"Damn, the British are really willing to spend their money! Even the prestige-level battle patrol has come to Australia! Cheng Gong's eyes were fixed on the holographic image, his cheeks clenched, and his teeth were clucking.

THE BRITISH NAVY PRESTIGE-CLASS BATTLECRUISER SHOWN ON THE SCREEN HAS REBUILT A LARGE SQUARE TOWER BRIDGE, STRENGTHENED THE PROTECTION OF KEY PARTS, REPLACED IT WITH A NEW TYPE OF BOILER, AND FURTHER IMPROVED ITS SPEED, WHILE REMOVING ALL 102MM NAVAL GUNS AND REPLACING THEM WITH 10 114MM HIGH-LEVEL DUAL-PURPOSE GUNS, AND ADDING A NUMBER OF 8-GROUP 40MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, AND INSTALLING SEA, AIR AND FIRE CONTROL RADARS.

If it weren't for the King-class battleship that Cheng Gong deliberately came up with, this prestige-class battlecruiser of the British Navy would definitely have the potential to be further refitted and upgraded. However, with the King-class Jewel in front of him, all the main battleships of the major naval powers in the world today are facing the danger of obsolescence and renewal, not to mention the battlecruisers of the next class.

In order to deal with Donghui's unfriendly behavior of exporting King-class battleships to Germany and Japan, the British and US governments have jointly launched a plan to develop a super battleship with a displacement of not less than 80,000 tons, a main gun caliber of not less than 460 mm, and a speed of not less than 32 knots. With the deep background of the British and American in the field of ship design and manufacturing, it is only a matter of imagination that they think it is necessary to build a super battleship.

In the face of the Donghui Navy, which has King-class battleships as the capital ship, if the Royal Australian Navy is not strengthened, it will definitely be beaten by the Donghui Navy with only the ability to parry, and have no power to fight back. Not to mention that the Donghui Navy also has a mysterious submarine force that has been infinitely mythologized by the Japanese Navy.

With the purpose of finding out the true details of the Donghui Navy, the gratuitous military assistance provided by Britain, France and the United States to Australia was a generous gesture that made other countries blush.

With a population of less than 10 million and a total population of less than 8 million, no matter how strong its military strength is, it is difficult for such a country to threaten the local interests of Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and other world powers. At best, it can only be a regional overlord in the South Pacific.

By strengthening Australia and provoking Donghui and Australia to go to war, we can not only slow down the pace of Donghui's development and growth, but also deter Australia's "Australian independence" forces, so that they will no longer clamor to completely break away from the control of the British government and become a truly independent country.

In the eyes of governments, the outbreak of war between Donghui and Australia, regardless of the final outcome, these two countries will not be victors. It is the so-called allies behind the two countries that will really benefit.

If there are not a few good cards in his hand, Cheng Gong will definitely not make the European and American powers satisfied. Even if you pretend to be a grandson, you have to do everything you can to dispel the shadow of war.

Some time ago, the main reason why Cheng Gong dared to use iron-fisted means to carry out a drastic purge of Donghui's political arena was that the little queen told him that the first phase of the main base in Zhennan Province had been completed, and the renovation project of the submarine crustal structure of the entire island of New Guinea had also been completed. Nowadays, the inner belly of the Zhennan section of the Central Mountain Range has been basically hollowed out and turned into a huge fully automatic industrial manufacturing base.

According to the calculation of the little queen, if the main base of Zhennan Province is fully operational, it can launch a 50,000-ton container ship every day on average, a King-class battleship can be launched in ten months, and a Keeling-class destroyer can be launched in fifteen days, and 280 aircraft of various types and 360 tanks/armored vehicles can be manufactured every day.

In addition, all 36 Seawolf-class attack nuclear submarines manufactured at the Paradise Island base have been put into service, and all the officers and men of the Donghui Navy's nuclear submarine unit, which have undergone strict examination, have also completed all basic training and training, and the only thing lacking is the opportunity to fight in real combat.

