After receiving Hu Zhen's order, the Huaxia fleet immediately left behind the scarred Oro fleet, left the sea area where fire was still rising everywhere, and retreated eastward at maximum speed

The E-Japanese fleet was twice sunk its flagship, and at this time it had long lost the courage to pursue the Huaxia fleet, and more importantly, with the maximum speed of the battleships of the E-Japanese fleet, it was simply impossible to catch up. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was only after both sides had disengaged that a few small black dots appeared in the western sky.

By the time the sun had sunk halfway down the surface of the sea, the little black dots grew bigger and bigger, and more and more, and soon covered the entire sky.

It turned out that more than 100 airships of the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet had rushed to the war zone, but at this time, the Huaxia Army fleet had already moved away from the war zone.

With a speed of more than 50 knots, the airships of the coalition forces could completely catch up with the Huaxia fleet, but after catching up, the sky was already completely dark, and even if the airships caught up, it would be in vain, because they did not have the ability to bombard the enemy's surface fleet in the dark.

Moreover, in the dark, such a dense airship sailing, can bring unpredictable dangers.

The allied airship had no choice but to take a look at the distant Huaxia fleet, and then shrank its forces and returned to the airship carrier.

That night, the Eight-Nation Allied Fleet rushed to the entrance of the Indian Ocean side of the Strait of Malacca to join the fleets of the two countries, but there was no trace of the Chinese fleet.

The commanders of the fleets of various countries had different opinions on the sinking of the battleship Alexander III described by the personnel of the Hubei-Japanese fleet, some expressed disbelief, and some said that it was made up by the Hubei-Japanese army to deceive people, but after returning to their own fleet, most of them did not dare to be careless, and ordered to strengthen the guard guard and lookout to prevent the cunning Huaxia army from sneaking up at night.

That night, Hu Zhen still ordered the nuclear submarine to tow mines and launched a mine offensive against the coalition fleet, but because the coalition combat ships strengthened their vigilance, only an airship carrier and a logistics supply ship were sunk in the mine sneak attack, and an English battleship was blown open by a torpedo and a large hole.

The results of the mine offensive this night were not very obvious, and Hu Zhen was not satisfied.

But this inexplicable mine attack frightened the commanders of the coalition fleet, and they did not dare to be careless, so they ordered to set up a formation with destroyers and cruisers on the outside and battleships in the middle, and completely open the mine protection net, focusing on protecting the battleships.

Although the Eight-Nation Coalition and the Otto-Japanese fleet had a huge number of 50 battleships, the commanders of various countries had the idea of preserving their strength, and in order to avoid being attacked by mines, they stopped their advance in the direction of the Strait of Malacca that night, and instead stayed on the side of the entrance to the Indian Ocean in Malacca.

The allied fleet sent out to the Strait of Malacca at dawn the next day and sent airships to search the strait's shipping lanes, but the Huaxia Army was already five or six hundred kilometers away, beyond the combat radius of the allied airships.

And the Straits Colony fleet in Singapore, due to its weak strength, did not dare to come out to block the retreat of the Huaxia Army's fast fleet.

The Chinese army swaggered through the Strait of Malacca and returned to the Natuna Islands to rest.

The Allied fleet was about to set out for the Strait of Malacca, only to find that the German fleet had not followed.

As a result, the fleets of various countries radioed the German fleet and sent fast ships to look for it in the depths of the Indian Ocean.

The German fleet quickly replied that three of the five battleships in their fleet had broken down and were now being urgently repaired.

There was a lot of talk about this in the fleets of various countries.

"What the Germans made is bad!"

"I dare to take out such a weapon for an expedition, I'm sorry to God!"

"Regardless of them, our naval force is enough to conquer the Far East!"

"The Germans are not coming, just one less country to distribute the interests of the Far East!"

The quality of industrial products in the early days of Germany's rise was not very good, and there was a large gap with the old powers such as England and France, and it was not surprising that three of the five battleships had problems.

No one imagined that this was a secret order from the German emperor to stop his fleet in the Indian Ocean before the Strait of Malacca.

After learning the exact news of the German fleet, the fleets of various countries pretended to ask if they would send logistics ships to help.

The reply sent by the German fleet was that the quality of the German battleships was very good, and there was only an occasional glitch, and the technicians and logistical repair ships accompanying the expedition could handle it completely without the help of other countries.

After receiving this news, the fleets of various countries felt very ridiculous and lamentable:

"These Germans are really trying to save face, obviously the quality of their battleships is terrible, and the battleships of this expedition are broken by sixty, and they insist that their quality is very good."

"Leave them alone, the channel of the Strait of Malacca is narrow enough, let's go!"

The fleets of the Oros and the Wa Kingdom were even more anxious, eager to defeat the Chinese Empire in a decisive battle in an hour, so as to save their disastrous motherland from fire and water.

Therefore, the fleet commanders of these two countries jumped up and down, and even the scholar general Makarov became a diplomat, communicating with the commanders of the fleets of various countries everywhere, demanding that they immediately pass through the Strait of Malacca and move in the direction of the Chinese Empire.

Admiral Seymour, commander of the English fleet, was the commander of the combined fleet for the expedition, and he immediately convened a meeting of the commanders of the fleets of various countries.

At the meeting, not a single fleet commander expressed his willingness to wait for the hapless Germanic guy when he was on the verge of the goal.

Makarov and Gonbei Yamamoto cried out with tears in their eyes, calling for the forces of justice in the world to unite and immediately go east to fight against the vicious Chinese imperialism and uphold the justice of mankind.

"Since we all agree not to wait for the Germans, let's go east tomorrow!" Seymour felt that it would not be a big deal to lose five German battleships, and the forty-five battleships and two thousand airships of the Combined Fleet could completely drown all the naval forces of the Chinese Empire.

As a result, the Eight-Nation Coalition Fleet in Europe became the Seven-Nation Coalition Fleet.

However, Seymour and the commanders of the fleets of various countries were very afraid of the elusive mine offensive of the Huaxia Army, and demanded that the combined fleet first send leading ships to find out that there were indeed no mine ambushes before the whole fleet advanced eastward.

The destroyers sent out found a number of traces of torpedo floating in the Strait of Malacca.

Seymour ordered the immediate minesweeping, and notified the whole fleet to deploy a mine-protection formation, and ships with conditions to spread the mine-protection net.

Hundreds of ships of the coalition fleet, guided by the lead ships, marched eastward through the Strait of Malacca, and airships in the air also filled the sky to provide air cover for the coalition fleet.

When the officers and men of the allied fleet saw this grand scene, they felt a sense of coaxing in their hearts:

We are now the most powerful in the world and will crush everything in the Far East! (To be continued.) )