In the Bay of Brunei, a fleet of ships sat transferring loads of men, equipment, and supplies onto the island of Borneo. The Imperial Japanese Navy was far from large enough to land multiple divisions' worth of men in a single go. Instead, they had spent well over a month ensuring that a constant influx of personnel and resources ended up in their theater of war.
After being at war for nearly two months now, the Imperial Japanese Army had seized Brunei and the lands which sat north of it where they had already begun searching for bauxite deposits to mine. However, despite this progress, the war was going far less smoothly than Empress Itami Riyo and all her Generals had anticipated.
The Royal Majapahit Army had adopted a strategy of combined warfare, mixing guerilla units with conventional forces to a deadly effect. The death toll climbed with each day. By now, over ten thousand Japanese soldiers lie dead in the jungles of Borneo.
