Besides, the missile fleet led by Liu Hai has been searching southward for more than a hundred kilometers and still has not found Britain.
Now Liu Hai is a little upset. Where are these British people hiding?
At the same time, Liu Hai also began to miss the modern reconnaissance satellites in the sky. If the reconnaissance satellites in the sky existed now, he would have known the other party's traces long ago. Unlike himself now, who can only play hide and seek with the other party on the sea.
Liu Wei, who was standing aside, also saw Liu Hai's troubles, so he stepped forward and persuaded: "Commander, the sea is vast. If the enemy sincerely wants to hide, it will not be easy to find their traces."
Liu Hai nodded. He now knew the difficulty of fighting. This was not like playing games before.
"What should we do about the current situation? Should we withdraw our troops and return to the Rokko Strait, or should we continue the search?"
Liu Wei actually had a plan in mind and was just waiting for Liu Hai to ask.
"Commander, why don't we release all our helicopters and conduct a final round of searches for four weeks? If we find a relay of the British Expeditionary Fleet, it will be great. If we don't find them, it won't be too late to return to the Rokko Strait."
Liu Hai was noncommittal after hearing this, and suddenly he asked: "If we let the expedition fleet go, what will we do if they cause trouble with us again?"
"Don't worry, Commander. After this naval battle, the expedition fleet is already frightened. How dare they continue to be exposed in front of us?"
Liu Wei paused for a moment before he continued: "If I were the commander of the expedition fleet and encountered this situation, I would quickly retreat to the East Canal base after getting rid of us."
Liu Hai listened to Liu Wei's words and took himself into the role of commander of the expedition fleet. After this defeat, the expedition fleet suffered heavy losses. He would never dare to fight with himself again before he figured out a way to deal with his own missiles.
Head-on confrontation.
Liu Hai nodded after listening to the other party's analysis, and then issued an order, requiring the four helicopters on the Sovremenny-class destroyer to take off immediately to search for traces of the British expeditionary fleet in the southeast and southwest directions.
Liu Hai's order was quickly executed, and the helicopters carried by the four modern-class destroyers quickly took off, and then each flew towards their predetermined reconnaissance position.
And where is the expedition fleet now?
It turned out that after this battle, Marshal Richard Meade had fully understood that if the fleet he led had a decisive battle with the Nanyang Navy led by Liu Hai, there would be no chance at all.
Therefore, he did not want to win by surprise this time. His only idea now was to get rid of Liu Hai's pursuit and bring these warships back to London.
Therefore, after Marshal Richard Mead temporarily got rid of Liu Hai's pursuit, his mind did not relax. Instead, he worked even harder, thinking about what to do next.
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As soon as he thought about it, he felt like he was breaking out in a cold sweat, because in his mind's rehearsal, the expedition fleet could not escape the opponent's pursuit no matter what.
Because the expedition fleet's ship speed is 1/3 slower than the opponent's, at this speed, the opponent can discover traces of the British expedition fleet in just a few hours.
At this time, the marshal's many years of combat experience finally came into use. Since he could not escape the opponent's pursuit when he went south, he could only win by surprise.
So the marshal immediately ordered the fleet to change course. Once, instead of going south to escape Liu Haihui's pursuit, they headed eastward, entering the control area of the Helan people from the narrow waters between Sumatra and Java.
Liu Hai did not expect that the other party would re-enter Southeast Asia. Instead, the fleet he led continued to search south.
Liu Hai's idea is that there are only two ways for the expedition fleet to go. One is to head southeast to Australia, and the other is to head southwest to the East Canal.
Just like this, after Liu Hai searched the sea for another day and still found no trace of the other party, he reluctantly took back all the helicopters, turned the ship's bow, and headed towards the Rokko Strait again.
After the expedition fleet completely got rid of Liu Hai's pursuit, with the help of the Indonesian colonial government, it carried out supplies in Bali, and finally set sail again, making a circle from the waters controlled by the Helan people and sailing towards Australia again.
This great naval battle that shocked the world finally ended with Liu Hai's Nanyang Navy defeating the expedition fleet.
The impact of this war is far from over. Due to this failure of the expedition fleet, their status in the world has rapidly declined.
The other European maritime powers also saw the current weakness of the Geely Kingdom and began to catch up.
Although the Geely Kingdom is still the world's number one maritime power, it is no longer as able to deal with challenges from all aspects as calmly as before.
After this battle, Liu Hai's Nanyang Navy also established its status as the first navy in East Asia.
