When Fang Lang boarded the House early the next morning, his head was still groggy when he left Okinawa. Fortunately, the waters of Okinawa are now the territory of the Allied forces, and the Japanese are not what he wants to encounter and can encounter.

In fact, Okinawa is only about 900 kilometers away from Hangzhou Bay in a straight line, and it will take less than 20 hours to reach Hangzhou Bay if you go directly to Hangzhou Bay at the top speed of 35 knots.

Of course, it is not possible for a ship to sail at top speed all the time. So, the House kept sailing westward at twenty knots. Fang Lang's target was not the mainland, because if he got too close to the land, he would enter the attack range of the Japanese air force.

Although Japan is currently short of fuel, there are still oil reserves in Japan. The Japanese are now trying to find ways to transport strategic materials such as fuel to Japan.

And these transport ships are Fang Lang's targets. It's not that Fang Lang doesn't want to attack the Japanese mainland directly, but if he stupidly drives a boat to attack Japan directly, he will basically end up with Don Quixote.

Fighting a war is not a fight in the market, and you can't do it brutally. Fang Lang ordered the Hope to be the first to cruise in the middle of the Shanghai-Nagasaki route. He was looking for a possible ship from Taiwan Island to Japan in the East China Sea.

I don't know if the Japanese Navy was really taken down, and for three whole days, the two warships found nothing. This made Fang Lang very annoyed, it was too late to secretly say, and it seemed that Little Japan was really fucked down.

After asking the Fifth Carrier Fleet for instructions, Fang Lang began to shift the target. The Hope was ordered to go directly to the Korean Strait and attack ships traveling between Korea and Japan near Tsushima Island.

Fang Lang himself followed the House and began to move tentatively in the direction of Shanghai, wanting to find out whether the Japanese Army Aviation would send military planes to attack him for his warship.

Because the maximum detection range of the anti-aircraft radar of the Fletcher-class destroyers is one hundred and twenty kilometers. Therefore, on July 12, Fang Lang directly led the House into a distance of less than 100 nautical miles from Shanghai.

But not to mention the Japanese planes, not even a Japanese steamer has encountered a single one. This made Fang Lang very annoyed, he came from thousands of miles to fight with you, and you didn't show up, which made me very shameless.

On 13 July, Fang Lang's House simply broke into a distance of about 50 kilometers from Shanghai, trying to attract the enemy at close range.

But Fang Lang did not dare to enter at a distance of less than 50 kilometers, because this was the longest range of the Japanese Type 90 240mm heavy cannon.

If it was fired by Japanese heavy artillery, it would be more than worth the loss, after all, Shanghai was not Japan, and Fang Lang could not attack Shanghai. The firepower of the Fang Lang destroyer could not reach the Japanese.

As a result, the Japanese, as if blind, were indifferent to the approach of the House. Just when Fang Lang broke his mouth on the House, he scolded the Japanese for being cowardly.

The Good News Hope came from the Korean Strait, sinking a transport ship bound for Japan from North Korea. And got in touch with the American submarines who were carrying out a blockade mission in the Korean Strait, playing the wolf pack tactics invented by the Germans.

This made Fang Lang very hurt, and for the first time, he wanted to have an aircraft carrier, so that there would be no embarrassing situation like now.

Similarly, Fang Lang also saw the weakness of the Japanese from this situation, and Fang Lang could not have imagined that the Japanese would let the House directly approach such a close distance and be indifferent.

Fang Lang simply didn't do anything, and began to blockade the sea off Shanghai, not believing that the Japanese really didn't run out.

Just when Fang Lang was angry when he punched the cotton and couldn't find the enemy, Global Steel and Global Shipbuilding, which were far away in the United States, finally completed the acquisition and integration.

It owns steel companies and shipyards across the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy. Although, the size of steel mills and shipyards in each country is not large.

Even the factories in the United States are more research institutes, but it cannot be denied that the two companies are officially qualified to enter the steel market and the shipbuilding market.

The first priority after the completion of the integration is to officially start joint venture negotiations with Fangyuan Group in Brazil, and plans to invest in the establishment of a steel plant and shipyard in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This project has been highly valued by the Brazilian government, the Brazilian military, and the São Paulo city government, and the Brazilian Fangyuan Group has also appeared in the eyes of Brazilian politicians and the Brazilian people for the first time.

