Huge shadows move slowly in the mountains of the Kra Isthmus. China did not expel the Siamese people from the Chinese "concession" of the Kra Isthmus, and the Siamese people in the mountains watched the behemoth in the sky move slowly, and the more devout Buddhists could not help but kneel and worship. The behemoth that can fly in the sky is undoubtedly an object of worship for Buddhists.

Compared to the huge airship, the controls hoisted underneath and the main body of the warship carried are inconspicuous. However, this is the real purpose of China's use of such a big guy. The Chinese, just as the Ottoman Turks attacked Constantinople in history, transported a "fleet" from one ocean to another by non-sea transport.

A relatively easy part of the Kra Canal has been completed, and the straight-line distance between the two ends has been reduced to less than ten kilometers. Although it is difficult to construct in the mountainous area, the removed stones can be poured together with special concrete to form a strong canal embankment, which saves a lot of transportation effort.

On the other side of the Indian Ocean, China's Indian Ocean Fleet, which is used to defend the Kra Canal, has been in existence for three years. Large ships lacked ports near the Kra Isthmus, and smaller ships were unable to reach the Indian Ocean on their own endurance due to endurance and the British sidelines. The railway of the Kra Isthmus is being strengthened and expanded into a heavy railway, and it is impossible for a heavy railway to carry warships of hundreds or thousands of tons. On the one hand, China is building a shipyard on the Kra Isthmus adjacent to the Indian Ocean, and assembles the equipment and parts it brings in to build warships. On the one hand, he introduced some of Germany's relatively mature airship technology, and transported small warships from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean from the air over a distance of more than 10 kilometers.

At this stage, shipyards are mainly responsible for installation and commissioning, and these warships are only transported with an empty body, which can be dismantled and dismantled to reduce weight, and then installed and debugged after arriving in the Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean Fleet of the People's Navy already has more than forty small warships, including submarines. These warships, with a maximum tonnage of no more than 800 tons, signal China's presence in the Indian Ocean.

At this time, the giant carrier airships that were still taking turns to go into battle all went into battle, desperately transporting warships to the Indian Ocean. The airship was accompanied by a fleet of aircraft in the air, and the naval battle between China and Britain did not end for long. The roadbed air force greatly expanded the reconnaissance area and prepared for the counterattack of the British navy.

At 12 o'clock at noon on January 29, 1939, a British fleet, including three battleships and three heavy cruisers, first expelled several Chinese warships conducting hydrographic surveys more than 300 kilometers away from the Indian Ocean exit of the Kra Canal. At 9 a.m. on January 30, it approached the anchorage of the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet.

In recent years, it was common for the British fleet to come to demonstrate, but in the past the largest tonnage was only heavy cruisers. The flagship of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the People's Navy, the Zhoushan, is nothing more than an ordinary frigate with a displacement of 800 tons, and the destroyer finalized by the People's Party is already a 3,500-ton guy.

Although the ships are small, it does not mean that the People's Navy has any fear. Whether it is the airfield of the Kra Isthmus or the airfield of Cambodia, a variety of fighters, including four-engine heavy bombers, can be directly taken off and landed, and torpedo attack aircraft are even more large-scale. In many exercises, these aircraft were enough to deal with any British fleet.

As always, the detachment of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the People's Navy immediately set off to "expel out" the British fleet, and the Air Force began to take off. Ready for battle. As for the underwater offshore submarine forces, they are even more urgent, these offshore submarines are the real killer feature, theoretically six offshore submarines are in a state of encirclement, enough to sink any British battleship.

In the past, the British fleet basically played the "surf" mode, that is, taking advantage of the huge advantages of its own hull to impact Chinese warships with the waves created by the hull during sailing. The tonnage difference between the warships of the two sides is too great, and the warships of the Chinese Navy are tossed in the huge waves created by the huge British warships, which can be regarded as a "blow" from the British side to the Chinese Navy.

Every time the officers and men of the Chinese warships were soaked by the huge waves, the smug laughter of the British Navy could be seen in the binoculars. It was not until the Chinese air force group regarded the British fleet as an imaginary enemy that the British fleet chose to leave after a comprehensive tactical exercise. Both the UK and China have met their respective needs.

The Royal Navy naturally thinks that a few shots can overturn China's "small sampans", and as for the "flies" buzzing in the sky, the anti-aircraft gunners of the Royal Navy have also conducted countless exercises without firing ammunition, including live ammunition loading.

As for the Chinese side, the Navy's surface fleet is certainly aggrieved, but the underwater submarine force has accumulated a lot of new experience, and the Chinese Air Force has repeatedly practiced various simulated tactics.

How can you walk by the river without getting your shoes wet? The two sides have entered the stage of coercion with real guns, and misfire has become an inevitable thing. The Chinese side was also nervous because of the large fleet that Britain had sent. As a result, Comrade Zhu Yao, commander of the Kra Military Region and commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the People's Navy, ordered all the air forces to fly at ultra-low altitudes.

