A/N: This is a rewrite because i just relieze a few gramatical mistake and i also change some part of the story to make it more made sense.

In the year 2023, the president of China passed away from a heart attack. The death of their leader made the country of over 1.4 billion people mourn their leader death.

While all this was happening, the high goverment official was stuck on a power struggle of who will be the next president of China. Allience was made and broken, many began plotting for their own good while planning their rivals downfall. assasination of political opponent became a common thing as hitman would stalk a assasinate their target in the middle of the day.

After month of bloody power struggle, one man came up on top that became the ruler of China. His name is Huang Zhao, a five star general in the chinese military. He originaly enlisted in the PLA in 1991 as a second lieutenant after graduating from an officer school. At first glance he was just another young man who wanted to served his country. But Zhao have something called ambition, lots of it, he began rise through the rank of the PLA, ussually through illegal means until he became a general.

After Zhao became the leader of China, he purge the goverment and filled the empty seats with those he trust will supported his regime. His leadership was very unpopular with the Chinese people however, because of his policies, rules and personal statement to his country and the rest of the world is hurting the chinese economy to the smallest part of chinese society.

He also inherited his predecessor ambition of reuniting Taiwan with the mainland and he vow to himself that he will do it within two years of him taking power. And to everyone shock, he did it. He funded the pro chinese group in Taiwan who's planning to overthrow the rulling goverment and reunite it with China.

In mid 2024, these group went into action. Aided by the Chinese special forces, they manage to overthrow the rulling goverment and the next day, they annouced their wishes to reunite with the Chinese mainland.

This coup was very unpopular in Taiwan and all over the world. The Taiwanese wasn't happy that they will be living under a communist goverment and the rest of the world are accusing China of sponsoring the coup, which of course they deny and in turn anger many nation, mainly the United States.

Protest soon erupted inside Taiwan, but the Chinese goverment respond to this swiftly and brutaly. Many human right group accuse China of human right abuses and because of this, many country like The US, Japan, India, South korea and so on start to impose economic sanction against China.

But Zhao could careless about this sanction, he only saw it as a small obstacle on his journey to fufill his ultimate ambition, conquering Southeast Asia.

And so, after years of military buildup, planning with his generals and inner circle, he ordered the invasion of Southeast Asia.

On June 21th 2025, a day that will live in infamy, 1,000,000 PLA soldiers supported with tanks, artillery, fighter jets and bombers cross into Vietnam border and started the second Sino-Vietnamese war. Codename operation Sun Tzu, the initial invasion went well as the Vietnamese was caught completely off guard, the chinese advance into Vietnam teritory was fast and it surprise everyone that the Chinese manage to take so much land in a small amount of time.

This largely due to the Chinese armed forces, the PLA(People Liberation Army) have modernize it's military and train alot with their new equipment in the past year and it was made worse that the Vietnamese military, the mighty army that once kick many foreign invaders out of their country is now rife with corruption and nepotism among it's officers.

Because of this when the time they need to organize a defence strategy, the Vietnamese lacked competent officer who can get situation under control. This didn't mean that the vietnamese soldiers didn't fight hard however, because they put a hell of a fight and causing heavy casualty on the invaders. Units of vietnamese military that was lead by their competent officer manage to halt the chinese advance in the northern region long enough so the rest of the army from the south could mobilize and give them the much needed force for a counter offensive.

But little did they know they have fallen into the Chinese ploy. After most of the Vietnamese force were gathered at the northern region, they left their border to Laos almost completly unguarded.

On July 1st 2025 the PLA invaded Laos. Even though the soldiers of this nation fought bravely against the invader, they were no match against the chinese ounslaught. In two weeks Laos have been conquered.

The Chinese army use Laos to invaded Vietnam from the west while the Chinese marines invanded from the coast. After a week the invasion force from the west and the coast linkup, effectively trapping the Vietnamese in their own country.

The Vietnamese airforce have been crippled as the PLA airforce have destroy most of it's fighter before they could take off.

The Vietnamese goverment try to ask for aid from their fellow ASEAN nation. But unfortunately, politic gets in the way. ASEAN have a non interference policy, meaning if one nation was in a war or a political instabillity, the other member of ASEAN is not allowed to interfere.

But the other ASEAN member states knew that if Vietnam fall, they would be next, so the other ASEAN member start to mobelize and bulid up their military and start working to reword the ASEAN non-interference policy so they can aid Vietnam in their struggle against the Chinese.

