In fact, what Chen Feng didn't know was that when he was calculating the Kwantung Army, the Japanese army was also calculating him. The Japanese have never underestimated him, a scourge, and they always want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

However, because of the changes in the situation in the world, the Japanese army could not concentrate on dealing with him, especially after learning that the Chen family and Australia had bought the island of Guinea and Tasmania, Chen Feng's tentacles had penetrated deep into the South Pacific, which was intolerable to the Japanese side.

The Japanese side deeply felt the threat of Chen Feng's subordinates, so it has been looking for opportunities to deal with Chen Feng's subordinates. However, Chen Feng's forces in Saibei have become a climate, and if they want to completely eliminate them, they must be prepared for long-term operations, so they are indeed powerless to measure the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield, at least in the current situation, the Japanese army base camp believes that it cannot eliminate the Eighth Theater in Saibei.

However, this did not mean that the Japanese army would let Chen Feng's troops go unchecked, and after Chen Feng's troops made great strides to develop the island of New Guinea, the Japanese army base camp had the intention of seizing the island. However, because the Chen family had signed a security agreement with Australia, Australia had to send reinforcements if the island of New Guinea was invaded by foreign enemies within three years.

Australia's military strength is not strong, the total strength of the country is only 100,000 people, of which there are only more than 10,000 regular troops for daily training, and the remaining 90,000 people are armed like militias. ”

Nevertheless. The Japanese still did not dare to underestimate this country, and Australia, although not very good, was a member of the Commonwealth, and it was an extremely important member of the Commonwealth. According to the arrogant character of the British Empire, if Australia was bullied, Britain would definitely enter the war.

Before Japan, it was not ideologically ready to start a war with the United States and Britain, so the Japanese army base camp could only resign itself to the development of the island of New Guinea by Chen Feng's subordinates and turn a blind eye.

However, the base camp is not without action at all, although it is not possible to directly send troops to attack the island of New Guinea, but it can send small troops to the island to destroy. It can also infiltrate the islands of New Guinea and Tasmania to carry out armed infiltration. Coupled with the large influx of Chinese and Jews into the two islands, the security on the island began to become chaotic from the second half of the 40s.

In the face of the rapidly deteriorating law and order, the Nanyang Consular Council immediately issued an emergency order, and almost all the army and police forces entered a wartime state. Conduct investigations on suspicious persons on the island. Helicopters were also dispatched to encircle and suppress the Japanese armed detachment that landed on the island. After more than half a year of hard work, and after eliminating more than 30 small Japanese troops, public order on the island was improved.

But. Taking advantage of this period of time, the Japanese army also infiltrated a large number of spies into the Nanyang Territory, and these actions were carried out in secret, whether it was the Nanyang Consulate Government Council or Chen Feng, who was far away in Guisui, they knew nothing about it.

In 1941, after several high-level meetings, especially the Imperial Council in early January, Emperor Hirohito personally decided to start a war against Britain and the United States, which made the Japanese army base camp, especially the Admiralty, once again care about the Nanyang Territory controlled by the Chen family.

After all, the emperor has decided to go to war against Britain and the United States, so the small Australia does not have too many scruples for the Great Japanese Empire, and joining the empire to start a war with the United States and Britain will inevitably send troops to land in Australia.

However, the Japanese army base camp decided to sharpen the knife with the Nanyang collar of the Chen family before starting a war with the United States and Britain. Although the Nanyang Territory has not been developed for a long time, its population is more than 4.5 million, of which 2 million are Jews, 2 million are Chinese, and the rest are descendants of local indigenous people and Western colonizers.

The original desolate and barren island of New Guinea has been built by millions of people for several years, coupled with the Chen family's massive amount of silver, and now there are more than a dozen cities that have developed very well, because almost all places need to be rebuilt, so the Nanyang Consulate Council has planned each city very well, especially the development of industry, almost all the resources needed for the war can be developed here, including oil and steel, which is undoubtedly a piece of fat in the eyes of Japan.

The most coveted by the Japanese are the excellent seaports of the South Sea Territory, which are all deep-water harbors without ice periods, and once they seize this place, they can attack Australia as far as possible, and attack Singapore and the Philippines as far as possible, and occupy the entire South Pacific Ocean.

In addition, the owner of Nanyang Collar is the Chen family, and to put it bluntly, it is Chen Feng. The relationship between Chen Feng and Japan does not need to be repeated, it is light to say that it is not a common thing, and the Japanese generals who died in Chen Feng's hands alone are dozens of people, and this feud is not small, Japan has every reason to take action against Chen Feng's industry or territory, and Japan also wants to take this opportunity to explore the bottom of the United States and Britain.

