Although the Red Party wanted to completely eradicate the remnants of Chiang's army in one go, the country was now in ruins, and when the old Chiang retreated, he left behind a lot of bandits to plague the people, and the pursuing troops were very tired after continuous battles, so the central government finally agreed to their request for a period of repair in Yunnan. At the same time, it also leaves a little room for future negotiations with the British, and if the army invades Burma now, the war between the two countries will inevitably escalate further, which is very unaffordable for China, which is in dire need of a peaceful environment to begin post-war reconstruction.

Considering that the greatest possibility of retaliation by the British would come from the sea, the Central Committee of the Red Party specially appointed Hu Weidong to take charge of the temporarily established Coastal Defense Command to take unified command of hundreds of thousands of land forces, all naval vessels, and most of the air force units in the coastal areas to effectively deal with a possible British attack.

It is worth mentioning that after the liberation of Xi'an, the Northwest Liberated Area and the Central Plains Liberated Area were finally completely connected, and the Red Party Central Committee naturally moved to Luoyang, and the Central Plains Bureau was abolished, and Hu Weidong's post of secretary of the Central Plains Bureau was naturally gone, but the Central Committee soon made a resolution to by-elect Hu Weidong as the vice chairman of the Military Commission, which greatly improved his status in the army, almost second only to the respected Mr. Zhu, and on par with Mr. Peng, but due to his lack of qualifications, his status in the party is still outside the top ten. But for him, a young man whose real age is only 21 years old, such a promotion speed is already like a rocket, Hu Weidong naturally has no complaints about this, and soon devoted himself to the intense preparation for the British war.

And at this time, the British government, determined to teach the Chinese a lesson, also did everything it could to draw a large number of ships from the home fleet and the Mediterranean fleet. Coupled with the remnants of the original Far East Fleet (India and New Zealand each had several British warships stationed at that time), the new Far East Fleet was rebuilt, and compared with the previous Far East Fleet, the new Royal Navy Far East Fleet was undoubtedly larger, including 2 aircraft carriers, 1 battleship (and also a flagship, mainly because the British Admiralty was worried that the flagship of the new Far East Fleet would be sunk by a concentrated attack by the Chinese like during the Battle of Malaya, causing the fleet to lose unified command, Therefore, a battleship that is difficult to sink was specially sent to act as the flagship), 2 battlecruisers, 4 heavy cruisers, 10 light cruisers, 18 destroyers, and 12 submarines (but because the submarine speed was too slow to keep up with the main force of the fleet, it acted alone and did not participate in the war against China. Just to replenish the naval liliang of the British in the Far East. ）。 As well as many supply ships, minesweepers and other auxiliary ships, the total number of which is no less than 60, makes people have to sigh "a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff." ”。 Britain has declined. But the Royal Navy was still very strong

February 1940. The brazen British Far East Fleet sailed out of Canton Bay and retaliated with artillery bombardment of the city, although the citizens had been evacuated in advance. However, dozens of residents of Guangzhou who refused to leave were still killed by the fire of British warships, but the British were still afraid of the powerful army of the People's Liberation Army, and did not dare to send troops to land and die.

However, in the following 10 days, the British Far East Fleet continued northward along the coastline of China's southeast coast, and also carried out artillery bombardments on Xiamen, Fuzhou, and other coastal cities for a longer or shorter time, causing a total of more than 1,000 deaths and huge economic losses. And after confirming that the British fleet did not stop after passing through the Taiwan Strait and continued north, Hu Weidong sighed deeply and said, "Weishenme Those powers always underestimate the courage and determination of our Chinese? However, although the Chinese people hate war, they are not afraid of war! ”

According to Hu Weidong's original idea, if the British only blockade the Taiwan Strait, then the two sides would have room for peace talks, but the British fleet was so arrogant and approached the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Golden Triangle, which was very important to China, that would be beyond the bottom line that the Red Party and the Chinese government could tolerate, and even if the war would escalate at this time, they would not care so much.

But Hu Weidong didn't know that in fact, the British government also thought so, but although Britain did not "go abroad, the monarch's order is not affected." In order to recover the negative impact on the image of the Royal Navy caused by the almost total destruction of the main force of the original Far East Fleet, the commander of the new Far East Fleet, Charles Murphy, had a strong sense of honor. Forbes's decision to attack the elite of China in the north and let the Chinese know that it was powerful, but it directly led to the further escalation of this "wrong war", which caused a series of chain reactions

"The Chinese are quite timid, they have not launched an attack on us until now, I really don't know how the original Far Eastern Fleet could be beaten like that." , the first mate on a warship shrugged his shoulders and expressed his bewilderment.

"At that time, it was only the Chinese Navy that performed well, but now the capital ships of the Chinese Navy are gone (the Japanese Navy exaggerated its record, saying that both warships were sunk, and it was they who did this in history, but this time they accidentally pitted the British), and they naturally have nothing to do with us." , the captain of the destroyer replied with a smile.

"It is said that China's air force is also very powerful, and the Japanese navy has suffered great losses." , the first mate reminded.

"That's because the Japanese warships have low air defense capabilities, and they are negligent in taking precautions, so they will suffer such a big loss, our warship is the most haode air defense destroyer on Shijie, and there are fighters on two aircraft carriers to protect it, what is there to be afraid of?" , the captain said disapprovingly.

"The front is the Zhoushan Islands, be careful that the Chinese let the torpedo boats hide in the shallow waters of the reef to launch a sneak attack on us, the Chinese Navy has proven their bravery in the Battle of Malaya, we cannot underestimate the enemy." The first mate had to warn the captain of the potential danger again, but as soon as this sentence came out, his face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed, "Oh, MyGod!" ”

I saw that the sky in the north was completely filled with dense aircraft, the number was simply incalculable, no matter how confident the officers and men of the British Far East Fleet were, at this time they also felt the pressure almost suffocating, and a British captain with a psychological breakdown screamed hysterically, "Crazy Chinese, are they sending out all the air forces?" Aren't you afraid that the air force will be drained and problems will arise on other fronts? (To be continued......)