This kind of deterrence was very real, and when the British Navy saw the planes loaded with bombs and torpedoes flying over the sky almost against the masts of British battleships, and the bombs and torpedoes could be clearly seen with the naked eye, the psychological pressure of such a great deal can be imagined. In the face of the seemingly never-ending whizzing Chinese planes, the British anti-aircraft gunners wore the machine gun holsters at the back of the anti-aircraft machine guns around their waists, spinning like spinning tops.

You must know that both sides are using live ammunition, and the British side is actually full of worries that the Chinese air force will suddenly launch an attack on the British fleet. The heavy's dizziness, coupled with the fear and anger in his heart, gradually lost his consciousness as the roaring Chinese plane flew closer. By 14:22 p.m., the machine gunners on one of the British destroyers actually began to shoot.

The bullet hit the Chinese plane, but it was clear that a machine gunner in a panic was not particularly accurate, and a Chinese Air Force plane emitted several puffs of black smoke from the right engine.

The Chinese Air Force did not get excited, or the commander very calmly ordered the team to close. The Chinese Air Force, which covered the sky for a while, quickly retreated cleanly. Of course, the British could not receive contact from the Chinese Air Force, so they could not hear the roar of the Chinese Air Force pilots on the Chinese radio channels, let alone the shouting of the Chinese Air Force commander: "Retreat first, and then send the British to the bottom of the sea when we come back later." ”

What the British saw was that as soon as their anti-aircraft machine guns fired, the Chinese Air Force ran away. The commander of the fleet, who clearly misjudged the situation, believed that the Chinese air force was scared away, and the commanders of the British fleet thought the same. So when the signalman received a signal from a small sampan of less than a thousand tons, the flagship of the Chinese Indian Ocean Navy, demanding that the British fleet hand over the perpetrators, there was even a sound of laughter in the command room of the British flagship, the Prince of Wales.

When the Chinese fleet again said, "If you don't stop the ship within thirty minutes and hand over the perpetrators, we will think that you have taken hostile actions against us," most of the British naval officers still thought that the Chinese were bluffing. Even a handful of naval officers who felt that things were not going well did not see any reason to hand over British naval officers to the Chinese. It's just that the British also felt that something was not quite right, and they began to break away from the coast and began to move in the direction of the Andaman Islands

So, at 16:13 p.m. on January 30, 1939, the Chinese Air Force launched an attack on the British fleet. This was the first time that the Royal Navy was subjected to a large-scale air attack, and it was also the real war that the Royal Air Force encountered after the First World War.

The reason why the real war is intimidating is that China knows that Britain cannot really strike at the Chinese Air Force. Therefore, during the flight, the fighters completely approached the British fleet, and the daring pilots even controlled the planes to turn sideways, and flew in the same direction as the British warships at a distance of only 50 meters from the British battleships. Such a flight attitude clearly showed the wings and the bombs carried under the cabin to the people on the British warship.

The actual combat was far less exciting than this kind of intimidating flight, and the plane opened up the distance between it and the British warship, but the torpedo attack plane flew straight in the direction of the British warship, first skimming the sea, releasing torpedoes at a distance that had been trained many times, and then the pilot pulled up the plane with all his might, trying to climb up quickly before entering the British air defense circle, and then tried his best to turn the nose of the plane out of the danger zone.

The British fleet did not expect the Chinese to play really, and the white trajectory formed by torpedoes on the sea swooped towards the British warship. This is no longer a drill, but a real war. Even with great confusion in their hearts, the well-trained British navy began to make an emergency turn in an attempt to evade the Chinese attack.

The destroyers on the periphery were the first to suffer, perhaps because of bad luck, or because the Chinese Air Force remembered the warship that opened fire on the Chinese Air Force. The destroyer that opened fire was the first to be hit by a torpedo, and in the huge explosion, a huge column of water and fire rose in the middle of the destroyer, and a moment later, a huge fire rose in the middle of the destroyer, and the destroyer's armor was completely unable to resist the torpedo attack, and the ammunition depot was detonated, and the destroyer was instantly broken in two and sank into the sea.

"Send a telegram to Singapore that China has attacked our warship!" In the deathly silence of the command room, the fleet commander howled.

Almost at the same time, in the headquarters of the Kra Military Region, the political commissar frowned and said to Commander Zhu Yao: "Is it a bit hasty to start the war now?" ”

"The British have already fired the first shot, so are we going to wait for them to shoot the second shot?" Zhu Yao's face was full of murder, "The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has never been afraid of war, since the British refused to hand over the perpetrators, then we can assume that it was the British commander who ordered his men to open fire." ”

Seeing that the political commissar was still a little hesitant, Zhu Yao said loudly: "We have all learned the history of the First Sino-Japanese War, before the outbreak of the war, the Japanese army not only did not have the ideological preparation to fight the Shanhaiguan, but also did not even have the battle plan to fight the Yalu River!" For a big country like China, although it is known to be weak, the fear left by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death in the sound of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago still made Japan unable to take a step forward in aggression. Who allowed the Japanese army to enter China? ”

The political commissar stopped talking, and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had discussed this many times, and its content was even more profound than that of Japan.

