Chapter 850: The Murderer
While the high-level officials were crisscrossing Beijing, Washington, and London, the navies of China and the United States, headed by Yang Yonglin and Simms, were thinking about how to dig out the murderers hiding deep under the sea. Americans may have some problems with their course of action, but once the goals and methods are clear, the rest of the plan is still quite efficient. At the very least, the US staff officers will carefully formulate plans according to the requirements of the decision-makers, instead of overstepping the line and letting the decision-makers go their own way!
The first step of action by both sides is the so-called "Clean Sea" operation. This is to combat camouflaged supply ships that have not yet been revealed. Not a single submarine can act alone in the vast Pacific Ocean. Almost all the ports are under the control of the great powers, and there is absolutely no other way to supply them than by sea. Therefore, the first thing the navies of the two countries should do is to check the ships of various countries sailing in this sea area one by one! It was said that this task required a lot of work, but it was carried out by the two great powers together, and with the cooperation of the British. In addition, the largest number of Chinese and American merchant ships in this area have been temporarily asked to suspend sailing, so the search pressure has been greatly reduced.
The second step is to set up control. A large number of destroyers and airships were sprinkled on the vast seas, and their task was to search for submarines, especially the places where the attacks had taken place, and even many high-speed merchant ships were equipped with equipment such as hydrophones and depth charge droppers to make cameo appearances as anti-submarine ships. If a submarine is spotted, it will be tracked and friendly ships in the nearby waters will be called to feel it. In principle, it is to capture as much as possible, but it is not very realistic to implement it in practice, after a submarine of unknown nationality is discovered. Finding that there was no hope of escape, he actually detonated a torpedo! As a result, the submarine sank thousands of meters to the bottom of the god's sea, and nothing was found, except for a few useless parts.
"It's a conspiracy! Those who execute are determined to carry out this task with the determination to die, and no conventional means can bring this matter to a satisfactory conclusion, and we now need to re-execute the plan. Yang Yonglin looked at the report and said. Now it's all about getting the proof! Both human and physical evidence are fine, but no matter how fast the speed is during the day, it cannot stop the other party from sinking the ship. There is nothing to be done as soon as the sea valve is opened, and the selected suspicious ships are all operating in the deep sea area. Once silence salvage is impossible!
"Don't do anything to the suspicious ships, follow them first, and then we'll get closer to board them in the evening. We need some special equipment, like incapacitating weapons or something. Yang Yonglin suddenly remembered the tear gas and various concussion bombs he had seen. If we can rush forward without realizing it, and then subdue the other party before they sink themselves, I am afraid that we can get the evidence we need.
But what Yang Yonglin didn't expect was. A large number of destroyers did not find anything at sea. As a result, a light cruiser that was preparing to return to port for resupply was found! And the process of finding it is quite magical! The light cruiser, named Fuzhou, was returning to Semarang because other ships were passing through the channel, (after the submarine attack, the harbor implemented various protections for the channel, reporting minelaying and shipwrecks, so the channel became very narrow. So I went to the side and waited, but a sharp-eyed sailor noticed that there seemed to be a shadow at the bottom of the sea not far away! It's a bit like a whale, but the whale isn't that small!
The captain who received the order immediately lowered the dinghy and went to investigate, and the matter was beyond everyone's expectations. After preliminary probing, this was supposed to be a submarine. And definitely not from the Huaxia Navy! The preliminary judgment should be that the submarine that attacked the Huaxia merchant ship directly hit the reef and sank because it did not understand the hydrological situation, perhaps because the process was too fast, so the other party had no chance to blow itself up, and Yang Yonglin, who got the news, lamented the shit luck of the Fuzhou on the one hand, and immediately ordered the submarine to be salvaged to obtain evidence! The entire harbor was quickly closed, and it was impossible to get in and out! Several Huaxia salvage ships sensed the scene and then fished it out of the silt.
This is a British F submarine. As for the reason for the sinking, the bow of the ship hit the rock, which caused the torpedo compartment to enter the water and then led to the sinking, because the speed was too fast, almost 2 minutes to let the entire submarine into the water, so the personnel inside did not have time to do any action. And when the body of the sea bubble was pulled out of the submarine, the short and stubby yellow people made the Huaxia Navy immediately understand who was behind the scenes!