But that would take sometime, so for now Vietnam are on its own.

After weeks of fighting, The PLA enter the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. The Chinese bomb the city into oblivion by droping over 50,000 tons of explosive to the city. 55% of the city was destroyed. over 450,000 civilians died during the battle of Hanoi while over six milions seek refuge in the country side or neighbouring Cambodia and Thailand. But despite this the city defender and the remainding civilian fought to the bitter end, giving everything they could at the chinese. Battle of Hanoi lasted for over six weeks with both side suffered heavy cassualties. But in the end the Vietnamese were force to surrender due to the lack supplies and ammunition.

Battle of Hanoi was the bloodiest battle of the war at that point with an estimated casualties of 264,000 Chinese and over 600,000 Vietnamese, mostly civilians died in the six weeks battle. By the time the Chinese capture the city, it was a ghost town.

The PLA Navy also start it's own military campaign in the south china sea. They send warships and marines to take as many islands in the long disputed spratly island, even go as far as antagonize Indonesia by sending it's warship to the Natuna island to see how would the Indonesian react. The other claimant state of the spratly island like Malaysia, the Phillipines and Brunei could only watch as china claim the spratly island as their navy is nowhere strong enough to challenge the PLA Navy.

A month after the fall of Hanoi, the first PLA Marine landed on Ho Chi Minh city, establishing a beach head for the rest of the army. The capture of Ho Chi Minh city was met with very little resistence as most of the Vietnamese army were figthing in the north side of the country.

The fall of Hanoi was a huge blow on Vietnamese moral, yet instead of surrendering in mass at the lost of their capital, the Vietnamese army push on, determined more than ever to kick the invaders out of their country. And now the Chinese had enter Ho Chi Minh city, they were more motivated that this historic city would not share the same fate as Hanoi.

Vietnamese from all over the country, whether it's soldiers(mostly reserved personel), militia groups or just normal civilians armed themself and flock to Ho Chi minh city to retake it.

The Chinese that occupied the city belief that the occupation would be easy, aside from the death glare given by it's citizen. One day they were surprise when one of their tank that was stationed in the city outskirt blow up and was followed by soldiers surrounding it being shot dead, what was followed was four hundred men armed with assault rifles charge into the city and cause chaos and confusion among the Chinese, as the Chinese try to hunt down these men, more and more armed Vietnamese enter the city a fight the Chinese, at first it was at random but as time progress it become more organized.

What was start of as a small militia group starting a firefight become a full on battle. Civilians, militia group and the Vietnamese army that by now numbered in milions engage the PLA marines in a brutal street and house to house fighting. Soon the Vietnamese start to reclaim some of the northern part of the city with most of the liberated civilians chose to join their countrymen to liberate the city.

The Chinese occupiers was surprise at the verocity of the Vietnamese and call in their airforce for air support. But unfortunatally for both sides, the PLAAF launch a full blown bombing campaign on the city, turning building into rumbles. this made the tanks and armoured veheicle that the PLA have are almost useless as rubble from collapsing building made it difficult for traversing. Sadly more than a half a milions of Ho Chi Minh city citizen would die from the chinese bombing, even though the Vietnamese goverment had order the citizen to evecuate to flee for the country side or the neighbouring countries, many opted to stay instead, due to economic or attachment reason but there is many who stay just to spite the Chinese.

The battle of Ho Chi Minh city are still raging to this day with show no sign of stopping, and with cassualties now surpassing the battle of Hanoi, alot of people start to give Ho Chi Minh city the nickname 'Stalingrad of the southeast'.

Even though Vietnam wasn't entirely defeated and battle of Ho Chi Minh being far from over, Huang Zhao was feeling overconvidence with his recent success in Laos and northern Vietnam and deemed that Ho Chi Minh city will fall eventually. Huang Zhao immidietly order preperation for the invasion of Cambodia.

Just like it's neighbour, the Cambodian fought with great courage but was soon overwhelm by the Chinese and soon the country surrender to avoid total annihilation.

Seeing it's neighbour fall one by one made Thailand nervous that they will be the next victim of this new expansionist China.

The Thailand military decide to launch a preemtive strike against China by Invading Cambodia, hoping that invading this to country would prevent China from using them as a base of operation for the Invasion of their homeland.

