1945: A Nanyang Warlord's Rise to Global Dominance

(No System, hard-nosed realism, building a Chinese nation overseas)

(One cannon from the start, a third pole by the end!)

On September 12, 1945, just after Japan signed its surrender, British troops returned to Singapore and ordered the Chinese guerrillas to disarm.

Chen Hailong, a defense strategy scholar from the 21st century, is now the leader of an anti-Japanese guerrilla force, commanding eight hundred fearless fighters and ten Japanese coastal-defense heavy guns.

“Disarm? Sure. Ask my cannons first!”

At his command, the fleet is drenched in blood, and the flag over the Lion City changes hands.

History would call it “The September 12 Bombardment of the Union Jack.”

From then on, he refuses to return to China and refuses to surrender.

Using Singapore as his key piece and the Strait of Malacca as his board:

He helps the U.S. military deter a Soviet advance south, trading for radar and aircraft carriers.

He uses the Soviet Union to keep America in check, trading for nuclear technology and missiles.

He drives out British and Dutch colonialists and sweeps across Malaya and Borneo.

For the first time, 300 million overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia have their own republic.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union face off in Cuba, he has already raised the five-star sun-and-moon flag on the equator.

“The Cold War? No, it's just a warm-up for World War III, and I'm the third pole.”