"Where is the location of our escort plane, Grazie, send someone to ask." Louis. Rear Admiral Corinne lowered his binoculars, turned his face to the fleet staff officer behind him and ordered.

"Someone has been sent, Commander!" Let. Lieutenant Commander Grazi stepped forward to report.

"Port side, three nautical miles, two thousand in height, three in number." The microphone heard the report of the observer from the upper lookout.

"The reconnaissance planes of the Japanese, they should have seen us a long time ago." Colonel Armand, Chief of Staff of the French Far East Fleet, sat in a high chair on the other side of the bridge of the seafaring ship, holding a steaming cup of black tea.

"The patrol aircraft sent a report that the Japanese fleet had not changed its original course." A captain reported with a telephone receiver.

"We're also on course." Major General Corinne raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

"The position has been calculated, and at the current speed, it will take about twenty minutes, and the pilot ship should be able to see each other." Grazi reported.

"Don't be nervous, Lieutenant Colonel, just think of this as a combat exercise." Corinthius patted the staff officer's arm, then turned and walked towards the window on the side of the navigation bridge.

"Chief, the fleet replied, thank you, keep watching." The radio operator said loudly as he leaned on the back of the driver's seat.

"Let them go talk to the guy outside." The pilot, Admiral Enes, shook his head in the direction of the right porthole of the plane.

At this moment, less than ten meters to the right of this Loire-130 water reconnaissance plane, there is a Japanese Navy Type 96 carrier-based fighter plane painted with the Red Pill insignia flying side by side, and the distance between the two sides is so close that the French can even see the expression of the Japanese Navy pilot sitting in the open-air cockpit.

"Hey, Jap." The lookout in the lookout at the back of the cockpit waved at the Japanese, but as the French expected, there was no response, and the Japanese pilot just turned his head and stared at the daring French airship with cold eyes.

"Before he can make up his mind to kill us, we have to leave this place and report to the fleet that we have been expelled by Japanese fighters." The driver turned his face and shouted loudly at the radio operator.

"This guy looks like he wants to eat us alive." The lookout echoed loudly.

"They just like to eat raw, Dominic, and that very pungent spice." The pilot spun the steering wheel while making a witty remark, and the eleven-meter-long flying boat began to swipe sideways.

"Is he still with us?" The driver looked around through the porthole.

"I don't know, I didn't see her here, hell, they're right above us, three fighters, a standard squad." The lookout reported loudly.

"Well, let me see how closely you can keep up, Jap!" Enes gritted his teeth and slammed the throttle forward.

"Don't, boss, don't be impulsive!"

"My God."

At the exclamation of the crew, the seemingly clumsy seaplane made an amazing barrel roll, exposing its red-primed belly to the sun, and then the nose slammed down, and the Loire 130 began to spiral towards the sea.

"It's been five minutes since the Japanese envoy left, and the governor hasn't summoned anyone else?" Clinder, the second secretary in charge of foreign affairs, closed the heavy oak door to his office.

"Not yet, this is an emergency incident that can have serious consequences if not handled properly. I could feel the pressure on the Governor's shoulders at the moment, and no one here could help him now. Linton, the governor's chief secretary of state, took off his glasses and put down the papers in his hand.

"What about the Germans?" Claude asked.

"The Japanese went to them first, sit down, Mr. Clinder, there's freshly brewed black tea." Linton leaned in and picked up the teapot from the cart beside him.

"Okay, have a drink, add a piece of sugar, thank you." Clint pulled out a chair at the round table and sat down.

"The Japanese are engaged in a dangerous game, a crude test of France and the entire colonial power of Southeast Asia." Linton poured black tea into a gold-rimmed teacup.

"But don't worry too much, the German marshal won't make any reckless moves in Southeast Asia until he visits Japan, unless—" Linton placed the black teacup in front of Clinder.

"Unless... Unless what? Mr. Clint asked curiously.

"Unless they're crazy and want to challenge the whole of Europe." Linton put his glasses back on and picked up the papers on the table.

"If they really wanted to do that, they wouldn't have sent an envoy out of place. It's a gamble, and it's just not known who the winner will be in the end. The chief secretary said with a sneer.

"Attention! Smoke was spotted directly ahead. The lookout shouted, and several high-powered telescopes in the observation post turned around at the same time.

"Yanxi, it's the Eastern Fleet of the people of the country." The captain on duty excitedly patted his subordinate on the shoulder, and then picked up the telephone on the wall behind him.

"Your Excellency, the French fleet has been discovered." A major staff officer put down the telephone and saluted the commander.

"Hmm." Vice Admiral Takasu Shiro, who was sitting in the commander's seat in the corner of the bridge, opened his eyes slightly, and then nodded to the staff officer.

"Keep course!" Captain Tanaka Osa straightened his chest and ordered to the helmsman.

"Got it!" The helmsman shouted back.

For this operation, the Japanese Combined Fleet can be regarded as having come up with the capital to press the bottom of the box, and like the title of commander of Takasu Shiro, the establishment of this fleet is also temporary, and all the ships here are from the First Fleet, that is, the main fleet of the first class of the Japanese Navy.

About half a month ago, Gao Su was recalled to the Military Command Department to report on his work, mainly about the termination of the operation off the coast of Haiphong Port last time, and the Navy believed that Gao Su's handling was very appropriate, so he was exempted from any punishment, and he was also commended by the Minister of Military Orders.

He was then temporarily transferred to the Kure Shofu to wait for a new appointment from his superiors, and he knew that it would not be long, and it is said that King Fushimi Miyahiro Kyoji appreciated his performance in that incident, and especially liked the part where he locked Kyoji Tominaga in the utility room on the ship, and the guys in the personnel department did not dare to ignore this condition.

However, the vice admiral did not expect that his appointment would come so quickly, and he was appointed commander of the Fifth Fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the Japanese government, at the request of the Siamese government, the Fifth Fleet of the Japanese Navy, will pay a friendly visit to Siam for a week.

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I'm sorry for the late update today. (To be continued.) )