The Commonwealth force defending Kuala Lumpur was the ANZAC Corps. Major General Vernon, the commander, got up early in the morning and first asked about the ships at the Kuala Lumpur docks, and then asked about the inspection situation of the gendarmerie.

This ANZAC Corps was a rebuilt unit. The previous ANZAC Corps was captured by the Chinese National Defense Force and sent to the Asian International Court of Justice for massacring Burmese civilians.

The "shame culture" in Europe and America was also very heavy. If a person committed a heinous crime, as long as he was not caught, he was considered to have no moral problems. This person could even brag about his crimes as capital. But once caught and convicted by a court, this person would bear the label of "sinner" for life.

The outcome of the previous ANZAC Corps was like this. Those who were not shot returned to Australia and New Zealand, not only stripped of military status but also regarded as shameful sinners, no longer accepted by society.

The adjutant replied, "Commander, the ships haven't arrived yet. I have contacted the Singapore Fortress. They said they were worried that the fleet would be bombed if stopped at the port. They will send a fleet over when we need it."

Major General Vernon's face immediately turned ugly. In the past week or so, witnessing the fierce air battles between the Chinese and US forces, Major General Vernon and the ANZAC Corps headquarters understood that China's air power seemed infinite. Now that the US Air Force had withdrawn and the British Air Force was exhausted, the ANZAC Corps would suffer endless bombing and strafing from the air in the subsequent battles.

The ANZAC Corps cared so much about the fleet because they felt they couldn't hold Kuala Lumpur and were ready to retreat to the Singapore Fortress by ship at any time. The ANZAC Corps had already been annihilated once; they didn't want to be annihilated again.

"Continue to contact Singapore," Major General Vernon ordered helplessly. Sighing, the Major General continued to ask, "How is the gendarmerie's supervision?"

"The gendarmerie reported that military discipline is very good, and there has been no killing of civilians." After recounting the gendarmerie's supervision situation, the adjutant added, "The headquarters notified the whole army again yesterday that no killing behavior is allowed. Once it appears, it will be dealt with by military law. Military law includes execution on the spot!"

During the Sino-British War, although the headquarters of the previous ANZAC Corps did not encourage the army to kill people, it did not stop it either. Even after knowing that the troops began to "kill people to practice courage," they issued orders for various units to finish the courage practice process quickly and attack the Chinese National Defense Force quickly.

For the ANZAC Corps, British and ANZAC laws did not clearly define whether colonial people counted as humans, nor did they define whether the ANZAC Corps killing colonial people counted as a crime. But Chinese law firmly believed that humans should be equal, and humans should enjoy human rights regardless of skin color or race. Legal professionals from various countries participating in the Asian International Court of Justice recognized this concept, so the orders of the ANZAC Corps headquarters, as well as the actual indulgence, led to the ANZAC Corps being judged as a criminal group and tried from top to bottom.

The current ANZAC Corps, at least in terms of military orders, constantly emphasized striving not to leave any evidence of the headquarters indulging or even ordering massacres in the procedure.

Just then, sharp whistling sounds suddenly came from the air. Commander Vernon and the adjutant both changed their expressions. They both heard that this was the movement of falling bombs. The adjutant immediately pounced on the phone and connected to the front line amidst explosions. The adjutant shouted, "This is headquarters. The enemy has started attacking. How are your preparations?"

A relatively calm answer came from the other end of the phone: "Report headquarters, the troops have begun to enter positions!"

Judging by the average level of the British army, the ANZAC Corps' preparation was indeed passable. Quite a few trenches were dug, and artillery, air defense positions, and machine gun fire points were arranged quite carefully. However, the primary target of the National Defense Force Air Force was not the British positions, but the radar station located in Kuala Lumpur.

Through radio signal confirmation, intelligence provided by the Malayan Communist Party in Malaya, and interrogation of prisoners, the Chinese Air Force determined the location of the British radar station. Two H-5 fighters, with rockets on all 15 hardpoints, pounced straight on the radar station capable of monitoring the entire sky over Kuala Lumpur under the protection of J-9 fighters.