After a long period of infiltration and surveillance, the Japanese army finally found an opportunity to take advantage of. On March 15, 1941, Japanese spies lurking in the United States sent an urgent telegram to Tokyo, which was subsequently forwarded to Chief of Naval Operations Osamu Nagano.

Japan. Tokyo. Admiralty.

As one of the four most important departments that make up the base camp, the Admiralty is undoubtedly the most transcendent in the whole of Japan. Although the Japanese navy has always had far fewer troops than the army, the navy has no less resources than the army.

Moreover, the emperors and prime ministers of Japan are well aware of Japan's natural disadvantages, after all, the island country is an island country, and if you want to get out of the country, you must rely on the navy, and the army cannot go to sea to fight even if it is strong, so the development of the navy has become the consensus of Japanese society in the past 100 years, and even the emperor has to take the lead in reducing the use of the palace in order to build warships.

After a hundred years of development, Japan's navy has indeed made great progress, and now except for the British Navy and the American Navy, the Japanese Navy can be said to have no other opponents, and it is not a boast that it is the third in the world and the first in Asia, which has also made successive naval ministers extremely proud.

At this time, there were two people sitting in the office of the Minister of the Navy, one was the current Minister of the Navy and Shiro Kawako, and the other was the Chief of Operations of the Navy, Nagano Shuse.

"Nagano-kun, is this information accurate?" Shiro Kagawa asked with a little excitement.

As the Minister of the Navy, especially the Supreme Commander of the Navy after succeeding Minister Minai, the pressure on Shiro Kawaguru is not small. In particular, Mitsumasa Minei is a tough opponent of war against the United States and Britain, and his prestige within the navy is not small. It was not easy for Shiro Kagawa to completely eliminate Yone's influence within the navy.

After more than half a year in office, although Kazukawa Koshiro has made many efforts, the effect is average, and the voices within the Navy against war against the United States and Britain still exist, so Kazukawa urgently needs a hearty battle to shut up those guys in the Navy.

"Hechuan-kun, don't worry, this information is transmitted back by our most secretive intelligence officer, and even the army doesn't know what to do, it's absolutely accurate!" Nagano replied that he himself had a good relationship with Shiro Kagawako, and he usually communicated casually in private.

"There are quite a few naval fleets in this China, 1 light aircraft carrier, 5 cruisers, 12 destroyers, 37 frigates, as for those freighters, they are completely negligible, is the combined fleet capable of eating this fleet?" Kazukawa Koshiro asked worriedly.

"And Chuanjun, if you want to say that in terms of the army, Chen Feng's department does have outstanding points, and we have to admire it. But after all, the navy is another field, how can the navy of the people of China be called a navy, even if the navy of the government of China is not easily wiped out by the navy of our great Japanese empire, if the admiralty is determined to do it, we will have full confidence in destroying this fleet of China. Nagano said confidently.

"Nagano-kun, please don't underestimate the enemy, the reason why the navy of the Shina government is vulnerable is entirely because their government has been busy with the civil war and has not paid attention to the development of the navy at all, all the ships are extremely old, even their flagship is not as good as a light cruiser of the empire, this is like a primitive man with a stone and a strong man armed with a machine gun fighting, the two sides are not at all an opponent of the level!" Shiro Kawakoshi reminded.

"What does he mean by saying that the combat effectiveness of this navy will be very strong?"

"It's not that this possibility is impossible, you must know that this China Navy is trained by the Navy of Soviet Russia and the Navy of the United States, and the ships are also provided by these two countries, including heavy cruisers and aircraft carriers, and I heard that there are also battleships, judging from the equipment situation, the equipment of the China Navy does not seem to be much worse than that of the Imperial Navy, and if their naval crews are qualified, it is not impossible to pose a threat to the Imperial Navy fleet!" and Kawakoshiro Road.

"Hechuan-kun, you have been thinking too much, since the beginning of the formation of this navy, the intelligence personnel of our navy have attached great importance to it, and sent a large number of intelligence personnel to collect the intelligence of this fleet. This Chinese navy was indeed jointly trained by Soviet Russia and the United States, and it seems that there are quite a few of them, and the equipment is also provided by these two countries, but it is far worse than the imperial navy! ”

"Why is that?"

"According to the intelligence collected by our intelligence officers, Soviet Russia and the United States did not really help the people of China to form a navy at all, although more than 180 large and small warships were sold to China, but a small half of them are old guys who are about to be eliminated, and they are almost the same as training ships or target ships handed over to the naval academy, and they will be exempted from going to the battlefield."

"More importantly, this navy has been formed for no more than a year, during which it has not been tested by war, can an army that has not been tested by war be called an army, this navy has been decided by our admiralty!"

"That being the case, Nagano-kun, in the name of the Supreme Commander of the Navy, I authorize you to take full command of this naval battle against the Shina Navy, so as to completely annihilate the Shina Navy!"

"Hay!"

(To be continued......)