Lin Fei only suspected that the United States secretly supported Japan, in fact, Lin Fei was also very skeptical of his own idea, because the United States secretly supported Japan, which did not seem to be beneficial to the United States, and once the Chinese Empire went to war with Japan, the economic and trade between the Chinese Empire and the United States would be affected to a certain extent.

If Japan takes Sakhalin, the demand for American resources will decrease, and it will definitely reduce the amount of mineral purchases from the United States, and the United States will have no benefit.

But then again, there are always good and bad sides to a certain side of things, and if the United States supports Japan in provoking the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire will go to war with Japan, and then Japan will definitely import a large amount of weapons and equipment from the United States, and the United States will profit again.

Lin Fei chose to declare war on Japan on 4 July, the US National Day, in order to see how the Americans would react, but the US Government soon issued a statement saying that it hoped that the Chinese Empire and Japan would exercise restraint in the Sakhalin incident and not do anything that would jeopardize regional prosperity and stability.

The US government's statement is completely clichéd and worthless, and Lin Fei does not see any valuable content in this statement, and Lin Fei is even more wary of the United States.

After Japan declared war on the Chinese Empire, on the one hand, it declared war on the Chinese Empire, and on the other hand, it made a "I am so wronged" appearance in the international community to win the sympathy and support of all countries in the world.

Japan's move was covertly supported by Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, because all countries had conflicts of interest with the Chinese Empire, and Britain and Burma were taken away by the Chinese Empire; France, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were all taken to the Chinese Empire; Russia, the Outer Northeast was taken away by the Chinese Empire, and Siberia was being encroached upon.

As for Germany, although its territory and colonies were not annexed by the Chinese Empire, it was unhappy to see the Chinese Empire growing stronger and stronger, and Germany's plan to annex Jiaozhou Bay in the Qing Dynasty was destroyed by the Chinese Empire, so it was also happy to see the Chinese Empire in trouble.

After the political struggle, it was the military struggle, because Japan had aircraft carriers, so the first thing Lin Fei had to do was to find Japan's aircraft carrier fleet and annihilate it.

If Lin Fei could not find the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet and annihilate it, it would be quite disadvantageous to Lin Fei, if the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet took the initiative to launch an attack on the Huaxia Empire, they could take off their planes far from the coastline and bomb the cities of the Huaxia Empire, causing heavy losses to the Huaxia Empire.

If Lin Fei ignores the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet and directly launches a landing operation against Japan, the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet will rush to the assembly position of the Chinese Imperial Landing Fleet and launch an attack on the Chinese Imperial Fleet, and the Chinese Imperial Landing Fleet will suffer a heavy blow.

Lin Fei had to find and annihilate the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet, which made Lin Fei difficult, because the Japanese coastline was extremely long, and Lin Fei did not know which sea area the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet would be.

Lin Fei thought about it and decided to lure out the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet and then annihilate it.

On July 6, Lin Fei officially announced that in view of the fact that the South Korean Navy had repeatedly injured the fishermen of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire had decided to send troops to control Jeju Island to protect the rights and interests of the fishermen of the Chinese Empire.

In the past year or so, there have been fishermen of the Chinese Empire who have been injured by the South Korean Navy, and the Chinese Empire has repeatedly lodged representations with South Korea because of this incident, but these things have finally come to an end.

Lin Fei decided to use this incident as an excuse to capture Jeju Island and attract the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier fleet to the waters of Jeju Island.

Jeju Island, located between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago, is a transit island between Japan and South Korea along with Tsushima Island, and Jeju Island is located on the west side of Tsushima Island.

Japan would never allow the Huaxia Empire to cut off Japan's ties with Korea, so once Lin Fei made a posture to capture Tsushima, Japan could not help but save it.

Japan then ordered four "kamikaze-class aircraft carriers", the kamikaze, the lingfeng, the foehn, and the snow wind, to go to the waters of Jeju Island to prepare for the attack of the Chinese Empire.

Along with the four aircraft carriers, there are eight small destroyers, each with a displacement of about 1,500 tons, in this era when the displacement of large ships and huge guns of tens of thousands of tons is often in the "little mosquito" class, and the reason why the Japanese built warships with such a small displacement is entirely because of insufficient national strength.

In the era of Lin Fei, Japan's national strength was quite strong during this period, because Japan received the Qing reparations in the First Sino-Japanese War, and in this era, because Lin Fei recaptured Taiwan, the Qing did not recognize the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", and the reparations were not given to Japan, and Japan's national strength was seriously declined.

Although the Japanese did not have the ability to build large battleships, they had aircraft carriers in their hands, and they could use aircraft to fight, and when fighting large battleships and cruisers, they could launch attacks from a distance of 50 kilometers or 100 kilometers, far exceeding the range of 10 kilometers of large battleships, forming an overwhelming advantage over large battleships and cruisers, so the Japanese were not worried even if they did not have large battleships.

