Two MV-22 tiltrotor planes that took off from the "Taihang Mountain" amphibious dock landing ship flew twice around the harbor of Diego Garcia at an altitude of less than 100 meters.

An old V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, two offshore and shallow gunboats with a displacement of no more than 500 tons, moored in the military port area on the right side of the harbor, all flying white flags. In the Mingang area on the left, nearly 20 cargo ships and fishing boats of various types are moored.

Through the porthole of the cabin, Yin Qinghe frowned, and his expression was extremely solemn.

To Yin Qinghe's left, Chen Yilong pressed his hand at the captain who looked back, signaled him to control the plane to fly a little lower, and then handed Yin Qinghe a low-light night vision binocular.

On the sea, except for the ships of the Royal Navy of Donghua, all other ships were ordered to enter the port and dock for inspection.

The Germans had limited intelligence information, and they did not know how the actress named Olga Chekova had left Porto Suares, and they were not even sure that Olga Chekova was on the island of Diego Garcia.

"No suspicious targets found." Yin Qinghe handed the telescope back to Chen Yilong, pressed the microphone stuck to his throat, and said to the military commander agent on the MV-22 plane behind him: "Lao Xie, have you found any suspicious targets?" ”

"Stationmaster, today's job is only bad. We have too little information to know, and now that the situation on Diego Garcia Island is so complicated, and that actress is good at makeup and disguise, she really wants to hide it, unless we turn the whole island of Diego Garcia upside down. Otherwise, it will be difficult to find people. ”

Lao Xie was not joking, although the Royal Navy of Donghua could confirm that in the past three days, only ships had entered Diego Garcia Island, and none of them had left, including submarines. However, the German counterparts had provided too little information, and the Royal Navy of Donghua's military operation on Diego Garcia Island must have aroused the alarm of the female agent, who must now be a frightened bird, and there were so many places on the island to hide.

"No matter how difficult it is, this task must be completed. We searched around the southwest of the island, Lao Xie, you searched in the northeast direction, and the ships parked in the harbor were handed over to the marines to search, and I judged that the actress was definitely not on the ship, and she should not choose to connect with people on the ship. ”

"No problem."

After ending the call, Yin Qinghe said to Chen Yilong: "Try to fly as low as possible, maybe we can startle the snake." ”

"If I were that female spy, I would choose to stay on the ship, and the most dangerous place is probably the safest place. Moreover, the hiding places of ocean-going cargo ships can be more complex and difficult to find than in other parts of the island. ”

Yin Qinghe pondered for a moment, nodded, and contacted Lao Xie again, asking him to lead people to cooperate with the Marine Corps to carefully inspect every ship in the port, focusing on the ships that had come from Madagascar in the past two days.

The task of scaring the snake was handed over to Chen Yilong's MV-22, and Lao Xie's MV-22 began to land in the open area of the port wharf.

Chen Yilong got up and explained to the captain, and saw that the MV-22 drew an arc course in the night sky, adjusted the course to 225 degrees, tilted the fuselage forward, and two huge rotors stirred the air, allowing the plane to accelerate slowly.

Only when the level flight speed exceeds the minimum stall speed will the MV-22 switch from lift-capable flight to cruise flight. This conversion process is not long, it only takes more than ten seconds.

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675 kilometers southwest of the British Royal Navy's Far East Fleet Base in Ceylon, India, is the Sultanate of the Maldives.

The Sultanate of the Maldives switched to a constitutional monarchy in 1932, and the United Kingdom recognized the independence of the Maldives in 1934. This is an island nation in the Indian Ocean and the largest coral island nation in the world.

The Maldives consists of more than 1,200 small coral islands, of which about 200 are inhabited. Viewed from the air, it looks like a string of pearls scattered across the Indian Ocean, with a land area of about 300 square kilometers, making it the smallest country in Asia.

This inconspicuous island nation is now home to the remnants of the Royal Navy's Far East Fleet, unbeknownst to the Japanese and German navies, who were at war with the British.

Despite having been appointed acting commander of the Far East Fleet of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, Phillips did not feel any joy or honor.

As the captain of the Southampton-class light cruiser "Newcastle", promoted by the British Royal Navy lieutenant commander to brigadier general, Phillips should have felt extremely happy and grateful, but let him just shrink into the Maldives as a shrunken turtle, Phillips would rather choose to die honorably in battle.

Today, however, since receiving a telegram from Sir Hope, the Viceroy of India, Phillips has swept away the decadence and depression of the recent period, and his whole person is as excited as if he had been beaten with blood.

Sir Hope ordered him to take all the ships of the Royal Navy's Far East Fleet with him to raid a detachment of the Royal Navy's Seventh Fleet, which was attacking Diego Garcia Island. The purpose of the operation was to cover the evacuation of three agents from a Poseidon-class submarine on Diego Gazi Island.

For a career naval officer, the days without fighting, without cruising at sea, are simply worse than death. Phillips had secretly sworn that even if he fought all the ships of the Far East Fleet, he would complete the task of covering the evacuation. Sir Hope had clearly told him in the telegram that the three agents had a top-secret technical information about the King-class battleships and XXI submarines of the Donghua Empire.

Of course, the main reason is that Phillips wants to wash away the shame from his body with a fight!

The defeat of the Royal Navy of the British Empire at the hands of the Royal Navy of Donghua and then at the defeat of the Japanese Navy has long since become a joke in the media of all countries in the world.

Phillips decided to use the night battle to sneak up on the detachment of the Seventh Fleet of the Royal Navy in Donghua. He believes that no matter how advanced an aircraft carrier is, it will not be able to exert its full combat effectiveness in a night battle!

Besides, the cruisers and destroyers of the Royal Navy of Donghua don't seem to have a few decent main guns.

WITH THE FOUR TRIPLE 50 X DIAMETER MK.XXIII 152MM NAVAL GUNS ON THE SOUTHAMPTON-CLASS CRUISER, IT CAN FIRE 96 CENTS OF SHELLS WEIGHING 50.8 KG PER MINUTE AT THE ENEMY SHIP, PLUS A MAXIMUM SPEED OF 32 KNOTS, RELYING ON THE COVER OF NIGHT, IT WILL DEFINITELY BE ABLE TO GIVE THE DONGHUA ROYAL NAVY A TASTE OF THE POWER OF THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY!

Like most naval officers in the world, Phillips believes that the Royal Navy's newly commissioned Shield-class cruisers, Warrior-class destroyers, and Defender-class frigates are absolutely fatal mistakes in abandoning naval guns as their main guns and switching to rocket artillery that cannot control the accuracy of their firing aircraft.

For a warship that can move at high speed at sea, no matter how large the range covered by the enemy's rocket artillery is, it is difficult to inflict significant damage on it.

Everyone knows that the firepower of an artillery of the same caliber and power is spread into a surface, and it is certainly not as lethal as focusing the firepower on the point.

After emergency mobilization and preparation, two Southampton-class light cruisers "Newcastle" and "Sheffield", three Tribal-class destroyers, and two Poseidon-class submarines, full of fuel and ammunition, took advantage of the cover of night to bypass the equatorial strait in the south of the Maldives and sail at a cruising speed of 15 knots to the sea area where Diego Garcia Island is located.

(To be continued.) )