Unfortunately for Thailand however, the Chinese invasion of their homeland is still happening, but not from Cambodia or Laos, instead it came from what they thought was neutral Myanmar.

When China start it's expansion into southeast asia, Myanmar made a secret agreement that their country will aid them in their conquest of southeast asia as long as Myanmar spare from the Chinese onslaught.

Part of the agreement is that China could use the country as a base of operation for their future invasion. Which they use to it's full capacity in October 10th when 700,000 PLA soldiers cross the Thailand northern border through Myanmar.

With a large number of their soldiers in Cambodia, Thailand was quickly overrun and by the end of the month, most of northern Thailand are under Chinese control.

Seeing their ally succesful conquest in southeast asia inspire the North Korean leader to do the same. In October 14th 2025 one and a half milion north korean soldiers cross the DMZ and into the south. They launch thousands of missile strike agaisnt south korean and american airfield and anti air missile sites, almost completly annihilating the american and south korean air power in the northern region.

The South korean and Us soldiers that was station in the DMZ put up a stiff resistence and inflicted a massive cassualties on the invaders, but the sheer number of the north korean forces is overwhelming, for every north korean soldier killed, three will take his place. after a few days of bitter fighting the South korean and the Us soldiers at the DMZ were force to retreat after running out of ammunition and to avoid total annihilation. Some remain in the DMZ to buy some time for their comrades to escape. Those who remain are ended up executed by the north korean.

The north korean advance rapidly into the southern territory and enter Seoul in November.

But not all was rainbow and sunshine for them however.

The Chinese suffered a heavy cassualties during the Indochina campaign, with over 550,000 thousand soldiers dead in Vietnam alone with most are lost in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city. They also lost around 600 tanks and over 1,800 APC's, IVF's, AFV's, FSV's and armored cars destroyed, over 1,200 artillery either destroyed or were force to be left behind and even though the Chinese air force had achieve air superiority at the start of the war, they still lost over 200 fighters and bombers after being shot dowm by Vietnamese anti air missiles and Anti aircraft gun.

Their rapid advance into Thailand was delayed as their supply line were strecth to thin. most supply from China go through Myanmar but supply convoy were often ambushed and raided by guerilla groups within Myanmar such as the People Defence Force(PDF) and Karen Liberation Army. they were furious at their goverment for aiding the Chinese. As the chinese getting bogged down in Indochina, Thailand quickly mobelized it's reserve and militia to hold the Chinese advance.

It was made more difficult When Thailand along side Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, The Philipines, Australia, New zealand, Brunei and the United states form the Pacific Defence Coalition. The coalition force deploy a total of 800,000 troops to reinforce the exhausted Thai soldiers and defend Thailand coastline and northern border.

Vietnam that they thought was already conquered was still giving them a heavy resistance from the militia and soldiers that flee to the forest to continue resisting as the country itself never formally surrender.

By this point, there are over 3,600,000 Chinese soldiers in Southeast asia. Even though they outnumber the coalition 4 to 1, they cannot exploit it as most of the troops are order to remain in Indochina in order to surpress the resistance movement and to maintain their authority in the region. Even though the Chinese troops in the Laos and Cambodia could have help their comrades, they were told to focus their effort to surpress the resistence movement in fear of losing control over the region if they decide to enter Thailand border.

According to the Chinese military estiamate at least there are over 7,000,000 resistance fighter scattered in Vietnam alone, though many estimated that it could be higher than that. Everywhere the Chinese go, the locals would warmly welcome them with a bullet to the head. So the Chinese that enter Thailand through Myanmar are now on their own with no reinforcement coming to relief them soon.

The Chinese also have to deal with resistance movement inside their own border as various rebels group and seperatist movement sprung up in Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and inner Mongolia, fighting for their independence.

What was worse however is that their Navy had suffered a huge lost During the battle of spratly island that happend from October 9th to the 15th. The Chinese Navy wanted to estiblished dominance over the south China sea, so before the Invasion of Vietnam they station alot of their ships(including their aircraft carrier) to the heavily disputed spratly island to legitimize their claim.

After Hanoi fall, the rest of the Asean nation knew that the chinese armada needed to be dealt with. But they knew even with all their power combine their Navy was still no match for the Chinese. That is until the US pacific fleet arrive with a carrier battle group to help, they have been station in Japan for a military excercise when the Chinese launch operation Sun Tzu.