The Japanese saw the power of the plane, and thought that the Chinese Empire did not know the power of the aircraft at all, so when the Japanese publicized it to the outside world, they said that they were very weak, saying that they only had eight destroyers, and they were definitely not the opponents of the Chinese Imperial Navy's dynasty-class battleships and Emperor-class cruisers, so the battle to defend Jeju Island was a battle full of tragedy and a battle destined to be broken.

The Japanese propaganda like this was to show weakness to Lin Fei, and then when Lin Fei was full of confidence and thought that the Chinese Empire would inevitably win, he attacked in one fell swoop and used planes to annihilate the fleet of the Chinese Empire, so that Lin Fei couldn't find a tune to cry.

What the Japanese didn't know was that Lin Fei already had an airplane in his hands, and the performance of the plane far exceeded that of their drunken boys.

Lin Fei saw the Japanese propaganda like this, and saw through the Japanese tricks at a glance, Lin Fei decided, following the words of the Japanese, to make the Japanese feel that Lin Fei was arrogant and very contemptuous.

Lin Fei instructed the propaganda department to emphasize the strength of the battleships and cruisers of the Chinese Empire, so as to create an atmosphere for the whole country that the Battle of Jeju Island would be won by the Chinese Empire.

In accordance with Lin Fei's instructions, the propaganda department wantonly ridiculed the fact that the Japanese Navy had only eight destroyers, saying that the Japanese Navy wanted to confront the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The Japanese were overjoyed to see such propaganda from the Chinese Empire, and Emperor Meiji even said to the naval veteran, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War, Ito Youheng: "Lin Fei has not yet realized the power of the aircraft, and he thought that his battleships could defeat our aircraft carriers. ”

On the one hand, Lin Fei asked his subordinates to publicize it, and on the other hand, he informed Lin Gecheng, commander-in-chief of the Air Force, and Liu Jingkong, deputy commander-in-chief, to go to Yanhuangcheng to inspect the situation of the aircraft carriers and air force of the Chinese Empire.

It has been more than two years since Lin Fei obtained the technology of building large warships from the British, and in the past two years, the Chinese Empire has relied on the technology of the British and the powerful computing power of the Lingxue Engineering Computer to convert two large merchant ships into aircraft carriers.

Lin Fei originally planned to build an aircraft carrier independently, but after calculating the time, he found that it would take at least five years for the aircraft carrier to enter service, Lin Fei knew that the Japanese would soon come up with the plane, five years was too long, he couldn't wait, so he ordered his subordinates to buy merchant ships from Britain and improve them, and it took a year and a half to finally come up with two aircraft carriers.

Lin Fei was able to refit an aircraft carrier in such a short period of time, entirely because the threshold for aircraft carriers in this era was low, and if it was placed in Lin Fei's era, it would be absolutely impossible for Lin Fei to come up with an aircraft carrier.

Although Lin Fei took out the aircraft carrier, the steam turbine technology has not been completely digested, so the reciprocating steam engine is still used on the aircraft carrier.

Before the two aircraft carriers entered service, Lin Gecheng had been leading the pilots to conduct training at the simulated airport, and later when the aircraft carriers entered service, Lin Gecheng led the pilots to conduct training on the aircraft carriers for half a year, and finally initially formed combat effectiveness.

Lin Fei came to the aircraft carrier base, on the dock in the distance, there were two square aircraft carriers, because they were converted from merchant ships, so the maximum speed of this type of aircraft carrier was only ten knots, which was not advanced, but only sufficient.

Lin Gecheng personally came to greet Lin Fei and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, now that the Japanese have dispatched planes, our own planes can no longer be hidden, right?" ”

Lin Fei smiled and nodded, "That's right, our plane should be on the scene, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese aircraft is not weak, let my dynasty and the emperor go against the Japanese plane, I am really a little worried." ”

Lin Fei was talking, when he suddenly heard a quarrel in the distance, Lin Fei frowned, and said unhappily: "Who is making noise?" ”

Lin Gecheng was also full of anger, thinking that His Majesty was here today, but he heard the sound of quarreling, where did I put my face, so Lin Gecheng said angrily to a subordinate: "Go and see who is arguing." ”

The subordinate quickly ran out, and came back in time to report: "Commander, it's the engineer named Lu Li, who quarreled with a pilot. ”

When Lin Fei heard Lu Li, he was immediately interested, Lu Li's true identity was only known to Lin Fei, and no one else knew that Lu Li's public identity was a patriotic overseas Chinese who returned from the United States. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please find it on WeChat-qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch, if you have any comments, you can also leave a message directly on the public platform.) ）