When 30 Tanks Routed 8000 men - The Battle of Slim River Animated 

CIA please stop de-stabliazing the middle east...

@@Ronald98 also South America.

Shhh guys or he will give you syphilis

AIDS*

Well yes since they just marched past the ones that wouldnt be good.

Dutch East Indies?

when the Fuehrer Comes over I here he beleives in racial hygiene so have no worries there will be a rubber in Britain's future

dave obviously sri lanka, historical game btw

Malya game when?

Congo x d

Japan then go on to lose the war and commit some of the worst cases of human torture the world has seen.

@@jimdandy2024 who asked? It’s a joke dude

@@jimdandy2024 yes but this is not on japanese warcrimes

@@jacopofolin6400 Stop thumbing up your own comments. Your reply made no sense. So please if you wish to reply, let it have some substance.

@@jimdandy2024 yeah as if the Europeans never done that before

What is sugar coating?

@@stupidumbasshithead5715 I believe it is making a (typically) bad situation appear less serious than it actually is, by either trying to downplay it's consequences, overstating it's benefits, or both.

I was wondering, WHY up till 10 years ago... Then realize..oh, they all.must hv been dead by now . yikes!!.

Except that the French easily could have cut them off, but due to a combination of sheer incompetence, misfortune, and retarded thinking, they didn't. Really, when you dive into it, what happened in France is SO idiotic that no comedian on earth could have come up with it. When looking at the Malaysia campaign though, I see no point where you could say "if only guy X had done action Y."

Pearl Harbor wasn’t much of a victory for Japan Sure they inflicted casualties but most of the ships sunk were quickly raised, and they didn’t get the carriers and didn’t even try to destroy the oil

@@jonathanwilliams1065 It was a tactical victory, but a strategic defeat.

@@kms_scharnhorst Japanese main targets were the 3 aircraft carriers, which unfortunately (to IJN) were nowhere to be found

The japanese actually looked at the germans and though we can do that too.

True. Though, it looks to me like they were going along main roads, though.

Early type 98s are very small and can maneuver easily through the jungles. However dense jungle terrain is certainly impossible to move through

@@ken90ny yes, I always wondered why the US didn't copy these little light tanks and use them in Vietnam...So much better than those poor guys walking patrols and the point man up front getting popped off by snipers and his feet blow off by mines and booby traps.

@@mebeasensei The improvement of easily carryable anti Tank weapons made anything light and weakly armored pretty much useless.

@@mebeasensei RPG would lit them up

Scale bar is not as needed as using the international sistem of measurements.

all the place names are there. you can use google maps to look up details

It'd be Eurobeat,Tokyo Drift isn't Japanese.

🎶 *DEJA VU! I'VE BEEN RIDING THIS TANK BEFORE!....* 🎶

gas gas gas

Blitzkrieg: Rice Edition

Molotovs are great when there's no infantry support.

Jap tanks were garbage , why there was no Piats or armor piercing 50 cals, where was british armor or aircraft? ffs a brirish 2lber gun could knock out a jap tank they were not much more than an armored car.

@@Barefoot-Bob Japanese tanks at this point of the war were not exactly garbage. The Type 97 they primarily used here had a 57mm gun and was pretty fast. The armour was garbage yes but enough to stop anti tank rifles. Defintely more than an armoured car. As for why the Brits had fuck all. Well they lost everything at Dunkirque. What they had replaced at this point and gotten sent by the US was in Europe and later North Africa. The Pacific was very low priority compared to the home islands.

@@XMysticHerox type 89 was there more common tank it had 15mm of frontal armor . any anti tank rifle would go right through it and probably out the other side. US 50 cal with AP rounds can penetrate about 33mm of armor . The m2 Stuart obsolete before ww2 could penn approx. 60mm. no the Japanese were well behind and the forces in Singapore should have been able to stop them dead cold . Unless of course it is another Waverley Cock up and they never got what they needed. which looks to be the case. Please remember it is only my opinion and i Certainly do not impune the Heroism of our soldiers or the Britts, but the leadership in the far east was dismal at best.

