In the last month of 1941, people all over the world watched the splendid "tearing" war that took place in southeastern Dunesia, both in newspapers and on the radio.

First the Chinese jumped out and shouted that they were victims, and then the British and Japanese jumped out to testify against them and prove that the Dutch were criminals.

However, when the "victim's" accusation was still "in his ears", two "righteous people" and a "victim" couldn't wait to tear their faces and join hands to "rob" the previous "criminal suspicion".

In the course of this process, the Americans, who gradually discovered their potential as "friends of justice," rushed to urgently transfer a detachment of the Seventh Fleet stationed in the Pacific Ocean to the South China Sea on the day of the incident, hoping to use their navy to deter China, Britain, and Japan by force.

At this time, the Americans had already seen the strategic significance gained by the British after completely controlling the Malay waterways, and they also saw the great threat brought about by the British and Japanese collusion and joint efforts to exclude the United States in Southeast Asia.

The British and Japanese were too quick to act, and by the time the Americans reacted, they had already torn the Dutch apart and swallowed them into their stomachs. The American fleet, which had arrived in a hurry from Guam, encountered the Japanese fleet heading south when it entered the South China Sea on 12 December.

On the U.S. side, the battleship USS Carona and the USS Hornet and USS Lexington ∫ task force were the main task forces. At this time, most of the capital ships of the Seventh Fleet were concentrated in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, waiting for Christmas, and this was the only one that could be sent to Southeast Asia in a short period of time.

On the Japanese side, it is a new batch of cutting-edge warships led by the Yamato, which is above the US fleet in terms of scale, tonnage and combat power.

On that day, the US and Japanese fleets faced each other from a distance of 20 kilometers, and in the skies above the fleets of the two sides, F4F and Zero fighters came and went, frantically dancing "waltzes."

Out of the prevention of war. In order to prevent premature misfire, the planes taken off from the aircraft carriers on both sides were all fighters, and neither sent attack planes that posed a huge threat to the warships. Nearly 100 fighter planes have taken off from the aircraft carriers of the two sides combined, and you have come and gone on the Natuna Islands, trying to chase each other and bite their tails. Dog fights.

The performance of the Zero fighter is already better than that of the F4F Wildcat. In December 1941, the Japanese Navy was referencing the Zero II fighter, and the engine horsepower of the fighter had been increased to 1200 horsepower, and the comprehensive performance was 15 percent higher than that of the Zero I type.

However, the Zero planes that are now playing a dogfight game with US planes over the South China Sea are all Zero I. Compared with the Zero aircraft in the original historical plane, the maneuverability and speed of this Zero have not increased, but have decreased slightly.

The reason for this is that the original historical Zero Type was changed to high maneuverability at the cost of the aircraft without any armor, no bulletproof seats, and no bulletproof fuel tanks. The Zero fighter of this plane. When it appeared in 1940, it followed this crooked path.

It's not that Li Huamei doesn't want to use better engines and develop better aircraft. At that time, Japan's industrial strength was this kind of trick, and for objective reasons, it could only use this crooked trick. However, due to the premature end of the war in Europe, the Japanese side was forced to postpone the launch of the Pacific War, and the "paper airplane" type Zero did not have the opportunity to go to the battlefield.

By the end of 1941, Britain and Germany wanted to kill people with a knife. Taking advantage of Japan's pit on the United States, both countries coincidentally sold more advanced aero-engine technology to Japan. Absorbing the strengths of British and German engine design, Japan began to produce more advanced aero engines only in the second half of 1941.

And this operation to carve up Indonesia, when intercepting the US fleet in the South China Sea, although the time and place are favorable, and even the people are on the side of the Japanese. But Li Huamei still did not want to go to war with the Americans at this time.

According to her explanation to the emperor and the Japanese military department, the timing was still a little short. The first is that the Indonesian region has just swallowed it and has not had time to digest it, and the second is that it is not suitable to do it until the British unilaterally abrogate the Anglo-American Washington Accord.

Due to the fact that the war will drag on a little longer, in order to make the Americans "over-confident" in their F4F Tomcat fighters and show weakness to the enemy, during this voyage, the Japanese side brought out three aircraft carriers, and the Zero fighters on them are all old-fashioned Zero I, and in order to "reduce performance", bulletproof seats and bulletproof fuel tanks have also been added. As a result, the overall protection has increased dramatically, but the mobility has decreased. When playing a dog-and-chase game with the U.S. Navy's F4F Wildcats in the sky, it is no longer a good idea.

On the North Carolina, the flagship of the Seventh Fleet, Vice Admiral Kimberley, the commander of the fleet, watched through the porthole as hundreds of planes chased each other in the air to "perform" aerobatics, and his brows were furrowed.

