air forces were defeated by the Japanese, the outcome was in fact already doomed.

The Japanese army's strong attack on the Indian Ocean was the best strategy for the Japanese to solve the growing shortage of domestic combat resources. Moreover, if they can capture Vietnam and Burma, they will be able to open a new front and aim their troops directly at China's rear. This is also the reason why the Cadet Army had to send elite troops into Vietnam despite the huge pressure of the Korean puppet army on the frontal battlefield. For Britain and the United States, which maintain huge colonial interests in Southeast Asia, the Japanese can be said to have planted a poisonous needle in their hearts. The British were the most depressed, because before that, Britain and Japan had maintained a non-aligned alliance, and even the Japanese navy still had the strong shadow of a British teacher. This time, the Japanese picked up the sticks without saying a word, and the British were caught off guard and ate a few stuffy sticks in a row, which has become a joke in the diplomatic circles of the world. The Dutch and French were no less anxious than the British, but their homeland had fallen to Nazi Germany, so the way they could express their anger was rather dull. The French, because of the superiority of the military such as Ompos, took a relatively clever countermeasure, and reached an agreement with the Cadet Army to take what they needed, and obtained the military support of the Cadet Army, and now it seems that it is one of the countries other than Britain and the United States that are most likely to maintain their colonial interests. Among the British, French, American, and Dutch people, the emotions of Americans are the most tangled and complex. On the one hand, because the U.S. government is focused on Europe and does not want a war with Japan, although there are endless protests, there is no substantive action. On the other hand, considering that the Philippines, which was occupied by the United States, would be difficult for the United States to show off after the Japanese army swept away the Western forces in Southeast Asia, the US government was anxious and always wanted to do something to feel at ease. It was under the guidance of this kind of thinking that the Americans quietly became the shadow fourth party in the tripartite alliance between "China, Britain and France", and began to use their huge commercial transport fleet to provide military assistance to China in exchange for China's military exports to Southeast Asia, and also helped the British to mobilize troops and materials from their homeland to the Indian Ocean, always hoping to stop the advance of Japan, a war beast, at the lowest cost.

In addition to the United States, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, the Australian government also maintained 12 points of vigilance against the entry of Japanese troops into the Indian Ocean. As a member of the Imperial Commonwealth, Australia was obliged to help the British defend themselves against foreign invasion, and in Singapore, the 8th Australian Division was fighting for the British along with the 11th Indian Division.

When a wolf tooth named Cui Lin under the wolf's head group left Phnom Penh with seven brothers and began to march towards the Malay Peninsula, Ouyang Yun and his generals were surrounding a huge sand table, discussing how to rescue as many overseas Chinese trapped as possible at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula.

"I hope the British can hold out longer, so that we can rescue more local Chinese. In the most difficult time for the country, they donated money and planes, and now, it is time for the country to repay them! If necessary, I will not hesitate to send a force to rescue them," Ouyang Yun said with a sworn oath after the meeting began.

"It's very difficult!" Guo Kui said: "Not to mention that we don't know when the British will surrender, but if we have this time, how can we take people out?" If the Japanese army were to break through directly into the Malay Peninsula, the Japanese would have aircraft carriers to provide air support, and if the scale was small, it would be useless to infiltrate them, and if the scale was large, the Japanese would be able to seize the opportunity. ”

"The British are so stupid that the Japanese would succeed in a surprise attack on Segamat. It is impossible to count on the British and Japanese to fight desperately, and the British now have nothing but to surrender, and it is estimated that they can only ask the Americans to help transfer. The question is, are Americans willing to take risks? Chu Tiange said.

Ouyang Yun: "Even if it is a risk, the British will try to do it, and don't forget, not long ago, they just completed a world-famous Dunkirk retreat. And this will be our only chance. As long as the Americans are willing to help the British, then we can organize a fleet of ships to mix in the American fleet and transport as many local Chinese and overseas Chinese as possible. But before we can do that, we have to muddy the waters of Southeast Asia! ”

In the Malay Peninsula, the British have not yet given up resistance. On the one hand, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked the U.S. government to put pressure on the Japanese government in order to negotiate and surrender without a fight. On the other hand, he appointed Admiral Wavell, commander-in-chief of the British Command in the Middle East, as commander-in-chief of the British forces in India, hoping that Wavell would be able to rebuild the same miracle as he had done in the Middle East to defeat the Italian army. After rushing to India, Wavell immediately gathered all the land-based and sea-based fighters he could muster to indiscriminately bomb the Japanese bases on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, and destroyed several oil wells on Sumatra.

The most fundamental purpose of Japan's invasion of the Indian Ocean was to obtain oil resources on the island of Sumatra. In doing so, Wavell hit them right in the underbelly. Yamamoto immediately mobilized two aircraft carrier fleets to be stationed in the Java Sea, and regularly dispatched fighter planes to patrol. He made this arrangement on the front foot, and Wavell on the back foot commanded two divisions of British troops to storm Segamat from Negeri Sembilan. The two sides then engaged in an offensive and defensive battle around Segamat.

At the Haikou base of the Xuebing Navy, two Song-class submarines with a displacement of 1,250 tons left the dock loaded with fuel and weapons. The Song-class submarine is a new generation of conventionally powered submarine independently developed by the Cadet Army, which represents the most advanced technology of the Cadet Army and the Navy. So far, three submarines of this type have been produced by the military academy, and there has been no actual combat experience before. Ouyang Yun dispatched two ships at one time, and let them carry out long-distance voyages to deal with the unprecedentedly large Japanese-Western expeditionary fleet, which shows his determination to save the Chinese in Singapore.

Coincidentally, on the same day that the two Song-class submarines left for the Indian Ocean theater, two Japanese Yamato-class battleships converted into aircraft carriers were launched at the same time. So, when Yamamoto 56 received a secret telegram from China and heard that the "Yamato" and "Musashi" aircraft carriers had been officially launched for sea trials, and he smiled happily for the addition of two new forces to the Imperial Navy's aircraft carrier group.