In the port of Singapore, on the morning of December 28, local time, the British, French and Dutch joint fleet, which had been established for less than 12 hours, was ready to go.

Earlier yesterday, Britain, France, Russia, and the Netherlands had declared war on China, and although the Netherlands was not immediately attacked by China, the Dutch government was forced to respond to the war because the content of the "liberation of Asia" in the edict issued by the Empress of China on 26 December clearly involved the Dutch East Indies.

The governments of Britain, France, and the Netherlands immediately ordered their respective Far East Pacific Fleets to assemble at the port of Singapore and form a joint fleet of the three countries to prepare for an attack on the East Asian coalition.

Yesterday afternoon, the main force of the French Far East Fleet, led by Vice Admiral Desai, rushed to the port of Singapore ahead of the Dutch Far East Fleet, and its forces included: the dreadnought battleship "Danton", two large armored cruisers of the Ferry class, two protective cruisers, four destroyers, and two small gunboats.

The authorities of French Indochina have been fully vigilant against the large-scale build-up of Chinese troops on the border in recent months, and the French Far East Fleet, which is weak, has strengthened its defenses, fearing that it will be destroyed in the harbor by the Chinese fleet, which is N ranks higher in strength overnight.

On the morning of December 26, local time, only five hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, dozens of Chinese military planes came to Haiphong Port, blew up and damaged many merchant ships, gunboats, and patrol boats, and then a powerful East Asian coalition fleet drove outside the port, and within two days all the batteries defending the harbor were dumb - at the same time, 11 ships of the Far East Fleet were cruising near Cape Jinweng, and immediately headed south after learning the news of the outbreak of war to avoid engaging with the superior ASEAN fleet, After receiving orders from the French government, they drove to Singapore at full speed.

The main force of the Dutch Far East Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Rupert, arrived in port until late yesterday night, and included two Java-class dreadnought battleships, two small protective cruisers, and six destroyers.

The command of the combined fleet of the three countries was quickly formed, and Vice Admiral Bernie, commander of the British Pacific Fleet, became the commander of the combined fleet as a matter of course, and a joint staff office quickly came up with an operational plan.

This efficiency was made possible by the 1911 Pacific Pact signed by Britain, France, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal, which stipulated that the six countries would jointly guarantee the territorial status quo of each of the signatories in the Far East Pacific and cooperate with each other in the event of an invasion by a foreign signatory. On the basis of this agreement, Britain, France and the Netherlands, the three countries with which they have the closest ties, hold joint naval exercises once a year to jointly counter threats "related to the Pacific interests of the three countries in the Far East."

At this time, only two months had passed since the latest exercise, and the three fleet commanders and their staff officers were all familiar with each other, and there was no need to waste any more time running in, and a series of operational plans for the East Asian Combined Fleet had also been rehearsed one by one in previous exercises, and it can be said that the coordination of the British, French, and Dutch joint fleets was no less than that of the Sino-Japanese-DPRK joint fleet, which was an imaginary enemy.

According to the information provided by the US side, a powerful fleet of the East Asian coalition forces shelled the Corregidor Fortress at the entrance to Manila Bay on 26 and 27 December, and at the same time bombarded the ships in the harbor with seaplanes.

At the same time, ASEAN troops landed in Lingayan Bay in the northwest of Luzon and Subic Bay on the west coast, where large numbers of ships were concentrated.

The Joint Staff's final operational plan was as follows: Storm Subic Bay and Lingayan Bay in turn, destroy the landing fleet there, destroy as many enemy ships as possible to protect the landing fleet, and finally turn around and assault Manila Bay to free the US Asian Fleet trapped there.

In order to ensure that the operation would achieve the intended results, while maintaining close liaison with the US side, a submarine unit was dispatched to the three bays as early as yesterday night to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance, and strict secrecy measures were taken in all respects.

The main ocean-going forces of the combined fleet of the three countries will be poured out in this battle: 6 dreadnought battleships, 1 battleship cruiser, and 4 old battleships (carrying a total of 68 12-inch and 8 15-inch guns), 10 armored cruisers, 14 protective cruisers, and 30 destroyers. These forces will be organized into three battleship detachments, six cruiser detachments, and four destroyer squadrons, under the unified command of Vice Admiral Bernie under the command of the "Malaya", and are scheduled to sail at 09:00 on the 28th, and are expected to break through Subic Bay first in three to four days.

Bernie's lieutenant general's flag was raised on the mast of the Malaya, the world's largest battleship and about to begin its first battle since its commissioning.

Vice Admiral Bernie was full of ambition, and according to the information gathered from all sides, almost all the dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers of the East Asian Combined Fleet had sailed to Hawaii, and the enemy in the South China Sea had a maximum of 10 old battleships.

As the whistle sounded from the "Malaya," the 65 combat ships of the joint fleet of the three countries, led by more than 10 patrol boats and gunboats, sailed out of Singapore Harbor in preparation for forming a formation in the waters east of the Singapore Strait.

At this time, within 30 nautical miles of the eastern mouth of the Singapore Strait, 33 Shark II submarines of the East Asian coalition forces were dormant underwater, waiting for their prey to be delivered......

In the port of Zhanjiang in Guangdong, the main force of the 2nd Fleet of the East Asian Combined Fleet, which has completed the task of shelling the port of Haiphong, is replenishing coal bombs.

In the first two days of fighting, the old battleships and armored cruisers of the 2nd Fleet gave full play to their residual heat, and swept through the port of Haiphong with 90 305 mm guns, leaving the poor French to the ground, and the pile of shore defense batteries that they had built for thirty years were no longer able to fight back after only two days.

Within 48 hours, 19 old battleships and armored cruisers fired a total of 4,500 rounds of 305-mm main gun shells and more than 20,000 rounds of 150-mm secondary artillery shells.

At the same time that the main force of the 2nd Fleet attacked the Haiphong Port Fort, the 201st Division of the Vietnamese Restoration Army, which was the advance force of the First Army of the Asian Liberation Army, landed in Halong Bay, quickly captured Halong Port, and began the "halving" operation against the French troops stationed in Vietnam.

After completely suppressing Haiphong Port, except for a small number of troops left behind to support the landing operation, the main force of the 2nd Fleet arrived at Zhanjiang Port last night and began an intense supply operation.

On the "Ruixiang", the flagship of the 2nd Fleet, Admiral Ma Shengyu, the commander, received the telegram handed by the staff officer, and after a brief glance, his brows immediately tightened.