As a European country, the strategic focus of the United Kingdom has always been focused on the strategic balance of power in Europe, and compared with European interests, Britain's Asian interests should be in second place.

In this Sino-British war, the British government insisted from the very beginning that China's strategy was to completely squeeze out British power in the Far East and the entire Asian region, so the British government decided to adopt a "non-compromise" policy, and it was under this "uncompromise" policy that the British government finally made up its mind to declare war on China.

The problem, however, is that the British military forces in the Far East are so insignificant that they are now able to suppress the armed resistance of the nationalists in the Far East, but they are not enough to deal with China's military power.

According to normal people's thinking, the best tactical choice of the British army in the Far East at present seems to be to defend, rather than take the initiative to attack, but now, at the new Jinshan radar station, a group of British Royal Air Force planes are rushing towards Bangka Island, and the British approach is indeed a little confusing.

At this moment, the phone from the Air Defense Command confirmed the news of the attack of the British plane, which really surprised Su Shiyu very much.

"The British plane is coming, let's go to the Air Defense Command."

Su Shiyu pressed down the microphone, left the office with the commander of the naval base and the commander of the air force, walked downstairs quickly, got into the car, and went straight to the air defense headquarters of the naval base.

The Governor's Mansion is still some way away from the Air Defense Command, this way, Su Shiyu was surprised, the pedestrians on the street turned a blind eye to the terrible air defense siren, although the local government of Xinjinshan has long popularized air defense knowledge and conducted air defense exercises, but the citizens' air defense awareness still seems to be very indifferent, they don't take this air defense siren to heart at all, maybe this is also their trust in the Chinese Air Force.

"The awareness of air defense should still be strengthened, and a strong air force does not mean that it is foolproof."

Su Shiyu has made up his mind to hold an air defense exercise as soon as possible, after all, the cruelty of the Spanish Civil War shows that in modern warfare, no one is absolutely safe.

At this time, the car had arrived at the air defense command, and Su Shiyu got out of the car and rushed to the radar station first.

The long-range warning radar of the Bangka Naval Base was installed in early 1938, which is a centimeter-wave radar, codenamed "Reflection", using magnetrons, with high accuracy, which can accurately judge the altitude, azimuth and distance of the aircraft.

According to the current intelligence, the British have long begun to develop a warning radar that can be used in actual combat, but the development progress is far behind China, and it is speculated that the radar currently erected in the southeast of England is still using a meter-wave radar with poor accuracy, and its performance is far inferior to China's "reflection."

"Distance, height, bearing."

"The Seahawk squadron has all taken off."

"The Blue Sky Squadron has received the order to take off."

"The Navy destroyer has made visual contact with the British aircraft group and confirmed that there are 16 heavy bombers, 26 light bombers, and 50 fighters, and the enemy aircraft group ignores the sea surface targets and continues to fly in the direction of the base, confirming the target of the attack, Xinjinshan."

"The Flying Tiger squadron is approaching the target, preparing for contact.

Repeat and reconfirm the target. ”

"Sixteen heavy bombers, twenty-six light bombers, fifty fighters, confirmed targets, can attack."

…… When Su Shiyu walked into the radar station of the Air Defense Command, the first thing he saw was a huge combat sand table, and some air force staff officers were standing on the edge of the sand table, using models to intuitively show the commanders the current positions and courses of the enemy and us.

"Sixteen Lancaster heavy bombers, twenty-six 'Mosquito' fighter-bombers, twenty 'Hurricane' fighters, and thirty 'Spitfire' fighters were confirmed.

The Flying Tiger squadron touches the target, and each aircraft fires freely! Machines fire freely! Hearing the report of the captain of the "Flying Tiger" fighter squadron, the command room suddenly became much quieter, and most of the people turned their eyes to the sand table, and the staff officers who set up the sand table had stopped pushing those aircraft models forward at this moment, because the two sides had already stuck together at this time, and the battle had begun.

…… Although the air battlefield ahead is far away from the Air Defense Command, by listening to the communications between the pilots, everyone in the Air Defense Command can feel the tense atmosphere on the battlefield.

Su Shiyu was also a little nervous, he was born in the Air Force, he is very aware of the current strength of the British Air Force, and he also understands the performance parameters of the British aircraft, when he heard the pilot's report that there were Lancaster heavy bombers in the British planes attacking, his heart was also "chuckled", sixteen heavy bombers, which is almost equivalent to half of the strength of the British Air Force's bomber force in Malaya and West Borneo, which shows that the British Air Force's operation is quite crazy.

It's not just the bombers that are crazy, but also the fighters, with the range of the "Hurricane" and "Spitfire" fighters, if they take off from the Singapore base, taking into account the necessary fuel consumption for air combat, then this attack on Bangka Island will be a one-way attack, are these British fighter pilots going to make a forced landing on the sea after flying all the gasoline? Is this a bold move after a calm battle plan, or is it a desperate last battle? Su Shiyu believes that the latter explanation may be closer to the answer, because according to the international news report broadcast on the radio station yesterday, the new British Prime Minister Mr. Churchill clearly mentioned in his speech to the British people that in the early difficult stage of the war, the British people must be prepared to bear "huge sacrifices and casualties". In order to seize a key fortress in the Ottoman Empire, Mr. Churchill, then the British Admiralty, insisted on moving the "Battle of Gallipoli" despite the opposition of many military experts, as a result, the Allied Allied forces were crushed in the face of the stubborn resistance of the defenders and the cliffs, and fought hard for a long time without gaining anything, and finally could only flee in embarrassment, and in the face of the retreat of the Allied Army, the stubborn Admiral Minister resolutely chose to resign, but there is also a saying that "resignation" is just a euphemism for dismissal.