Get a frag in their tracks or engine area, not an easy feat but in combat there are no simple tasks, at least jungle fighting is up close and personal for such attacks

yeahhh things happen. Greece will happen eventually

Don’t submit to authoritarians And by the way all socialists and communists are authoritarian

@@looinrims Almost. Communists and Fascists are all authoritarian. Some socialists are, and some capitalists. Not getting your claims right will make people doubt everything you say.

@@rikk319 sorry tell me where the USSR, GDR, Madagascar, Cuba, PRC, DPRK, DRC, Vietnam, Poland, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria are/were not authoritarian? And what capitalist nation is? Capitalism by its nature demands the least possible interference by government to function properly

@@looinrims Those were all authoritarian countries with wannabe communism. Communism only works in small tribal sizes. Otherwise it's just cronyism. And China hasn't been communist for decades. They have more billionaires than the US, and the most capitalist of all inventions, a stock market. Fascism is just an extreme version of capitalism...it's authoritarian capitalism with corporations and nationalism wrapped around it. And the capitalism of Adam Smith is a far cry from modern capitalism, where multinational corporations hold control over the political parties of multiple nations. Human beings didn't evolve to work in groups of hundreds of millions. When politicians are taking directions from lobbyists rather than the voting citizens, it's authoritarian capitalism.

@@looinrims This is such a braindead take. Plenty of capitalist nations were authoritarian. Imperial Japan for example, cold war South Korea, the ROC, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Chile, Brazil, fascist Italy, apartheid South Africa...

Have you heard of the Tallalla brothers?

@@Alhy-ls3dv yes I have... Brave pilots

@@muhdzulkarnain428 it's sad they are not in our Sejarah text books

@@Alhy-ls3dv true

I am very interested to learn more about this! The lesser focused battles outside the European theater are so amazing and under valued.

Someone should have given tickets to the speeding Japanese tanks. Lol.

True

Part of it was that the British had no tanks of their own in Malaya. A few Matildas would've shredded the Japanese tanks.

​@@darkdill most of Britsh tanks are in African front and the war with Japanese appeared only in 1941.. Churchill dint felt that the Japanese would declare war onto them until its too late

I'd hardly call the Chinese meatgrinder 'blitzing'.

Your experience from fighting Chinese forces is going to be completely different then fighting British forces. The equipment alone that British would be able to bring compared to the Chinese is massive the Chinese barely had any sort of heavy weaponry why the British divisions would have plenty. The reason the Japanese won was because Yamashita was an extremely skilled general and the British often underperformed on the ground throughout all of WW2......

@@101szniper North Africa was completely different. There was no adequate preparation for war generally as some poeple actually believed their own rhetoric about a 'war to end all wars'.

@@DomWeasel Chinese forces are just well prepared to fend offJapanese attack and they have larger pool of manpower compared to British forces here. Japanese forces need to grind every Chinese they met to even gain ground.

@@nogisonoko5409 'Well prepared'? Up to this point, many Chinese forces had to make do with whatever weapons they could get hold of, whether it was 19th century muzzle-loading rifles or even spears. That was why the Japanese banzai charge worked well against the Chinese; it often wasn't opposed by bullets.

It is called a route.

Goodwood has proved this to be correct

actually, if you catch soldiers by surprise, most of them will end up having to crouch on the road due to machine fire. based on my red alert knowledge, this allows tanks to basically squish any number of infantry with ease. a single tank can easily take out 8000 infantry this way.

I would suggest using the international sistem of measurements.

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 How will that help me discern the scale of each map?

@@brookeshenfield7156 If he where to in understandable terms say the distance between 2 cities you could then look at where they are in the map and see the scale.

