Two British battleships, one is the Sovereign-class battleship Hood, and the other is the Majestic-class battleship Caesar, these two battleships are new warships that have only recently entered service, and they are brand new all over, although Britain has fully transferred its resources to dreadnoughts, but dreadnoughts will take a long time to launch after all, and Britain can only rely on these non-dreadnoughts.

The two battleships, each with a cruiser, formed two small fleets, of which the Caesar did not advance after marching to the waters near Saigon and cruised in the waters near Saigon, while the other fleet of the Hood headed north and approached Da Nang.

The Zhao Lie Emperor ship was responsible for tracking the Hood ship, and when he saw the Hu Ship approaching Da Nang and threatening Hue, where Lin Fei was located, the captain Lin Haixu immediately sent a message to Lin Fei, and Lin Fei immediately mobilized the Chengzu ship and the Ming Emperor ship to support the Zhao Lie Emperor ship.

The Emperor-class cruiser was obviously no match for the Sovereign ship, so Lin Fei ordered the ghost shark boat to be dispatched and cruise in the waters near Da Nang, ready to attack the British warship at any time.

The confrontation between British and Chinese warships in the waters of Vietnam caused a shock in world public opinion, and various countries exclaimed one after another that the Second World War in the South Seas was about to break out.

This crisis occurred in the waters near Vietnam, and the peninsula where Vietnam is located is called the "Indochina Peninsula", so this crisis is called the "First Indochina Peninsula Crisis" by later historians.

Lin Fei, who was in the midst of the crisis, obviously felt that the British fleet did not want to launch a landing battle, because they did not carry infantry, and the British seemed to want to settle the battle at sea.

Lin Fei sneered, the British, and want to settle the battle at sea again, aren't they afraid of my submarine?

On 18 June, the Hood sent a message to the Huaxia warship, saying that the envoy on the Hood wanted to face Lin Fei to discuss a solution to the crisis in the Indochina Peninsula.

Lin Fei actually didn't want to have this meeting, what he thought was, the British, if you have the ability, you will come to fight, what nonsense, but the British Empire can't help but give face, and now Lin Fei has not yet reached the point where he dares to be arrogant to the British, so Lin Fei asked his subordinates to bring the British envoy.

There were five British envoys who came this time, two of them were envoys, and the other three were entourage, and those two envoys, Lin Fei felt familiar as soon as he saw them, and he didn't remember who they were after thinking for a long time.

At this time, it was the two messengers who began to reminisce: "Mr. Lin Fei, you don't remember us, it was the Blue Bird machine we bought from you." ”

Lin Fei then remembered that it turned out that these two envoys, one named Rogers, was the envoy of the first Sino-British negotiations, and the other was Adriano, who was the technical adviser of the first Sino-British negotiations.

Britain's attitude was very tough and wanted to drive China out of the Philippines, Lin Fei sold the Jade Bird machine technology at this time, and Britain finally compromised and acquiesced to the Chinese Empire's occupation of the Philippines.

Although the two people in front of him are Lin Fei's "old friends", Lin Fei doesn't have the slightest affection for these two guys, that Rogers, although not as arrogant as Claros who was killed by himself, but he is a character who hides a knife in a smile, and that Adriano is a technology maniac who wants to get rid of all his advanced technology.

Lin Fei invited the two to sit down, and Rogers first said: "We are here this time to discuss with Emperor Fei about the solution to this crisis, and our British Empire is the first to take a stand, and we resolutely oppose your country's invasion and occupation of Laos and Cambodia. ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "Mr. Rogers, your words are very inappropriate, we have absolutely not invaded Laos and Cambodia, and the reason why we have stationed troops there is entirely because of the invitation of the King of Laos and the King of Cambodia. ”

"Well...... Rogers' expression changed, and then he said: "Mr. Lin Fei, if we can't reach a consensus on this key issue, then I suggest that we adjourn the meeting for the time being and wait until tomorrow for the second round of talks." ”

Why did the British have to adjourn the meeting just after saying two words, what do they mean Although Lin Fei was full of doubts, he also agreed to Rogers' request.

Rogers and Adriano returned to their residence, and Rogers lowered his voice and said, "Lin Fei is still as tough as ever, and it seems that our plan must be implemented." ”

Adriano showed a smug smile, "Mr. Rogers, don't worry, I am in charge of technology, so I am particularly confident in this plan, what Lin Fei relies on the most is his submarine, as long as this plan can knock out Lin Fei's submarine, Lin Fei will no longer dare to be tough." ”

It turned out that the plan formulated by the British was to defeat Lin Fei's submarine, which was Lin Fei's most powerful killer weapon, and now the British were about to attack Lin Fei's most powerful killer weapon.