During the battle both the Chinese and Us naval figther pilot engage in dogfight while submarines from both side hunt and sunk the surface ships. During the battle, the PLA Rocket force had proven themself that they are a force to be reckon with by giving a heavy cassualties on the Coalition armada.

The result of the battle was devastating for both side, the Singapore Navy suffered fifty percent casualty rate while the chinese lost all of it's carriers, seventeen destroyers, nine corvettes, twenty six frigates, seven submarines and over 300 aircraft shot down (some are shot down in the air while some sink alongside their carriers). The coalition also suffered heavy cassualties, they've lost a total of fifteen frigates, twelve corvettes, eighteen fast attack craft, twelve patrol boats, five submarines, four destroyers and around 102 fighter shot down. Most of the coalition lost are credited to the PLA submarines and the PLA Rocket force.

After the battle of Spratly island, the United states realize that soldiers of the southeast asian nation are very skilled but under equip, so in started a land lease program by supplying southeast asian nation with their old aircraft and helping to build factory in these nation to ramp up their domestic military production.

For instance in 2019 Indonesia became the first southeast asian country to produce their own tank. The new tank was name Kaplan Mt. The Kaplan MT was a medium tank design to replace the AMX-13 and FV101 scorpion light tank that have been the backbone of their armored force for over four decades.

When the war started, Indonesia had only produce around 18 Kaplan medium tank. But after the lend lease program, they are able to produce over 200 per month thank to the US aid to build factory to build this tanks.

There are also the fact that Huang Zhao have undone his predecessor effort by Invading Southeast asia. Before Zhao took power, China have basically dominated the trade war against the united state. At that time China basically rule most of the world trade without firing a shot, just through smart diplomacy and cunning scheme.

But when China launch operation Sun Tzu, most of the world turn their back on China by cutting of diplomatic ties or heavily santcion the country, some countries even go as far as withdrew their recognition of China being an independent country. And the worst part is, China United Nation membership have been suspended.

In October 15th, Japan join the war by declaring war on China and north korea after two seperated event.

In October 7th, a Chinese J-15 fire two anti-ship missiles at a Japanese patrol ship of the east coast of Taiwan. The ship was heavily damage but manage to stay afloat long enough to be towed back to Okinawa for repair. The Chinese justefied their action by saying the Japanese ship unlawfully enter Chinese waters.

The next day on October 8th, North korea launch a missile strike on Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Nagasaki and Hiroshima to intimidate Japan to stay out of the war and remain nuetral. this resulted in the death of over 500 civilians and thousands more wounded.

This two act made all of Japan cry for war. The Japanese civilian demanded the goverment for retaliation. On October 12th, the Japanese prime minister issue an act that allow the JSDF to fight in foreign soil. in October 15th Japan declare war on China and North Korea and in the following day, Japan join the Pacific Defence Coalition.

The following month, Japan start to deploy it's troops to Thailand and the korean peninsula.

But even after all this, the Chinese are still far from defeat. Right now the war in southeast Asia are in a stalemate with both side preparing for their next big moves. The road to victory will not an easy one. it will be bloody and hard that will bring everyone that's involve into their breaking point. But for the oppresed people of Indochina still held high hope that in the near future the Chinese will be defeated and their home will be liberated.

Things are not looking good for the North Korean as since they have been battling in the streets of Seoul for over five month. Before they enter the city itself, the surround the city and bomb it into oblivion with artillery barage for over three days before entering the city.

Inside the city, they made a slow progress as the south korean resistence was fierce and brutal, not wanting having the same fate as Vietnam, the south korean who had amasses the force of 1,300,000 soldiers fought fiercely and with the help of their American ally manage to hold of the north korean advance, for now.

The north korean manage to make a breaktrough on the south korean line in early December, creating a massive bulge on the South korean line but their advance was soon stop when they reach the Han river. After that the battle became more bloodied than ever as small units of south korean an American scatterd on the north korean line. basically a siege within a siege.

Both side wanted the battle to be over by now, with the north korean wanted the city fall to their hand already so they can continue their conquest and the south korean wanted the invaders out of their home.

God seem to granted their wishes, the remainding south korean air force began to consolidate their losses from the early stage of the war and with a large number of reinforcement of South Korean, Americans and now the Japanese converging on the city, this battle might see it's conclusion in the near future.