Perhaps, now that the stubbornness of this Mr. Churchill has been revealed, he may have intended to use the heroic actions of the British Air Force to boost morale and demonstrate to the Chinese side the intransigence of the British Government, for which he even intended to sacrifice a number of British pilots.

But after all, the current war has entered the era of science and technology, and mere courage cannot solve any problems, under the encirclement and interception of a large number of Chinese fighters with advanced performance, the incoming British Air Force formation is simply unable to break through this air barrier under the command of radar, and the battle only lasted 20 minutes, and the British aircraft group lost more than half of its combat aircraft, and in the face of more and more Chinese fighters, the British Air Force commander had to decisively give the order to retreat, and the remaining British bombers threw away their bombs one after another, scattered and fled, but in the ensuing pursuit, most of these British bombers who slipped through the net were also shot down.

Accurate statistics of the results will not come out until the afternoon, but judging from the comprehensive reports of the air force and navy, in this battle, the Chinese air force shot down at least 30 British fighters and crashed almost all of the heavy bombers into the sea, and even the so-called "light and flexible" "mosquito" fighter-bombers also lost more than half, and it has been proved that the "mosquito" fighter-bombers are not suitable for use in tropical areas, high temperature and humidity are the great enemies of this pure wooden aircraft, and the all-metal route is the correct route for the aircraft industry.

In the battle, the Chinese Air Force lost only five fighters, one of which crashed on the way back due to a mechanical failure, and the facts once again proved that the Chinese-made "Falcon B" fighters were of excellent performance, completely trampling the British-made "Hurricane" and "Spitfire" fighters under their feet.

This was achieved with only half of the fighter squadron on the battlefield, and if all the fighters had arrived on the battlefield, it might have been possible to wipe out the British Air Force formation.

Some of the "Falcon B" fighters that did not catch up with the battle were unwilling to return to their hometowns and continued to fly in the direction of Singapore, until the oil in the auxiliary fuel tanks was dried up, and the pilots realized that they had flown far away; due to poor communications, some flight squadrons simply flew all the way to the skies over Singapore, touched the British ** base, and after wandering around the almost empty airfield, they reluctantly returned to the Xinjinshan base under the "farewell" of the British ground anti-aircraft artillery fire and several British fighters. The pilots also brought back very important information that after this aerial battle, the British army in Singapore had no air force available, and that a fleet of two large battleship-class warships and several auxiliary ships had appeared at the British naval base in Singapore.

This was a rare opportunity for attack, and the port of Singapore now seemed to be a staging post for the British Navy, and warships summoned from all over the South Seas would "disappear" immediately after a short stay in Singapore, and the Chinese air force on Bangka Island could not find a suitable opportunity to attack.

Su Shiyu resolutely decided to immediately dispatch an air force bomber formation to launch an air assault on the Zhanggi Naval Base in Singapore, striving to inflict heavy damage on the British naval fleet and clear the way for the landing of the army.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the first medium bomber of the Chinese Air Force took off from the airfield of the Bangka Island Naval Base, and at the same time a large number of fighters, torpedo bombers, and dive bombers took off, making a total of 150 combat planes in this sortie.

But the sortie was still in vain, the small fleet of the British Navy disappeared again, and the Chinese Air Force, which could not find the target, had to choose ground targets and port facilities as the target of the air attack, and at the same time sent some medium bombers to search for the missing British fleet in the vast sea, and found its trace before dark, and at that time, the British fleet was on the route to India, combined with the reconnaissance report of the Chinese submarine force, obviously, the center's guess was correct, The British are gradually transferring fleets from Southeast Asia to India.

Compared with Singapore, it is safer to India, which is far away from the Chinese base, perhaps the British government's wishful thinking is to build a stronger defense line on the Indian subcontinent, and the fleet is stationed in India, which can also prevent the Chinese army from landing on the east coast of India.

But is India really safe? Su Shiyu didn't think so, because he knew very well that just when the British government was busy gathering the British ** ships scattered in Southeast Asia a few days ago, a task force of the Chinese Navy with two aircraft carriers as the core of the battle had also quietly entered the Indian Ocean from the narrow strait between Sumatra Island and Java Island.

Originally, this task force had only gone to the waters of India and Burma to harass the British logistics line, and by the way to reconnoiter the whereabouts of the British main fleet, but now it seems that it can adjust its combat mission.

Late that night, an encrypted telegram was photographed from the headquarters of the Bangka Naval Base, and the radio waves flew across the ocean, carrying all the information about the British fleet, and a decisive fleet battle was about to be fought that would change the balance of military power at sea in the Indian Ocean.