The Brazilian Admiralty and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force directly came forward to stand for the Fangyuan Group. The company, which had just been founded in Brazil, became a household name in one day, making headlines in Brazil's major newspapers.

It also shocked the treacherous Brazilian political scene. Don't think that the author's description is exaggerated, the reason why Brazil became the only country in South America to send troops to participate in the European war.

It was in the summer of 1940 that the Brazilian government began negotiations with the United States and Germany to build the first modern large-scale steel plant.

Eventually, the U.S. government reached an agreement with Brazilian President Vargas for the construction of a steel plant at the Volta Ranch with an interest-free loan of $10 million.

It marked the official abandonment of Germany by Brazil and its entry into the American camp. This shows how much influence a modern steel plant can have on the Brazilian government.

In fact, the so-called joint venture negotiations seem to outsiders to have been repeatedly negotiated, and even attracted big domestic capital in Brazil to participate in a share, but unfortunately they don't know that all this is a play.

Therefore, Brazil's domestic capital is destined for nothing.

On July 13, Fangyuan Group officially announced the establishment of a joint venture and began investment negotiations with the government, planning to invest US$20 million to set up a steel plant and a shipyard in Brazil.

Fang Lang, who received this news, was naturally very happy, and it could be regarded as dispelling the depressed mood that had been in place for several days.

In the early morning of 14 July, the Hauss radar spotted a ship approaching the Hauss, and Fang Lang thought that the Japanese were finally about to fight, so he hurriedly ordered the Hawes to turn.

However, when the other party entered the visual range of the lookout post, they found that it was a wooden fishing boat. This made the crew of the House decide that they were bored, and thought that the Japanese were attacking in wooden fishing boats.

was about to aim at the opponent and kill and pull him down, but Fang Lang suddenly remembered that this time the sixth sense didn't seem to feel hostility!

Instead, he ordered the boatswain to go up with ten fighters in a transport boat to check the situation. Don't wait, it's a fisherman's sin.

Soon the boatswain brought back two people dressed like fishermen, and reported to Fang Lang that they were intelligence officers of the national army, hoping to meet the commander of the allied forces.

Fang Lang carefully looked at the two of them for a while and then spoke:

"What are you guys doing! What's the matter here! ”

When the two of them saw the soldiers who brought them over, there were a few yellow people and a black man, and they felt their hearts beat a drum. When I got closer and saw the flag on this warship, I had never seen it before, and I was wondering!

I heard an officer on the other side ask in Chinese, and I was even more stunned. An older man, who looked to be about fifty years old, took the initiative to speak:

"Sir, are you allied troops?"

Listening to each other's voices is obviously much younger! This made Fang Lang couldn't help but look at the man opposite more carefully. Turning his head and whispering to the boatswain, he asked:

"Did you search yourself?"

I thought to myself, don't wait for two Japanese spies to assassinate me at close range, it will be embarrassing.

The boatswain nodded.

Fang Langcai replied:

"We're Confederate warships, who are you?"

Hearing Fang Lang's answer, the two of them were obviously relieved. The man who took the initiative to speak continued:

"Sir, you speak Chinese so well. My name is Zhong Ze, and I am a major intelligence officer at the Shanghai Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Nationalist Government. ”

These two people can also be regarded as the first batch of real fellow villagers that Fang Lang saw after he was reborn. However, Fang Lang knew very well the power of the Japanese intelligence agencies, and he couldn't easily trust them.

Don't wait for the Japanese to take advantage of it, but it's a big problem.

"Do you have proof?"

Zhong Ze glanced at the soldiers around him who were guarding with guns, and pointed to the location of his belt.

Fang Lang understood what he meant, he didn't say anything but shook his head, and a soldier stepped forward directly, groped for a while along the position of the man's finger, and soon touched a hard object, took it out and checked it before handing it to Fang Lang.

If you look closely, it turns out to be an identification document, which roughly means that the national army sent two personnel from the Military Intelligence Bureau to board the ship to discuss the plan to jointly attack the Japanese army, and it is hereby proved that it is something like that.