The H-5 was not a dive bomber. Although it could also carry out bombardment at a certain dive angle, it was closer to level bombing. Even so, the H-5 bomber adopted the maximum dive angle. The operator in the rear aimed fully at the radar station and pressed the launch button only after the plane entered a uniform linear motion state as much as possible.

The rocket left the plane, the rocket engine moved at full speed, and a moment later it flew in front of the plane. The plane also lost its stable flight state. The pilot began to pull up the plane, while the operator observed intently. He saw the rocket flying straight forward as if in a straight line. Before long, it flew the distance of 5 kilometers and exploded a huge ball of fire near the British radar station on the ground. The British radar station on the ground did not seem to be destroyed.

The crew of the H-5 was not surprised. The plane was flying at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour. The radar station was not large. It was not easy to accurately hit a target 5 kilometers away at such speed. The H-5 crew pulled back the plane and carried out the next bombing run. The reason for carrying 15 rockets was that it was clear before the sortie that one strike could absolutely not destroy the target.

The 19th rocket launched by the two H-5s finally hit the target. The pilots clearly saw the British radar station being blown to pieces in the firelight, with antennas and radar vehicles turning into flying fragments.

The operator turned on the radio. "This is crew 0109. Report Group Captain, we hit the target!"

The Chinese electronic reconnaissance aircraft also contacted the command post at this time. "Report command post, the British radar signal in Kuala Lumpur has disappeared."

Destroying the British radar was equivalent to destroying the eyes of the British army against the air. The headquarters then ordered the H-6 fleet to sortied and begin bombing the British positions in Kuala Lumpur.

Major General Vernon had already imagined that the attack of the Chinese Air Force would be terrible. Being truly amidst the overwhelming bombing from the air, he realized that modern warfare was even more terrible than he imagined. Previous wars only had fierce battles on the front line where the armies of both sides contacted. In modern warfare, the distinction between the front line and the rear was becoming increasingly blurred, and the headquarters was no safer than the front line. Major General Vernon's headquarters was suffering fierce bombing.

On the phone, Major General Vernon asked what kind of tragic fierce battle was going on at the command front line. The news he received surprised Major General Vernon greatly. "The front line was attacked by the Chinese Air Force; we haven't seen the Chinese Army yet."

Major General Vernon couldn't figure out what the Chinese army was up to. Just as he wanted to continue asking, the headquarters was hit by a rocket. Dozens of kilograms of TNT instantly destroyed the walls of the headquarters. Major General Vernon was covered by building debris within a second. The Major General was quite lucky; a sharp piece of wood pierced directly into his neck, severing the carotid artery, and he lost his life in a moment.

Inside the headquarters, the affected staff officers were seriously injured. They struggled and screamed, but at this time the headquarters had been blown into ruins. In the chaos, no one could come to save them. What awaited them was a quite painful death.

The Chinese Air Force did not know exactly what happened on the ground. Even with various sights, the Air Force could not really observe the situation several kilometers away. All fighters could only complete their tasks step by step, destroying one target and then continuing to destroy the next. In order to effectively weaken the enemy's combat effectiveness, the enemy's headquarters, traffic nodes, warehouses, radar, and radio were all targets of attack.

Only after the Air Force destroyed relevant targets would the corresponding Army move out. The wheeled armored personnel carriers of the motorized infantry brigade rushed to the breakthrough point, easily crossed the uneven ground, and broke through the enemy's defense line. During this process, they unexpectedly did not encounter any decent resistance.

Some armored personnel carriers that broke through the defense line stopped, and the rear doors opened. Infantry squads holding Type 37 assault rifles jumped out of the vehicles and began to attack in reverse from behind the British defense line. Under attack from front and back, the British troops in the trenches surrendered without holding on for long. The breakthrough was completely opened in the blink of an eye. A large number of infantry fighting vehicles rushed in from one breakthrough after another; some continued to develop in depth, and some spread out to the two wings.

Zheng Silang began to receive reports in the headquarters. Watching the British outer defense line of Kuala Lumpur disintegrate rapidly, Zheng Silang's expression remained unchanged, but he was really happy in his heart. His work in the General Logistics Department in the past few years was to complete the equipment needed for the current battle. Compared with old tactics, new tactics were a bit too brutal. The current battle proved that Zheng Silang's view was correct.