Kimberly did not want to go to war with the Japanese at this time, and Washington did not make up its mind, because the US Navy was not ready. The Japanese navy on the other side, although it has the upper hand, seems to be very patient at present, and it is also putting on a posture of deterrence rather than declaring war.

Compared to the Japanese, the U.S. Navy is at an extreme strategic disadvantage in the Natuna Islands area. In order to prevent the US Navy from entering the Indonesian archipelago, the British and Japanese navies announced that they would conduct joint military exercises here, prohibiting a "foreign" armed force from entering the South China Sea for the next few days, and forcibly blocking the US Navy's access route.

Although so far, the capital ships of the British Navy have been restrained by the Soviet-German Navy, which is about to conduct joint military exercises in Iceland, and their "sense of survival" in Southeast Asia is very poor, and this time the British Navy is "blocking the road" here on the grounds of "joint military exercises between Britain and Japan", and the British Navy can only dispatch a dozen destroyers and two light cruisers, and the total tonnage is not as good as a large Japanese warship.

However, the participation of the British Navy shows that Britain and Japan are now "advancing and retreating together" in the matter of Indonesia. There are quite a few shore-based airfields for British people near the Natuna Sea. While Japanese and American planes were "ballroom dancing" here, the British also took off a group of Hurricane fighters from the shore-based airfield.

The officers and men of the US Navy at the scene knew very well that once a war broke out here, they would not be able to bargain for anything here if they were on the inferior side in terms of combat strength.

After two hours of this dangerous standoff, which could have been misfired, Vice Admiral Kimberley, after making urgent contact with Washington, finally reluctantly ordered the fleet to retreat and return to the port of Manila in the Philippines.

After the incident, the American newspaper, reporting on the incident, claimed that "the most humiliating day in the history of the US Navy." The US Navy seized the opportunity to stir up public opinion and demanded that Congress increase its investment in naval construction.

On the same day, the 10-member parliamentarians of Downing Street in the United Kingdom stood up and applauded happily after receiving the news of the US Navy's retreat. The "poor" Royal Navy in Southeast Asia succeeded in forcing off the "hungry tiger" of the United States by using its strength and using the vicious dog of Japan, and even made great amends to the Dutch, which is really a gratifying and congratulatory good thing.

Although the robbery of the former ally Holland was extremely ugly, the British Empire did reap the real benefits. Because of this incident, British Prime Minister Attlee's public approval rating in the country has risen rapidly.

The next thing to do is to consider the topic of abolishing the traitorous treaty signed by the "British" Churchill. ”

On the 13th, similar voices began to appear in some British newspapers. In order to restore the vitality of the country, which had suffered heavy losses due to the war, the whole of Britain is now increasingly looking at the "Anglo-American Washington Accord" as unpleasant, and they are trying their best to pull out this stinger that was pricked in the body by the Americans taking advantage of the danger.

In order to pour another ladle of oil on this matter, on 13 December, on the German side, Führer Hitlertonguò sent a congratulatory telegram to the British government, congratulating the "success" of the joint operation between Britain and Japan in the South China Sea, claiming that the two countries had successfully prevented the US Navy from entering the area and greatly safeguarded peace in Southeast Asia.

Although everyone knew that Hitler was completely blind and talking nonsense, the "friendly" attitude of the Germans still made observers from all over the world see that the Germans were secretly against the British in this matter.

In the last month of 1941, both the British and Japanese governments did their best to digest the newly acquired Dutch colonies. And because of this incident, the contradictions between the United States and Britain and Japan have deepened dramatically and have been publicly put on the table.

When reflecting on this matter in the United States, the general attitude of the people and the media is that this is "the poison of Cactus Ghana". Many Americans bitterly believe that in 1940, if the president of Ghana had listened to the Germans' "construction" and joined forces with China, the Soviet Union and Germany to divide up the British colonies, then at least all of Southeast Asia would now belong to the United States of America.

At this time, when the Americans looked around, they were terrified to find one thing: in the Dutch Indonesia incident, the United States was completely isolated and fighting alone, and there was no ally by its side.

The whole of the United States began to boil over the humiliation in the waters of the Natuna Islands. Because of this incident, the US Congress approved the plan for the expansion of the Navy in the same month. The hot-headed Americans even openly shouted in their propaganda that "the United States of America wants to build a superfleet that is more powerful than the navies of other countries in the world combined."

Because I found myself alone, I felt fear. Because of fear, he desperately strengthened his force, but in turn led to the worries of those countries that were already taboo about him, and suffered more isolation. When the U.S. Congress passed a huge plan to build ships, it caused an uproar in Britain.

After hearing about the U.S. shipbuilding plan, Li Huamei immediately said to the emperor: "The time is ripe, and now is the time to reveal to the British that the empire wants to challenge the U.S. Navy." (To be continued......)

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