At about 8 o'clock in the evening of the same day, a Japanese transport fleet of about 10 ships was heading from east to west on the South China Sea, 1,200 kilometers north-east of Singapore and about 50 kilometers from Bandar Seri Begawan in Malaysia.

On a 20,000-ton merchant ship named "Fukuun", two Japanese sailors in their thirties and forties were looking at the dark ocean and talking about something.

"When the Empire occupies Indochina, this will be our inland sea, and at that time, we will be able to sail in the Tsushima Strait without worrying about anything."

"Fukuda, this day won't be too far away-"

"Sora-pout-la-"

"Fukuda, look!"

"Eight grids, what's that?"

"Bumped in!"

"Boom!" There was a violent explosion, and the two Japanese sailors saw only a blinding flash of light, then felt a burning pain, and the next moment they were torn to pieces by the explosion.

A heavy torpedo hit the starboard side of the moving "Fortune", blasting a large hole there, and the "Fortune" was immediately broken in two and planted in the icy water.

A terrible siren sounded, and the two frigates immediately accelerated towards the ocean to the right side of the "Fortune", and about ten minutes later, they had just witnessed the sinking process of the "Fortune", and someone on one of the most sensitive merchant ships suddenly exclaimed: "Torpedo!" Torpedo! Then the ship also burst into a huge fireball on the starboard side, and with another loud bang, the ship immediately tilted to the right side, and then turned directly to the sky.

In the captain's room of the frigate in front, Captain Doi Sujinmu immediately shouted into the walkie-talkie: "The enemy attacked, we were attacked by submarines, and the ships immediately approached me. After yelling twice in succession, he slammed the microphone on the table, and then hissed and shouted:

"Depth charges, drop them now!"

"Hello!"

The sneak attack on this Japanese transport fleet was naturally the submarine force of the Xuebing Army commanded by Xu Kai. It was completely different from the last time when he went to the coastal waters of Singapore to wait for an opportunity to sneak attack the "Kaga" aircraft carrier, and in order to ensure that the main ships of the little devils were lured over from the coast of Singapore, Ouyang Yun ordered Chen Ce to send all the submarines that could participate in the battle. Chen Ce carried out the order without discounting, so including the two Song-class, the Xuebing Army dispatched eleven submarines this time. In order to completely disturb the sight of the Japanese, he organized eleven submarines into three teams, and began to deploy and control them from the coast of Manila, and then he really caught a big fish.

As the largest carrier in this transport fleet, the "Fukuyun" was loaded with key equipment that Koizumi was going to use to build the shipyard, and the giant portal crane with a maximum lifting capacity of 180 tons was the core equipment for the construction of large ships, and there were only two in the whole of Japan.

Xu Kai didn't know that Lu Dao was at least half a year behind Koizumi's idea of building a large shipyard in Southeast Asia because of the torpedo he had just ordered to launch, and he felt the tremor of the submarine due to the explosion of the depth charge, while ordering to speed up the escape from the combat area, while silently praying that the other two Ming-class submarines would not have an accident, and at the same time thought: I don't know if Lu Dao is not enough to attract the main force of the little devils.

The "Good Fortune" was sunk at about eight o'clock, and Koizumi received a report at about ten o'clock, and the little devil was messy at that time - "'Good luck'? What is 'good luck'? He screamed, almost crying without tears. The next moment, he remembered that the "Kaga" aircraft carrier was attacked and sunk before, and took it for granted that this must have been done by the Americans, and gritted his teeth and said: "Uncle Sam is really as domineering as ever, I just killed his two nuclear experts, and they actually dared to sneak attack our transport ship." Hachiga, the 'Kaga' must have also been done under the banner of the British. They thought they could hide from the world, but I clearly knew that the submarine was not the strong point of the British at all...... "After the mess, the little devil calmed down and immediately asked Hatono to call Doi back, telling him to stay where he was and wait for the support of the main fleet. Then he ordered the Fengxiang Aircraft Carrier Fleet and the Longxiang Aircraft Carrier Fleet to immediately anchor and head to the South China Sea, the former staying on guard in the area where the accident occurred, and the latter being responsible for bringing the transport fleet to Singapore.

After doing this, the little devil thought for a while, and drafted a telegram carefully and asked Hatono to send it to Yamamoto. At the end of this telegram, he wrote: The fact that the Americans dared to send submarines to attack our merchant ships at such a sensitive time shows that they are ready for war with the Empire. Once its Pacific Fleet enters Southeast Asia, then our army will have no chance of winning at all. Not only that, but the heart of the empire will also lose the replenishment of fresh blood from Southeast Asia. Therefore, the lowly position thought that the "tiger tiger" action had become imperative.

Ouyang Yun didn't expect that a plot he launched against the Japanese in order to expand the scale of his navy actually promoted the early occurrence of a major event in the history of World War II - he didn't know about these until after the war.

At the same time, in the vast ocean of the Bay of Bengal, in the captain's room of the battleship "Richelieu", Guo Kui was standing behind Qi Minghao and chatting with him.

"Commander Guo, this is the eleventh time since dark that you have asked this question. There's at least thirty hours left before the target sea, so you'd better go get some rest - you've been with me for five hours, right? ”

"I can't sleep."

"Count the sheep, I couldn't sleep when I first got on the ship, so I counted the sheep, and I counted them for about half a month and then I got used to it."

"Xiao Qi, you teach me to operate the ship."

"It's not something that you can learn in a while."

"It doesn't matter, you can learn as much as you want. In the future, we will definitely hit the Japanese mainland, and Lao Tzu will operate a ship by himself when the time comes, how majestic will it be?! ”

Guo Kui brought up this topic, Qi Minghao became interested, and he asked: "Will we really hit the Japanese mainland?" ”

"Of course, the commander-in-chief has not been in front of us once or twice."

"I wish that day would come sooner!"

"It won't be too far - Xiao Qi, you tell me the truth, if Xu Kai's kid can't attract the little devil's main battleship, will we win?" Guo Kui suddenly changed the topic again.

Qi Minghao was silent.

The Navy has not been formed for a long time, and it has always developed small ships, so there is a great shortage of fighters for large ships, for example, this time, although they have also put together a team of about 700 people, in fact, they can only guarantee the operation of the seven large ships of the Far East Fleet. If the main fleet of the Japanese army had not been diverted, it would not have been a question of whether the battle could not be won, but that it would not have been possible to fight at all.

"Commander Guo, you should know that the people we came to Chittagong this time are all non-combatants with driving and marine engineering expertise."

Guo Kui has been busy with the training of the helicopter brigade, and he really didn't pay attention to this matter, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "What do you mean, if we really fight, we can only be beaten passively?" ”

"Yes."

"Lao Tzu—" Guo Kui was speechless.

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