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"Well done!"

Zhang Meng, who was holding a pre-imperial meeting at the Ministry of National Defense, immediately issued an order to commend Shao Yingnan and all the officers and men of the Chong Yu.

The sinking of the Japanese ships Tianlong and Longtian did boost the morale of everyone in the Tang Empire, but the next situation will be even more sinister, because the Japanese also do not like to suffer losses, and they will inevitably retaliate tenfold and hundredfold.

Zhang Meng was not afraid of the retaliation of the Japanese, because he had already prepared everything.

At least at the moment, whether it is at the international political level or the military level, the Tang Empire has taken the lead and has an advantage.

International politics is naturally on the side of the Tang Empire, because the Japanese fell for Zhang Meng's trick and let the arrogant fool of Kotaro Aso mess up.

Japan's Yuyuki Hamaguchi cabinet has just announced to Quan Shijie that it has officially declared war on the Tang Empire, on the grounds that the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire has rudely attacked the warships of the Japanese Navy, and the Japanese government will never allow such a provocation, so it is determined to start a war against the Tang.

For this reason, Yuyuki Hamaguchi personally spoke with British Prime Minister Macdonald on the phone. At first, MacDonald didn't know the truth of the matter, thinking that it was the Tang Empire that took the lead in firing as the Japanese said, and it was taken by Japan's strong military strength, so he couldn't help the Tang Empire speak, so he could only sacrifice the Tang Empire.

But soon the Tang Empire began to fight back.

On behalf of the Tang Empire, Princess Zhang Wei, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Empire, officially submitted to the League of Nations a report on the Japanese Navy's initiative to provoke and attack the warships of the Tang Empire's Navy, and attached the photos taken at that time, as well as the testimony of military attachés and journalists from Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, Austria and other countries, and even the signature of the most influential Christina.

As soon as the news came out, the whole shijie was in an uproar. The shameless face of the Japanese government and military was suddenly known and seen by the whole Shijie people, and the facts proved that the Japanese were lying, they peeped into the wealth of the Tang Empire, and intended to invade the Tang Empire.

In the face of ironclad evidence, both the League of Nations and the Shijie governments believed that the Tang Empire was innocent and that the Japanese deliberately lied and created false pretexts in a vain attempt to invade the Tang Empire. The people of Shijie immediately felt sympathy for the nascent Tang Empire, and even the previous accusations against Zhang Meng by the Japanese government were seen as deliberately slandered by the Japanese.

For a time, the international community and public opinion all fell to the Tang Empire, pushing the Japanese government to the cusp.

What is even more serious is that the British and American military attaches were killed by shells from Japanese ships, and Britain and the United States naturally refused to give up, which immediately caused the Hamaguchi Yuyuki cabinet to feel tremendous political pressure.

As a last resort, Hamaguchi had no choice but to order a thorough investigation of the matter in order to delay time.

Unfortunately, Kotaro Aso and his men had already sunk to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish, and the Japanese government could no longer know the truth at that time, so it could only accept the unilateral testimony of the Tang Empire, which was obviously extremely unfavorable to Japan.

After all, the Tang Empire is a British protectorate, and the British are very aware that they were forced to choose to back down under the pressure of the Japanese, because the diplomatic rights granted to the Tang Empire are equivalent to recognizing the independence of the Tang Empire, which has caused a huge impact within the Commonwealth, Australia, Canada, Fiji, India and other local governments have been seeking independent diplomacy, and they immediately put pressure on the Commonwealth, asking the Commonwealth to give them the same treatment as the Tang Empire, for which the MacDonald government is under great pressure.

At this time, an excuse was finally found to fight back against Japan, and the MacDonald government immediately put pressure on Japan, demanding that the Japanese government and military must give reasonable explanations.

At the same time, the antagonistic relationship between the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean is getting worse. This began with the US occupation of Hawaii in 1898, and the number of military confrontations between the US and Japanese navies in the Pacific Ocean soared from an average of two per year at the end of the 19th century to an average of more than six per year at the beginning of the 20 th century, and the duration of each military confrontation between the two sides also expanded from a few hours to more than 10 days and half a month.

For the Americans, with the strong national economic and military strength after World War I, they ascended to the throne of Shijie No. 1. Britain, the second, could not pose a threat to the United States, and only Japan, the third, became the biggest enemy of the United States at the moment, even surpassing the threat of the Soviet Union. From the Treaty of Washington to the Treaty of London, the Americans actually joined forces with the British to bully the Japanese and deliberately weaken Japan's military liliang.

This time, an American military attache died under the guns of the Japanese Navy, and the Americans had another excuse. Unfortunately, the Hoover administration was faced with the inability to solve the domestic mess caused by the economic crisis, and at this time it was urgent to divert the domestic contradictions, and if it did not put pressure on Japan, it would not be able to explain to the American people, so it worked with Britain to take a tough stance against Japan.

Hamaguchi was extremely sad, and under tremendous pressure from the United States, Britain, and international public opinion, he had to ask the military headquarters to recruit Ono Sannori and his Tang Expedition fleet to return to the sea.