The Japanese account is somewhat absurd, because the capture of a large amount of equipment discarded by Ye Zhichao in Pyongyang greatly boosted the morale of the Japanese army. The Qing army's camp guns and repeating guns were more advanced than the equipment of the Japanese army, but they collapsed at the first touch, giving the Japanese army a "new understanding" of China. However, they still obeyed the order and stopped at the Yalu River, and did not dare to cross the river easily.

At this time, a Qing cavalry came on the other side of the river -- this was the so-called "Eight Banners Iron Cavalry." The vanguard of the Japanese army, with only 30 men, fired across the river and prepared to dig trenches on the spot for defense. Unexpectedly, the horse team of several hundred people of the Qing army immediately fled in droves, throwing away their armor and abandoning their armor! So the captain of the Japanese squad crossed the river on his own initiative to pursue ...... The Japanese army that followed immediately followed.

How about disobeying orders? The victor is not to blame. To be precise, these Japanese soldiers who disobeyed orders only discovered a fact.

From that moment on, China's dignity was lost in the hearts of the Japanese.

Zhu Yao was of course well aware of this, and when he saw that the political commissar no longer tried to oppose it, he continued: "If we let the British retreat after the first shot at us, then what would the British think? What they see is a China that does not dare to use force to defend its dignity. What is the difference between the China that fought for so many revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed for China and the weak Manchu Qing Dynasty? If the Military Commission wants to punish me after the war, then punish me. I'd rather win the battle and then take on the responsibility of starting the war. It will definitely not insult the military flag! ”

"Are the Chinese crazy?" In the command room of the Prince of Wales, the flagship of the British fleet, the fleet commander howled. He wasn't meant to come to war, and even Churchill, a hardliner, was not prepared to wage war against China so unprepared. The purpose of this fleet is to demonstrate, and to constantly test China's bottom line. But it was clear that the shot did test China's bottom line.

Under the onslaught of a torpedo, all the Chinese fighters frantically pounced on the British fleet. Destroyers and light cruisers on the periphery were constantly being shot. The flames of the explosion and thick black smoke painted the warm waters of the Indian Ocean with a scene of war.

After breaking through the perimeter of the British fleet, the Chinese air force began to launch a fierce attack on the battleships and heavy cruisers in the center of the array.

Several bombers lined up in a row and took the lead in attacking the battleship "Counterattack". Subsequently, 18 torpedo planes also dropped torpedoes one after another to attack the "Counterattack" and the "Prince of Wales". The anti-aircraft guns of the "Prince of Wales", "Counterattack" and other battleships opened fire in unison, and several torpedo planes were hit by shells and fell into the sea. But the remaining Chinese planes still did not dodge and continued to pounce on the "counterattack".

The British fleet could no longer figure out how many Chinese planes were in the sky during the day, and rows of torpedo attack planes swooped down from the clouds and fired torpedoes incessantly at the British fleet. And the bombers slapped into a more neat queue and dropped dense bombs on the British fleet. The screaming sound of the bomb piercing the air was like the whistle of death, and a huge column of water was blown up on the sea, and from time to time bombs concentrated on the deck, and immediately exploded on the deck with patches of fire and death.

And in the Chinese Air Force severely, the British warships very cleverly began to release smoke in an attempt to cover the view of the Chinese Air Force. This thing may be more useful for naval battles, but not enough for strikes from the air. Because of the "repeated exercises" of British warships as opponents these days, the tactical level of the Chinese Air Force has improved rapidly.

From the air, the white torpedo tracks resemble white chrysanthemums in full bloom, and the center of the chrysanthemums is the smoky British fleet. The British Air Force's air defense thinking is too backward, or because of the surprise attack of the Chinese Air Force, after the British peripheral fleet was wiped out, they simply could not build an effective prevention and control system with a few large warships.

It must be admitted that the traditional naval combat strength of the British Navy is indeed very strong, and in the face of such a fierce torpedo attack, the battleships and large ships of the British Navy still dodged most of the torpedoes. It's just that there is a limit to any evasion, and after two consecutive attacks by nine torpedo attack aircraft, the battleship Counterattack was hit by 4 torpedoes, several heavy bombs, the bow was upturned, and the stern quickly sank. Then, the next wave of nine torpedoes fired torpedoes at the smoky warship. This time, the nine torpedoes were not dodged by the Counterattack, all nine torpedoes hit the hull, and the "Counterattack" exploded in the ammunition depot a moment later and sank completely after a few minutes.

After the loss of the Counterattack, more than 30 torpedo planes and bombers began to storm the "Prince of Wales," the flagship of the British fleet, and the already weak defense and control network could not stop this saturation attack at all, and the Prince of Wales was hit by a total of eight torpedoes and countless heavy bombs, and the "Prince of Wales," known as the "unsinkable battleship," sank into the sea together with Phillips and all the officers and men on board.

After the loss of the Counterattack, more than 30 torpedo planes and bombers began to storm the "Prince of Wales," the flagship of the British fleet, and the already weak defense and control network could not stop this saturation attack at all, and the Prince of Wales was hit by a total of eight torpedoes and countless heavy bombs, and the "Prince of Wales," known as the "unsinkable battleship," sank into the sea together with Phillips and all the officers and men on board.