The British and Japanese fleets in the confrontation did not know at all that a ghost was floating above their heads with a smirk at this time, watching the sea with a greedy gaze, this kind of work of fanning the flames and provoking war was Boss Yang's favorite, and when he had such an opportunity, he was as excited as a weasel lying outside the chicken coop, but how to start this still needs to be carefully studied.

Similarly, the two sides of the confrontation below do not know how to solve the situation in front of them, for the British have planted such a big face, and even the minister in China was almost killed by a Japanese shell, and if he does not express some anger, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the cabinet to explain to the public opinion at home.

In recent years, the relationship between Britain and Japan has been very tense, especially after the last Dagukou naval battle, it was almost a war, but at that time the British were too small in the Far East, so they swallowed their anger for the time being.

And today's Far East Fleet is strong enough, because of the Battle of Dagukou, the Far East Fleet has been much stronger than the original history, in addition to the Athletic God aircraft carrier, the prestige battlecruiser, and the addition of two aircraft carriers, Glory and Brave, as well as the Elizabeth battleship, the Malaya battleship, the counterattack battlecruiser, such strength is enough to fight with the Japanese, of course, it is only the power of a war, if the combined fleet is all pressed on this point of strength is still in vain, so the British are the standard color of the inward.

On the Japanese side, Takasu Shiro also had no bottom in his heart, his fleet during this period of time because of the harassment of the Chinese Navy, in fact, the strength loss was not small, after the King Kong was injured, although the Kirishima was replenished, but the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier did not make up for it, only less than two-thirds of it was replenished. Moreover, many of them were new pilots, which was not suitable for war, especially since the number of capital ships of the British Navy on the opposite side was still twice as many as his own, and at least until the combined fleet arrived, he had no confidence in starting a war with the British.

In order to guard against the Americans, the main forces of the Combined Fleet were all stationed at the Yokosuka base. The British demanded that the Japanese strictly put shells into the British Consulate, and the commander of the 10th Division, Ryosuke Isoya, and the commander of the heavy artillery wing under his subordinates, at least had to take them to court-martial, and the Japanese apologized publicly, and at the same time promised that no shells or bullets would fly into the public concession in the subsequent battles, and as for compensation for losses, it was needless to say.

The Japanese side insisted that it was just an accident. The commander of the heavy artillery wing can be dismissed, apologized, and compensated, but it is guaranteed that the shells or bullets will not fall into the concession after that, which cannot be done, in fact, the British are also difficult for strongmen, and both sides have been beaten to the point of blood, how can you let us guarantee it. Although the section from Longhua to Yangpu River is classified as a non-belligerent zone, the problem is that this restriction is only one-sided. There was no restriction on the Chinese army on the defensive side, and they could place their artillery close to the concession and then shell the Japanese at will, and the Japanese had to be timid in order to avoid hitting the concession, which was completely unreasonable.

The situation of the two sides not giving in to each other finally gave Yang Feng an opportunity to take advantage of it, and it was already late at night. The sea was illuminated by the beams of searchlights on more than 100 large and small warships, and the guns of the towering giant ships pointed at each other, vigilantly staring at any abnormality at sea, and the British and Japanese allies were finally on the brink of war.

Dozens of kilometers away from them. The shuttle, having thrown all the mines, carefully landed on the surface of the sea, then quickly sank underwater, quietly slipped under a Japanese destroyer, and then stretched out something of the same color as the Japanese warship, similar to an octopus tentacle, and silently climbed up to the deck with the backlit side of the ship, climbed up to the turret in the darkness behind the front main gun, and then immediately split into two and went around the sides of the turret.

In fact, the confrontation has reached now, and both sides have been very clear that this war cannot be fought at all, and it will not last until now, and if it is fought, it will not last until now, and if it really wants to fight, the Far East Fleet will directly start to clean up the Takasu fleet before the combined fleet arrives.

And it's already the second half of the night, and the spirits of both parties who have spent the day in tension have long been relaxed, and no one expected that an accident would happen at this time.

Two 130 mm shells, like bubbles squeezing inside the tentacles, were quickly sent to the muzzle, followed by two 37 mm shells, since it was a show, it was natural to do a full set, just the shells fell but there was no fire, this is not right.

After making these preparations, almost two hundred kilograms of ZHA medicine were immediately transmitted to the bottom of this turret, and a detonation wire behind it was connected to Yang Feng's hands.

Everything was ready, Boss Yang gave an order to the beauty avatar with a wicked smile, and then saw that the two extra cannon muzzles suddenly erupted with fire, which was the fire of the explosion of the two 37 shells, and at the moment when tens of thousands of people on the entire sea were frightened by this sudden loud noise, two 130 mm shells with a whistle that broke through the air, and slammed into the main turret of the battleship Queen Elizabeth of the British Navy in the distance, and before everyone came to their senses, the second batch of shells was transmitted to the muzzle at the fastest speed, This was followed by a second round of shelling that landed almost in the same place.

