After the United States was defeated, the East China Government's main attention was still on these two combat operations, and the early stage of the landing in Japan had already been successful, and the first batch of materials and personnel had already been transported back to the East China Government, so it could also be put aside for the time being.

At this time, after more than 10 days of sailing, the evacuation fleet had arrived at Kuda Port in Poyi Chau, and was anchoring in Kuda Port for rest. Strictly speaking, Kuda Port is a British colony, but Zhang Zhenxun has a large number of industries here, and built several wharves by himself, as a transit between Jawa and China, after the East China Government Jawa protected overseas Chinese, Zhang Zhenxun subleased two of the wharves to the East China Government to operate, but also for the East China Government to transit and carry out economic and trade in Boyizhou, so this time the evacuation of overseas Chinese, the fleet still has to dock at Kuda Port for two days to rest.

Although the East China government and Britain have completely turned against each other, the British colonial authorities in Poyi Island did not prevent the evacuation fleet from berthing, because the British Far East Governor's Office instructed the British colonial authorities in Poyi Island not to block the People's Army fleet from berthing. Of course, this is not the kindness of the British, on the one hand, because of the huge size of the evacuation fleet, which is not something that the British army in Poyizhou can resist, and on the other hand, the British want to play a big vote this time.

Although the East China Government recovered the Shanghai Concession and confiscated a considerable part of British assets, the British Bi Jing had been operating in Shanghai for decades, and it was not possible to clear it up in a short period of time.

After urgent consultations, the British Government ordered the British Far East Fleet to concentrate all British warships in the Far East and prepare to attack the KPA evacuation fleet.

It turned out that the expeditionary force had only reached the west coast of India at this time, and it would take at least 2 months to reach the Far East. The time to replenish will take 3 months, but what happened during this time is very unfavorable to the expeditionary force, the People's Army has completely defeated Russia, and landed in Japan, if Japan is completely defeated, then even if the expeditionary force reaches the Far East, it will not be able to change the overall situation, after all, the expeditionary force is only a navy strong, but the strength of the army is really not enough, without the assistance of the Japanese army, it is impossible to pose a fatal threat to the East China government. Moreover, the expeditionary force labored and labored on the expedition, which cost a huge amount of money, and was not durable to fight, and without the cooperation of the Japanese and Russian troops, the East China government could completely adopt the tactics of sticking to coastal defense, and drag it out until Britain and France could not afford to consume it and take the initiative to withdraw its troops.

Moreover, the successive defeats of Japan and Russia also had a great impact on the morale of the expeditionary force and the atmosphere in Britain and France, which were under considerable pressure from the government, and not everyone in the two countries supported the war, so both Britain and France urgently needed a victory to boost their morale.

Originally, the British government considered transferring the Far East Fleet to the north and stationing it in Japan to strengthen Japan's maritime forces, so that the KPA could not easily supply the materials needed for the landing force, but once the Far East Fleet was stationed in Japan, it would inevitably confront the KPA navy head-on, but relying only on the strength of the Far East Fleet, it would be difficult to confront the KPA navy, and now it was only Japan and Russia that failed, and as long as Britain and France did not fail, they could still give Japan and Russia the reason and belief to persevere. The blow inflicted by Russia was quite severe. Therefore, whether to send the Far East Fleet to the north was not decided by Britain for a while.

And just when the British government was hesitating, the East China government sent a fleet to Jawa to evacuate overseas Chinese, which also solved a difficult problem for the British government, because Jawa was very close to Singapore, where the Far East Fleet was stationed, and the Far East Fleet could ambush the overseas Chinese fleet nearby, and after defeating the overseas Chinese fleet, the Far East Fleet could cooperate with the Dutch colonial authorities in Jawa to eliminate the power of the East China government in Java.

And Britain can also use a victory to ease the pressure on the government. Of course, the premise is that this battle must be won, and if the strength of the KPA evacuation fleet is significantly stronger than that of the Far East fleet, then this battle can only be canceled.

Therefore, on the one hand, the British government ordered the Far East Fleet to gather warships to prepare for the East China Government's evacuation fleet, and on the other hand, it ordered the intelligence agencies in the Far East to collect relevant information about the evacuation fleet.

After receiving the order, Vice Admiral Owen, the commander of the Far East Fleet, was quite eager to try, because three years ago, the East China government carried out the operation of protecting overseas Chinese, and Owen led the Far East Fleet to intervene, although in the end it still made the Dutch Batavian authorities compensate 6.5 million pounds and ceded a lot of rights to the Chinese in Java, but after all, it kept the bottom line of the East China government's occupation of Batavia.

However, Owen was very dissatisfied with this result, although Owen did not have a good impression of the Netherlands, but the Netherlands is a European country, and Britain has similarities in culture, religion, and values, while the East China government is an independent force in Asia, not even a country, in Owen's eyes, Asia is still a primitive, barbaric, backward symbol, so Owen's heart is naturally all over the Netherlands.