However, the Japanese military simply did not buy Hamaguchi's account. They have learned that the Tenryu and the Tatsuda have lost contact, and they guess that Aso Kotaro has had an accident, so Ono Sandian's sword has been unsheathed and is about to level the Tang Empire.

At the same time, the Japanese military also wanted to oust Yuyuki Hamaguchi from power, but now that he had made a mistake, he simply continued to the end, directly making Yuyuki Hamaguchi unable to give an account internally and externally, forcing him to resign on his own initiative.

The Japanese military planned to see Yuyuki Hamaguchi's jokes, but they didn't know that they themselves would soon become the laughing stock of Quan Shijie.

July 16 is destined to be one of the most memorable days since the establishment of the modern Japanese navy.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the Zhengtang Task Force under the command of Rear Admiral Ono Sannori sailed into the Matautu Sea.

The sudden appearance of a fleet of four battle cruisers, six heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, two submarines and a troop carrier carrying 2,000 Japanese troops in the Central Pacific terrified fishermen in nearby island nations.

Ono Sannori swore that although he had lost contact with Kotaro Aso, he still didn't take the Tang Empire seriously.

Unable to obtain a safe passage provided by Kotaro Aso, Ono had to seize a Fijian merchant ship and force the owner to take his fleet directly along the international public waterway set up by the Tang Empire for friendly trade with nearby countries, which could reach the Tianmen Port of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire.

However, Ono Sannori did not know that he and his fleet had been secretly under the surveillance of the submarines and reconnaissance planes of the Tang Empire. Moreover, the Tang army had long been prepared, that channel had been covered with mines, and once the battleship entered, there was only a dead end.

According to the strategic idea of keeping the enemy out of the country, when the Japanese Navy entered the combat radius of the Tang Army's bombers, Zhang Meng ordered the only bomber wing of the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire - the Jinling Air Wing to be dispatched.

At 2:03 p.m., on Yanjing Island, 200 kilometers away from Ono Sannori's fleet, a rapid battle siren sounded over the Qinglong Air Base.

"Attention everyone! Our Yanjing Air Force will start preparing for the flight at 2:05 p.m. and will take off at 2:35 p.m. to carry out combat missions! Repeat, this is not a drill! ”

After hearing the announcement, all the pilots, flight crew, and ground support personnel of the Yanjing Air Force rushed to their planes and posts.

As the first aviation wing of the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire to specialize in air combat and escort training, although they knew that today was a real battle, they were not under pressure, because the Japanese fleet only had only 30 carrier-based water reconnaissance planes, and it was obvious that they were not their opponents.

However, the orders they received were all dispatched, because this was a rare opportunity to experience actual combat, and only after experiencing the real baptism of war would they become real soldiers.

According to the order, the Yanjing Air Wing will take off 200 P6E fighters and 100 F11C fighters to serve as escort cover for the bomber group of the Jinling Air Wing that is about to fly over Yanjing.

The Jinling Air Force, which has always been mysterious, has finally appeared, and for all the personnel of the Yanjing Air Force, they have also heard of it in private, knowing that the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire has a new bomber unit in the Jinling Air Force, but they have never seen it.

Originally, they thought that the Air Force Command would send bombers to blow up and sink two Japanese light cruisers yesterday, but in the end the command was worried that the Japanese would find out that the Datang Air Force had advanced bombers and would affect today's decisive battle.

When there was a dense roar of planes in the south of the sky, they saw the mystery of the Jinling Air Force for the first time with the help of various telescope equipment.

"Isn't this the SC-1 and the Seal Torpedo reconnaissance aircraft? I thought it was mysterious! ”

"Yes! Didn't the command say that there was an FC-1? ”

Only the most observant will notice that the SC-1 bomber, which resembles the U.S. Army, has actually undergone minor changes.

"This is FC-1! Don't you see that its tail is obviously different!"

"Yes! What's that extra horizontal plate for? ”

……

"What are you talking about? It's time, and we all go! ”

The commander shouted, and the pilots boarded the plane one after another, and under the command of the ground crew, they were towed by trailers into the take-off runway in turn.

"Southeast wind level 4! It is recommended that the first squadron use runway No. 7, the second squadron use runway No. 9, and the third squadron use runway No. 11! ”

"Understood! Request to take off! ”

"Permission to take off! I wish you a smooth journey and a triumphant return! ”

"Understood! xiexie！ ”

"You're welcome!"

Whether it is an exercise or a real battle, the staff of the air traffic control center tower will send blessings to these pilots every time, which has become a habit for them, because they really don't want to see someone have an accident.

Accompanied by a buzzing sound, 300 fighters full of weapons and ammunition from three squadrons of the Yanjing Air Force took off on time and quickly climbed to an airspace of 5,000 meters to meet up with the formation of 200 FC-1 dive bombers and 100 seal torpedo reconnaissance planes of the Jinling Air Force, which also arrived on time.

Half an hour later, the two elite units of the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire completed the air mixture and rushed towards the Japanese fleet overwhelmingly.

The prelude to the first real sea and air war in human history began.