At this time, no matter how slow the British reaction was, they also knew what they should do, and at the same time, the two British warships closest to the destroyer, all the main guns fired at the same time, and at the moment when one of the shells hit the target, the tentacles retracted into the water as quickly as possible, and then Yang Feng pressed the detonation button, and the unlucky turret, along with the sailors inside, all turned into pieces with a loud bang.

"What's going on? What are you firing for?" Takasu Shiro roared hysterically, but unfortunately no one cared about his roar at this time, and the two fleets that had been facing each other for a day, almost all of them entered a state of battle at the same time as the guns sounded, and at the same time that the first turret of the hapless destroyer Shirayuki was bombarded by the 203mm main guns of the British Navy light cruiser Hayashisen (of course, this is what the Japanese themselves think), the main guns of the Japanese Navy Takao, which was closest to the Shirayuki, also hit the Hayashisen.

Within two seconds, the main guns of the British Navy's heavy cruiser Kent hit the Kaohsiung, followed by an earth-shattering bang. The main guns of the battlecruiser Prestige hit the Takao, and at the same time, the main guns of the battleship Kirishima hit the Prestige, and the entire sea surface was quickly stained red by the fire of the shell explosion, and in less than a minute almost all the battleships opened fire on each other's targets.

Takasu Shiro is already stupid, at this time it is no longer whether he wants to fight or not, in fact, the war has begun.

"What's going on?" He leaned weakly against the bulkhead beside him. Let out a mournful roar, but in an instant it was replaced by a resolute face, since the war has begun, then don't think about anything, just fight! The creature immediately calmed down and quickly moved into his own role as a commander.

At this time, Boss Yang had already run away, he didn't want to wait to harm the pond fish, these were all terrifying monsters, no matter who gave himself a shot, his life might be lost. Now the safest position is in the sky, the shuttle quickly jumped to the dark sea in the distance, then transformed and then lifted into the air, suspended at a height of three thousand meters to look at the sea of iron and fire below.

The close artillery battle of six battleships, eleven heavy cruisers, twenty light cruisers, and fifty destroyers can be said to be unique in the history of warfare. The distance between the two sides is less than five kilometers, so it can be said that the artillery is meat. Within a few minutes, almost all the warships were wounded, and soon sank, the battle between the giants was not what those destroyers should be mixed in, as soon as the two sides started the war, these guys wanted to get out of the battle circle, but unfortunately the reaction time left for them was too short, and in the blink of an eye, two Japanese destroyers. A British destroyer began to sink with a blazing fire.

At this time, the two sides were already in red eyes, on the one hand, the arrogance of the slave turned into a master, on the other hand, the anger of the traitorous slave and the ambition to maintain the glory of the empire, the British and Japanese sailors showed fighting spirit, and the trajectory of the cannonballs on the sea was crisscrossed. The explosions of large-caliber shells thundered like thunder, and the burning flames were reflected even on the coast in the distance.

Boss Yang watched it with relish in the sky, this is much more exciting than the movie, the duel between the newly rising empire and the former overlord has not been seen for twenty years, not to mention that he is watching the excitement, the warships of various countries waiting to see the excitement around here all ran over, and they stared at the largest battleship duel after the Battle of Jutland with wide eyes.

But in the end, the strength of the Takasu fleet is much weaker, two battleships converted from battle cruisers, two battleships and two battle cruisers, which in itself is not a magnitude opponent, and soon the Haruna battleship began to sink because of too many bullets in the fire of the Queen Elizabeth and Malaya, and now the Kirishima alone is even more difficult to support, Takasu Shiro, who commanded on the Haruna, immediately ordered the fleet to retreat to the mainland, at this time the Kaohsiung has also been hit by a torpedo launched by the British Rinsen, and the entire hull began to capsize, In addition to this, the light cruiser Kawauchi was sunk, the heavy cruiser Aoba was also engulfed in flames, and four destroyers were sunk.

On the British side, the heavy cruiser Kent was heavily damaged, and it is estimated that it will not last long, and at the same time as sinking the Kaohsiung, the Lin Xian was also torpedoed by a Japanese destroyer, and the bow of the ship was tornly shredded by the explosion, four battleships were injured one by one, and five destroyers were sunk.

Under Takasu Shiro's strict order, the Kirishima led the remaining Japanese ships to finally leave the battlefield, meet the aircraft carriers that did not participate in the battle in the distance, and then sail in the direction of the mainland, the British fleet commander knew very well that after a long delay, the Japanese combined fleet arrived, and it would be difficult to get out, so he did not order a pursuit, but concentrated all his firepower, and sent the Haruna and Takasu Shiro to the bottom of the sea together as quickly as possible, and then ordered the fleet to retreat to Hong Kong at full speed, and before leaving, the Japanese warships that had not completely sunk at sea were fully replenished with a torpedo.

However, their retreat was not easy, when they passed through the Taiwan Strait at dawn, they were blocked by Japanese planes stationed in Taiwan, the most seriously wounded Kent was blown up, and they lost a destroyer and a light cruiser before retreating to Hong Kong, but they did not stop in Hong Kong, and then after receiving the order of the British Admiralty, the entire fleet retreated to Singapore.

