Lin Fei frowned after listening to Xiyun's report, and asked, "Is this news reliable?" ”

"Absolutely reliable, it turned out that the British fleet was cruising outside Zhurong City, but now, they have turned their course and sailed towards the Sunda Strait."

"It seems that the British fleet is really trying to escape, Xiyun, if our fleet rushes to the Sunda Strait, how much time will it take, can we assemble before the British fleet escapes?"

"At present, it will not be easy to achieve this goal, and the British fleet is much closer to the Sunda Strait than we are."

Lin Fei frowned slightly, silent, and Liu Daming said on the side: "Why don't we put the British fleet over first this time?" ”

"How can you spare the British fleet?" Qin Hui was the first to oppose Liu Daming.

Lin Fei waved his hand lightly, "Don't say it, we must not let go of the British fleet, I need to buy time to let the British fleet stay, Xiyun, you calculate for me, how much time I need to buy before our warships can be assembled in the Sunda Strait." ”

"The staff has already calculated, you need at least five days."

"Five days?" Lin Fei muttered softly, then nodded slightly, "Five days, it's still okay." ”

Lin Fei waved his hand at Liu Daming and Qin Hui, "You go back first, I will look for you if there is something." ”

Liu Daming and Qin Hui agreed one after another, and went out, Lin Fei looked at Xiyun and asked, "Baojiao is in Singapore, how are you talking with the British?" ”

"It didn't go very well, and the British were very tough."

Lin Fei smiled, "Since the British have a very tough attitude, then this matter will be easy to handle." ”

Xiyun hurriedly asked, "Husband, are you trying to make false concessions to the British and induce the British fleet to stay with us?" ”

Lin Fei was stunned, "How do you know?" ”

"Hehe, my husband likes to use this kind of trick the most, I can guess it at once, but I want to remind my husband that this method will not work."

"Why not?"

"The reason is very simple, the British fleet is going to evacuate, and you promise to compromise, they will think that your compromise has nothing to do with the withdrawal of the fleet."

Lin Fei thought about Xiyun's words, and felt that what she said made sense, the blockade operation of the British fleet had just begun, and our Huaxia Empire had not suffered too many losses, in this case, if we compromise and make concessions, the British will definitely doubt it.

Lin Fei took the opportunity to ask, "Then do you have a good way?" ”

"Why don't we use the plan to save Zhao from Wei Wei?"

"What is Wei Wei to save Zhao?"

"Wai Wei to save Zhao is an idiom, it talks about ......"

Lin Fei hurriedly interrupted Xiyun and said, "I know very well what this idiom is talking about, what I want to ask is, we are 'Zhao', who is Wei?" To put it another way, who are we going to surround around? ”

Xiyun pointed to the map in front of Lin Fei with his hand, and said with a smile: "Here, Singapore, Singapore is the last British stronghold in the South Seas, if we besiege Singapore, the British fleet will not dare not save it." ”

Lin Fei nodded slightly, Xiyun was encouraged by Lin Fei, and continued: "Britain has been operating in Singapore for a long time, they must be reluctant to give up this important stronghold, we surround Singapore, the British fleet will definitely not sit idly by, more importantly, we are now in a state of declaration of war with Britain, since it is a state of declaration of war, then it is natural for us to encircle Singapore, and we don't have to bother to find any excuses." ”

Lin Fei said "very good", then picked up the phone on the table and informed the Borneo Military Region that they were preparing to encircle Singapore from the sea, and the Borneo Military Region was the closest to Singapore, so this task would naturally be handed over to them.

As for which troops to send to attack Singapore, there is no need for Lin Fei to worry about it, Lin Fei put down the phone, thought about it, and asked Xiyun: "Have we not recovered Hong Kong yet?" ”

"That's right, the British still occupy Hong Kong."

"It's my negligence to let the British occupy Hong Kong now." In fact, this is not to blame Lin Fei, so Hong Kong in this era is completely a dilapidated small port, before the first South China World War, the British Royal Navy still stationed a fleet in Hong Kong, but with the end of the First South Sea World War, the Chinese submarine "rampant", the British fleet fled Hong Kong.

With the escape of the British fleet, Hong Kong also lost its only bit of prosperity, and completely declined, to the point of being forgotten by Lin Fei.

As for the British on the island of Hong Kong, there was only a façade governor and an army of 100 men, Lin Fei picked up the phone, called the army general staff, and ordered: "Go and recover Hong Kong for me." "Lin Fei chose to recover Hong Kong at this time, just to show the British, I dare to conquer the territory of your British Empire, and I will decide Singapore!

The Army General Staff just replied "understood" and put down the phone, because Hong Kong was too easy to call and had it at their fingertips, and they were too lazy to ask Lin Fei for some instructions.