The missile fleet led by Liu Hai finally returned to the seaport of Liujia after several days of sailing.
When he got here, he discovered that many towns along the way were now in ruins.
It turns out that these towns were bombarded once by the expedition fleet. After they were occupied, the bombardment fleet led by Liu Da appeared again and conducted a second round of bombardment on them. Therefore, these towns have now been completely reduced to ruins.
If you want to rebuild them, it won't happen overnight.
When Liu Hai saw this scene, although he felt a little emotional in his heart, he did not show it on his face.
Almost all the people living in these towns are local natives. When these people die, they will die. As long as overseas Chinese can exist, there will be many of these natives in the local area.
After another day of sailing, Liu Hai's fleet finally returned to the waters off the Lion City.
But when they arrived at the sea outside Lion City, they discovered that the war here was not over yet.
It turned out that after entering the Maliu Strait, the artillery fleet led by Liu Da conducted another round of artillery bombardment on the towns re-occupied by the enemy along the way. After destroying these towns, it returned to the Lion City all the way.
While here, the garrison of the Gili Kingdom had already received news that the artillery fleet had re-entered the Maliu Strait.
The current person in charge of Lion City, Army Lieutenant General Nehun Paz, had received the news from the Navy a day ago.
After he learned that the attack fleet of the Nanyang Navy had re-entered the Strait of Malacca, he already knew that the expedition fleet was probably in danger.
Under this situation, the expeditionary army is already isolated and helpless. The only way now is to hold the Lion City, wait for negotiations between the two sides, and then end this war with dignity.
In order to allow himself to persist longer, Lieutenant General Nehun Paz moved as much supplies as possible on the transport ship to the Lion City.
On the other hand, he built accumulations and bunkers in the Lion City. At the same time, in order to deter Liu Hai's expeditionary fleet, he arrested Chinese people on a large scale and ordered these Chinese to stay with the army soldiers of the expeditionary force to act as human shields.
However, his idea did not have much effect, because most of the Chinese had retreated, leaving behind some wealthy businessmen who had good relations with the colonists.
The other is to take advantage of their numerical advantage and begin to expand to the outskirts of the city, hoping to repel the 1st Division led by Yamaji Motoji on the outskirts, and then open up a passage to the interior so that they can move inward when they cannot defend.
Lu fled.
Lieutenant General Nehun Paz had good intentions, but time was not on her side.
Before he was fully prepared, the artillery fleet led by Liu Da had already reappeared in the outer sea.
After Liu Da returned to the Lion City, the first thing he saw was dozens of transport ships of the British Expeditionary Fleet on the urgently repaired pier in Singapore.
Although these transport ships have discovered that Liu Da's artillery fleet has returned, they have not panicked. They are still in an orderly manner, transporting supplies from the transport ships to Singapore, hoping to transport the supplies to the shore as soon as possible.
Liu Da saw this situation from a distance, curled his lips, and then issued an order like his adjutant.
"Order the fleet to deploy in a battle line, with the cruisers in front, the ironclads in the second row, the two Sovereign-class battleships in the third row, and the four Yihua-class battleships in the fourth row. I require the fleet to deploy in the shortest possible time.
Send all the transport ships on the dock to the bottom of the sea."
As soon as Liu Da's order was issued, the entire artillery fleet began to execute it quickly.
With its speed advantage, the cruiser quickly got into position at the forefront of the fleet and formed a formation. Then, without waiting for orders, it launched the first round of attacks on the transport ships of the expeditionary fleet with the light and heavy artillery on the cruiser.
After that, other heavy ironclad battleships also formed their own arrays.
Next, the transport fleet faced bombardment from countless large-caliber artillery.
At this time, the soldiers who were still stubbornly transporting supplies on the road had no way to continue.
Although they are said to be well-trained, facing so many heavy artillery bombardments, they are also ordinary humans. How can they fight against steel with their flesh and blood.
Therefore, as soon as the shelling began, these British soldiers dispersed and fled quickly into a city.
As for the supplies and transport ships on the dock that have not yet been transported, no one cares about them anymore, because everyone knows in their hearts that the enemy can no longer keep these things for them.
The bombardment lasted for an hour, and all the transport ships on the dock were sunk by Liu Da's bombardment fleet.
What sank along with these transport ships was the huge supplies of the expeditionary force. Without these supplies and contact with the mainland, the expeditionary force army now in the Lion City has lost the ability to continue fighting.