In malaya, they're ging to be doing rear guard action after rearguard action. It's a little like when the one super her a tells the rest of the team to go on and by themselves tries to hold off the ten thousand aliens in a suicidal move. The japanese are the most enamored an like hand to hand combat the most. But it's very scary to fight at night because all the normal panic and scariness and uncertainty that plagues a daytime, well lit battlefield gets much worse at night. You can shell them from ten miles away with artillery or drop bombs for example. So farther you are away from the person your killing, the less