However, at that time, the relationship between Britain and the East China government was still good, and Britain still had to use the power of the East China government to deal with Russia, so when dealing with the Java crisis, it was generally inclined to the East China government, and only set a bottom line to prohibit the East China government from gaining a foothold in Java, and Owen naturally could only respect domestic orders.

But now that the East China government and Britain are completely at odds with each other, the two sides are basically fighting each other, and the East China government wants to evacuate overseas Chinese from Java, Owen of course hopes to take this opportunity to fight with the East China government, and also let out the bad breath of the year.

However, Owen also agreed with the conditions set by the country, if the strength of the overseas Chinese fleet was stronger than that of the Far East Fleet, the battle would be canceled, after all, the expeditionary force was only a month away from Singapore, and there was no need to fight with the superior enemy knowing that it was invincible. So Owen ordered the warships scattered in the colony to return to Singapore to gather, while waiting for the results of the intelligence services.

It should be said that the efficiency of the British intelligence service was still very high, and three days later, Britain basically got the relevant information on the main warships of the evacuation fleet and sent it to Owen, who evaluated it, and then got a conclusion, and sent the assessment report back to Britain for examination and approval by the Admiralty.

The main warships of the overseas Chinese evacuation fleet are: One of the five combat warships that appeared with the overseas Chinese is the Yueyang ship, which is also the flagship of the overseas Chinese evacuation fleet, and according to comprehensive information, the combat effectiveness of this warship ranks second among the first five warships of the overseas Chinese, second only to the Kunming.

Battleship Cadre, Mo Ye. The two ships are of the same class, one is built in Germany and the other is built in the East China government, and Germany provides the main equipment, materials, shipboard weapons, and technical guidance. According to the information obtained by the Ministry of Intelligence, this type of warship is similar to the British Dreadnought under construction in terms of design ideas, both of which adopt the concept of full firepower, are equipped with a total of 8 main guns, and are equipped with an integrated fire control system. Therefore, it deserves attention.

The battleship Weiyang is the former Crown Prince of the Russian Navy, Boyang is the former Borodino of the Russian Navy, and Feiyang is the former Eagle of the Russian Navy.

The armored cruisers Jinan and Tianjin were designed by the East China government and built in the same way as the Ganjiang-class battleships, one was built in Germany and the other was built in the East China government, and Germany provided the main equipment, materials, shipboard weapons, and technical guidance. The combat effectiveness was approximately equal to that of the Italian-built Galipotti-class armored cruisers.

Of course, this is also due to the fact that Britain has always paid close attention to the naval technology and fleets of various countries in the world, and has tried its best to collect data on the parameters of the main warships built by various countries.

After Owen got these materials, he immediately started an analysis, and the only thing that could not be determined in the evacuation fleet was the combat effectiveness of the Yueyang ship.

In fact, the combat effectiveness of the first five warships of the East China government has always been a secret group of the British Navy. When overseas Chinese were first born, the navy was mainly these five warships, and won the Battle of Dagukou and the total annihilation of the German Far East Fleet, and in the later time, these five warships participated in almost all the important naval battles of the East China government, and basically served as the flagship. According to the propaganda of the East China government, these five warships have a very transcendent position in the People's Army Navy, almost equivalent to Noah's Ark.

It is said that these 5 warships should be very strong, but the problem is that the shipboard weapons of these 5 warships are pitiful, 3 of them only have one main gun, and the other 2 are also twin turrets, and the caliber is not large, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it has strong combat effectiveness.

Moreover, after the establishment of the East China government, the warships built without exception gave up the design ideas of these five warships, and returned to the mainstream of this era, but retained some of the characteristics of these five warships in the shape design of the warships, such as the bow of the large bevel flying clipper, the pointed head and flat tail, and the V.-type hull drifting outward.

In addition, the intelligence agency of the British Navy has made a detailed analysis of the previous naval battles of the East China Government, although these five warships have participated in the war, but in fact, in each battle, these five warships are hiding behind, and they have not even fired their main guns a few times, so some people in the British Admiralty think that these five warships actually do not have much combat effectiveness, and it is very likely that they are only armed merchant ships, but they are just the result of the East China Government's false or false propaganda, just to prove that the overseas Chinese are strong in science and technology.

However, there are also people in the Admiralty who oppose this conclusion, judging from the several types of warships designed by the East China government itself, they have a profound study of the design of warships, and the performance of warships after they are completed, as well as their performance in actual combat are quite good, and they are two new battleships, and the design ideas are very similar to the British built Intrepid, so these five warships will never be meaningless, let alone armed merchant ships, to the point that it may be a warship with an experimental nature built by the island country where overseas Chinese originally existed, but the test has not yet been completed, and the country will be destroyed, so it is reasonable to say that there are few weapons on boardAfter the establishment of the East China government, all the warships built have some elements of these 5 warships, which can fully explain the problem, so these 5 warships cannot be underestimated.

Owen also knew some of these arguments, but he was a pure technical analyst and couldn't judge which one was more plausible, so he took the simplest way to evaluate the Yueyang ship's combat power as a battleship.