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On the battleship Kongo, Captain Fujita looked at the water ahead through a telescope and found nothing unusual.

"What happened to Commander Takasu? Our Kongo is a main battleship, but it was sent to this barren sea to perform a patrol mission. What on earth are the superiors thinking?"

There was an obvious tone of complaint in Fujita's words. He thought that the Imperial Navy was going to advance to the western Indian Ocean or attack the Mediterranean Sea in order to open up a passage to the Atlantic Ocean after being transferred from the Pacific Ocean half a month ago.

But in the end, despite his enthusiasm, he received a patrol and surveillance mission from his superiors. The area was the northern part of Ceylon and Sumatra, and the entire waters of the Bay of Bengal.

The Kongo battleship, one of the only 12 battleships in the Japanese Navy, has now become a guard ship. How can Fujita not be annoyed!

What’s even more annoying is that in this area of ​​sea, there is not only one ship, but also the battleship Haruna.

In this small sea area, there are two battleships carrying out patrol and surveillance missions, not to mention more than 10 submarines in the water and several destroyers on the surface.

"Commander, could it be that the military has some additional meaning that we haven't discovered?" A staff officer said after mustering up his courage.

Ever since the Japanese Navy defeated the American fleet at Midway Island, the arrogance of the hundreds of thousands of navy members has reached its peak, and they no longer take anyone seriously.

Although they did not win the Battle of Pearl Harbor, they did not lose either. The losses were very small and did not affect their arrogance!

Fujita continued with anger, "Meaning? What meaning can it have? Our Imperial Navy is invincible in the world. If anyone dares to go against us, we can just fight them head-on. Why do we need to patrol so carefully? It's been half a month. How much manpower and resources have been wasted!"

He said this, but he must have known the significance of the arrangement from above, which was to block the Xu family’s navy in the inland sea and not allow it to come out!

The Japanese staff officer no longer cared about Fujita's anger. He had seen it for half a month and was used to it.

"Commander, most of the Pacific Ocean is under our control now. America doesn't even dare to go out. The Indian Ocean is also basically under our control. Who are we patrolling against? I have heard about the Xu family army, but I'm afraid there is no need for us to mobilize so many troops!"

"Humph!"

Speaking of this, Fujita couldn't help but sneer, and the anger in his heart increased a little.

"As the main forces of the Imperial Navy, our First Fleet's mission is to carry out heavy firepower strikes, while the Second Fleet is responsible for ocean patrols and combat. Those foolish people in the Second Fleet actually drove such a large heavy cruiser into the inland river. Isn't that obviously providing targets for the enemy's coastal defense artillery?"

The staff officer was a little unconvinced: "No matter what they think, I was also very shocked when I heard the news of their defeat. This is simply horrifying. There were a total of 6 warships, and we didn't even see the enemy, but we lost 5 of them inexplicably!"

It’s not the Japanese’s fault that they don’t believe it; people all over the world don’t believe it.

Up to now, although the news of that encounter has spread all over the world, everyone is still skeptical.

At least no one believed the Japanese's summary that a 10,000-ton heavy cruiser was sailing normally and suddenly exploded for no apparent reason.

This is a joke, two heavy cruisers exploded at the same time!

This time, Fujita said with a hint of disdain; "They must have made some serious military mistakes, which led to the heavy loss of warships. Then they were afraid of being punished, so they found some unfounded excuses! They are a disgrace to the Imperial Navy!"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

The staff officers responded one after another. This was a rare unity between the Japanese Army and Navy. In any case, the Asagumo destroyer that escaped did not have a good ending.

"But why did the higher-ups go to so much trouble to send our main force to patrol? If the Xu family navy is really a threat, we can just attack them directly!"

Fujita shook his head helplessly: "This is what Commander Yamamoto meant. He said that it is better to believe it than not to believe it. To put it bluntly, he is just making excuses for ourselves. We don't want those landlubbers in the army to laugh at us!"

As he spoke, Fujita turned his head and looked towards the west, saying: "The Middle East and Africa are a huge treasure. As long as the Empire occupies them, who in the world can be our opponent? Even if we swallow up Germany, it won't be a problem!"

In fact, according to the Japanese headquarters, after the navy occupied Ceylon, it would have a transit station, making it much easier for the fleet to attack the African continent or enter the Mediterranean from the Arabian Sea.

However, the heavy losses suffered in the inland river of the Irrawaddy River forced the Japanese headquarters, which was already wary of Xu's army, to change its plans.

Although the battle started and ended successfully, the reason for the loss of 5 warships within 10 minutes was not found after countless simulations.

But one thing is certain, Xu's navy must have reached a certain scale.

But the position of Xu’s army is very special!

The army occupied the whole of Burma and completely cut off the Japanese army's land transportation lines in South Asia.

The navy is near the Strait of Malacca between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Both the army and the navy are like a nail, deeply stuck in the heart of Japan!

If Xu's navy is not eliminated, once the main force of the navy is transferred to Africa or the Mediterranean, this lifeline in the middle will be left empty.

Japan does not have so many warships to escort the transport ships!

As long as Xu's navy sends a few submarines to cause trouble, the Indian army and navy will be in trouble.

But the Japanese were helpless at this moment. They wanted to send reconnaissance planes to scout the situation of Xu's navy, but as soon as they entered the waters of Motama Bay, Xu's fighter planes appeared.

It's like I knew it was coming in advance!

There is no way to escape. The speed of the Japanese reconnaissance plane is only 500 kilometers per hour, while the J-7 fighter jets of Xu's army can reach a high subsonic speed of nearly Mach 1 when flying at ultra-low altitude!

With the speed difference being more than twice, the Japanese reconnaissance planes disappeared as soon as they came.

More than 20 planes were lost!

This undoubtedly added another layer of fog over the Japanese military!

They could never have imagined that their planes had been spotted by Xu's naval shore-based aviation when they were 200 kilometers away from Yangon.

The Second Frigate Squadron has two 2K air defense frigates and two 053H anti-ship frigates. Their mission is to be stationed in the waters of Motama Bay for a long time to protect the safety of the base. They will not carry out sea combat missions except in special circumstances.

The maximum detection range of the Type 381 air search radar is close to 200 kilometers, and the maximum detection range of the Type 354 sea search radar is 50 kilometers.

With these four frigates, the Japanese will never be able to enter the coast of Myanmar!

The armed forces that moved to the Acropolis have been researching and improving various radars on warships, and soon their detection range will be even longer.

It was also because of this that the Japanese did not know that Xu’s fleet had been dispatched in full force.

"Huh? What is that?"

Just when Fujita was bored, he suddenly saw something flying towards him from a distance, and it was extremely fast!