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Chapter 44 The British Support Fleet

() Through the above conclusions, the Japanese government has changed its policy with the South China Sea Federation and no longer adopts a confrontational attitude. Instead, it will focus on sorting out its many domestic troubles, and then look for opportunities to show goodwill to the South China Sea Federation.

, have achieved their intended goal of repairing relations between the two countries with the South China Sea Federation.

This time, several League of Nations countries declared war on the South China Sea Federation, allowing Japan to see the dawn of repairing the relationship between the two countries. After re-analyzing the strength of the two warring parties and the direction of the war, Japan firmly rejected the British government and the American government.

fu's second invitation to participate in the war, and then announced that Japan would adopt a neutral policy in this war.

In fact, Japan itself was also betting, and they were betting on the wrong side. Just when 99 countries in the world thought that the South China Sea Federation would be the final loser, they bet all their wealth on the South China Sea Federation to win.

From Japan's perspective, this war was like a group of hunting dogs that had just finished fighting a tiger. Although they won in the end, everyone was basically seriously injured. They started immediately without resting or even bandaging their wounds.

Another fight, and the opponent is a big shark. The fight takes place in the shark's territory, in the sea.

I personally believe that even a fool should know the final result of this fight. If this shark is killed by a group of seriously injured hunting dogs, then I will accept my fate. Who allowed me to mistake a yellow croaker for a shark?

If you are blind, you deserve bad luck!!!

In view of Japan's humble attitude, the federal government is not too serious about this. Anyway, Japan is also within the federal combat objectives. One more is not more, and one less is not less.

Just after Britain, the United States and other countries successfully raided the important southern military base of the South China Sea Federation for the Australian and New Zealand Navy, this important southern military base was written in newspapers from Britain, the United States and other countries to highlight the combat effectiveness. As for how big this base is,

Important. Only the parties involved know.

However, at this time, a German newspaper published an untimely commentary, the subject of which was the importance and development history of this military base. In this commentary, the German reporter interviewed several German naval officers during World War I

officials obtained detailed information on the German Navy's military bases in the Far East at that time.

In this information, this German naval supply station located in the original Papua New Guinea is basically a fishing village. There is not even a dock. There are only two small warehouses that store some ship parts, as well as coal and ammunition.

They are all transported regularly by transport ships of the German Navy. When German ships come to resupply, small boats need to be used to transport the supplies from the warehouse to the ships that need supplies.

Because this base is so small, the German Navy is too embarrassed to call it a base. Instead, it is called a supply station. This is clearly marked on various special naval charts of the German Navy.

Regarding this German newspaper jumping out to smear the coalition forces, the coalition forces chose to ignore it. Anyway, this German newspaper was only published locally and could not even cover the whole of Germany, let alone let people all over the world know the truth.

But this German newspaper told the truth. Since the South China Sea Federation government bought this overseas colony from the German government, it originally planned to build a medium-sized naval base and an air force base here. However, due to the need for construction at the time

There are too many places, so this plan is just a plan and has not been implemented. At the original German naval supply station, the Federation only left one squadron of troops and built a simple radio transmitter tower.

As a forward outpost.

During this joint attack by the Australian and New Zealand navies, the federal navy soldiers of this class reported their situation to the federal navy, blew up important facilities such as radio towers and warehouses, and brought sufficient supplies.

and equipment. They immediately evacuated to the rainforest on the island and hid there. While monitoring the movements of the Australian and New Zealand Navy, they contacted the Federal Navy by radio and waited for rescue.

After occupying this supply depot, the Australian and New Zealand Navy did not immediately launch an attack into the federation. The Australian and New Zealand Navy were not fools. Although they had never seen the submarines of the South China Sea Federation, they had at least heard of them. With the help of their own two

It is basically impossible for these small boats to go deep alone to achieve any magical achievements, but Australia and New Zealand have

The fu also had their own little calculations. They felt that if they could take advantage of this opportunity to capture the island of New Guinea, it would be a good choice. Not only would they benefit from it, but it would also be a big help to their home country, the United Kingdom.

As a result, the two countries began to transport troops and logistics personnel here from the country, and prepared some construction materials. They planned to build this supply station into a small fortress and equip it with several shore guns to prevent the federal navy from counterattacking.

This move by Australia and New Zealand was quickly reported to the Navy Department by federal naval soldiers hiding in the local rainforest. After Liu Fu learned the news, not only did he not urge the federal navy to immediately conquer the lost territory, he also blocked it.

The Admiralty originally planned to dispatch a heavy cruiser Europe to attack the Australian and New Zealand Navy.

In fact, it was not that Liu Fu was afraid of offending the Australian and New Zealand government, but that in the plan formulated by Liu Fu and the General Staff, the supply depot occupied by the Australian and New Zealand Navy was used as a bait and excuse. Not only could it not be recaptured, but

It must be well protected and try to make the Australian and New Zealand Navy feel that it is safer and the Commonwealth Navy has no time to care about it. In this way, they will increase their construction efforts and try to help the Federation build it into a suitable military port.

Moreover, Liu Fu also had a plan, which was to use this supply depot to create an excuse to attack Australia and New Zealand in the future. Although aggression is always naked, having an excuse is much more just than having no excuse.

Time entered in May 1920. After the British support fleet arrived in India, the British had been preparing to launch attacks on the Malay Peninsula or Sumatra Island and other places occupied by the South China Sea Federation. However, as British destroyers docked in the support fleet, the British

After unidentified submarines were discovered many times near the Port of Colombo in Ceylon, the British support fleet focused its main efforts on strictly guarding the port to prevent federal submarines from sneaking into the port to attack the fleet again.

This British support fleet can be regarded as the most powerful fleet entering Asia in history. The entire fleet consists of 5 battleships, 3 battlecruisers, 10 cruisers, 30 destroyers, and an additional 10

Multiple supply ships. In order to retake Singapore and the Malay Peninsula and teach the South China Sea Federation a profound lesson, the British government spent a lot of money.

Among these five battleships, four were Britain's first-class main battleships at the time. They were two Elizabeths with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, equipped with eight 15-inch main guns, 13-inch armor, and a speed of 25 knots.

The Queen-class battleships "Warspite" and "Malaya" have a displacement of 30,000 tons and are equipped with 10 13.

The Iron Duke-class battleships "Iron Duke" and "His Majesty the Emperor of India" have a 5-inch main gun, 12-inch armor, and a speed of 21.25 knots. Each ship has a displacement of 25,000 tons and is equipped with 10 13.5-inch main guns. It has 12

The King George V-class battleship "King George V" with 21-inch armor and a speed of 21 knots.

Among the three battlecruisers, there are two new high-speed battlecruisers of the British Navy. They are the Reputation-class battlecruisers "Reputation" and "Repulse", which were only built in January 1915. These two ships have a full load displacement of more than 32,000.

tons of large battleships are not

Equipped with only 6 15-inch main guns and 42 oil-fired boilers, they can run as fast as 32 knots. When dealing with small and medium-sized battleships such as enemy cruisers, they can fire from outside the opponent's attack range, and

You can use your own speed zi

You choose to pursue or retreat. (To be continued. You are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes.


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