Soon, the report was sent to Xu Jie, and Xu Jie's guess was confirmed. All this was done by the Japanese, and the submarines and torpedoes they used were also supplied by the British, who did not follow the agreement with Huaxia and sold some ocean-going submarines and heavy torpedoes to Japan, which led to today's events. This matter must not be understood in this way, Xu Jie must make the British pay the price! This incident is a violation of the agreement at best, and the British attacked the warships of China and the United States! Anyway, the evidence is in the hands of Huaxia, except for those few Japanese who can't prove it, all the other evidence is not good for the British! As for forging something, it's too easy to even exchange it for a couple of Englishman corpses or something! There are also a lot of British spies in China, and it is not difficult to find a few as scapegoats!
Of course, this matter cannot be notified to the Americans, and all the rights and interests in this area must be taken over by Huaxia, and if the Americans know the truth, I am afraid that they will exonerate the British. In the same way, the Americans must not be allowed to gain something at sea now, otherwise the Americans, who have other evidence of the benefits, will also excuse the British. Only when the only evidence is in the hands of Huaxia is Huaxia is the most advantageous party!
"Sink all suspicious ships and, if appropriate, have the option to interfere with the Americans." A few hours later, Yang Yonglin received an encrypted telegram, which was the dumb puzzle machine of this era. This kind of secret will only be used in the highest secret, and although Yang Yonglin does not understand why Huaxia wants to keep a hand with the Americans, as a qualified commander, he knows what to do. At the same time that Yang Yonglin received the telegram, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China urgently summoned the British ambassador to China and took a stack of photos on the table.
"We need an explanation, and if this explanation disagrees with the Huaxia Republic, it means war! So, I hope your government will think about it carefully! Zhang Peilun said in a loud voice!
The next day, British Prime Minister Lloyd George received this telegram that was enough to bring Britain to a breakdown. He really didn't believe the content, that is, Huaxia actually found a British submarine that sank on the reef at his doorstep, and the British Admiralty has repeatedly assured that all submarines in the Far East are in the harbor and are not moving, so where did this F-type ocean-going submarine come from? Moreover, the British ambassador to China confirmed that the submarine in the photo belonged to the British Empire, and it was confirmed by the British military attache in China! And there is no trace of imitation in this kind of photo, it is definitely a real photo! It can be used as evidence!
Soon, the British Admiralty found a document from the pile of old papers, and this document was a record of the British supply of F-type submarines and heavy torpedoes to Japan in those years. The document is clear on the surface, the Japanese Navy once received a batch of F-type submarines and heavy torpedoes. This is completely the time provoked by the Japanese Navy, and it really has nothing to do with the British! It is said that this matter should be very clear, but Lloyd George knows that this matter is far from over!
The British exported weapons and equipment to Japan in clear violation of the agreement, and if they had nothing to do in peacetime, they would have found out. But during the European war, the British were too busy to take care of themselves, and China also had a lot of ideas about the British colonies in Southeast Asia, and at this time, a little big thing could become the fuse of a major war. And the British are not capable of stopping it! What's more, this matter has also pulled the Americans on, and Lloyd George knows how lethal it will be if these redacted evidence are sent to the Americans or made public!
No matter how much the U.S. government leans toward the Entente, I'm afraid it won't be able to resist the pressure of the people, and at that time, it would be good if the Americans didn't go to war with Britain, so how could they urgently need you? At this time, Lloyd George can be said to be quite angry, he is sure that Huaxia must know the reason for it, and also know that it was done by the Japanese, but he just grabbed you! Huaxia has made it clear that it wants to blackmail Britain once! And Britain has no way now! There are countless people in the British Empire, and this time it was really calculated by others!
Lloyd George even intends to communicate this privately with the United States, but how do you communicate? Let's just say that this submarine was sold by the British Empire to Japan to fight China, but the United States was accidentally calculated by the way, I'm sorry! Isn't this looking for death? Don't look at the fanfare that the United States did in the early stage, but the British believe that the United States has no intention of really fighting China at all. Putting aside commerce and trade, running tens of thousands of kilometers to fight a battle with a strong enemy for several islands? Did the American show be funny? What's more critical is that the evidence is in the hands of Huaxia, and people stuffed a few Caucasian corpses into the boat and said that these are British naval personnel, what should you do? The British can't pick it clean! And even if it is said that it is Japanese, how did this submarine come about?
Even if the United States has reached an understanding, Huaxia will definitely not just forget it. You, the UK are in default! And you broke the contract when you were at your weakest, and you have no choice if people want you to bleed! The plan for now is to look at the price of Huaxia. If you can bear it, then bear with it! Thinking of this, Lloyd George immediately asked the British ambassador to China to contact the Chinese government to discuss the "truth!" of this matter. "After all, the Chinese government just asked the British to give an explanation, but did not characterize this matter, nor did it publicize it, just to sell it for the sake of waiting for the price!
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