This inexplicable naval battle was like a twelve-magnitude earthquake, and the shock wave was quickly transmitted to the entire world, and the whole world was dumbfounded, no one thought that the British and the Japanese would really fight, and the moment they got the news, I don't know how many people laughed so much that they were about to twitch.

But the British and the Japanese were dumbfounded, and no one was ready for this war. The British's center of gravity is Europe, their biggest enemy is the mustache, and the war between the Japanese and China has not yet come to a conclusion! There is still a vicious wolf in the northeast, north and south each eyeing the tiger, and it is not suitable to erect a strong enemy at this time.

But it is absolutely impossible not to fight, and for both the British and the Japanese, this war must be carried on. Otherwise, no one can bear the anger at home, especially the Japanese navy, they not only lost a battleship, but also killed a vice admiral, this revenge must be avenged no matter what, and to be honest, in terms of British strength in the Far East, maybe they can take the opportunity to take Southeast Asia, when they think of the oil wells in Borneo, no matter how reasonable people are, it is inevitable that they will be a little moved.

As for the lack of troops in the army. This is also easy to solve, expand the army, expand the army by 20 divisions and regiments, and if 20 does not work, expand by 40, and there are no people yet.

As for the British Zhengfu, although very reluctant, in the end they still pinched their noses and announced the increase of troops in Asia, the battleships Barham, and the war-weariness. The USS Fury was transferred to Asia, and an additional 100,000 troops were sent to Southeast Asia. Of course, this will take some time, especially since the army even has to urgently recruit soldiers.

"The Japanese are crazy, really crazy!" Liu Haining looked at the newspaper, and his face was full of happiness.

"Don't say they're crazy, maybe they'll have a windfall this time." Yang Feng smiled very meaningfully.

"You mean the British don't fight?" Mr. Wu said he is now a military adviser to the Pingjin Special Administrative Region. After saying this, he himself nodded: "The British are also very chaotic in their colonies in Southeast Asia, if the Japanese use the banner of giving these countries duli, they make trouble for the British from the inside, maybe the Japanese can really easily take Southeast Asia, but how will such Americans choose."

"Look at the excitement. Anyway, I'm going to encourage them to watch the excitement for a while. Yang Feng said that it is not a good thing for the United States to enter the war, the war stimulates their industry too much, which he sees too clearly, and the United States still adheres to isolationism, if Britain and Japan declare war, then they can push it behind the scenes, and it is completely possible for the Americans to continue this policy, the later this huge war machine is launched, the less benefits it will bring to them, and even in a sense, it is not a bad thing for the United States not to participate in World War II.

Unless they could bring the war to their homeland, it would be perfect if the Japanese could defeat the Pacific Fleet and land on the American mainland, but that seemed to be very difficult to achieve.

In this way, it seems that I really need to pull the Japanese up.

Of course, this is all a matter of the future, now he is most concerned about the extension of the oil field, if this oil field can be built, then his next strategic layout is basically completed, this goods immediately gathered all the professors who understand crude oil exploitation in Pingjin universities, and then handed over the crude oil exploitation technology information they brought to them, and at the same time formally established a petroleum research institute, and selected a group of experts to be responsible for further turning these technologies into practical things in this era.

In addition, his delegation to Yan'an has also been gathered, including Wu Peifu, Zhang Zuoxiang and other veteran guys, and a group of capitalists, scholars and celebrities like Liang Sicheng and his wife, as well as Zhang Junmao, who has now made his identity public, Jiang Menglin, the president of Tsinghua University, and Rong Zongjing, who ran from Shanghai to Beiping, more than half of his industry moved to Beiping and Chongqing, so the losses suffered in this war were very small.

In addition to him, Zhang Youyi and others' Yunshang company also moved to Beiping, this company is now the largest clothing exporter in Asia, even in the international fashion industry is also a well-known name, Tang Ying divorced her husband, and now lives in Beiping for a long time, making Margaret full of wariness of her.

However, this trip did not take a plane, because Yang Feng also wanted to investigate the transportation problem, and Yan Xishan also asked these people to go to him first, so this trip was by land, first take a train to Taiyuan, and then take a car to Yan'an.

Boss Yang not only prepared 20 Land Rovers as special cars for these people, but also equipped a company of infantry fighting vehicles and 20 Wrangler armed jeeps as bodyguards, a convoy of nearly 100 vehicles of various kinds loaded on a special train from Beiping to the south, to Zhengding after the transfer to the Zhengtai Railway went straight to Taiyuan.

When he arrived in Taiyuan, the main generals of the Jin army led by Yan Xishan, and the local gentry and celebrities in Shanxi were already waiting at the train station, and he and Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuoxiang were all old acquaintances, and they were all old opponents who had fought for almost half their lives.

The group laughed and got off the train, and then was directly invited to the Shanxi Provincial Government, after a welcome ceremony, they lived in Yan Xishan's house, and the next day Yan Xishan arranged to visit the Taiyuan Arsenal, which is the second largest arms supply base for the northern armies, including Yang Feng's own army, one-third of the ammunition comes from here, and with the help of Beiping, even a production line for 105 mm cannons was established. (To be continued......)