The comrades in the headquarters were very happy to see the battle going so smoothly. But seeing Commander Zheng Silang stand up and walk out of the command post with a thoughtful look, everyone noticed that Zheng Silang didn't look happy and was a bit surprised. The staff officers recalled the battle plan and execution and couldn't figure out why Zheng Silang was unhappy.

The comrades in the headquarters didn't know that Zheng Silang's thoughts were not on the battle in front of him. At this time, Zheng Silang remembered He Rui's analysis of "future" wars a few years ago. He Rui believed that China would inevitably wage a total war with a powerful industrial country. When facing an opponent with strong military manufacturing capabilities, such equipment and combat effectiveness only allowed the Chinese National Defense Force to be capable of continuing to fight on a battlefield full of saturation attacks in the future.

Even now, Zheng Silang still doubted He Rui's judgment a little bit. Zheng Silang didn't quite understand before why he had such antagonistic thoughts about He Rui's judgment. At this time, Zheng Silang found that he had the answer. The reason why he doubted He Rui was not that Zheng Silang himself didn't believe He Rui's judgment, but that Zheng Silang really didn't want to wage a cruel war with such an enemy. Even knowing that this day would come sooner or later, Zheng Silang hoped that this day would come a little later.

At this time, Japanese Navy Commander Yamaguchi Tamon was full of expectation that fierce battles could happen as soon as possible. The secret US telegram received by the fleet had ordered the US Air Force fighting in Singapore to take off from Borneo, but which route the US Air Force would take was not explained in the telegram.

Britain also had radar stations near the Borneo airfield; as long as Japanese planes approached, they would be discovered. When the US Air Force left the monitoring range of the radar, there were very many routes to take. Once the route of the US Air Force could not be caught, the US Air Force would land at the airfield near Manila in at most 3 hours. Although Yamaguchi Tamon didn't mind attacking the US homeland directly, he also knew that doing so proactively would only stimulate the US will to fight. It was not a good thing for Japan.

Looking at the map for a while, Yamaguchi Tamon pointed to the easternmost route of the Sulu Sea and ordered, "Concentrate the main force at this position."

"Why did the Commander choose this place?" the Chief of Staff asked.

"MacArthur is a very outstanding soldier; he cannot take risks on such things," Yamaguchi Tamon replied.

The staff officers of the Japanese Combined Fleet had discussed a lot before. There were various ideas, and various views had their own reasonable opinions, none able to convince the other. After all, this was a tactical action. Strategy wins because it is correct, while tactics are correct because they win. Since the Commander had ordered, everyone stopped arguing.

Soon, three groups of Japanese fighters took off one by one from the aircraft carriers. The fighters after taking off began to fly around the aircraft carrier formation group. As more and more fighters took off, the formation became larger and larger. After the last fighter took off, the planes that completed the formation in the air flew east in batches.

Although the fighters took off almost non-stop, from the takeoff of the first fighter to the takeoff of the last fighter and joining the formation, the whole process exceeded 40 minutes. This was also one of the reasons why Japanese fighters lost to Chinese fighters in the bidding. The loiter time of Chinese fighters far exceeded that of Japanese fighters, which ensured that aircraft carriers could receive long-term protection. Even if enemy planes launched a surprise attack, the aircraft carriers could receive sufficient protection power.

At this time, more than 20 transport planes were advancing towards Manila along the eastern part of the Sulu Sea under the escort of a US Air Force group. The US Air Force did not realize that the god of death was following the wings of the Japanese fighter group to attack them. The flight time was less than 4 hours, and the Air Force squadron coming to meet them had also taken off.

The living conditions in Singapore could not compare with the Manila Air Force Base, and the pressure on the battlefield was even more incomparable to the rear. At this time, the American pilots in the transport planes had already discussed whether they could spend a good night with the Filipino girls they admired before returning to the base.

Because it was overseas combat, the sortie allowance was several times more than the service allowance. Air Force pilots could afford to spend, so everyone discussed the pros and cons of those girls, and the atmosphere was very relaxed and happy. Soon, the discussion became unrestrained. Contrarians were already arguing loudly about how virile and enduring they were. The contrarians got very excited arguing. Two American pilot brothers had already stated that they would compare publicly in the club hall to see who was the real "seven times a night" man.