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 you can still use google maps. all the important place names are there

The Allied has no tanks and limited A/T weapons in Malaya. In the Battle of Slim River, there were only 24 A/T mines. And insufficient planes and naval assets in the Far East. However, there was enough army personnel.

I have read some where the contact drill for a Japanese section/squad was to have 2 scouts forward followed by a machine gun team of 2 machine guns with 2 Assistant machine gunners, next would be the squad leader and the final group would be riflemen. On contact the scouts would shoot at the enemy. The machine guns would be set up beside each other with the squad leader. The rifleman would all fix bayonets and ready themselves to move. Once the machine guns where set up the squad leader would call the scouts who would fall back through the gun team and join the rifle team and fix bayonets. The machine guns would maintain firing. The scouts and riflemen would split into two teams and immediately conduct a double flanking attack on the enemy with the goal of conducting a bayonet charge. This would happen without reconnaisance on the enemy beforehand because it was believed with aggression and spirit the enemy would lose. This explains the almost reckless abandon the Japanese took when they went on the attack as their default SOPs was to go into full attack. Most armies go through a small period of reconnaissance to ascertain the enemies dispositions to work out whether to attack, hold or defend. Correct me if I am wrong as I like finding out infantry tactics of WW2 armies? This would also mean that the Japanese would have the initiative due to not doing reconnaissance.

The British would get the last laugh

@@lovablesnowman no? Their entire colony is gone after ww2

@@lovablesnowman Bro what? 😂At least Tokyo is Japanese. Can you say London is British? No. 🇵🇰🇮🇳🇿🇦🇸🇸

I would prefer how Japanese Imperial Forces with courageously and well determination taking Malaya rather than those disgracefully, scammers, treacherously and filthy Francis "MF" Light taking over Malaya.

In truth a lot of armies used bikes at this time, but usually as a scouting/mobile reserve within a larger formation.

The British did it at D-Day, IIRC.

Germany used them throughout the war easy transport that beat yomping it on foot.

there are multiple reasons why bikes were not mass used. A) The Bike is heavy, vulnerable to the elements, and does not actually provide long term advantages. While you move faster with less energy for your speed, you are still using more energy for the distance traveled. This is not ideal in long campaigns are marches. B) Not all ground units would be in a position to use bikes. Some folks just have equipment that is too heavy. A unit outpacing others is risking a lot. C) Terrain is any wheeled tool's worst enemy, and the one folks who could aggressively use bikes being light infantry... would see their usual advantages of terrain turned against them. D) Ambushes would be extra lethal but I doubt that is an actual factor or point, primarily the first three. The japanese are depicted here are probably using bikes to catch up to the overextending forces, thus the light infantry is moving to support. Note, they're all sticking to the main road which is the best ideal situation. IN this case, they're using the situation that is most optimal for a bike. Catching up to a unit instead of leading the way, not in dangerous territory and thus not needing to worry of ambushes or bad terrain. And not in a long march but rather a short operation requiring speed above energy. Often times these are limited to reserve units or scouting units so they can reposition swiftly. But not actually wise or smart to build up a large stockpile of bikes only for the logistics officer to shoot themselves at all the chains they have to order whenever it rains heavily, especially not with these notable disadvantages.

@@aickavon in this campaign, I've read In a military book depicting general Yamashita, that the Japanese didn't even have enough rubber to make tires for their bicycles, and sometimes the soldiers would just have to make do with the rim alone. Staggering how tenacious the Japanese soldiers were!

