At the eastern mouth of the Singapore Strait, the main force of the British-French-Dutch Far East Combined Fleet is organizing a formation, and in order to guard against submarine attacks, more than 10 patrol boats and gunboats equipped with depth charges are on guard around the sea area of the formation, and 30 destroyers of the main force itself are scattered in the outermost layer of the formation, and there are two airships and several seaplanes in the air to support it, and the defense is very tight.

Vice Admiral Bernie did not know how many Yellow Monkey submarines lurked around his fleet, but he was well aware of the threat of German U-boats in the European theater, and the main fleet of the Royal Navy repeatedly moved its anchorage north for fear of being attacked by U-boats, and the American briefing also mentioned that the opposing submarines were setting up ambushes near the harbor and sneaking up on the fleet leaving the port.

Standing on the bridge of the "Malaya", Vice Admiral Bernie looked around at the scene of the mast forest all around, and he couldn't help but have a lot of thoughts.

He had just arrived last year and was unfamiliar with China, and he preferred to command a squadron of battleships under the command of Jericho, the commander of the main fleet, and yes, all dreadnought battleships, each with four or seven heavy turrets, and towering masts, and hunting flags—four squadrons of four or eight of these behemoths formed the core of the main fleet, enough to destroy that William the Kid's bullshit ocean fleet.

The opponent of the British Empire was the German Empire.

Yellow monkeys? Not worthy at all!

However, they actually beat the US Navy, which once ranked second in the world, to a half-body defeat in one day!

Once upon a time, Bernie was so impressed by the ostentatious circumnavigation of the Great White Fleet that most of the British admirals, including him, were convinced that the American deterrent power alone would be enough to secure the awakened lion in the Far East.

But who would have thought that the powerful American fleet would be so vulnerable to the enemy's surprise attack! More than half of the 22 battleships lost a single shot without firing, and they fled without even seeing the shadow of the enemy ship!

American...... A bunch of stupid peasants seem to be able to bully old knights like Spain who are about to lose their teeth, and they can't meet yellow monkeys who are smarter than them.

Look, if the Chinese dare to attack Pearl Harbor, they do not dare to attack Singapore, the large aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy have long conducted similar exercises, and there is no shortage of anti-aircraft weapons on our warships.

In the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet, the "Malaya" alone was armed with 10 3-inch anti-aircraft guns and 12 twin five-inch anti-aircraft machine guns, and even the oldest cruisers were equipped with several anti-aircraft weapons as much space as possible.

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Singapore base was equipped with 150 planes of various types, nearly 100 antiaircraft guns, and more than 100 antiaircraft machine guns.

It can be said that if the enemy's carrier-based aviation chose to attack the port of Singapore instead of Pearl Harbor, the outcome should be quite tragic.

There is no doubt that the British Empire's understanding of military technology is still ahead of the world, and in this regard, the Chinese are not good, and the Americans are not good.

On land, the "tank" strongly promoted by Admiral Winston Churchill exerted great power, scaring the entire company and battalion of German soldiers to pee their pants; In the sky, in retaliation for the German airship attack on Britain, the Royal Navy's aircraft-carrying airships unwittingly bombed the German inland cities with their boat-based aircraft; At sea, the mighty Eliza White Queen-class battleships were unmatched, and the Cenpius-class large aircraft carriers ushered in a new era of carrier-based aviation......

The British Empire is invincible!

The unfavorable situation in the Pacific was only temporary, and with the British Empire's superiority in military technology, Germany could not hold out for long, and the enraged Americans would also accelerate their military expansion plans - and the yellow monkeys were not long to be complacent.

Rich America will bring plenty of lotion to our hungry industry, and so many sturdy peasants, though rough - come, fill our trenches and flood the trenches of the Germans!

As soon as the Germans are finished, the yellow monkeys will wait to die, and the strength of the entire white world will gather into a new era of crusaders, and once again march into the heart of that evil empire, and at that time, not only will their vast and extravagant royal gardens be burned again, but also their palaces and the entire capital will be burned to the ground! Not a single piece of wood is left!

Victory will be ours!

Before the final victory comes, the arrogant yellow monkeys must be restored to the memories of a century and a half ago.

Hmph, and, poor American farmers, look at how the Royal Navy fought naval battles across the oceans for hundreds of years.

"A torpedo was found in front of the port side! Distance......"

The lookout exclaimed, waking up the obscene Lieutenant General Bernie - sure enough, there was an ambush!

"I'll leave it to you." Bernie calmly said to Captain Anson.

Colonel Anson, with a broad face, did not say a word, and personally stepped forward to steer it, and a few minutes later, the lookout reported: "The torpedo passed 100 yards away from the stern...... Dodge successfully! ”

Bernie had just breathed a sigh of relief, and the lookout reported again: "2000 yards ahead of starboard, the cruiser 'Strong' has been mineed!" ”

"The 'white elephant'?" Bernie muttered.

The standard displacement of 14,200 tons of the "Qiangsheng" class, is indeed the largest and most useless protective cruiser in history, this class is much larger than the general armored cruiser warship started construction in 1894, equipped with 48 coal-fired boilers, although the speed reached the same tonnage of warships at that time is difficult to reach 22 knots, but the price paid is weak armor, and the firepower is disproportionate to the body shape, more than 150 meters long hull is only equipped with two 9.2-inch and 12 six-inch guns, it seems a little weak.

Obsolete as soon as it entered service, it was quickly transferred to the Far East, where it operated in Hong Kong as its home port, and was also put into the reserve, and has remained in the Pacific Fleet since returning to active duty three years ago.

One of the great white elephants favored by the heavens, the "Qiangsheng", the flagship of the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, hit two torpedoes in succession just two hours after leaving Singapore Harbor, quickly tilted, and disappeared from the sea half an hour later.

His sister ship, HMS Terrible, was also torpedoed, knocking out the bow and having to return to port for repairs.

As soon as he left the house, he was ambushed, and although Lieutenant General Bernie held his breath, he still found a reason to comfort himself: "It's not bad for the white elephants to get out, maybe they can bring luck......

The patrol boats and destroyers around were not idle, and they scurried around with full power, and a string of depth charges rolled into the sea, accompanied by a dull explosion, and a scattered, low, radial column of water rushed into the blue sky......

Before nightfall, the Combined Far East Fleet lost another 12,000-ton French armored cruiser "Ferry" and one destroyer, and the Dutch dreadnought battleship "Sumatra" and the old British battleship "Agamemnon" were damaged by mines and were forced to return to port. The remaining 59 combat ships maintained a zigzag anti-submarine route and continued to march towards the first target, Subic Bay.

Lieutenant General Bernie remains confident.