Such topics did not make these American soldiers who had just come down from the battlefield feel unhappy. People around them all began to jeer and bet. Even the transport plane pilots informed other transport planes of this news via radio, triggering more contrarians to express that they wanted to participate in the competition.

It wasn't until the Group Captain scolded them on the radio that this group of people quieted down.

It must be explained that it wasn't that this group of people were lechers. It was just that the Chinese Air Force was too powerful. The US Air Force under the threat of death had accumulated too much psychological pressure. The so-called competition was just a fantasy to relieve pressure. As the saying goes, heart disease requires heart medicine; fantasy could effectively relieve inner pressure.

At 10:19 AM, the Group Captain informed the fleet, "The flight team coming to meet us will arrive in half an hour."

Learning that they were finally going to escape the dangerous battle, cheers came from inside the American planes. Thinking of safe sleep, cigars, fine wine, and women waiting for them, the mood of the US Air Force was extremely excited, wishing they could plunge into peace immediately.

At 10:26, the planes at the very front of the fleet saw many small black dots appear in the distant sky. They immediately passed the news to the Group Captain. The Group Captain also breathed a sigh of relief; he also looked forward to returning to Manila safely as soon as possible.

Inside the planes considered by the US Air Force Group Captain to be the welcoming US Air Force, Japanese pilots all wore white headbands with "Long-lasting Military Luck" written on them, their eyes sharp and fierce. They also saw the oncoming US fleet and knew that the battle would break out immediately. All firing safeties were opened, and Japanese pilots flew J-10 fighters towards the targets to be hunted.

When the US pilots finally discovered that the silently approaching planes were not US planes, they had also lost the chance to escape. Just as the US pilots in front shouted "Enemy attack, it's an enemy attack!", the battle broke out.

If the retreating US Air Force was flying P-51 fighters, with the maneuverability of the P-51, they could still counterattack quickly in such a short time. But this escort group used the larger P-47, whose acceleration performance was weaker than the P-51. The reason for this choice was that the P-47 was more expensive, and the Philippines Command did not want to leave P-47s for the doomed British army to waste.

The relative speed of the US and Japanese fleets flying head-on had reached 1,000 kilometers per hour. In the blink of an eye, the relative distance between the two sides shortened by dozens of meters. The fully prepared Japanese Air Force instantly occupied the attack position and began the slaughter.

The US Air Force Group Captain issued the order to "protect the transport planes." This order should have been correct, but if the US Air Force coldly chose to flee individually, the number of survivors would definitely be higher. The fleet gathering only gave the Japanese Air Force raiding the US Air Force an opportunity.

In less than 10 minutes, one-third of the planes in the US flight group were either shot down or damaged. The order received by the Japanese Air Force was "kill them all." Even facing fleeing US planes emitting rolling black smoke, the Japanese Air Force chased relentlessly and fired fiercely.

Such cruel slaughter made the US Air Force Group Captain's eyes split with anger, but the US Air Force squadron coming to meet them was still on the way. The heartbreaking despair did not crush the US Air Force Group Captain. He ordered all planes to flee for their lives, and then ordered his own crew: "Follow me to attack the enemy planes."

But there was no need for the US Group Captain to attack actively; the Japanese pilots had already charged over. In the battle just now, the Japanese Air Force, which occupied all advantages, only lost two fighters. The 300 Japanese fighters dispatched now showed a 5:1 advantage. At this time, it was no longer 2 against 1, but every Japanese flight squad of 4 planes attacked 1 US plane. Nearly half of these US planes were transport planes with no combat effectiveness.

In less than 10 minutes, all US planes were shot down. At this time, the US Air Force greeting troops arriving at the battlefield at the fastest speed finally arrived. Without wasting words, these US Air Force planes launched an attack on the Japanese Air Force that had just slaughtered the US Air Force.

The Japanese army immediately launched a counterattack according to previous orders. At 10:53 AM on November 12, 1941, the US Air Force with recognized identity and the Japanese Air Force of the Asian Coalition engaged in battle.

Some people looked forward to the outbreak of such a battle, and some people did not.