Cheng Gong can now finally let go of his hands and feet and wrestle with the world's major powers. Although the strength of the Donghui Navy's surface ships is not good, the Donghui Navy's nuclear submarine force (codenamed Seawolf), which is equipped with 36 Seawolf-class attack nuclear submarines, has absolute confidence that it can ensure that Donghui's territorial waters and territory will not be violated by any country.

In order to maintain secrecy, this nuclear submarine unit has been conducting the most rigorous training in the deep waters of the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans. All the officers and soldiers are absolutely loyal soldiers who have been carefully selected by Cheng Gong and the little queen and then implicitly brainwashed, waiting for the call of His Majesty the King at any time.

In view of the fact that the German naval instructor corps led by Dönitz had been helping to train submarine forces in the Second Fleet of the Pacific Fleet of the Donghui Navy, Cheng Gong certainly would not let any of the sea wolves run to the periphery of the island of New Guinea. As the last trump card currently in his hand, Cheng Gong could not let Hitler and Hirohito know this secret.

Although Dönitz's Donghui Navy's submarine force has been roaming around the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, Cheng Gong's hidden GPS positioning system for these XXI conventional submarines is enough to ensure that each XXI submarine is under the monitoring of the "Sky Eye Satellite System". The possibility of an accidental encounter between the XXI submarine and the sea wolf on the bottom of the sea is completely avoided.

Looking at the prestige-class battlecruiser that Britain had aided the Australian Navy on the satellite image screen and getting closer and closer to the sea area where the incident occurred, Cheng Gong's eyes suddenly flashed a ruthless color.

Maleghi's! It can't be so coincidental! As soon as something happened, a battlecruiser came to the rescue!

This must have been a premeditated provocation against Donghui!

The whole world knows that the Donghui government has always been intolerant of sand in its eyes on fishing protection, and so far there has not been a vicious incident in which a warship of another country deliberately drove away and rammed a Donghui fishing boat.

Even though there have been constant conflicts between Donghui and Australia in recent times, there has never been a bloody incident in which an Australian Navy warship collided with and destroyed a Donghui fishing boat and injured Donghui fishermen.

Many Donghui fishing vessels are equipped with high-power radios, which is known to many countries and governments.

Cheng Gong judged that the Australian Navy must have calculated the rescue response time of the Donghui Air Force and Navy, so it deliberately arranged a prestige-class battle cruiser to slap the Donghui government in the face. Because, the fighters and naval destroyers of the Donghui Air Force are not able to fight against the battle cruisers with a certain air defense capability at all.

Even, Cheng Gong speculated that the British, French and American advisory groups behind Australia also arranged a backhand.

In order to confirm his guess, Cheng Gong immediately locked a military reconnaissance satellite onto the southern and eastern waters of the Alafura Sea.

Sure enough, in the sea area 300 nautical miles southeast of the prestige-class battlecruiser, a mixed fleet consisting of the battleship George V, the battlecruiser Hood, and the light aircraft carrier Athletic, a total of 24 large and small ships, put on a posture for a sea training exercise.

"Ring, ring, ring, ......" The phone on the table rang suddenly.

Cheng Gong reached out and picked up the microphone without hesitation, and said in a deep voice: "I am Cheng Gong!" ”

"Your Majesty, my subordinate is Chen Jiliang, who has just received a telegram from the Changxing Island Air Base that today's collision incident in the Arafura Sea is obviously a conspiracy carefully planned by the Australian Navy. Intelligence shows that the Australian Navy deployed a mixed fleet under the guise of an exercise 300 nautical miles southeast of the incident area.

If our Navy forcibly escorts the old V-class destroyer back to Hong Kong for trial, it is likely to be intercepted and threatened by the Australian Navy! Since the development of the situation has exceeded the estimate of the General Staff, the subordinates do not dare to make decisions on their own, and I hope that Your Majesty will make it clear! ”