After scolding the United States, the main attention of East China is still in these two combat operations, the early stage of the landing in Japan has been successful, and the first batch of materials and personnel have been transported back to East China, so it can also be put down temporarily, and the next thing to pay attention to is the evacuation of overseas Chinese.

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.

Although East China and Britain have completely turned their faces, the British colonial authorities in Poyizhou did not prevent the evacuation fleet from berthing, because the British Far East Governor's Office instructed the British colonial authorities in Poyizhou 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 British did not dare to confront East China ** on the surface, they could still collect information in secret, so when the overseas Chinese fleet left Shanghai, someone immediately transmitted this news back to China.

After urgent consultations, Britain ordered the British Far East Fleet to concentrate all British warships in the Far East and prepare to attack the KPA's overseas Chinese fleet, even if the Far East Fleet suffered heavy losses, it would not hesitate, unless the KPA's overseas Chinese fleet was so strong that the British Far East Fleet was basically impossible to defeat.

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 change the overall situation, after all, the expeditionary force is only a strong navy, 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 East China. Moreover, the expeditionary force labors and divisions to go on an expedition, which costs a lot of money, is not durable, and without the cooperation of the Japanese and Russian troops, East China can completely adopt the tactics of sticking to coastal defense, and drag it until Britain and France cannot afford to consume it and take the initiative to withdraw the troops.

Moreover, the successive defeats of Japan and Russia have also had a great impact on the morale of the expeditionary force and the atmosphere in Britain and France.

Originally, Britain considered transferring the Far East Fleet to the north and stationing it in Japan to strengthen Japan's maritime forces, so that the People's Army 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 People's Army's navy head-on, but relying only on the strength of the Far East Fleet, it would be difficult to confront the People's Army's navy, and now it was only Japan and Russia that failed, as long as Britain and France did not fail, it would still be possible for Japan and Russia to have reasons and beliefs 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 Britain was hesitating, East China sent a fleet to Jawa to evacuate overseas Chinese, which also solved a difficult problem for the British, because Jawa is very close to Singapore, the station of the Far East Fleet, and the Far East Fleet can ambush the overseas Chinese fleet nearby, and after defeating the overseas Chinese fleet, the Far East Fleet can cooperate with the Dutch colonial authorities in Jawa to eliminate the power of East China ** in Jawa.

And Britain can also use a victory to relieve the pressure of **. 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, Britain ordered the Far East Fleet to gather warships and prepare to meet the overseas Chinese fleet in East China, and on the other hand, it ordered the intelligence agencies in the Far East to collect relevant information about the overseas Chinese fleet.

After the commander of the Far East Fleet, Vice Admiral Owen, received the order, he was quite eager to try, because three years ago, the East China ** carried out the Jawa Overseas Chinese Protection Operation, and it was Owen who led the Far East Fleet to intervene, although in the end it still made the Dutch Batavian authorities compensate 6.5 million pounds and conceded a lot of rights to the Chinese in Java, but after all, the bottom line of East China's ** invasion and occupation of Batavia was kept.

However, Owen is very dissatisfied with this result, although Owen does 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 East China ** 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 East China was still good, and Britain had to use the power of East China to deal with Russia, so when dealing with the Java crisis, it was generally inclined to East China, and only set a bottom line to prohibit East China from gaining a foothold in Java, and Owen could only respect domestic orders.

But now East China and Britain are completely at odds with each other, the two sides are basically fighting each other, and East China is going to evacuate overseas Chinese from Java, Owen of course hopes to take this opportunity to fight with East China, and also out of 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. These two ships are of the same class, one is built in Germany and the other is built in East China, 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 are designed by East China and built in the same way as the Ganjiang-class battleships, one is built in Germany and the other is built in East China, and Germany provides 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 in East China has always been a secret group of the British Navy. When overseas Chinese were first born, the navy was mainly these 5 warships, and won the Battle of Dagukou, as well as the total annihilation of the German Far East Fleet, and in the later time, these 5 warships participated in almost all the important naval battles in East China, and basically served as the flagship. From the propaganda of East China**, these 5 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 East China, the warships built without exception gave up the design ideas of these five warships, and returned to the mainstream of this era, only retaining some of the characteristics of these five warships in the shape design of warships, such as the bow of the large bevel flying clipper, the pointed head and flat tail, and the outward drifting V.type hull.

In addition, the intelligence agency of the British Navy has made a detailed analysis of the previous naval battles in East China, although these 5 warships have participated in the war, but in fact, in each battle, these 5 warships are hiding behind, and even the main guns have not been fired a few times, so some people in the British Admiralty think that these 5 warships actually do not have much combat effectiveness, and it is very likely that they are just armed merchant ships, but they are the result of East China's ** false or false propaganda, just to prove that the overseas Chinese are strong in science and technology.

But there are also people in the Admiralty who oppose this conclusion, from East China ** From the perspective of several types of warships designed by themselves, they have a deep study of the design of warships, and the performance of warships after completion, as well as their performance in actual combat are quite good, because they are two new battleships, and the design ideas are very similar to the British built Dreadnought, so these five warships will never be meaningless, let alone armed merchant ships, to the possibility that the overseas Chinese originally existed in the island country built with an experimental nature of warships, but the test has not been completed, the country will be destroyed, so that the shipboard weapons are less reasonable, and in East China**After its establishment, all the warships built have some of the elemental styles of these 5 warships, which can fully explain the problem, so these 5 warships cannot be taken lightly.

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.