Propaganda, but NOT History, has led us to believe that the Empire of Japan began its territorial expansion in the 1930’s, invading China, creating the puppet State of Manchukuo and “Provoking” the war with the Western Powers. But, Was this really, how events happened? Did Japan invade China and South East Asia? It seems so. However, the Propaganda does NOT say that for centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Singapore, Malaysia and China (Hong Kong, Nanking, Shanghai, etc). France dominated all Indochina. The Netherlands intervened by the Force of its Arms, to all of Indonesia. And Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and of course, also the United States were in South East Asia cuz, for example this country, the US, occupied the Philippines since 1898. (Spanish-American War). Thus the panorama in the 30's, the Empire of Japan, when defeating to the Tsarist Russian Empire, it also decided to "Grow" by invading its neighbors. In those years, all European nations had colonies in Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia and America. (England came to occupy almost ¼ part of the planet). For its part, the US, in 113 years of existence as a nation in those years, had "Grown" 711 the size of its territory from its original 13 colonies. Now is the picture clear? Japan for its part, had fought on the side of the winners in World War I (1914-1918), and they, the Japanese, not awarded any "Gain". The western victors of WWI divided the world. Japan was excluded. Thus, Japan's motives for attacking and expanding as the Europeans and the US did seem clearer, right? Then they, the Japanese, attacked China in 30’s, which was occupied by 6 Western Powers for almost a century. None of the Western Powers occupying China at this time, OPPOSED or fought Japan for Invading China. NONE! Then, 11 years later after having occupied the territory of China and coexisted without any problem with the Western Powers within China, they, the Japanese, attacked Hawaii, which in turn, this Island had been occupied and annexed by the US in 1898. (In 1900-01, Hawaii became US territory and Hawaii ceased to be an independent nation after more than 630 years of sovereignty. By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had just completed the 40th anniversary of the military occupation and annexation of Hawaii). They, the Japanese, attacked Singapore, which was then a Colony of England. They, the Japanese, attacked the Philippines, which were occupied by the US and whose Gov’r, Douglas MacArthur reined as Emperor. Truly like an Absolute Autocrat. Therefore, the Japanese did NOT attack (In the 40’s), Singapore, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc. In reality, the Japanese attacked England, France, Belgium, Holland, the US, etc. That is, the Japanese attacked the Western Powers invading all of Asia. That is the verifiable truth. But, Propaganda has made us believe that the good guys were us, the US. And of course… Nanking was a horrendous Genocide committed by Japan, but, it was no more horrendous than the 12 Genocides committed by the United States in his History and all over the world. Nor was it less horrendous than the Genocide committed by King Leopold II of Belgium, in Central Africa. Nor was Nanking more or less horrendous than the Genocides that the British Empire committed in America, Africa, Australia, Middle East, India and also in China too. And now, the Japanese are our friends and allies... Yup… But, to fight against China, AGAIN!!!

I have read a book written by the Japanese tank commander who planned and organized the attack in Malaya front, but he mentioned that his unit met fierce resistance from the British forces who had some tanks and AT guns well prepared.

and..so, the job should have been done by english footsoldiers and corporals..thrown in suicide missions with no artillery support, air cover or the newest machineguns...... help me see, where is the "respect" of the ruling british politicians and commanders for these poor buggars ? (as in; it doesNOT matter what skin color or birthplace..as a frontline soldier you are ALWAYs SCREWED...).

@@oddballsok it’s british colonial empire. So the privilege to die for it should be theirs alone. Faak the colonist bavastards.

We never surrendered an entire nation

@@md.tamzidislam6580 ugh, there is a lot of context missing here on why these aren‘t comparable at all.

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Yes you did. You did it without a fight, surrender to the American Empire.

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 There was no "American Empire" nice try.

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Was and is. The American Empire is NATO, EU, NAFTA, CN, .... it does not draw itself on maps but when the call to arms is issued you will see a whole colation of imperial states invading lets say Iraq.

There was still significant support from some Malays, particularly early in the campaign. Some saw the Japanese as liberators, but obviously that was proven wrong under occupation.

There was also lots of resistance in Malaya after the invasion so yeah this is nonsense.

In the beginning yes ppl like Ibrahim Yaakob and KKM helped IJN hoping for independence. Welp we know where it is going once IJN conquer whole Malaya

you don't need meth when you have bikes.