"This is the 'Frigate Bird' No. 1, the target is found, and the target is repeatedly found." The AV-9013B Sea Harrier attack ship that took off from the L8 ship did not have much trouble finding the aircraft, which was spotted by the anti-aircraft search radar.

"Confirm their identity." Yang Guang gave the order to the 'Warship Bird' 1 to approach and reconnoitre.

“Copy/that.” With that, the pilot lowered his altitude to get a closer look at the plane.

Soon the pilots of the Warship Bird 1 discovered that it was a strangely shaped three-wing seaplane, and it was not difficult to tell from the blue, white and red circles on its wings that it was an aircraft belonging to the British Royal Navy.

"A triplane with the logo of the British Royal Navy was spotted, and it did not respond to our identification of friend or foe." Although it is unlikely that the aircraft was transmitted by the "director's team" from its appearance, the pilots of the Frigate Bird 1 identified it according to standard procedures.

"What the hell, what do the British want to do? Are they looking for trouble with Maozi or are they looking for trouble with us? Yang Guang said after hearing that it was a John Bull reconnaissance plane.

"Need to shoot it down?" The pilot of the AV-8B attack plane, who approached for reconnaissance, asked.

The 'Warship Bird' 1 not only discovered the reconnaissance plane, which belonged to the British Royal Navy, but also its sea search radar also found traces of the activity of a fleet in the sea area about 40 kilometers away from the reconnaissance plane, which should be John Bull's Far East Fleet in terms of its size. Because it was a close reconnaissance, the British water reconnaissance plane also saw the figure of the 'Warship Bird' 1, so the pilot of the 'Warship Bird' 1 naturally thought that letting the reconnaissance plane return to its mothership would expose the position of the 38th Task Force, so he asked the fleet commander Yang Guang for permission to attack.

"No, return immediately." Yang Guang denied the attack request of the 'Warship Bird' 1.

Although the conflict between the Crossing and John Bull has been further intensified, the difference between this and the relationship between the Crossing and Maozi is that neither Ying nor Song officially declared war. To be precise, both sides are still at the stage of various tentative threats. Yang Guang did not dare to easily provoke a war without the authorization of the Interim Executive Committee.

In fact, judging from the current situation of Task Force 38, there is no concern that the pilots of the 'Warship Bird' No. 1 will leak the whereabouts of the fleet, because the current position of the fleet is not a secret at all. In order to realize the oil self-sufficiency plan of the Traders, where else can they go except to stay in the waters near East Wanyu?

John Niu was also determined that the Great Song people wanted to open a military port in Dongwanlu, so if they wanted to find the stubble of the 38th Task Force, they could directly come to Dongwanlu. The commander of the Far East Fleet of the British Royal Navy would not release a reconnaissance plane at such a distance unless his brain was kicked by a donkey, and judging from the size and speed of the triplane, the flight radius of this type of reconnaissance plane would definitely not exceed 80 kilometers.

"Is John Bull testing this new seaplane?" Guo Wei speculated about John Bull's behavior.

"No, the 'Warship Bird' 1 also spotted several planes on the radar in all directions of the Far Eastern Fleet, John Bull was obviously looking for something." Yang Guang said.

"Are you looking for us? But all the merchant ships in this vicinity know that we are operating near Dongwanlu! And their current position is so far away from the waters of East Wanlu, completely beyond the range of their water reconnaissance planes, the British must have a hole in their brains to make the decision to send planes to reconnoiter us, right? Marcos said.

"Is it the Pacific Fleet guarding against Maozi?" Guo Wei asked.

"That's even more nonsense, the Strait of Malacca is under the control of John Bull, do they need such an anti-hair?" Marcos said.

"Have you made contact with the Green Paint Zone? This matter must be combined with the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Service to have an eyebrow. Yang Guang couldn't figure out what John Bull's Far East Fleet was doing for a while.

In fact, Filimant, who was bent on finding the stubble of Task Force 38, also faced the same problem as Yang Guang, and he also did not have the authorization to open fire on the other side first. Although Vice Admiral Filimante reported to the Admiralty his plan to prevent Task Force 38 from heading north to join BB63, the Admiralty bosses rejected his plan and repeatedly urged him to lead the main force of the Far East Fleet north to Weihaiwei.

Filimante is well aware of the activities of the 38th Task Force in the waters near East Wanlu, and the location of the Great Song Fleet is no secret to the merchant ships active in this vicinity, as long as you stop a merchant ship coming from the direction of East Wanlu, you can ask the latest movements of the 38th Task Force of the Great Song Royal Navy.

But Filimante, who did not have the authorization to start the war, of course, could not go to Dongwanlu in a daze, once there was a battle in that sea area, he could not tell even if he had ten mouths, even if he defeated the Great Song people, he could not take off the hat of disobedience to the war. It was only in the waters outside of Dong Wanlu that there was a friction with the warships of the Great Song people that Filimante could find the perfect excuse to attack the 38th Task Force, which is why he began to send multiple water reconnaissance planes at such a distance from Dong Wanlu.

In the evening, the command center of the Green Paint Zone on the Liaodong Peninsula finally received a report from the 38th Task Force on the discovery of a John Bull reconnaissance plane carrying out a reconnaissance mission in the South China Sea. However, the attention of the crude embryos was clearly not on the question of what John Bull's Far East Fleet was going to do in the South China Sea, and everyone expressed surprise that the British had come up with a seaplane with good speed and range. The performance of this triplane is significantly more advanced than the things that the British have tinkered with in the Songying Joint Research and Development Center, and it has surpassed the technology sold to John Bull by the Crossing Crowd.

"Damn, John Bull gave us such a hand, are we cocooning ourselves by selling them the aircraft manufacturing technology?" After hearing the news, Feng Yunyi was the first to be calm.

"The British, as shady as they are, are far from being cocooned. Judging from the report, the kind of aircraft they have made is not even capable of our helicopters. Hao Dajian said.

"Ma Dan, in this case, we must speed up the oil self-sufficiency plan, otherwise relying on the Yankees to transport crude oil from the other side of the ocean will not be able to support the daily training and combat of our indigenous air force!" Da Chen Yongqing said.

"Why don't we just go to Shandong to get oil, won't we all land in Yantai now? I didn't see the nerves of any of the great powers! Hao Dajian said.

"Yes, I remember that there are shallow oil wells in the Shengli Oilfield." Da Chen Yongqing echoed.

"Hehe, Shandong is clinging to Zhili, do you guess that Lord Man will fight hard to kill you with human heads? When the time comes, it will be interesting to end up in a situation where ammunition is exchanged for oil? Besides, in this situation, do you dare to say that it hasn't stimulated anyone's nerves? John Bull Durnyima is going to be stimulated by us! Chopper said.

"Stop, don't get up crooked, let's talk about the John Bull Far East Fleet in the South China Sea, I always feel that there is something wrong with them." Zhao Yi said.

"Maozi's Pacific Fleet has come to the South China Sea, and that side has become our war zone with Maozi, so it's understandable for John Bull to do this." Lu Xiangyang said.

"Hehe, it's interesting, this move of the Far East Fleet and a piece of information I obtained before can spell out a very interesting story." Wang He opened his notebook as he spoke.

"There is information that the British Admiralty has been sending frequent reports urging the Far East Fleet to go north lately, and at first I thought that John Bull had deliberately leaked this information to us to threaten us. Now it seems that John Bull's Admiralty is really anxious, and the commander of the Far East Fleet seems to be deliberately delaying the north! Wang He continued.