Lin Fei put down the phone again and said with a smile: "Good Yun'er, if it weren't for you, I would have let the British fleet go, come, let's have a 'command shock'." ”

Xiyun asked Lin Fei with an innocent face: "What does 'headquarters earthquake' mean?" ”

Lin Fei smiled......

After receiving Lin Fei's order, the General Staff of the Army immediately dispatched 1,000 troops to invade Hong Kong, and the Governor of Hong Kong made a symbolic resistance and immediately surrendered.

The Pontianak Military Region dispatched more than 10 Leopard-class high-speed transport ships to Singapore to make a posture of imminent landing, and the navy also sent two Great-class cruisers to serve as support firepower for the Leopard-class high-speed transport ships.

Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao learned that Lin Fei was about to attack Singapore, and led all the negotiators to withdraw, and the governor of Singapore panicked, although the British army has been operating in Singapore for a long time, but Singapore has no navy, and it will really be besieged by the Huaxia army, and it will definitely be broken after a long time, and there is no fortress that cannot be broken in the history of human warfare.

While the Chinese army and navy surrounded Singapore, the Monkey King airship took off again and again and bombed Singapore indiscriminately, causing the British soldiers in the city to complain.

The Governor of Singapore had no choice but to ask the British fleet for help, and Xiyun's analysis was not wrong at all, and the British fleet, after learning that Singapore was surrounded, immediately canceled the plan to withdraw from the territorial waters of China in the Sunda Strait, and instead took the route north, wanting to lift the siege of Singapore.

When Lin Fei learned the news of the British fleet's northward departure, he immediately ordered the Zhurongcheng naval fleet to pursue it northward, and at the same time ordered other naval warships to pay attention to intercepting and killing the British fleet.

The British fleet went north to Singapore, the Hell-class submarine is undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary, in the Chinese Navy warships, the Hell-class submarine is the slowest, all the warships are waiting for it, and now the British fleet is heading north, the direction is exactly the opposite of the Hell-class submarine, and the possibility of the two sides meeting at sea is extremely high.

On January 14, 1902, the Zhurongcheng fleet joined up with other fleets to form a terrifying fleet consisting of seven Dynasty-class battleships and eight Emperor-class cruisers.

On January 16, 1902, the British fleet arrived outside Singapore, and the Chinese Navy's Emperor-class cruisers and Leopard-class high-speed transports were all withdrawn.

On the same day, the Hell-class submarine fleet made contact with the main surface fleet, and the two sides immediately agreed on the following tactics: the Hell-class submarine and the Dynasty-class battleship would cooperate in action, the Dynasty-class battleship would be responsible for obtaining information, and the Hell-class submarine would be responsible for underwater hunting.

There were Dynasty-class battleships and Hell-class submarines together, and even if there was sonar on the British fleet and depth charges, the Hell-class submarines were fearless.

On 18 January, the Chinese fleet and the British fleet met in the sea area 75 kilometers east of Singapore, and the two sides immediately opened up their positions and prepared for the final decisive battle.

In this battle, the British felt that they had the upper hand, they thought that the performance of the dreadnought-class battleships was better than that of the Dynasty-class battleships, and the performance of the large cruisers was also stronger than that of the Emperor-class cruisers, but what they didn't know was that under the surface, there were unknown terrorist killers, and they were hell-class submarines.

Under the command of Lin Fei, the Huaxia fleet will adopt this tactic, the first wave of attacks is the hell-class submarines, when the fleet discovers the British fleet, the hell-class submarines will immediately go out, at the British fleet's dreadnought-class battleships and large cruisers to fire torpedoes, although the torpedoes can not sink all the British battleships, but will disrupt their formation.

The second wave of attacks is the Dynasty class battleships, under the attack of the Hell-class submarines, the British fleet will definitely be in chaos, the Dynasty class battleships will take the opportunity to approach, and then use rockets to damage or sink the Dreadnought-class battleships, and wait until the distance is further reduced, and then use artillery to solve the battle.

The whole plan is designed seamlessly, and it depends on whether there will be any unexpected mistakes in the implementation, and there will definitely be mistakes in combat operations.

Liu Daming on the Western Han Dynasty ship and Qin Hui on the Qin Guangwang boat, their hearts were hanging, worried that there would be an accident in this battle, Qin Hui was originally on the Yama King boat, but he found that the Yama King Boat did not fight this time (because it couldn't catch up with the British fleet), so he came to the Western Han Dynasty ship, waited until the rendezvous with the submarine force, and then returned to the submarine.

The more worried you are, the more likely it is to happen, this seems to be an iron law, and sure enough, at the beginning of the battle, an accident appeared, changing the battle situation that Lin Fei had planned in advance, and a scene that everyone didn't want to see appeared. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)