Rogerst was full of confidence when he heard Adriano say, and smiled with satisfaction, "Since you are very confident in this plan, then I can rest assured, I will provoke Lin Fei tomorrow and ask him to send submarines to engage our fleet." ”

Adriano was a little worried, "Mr. Rogers, should we adopt a safer method, Lin Fei, that guy, but he will kill the messenger." ”

"You think too much, Lin Fei is not a murderous maniac, he killed Claros, it was completely Claros's own fault, at that time Lin Fei had already been defeated on the battlefield, but he still had to run in front of Lin Fei to provoke, Lin Fei didn't kill him, who would he kill?"

The next day, Rogers came to Lin Fei again, this time Adriano did not come, he was very afraid that Lin Fei would slaughter him in anger.

This time, Rogers was very tough, "Mr. Lin Fei, according to the resolution of the League of Nations, your possession of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam is illegal, and now I ask you to withdraw from the Indochina Peninsula immediately. ”

"Mr. Rogers, I would like to remind you of one thing, we are not the same now as we were a few years ago, a few years ago you could order us arbitrarily, but now, we have powerful submarines, and this ocean is not a place for you British people to do whatever they want."

"Then I'm sorry, Mr. Lin Fei, since you are obsessed, then we have to solve the Indochina Peninsula problem by force."

Lin Fei raised his eyebrows, "When you say this, are you going to declare war on our Huaxia Empire?" ”

"Of course not, we will not declare war on the Huaxia Empire this time, we will just follow the resolution of the League of Nations and use special means to force the Huaxia Empire to respect the League of Nations."

Lin Fei sneered, "That international alliance of yours seems to have never done anything beneficial to our Huaxia Empire. ”

Rogerst shrugged his shoulders, noncommittal, and then took his leave, and the Hood also left Da Nang, Lin Fei did not order the fleet to launch an attack on the British battleship, after all, there was a Sovereign-class battleship, and the Emperor-class was still not sure of it.

Lin Fei wanted to mobilize the ghost shark boat to sink the Hood, but it was too late, the surface speed of the ghost shark boat was only ten knots, and the underwater speed was only eight knots, and it could not catch up with the sovereign ship with a speed of up to fifteen knots.

Lin Fei could only send a fleet to monitor the British battleships from afar, waiting for an opportunity to use ambush tactics to kill the British battleships, but the British fleet's actions made Lin Fei very strange, it stands to reason that he was in Hue, and the British fleet should directly attack Hue, or Da Nang on the south side of Hue, but the British fleet went all the way south without stopping.

Lin Fei thought that the British fleet was going to attack Saigon, and hurriedly ordered the Borneo and Sulawesi fleets to send three Emperor-class cruisers to defend Saigon, but he did not expect that the British fleet did not stop in Saigon, but went directly around the waters of Phu Quoc Island in western Vietnam.

Phu Quoc Island, the largest island in Vietnam, covers an area of 600 square kilometers, and this island has an important position in the Gulf of Siam.

The island is also of high economic value, rich in pearls and fish sauce, and a center of trade between Siamese fishermen and Vietnamese fishermen, but Lin Fei's army has not yet had time to occupy the island because it is located in western Vietnam, far from central cities such as Saigon.

Lin Fei was surprised when he heard the news, could it be that the British wanted to directly occupy Phu Quoc, if this was the case, it would be extremely unfavorable to themselves, once the British used Phu Quoc Island as a base, it meant that they had a springboard to interfere in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos at any time, and no matter what they did in Vietnam, they had to guard against the British.

Unable to watch the British occupy Phu Quoc Island, Lin Fei immediately gave an order to Qin Hui, the captain of the Ghost Shark Boat, to immediately mobilize four monster-class submarines and enter the waters of Phu Quoc Island.

Lin Fei also ordered Shangguan Yunlong to send a message to the British warships, solemnly warning them: "Phu Quoc Island is the territory of the Kingdom of Vietnam, a vassal state of our Chinese Empire, and the British warships are operating in the waters near Phu Quoc Island, which has violated the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Vietnam, so please withdraw immediately." ”

However, the British warships ignored Lin Fei's warning, and still cruised in the waters around Phu Quoc Island on their own, and they were scouting the hydrological situation of Phu Quoc Island and preparing to find an opportunity to land.

While the British warships were cruising Phu Quoc, many British transport ships came from Siam, all of which were small boats, and the British were completely in a posture of imminent landing and occupation of Phu Quoc.

Lin Fei knew that if he didn't hurt the British, the British would not give in, so he decisively ordered four monster-class submarines to formulate a plan of action and launch an attack on the British warship.